How maca has changed my life!
Maca, in scientific terms known as lepidium meyenii is a superfood that grows high in the Andes mountains of peru. It has been used as a food and for medicinal purposes by the natives of South America for many many years. It is classified as a plant or root and is part of the cruciferous vegetable group. Cruciferous vegetable are known for their anti-cancer causing properties and contain phytochemicals and nutrients that help aide the body in detoxification. This class of foods contains things like kale, broccoli, and cabbage which are some of the healthiest foods in the world.
Maca is well known for its natural energy boost and unlike caffeine has no side effects or caffeine crash. It is also known as an aphrodisiac that stimulates hormone production and regulation. It can be used to increase sexual function, memory, fertility, and focus. Those who consume maca describe a feeling of well being or the feeling of being alive.
Maca is a nutrient dense superfood! This root vegetable really packs a punch and here's why…….
Stress reliever-Maca is described as an adaptogen which is a group or class of plants and herbs that help the body adapt to stress. These types of plants help balance, restore, and heal the body from years of stress, neglect, and malnutrition. Adaptogens can also balance mood, support the immune system, relieve stress, and increase physical endurance. I have personally used the adaptogenic benefits of maca to help combat adrenal fatigue which is the effect of long term stress on the body. I'll talk about my experience with maca at the end of this post.
Sexual Health- Multiple studies on men and women have shown an improvement in fertility and an increase in stamina and sexual function due to the use of maca. In women Maca can be used to combat menopause as it regulates and stimulates the proper production of hormones. It is known to have an effect on estrogen levels which can sometimes become too high or too low causing pms, pcos, and low fertility. In males maca supports healthy testosterone levels. It does not contain testosterone but simply enhances the production naturally. Although research has not yet proven this to be true I know from personal experience and the experience of a male friend that it does indeed improve sexual desire, performance, and energy. The great thing about maca is that it is not gender specific and works naturally to combat any problem areas for both men and women. Fertility has been increased on both ends with a higher production of sperm count in males and an increase in mature eggs in females.
Energy- Maca is known to have a very positive effect on energy, stamina, and mood. As someone who has suffered from anxiety and can no longer have caffeine due to raised cortisol levels, maca has been a blessing! It does not offer the same caffeine like jitters that coffee produces and has no crash and burn effect. Research is still being done on exactly how maca produces this internal energy but some speculate it's due to the control of blood sugar levels and the effect maca has on the hypothalamus and pituitary glands. The important thing about maca is it is natural, it contains no caffeine or processed sugar and works to stabilize and maintain energy throughout your body.
Cognitive Function-Over time cognitive function becomes impaired. We know as we age our bodies are more susceptible to disease and creating vitality is key. We all have the forgetful grandparent or start to become a little more absent minded ourselves however the brain like any other organ within the body is best when it is used and exercised. Think of it this way, in order to support your heart and make it stronger you need to aide it with proper nutrition and cardiovascular exercise. The same goes for your brain, you must exercise it and feed it right. Adding supplements to your diet that address cognitive function is key. Maca helps to support healthy mitochondria. These mitochondria are responsible for brain cell production and maintenance. Many diseases that affect the brain occur due to a decrease in mitochondrial activity. These diseases include things like parkinson's and alzheimer's. Research has shown that the use of maca can help to effectively maintain cognitive function leading to a more vibrant life in old age.
Where do I buy maca?
I use a few different varieties of maca and highly recommend you try them all to see what works best for you. The first is a Cocoa complex blend that includes not only maca root but other adaptogenic herbs which I take daily to combat adrenal fatigue and stress. Not only is it delicious but it's extremely versatile. I add it to coconut milk, oatmeal, and yogurt. The cocoa complex is made by one of my favorite companies that I am affiliated with called NYR Organics. Please read about this amazing company here. You can purchase your own Cocoa complex here or reach out to me and I would be happy to provide you with a sample.
Gaia Herbs Maca Powder, 8-Ounce .
I use both of these daily adding the gaia to my smoothie in the am and the cocoa complex to my coconut milk beverage in the afternoon for a little pick me up. I like the versatility of both and recommend each for different things however you may prefer one over the other and only use the one. Whichever you choose rest assured you are getting the best quality product from either or. If you chose not to purchase either of the products I have listed just be sure to do your research as not all products are made the same. You want to be sure you are getting 100% Maca with no added fillers and that it is organic and gelatinized so you reap the maximum benefits.
If you are someone that prefers to take a supplement everyday instead I have also tried this brand in supplement form. You receive great value in this product as it is only $16.95 for 150 vegan capsules. The capsules are also gluten free and contain no soy, preservatives, fillers, or gloss. This mama blend contains all 3 varieties of the mace root so you are sure to receive all the benefits and potency in each capsule. The company all follows good manufacturing practices in a fad registered facility. If you want to check them out you can find them here.


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New study views cancer treatment as a game to find strategies that improve patient outcomes
by H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Game theory can be utilized to identify potential flaws in current cancer treatment approaches and suggest new strategies to improve outcomes in patients with metastatic cancer, according to a new article published online today by JAMA Oncology. The study, which is authored by a mathematician, an evolutionary biologist and clinical physicians from Moffitt Cancer Center and Maastricht University, challenges the decades old standard of treatment for metastatic cancers in which drugs are typically administered continuously at the maximum-tolerated dose (MTD) until the tumor progresses.
The study shows that, by viewing cancer therapy as a game between the treating physician and the cancer cells, continuous administration of the same drug or drugs at MTD fails to exploit critical advantages possessed by the physician. Instead, the authors encourage oncologists to develop flexible strategic treatment plans. By exploiting his/her knowledge of the cancer's evolutionary dynamics, the oncologist can continuously adjust drugs and doses to delay or prevent cancer progression caused by the evolution of resistance. With each adjustment, the oncologist updates information on the cancer's response.
The Moffitt research team, led by Robert A. Gatenby, M.D., used mathematical modeling to investigate cancer treatment as a game played by the physician and cancer cells. In their study, the researchers demonstrate that the physician has two big advantages over his/her tumor opponents. First, the physician is rational while the cancer cells are not. This means that the physician, by understanding the principles of evolution, can plan ahead and anticipate the tumor cells' response. Cancers, like all evolving organisms, can never anticipate the future and because of this are particularly vulnerable to changes in treatment by the physician. In addition, the physician has the advantage of always "playing" first—the cancer cells cannot begin to evolve resistance until the physician administers a therapy. This sequence of moves means that cancer treatment has a distinctive game theoretic form termed a "leader-follower" or "Stackelberg" game. Von Stackelberg was a German mathematician who extensively investigated the game dynamics in the mid-20th century. His work and that of several other game theorists have demonstrated that the leader in a Stackelberg gains a substantial advantage by using the first move to limit subsequent tumor responses. Furthermore, the leader can use fore-knowledge of the cancer to anticipate and steer its evolution and vulnerabilities.
"Current treatments for metastatic cancers, by giving the same drug repeatedly at the maximum tolerated dose, can inadvertently increase the speed with which cancer cells can evolve effective counter measures and then regrow," said Gatenby, co-director of Moffitt's Center of Excellence in Evolutionary Therapy. "Today, therapy is usually changed only when the tumor progresses. By using this strategy the physician cedes control to the cancer. Although standard practice for decades, administering drugs at maximum-tolerated dose until progression is rarely the optimal game theoretic strategy for metastatic cancers."
"The current maximum-tolerated dose approach will only be successful if the cancer cell population is made up of similar cells that are unable to adapt and evolve quickly," said Joel Brown, Ph.D., an evolutionary biologist at Moffitt. "That is rarely what we see for cancers that have widely metastasized. We can and must anticipate, steer and exploit the cancer cells' evolutionary responses to our therapies."
The study proposes changes in the standard treatment paradigms by encouraging physicians to better use their advantages as the sentient leader in their high-stakes game with the cancer. They can do this by continuously adjusting treatment and forcing the cancer cells to constantly change their response to unpredictable attacks from new drugs or combinations of drugs. The authors suggest that the physicians begin by precisely defining the goal of treatment. Is to cure the patient or is it to prolong life? This allows the physician to better balance the benefit of therapy against the potential toxicity and its effects on the patient's quality of life. In a related suggestion, the authors suggest that the treating physician develops a strategy to deal with cancer cells that are resistant to therapy. If the goal is to cure, then resistant cells must be killed or prevented. If the goal is control, then physicians can use evolutionary principles to minimize the proliferation of resistant cells while limiting the toxicity of treatment. Finally, the physician, as the sentient player in the game, can continuously analyze the intratumoral evolutionary dynamics based on the tumor response during each treatment cycle. This information, often with the aid of a mathematical model, can provide information to improve the outcomes in subsequent cycles—a well-recognized approach in recursive games termed Bellman's Principle.
To operationalize their theoretical study, the research team suggests precision medicine for metastatic cancers. In addition to using molecular techniques to identify treatment targets, precision medicine should integrate strategies to deal with the evolution of resistance which almost invariably leads to failure of even highly successful targeted therapies. The health team should design an explicit Resistance Management Plan (RMP) for each patient—an approach commonly used in pest management. They also recommend that the physician analyzes the outcomes of every patient, similar to After Action Reports (AAR) used in the military and disaster response teams. By learning from each individual patient, personalized oncology can itself evolve and improve over time.
While this approach is designed for incurable metastatic cancers, Katerina Stankova, Ph.D., a mathematician at Maastricht University and an expert on game theory, notes that the full dynamics of Stackelberg games have not yet been rigorously explored. "As we develop the mathematics in conjunction with cancer therapies, we expect that our analyses will uncover novel game-theoretic, evolutionary strategies that may increase the probability of curing even aggressive and heterogeneous cancers," Stankova added.
More information: JAMA Oncology (2018). DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.3395
Journal information: JAMA Oncology
Provided by H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
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P.R.V. - Employees
This website is entirely dedicated to Social History; and here I list erstwhile P.R.V. employees as they become known to me. Strictly, only names & business-location/occupation (if known) is given and, for living persons, no personal identifiable detail is stated unless such detail has either been obtained from information in the public domain or permission has otherwise been granted with the express intent that the information is published on this website. No other detail beyond that shown on this website is kept.
(If anyone can add/confirm names, occupation and any other publishable detail I shall be pleased to know. And if anyone wishes to dispute an entry please contact me and I shall remove the entry forthwith. Ed.)
PRVdesign
The "PRVdesign Group" is a group of ex-PRV Drawing Office staff who have a website dedicated to sharing personal memories, photographs & memorabilia. Please click the link for more information and to see their latest video.
John ?
Factory - A colleague & friend of John William Rose (see below). Surname unknown. [Tony Rose]
(Does anyone know John's [friend of Jack Rose] surname? Ed.)
Kathy ? Print Room
Minnie ? Office Cleaner
Syd ?
(Does anyone know Syd's [friend of Jack Rose] surname? Ed.)
Mrs. Alissi Accounts Clerk
Steven Allam
Drawing Office - Steven was an Apprentice Draughtsman at PRV from 1974-1979. He says he was taken under the wing of Alf Hill and learnt everything he knows today!
Stan Anniss Drawing Office (MOD) - Trainee Draughtsman 1958-1960.
W. C. Ansley A "finisher" in the factory from the mid 50's to at least the early 70's.
George Anthony
Tony Antoine Factory - Floor Gang. Later joined Mulliner Park Ward.
? Archard
Charlie Babbs Drawing Office (MOD)
? Bagge
Jack Bailey Composite Shop - Charge Hand
? Barnard (aka Barney) Drawing Office - LTE Compiler
Finishing Shop:
Drawing Office - Ken Barnes was born in 1946 and worked in the PRV Drawing Office as a Design Draughtsman from 1970 to 1975 and as Project Engineer from 1975 to 1977. He moved to C. H. Roe (Leeds) in 1977 as Chief Designer then was appointed Engineering Manager at Eastern Coach Works (Lowestoft) from 1982 to 1985. He joined British Rail Engineering Ltd./ABB Rail Vehicles Ltd. (Derby) as Senior Project Engineer (Mechanical) from 1986 to 1995 and became Senior Project Engineer (Mechanical) at Alstom Transport Ltd. (Birmingham) until early retirement in 2006.
Thomas Andrew Barnes (aka Andy) - Was a PRV Apprentice from '62 to '67 but after he finished his apprenticeship he left PRV to work at Bonallacks, a body building firm specialising in outside broadcast TV units. This involved building the vehicles from start to finish (with just a mate) so he learnt quite a bit more about vehicle building after he completed his apprenticeship. Two years later he returned to PRV, as the money was so much better, and worked in the bodyshop until leaving to work for London Transport and then Stagecoach until January 2011 when he called it a day after looking after Titans 1 & 2 from 1978 to 2004 when they were sold to Blue Triangle. During his time with LT and Stagecoach Thomas bumped into many colleagues that also worked at PRV.
Thomas Barnes Apprenticeship Certificate
(see Anecdotes)
? Barton
Miss Batchelor
? Bedell
Miss Beere
Victor A Bell Aircraft Factory
H Berens
Miss Berryman
George Betteridge Cost Clerk
Ms Betts Secretary or Telephonist
Freddy Biggs
Don Black Works Charge Hand (father of Jim below).
Jim Black
Drawing Office (son of Don above) - Circa 1963. Jim left around 1966 to join Duple at Hendon and later he joined Commer then Karrier at Dunstable
W.R. (Bill) Black
Sir William R. Black J.P. (later Lord Black) Chairman - Joined Park Royal Coachworks in 1934 as Director & General Manager until 1939 when he became Managing Director, a post he retained until 1957 when he became Managing Director of the parent ACV Group. In addition to becoming Chairman of AEC, he also retained Chairmanship of PRV.
John Bland
Drawing Office - John Bland was born about 1944 and worked in the PRV Drawing Office as a Design Draughtsman in the late 1960's. Well known for his fast riding motorbike escapades and office pranks, he moved on in the early 1970's to become Stylist/Designer at Mulliner Park Ward (Willesden). Believed to have later worked at Rolls Royce Head Office as a Stylist developing new Rolls Royce car designs.
? Blenkinship
John Bloor
Probably born around 1935 and, formerly at MCW, worked at PRV (as Chief Body Engineer?) in early 1970's. Appointed Plant Director at Eastern Coach Works (Lowestoft) during the 1980's but after Leyland management restructuring moved on to Northern Counties Motor (Wigan) to develop new Bus project/designs in Engineering Office.
Nickname - (real name unknown) a metal polisher.
A Bonfield
Eddy Bonney Charge Hand in the trim department.
Ernie Bowles
Born in 1947, Ernie started as an apprentice in the body shop working on the RM in 1963. He then moved to the setting-out department under Les Foster. Eventually he worked alongside Fred Porter on all five proto-types of the B15. When the B15 went into production he became body shop foreman until PRV closed in 1980.
Miss Boyd
Ernie Boxall Composite Shop
Viv Bradbury Drawing Office
Bill Breach Factory: Worker
Faith Bridgewater
? Brock
A C Brooking
? Buckland
Dennis Busby
(aka Buzz) Drawing Office (MOD) - A well respected amateur photographer in his spare time; in the early '60's I knew him as a prominent member of the Ealing Photographic Society. Mainly concentrating on architectural photography, he became an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and was later awarded their highest accolade, a Fellowship (FRPS). He mentored me through my own photographic exploits and sadly I'm advised that he passed away during the early '90s. [Ed].
William J. Burnell
William James Burnell (Bill Burnell) - was born in 1910 and apprenticed at Park Royal from 1924. He either stayed on or returned later as I have a booklet of his relating to the Park Royal Workmen's Mutual Aid Fund of which he was apparently Chairman in or around 1937. He also built vehicles for Watney, Combe Reid in Mortlake (but I don't know the dates). He finished his career at Lambourn Engineering Ltd. (at Lambourn Berkshire), designing large motor horseboxes, luton vans, dropsiders, blood transfusion vehicles and mobile libraries.
[John Burnell]
Lorraine Butfoy
Ray Burrows Body Shop:
Daryl Burton Electrician:
Bert Butler
Drawing Office - Bert used to sell newspapers at an underground station before going to work.
Jack Byfield
Factory? - Jack Allen Byfield (b-28/11/1902 Croyden, d-Q2 1977 Eastbourne). Jack Byfield apparently worked at the factory sometime during the early 30's. A student of the RCM in the 20's, he was an evidently talented pianist and was persuaded by colleagues to "go professional". By 1934, he was making recordings as part of a trio with Albert Sandler (violin) and cellists Joachim Samehtini (1889-1942) & Reginald Kilbey. Sandler formed the Palm Court Orchestra in 1943 but after his untimely death in 1948, Jack, along with Kilbey, began a long association with the violinist Max Jaffa. Jack was also a talented arranger & conductor and became a household name with his own orchestra.
? Cann
Dermot John (Mick) Carolan Mick Carolan: Commercial Manager; worked at PRV from 1948 to 1980. Beginning, with his father, on the shop floor aged 22, Mick, reluctantly for better pay, moved to a clerical role and was involved with the sale of buses to Baghdad and with MOD work. Mick was also involved with the unenviable task clearing out the offices during PRV's final days.
[Angela Williams; daughter who has written a nice bio..]
James Patrick Carolan Mick Carolan's father: Factory; was already working at PRV when his son Mick joined in 1948.
[Angela Williams; granddaughter]
Steve Churcher
Drawing Office - Born in 1952, he started as apprentice at PRV in 1968 (after employment at Duples, Hendon was cancelled due to closure). After his apprenticeship in workshops & Inspection team, he joined the PRV Drawing Office in 1972. He moved on to London Transport (Chiswick) in 1975 as a Design Draughtsman in the R&D Design Office.	After LT Chiswick closed in 1988 he started at Wandle District (Mitcham) in their Tech Team until being made redundant in 1995. He joined London Coaches and became Manager of Kent Coachwork's (accident repairs, conversions & repaints) until the company collapsed in 2003. He is now employed at Stagecoach in S.E. London.
Nobby Clark
Composite Shop - Apparently he won the "Pools" about 1954 and with some of the winnings he bought a new cream Ford Consul (full rate then was about £9 pounds a Week).
Jock Clarkson
Composite Shop - One of a band of "Old Retainers", great men who went to work in pin stripes, wore white pinafores, and highly polished shoes. His son, also Jock, worked at Aldenham.
(Does anyone know about this team? Ed.)
Maintenance Dept. - John Clayton (Albert) worked in the PRV Maintenance Dept. during the 50s/60s.
[Roy Clayton (brother)]
George Clutterbuck Factory: Worker
Miss Cliffe
Sid Collett Drawing Office (MOD) -
Jean Colwell
Fred Conway
Bill Cook (aka Ted) Composite Shop - A great Lancastrian
Fred Cootes
Ray Craker Joined as an apprentice in 1959.
? Creber
Charlie. Cummings Setting Out department -
L. Da Silva Girl Friday
F Danks
William J. (Bill) Davis was appointed Works Manager at Park Royal in 1945 having previously been in charge of the London Aircraft Production factory. He lived in Hanger Lane where he kept a sharp piece of shrapnel in his garage as a souvenir of the time the family was 'bombed out' during WW2. He retired around 1952/3 and since then was always telephoned on Christmas Day by several of his old colleagues including Victor Bell, Ted Needs and Sir (later Lord) Bill Black. [Nigel Davis]
Ann Daniell
Drawing Office - Ann Daniell (1922-2003) was my father, Alf Hill's, sister-in-law who worked in the PRC Drawing Office during WW2; primarily tracing drawings.
Alfred Darvill
Alfred Henry Darvill was a jobbing carpenter at Park Royal from at least 1943 until he died from lung cancer in 1971 aged 61.
Arthur Day Setting Out department -
Daphne Delaney
Robert Dewey
unknown department - nephew of (Albert) John Clayton
Miss Dives
? Dobsworth Works Manager - During the mid 60's
? Donald
Graham Downey Drawing Office - from 1975 until closure in 1980.
John F Doyle
Motor Vehicle Body Builder - From 1967 through '74 after which he emigrated to New Zealand in January 1975.
[see John Doyle's Apprenticeship Certificate]
[see Anecdotes & Football Teams]
? Dulson
Dennis Dungate Buyer
Frank Dungate Quality Manager
Fred Dungate Quality Department
Bert Durham Experimental Shop, and later, the Drawing Office
Dave Edwards Body Shop:
Davy Edwards Processing:
Edward Egan
Apprentice Coach Builder: 1967-1971 - During his apprenticeship Edward worked in all the departments and, as a coach builder, specifically on the RM & DMS. After PRV Edward went to London Transport working on RM's at Willesden Garage and Stonebridge Park; he also worked on RT's in the early 1970s.
He remained a coach builder for the whole of his career and has many good memories of PRV especially being captain & goalkeeper of PRV's Sunday League football team.
? Elkington
Harry F Endersby Personnel Manager - Aircraft Factory
Miss Evans
? Evans
Michael Fadipe Shop Clerk
Richard Farrow
Worked in PRV Drawing Office in late 1960's/early 1970's until emigration to Norway around 1972. Originally from West Country (Devon or Cornwall), was tall, had a dry sense of humour and very interested in UFO's (coordinator & magazine editor).
? Fenton
Jack Field Plant Director: Jack was a member of the Bomb Disposal Squad attached to the Home Guard during WW2. He died in 1995.
Miss Fife
? Figgins
A Cliff Folland Wages: Wages clerk in the mid 50s. Also ran the PRV Fishing Club.
Miss Forsdick
Edward Fossey
Edward (Ted) Fossey worked in the stores department from about 1978 to closure in 1980.
Worked at Park Royal with his father in the 'Setting Out' department and finished as a Tooling Engineer shortly before PRV closed in 1980. Joined Charles H. Roe in Leeds as Factory Manager until its closure in 1984 when he joined Optare in the same role.
(John has donated hundreds of photographs and other fascinating items to be placed on this website, for which I am very grateful. Ed.)
Les Foster
Setting Out department -
? Francis Supervisor in the Finishing Shop
Margaret Franck Awaiting further details.
Arthur French Finishing Shop
Norman Fryer-Saxby
Drawing Office - Norman worked in the PRV Drawing Office until 1971 then moved on to London Transport (Chiswick) as a Design Draughtsman in the R&D Design Office. Promoted a few times then finally became a Senior Executive in 1984 until being made redundant in 1988. He started as Engineering Manager at a luxury motor caravan company (Reading) but was made redundant again after four months. He was then appointed General Manager of Horseman Coaches Ltd. (Reading) from 1989 until 1997, but moved on to become Commercial Manager of Reading Transport Ltd. until retirement in 2012. He is still employed part-time for Reading Transport Ltd. as Company Secretary & Trustee of Pension Scheme. He is also a Justice of the Peace and Magistrate in the Berkshire courts.
Cyril Fuller
Foreman Aircraft Factory - Cyril Fuller was apprenticed at the GWR in Norfolk, where he learned woodworking. He then went on to Shorts of Belfast working on timber framed aircraft and apparently spent time in Poland before the war. A long time friend of his was RAF Wing Commander, Stanley Timmis. He was also associated with Harry Endersby, Sir William Black and a 'Curly Guyert'. [Adrian Fuller].
Dave Gardner Sheet Metal
Archie Garret?
A colleague of John William Rose (see below) was an inside trimmer. Surname thought to be Garret [Tony Rose]
(Can anyone confirm Archie's surname? Ed.)
Miss Gentle
? Goodacre
George Gosling Drawing Office (MOD)
? Granstone
William Henry Gray William Henry Gray worked for Park Royal for many years both before & during WW2 and possibly for some time after WW2. It's possible that he became one of the plant managers.
(Does anyone know of William? Ed.)
George Greaves Cost Clerk
A (Bob) Gregg Sales Director also one time Plant Director
Denis Griffin Joined PRV in 1966 as an apprentice in sheet metal work.
? Hammond
Basil Hancock
Malcolm Harrison
Malcolm says: "I did my apprenticeship at PRV from November 1965 to December 1969 working on the Routemaster, Bristol Cars & Army Trucks etc.. Upon completion my main job was working on the RM's staircase and platform areas. After the RMs I worked on the rear-engined buses for Birmingham City Transport, in the cab area, then on the B15 (Titan) for LT where I fitted the folding doors until I left in 1979.
? Harvey
Tommy Harwood
Edward Hatton Ted Hatton - Bodyshop Foreman
Ken Hatton
Composite Shop - Ken was a N.U.V.B. (National Union of Vehicle Builders) Shop Steward in 1952 and later a charge hand.
Percy Hayward
Drawing Office - Percy Hayward was at PRV before 1947 and left to start the HBH company with Freddy Biggs and Alf Hill.. When the HBH company closed Percy joined Duple and rejoined Drawing Office at PRV after Duple closed.
S. G. Hearne Factory? - also N.U.V.B. (National Union of Vehicle Builders) representative.
Alf Hemmings Panel Shop
? Hewlett
Edwin Higgs Paint Shop: Edwin worked in the paint shop from from 1974 until closure in 1980.
Alf Hill
Drawing Office - [often called "Teapot" for his love of very strong tea - I could never drink it. Ed.]
see: Alfred Charles Hill (1915-1992)
? Hills
George Hines
? Hockey
Charlie Holdaway
? Hornagold
Frank Horan Cost Clerk
Roger Hosey
Geoffrey Humblestone
Born in 1909 Geoff was the Wages Clerk & Works Cashier [Paymaster] in the late 40s early 50s. His later years were spent travelling around the country as the timber buyer. He spent almost all his working life at PRV. On one occasion in 1948, his son Brian recalls his father showing him the weekly pay-cheque - £24,000 for about 2000 employees. He was accompanied by an armed guard when he went to cash it.
Les Humphries
Composite Shop
George Instrell
Spare Man (Factory) - George Alfred Instrell was born at Pontypridd South Wales in 1908. He left school aged 15 to work in the Lady Windsor Coal mine Ynysybwl Pontypridd until 1931 when he left for London. He joined Park Royal Coachworks in the early 30's and got married in 1939 living then at Beresford Avenue Wembley a short walk from Park Royal. He recalled Park Royal building Tanks & Fire Engines during WW2 when he was also a member of the Home Guard. He was at PRV until his death in 1962. The term "Spare Man" meant that he was a multi-talented worker who could perform many different jobs within the works. [Mary Manley]
Geoff Irving
Drawing Office (MOD)
Stephen Jolly Drawing Office: Junior draughtsman from March '77 to July '78.
Drawing Office - Born in 1943 he started as an apprentice at PRV in 1960 going through the Works to end up in the Setting Out Shop with Les Foster, Charlie Cummings & Arthur Day. Worked in the PRV Drawing Office from 1964 to 1974. Then moved on to work in various Design Offices in the Aircraft Industry manufacturing aircraft galleys (incl. Concorde & Airbus A321) at Henshalls (Byfleet), British Aerospace (Farnborough & Kingston), Rumbolds (Camberley) and finally Lontec (Blackwater) until retirement in 2008.
? James
Peter Kelly Wages Office: Ex the Republic of Ireland, his friend was Frank Monaghan; from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Tony Kelly Composite Shop
Sony Kendle Forman in the paint shop. Married to George Offord's sister.
Adouwa Kessie Shop Clerk
Wesley Keys Plant Director: went on to coachbuilder Walter Alexander.
Sid Lawrence
Alf Legatt
? Lewis
Mike Liefboro Electrician: Emigrated to South Africa circa 1975/76
(Brother) Liefboro Electrician: Emigrated to South Africa circa 1975/76
J Lindsell
? Littlejohn
W Lovidge Wages: Chief Clerk
Mich Lyden
George McDonald or
McDougal
Drawing Office - Started work in the PRV Drawing Office in the early 1970's as a Stylist/Designer for the Royalist coach project.
Miss McGrath
Ian McLellan-Smith
Drawing Office - Born in 1947, Ian joined the PRV Drawing Office in 1963. He left in January '70 to join Modernair Processes Ltd that designed spray booths and stoving ovens. In June 1970, he joined Glover, Webb & Liversidge, designing Security & Refuse Collection Vehicles; rejoining PRV in January '72 until June '74 when he moved to Torquay and worked for Booker Motor Bodies at Newton Abbot. Then in February 1975 he joined Marshall of Cambridge in the Motor Bodies D.O. leaving in January '78 to join Pye Telecom Ltd in Radio Communications as a contract design draughtsman in their Systems D.O. The company was acquired by Philips in 1986 and was then sold to Simoco International in 1997. Ian became part of the Confined Space Engineering & Systems Installation Group as their only mechanical design draughtsman. He then moved into Simoco Digital Systems group for Tetra Radio installation from Dec 2001 until its failure in March 2002; from which a new company, Simoco Digital UK, was formed in the July and Ian worked there until June 2009 when that company became insolvent and Ian retired.
Miss Maddison
John Malamatenios
John was just 15 years old when he started work at PRV soon after New Year's day in 1952. He was taken to the Composite Shop (where timber bodies & buses were made) by Bill Cook, a great Lancastrian?, well-respected, who smoked cigarettes, coughed a lot and called everybody 'Matey'. Jack Bailey, a big man, was the chargehand. John then went to work in the RT shop, making the intermediate floors and working on the Green Goddesses, and the timber cabs for the London Brick Company. After moving back to the Composite Shop, John left aged 19 (just when the first Routemasters were being built in the RT shop) and started his own business that became the largest family run business in Hemel Hempstead.
Mrs Marshall
Donald Matthews Drawing Office (MOD)
Miss Mayher
? Middleton
Frank Monaghan Wages Office: from Belfast, Northern Ireland, his friend was Peter Kelly; ex. the Republic of Ireland.
Patricia Monk
Drawing Office - Mike worked in the PRV Drawing Office in the early 1970's then moved on to London Transport (Chiswick) in the R&D Design Office.
Glen Mountney
Drawing Office - Born in 1949, Glen began his apprenticeship at PRV from 1965 to 1970 as a Trainee Draughtsman. He continued working in the PRV Drawing Office until 1972 then moved on to London Transport (Chiswick) in the R&D Design Office. Glen emigrated to The Netherlands in 1973 with his Dutch wife and children to work in the Design Office of a large Dutch Coachbuilder. In 1974 he switched profession to work for Engineering Contractors in the Petro-Chemical industry as a Design Draughtsman at various companies (incl. I.C.I. Holland, Shell Chemical, Esso & Heineken). In 1986, after a five year contractor period at Heineken Breweries as Piping Designer, he made a permanent move to Heineken's Engineering Department. Glen spent nineteen years at Heineken firstly as Plant Designer, then Mechanical Engineer and finally Process Engineer, until being made redundant in 2005. He was in the Heineken redundancy & pre-retirement scheme until early retirement in 2012.
? Morrell
Ned Neary Factory: Worker
Ted Needs Arthur Charles Needs - Sales Manager
Moss Nelson Drawing Office - Joined PRV after Weymans closed.
Brian Offord (Son of George) - Began as an apprentice in the trim dept in 1959.
Eric Walker was the Forman and Eddy Bonney was the Charge Hand.
George Offord George Offord - worked in the body building shop I remember him being a charge hand on the cab line. [Brian Offord]
Len Oram [Len] Oram - Rriveter from the late 40s.
Walter Oram [Wally] Oram - Riveter from the late 40s.
? Orriss
? Palmer
Derek Payne Composite Shop
Bill Pearson Drawing Office -
Pearson Buyer
James E
Head of Inspection - Aircraft Factory: Before the start of WW2 James was working at the British Electrical Company as a Quality Inspector evaluating the bus bodies supplied by various coach builders to BET bus companies. At the commencement of WW2 James was put in charge of the Inspection Staff at the Aircraft Factory at Park Royal that built the outer wings & engine cowlings for the Halifax Bomber. At completion of hostilities James relocated to Leeds to join Charles H Roe in 1946. [Martyn Pearson]
Johnny Pidgeon
Buyer - 'Johnny' Pidgeon joined the company circa 1930 and was the buyer at PRV. He retired in 1961. [Morwenna Dorma]
? Piercy
Fred Porter
Worked on the B15.
[Roy Clayton (brother of Albert John) writes: Fred Porter lived next door to my wife in South Harrow. He retired to Sussex and died at 'a good old age' in the last couple of years! (thus circa 2013/14 Ed.).]
Mervyn Powell
AKA Bill Powell - from Wales, he was by trade a coachbody builder. He worked on coaches (and also tanks during the war). He retired in the 1980s. [Phyllis Powell]
Johnny Qail
? Rance
Drawing Office (MOD) - Cecil Frederick George (aka Cyril) Rawlings - worked as a draughtsman from about 1954 through to about 1967, which was some two years after the family moved from the Abbey estate to Twyford, near Reading. After PRV he joined Metalair to design bulk dry-storage 'silo' systems. Born in 1922 he died suddenly at the family home in Twyford in 1988 aged 65. [Steve & Peter Rawlings]
Offer of employment with PRV
Reference from Sid Collett (Cyril decided to stay at PRV)
Jack Raynsford Buyer -
Douglas Redfern
Drawing Office - Born about 1952 he began as an apprentice at PRV in the late 1960's working in the PRV Drawing Office in the early 1970's. Moved on to London Transport (Chiswick) in the R&D Design Office.
Bill Rees Drawing Office -
? Rentall
Drawing Office - Born in 1952 he began as an apprentice at PRV in the late 1960's and worked in the PRV Drawing Office up to 1980. He moved on to the Ford Motor Company (Dunton) for 32½ years until early retirement in 2012.
William Richards (Bill) Richards: Chief Shop Clerk
Miss Richardson
Russell Richardson Facilities during the 1970's; went on to found Optare.
Cyril Risbridger
Drawing Office (MOD) - Cyril Risbridger MBE was born at Willesden on February 14th 1920 and died at Ruislip in 2001 aged 81. During WW2 (from 1940-46) he served in the RAF, after which he worked at PRV within Sid Collett's team until its closure in July 1980. He was made an MBE around 1975 for services to the Country, a result of his designing vehicles for the BAOR (British Army of the Rhien). He married in 1947. In his spare time he was an avid amateur photographer winning several awards. [Anne James]
Charlie Roberts Drawing Office - Sadly died early 1969
? Rogers
John William (aka Jack) Rose
Factory - John William Rose (aka Jack) was a panel beater and began at Park Royal before WW2. After an heart attack in 1976 he was given light duties in the wages office until PRV's closure in 1980 when he retired due to ill health. Sadly he passed away in 2004. Notably, he worked on the GWR Railcars, the Bristol Cars and the Routemaster. Before his heart trouble he would ride to work on a grey NSU Quickly and upon his transfer to the wages office he travelled in a white Mark 3 Cortina. [Tony Rose]
? Ross
Louis Saba
N. (Sam) Samine Wages: Bonus Clerk
Richard Savin
Drawing Office - Born about 1950 Richard worked in the PRV Drawing Office in the late 1960's/early 1970's. He started his own successful double-glazing and home extensions company.
William Scaplehorn
William (Bill) Scaplehorn was a chargehand in the body shop. He was at PRV from about 1960 to closure in 1980.
Bert Scott
Line Leader in the body shop?
Harold Sear
Paint Shop - Harold G. V. Sear was born January 1899 and raised at New Bradwell, Buckinghamshire (now within the town of Milton Keynes). He served his paint shop apprenticeship at Wolverton Carriage Works before being called up for military service with the Devon and Dorset Regiment, during which time he played tenor horn and cornet in the regimental band. He met his wife, Doris Bush, at a funfair about 1923 and my brother Gordon arrived the following year with myself ten years later. During the lean 'hard to find employment' years we moved around quite a bit living in 'digs' ranging from Swindon, Coventry, Oxford, Brighton and finally 28A High Street, Feltham when he worked in the paint shop at Park Royal Coachworks from before & throughout WW2. He became a Sergeant in the Middlesex Home Guard and after hostilities we moved back to Wolverton as dad got a job at the United Counties Body Shop; eventually settling in Northampton.
[Dennis Sear] (see Anecdotes)
? Sharman
Graham Shears Works Apprentice?
? Shipway
Bill Shirley
General Manager - Joseph William (Bill) Shirley; was born at Birmingham on September 5th 1910 and died at Bournemouth in 1998 aged 87. After training as an engineer, in 1934 he began work on the shop floor at the Eastern coachworks in Lowestoft. Four years later he had become plant director and in 1953 moved to Park Royal as General Manager. Apart from serving on the committees of the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders, from 1954-57 he was also President of the National Federation of Vehicle Trades and President & Chairman of the Institute of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers for 1966/7. [Extracted from the obituary printed in the Daily Telegraph 21st May 1998 and supplied to me by Anne James; Ed.].
Phil Shrapnell
Drawing Office - Phil started as an apprentice at PRV in the early 1970's working in the PRV Drawing Office. He moved on to London Transport (Chiswick) in the R&D Design Office and later to the London Underground Division.
Mike Simpson Factory - Body Shop.
Gurdip Sing
Factory - Roof gang. (it is believed he apprenticed at PRV).
Jim Slater
Secretary & Chief Accountant - James Derrick Slater - Jim Slater trained as a Chartered Accountant and joined PRV in 1955. In 1958 he left to become Commercial Director of AEC and later Commercial Manager of ACV and then Deputy Sales Director. He was to become famous as a financier starting his own investment company in 1964 with the MP Peter Walker. He is also an author of both financial and children's books.
(see http://www.jimslater.org.uk/biography/)
Miss M. Smith
Miss Sneary
Bert (Slim) Sommerwell Company Secretary
R Stack Electrician's Dep't. Also ran the PRV Rifle Club.
Ernie Stanbury Paint Shop: Joined Rolls Royce
Reg. Stanford Chief Draftsman
R. G. Stanford Aircraft Factory - he may be one and the same Reg. Stanford.
Miss Stanley
Rodney Steward (see Rodney Swalling)
Bill Stock Factory: Worker
Afred F. Stone
Alf. Stone - Became a foreman in the Finishing Department but during WW2 he led the company's volunteer Auxiliary Bomb Disposal Unit (see PRV Wartime)
Norman Stops Drawing Office
Reg Strange
? Strong
Rodney Swalling
Wages Office: Bonus Clerk from mid 1974 to October 1975.
Due to family circumstances, in 1970 I changed my name by Deed Poll to "Steward" and later reverted to "Swalling" for personal reasons.
Although it was 40 years ago I still remember some good times and people. As an Australian I wasn't allowed to work too much so I had to return home. Rod Swalling.
Miss Taylor
Charlie Thomas Drawing Office (MOD)
Miss Thrope
George Tobias Composite Shop - He sang on the BBC Recording of "Workers Playtime".
(I believe he was also part of the Royals Concert Party. Ed.)
Fred Tolman
Sylvie Totham Clerk
Jim Tovell
Beryl Turner
Harry Vernon
Factory - Sub assembly manufacture. Later joined Mulliner Park Ward.
Drawing Office - Frank worked in the PRV Drawing Office for about nine months in the early 1970's. He had come from Duple Coachbuilders and moved on to work for Vauxhall Motors.
? Watts
Doreen Walden Sid Collett's Secretary
Jean Walden
Bob Walker
Eric Walker Foreman in the trim department.
F Walker
Ronald West Ronald George Henry West - Public Safety Inspector at PRV working on the Titan. He sadly died of lung cancer at age 52 in March 1978.
[Details from his son Ron]
Ken Wheatley Drawing Office
Alf White Factory Worker
Kenny White Body Shop:
William White (Billy White): Finishing Shop
Edith Whitehead Johnny Pidgeon's Secretary
Adrian Wickens Began with PRV in 1973 as a trainee body engineer; left for Leyland in 1979.
Miss Wilkins
? Williams
Mrs Williams
Roy Williamson
Composite Body Shop: Roy started work at Park Royal Coachworks aged fourteen in January 1946 remaining at PRV until they started laying off staff leading up to the closure. Although now 82, Roy remembers the many various vehicles he worked on and has very happy memories of his time there.
Valerie Willing
Peter Wills
Having completed six months Government Training, Peter joined PRV around 1975/6 in the roof gang. He then joined Mulliner Park Ward and, after its 16 week strike, he joined LT Buses working mostly on its Radio Team fitting radio kits across the fleet; then later doing routine servicing called "Rota's and crash repairs". After six years he rejoined Mulliner firstly doing finishing, but finally working in the head gang, refitting bonnets/boots, doors and making/fitting the head frames.
? Wilson
B Wollard
Harry Yager
Harry Yager: Owner of Park Royal Coachworks (PRC) from 1930-1946 (his death) - Chairman of PRC from 1930-1935.
PRC remained in the control of the Yager family until Harry's death on April 11th 1946 when the family decided to rename the business as Park Royal Vehicles and float the company in the October of the same year.
Harry had significant financial resources with his own Investment Trust that owned much land, especially at Park Royal, including a plot adjacent to the PRC works that he developed as a Greyhound Race Track.
(see PRV History)
(see The Yager Family)
Reuben Yager
Reuben Yager: Director of Park Royal Coachworks (PRC) from ?-1935.
Reuben was Harry Yager's 5th child. He was a Board Member of Park Royal Coachworks and also helped run the family's timber merchants & plywood manufacturing business at South Street, Ponders End.
(see The Yager Family - Reuben Yager)
Solomon Yager
Solomon Yager (aka Solly): Director of Park Royal Coachworks (PRC) from 1930-1935.
Solly was Harry Yager's 3rd child. Along with his father Harry, who was Chairman, he was the first family Board Member of Park Royal Coachworks, aged just 22. He also managed the PRC timber yard and helped run the family's timber merchants & plywood manufacturing business at South Street, Ponders End, being particularly responsible for sales & marketing.
(see The Yager Family - Solomon Yager)
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What is an example of mimetic isomorphism?
Mimetic isomorphism occurs when an organization copies the practices of another organization it perceives to be successful, particularly for problems "with ambiguous causes or unclear solutions."6(p151) Hospitals' adoption of Continuous Quality Improvement as a comprehensive management program is an example of mimetic …
How is mimetic isomorphism different from coercive isomorphism?
Coercive isomorphism stems from political influence and organizational legitimacy, often conveyed through laws, regulations, and accreditation processes (or outside agency requirements); normative isomorphism is associated with professional values; and mimetic isomorphism is copying or mimicking behaviors that is a …
What is an example of normative isomorphism?
Norms developed during education are entered into organizations. Inter-hiring between existing industrial firms also encourages isomorphism. People from the same educational backgrounds will approach problems in much the same way. Socialization on the job reinforces these conformities.
What is isomorphism theory?
In sociology, an isomorphism is a similarity of the processes or structure of one organization to those of another, be it the result of imitation or independent development under similar constraints. There are three main types of institutional isomorphism: normative, coercive and mimetic.
What's the meaning of mimetic?
Definition of mimetic 1 : imitative. 2 : relating to, characterized by, or exhibiting mimicry mimetic coloring of a butterfly.
What operates through mimetic isomorphism?
Mimetic isomorphism in organization theory refers to the tendency of an organization to imitate another organization's structure because of the belief that the structure of the latter organization is beneficial. This behavior happens primarily when an organization's goals or means of achieving these goals is unclear.
What is a mimetic process?
In mimetic theory, mimesis refers to human desire, which Girard thought was not linear but the product of a mimetic process in which people imitate models who endow objects with value. Girard called this phenomenon mimetic desire. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires."
What is mimetic pressure?
Mimetic pressure arises when companies engage in competition seeking superior performance [19,38]. EMA adoption can be costly but beneficial. It is important for companies to respond to their competitors' actions and behaviors. If their competitors are using EMA, companies should follow suit.
What are mimetic forces?
What are Isomorphs in chemistry?
In chemistry isomorphism has meanings both at the level of crystallography and at a molecular level. In crystallography, compounds are isomorphous if their symmetry is the same and their unit cell parameters are similar. Molecules are isomorphous if they have similar shapes.
What is mimetic violence?
Mimetic theory allows us to see that the peace thus produced is violent, comes at the expense of a victim, and is built upon lies about the guilt of the victim and the innocence of the community.
What is a mimetic in biology?
A non-peptide synthetic molecule that reproduces some features of a natural peptide, e.g. it may bind strongly to an antibody by placement of the same functional groups, in the same relation to each other, as are found in the peptide antigen.
What is normative isomorphism?
Normative isomorphism is the result of professionalization within a specific organizational field (Tipurić, 2014; Johnston, 2013). Professionalization is defined as the collective effort of members in the same profession in order to establish rules and restrictions for governing business performance in
What is isomorphic mimicry?
What is isomorphic mimicry? It's a situation in which you get the benefits just by looking like something without really having to be that thing. It's like a protective, camouflage is one way of mimicking to look like what you're not. So, in nature there's two snakes, there's the Eastern Coral snake which is deadly venomous.
What does institutional isomorphism mean?
Institutional isomorphism, a concept developed by Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell, is the similarity of the systems and processes of institutions. This similarity can be through imitation among institutions or through independent development of systems and processes. What is institutional isomorphism?
What is business process isomorphism?
The term process isomorphism usually refers to two processes that are structurally identical, typically between two companies in the same industry.


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London : The UK's tariff system proposal is illegal, agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan said last week.
The no-deal customs regime outlined by UK officials is admittedly "transitional" and only meant to last for 12 months only – but is clearly disruptive. What's paramount, however, is that the UK's tariff system proposal is illegal, according to agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan.
As it now stands, the plan would introduce tariffs in 18% of EU products, down from the 100% duty-free regime that exists today.
The new regime envisages a 10% tariff on cars, beef, chicken, lamb, pork, fertilizers, and fuel. Other agricultural products, including eggs and cereals, as well as fruit and vegetables, will not be protected.
More controversially, under this transitional agreement, there would be no customs checks on the Irish border no matter what the place of origin of the transiting products happens to be. Theoretically, this could mean that Ireland becomes a backdoor to the UK market.
Addressing the press in Dublin, Hogan said that Brussels believes these proposals to be in violation of World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules, which demand equal treatment for all trading partners. "Our initial assessment is that the proposal is illegal," Hogan said, warning that the UK could be taken to a dispute settlement panel.
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Oil and gas leasing rejected in Wyoming because, well, climate change
By Rachel Ramirez on Mar 20, 2019
A federal judge has blocked drilling on roughly 300,000 acres of public land in Wyoming because the Department of Interior failed to take climate change into account when auctioning off the land for oil and gas leasing.
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled that officials from the Interior's Bureau of Land and Management (BLM) should have considered climate change risks such as greenhouse gas emissions linked to the drilling before making the decision.
"By asserting that these crucial environmental analyses are overly speculative at the leasing stage and more appropriate for later, site-specific assessments, BLM risks relegating the analyses to the 'tyranny of small decisions,'" Contreras wrote in his memorandum opinion.
In other words: Putting off decisions about climate impacts is no longer an option.
Under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, federal agencies must identify and understand the environmental effects of proposed actions, and inform the public of those effects so that its opinion could be involved in the decision-making process.
Failing to consider both environmental degradation and climate change in government policy has been a trend since the first day of the Trump administration. In just the past two years, we've seen shortsighted plans to boost the coal industry, withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, and attempts to roll back a slew of federal regulations on extraction of coal, oil and gas, and most recently mercury.
Just Wednesday morning, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler told CBS This Morning that climate change's effects were decades away, despite the fact that numerous scientific reports — including from his own government — contradict that assertion.
"Climate change is an important issue that we have to be addressing, and we are — but most of the threats from climate change are 50 to 75 years out," Wheeler said. In fact, the impacts of climate change have been much more immediately evident in air quality in Texas, record-breaking flooding in Nebraska, and out-of-season wildfires in Oregon.
The judge's decision is overdue pushback on the Trump administration's policy of ignoring the climate impacts of its agenda. Now, BLM has to redo the environmental assessment with a more realistic view of our climate situation. Until then, Contreras will continue to block any leases.
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Johann Vierdanck (also Virdanck, Vyrdanck, Feyertagk, Feyerdank, Fierdanck; ca. 1605–1646) was a German violinist, cornettist, and composer of the Baroque period.

Life
Vierdanck was born near Dresden. In 1615 he joined the court chapel of Dresden, where he became a student of Heinrich Schütz and of William Brade. His instrumental works were influenced by the Italian violinist Carlo Farina, also active in the Dresden court.

After visits to Copenhagen and Lübeck, Vierdanck occupied the post of organist in Stralsund from 1635 until his death. He was buried in Stralsund on 1 April 1646.

The group Parnassi Musici has recorded several of his instrumental works, from his 1641 publication, for the CD label Classic Produktion Osnabrück.

Compositions
Instrumental
Erster Theil Newer Pavanen, Gagliarden, Balletten vnd Correnten m. 2 V. u. einem Violon nebenst dem basso continuo (1637, Greifswald)
Ander Theil darinnen begriffen etliche Capricci, Canzoni vnd Sonaten mit 2. 3. 4. und 5. Instrumenten ohne und mit dem Basso Continuo (1641, Rostock)
Vocal Music
Erster Theil Geistlichen Concerten für 2 - 4 St. und B.c. (Greifswald, 1641/43)
Ander Theil Geistlicher Concerten mit 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. vnd 9. St. nebenst einem gedoppelten B.c. (Rostok, 1643)
Cantate: Der Herr hat seinen Engeln befohlen
Cantate: Ich freue mich im Herrn  (Greifswald, 1643)
Cantate: Stehe auf, meine Freundin
1 Motet for four voices and B.c. (1641)

Recordings
Johann Vierdanck. 20 Capricci, Canzoni & Sonatas. Parnassi musici. CPO 2007
The Trio Sonata in 17th Century-Germany. London Baroque. [therein: Suite A-Dur]. BIS 2008
Machet die Tore Weit. Innsbrucker Capellknaben, Howard Arman. [therein: Ich verkündige euch große Freude]. Tyrolis 1997
Die Herrlichkeit der Erden muß Rauch und Asche werden. Musik und Poesie aus der Zeit des 30jährigen Krieges. Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci. [therein: Capriccio Nr. 17, Singet dem Herrn]. AM 1997
Wedding Motets. Weser Renaissance, Manfred Cordes. [therein: Capriccio, Ich freue mich im Herren]. CPO 2006
His Majestys Sagbutts Grand Tour. His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts. [therein: Sonata 28, Sonata 31 ("Als ich einmal Lust bekam"). Hyperion 1996

Further reading
Weiß, Gerhard: Johann Vierdanck (ca. 1605-1646). Sein Leben und sein Werk. Phil. Diss. Marburg, 1956

References

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1605 births
1646 deaths
17th-century classical composers
German Baroque composers
German male classical composers
German violinists
German male violinists
German trombonists
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Driver killed in fiery Newport Beach crash…
Driver killed in fiery Newport Beach crash identified as Stanton man
One man was killed after his car crashed into the South Coast Army & Navy store on Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach, CA on Sunday, November 17, 2019. (OnScene.TV)
By City News Service | news@socalnews.com |
Authorities identified a 20-year-old man Sunday, Nov. 24, who was killed when his car crashed into a commercial building on Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach and burst into flames.
The crash that killed Brandon Vergara of Stanton took place around 10:55 p.m. Nov. 17, at PCH and 61st Street, in an area with a "dramatic curve," according to Newport Beach police Sgt. B. Gregson and the Orange County coroner's office.
Vergara was headed westbound in an Infiniti coupe at the time of the crash, he said.
His body was found in the remains of the vehicle when firefighters put out the flames, Gregson said.
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We're three people of color. Two of us are immigrants. Another one of us grew up in poverty with two siblings and one working immigrant parent. We care deeply about climate change. In fact, we've devoted much of the past year to passing Initiative 732 in the November general election.
I-732 is a citizen ballot initiative to fight climate change; to make polluters pay when they damage our air, water and health; and to give that money back to the people in the biggest anti-poverty measure in this state since groceries were made sales tax exempt in 1977. I-732 tackles the biggest issue facing our planet and also the most unfair tax system in the nation.
We're here to tell you why Washingtonians who care about climate change, who care about clean air and water, who care about lifting people out of poverty, who care about making big polluters responsible for the damage they cause, who care about helping working families, should be passionately shouting from the rooftops in favor of I-732.
Today, big polluters can spew carbon dioxide – and smog and asthma-producing particulates that come with it – into our environment for free. We all pay the bill, in acidifying seas, in drought, in forest fires and in damage to the health of our kids.
Frontline communities – those of lower income and those of color – get it the worst, as they're most likely to be near a power plant or a highway. Lung cancer and asthma hospitalization rates for children and adults are higher for the Duwamish Valley compared to King County as a whole, with asthma rates 67 percent higher for children and 60 percent higher for adults due to air pollutants released with the burning of fossil fuels. As the Antarctic ice shelf melts, parts of Seattle will be underwater by 2050, according to projections by Seattle Public Utilities. Neighborhoods in South Park and Georgetown are expected to face daily flooding by early next century. The Yes on I-732 campaign understands the environmental and economic inequities that exist in Washington, and we believe I-732 is an important step toward addressing these inequities.
Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen, the man who first sounded the alarm on climate change, probably the most eminent climate scientist in the world, says we need a carbon tax. He's specifically endorsed I-732.
Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, SolarCity, and SpaceX, says we need a carbon tax, just like I-732.
Bernie Sanders says "a carbon tax must be a central part of our strategy" for beating climate change.
Washington has the most unfair state tax code in the nation. Our taxes hurt people in poverty harder than those of any other state. A large reason for that is our highly regressive state sales tax, which hurts low-income people (disproportionately people of color and immigrants) far more than the wealthy.
I-732 uses the revenue from the carbon tax on pollution to reduce the sales tax by a full percent. This will not only help alleviate the tax burden for people who consume fossil fuels in the form of gasoline and electricity, but it will also help low-income families. It also funds – for the first time – and expands the Working Family Tax Rebate (WFTR). WFTR is a program that was enacted in 2008 by the state government but never funded. I-732 will give 460,000 low-income families across the state up to $1,500 a year in tax relief. The initiative also virtually eliminates the B&O tax on manufacturers to help them stay competitive, keep good jobs in Washington and give an economic incentive for businesses to reduce emissions, be more energy-efficient and invest in clean energy.
Let's take a look at how I-732 makes Washington taxes fairer by looking at how state and local taxes would change with the measure's funding of the Working Families Tax Rebate.
This summer, a new campaign, led by some of the biggest polluters in the state, was launched to oppose I-732. It is led by the Association of Washington Business and funded by five top money donors including TransAlta, Washington's only in-state coal plant and single largest carbon emitter. Once again we are faced with big-money groups, along the lines of those who have for decades funded climate change denial and climate science skepticism campaigns; now, they are fabricating their own dubious reasoning to undermine policy solutions to climate change.
If big polluters don't pay their fair share for the price for pollution, the heavy burden will continue to fall on low-income families, communities of color, our children, wildlife and future generations. We must pass I-732 and do more for environmental justice.
The 2016 election is our best chance to pass an initiative that fights climate change and alleviates poverty. A recent report by CarbonBrief says that we have five years until we can no longer keep global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius, the best hope for reducing impacts on food production and vulnerable ecosystems. We cannot afford to wait. We have a moral responsibility to act on climate now and vote Yes on I-732 in November.
As part of its general election coverage, Crosscut is beginning to publish opinion articles presenting various views on ballot measures. An op ed opposing I-732 will appear later this week.
Priya Cloutier is the founder of Cloutier Global, an intellectual property law firm that supports start-ups and emerging companies. Prior to earning her law degree, Priya earned a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering and worked at Los Alamos National Engineering Laboratories, Idaho National Engineering Laboratories, and Hanford. Jason Puracal is the Director of Finance & Operations at East Shore Unitarian Church, Co-Founder & CEO of his CleanTech start-up company ZILA Works, and Board member of the Innocence Project Northwest. He holds a B.S. in Zoology and B.A. in Economics from UW, as well as an MBA in Sustainable Business from Pinchot University. Aaron Tam is the King County Campaign Coordinator for Carbon Washington, the grassroots organization behind I-732. Aaron recently completed a double degree in Environmental Science: Wildlife Conservation and Political Science at the University of Washington where he researched the impacts of climate change on people and wildlife in the Pacific Northwest, as well as studied policy solutions for socioeconomic, environmental and racial justice issues.


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Te Awamutu Sports hung on in the face of a furious comeback to hand Taupiri their first loss of the season, almost blowing an 18 point lead in the last 15 minutes to win 33-32 in Waikato Championship rugby.
Sports rode the boot of young fullback Logan Karl, whose man of the match performance netted him four penalty goals and two conversions aided by three tries, two of which were opportunistic intercept tries from winger Shauncy Waho to race out to a commanding 33-15 lead, only to lose their way as Taupiri stormed back into the game.
The early stages were completely dominated by the hosts, Karl breaking out from the first play of the game, netting an attacking lineout. The ensuing rolling maul saw Fetu Sasalu break off the back and waltz over untouched to score in the first three minutes. Karl converted from out wide for the early lead.
Karl traded penalties with Taupiri fullback Dean Fullerton to a 13-3 scoreline before the visitors forwards hard work in close created an overlap for winger Waisale Takabulabula to close the gap to five points.
Sports relished the increase of intensity and shook off an underwhelming previous two weeks to knock back the visitors every chance they got. Taupiri, searching for answers, began to force the issue giving Waho the chance to sniff and intercept to race away to score. Another Karl penalty gave Sports a healthy 23-8 lead at half time.
Karl potted another penalty goal to stretch the lead by three points before a breakdown at lineout time gifted Taupiri a try to pull the score back to 26-15.
Taupiri threw all they had at the Sports defence again, and it was Waho on hand to pick a wide pass out of the air in his own half to race away for his second.
At 33-15 with fifteen minutes left the game looked sewn up and Sports seemingly sat on their lead and dropped a gear, while Taupiri went up another in their desperation and that, coupled with some ill discipline saw Taupiri score three more tries and almost pull off an unlikely upset.
Bar the last quarter, Sports lifted their game to dominate the pace setters. Karl was outstanding while Caleb Loomans continues to grow in midfield against tough opponents. Waho continues to look more at home, a danger every time he touched the ball. In the forwards, Sasalu relished the increase in physicality and prop Bailey Oliedam was outstanding all round and anchoring a scrum which alongside Gordon Fullerton, destroyed the visitors. Locks Thomas Brown and Patrick O'Sullivan controlled the lineouts while loosies Matthew Towers and Connor Loomans got through a mountain of work in close.
Sports play host again next week with Matamata Sports coming to town, looking to hold onto their outright first spot.


Too many ads have no chance of being effective because the brief is poor. Here's one technique to deliver your ad agency a clear objective.
There are many ingredients that go into making a good ad: a clear objective, the right agency, understanding the audience, the execution, ad placement — the list goes on. The brief is also important.
The ads I've looked at recently all have fundamental flaws. Appealing to rational thought; too many ideas; failing to apologise. But where did they go wrong? Bad idea from the agency? Poor brief from the client? Bit of both?
Ads need a clear objective and that comes from the client. Without one there's no need for an ad. But a clear objective is nothing if it's not backed up with a good brief.
At the absolute minimum, put something in writing. Ideally, back this up with a conversation so everyone is clear about what needs to be done.
the brief given to the artists and writers.
The brief given to the agency's artists and writers is the creative brief. It is written by the agency's accounts staff. The purpose of the creative brief is to elicit a great idea out of the creatives. Your account manager should check to see that you're happy with the creative brief before it's sent off.
Before the creative brief is written there is another brief that you, the client, write: the client brief.
The purpose of the client brief is to tell the agency's accounts staff (your contacts) about the problem to be solved or your communications objective. Note that it's a singular objective. It's my view, and the view of many others, that an ad should have a single idea (otherwise known as a single-minded proposition).
My experience has always been that written briefs yield the best results. It's not a guarantee of success, but it's a good start. The absence of a written brief often leads to average and sometimes disastrous results. Clarity is key.
There will be fewer retakes, edits and rewrites.
A written brief also makes it clear about what's expected of the agency. Without these the agency can't be evaluated objectively.
The point of a brief isn't to be buttoned up and restrictive; it's to give clear direction on what's important and to clarify the issue that you're seeking to address. The problem with informal briefing is that it makes a huge assumption that the person being briefed shares the unstated knowledge of the person doing the briefing.
How do I write a client brief?
The client brief should be a simple, short document that provides the information the account manager needs to write the creative brief. It should be … brief. Sometimes it is necessary to send through other material as background information. Most agencies will be happy with this as long as it's relevant. And a followup phone call or in-person meeting is a good idea. It helps everyone understand why the ad is being made.
This could be an increase in sales or donations. It could be changing attitudes or behaviour. Maybe it's an increase in votes.
The objective of your ad should be aligned against an existing strategy; perhaps a marketing strategy, a communications strategy or a campaign strategy. Tell your agency how it relates to your other activities so they can think about how this ad will complement existing or other planned activities.
Consider asking your agency "How do we…?" That's a challenge many agencies would love to tackle.
There are a few ways to use these questions. You can either use them to prompt your thinking as you write the brief, or you can answer the questions directly. Choose whichever approach works for you and your agency.
There will be a temptation to write plenty. Keep your brief brief. Long briefs can be overwhelming. The shorter the brief the better the agency will feel about the project. Agencies generally produce their best work on projects they feel good about.
Any agency worth its salt will tell you if they need more information or something isn't clear.
Keep it short. No more than two pages.
This is the best method I've found for briefing ad agencies. It can be adapted to your own situation. If you'd like to read more about how to brief your ad agency I recommend reading: Briefing an Agency by The Good Pitch.
Once you've delivered the brief and everyone is on the same page, let your agency do its thing. Your job is done until you see the first idea.


Papa-Palooza 2016… Celebrating Dreamfields Dads!
Pops is tops all year round, but especially when we celebrate Father's Day! This week (June 15-21), it's dad's time to shine with our #Pastapalooza2016 theme – Papa-palooza!
Show us how the dad in your life enjoys fun in the sun this summer by uploading a photo of him grilling, picnicking, relaxing or just enjoying his day with great food and Dreamfields Healthy Pasta. One lucky entrant will win a Family Pack of Dreamfields Pasta + a set of Premium Grilling Tools AND a comfy hammock and stand! (Total Value $230).
Check out our guest dad bloggers for some tasty Father's Day recipes – Foodness Gracious and This Cookin Dad – that you and your family, especially dad, can enjoy all season long!
Just one pic of pop and you can win big… it's that easy! Here are some great examples that have come in so far. Hurry up and submit your dad's photo. Contest ends at midnight on June 21!
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text:
using namespace Glyph3;
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ParticleStormGlyphlet::ParticleStormGlyphlet()
{
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ParticleStormGlyphlet::~ParticleStormGlyphlet()
{
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void ParticleStormGlyphlet::Initialize()
{
	// Create the camera, and the render view that will produce an image of the
	// from the camera's point of view of the scene.

	m_pCamera->Spatial().SetRotation( Vector3f( 0.307f, 0.707f, 0.0f ) );
	m_pCamera->Spatial().SetTranslation( Vector3f( -100.0f, 60.5f, -100.0f ) );
	m_pRenderView->SetColorClearValue( Vector4f( 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f ) );

	// Create the scene and add the entities to it.  Then add the camera to the
	// scene so that it will be updated via the scene interface instead of
	// manually manipulating it.

	m_pActor = new ParticleSystemActor();

	m_pScene->AddActor( m_pActor );

	RendererDX11* pRenderer = RendererDX11::Get();
	m_pTimeFactors = pRenderer->m_pParamMgr->GetVectorParameterRef( std::wstring( L"TimeFactors" ) );
	m_pEmitterLocation = pRenderer->m_pParamMgr->GetVectorParameterRef( std::wstring( L"EmitterLocation" ) );
	m_pConsumerLocation = pRenderer->m_pParamMgr->GetVectorParameterRef( std::wstring( L"ConsumerLocation" ) );
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void ParticleStormGlyphlet::Update( float dt )
{
	// Create a series of time factors for use in the simulation.  The factors
	// are as follows:
	// x: Time in seconds since the last frame.
	// y: Current framerate, which is updated once per second.
	// z: Time in seconds since application startup.
	// w: Current frame number since application startup.

	Vector4f TimeFactors = Vector4f( dt, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f );
	Vector4f EmitterLocation = Vector4f( -50.0f, 10.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f );
	Vector4f ConsumerLocation = Vector4f( 50.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f );

	m_pTimeFactors->InitializeParameterData( &TimeFactors );
	m_pEmitterLocation->InitializeParameterData( &EmitterLocation );
	m_pConsumerLocation->InitializeParameterData( &ConsumerLocation );

	// Send an event to everyone that a new frame has started.  This will be used
	// in later examples for using the material system with render views.

	EvtManager.ProcessEvent( EvtFrameStartPtr( new EvtFrameStart( dt ) ) );

	// After the application specific update, call the base class update method
	// to perform the rendering.

	SingleWindowGlyphlet::Update( dt );
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void ParticleStormGlyphlet::Shutdown()
{
	// Clean up your scene here...
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
bool ParticleStormGlyphlet::HandleEvent( EventPtr pEvent )
{
	// Handle events for your scene here...  No specific events are handled by
	// this glyphlet, meaning that we can just return false (which means we didn't
	// handle pEvent).

	return( false );
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
std::wstring ParticleStormGlyphlet::GetName()
{
	return( L"ParticleStormGlyphlet" );
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Ok...here's my problem. I have hundreds of great pieces of agate that I'm wanting to start cutting up, but I'm limited with only having a 6" trim saw. Some of the agate pieces I have are up to 6" thick and a few even bigger. I've been able to cut some of the pieces, but I'm finding that even smaller pieces only about an inch to two inches thick are nearly impossible or at least extremely time consuming to cut.
Or course, I do know that what I am trying to do is simply overkill for the size saw I have, but still looking for an ideas or advice.
I bought a very good blade just for cutting them, but just trying to cut a Brazilian agate that was about 1 1/2" in diameter took at least 30 minutes or more, and since I don't have auto feed or gravity feed on my saw, my hands were wore out from trying to push the vise with the stone into the blade.
I'm wanting to find a much bigger saw (at least a 16" up to a 24"), and price isn't too much of an issue, location is...I've been watching for almost a year, and can't find one that isn't just too far to go pick up. Until I find one, does anyone have any tricks to cutting agates?
It takes me less than a minute to cut through a two inch agate.
I use our 18 inch club saw for 50 cents an inch. My 6 inch trim saw cuts smaller agates in a few minutes, or less.
Thanks for the link. That set up is similar to how I'm cutting. I have a fenced clamped to my saw table and work the stone around to get the slab to be a even thickness.
One thing that I just realized when talking to a friend is that the pulley on my saw could be part of my problem. The motor is running at 1750 rpms with a 2" pulley, but the saw came with a 5" pulley on it. When we did the math on how that effects the speed of the saw, it dropped it down to only 700 rpms. I haven't noticed any problems cutting since most of what I've been working with has been softer material. It very well could be that my saw just isn't moving fast enough for cutting harder material. I'm going to switch out the pulley tomorrow and see what happens.
I changed the pulley out this weekend. That solved the problem. Cutting speed is much better.
Talk to Tony Funk . http://idahorockshop.com/ He will ship you a saw.