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Verner Bickley
Dr. Bickley's book [Steps to Paradise and Beyond...]should remind us that the present emerges out of the past, and that much of what we today take for granted about our world derives from the ingenuity, labor and persistence of those who came before. – Charles E. Morrison, President, East-West Center, Hawaii.
For Verner's introduction to this book in the Proverse Readers' Club Series of author talks, see the youtube video at: https://youtu.be/TwxDOAql58g
VERNER BICKLEY has led culture and language learning projects in seven countries. After demobilisation, he was an Education Officer with the Singapore Government, a British Council Officer in Burma, Indonesia and Japan (where he was also First Secretary in the British Embassy Cultural Department, Tokyo), Head of Language Training for Saudi Arabian Airlines, Full Professor of English at the University of Hawaii and Director of the Culture Learning Institute of the East-West Centre in Honolulu. In Hong Kong, he was Assistant Director of Education and Director of the Government's Institute of Language in Education. He is Chairman of the Executive Committee of The English Speaking Union (Hong Kong ) and until recently was an Honorary Research Fellow, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong.
An experienced actor and radio presenter, Verner Bickley is the reader of the full audio version of The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889). Two of his non-fiction works have received Project Grants from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
The first volume of his Autobiography , Footfalls in the Memory (2009), is published by The Radcliffe Press in London and New York. The second volume, Steps to Paradise and Beyond: Hawaii to China, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and Elsewhere (2013) is published by Proverse, supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
In May 2010, Verner Bickley spoke about Footfalls at The British Council, Singapore and at Select Books. [Photo 2.] (Several chapters speak of Singapore in the 1950s, while he was living and working there.) After Steps to Paradise and Beyond was published, Verner visited Honolulu, where, among other activities, he gave a talk at the East-West Centre, well-attended, among others, by former colleagues and friends.
Between January 2013 and April 2015, the third edition of Verner's five book poetry anthology, Poems to Enjoy, was published. Each book has additional commentary and is accompanied by CDs with lively readings of all poems in the book.
Verner's published works also include more than another twenty books and many articles on language and culture.
Asked what book(s) he enjoyed reading as a child, Verner's reply was:
What is your favourite book? Not an easy question to answer with certainty. Favourite because it teaches something? Favourite because it entertains, thrills, disturbs? Favourite because villains meet their deserts and heroes triumph? All of these really.
As far as I now remember, I was introduced to the world of fiction, first in a young children's book (the name of which I have forgotten) and, later, in two magazines that began publication in 1908, or thereabouts. Entitled "Gem" and "Magnet," respectively, these now defunct publications featured boarding schools that, presumably, were of interest to many of their readers, whilst being socially and financially out of their reach. Equally unobtainable, for different reasons, was "The Swiss Family Robinson," the adventures of a family marooned on a desert island. I read this on most nights until someone turned out my light. For some reason, the book presented to me did not contain the name of the author. It was not for some years after I had read the book many times that the publisher revealed that he was a certain Johann David Wyss who died in the year 1812. As I grew older, I still maintained an interest in the Swiss Family's adventures, but was also captured by Richmal Crompton and enjoyed many of her thirty-nine books, all of which featured the eleven-year old "William" who never aged. Then it was the turn of E. Phillips Oppenheim and the wishful thinking in one of his many books, "The Inevitable Millionaires."
I would like to believe that my own two autobiographies will continue to be of as much interest as the fictitious publications of Wyss, Crompton and Oppenheim. A major difference, of course, is that "Footfalls Echo in the Memory," and "Steps to Paradise" reflect reality (or my version of it). As Dr Charles Morrison, the President of the East-West Center in Hawaii, has written, "Dr Bickley's book(s) should remind us that the present emerges out of the past, and that much of what we today take for granted about our world derives from the ingenuity; labour and persistence of those who came before."
BOOKS BY VERNER BICKLEY PUBLISHED BY PROVERSE HONG KONG
Poems to Enjoy, Books 1-5 (inclusive) 3rd edition (2013-2015). To view an edited video of Verner talking about these books, visit youtube: https://youtu.be/IbcUmVr4Kvc
Steps to Paradise and Beyond: Hawaii to China, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and Elsewhere (2013)
To an edited video of Verner talking about this book, visit youtube: https://youtu.be/TwxDOAql58g
Forward to Beijing! A Guide to the Summer Olympics (2008)
Verner contributed the chapter, "Differing Perceptions of Social Reality in Dr Stewart's Court", in A Magistrate's Court in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong (Proverse, 2005).
To see details of the books as well as purchase information, please visit our Hong Kong based distributors website, www.chineseupress.com
Books published by other publishers include several textbooks and a poetry anthology; also Cultural Relations in the Global Community (with Dr John Philip). Searching for Frederick and Language and the Young Learner were published in Hong Kong. His memoir, Footfalls Echo in the Memory, was published in London and New York in February, 2010.
Verner Bickley spoke at Kubrick, Yaumatei, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Here are links to a write-up and video of the event.
TALK AT THE HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL, 2011
Verner Bickley gave a talk, "The Old Empire", at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival,13 March 2011, providing a context for the writing and reading of Memoirs, Biographies and Autobiographies.
PROVERSE READERS' CLUB TALK
Saturday, 18 June, Dr Verner Bickley spoke as the editor of the anthology, Poems to Enjoy, now in its third edition -- five decades after its first publication. He used examples from Book 1 (for youngest readers) as well as from Book 5 (for older and adult readers) as examples of poems that, experience tells him, children like.
Asked what had been his basis for selecting the poems, Verner gave the simple answer, "That children should enjoy them". He read some of the poems, giving a virtuoso performance of some long-popular favourites, demonstrating clearly that he had been successful in selecting poems that adults as well as children enjoy.
Saturday, 27 February 2016, the fifth speaker in the Proverse Readers' Club series was Proverse Publisher and Author, Verner Bickley. Verner delivered a very well-prepared and wide-ranging talk, centering on his experience in Hawaii during the period 1972-1980, when he was Director of the Culture Learning Institute of the East-West Centre.
Thoughtful and thought-provoking comments and questions were given by those attending. A lighter moment was provided by Viki Radford, who asked what Verner found the most surprising, when in Hawaii. His answer? -- "That there was never time to go to the beach!"
Verner's book, "Steps to Paradise and Beyond: Hawaii to China, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and elsewhere" is available from Hong Kong bookshops, including Dymocks Books and Cafe Discovery Bay, Lantau, Hong Kong.
TALK TO RAS(HKB)
Dr Verner Bickley, MBE, spoke Thursday, 5 July 2012, to the ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY Hong Kong Branch, on the subject, "Time Present and Time Past: Some personal reminiscences of Singapore, Hong Kong, Burma, Indonesia and Japan".
Several comments and questions were raised by members of the audience and the answers were comprehensive, well-informed and extremely interesting.
Dr Verner Bickley's first encounter with Asia took place when he was 19 years old and a cypher officer in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (RNVR).
It was an interesting time in history, with India on the fringe of independence. One manifestation of this was a mutiny staged by the then Royal Indian Navy, for reasons that are described in Verner's book, Footfalls Echo in the Memory. A year later, in Ceylon, Verner sat patient - but wondering - in a Trincomalee to Colombo train that, for political reasons, was deserted without warning by its Sinhalese, anti-colonial crew.
Back in Britain, after demobilization and some interesting experiences, Verner completed his university education and was appointed to the Colonial Service.
His first posting was to the premier boys' school in Singapore, Raffles Institution (earlier attended by late Minister Mentor, Mr Lee Kwan Yu).
Later, Verner became Head of the English Department at the Singapore Teachers' Training College, then situated near to Orchard Road, a street that had not developed much beyond its original function as a nutmeg plantation.
In 1959, Verner joined the British Council and was posted to Burma during the U Nu regime. In his talk, he spoke about his encounter with UNu, and give us a taste of Nu's political play, the Wages of Sin (Verner has a signed copy of this). He told us about his acquaintance in Kyaukpyu in the Arakan with the brave medical missionary, Ada Louise Gulliver, and the three "bad things" that she experienced.
Later, in wartimeSaigon,Verner was not under fire, but a well-meaning Vietnamese official trapped Verner's thumb in his car door. Hong Kong came next, for a conference − and for thumb treatment!
Finally Verner took us to Japan and a visit to the Imperial Palace where he was one of a number of diplomatic representatives received by Emperor Hirohito. Later, he was involved, as all Embassy and British Council officers were, in the arrangements for the impossibly busy visits in 1969 of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon (for a "British Week") and, in 1970, for Prince Charles's first public visit overseas to visit the 1970 Osaka Expo.
In 1971, Verner was appointed Director of the Culture Learning Institute of the East-West Center in Hawaii. In 1983, he returned to Asia as Assistant Director of Education and as Founder Director of the Institute of Language in Education, from which post he retired in 1992.
He is now Chairman of the English-Speaking Union in Hong Kong; Managing Director of Proverse Publishers and Joint Founder (with his wife, Gillian) of the International Proverse Prize for unpublished writing. This is awarded annually.
Dr Bickley had radio and television experience as continuity announcer with the former BBC Far Eastern Station and as writer, actor and script writer for the NHK in Japan; Radio Malaya (now Radio Singapore); and RadioRepublik Indonesia.
In addition to several textbooks and a poetry anthology, Dr Bickley's publications include Cultural Relations in the Global Community (with Dr John Philip), Searching for Frederick; Language and the Young Learner in Hong Kong; and Forward to Beijing (about the 2008 Olympics). His memoir, Footfalls Echo in the Memory, was published in London and New York in February, 2010.
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2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Features
The 2021 Chevy Corvette Stingray is offered in three trim levels namely 1LT, 2LT, and 3LT. The base 1LT trim starts at an MSRP of $60,995 and offers leather seats, keyless entry with push-button start, a 12-inch digital instrumentation display, an 8-inch touchscreen infotainment system, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration, and a 10-speaker Bose audio system as standard.
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Addition to the 1LT trim:
Keyless entry with push-button start
Heated and ventilated seats
Performance data recorder
12-inch digital instrumentation display
Digital rearview mirror
An 8-inch touchscreen infotainment system
Suede headliner
4G LTE Wi-Fi internet connection
14-speaker Bose audio system
GT2 sport seats
Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration
Premium leather upholstery
Leather-wrapped interior panels
The 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is a value for money option for the segment. It offers the same engine for all the trim levels you get. We recommend going with the 2LT trims as it gets all the features that you expect at this price point. The 3LT trim does not justify the extra price as the upgrades are not that big. Instead, you can invest that money to get some optional driver aids and optional packages for extra features.
2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Engine and Performance
All the trims of the 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray are powered by a 6.2L naturally aspirated V8 engine. The power output also remains the same for all the trim levels. The engine produces 490 horsepower and 465 lb-feet of torque. The engine comes mated to an 8-speed automatic transmission. The rear-wheel-drive drivetrain makes the package even more fun to drive. The power output of the Chevy Corvette is already among the best at that price if not the best. The aerodynamic design and excellent power-to-weight ratio go really well in the favor of the Chevy Corvette.
The Chevy Corvette Stingray will not at all disappoint you when it comes to performance. The engine is a powerhouse in the literal sense and Chevy has managed to get good performance from the V8. That shows really well in the acceleration figures of the car. The 2021 Chevrolet Corvette takes only 2.9 seconds to reach from 0 to 60 miles per hour. The acceleration doesn't slow down there and it completes the quarter-mile run in 11.2 seconds. The best thing about the naturally aspirated engine is that you don't need to wait for the turbo to kick in. Power is readily available whenever you put your right foot down.
2021 Porsche 911 Carrera S Coupe
2021 Mercedes-AMG GT Coupe
6.2L NA V8
4.0L Twin-Turbo V8
Power (hp @ rpm)
490 @ 6,450
Torque (lb-ft @ rpm)
The 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray outperforms all its competitors including the ones that cost double the price of the Corvette in outright acceleration. The 2021 Audi R8 Coupe takes the lead in the quarter-mile run. However, Chevy beats the Audi R8 in the 0 to 60 mph sprint. All the cars in the competition perform really well and the difference remains very marginal.
How well does the 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray handle?
You might not expect a sports car by Chevy at this price point to be a great handler. Surprisingly, you are wrong here as the Corvette Stingray has proper sports car handling characteristics. The two-spoke steering wheel is different from any conventional steering wheel design that you see. It is easy to hold and offers great confidence. The steering wheel is precise and responds to the driver inputs real quick. It makes changing lanes a simple task as the car changes lanes quickly even at high speeds.
The steering wheel is not the only thing that helps the Chevy Corvette Stingray become a great handling car. It also gets adaptive suspension as standard with the 2021 model year. The sporty suspension does not feel floaty and is one of the prime reasons for such great handling. That doesn't mean the ride gets compromised and Corvette manages a comfortable ride quality even with such stellar handling. The aerodynamic exterior design of the Corvette Stingray also plays a role in enhancing the driving dynamics of the car.
How good is the braking performance of the 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray?
The Chevy Corvette Stingray gets an impressive set of braking hardware to stop the beats. The 2021 Corvette Stingray gets 13.6-inch brake rotors for the front wheels while the rear wheels get 12.6-inch rotors. The brakes perform pretty well on the roads. You get positive feedback from the brake paddle. The braking is good enough to inspire good confidence in the corners which makes it a great choice for the tracks too. The 2021 Corvette takes only 91 feet to come to a complete halt from 60 miles per hour which already qualifies among the best.
Brake Rotors: Front (inches)
Brake Rotors: Rear (inches)
60-0 (feet)
The 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray takes the least braking distance to stop from 60 mph. The 2021 Audi R8 Coupe and the 2021 Mercedes-AMG GT Coupe take identical time to stop from the same speed. The 2021 Porsche 911 Carrera S Coupe takes the longest distance to stop from 60 mph which is not that bad either. All the cars in the comparison impress with their braking performance.
2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Fuel Economy
The Chevy Corvette comes with a massive 6.2L naturally aspirated engine and some serious power figures under the hood. The combination is obviously not a great thing for fuel economy figures. The 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray delivers 18 mpg in the city, 26 mpg on the highway, and a combined fuel economy of 22 mpg. The fuel economy figures can not be considered bad for the segment but is not a great fuel economy either. The Corvette gets an 18.5-gallon fuel tank that can go all the way up to 481 miles on a full tank.
Fuel Capacity (Gallons)
Range (City/Highway/Combined, in Miles)
Although the 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray does not offer great fuel efficiency, it is still better than all the other rivals. It also manages to offer the best highway range in the segment. The 2021 Porsche 911 Carrera S Coupe comes next in terms of fuel efficiency but lacks in fuel tank capacity. The 2021 Mercedes-AMG GT Coupe offers decent fuel efficiency and the Audi R8 comes at last position.
2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Interior
The interior of the 2021 Chevy Corvette Stingray is nothing like any other Chevy. It is hands down the best Chevy that you can get in terms of interior quality. Getting in and out of the car requires some effort but once you get inside the cabin, there is nothing to complain about. The sports seats offer generous adjustability options to get the right driving position. Although you sit a bit lower to the dashboard, the visibility at the front is pretty good. We can not say the same about the rear as the rear visibility is quite compromised.
The dashboard feels premium and way better than any other Chevy model. The 12-inch digital instrumentation display offers pretty good information. Every control in the cabin is tilted towards the driver so that you do not get distracted while driving. There is a long central tunnel in between that separates the driver and the passenger. It gives you the real cocooned feeling on the driver's seat in literal words. The central tunnel gets a zillion buttons for cabin controls.
Front Row (Head/Shoulder/Leg) (in)
37.9/54.4/42.8
39/55/40.9
Rear Row (Head/Shoulder/Leg) (in)
Cargo Capacity (cu ft)
The 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray offers pretty good space inside the cabin. The cargo area is also the best in its class. It gets a cargo area in both front and rear as the engine is mounted in the middle. The 2021 Mercedes-AMG GT Coupe is the most spacious coupe for the driver and the passenger. The 2021 Porsche 911 Carrera S Coupe is the only sports coupe in the segment that comes in a 4-seater configuration at least on paper. Standout infotainment features are:
8-way power seats
Power adjustable leather-wrapped steering wheel
Keyless entry and ignition
What is there to keep you entertained in the 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray?
The 2021 Chevy Corvette does not actually need any infotainment system for entertainment purposes. Just getting behind the wheel of the Corvette is more entertaining than anything else. Still, Chevy offers a good list of options for the infotainment of the Corvette. It gets an 8-inch touchscreen infotainment display that runs the Chevrolet Infotainment 3 Plus system.
The screen is responsive and user-friendly. The 2021 model year adds wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as standard. It also supports Near Field Communication (NFC) that allows you to connect your smartphone to the infotainment system wirelessly. You also get Wi-Fi hotspot capabilities for better connectivity. The music is handled via a 10-speaker Bose audio system that sounds pretty well. Standout infotainment features include:
An 8-inch touchscreen infotainment display
Chevrolet Infotainment 3 Plus system
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Wi-Fi hotspot capability
SiriusXM radio
2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Exterior
The 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is nothing less than an eye-turner when you look at it from the outside. You will not recognize it as a Chevy if you hide the Chevrolet badge on the car. The exterior look is one of the major reasons why the Corvette Stingray is so popular. The muscular look of the Corvette might put you into confusion that it is a sports coupe or a muscle car.
The front gets an elongated headlights design that looks just stunning. The bonnet gets sharp curves going on it that add a sense of drama to the exterior. The same goes for the sides and the rear of the car. The sides get huge air vents on both sides that are helpful in cooling the mid-mounted engine. The sharp curves follow their way to the rear of the car too. You can select the roof to be a carbon-fiber roof or a transparent roof to have an eye on the sky in case it falls down.
Ground Clearance (inches)
Wheelbase (inches)
The 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is the longest car in the segment and also comes with the longest wheelbase. The 2021 Audi R8 Coupe remains the shortest of the lot. The 2021 Porsche 911 Carrera S Coupe has the shortest wheelbase but is also the widest car in the competition. The 2021 Mercedes-AMG GT Coupe sits the lowest to the ground and finds its balance in the overall dimensions. Standout exterior features are:
20-inch rear wheels and 19-inch front wheels
Removable roof panel
Light-tinted glass
2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Safety
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) or the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) have not crash-tested the 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray yet. It is tough to comment on the safety of the car with the crash-test ratings. However, safety does not seem to be one of the fortes of the Chevy Corvette.
Chevy has cut corners in terms of the safety of the Corvette for sure. The standard driver assistance features are not at all impressive and most of the driver aids remain optional. The body of the Chevy Corvette is well-built using high-strength materials like carbon fiber. The safety features include:
Side blind-zone alert
Rear-cross traffic alert
2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Competition
2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray vs. 2021 Porsche 911 Carrera S Coupe
The Porsche 911 is one of the most practical Porsche sports cars that you can buy for decades now. The 911 has a good reputation in the sports car territory for the reliability and performance that it offers. The Porsche 911 has been the sports car that has been used as a daily commuter by many enthusiasts for a long time now. The Chevy Corvette is not a new car either and it is hard to defeat the Chevy at the price point that it is offered.
2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray vs. 2021 Audi R8 Coupe
The Audi R8 has found its place in the supercar territory for a while now. The evolution in the R8 in the last decade has completely changed the game for the Audi R8. The performance and handling of the R8 are at par with the best in the segment. But the Chevy Corvette offers much of that at a relatively low price. You do not have to compromise that much with the Corvette for the money it saves and it surely does offer more cars for your money.
2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray vs. 2021 Mercedes-AMG GT Coupe
The 2021 Mercedes-AMG GT Coupe offers a more spacious cabin compared to the Chevy Corvette. The cabin quality of the Merc is hands-down better between the two. However, the Chevy Corvette takes over the Merc in almost every other aspect. The Corvette Stingray is faster, more fuel-efficient, and more affordable than the Mercedes-AMG GT.
2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Final Verdict
The Chevy Corvette Stingray is one of the rare cars that can be easily recommended to someone who is looking for something similar. The performance from the massive 6.2L V8 is unmatchable even by the sports car that cost double in price. The muscular exterior design is so damn attractive. The interior is also better than the other Chevy out there and it gives you the proper cocooned inside seat experience. The Chevy Corvette offers all that at a relatively affordable price.
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The City of South Perth has completed its significant review of the City's Strategic Community Plan 2015-2025 to guide and inform the development of the City, its strategies, and projects over the next 10 years.
Thank you to those who participated in the Vision 2027 project. All interim reports and documents can be viewed in the Document Library, alongside the new Strategic Community Plan 2017-2027, which was adopted by Council in August 2017. The City has also prepared a summary document of the Plan which provides a succinct overview of the Plan.
A Corporate Business Plan will now be developed to outline how the City will meet the aspirations and achieve the priorities developed by the community in the Plan.
For more information about the Strategic Community Plan please visit the City's website.
The City of South Perth has officially launched its new Strategic Community Plan, a guiding document for the City and community over the next 10 years.
The Strategic Community Plan 2017-2027 builds on the City's previous Strategic Community Plan 2013-2023. It is a long term, overarching strategy and planning document that outlines the community's aspirations and priorities for the future, setting out the key strategies required to achieve these.
The City will use the Plan to: define clear priorities, processes, long and short-term plans; prioritise budget and resource allocations; direct land use, infrastructure, services and asset management, operations and planning; direct workforce planning and inform other key strategies and plans.
A major review of the Plan was undertaken in November 2016 through the Vision 2027 community and stakeholder engagement project, with approximately 1,300 community members and stakeholders taking part in the consultation, completing the Vision 2027 survey and attending workshops. The process helped the City to understand what matters most to the community and guide the way in which it collectively plans for the future and deliver services.
In consideration of the feedback received from the community and stakeholders, the priorities and aspirations have been grouped into four broad categories to form the new strategic directions for the Plan; Community, Economy, Environment (Built and Natural) and Leadership.
The draft Plan was released for public comment in July 2017, with the final Plan presented to Council and endorsed at the September 2017 Council meeting.
The Plan is a living document which is reviewed in part every two years with a full review every four years in order to reflect the community's changing aspirations and priorities.
"Emphasised in this new Strategic Community Plan is the importance of fostering a diverse, connected, safe and engaged community, a place where everyone feels welcome. Protecting the environment through the promotion of biodiversity and improving the amenity value and sustainable uses of our streetscapes, public open space and foreshores is important to everyone. The plan articulates the central role innovation and learning play in strengthening our identity as an inclusive community harnessing new technologies while protecting and maintaining our natural environment," City of South Perth Mayor Sue Doherty said.
"We live in a very special City, one that offers a lifestyle underpinned by a blend of beautiful natural areas and excellent recreational opportunities. A key challenge we face is to ensure that local development and growth complements our City's unique character and enhances our already strong sense of place.
"It is an incredible responsibility to plan for the social, environmental and economic future of a whole City. A Council needs to show bold leadership and have the ability to make tough decisions between competing priorities, manage limited resources, maintain focus on the 'big picture' and act for the greater good of the whole City. To achieve this complex task the City must have a clear direction and this is the reason why we have a Strategic Community Plan. As the City's overarching document, it guides everything we do as a City, ensuring every step we take is a step towards achieving our community's vision for the future.
To view the Plan or a summary of the Plan see the document links below. Alternatively, hard copies are available to view at the Civic Centre and Manning and South Perth libraries.
The City of South Perth's Strategic Community Plan 2017-2027 has been drafted following extensive consultation and engagement with the community and stakeholders.
The Plan identifies the City's vision and priorities for the next 10 years and has a strong emphasis on the community's aspirations, priorities and vision for the City's future.
The Plan was presented to the Council at the June 2017 Council Meeting and the City is now inviting community and stakeholder feedback on the Plan via the City's online engagement portal Your Say South Perth. Hardcopies of the Plan and survey are available to view and complete at South Perth and Manning Libraries.
Members of the public will have the opportunity to comment on the strategies within the the Plan which have been grouped in four categories; Community, Economic, Environment (Built and Natural) and Leadership.
Feedback opens on Monday 3 July and closes 5pm Monday 31 July 2017. Following the conclusion of the consultation, public comments will be considered and the final Plan will be presented to Council for adoption in August 2017.
A Corporate Business Plan will then be developed to outline how the City will meet the aspirations and achieve the priorities developed by the community in the Plan.
The City thanks everyone who has contributed their feedback, thoughts and ideas to this major review of the Plan.
Visit Your Say South Perth to provide your feedback on the Draft Plan.
The Vision 2027 workshops concluded this week, with the final workshop held on Monday 27 March 2017.
Approximately 60 people participated in the four workshops and discussed visions and strategies in the key areas of economy and lifestyle, natural environment and our community.
The workshops were facilitated by Metrix Consulting, who will analyse the feedback from the workshops and provide the City with a report. The City's Strategic Community Plan 2017-2027 will then be drafted taking on board the community and stakeholder feedback from the survey and workshops. The draft Plan will be presented to Council in May 2017 then advertised for public comment.
Thank you to everyone who gave up their time to attend the workshops and share their views. To keep up to date on the progress of Vision 2027, please visit the Your Say South Perth community engagement portal.
Results from the City of South Perth's Vision 2027 survey have been analysed, with the key findings outlining the community's priorities and aspirations for the City and helping shape the future vision.
What are the three things you like most about living in or visiting the City?
What three ideas do you have that would make the City a better place to live or visit?
What priorities would you like the City to focus on over the next 10 years?
Almost 1,200 responses were collected between 7 November and 12 December 2016.
"It was great to have such an overwhelming response to the Vision 2027 survey with people commenting on everything from future development, parking and traffic to activation of the South Perth foreshore," Mayor Sue Doherty said.
"The City's proximity to Perth CBD, the Swan River and the centrality of South Perth are hugely important to our community, as are the village atmosphere and community spirit.
"The natural environment, the river, beautiful parks, open spaces and leafy streetscapes also rated highly when people were asked what they liked most about living in, or visiting the City.
"Activating the café, restaurant and bar scene had widespread support too. It was particularly popular amongst the younger demographic, as was improving the retail offering.
The information gathered has been used to design upcoming community and stakeholder workshops being held from 22 to 27 March 2017. With the survey outcomes and responses to be discussed further in detail with the community, who will help to develop strategies for the Strategic Community Plan.
"Over 800 people from our community have registered their interest in coming to a workshop. It's encouraging that so many are wanting to share their ideas and thoughts for the future of our City," Mayor Doherty said.
"At these workshops the community will work to create a vision for the City in each of the workshop focus areas, review current strategies and create new ones.
Places are limited at the workshops. To find out more visit Your Say South Perth and register by 5pm Friday 10 March 2017.
The outcomes from the workshops will be used to develop strategies for the Strategic Community Plan 2017-2027. The draft Plan will be released for community and stakeholder feedback in May 2017, with the final Plan presented to Council in July 2017. Once the Plan has been adopted by Council, a Corporate Business Plan will be developed to outline how the City will meet the aspirations and achieve the priorities in the Strategic Community Plan 2017-2027.
The City's Vision 2027 survey has concluded, with 1197 people taking part and helping to shape the City's priorities for the next 10 years.
Part of a major review of the City's 10 year Strategic Community Plan, the survey was open from 7 November to 9 December 2016 with the community invited to share their vision for the City's future.
The comments and ideas collected will inform Stage Two of the Vision 2027 consultation process which includes community and stakeholder workshops to be held in March 2017.
If you'd like to continue the conversation and attend a Vision 2027 workshop in March 2017, register your interest here.
Stage Three of Vision 2027 will see the draft 2017-2027 Strategic Community Plan released for community and stakeholder feedback in April 2017, with the final plan presented to Council in June 2017.
Have Your Say by 9 December!
The City is seeking feedback from the community and stakeholders to ensure that the new Strategic Community Plan reflects your aspirations, priorities and vision for the future of the City.
Tell us your ideas - complete this survey by Friday 9 December 2016.
Your responses to this survey will be analysed and brought to the workshops in Stage Two of this consultation in February 2017.
Vision 2027: What Can You See?
The City of South Perth is embarking on a major review of its 10 year Strategic Community Plan and is seeking community input. This is your chance to have your say about the City's future, and contribute to shaping the City's priorities for the next 10 years.
Local residents, ratepayers, businesses, families, youth, seniors, community and special interest groups, schools and universities, visitors and volunteers are all invited to participate in Vision 2027 by completing an online or hardcopy survey and sharing their vision for the City's future.
From 7 November to 9 December 2016 members of the community can complete the Vision 2027 survey by visiting the City's Your Say South Perth online engagement portal or by picking up a hardcopy of the survey from selected City venues. Information and responses collected will help to reshape the City's vision and priorities with the final outcome of this significant review being the 2017-2027 Strategic Community Plan. The plan will have a strong emphasis on the community's aspirations, priorities and vision for the City's future.
"This process involves extensive community consultation and engagement to guide and inform the development of the City, its strategies, and projects over the next 10 years," Mayor Sue Doherty said.
Hardcopy surveys will be available to complete from City venues including; Civic Centre, Operations Centre, South Perth Library, Manning Library, Manning Men's Shed, South Perth Senior Citizens Centre, Manning Senior Citizens Centre, George Burnett Leisure Centre and Old Mill.


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Ivan Melnikov on the current events in Venezuela:
"I believe that the victory of Nicolas Maduro is natural. He is a promising and interesting politician, a son of the people, a longtime colleague and follower of Hugo Chavez, and the Chavez's politics enjoys a stable and popular support in Venezuela, is admired in many countries around the globe.
First Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee,
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma
I believe the claims of Mr. Capriles's supporters have no sense. The recount would lead to the similar result: to the victory of Comrade Nicolas Maduro. The Venezuela's electoral system is very reliable, it is credible. The fact that the gap between the results of Maduro and Capriles is not very big – only confirms that the elections were fair, with real competition and unde5r equal conditions.
As for the protests, after the tragic passing away of the great leader, Hugo Chavez, many understood that the Venezuelan opposition would exploit the situation, bestir the country during and after the elections. So that there is nothing unexpected in the so-called "saucepan riots".
I am convinced that these sentiments are seriously stimulated by the United States. They use the technology in many countries. It is no accident that the White House spokesman Jay Curry has openly called for a recount. In our view, this is a gross interference in the internal affairs of an independent state. But the U.S. just want Venezuela to lose this independence, they will be violent and aggressive advocate for the abolishment of the election results, the change of the Chavez-Maduro course.
In my opinion, in this difficult situation, the people of Venezuela must rally around their new leader, remember under which high price country won its freedom, and the National Electoral Council should stand firm. One should in any way prevent illegal interception of power.
This view is shared by the majority of Russian citizens that are most sympathetic to Venezuela and cherish those warm relations that exist between our two countries in the last fifteen years. I recall that Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Comrade Maduro. In Russia, there is no doubt in his victory, but we are very anxious at heart because of what is happening now in Caracas and other cities".


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Why all candidates can't just fill out one questionnaire so he knows who they are?
Blog, Elections
The Citizens Research Council and WDET (Public Radio in Detroit – 101.9 FM) provided an opportunity for listeners and website visitors to pose questions in anticipation of the November 7 election.
Listener Chuck Fellows wanted to know why all candidates can't just fill out one questionnaire so he knows who they are.
Some cursory research found that the state elections bureaus (usually within the state departments) serve this role. But, having the government play this role creates first amendment questions. The courts in the past have made it clear that government should play a very limited role in being the arbiter of political information. Additionally, the task would be much more difficult in Michigan with officials elected to more than 1,800 counties, cities, villages, and townships and more than 500 independent school districts.
Usually information about candidates is gathered and shared by not-for-profit organizations. Mr. Fellows' question referenced the Vote Smart questionnaire.
Vote Smart is a not-for-profit organization located in Des Moines, Iowa, that compiles biographical information, public statements and voting records for candidates and sends them surveys. When the candidates answer Vote Smart questionnaires, the results are put online so voters can compare similar information and not have to wade through the candidates' own promotional websites.
The irony is that Mr. Fellows referenced Vote Smart just ahead of the election in an odd-numbered year. The Vote Smart it's questionnaire is only for statewide offices – such as governors, legislators and attorneys general. Not city councils, mayors and clerks, which are what are on Michigan ballots this fall and what Fellows wanted to know about.
The League of Women Voters historically has played an active role in amassing and sharing candidate information. Their Vote411 portal for accessing candidate information is generally available for elections at all levels.
The Citizens Research Council was created with the idea that better information leads to better government. We support all people becoming informed voters before heading to the polls.
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Michigan's Broken Model of Fiscal Federalism
MHPF – Challenges Ahead in Balancing the State Budget
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The nation turns its attention to the Michigan Independent Citizens Commission in light of the Supreme Court's gerrymandering decision
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William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twelve on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive and impose order quickly evolves from a battle against nature into a battle against their own primitive instincts. Golding's portrayal of the collapse of social order into chaos draws the fine line between innocence and savagery.
"Lord of the Flies is one of my favorite books. I still read it every couple of years."
—Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games trilogy
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Hi Carol, We only cover North America. In The 2014 Old Farmer's Almanac, September is predicted to be rainier and warmer than normal, with several hurricane threats in September. I'm sorry that it probably not comforting. Hurricanes are challenging to predict as there are many variables. For example, the experts at Colorado State and around the globe predicted a very active season this year and it was a bust. So, it's highly variable.
I got married in August 2001 in Caribbean and it was beautiful, hot nut gorgeous. Pray and check the weather channel.
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Hideaway 100 of 1979: 40-21
Welcome to the first half of the Top 40 of the Hideaway 100 of 1979. Before we go any further, please allow me to give credit where credit is due. With only one or two exceptions, the record label images used in this series of countdown posts (and on The Hideaway in general) are from my fellow discogs posters. As a couple of somewhat disgruntled anonymous viewers have pointed out, the images do not always match the original US 45 matrix numbers I've included on the jukebox strips and that is entirely on me - I'm not trying to present an accurate or authoritative discography here; I simply pick the images I like best whether or not they match the matrix. Oh and those nifty jukebox style title strips beneath each label were made online at Mike's Arcade as one entire sheet of 20 strips and then painstakingly edited to give me 20 individual strips. (This is why the borders are not always equal.) Lastly, some of the names of people in my recollections have been changed intentionally to protect their privacy while others are merely misremembered with no offense or slight intended. Now on with the countdown...
Anita Ward sure can coo can't she? And that uniquely disco popping sound is relentless, bordering on annoying but I like it. My "Ring Me Bell" story takes place in a cow pasture in Texas with me and my Texas Grandpa putting up barbed wire fences while the cows stared at us as cows do. He was a pretty easy going guy, great Grandpa material, and he let me pick the radio stations we listened to in the truck with the doors wide open out there in the middle of God's Country. I was somewhat worried that each new song played on this station we tuned in from Houston, about 72 miles away, was gonna be the one where he said "turn that damn thing off" or something like that. He didn't get mad often but when he did - that is what cost him his longtime job and pension at the tractor trailer plant he worked at, a fight at lunchtime. But Grandpa never even seemed to pay attention to the music - how does one do that? Tragically, he dropped dead from a massive heart attack in a different Texas cow pasture a little over a decade later at the way too young age of 55, after unloading several bales of hay from that same ol' pick'em up truck.
Have very vivid memories of listening to this song on WLRW back in 1979 and 1980. The sound was remarkably clean, quiet and even shimmery as Kenny whispers the verses before erupting into full-joy mode on the choruses. Maybe it's because I did not spent a lot of time in churches growing up but this song sounds churchy to me in a very good way. It also checks the yacht rock, the soft rock and the chilling by the pool after dark boxes. Fairly certain "This Is It" appears on at least a dozen or more of my Spotify playlists and at least two K-tel albums from 1980, Wings Of Sound and Hitline.
I like how it says "short stereo" on the label above - brings to mind different images than intended I know. Being a vinyl nerd is so much fun and it goes great with being obsessive compulsive as well as a trivia freak. But back to this record, this song. Another cover version (anyone keeping count how many we've had so far?) given an electrifying disco makeover by Amii Stewart. While I really, really enjoy listening to this song I gotta admit to liking it a little less after seeing Stewart's over-the-top performance on The Midnight Special. (I know, I know, I'm a bad person. I tell my counselor that all the time.) I think it was one of the rare lip-synced performances on the show plus that headgear she was wearing looked like something a comic-book supervillian would wear. But back to the song again, I like the 3:45 Disco Stereo edit because it has those thunderous drums at the beginning. And once the song begins, there is that little guitar (keyboard?) squiggle that gets my attention every time. But basically the rhythm track just makes me want to move around the place. So good. Of course, given the choice, I'm going for the full-blown twelve inch disco version with forty seconds of those drums at the beginning.
Not a lot of kids in my small circle of friends seemed to care for this song in 1979. Too bluesy? Too folksy? Too jazzy? I don't know. It was alright back then, I was 13 and liked what I liked but Rickie Lee has only grown on me as we both got older but this song's place up here in the Top 40 demonstrates something. The flipside of this single, a song which follows "Chuck E.'s In Love" on her self-titled debut album as well, is "On Saturday Afternoons in 1963" was another song heard in the film Little Darlings.
Robert Palmer covering a song and making it his own. Nothing shocking about that at all. This time around, he butches up Moon Martin's track with a more bluesy vocal performance, while his band amps up the four on the floor swagrock with a little synthesizer in the mix, echoing the guitar solo. "Bad Case Of Lovin' You" got lots of play on WLS and though I never picked up this pretty little 45, I had the song on two 1980 K-Tel albums: Hitline and The Rock Album. While I prefer Palmer's original recording of the song (which I eventually picked up on an Island Treasures CD single from 1990) some folks like the this-is-what-was-wrong-with-the-Eighties remix that appeared on the 1991 compilation, Addictions, Vol. 1. No. Just no. As an antidote, try Koko Taylor's straight-up blues cover.
Nicolette sure had a purdy voice. And how in the world did a Neil Young song get the disco lite treatment? Young released his version on his infamous Comes A Time album, which he allegedly was so unhappy with because of a damaged master tape, he bought some 200,000 copies of the album to take it off the market, stating with a straight face that he used the records to roof a barn. Listening to Neil's approved version of the CD, remastered by him from his safety copy of the original master, and I really enjoy his delicate reading of the song but it just doesn't hold a candle to what Nicolette offers up. From the opening sax riff, the song is just about sheer perfection. When I discovered a few years back that there was an actual disco remix of the track by my man Jim Burgess, I gained an all-new appreciation for the song.
Lionel Richie, being born and raised in Alabama, let's his country boy roots show through on this moving song. The opening piano accompaniment is just beautiful and Richie's understated vocal performance (his vocals are either double-tracked or there is a very similar voice shadowing him throughout. Then at the three minute mark, "Sail On" kicks up a notch or two. On the Midnight Magic album, the track hits that mark a minute later but the song lasts a minute and a half longer as well. Dad bought the album home from one of our weekend trips to the BX but I don't recall ever hearing him play it. I have his copy of the album now and the vinyl looks brand new. Dad might have liked Lionel's voice - two of the last records he bought while I still lived at home were Richie's first two solo albums. We never talked about it but I bet Dad would have liked Lionel's 2012 country album, Tuskeegee. Lionel duets with Tim McGraw on "Sail On" and while I really want to like their version, Richie's voice is just too smooth as is McGraw's.
"Take The Long Way Home" sneaks up on you, slowly emerging from the silence before the harmonica begins to dance with the piano. It was the fourth and final single peeled off the great album Breakfast In America, which Dad acquired sometime during the Summer of 1979. I equally enjoy the four singles for the most part but when it came time to pick one Supertramp song from 1979, this one beat the others in head to head (to head) (to head) listening. Ask me again tomorrow and I'm liable to go with "The Logical Song". Or "Goodbye Stranger". Or "Breakfast In America". (Or "Cupid's Chokehold".) Or maybe "Take The Long Way Home" wins the honors again.
Country rock was a thing but I'd argue that country disco was also a thing, a lesser thing but still a thing. Dr. Hook had a few country disco songs and then there was Exile's "Kiss You All Over" and and and some other songs I just can't think of at this moment. (Wait, what about "Stumblin' In", which I featured earlier back at number 55. And Ronnie Milsap had a country disco song, "Get It Up".) While I liked "When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman" when I first heard it on WLS, my feelings for the song were greatly amplified after seeing Dennis, Ray and the boys having a wonderful time hosting and performing on The Midnight Special. Technically, the song is from 1978 - I even included it on my Hideaway 100 of 1978 - but it belatedly charted in 1979, complete with an extended disco mix, so I feel no shame in trotting it out again. Now where are my maracas?
As great as their previous songs were, "Let's Go" came along and made you forget about The Cars past for a while. It was a bold new futuristic sound, marrying rock guitar to new wave synth hooks and wrapping it all up in an infectious pop melody that still sounds pretty fresh nearly forty years down the line. Wait, wasn't that what they did on their polished debut? A special bonus for 45 buyers like us back in 1979 was the non-album b-side "That's It", which I'd like to say is a great song but it really isn't. Still, having a song that wasn't on an album was a very rare occurrence back then before Prince, Springsteen and others conditioned us to expect such treats.
What are my three favorite CHIC Organization productions you ask? Easy! There's the band's own "I Want Your Love" and then Nile's greatest guitar solo in Norma Jean's "I Like Love". And rounding out the Top 3 is Sister Sledge's pulsing "Lost In Music", a dreamy concoction anchored by Nard's bass while Nile's guitar simply soars. The song is track two on Sister Sledge's We Are Family album, behind the equally appealing "He's The Greatest Dancer" but sister Joni takes the lead on "Lost In Music" rather than sister Kathy, who sings lead on most of the album, including the title track and "He's The Greatest Dancer". Normally, I'm a sucker for an extended remix but I care for neither the 1984 or 1993 attempts, even though the 1984 effort was an in-house effort by Rodgers and Edwards themselves. (The 1993 version is merely an attempt at giving the song the trendy house sound of the time.) The 45 trims a little more than a minute from the album version but I like them both. It's really a great song. The Dimitri from Paris remix included on The CHIC Organization Box Set highlights Rodgers riffs quite splendidly and even manages to build a little suspenseful tension at the beginning of the mix. I approve of that remix though I was disappointed in the set's mastering as a whole.
Back in the fall of 1980, my friend Robbie Rottet (ro-tay) showed up at the bus stop on the first day of high school with a guitar case he had decorated himself with hand-drawn band logos. Most of them I recognized - Styx, REO, Foreigner - but two of the biggest logos were new to me: AC/DC (with the slash here representing a lightning bolt in the logo itself) and Def Leppard. I asked Robbie about them and he said his older brother had the albums and that I should come over to listen to them sometime. Does anyone share music like that anymore? Just having a listen at your house? Good times. So that day or a day soon after, I followed him home after school. (It might have been that Friday because I was on the football team and we had after school practice every day but Friday because that was game night. Go Eagles!) We listened to Def Leppard's On Through The Night and then AC/DC's Back In Black. I look back on that day fondly as the beginning of my hard rock/heavy metal obsession. By Christmas, WLS was playing "You Shook Me All Night Long" and legions of junior high and high school aged boys became devoted disciples. As Robbie's brother acquired AC/DC's back-catalog, we had further listening sessions which were often interrupted by Robbie whipping out his guitar in an effort to try an emulate a riff. Turned out AC/DC had a whole other history with a different singer so going through their older albums was a revelation and the album prior to Back In Black was Highway To Hell, which soon became my favorite AC/DC album. I love the three songs that were spun off as singles here in the States but that crunchy title track with Bon Scott in full screechy demonic bloom on vocals and the all-in chorus that continues to inspire both road trips and eternal damnation is my jam. I lost touch with Robbie after I moved away in 1981 but he has a tiny, devoted following on the interwebs and this is what I learned: Robert continued to evolve as a musician and a poet, felt a calling and later enlisted in the Army after earning his degree in English Lit in 1996. Three years later, his lifeless body was discovered just off Fort Bragg, officially ruled a suicide though friends and family suspect foul play.
Journey's "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' " ruled the WLS airwaves for a bit in the Fall of 1979 and if I had to guess, I'd say it topped their Forty-fives survey though I just looked it up and I thought wrong; it only peaked at number 2 during a respectable 25 week run, kept out of the top spot for two consecutive weeks by Herb Alpert's "Rise", a song I reluctantly relegated to the Runners-Up list at the last moment. Steve Perry's voice rises up from the rhythm track on this one amid piano flourishes and uncharacteristically restrained guitar work from Neil Schon before leading into a "Hey Jude"-like sing-along that carries the song out. It's majestic, romantic (despite being a tale of heartbreak) and an awful lot of fun.
Laid-back funk of the best kind, Raydio's "You Can't Change That" just seems to float along while an annoying synthesizer whooshes in and out way too forward in the mix, taking my eye off the prize which is a satisfying groove with vocals by Ray Parker, Jr. and Arnell Carmichael, who handles the higher register. It came rockin' on WLS in the middle of Summer of '79, a cool burst of R&B amid the hot disco tracks dominating the airwaves at the time. It can be found, like more than a few other songs here on the Hideaway 100 of 1979, on the K-Tel double-album, Hitline.
Another track that effortlessly floats along is Smokey Robinson's "Cruisin' ", a stone-cold yet smoldering slow jam that was insanely popular at school dances and the roller rink back in the day. In my music family tree, "Cruisin' " is a distant cousin to William DeVaughn's "Be Thankful For What You Got" from five years earlier and both songs burn slow and low for extended periods if you grab the full-length album versions. While I do not have the enviable vocal range of Sir Smokey (we really need an American knighthood), I still enjoy singing along with him atop those pillowy soft beats and if my sweet baby honey pie strays too close by while I am enjoying the song, I wrap her tight in my arms and we gently cruise away from here, letting the music take us away.
John Stewart's "Gold" was another song from the Summer of 1979 but it was more likely heard on the radio (both WLS and WLRW) or the jukebox. The vocal assist from Stevie Nicks is inspired as is Lindsey Buckingham's guitar and Stewart's inscrutable lyrics. (He jumps into the car THEN throws in his guitar? What the heck is Kanan and why does it need to be driven over?) The song shuffles along, speaking of driving so naturally it shows up on several of my road trip mixes and playlists as it just sounds like a song to drive to. It's conjoined musical twin in my head is "Hot Summer Nights" sung by another female named Stevie. That one's coming up a little later in the countdown; if not today then next time out.
What do we have here? Another late Summer hummer from WLS that bears repeated listens. I never really noticed back then, listening to the AM signal booming from the WLS tower high above Chicago but "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" sounds kind of flat and lifeless. Or is it time for your boy to get his precious hearing tested? Maybe it was the way the album Look Sharp! was recorded or was intended to sound and not just the song. I like the song and it was only the beginning of what has proven to be a long, fearless and unpredictable career for Jackson.
"Mama Can't Buy You Love" was my favorite song for few weeks in the Summer of 1979. Other folks seemed to like it as well as it became John's first Top 10 hit in eons centuries decades nearly three years - not bad for the product of an aborted 1977 album recording session. The single preceded a three song EP titled The Thom Bell Sessions, giving credit where credit is due as producer Bell and artist John clashed almost immediately but still managed to record six songs featuring MFSB in place of Elton's usual band and none other than The Spinners on background vocals. Those three tracks, while they had been arranged, conducted and produced by Bell were mixed by John along with Clive Franks. Ten years later, The Complete Thom Bell Sessions was released, not only featuring all six songs recorded with Bell behind the boards, but all six songs were presented as they had originally been mixed by Bell back in 1977. Can you hear the difference? Fun fact: "Mama Can't Buy You Love" was written by Thom Bell's nephew, LeRoy Bell and his partner Casey James, who had a Top 15 hit themselves earlier in 1979 with the jamtastic "Livin' It Up (Friday Night)".
The Brothers Gibb could have easily coasted on the success of Saturday Night Fever but instead they chose to forge ahead, tweaking their sound slightly on the much anticipated follow-up album, Spirits Having Flown. Brother Barry had stayed busy between sessions for Saturday Night Fever and Spirits Having Flown by participating, with his twin brother Robin and Maurice, in the ill-fated Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band film and soundtrack. Then he produced Baby Brother Andy's second album Shadow Dancing, while also writing or co-writing the album's four eventual singles. And before recording sessions began for Spirits Having Flown began in March 1978, Barry wrote and produced the theme song to film adaption of the play Grease, singing backup while Peter Frampton, his Sgt. Pepper's co-star, played guitar. Once the recording sessions for their new album began in earnest, Barry did the lion's share of the work which was unusual as the brothers were known as a fairly tight and self-contained recording unit throughout their career. The album's advance single was the plush love song "Too Much Heaven" released late in 1978 and they donated all of their future performance royalties from the song to UNICEF, which as of 2003 had amounted to more than seven million dollars. I dig the song and when Dad brought it home as a week-late Valentine's gift for Mom, she promptly let me borrow the album for the weekend and I fell for the album's dynamic opening track, "Tragedy". The song announced itself on a grand scale musically, packing a wallop from the start before settling into that Electric Light Orchestra-like groove. Barry and his brothers give their most powerful falsetto performances ever, with Barry just plain showing off at the end of the verses by holding that note. I love how the different synth sounds come in and out of the mix, sometimes building upon one another and other times dueling one another. It's a great track to listen to on headphones. (I will say that the lightning crack heard a few times throughout the song is a more than a little weak, though.) Unfortunately for the Bee Gees, Chicago radio at the time was Ground Zero for the "disco sucks" backlash and though WLS played the song very frequently, it only peaked at number 4 on their Forty-fives survey in April 1979 after it had been topped the Hot 100 in March. I bought the 45 and remember it well because it has a "lip" on the outer edge of the record, like it wasn't trimmed well after pressing. It doesn't affect the playback but it is unique among all the records I have ever bought with that unfinished edge.
We close out this list of twenty singles with the percussive "Heartache Tonight", the lead single from The Long Run. Written by the group's primary songwriters (Henley and Frey) along with longtime friends Bob Seger and J.D. Souther (both of whom have already appeared on The Hideaway 100 of 1979 with great singles of their own), the song begs to be sung loud with as many people as possible. If you're like me, your favorite part of the song is the little drum roll coda.
Next up we wrap up the countdown with numbers 20-1.
tags: 1979 My Favorite Songs, Hideaway 100, Spotify links
Martin Maenza 6/9/16, 1:56 AM
Loving the first half of the top 40. Looking at a number of those labels reminded me of 45's I owned myself back in 1979. Good stuff.
HERC 6/13/16, 10:42 PM
Waiting for you to put together and publish your Favorites from 1979, Martin.
Unknown 6/11/16, 12:46 PM
**A Herc's Hideaway Exclusive**
"Dirk's Hideaway 100 Of 1979: 40-21!"
40) Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) - Pat Travers
39) Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp
38) Too Much Heaven - Bee Gees
37) Escape (The Piña Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
36) It Must Be Love - Alton McClain & Destiny
35) I Was Made For Dancin' - Leif Garrett
34) Suspicions - Eddie Rabbitt
33) Heart Of The Night - Poco
32) Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
31) Pop Muzik - M
30) Roxanne - The Police
29) Street Life - The Crusaders
28) Reunited - Peaches & Herb
27) September - Earth, Wind & Fire
26) Dim All The Lights - Donna Summer
25) Makin' It - David Naughton
24) I Was Made For Lovin' You - KISS
23) Take Me Home - Cher
22) Instant Replay - Dan Hartman
21) My Sharona - The Knack
"Next up, we wrap up the countdown with numbers 20-1." :)
Thanks for the share, Dirk.


1. It was all based on lies.
2. It has no real Constitutional basis.
What is a "penumbra"---the lynchpin of the "Constitutional basis" ultimately for "Roe"? I once asked that of constitutional attorney Mike Farris, who today is the head of the Alliance Defending Freedom.
Roe is part of a recent tradition that views the Constitution as a living document subject to change---leading us to be governed by the whims of a handful of judges with lifetime tenure.
4. Abortion kills millions of unborn babies.
Sixty million American lives have been snuffed out since Roe. What a moral travesty. The world will never know the extent of what it is missing: these babies could have grown up to be incredible scientists, award-winning, authors, hard-working contributing members of society, and, at the very least, people who brought joy and gave love to family and friends.
All of us reading these words should be grateful that we escaped the abortionist's knife. Tragically, tens of millions of our fellow Americans were not so fortunate.


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Logical Position (LP), a full-service digital marketing agency based in Lake Oswego, Ore., recently acquired Virtue Advertising (Virtue), a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) agency based in Chicago. This strategic move will enable LP to add a more highly-specialized form of SEO expertise to its existing suite of services and expand into the Chicago market, adding ten employees.
"Bringing Virtue into the fold will allow LP to amplify our SEO services for existing clients and reach new customers in one of America's great cities. We're also excited to create new opportunities for skilled workers and bring e-commerce dollars into Chicago," said John Ganey, Co-CEO of Logical Position.
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In the process, LP will open a Chicago office -- its first office located in a top-ten American market -- and will immediately hire ten new Chicago employees after launching in mid-September. Former Virtue owner, Chris Vale, will serve as the Vice President of SEO and Chicago GM for Logical Position.
"I'm excited to join this dynamic group of professionals. With Logical Position's steady backing and commitment to transparency, I know I'll be able to continue providing my clients the service and care they're already accustomed to," said Vale.
This new strategic partnership continues Logical Position's history of rapid growth. In 2014, LP opened its second office in Henderson, Nev. and in 2015 LP became one of only 27 companies in the U.S. and Canada to be included in the Google AdWords Premier SMB Partners (PSP) program, alongside media behemoths such as Advanced Digital, Dex Media (NASDAQ: DXM), Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst Corp., ReachLocal (NASDAQ: RLOC) and YP (Yellow Pages).
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Brazilian police on Tuesday said they had uncovered emails between detained International Olympic Committee member Patrick Hickey and the head of a ticketing company that discussed the illegal sale of tickets to the Rio Games.
Police said they were also investigating bank documents for evidence of money laundering linked to the illegal ticketing ring.
Hickey, former president of the European Olympic committee, was arrested in Brazil last week on charges he took part in illegal ticket sales for the Rio Games, which ended on Sunday.
Three members of the Olympic Council of Ireland - executive director Stephen Martin, secretary-general Dermot Henihan and treasurer Kevin Kilty - are suspected of involvement in the illegal sales, police said.
The men remain in Brazil after their passports were seized on Sunday.
Henihan appeared at police headquarters on Tuesday to answer questions. Investigators said they had ruled out his involvement in the alleged scheme because there was no evidence to support it.
Kilty and Martin had been expected to testify on Tuesday, but officials said their lawyers had asked for a postponement to have more time to review documents.
"There are a lot of messages mentioning William O'Brien along with Patrick Hickey," said Aloysio Falcao, one of the lead investigators.
Falcao said Brazilian officials will be requesting help from the Irish government.
Charged with conspiracy, ticket scalping and ambush marketing, Hickey is accused of plotting with other members of the Ireland committee and two companies to sell tickets above face value in a scheme that authorities say could have netted about $3 million in profits.
More than 1,000 tickets have been seized in the investigation.


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Q: The diagram shows the arc $ABC$ of a circle with radius $8$cm. The lines $AD$ and $CD$ are tangents. Calculate the area of the region shaded yellow The diagram shows the arc $ABC$ of a circle with centre $O$ and radius $8$cm.
The lines $AD$ and $CD$ are tangents to the circle.
The $\angle AOC = \frac 23\pi$ radians.

Calculate the area of the region (shaded yellow in the diagram) enclosed by $AD$, $CD$ and the arc $ABC$ giving your answer to three significant figures.
I tried to find the answer but it is showing up as incorrect.
In my attempt to answer the question:
Split vertically to form two identical triangles $OAD$ and $OCD$.
$$\angle DOC = \frac \pi 3$$
$$\tan \angle DOC = \tan \frac \pi 3 = \frac{DC}{8}$$
$$DC = 8 \tan \frac \pi 3 = 8 \sqrt{3} = AD$$
Area of $\triangle OCD = \frac 12 \times DC \times OC = \frac 12 \times 8 \times 8 \sqrt{3} = 32 \sqrt{3}$
Area of $\lozenge AOCD = 2 \times $ Area of $\triangle OCD = 64 \sqrt{3} = 110.85... = 111 \,(3sf) \,cm^2$
Not sure where to go from here. Would be very grateful for advice. Thanks.

A: With your edit, you have correctly calculated the area of the kite $AOCD$.  To complete the problem, you have to subtract the area of the sector bounded by the radii $\overline{OA}$ and $\overline{OC}$ and arc $ABC$ from the area of kite $AOCD$.  The area of a sector with central angle of radian measure $\theta$ in a circle with radius $r$ is
$$A_{\text{sector}} = \frac{\theta}{2\pi} \cdot \pi r^2$$

A: Here's my approach :
Area of yellow region = Area of △ADC - Area of segment ABC
Area of segment ABC = Area of sector OABC - Area of △AOC
Hope this helps !

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Taking inspiration from leading contemporary British artists, Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville, Sophie's Personal Investigation explores the way that age distorts, changes and adds character to a face. Her project includes painted portraits of herself, her mother and grandmother, with careful attention given to brush strokes and surface qualities. Her project demonstrates the enormous benefit that a student gains when selecting a subject that has a deep personal connection.
We were lucky enough to interview Sophie about her A Level Art project. Her responses are below.
These paintings of her grandfather are complemented with photographs that show evidence of working first-hand. Sophie begins with small areas of the face, using heavy strokes and layered dry brushing, before tackling the face as a whole. Set upon a pale, lemon coloured ground, the dry brushing helps to create the impression of aged, weathered skin – a stunning example of A Level portraiture.
Your Personal Investigation is titled 'Investigation of Age through Portraiture'. Please talk to us about the ideas behind your topic and why you chose this.
This generated the idea to use I, my mother and grandmother as models. Using models that I have an emotional connection with made the portraits both easier and more challenging at the same time. For example, I knew how to portray characteristics nobody else knew except me, but I also didn't want to be cruel in the way that I painted wrinkles etc.
These sketchbook studies show beautiful attention to detail: preliminary paintings of eyes, lips and other facial features, as Sophie practises using different mediums and techniques.
Which artists did you study as part of your project and how did these influence your compositions and painting technique?
I knew before even looking at artists the direction I wanted to take, creating portraits which were heavily textured and with a bold use of colour and brushstroke. I chose to look at Freud because I was inspired by the raw way in which he depicts his subjects. I was inspired by the way he used texture and layers of colour to create a sense of depth in his work. Through looking at his work I understood the way he portrayed personality in his work, which is what I aimed to do in my own.
From looking at Freud's work and learning to paint in his style, I moved on to look at the work of Jenny Saville. I liked the way that she layered unrealistic colour to achieve depth to her work (much like Freud). I was also interested in the way she distorted the figure and face within her work. Her manipulation and exaggeration of the figure has a raw and disturbing element about it.
I was inspired by the way Saville uses such heavy texture and dark colours to create twisted imagery. It took me a while to develop the confidence to do this in my own work though. I would have loved to see some of Saville's and Freud's work but I am yet to have the chance (there's still time for that).
This sequence of A Level Art work shows Sophie's mother photographed, drawn and then painted in the style of Saville. In this painting, Sophie experiments with using a green coloured ground beneath the skin.
As Sophie's project progresses, she moves away from realistic representation and embraces more gestural mark-making. This is an imitation of Jenny Saville's da Vinci drawing, where Saville overlays sketches of a squirming child upon classical portraits – perhaps hinting at the loss of control and chaos of motherhood.
Here Sophie begins to develop her portraits, overlaying images as she explores viewpoints and composition. The bottom painting has been worked over with coloured pencil and is one of the most striking and mature pieces of her A Level submission.
Working from her own original photographs of her family, this painting captures the tranquillity and peace in Sophie's Grandmother's expression.
Your final piece is a stunning large-scale triptych that was featured in the Sunderland Echo. Please talk to us about the decision making process behind this piece.
On deciding to create my final piece, I never would have imagined creating such a large-scale triptych. I had never worked at that scale before, so it seemed like it would be quite a daunting experience, but my teacher advised me to work in this scale, to create real statement and I knew that he wouldn't have advised me to, if he didn't think I was capable. Using such a close-up of the photographs was simply to draw focus onto the faces. I wanted the eyes in particularly to be realistic and the scale used allowed me to detail them properly. The composition of the images was my homage to Titian's 'Allegory of Life'. Where his painting looks out, I wanted mine to create a sense of looking in and personal reflection.
Sophie's project culminates in a large scale triptych, depicting three generations of her family upon huge canvases. The women have similar expressions and positions, with heads resting upon hands, looking in different directions. The stunning conclusion to her A Level Art project also provides an important visual record for her family, which will be treasured for generations to come.
What advice do you have for other high school Art students who wish to gain excellent grades?
Well, I don't know how I would have done it without the help of my art teacher. He helped me progress so much in a year alone, and I think the thing that helped me progress the most was his constructive criticism. So if anyone tells you your work is fantastic and can't be improved first time around, take the praise and the compliment but don't be satisfied. Look for faults and actively seek criticism. If you take it constructively and work hard to improve, the praise at the end is far more rewarding than false praise at the start.
If you have enjoyed reading about Sophie's A Level Personal Investigation, you might wish to view more of the Featured Art Projects on this website!


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I love the mermaid! This is on my crafts to covet list. Gorgeous!
I think with every BAP you need to have smaller pieces to help you keep your sanity!
Stunning! I love all of the blingey parts even though I'm sure they were a challenge to add.
Your sweet Mermaid is gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!
Congrats on the finish! The mermaid is beautiful.
Just beautiful – well done!
She looks amazing Anne! Congrats!
Your mermaid is lovely and it's a very good photo even for a phone!
The fabric is perfect for her, just the right shade of blue to set off the blues in her tail without merging with any of them.