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London's Roman Wall - The Obscured - Part 7
Following on from my previous post regarding the city wall at Trinity Place, this post was to deal with the other "not obscured" section of Roman city wall in the Tower Hill area known as Cooper's Row. However, whilst researching this topic I have discovered a previously unknown (to me that is) section right here, which although I have not attempted to gain access to yet, I have found photographic evidence of.
View from entrance to hotel courtyard on Cooper's Row
Cooper's Row
The street Cooper's Row owes its name to the coopers (barrel / cask makers) who stored their casks in recesses of the city wall in this area. The coopers have long gone, but the city wall remains to this day. Despite being little more than 50 metres from the exits of Tower Hill tube station, many visitors to London and general passers-by are unaware of the remains of the city wall here, as they are tucked away from casual view, being situated between the rear of the courtyard of The Grange - City hotel and The Crescent, EC3. Access can freely be gained either from the west via the hotel courtyard and car park entrance along Cooper's Row or from the east via a passageway between the Fenchurch railway viaduct and the rear of the houses of The Crescent.
The bridge through the archway leads to a passageway to The Crescent.
Re-Discovery
As with many other sections of the city wall, over time these structures were often lost when incorporated into fabric of other buildings. Having escaped the destruction of the Great Fire of 1666, the area around Cooper's Row would have been in continual usage for dwellings and businesses for over 1,000 years, and when the wall lost it's importance as a defensive structure it would have been swallowed up by surrounding buildings.
By the 19th century this area of London was occupied with warehouses and storage vaults associated with the wharves and quays of the nearby Port of London, many of which were owned by the infamous British East-India Company. Soon after 1860 the site was acquired by a Joseph Barber & Company, a long established family business operating as wharfingers in the City of London.
In 1862 the new owners set about redeveloping site into new bonded warehouses, for the storage and bottling of wines and spirits. According to Pevsner's guide, the architect of new warehouse, was Richard Norman Shaw and it is attributed as his first British building. It was during the building work for this new warehouse in 1864 that this section of London Wall was rediscovered and first formally recorded. The new owners chose to preserve and display the wall within the new building where it was visible on the vat storage floors.
Almost 100 years later, in 1961, these Victorian warehouses were in turn demolished, and the Roman Wall was made even more accessible as part of the current development originally known as Midland House, for Midland Bank and now a hotel complex.
The City Wall
Looking East where the houses of The Crescent back onto the city wall.
The wall here is regarded as the finest section of London city wall remaining. It stretches for 38m (125ft) in length and to the same height as the nearby Trinity Place section at Tower Hill to 10.6m (35ft). The main part of the wall, visible above modern ground level, is medieval in date with the 2nd Century Roman wall forming the lower parts, which is also visible due to being exposed by the basement level of the hotel car-park and also by a trench along the eastern side revealing the wall to it's Roman ground-level sandstone plinth.
Excavations in 1962 during the last re-development of the site, revealed the foundations of a rectangular Roman inner turret 4.88m (16ft) x 2.39m (8ft), built at the same time as the wall itself around 200AD. This is likely to have contained a timber stairway, to give access to the parapet walk at the top of the wall. Only a small number of similar turrets have been found elsewhere along the wall in London, although practicalities would suggest there were many more, that remain to be discovered.
The eastern side, at the rear of The Crescent gives a view of the best preserved Roman stonework. Here the original ground-level sand-stone plinths can be seen as well as the normal arrangement of regular courses of dressed rag-stone inter-spaced every four courses or so with red tiled bonding layers as can be seen in the photo below. The Roman layer stands to height of over 2 metres.
Eastern (Outer) face of City Wall showing Roman stonework.
The inner western face of the wall has not faired so well down at the Roman levels, where most of the dressed outer stonework has been damaged by later development work cutting in to the wall to bond adjacent walls of other buildings.
Western face showing defaced Roman stonework.
The upper section of the wall here is from the medieval period, from as late 1200AD. Features on the wall from this period are several archers loopholes, the remains of a double staircase to the upper levels (the v-shaped indentation centred around loophole just to the right of centre in the photo below) and several post sockets holes, thought to have been used to supported a timber platform. This arrangement appears to be unique to this part of the city wall.
The western side of the wall at Cooper's Row.
London Wall Walk
The original tiled panel number 3 from the Museum of London's "London Wall Walk" is no longer at this location, but there is a brass panel information panel on the railings next to the wall, which can be seen in the photo above, and also another positioned back out on Cooper's Row, on the wall of the hotel just to the right of the entrance to the car park. This is also in brass which does not make for easy reading in bright light, and hence is probably missed by most passers by.
Information plaque on the wall of hotel, Cooper's Row.
And now the obscured bit
From the Cooper's Row site, looking south, there is for the moment a view of the Roman portion of the city wall continuing towards Tower Hill underground station. This has been visible, during 2013, due to the re-development of the site at the end of Cooper's Row adjacent to the station. This development known as Tower House, 38-40 Trinity Square, is planned to be a 9 storey, 370 room hotel complex, but they are proposing the formation of a pedestrian walkway along side the section of Roman Wall visible in the photograph below, which will give public access to this part of the city wall for the first time.
Looking south from Cooper's Row, the western inner face of the Roman Wall
continues towards Tower Hill tube station.
Also visible in the photograph above, in red brick, is the rear of the electricity sub-station built in the 1930's over the Tower Hill underground station platforms. The front of the sub-station is at the southern end of The Crescent. Although there was a basic attempt at an adherence to the aesthetic of The Crescent with the right-hand bay and boundary wall continuing the curve of the adjacent buildings, it is fairly described by Pevsner as "unsightly".
1930s electricity sub-station in The Crescent.
The western wall of the sub-station it literally build on top of the Roman city wall here and it's eastern face can be seen with the basement of the building. I have not tried to gain access here yet to see first-hand the wall, but did come across the photograph below in the Archaeological Assessment report, for the proposed hotel at 38-40 Trinity Square.
The foundations of the wall and its original ground-level sandstone plinth. Four courses of rag-stone up to the red-brick bonding layer can clearly be seen here too.
Roman city wall within the electricity sub-station in The Crescent.
I do not own the copyright to this image.
Also during the building of the sub-station, part of one of the Roman bastions which were added at set intervals to the external side of the wall during the 4th century, was recorded to have survived the cutting of the railway, but was demolished as part of the construction in 1935. Notable finds from the construction site in 1935 included part of the tombstone of Classicianus, the Procurator (finance minister) of Britain from the 1st century AD. This, like many other pieces of early Roman stonework, had been reused as rubble in the foundations of the bastions. Two other pieces of this tombstone had been found in 1852 and 1885 during the construction of the underground railway close to this site. This tombstone is now viewable in reconstructed form in the British Museum.
During my research for this post, I struggled to limit the focus to the main subject, as there were so many side topics that could have been explored, directly related to the main subject. For one of these topics, the history of The Crescent I have created a separate post which may possibly lead to a new series of posts.
And so this brings me to the end of a post which has taken about six months to research and write. Please refer to my Roman London page for background information to the Roman occupation of London, and see the list below for earlier articles in the series.
Further posts on this topic:
Part 1 - One America Square
Part 2 - Emperor House
Part 3 - London Wall House
Part 4 - Hennessy's Bar
Part 5 - Bevis Marks
Part 6 - Trinity Place
Museum of London - London Wall Walk
Trinity House - Archaeological Assessment
London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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Labels: City Wall , Cooper's Row , Londinium , London , London Wall , London Wall Walk , Roman , Roman Wall , The Crescent
Location: City of London, Greater London, UK
Towers of London: 20 Fenchurch Street - "Walkie Scorchie" Follow Up
Following on from the late summer media frenzy, over the problem of the "Solar Death Ray" being reflected from 20 Fenchurch Street, as reported in an earlier post, it appears a solution may have been found!
Since that warm sunny spell in early September, the overcast weather has assisted in diminishing the immediate problem, but also the angle of the sun has dropped, and the beam of light has moved from being directly onto the pavement, to higher up the buildings and further along the side street of Eastcheap. Good news for pedestrians, but bad news for anyone working in the first or second floors of those immediate buildings.
During the height of the problem, temporary scaffolding and hoardings were erected in front of some the shops affected in an attempt shield them but this was remove after only a matter of weeks as the problem lessened. A longer term solution was still needed.
It's curtains for 20 Fenchurch Street!
Whilst walking along Eastcheap this afternoon, I spotted some activity on the tower, and what looks like an attempt to provide a solution to the issue. What seems to be black voiles are being draped over the entire southern aspect of the tower.
At this point in time I'm not certain whether this is just another temporary fix, or will develop into the long term solution, but there is no doubt the developers have been pressured into producing a fix for this problem which is set to reoccur each year.
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Labels: Architecture , Fenchurch , London
Location: 20 Fenchurch Street, City of London, Greater London, UK
Towers of London: 20 Fenchurch Street - "Walkie Scorchie"
New "Hot Spot" in Eastcheap, London
With the sudden media interest following an incident reported in the press in the last day or so regarding a Jaguar car being partially melted whilst parked on Eastcheap in the City of London, I thought I'd pop over and take a look for myself this lunch-time.
The issue is being caused by the convex shape of the new tower at 20 Fenchurch Street known as the "Walkie-Talkie". At this time of the year and for a few hours of the day the angle of the sun is just in the right spot to have its rays focused onto the pavement due to the reflections of the convex glazed south-side of the new tower. This tower has been almost fully glazed just this year and so this is the first time this phenomena has been noticed.
As you can see from my photos, there is a considerable bright spot on the pavement, and this was during a slightly overcast day! Walking past this spot you can feel a definite difference in temperature to the point of being uncomfortably hot, and on my return there was even a chap being photographed trying to fry an egg in a small frying pan!?
There was a media frenzy taking place with press photographers, and TV crews as well as bemused passers-by crowding the pavement as the hot-spot tracked its way along the pavement.
During my somewhat disappointing search for hidden remains of the Roman wall along Bevis Marks (see previous article in this series), I was chatting to a tower crane operator working on 6 Bevis Marks, as you do, who reminded me of another hidden section of wall back over at Tower Hill that I read about in the Survey of Antiquities but had dismissed at the time as likely to be out of date information and no longer visible. So having an excuse for another blog post, I headed back over towards the Tower Hill area to find this hidden wall and whilst in the area thought I might as well visit the less "obscured" sections of wall in that area too.
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Trinity Place, Tower Hill, London EC3
The Tower Hill area has some the best preserved and impressively large sections of the city wall. The sections under ground and hidden in basements I have already written about in earlier posts, but the two large and easily accessible sections do deserve attention, even if not "obscured".
The first and most obvious of these sections being the very large remnant of city wall in Trinity Place, immediately by the main entrance to the Tower Hill Circle and District line underground station. The second, less obvious, but even more impressive section is off nearby Cooper's Row, and is worthy of a separate post for itself.
The Trinity Place section has only been made fully visible during the 20th century, where like others it been partially incorporated within buildings and with the older Roman layer still submerged below the modern ground level.
City Wall, Tower Hill, London
What is now revealed is one of the largest parts of the city wall remaining. Running for about 25m (82ft) and standing to a total height of 10.6m (35ft), with the now exposed Roman layer dating from AD 200, forming the lower part up to a height of 4.4m (14.5ft), and the remaining 6m or so being of medieval origin.
The original Roman city wall is thought to have been about 6.4m (20ft) in total height, including the battlements, so the Roman section here is probably up to the height of what was the sentry walk level.
The wall is best viewed from it's western (inner) side where the usual Roman method of construction using regular courses of squared kentish ragstone, spaced with red tiled bonding layers can clearly be seen. The face of the wall has been cut into at several intervals to support the once adjoining buildings of a much later period, exposing the less ordered rubble and mortar core. This is again noticeable at the southern end of the wall were the complete cross section is visible.
Statue of Emperor Trajan, by City Wall, Tower Hill
Just to the west of the wall stands a late-eighteenth century, bronze statue of Emperor Trajan. This statue was donated to the Tower Hill improvement Trust by the Reverend P. B. 'Tubby' Clayton MC, vicar of All Hallows by the Tower (across the road), after he had found the statue in a scrapyard in Southampton, and was placed here in 1980. Considered by the senate as "Best Emperor ever", Trajan who was emperor from AD 98-117 has no particular association with London or Britain unlike his adopted son Hadrian, of wall fame, who succeeded Trajan as emperor from AD 117-139.
Panel No.2 from the London Wall Walk
Here also is panel number 2, from the Museum of London's "London Wall Walk", giving details of this section of wall.
Medieval Postern Gate
Panel number 1 is meant to be just beyond the under-pass next to the remains of the medieval Postern gate to the south, but has been missing for a good while. It has been replaced by three small stainless steel engraved panels which are mounted on the railings around it. A postern gate is usually a small side-entrance, typically for pedestrians only. This one dates from about 1270, and was made of Caen stone, from Normandy, France, like the rest of the Tower of London. It was situated at the very edge of the moat to the Tower of London and due to this proximity it's foundations gave way and it partially collapsed in 1440. The gate was resited slightly north of the original location and rebuilt before becoming once again derelict and finally disappearing in the 18th century to be rediscovered again in 1979.
Medieval Postern Gate, Tower Hill
There remains however Panel '0' or one the introductory panels still in place, marking the start of the walk, situated at the foot of the steps leading back up to street level from the south side of the under-pass.
Panel '0' - Introduction to the The London Wall Walk
And finally, the "Obscured" bit
Immediately adjoining the northern end of the wall at Trinity Place, a section of wall 22.25m (73ft) long was uncovered in 1882 during the construction of the Inner Circle Railway. As can be seen in the photograph below, which shows the outer / eastern face, the wall was in good shape with the base-level plinth, four courses of rag-stone, three of tiles and a further six of ragstone visible. According to descriptions of the time there was a further bonding bonding layer with another four courses of ragstone when first uncovered, which I would estimate to make a total height of about 3.5-4m (11-13ft).
Demolition of Roman Wall at Tower Hill for Inner Circle Railway, 1882. Copyright Museum of London.
Unfortunately this section of wall was demolished to make way for Inner Circle Railway, but a small section was left visible within the station itself.
To view it, you'll need to purchase a Tube ticket and head to Platform 1, the West-bound platform for the District and Circle line. Walk east along the platform (the direction the trains are coming from), and almost at the end up high on southern retaining wall (across the tracks) is a small recess, probably only a metre square, where you can see the exposed part of the Roman wall.
Roman Wall Platform 1, Tower Hill underground station
It looks like there is a spot light, but this was not working at the time of my visit and due the usual underground railway grime it looks rather like just any old dirty bit of brick work, but is in fact the remains the Roman city wall constructed some 1,800 years ago!
Roman Wall - Detail. Platform 1, Tower Hill underground station.
Part 7 - Cooper's Row (coming soon)
For more general background information on the city wall and Roman London please refer to the Museum of London's web site on this topic. Better still, go make a personal visit to this often overlooked but truly excellent (and free) museum.
Labels: Londinium , London Wall , London Wall Walk , Roman , Roman Wall , Tower Hill , Trinity Place
Location: Tower Hill, City of London, UK
Modern London : 20 Gracechurch Street
Situated on the northern corner of Lombard Street and Gracechurch Street, this building was previously known as 54 Lombard Street, and was the long-time head-quarters site of Barclays Bank Plc. Barclays can trace their occupation of this site back to 1728, when founding partners moved to a building with the sign of a "Black Spread Eagle", which later was adopted as Barclay's official emblem in 1937.
The current building was designed by GMW, and completed in 1994 and had replaced a relatively young office complex completed in 1969 after being in use for just over 20 years. However this time, after just over 10 years, the site was finally vacated by Barclays, when in 2005 they relocated to London's new banking hub in Canary Wharf.
The building then underwent extensive refurbishment, both inside and out, to the designs of architects ORMS, and has been transformed by the re-cladding of the street-level facade to the third storey in Portland stone. This work was completed in 2009 and the building was renamed at that time to 20 Gracechurch Street, to lessen the association with the site's previous occupants and to make the new office space more appealing to the insurance market as prospective tenants.
20 Gracechurch Street
Labels: Architecture , Gracechurch Street , London
Location: 20 Gracechurch Street, London, Greater London EC3V 0BG, UK
The Roman city wall of London dates from the 2nd century AD, and had many "upgrades" by the Romans up until the 4th Century AD. Even though the city walls were enhanced throughout medieval and Tudor ages, the original line remained unaltered. The city wall was a prominent feature of the city for the best part of 1400-1500 years.
During the 17th century it's defensive purpose effectively expired as the city grew beyond its confines, and the wall was gradually dismantled during the 18th and 19th centuries, as it was pillaged for building materials. Many parts of the wall became incorporated into the party walls, cellars and the foundations of shops and warehouses that grew in its place, or simply covered over and buried to make way for new or widened roads.
Throughout the late Victorian and 20th century much of the wall has been rediscovered, during excavations for the the installation of sewers and railways lines. The slum clearances of this period also saw the demolition of large parts of the city to make way for wider roads and the building of banks, warehouses and offices. During the Second World War, much of the city of London fell victim to intense bombing and as bombed-out structures were cleared, the hidden wall was once again revealed.
So after the abundance of rediscovered and preserved sections of wall I had seen along the eastern part of the city wall, from Tower Hill to Aldgate, as featured in my previous posts on this topic (See navigation bar), I was hoping for similar successes as I turned my attention north and west to follow the line of the wall as it continues from Aldgate along Dukes Place, Bevis Marks, Camomile Street towards Bishopsgate.
Looking North-West along Bevis Marks, from Dukes Place
The path of the wall runs North-West along the eastern (right if looking North) side of Bevis Marks, and Camomile Street towards Bishopsgate. The mast on the top of the Heron Tower, the rather tall building in the background, marks the line of wall as it meets up with the site of the Roman Bishopsgate.
A few of the signs from the Museums of London's Roman Wall Walk, which inspired this series of posts, still remain in this area but there is no mention of surviving wall sections on these plaques.
The London Wall Walk - Plaque 5 - One the wall of Sir John Cass School, St. Botolph Street, London.
Plaque No.6 is no longer accessible, as it was positioned on a now vanished exit to a subway which used to emerge in Duke's Place. This is a shame as there was also a representation of the Roman Wall illustrated in tiles at exact the point the subway intersected the line of the city wall.
The London Wall Walk - Plaque 7 - By the entrance to the Synagogue, Bevis Marks, London.
Plaque No.7 is sited by the entrance to the Bevis Marks synagogue and describes the wall as illustrated in the "Agas" map of 1560-1570, where the wall and several bastions can be clearly seen.
Plaque No.8 would have been where the Heron Tower now stands, and I guess they thought nailing it to the outside, might spoil the look of their shiny new tower.
So with no obvious evidence of any wall sections, I began an exhaustive search on-line using as my main points of reference, the on-line copy of "The Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 3: Roman London (1928)" which is an extremely detailed survey up to the time of publication, and also the detailed monument records on the English Heritage web-site.
The inventory from 1928, records many sections of wall found along my path of interest, but sadly also records much subsequent destruction of these during building projects. There however remained a couple of potential locations, including wall sections and bastions number 9 and 10, the latter being famed for it's significant bounty of statues and decorated stone work that was recovered during inspections carried out in 1876.
These objects were headstones from graveyards, being reused as hardcore rubble to fill the bases of the bastions that were a 4th century addition to the then 200 year old wall. These finds are now on show at the museum of London, with perhaps the most well known being the incredibly detailed 1st century tombstone of a Roman soldier.
Tombstone of a Roman soldier, 1st century. Image Copyright Museum of London
There is a whole articles worth of information to say about just this one statue, but the key bits are that he appears holding a set of writing tablets, indicating his duties were more cleric than military. Also when found his head had been placed between his legs, perhaps reflecting some burial rite of the time.
So despite the detailed sources of information, some stating that sections of city wall and bastions had been "preserved as scheduled monuments", there is confusion and contradictions in these records too, mostly due to the fact that the property addresses given in both sources have changed so much due to the intense and continuing redevelopment in this area.
I have been in contact with English Heritage for more information, scoured the City of London's Planning web-site for archaeological assessments performed for building projects in the area and even conducted my own house-to-house enquiries along the length of Camomile Street and Bevis Marks, to make certain that there are no exposed sections of wall featuring in basements or otherwise in this area. I had hoped that the archaeological reports carried out during the construction of the Heron Tower in 2007 would yield useful information, but it seems that little if nothing of the city wall had survived on this site most likely due to earlier building works.
From this field-work I can deduce that Bastion 10 is likely to be sited under the junction of Camomile and Outwich Streets. It's exact position has not been recorded since 1905. Bastion 9 is under the roadway of Goring Street close to it's junction with Bevis Marks. There is a section of wall under the roadway St Mary Axe again at it's junction with the eastern side of Bevis Marks. Both of these are scheduled monuments and feature in the archaeological assessment for a proposed new tower at 60-70 St Mary Axe, nicknamed the "Can of Ham".
Proposed 60--70 St. Mary Axe. Image Copyright: Miller Hare
The one section I had the most hope for viewing is recorded as being at the rear of 58-60 Houndsditch adjoining the churchyard of St. Martin Outwich. It was recorded as surviving above ground at this location in 1905, and the English Heritage has a record noting it's most recent inspection of 1989.
Churchyard of St. Martin Outwich, Camomile Street
The churchyard of St. Martin Outwich has survived from 1538, but was previously the churchyard for St Augustine in the Wall which dated from the 12th century. Similar to the nearby church of All Hallows by the Wall with whom it shared a united parish during the early 15th century, St. Augustines was built up against the city wall. It was conveyed to the Brethren of the Papey in 1430, and then became known as St. Augustine Papey. The church was finally pulled down as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries c1540, with the churchyard then being passed to the parish of St Martin Outwich.
Today it is a rather anonymous raised garden on the east side of Camomile Street, with no plaque or signage to denote it's past. There is a tombstone of c.1810 set into the brickwork of the garden's floor, but alas no sign of Roman wall!
Tombstone in churchyard of St. Martin Outwich.
So in conclusion it would seem, as at the time of writing, the North Eastern sections of the Roman city wall from Aldgate to Bishopsgate remain distinctly "obscured".
Earlier posts on this topic:
Labels: Bevis Marks , Camomile Street , City Wall , Londinium , London , London Wall , London Wall Walk , Roman , Roman Wall
Location: Bevis Marks, City of London, UK
London's Roman Wall -The Obscured - Part 4
By some twist of fate, the far eastern section of the Roman city wall, running in a straight line all most due north from the Tower of London to Aldgate, contains some of the best preserved, and importantly visible sections of the wall.
The large sections by Tower Hill and Cooper's Row are the most easily viewed, (see Green push-pins on map) being accessible above ground and in public spaces. However, always up for a challenge, I have been trying to discover and get access to visit all the remains of the Roman wall that are now preserved with private buildings along this eastern section (see Red push-pins on map), of which there are a good few. All you need is the time, patience and a bit of courtesy to winkle your way into these buildings, and enter a world of hidden cellars and forgotten basements hosting these magnificent monuments.
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I have posted earlier articles on my visits to these hidden sections of the wall. Please refer to Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this series using these links or the navigation panel at the side.
This post features Henessey's Bar, formally The Three Tuns public house, which is located at the northern end, and eastern side, of Jewry Street, close to the location of the Roman gateway of Aldgate.
There has been a pub on this site since the early 18th century, with map records showing a pub on here in 1747. The present building though is 20th century, having been rebuilt to it's present form in 1939.
Hennessy's Bar, 36 Jewry Street, London, EC3
There are several connections with the notorious Jack the Ripper and this pub, with the possibility that the "Ripper" may have hidden in the pub's cellar to escape police on several occasions by using the cellar flap and chute at the rear of the building, accessed from the dead-end of Vine Street. The full story can be found on Hennessy's web site.
The line of the Roman wall here is right under the front walls of the properties on the eastern side of Jewry street, which include the Sir John Cass foundation, Hennessey's Bar and the appropriately named Centurion House.
Centurion House, Aldgate / Jewry Street
In fact the Roman wall for this site is acting as part of the front cellar wall and foundations of the building, but has been exposed and preserved for viewing behind a large perspex panel.
Roman Wall in cellar of Hennessy's Bar, 36 Jewry Street, London, EC3
The hole section of wall is about 5m (17ft) in length. The sandstone plinth, marking the original Roman ground level, is visible just above the cellar floor at 2.69m (8ft 10in) below modern street level. Above the plinth are the usual four courses or ragstone, a tiled bonding course, with a further six courses of ragstone towards to top of the visible wall. The wall is 2.39m (7ft 10in) thick above the plinth and 2.67m (8ft 9in) just above the cellar floor.
This post is probably the last of my posts dealing with the eastern section of the Roman wall, as I have now to my knowledge visited all but one of the preserved sites. The last one being a small section of wall within the Sir John Cass Collage, 31 Jewry Street. I have attempted to get access to view this section, as they proudly mention it's existence on their web-site, but I have been told that it is just a view of a small cross section of the wall, behind a small glass panel about 1m (3ft) by 1.5m (4.5ft). This is located in a secure financial vault within the basement and is not available for public access. Yet!
Labels: City Wall , Hennessy's , History , Londinium , London , London Wall , London Wall Walk , Roman , Roman Wall
Location: Hennessy's
Art Deco London : 51-54 Gracechurch Street
Almost opposite the building I am currently working in is another fine example of Art Deco architecture. It's modest size and location, next to a complex and busy road junction, perhaps causes it to be ignored among other buildings of the same period in the city, such as nearby Adelaide House mentioned in an earlier post. However, on closer inspection it reveals a wealth of interesting Art Deco ornamentation that possibly warrants an elevation in it's status and interest.
51-54 Gracechurch Street, London.
Despite much Googling, inspection of the outside of the structure and even inquiring with the building's reception desk, I could find no information about it's history.
So, having reached a dead end, I decided to contact the planning department of the City of London, in the hope that they would not be too busy to answer my trivial questions and after a few days of waiting, they very helpfully provided the information I was after and suggested some additional references that could be helpful in the future.
51-54 Gracechurch Street, West Elevation
From the information provided the City of London, the architect was one Leo Sylvester Sullivan (1878-1964), and the date of construction circa 1928-30. This architect is also responsible for other better known, listed buildings in the City and West-End (future posts to come) as well as many civic projects around the country. He also attended school with Sir Winston Churchill in the 1900s.
The building sits 8 storeys high and 9 bays wide and it likely to steel framed with the front clad in Portland stone. The nine bays are separated by ribbed piers with the outer four piers emboldened to provide vertical framing of the frontage. The metal window aprons were once ornamented but have been unsympathetically replaced, along with the windows at some point, which is likely the cause of it's lack of listed status.
51-54 Gracechurch Street in 1974. Copyright City of London - Collage project
A carved pediment above the ground floor has a parallel zig-zag or chevron dancette with a chain-like pattern above. This chevron pattern is repeated around the entrances and also the north-side elevation of the building. At the top of the stone facade and between the fifth and sixth floors are two rows of carved heads. Each appears to be unique, but they are a little too high to observe with my phone's camera.
One interesting detail is the parallel chevron dancettes framing the door ways feature convex and concave half-round carvings.
The north side and rear of the building is accessible via Talbot Court. The side appears to be clad in terracotta with the lower windows and entrances framed again with chevron moldings and also beak-head stops.
Beak-head stops
Terracotta moldings
Finally, the rear of the building is stepped down to meet the roof heights of neighbouring properties.
Rear North-side elevation.
That about wraps things up for this building. I may write more about Leo Sylvester Sullivan's other buildings in my immediate area as I photograph and research them.
His other buildings that I know of so far are...
37-39 Lime Street, EC3M 7AY - View with Google Streetview
106 Fenchurch Street, EC3M - View with Google Streetview
Saddlers' Hall, Gutter Lane, EC2V 6BR- View with Google Streetview
16 St Martin's Le-Grand, EC1A 4EN- View with Google Streetview
233 Shaftsbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8EE- View with Google Streetview
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Art Deco London : Adelaide House
I had been meaning to write a post on Adelaide House since I first took notice of it a few weeks ago, whilst out one rare and sunny lunch-time looking for remnants of Roman London. What prompted to get it done today was some seeing this incredible vintage film footage which is doing the rounds on-line this week.
London 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo.
The video appears to have been on-line for a while on Vimeo, but the news and social-media world seems to have found it again this week. (See references at the foot of this post). The footage was shot by Claude Friese-Green, a pioneer of colour film in the UK.
Adelaide House. Southern aspect from London Bridge.
Adelaide House is located in one of London's most prime positions on the north-east shoulder of London Bridge. It, in fact, replaced an earlier building of the same name on the same site, which was named after King William IV's wife, who, in 1831 had performed the opening ceremony of the adjacent London Bridge.
Designed by the Scottish architect Thomas F. Tait, of the firm Sir John Burnet & Tait, and completed in 1925, it was a pioneering building in many ways.
Firstly, it was, at the time of construction, the tallest office building in London. By today's standards, at only 11 storeys high (45m / 148ft) this is hard to imagine. However, the video footage above allows it to be seen in the context of that period and clearly shows a brand new Adelaide House. And in a panning shot of the city skyline there are only the spires of churches and The Monument itself to be seen towering above the London roof-line of the time.
It also was the first building in the UK to have air-conditioning, a mechanised internal mail system. It was the first in the city to use stone cladding over a steel-framed structure. There was even a putting green on the roof.
Main entrance on the Western side of Adelaide House
The stone work is broadly Art Deco in style, with, fashionable at the time, Egyptian references and many other ornamental details. The entrance from London Bridge pictured above features bold pseudo-Doric columns in contrasting black granite. The main exterior is faced in white Portland stone, with the base and a frieze around the ninth storey in grey granite.
North aspect of Adelaide House on Lower Thames Street.
Interestingly, the east side of Adelaide House is faced in plain brick, and was only exposed after the post-war demolition of a neighbouring building.
As can be seen in the photo above and below, Adelaide House is sited extremely close to the ancient church of St Magnus the Martyr (once situated on the roadway to the Old London Bridge). This was controversial at the time of construction, and The Times
commented that "the new 'architectural Matterhorn' ... conceals all but the tip of the church spire".
St Magnus the Martyr, with Adelaide House in the background.
Adelaide House is now a Grade II listed building, and underwent extensive renovation from 2005-2007 by the current occupier Berwin Leighton Paisner.
Daily Telegraph 14/May/2013
London Evening Standard 14/May/2013
English Heritage Listing
Update 2012-05-20:
I found some amazing historic photographs taken from scans of postcards or slides over on http://www.skyscrapercity.com.
London Bridge circa 1927 Source: Lost London thread on www.skyscrapercity.com
London Bridge pre 1925. Note the earlier Adelaide Buildings. Source: Lost London thread on www.skyscrapercity.com
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There are a lot of smart light bulbs on the market, and each one is a little different. Philips' Hue changes colors, for example, while Belkin's WeMo Smart LED bulbs can controlled using IFTTT recipes. But these differences are all focused around the idea that a light bulbs' only function is—lighting up.
Smart-lighting company Sengled is taking a unique approach. While Sengled's bulbs can be controlled with an app, scheduled, dimmed precisely, and more; but they deliver more than just a lighting experience: Sengled's bulbs are multi-functional. One doubles as a speaker; another has a built-in webcam, speaker, and microphone.
Pulse: The Sengled Pulse smart bulb boasts a 13-watt JBL Bluetooth speaker, and you can connect up to six satellite bulbs so you can play your music through every light in your house. The Pulse comes as a two-pack (one master and one satellite) for around $170, and each additional satellite will set you back $80.
All Sengled bulbs are dimmable LEDs that will last around 15 years (assuming 3 hours of light per day). The Pulse must be paired with at least one other bulb, but Sengled also sells a Pulse Solo, which is a standalone speaker-bulb with dual 3-watt speakers. It's priced at $60. Both the lighting and the sound/music functionality of the Pulse and Pulse Solo can be controlled through Sengled's app.
Boost: Sengled's Boost bulb is a combination dimmable LED and a Wi-Fi range extender. Plug the Boost into any standard light socket, link it to your Wi-Fi router, and you can banish a dead spot while illuminating that dark corner of your room.
According to the company, the Boost gives you up to 100 feet of additional Wi-Fi range, and each extra Boost you plug in will extend your signal further. The Boost costs $50 for a single bulb, and you can use the Sengled app to control the light functionality and to set up the Wi-Fi extender.
Snap: The Snap is Sengled's newest and possibly coolest multi-functional bulb. It has a built-in webcam, motion sensor, microphone, and speaker for home security and monitoring. I like the Snap because its light bulb façade is actually an excellent way to disguise the fact that you have webcam monitoring in your home. An intruder might spot and disable a Dropcam, but they're unlikely to be peering at your light bulbs to check for cameras.
The Snap plugs into a standard socket and features motion detection, facial recognition, and geo-fencing capabilities that enable it to tell when a family member leaves the house. The Snap will ship later this year and pricing has not been announced, but I expect it will fall somewhere between that of the Boost and the Pulse.


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The first thing you need to understand is that "gender" is not the same thing as "(which) sex". They are often used interchangeably, and indeed in most people they are intercorrelated to a very high degree, but there is a significant portion of the population for which this is not true.
sex (as in the attribute, not the act) is most commonly used to mean the physical, genetic, or biological male-ness or female-ness of a person. It is a common misperception that this is entirely caused by the presence or absence of a Y chromosome, though the misperception is understandable because this is certainly true in the overwhelming majority of cases. But there are clear exceptions. "Sex" in this meaning might be less misleadingly called physical gender.
gender refers to all attributes which are commonly thought of as "masculine" or "feminine" traits. This technically includes "sex", so you might define "sex" as "one's physical/genetic/biological gender". However, even leaving out "sex", there are many separate aspects to "gender". Again, these aspects are highly correlated in most people -- but not in everyone.
1.1 Gender Attributes
1.2 The Gender Continuum
The next thing you need to understand is that there are many attributes, both physical and behavioral, which make up what we call "gender". (In other words, gender is not "either-or", or even a "spectrum", but a multidimensional continuum.[1]) These attributes may tend to cluster into two groups which we call "male" and "female", but these convenient labels are inadequate to describe the true situation for many people. [2] [3]
Gender is therefore a social construct based around arbitrary similarity clusters, not a "scientific fact" or any other such authoritative term. You can draw lines around specific sets of attributes and decide that "male" is on one side of the line and "female" is on the other, but any particular set of lines are going to be highly context-dependent; if scientific rigor is desired, it's much better to speak in terms of those specific attributes (e.g. "has penis" or "menstruates" – and remember that there are individuals who do both!) than in vague terms like "female" or "male".
Gender Attributes
Note that when we use the terms "male"/"boy"/"man" or "female"/"girl"/"woman" here, we are referring to the particular sets of gender-attributes that apply in each case, not endorsing gender essentialism.
Gender-related attributes include:
physical / biological:
chromosomes (XX, XY, or other)
skin tone (adult females tend to have softer, lighter skin with a layer of subcutaneous fat)
skin padding (adult females typically have additional fatty deposits in certain areas, giving them a more "curvy" shape)
body & facial hair (adult males tend to have more hair everywhere except the top of the head, especially on the face)
genital configuration (inny vs. outy, with a few other variations generally (and questionably!) viewed as birth defects)
sex hormone balance (mix of androgen, estrogen, and progestens)
back of the skull (adult males have a bump which children and adult females lack)
musculature (adult males tend to have greater upper-body strength)
height (adult females tend to be a few inches shorter than adult males)
reproductive role
whether you contribute an egg or sperm[4]
whether one's body hosts the embryo
brain structures (which heavily influence behavior and determine gender identity)
gender identity: what gender you feel like you are in your head (male, female, agender, genderfluid...)
sexual attraction: males tend to prefer females and vice-versa, but this is reversed for a large percentage of the population ("homosexuality"). Some people are attracted to members of both genders ("bisexual"), while some are best described as "asexual" (not feeling sexual attraction for anyone)
play affinity: juveniles tend to prefer to play with members of the "same" physical gender; to some extent this is socialized, but it also seems to be a genuine preference -- boys have a notable tendency towards very different and incompatible styles of play than girls do (see next item)
play preferences: "girls" tend to prefer dolls, role-play involving housekeeping and nurturing, and more gentle games; "boys" tend to prefer sports, role-play involving violence (fighting and killing), and other competitive and kinetic activities
body map: the internal wiring which tells you what shape your body "should" be also seems to have an opinion about what physical gender traits you should have
sense: the sense or feeling of which gender you "are" inside your head; it's not clear what generates this, but it seems to be a combination of factors and is sometimes felt quite strongly -- and sometimes in sharp disagreement with physical gender. (This sense is also sometimes referred to as "gender identity", though I am here using that term in a broader way to refer to all the various components of gender, in sum.)[5]
The Gender Continuum
And finally, none of these attributes – not even the physical ones – have clear lines of demarcation. You can place a line in any arbitrary place and declare that anyone on one side of it is female and anyone on the other side is male, but there will always be people who don't fit your expectations.
For example: if you define "male" as "having XY chromosomes", then you would be calling a lot of people "men" who were registered female at birth, raised as girls, identify as female, and visually are clearly women – due to Androgen insensitivity syndrome (photo here).
Various intersex conditions similarly blur the lines with respect to reproductive organs and genitalia.
World Health Organization: Gender and Genetics
Trans Student Educational Resources: The Gender Unicorn (infographic)
2019-09-05 Biased sources, motivated reasoning, and blithe assumptions: the TERF story
2018-11-13 We Finally Understand That Gender Isn't Binary. Sex Isn't, Either.
2018-01-05 If you're multicellular, you can't help but be mosaic
2017-09-01 Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination
2017-04-28 A former 'MythBusters' extra thanks Adam Savage for crushing a harmful myth about gender. (via)
2017-03-03 Facebook post via Google+ listing some of the many variations of biological gender
2016-04-17 Gender Identity and Associated Gender Language: A Primer
2015-12-23 Scientists discover 'genderfluid' lioness who looks, acts and roars like a male (via): yes, Virginia, gender fluidity does exist in nature (...although I'm not sure that's really the right term here... and the article states that she "grew a mane" and "developing a deeper and more masculine roar" as if it was a conscious decision, which seems unlikely -- more likely her hormone levels are unusual for a lioness)
2015-12-15 Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic
2015-09-20 The village where boys are born as girls: Genetic deformity means Dominican Republic babies are born apparently female and only grow male sex organs at puberty - the boys in question frequently say they "never felt like girls" and tended to play with boys, illustrating yet again that gender identity is neither acquired nor based on one's apparent physical sex
2015-03-22 Neuroscience Proves What We've Known All Along: Gender Exists on a Spectrum
2015-02-18 Sex redefined (via)
2015-02-15 "The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that." "...my only quibble would be with that "now". You'd have to define "now" as a window of time that encompasses the entirety of my training and work in developmental biology, and I'm getting to be kind of an old guy. Differences in sex development (DSDs) are common knowledge, and rather routine..."
2015-01-07 Networks of the brain reflect the individual gender identity
2016-10-31 Gender Analysis 02. The Gender Axis of Evil (video by Zinnia Jones)
2014-09-20 When no gender fits: A quest to be seen as just a person
2014-03-20 I'm curious as to why you seem so certain that gender is not a social construct. Answer: It's partly social and partly biological.
2014-02-20 Sex differences are real but not binary
2014-02-07 Understanding gender diversity: sex and gender are not the same thing
2012-03 The Genderbread Person: an educational graphic
Other versions - 2.0, 3.3: while more precise, these may be more difficult to understand
2011-12-14 Bilaterally Gynandromorphic Chickens, and Why I'm Not "Scientifically" Male
↑ 2013-04-20 The Tangle of the Sexes
↑ 2013-02-05 Study debunks notion that men and women are psychologically distinct
↑ 2013-03-18 Richard O'Brien: "I'm 70% man"
↑ In theory, this could be separate from the mechanics of intercourse (who does the injecting and who does the hosting), but I don't know of any examples.
↑ When that sense is at odds with one's physical or socially-perceived gender, this causes an intense discomfort called gender dysphoria.
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As an engineering institution handling one of the most important engineering systems of a country, NWSDB has lot of engineering designs and engineering planning works of the water distribution system. The Planning and Designs Section is responsible for handling all the design works and engineering planning of distribution system.
P&D Section operates under the Policy & Planning Divsiion (under the authority of the Addl. GM (P&P)) and headed by a Deputy General Manager (P&D). The division consists of Over 30 specialist engineers specilized in various subject areas in the water and sanitation sectors.


How can I deal temporarily with varnish coming off plywood?
I have just bought a fireball dinghy with varnished plywood decks.
Some of the varnish (a couple of patches each about 4 inches square) is coming off and the wood underneath is exposed and discoloured.
I would like to sail her 3 or 4 times before the season ends when I can do a proper varnish strip and restoration job.
Until then any suggestions for the best way to protect the wood?
Should I just put a coat or two of varnish on the affected areas which I'll then take off later?
Ah yes, varnish, looks great when it is fresh and well maintained.
But it can drive you bananas when it goes wrong.
I'm not sure that there is a definitive answer to your question.
It all depends on what kind of finish you want to end up with.
I applaud you for wanting to use your boat, that is, after all, what boats are for.
On the other hand as you clearly realise her wood does need some form of protection if she is to remain useable.
My answer would be to treat the bare wood with an oil, teak, tung, whatever just to protect it until you have the time to do it properly.
However, you will only be able to use an oil base varnish on it in the future, but then I much prefer the traditional varnishes over the synthetic modern stuff.
The other caveat is that having weathered unevenly, it will be virtually impossible to get it back to a 'pristine' original finish.
Now that doesn't bother me, in fact I prefer to see wood looking 'aged', knocked about, mature, lived in, caracterfull, (just listen to the 'Antiques Road Show' experts talking about patina to know what I mean).
But then Fireballs shouldn't be treated as ornaments, they are fun boats with a thriving competitive following.
The idea behind the design was to come up with a boat that was suitable for sailors of all abilities, while at the same time inexpensive enough to be within the reach of most people's pockets, and designed to be put together by the amateur boat-builder.
In other words a boat to be used.


Things are changing in Cuba, but they are not changing fast enough.
New President Raul Castro, Fidel's brother, has lifted a ban on Cuban citizens staying at hotels previously reserved for foreigners. They will now be charged in hard currency, like other guests. New rules will also allow Cubans to rent cars at state-run agencies for the first time.
On Friday, Cuba authorized its citizens to obtain mobile phones, which only foreigners and key officials in the Communist Government were previously allowed to have, The Chicago Tribune reports. A resolution signed by the Interior Commerce Ministry on March 21 also authorized the sale of computers, microwaves and DVD players, items which had only been sold to companies and foreigners. Of course, many people in Cuba are too poor to benefit from any of this.
As The Economist pointed out, if things keep going this way, by 2050 Cubans might be allowed satellite television.


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Using imaging and pattern recognition techniques, Mexican students developed a computational tool to identify patients with lung cancer at an early stage, the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) reported Sunday.
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In Mexico, lung cancer is considered the second cause of death in men and fourth in women.
The system was created by Ximena Cortés, Isaac Aguirre and Sergio Martínez Ávila, students of the Higher School of Computing of the IPN.
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In a plain white-painted room, with plain stackable tables and chairs, a nondescript man in khaki scrubs sat with another man who looked somewhat similar, but was noticeably handsomer. Where the first man was average height and average build, the younger one was taller, more muscular. Where the first had average light skin, the second was a little tanner. Where the first had average brown hair, the younger man's was a little darker and a little wavier.
It was visiting hours at the prison, and all around the two men prisoners and their visitors sat at the tables talking and sharing food from the vending machines. Guards watched over the room, but paid little attention to individual conversations.
Zenon Blank from The Extraordinary Salamander Door, the in-progress sequel to upper middle-grade fantasy The Extraordinary Book of Doors.
A-Z Challenge, all posts for the letter Z.
Tomason - an architectural feature that has lost its purpose and become useless, but still remains, making a sort of inadvertent sculptural element.
So keep your eyes open and enjoy any Tomason you may notice - just be careful when stepping through unfamiliar doors.
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Yunib from Ruin of Ancient Powers, sixth book in a high fantasy series for middle school-or-so through adult (excerpt from Chapter 6: The Silence of Edah). More information here, or "Look inside" at Amazon.
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Okay, so I didn't make up the xenops and indeed it's not fictional at all, but it is a character in one of my books: my alphabet of animals.
Xenops from Amazing, Beguiling, Curious: 26 Fascinating Creatures, an alphabet book for ages 3-8. More information here, or "Look inside" at Amazon.
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adults (excerpt from Chapter 1: Trouble with Chipmunks). More information here, or "Look inside" at Amazon.
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"Very well," the bard replied.
Varslan came running outside, Venn following after him.
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Varslan (and a bonus V, Venn) from A Threatening of Dragons, fifth book in a high fantasy series for middle school-or-so through adult (excerpt from Chapter 8: Tanoeb). More information here, or "Look inside" at Amazon.
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Uber (short for Überkatze) from The Extraordinary Book of Doors, an upper middle grade fantasy (excerpt from Chapter 4: The Cat in the Museum). More information here, or "Look inside" at Amazon.
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Bluebell led Kate and Sam around to the back yard, where Beechnut was sitting beside a pair of cottontail rabbits.
"Pleased to meet you," said Sam and Kate politely in animal language, and the rabbits nodded their heads and wiggled their noses. The children could see that these rabbits had unusual bright brown eyes, instead of the black or red eyes of most rabbits. Then all at once, to Sam and Kate's astonishment, one of them leaped up and turned a complete somersault in the air. As she spun she seemed to jump right out of her soft brown fur, and suddenly there she stood, in the form of a brown-eyed girl, only about eighteen inches tall.
"Besides," added the other rabbit, Motu, "We're not stupid. We wouldn't do anything that might make your mother give up on gardening. Then we wouldn't get to sample any of her vegetables!" and he laughed mischievously.
Motu hopped over to the back steps and gestured with a paw. Sam and Kate leaned over and peered into the dark space under the steps. There were clumps of dirt and rocks, and the curling stems of the groundcover creeping in from the garden bed.
"I don't see any hole," said Sam.
"But why would they try to dig under the house?" asked Kate.
"We don't know anyone who can sneak down a chipmunk hole!" Kate protested.
to you as soon as we have news." Then she swung her rabbitskin off her back, and held it out in front of her. With a little skip, she jumped up and somersaulted straight into her own fur. The rabbit turned, wiggled her long ears, winked at Sam and Kate, and then hopped after her brother into the dense bushes at the back of the yard.
Sam looked at Kate and Kate looked at Sam.
Tuzi and Motu from Kate and Sam and the Chipmunks of Doom, the second book in a read-aloud fantasy series for ages 4-9 and their adults (excerpt from Chapter 1: Trouble with Chipmunks).
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In that long, deep valley between the Mountains of the Sky and the Mountains Mioruilt Ãdun fought strange, dreadful beasts and won his way past the haunts of terrible monsters, and ever he followed the course of the River Oosial, until it brought him north into the sharp heights of the Mountains Mioruilt and led him at last to the cave of Skoven, the White Dragon who could speak only truth.
The white steam curling from the stone cave's brim.
In the dark cave's doorway as he raised his head.
Blue as a stormy sea, into Ãdun's view.
As Skoven flicked his forked and pointed tongue.
Slit like a cat's, stared into Ãdun's own.
Boiling the icy Oosial into steam.
Skoven asked King Ãdun, "How has this journey atoned for the death of thine innocent brother?"
And the king was stung in his pride and replied haughtily, "I have faced death many times since then. That is atonement enough for a warrior and a sorcerer and a king!"
And there amidst the peaks of the Mountains Mioruilt, scalded by steam from the spring that would become the Oosial, King Ãdun allowed his pride to make him foolish. Once he had believed lies spoken by one who wished him ill, and it had brought him only grief. Now he refused to believe the truth spoken by one who wished him well, and again he drew his furious sword in pride.
Long was the turbulent battle between those two, the mighty Ãdun and the dragon Skoven. The blue dragon-fire flared from Skoven's throat, and Ãdun's sorcery drew down blazing copper lightning, so that even in Eotheort could people see the jagged and forking flames kindling the sky above the peaks. The clapping of the dragon's unfurled wings cracked the air like thunder, the ringing rattle of his argent scales writhing on the mountaintop shivered the valleys' pines. Iron clattered against dragon mail, talons rang against iron. The Oosial seethed into billowing steam, the stream-bed was scorched dry, until it ran again with gore, brave Ãdun's flowing mixed with the dragon's sizzling blood. And finally King Ãdun's violent pride guided his fell sword to Skoven's heart and drove the notched point deep.
White Skoven who could speak only truth now roared his death cry, the brazen echoes rolling ringing down the frozen mountainside, and King Ãdun, having slain the noble dragon, in the very moment of his fierce triumph realized the crime he had committed. Crying, "Atonement!" he threw himself beneath the falling dragon, letting himself be crushed in Skoven's death. And where two heroes had met at the birth of the Oosial, now lay one heap of bones, the slender rising spiral of steam still marking the place to those on the plain below.
Skoven from Song Against Shadow, first book in a high fantasy series for middle school-or-so through adult (excerpt from Chapter VII: Angduv). More information here, or "Look inside" at Amazon.
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Jack and Rosie could never agree on ground beef, but were otherwise extremely happy.
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"What about us?" It was another boy. "We're just us. We have no one else to take care for, and we take care for each other so we travel so well as anyone. Right?" He turned to the girl beside him and she nodded.
"He can see for me, and I can reach out for him," she said, and Svarnil realized that the girl's large eyes, though turned toward the people who were talking, were focused on nothing. She must be the blind child Jiriya had mentioned, and her brother was the one with the stricken arm.
Oru was considering the two children carefully. "How old are you?" he asked.
"I am Quail," said the boy.
"A dog is named Tij, too?" asked Nulif curiously, for he had been making friends with the two sight hounds while the others talked. He was rubbing their silky ears while their tongues lolled and their feathered tails swished happily.
Quail laughed. "No, our vikuri is name Wind." He pointed at the dog whose pale creamy fur darkened to charcoal brown along her head and back. "But she still have to be called Abri because she cannot listen in Common Speech." At the sound of her name, Abri looked attentively to the boy. He reached over and rubbed her chin with his good hand.
"But," Oru began, but Quail had already jumped in to support his sister.
from Chapter II: The Postponement of Two Weddings). More information here, or "Look inside" at Amazon.
The girl paused at the corner and looked back. She was two or three inches taller than Chen with straight brown hair to her chin like a Flapper from the Roaring Twenties. Her knobby knees showed beneath the short skirt of a dress that looked like it was really an oversized man's Hawaiian shirt belted at the waist with a bright blue hip pouch. Her sneakers appeared to have been hand-painted with multicolored polka dots and were made even more outrageous by the bright, mismatched socks that showed above them. Dressed like that, and appearing so suddenly out of nowhere, Chen thought she might as well have appeared from another planet.
"Well, I didn't come through the front door," she replied, as though this were a wholly rational and satisfactory explanation. And then she whistled, two high notes followed by three short notes going up the scale. It resonated loudly in the atrium.
upper middle grade fantasy (excerpt from Chapter 4: The Cat in the Museum). More information here, or "Look inside" at Amazon.
In a moment the dark dragon slowed, paused in the air, and settled on the paved plaza gracefully, yet with an impact that Svarnil felt through the soles of her feet. It had happened, really, in an instant. Nulif was still pulling Svarnil's arm, urging her to safety. The iridescent scales, black and green, glittered as the dragon moved, folding its vast wings with a clatter. The heat of its body pulsed out across the flagstones of the plaza. As the dragon's green-mailed head turned toward them, and the perilous eyes were almost on them, Nulif wrenched one last time and the two stumbled back into the temple, hearts pounding.
From the plaza there came no sounds of devastation. Did she dare peek out and see what was happening? Sakar Sikwan and Nulif both stood near the door, as Svarnil did, listening intently. Fethilis on Svarnil's shoulder was listening, too, and the feeling that came from her was not fear but expectancy. Svarnil took a step forward and pushed open the door a crack.
"What are you doing?" cried Nulif, clutching her arm again as Svarnil looked out. The dragon stood still in the plaza, its huge head slightly cocked, and Svarnil had a sudden thought that it looked like Sikwan, poised in just the same posture of intent listening. Even as the thought crossed her mind, the dragon moved, sunlight flashing off the shifting scales, and it swung around to face her.
"Thou art a dragonlord," said the creature suddenly, its voice deep as the bedrock so that Svarnil could feel its vibration in her own chest. The lylit bouncing on her shoulder seemed to vibrate to the same frequency as the dragon's voice.
White steam puffed upward as the dragon's voice resonated in Svarnil's bones. "Thou art one who seeks truth," it said. Svarnil nodded slightly, and waited for the huge creature to continue. "K'Ten has many liars. The Seapeople come to me with many tales of falsehood and treachery. They all ask for truth, but some do not want it. Some desire validation, rather than truth, so that they may be justified in their lies." Fethilis lifted from the elf's shoulder and flew to the dragon, fluttering joyfully around his head.
The Oracle from Vision Revealed, fourth book in a high fantasy series for middle school-or-so through adult (excerpt from Chapter 12: Svarnil meets the Oracle). More information here, or "Look inside" at Amazon.
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Although he spoke the common speech, his accent was completely unfamiliar to Svarnil, with a sort of rolling sing-song quite unlike the clipped speech of the Sisoans. Svarnil slid wearily from her saddle, staggering slightly as her feet hit the ground. She stretched gratefully and followed Nulif's gesture toward the fire circle. While Nulif brought a bowl of water and invited his guests to wash themselves, the other two Minarians hurried to carry some split logs to the fireside until there were seats for everyone.
Oru introduced his two aides briefly, then smiled at Svarnil. "I'll let you introduce yourself," he said to her.
"For myself, not much," answered Oru, and Svarnil and one of the aides also shook their heads.
series for middle school-or-so through adult (excerpt from Chapter 2: Svarnil learns of the Chebik-lan). More information here, or "Look inside" at Amazon.


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Heaven Bent
Heaven Bent : Australian lesbian,gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex experiences of faith, religion and spirituality.
Edited by Luke Gahan and Tiffany Jones, with a foreword by Senator Louise Pratt,
Published September 2013, Clouds of Magellan, Melbourne.
paperback RRP: $29.95 | ISBN: 978-0-9874037-4-2 | 334 pp.
Listed below are the five contributors who have a Jewish connection.
Born in Jerusalem, David and his family moved to Australia when he was 3 months old. He grew up in a Jewish Orthodox community in Sydney and currently lives in close to his family in the prominent Jewish neighbourhood of Bondi Junction. When his community discovered his same-sex attraction, Rosenberg was sent to New Jersey USA to attend a Jewish ex-gay program known as 'JONAH' – Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality. Today, David and his husband Elcid are both active members of the Sydney Gay Jewish group 'Dayenu' and attend a Masorti congregation that welcomes all people no matter what their background or status. Rosenberg has a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design from the University of New South Wales and is currently undertaking a postgraduate degree in law. In January 2013 David and his partner officially became husbands, in a Jewish ceremony conducted by their Rabbi.
Ellen Kessler
Ellen migrated to Australia from the United States in 1989 on 'Strong Humanitarian Grounds' on the basis of her same sex relationship. Ellen has spent her life writing, and when her spiritual beliefs became more self-evident in 2007 she began connecting the two. Although she does not invest much conviction in the dogma of Judaism, it is undeniable that her Jewish faith, and in turn the mysticism of the Kabbalah, has helped her to develop personally and spiritually. Ellen now lives in Brunswick Victoria and works as a community development officer in the western suburbs.
Sally Goldner
Sally Goldner has been an active participant in Melbourne's queer community for the last fifteen years. This includes ongoing involvement with TransGender Victoria, Radio 3CR's "Out of the Pan," Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, and Bisexual Alliance Victoria. Previous involvement includes PolyVic, Zoe Belle Gender Centre, BENT TV and Seahorse Club of Victoria. She is the focus of an autobiographical documentary "Sally's Story" and was noted in The Age's Top 100 most creative and influential people in Melbourne in 2011. She is also a spoken word performer and stand-up comedian. Brought into the world via two Jewish parents, Sally describes herself as 'technically Jewish.' An incredibly diverse range of religious and spiritual experiences has enriched her life. As a teenager, Sally attended the all-boys Brighton Anglican Grammar School in Melbourne and while at university Sally joined the Australian Union of Jewish Students on a tour of Israel and became deeply fascinated by the Bahá'í Faith. Sally has given an address at the Metropolitan Community Church in Melbourne and has a connection to Wiccan and Pagan Spirituality.
Kevin Ekendahl
Kevin Ekendahl is the Liberal Party candidate for the federal seat of Melbourne Ports. Often known as the "Bagel Belt" of Melbourne, the electorate sees the conservative Jewish communities living next door to a growing LGBTI community. The clash between religion and the secular is central to the spiritual journey of Kevin – a Jewish man who was baptised Catholic at age seven. Kevin's maternal grandparents left the Franco religious dictatorship of Spain to seek freedom in Australia. His grandparents struggle for secular government and freedom of choice had an incredible impact on Kevin's spiritual and political journey. Ekendahl has an incredible sense of spirituality and while at high school he was a member of 'The Solidarity of Our Lady' – a group run by the more religious students. Kevin's family afforded him the choice to choose his own path in life – a value that he desires to share with the people of Melbourne Ports.
David L Shmerler
Dr David L Shmerler PhD is the Director of Psychological Services and the outgoing Director of the pre-doctoral Internship Training program at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York. Dr Shmerler also maintains a private clinical practice in Manhattan where he specializes in work with the LGBT community. Additionally, Dr Shmerler has substantial experience working with HIV+ individuals, through both his past affiliation with clinical research programs and current provision of training to the Kings County psychology trainees. As part of the didactic seminar series on cross-cultural treatment issues, Dr Shmerler provides annual training on clinical work with LGBT individuals. Dr Shmerler is an out gay, Jewish man and is engaged to be married to Dr Eric Rodriguez, his co-author and long-term partner of over twelve years.
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Greetings from Kwae. We are pleased to present Volume 22 of the GOPDC News (Gnews).
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Q: Contacts Info style table view I want to reproduce something similar to the image below. How is that created? I can see an UITableView and some buttons at the buttons at the bottom, but I can't identify the other UI elements... Also, I tried to add a button to a table view but didn't manage to do so (the table view takes the full space...)
One little detail: I use storyboards, which has its limitations (or so I heard), but I don't have the time to redo the whole project without storyboards.

A: Basically, the top and the bottom are two custom cells.

A: It's just a table with several different kinda of cells. The first section has a single row and uses a cell that could have an image view and a few labels, or it might do all the drawing itself. The next few sections use standard table cells, and the last uses a cell that contains some buttons.
Whether or not you use storyboards shouldn't make a difference here.

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Was this just another one of those indulgent stories about a supposed masterpiece being found in an attic or was it something to be trusted and pursued, the ultimate pay off not just being monetary ( would I really ever sell it even if it was real?) but the reaffirmation that extraordinary things could somehow, sometimes, happen in the universe.
If some student did it to mimic Pollock- whether as a fun prank or as intentional fraud – in a way that I still love it regardless of its creator, does that merit whatever price I am willing to pay and what am I willing to pay? Is the memorable story of my "discovering" it this morning: the enjoyment of the auctioneer's tale while he tapped on a Newport light in the dusty preview room where it hung; my excited ensuing call to my husband (skeptical but willing) best friend (very skeptical) son (wanted it even if it's not a Pollock) and the delightful hope I suspended myself in like a hammock for a glorious two hours until an art expert tells me it's definitely NOT a Pollock, merit its place on my wall as much as if somebody told me it was a real Pollock? My pondering strangely never dips into the cynical, rather it seems to coat the canvas like another layer of paint. As much as I wanted it either way now, I also know somehow it was already out of my hands.


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Posted inEconomy
Global Supply Chain Crisis Could Worsen in 2022: Survey
The attempts of global buyers to reduce their dependency on China continue
by USNN2020 July 18, 2022 November 13, 2022
By Andrew Moran
The global supply chain crisis continues to wreak havoc on the international marketplace, affecting everything from food products to computers and washing machines.
This year, the international supply chain has faced a plethora of challenges, including China's renewed COVID-19 lockdowns, the military conflict in Eastern Europe, and skyrocketing energy prices. With disruption and uncertainty seeping into every facet of the worldwide supply chain, most companies expect current conditions to continue or even worsen by the end of 2022, a new report shows.
According to a study by QIMA, a global quality control and compliance service provider, nearly two-thirds of global businesses with international supply chains see these disruptions remain unchanged or get worse by the year's end.
This number rises to 81 percent for U.S. firms and 80 percent for European organizations.
Companies are experiencing a broad array of issues. The top three challenges, the survey found, are sustaining production and shipping schedules, forecasting demand and managing inventory, and securing enough manufacturing capacity.
Trucks make their way to the Port of Long Beach, Calif., on July 13, 2022. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)
China's COVID Zero strategy and subsequent lockdowns of key economic hubs have been the most impactful in 2022, the report revealed. In addition, businesses reported soaring raw materials, commodities, and labor costs and raw material shortages as having a large effect.
Separate QIMA data show that inspection and audit volumes tumbled 4.5 percent year-over-year in the first half of the year. Moreover, sourcing portfolios of brands continue to be at a three-year low.
"QIMA data on inspection and audit volumes, combined with the latest survey findings, shows that global buyers' efforts to decrease their reliance from China continue, especially in the wake of the 2022 Covid-19 related lockdowns in the country, ranked among this year's most impactful supply chain disruptions by the majority of the survey respondents," the report noted.
But there is a gap between large and small firms, QIMA purported.
"Notably, the reliance on Chinese suppliers remains strongest among small and medium-sized businesses, which, compared to large multinationals, have fewer spare resources to swiftly shift sourcing volumes between countries or regions," the study highlighted.
While supply chain experts have often discussed Vietnam and Thailand as integral markets for regional sourcing shifts, India benefited immensely during this transition. For example, in the first six months of 2022, inspections and audit demand posted a 41 percent gain in India.
Plus, India could witness even more business in the coming months as entities divert resources away from Sri Lanka amid the island nation's economic collapse.
Overall, the report concludes that brands and retailers will understand that it will be imperative to "restructure their supply chains for greater agility and resilience," mostly through diversification and better supplier partnerships.
A recent EY Industrial Supply Chain Survey revealed that companies are transforming their global supply chain operations, including "significant decoupling of existing supply chains."
The EY study found that 53 percent of firms have already nearshored or reshored some of their supply chains since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, nearly half (44 percent) say that they are planning new or extra nearshoring efforts within the next 24 months. Fifty-seven percent have also launched new operations in one or more additional markets in the last two years to expand geographic diversity and mitigate risk.
"Global supply chains are undergoing a seismic shift as companies depart from the strategies that prioritized ultra-low costs, just-in-time delivery and bare minimum inventories," EY stated.
China remains the leader in global supply chains, and, according to Kunal Sawhney, CEO of data science research firm Kalkine Group, it will be challenging for companies to move out of the world's second-largest economy.
Federico Crespo, CEO and founder of Valiot, a software company that supports manufacturing firms with technological solutions, does not necessarily believe there is a great shift away from China. Instead, Crespo told The Epoch Times that companies are transitioning their operations amid COVID-related concerns and geopolitical tensions.
Based on what has been shoring over the last 18 months, Crespo noted that Texas has been a big winner during this period. But he thinks Latin America, including Mexico, could benefit from these trends as well.
He thinks there are multiple reasons for the latest changes in global supply chain management. For the most part, they are relocating their operations and adopting a more regional approach. This, Crespo says, can be beneficial as it can help with broader reshoring efforts.
In addition to Mexico, Sawhney thinks multiple nations could benefit from companies gradually leaving China, such as Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The United States and Canada could also enjoy notable gains.
Is the Supply Chain Crisis Easing?
But while much of the commentary paints a bleak picture of the global supply chain, Michael Field, a senior equity analyst for Morningstar, says the broader situation is improving.
Field writes that ocean freight reliability is getting better due to reduced delays, while air and sea freight capacity is increasing this year. Freight rates are also coming down, which could slightly trim international inflation rates. The underlying causes of the supply chain fiasco, from lockdowns to public health mandates, are dissipating.
This does not mean all of the supply chain problems will be resolved, Field explained.
"We are still exposed to exogenous shocks in the near term, with recent examples of the Russia-Ukraine war and the lockdown in Shanghai adding further strain to the system," he wrote.
At the same time, Sawhney told The Epoch Times that there are multiple challenges currently facing the industry, including shortages, shipping costs, sluggish traffic, and even weaker demand.
But while nobody could have envisioned an international public health crisis, Sawhney contends that a majority of the global supply chain problems are "unprecedented."
"For instance, the pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war are events that do not fall into the usual predictable economic situations. The macroeconomic factors can be considered to prevent it in the future," he said. "However, the unforeseen ones have to be dealt with measures that are suitable at the moment. The pandemic led to a shortage of drivers in the U.S. and other developed nations causing a major disruption to the supply chain."
"So, there must be a global collaboration in taking up the measures to prevent it in the future. A contingency plan, identification of backup suppliers, and diversification of supply chain bases are some of the measures that may help to prevent it in the future," he added.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) lowered its forecast for the growth of global merchandise trade volume in 2022. In light of the conflict in the Ukraine and the lockdowns in China, the group projects a growth of 3 percent, which is lower than its prior projection of 4.7 percent.
Tagged: China, Communist Party of China, COVID-19, Economic Depression, Economic Recession, Economy, Inflation, Markets (economy), Political Corruption, Russia, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management, Trade, Ukraine


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Q: Why are they called delayed integrators I'm quite confused as to why we call a system with transfer function $$\frac{1}{s+\alpha}$$
a delayed integrator.
It does not seem to be an integrator in the first place since it convolves with an exponential unless alpha is 0.


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