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Britain is a country which says "Farewell" to Cinematographer, Walter Lassally, who held a mirror to its face and briefly captured it on film in the 1950s and 60s
Walter who has died at the age of 90 was born in Berlin in 1926, where he recalled :
"My father was German and my mother was Polish and we lived in a flat in Berlin where my father also had an animation desk because he was in the film industry. He was trained as an engineer and he used film as an adjunct to his engineering work for studying mechanical processes and he had his own company making these films which were anything from 20 seconds to 2 hours long. It started in the silent days around about 1924/25 and went on into the sound period."
"Around 6 or 7 or 8, I was allowed to help by cranking the handle. So that was fun and that was my first contact with the cinema, but I don't think it was that which led me to my career choices, it was rather, seeing films in the cinema and I got quite fond of going to the cinema fairly early on and I remember I had a little badge made up from a trade journal of the company UFA, 'Universal Film Aktiengesellschaft', which was the MGM of Berlin. I had a little badge made up and wore it in the playground when I went to school."
https://www.webofstories.com/play/walter.lassally/1
When Walter was seven in 1933 and with the coming to power of Hitler and the Nazis, his father, because he was classified as 'non-Aryan,' was debarred from his profession and his making of industrial and training films came to an end, the authorities having ascertained that there were Jewish Grandparents in the family and beyond. He later reflected : "We didn't think of ourselves as Jews. We went to a Protestant church for Easter and Christmas and we thought of ourselves as Christians but for Hitler 'Jewishness' wasn't a religion, it was a race." In fact, having seen local Jewish shops attacked on Kristallnacht when he was 8 years old in 1934, he felt most aggrieved, that his family were being stigmatised as Jews for no good reason.
Just before the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, his parents decided to leave Germany for Britain. Young Walter was thirteen and later recalled : "We got on a train in Berlin to Ostend to catch the boat for Dover It was a train which, in theory, connected to a train to England, but in Aachen they pulled us off the train and made us wait in the waiting room while they went -through the papers - just a deliberate thing to make you miss the ferry. So we spent the night on the floor of the waiting room in Aachen, then we were put on some other train. But, with hindsight, the good thing was that, at least, we all got out alive, because I'm an only child. My father's two sisters weren't so lucky and they were definitely killed in one of the concentration camps."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-WWvVW9oXQ
"There was moment when I cried. "Oh no. I don't want to go to a country where I don't speak the language. What an I going to do about English?" And all that they said : "It's going to be alright. And of course it was alright and because I'd learnt English, by rote, in the second term of the first year in an English school, I came second in English because all the others thought : "We don't have to study that. We know it anyway."
After arrival in Britain, the family found themselves very much on their own. As Walter later said : they were "Jewish enough to be thrown out of Germany by Hitler, but we weren't quite Jewish enough to be accepted by Jewish relief organisations in England." He said : "My first memories of London are, opposite Victoria Station there's a little cinema which was showing 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,' which was banned in Germany, because Disney was a Jew. So we all went to the cinema even before we went into our hotel."
Having settled in Richmond upon Thames, South-West London, by the age of 15, he knew he wanted to be a film cameraman. For Walter, as a teenager, 'going to the pictures' was his way of consciously preparing for his career in films : "I had many happy memories of going to Odeon or Premier Cinemas in Richmond. There were three cinemas in Richmond at that time and I went two or three times a week and while the War was still on they used to flash a thing up on the screen which said 'AIR RAID WARNING.' " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3zgiua8uDQ&t=1m0s
On leaving school at the age of 18, in 1944, he wrote to every film studio asking for a job as a 'clapper boy.' Meanwhile, he found work at a stills studio and then as a general dogsbody with a company making 16mm documentaries and medical films. In 1946, through the intervention of his father, now, once again, working in the film industry, he was taken on as a clapper boy at Riverside Studios, working on a film called 'Dancing with Crime' in 1947, with Richard Attenborough in his first starring part.
His employment at Riverside was short-lived : "The job only lasted ten months because the studio shut down. It was one of the perennial crisis of the industry." Back in work at a bigger Studio, he got his first big break at the age of 24 : "I was given the chance to photograph my first documentary at the very end of 1950. That was a fire prevention film called 'Every Five Minutes.' "
It was in this period, from his mid twenties to his mid thirties that Walter honed his skills as the cinematographer in the Free Cinema documentaries of the 1950s in such films as the documentary shorts : 'Sunday by the Sea' in 1951 directed by Anthony Simmons and 'Power Signal Lineman' in 1953 and 'The Pleasure Garden' also 1953 directed by James Broughton and starring Lindsay Anderson.
Lindsay Anderson and Lorenza Mazzetti now founded the 'Free Cinema Movement' with its manifesto at a Charing Cross cafe called 'The Soup Kitchen.' It was based on the premise that as filmmakers they could make a virtue of their limitations and as Lindsay put it : "with a 16mm camera, and minimal resources, and no payment for your technicians, you cannot achieve very much - in commercial terms. You cannot make a feature film and your possibilities of experiment are severely limited. But you can use your eyes and your ears. You can give indications. You can make poetry."
Walter started to work for Lindsay as the young director who was only three years older than him, on the documentary 'Thursday's Children' in 1954 about the Royal School for the Deaf in Margate which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short' and and also the 1955 'Foot and Mouth' short.
In 1956 he worked on 'Momma Don't Allow', directed by Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz, also aged 30 and like him, a Jewish refugee who had come to Britain, in his case, on a 'Winton Transport' from Czechoslovakia in 1938 and filmed at Wood Green Jazz Club in North London.
The following year he worked with Tony on the another documentary short : 'The Wakefield Express.' It was at a time when Walter was consciously learning his trade and later reflected : "In the old days I shot quite a few films on this camera alone like 'Rufuge England', 'Momma does Love', all the 16mm films in the old days were certainly shot in Bolex which limits you to 23 seconds but that's quite good discipline."
In 1957 he worked on 'Every Day Except Christmas' directed by Lindsay and based on the traders at Covent Garden Market and the following year with Karel over six weeks in the summer he worked him on his documentary :
'We Are the Lambeth Boys'. Both films took a sympathetic approach to an aspect of working-class life largely neglected by commercial British cinema. 'Lambeth Boys' attempted to deliver a positive portrait of the lives of ordinary teenagers, far from the usual violent 'Teddy Boy' stereotype and it also developed the theme initiated by Karel and in 'Momma Don't Allow' three years earlier. In his article on the film in 'Sight and Sound', sociologist Richard Hoggart talked of it as a 'film essay' rather than a documentary, because, as he claimed :
'it sets out to show, not the whole truth, but some aspects of the truth, wholly' and from that perspective, the film succeeded in embodying 'the strength and variety of these young people's vitality, their lively, tolerant and complex sense of community.'
'Lambeth Boys' won the 'Grand Prix' at the Tours Short Film Festival in France and represented Britain at the Venice film Festival, by that time, 1960, Karel had moved on to direct his first feature, 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.' It was in the following year that Walter started the first of his collaborations with Tony, as his Director of Photography. He didn't know it at the time, but he would look back on "the very brief period when I worked for Tony Richardson for Woodfall, I remember with affection. It was very productive, but it only lasted eighteen months. That produced three films, 'A Taste Of Honey', 'Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner' and 'Tom Jones'."
As a signed up member of the Free Cinema Movement and in the case of the first two films, Walter was "very conscious of the fact that in Daddy's Cinema, the British Cinema of the 1950s, working class characters didn't appear except as minor characters. There were very few working scenes and working class characters tended to be caricatures, like Bryan Forbes' many appearances as cabin boy and below deck characters in naval movies. So "yes," we were very much concerned with putting the reality of Britain on the screen and a considerable degree of cross-fertilisation between documentaries and features."
He recalled : "It was my idea, which came directly out of my experience on documentaries immediately prior to that on the Free Cinema documentaries, to shoot the film in three different film stocks, the idea was that one could give a location a certain look, not only by the lighting and the art direction and the dressing of the location, but also, by the choice of the film stock. So the early locations in the early part of 'A Taste of Honey' which were meant to look particularly gritty and the outdoor locations were in a more 'normal' and then there was an 'intermediate' film stock, which we used for the later locations and that was the revolutionary thing to do. Everybody advised me not to do it because in those days to use anything, but the Plus X was considered not the thing to do on a feature - might be OK on a documentary, or on a newsreel, but to use a grainy film stock for its grain that was a completely new concept."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwrxHAfmHF4&t=6m38s
Working on 'A Taste of Honey' he recalled : "That's probably the only time I've lit a scene using sand, because to get the silhouette of Rita leaning against the railway arch, to emphasise the fact that she's pregnant, only the top part of her body was against the land. The land was black with coal dust, so I had a lot of whiter sand put down so as to get the complete silhouette of her against a lighter background."
He also recalled : "In the flat where Dora Bryan lived with Rita Tushingham, which was supposed to be a bit of a slum, we had rather dreary wallpaper and we used this very grainy stock. We had in the bedroom one light reflecting off the ceiling in one place and another little light, a flat-fronted photoflood was used in reflected light mode. All the scenes in that flat, both the day scenes and the night scenes, are shot at a very low light level indeed."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh6-Y5wxzGM&t=2m27s
For the next in the trio, 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' in 1962, he recalled : "Each of Tom Courtnay's runs has a special character, there are three or four of them, if you count the final race and one of them takes place at dawn and it was actually filmed at dawn and and there's a scene on Blackheath,somewhere around there, where the sun is just rising and in the top right hand corner of the picture is the crescent moon or the setting moon and some critic wrote something like : 'What consultation of ephemerides there must have been to capture that precious moment,' which only goes to show that critics don't know a great deal about how movies are made."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFHL4xqh4Ho&t=0m55s
With the exuberant 'Tom Jones' the same year, based on Henry Fielding's picaresque novel and starring Albert Finney in the title role, Walter matched technically everything that Tony achieved artistically. "We didn't want to make Tom Jones look like a Hollywood epic" he recalled, "so we agreed to incorporate the style of A Taste of Honey." With staging, costumes and locations impeccably in period, Walter again applied state-of-the-art camera techniques, reprising the use of three hand-held cameras as well as filming overhead shots from a helicopter.
"The hunt itself was a combination of very low angle shots on a mini moke where you get the camera 2 foot or 2 foot six off the ground, which is very good. The scene where the horse bolts under Susannah York and he rescues her, that was filmed with one fixed camera on the back of this little truck and I was crouched in the front compartment in the passenger seat with another aeroflex with a long lens and it shakes an awful lot but that's fine because it goes with the scene and the moment he jumps on and they both fall on the ground it becomes steady again - Tripod - Blimp - Tripod - Dialogue. At that moment it changes. So the hunt itself is a mixture of that low little truck and helicopter work and sometimes it's so cleverly intercut you think you're running along the ground, then suddenly you're jumping over the bushes and rising into the air. That was a very effective technique and caused a lot of comment afterwards."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqKZ72cjZ9w&t=1m19s
"The other scene that's caused the most comment afterwards is the Eating Scene which was not in the script as such. In the script it was just that they became amorous towards each other and that's really all that was written. I don't remember any dialogue being written as indeed there isn't any dialogue in the scene and Albert and Joyce Redman developed that as they went along and it was very, very effective. It was very quickly done and it was entirely in the hands of the actors. Tony just set the scene, as he often did."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tezjznL9NzM
Although Walter went on to make over 40 films for a number of directors between 1964 and 2001, the most important being 'Zorba the Greek' in 1964, for which he won the 'Academy Award for Best Cinematography' in 1965, he would never again do something in Britain which said something significant about Britain at that point in time and in a manner of filming which, in itself, was a reflection of the ideas behind the 1950s Free Cinema Movement to which he belonged.
He once said :
"The important thing about 'A Taste of Honey' is that it is a poetic evocation of atmosphere. It isn't just a social document and therein lies its value : in the combination of the themes and the treatment."
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Britain is a country with a Health Authority called Medway where old men no longer lanquish longer than necessary in hospital
With winter looming and health and care teams in Britain faced with the usual prospect of old men and women being left stranded on hospital wards because of the lack of provision when they are discharged, there is one area where their prospect is much brighter : the Medway Towns in North Kent. Here, the Medway Foundation NHS Trust has shown what can be achieved with the right mindset.
Working in partnership with 'Medway Clinical Commissioning Group', 'Medway Council' and 'Medway Community Healthcare,' the Trust has developed the 'Home First Initiative.' It provides support for patients who still require additional home support but, at the same time are medically fit to be discharged from hospital.
Since its introduction, 2,000 patients have been discharged under the seven-days-a-week scheme, which has four patient pathways, ranging from those needing little or no support, through to those with complex needs who may need intermediate care and may not be able to go home safely immediately. With this level of support in place, Medway has found that permanent admissions to care homes for the men and women 65 have halved since the introduction of the scheme which was implemented in April last year just a few weeks before a visit by inspectors from the Care Quality Commission. It used existing teams but removed historical 'territories' and created a single point of access for all coordination of a patient's discharge. Under the new system patients have :
* transport arranged to their homes
* an assessment at home by an occupational therapist within two hours of leaving hospital
* a personal care plan for their therapy, goals, carer provision and any equipment they require
* if necessary, a care package which may involve 'telecare' and 'wraparound care', with people ringing to make sure medication is taken
Project lead Lisa Sladden of Medway Community Healthcare said :
"We know that most people would rather recover at home than in hospital and getting back to our lives and our routines is an essential part of that recovery. It helps us to regain independence, and allows us to receive care in a comfortable and familiar environment. 'Home First' aims to help patients do just that by working with community partners across Medway."
This is not the end of the story. Last year, before the Scheme was implemented, the number of days that patients, composing largely of elderly men and women, languished in hospital longer than was necessary was running at 774 days per month. That figure, after the implementation of the Scheme, has dropped to 475 days per month. Naturally, in an ideal world the figure would be zero, but Medway's 'Home First Initiative' has put its hospital patients way out in front in terms of speedy and supportive discharge from hospital in comparison with other parts of the country, where their counterparts continue to languish far too long in hospital beds.
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Is Britain no longer a country for an old Theatre Director called Max Stafford-Clark, ousted by inappropriate behaviour ?
Max Stafford-Clark, 76, has been a leading figure in theatre since the mid-1970s. He was the artistic director of the Royal Court from 1979 until 1993, when he set up the theatre company 'Out of Joint', where, abruptly, this summer and despite his advanced years, he stepped down to 'focus on his international freelance career.' Feted at the time as one the most successful theatre directors of his generation, it has now been revealed that, in reality, he was forced out after being accused of inappropriate, sexualised behaviour.
Twenty-nine year old Gina Abolins, told the Company Board in July, that he said to her : "Back in the day, I'd have been up you like a rat up a drainpipe but now I'm a reformed character. My disability means I'm practically a virgin again." The "disability" he referred to was to damage sustained from three strokes in 2006, which left him using a walking stick and wheelchair and impaired his eyesight.
A statement by a spokesperson for Max said that he "wholeheartedly" apologised for "any inappropriate behaviour that made some former colleagues feel uncomfortable," adding that it was never his intention to 'bully' or 'harass.' Apparently, he had suffered from 'pseudobulbar palsy' and "occasional disinhibition" since his stroke and his "occasional loss of the ability to inhibit urges results in him displaying disinhibited and compulsive behaviour and his usual, at times provocative, behaviour being magnified, often causing inappropriate social behaviour. Whilst this is an explanation it isn't an attempt to dismiss his behaviour and he apologises for any offence caused."
Gina, on the other hand, said her complaint referred to a number of incidents. She said that Max had previously asked her to try on a bikini she had bought and told her she should have casual sex and tell him about it. Having joined the Company in 2016 as its Education Officer, she said that she was left embarrassed and shocked after his "rat up a drainpipe" comment which subsequently prompted her complaint. "I didn't know what to say and I felt really victimised actually. That was him exerting his power over me in a crude manner. I felt really bullied and objectified. To me, it felt that he was saying, "I'm going to tell you exactly what I would have done to you and there is nothing you can do about it". "
Now, almost inevitably, other women have stepped forward to be heard. Twenty-five year old Steffi Holtz, who worked as his personal assistant in 2016, said he asked her about losing her virginity several times and told the 'Guardian' the Director had a reputation for always being "outrageous", which allowed him to get away with making inappropriate comments. Like Gina, Steffi said Max had made comments about her appearance and on one occasion, as she was leaving his office, said : "You've got a really nice arse," as he tapped her on her bottom. She also said : "The worst thing he said, I was sat at his desk and he said, "If you were sat on the desk there in front of me I would eat you out." Coming from a 75-year-old man, I was in absolute shock. You feel so uncomfortable...It makes me feel so uncomfortable to even say that."
Gina also said Max had asked her and another woman about loosing their virginity during auditions for 'Rita, Sue and Bob Too', in which two 15-year-old girls have a sexual affair with a married man. In addition, the playwright Rachel De-Lahay said she was asked this question in reference to the play on a separate occasion and had : "found herself over-talking and rambling through this story" and later said she was angry "not because he asked me but because I had answered."
Steffi, like Gina, said she wanted to speak out to help other women with similar experiences feel that they could come forward : "One of the most important things to me in my life is being a feminist, working towards equality and allowing women the same voice as men and to not have repercussions when they use that voice." Gina said : "We are at an important time, where people are standing up and telling their stories. If more people can find the strength to speak out, hopefully we can make a real difference."
Max, is by no means an 'evil' man but his reputation will now, no doubt suffer, both while he is alive and after he has gone, as intimated by Antony when he considered the death of Caesar :
"The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones."
When considering the 'good' that Max has done, it is worth remembering that he was born in 1941 in Cambridge, the son of the distinguished psychiatrist David Stafford-Clark and obtained his formative attitudes towards women and society from his family, his schools at Felsted in Essex and Riverdale Country School in New York City in the 1940s and 50s and his undergraduate years at Trinity College, Dublin in the mid 1960s.
In danger of being interred within his bones is his :
* work as the young Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh from 1968–70
* work as Director of the Traverse Theatre Workshop Company from 1970 to 1974
* founding of the Joint Stock Theatre Company in 1974
* service as the longest-serving Royal Court Theatre Artistic Director from 1979 to '93
* award of the 1981 London Circle Theatre Awards (Drama Theatre Awards) for Best Director of 1980 for The Seagull.
* founding his national and international touring theatre company 'Out of Joint' in 1993
* his award the Special Award at the 2003 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
* commissioning and directing the first productions of leading contemporary playwrights : Sebastian Barry, Caryl Churchill, David Hare, Mark Ravenhill and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
In addition and also, in danger of being lost, are the memories of the pleasure he gave to his audiences in his productions of :
* 2000 : 'Rita, Sue and Bob Too / A State Affair'
* 2001 : 'Feelgood' and 'Sliding'
* 2002 : 'Hinterland', 'A Laughing Matter', 'She Stoops to Conquer'
* 2003 : 'The Breath of Life', 'Duck', 'The Permanent Way'
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2002/oct/16/theatre.artsfeatures3
* 2004 : 'Macbeth'
* 2005 : 'Talking to Terrorists'
* 2006 : 'O Go My Man'
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/jan/18/theatre
* 2006 : 'The Overwhelming'
* 2007 : 'King of Hearts'
* 2008 : 'The Convict's Opera'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkzPa7xPK9c&list=RDCkzPa7xPK9c&t=67
* 2009 : 'Dreams of Violence', 'Mixed Up North'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2VJ95mHUIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE6SfQYzJEk
* 2010 : 'Andersen's English', 'The Big Fellah'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipPddbAMwF4
* 2011 : 'A Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson', 'Bang Bang Bang','Top Girls'
* 2012 : 'Our Country's Good'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQL_dCoA7U4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDHhFiFRlk4
* 2014 : 'This May Hurt A Bit', 'Pitcairn'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umWUPwFnl_A
* 2015 : 'Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5us5dGnU-38&t=0m21s
"Brilliant. It wrenches the gut and makes the soul sing… Staggeringly moving"
"Riveting… A cracking, heartfelt evening"
Mail on Sunday
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Britain is a country which has lost and says "Farewell" to its scarce 'old' campaigner for the 'Rights of the Disabled', Bert Massie
Bert, who has died at the age of 68, once said :
"Life has been a battle. It's frustrating, but I don't do bitterness or hate. I have tried that and it's exhausting. It's shattering. I haven't got the energy for that level of emotion. I'd rather forgive someone."
His battle with life began shortly after he was born, Herbert William, the son of Lucy who worked in the Jacob's Biscuit Factory and Herbert Douglas Massie, a dock labourer, in the Spring of 1949, in the same Liverpool Walton Hospital, where Paul McCartney had been born seven years before. Three months later baby Bert contracted polio and he found growing up as a severely disabled kid in the 1950s and 60s working class Liverpool, that not much was expected of him : plenty of prejudice was in place and his horizons were strictly limited. As a teenager his sense of injustice was acute and by the age of 18 he had become a disability rights campaigner, a role he maintained for the rest of his life rising to the positions of Chairman of the Disability Rights Commission and a founding Commissioner of its successor, the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
He spent his first five years in Alder Hey Hospital, then the 'Children's School of Rest and Recovery' at Sandfield Park, where he, no doubt, became estranged from Mum and Dad, since they were only allowed the statutory visit to him every other sunday. At 11 was packed off to Sandfield Park Special School, which was residential and when asked what was the worst time in his life ? He answered : "Endless operations as a child and boarding school."
It was now that he joined what he called the 'escape committee' when, with his mates, he perfected their Colditz-style escapes from school. With them, he would freewheel down the drive into town to get sweets and and a taste of the outside world and when they were cold or tired, would allow themselves to be picked up by the local police who were sympathetic to their situation. They would then be either bought snacks, taken back to the police station for tea, or given the thrill of being driven around Liverpool in a police car and this, at a time when Z-cars was playing on tv.
His life wasn't universally bleak and as a youngster, Bert enjoyed annual visits to a summer holiday camp in the Wirral for Disabled Boys and he was aware his disability afforded certain advantages and recalled : "With polio there were no class barriers, middle class people got it, working class people got it; journalists got it, and footballers got it. I joined the British Polio Fellowship at 11 and had my first holiday through them at 11 when my brothers and sisters hadn't even heard of holidays. I mixed with the middle classes and at last had an aspiration for education; for the first time I was encouraged to ask 'why don't you ?"
With no expectations that disabled youngsters would study for 'O', let alone 'A' levels, Bert left school without any formal qualifications. He described it starkly as : "In the 1950s there was a pretty low expectation of what you could achieve in this condition and you were doing well if you were still alive at 16." His interpretation as to why he didn't succeed at school, however, was interesting : "In those days education was fairly basic. You weren't pushed. I used to think I left school with no qualifications because of that and that I was disabled, but then I looked at the education of my brothers and sisters and realised it was just because we were working class."
When he was 16, in 1965, he got his first trike which would ferry him around after he had shown up at an artificial limb appliance centre at a hospital in Liverpool, where the assessor met him with an 'invalid carriage.' He recalled : "The guy who assessed me was an engineer and he said : "Sit in this, I'm going to push you and I want you to push the brake down to see if you can stop." So we did that, I stopped it and he said, "Right, you're quite capable of driving. And that's how I passed my test." He added : "I had a few go on fire on me, so you'd stop and other motorists would drag you out as the thing went up in flames."
At this time the trike was a formative influence in his life. Bert already had "a strong sense of justice and injustice. My drive came from both a personal need and an appreciation of what was wrong. I started off fighting for access to cars when I was a young man because I had been given a Niblet three-wheeler and it one had one seat. Put aside the fact that it kept breaking down, I couldn't take my girlfriend out in it! There was a sign on the dash which said you couldn't take passengers. Liverpool police ignored it but the minute you got into Lancashire, they were waiting for you. I wanted to try and get a small car and so joined the Disabled Driver's Association when I was 19, then the National Committee, campaigning that 'the car was an extension of you.' I cut my campaigning teeth on motability issues. But it was always, as much as it was about physical access, about attitudinal barriers we face."
After first starting work in an office as a book-keeper, he moved on to the 'Liverpool Association for the Disabled' where the Director, having been paid a visit by nuns had said : "You're a'teaching order', you can teach Bert," which they duly did, with Bert receiving private tuition for 'O' levels at the local convent with the nuns and a medieval history course, with him handling and interpreting original documents. As a disabled teenager, in the late 1960s, it was a common occurrence that he'd "go to a restaurant and people would say : "We don't serve wheelchairs" to which he'd reply : "Well that's okay, I don't eat wheelchairs."
The convent was located on the same site as a Teacher Training College and drinking with the student teachers in the bar, Bert observed : 'They may have A levels but they don't seem that clever.' Having resolved to go for 'A' levels himself, he found that there was nowhere physically accessible for him, so he gave up his job and went off to a specialist college for disabled people near Mansfield and then returned to Liverpool to take a degree at Liverpool Polytechnic, followed by a postgraduate 'social work' course at Manchester. He later confessed : "I would have been a lousy social worker" and "I was supposed to talk to people about their problems but once the problem was clear I would rather help put it right. I was accused by one of my lecturers of being task-centred."
Reflecting on the 1970s he said : "At that time there were no specific social security benefits for disabled people. After much campaigning they were introduced from the 1970s onwards. 'The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970', improved social care for disabled people and also introduced what the Blue Badge Scheme. It was the first major legislation specifically concerning disabled people since the 1940s. Although it introduced the concept of an accessible buildings in this part of the Act proved ineffective."
Having graduated, he received a phone call from the newly formed 'Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation 'in London (RADAR). It was 1977 and he was 28 years old and, as he recalled the CEO "asked me to come and work for them and it seemed a good idea to get some vocational experience." In his opinion it was the 1980s which "saw the blossoming of the disability movement and a greater determination by disabled to influence the environment in which we lived and to design the services we used." It was in 1980 that he began working on a new taxi made accessible to disabled people : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVTsTDsTSAg&t=0m57s
At the age of 41 he took over as the CEO of RADAR in 1990 and stayed for another ten years and recalled that the landmark : "Disability Discrimination Act 1995, came to fruition during my tenure, from a campaign we had started in 1981. We managed to get reductions in council tax for disabled people and we ran an information service which changed people's lives." With perfect understatement he said that the campaign for the new Act : "was a tough battle, but we were backed by John Major who was Prime Minister at the time."
In 2000 Bert became Chairman of the Disability Rights Commission, which was set up to promote 'The Human and Civil Rights of Disabled People' and, in the Autumn, having been invited to give a keynote address at a major conference in Scotland had tried to board a plane to Scotland, only to be told that would not be allowed to take his seat because he was in a wheelchair. In Bert, the captain had clearly chosen the wrong passenger and within hours the story : 'Chair of Disability Rights Commission refused access to airplane', was bouncing its way around the world.
In 2007, Bert was a Founding Commissioner, when the Disability Rights Commission merged with other civil rights commissions to form the 'Equality and Human Rights Commission.' The following year he was appointed Commissioner for 'The Compact', which had been set up to promote better relationships between the Government, local authorities and the voluntary sector and in that position he served until 2011 and in that year said :
"Many disabled people have been invited to look to the stars, only to find the ground opening beneath them. It is clear, that without action now, the challenges of the coming years will create new patterns of inequality and disadvantage that Britain can ill-afford."
It was in 2007 that Bert received and became, 'Sir Bert', in the New Year Honours for 'Recognition of his work for Disabled People' and said: "I am delighted and while it is the nature of the honours system that awards are given to individuals, in practise the knighthood is also in recognition of the wide range of people it has been my privilege to work with, at the Disability Rights Commission and more generally in helping to bring about rights and justice for disabled people. I look forward to continuing to work with them on this vital task in the years ahead."
When he was interviewed five years ago, Bert said : "The scale of how much there is still to do is all around us. Too many buildings remain inaccessible to people with mobility impairments. People who are deaf or blind still face communication difficulties and far too little information is available in suitable formats for people with learning disabilities. People with mental health issues receive inadequate support. The rate of unemployment amongst disabled people has increased since 2007."
He made the point that : "Although equality legislation and practise has a role, it is perhaps not a significant as the role of human rights. We should be pressing for all disability services to be based on Human Rights Principles. This would, of course, also apply to any public services that disabled people use such as health and social care."
Seven years ago, Bert described himself as :
"An ageing disability activist who fears that the equality successes of the past might be undermined in the future, thus placing disabled people at a further disadvantage."
When asked the question : "If you could give your younger self, advice, what would it be?" He replied :
"Choose battles carefully, plan strategies diligently and pursue them fearlessly and relentlessly. Never underestimate your opponents. Learn their strengths and how you can overcome them."
What better epitaph for an 'Ageing Disability Activist ?
A final word from Bert, speaking as a patron of 'Disability and Deaf Arts' at its launch in 2012 :
http://www.dadafest.co.uk/news/video/dadafest-2012-launch-speech-sir-bert-massie/
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As the new year looms my head is doing a mental clean out and prepping itself for what could be in store. One thing I have decided is that everything from my past will stay in the past and not come into 2013. By 'everything' I mean da boys.
Looking back this year has been a year that extracts the sound 'pifssshhhpossfffhhh' from my mouth, similar to the sound of exasperated air leaving my body. Life for me is never dull, I admit when the oober original question 'and are there any boys in your life?' is asked, I do always have some sort of humourous/dramatic/never-ending stooorrryyy to tell. However, I am B-O-R-E-D!! The boys of this year's past are what I refer to as 'time fillers'. I feel like it's the Universe dropping them into my life like a puppet-master dangling strings and teasing saying 'how bout this one? No? Ok fine cause it wasn't happening anyway'.
Started the year with Smokey Joe who although was a very nice boy, and had all the same future dreams and values as me, was also not without the cancer stick in hand and turns out, this is something I do not value.
Took myself off to the US of A for a getaway and had the token Vegas hookup with a nice English boy, again nothing really wrong with this one, mesmorized by the goddess gal that is Leesh, he immediately offered to come to Sydney for me, and took all forms of communication deets off me i.e facebook, email and US phone number. (Ok this one was my fault, growing up in the shelter of the Shire doesn't really equip you for knowing how to deal with an international admirer).
The odd innocent/inappropriate crush on my part with boys on trains, lift boys, office building boys and older men- generally amounting to a facebook status.
Yes, my milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard, and the above tends to read a little like scenes from many a rom com movies yet the movie has not ended and I am fairly unimpressed with this years events.
I do wonder after past woes, having become very self aware, stopped caring so much, and established my standards accepting nothing less, I am now making my own life until some One comes along and can even better my life and self- is that to romanticised?
The boys of The Shire are fun, visually delightful and have a lifestyle and personality that I am more so inclined towards, but is that ye old catch 22 of the south- how many fish can you throw back in the sea? The boys of 2012 have been amusing/time filling but in no way take me breath away-ish.


The Pearl necklace association was created to provide a permanent home and a happy life for older , sick or disabled cats.
The Pearl necklace is not a shelter and does not work with host families. All our cats live with us.
f you wish to sponsor one of our little protected, the amount of sponsorship is 10 euros / month. You can choose your friend . You will receive its story and its photo and the magazine "La Gazette de Perle" 4 times a year. These documents will be sent by post or by mail at your convenience.
If you want to join our association, membership is 30 euros per year.
One-eyed cat Microbe who is also disabled with a malformed hind leg.
Nori is deaf, one eye blind and he cannot walks well.
One cat with fractured jaw (Champollion).
Petit Prince,Daisy, Gargarita and Baby Patounette have paralyezd backlegs.


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Q: Dangling Else in Bison grammar The following grammar suffers from the dangling else problem, even though I've tried to solve it after reading http://marvin.cs.uidaho.edu/~heckendo/CS445/danglingElse.html I'm wondering if you can spot what I've done wrong ...
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%token PROGRAM CONST TYPE ARRAY LIST SET OF RECORD VAR FUNCTION PROCEDURE
%token INTEGER REAL BOOLEAN CHAR FORWARD LENGTH NEW T_BEGIN END IF THEN ELSE
%token WHILE DO CASE OTHERWISE FOR TO DOWNTO WITH READ WRITE
%token LISTFUNC SEMI
%token CCONST BCONST STRING RCONST ICONST ID
%token RBRACK RPAREN COMMA  ASSIGN DOTDOT COLON
%token LBRACK INOP RELOP EQU ADDOP OROP MULDIVANDOP NOTOP DOT LPAREN

%nonassoc LBRACK
%nonassoc INOP RELOP EQU
%left ADDOP OROP
%left MULDIVANDOP
%nonassoc NOTOP
%left DOT LPAREN

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program : header declarations subprograms comp_statement DOT
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header : PROGRAM ID SEMI
;

declarations : constdefs typedefs vardefs
;

constdefs : CONST constant_defs SEMI
|
;
constant_defs : constant_defs SEMI ID EQU expression
| ID EQU expression
;

expression : expression RELOP expression
| expression EQU expression
| expression INOP expression
| expression OROP expression
| expression ADDOP expression
| expression MULDIVANDOP expression
| ADDOP expression
| NOTOP expression
| variable
| ID LPAREN expressions RPAREN
| LENGTH LPAREN expression RPAREN
| NEW LPAREN expression RPAREN
| constant
| LPAREN expression RPAREN
| setlistexpression
;

variable : ID
| variable DOT ID
| variable LBRACK expressions RBRACK
| LISTFUNC LPAREN expression RPAREN
;

expressions : expressions COMMA expression
| expression
;

constant : ICONST
| RCONST
| BCONST
| CCONST
;

setlistexpression : LBRACK expressions RBRACK
| LBRACK RBRACK
;

typedefs : TYPE type_defs SEMI
|
;

type_defs : type_defs SEMI ID EQU type_def
| ID EQU type_def
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type_def : ARRAY LBRACK dims RBRACK OF typename
| LIST OF typename
| SET OF typename
| RECORD fields END
| limit DOTDOT limit
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dims : dims COMMA limits
| limits
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limits : limit DOTDOT limit
| ID
;

limit : sign ICONST
| CCONST
| BCONST
| ADDOP ID
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ID
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sign : ADDOP
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typename : standard_type
| ID
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standard_type : INTEGER
| REAL
| BOOLEAN
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fields : fields SEMI field
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field : identifiers COLON typename
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identifiers : identifiers COMMA ID
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vardefs : VAR variable_defs SEMI
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variable_defs : variable_defs SEMI identifiers COLON typename
| identifiers COLON typename
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subprograms : subprograms subprogram SEMI
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subprogram : sub_header  SEMI FORWARD
| sub_header SEMI declarations subprograms comp_statement
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sub_header : FUNCTION ID formal_parameters COLON standard_type
| FUNCTION ID formal_parameters COLON LIST
| PROCEDURE ID formal_parameters
| FUNCTION ID
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formal_parameters : LPAREN parameter_list RPAREN
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parameter_list : parameter_list SEMI pass identifiers COLON typename
| pass identifiers COLON typename
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pass : VAR
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comp_statement : T_BEGIN statements END
;

assignment : variable ASSIGN expression
| variable ASSIGN STRING
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case_statement : CASE expression OF cases case_tail END
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cases : cases SEMI single_case
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single_case : label_list COLON statement
|
;

label_list : label_list COMMA label
| label
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label : sign constant
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case_tail : SEMI OTHERWISE COLON statement
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while_statement : WHILE expression DO statement
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for_statement : FOR ID ASSIGN iter_space DO statement
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iter_space : expression TO expression
| expression DOWNTO expression
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with_statement : WITH variable DO statement
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subprogram_call : ID
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io_statement : READ LPAREN read_list RPAREN
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read_list : read_list COMMA read_item
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read_item : variable
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write_list : write_list COMMA write_item
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write_item : expression
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statements : statements SEMI statement
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statement : matched
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matched: assignment
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| case_statement
| while_statement
| for_statement
| with_statement
| subprogram_call
| io_statement
| comp_statement
|
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matched_if_statement: IF expression THEN matched ELSE matched
;

unmatched: IF expression THEN statement
| IF expression THEN matched ELSE unmatched
;

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I've put the if statement code at the bottom of the script.
Thank you for your time.

A: The problem is that there are a number of ways that a matched can expand to something that ends with a statement (and thus an unmatched).  In particular, While_statement, for_statement and with_statement all end with a statement with no kind of terminator.  So that statement might be an unmatched (if) and thus if it appears after a THEN, it triggers the ambiguity.  For example:
IF expression THEN WHILE expression DO IF expression THEN statement ELSE statement

is ambiguous as the ELSE can bind to either IF.  To fix it, you need to split
all of the statements that might end in a statement into matched and unmatched versions. So you'll end up with
statement : matched
| unmatched
;

matched: assignment
| matched_if_statement
| case_statement
| matched_while_statement
| matched_for_statement
| matched_with_statement
| subprogram_call
| io_statement
| comp_statement
|
;

unmatched: unmatched_if_statement
| unmatched_while_statement
| unmatched_for_statement
| unmatched_with_statement
;

matched_while_statement : WHILE expression DO matched
;

unmatched_while_statement : WHILE expression DO unmatched
;

etc
The unmatched rules all expand to some complex statement that ends with an unmatched if with no corresponding else, which cannot appear between a THEN and ELSE.

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… I figured it was about time for one.
The big news is that I've finally finished my MA in Military History and done well enough for a distinction, next step is to try and find the funding for a PHD as I'm wanting to expand my MA thesis.
I've also had a holiday to Normandy, was a nice road trip with my Dad. The extended family was down in the New Forest area for my Uncle's wedding so it was an easy trip across the Channel to visit Normandy. All in it was only a week long trip but I managed to make the most of it.
Friday- Down to New Forest but called in at Bletchley Park.
I'd not been before – I was really impressed with it, I don't think we saw all of it as it we only had a few hours but I'll certainly be back. The scale of the operation was staggering in terms of the number of radio messages being intercepted and decoded.
Sunday- drove to Portsmouth for the ferry over to Ouistreham and then on to the holiday cottage.
Monday- Sword beach, The No. 4 Commando and Le Grand Bunker museum.
Sword Beach looking west along the coast.
The Museum entrance with a couple of artillery pieces outside.
Tueday- Arromanches and the Mulberry Harbour, the DDay Museum there and the Longues Sur Mer battery.
The remains of one of the Mulberrys.
A casemate and gun at Longues- Sur- Mer.
Wednesday- Point Du Hoc and Omaha beach.
An open gun pit at Pointe Du Hoc.
Thursday- Peagasus Bridge, Gondree Cafe, Airbourne Museum and Merville Battery before getting the overnight ferry back to Portsmouth.
The new bridge and memorials.
The original bridge in the grounds of the museum.
Friday- Arrived in Portsmouth, saw the new RN aircraft carrier and lots of Type 45 destroyers as we docked then drove and hour west to see Bovington Tank Museum.
The biggest ever ship for the Royal Navy.
Just one of the halls at Bovington Tank Museum.
Some of the heavy making up the Tiger exhibit at Bovington.
As you can see it was a pretty packed holiday. It was the first time I'd visited any WW2 battlefield; it was something I took a lot from and will be something I'll be repeating next year (probably around my birthday time). The deeper appreciation of the events and sacrifices you get from touring places yourself cannot be overstated. Omaha beach was particularly poignant as it was so quiet being midweek and the end of the season. That said the sites that had an American connection were busier than those which did not. As a whole the museums were great (Bovington especially so as well as the new one at Pegasus Bridge) I took hundreds of photos so if people are particularly keen I'll do a blog entry on each site…?
Pennine Megagames is going from strength to strength at the moment. Next years calendar has been decided upon with just a few dates to confirm. Starting with Cockroaches, Copper and Cows (the Mexican Revolution) we then go to The Shot heard around the Universe (rebellious planets in space). June sees a trip to the Eastern Front with Fall Blau '42, an operational game being developed by myself and Matt. This will be followed by Megamunda– as the name suggests a SF game blending Necromunda and Judge Dredd. Everybody Dies III: Playing with Fire adds more dragons to the well known Game of Throne setting. Finally, double dealing and espionage in 60s/70s South America in Juntas sees out the year. I'm really enjoying getting my teeth stuck into all the operational accounts of 1942 to develop the game engine for the Fall Blau game.
In parallel to this I am working up a Post Norman Invasion of 1066 game that I'll submit for consideration next year. Set in 1069 it sees the Normans try to cement their control of the North against the last Saxon attempts to retake the crown. The combat system got an early run out at the recent Fiasco show in Leeds. It will be making an appearance next at Recon in Pudsey in early December if anyone wants to catch it.
I'm rather pleased with how my first attempt at making a map has come out.
I used the paper figures from the Helion book series. I'm really pleased with how well the turned out (I'll put them in another blog entry) I manged to get two decent sized armies done in a week.
I've backed this, it looks like it will be bringing in some interesting new rules, the French expansion is set around Verdun which got my interest straight away.
I'm awaiting the new Next War: Poland game to come out, I've played the Korea and Indo- Pakistan versions and enjoyed them so this is a must buy. They are not the easiest rules to play but they scratch my modern chit and hex itch.
Oddly for me I've been all misty- eyed and nostalgic for my youth now that Games Workshop have reworked Necromunda. I'm seriously considering picking it up, however cost and storage will be an issue.
On to figures I'm still plugging away with my 20mm WW2 and modern figures. I'm currently working up a linked series of scenarios to tie smaller 20mm skirmishes to a big 6mm battle. My Cold War 6mm collection is still a work in progress, some 2nd hand acquisitions have led to an Arab Israeli in 1973 side project. That and I keep eyeing up the new Baccus WW2 miniatures.
Naval and Air war is still going along. Though more movement will be made on those projects when I go to a show next and pick up some more bits from Tumbling Dice. Getting some 6mm figures to tie into my Russo- Japanese warships is another possibility I'm considering at the moment.
All in all plenty to keep me occupied- thanks for reading.
Just finished these pieces of terrain – all with a desert theme. I'd popped into the local model shop and bought a 4 pack of OO gauge shipping containers from their model railway ranges. I decided to do 3 for my middle east tables (the fourth is being built into an urban barricade).
The small adobe building is from Blotz. It was quickly textured with a mix of filler and textured spray paint.
The last building I'm rather fond of. It was an MDF kit from Sarissa- Precision. It has a more Middle East urban feel to it, I'm planning to pick up more from the same range.


Ye Ying Zheng and Fei Guo contributed equally and are co-first authors.
We read with great interest the study by Fornier and colleagues  in which they demonstrated that intravenous application of esmolol reversed microvascular dysfunction, but not hemodynamic instability, in patients with postoperative atrial fibrillation. We appreciate the contribution that this prospective pilot study makes to the field. At the same time, we caution that the results should be interpreted with care in light of some methodological issues.
The authors stated: "A rapid arterial occlusion of the upper limb was provoked by inflation of the pneumatic cuff at 50 mmHg above the systolic arterial pressure, until either the tissue oxygen saturation (StO2) value decreased to 40% or for a maximal period of 10 min". It was therefore possible that the minimum StO2 value in some patients was higher than 40% after 10 min in the vascular occlusion test, which may have led to faster tissue oxygen re-saturation speed . Such differences in re-saturation speed were not controlled for in the study and so may have influenced the results.
The authors further stated that "all patients were monitored with a five-lead electrocardiogram with computerized analysis of repolarization and invasive or non-invasive arterial blood pressure". This means that arterial blood pressure was determined using different methods among the patients, and this variation of arterial blood pressure determination may have contributed to the results. Compounding this method-related variability is the fact that atrial fibrillation patients show relatively large short-term blood pressure fluctuations because of variability in left ventricular stroke volume.
Four patients in the study were treated with norepinephrine, yet the dose was not reported. Norepinephrine affects StO2 , so dose information is needed in order to assess the risk that this treatment may have affected the results. Similarly, the study does not report whether patients received interventions against causes of elevated heart rate, such as infection, endocrine imbalance, anemia, or pulmonary embolism . These interventions can interfere with the effects of esmolol, so information on their use should be included.
Studies like those of Fornier and colleagues  should attend to these points in order to provide the most reliable insights into improving care for patients experiencing postoperative atrial fibrillation.
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Prince Harry is the son of Prince Charles of Wales and Princess Diana, the younger brother of presumptive future heir to the throne, Prince William. Ms. Markle is actually Rachel Meghan Markle, born in Los Angeles in 1981. A Northwestern University graduate, Markle was married from 2011 to 2013 to a movie producer. Aside from being an American (Eww!), and a divorcee, Markle is making history as the first woman of African descent (her father is Caucasian, her mother is African American) to marry into the British Royal Family.
A mural by the US-born London street artist Pegasus depicting Markle (wearing a US flag-patterned dress and a tiara) flanked by two Queen's Guards.
Once upon a time (an apropos phrase when speaking of royalty), royal marriages were carefully orchestrated between the royal families of various regions and countries in order to provide blood bonds between kingdoms. Thus, European royalty became quite inbred and inter-related. When King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom chose to marry American divorcee (twice divorced), Wallis Warfield Simpson in 1936, he was obliged to abdicate the crown to prevent "scandal." Edward was then created Duke of Windsor by his brother, George VI, prior to the marriage.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor with Adolf Hitler, 1937.
And yet, in 2005 Charles, Prince of Wales, married divorcee Camilla Parker Bowles, a commoner who would be known as "Queen Consort" if Charles attains the throne, and not as the "real" Queen. The marriage was approved by Queen Elizabeth II because the union would not result in any offspring that would be in line of succession to the throne.
Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla Parker Bowles on their wedding day.
Another famous union of a crowned head with a commoner was the fairytale like marriage of Prince Ranier III of Monaco to American actress Grace Kelly in 1956. This marriage captivated the world and provided grist for the mill of every young girl in the world that dreamed a handsome prince would find and marry her! What you may not be aware of, is that the family of Grace Kelly was required to pay a dowry of $2 million in order for the marriage to take place.
The Prince and Princess of Monaco arrive at the White House for a luncheon, 1961.
Her son, Albert II, is the current reigning monarch of Monaco, half American though he is.
Another American girl that married her way to the throne was Queen Noor of Jordan, born Lisa Halaby in 1951 in Washington, D.C.. She married King Hussein of Jordan in 1978, the fourth wife of Hussein, and mother of 4 of his children.
Queen Noor and King Hussein with Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany, and First Lady Marianne von Weizsäcker in Jordan in 1985.
Her title was "Queen Consort" and she is now known as the "Dowager Queen." Beautiful and highly popular, Lisa is the child of a Syrian American father and a mother of Swedish descent. The current King of Jordan, Abdullah II, is the son of King Hussein and his second wife, a British born woman. He in turn is married to Rania Al-Yassin, a girl of Palestinian lines. Like Queen Noor before her, Rania is likewise respected and popular.
The "mixed" marriages we have mentioned here seem to have gone rather well for the happy couples involved, causing us to think the whole idea that royalty must marry royalty is not all it's cracked up to be. What do you think? Should royalty stick to marrying royalty? Or perhaps, is the entire concept of royalty ridiculous? Please give us your opinions on the subject, and tell us of other notable royal-non-royal matches you find interesting.
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MAX100 and 200 now available as power-steered versions
Staff Writer December 6, 2013, 12:00 am December 6, 2013 0
Max Trailer, a subsidiary of Luxembourg's Faymonville brand, has released power-steered versions of the MAX100 and 200 models, which were only available with fixed or friction-steered axles before.
The MAX100 model is an extendable semi available with three and four axles as required, while the 200 version is a three-axle extendable and non-extendable flat deck variant.
While parent company Faymonville is specialising in customised transport equipment, the Max brand is supposed to provide a more standardised choice to the market. The power-steered Max100 and 200 stay in line with that philosophy.
Using a steering wedge on the fifth wheel coupling, the steering angle is transferred hydraulically to the axles. Compared to the classical friction-steered version, the power-steered Max trailers are said to improve manoeuvrability notably.
"The small turning radius and user-friendly handling in turns makes any driver's job simpler, as the loading area is easier to reach because less space is needed when turning," the company said.
"Reduced tyre wear is an additional economical advantage. Moreover, the hydraulically forced steering system offers the possibility of manually readjusting the steering, even independently from the truck's fifth wheel."
The power-steered version of the MAX100 is called MAX110 and following this principle, the power-steered equivalent of the flatdeck semi-trailer was named MAX210.


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Some Arguments Favoring Creation: Part 1
CREATION BITS No 4.
Some Arguments Favoring Creation
Author: Curt Sewell
Subject: Creation Overviews
THE FOSSIL RECORD
Creationism predicts that, since all kinds of life were created in much the present form, and at about the same time, we may find fossil evidence of extinctions, but there were never any "half-this-half-that" transitional creatures. The fossil record shows that this is true.
In fact, no verifiable transitional fossils have ever been found above the "Family" level, although there is good evidence that a number of new species have appeared. Almost all fossils can be identified and classified in the same way as those creatures living today. Most knowledgeable evolutionists now admit that this disproves Darwinism — gradual change through survival of the fittest.
Gould and Eldredge proposed the "Punctuated Equilibrium" theory, that says that evolution occurred in sudden jumps, with long periods of stasis, or changelessness, between the quick spurts of evolutionary change. They have no evidence for this except for the millions of missing transitional fossils. But a better explanation of all those "missing links" is that "In the beginning, God created …"
THE FIRST TWO LAWS of THERMODYNAMICS
A) Matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed — only changed from one form to another.
B) Any such change causes an increase of entropy, that is, a decrease in complexity.
Notice that the second law prohibits any sort of gradual evolutionary improvement in living things — that would be an increase in complexity. These two fundamental laws of science are defined only for closed systems, but no one has ever been able to imagine any other system for which these laws are not true over a long time span, unless there is outside intelligent energy input. Raw energy input (sunlight etc.) is not enough. But evolutionists can't allow a theory requiring outside intelligence, for that would be supernatural intervention — a Creator. The second law of thermodynamics is a hindrance to evolution because the chemical processes involved in the origin of life from non-life are thermodynamically reversible, favoring non-life. The same problem applies to the problem of producing favorable mutations.
NOTE: The Fossil Record shows that evolution has never occurred, so far as any evidence shows. The Laws of Thermodynamics show that, theoretically, it could never have occurred.
PLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS
The only workable theory ever proposed that explained in detail the source and behavior of earth's magnetic dipole was by creationist Sir Horace Lamb in 1887. This postulated that, in the beginning, an electric current had started flowing in the molten earth core, and has been exponentially decaying ever since.
Since Gauss's first measurement of earth's magnetism in 1835, repeated tests have shown a steady decay (about 6% since then). This follows the same decay curve obtained by plugging the known physical constants of the earth's core into Lamb's equations. It shows that 10,000 years ago, the earth would have been much too hot to support any kind of life. This is one of the many limits showing the earth could not be much more than about 10,000 years old.
Evolutionists rely on the flimsy "dynamo theory" to explain a planet's magnetic field, since it's the only way to escape the short-age prediction of the more reasonable creationist explanation. Using the dynamo theory, most astronomers had said that Uranus's magnetic field would be very weak. But two years before
Voyager II arrived at Uranus, for the first actual measurements of that planet's magnetism, physicist Russell Humphreys had published (in the Creation Research Society Quarterly) his prediction of a strong Uranus magnetic field. When Voyager arrived there, it confirmed that creationist prediction, and the January 1986 newspapers were filled with the surprise of astronomers.
When our space program first started, its widely stated purpose was to learn more of planetary evolution, and to find other life in space. So far, every new discovery has been a new mystery, and all are agreed that there is no other life in our solar system, and no evidence there ever has been, or will be.
We know that a certain amount of "space dust" is continually falling on the earth and the moon. On earth, rain allows this to mix with normal dirt and be dispersed. But the moon has no rain, and the dust should just accumulate on the surface. Before the first moon landing, there was a strong worry about the 50-foot-thick layer of dust that should be there, having fallen for billions of years. Creationists predicted that it would be less than a few inches thick, since it had only been falling for a few thousand years, and they were proven to be right. Evolutionists counter with the fact that the original study that produced the prediction was incorrect, and they believe that the influx of space dust is far less than what they originally predicted. It is true that it is impossible to project the rate of accumulation of space dust over millions of years; the rate simply is not uniform enough to make that prediction. This is true of all attempts to estimate ages; the "clocks" simply are not accurate enough. But in a general sense, the amount of dust on the moon is quite consistent with a young earth/moon model, much more so than a model that requires the moon to be billions of years old.
PLEOCHROIC HALOS of POLONIUM
Dr. Robert Gentry, at Oak Ridge National Lab, studied the halos (spherical discolorations) made by decay of alpha-emitters in the micas of granite. Their diameters show what isotope had decayed. He found a number of halos from polonium, with no trace that uranium or thorium had ever been present! Since rock must be solid for a halo to form, this shows that the polonium had been present when the rock hardened. But polonium has a very short half-life, so this couldn't have happened slowly, like the evolutionist model of a gradually-cooling earth or magma demands. It must have actually been primordial polonium — it had to have been placed there in the beginning! Thus these masses of granite must have been formed as a solid in a very short time, no more than a few minutes!
ATMOSPHERIC HELIUM
When alpha-decay of radioactive heavy metals occurs, helium atoms are formed. If this had been happening for billions of years, there would be a lot more helium around than we actually find today. Professor of Metallurgy Dr. Melvin Cook has calculated that this shows the maximum age of the earth to be about 50,000 years.
MISSING and OUT-OF-SEQUENCE STRATA in the GRAND CANYON
The Grand Canyon shows more strata than any other spot in the world. Yet there are hundreds of millions of years missing from these strata (compared to the evolutionist's "geologic column"), and several different so-called ages alternate and repeat, as if evolution "went back and forth." This is evidence against the reliability of the geologic column as a measure of age. Yet that column is the primary standard used to determine the age of a fossil.
These are only a few of the evidences showing that God's sudden creation is a better explanation for our existence than is the fable of evolution. Other "Creation Bits" articles will describe more. Still others will describe evidences that tend to cast doubt on evolution's validity.


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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting
Part 3, Chapter 4: Our Troubles Continue
Source: Lofting, H. (1922). The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle. London, England: Lippincott Publishing.
Readability:
Flesch–Kincaid Level: 4.2
Word Count: 1,630
Keywords: 20th century literature, british literature, children's literature
✎ Cite This
Lofting, H. (1922). Part 3, Chapter 4: Our Troubles Continue. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Lit2Go Edition). Retrieved January 22, 2022, from https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/122/the-voyages-of-doctor-dolittle/2183/part-3-chapter-4-our-troubles-continue/
Lofting, Hugh. "Part 3, Chapter 4: Our Troubles Continue." The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle. Lit2Go Edition. 1922. Web. <https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/122/the-voyages-of-doctor-dolittle/2183/part-3-chapter-4-our-troubles-continue/>. January 22, 2022.
Hugh Lofting, "Part 3, Chapter 4: Our Troubles Continue," The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, Lit2Go Edition, (1922), accessed January 22, 2022, https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/122/the-voyages-of-doctor-dolittle/2183/part-3-chapter-4-our-troubles-continue/.
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The next morning when we were eating a very excellent breakfast of kidneys and bacon, prepared by our good cook Bumpo, the Doctor said to me,
"I was just wondering, Stubbins, whether I should stop at the Capa Blanca Islands or run right across for the coast of Brazil. Miranda said we could expect a spell of excellent weather now—for four and a half weeks at least."
"Well," I said, spooning out the sugar at the bottom of my cocoa-cup, "I should think it would be best to make straight across while we are sure of good weather. And besides the Purple Bird-of-Paradise is going to keep a lookout for us, isn't she? She'll be wondering what's happened to us if we don't get there in about a month."
"True, quite true, Stubbins. On the other hand, the Capa Blancas make a very convenient stopping place on our way across. If we should need supplies or repairs it would be very handy to put in there."
"How long will it take us from here to the Capa Blancas?" I asked.
"About six days," said the Doctor—"Well, we can decide later. For the next two days at any rate our direction would be the same practically in either case. If you have finished breakfast let's go and get under way."
Upstairs I found our vessel surrounded by white and gray seagulls who flashed and circled about in the sunny morning air, looking for food-scraps thrown out by the ships into the harbor.
By about half past seven we had the anchor up and the sails set to a nice steady breeze; and this time we got out into the open sea without bumping into a single thing. We met the Penzance fishing fleet coming in from the night's fishing, and very trim and neat they looked, in a line like soldiers, with their red-brown sails all leaning over the same way and the white water dancing before their bows.
For the next three or four days everything went smoothly and nothing unusual happened. During this time we all got settled down into our regular jobs; and in spare moments the Doctor showed each of us how to take our turns at the wheel, the proper manner of keeping a ship on her right course, and what to do if the wind changed suddenly. We divided the twenty-four hours of the day into three spells; and we took it in turns to sleep our eight hours and be awake sixteen. So the ship was well looked after, with two of us always on duty.
Besides that, Polynesia, who was an older sailor than any of us, and really knew a lot about running ships, seemed to be always awake—except when she took her couple of winks in the sun, standing on one leg beside the wheel. You may be sure that no one ever got a chance to stay abed more than his eight hours while Polynesia was around. She used to watch the ship's clock; and if you overslept a half-minute, she would come down to the cabin and peck you gently on the nose till you got up.
I very soon grew to be quite fond of our funny black friend Bumpo, with his grand way of speaking and his enormous feet which some one was always stepping on or falling over. Although he was much older than I was and had been to college, he never tried to lord it over me. He seemed to be forever smiling and kept all of us in good humor. It wasn't long before I began to see the Doctor's good sense in bringing him—in spite of the fact that he knew nothing whatever about sailing or travel.
On the morning of the fifth day out, just as I was taking the wheel over from the Doctor, Bumpo appeared and said,
"The salt beef is nearly all gone, Sir."
"The salt beef!" cried the Doctor. "Why, we brought a hundred and twenty pounds with us. We couldn't have eaten that in five days. What can have become of it?"
"I don't know, Sir, I'm sure. Every time I go down to the stores I find another hunk missing. If it is rats that are eating it, then they are certainly colossal rodents."
Polynesia who was walking up and down a stay-rope taking her morning exercise, put in,
"We must search the hold. If this is allowed to go on we will all be starving before a week is out. Come downstairs with me, Tommy, and we will look into this matter."
So we went downstairs into the store-room and Polynesia told us to keep quite still and listen. This we did. And presently we heard from a dark corner of the hold the distinct sound of someone snoring.
"Ah, I thought so," said Polynesia. "It's a man—and a big one. Climb in there, both of you, and haul him out. It sounds as though he were behind that barrel—Gosh! We seem to have brought half of Puddleby with us. Anyone would think we were a penny ferry-boat. Such cheek! Haul him out."
So Bumpo and I lit a lantern and climbed over the stores. And there, behind the barrel, sure enough, we found an enormous bearded man fast asleep with a well-fed look on his face. We woke him up.
"Washamarrer?" he said sleepily.
It was Ben Butcher, the able seaman.
Polynesia spluttered like an angry fire-cracker.
"This is the last straw," said she. "The one man in the world we least wanted. Shiver my timbers, what cheek!"
"Would it not be advisable," suggested Bumpo, "while the varlet is still sleepy, to strike him on the head with some heavy object and push him through a port-hole into the sea?"
"No. We'd get into trouble," said Polynesia. "We're not in Jolliginki now, you know—worse luck!—Besides, there never was a port-hole big enough to push that man through. Bring him upstairs to the Doctor."
So we led the man to the wheel where he respectfully touched his cap to the Doctor.
"Another stowaway, Sir," said Bumpo smartly. I thought the poor Doctor would have a fit.
"Good morning, Captain," said the man. "Ben Butcher, able seaman, at your service. I knew you'd need me, so I took the liberty of stowing away—much against my conscience. But I just couldn't bear to see you poor landsmen set out on this voyage without a single real seaman to help you. You'd never have got home alive if I hadn't come—Why look at your mainsail, Sir—all loose at the throat. First gust of wind come along, and away goes your canvas overboard—Well, it's all right now I'm here. We'll soon get things in shipshape."
"No, it isn't all right," said the Doctor, "it's all wrong. And I'm not at all glad to see you. I told you in Puddleby I didn't want you. You had no right to come."
"But Captain," said the able seaman, "you can't sail this ship without me. You don't understand navigation. Why, look at the compass now: you've let her swing a point and a half off her course. It's madness for you to try to do this trip alone—if you'll pardon my saying so, Sir. Why—why, you'll lose the ship!"
"Look here," said the Doctor, a sudden stern look coming into his eyes, "losing a ship is nothing to me. I've lost ships before and it doesn't bother me in the least. When I set out to go to a place, I get there. Do you understand? I may know nothing whatever about sailing and navigation, but I get there just the same. Now you may be the best seaman in the world, but on this ship you're just a plain ordinary nuisance—very plain and very ordinary. And I am now going to call at the nearest port and put you ashore."
"Yes, and think yourself lucky," Polynesia put in, "that you are not locked up for stowing away and eating all our salt beef."
"I don't know what the mischief we're going to do now," I heard her whisper to Bumpo. "We've no money to buy any more; and that salt beef was the most important part of the stores."
"Would it not be good political economy," Bumpo whispered back, "if we salted the able seaman and ate him instead? I should judge that he would weigh more than a hundred and twenty pounds."
"How often must I tell you that we are not in Jolliginki," snapped Polynesia. "Those things are not done on white men's ships—Still," she murmured after a moment's thought, "it's an awfully bright idea. I don't suppose anybody saw him come on to the ship—Oh, but Heavens! we haven't got enough salt. Besides, he'd be sure to taste of tobacco."
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