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PART 3

Never-before-seen photo of four royal mothers, including Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret with their newborn babies, as a personal token to doctor who delivered them to go on display at Buckingham Palace

By Rebecca English, Royal Editor and Mark Duell

16 May 2024

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'Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography' is at The King's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, from tomorrow (May 17) until October 6, 2024.

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"TAKES STOLEN MEAT IS JAILED 6 MONTHS," Toronto Star. August 20, 1943. Page 2. ---- Charles Riddell Took Basket to Home of Woman Friend ---- THOUGHT IT "HOT" ---- "C" Police Court, City Hall, Magistrate Prentice. Charles Riddell, convicted last week of receiving a basket of meat stolen from a packing company truck, was sentenced to six months In jail today. Detective Walter Scott said accused took the meat to the home of a woman on Queen St. a few minutes after it had been reported stolen.

BLAME OLDER MAN ---- "B" Police Court, City Hall, Magistrate Hanrahan. "These two boys were the tools of an older person," said Harold Chaplin, counsel for Joseph Cusimano and Joseph O'Sullivan, convicted of attempted shopbreaking. They were given suspended sentence for two years by Mag. Hanrahan in "B" police court today.

The accused stole goods from a Mutual St. factory.

With a penitentiary record, Fred Greene, [pictured at top] convicted of entering two Melrose Ave. homes and stealing a variety of articles, was sent to the penitentiary again, this time for two years.

"I'm being as lenient as I can in view of your record," the court added.

Suspended sentence for two years was granted James Pogson, convicted of retaining a bicycle.

Involved in a motor accident at Bathurst St. and Davenport Rd., when Miss Grace Gregor was injured, William Myman was fined $10 or 10 days for dangerous driving and had his driving license suspended for two months. He also must pay for damages suffered by the woman.

Ignace Chylinski, convicted of attempted auto theft, was given suspended sentence for two years. He was caught by the owner trying to start a car.

For attempting to break into a Queen St. W. store, Richard Thunder Sky, Indian, and Arthur Hart were given a two-year suspended sentence. They were found behind the store with an axe.

Albert Teeple was sentenced to nine months in the reformatory. Herbert Ball, R.C.A.F., was given four months, and G. Borland received suspended sentence for two years. All pleaded guilty of breaking into a tailor shop on Bloor St. W. last July 7 and stealing suits valued at about $500. Some of the goods was recovered. Ball admitted a record. He is on a two-year suspended sentence now. He said he had been in the R.C.A.F. a month.

Failure to remain at the scene of an accident resulted in Joseph Williams being sent to jail for 30 days. His driving license was suspended for two months. "In view of the increase in these hit-and-run accidents, I must impose a penalty that will punish the accused and also draw the attention of the motoring public to the fact that they must observe the law in this regard," said the court.

Williams was driving a car on Dundas St. at Sherbourne St. on Aug. 18 when he knocked P.C. James Keys from his bicycle. Keys received arm and back injuries. Motorcycle Officer Campbell said accused had been drinking.

TWO THROW BOTTLES ---- "A" Police Court, City Hall, Magistrate Browne. For throwing a beer bottle and smashing it on Victoria St., Albert Hawloe, who pleaded guilty, was fined $10 or five days. Bruce Sloan was caught by Constable McLellan throwing a whiskey bottle on Dalhousie St. He also pleaded guilty and was fined $10 or five days.

One month in jail was the sentence given William Marquardt, who pleaded guilty to failing to report for military training within the time limit. After the end of the term he will be turned over to the military authorities.

James Butler, enforcement officer, national selective service, said that on March 24 accused was notified to report for medical examination and did not.

[AL: Greene was 21, unemployed and claimed 'never to have worked' and was listed in his police and prison files as a Mohawk. He had been in the reformatory twice before, and had last been in Kingston Penitentiary in mid-1941. This time around he was convict #7409 and worked in the canvas shop at Kingston Penitentiary. He had only two reports against him for 'inappropriate language' and 'not working'. He was released March 1945.]

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Best Fog Statements: Elite Determination

Fog কুয়াশা সম্পর্কে উক্তি is a weather pattern wherein tiny drops of water meet up to shape a thick cloud near the land or ocean, making it hard to see. Moving fog statements will support development throughout everyday life, make you more astute and expand your point of view.

Assuming you're looking for well known nature quotes and famous star statements that impeccably catch what you might want to say or simply need to feel roused yourself, peruse an astonishing assortment of huge lavender statements, best view statements and most prominent skyline quotes.

Well known Haze Statements

In nature, everything has some work. The occupation of the mist is to enhance further the current marvels! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Haze is a cloud near land or water. Individuals can't see well in haze. Helen Ice

2. The obscurity of deception, the obscurity of disarray is hanging everywhere. Van Morrison

3. Haze is most normal where water is copious and there is a cool surface to cool the air. Steven L. Horstmeyer

4. Love is a haze that ignites with the principal sunshine of the real world. Charles Bukowski

5. Haze is my shortcoming, and each time there is low mist, I'm making the rounds with my camera. Om Malik

6. You never acknowledged how thick your mist was until it lifted. J.R. Ward

7. I should go in. The haze is rising. Emily Dickinson

8. The weather conditions changes between weighty haze and pale daylight; My contemplations follow precisely the same interaction. Virginia Woolf

9. She resembled the morning haze, supernatural yet risky. Ajay Moses

10. It is right there, haze, climatic dampness still dubious in objective, not exactly climate and not through and through mind-set, yet participating in both. Hal Borland

11. To comprehend the mist, it serves to initially figure out the cloud. David Byrd

12. Furthermore, when the haze's finished and the stars and the moon emerge around evening time it'll be a wonderful sight. Jack Kerouac

13. Love is a mist that ignites with the main sunlight of the real world. Charles Bukowski

14. Truth is the light that sparkles through the mist without scattering it. Claude Adrien Helvetius

15. In some cases we want the mist to help ourselves that all to remember life isn't highly contrasting. Jonathan Lockwood Huie

16. What's to come is a mist that is as yet hanging out over the ocean, a boat that floats home or doesn't. Anne Sexton

17. The haze is clearing; life involves taste Honest WedekindThe haze is clearing; life involves taste. Forthright Wedekind

18. Weighty haze is an odd aide! In the event that you go on an excursion with him, it takes you from no place and leaves you at no place! Mehmet Murat Ildan

19. At the point when life is hazy, way is indistinct and mind is dull, recollect your breath. It has the ability to give you the harmony. It has the ability to determine the perplexing conditions of life. Amit Beam

20. I see a great deal of mist and a couple of lights. I like it when life's covered up. It allows you an opportunity to envision decent things, more pleasant than they are. Ben Hecht

21. The obscurity of life is given as wellspring of disarray to the psyche so we can't depend on it and should go to our inclination and instinctive selves. Stephen Harrison

22. The science hangs like a social event haze in valleys, a mist which starts no place and goes no place, a coincidental, unmeaning bother to passers by. H. G. Wells

23. Some of the time finding in life is difficult. In the event that the mist rolls in we can't see anything. A great many people become involved with life that they fail to remember the reason for life is to be content. Frederick Lenz

24. A slim dark mist loomed over the city, and the roads were freezing; for summer was in Britain. Rudyard Kipling

25. On a hazy day, on the glass of my window, I actually compose your name. Aditi Paul

27. I see a ton of haze and a couple of lights. I like it when life's covered up. It allows you an opportunity to envision decent things, more pleasant than they are. Ben Hecht

28. She resembled the morning haze, otherworldly yet perilous. Ajay Moses

29. Love feels like this haze. It sneaks in from some secret spot and quietly overwhelms me. It appears to be so thick, however when I venture into it, there's nothing of substance. Then, at that point, sooner rather than later, it just evaporates. That is my view of affection. Alex Z. Moores

30. I like the muffled sounds, the cover of dark, and the quietness that accompanies haze. Om Malik

31. Difficulty is similar as haze in our lives, and once in a while God will utilize obscurity of misfortune to educate and guide us. David Byrd

32. I keep thinking about whether haze is only the mists that couldn't tolerate being away from the earth any more. Tyler Knott Gregson

33. The weather conditions changes between weighty haze and pale daylight; My considerations follow precisely the same interaction. Virginia Woolf

34. Once in a while we want the mist to help ourselves that all to remember life isn't high contrast. Jonathan Lockwood Huie

35. Haze might be disagreeable, and going in haze can be unsafe, yet breathing haze can't hurt you. Michael Allaby

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25 July 2014 | Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is shown lace making machinery as he meets workers in the Morton Young and Borland Ltd (MYB) Lace Factory in Newmilns, Scotland. MYB is the sole manufacturer of 100% cotton Madras in the world and is the only producer manufacturing patterned lace with the original Nottingham Lace looms, some of which are almost 100 years old. (c) Chris Jackson/Getty Images

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'Killtopia' To Become A TV Series With A Unique Unreal Engine Connection

‘Killtopia’ To Become A TV Series With A Unique Unreal Engine Connection

The cyberpunk graphic novel series Killtopia is on its way to becoming an animated television program with a unique twist. BHP Comics announced on Tuesday that it has optioned the comic’s television rights to transmedia startup Voltaku. The graphic novels, by Dave Cook and Craig Paton, tell the tale of Shinji, a young man trying to save his sister, and Crash, the world’s first sentient mech, as…

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"Everyone could have been rescued if it were not for human failing." - William Hazelgrove, 160 Minutes: The Race To Save The Titanic

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Obscure Christmas Movie Rewatch: Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

This was my absolute favourite Christmas movie when I was a kid (behind Muppet's Christmas Carol), and it is so veiled in nostalgia I'm not sure I can be objective (or snark too much), but here we go.

Purporting to tell the story behind the 1897 Editorial Is There a Santa Claus? by Francis Pharcellus Chruch, the events and characters have been heavily fictionalised (as the text and v/o at the end helpfully reminds us). I'm therefore going to do some fact checking as to historical accuracy, but only out of interest, and certainly not intended as a criticism. I genuinely love this movie!

We open with Francis P Church (the late great Charles Bronson) in a cemetery, brushing the snow off the grave of his wife Elizabeth and baby Eleanor who died a year earlier. He opens up a gold watch with her picture inside, and it plays a gentle tune. He then takes out a bottle of whiskey, but turns away from the grave before he takes a swig.

In real life Church was indeed married to Elizabeth Wickham, but they had no children and I can't find any information about when she died (Francis passed in 1906). However in terms of framing a character, this is pretty effective.

We see The Sun newspaper being delivered, giving us the date of 17 December 1897.

Then we're at the docks, where James O'Hanlan (Richard Thomas) and Dominic Donelli (Massimo Bonetti) are fired after getting into a fight with another worker who levies several ethnic slurs and anti-immigrant rhetoric at them. Thomas was apparently one of the Walton kids (which I've never seen), and is one of those working actors who has seemingly been in every procedural known to man - he was also in The Americans and Ozark (but I haven't seen those either).

Their eight year old daughters Virginia (Katherine Isabelle) and Maria (Virginia Bagnata) meanwhile, are being mocked by her classmates for believing in Santa Claus. Look, the child performances in this movie are...what you would expect. But I'm not here to criticise kids, they do their best.

James can't find another job, reduced to reading The Sun a day late once it's put out in the trash, and the family is struggling. His wife Evie (Tasmin Kelsey, who I remember as Gairwyn from Stargate SG-1) is an optimist and tells him to keep up his spirits. James: "The trouble is there's too much damn spirit and not enough damn jobs."

In actuality, Philip O'Hanlan was a surgeon and coroner and they were a middle class family who lived on the Upper West Side. Virginia went on to achieve a doctorate in childhood education and was a teacher for over 40 years - her childhood home is now a school.

Frank stumbles into the offices of The Sun to pick up another bottle of whiskey from his desk, and then to the local bar to brood. Local pompous aristocratic jerk Cornelius Barrington (John Novak - who has apparently been in every Canadian-filmed production ever, including Smallville and Stargate) arrives to goad Frank about his affinity for those filthy poors. In doing so, he makes Frank sound legitimately badass: "The great egalitarian editorializer, friend and champion of the common man, would-be slayer of the capitalist dragons!"

The newsroom is populated by editor Edward Page Mitchell (the late great Ed Asner), copyboy Teddy (Shawn Macdonald), and sole female reporter Andrea Borland (Colleen Winton - apparently she was also in two episodes of Stargate but I can't place her). She's ambitious and frustrated that Mitchell will only let her report on society matters. Not gonna lie, there's a whiff of Perry White, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen about them (or maybe it's just that I rewatched the 1978 Superman recently). There's a bit of snappy dialogue:

Andrea: Did you like my society piece on the Vanderbilt ball?

Mitchell: I printed it, didn't I?

Andrea: Well...half of it

Mitchell: That was the half I liked.

Andrea heads to the bar and hesitates only for a moment at the "men only" sign before going in to find Frank and try and retrieve the article Mitchell was looking for - "The Shame of Greatness".

Frank hands her a page of a few ideas and a lot of gibberish, while Corenlius watches literally eating popcorn. There's just a big bowl of popcorn sitting out in this men's bar and grill!

If gifs were a thing in the 90's this would have been a meme.

Andrea rewrites the article and gives it to Mitchell in Frank's name. It's a great success, with Teddy walking around reciting lines and calling it "a real humdinger!" Frank confronts Andrea, and she confides in him that it was his lecture at her university that inspired her to keep going when she was only one of three women in the class (and the other two ended up getting married).

We get the dramatic irony in Frank's refusal to be impressed: "Tomorrow it will be yesterday's newspaper, and you can wrap a fish in it. Nothing that you, or I, or anybody else writes for a newspaper has a lifespan of more than 24 hours."

Cornelius approaches Andrea and offers her a job to work at his uncle's paper The Chronicle in order to expose Frank as a fraud (in real life Church actually once worked at The Chronicle, which was published by his father). But as a woman of principle she coldly rejects him, and honestly, I love her. Frank has been nothing but dismissive and patronising towards her, so it's clear it's not solely about protecting him (and perhaps the ideal she had of him) but more about who she is and what she believes. Underrated character in an underrated movie.

James foils a robbery, and the police arrive with accents of the diddly dee potatoes variety. When he arrives home he's greeted by his Jewish neighbor Mrs Goldstein. It's interesting that this is a very similar setting to Mrs Santa Claus - New York at the turn of the century and has some thematic similarities - the immigrant experience and the importance of community in particular.

James reads aloud The Shame of Greatness article to the family:

"We have become a great nation, but at what cost? Ask the red man, the black man, the immigrant, the elderly, the ill. We have built a railroad across the 45 states and bridges across rivers but there is no bridge of brotherhood. Why? Because there is no profit in that bridge. Ask the captains of industry, ask the robber barons, ask the politicians about that bridge."

Unfortunate racial wording aside, it's a sentiment that wouldn't be out of place now, 31 years after this film was made, and 125 years after the film is set. I like a little activism in my Christmas movies.

It's also worth noting that most of the above passage were parts written by Frank, so Andrea's suggestion that they were his ideas is given credence - we don't know what the rest of the article went on to say but it's implied Andrea is a great writer able to match Frank's voice.

James speaks to the frustration of America not being the promised land: "It's hard to believe that fifty years ago our people came to this country because they were starving in Ireland. Potato famine indeed! High rents ha! It's no different over here."

As a child watching this movie was the first time I'd heard of the potato famine, and it's only this rewatch I noticed that Virginia is reading a book about Oliver Cromwell! Yikes. I don't know if that was deliberate, but certainly an interesting touch.

Evie however, takes the other side of the argument, telling James to stop feeling sorry for himself, and to be grateful for what they have - family, a place to live, and food (and God - this is certainly the most religious movie of this rewatch). Evie: "You can be poor if you want to James O'Hanlon, but I'm rich. And I grow richer every day of my life."

Virginia asks her father if Santa Claus is real, and he is the envy of every parent in quickly thinking to deflect and encourage her to write to The Sun for an answer instead.

Frank is back at the bar, where Cornelius goads him about Andrea, implying there are other things she is taking care of for him. Finally Frank is moved to respond, and when Cornelius warns him that he was "Captain of the Yale boxing team" Frank punches him square in the face, knocking him to the floor.

"I've done some fighting myself, Captain," Frank says, "around Hell's Kitchen." When I was a kid I didn't realise this referred to a gritty part of New York and thought it was a metaphor and an allusion to his roving reporter life - I think it works either way.

At the postbox, Virginia is gifted a stamp by the kindly German postman Hans Schuller, in another example of this community of immigrants helping each other through the hard times.

At The Sun, Frank looks at his wife's picture in the watch, and Teddy remarks that one day he'll have a watch like that ("a real himdinger!" - an annoying catchphrase, but it's meant to be annoying). Frank takes the picture out and puts the watch in an envelope with Teddy's name on it, then goes home where he turns off the fire but leaves the gas on, in the grand tradition of family Christmas movies including attempted suicide!

I admit this went right over my head when I first watched this as a kid, I think subtle enough not to be too dark for younger viewers. There's also a nice bit of production design comparing Frank's warm and furnished apartment with the O'Hanlan's grey and bare abode.

Mitchell arrives to give Frank the assignment of answering Virginia's letter, and we get to the core of Frank's depression - that he was a man who lived for his work, never even spending one Christmas dinner with his wife because he was away on assignment, and the irony that he was in Panama writing about yellow fever while she was dying of pneumonia - guilt and longing and regret. It's pretty complex stuff for a family film, and something I never really appreciated until I was older.

Now, it's certainly wholesale fiction - Francis Church married Elizabeth in 1871, so not merely married for "more than three years" as in the film. In fact, her birthdate on the grave is 1860, which puts a bit of a different spin on things with Frank significantly older rather than being her contemporary as in real life. This is alluded to in their conversation as Frank says he took many more years than most men to find a wife, adding to his guilt for not being there for her and appreciating what he had.

There's also nothing I could find that indicated he was an alcoholic - allegedly he was an atheist and hated writing the famous editorial.

But Ed Asner and Charles Bronson are both great actors, and play so well off each other. I do give credit for this scene not being too overwritten - if you actually pay attention to the grave at the beginning you see that Elizabeth and Eleanor died on 24 December the previous year - which is on the nose, but it remains subtext rather than Frank giving exposition of the "They died on Christmas and that's why I hate it!" variety.

The next day at the paper we get a cameo from screenwriter Andrew J Fenady as the reporter who tells Mitchell things are "heating up" in Cuba, referring to the Cuban War of Independence and a precursor to the Spanish-America War. I do enjoy these small historical touches.

Meanwhile, James and Dominic find jobs for the day but have another run in with the dock workers and get to thoroughly beat them up in a nice bit of karma. There's really no point to this scene other than to see the bigots get punched, but hey, I'm here for that, and it also keeps James' story parallel to Frank's.

Frank wanders around the city and is inspired by what he sees - the poor being fed by a soup kitchen, a policeman helping an elderly homeless man, people donating to toy drives, and a scene in a park complete with brass band, sleigh rides, ice skating, and general seasonal joy. He finds a baby's rattle that inspires part of the editorial, and sees a young couple with their child, sending him back to visit his wife's grave. He buys flowers but decides to throw them away rather than placing them on the grave - along with his bottle of whiskey.

I actually think this is a great example of show-not-tell writing - a lesser piece would have had Frank talk to his wife at her grave, saying how sorry he was he never appreciated her enough when she was alive, asking how he was going to answer Virginia's question when he himself doesn't believe in anything anymore, and then make a breakthrough. But not a word is uttered - we have Bronson's performance, we see him start to experience life again and decide to stop wallowing in his grief and return to his passion for writing. It's actually very deftly done.

Mrs Goldstein appears again to give the O'Hanlan's some brisket because she "made too much." It's very sweet but James gets in his feelings about it because he's not the one providing for his family.

The police arrive to take James down to the station for questioning about the robbery, and while he's gone Virginia uses a penny she found on the street earlier to buy a paper - wanting to give her father the gift of The Sun on the day it's printed rather than the next.

Back at the paper, Frank puts his wife's picture back in his gold watch, and instead gives Teddy another: "it's not gold, and it doesn't play a tune, but it was my first watch and it helped me start the day for many years." He also tells Mitchell he will come to Christmas dinner after all, and Andrea asks him to follow her somewhere, repeating his earlier words back to him: "there has to be a finish to every story."

James arrives back at home with a tree and laden with gifts, including a pet kitten (that he befriended earlier on). Turns out he was given a reward for his part in the robbery, and that both he and Dominic were offered jobs on the police force. Something could be said about James and Dominic becoming cops on the basis of punching people really well, but perhaps this isn’t the place for it.

Virginia gives her father the paper, and of course sees the editorial and reads it aloud, as all our friends arrive, including Andrea and Frank. It's actually a rather moving scene, the community that has supported each other, and who all played a part in the letter being written, delivered, and finally answered.

I honestly think this movie holds up despite the nostalgia goggles - there is some cringe, but through fictionalising the story behind the editorial, it becomes it's own metaphor - the weaving together of these disparate lives and their various struggles, united by hope and faith. Bronson gives a great performance that really grounds the film (and the part must have been particularly resonant for him, as his wife Jill Ireland had died the year before the film was made). I really recommend this movie, and think it's a shame that it isn't as enduring or well known as the original editorial.

"Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. 

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. 

Not believe In Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. 

You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. 

No Santa Claus! Thank God he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood."

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Let me tell you about Jack Thayer.

John “Jack” Borland Thayer III, at the age of 17, was heading home to Philadelphia via New York along with his mother and father¹ as first class passengers on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic. Upon the collision with the iceberg and the loading of the lifeboats, Jack went to investigate and quickly found himself separated from his parents. He assumed they had both managed to board a lifeboat, and he was half correct - his mother, Marian Thayer, hade made it onto lifeboat 4.

Not young enough to find easy refuge on a lifeboat, Jack spent those final moments onboard the Titanic with Milton C. Long, who was in a similar state of separation from his family. Together they worked up the courage to jump into the water, for hopes of swimming out to an already launched lifeboat, but they hesitated, Jack later saying that he feared being stunned upon hitting the water, due to the below freezing temperatures. Eventually, though, when the boat deck was only an estimated ten yards above the water, they finally took the plunge.

“Long and myself stood by each other and jumped on the rail. We did not give each other any messages for home because neither of us thought we would ever get back.” ²

Milton jumped first. Jack followed, but would never see Milton again. Jack’s account of his time in the water is as follows:

“I jumped out, feet first, went down, and as I came up I was pushed away from the ship by some force. I was sucked down again, and as I came up I was pushed out again and twisted around by a large wave,³ coming up in the midst of a great deal of small wreckage. My hand touched the canvas fender of an overturned lifeboat. I looked up and saw some men on the top. One of them helped me up. In a short time the bottom was covered with twenty-five or thirty men. The assistant wireless operator⁴ was right next to me holding on to me and kneeling in the water.” ²

This upside-down lifeboat was the Engelhardt boat B, one of the Titanic’s four “collapsible” lifeboats. B in particular had been swept off of the deck before it could be properly launched, landing itself in the water bottom-side up. This boat carried 30 men through the cold night, only three of them passengers, the rest crew, being led by 2nd Officer Charles Lightoller. It was a constant battle of balance, desperate not to release the small pocked of air trapped under the boat that kept it afloat. By daybreak, they were all standing, the lifeboat almost fully submerged, feet freezing.⁵

With daylight, they were finally able to locate the other lifeboats, and with a whistle easily identified as that of an officer’s, Lightoller directed two lifeboats to meet their overturned one, so the exhausted men could all offload onto drier and safer wood. Of these two boats, one of them was lifeboat 4, holding Jack’s mother.

One can hardly imagine what it must’ve been like for Marian Thayer, the crushing emotions she may have felt in those moments. To take the sea in a lifeboat, knowing both her husband and son were still on board the doomed ship. To see that ship disappear under the surf, and to hear the screams until they too vanished like the liner. To know that the worst has happened to her family, but maybe, that dangerous inkling of hope, or more so, denial, that many survivors had felt, telling themselves that their loved ones must be on one of the other lifeboats - they just must. And then as the dawn brakes, distraught and cold, she doesn’t even recognize a familiar face on that overturned boat they had gone to relieve. Jack, too, did not notice his mother at this time, likely hypothermic⁶ from his plunge the night before. It wasn’t until they were safe onboard the RMS Carpathia that the two were truly reunited, and as I said before, one can only imagine the outpouring of emotions that must have caused. Not to mention, that there was still someone missing from this reunion. Jack’s father had not survived.

While Jack and his mother’s survival might call for a relatively happy ending, I’m afraid that can’t be the case. After graduating from college, becoming a successful banker, and settling down with a family, Jack still found himself extremely haunted by that fateful night in 1912. In 1940, he wrote about his experiences to try and expel the troubles from his mind, but it seemed that it was not enough. Then, with the outbreak of WWII, both of his two sons joined the services, and one did not return. Not long after, Jack Thayer followed his late son, taking his own life on September 18th, 1945.

...

Notes:

1. Jack’s father was John B. Thayer II, vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad.

2. These quotations are as written in The Truth About the Titanic, written by Col. Archibald Gracie. Gracie was one of the other two passengers (all three of which were first class) who found refuge on the Engelhardt boat B.

3. This large wave was likely caused by the falling of one of the Titanic’s funnels. This wave also accounts for how Jack jumped off of the starboard side, but ended up on port. 

4. Refers to Harold S. Bride, the junior wireless operator, working for the Marconi Company. 

5. While Jack came out of the whole ordeal uninjured, other occupants of lifeboat B did not fare as well. Bride, for example, suffered frostbitten and broken feet.

6. Jack having hypothermia is entirely my own speculation. I have not seen any material stating that Jack suffered any medical conditions from that night, nor am I a doctor, but it does not seem unlikely to me due to the temperature, him being soaked through, and the fact that he did not register the presence of his own mother.  

[jeremystrele]

A Designer’s 1970s Bells Beach Dream Home!

A Designer’s 1970s Bells Beach Dream Home!

Homes

by Lucy Feagins, Editor

Artwork in the background is ‘Checked Square’ by Jacob Leary. ‘Tufty-Too’ modular sofa from B&B Italia, designed in 2011 by Patrizia Urquiola. 1970s Italian chrome and glass coffee table. 1957 Saarinen ‘Tulip’ side table. Rug from RC&D. Vintage Italian chair in Mongolian wool dyed blue. Recycled French oak coffee table designed and build by Leo.  Alfredo Barbini Murano Italian art glass dish. ‘Vesuvius’ lava glaze bowl by Jonhathan Adler. Hand-woven cotton light pendant from Paris au mois d’aout. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

The lush entry foyer. ‘Planula’ dining chairs by Giovanni Carini, 1970. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Interior designer Léo Terrando; and model, actor and a producer Jessica Watts. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Artwork in the background is ‘Checked Square’ by Jacob Leary. ·’Tufty-Too’ modular sofa from B&B Italia, designed in 2011 by Patrizia Urquiola. 1970s Italian chrome and glass coffee table. 1957 Saarinen ‘Tulip’ side table. Rug from RC&D. Vintage Italian chair in Mongolian wool dyed blue. Recycled French oak coffee table designed and build by Leo.  Alfredo Barbini Murano Italian art glass dish. ‘Vesuvius’ lava glaze bowl by Jonhathan Adler. Hand-woven cotton light pendant from Paris au mois d’aout. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Artwork is ‘Act 1 Scene 2’ by Deidre Bruhn. 1959 Verner Panton wire cone chair. Mimi Kelly untitled print. Green Gaudi chairs by Vico Magistretti for Artemide, 1970s. ‘Four’ dining table Desk from Kartell designed by Feruccio Laviani. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

1970s Cristalart mirrored console table. Charles and Ray Eames executive table for Hermann Miller with Arabescatto marble top. Limited edition 1974 ‘Monk��� chairs by Afra and Tobia Scarpa for Molteni. 1962 ‘Arco’ floor lamp by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Flos. Zac Koukoravas artwork. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Dulux ‘Milton Moon‘ paint. Charles and Ray Eames executive table for Hermann Miller with Arabescatto marble top. Limited edition 1974 ‘Monk’ chairs by Afra and Tobia Scarpa for Molteni. 1962 ‘Arco’ floor lamp by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Flos. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Volkswagen Kombi 1977. Framed photograph Leo took inside the escalator of the Centre George Pompidou in Paris beside his surfboards. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Kartell ‘Ghost stools. Mayday lamps by Kanstantin Grcic for Flos. Dulux Klute, Dulux Luck and Dulux Vivid White paints. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Danish high sideboard. 1970s Italian table lamp. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Early 1900s church pew·. Moroccan rug. ‘TOIO’ floor lamp designed in 1962 by Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Flos. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Mid-century Australian credenza that Leo found at the tip. Ceramic from west Germany. Laurana Rame D’arte Italian copper enamel bowl 1960. Mid-century modern Italian ‘Selenova’ table lamp in murano glass. Collection of 1960s clear glass Czech vases. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Java Couple sculptures. 1950s French mirror. Jielde Floor Lamp Loft D 1240 from Flos. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Rug from RC&D. Red lacquered metal frame ‘Vanessa’ bed designed by Tobia Scarpa for Cassina. Chrome and glass Italian coffee table. ‘Brumbury’ table lamp by Luigi Massoni for Guzzini. Original ‘Mushroom’ armchair by Pierre Paulin for Artifort. Artwork ‘Difficult Pleasure’ by Brett Ferry. Cedar cladding on walls. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Jess with the couple’s dog, Button. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Jess, Léo and Button! Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

The awe-inspiring view out to Bells Beach. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

It really feels like we are living in the middle of the forest,’ says Léo. Photo – Nikole Ramsay for The Design Files. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Interior designer Léo Terrando purchased this incredible Bells Beach house (on Victoria’s Surf Coast) 10 years ago, which he shares with partner Jessica Watts. 

Believed to have been designed by acclaimed architect Kevin Borland in 1975, the house is characterised by vaulted timber ceilings that bring warmth and a distinctly eclectic character to its otherwise beachy feel.

‘The structural timber is entirely exposed and it follows the origami shape of the house, which means that the lighting – either natural or artificial – creates so many different contrasts and shadows,’ Léo says.

Léo was taken with the property’s unique design, as well as its awe-inspiring location set back from famous Bells Beach. ‘I love the fact that the house is away from everything,’ he says. ‘Being able to see the ocean from the house as well as hearing all the birds living in the area is truly magical.’

Not interested in stripping the home of its original character, Léo has undertaken only modest renovations over the past decade. ‘Internally I removed some walls in the upstairs bedroom and got rid of the carpet,’ he says.’

Other updates have been cosmetic only, such as updating the lighting fixtures throughout the home. ‘The lighting is so important for me, I have brought in so many different styles and types of lights, lamps, shades, from all different designers and eras,’ Léo says.

The home has also been painted inside and out, in colours including Dulux Milton Moon (in the living and dining room) with Dulux Klute, Dulux Luck and Dulux Vivid White in the kitchen and skirtings throughout.

The house has been a challenge to furnish due to its many windows – over 50 in total! To overcome this, and to balance out the extensive timber panelling, Léo has styled the space with an eclectic mix of free-standing furniture, and large indoor plants. Most of the furniture and accessories are 1960s and ‘70s Italian pieces, and alongside these are personal items that show off the couple’s personality, such as surfboards and bold, abstract artwork. 

Overall this home feels effortlessly cool, relaxed and unpretentious – just like its Bells Beach location. Léo says, ‘Waking up to kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, and echidnas… It really feels like we are living in the middle of the forest.’ Living the dream!

[originalchicago]

Entrance to the Blackstone Hotel on Michigan Ave., Chicago, Borland-Electric Brougham is in the foreground.

The proverbial " smoke filled room" is in Chicago at the Blackstone Hotel on the southern edge of the Chicago Theatre District at Michigan Avenue and Hubbard Court (which was renamed Balbo Drive) in suite 915. The famed Blackstone Theatre was built right next door. The site was the old Blackstone family mansion which was torn down when Timothy Blackstone (founder of the Union Stockyards) died and his widow sold the property to the Drake brothers.

The hotel was built in 1910 and is known as the "Hotel of Presidents". At least 12 U.S. Presidents have stayed there, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter. Most recently the President of Poland stayed there. Booker T. Washington also stayed there in 1911.

The hotel has a special room with hollowed out walls in which the Secret Service operate for presidental use, (If these walls could talk.)

In 1918, William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, who had been feuding for years, forgave each other in the hotel's dining room when Roosevelt who was eating dinner, saw the former president and gave him a mighty bear hug amid cheers from fellow diners.

In 1920 the Republican convention being held at the Chicago Coliseum was deadlocked between General Leonard Wood and Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. A secret meeting in suite 915 of the hotel took place among Republican leaders and Harding/Coolidge became the ticket. Raymond Clapper, a reporter for United Press coined the term "smoked filled room" when the doors to the room opened and smoke was seen billowing out. It has stayed a part of our political jargon ever since. It has meant a place, behind the scenes, where cigar-smoking party bosses meet to choose candidates.

In 1923, Rudolph Valentino and his bride Winifred Hudnut stayed here.

Al Capone came here to get his shoes shined and his haircut often. He liked the fact that the barbershop had no windows. In 1931 Charles "Lucky" Luciano hosted a "Crime Convention" to split up power among mob bosses across the country at the hotel.

Harry Trumen sipped boubon and played the "Missouri Waltz" on the lobby piano while he contemplated running as Roosevelt's vice-president.

John Eisenhower who was on his way to serving in Korea recounted this meeting with his father as he was about to be nominated for president in 1952.

"As the time for my deployment approached, I discussed my intentions with my father. We met at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, just after the Republican convention, and I explained my position. My father, as a professional officer himself, understood and accepted it. However, he had a firm condition: under no circumstances must I ever be captured. He would accept the risk of my being killed or wounded, but if the Chinese Communists or North Koreans ever took me prisoner, and threatened blackmail, he could be forced to resign the presidency. I agreed to that condition wholeheartedly. I would take my life before being captured."

JFK had a cold and was having a bowl of clam chowder soup in room 1015 (The Presidential Suite) when he got a phone call from his brother, Attorney General Bobby Kennedy about the missiles in Cuba. The room had a secret door behind the fireplace for quick exits that the secret service secreted Marilyn Monroe in and out of.

The Beatles once played an impromptu set during a late-night event.

In 1985 Palmer Berry, a former cook at the Blackstone Hotel, confessed to a gruesome murder of a man he committed 17 years previously in Kenoshsa in 1968. The victim was a waiter in the Blackstone Hotel dining room who Berry said owed him $500 from an abortion racket they were involved in.

After a night of drinking, he remembered driving north on U.S. Hwy. 41 while the waiter slept in the back seat. He parked alongside a creek in a secluded area. Then, without awakening the man in the back seat, he drew his gun and ``emptied it into the guy`s face.``

He said he dragged the man out of the car, removed his outer garments, took his wallet containing $200 and dumped the underwear-clad body into the water. Seventeen years later his conscious was bothering him so he confessed.

The lobby has a gold couch, a fireplace and you can play pool on a table used in the film "The Color of Money" and was given to the hotel as a gift from Paul Newman. A scene from the 1987 film was shot in the famous Crystal Ballroom.

Another famous scene from the movie "The Untouchables" was shot in the ballroom. The scene where Robert Deniro as Al Capone beats two men with a baseball bat.

Then in 1999 inspectors warned Blackstone managers the structure had serious safety problems that needed to be remedied. The building's electrical system had issues and the elevators had recently broke down.

"There was no order to do so, but for the safety of our guests, we decided to close and vacate," said Daniel Wasielewski, a spokesman for the hotel's owner, a company founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, best known as a guru to the Beatles. An attempt was made to convert the building to condo's but failed.

The building remained shuttered until

Sage Hospitality Resources, the Denver, Co based hospitality company

purchased the property in 2005. It had a 118 million dollar renovation in 2008 and was reopened as Renaissance Blackstone Chicago operated by Marriott.

Only two guest rooms were preserved during the restoration, the famous ninth-floor "smoke-filled room" and the original tenth-floor presidential suite. However, the Presidential Suite's hidden passage behind the fireplace has been converted into closet space. History however is still steeped in the ornate terra cotta cladding that covers the exterior.

Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and Carl Sandburg all stayed here. You can feel their presence when walking down the hallways along with many other forgotten stars and notables.

Stop in for a Catalan-inspired cocktail and a bite to eat at the Chicago local’s favorite restaurant Mercat a la Planxa on Michigan Avenue, on the street level of the hotel when this pandemic is over. Highly recommended for a visit and taste.

[liunaticfringe]

Elementary 7x08 -- Finally a callback ep!

“Miss Understood” – Holmes and Watson search for an ulterior motive when Cassie Lenue (Allie Ioannides), a brilliant young criminal they helped put in prison (IN SEASON 4, MIND YOU), seeks their help in solving a murder, on ELEMENTARY, Thursday, July 11 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

GUEST CAST:

Allie Ioannides

(Cassie Lenue)

Joseph Lyle Taylor

(Detective Owen Calabrissi)

Marjan Neshat

(Detective Farrad)

Christa Scott-Reed

(Meredith Sagehorn)

Charles Borland

(Judd Foley)

Matthew Boston

(Mack Leehoven)

William Hill

(Jim Bendix)

Tramell Tillman

(Detective Ocasio)

Michael Satow

(Dalton Weller)

Kelsey Rainwater

(Social Worker)

James Murtaugh

(Lawyer)

WRITTEN BY: Bob Goodman

DIRECTED BY: Michael Smith

Looks like LL has about three scenes, so I’m guessing this was her prep week for directing.

[scotianostra]

At around ten o'clock in the evening of July 6th 1988 the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea was rocked by a huge explosion.

The 30th anniversary of the disaster will be remembered at a special memorial service tonight in Aberdeen at the Piper Alpha Memorial Garden in Hazlehead Park. The names of all 167 men who lost their lives on July 6 1988 will be read out during the ceremony to be attended by their relatives, friends and representatives from the oil and gas sector.

The vast human tragedy of that day sent shockwaves around the world and forced the industry to take a painstaking look at its practices. On that night, there were more than 220 men on board Piper Alpha, with most in the accommodation section and more than 60 working on the night shift.

After a gas leak on the North Sea platform a series of explosions followed and, minutes later, it was engulfed in a fireball. By the time the rescue helicopters arrived, flames were reaching 300ft and could be seen from 70 miles away. The smoke and fire made evacuation by helicopter or lifeboat impossible, and many people gathered in the accommodation area. Remaining there meant certain death. With the platform ablaze and exploding, some men jumped off from 175ft above the North Sea. Others plunged from lower levels or clambered down ropes and hoses before plummeting into the water. Poundland to stop selling kitchen blades because of rise in knife crime

There were only 62 survivors that night in what remains the world’s worst offshore disaster. An inquiry led by Lord Cullen opened in Aberdeen in January 1989, ended in February the following year, and published its report of several hundred pages nine months after that. It led to North Sea safety being shifted from the Department of Energy to the Health and Safety Executive, and meant that automatic shut-down valves were made mandatory on rigs to starve a fire of fuel.

It's not often I would name all those that perished, but on the 3oth anniversary I think it is only fitting to do so, RIP to the 167......

Robert McIntosh Adams, 39, rigger George Alexander J Anderson, 29, baker Ian Geddes Anderson, 33, dual service operator John Anderson, 45, catering manager Mark David Ashton, 19, trainee technician/cleaner Wilson Crawford A Bain, 34, valve technician Barry Charles Barber, 46, diving consultant Craig Alexander Barclay, 24, welder Alan Barr, 37, electrical technician Brian Philip Batchelor, 44, seaman Amabile Alexander Borg, 51, non-destructive tester Hugh Wallace Brackenridge, 47, roustabout Alexander Ross Colvin Bremner, 38, production operator Eric Roland Paul Brianchon, 32, technician Hugh Briston, 40, scaffolder Henry Brown, 27, welder Stephen Brown, 39, assistant chef/baker Gordon Craib Bruce, 42, helicopter landing officer James Bruce, 52, logger Carl William Busse, 31, directional drilling supervisor David Campbell, 23, cleaner David Allen Campbell, 29, scaffolder Alexander Watt Cargill, 39, electrician Robert Carroll, 34, safety operator Alan Carter, 43, lead production operator Robert Cleland, 33, derrickman Stephen Colin Cole, 40, radio officer Hugh Connor, 35, instrument technician/lecturer John Edward Sherry Cooke, 59, plater John Thomas Cooper, 37, instrument technician William Nunn Coutts, 37, chef William John Cowie, 32, steward Michael John Cox, 26, scaffolder Alan Irvin Craddock, 31, drilling supervisor Edward John Crowden, 47, electrical technician Bernard Curtis, 45, deputy production superintendent Jose Hipolito Da Silva, 26, steward John Stephen Dawson, 38, telecom engineer Eric Deverell, 51, production clerk Alexander Duncan, 51, steward Charles Edward Duncan, 29, floorman Eric Duncan, 49, drilling materials man John Duncan, 33, engineer Thomas Irvine Duncan, 39, roustabout William David Duncan, 38, crane operator David Alan Ellis, 28, steward Douglas Newlands Findlay, 38, supervisor mechanic Harold Edward George Flook, 51, production operator George Fowler, 40, electrical technician Alexander Park Frew, 41, plater Samuel Queen Gallacher, 30, pipe fitter Miguel Galvez-Estevez, 36, assistant chef Ernest Gibson, 45, mud engineer Albert Stuart Gill, 32, roustabout Ian Gillanders, 50, instrument pipe fitter Kevin Barry Gilligan, 35, steward Shaun Glendinning, 24, painter John Edward Thomas Goldthorp, 37, motorman Stephen Robert Goodwin, 22, geologist James Edward Gray Gordon, 38, floorman David Lee Gorman, 41, safety operator Kenneth Graham, 40, mechanical technician Peter John Grant, 31, production operator Cyril James Gray, 49, safety operator Harold Eugene Joseph Green, 44, rigger Michael John Groves, 44, production operator John Hackett, 49, electrical technician Ian Hay, 31, steward Thomas Albert Hayes, 39, rigging supervisor James Heggie, 45, production services superintendent David William Henderson, 28, lead floorman Philip Robert Houston, 35, geologist Duncan Jennings, 28, geologist Jeffrey Grant Jones, 37, assistant driller Christopher Kavanagh, 49, plater William Howat Kelly, 43, electrical technician Ian Killington, 33, steward John Brian Kirby, 51, production operator Stuart Gordon Charles Knox, 37, roustabout Alexander Rodger Laing, 38, steward Terence Michael Largue, 34, scaffolder Graham Lawrie, 39, roustabout Findlay Wallace Leggat, 37, scaffolder Brian Lithgow, 34, photographic technician Robert Rodger Littlejohn, 29, pipe fitter Martin George Longstaffe, 22, logger William Raymond Mahoney, 60, steward John Morrison Martin, 33, rigger Sidney Ian McBoyle, 36, motorman Robert Borland McCall, 39, chief electrician James McCulloch, 51, HVAC technician Alistair James McDonald, 33, mechanical technician Alexander McElwee, 45, plater Thomas O’Neil McEwan, 38, electrical chargehand William George McGregor, 48, leading steward Frederick Thomas Summers McGurk, 51, rigger William Hugh McIntosh, 24, floorman Gordon McKay, 33, valve technician Charles Edward McLaughlin, 46, electrician Neil Stuart Ross McLeod, 47, quality assurance inspector Francis McPake, 49, steel erector/rigger David Allison McWhinnie, 36, production operator Dugald McLean McWilliams, 31, welder Carl Mearns, 20, rigger Derek Klement Michael Millar, 32, supervisor Alan David Miller, 31, industrial chemist Frank Miller, 33, scaffolder John Hector Molloy, 32, engineer Leslie James Morris, 38, platform superintendent Bruce Alexander Ferguson Munro, 29, floorman George Fagan Murray, 37, steward James Cowie Niven, 27, roustabout Graham Sim Noble, 37, materials man Michael O’Shea, 30, electrician Robert Rennie Pearston, 25, mechanic Ian Piper, 38, motorman Wasyl Pochrybniak, 37, lead roustabout Raymond Leslie Price, 59, production operator Neil Pyman, 32, engineer Terence Stephen Quinn, 28, service engineer William Wallace Raeburn, 38, maintenance controller Donald Reid, 44, chargehand engineer Robert Welsh Reid, 27, roustabout Gordon MacAlonan Rennie, 52, process operator Robert Miller Richard, 45, production operator Alan Riddoch, 44, steward Adrian Peter Roberts, 28, roughneck Alexander James Robertson, 50, lead production technician Donald Nicholson Robertson, 54, mechanical technician Gary Ross, 29, roustabout Michael Hector Ryan, 23, roustabout Stanley Sangster, 56, foreman scaffolder James John Dearn Savage, 41, electrical technician Michael Hugh Brodie Scorgie, 28, lead foreman William Alexander Scorgie, 46, pipe fitter John Francis Scott, 26, scaffolder Colin Denis Seaton, 51, offshore installation manager Robert Hendry Selbie, 32, turbo drill engineer Michael Jeffrey Serink, 26, logger Michael Bernard Short, 41, foreman rigger Richard Valentine Skinner, 41, assistant driller William Hamilton Smith, 43, maintenance lead hand James Speirs, 42, mechanical technician Kenneth Stuart Stephenson, 37, rigger Thomas Cunningham Boswell Stirling, 27, cleaner Malcolm John Storey, 38, seaman James Campbell Stott, 40, plumber Jurgen Tilo Stwerka, 36, research chemist Stuart Douglas Sutherland, 21, student/cleaner Terrence John Sutton, 28, mechanical fitter Alexander Ronald Taylor, 57, roustabout Alistair Adam Thompson, 45, telecom engineer Robert Argo Vernon, 51, production operator John Edward Wakefield, 35, instrument technician Michael Andrew Walker, 24, technician Bryan Thomas Ward, 48, rigger Gareth Hopson Watkin, 42, offshore medical attendant Francis John Watson, 38, head chef Alexander Whibley, 28, roustabout Kevan Dennis White, 42, maintenance supervisor Robert Whiteley, 39, roustabout Graham Gill Whyte, 42, aerial rigger James Gilbert Whyte, 53, aerial rigger Alan Wicks, 40, safety supervisor Paul Charles Ferguson Williamson, 24, floorman David Wiser, 65, survey technician John Richard Woodcock, 29, technical clerk

[awkward-sultana]

Anamika Mishra / William Cullen Bryant / Unknown / East of Eden, John Steinbeck / Great Expectations, Charles Dickens / Unknown / Caroline May / Worm Moon, Mary Oliver / Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman / Hopscotch (trans. Gregory Rabassa), Julio Cortázar / Victoria Erickson / The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab / Hal Borland

[drjacquescoulardeau]

SELF-LEARNING ÜBER ALLES AND ABOVE ALL LA GRAMMAIRE DYNAMIQUE DE L’ANGLAIS https://www.academia.edu/28658747/Grammaire_anglaise_avec_exercices_corrig%C3%A9s Dr Jacques COULARDEAU Pour étudiants ou enseignants d’anglais francophones

 Elle fut inventée et élaborée sur de nombreuses années de pratique et mise en ligne pour la première fois à l’Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, centre de Tolbiac en face de Chinatown.

J’ai mis les cinq parties en ligne sur www.academia.edu il y a déjà quelques années. Je propose ici les cinq liens des cinq parties sur ce site pour faciliter la navigation.

1ère partie : Le syntagme nominal

https://www.academia.edu/1406591/La_Grammaire_dynamique_de_langl ais_Partie_1

2ème partie : Le syntagme verbal

https://www.academia.edu/1406601/La_Grammaire_Dynamique_de_lAngl ais_Partie_2

3ème partie : L’énoncé

https://www.academia.edu/1406614/La_Grammaire_Dynamique_de_lAngl ais_Partie_3

4ème partie : Les utilitaires

https://www.academia.edu/1406648/La_Grammaire_Dynamique_de_lAngl ais_Partie_4

5ème partie : Introduction aux exercices (tous corrigés)

https://www.academia.edu/1406746/La_Grammaire_Dynamique_de_lAngl ais_Partie_5

 Je vous prie instamment d’utiliser sans modération ces 301 pages. Si vous remarquez des erreurs – et je suis sûr qu’il y en a – veuillez avoir la gentillesse de me les signaler. Je mettrai à jour régulièrement.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

ADDENDUM : RÉFÉRENCES de tous les exemples utilisés dans la grammaire

Africa, Frank, in Mumia, Abu-Jamal, 1995

Alex, T.S., Mind Mine, recueil de poésies autoédité, San Antonio, Texas, 1999

Bellow, Saul, Ravelstein, Viking, New York, 2000

BizRate.com®, Online Research Panel, Official Sweepstakes Rules, The Internet, Los Angeles, 2000

Borland, Hal, When the Legends Die, Bantam, New York, 1984

Bunyan, John, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Whitaker House, New York, 1981

Burghardt DuBois, W.E., The Souls of Black Folks, Fawcette Publications, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1961

Chapman, Robert L., PhD, American Slang, Harper and Row, New York, 1987

Conrad, Earl, The Premier, Lancer Books, New York, 1963

Dickens, Charles, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, OUP, Oxford, 1956

Drapeau, Louis L., The Future of Risk Management : Are You Reading the Signs of the Times ?, The Internet, 2000

Ellis, Bret Easton, American Psycho, Picador, Londres, 1991

Ellison, Ralph, Juneteenth, Vintage International, New York, 1999

Garland, Alex, The Beach, Penguin Books, Londres, 1996

Goddard, Robert, Set in Stone, Bantam, Londres, 1999

Harris, Robert, Archangel, Jove Books, New York, 1999

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter, Washington Square Press, New York, 1970

Hodge, John, The Beach A Screenplay, Faber & Faber, London, 2000

Huebner, Andrew, American by Blood, Anchor, Londres, 2000

Hull, Raymond, “Introduction,” in Peter, Dr Laurence J., 1970

Joyce, James, Ulysses, Penguin, Londres, 1975

Marlowe, Christopher, Doctor Faustus, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1993

Mumia, Abu-Jamal, Live from Death Row, Avon Books, New York, 1995

Murdoch, Iris, Bruno’s Dream, Dell Publishing Company, New York, 1970

Murdoch, Iris, The Green Knight, Chatto, and Windus, Londres, 1993

Peter, Dr Laurence J., The Peter Principle, Bantam, New York, 1970

Reed, Ishmael, The Free-Lance Pallbearers, Bantam, New York, 1967

Rice, Anne, The Queen of the Damned, Futura, Londres, 1990

Seeger, Pete, American Favorite Ballads, Oak Publications, New York, 1961

Shakespeare, William, Antony and Cleopatra, Spring Books, Londres, 1965

Skeat, Walter W., Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1965

Taylor, Richard J., “The Art of Digital Techniques in the Broadcast Studio,” SMPTE, Scarsdale, New York, 1982

Townsend, Sue, The Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, Methuen, Londres, 1982

Tropper, Jonathan, Plan B, St Martin’s Press, New York, 2000

Walker, Margaret, Jubilee, Bantam, New York, 1967

[altusfl]

39.  The 1987 Season --- Team rosters

Team by team breakdown of more noted players in the 1987 season

Atlanta - QB Steve Bartkowski,QB Walter Lewis, RB Kirby Warren, FB Ken Talton, WR Marcus Anderson, WR/KR Cormac Carney, DL Curtis Anderson, and NT Bob Nelson OLB Cornelius Bennett, ILB Larry Kolic, P Jim Grupp K Efren Herrera 

Arizona- QB Alan Risher, QB Doug Woodward RB Kevin Nelson,RB Nuu Faaola, RB Scott Stamper, RB Randy Johnson RB John Barnett,FB Mack Boatner, WR Jackie Flowers, WR Neil Bahlholm, WR Lenny Willis, TE Mark Keel, G Carl Roberts G Frank Kalil, C Mike Katolin OL Jeff Kiewel RG Alvin Powell, DE Skip McLendon, DE/NT Mark Buben DE Mike Mraz DT Stan Mataele NT Dan Saleamua OLB Ed Smith, OLB Ben Apuna, OLB Scott Stephen MLB Byron Evans  DB Lance Shields DB Eddie Brown  DB Gordon Bunch,FS Allen Durden SS David Fulcher SS Don Schwartz P/K Frank Corral 

Birmingham- QB Cliff Stoudt,QB Bob Lane, QB Mike Shula, RB Brent Fullwood, RB Earl Gant, FB Tommie Agee FB Leon Perry WR Jim Smith, WR Joey Jones, WR Ron Fredrick, WR Perry Tuttle, WR Greg Richardson TE Darryl Mason TE Allama Matthews T Pat Phenix, T Robert Woods G Pat Saindon, G Buddy Aydelette, C Tom Banks G Dave Drechsler DE Jon Hand DE Dave Purifory DE Jackie Cline DE/DT Jimmy Walker DT Doug Smith, DE/DT Ronnie Paggett,  NT Donnie Humphrey OLB Herb Spencer,LB Dallas Hickman, LB Thomas Boyd CB Ricky Ray CB Dennis Woodberry CB Frank Reed DB Dave Dumars  SS Billy Cesare FS Mike Thomas FS Chuck Clanton P Danny Miller K Scott Norwood 

Boston - QB Mike Hohensee QB Steve Beuerlein RB Troy Stratford, RB Richard Crump, WR Joey Walters, WR Kelvin Martin WR Nolan Franz, TE Dan Ross, T Pat Staub G Steve Trapillo G John Schmeding G Gerry Raymond C Mike McLaughlin DE John Bosa,DE Kenny Neil DE Robert Banks DE Wally Klein NT Mike Ruth OLB Ben Needham ILB Marcus Marek CB Goldie Lockbaum CB Woorow Wilson S Joe Restic P Bucky Scribner K John Carney

Chicago-QB Vince Evans, QB Jack Trudeau RB Bo Jackson, RB Thomas Rooks, FB Keith Byars, WR David Williams,WR Steve Bryant, WR Doug Donely, WR Jaime Holland WR James Maness TE Cap Boso, TE Jerry Reese LT Mark Dennis, LT Lee Spivey,LT Duane Wilson,RT Jim Juriga,RG Arland Thompson, C Bill Winters  DE Tyrone Keys DE Don Thorp, DE Ken Gillen, NT Paul Hanna DT Tony Suber ILB Pepper Johnson ILB Jeff Leiding LB Byron Lee LB Scott Leach LB Larry Kolic OLB/DB Jim Bob Morris, OLB/DB John Barefeild OLB/DB Larry James CB Rod Hill, FS Craig Swoope DB Mike Ulmer S Sonny Gordon P Jim Miller K Max Zendejas

Denver- QB Doug Flutie, QB Bob Gagliano RB Bill Johnson, WR Leonard Harris, WR/KR Marc Lewis, WR Vincent White,WR Frank Lockett, LT Steve Rogers, C Tom Davis OL Sid Abramowitz DE Bruce Thornton, DE Calvin Turner, ILB John Nevens, LB Greg Gerken CB/PR David Martin, CB David Dumars CB Nate Miller, P Jack Weil K/P Jim Asmus (Future deals- FS Scott Thomas, MLB Terry Maki, and CB Tom Rotello)

Hawaii - QB Jack Thompson, QB Robbie Bosco,QB/RB/WR Raphel Cherry, WR Walter Murray, WR Mark Bellini , WR Glen Kozlowski, RB/PR/KR Gary Allen, RB Del Rodgers, RB Anthony Edgar RB/PR/KR Vai Sikahema,  FB Lakei Heimuli, FB Tom Tuipulotu, TE Trevor Molini, TE David Mills, RT Jim Mills LT Darryl Haley, LT Dean Miraldi T Vince Stroth, T Nick Eyre, T Wayne Faalafua G Joe Onosai G Louis Wong G Bernard Carvalho, C Ed Riewerts C Robert Anae DE Jason Buck DE Jim Herrmann DE Brandon Flint DE Brad Anae, DE Junior Filiaga,  DT Kit Lathrop DT Tom Tuinei DT Colin Scotts, DT Brad Smith, OLB Kyle Whittigham, OLB Leon White, LB Cary Whittingham, LB Filipo Mokofisi, MLB Kurt Gouveia,MLB Marv Allen CB Dana McLemore CB Jeff Griffin  CB Manny Hendrix, DB/KR Erroll Tucker, FS Blaine Gaison FS Jeff Wilcox SS Mark Kafentzis SS Kyle Morrell SS Jeff Sprowls, S Verlon Redd P/TE Clay Brown K Paul Woodside

Houston- QB Jim Kelly, QB Todd Dillon WR Richard Johnson, WR Ricky Sanders, WR/PR Gerald McNeil, WR/KR Clarence Verdin, RB Sam Harrell, RB Darryl Clark, LT Bryan Dausin RT Tommy Robinson T Ernie Rogers, T Denver Johnson RG Billy Kidd, LG Scott Boucher, C Frank Kalil, DE Pete Catan, DE Cleveland Crosby DE Hosea Taylor DE Charles Benson DT Tony Fitzpatrick DT Hosea Taylor  OLB Andy Hawkins, MLB Kiki DeAyala, OLB Mike Hawkins,  CB Will Lewis CB Mike Mitchell FS Luther Bradley FS Hollis Hall SS Calvin Eason,S Tommy Myers P Dale Walters K Toni Fritsch,

Jacksonville- QB Ed Luther, QB Robbie Mahfouz WR Alton Alexis, WR Perry Kemp, WR Wyatt Henderson RB Kevin Mack, KR/RB Tony Boddie,RB Archie Griffin, FB Larry Mason T Bob Gruber G George Collins C Jay PennisonT Roy simmons C Mike Reuther,RT Ralph Williams, LG Rich garza,DE Mike Raines, DE Keith Millard, DE Phil Dokes OLB tom dinkle LB OLB Joe Castillo, CB Van Jakes S Don Bessillieu S Chester Gee CB Mark Harper DB Bobby Hosea, P/K Brian Franco

Los Angeles- QB Rick Neuheisel, QB Mike Rae RB Christian Okoye, RB Reggie Brown   RB/KR Jarvis Redwine, WR JoJo Townsell, WR Mike Sherrad WR John Jefferson WR Duane Gunn TE Tim Wrightman TE Ricky Ellis OL Rod Walters, Vince Stroh, Bob Simmons, Doug Hoppock, Perry Harnett, &  Jerry Doerger,  C Mike Katolin & G Alvin Powell, DE Lee Williams, DT George Achica, DE Fletcher Jenkins, DE Ben Rudolph DT Eddie Weaver,DE Dennis Edwards, DE Ray Cattage, DE Rich Dimler OLB Eric Scoggins ILB Howard Carson,LB Danny Rich  LB Sam Norris CB John Hendy CB Tyrone Justin CB/S Mike Fox SS Tim McDonald P Jeff Partridge K Tony Zendejas,

Memphis- QB Warren Moon, QB Mike Kelley, WR/KR Derrick Crawford, WR Derek Holloway WR Greg Moser,  WR Sam Graddy, WR Ted Wilson, WR Gizmo Williams RB Tim Spencer, RB Harry Sydney, FB Cornelius Quarles, TE Keli McGregor RG Myke Horton G Bill Mayo DE Reggie White, DE/DT Calvin Clark LB Rod Shoate, LB Mike Brewington CB Mossy Cade CB Leonard Coleman CB mike thomas CB/s Mike Fox DB Terry Love FS Vic Minor SS Barney Bussey P Jimmy Colquitt K Alan Duncan

Miami – QB Vinny Tesreverde, QB Don Strock RB Curtis Bledsoe, RB George Works, RB/PR/KR Eric Robinson  FB Dwayne Crutchfield, WR Eddie Brown,  WR/KR Mike Harris WR Greg Taylor, WR Ricky Simmons WR Elmer Bailey TE Willie Smith TE Bob Niziolek LT Joel Patten RT Jeff Seevy RT/RG Dave Pacella RG Ed Fulton C/G Brian Musselman C Tony Loia T Ed Muransky Vaughn Harman DE Willie Broughton DE Ken Fagan DE Greg Feilds, DE Malcolm Taylor,DT Jerome Brown, DT Dan Sileo, LDT Bennie Smith DE Bob Cobb DE/NT Richard Tharpe DT Kevin Kellin DT Gurnest Brown  OLB Winston Moss LB Jon McVeigh LOLB Darnell Dailey ROLB Joe Hines MLB Mike Muller LB Ken Kelley CB Jeff Brown CB Reggie Sutton CB Trent Bryant CB Willie Holley FS Victor Jackson SS Mike Guess  P Greg Cater  K Jeff Brockhaus

Michigan – QB Richard Todd, QB Jim Harbaugh QB Whit Taylor RB John Williams, FB Albert Bentley,WR Anthony Carter, WR Chris Carter, WR Anthony Allen, TE Mike Cobb,TE Donnie Echols T Ray Pinney, T Chris Godfrey T Ken Dallafior,G Tyrone McGriff, G Thom Dornbrook, C Wayne Radloff, C/G George Lilja DE Larry Bethea DT/NT David Tipton DT Mike Hammerstein DT/DE Allen Hughes ILB Ray Bentley, OLB John Corker, OLB Kyle Borland OLB Angelo Snipes ILB Mike Mallory ILB Robert Pennywell CB Clarence Chapman,CB Brad Cochran CB Ron Osborne DB Oliver Davis S Garland Rivers S David Greenwood P Jeff Gossett K Novo Bojovich

New Jersey- QB Steve Young, QB Tom Ehrhardt RB Hershel Walker, RB Dwight Sullivan RB Calvin Murray, FB Maurice Carthon, WR Scott Schwedes, WR Clarence Collins WR Walter Broughton WR Tom McConnaughey WR Charlie Smith, TE Gordon Hudson, TE Brian Forster C Kent Hull, DE James Lockette, DE Ricky Williamson, DE Freddie Gilbert DT Tom Woodland, LB Jim LeClair, LB Mike Weddington CB Kerry Justin,CB Mike Williams CB Terry Daniels S Gregg Johnson DB Tony Thurman P Rick Partridge K Roger Ruzek

New Orleans- QB Reggie Collier, QB David Woodley,  RB Buford Jordan, RB Marcus DuPree, RB Anthony Steels, WR Trumaine Johnson, WR Jerry Gordon, WR Ron Johnson WR Mardye Mcdole TE Sam Bowers  T Broderick Thompson T Randy Theiss G Gerry Raymond, G Louis Oubre G Terry Crouch DT Jerald Bayless, DT Henry Thomas DT Jeff Gaylord, DT Larry McClain, DE Darryl Wilkerson DE Larry White NT Jerry Ball NT Oudious Lee  OLB Micheal Brooks KB ray phillips CB Lyndell Jones  S Charles Harbison S Tim Smith P Dario Casarino, K Tim Mazzetti

Oakland- QB Fred Besana, QB Tom Ramsey RB Eric Jordan, RB/KR Elmer James FB Tom Newton FB LaRue Harrington WR Gordon Banks, WR Ken Margerum, WR Lew Barnes WR Kevin Williams, TE Brian Williams, T Gary Zimmerman, T Jeff Hart,  G Tracy Franz, G Jim Leonard C Roger Levasa RDE Dave Browning, DE Greg Feilds, LDE Monte Bennett, NT Tim Moore OLB David Wyman OLB David Wyman OLB Tim Lucas OLB David Shaw ILB Gary Plummer LB Tony Caldwell LB Mark Stewart LCB Mark Collins,RCB Derrick Martin FS Frank Duncan SS Marcus Quinn,  P Stan Talley, K Sandro Vitiello

Oklahoma – QB Doug Williams, RB Ernest Anderson, RB Allen Pinkett, RB Andrew Lazarus, RB Vagus Ferguson,RB Mike Gunter FB Ted Sample, FB Derek Hughes, FB Jim Stone, WR Al Williams, WR Kris Haines, WR Lonnie Turner,TE Ron Wheeler,TE victor Hicks, LT Joe Levellis T Mike Perino, RT Jim Bob Lamb,G David Huffman, G Tom Thayer, C Mark Fischer,  DE Leslie O'Neal DE Bob Clasby, NT Tony Casillas ILB Putt Choate,OLB Dewey McClain OLB Kevin Murphy ILB Terry Beeson, LB Vic Koenning, LB Tony Furjanic CB Peter Raeford,CB Rock Richmond, CB Barry Copeland, CB Roney McMillan CB Lee Wilson DB Rod Brown FS Kelvin Middleton SS Herb Williams, P Case DeBrujin, K Luis Zendejas

Philadelphia-  QB Chuck Fusina, RB Kelvin Bryant, RB Paul Palmer RB Allen Harvin, FB David Riley  WR Scott Fitzkee, WR Willie Collier WR Tom Donovan TE Ken Dunek TE Steve Folsom RT Irv Eatman, RG Chuck Commiskey, C Bart Oates, LG George Gilbert LT Mike McClearn D Bill Dugan NT Pete Kugler, DE William Fuller, DE John Walker, DE/DT Willie Rosborough ILB Shane Conlan, ILB Glenn Howard, OLB John Bunting OLB George Cooper LB John Brooks CB Garcia Lane, CB John Sutton CB/S Roger Jackson FS Mike Lush, S Scott Woerner, SS Antonio Gibson  P Sean Landeta, K David Trout

Pittsburgh- QB Glen Carano, QB Craig Penrose, HB Mike Rozier, HB Walter Holman, RB/KR/PR Mel Grey FB Amos Lawrence WR Greg Anderson, WR Julius Dawkins, TE Joey Hackett LT Don Maggs LG Corbin C Correal RG Lukens RT Feilds OL Emil Boures LDE Sam Clancy RDE Tony Woods DE Doug Hollie DT Ken Times, DT Mike Morgan, DT Dennis Puha, LDT David Graham RDT Dombrowski DE Ike Griffin NT Laval Short LOLB Rich D'Amico ROLB Mike McKibben MLB Brian Bozworth,LB Craig Walls CB Jerry Holmes,CB Virgil Livers, S Tommy Wilcox, P Larry Swider K Tony Lee 

Tampa Bay – QB Chuck Long QB Jimmy Jordan, QB Ben Bennett RB Gary Anderson, RB Greg Allen,  FB Greg Boone,WR Larry Brodsky, WR Willie Gillespie WR Chris Castor TE Marvin Harvey, LT Dan Fike, RT Reggie Smith LG Chuck Pitcock RG Nate Newton C Chris Foote DE Mike Butler DE Don Feilder DE Walter Carter, NT Fred Nordgren, DT Mike Clark DE Jim Ramey ROLB Alonzo Johnson LOLB James Harrell, MLB Kelley Kirchbaum MLB Fred McAllister CB Jeff George,CB Warren Hanna, FS Zac Henderson SS Blaine Anderson DB Alvin Bailey DB Doug Beaudoin P/K Zenon Andrusyshyn,

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