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Raymond Felton was "Good" Before He Played for Mike D'Antoni
Posted on November 24, 2010 by dberri
Just heard a comment at halftime of ESPN's broadcast of the Magic-Heat game. I don't know which analyst offered this thought, but here is what was essentially said: "What Raymond Felton is doing this year is not that impressive because any point guard will put up numbers in the system of Mike D'Antoni."
Okay, here is a quick check of the WP48 [Wins Produced per 48 minutes] of point guards who have played at least 500 minutes for the Knicks under D'Antoni:
Chris Duhon [0.090 WP48]
Nate Robinson [0.125 WP48]
Sergio Rodriguez [0.022 WP48]
So prior to this season, only Nate Robinson posted an above average mark (average WP48 is 0.100). And Robinson was below average last year.
Entering tonight's game, Raymond Felton has played 550 minutes and posted a 0.208 WP48. Last season Felton played 2,470 minutes for the Charlotte Bobcats and posted a 0.159 WP48. Yes, Felton is somewhat improved (although it is early). But Felton was above average before he came to New York. So I am not sure we can argue that he is above average just because of D'Antoni. This argument is especially problematic given the performance of point guards in New York in 2007-08 and 2008-09.
Let me close by noting that the Knicks entered play tonight on pace to win about 39 games. About 13 of these projected wins can be traced to the play of Felton. And about 15 can be linked to Landry Fields (and only three to the play of Amare Stoudemire).
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Dino Gunners
Hey DJ,
I have an unrelated questions but relevant to the wins produced metric.
Two general conclusions you have established with your measure is:
1. The stats stays fairly consistent over time (ie. it isnt too volatile)
2. It directly links players to wins produced
In summary the whole point of your wins produced measure is that it can directly link wins to individuals irrespective to their teammates and thus, could be a good predictor of future team performance
Last season the "big three" WP numbers of:
Lebron .433
Dwade: .299
Bosh: .254
This season these are the heat's numbers (14 games played):
Lebron: .268
Dwade .207
Bosh .187
Which shows that all three have played significantly worse playing together.
It is also much worse than their performance last year and throughout their career (a sign of volatility). You cannot argue lack of synergy or lack of understanding because the "big three", because the whole point of WP is to isolate wins to individuals regardless of teammates. Also, if they are each using less possessions, it should make them more efficient given they are not having to take unproductive shots because of the individual skill level of the 'big three' (they could just pass it to another who has a better shot opportunity).
Andres Alvarez predicted 65 wins based on their players and Arturo Galletti predicted 68.7 wins adjusted for 19660 minutes played.
Given that the Heat are 8-7 now (worse at this point than when only Dwade was on the team with a bunch of scrubs), you have to admit that your WP measure is not accurate in determining individual wins and severely underrepresents defense, coaching and "intangible" factors.
I remember a conversation in one of the comments where a poster said that synergy and teamwork matters and that a team of 5 he chooses would be better than the top WP of each position. He/She got laughed off and other posters basically implied it would be impossible to have a better team the the top "WPs" of any given year.
dberri
I have to "admit" something based on a sample of three players, across 15 games, where one player has been hurt?
I assume your serious. But really, seriously?
some dude
Not sure what a player being hurt has to do with it since WP48 is an individual stat.
But I am curious how many games need to be played before we can start trying to draw conclusions? Oh wait, Arturo addressed that.
"The second column tells us that once we have a 15 games sample the correlation is above 75% (which is good). 20 games is above 80%, 30 gives us 90% and 40 games is almost a lock at 94%. So at this point in the season player productivity for the full year can be predicted with about 70% accuracy (depending on sample size). In two more weeks this should be close to 80%."
http://arturogalletti.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/a-guide-to-jumping-to-conclusions-in-the-nba-and-employee-of-the-year-for-2009-2010/
Italian Stallion
Personally, I think it's fairly obvious that part of the problem in Miami is diminishing returns among 3 players who have all typically generated a lot of their value from very high usage scoring. There simply aren't enough shots to go around and any "potential" offset in the form of higher overall efficiency hasn't been realized yet partially because Wade has been hurt, James is shooting terribly from 3, and they are still figuring out how to maximize their value. The sample is small.
I still think the trick is going to be for each to realize that if he's shooting less, he has to hit the offensive boards, make plays and do other things that add value elsewhere.
As far as wins are concerned, Wade has been hurt, Miller has been out, and now Haslem is out. That's having an impact. IMO, as soon as they get healthy they are going to start playing a lot better.
A lot of people predicted that Felton would do a little better in NY because his specific skill set was a better match for D'Antoni's open court running offense than Brown's slow half court style. I had no opinion on that because I didn't know his game well enough, but he does seem to playing better right now.
It's not so much that any PG will play better for D'Antoni.
It's that some PG's fit some systems better than others.
How would Nash do in Phil Jackson's Triangle?
My guess is not nearly as well.
DJ, I agree it is a relatvity small sample and maybe "admit" was too strong a word. But, given WP is an individual stat, how have these players not been able to produce from the start? Can you really say that 3 of the top 20 players in the league (by WP last year) need more than 2 months in the summer and 15 games together to really learn to gel? Haslem and others should have no effect on the WP of Lebron James or Chris Bosh because WP is an INDIVIDUAL stat, you are assigning specific wins to specific players.
IS, you're theory of these players being good 'high usage' is probably correct and their productivity lowers with less usage, but WP doesnt or can't take this into account, and thus the measure is flawed. It should take this into account because WP has been labelled as one of the best predictors of future team performances.
My qualitative observation is that the Heat are terrible at help defense . It has been clear that Lebron, Bosh and Dwade have no idea how to play in a team structure where they have to sacrifice for one another for the greater good (or just to have good team defense). WP also can't take this into account.
I am not trying to be overly critical of your measure but I feel there is clearly some room for improvement, especially in the area of defense and usage.
IS – the issue for Wade and Lebron isn't the lack of shots. Lebron is only 2FGA per 36 min less and Wade 3. But look at those percentages!
If you look at their shot chart breakdown, it's easy to see why. They're shooting less at the rim. Lebron's dunks are cut in half. Their outside shot percentage is terrible and for good reason. Teams are doing what we said they would, pack the paint and go under screens.
As I always repeat, it's not WP48 that matters alone, but how you get yoru WP48. Wade and Lebron are redundant. They get their WP48 the same way. Until one of them finds another way to do it (a part of it), the struggles will continue.
The other issue is their defense, while solid, doesn't generate runouts for the offense. lebron and wade both lose lots of dunks, layups, and FTs because of this. They got them on the previous teams but are not getting them now. Lebron's ability to be a roamer on D has also been somewhat compromised.
Not sure how they fix the D, but until one of Wade or Lebron learns how to play differently, meaning off the ball, the same issues will continue to haunt them against legit teams. You need players that do different things.
Dino and IS. Lebron's usage is actually the same. Wade has dropped a bit and Bosh has had a massive drop.
Wade and Lebron's tunrover rate has shot up and Wade's assist rate has gone down. Both are shooting poorly.
It will be interesting to see how things turn out with Felton. If memory serves duhon got off to an obscenely hot start before slowly reverting to his long term mean. I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happened with Felton.
Re the heat comment, let's see how things are at midseason. The heat have been a lot better than their record indicates. It's way too early to count them or the WOW out.
Gil Meriken
Yeah, but if you replace Kobe on the Lakers with either Wade or Lebron, the Lakers would be just as good, or better … (where's the sarcasm indicator when you need it?)
stephanieg
Just from watching, the problem seems to be that Wade and LeBron don't actually have very many offensive skills aside from dribbling the air out of the ball and driving and kicking. They lack fundamentals like a mid-range game, offball movement, post ups, pull up jumpers if the paint is packed, spot up shooting, passing on the go, etc. LeBron's dribble is incredibly sketchy. I knew LeBron had serious holes in his game that probably held Cleveland back but I didn't see it being a problem next to Wade and Bosh. But taken together, it's all rather shocking to see how empty the big 2's skillsets are.
Also, LeBron's rebounding is way down despite the fact they get outrebounded by like 10 a game.
marparker
You would have to compare the entire league's numbers and compare them to last year to make an argument that the metric cannot explain play as well as the claims. Wade,Bosh,and Lebron's numbers according to all metrics are down. Does that mean that no metrics are useful.
You can't cherry pick 3 players who you know are having a bad season to disprove what the numbers say about the other 400 players in the league.
"They lack fundamentals like a mid-range game, offball movement, post ups, pull up jumpers if the paint is packed, spot up shooting, passing on the go, etc."
These are skills that NBA fans, the media, and coaches use to rate players, but skills that metrics do not catch because metrics do not care how you score your points. Most of the time I would agree that a point is a point — it does not matter how pretty you looked when you got it. But there is something to be said for versatility, and in the case of the Heat, perhaps we are seeing that versatility really is important? The Boston Celtics' Big 3 gelled instantly because their skillset was complementary while the Miami Heat Big 3 often find themselves in adversarial roles with even Bosh using possessions in a similar way to Wade and Lebron.
@ dino gunners
The WOW metric is not accountable to critique because dberri has proven it 75% infallible.
Personally, of the big 3 I think only LeBron's numbers represent an interesting test case. Wade has tended in the past to struggle with injuries and post lower WP48 as a result, so for him to have a wrist injury and a .200 is not uncharacteristic. Bosh put up .250 in a contract year, but .190 is pretty typical of his career.
On the topic of interesting test cases:
Ariza's production will be interesting to follow this year. If he continues to post around .100 w/ the Hornets, where he has CPaul to initiate offense for him, it would corroborate dberri's claim that his decline while with the Rockets was not attributable to usage. If he reverts to his pre-Rocket .200 level it would tend to corroborate the usage explanation.
John Giagnorio
Who are these people? I read this blog very frequently and recognize about half the names. Why only comment when it's time to "admit" something? Don't your "predictions" have more weight if you actually make them beforehand?
John — you are right. marparker's predictions carry a lot of weight:
"For those who think some kind of diminishing returns are going to happen these aren't your typical high wow players who grab loads of rebounds and never shoot. These are guys who are superior in multiple categories.
Bosh was the leading rebounder on the 08′ olympic team. Wade and James were the two leading scorers. They shot 67 and 60 percent respectively. James was second in assists. These guys are not going to get in each other's way, they are going to exacerbate each other's best abilities. "
It seems marparker enjoys analyzing a player's skillset and making predictions about how well that player will mesh with others… until that player does not mesh with others as predicted. At this point, he stops talking about diminishing returns and skillset and turns to rigidly defending the model.
"Miami is going to win regardless. I am going to scream this until my head explodes
Noone can beat Dwade, Manu, Kobe(in that order) if they have a proper team assembled around them.
Lebron was going to lose to Miami once they signed Bosh unless he joined them. Its clear that Miami knows exactly what its doing.
And the hate will cease. Bosh and Wade are likeable guys and they are going to be having a great time playing with Lebron who is going to make them look ridiculous."
https://dberri.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/does-a-dynamic-trio-guarantee-a-title/#comment-73516
I am just having a bit of fun. I think if Miller had been healthy and if Haslem had not been injured, this team could flirt with 70 wins. Picking up Dampier will help stop the leaking.
I fully expect all three to regain form, albeit at a slightly diminished level; the analysis that their playing styles are not complementary is legitimate. This model needs to allow for situational analysis (no, not of the marketing variety – you know what I am trying to say!).
I will eat my hat if this team is hovering around .500 at 40 games into the season. But I have to admit… I sorta want that to happen. The unexpected is exciting. It is fun being wrong sometimes.
"I have the Fab Four with 69 wins assuming 36 mpg and no diminishing returns. Even knocking off 7 wins for diminishing returns has them in the champs grouping with 62 wins produced."
Some Dude,
>>IS – the issue for Wade and Lebron isn't the lack of shots. Lebron is only 2FGA per 36 min less and Wade 3. But look at those percentages! <<
James is down 3.2 per 36
Wade is down 3.2
Bosh is down 3.5
That's a lot of shots.
James is having a rough time from beyond the arc (probably random) and Wade has been playing hurt.
However, I agree that Wade and James are somewhat redundant and that can impact their results in other ways.
I don't see that as a problem with the system though.
It is generally conceded that you can't build a successful team with all Cs, all PG etc.. no matter how productive they are on any measurement. Constructing a successful team requires a wider range of skills.
Since I first came to this forum and began learning about the methodology one of the things I've frequently brought up is the idea of hybrid players. Not every player fits into the neat package of PG, SG, SF, PF and C. Skills overlap and some players don't play anything like the standard for the position. Hybrid players are simply an extension of the same thing.
Even though Wade and James play different positions, they are alike in many ways. So you can say this is a construction issue that needs to be resolved.
Again, I don't see this as a problem with the system.
I think the system measures the productivity of the players well, but it's still up to GM/coaches to build a team with a well balanced set of skills.
Owen,
I hope you are wrong and the Duhon/Felton scenario.
Felton did show signs of becoming a better player last year. Fingers crossed.
I have to cherrypick because its currently not possible to export the data in excel. Once it is possible, I don't mind doing more statistical analysis
IS – well, my numbers were before the update. The shot decreases now are getting bigger. :D
Of course, that is to be expected. I think Miami, as a team, is taking less shots overall, but I don't want to check the numbers. What's more concerning is the high turnover rate of Lebron/Wade. Perhaps this is taking shots away from themselves?
I wasn't critiquing the system, fwiw. I was just saying WP48 is a measurement of a total, but not explaining what someone did to get that WP48.
Wade or Lebron will have to find a different way to get a high WP48 compared to the past is what I'm getting at. What's disheartening is how Lebron especially stands around doing nothing at all when Wade has the ball. And there's so little movement in the halfcourt offense, overall. This is where Lebron's lack of a post game, considering how massive he is, becomes an issue.
The Heat have been hurt. No way does Wins Produced fall under any scrutiny at this point in regards to their record.
Also, practically every outlet was enamored with this team, not just the WoW Network.
KnickfaninNJ
All of you arguing about why the Big three in Miami are showing less statistical value than last year are partially right.
It is true that a players WP tends to remain the same on different teams. But it's also true that players get roles defined for them and then get traded for so that they can do the same role on another team. If you have a power forward who's used as a true power forward and is traded to another team; it's probably because the new team needs a player to play a true power forward role. I think this is what usually happens in trades. Then it's not surprising that their WP is often similar (after accounting for age). So you should normally expect similar individual statistics before and after a trade. But I think that if the player is traded and asked to play a new position or the same position but a different role, then his WP could easily change a lot. This doesn't happen so often in the NBA so you won't see it in overall studies of the the NBA.
For example, consider Nate Robinson. At certain points in his career (and in all of his college career) he's had the role of a scoring guard. He's good at it (even in the NBA, where he's incredibly small for this role). But he's too small to defend opposing shooting guards well so coaches try to make him play point guard. I don't know his advanced statistics at all, but my guess is his WP as scoring guard has been pretty constant, but his WP as a point guard started off pretty lousy and then improved, and could be significantly different than his WP as a scoring guard.
How does this relate to Miami? If LeBron and Wades roles have to change to accommodate each other then they won't be doing the same things and therefore they won't necessarily have the same WPs as before. I think this is happening. It's true 15 games is a small sample, but remember that in statistics, the size of the sample needed to be sure there is a real difference depends on how big that real difference is. (This is an obviously true and basic property of statistics, but never mentioned in any basketball forum I have read. For example, put me on a basket ball court and you won't need 15 games to see I am not at NBA level. The difference between me and an NBA level player is just too vast. It shows up right away.) The differences in the WPs for the big three this year to last seem pretty big, so I think 15 games is probably enough to say something is going on, even if one is injured.
On the other hand these are three incredibly talented, very competitive and probably very driven guys. I wouldn't be surprised if they can do the other stuff they haven't been doing in the past or will work hard enough at it to start doing it well in an NBA game. Bosh has already gotten better. I think they will find a way to make it work.
I think you are making a good point about why players tend to be consistent across seasons and trades.
So you're saying WP can be influenced by a player's role on the team (not necessarily magnitude, but what skills will be emphasized)?
KnickfaninNJ makes a very good point, I think. It dovetails nicely with a prior statement made by the guy that said something like "it's generally conceded you need a variety of skills to win, and that you can't have a team of all C's or all PG's win big".
So while WP is a good predictor of a particular player's productivity within a given role/position… 1) forcing a player to change their "role" can greatly alter their ability to produce (i.e., you wouldn't play Chris Paul at center, would you?) and 2) you need players to fill a variety of necessary roles in order to be an effective team (i.e., if you have a team made entirely of PG's, they won't win no matter how good their WP's are).
When you take those two factors into account, frankly, it becomes obvious that WP isn't a be-all/end-all metric. It completely fails to account for either of these two factors which, when combined, can be properly titled "team synergy". So while I think WP is a great, great way of comparing players across positions and even in terms of figuring out who the most valuable player on a given team is, it's simply erroneous to conclude that "team synergy" (as I've termed the combination of the 2 previously mentioned factors) doesn't have a strong impact on a team's wins. Failure to heed this fact would lead to very, VERY illogical results in making predictions. I believe the Heat's failure live up to its WP potential has been a result of a lack of team synergy, and cannot be explained away otherwise.
So let me get this straight:
20 games into this season because Wade and Lebron can't figure out how to stop turning the ball over at career high rates, we have all discovered a new fault in wins produced.
Give me a break.
The Heat have an efficiency differential of 7. They have achieved that differential with a new team and 3 key injuries. Everyone is panicking about their record being 9-8.
If you break that record down a little further there are a couple of points that jump out.
1. The Heat are 4th in efficiency differential. One metric that combined schedule with efficiency differential that has been pretty reliable at predicting future performance ranks this beat up team 2nd in the NBA.
2. The Heat have played a brutal schedule. Of their first 17 games they have played 8 against teams with efficiency differentials consistent with 50 win seasons. That's 47% of their games. Their record against these teams is 1-7. They have only 15 more games scheduled against these teams. Over their next 33 games(ending at game 50 on feb 4th) they have only 6 of these game scheduled. Its realistic to assume the heat can post a record of 36-14 after 50 games(consistent with a 60 win season).
3.Its realistic to assume that a team that good by efficiency differential will win 90% of its games against none 50 win teams. Its realistic to assume that same team will have a .500 record against 50 win teams. That low projection would leave the Heat with (45+7=52) more victories over the course of the season. (52+9 current wins= 61 wins).
4. The Heat have a 7 win differential with their 2 best players playing poorly. That differential should increase as Wade or Lebron or both began to play closer to the ability they have exhibited in the past. This is a scary team.
The Heat probably will look pretty dominant for the rest of the regular season as their schedule eases up, but their performance in a later-round playoff series will still be in question, no matter how much of a tear they go on from here out. Shades of Cleveland's performance from last season. And if the Heat are destroying opponents until the second or third round of the playoffs, and then lose, I expect it will be chalked up to random outcomes/ and or injuries.
On the other hand, if the Heat win the title this season, I will definitely own up to it and eat some tasty humble pie.
Gil,
It won't be me chalking it up to randomness.Unless they lose game 7 of the NBA championship on the road after leading by 13 points in the 4th quarter.
@marparker – The situation you described could never happen to a team in the Finals.
reservoirgod
Marparker makes excellent points. Miami is a scary team for all of the reasons that he cited. But it's also a disappointing team because LeBron has been off his game much more than he's been on it and Bosh got off to a slow start. This team was supposed to be dominant and haven't looked it outside of the home opener against Orlando.
I think there's going to be a "come-to-jesus" moment for LeBron & Spoelstra/Wade that will determine whether or not we're going to see the dominant LeBron (i.e. 0.400+ WP48) this season. Wade has performed as expected when healthy. LeBron has not and that's really the team's issue.
todd2
Knicks aren't getting help from their bench. What's up with Mozgov?
Frank Kiah
very interesting point of view.
diehardNFFLbarnone
Shouldn't 2007-08 and 2008-09 read 2008-09 and 2009-10?
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However, Rianz reported a significant drop in piracy levels - its data suggesting the incidences of top-200 movies being viewed illegally went from 110,000 in August to 50,000 in the following month, when the rule came into force.
But it added that the number immediately "plateaued", and noted that four out of every 10 internet users in the country still accessed pirated material.
In an effort to combat this, Rianz wants to up the number of infringement notices to 5,000 per month, with the current fee of NZ$25 cut to about NZ$2.
The country's Economic Development Ministry is reviewing the fees. Telecoms companies have argued the cost should in fact be higher.
The three strikes rule has faced intense scrutiny around the world, where it has been considered in various guises and configurations.
In the UK, the Digital Economy Act was passed by the last government, but the key provision of the act - sending out warning letters - has been continually delayed. The first letters are not expected to be sent until at least 2014.
Other anti-piracy measures include the blocking of popular websites used to accessed illegal material - such as the Pirate Bay, which was blocked in April this year.
However, the effectiveness of blocking has come under dispute - last week the BBC revealed that, according to one internet service provider, the dip in downloading traffic following the ban lasted only a matter of days.
Music piracy - who's on the moral high ground?


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Women's Weird: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937
nullimmortalis
HANDHELD PRESS
Edited by Melissa Edmundson
My previous reviews of classic or older works: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/reviews-of-older-books/
My other reviews of books edited by Melissa Edmundson: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/01/02/womens-weird-strange-stories-1890-1940/ and https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/12/27/the-outcast-and-the-rite-helen-de-guerry-simpson/
When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…
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19 thoughts on "Women's Weird: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937"
nullimmortalis January 25, 2023 at 1:21 pm
Twin-Identity
by Edith Stewart Drewry (1891)
I could not make head nor tail of this story's plot.
A story no doubt remarkable in eliciting such a response from the likes of me!
nullimmortalis January 26, 2023 at 11:51 am
Strangely in the light of the wording I happened to use yesterday above, the next story below, just now read, contains these words …. "They could not make head or tail of the context for some time, and then Mr Maxwell discovered that a leaf had been cut out."
by Lettice Galbraith (1897)
"Something occurred then of which, since it has nothing to do with this story, I need only say that it wiped out for ever any idea of marriage on my part,…"
Yet this young lady as narrator becomes by the end of the story an old woman called Mrs Marris, or am I confused? As much as she is confused by the word 'incubate' and 'incubus' in the different connections with poultry farming and witchcraft! That makes this otherwise effective but standard tale of haunted-room-for-guest-overflow bedroom-with-a-backstory in a large house intriguing and even more creepy! Not forgetting the lethal crease left by a body in bedcovers…."testing the ghost-theory" of Sprenger?
The poultry farming trope is echoed in the next story below…
A Green Bowl for the Blue Room?
Johnny Mains' anthologies of stories akin to Women's Weird as reviewed by me in the past, as follows….
A Suggestion of Ghosts – Supernatural Fiction by Women 1854-1900: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/06/03/a-suggestion-of-ghosts-supernatural-fiction-by-women-1854-1900/
An Obscurity of Ghosts – Further Tales of the Supernatural by Women 1876–1903: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/an-obscurity-of-ghosts/
Remember The Dead (male and female authors): https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/12/06/remember-the-dead/
Our Lady of Hate – The Short Stories of Catherine Lord: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/12/16/our-lady-of-hate-the-short-stories-of-catherine-lord/
"The voice of poultry usually means not only a hen-coop but a barn and a house,…", but here means a gradual, delightfully inconclusive narrative incubation of thr open-ended mystery of…
The Green Bowl
by Sarah Orne Jewett (1901)
"We were on our way home, as safe as dolls in a nursery when we had our little adventure and got the green bowl."
The 'adventures' of a lady and her young 'companion' lady with horse and carriage, this one she tells within the frame story to other ladies, an adventure, lost under 'drowning rain' and hearing that voice of poultry, but at last seeing a church steeple, that later she unaccountably calls a spire! And manifold horse sheds outside a church wherein which church they find basic shelter till found in the morning by a local woman who gives them the heavenly apotheosis of an idyllic breakfast and the story of her two green bowls, one she gives to our narrator as 'companion' reciprocalist of their fore-telling powers. A strong suspenseful tale that needs iconising. A narrator who at one point says, "The only trouble was that there was so little of me." And you will never forget the description of the green bowl as looked at by the listening ladies within the frame story. But such a claim of never forgetting depends on my own fore-telling skills, or will only time tell? —
"…and when we had been in the house an hour one felt as if it had been a week…"
"The old pony plodded up yet another hill; we went clattering down its deep descent; and there, in the green bowl of a meadow sloping down from its woody fringes above, lay scattered the bellying booths, the gaudy wagons and cages of the circus. All but hidden in the trees above them, a crooked, tarnished weathercock glinted in the sunset afterglow." (my italics)
— from MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET by Walter de La Mare (my review: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/11/02/memoirs-of-a-midget-by-walter-de-la-mare/)
The weathercock and the circus, and compare the ladies' horse in 'The Green Bowl' "The horse was whinnying after us like a whole circus,…"
And the storyteller's own 'midget' statement: "The only trouble was that there was so little of me."
I have now since read the little bit on-line about the above story and I see it has been interpreted as a 'Lesbian' story. I can empathise with that interpretation and factored it in.
WDLM's Midget lady also had such Sapphic yearnings as a major part of his novel.
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Beware possible spoilers.
by Barbara Baynton (1902)
Another of those stories where someone struggles homeward after many years and finds their loved one, here a mother, either dead or dreaming — a near-sighted woman in the dark just off the train, her advanced letter of arrival seemingly ignored, and finding herself in the erstwhile homelands that a thunderstorm has now turned into a foreign territory of swollen river with its wild accoutrements acting as both godly help and fell hindrance to her passage homeward…
Yes, another story with such a pattern of a plot, but perhaps the most effective of them all, as we gradually gain a picture of the backstory, of mother-daughter bonds, and, with overflowing tank undiverted, who is dreaming whom? Or is it Death dreaming up us all?
The Hall Bedroom
by Mary E Wilkins Freeman (1905)
", the gentle slope of the hills and the church spire in the background – but still it is well done. It gives me the impression of an artist…"
Whatever that description of a painting in a so-called hall bedroom really is, this story itself is a "vestibule" to nowhere or heaven, a narrowing channel to the 'fifth dimension', or whatever takes the reader's fancy, full of fragrances and tastes, where effects precede causes… "It seemed as if the odour reached my mentality first." The brain says rose, then the nose smells it.
A sort of archetypal haunted painting story, here in a boarding house on 240 Pleasant Street, and its hall bedroom with a haunting backstory.
"I seemed to be wading breast-high through flower-beds of Paradise,…" Eventually touching those denizens that a mere struck match makes vanish…
Whether dream or a new religion, I note there were once 240 pence in a pound, the mock pleasure of money, and that piece of paper with figures just accounts…
…'advance and retreat' of bliss like life's river? To heaven or nowhere.
"It was never cloying, though of such sharp sweetness that it fairly stung. It was the merging of a material sense into a spiritual one. I said to myself, 'I have lived my life and always have I gone hungry until now.'"
nullimmortalis January 29, 2023 at 12:48 pm
PS I presume this American author was privy to the pervasive numerical nature of the British currency!
From above story: "The income was not enough to support me in any kind of comfort, and I saw that I must in some way earn money. […] …although that actually took my last penny, that is, the last penny of my ready money, and I was forced to draw on my principal to purchase my first supplies, a thing which I had resolved never on any account to do." (my italics)
"The struggle for money always injures the fine grain of a woman;…"
cf my review of WHAT WAS IT? by Fitz James O'Brien: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/07/26/fitz-james-obrien-what-was-it/
nullimmortalis January 30, 2023 at 9:34 am
by Katherine Mansfield (1912)
"'….the novelty never ceases. I feel each day is our first day together.'
'Oh, it is the sense of "home" which is so precious to me – it is the wonderful sense of peace – of the rooms sanctified – of the quiet permanence – it is that which is so precious after –'"
This is quite a revelation for me. I genuinely believed that I had reviewed all this author's collected stories here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/03/12/the-collected-stories-katherine-mansfield/, but this marvellous ghost story seems not to be among them!
In apotheotic synergy with Walter de la Mare (my reviews of all his stories here), this Mansfield story with Bloomsbury references tells of a girl or young lady in a rainstorm with soggy package of madeira cake who shelters in the porch of house that is to be let or sold. And somehow she is transported within as a future idyllic life in the house as herself with a husband or are they children role-playing their adult selves with teddies and their own pretend children? A house we now live in ourselves for a nonce. A life or lives left unlived! It is pure magic, general fiction as well as ghost story fiction at its very best, and thanks to this book for bringing it to my attention. The 'quiet permanence' that is ourselves…
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The Red Bungalow
by Bithia Mary Croker (1919)
"Standing aloof between the approaches was the house – large, red-tiled, and built back in the shape of the letter 'T'…"
This is a stylish haunting story set in British Imperial India as helped along by the book's generous amount of footnotes, a general feature of these Women's Weird anthologies. Here, of a child-brooding British lady whose cousin brings his wife and delightful children to this part of India, and the lady already there is reluctant to see them move into the eponymous bungalow, but not only because she had grown fond of the children, because the place had been airbrushed till now discovered from some hinterland, but why? Yet it seemed too good to be true for the new family's needs till whatever backstory curse embodied by the bungalow saw them go 'home', which meant to go back to Britain, I see. Whatever the message that was meant to give? The derelict stable area had 'stray goats'. The actual stray ghost description seen by the children inside the bungalow, however, has left a mark on me and is a moment in such tales of terror to cherish, or to airbrush, too, till one is drawn back to read it again, as I think I might do so to see what else I find in its 'bran pie'.
"– while I burrowed into the bran, and there interred the bodies of dolls and cats and horses, and all manner of pleasant surprises."
Bran pie = Brain pie?
nullimmortalis February 1, 2023 at 11:33 am
From 'bran pie' to the next story's "brain fever"…
Outside the House
by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor (1920)
"He softly kicked the ball of wool on its way, with a sly wink at me, adding – 'That's how they get there, unless the Twins walk off with them in another direction, among the trees;…'"
On one level a ludicrously and disarmingly unbelievable plot, on another an effective echo of the First World War trenches and the precarious coal mine working conditions back home. "…the horror lay in the suffocating fog, and in the apparent wish to haul me into some abyss" and the no man's land between trenches…A mix of real-time account by a defiant but shell-shocked, hell-shocked man with war-injured leg, allowed to visit the large house with what you will ever surely store away in your mind as the Low Lawn, a new archetype to conjure with, and someone else, a fellow soldier as friend, viewing this account in hindsight, as I do, at a shadowy third remove, with my own real-time review of the story he concocts, as truth or dream.
Why was the lame man allowed by his sweetheart to go to meet her family in this large house as her affianced but without her? The house where you had to go indoors at 5 pm into a sort of brief visit to Bonnyville scenario, imprisoned inside from the horrific visions outside, whatever ironmongery files upon a soft hasp can do. Visions that are seriously worthy of the greatest writers of the weird like Machen's Angel of the Mons and William Hope Hodgson's House on the Borderland. A very strong story in this way that, for me, has the best description of what I have long found to be gluey or treacly or foggy Zenoism as major themes in much weird literature such as Aickman and many others (see countless reviews on my websites)…"'Something' retarded my every step! I found myself trying to put into words my inability to get along,…"
And a 'fairyland of flowers' inside the house in all the rooms including a domed garden with clock golf! To compensate for keeping the things outside outside! A mutant apotheosis of Elizabeth Bowen!
A brain fever that even makes Cartesian philosophy complicit!
"'Dear child, I'm a man with a thinking machine. I can't promise not to think,' I said."
nullimmortalis February 1, 2023 at 1:11 pm
Just been informed of this review:
http://greydogtales.com/blog/out-of-the-silence-with-bessie-kyffin-taylor/
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'What's the loveliest word in the English language, officer? In the sound it makes in your mouth, in the shape it makes on the page? What do you think? Well now, I'll tell you: E-L-B-O-W. Elbow.' — THE SINGING DETECTIVE
"How shall a man find his way unless he lose it?" — Walter de la Mare
THE DESSEMINATION OF THE NEW


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Q: FileSystemWatcher not working in Debain Buster Raspberry Pi I have problem running FilesystemWatcher on Raspberry Pi with Debian Buster. Filesystemwatcher event is not fired and doesn't respond to any changes. The same code works fine for earlier Raspbain/Debian versions. I using mono to run the C# code.
greenlamp = new FileSystemWatcher()
{
    Path = Path.DirectorySeparatorChar + Path.Combine("sys", "class", "gpio", "gpio25"),
    Filter = "value",
    NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.LastWrite
};
orangelamp = new FileSystemWatcher()
{
    Path = Path.DirectorySeparatorChar + Path.Combine("sys", "class", "gpio", "gpio13"),
    Filter = "value",
    NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.LastWrite
};
optosensor = new FileSystemWatcher(Path.DirectorySeparatorChar + Path.Combine("sys", "class", "gpio", "gpio12"), "value");

// Configure event handlers
redlamp.Changed += Redlamp_Changed;
redlamp.Created += Redlamp_Changed;
redlamp.Deleted += Redlamp_Changed;
redlamp.Renamed += Redlamp_Changed;
greenlamp.Changed += Greenlamp_Changed;
orangelamp.Changed += Orangelamp_Changed;
optosensor.Changed += Optosensor_Changed;

// Enable event handlers
redlamp.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
greenlamp.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
orangelamp.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
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I purchased this vehicle in Dallas from a very reputable dealer, or I thought. I took it in to Park Place, local dealer, to have it checked out because it was pulling to the right and it had an annoying bounce in tire. After an alignment, $190, and a wheel balance, $150, they sent me on my way. To make a long story short they convinced me that one of front tires was bad it I need an whole new set of N4 Pirelli, $1050. I did what they suggested and the bounce is now worse than it was before. I took it back now twice and Service Manager drove the car and told me with the 18' wheels this is normal. I've driven a lot of cars before and I can't image that if you paid $67K new that this was normal. Do you have any suggestions or possible places to take it to have it checked out?


Schnitzelburg Area Community Council: Hot Off the Press: November Newsletter!
Hot Off the Press: November Newsletter!
The November newsletter is here! Look for the special color edition in local stores and restaurants this month!
at St. Elizabeth's cafeteria. More information in the newsletter and in the '#1 Citizen' tab at the top of the page!
Thanks for your support of SACC!


Manchester City Council has unanimously passed a resolution voicing its support for the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), as well as calling on the UK government to scrap Trident.
This is a fantastic achievement, and was due to the hard work of Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) campaigners in the region. The resolution calls on the UK government to engage with the global majority of UN member states by signing the global ban treaty, making Manchester the first European city to pass such a motion.
Other cities internationally have already expressed similar support, including Los Angeles, Baltimore, Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto.
"CND congratulates all campaigners who worked towards securing this motion, and commends the efforts of the many campaigning groups who are working on similar initiatives in their local areas.
"Resolutions like this one are essential for enabling local authorities to voice their communities' legitimate concerns over the threat caused by nuclear weapons, and places the necessary pressure on states to join this crucial nuclear ban treaty.


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Explore Økolariet (The Ecolarium). Økolariet is an exciting science and experience centre about nature, the environment, energy, climate, innovation and technology.
Økolariet offers many learning experiences. You can travel through the exciting exhibits that feature film, living organisms, interactive knowledge tests and eye-opening experiences.
Touch, feel, move, try tests and draw your way through lots of interactive experiences. You will learn how the world is affected by human consumption and how research today affects our lives tomorrow.
Økolariet is located in central Vejle and everyone is welcome. Free admission to the exhibition spaces.


This Alfa Romeo 156 2.5 V6 24v was produced from 2003 to 2005. It's a facelift of the 2001 Alfa Romeo 156 2.5 V6 24v. It's a front-wheel drive front-engined medium saloon with 4 doors & 5 seats. With 189 hp, the naturally aspirated 2.5 Litre 24v V6 petrol engine accelerates this 156 2.5 V6 24v to 62 mph in 7.3 seconds and on to a maximum speed of 143 mph. Having a kerb weight of 1430 kg, it achieves 23.9 mpg on average and can travel 331 miles before requiring a refill of its 63 litre capacity fuel tank. It comes with a choice of either a 6 speed manual gearbox or a 4 speed automatic gearbox. Luggage space is 378 litres.


NEW YORK, NY — As thousands of women from all over the world gather at the United Nations in New York this week to mark the 57th anniversary of the Commission of the Status of Women [CSW], also attending will be some conservative NGOs who's rhetoric is damaging, unproductive and not in alignment with the goals or ideologies of this powerful and important commission.
CSW was established by the United Nations as the sole global policymaking body dedicated to gender equality and advancement of women throughout all aspects of society including economically, socially, educationally, and politically. We gather annually to set in place concrete policies for the year ahead to ensure the advancement of women worldwide and ensure gender equality, which in my part of the world still has a long way to go. The 20-strong member delegation I am leading includes women from eight different countries: Syria, Libya, Egypt, Somalia, Yemen, Jordan and Morocco. They are wives, mothers, daughters and sisters united in their objectives: Women deserve the same opportunity as men and all of us have a responsiblity to help end violence against women.
Last week, the U.S. Senate passed an expanded bipartisan "Violence Against Women Act," an important step forward as we begin this week's important global gathering. Yet conservative NGOs here in New York are missing the big picture of CSW by focusing on so-called "sensitive issues" related to gender equality and pro-life issues, arguing a woman's right to choose to have an abortion is a "violent act," and should be stopped. As an example, the "Endeavor Forum," a Christian pro-life family Australian NGO states "there is a need for women to defend the legitimate rights of traditional women in families and the rights of male breadwinners to get jobs." Another NGO, "Concerned Women for America" is the largest public policy women's organization in the United States who lobbies for integrating biblical principles into all levels of public policy. Are these really examples of moving forward?
What should be stopped are such shortsighted views on serious issues affecting hundreds of millions of women across the globe, particularly at a time when women are becoming more active in effecting change and speaking up for it. Look no further then where I live — Cairo, Egypt — where women continue to participate and contribute as equal partners to men in popular movements demanding democratic change. The effects and impact of these movements, which call for freedom, justice, equality, and dignity in view of laws protecting the rights and freedoms of individuals and groups within the framework of a modern democratic civil state, constituted a turning point in the lives of the region's people. Are these conservative NGOs really asking us to turn the clock back?
Among our delegation at CSW, and what was discussed recently at our UN Women meeting in Amman, Jordan, is the sad realization that the rise of political conservatism and religious fundamentalism allied with tribal agendas within the guise of the pro-democracy movements in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, and Syria, has resulted in a backlash on women's rights and women's equal participation in society. Moreover, women and girls in the region are facing new forms of organized political violence, which often fail to be punished by the state and which the state has failed to effectively protect them from, including sexual harassment, gang rapes, and intimidation linked to their civic engagement. As a result, the rights and achievements of women have been severely undermined, and women have been marginalized and bullied from fully participating in public life, as well as from making key decisions in their private lives. This must stop. We will be lobbying hard this week to ensure this message is relayed to all the governments in our region and around the world who still don't provide women with equal opportunities.
We will continue to stress the need to urgently address and outlaw all forms of discrimination, violence, exploitation, and marginalization on the basis of gender in both public and private spheres, including the undermining of women's personal freedoms and their physical and psychological security. We must respect and enforce women's civil, political, economic, social, cultural, health, and reproductive rights as stipulated in the various international human rights instruments, particularly the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. There is no time for rhetoric of moving backwards to accommodate conservative agendas. What the 57th session of the Commission of the Status of Women does has time for is not to be silenced, as the conservatives would like us to be. CSW will continue to effect a lasting global impact and promote a world where everyone has equal opportunities and a better place for the next generation of women to come.
This blog was originally printed in The Huffington Post.


The beautiful and unique Bitz mug set of 4 pcs are made with a beautiful glaze that gives the mugs an ordinary glow. The materials provide a very beautiful and unique structure in the set and each set is unique. Bitz stoneware is dishwasher, microwave and oven-proof and conventional oven up to 220 degrees. In the inside of the mugs, they are assorted grey, light blue, green and dark blue. This gives the mugs a different expression than ever seen before and makes the mugs even more interesting. The mugs will give an extraordinary impression on your morning table.


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Pres. Duterte promises to cause passage of BBL or he might resign
Al Iskandar, Luwaran
Cotabato City- President Rodrigo Duterte in his speech at Buluan, Maguindanao on April 25, where he witnessed the turnover of hundreds of loose firearms, reiterated his promise made to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and the Moro people to push for the passage by congress of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) this year.
"Give me time, this year, not next year, or next election. This year I will have it passed.", Duterte said.
He added that he intends to keep his promises, and threatened to resign as president if it is not passed.
On April 2, in Sultan Kudarat, Duterte also made a similar commitment, where he disclosed that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), who is pushing for the enactment of the proposed law was in a hurry "and placed on us the burden of a timeline".
"And I have agreed to that period. I gave my solemn promise and I assure you I am working hard to meet the deadline," the President then said.
Congressional leaders in a meeting with Duterte also renewed their commitment to pass the bill by May 30.
The BBL in moving fast in the Senate and is ready for deliberations in the plenary, while the House Joint Committee on BBL had just adapted the BTC-Drafted BBL doing away with other versions filed by other three congressmen.
The proposed law aims to end decades of conflict in Mindanao by putting in place a new political entity called Bangsamoro.
The crafting of BBL by the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) is contained in the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), a product of almost 17-years peace negotiation between the Government and the MILF.


After school intervention classes for English learners for reclassification purposes will begin October 22 and end on November 7. Classes are held on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 3:10 to 4:10 in Room #403 with Mr. Betancourt. For questions or concerns please contact Mr. Betancourt at (818) 678-4111.


Equatorial Guinea is 72% more expensive than Nigeria. Apr 2019 Cost of Living.
This comparison is lacking data. It provides a decent comparison, but it is not yet reliable. It is based on 1,319 prices entered by 118 different people.


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Iota Arae (ι Ara / ι Arae) è una stella gigante azzurra di magnitudine 5,24 situata nella costellazione dell'Altare. Dista 722 anni luce dal sistema solare.

Osservazione
Si tratta di una stella situata nell'emisfero celeste australe. La sua posizione è fortemente australe e ciò comporta che la stella sia osservabile prevalentemente dall'emisfero sud, dove si presenta circumpolare anche da gran parte delle regioni temperate; dall'emisfero nord la sua visibilità è invece limitata alle regioni temperate inferiori e alla fascia tropicale. La sua magnitudine pari a 5,2 fa sì che possa essere scorta solo con un cielo sufficientemente libero dagli effetti dell'inquinamento luminoso.

Il periodo migliore per la sua osservazione nel cielo serale ricade nei mesi compresi fra maggio e settembre; nell'emisfero sud è visibile anche per gran parte della primavera, grazie alla declinazione boreale della stella, mentre nell'emisfero sud può essere osservata limitatamente durante i mesi estivi boreali.

Caratteristiche fisiche
La stella è una gigante blu con una massa 9 volte quella del Sole ed un raggio quasi 5 volte superiore, mentre la sua temperatura superficiale è di circa 22.000 K.
Ls stella è classificata come variabile Gamma Cassiopeiae, la sua magnitudine varia infatti da +5,18 a + 5,26, inoltre presenta un disco circumstellare con un diametro 1,7 volte quello della stella, ed è per questo anche una stella Be.

La sua magnitudine assoluta è di -1,48 e la sua velocità radiale negativa indica che la stella si sta avvicinando al sistema solare.

Binaria visuale
Iota Arae ha una compagna ottica di magnitudine 10,8, separata da 42,8 secondi d'arco da A e con angolo di posizione di 062 gradi.

Note

Voci correlate
 Stelle principali della costellazione dell'Altare

Collegamenti esterni

Stelle di classe spettrale B
Giganti blu
Variabili Gamma Cassiopeiae
Stelle Be

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I just remind you that this snippet for Tint2 allow me to display an icon on my status bar for all what concerns NFS.
As presented in this blog, there are several statuses for this icon.
This NFS snippet for Tint2 allows me to quickly see if my NAS is mounted or not.
It will allow me to see quickly if I have files opens on my NAS.
On laptop, such quick look allow me to avoid troubles with NFS. Mainly when I put my machine on sleep mode when mounted to the NFS server and wake it up on an another network.
There is no pre-requisits for this script. It just use standard tools and commaands.
This script will modify your ~./config/tint2/tint2rc file !!!!.
In my case the NFS icon is located on the 2nd executor this explains the 1st line.
In the check_nfs.sh script, you have to adapt the IP address of you NFS server.
Replace this IP with the one in your environment.
Replace the mount point with your path.
What does the NFS snippet ?
The check_nfs.sh script will be executed every 3 seconds (cfr execp_interval) and will return the path to the appropriate icon.
First, the script will check if your NAS is pingeable. This is useful for laptops moving on different networks.
Then, it will check if there are open files on your NFS mount (fstat).
On each of those tests, the associated icon will be different.
- my NFS server has open files. In such case, do not put your machine in sleep or hibernate mode, this will create NFS issues.
By clicking on the button, you will trigger the other script called "toggle_mount_nas.sh".
If the fstat command reports some open files, it will display them in a small xterm box.
If the fstat command is empty, it will toggle between mount and umount your NAS.


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Pedro Mourinho moves to CMTV
Station's director-general considers the journalist a "television creative"
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A few hours after the official announcement of Sandra Felgueiras at TVI, Correio da Manhã announced the hiring of Pedro Mourinho for CMTV
In the "CM Jornal" of 20 hours of this Monday, Carlos Rodrigues, Editorial General Director of Correio da Manhã and CMTV considered the arrival of Mourinho as "one of the most significant transfers in the recent history of media in Portugal". In the channel and in the newspaper, the journalist will remain as information anchor on set and will have a management position as of this week, taking over the "New Projects" management: "He's a television creative", the responsible assures.
The change between the newsroom of Queluz de Baixo to that of Luciana Stegagno Picchio Street was also described as a "perfect marriage", allowing the cable channel to continue "growing": "Our range of anchors is increasingly professional, increasingly credible and will continue to deserve the trust of the Portuguese", Rodrigues assures.
"It's with great pride that we will receive Pedro Mourinho", the director said.
It should be remembered that the hiring of the journalist had been under negotiation since August
Pedro Santana Lopes and Tânia Laranjo format are of the new additions to the schedule
Carlos Rodrigues took advantage of his presence on the main newscast of the cable generalist station to announce a new investigative journalism program. "Doa a quem doer" ("No matter who it hurts") is the name of the project authored and presented by reporter Tânia Laranjo. "It will deal with current affairs of justice in Portugal, whether in the current affairs of blood cases or white-collar cases," explains the general director, adding that it is a six-episode serie.
Furthermore, the responsible for the editorial of both media states that there will be a reinforcement of the political and economical editorials, having announced the return of Pedro Santana Lopes for the channel's commentary: "He is a major commentator", he said.
CMTV is a generalist channel of information content of the Cofina group, created in 2013. Currently, it is the most watched cable channel in Portugal
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Fundei o largo. em 2017. Antes, estive envolvido na criação de uma webrádio, no desenvolvimento de uma televisão universitária e colaborei com um jornal local em Barcelos, Portugal.
Sandra Felgueiras is the new reinforcement of TVI
France: operator cuts channel signal due to lack of distribution agreement
Media Site Espalha-Factos closes at the end of the year
Blog ends after seventeen years.
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Church choirs typically had an annual jolly day out. The choir at Broad Street Church in Reading invited along a group of wounded soldiers in 1918.
Arrangements are being made by the Church Choir for a river trip in the afternoon of Saturday, July 20th, when they hope to entertain a party of wounded soldiers. Goring and Hartslock Woods will most likely be the places visited. In addition to the members of the choir and their wounded friends, there will be accommodation for about thirty visitors. Full details have not yet been arranged, but particulars may be obtained from members of the choir after July 1st. It is very desirable, however, that early application should be made for tickets by those who wish to join the party.
On Saturday, July 20th, the annual choir trip took place, the destination this time being Goring and Hartlock Woods. A party of twenty-five wounded soldiers from the military hospitals had been invited as guests of the choir, so there was accommodation for only about forty other friends.
In the forenoon the weather outlook seemed very uncertain, but as 1.30 pm drew near it assumed a more promising aspect. Immediately after the arrival of "the men in blue" the steam-launch "River Queen" was started, and the party of 105 proceeded upstream at a steady pace. The choir discoursed sweet music as we journeyed and "all went merry as a marriage bell".
We reached Goring without mishap at 4.15 pm, and there we disembarked for about twenty-five minutes, to permit of a hasty look round. Setting off on the return journey at 4.45 pm, we reached Hartslock Woods at 5 o'clock, and took a short walk whilst arrangements were being made for tea.
At 5.15 we sat down to do full justice to the good things provided. The sun was now shining with unwonted brilliance, and was even considered by some to be too powerful. After tea, Mr F. W. Harvey read a letter from the Rev. W. Morton Rawlinson (who unfortunately, through indisposition, was unable to join the party) and in an appropriate speech gave welcome to our guests. To this welcome, the officer who accompanied the wounded soldiers fittingly replied, and expressed the gratitude of those for whom he spoke.
The company now dispersed in various directions. Some rambled along the banks of the river; others explored the beautiful woods; and still others climbed the high hill from which an uninterrupted view could be gained of "Father Thames", stretching away into the distance on either side.
As our soldier friends had been granted an extension of time it was not proposed to start for home until 8.15. but unhappily the fickle sun, which had promised so well at tea-time, was hidden from view by a heavy thunder-cloud, which speedily began to give us a taste of its contents. Everyone made for the boat, and at 7.30, as there seemed to be no prospect of a change in the weather, it was decided to return.
The rain continued most of the way home, but the choir again delighted us with various musical selections, and made it impossible for us to feel depressed or even dull. Their efforts to beguile the time, from Tilehurst onwards, were supplemented by those of three youngsters on the lookout for stray pence, who, on the river bank, kept pace with the boat and provided a varied exhibition.
Altogether, although the rain was an unbidden guest, the trip was most thoroughly enjoyed, and great praise is due to the choir for the entertainment given to their wounded guests and to the whole party. We should like to thank Mr Harvey, too, and the members of the Choir Committee, for the excellent arrangements made for the comfort of all.