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This one hurt bad… Remembering the iconic Olivia Newton-John (1948 – 2022), my first true pop music love
(August 11, 2022). Very few of the artists whose passings have inspired this blog's many memorials over the past seven-and-a-half years hit as personally as this one.
Pop music icon, movie actress and cancer activist Olivia Newton-John, who died Monday (August 8) after a courageous, decades-long battle with breast cancer, was one of the first pop stars I could legitimately claim as a personal favorite during my youth—one whose records were in our household not because my parents listened to them, but because I did.
Olivia Newton-John died August 8, 2022 at age 73.
The British-born, Australian-raised Newton-John, whose professional singing career dated back to the 1960s but really took off in the early 1970s, was someone whose come-up coincided with my musical awakening and whose songs shaped my pop music foundation for decades to come.
Aside from the Jackson 5, I can't think of another artist during my childhood that captivated me as quickly.
Before Olivia, my musical palette consisted mainly of a bunch of J-5 singles, a few kiddie albums courtesy of Disneyland Records, and whatever soul albums and 45s my mom had in our living room. I also came to love legendary acts like Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire and the Isley Brothers among many others—but those were of my mom's doing, the result of her buying every album those artists recorded in the 1970s because they were her favorites.
Olivia was different. When she exploded onto the scene in late 1973 (after having had a relatively minor hit in 1971 with a cover of Bob Dylan's "If Not For You"), her songs struck a chord with me unlike any of the others had. She nurtured a pop spirit I didn't yet know I'd had.
Olivia shimmies in this performance of her first top-40, "If Not For You" in 1971
Her first two big hits "Let Me Be There" and "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" were my introduction to catchy, hook-laden, pop songs. Produced by her lifelong friend and incredibly talented musical partner John Farrar, Olivia's pure vocals deftly alternated between the soft whispering coo of the verses to her rousing anthemic choruses on those uptempo numbers.
As a then-adolescent seven-year-old, I was perhaps also drawn to those two songs because of that "funny" deep-voiced guy that backed Olivia's sweet, perfectly toned vocal. It was a male-female contrast often featured in country songs at the time.
Or maybe it was my introduction to the steel-pedal guitar used to give Livvy just enough country music credibility to appeal to that genre's fans. Whatever it was, it all worked and I was quickly becoming hooked.
She followed those first two top-10 crossover hits with "I Honestly Love You," her first No. 1 pop single in the U.S. No funny backing male vocalist this time, it was just Olivia beautifully singing a serious song about an emotion I had yet to experience but, based on her sincere performance, was beginning to understand.
(From l to r:) Olivia Newton-John, Helen Reddy, Minnie Riperton and Linda Ronstadt all had No. 1 hits in a four-month span from December 1974 – April 1975.
To borrow a couple of tennis metaphors, if Olivia's "Honestly" was a successful volley to earn a break point in an otherwise all-R&B household, then the next single consolidated that break with an ace!
That next single, Olivia's "Have You Never Been Mellow" was as soft a pop/country/adult contemporary song as one could find on the radio in early 1975. Yet that warmly sung tune about the ability to just let go found its way into our family's record collection, becoming the first non-kiddie pop single my mom bought for her genre-exploring, eight-year-old son.
Olivia Newton-John sings "Have You Never Been Mellow" live in 1975
"Mellow" was followed by the somewhat gimmicky, but still appealing ballad "Please Mr., Please," with its hooky jukebox reference ("don't play B-17") and the British-Aussie Olivia singing about a button-pushing cowboy and some good Kentucky whiskey that very few imagined her ever having tasted. Since Kentucky was also where we also happened to be living at the time, "Please Mr., Please" received plenty of play in my neck of the woods.
Tribute #2: Olivia's 25 greatest tunes, counted down with a mini-story on each!
Back then I was still learning about different genres and what distinguished them, but even I knew that "Please Mr., Please" was as direct an attempt as any by Olivia to reach discerning country music fans and convert the purists who didn't appreciate that a British-Australian woman who recorded her songs in London was winning key country music recognition here in America and hitting the top ten on that genre's charts.
Still, like its four immediate predecessors, "Please Mr., Please" did just that and became another crossover smash for Newton-John (No. 3 pop, No. 5 country, No. 1 AC in late 1975). It seemed as if her hit streak and, by extension, my fandom would continue to thrive into 1976 and beyond..
But two developments occurred in early 1976 that threatened to end my musical connection with Olivia for good.
First, our family moved from Ft. Campbell, Kentucky to the predominantly Black Petersburg, Virginia, and my exposure to country-tinged pop became limited to major crossover hits like the Bellamy Brothers' "Let Your Love Flow" or C.W. McCall's "Convoy."
Second, Olivia stopped having major crossover hits.
Her next several singles after "Please"—while all mid-chart successes—didn't reach the pop top ten or my musical consciousness. Songs like "Something Better To Do," "Let It Shine" and Don't Stop Believin'" (no relationship to the Journey hit), just didn't register with me.
I had turned ten in 1976 and instead began getting more into folks like the Commodores, Rufus and Chaka, The Sylvers, Brothers Johnson, Parliament-Funkadelic, Diana Ross and, of course, Stevie, EWF and the Isleys (still thanks to my Mom).
I essentially went two years without hearing any Olivia, which for a ten-year-old was like a lifetime.
But a major discovery reintroduced me to my once-and-future favorite pop star: "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem."
I discovered the radio countdown show in early 1977 and in that first episode was Olivia's waltzy hit ballad, "Sam." Like several of her singles from that period, it wasn't a major pop hit (it peaked at No. 20), but its presence on the countdown reminded me that Livvy was still around and doing just fine.
More importantly, pop music was back in the forefront for a kid about to reach puberty. Love songs began taking on new meaning. I began paying attention to how sexuality was expressed in music as well. And, while my puberty was still officially a year away, its arrival couldn't have been paired with a more perfect event.
Olivia's famous transformation and elevation to superstardom.
Olivia Newton-John in "Grease" (1978)
The movie "Grease," starring Olivia and John Travolta, was released on June 16, 1978, two days after my 12th birthday. My closest friends have often heard me say that the movie was my all-time favorite. It still is. I've seen it more times than any other film.
At the time I had no idea it was adapted from a long running Broadway musical, but who wouldn't love the story of an Australian high school girl transplanted to 1950s America only to find her summer love interest wasn't the good guy she thought he was.
And with that backdrop, what was that girl to do?
Olivia's pure and wholesome "Sandy" became a cigarette-puffing (then stomping), black-leather-clad, curly-coifed sex siren that made even the slinkiest of her Pink Lady friends seem virginal. The song that backed her transformation, "You're The One That I Want" with movie co-star John Travolta, is forever associated with the iconic scene and helped the movie become the highest-grossing film of 1978, as well as the biggest grossing musical of the 20th century.
The "Grease" soundtrack was also the second-highest selling album of 1978, behind that other John Travolta-starring film's soundtrack ("Saturday Night Fever"). (Both albums, btw, made RSO Records' very rich founder Robert Stigwood even richer that year.)
"You're The One That I Want" from "Grease"
But more importantly, "Grease" put Olivia back in the top ten, and firmly in my consciousness where she would remain forever. She followed the chart-topping "You're The One That I Want" with two more of the movie's hits, "Hopelessly Devoted To You" and "Summer Nights" (the latter teamed with Travolta and the movie's cast). All three reached the top five on the Hot 100.
Her next album, 1978's Totally Hot, contained one of her biggest hits, "A Little More Love." That sultry, mid-tempo rocker was a clean break from the safe country music that fueled her rise to stardom earlier in the decade (although "Love" still received enough country radio play to reach No. 94 on that chart).
Most importantly, it was Olivia fully embracing her fictional "Sandy" transformation by exploring her more sensuous side in real life. In a display of total self-awareness, Olivia sang in the song's second verse, "where did my innocence go? How was a young girl to know?"
Indeed, how was a young girl like Olivia to know the success that awaited her with her more innocent image now in the rear-view mirror?
"A Little More Love" sold a million copies and reached No. 3 on the pop chart in early 1979 amid a flurry of disco tunes ("Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" and "YMCA" prevented it from climbing higher). Along the way, it became my personal Olivia Newton-John favorite, even if my 12-year-old, newly pubescent mind couldn't quite wrap itself around metaphorical lyrics about "night dragging her feet" and Olivia "waiting alone in the heat."
Olivia's "A Little More Love" (1978)
As the 1970s gave way to the '80s, Olivia's success continued with one pop gem after another. She finished the decade with the soft-rock, disco-ey vibe of "Deeper Than The Night, which ironically just missed a very disco-heavy top-10 and was held to a No. 11 peak. She also teamed with Andy Gibb on the top-20 ballad "I Can't Help It" from his After Dark album in early '80.
Olivia's two biggest chart singles—"Physical" and "Magic"—came in the early 1980s.
Next came the "Xanadu" movie and soundtrack, which included two very important singles: "Magic" and "Xanadu" (the latter recorded with the Electric Light Orchestra).
With "Magic," Olivia's reverb-heavy fantasy ode to the mythological powers of the Muse she played in the film, the singer returned to No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart for a fourth time (following "I Honestly Love You," "Have You Never Been Mellow" and "You're the One That I Want").
Four may not seem like a big deal now, but solo females having four career No 1 hits was huge back then. It tied Livvy, for a short time at least, with Diana Ross, Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand for having the most No. 1s by female singers (although Summer's and Streisand's tallies—like Olivia's—included duets with other singers). Diana Ross would break the tie a few weeks after "Magic" with "Upside Down." Several women have had far more No. 1s since.
Olivia performs "Xanadu" from the 1980 motion picture
The movie "Xanadu" was a box-office flop, but the songs made the soundtrack a big success and further etched Olivia into pop's upper echelon. She had become one of the biggest pre-MTV stars and was at this point among the most beloved singers worldwide.
Then, a year after "Xanadu," as if she needed anymore career validation, Olivia released what would become not only her biggest hit, but the biggest single of the 1980s with "Physical," the double entendre-laced bop that spent ten incredible weeks at No. 1 (then a record) on the Hot 100.
The smash was released just weeks after the launch of MTV and had an accompanying playful video meant to dilute the song's true meaning by featuring a bunch of woefully out-of-shape guys doing aerobics to the upbeat tune while Olivia worked them out in true Jane Fonda style.
But we all knew what Olivia really meant, especially as those overweight men transformed before our eyes into buffed, muscle-bound studs, not unlike Olivia's own pop-to-country, wholesome-to-sexy metamorphosis several years earlier.
In my mid teens by then, I was also fully aware of Olivia's sex appeal and how it was capitalized upon to help sell her songs. "Physical" was followed by another million-seller "Make A Move On Me," which preceded "Heart Attack" and another metaphorical hit, "Tied Up." All of these were singularly focused and done in convincing fashion by Olivia.
"Tied Up" was particularly surprising, with our Olivia acknowledging an impending one-night stand and her willingness to give into it nonetheless, as long as both parties recognized that that's exactly what it was.
Olivia's "Tied Up" video (1983)
The End of an Era, the Beginning of Another
As the second British Music Invasion hit the U.S. in the mid-1980s and musical styles changed, Olivia fell out of favor with top-40 radio and the hits stopped coming as fast. "Twist of Fate," from her second John Travolta co-starred romantic movie "Two of a Kind," was her last top-10 pop hit in early '84.
This coincided with my transition from high school to college where you just didn't find a lot of people bumping Olivia's hits (come to think of it, neither were any of my high school friends that I knew of…okay, I was a rare bird, admittedly).
Instead, my college dorm's "stereo wars" were soundtracked by the likes of Prince, U2, Tears for Fears, Simple Minds and others. As far as female singers went, Olivia had been brushed aside on pop radio by Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner and new pop princess Whitney Houston.
Olivia's last top-40 entry was 1985's "Soul Kiss," another sultry, double-entendre-filled song with Olivia breathily purring and pushing her explicit boundaries even further ("well I get down on my knees and beg you baby").
Few artists had completed the country-to-pop metamorphosis as effectively as Olivia did during the 1970s. Linda Ronstadt and Anne Murray come to mind, but Ronstadt was arguably pop-focused throughout and Murray never really left her country roots during her prime. Olivia was our generation's Taylor Swift, except sweeter and less acerbic.
Even more astonishingly, Olivia's complete metamorphosis from the wholesome image she crafted with songs like "I Honestly Love You" and "Have You Never Been Mellow" to sexier tunes like "A Little More Love" and the many '80s hits that followed was a true story of life imitating art, a change we could easily have seen coming after her iconic "Grease" transformation.
As the 1980s gave way to the '90s, Olivia's priorities changed. The glitzy pop songs gave way to marriage and family, and ultimately to her life-long cause of fighting breast cancer after her first diagnosis in 1992.
That same year, she released a career retrospective called Back to Basics: The Essential Collection 1971 – 1992, which contained a song I considered her best in a decade: "Not Gonna Be The One."
By then, music had once again changed and I, now 26, was thoroughly immersed in '90s hip-hop and R&B. Very few pop songs appealed to me the way that had in the 1970s and '80s.
But "Not Gonna Be The One" was special. It was another reminder of the pureness of Olivia's brand of pop singing, once again under the musical direction of her longtime producer and friend John Farrar.
Lyrically, it was Olivia telling a wandering ex-lover that she wasn't going to allow him to come back into her life and use her again. But the song could easily have been a metaphor for her fight with cancer, with the singer refusing to give in to a brutal disease that she was able to survive for over 30 years.
A Wish Come True
In 2017, twenty-five years after her cancer diagnosis and "Not Gonna Be The One," I had the chance to see my first pop music crush perform in Chicagoland. In the weeks leading up to the show, Olivia announced that her cancer had returned and metastasized.
It was a dire outlook with Olivia postponing some shows and announcing that she had begun experimental treatments earlier that year. But none of that stopped her.
She ultimately gave that Chicago-area performance, which I attended and wrote about. Olivia sounded as perfect as ever. She couldn't have known she was fulfilling a lifelong dream of mine to see her in person. I couldn't have known it would be my last chance to see her.
But both were true.
And now, several days after her ultimate transition, I struggle to write one of the most difficult tributes yet. How do I do justice to an artist who meant so much to me growing up and who could possibly take the bulk of the credit for my love of pop music?
The many memorials I'd read since Monday have been reassuring and reaffirming…a reminder that I wasn't the only one Olivia touched this greatly. But they didn't capture my feelings personally.
The only way I know how is to describe how she impacted my childhood musically and to thank her for perfectly soundtracking my coming of age.
So thank you Olivia Newton-John. It may sound cliché at this point, but I'll end this tribute the way so many others have, with those four famous words you so perfectly immortalized:
I honestly love you.
Olivia Newton-John (1948 – 2022)
R.I.P. Olivia Newton-John (September 26, 1948 – August 8, 2022)
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So here's an interesting one… The original BittBoy was a pocket-sized retro gaming handheld that came preloaded with 400 bootleg or pirated games. From all accounts, its external design/form factor was great, but the actual games it could play were just garbage. One could easily write it off as a cheap and bogus knockoff, hastily manufactured in China to sucker Game Boy fans into a nostalgia-fueled purchase, based squarely on the promise of a Nintendo software experience it could not actually deliver.
Then, at the dawn of 2019, a new BittBoy appeared…
Unlike their original effort, the new BittBoy features, according its website, "No games built-in. Supports Micro SD external, Save games, NES/GBC/GB, headphone." It looks fair to assume that the first BittBoy was rushed out the door, because it seems the new model does a far better job at delivering on the original concept. Play your Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and even NES games wherever you'd like, with a crisp, backlit, LCD screen, a rechargeable battery, and even standard headphone jack support.
At first glance, the device is impressive. The colors, body shape, and overall design are clearly an homage to the original Game Boy—even including the speaker vents on the bottom right—though it is quite a bit smaller. Despite featuring a wider screen than the GB, the body of the BittBoy is actually scaled down to be smaller than even the Game Boy Pocket. It's similar in dimensions to a deck of playing cards. It's shockingly lightweight as well, as this were just a plastic shell with nothing inside.
The power switch is still on top (though it's on the right side instead of the left) and there's a micro SD card slot acting somewhat like an itsy-bitsy game cart slot. Both the contrast and volume rollers have been omitted from the sides, likewise the link cable port is gone. There's a headphone jack on the bottom, as well as a micro USB port for charging the internal battery. And on the back, the cover for the battery compartment is a charmingly faithful facsimile of the original GB's, though it contains a rechargeable lithium battery instead of four AA's. (The cover is also extremely tough to open. If you need to get in there, I recommending using a flathead screwdriver instead of destroying your thumbnail.)
The classic D-pad, A, B, Start, and Select buttons are where you'd expect to find them (more or less). Two Turbo buttons have been added, as well as an "R" button directly under the screen for bringing up a menu. While the D-pad feels familiar, solidly chunky, and apparently the same size as the GB of old, the A, B, Start, and Select buttons are all considerably smaller.
Interestingly, the orientation of the B and A buttons has been shifted diagonally, making their positions more closely resemble the Y and B buttons of the SNES controller. While this might seem like a sacrilege at first, it's actually a brilliant move. With the BittBoy's diminutive footprint, the classic GB button orientation would likely have proven uncomfortable, especially during longer play sessions. Even with this change, it must be said, the control real estate is pretty tiny and still feels a bit cramped.
When you first turn on the BittBoy, it displays a "MIYOO Pocket" boot-up screen. If you haven't inserted a micro SD card with your game roms yet, the BittBoy won't load anything past this screen, just displaying the same static image until you turn it off. With roms on an SD card, however, the BittBoy will quickly load up its menu screen, which is divided into NES games, original Game Boy games, and Game Boy Color games. The menus are rather lame looking, but they're certainly functional and easy to navigate.
When you find a game you'd like to play, just press the Start button to launch it.
The first thing you notice is that the BittBoy's little speaker is super f#^king loud—why is the volume set to 11 by default?—so you'll want to quickly tone it down. Instead of the old-school volume roller on the side, this device uses preset button combinations to make adjustments. Hold down the Select button and press A (probably multiple times) to turn the volume down. Select + B then turns the volume back up. Similarly holding Select and pressing the Turbo buttons will adjust screen brightness. For some reason, the BittBoy doesn't seem to register these button combinations every time, you might need to give it a few tries to adjust the volume. Your eardrums will ache in the meantime.
All the games I played on the BittBoy ran quite smoothly, and I didn't notice any frame rate or screen tear problems. That said, the emulation isn't quite flawless. For example, I noticed that the music in Super Mario Bros. 3 plays too fast, as if the BittBoy is overclocked for NES games. There have also been a few times where it felt like not all of my inputs were registering—particularly the A button in a rigorous session of Tetris DX. Since I'm more familiar with the original GB Tetris, it was hard to tell what was my fault, what was the BittBoy's fault, and what was simply how the GBC game plays.
Each game's visuals are stretched horizontally by default to fill the BittBoy's widescreen display. While I think this actually looks pretty good for most games, purists will probably want to change the image back to its original ratio. You can toggle through the display options in the BittBoy's menu by pressing the R button while playing a game.
That R button menu is also where you can create and load save states. This is especially handy for games that used a password system, like Mega Man or Castlevania. Just save your progress before you turn off the device, and load it right back up the next time you play. Please note however, the BittBoy does not support native game saves, meaning you won't be able to save or load files from a normal in-game menu. So you must use save states to record your progress on the BittBoy.
And I used to think I could be a hand model.
Speaking of things the BittBoy doesn't support, there is no multiplayer functionality. Since there's obviously no way to connect two or more BittBoys together—again, no link cable port—this handheld is for solo gaming only.
One other function of the BittBoy's R button menu is to change the output mode from handheld to TV. It even comes with cables to connect the device to a TV. I honestly have no interest in that, so I didn't test it out, sorry.
If the BittBoy is running very low on power, the power light to the left of the screen will begin to flash, indicating that the device will automatically power down soon. When I saw the flashing light, I just kept on playing Dr. Mario to see how long it would go. In the end, it didn't instantly power down as expected. Instead, the screen brightness began to gradually turn down, getting dimmer and dimmer. Eventually the image faded away into nothingness and the sound cut out. 'Twas a slow death.
Ok, so let's sum up the BittBoy in three specific areas: price, ease of setup, and quality of experience.
At just 40 bucks ($39.99)—or 50 ($49.99) if you order it with the SD card you'll need—the BittBoy is actually an incredible deal. That's essentially the same price you'd be looking at for used Game Boy Pocket or Game Boy Color, and this offers far more modern conveniences. If you can get your hands on rom files for all the games in your collection, you'll have a much easier time playing the lot of them with this device than you would on the original hardware.
Ease of Setup
Getting the BittBoy up and running is a breeze, as long as you have roms for your GB, GBC, and NES games already. Due to Nintendo's absurdly aggressive litigious crusade against emulation of their games, it might be very difficult (and/or risky) to track down roms for your beloved Game Boy games of old. Assuming you have those roms files in your possession already though, it's just matter of throwing all of them onto a micro SD card. You can put all files directly onto the card's root directory, no need for folders.
One minor annoyance that comes with using a Mac computer to set up your SD card is that Macs tend to leave your external drive with incidental hidden files on it. When you plug your card into another device, it will have one nonfunctional duplicate file for every real file you've added. This is both annoying and cumbersome to scroll through. To avoid this headache, you'll want to use app like CleanMyDrive 2 to remove the junk duplicates before putting the SD card in your device.
All in all, the BittBoy is legitimately cool. Sure, the controls are a little too small for normal adult hands, the menu interface looks kind of amateurish, and the plastic used in the body feels a tad bit cheap. I'm not sure I trust the buttons to function properly at all times (A and B especially), but it could be that I just need a bit more time to "break them in", as it were.
Without a doubt, the screen is absolutely gorgeous! Plus it's backlit, so every single game looks way better than it did on a real Game Boy. From my time testing the BittBoy, all games played quite well, whether from the NES, original Game Boy, or Game Boy Color. Sure, the emulation might not be 100% perfect, but it certainly gets the job done.
In fact, the games play so well on this device that it left me wishing we could play GBA and SNES roms too. (Although, if we're being totally honest, it would exceedingly difficult to deliver a gameplay experience better than the GBA SP, forever the true king of handhelds.) Perhaps in their next venture, the BittBoy folks will try their hand a GB/GBC/NES/GBA/SNES portable. That would be sick!
So yeah, if you're looking to revisit your Game Boy library—and you have all the necessary roms to do so—the BittBoy is solid choice.
February 15, 2019 /Lucas Kelleher
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De 12e editie van de Belgische wielerwedstrijd Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde werd verreden op 27 mei 1956. De start en finish vonden plaats in Meulebeke. De winnaar was Germain Derycke, gevolgd door Lode Anthonis en Jozef De Feyter.

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Among the shorts presented by Turner Classic Movies between its feature films are tributes to actors who are being spotlighted on a particular day or during a particular month.
Recently I caught a tribute to Robert Ryan narrated by Ernest Borgnine who worked with Ryan in three films — "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955), "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) and "The Wild Bunch" (1969).
Ryan, who died in 1973, was a childhood favorite of mine. My appreciation of the actor's work was firmly established by "The Set Up," a 1949 release that I consider the best boxing film ever made. Ryan played an over-the-hill heavyweight, the kind of fighter often derisively referred to as "the opponent," which means a guy with a recognizable name who will look good on the resumes of an up-and-coming boxer. Basically he gets paid to lose, though it's usually unnecessary to fix the fight because "the opponent" has reached a point where he lacks the will and the ability to win.
So it was in "The Set Up" when Ryan, as Bill "Stoker" Thompson, stepped into the ring to fight young Tiger Nelson (Hal Baylor). "Stoker's" manager (George Tobias) made a deal with local mobsters that his fighter will take a dive, but kept it to himself.
Early in the fight "Stoker" realizes he can beat Nelson and between rounds tells his manager, who strongly advises his fighter to curl up on the canvas and take a 10-second nap. What happens next? Well, I suggest you watch "The Set Up" at the next opportunity.
Both Ryan and Baylor (left and right, below) had actual ring experience. During Ryan's days at Dartmouth, boxing was a popular intercollegiate sport. Whether he competed against other colleges, I don't know, but biographies of the actor claim he was the Dartmouth heavyweight champion for four years.
Baylor, a familiar face in movies throughout the late '40s and 1950s, was born Hal Brittan, but fought professionally as Hal Fieberling, which seems a strange choice for someone who had two catchier names at his disposal. He won 52 of 60 fights as an amateur, and 15 of 23 as a pro.
Ryan chose an unusual boxing style for the movie, having "Stoker" bent over most of the time, ignoring jabs in favor of roundhouse punches with both hands. I can't imagine he fought like that at Dartmouth.
HOWEVER, that has nothing to do with this piece, which was written because the TCM tribute jarred my memory about the day I met Robert Ryan in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1972 when he was filming "The Man Without a Country" with Cliff Robertson and Beau Bridges.
Most of the interviews I had with entertainers were conducted over the telephone. Many others were conducted in restaurants over dinner or lunch. Others were conducted in an office, TV studio or dressing room. Then there were a few — a memorable few — which the subject and I conducted by the seat of our pants.
Which finally gets me to Robert Ryan. He was the only actor who ever turned to me when he needed a ride. I had met him at his hotel, he needed to be several blocks away for filming aboard a schooner called The Bill of Rights.
I apologized to Ryan, but he flashed a slight smile and said he didn't mind. The actor was 62 at the time, but looked much older. He obviously was grieving the death of his wife of 33 years, Jessica Cadwalader Ryan, who had died of cancer a few weeks earlier. But I was certain Ryan's condition went beyond depression, though I didn't suspect he, too, was dying of cancer and would pass away a year later.
FRANKLY, it wasn't much of an interview. I felt I was imposing on the man, who thanked me for the ride, then went to work. Along the way he said little about his life or his career, except to dismiss the latter as "mostly crap, with maybe five worthwhile films."
That certainly was a harsh judgment, though Ryan, of course, couldn't look at himself the way the rest of us did. He played mostly bad guys, though he was handsome enough to play the hero, too. However, Ryan's heroes — in "The Set Up' (1949), "On Dangerous Ground" (1952), "Inferno" (1953) and "The Proud Ones" (1956) — were severely flawed individuals.
He had a frighteningly sinister smile; villainy flowed quietly and effortlessly from his speech, his manner and his gestures. He usually underplayed his parts, especially in contrast with actors such as Kirk Douglas, Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger. His outstanding performances as a bigoted soldier who commits murder in "Crossfire" (1947) guaranteed he'd be offered similar roles for the rest of his career.
Off-screen he reportedly was one of the genuine good guys, a liberal Democrat who remained true to one woman as well as to his ideals. But I sensed he was a difficult man to please.
TWO BITS of trivia: Ryan and his wife owned and lived in an apartment at the Dakota in New York City and eventually sublet it to a couple of folks named Yoko Ono and John Lennon, who purchased the property after Ryan's death.
Second, about 30 years after my meeting with Robert Ryan, my son, Jeffrey, also gave a celebrity a ride to work, but his was a more glamorous assignment. He was working as a production assistant on "The Edge," a Fox comedy series, and one day his task was to pick up one of the show's stars and deliver her to the studio. Her name: Jennifer Anniston.


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Why did a perfectly good care home, and a Cottage Hospital close in Budleigh?
This comment from Anthony Rowcraft was posted a few days ago:
"A perfectly good care home, Shanford, in Budleigh Salterton was closed a couple of years ago amid much controversy and speculation as to who would benefit. Elderly patients were moved out against their wishes and staff given notice. It's still empty!!!! Could it be reopened rather than using hotels??"
This has prompted Owl to commision an investigation into the current situation.
This investigation indicates that, despite attempts to sell the unoccupied "Shandford" it is still owned by Julie Rhodes of Agency Assistance who bought it at auction from Abbeyfield at the height of the Covid epidemic in December 2020.
To recapitulate the history of Shandford:
Shandford started as a care home in 1958 for local people funded by the people of Budleigh Salterton. In 2012, the trustees ceded it to Abbeyfield under a covenant that should Abbeyfield sell the property then the proceeds should be returned to "the people of Budleigh Salterton"
The closure was based on Abbeyfield's declared aim of "freeing up assets" as it changes its business model to concentrate on larger homes; and County Councillor Christine Channon's handpicked adviser, Chris Davis, who claimed that Shandford was no longer viable. Owl understands Chris Davis' report has never been made public.
A local community effort to take back control failed despite the intervention of newly elected Simon Jupp MP.
During this process Owl received plausible arguments that showed that there were grounds to challenge the case for non-viability.
However, it now seems the proceeds (less expenses) have been returned to "the people of Budleigh Salterton" by way of the charity: "the Shandford Trust" registered just over a year ago.
A search of the Charity Commission web site reveals:
THE SHANDFORD TRUST – Charity 1192048 at year ending 31 December 2021 expended £696 on charitable activities, retaining £728.30k for future use.
"The Trust provides grant funding to older people for their accommodation or care, particularly those in financial need, those who are frail or with disabilities, who live in Budleigh Salterton, East Budleigh, Otterton, Colaton Raleigh or Bicton. It is indiscriminate as to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation."
The charity commission lists Christopher Haward Davis as Chair of trustees.
Dr Richard Mejzner is also listed as another of the eight trustees. It is Interesting to note that Mejzner is also a trustee of two other charities: LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE BUDLEIGH SALTERTON HOSPITAL; and the recently registered SEACHANGE DEVON. This would seem to be the CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation) now running the old BS Cottage Hospital, previously managed by Westbank as a "Hospital Hub" (a hospital without any beds).
Sarah Hicks is Chair of Trustees of Seachange Devon and is also currently CEO of Westbank Community Health and Care. It's a small world.
Is Budleigh about to lose its "hospital" as well?
Budleigh Salterton was one of the first hospitals to lose all its hospital beds which served as a convalescent stepping stone between acute care and returning home. It was retained as a "hospital hub".
Of further interest is the fact that this hospital site has not only been offered up as a potential development site in the draft EDDC Local Plan (by the freeholders Clinton Devon Estates?), but has been allocated as such. Under the terms of the lease, the site reverts to the freeholder when it is no longer used as a hospital.
Below is an extract from the Site Selection and Settlement Boundary Setting (under Tier 3 settlements)
Settlement: Budleigh Salterton
Site reference number: Budl_06
Site Address: Budleigh Salterton Community Hospital, East Budleigh Road, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, EX9 6HF
Accessibility assessment: Budl_06 is within 1600 metres of at least 8 different types of services and facilities, including a GP practice, community hall, post office, pubs, shops and a primary and school. The site is close to an hourly bus route. Pedestrian access into the town centre is available along safe walking routes.
Other known site constraints: The site is currently used but the NHS as a health and wellbeing hub, providing local employment and a community facility.
Site opportunities: It would be possible to convert existing buildings to residential use.
Amended Maximum Yield following discounted areas on site: 20
Brief summary of the key positives and negatives of the site: Budl_06 may provide an opportunity for conversion of existing buildings and some new development on a brownfield site very well related to services and facilities if it is no longer required for community use.
Should the site be allocated? YES
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3 thoughts on "Why did a perfectly good care home, and a Cottage Hospital close in Budleigh?"
Mark Hawkins says:
10 Jan 2023 at 7:30am
I note that the consultation for the local plan is still due to close this weekend despite an apparent acceptance by the government that the housing demands placed on local authorities are outdated and excessive.
All parties interested in the future of our communities should make their feelings known.
In this case the viability report should be published without delay, especially considering that the person who made it is still involved, and also taking into account that this is yet another site within the local plan that stands to benefit a member of the EDBF.
No wonder the CEO was so insistent that planning matters were not within the scope of the TAFF into the activities of the EDBF, in those days when the sheer weight of numbers held by the majority meant that his "legal advice" was all that was required, without recourse to outsiders.
Hilary Taylor says:
11 Jan 2023 at 2:03pm
The Budleigh Hub is a lifeline for my mum and many others. Provides amazing service with coffee shop ,ready meals ,exercise ,Chime and nurse appointments,hub cars for medical appointments.
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But for how long?


North Addington Education Centre has started a junior music group for playing the ukulele and singing. The club meets twice a week at lunch to practice a variety of classic pop and folk songs. Practices will become more frequent as they prepare for performances.
The North Addington Guild makes a yearly donation to Arts education for North Addington students using revenue from their Arts Showcase, which takes place at the school.
Students in the ukulele group are already showing a lot of progress and are really enjoying their experience so far.
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This sweet family was a ball of energy thanks to those three adorable boys. That last shot pretty sums up the general idea. I think they should do a whole wall of images comprised of only wrestling shots.
Thanks for having me Annison Family!


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Churchill College
Title: Churchill College
Subject: Francis Crick, Wole Soyinka, King's College, Cambridge, Mario Vargas Llosa, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, Mill Hill School, Jacques Barzun, Neil Turok, John Kinsella (poet), Morse College
Coordinates: 52°12′45″N 0°06′13″E / 52.21259°N 0.10360°E / 52.21259; 0.10360
Colleges of the University of Cambridge
Named after Sir Winston Churchill
Master Sir David Wallace
Undergraduates 450
Graduates 280
Sister college Trinity College, Oxford
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"Forward"
JCR website
MCR website
Boat Club website
Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It has a primary focus on science, engineering and technology, but still retains a strong interest in the arts and humanities.
In 1958, a Trust was established with Sir Winston Churchill as its Chairman of Trustees, to build and endow a college for 60 fellows and 540 Students as a national and Commonwealth memorial to Winston Churchill; its Royal Charter and Statutes were approved by the Queen, in August, 1960.[1] It is situated on the outskirts of Cambridge, away from the traditional centre of the city, but close to the University's main new development zone and the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Its 160,000 m² (42 acres) of grounds make it physically the largest of all the colleges.
Churchill was the first all-male college to decide to admit women, and was among three men's colleges to admit its first women students in 1972.[2] Within 15 years all others had followed suit. The college has a reputation for relative informality compared with other Cambridge colleges, and traditionally admits a larger proportion of its undergraduates from state schools.
The College Motto is "Forward". It was taken from the final phrase of Winston Churchill's first speech to the House of Commons as Prime Minister - his famous "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat" speech - in which he said "Come, then, let us go forward together".[3]
Cambridge University Radio (later Cam FM) broadcast from Churchill College from 1979 until 2011.
2.1 Sheppard flats
2.2 Chapel
4 Student Life & Social Events
7 Traditions
8 Notable past and present fellows
8.1 Nobel laureates (associated members and fellows)
In 1955, on holiday in Sicily soon after his resignation as Prime Minister, Winston Churchill discussed with Sir John Colville and Lord Cherwell the possibility of founding a new institution. Churchill had been impressed by MIT and wanted a British version, but the plans evolved into the more modest proposal of creating a science and technology based college within the University of Cambridge.[4] Churchill wanted a mix of non-scientists to ensure a well rounded education and environment for scholars and fellows. The college therefore admits students to read all subjects except Land Economy and Theology & Religious Studies (though it is possible to switch to these subjects later).
The first postgraduate students arrived in October 1960, and the first undergraduates a year later. Full College status was received in 1966. Initially all students were male. Women were not accepted as undergraduates until 1972.
The bias to science and engineering remains as policy to the current day, with the statutes requiring approximately 70% science and technology students amongst its student intake each year.[5] The college statutes also stipulate that one third of the students of the college should be advanced students, that is students studying for postgraduate qualification.
In 1958, a 42 acre (170,000 m²) site was purchased to the west of the city centre, which had previously been farmland. After a competition, Richard Sheppard was appointed to design the new college. Building was completed by 1968 with nine main residential courts, separate graduate flats and a central building consisting of the dining hall, buttery, combination rooms and offices.
The dining hall is the largest in Cambridge. It measures 22m square, 9m to the base of the vault beams, and 11.6m to the highest point. It can cater for up to 430 guests in a formal dining arrangement.
The main college buildings and courtyards are arranged around a large central space, in which the library was placed. Only a few years later, being opened in 1974, an extension to the library building was added to house the Churchill Archives Centre. Its original purpose was to provide a home to Sir Winston's papers, however since then it has been endowed with papers from other political figures including former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, as well as former Leader of the Opposition Neil Kinnock, and those of eminent scientists and engineers including Reginald Victor Jones, Rosalind Franklin and Sir Frank Whittle.[6]
In 1992, The Møller Centre for Continuing Education[7] was built on the Churchill site, designed by Henning Larsen. It is a dedicated residential executive training and conference centre, aiming to bring together education and commerce.
Sheppard flats
As well as the main College buildings, Sheppard designed a separate group of flats, known as the Sheppard flats, for the use of married graduate students. These are located to one side of the College grounds, a short distance from the main buildings.
At the farthest end of the college grounds is the Chapel. Sheppard's original design placed it within the main building complex near the college main entrance.[8] The idea of having a religious building within a modern, scientifically-oriented academic institution deeply annoyed some of the original fellows, leading to the resignation of Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick in protest.[9] Eventually a compromise was found: the chapel was sited just to the west of the Sheppard Flats,[10] and funded and managed separately from the rest of the College itself, being tactfully referred to as "the Chapel at Churchill College". The chimney of the heating system at the front of the college substitutes visually for the missing chapel tower.
Crick had agreed to become a fellow on the basis that no chapel be placed at Churchill. A donation was later made by Lord Beaumont of Whitley to Churchill College for the establishment of one, and the majority of fellows voted in favour of it. Sir Winston Churchill wrote to him saying that no-one need enter the chapel unless they wished to do so, and therefore it did not need to be a problem. Crick, in short order, replied with a letter dated 12 October 1961 accompanied by a cheque for 10 Guineas saying that, if that were the case, the enclosed money should be used for the establishment of a brothel. This story was repeated by Crick in an interview with Matt Ridley (Crick's biographer[11]), quotes from which are reported in the Daily Telegraph.[12]
The Mastership of Churchill College is a Crown appointment. To date the College has had six Masters:
Sir John Cockcroft, (Master 1959–1967), Nobel Laureate in Physics, who split the atom.
Sir William Hawthorne (Master 1968–1983), who helped develop the jet engine.
Sir Hermann Bondi (Master 1983–1990), cosmologist who helped develop the Steady State theory of the universe.
Sir Alec Broers (Master 1990–1996), nanotechnologist (left to become Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge).
Sir John Boyd (Master 1996–2006), formerly British ambassador to Japan (1992–1996).
Sir David Wallace (Master 2006[13]-present), previously Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University (1994–2005) and Director of the Newton Institute (2006–2011).
The current Master is due to retire in 2014, and the Queen has appointed Dame Athene Donald to succeed him in October 2014.[14]
Student Life & Social Events
The student population is divided into two common rooms: the Junior Common Room (JCR) and Middle Common Room (MCR). The former contains undergraduates and the latter advanced students. Fourth year undergraduates studying towards their Masters may choose to be in either.[15] These student bodies organise various academic and social events as well as handling issues regarding welfare.
The college funds sports clubs and societies which provide entertainment for students. Every week of the Michaelmas and Lent terms, and twice in Easter term, Churchill is host to Pav, a music event unusual for Cambridge events in that it is free and open to all university members. The name Pav originates from the pavilion buildings of the college where the event was originally held. Since 1992, Pav has been held in the Buttery, the main bar area.
In the early years of the college's foundation, the college held a ball in May Week, in common with many older colleges. However, more recently Churchill has held a Spring Ball every February, close to Valentine's Day. Past themes have included Alice in Wonderland (2013), New York (2012), The Seven Deadly Sins (2011), A Hard Day's Night (2010), Tokyo: The Neon Sunrise (2009), Great Ball of Fire (2008), Back in the Day (2007), Karishma (2006), Showdown (2005), Arabian Nights (2004), Hakuna Matata (2003) and Ocean Bound (2002). The Ball has hosted a number of upcoming bands, such as The Wombats (2007) and The Noisettes (2008).
During May Week the JCR organise a free garden party. The event hosts performances from local bands and musicians, but has also hosted Man Like Me.
Students of the College run Churchill Casino,[16] a Cambridge based enterprise which provides professional casinos at various social events. Churchill Casino is frequently hired for Cambridge May Balls as well as balls at the University of Oxford and corporate events throughout the country. Profits have been donated back towards the college and to local charities.[17]
The MCR has its own reserved area, the Sandy Ashmore Room, where students may socialise . This incorporates a student-run bar known as the Vicious Penguin.[18] The MCR organises a range of activities including an annual conference, the Conference on Everything and hosts termly Guest Nights.[19] The Conference on Everything gives students an opportunity to present their own research as well as featuring talks from distinguished speakers including Dr Salah Al-Shaikhly, the Iraqi ambassador to the United Kingdom; Michael Green, Lucasian Professor and pioneer of string theory; Julian Huppert, scientist and MP for Cambridge; David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, and Nicholas Bingham, Senior Investigator at Imperial College London and Visiting Professor of Mathematics at the London School of Economics.[20]
With playing fields on site, unlike many other colleges, sport is an integral part of the college. As well as football pitches, a cricket pitch and others, the facilities include a gym, and tennis and squash courts.
Churchill College Football Club (CCFC) were the first college team to retain the Cambridge University Amateur Football League Division 1 title, winning it in 2005-06 and 2006-07. In the 2006-2007 season they also reached the final of Cuppers.
The College also has a successful boat club (Churchill College Boat Club) which in 2013 won the Pegasus Cup[21] (This trophy is awarded annually to the most successful college boat club competing in the Cambridge May Bumping Races[22]).
The college contains many examples of modern artwork including:
Four square walk-through – Dame Barbara Hepworth
Prints of Marilyn Monroe – Andy Warhol
Gemini (1973) – Denis Mitchell
Diagram of an Object (Second state) (1990)[23] – Dhruva Mistry
Spiral – Michael Gillespie (1993)[24]
Flight – Peter Lyon (1981)
Black Bag – Graham Murdoch (1990)
There are also works by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Bridget Riley, Patrick Caulfield, Sir Peter Blake, and Daphne Hardy Henrion.
Mistry's piece can be found at the front of college. Sir Anthony Caro's Forum[25] used to stand near it but it was removed before the start of the 2004-2005 academic year. In January 2007 its place was taken by Beast Alerted 1, a sculpture by British sculptor Lynn Chadwick.
Churchill is a relatively young College, and prides itself on being modern and forward looking. It has relatively few traditions. Students are not required to wear gowns at formal halls , with exception of certain college feasts.
In special formal meals such as Matriculation Dinner or Scholars' Feast the Master usually raises a toast, first to The Queen and then to "Sir Winston". In other formal halls this is usually made by a senior student once the fellows have left. This tradition started in the early 2000s with the students customarily toasting in the reverse order: "Sir Winston", followed by "The Queen".
Notable past and present fellows
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Roy Porter - Historian and prolific author
Stephen Roskill - Naval historian
George Steiner - Literary critic and linguistic theorist (Extraordinary Fellow at Churchill)
Correlli Barnett - Military historian
Jacques Barzun- Historian, cultural critic; (Extraordinary Fellow at Churchill while also Provost, Dean of Graduate studies, and Dean of Faculties at Columbia.)
Frank Hahn - Economist
George Gamow - Cosmologist (overseas fellow)
John Kinsella - Poet and novelist
Piers Brendon - Writer and historian
C. B. Macpherson - Political scientist
Andrew Sinclair - Historian, novelist, journalist.
C. P. Snow - Physicist and novelist
Sir Colin St John Wilson – Architect
Edward Bullard - Geophysicist, former head of the National Physical Laboratory
Archie Howie - Physicist
Richard Keynes - Physiologist
Michael Ashburner - Biologist, former head of the European Bioinformatics Institute and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Dick Tizard - Engineer
Michael Young - Sociologist and politician
Edward Craig - Philosopher
Nobel laureates (associated members and fellows)
Francis Crick - co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, Medicine, 1962
Antony Hewish - co-discoverer of pulsars, Physics, 1974
Gérard Debreu - Economics, 1983
Philip Warren Anderson - Physics, for the behaviour of electrons in magnetic solids, 1977
John Cockcroft - Physics, for using accelerated particles to study atomic nuclei, 1951
Wole Soyinka - Literature, 1986 (overseas fellow)
Eric Maskin - Economics, 2007 (overseas fellow)
Roger Tsien - Chemistry, 2008
Robert G. Edwards - Physiology or Medicine, 2010
Peter Diamond - Economics, 2010 (overseas fellow)
Mario Vargas Llosa - Literature, 2010 (overseas fellow)
John Gurdon - Physiology or Medicine, 2012
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Kari Blackburn - BBC World Service executive
Baroness Brinton - Liberal Democrat peer
Michael Burrows - Inventor of the first internet search machine, Alta Vista
Peter Fincham - former controller, BBC1
Sir Christopher Frayling - writer and educationalist
Mike Gascoyne - Chief Technical Officer of the Caterham F1 Formula One team
Sir Peter Gershon - author of the Gershon Review, chairman of Premier Farnell and Symbian Ltd.
John Gladwin - Bishop of Chelmsford and Chair of Citizens Advice
Michael Green - Lucasian Chair of Mathematics
Roger Helmer - United Kingdom Independence Party MEP
Diarmaid MacCulloch - Historian
Viscount Monckton - Writer and policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher
Simeon Nyachae - Kenyan Minister and 2002 presidential candidate
Brendan O'Neill - business executive
Dr Alexandra (Alix) Pryde - BBC Controller of Distribution
Luke Roberts - comedian
Ian Stewart - Mathematician
Gavin Strang - Labour MP
Bjarne Stroustrup - inventor of C++
Sir John Stuttard - Lord Mayor of London 2006/7
Fabian Tassano - Economist and author
Geoffrey Thomas - President of Kellogg College, Oxford
Geoff Travis - Founder of Rough Trade Records label and shops
Neil Turok - Mathematician
Stephen Tweedie - Software Developer
Rick Warden - Actor Band Of Brothers, Rome
Jeremy Warmsley - musician
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Day 53, Year of #Mygration: The UN's Global Compact for safe, orderly & regular migration
Last month, the International Organisation for Migration published its latest set of statistics. Their Missing Migrants Project (MMP) reported that 6,142 deaths and disappearances were recorded during migration globally last year, the third consecutive year that more than 6,000 fatalities were recorded by the project. IOM's Director General, William Lacy Swing, has stressed that "not all deaths and disappearances during migration are reported – in many remote regions of the world, bodies may never be found, and many migrants may never be identified."
In the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, adopted in September 2016, the General Assembly initiated the development of a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration in an urgent attempt to reduce these numbers. The UN describes the global compact as "a significant opportunity to improve the governance on migration, to address the challenges associated with today's migration, and to strengthen the contribution of migrants and migration to sustainable development."
The Open University has fed into the development of this global compact, led by OU academic, Dr Tendayi Bloom, Lecturer in Politics & International Studies. Along with Tendayi, a team of academic specialists from The Open University, including Professor Parvati Raghuram and Dr Avi Boukli, attended a number of thematic sessions.
In July of last year, Professor Parvati Raghuram and Dr Tendayi Bloom attended the fourth of the thematic sessions at the UN Headquarters in New York. Professor Raghuram spoke on the importance of student migration (1:20:54); Dr Bloom on the importance of considering the needs of stateless persons and the risk of statelessness in the context of migration (2:41:00).
In September, Dr Avi Boukli and Dr Tendayi Bloom, then participated in the thematic meetings relating to smuggling and trafficking of persons at the UN in Vienna. They gave a spoken intervention on behalf of The Open University, based on research into private sector migration management. This session was titled 'Smuggling of migrants, trafficking in persons and contemporary forms of slavery, including appropriate identification, protection and assistance to migrants and trafficking victims' and was the fifth of six thematic sessions that will form part of the process towards the creation of the first ever global compact on migration.
The session focused on processes of identification of trafficking victims, on tackling contemporary forms of smuggling and slavery, and on building comprehensive responses to trafficking and smuggling.
The migration compact is scheduled to be launched later this year. To find out more about the global compact, Frank Laczko, the director of the IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre in Berlin, explains why and how it came about.
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The US Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks at the end of an "infrastructure summit" of a non-partisan group of governors, US senators and members of the caucus for problem solvers of Congress at a press conference in the government building set up by the governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan Annapolis, Maryland, April 23, 2021.
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Senator Joe Manchin said he would support a more targeted version of President Joe Biden's $ 2 trillion infrastructure package before focusing on other issues as part of a separate plan.
"I think they should be separated because when you start putting so much into what we call a collective bill, it's very, very difficult for the public to understand," the moderate West Virginia Democrat said during one Interviews on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday.
Manchin, a key figure in negotiating the president's proposal, also praised the Republicans' counteroffer proposal, which is a fraction of the cost of Biden's proposal and rules out democratic goals such as caring for the elderly and disabled Americans.
Manchin said the GOP plan was "a good start" and a bipartisan proposal should address traditional infrastructure problems like repairing roads and bridges.
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"And they worked together. So we know that it is supported by both parties," said Manchin. "We just have to see if we've got everything we need. And we'll work on it together. So I'm very, very happy with it."
Biden has said he wants an infrastructure bill that Republicans also support, although it is unclear what kind of legislation would get bipartisan consensus.
Democrats could also move forward to getting their own bill passed through a budget vote that only requires a simple Senate majority if the GOP disagrees with a deal. However, Manchin has said that he opposes reconciliation.
West Virginia Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito, who co-sponsored the GOP bill with Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and John Barrasso of Wyoming, said Sunday that she received an "encouraging" response from the Biden administration of their plan.
"I've spoken to our ranking members. I've spoken to my committee chairmen. I've spoken to Democrats," Capito said on CNN. "This is an active conversation and I think it's a good start."
The president has met twice with Republican and Democratic lawmakers on infrastructure in the past few weeks and is expected to present the second part of his infrastructure and stimulus plan next week.
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CSR plc today unveiled RoadTunes ADK 3.0, a new application development kit (ADK) for its popular Bluetooth hands-free solution for in-car infotainment systems. This latest ADK release offers many exciting additions, including the latest version of CVC, CSR's echo and noise suppression solution, and wireless control of iOS-based products with the Made for iPod/iPhone/iPad feature, and is the first production-ready release of RoadTunes to offer customers the Livio Connect API.
Tunes ADK 3.0 is designed for tighter integration of smartphones to in-vehicle systems such as steering wheel switches, head unit controls or vehicle touchscreens, enabling drivers to control smartphone apps without diverting their attention to the smartphone touchscreen – helping to ensure that drivers keep their eyes on the road for a safer, more enjoyable ride. RoadTunes ADK 3.0 is delivered as a fully tested, production-ready ADK with a list of compatible Bluetooth handsets representing the most popular devices on the market.
RoadTunes ADK 3.0 is compatible with fully embedded connectivity and audio platforms such as CSR's BlueCore5™ Multimedia, a single-chip Bluetooth solution designed to facilitate integration of wireless multimedia functionality into embedded devices. Featuring a powerful 64 MIPS DSP and on-chip memory, BlueCore5 Multimedia offers best in-class audio quality, power consumption and radio performance, making it an ideal platform for automotive hands-free systems.
CSR and Livio engaged in a close collaboration to be able to offer Livio Connect API in this production-ready RoadTunes ADK 3.0 release. Livio Connect makes interacting with smartphone apps while driving safer, starting today with Internet radio, by mapping app controls to the in-vehicle MMI (man-machine interface). Tomorrow's designs will interact with not only Internet radio, but also traffic, parking and many other smartphone apps in much the same way as on-board music and navigation is controlled in the car today.
RoadTunes 3.0 ADK also incorporates the required software for Made for iPod/iPhone/iPad Bluetooth accessories. Running on the BlueCore5MM platform, RoadTunes 3.0 ADK satisfies the requirements for wirelessly interfacing with Apps running on iOS™ devices allowing for tighter integration, and safe use of iOS devices with in-vehicle systems. Cutting the cord between iOS device and in-vehicle system reduces cost and mechanical design complexity increasing the design options available to customers.
RoadTunes v3.0 ADK also includes a new version of CSR's leading echo and noise suppression solution, CVC™ v4.5.1, which brings wideband speech support to RoadTunes customers. CVC v4.5.1 will allow customers to provision their in-car Bluetooth enabled systems for the higher quality made possible by HD voice. A GSMA association initiative for increasing the bandwidth available for voice calls over cellular networks, HD voice is designed to dramatically improve the hands-free calling experience for drivers by delivering crystal clear voice calls, even in noisy environments, to the in-vehicle audio system via Bluetooth. HD voice is already available on cellular networks in Europe, the U.S. and Asia, with most of the major smartphone vendors already offering this technology.
Originally introduced in 2008, RoadTunes has been continually and substantially upgraded with improved performance, interoperability, and feature set enhancements to meet the evolving needs of the automotive marketplace. Designed to satisfy the range of existing and emerging Bluetooth applications in automobiles, RoadTunes can be quickly integrated into embedded infotainment systems, or into aftermarket products including PNDs, and offers rich Bluetooth Profile application software support and a simple high-level API. A choice of packaging ensures that developers have the right options, whether they are making low-cost PCBs or looking for a compact plug-on Bluetooth module. RoadTunes features full hardware and software components including a RISC and DSP processor, CVC™ noise reduction, and third-party echo cancellation. It also includes source code, allowing designers to fully customise their end designs.
Visit the CSR booth at Telematics Detroit 2012 (Stand 44) to see a demonstration of location, audio and connectivity products for the automotive industry powered by CSR.


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The mechanical pea sheller was invented in the 17th century. Typically they press the peas between two rolls, which squeeze out the peas; sometimes the rolls have ridges that slice the pods open. Pea shellers have different types of mechanisms to separate the shells from the pods and other debris. Washing machine rollers can be used, for instance. Currently, pea shellers are made in the US by Welborn Devices of Mississippi, and Lehman's Hardware of Ohio.

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Florence made landfall Friday morning as a hurricane, but the storm has only just begun for the Carolinas. Beyond Friday's torrential rain, multi-foot storm surge and widespread power outages, Florence will continue to batter the region through early next week. The storm's winds will slowly weaken, but some of its most devastating effects may be yet to come.
The National Weather Service says nearly 5 million people could witness at least 10 inches of rain.
"Although coastal storm surge flooding will gradually subside…it cannot be emphasized enough that another serious hazard associated with slow-moving Florence is and will be extremely heavy rainfall," the National Hurricane Center said.
Already, some areas in Southeast North Carolina have seen up to 20 inches of rain, and are fast closing in on North Carolina's rainfall record for a tropical storm or hurricane. Most river gauges in Southeast North Carolina were reporting moderate to major flooding.
"Catastrophic flash flooding to continue/worsen," said a bulletin from the National Weather Service, which had issued flash flood watches and warnings over most of eastern North Carolina and northeast South Carolina.
On Friday night, the storm will drift southwest into northeast South Carolina, around which the most severe effects will occur.
The storm surge, the rise in seawater above normally dry land at the coast, will continue to inundate some areas – especially around high tide.
A disastrous amount of rain will exacerbate the storm surge. While winds blow onshore, rainfall runoff will pile on top of the storm surge in some locations, particularly around inlets where rivers drain into the Atlantic Ocean, like Cape Fear and Jacksonville, N.C.
These same areas that are inundated with storm surge will also be raked by strong winds Friday night sustained at 30 to 50 mph with gusts as high as 50 to 70 mph — strong enough to bring down trees and knock out power.
On Saturday, winds back off to 25 to 35 mph with stronger gusts. By Sunday evening, winds should fall below 20 mph, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.
Into the weekend, as the winds start to slacken at the coast and the surge subsides, the rains are likely to keeping coming.
"We are forecasting flooding at multiple rivers in our area, some approaching major and record levels, starting tomorrow [Saturday] into next week," the Weather Service office in Wilmington tweeted.
Forecast models suggest the heaviest rain will focus near the coast around the South Carolina and North Carolina border. Through Sunday evening, 20 to 25 inches of rain could fall in southeast North Carolina and far northeast South Carolina on top of what has already fallen. These are numbers that far exceed what fell on the same region during Hurricane Matthew in 2016.
Enough rain will likely fall to break North Carolina's record for a tropical storm — 24 inches — set near Wilmington during Hurricane Floyd in 1999, said Greg Carbin, chief of forecast operations at the Weather Service's national prediction center.
Florence is forecast to "drop almost double" the volume of rain over the state compared to Floyd, tweeted Ryan Maue, meteorologist for weathermodels.com.
Even toward the interior of the Carolinas, away from the coast, rainfall totals of 5 to 10 inches will be widespread from Raleigh to Charlotte to Columbia, with isolated higher amounts.
Flash flooding and river flooding is likely if not inevitable over the next several days as torrential rain falls on saturated ground.
Nearly 14 million people are under a flash flood watch, meaning water levels could rise swiftly at any moment. As the water drains off mountains and hills through the weekend, rivers will swell beyond their banks and flood surrounding communities and farms.
The National Weather Service office in Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C. warned of an "increased threat of landslides and debris flows across the mountains and foothills this weekend" due to the forecast for up 8 to 12 inches of rain.
While the storm's winds will abate as it moves inland, they could continue to gust to tropical-storm-force – especially near its core. With all of the rain saturating the ground, trees will become vulnerable to falling.
The rain threat may not stop in the Carolinas. The storm, far weaker by early next week, is expected to track north along the Appalachian Mountains from Sunday to Wednesday. The still-soggy storm could drop several inches of rain on northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee as it turns north.
Southwest Virginia, West Virginia, the Ohio River Valley, and western and central Pennsylvania could receive several inches of rain from Florence's remnants on Monday and Tuesday that could lead to flash flooding, depending on where the heaviest rainfall rates develop.
5-day rainfall forecast from National Weather Service.
If the remnants track far enough east, Northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, may see a period of heavy rain. In these areas, the ground has already been saturated by weeks of higher-than-normal rainfall. Flash flooding, downed trees and power outages will be possible in these regions early next week before Florence finally departs the East Coast on Wednesday or Thursday.