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Dr Whooves is admiring a strangely shaped potato in the Oddly Shaped Fruit Or Vegetable category at the milton Abbot show.

In Devon, England.

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Saints of the day August 01

Bl. Thomas Welbourne, 1605 A.D. English martyr. Born in Hutton Bushel, Yorkshire, he worked as a schoolmaster until his arrest for preaching the Catholic faith. He was arrested and condemned with Blesseds John Fuithering and William Brown. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Welbourne

The Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek, also known as the Eleven Nuns of Nowogródek or Sister Stella and Companions were a group of Roman Catholic nuns from the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth killed by the Gestapo in August 1943 in present-day Belarus.Aug 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Nowogr%C3%B3dek#:~:text=The%20Martyrs%20of%20Nowogr%C3%B3dek%2C%20also,Gestapo%20in%20August%201943%20in

St. Almedha, sixth century. Virgin and martyr also called Aled or Filuned. The Welsh tradition reports that Almedha was the daughter of King Brychan. Having taken a vow of virginity and dedicated to Christ, Almedha fled from her father's royal residence to escape marriage to the prince of a neighboring kingdom. She went to three Welsh villages - Llandrew, Llanfillo, and Llechfaen - but the people turned her away, despite her promise warning that dreadful thing calamities would befall anyone who denied her sanctuary. Almedha reached Brecon, where she took up residence in a small hut, but the king arrived and demanded her return. When she refused him, he beheaded her. Tradition states that a spring of water appeared on the site of her murder. The three villages that refused her were visited by disasters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Eluned#:~:text=Saint%20Eluned%20(Welsh%3A%20Eiliwedd%3B,Tennyson's%20Gareth%20and%20Lynette.%22.

St. Dominic Van Honh Dieu, Roman Catholic Dominican Priest and Martyr. A native of Vietnam. He was martyred at the age of sixty-seven. Feastday Aug. 1

St. Sofia, Eastern allegory explaining the cult of Divine Wisdom, Faith, Hope, and Charity were the daughters of Wisdom (known as Sofia in the Roman Martyrology on September 30th), a widow in Rome. The daughters suffered martyrdom during Hadrian's persecution of Christians: Faith, twelve, was scourged and went unharmed when boiling pitch was poured on her, was beheaded; Hope, ten, and Charity, nine, were also beheaded after emerging unscathed, from a furnace; and Wisdom died three days later while praying at their graves. Feast day - August 1st. https://www.st-sophia.com/about/saint

St. Ethelwold. Bishop of Winchester, England, called “the Father of Monks.” Born in that city, he was ordained by St. Alphege the Bald. In 943, he joined the Benedictines at Glastonbury under St. Dunstan. He became the abbot of Abingdon in 955 and bishop in 963. Ethelwold worked with Sts. Dunstan and Oswald of York in bringing about a monastic revival after the Danish invasions. He also expelled the canons of Winchester, replacing them with monks. Ethelwold founded or restored the abbeys of Ely, Chertsey, Milton Abbas, Newminster, Peterborough, and Thorney. He authored Regularis Concordia, a monastic decree based on the Benedictine Rule, and his school of illumination at Winchester was famed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelwold_of_Winchester

St. Peregrinus, 643 A.D. Irish or Scottish hermit. Peregrinus was originally a pilgrim who, on his way home from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the holy places, chose to become a hermit in the area around Modena, Italy. He remained there for the rest of his life. https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/015.html

St. Rioch, 480 A.D. Bishop Abbot of lnisboffin, Ireland. He was a nephew of St. Patrick and the brother of Sts. Mel and two others, Melchu and Muinis. They were the sons of Conis and St. Darerca. Rioch was a missionary bishop.

ST PETER FABER, JESUIT,A roommate of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier from their university days, this gentle guide of souls was a master at giving the Spiritual Exercises. He allowed himself to be spent for the Lord and his Church, helping the Jesuits to become established all over Europe. His feast day is August 1. St Peter Faber, Jesuit - Information on the Saint of the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/08/01/st-peter-faber--jesuit.html

ST. ALPHONSUS MARIA DE’ LIGUORI, ST. ALPHONSUS MARIA DE’ LIGUORI, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH, FOUNDER OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE MOST HOLY REDEEMER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonsus_Liguori

STS. SEVEN BROTHERS MACCABEI

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WRITING FAQ

Romantically I will write for:

Top Gun: Maverick: Jake "Hangman" Seresin, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, Robert "Bob" Floyd, Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia, and Javy "Coyote" Machado

Teen Wolf: Stiles Stilinski, Liam Dunbar, and Isaac Lahey

The Vampire Diaries Universe: Jeremy Gilbert, and Tyler Lockwood

Harry Potter: Oliver Wood, and Fred Weasley

NCIS: Timothy McGee, and Christopher LaSalle

Supernatural: Dean Winchester

Criminal Minds: Spencer Reid

Outer Banks: JJ Maybank

Footloose (2011): Willard Hewitt

9-1-1: Evan Buckley, Eddie Diaz, and Mateo Chavez

Twisters: Tyler Owens

Grey's Anatomy: Alex Karev, and Mark Sloan

The Rookie: Tim Bradford

Outer Range: Rhett Abbott

Blue Bloods: Jamie Reagan

Platonically I will write for:

Top Gun: Maverick: Jake "Hangman" Seresin, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, Robert "Bob" Floyd, Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia, Javy "Coyote" Machado, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Nick "Goose" Bradshaw, Carole Bradshaw, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Penny Benjamin, Natasha "Phoenix" Trace, and Sarah Kazansky

Teen Wolf: Stiles Stilinski, Liam Dunbar, Isaac Lahey, Scott McCall, Jordan Parrish, Lydia Martin, Melissa McCall, Noah Stilinski, Derek Hale, Deaton, Allison Argent, Kira Yukimura, Malia Hale, and Cora Hale

The Vampire Diaries Universe: Stefan Salvatore, Bonnie Bennett, Elena Gilbert, Jeremy Gilbert, Jenna Sommers, Caroline Forbes, Jo Laughlin, Liv Parker, Luke Parker, Davina Claire, Kol Mikaelson, Klaus Mikaelson, Tyler Lockwood, Marcel Gerard, Rebekah Mikaelson, Elijah Mikaelson, Hope Mikaelson, Hayley Marshall, Milton Greasley, Lizzie Saltzman, Josie Saltzman, Kaleb Hawkins, Vincent Griffith, Freya Mikaelson, Cami O'Connell, Cleo Sowande, Enzo St John, Rafael Waithe, Landon Kirby, Josh Rosza, Valerie Tulle, Nora Hildegard, Mary Louise, and Lily Salvatore

Harry Potter: Harry Potter, the Weasley family, James Potter, Lily Evans, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Minerva McGonagall, Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, Andromeda Tonks, Fleur Delacour, Oliver Wood, and Poppy Pomfrey

NCIS: Jethro Gibbs, Tim McGee, Tony Dinozzo, Ziva David, Kate Todd, Ducky Mallard, Abigail Sciuto, Jimmy Palmer, Leon Vance, Dwyane Pride, Christopher LaSalle, Meredith Brody, Sonja Percy, Sebastian Lund, Patton Plame, Loretta Wade, Tammy Gregorio, Quentin Carter, and Hannah Khoury

Supernatural: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Bobby Singer, Karen Singer, Castiel, Rowena MacLeod, Crowley, Jack Kline, Jody Mills, Jo Harvelle, and Ellen Harvelle

Criminal Minds: Spencer Reid, Jason Gideon, Jennifer Jareau, Emily Prentiss, Penelope Garcia, Aaron Hotchner, Derek Morgan, David Rossi, Elle Greenway, Alex Blake, Kate Callahan, Tara Lewis, and Luke Alvez

Outer Banks: JJ Maybank, Sarah Cameron, John B Routledge, Kiara Carrera, Pope Heyward, Cleo, and Heyward

Footloose (2011): Ren McCormack, Willard Hewitt, Ariel Moore, Rusty Rodriguez, Woody, Aunt Lulu, and Uncle Wes

9-1-1: Evan Buckley, Eddie Diaz, Bobby Nash, Karen Wilson, Hen Wilson, Howard Han, Maddie Buckley, Christopher Diaz, Athena Grant, May Grant, Lena Bosko, Ravi Panikkar, Lucy Donato, Carla Price, Isabel Diaz, Josh Russo, TK Strand-Reyes, Carlos Reyes, Judson Ryder, Mateo Chavez, Gwyneth Morgan, Iris Blake, Tommy Vega, Nancy Gillian, Paul Strickland, Marjan Marwani, Grace Ryder, and Wyatt Harris

Twisters/Twister: Tyler Owens, Boone, Kate Carter, Dr. Jo Ann Harding, Bill Harding, Javi Rivera, Dexter, Dani, Lily, Cathy Carter, Ben, Dustin Davis, Robert Nurick, Tim Lewis, and Haynes

Grey's Anatomy: Miranda Bailey, Alex Karev, Mark Sloan, Meredith Grey, Cristina Yang, Izzie Stevens, George O'Malley, Derek Shepherd, Addison Montgomery, Jackson Avery, Lexie Grey, April Kepner, Jo Wilson, Amelia Shepherd, Richard Webber, Carina DeLuca, Callie Torres, and Arizona Robbins

The Rookie: Tim Bradford, Nyla Harper, Lucy Chen, Angela Lopez, Wesley Evers, Sergeant Grey, Johnathan Nolan, Jackson West, Bailey Nune, Aaron Thorsen, and Celina Juarez

Outer Range: Rhett Abbott, Perry Abbott, Amy Abbott, Royal Abbott, and Cecilia Abbott

Blue Bloods: Jamie Reagan, Linda Reagan, Danny Reagan, Eddie Janko, Henry Reagan, Frank Reagan, Abigail Baker, Sid Gormley, Garrett Moore, Nicky Reagan-Boyle, Erin Reagan, and Joseph Hill.

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A favorite of mine, this is The Niagara Falls Sketch (Slowly I Turned) from The Abbot & Costello Show that ran in the ‘50s. This a classic and well-worn gag. The Three Stooges used it in Gents Without Cents in 1994, and Abbott & Costello did a version using “Pokomoko” in the 1944 film Lost In A Harem.

Among others was Lucille Ball’s turn on it in an episode of “I Love Lucy” (Martha) and Milton Berle with “Buffalo”. In Steve Martin’s Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, the trigger word was “cleaning woman”.

But I must admit, as much as I love the Stooges, this may be my favorite take. No one can play a put-upon shlub who knows he’s about to get it like Lou Costello.

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PETER BLAKE’S ARTICE IN DORSET LIFE EXPLORES CARTER’S TILES!

Peter Blake’s Article in Dorset Life on Carter’s Tiles! A fantastic read!

Carter’s Tile Manufactory

Peter Blake looks at the origins of the company that would become Poole Pottery

Published in August ’16

The famous ‘Welcome to Poole’ sign at Sandbanks

How many of the millions of commuters and tourists who use the London Underground every year give a thought to their surroundings, in particular the countless tiles which line the tunnels and decorate the stations? Very few, I am sure. If any do, perhaps they would be surprised to know just how many were produced in Dorset, a county not always considered to be in the forefront of manufacturing output. However, a small part of Poole was a major player in the production of tiles and other ceramics used in the building trade for nearly 100 years. This is the story of Jesse Carter and his family, and their impact on Poole from the 1870s onwards. Dorset clay has been used for pottery for thousands of years. Indeed, some of the earliest fragments of fired pottery which have been found locally go back to the Neolithic period, c. 3000 years BC. The clay was mainly used by local potters until the 18th century, when improving transport links led to an increased demand for the fine white plastic ball clay from potteries all over the country. The following century saw a massive building boom, with the associated demand for ceramics for the building trade, such as roof tiles, chimney pots, drainpipes, and floor and decorative tiles. To meet this need, a number of potteries sprang up around Poole.

Lovely detailing on this corner building at Julian Terrace in Southbourne, Bournemouth

One such was the Patent Architectural Pottery Company, founded in Hamworthy in 1854 to supply high-quality goods for the better class of builders. James Walker, an employee of this company, decided to branch out on his own, and around 1860 set up the Walker Patent Encaustic and Mosaic Ornamental Brick and Tile Manufactory on East Quay, Poole. He fairly quickly got into financial difficulties and came to the attention of Jesse Carter, an enterprising businessman who visited Poole often in the course of his work as a partner in an ironmongers’ and builders’ merchants in Weybridge, Surrey. He saw the potential for the ailing business and acquired the site, by now derelict, in 1873, renaming it Carter’s Industrial Tile Manufactory, later to become Carter & Co, with a subsidiary company called Carter Stabler and Adams being established in 1921, which eventually became the worldwide success that was renamed Poole Pottery in 1963. Born in 1830 in Abbots Worthy, the son of a bricklayer, Jesse Carter benefited from the building boom of the 19th century. A journeyman bricklayer in 1851, by 1861 he was a builder employing 49 men and five boys. There are records in Hampshire Record Office of a number of land sales involving Carter in the Winchester area during this period, and it is likely that he did well out of the growing demand for land in an area which was developing rapidly, with a big increase in the demand for housing following the opening of the railway station in 1839. In 1871 he was living in Weybridge, but moved to Poole soon after acquiring the pottery site, living first in Market Street, then later in West End House, a very imposing Georgian residence, which still stands. He began to expand the range of tiles produced at the pottery, alongside the old ‘Carter’s red’ floor tiles, producing more decorative glazed, modelled and painted wall tiles for the growing interior design market. By the middle of the 1880s, the business was thriving, and Jesse took three of his sons, Charles, Owen and Ernest into the company, Ernest sadly dying in 1887 of rheumatic fever at the age of 27. With the involvement of his sons in the business, Jesse started to take a less active part in the day-to-day running of the pottery and moved to West Cliff Road in Bournemouth, Owen taking up residence in West End House.

The Norton Free Library (now a Wetherspoons pub)

Owen was the driving force behind the introduction of decorative pieces and tableware into the repertoire of the pottery, in his capacity as Art and Technical Director. A friend and admirer of William de Morgan, who designed tiles for William Morris, Owen set up a potter’s wheel in a stable at the rear of West End House, where he started experimenting with the development of ornamental wares. In 1912, production of the more straightforward floor and wall tiles was shifted to the Hamworthy sites owned by the pottery, with the East Quay site concentrating on the more artistic end of the spectrum. Owen’s involvement with what became the world famous Poole Pottery ended with his death in 1919. Carter and Co produced their tiles over a period of nearly 100 years, from 1873 until the company was merged into Pilkington Tiles Ltd in 1964. In 1962, production was estimated to be 100,000 tiles per week, with the tunnel ovens on site using more gas than the whole of Salisbury.

The Poole coat of arms on Poole Bridge

Although the ornamental ware received more attention, the plainer output of the pottery was vital to the continuing success of the business. Carter’s supplied many of the tiles which line the London underground tunnels. They also produced relief tiles for the decoration of the stations, for example Bethnal Green, depicting London scenes. Carter’s was also responsible for the platform tiling for the Victoria line. The company produced blue plaques put up by the LCC, and later the GLC, for many years until they stopped making them in 1981. Other bread and butter work was also important, if unglamorous. The supply of glazed bricks and ceramic tiles for commercial premises such as pubs, butchers, cinemas and the like provided a lucrative business, allowing the more decorative side of the pottery to develop and flourish. Fortunately, a number of examples of these ornate frontages and signs still exist in our area, for example: the Branksome Arms, Commercial Road, Bournemouth, which is Grade II listed; the Goat and Tricycle in Westhill Road, Bournemouth (previously the Pembroke Arms); Westbourne Cinema (now Westbourne Club Grand Bingo); Jenkins and Sons, a 1920s butchers and fishmongers at Penn Hill, Parkstone (still called Jenkins and Sons, but now a café bar, with the facade preserved); the Welcome to Poole signs such as the one situated at Sandbanks; the Swan Inn and Poole Arms pub, both in Poole; and the Poole town coats of arms, displayed on Poole Bridge. Other examples can be found fairly close at hand, for example New Milton, Salisbury, Romsey and Portsmouth. Poole Museum would also be a good starting point for anyone interested in finding out more about Carter and Co’s output. For more detailed information, please look at the Facebook page of the Tile Lady, a local expert who provides illustrated talks and undertakes guided tours giving information about noteworthy buildings and tiled features in the Bournemouth and Poole area. If visiting any of these sites, try to do so on a sunny day, just after rain if possible, as the coloured tiles will be seen to their best advantage then, taking on jewel-like qualities.

The front of Jenkin and Son in Parkstone

The Carter family had a long-lasting impact on the life and times of Poole, continuing right up to the modern day. As well as employing people at Carter’s and later Poole Pottery, another of Jesse’s sons, William, took over the ailing Kinson Pottery in 1884, making it a going concern. His son, Herbert Spencer Carter, OBE JP, went on to be Mayor of Poole five times, the first time in 1912 at the age of 32. In 1946, Herbert Carter Secondary School was opened, named in his honour. Still operating, now as Carter Community School, this establishment has educated many thousands of Poole’s children. Poole Pottery has attracted well-deserved fame for the innovative design and use of colour in its ceramics, spreading the name of Poole throughout the world and attracting countless visitors to its premises. Although the bulk of the manufacturing is now carried out at Middleport pottery in Staffordshire, new designs are still created, fired and painted in the Studio Pottery on Poole Quay, continuing the tradition going back over a century.

The Swan Inn in Poole

Jesse Carter died in 1927 at the grand old age of 96. Little can he have thought when he first saw a derelict and failing pottery in 1873, that the company he founded would have such a profound effect not only on his own family, but on the town of Poole as well. www.poolepottery.co.uk

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Diseñadores gráficos que tienes que conocer antes de morir

El mundo está llenos de diseñadores gráficos. Sin embargo, hay algunos que destacan sobre el resto y se convierten en auténticos maestros de la disciplina. Hemos recopilado una lista con siete de los creativos más revolucionarios de todos los tiempos.

La historia del diseño gráfico es relativamente reciente. Hasta que la publicidad de masas no irrumpió a mediados del siglo XX, el lenguaje del diseño gráfico estaba poco desarrollado, y los anuncios se limitaban a divulgar las virtudes de un producto. Con la llegada de la Creative Revolution, capitaneada entre otros por George Lois, la publicidad aupó al diseño gráfico a una posición privilegiada dentro de las artes creativas. Y como en toda disciplina, surgieron los primeros campeones que definieron las pautas a seguir por nuestros contemporáneos.

Hemos seleccionado a siete de los diseñadores gráficos que más han influido en la breve historia de esta disciplina, y que estamos seguros pueden interesar a nuestros alumnos del Máster en Diseño Gráfico En la lista encontramos tanto a maestros intemporales como a jóvenes promesas del presente, artistas formalistas apegados al clasicismo como a revolucionarios que se resisten a seguir las normas canónicas del diseño. Como todas las listas son subjetivas y no existe un ranking absolutamente imparcial, nos hemos guiado por preferencias estéticas. Esperamos que esta lista os sirva de inspiración para vuestros futuros diseños.

Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser es, sin lugar a dudas, una de las referencias del diseño gráfico de todos los tiempos. Neoyorquino de nacimiento, su carrera profesional ha estado intrínsecamente ligada a la ciudad de los rascacielos, para la que ha realizado algunos de sus iconos más populares. Quizás, el más memorable de ellos haya sido el logotipo ‘I love New York’, un modelo que ha sido replicado a infinitud de ciudades de todo el mundo. Milton Glaser es reconocido por su trabajo para revistas y magazines tales como Esquire, Paris Match o Village Voice; además, ha realizado más de 300 carteles y portadas de discos para músicos, como el célebre afiche de Bob Dylan de 1967.

Cartel de Bob Dylan, Milton Glaser, 1969.

Stefan Sagmeister

“El diseño necesita agallas”. Con esta carta de bienvenida se presenta el austriaco Stefan Sagmeister, uno de los diseñadores más polémicos de todos los tiempos. Independiente y controvertido, Sagmeister saltó a la fama en 1999, cuando el austriaco convirtió su propio cuerpo en un cartel tipográfico, mutilando su piel con una cuchilla de afeitar para anunciar una ponencia del AIGA, el Instituto Americano de Artes Gráficas. Sin llegar a este extremo, Stefan Sagmeister ha enfocado su carrera en la experimentación tipográfica y el diseño de portadas para grupos musicales. Su trabajo rebosa ironía y propone una gran multitud de juegos visuales con dobles sentidos.

Portada para Bridges to Babylon, Stefan Sagmeister, 1997.

Cartel para Lou Reed, Stefan Seigmeister, 1996.

David Carson

Supuestamente, el diseño gráfico siempre ha girado en torno a la sobriedad, la armonía y la simetría. Sin embargo, el trabajo del americano David Carson propone precisamente lo contrario: desorden, caos, suciedad. David Carson irrumpe en el panorama del diseño gráfico a principios de los años 90, cuando sus trabajos para la revista musical Ray Gun atraen la atención del sector. Su estilo, calificado de grunge y punk, rompe sistemáticamente las reglas clásicas del diseño gráfico: distorsiones grotescas, retículas deformadas, fotografías desenfocadas, tipografías ilegibles… El objetivo, más que comunicar, es provocar al lector y obligarle a realizar un ejercicio mental para descifrar el mensaje. Todo un desafío, en su caso.

Portada para Ray Gun, David Carson.

Anuncio para Nike, David Carson.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass es sinónimo de cine. Su nombre está ligado a algunos de los mejores títulos de crédito de la historia, como sus conocidas composiciones para las películas de Alfred Hitchcock (Psicosis, Con la muerte en los talones) o Martin Scorsese (Uno de los nuestros), entre otros. En cierta manera, Saul Bass introdujo el movimiento y el ritmo en el diseño gráfico, pronosticando la importancia actual que tienen los motion graphics dentro de las artes visuales. Por si fuera poco, Bass es el responsable de algunos de los carteles cinematográficos más celebrados del mundo, y de algunas de las identidades corporativas más recordadas de todos los tiempos.

https://youtu.be/eGnpJ_KdqZE

Paul Rand

El nombre de Paul Rand está intrínsecamente unido al diseño de marcas gráficas. Trabajos como las identidades corporativas de IBM, ABC, Enron, Ford o NexT le han valido un hueco en el Olimpo del diseño gráfico. En todos ellos, Rand hizo valer los principios de las corrientes modernistas europeas en EE.UU, aunando bajo un mismo paraguas el constructivismo ruso, la deconstrucción holandesa de De Stijl y el racionalismo alemán de la Bauhaus. Sus diseños son sobrios y apuestan por la sencillez, sin por ello menoscabar el papel comunicador del logotipo. En sus propias palabras, “el diseño es simple. Por eso es tan complicado”.

Publicidad para IBM, Paul Rand, 1981.

Noma Bar

El más joven de la lista. Noma Bar es un diseñador israelí cuyo lenguaje gráfico se fundamenta en la monocromía y la sencillez, pero sobre todo en el concepto de espacio negativo, es decir, el espacio que rodea el motivo principal y que, en su caso, crea inconscientemente una imagen oculta. Sus trabajos para revistas como Esquire, The Guardian, The Economist o UKnow muestran un juego visual apegado a las siluetas vacías y el doble sentido. En todos ellos, Noma Bar se interroga sobre los tabús morales de nuestra sociedad, tocando temas como el sexo o la guerra.

Carteles antibélicos, Noma Bar.

Portada para Esquire, Noma Bar, 2009.

Pentagram

Pentagram es, por decirlo de alguna manera, el Real Madrid o el Barcelona del diseño gráfico. En sus filas trabaja un equipo que reúne a algunos de los mejores creadores del mundo: Michael Bierut, Abbot Miller, Paula Scher, Daniel Weil… Es precisamente esta variedad y su apuesta por la interdisciplinariedad la que enriquecen su trabajo y lo convierten en todo un referente de las artes visuales. Basta un vistazo a su página web para encontrar una muestra de su buen hacer.

Cartel para el Public Teather, Paula Scher, 1995.

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Starting point

This blog is a way of bringing together all of the information I have about my Doidge ancestors, and inviting contributions from Doidges all around the world.

A few months ago I met up with cousins at a family wedding, and we decided to try to organise a reunion - of course, things didn't go to plan; we left for home and our own families and jobs got in the way. But it did start me thinking; I was the last generation Doidge in my branch of this family, as we seem to be good at producing daughters who usually marry and change their surnames. My mother bucked the trend by not marrying, so I was a Doidge until my own first marriage - and because many of the family artefacts passed down to her from my grandparents, I have custody of some items which travelled with my great-great grandparents from our family home in Devon. 

That's not to say I have anything of value; as far as I can tell we were pretty poor most of the time. No gold lockets, priceless antiques or rare documents! I do have some early photographs, which I will add to the site, and I think I have gone further than some in looking at our origins, but I really would like anyone out there who can help, to get in touch.

I'll scatter some personal reflections in the posts which I'm planning to make and there will also be a handful of 'supposes', because we didn't write much down and there isn't a lot of hard evidence at present. Some time ago the Family Bible was lost - this was a tragedy as apparently it recorded all sorts of begetting and burying. Maybe one of the far-flung Doidges has tracked it down? I so hope that it hasn't been destroyed.

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Saint of the day August 01

Bl. Thomas Welbourne, 1605 A.D. English martyr. Born in Hutton Bushel, Yorkshire, he worked as a schoolmaster until his arrest for preaching the Catholic faith. He was arrested and condemned with Blesseds John Fuithering and William Brown. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Welbourne

The Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek, also known as the Eleven Nuns of Nowogródek or Sister Stella and Companions were a group of Roman Catholic nuns from the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth killed by the Gestapo in August 1943 in present-day Belarus.Aug 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Nowogr%C3%B3dek#:~:text=The%20Martyrs%20of%20Nowogr%C3%B3dek%2C%20also,Gestapo%20in%20August%201943%20in

St. Almedha, sixth century. Virgin and martyr also called Aled or Filuned. The Welsh tradition reports that Almedha was the daughter of King Brychan. Having taken a vow of virginity and dedicated to Christ, Almedha fled from her father's royal residence to escape marriage to the prince of a neighboring kingdom. She went to three Welsh villages - Llandrew, Llanfillo, and Llechfaen - but the people turned her away, despite her promise warning that dreadful thing calamities would befall anyone who denied her sanctuary. Almedha reached Brecon, where she took up residence in a small hut, but the king arrived and demanded her return. When she refused him, he beheaded her. Tradition states that a spring of water appeared on the site of her murder. The three villages that refused her were visited by disasters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Eluned#:~:text=Saint%20Eluned%20(Welsh%3A%20Eiliwedd%3B,Tennyson's%20Gareth%20and%20Lynette.%22.

St. Dominic Van Honh Dieu, Roman Catholic Dominican Priest and Martyr. A native of Vietnam. He was martyred at the age of sixty-seven. Feastday Aug. 1

St. Sofia, Eastern allegory explaining the cult of Divine Wisdom, Faith, Hope, and Charity were the daughters of Wisdom (known as Sofia in the Roman Martyrology on September 30th), a widow in Rome. The daughters suffered martyrdom during Hadrian's persecution of Christians: Faith, twelve, was scourged and went unharmed when boiling pitch was poured on her, was beheaded; Hope, ten, and Charity, nine, were also beheaded after emerging unscathed, from a furnace; and Wisdom died three days later while praying at their graves. Feast day - August 1st. https://www.st-sophia.com/about/saint

St. Ethelwold. Bishop of Winchester, England, called “the Father of Monks.” Born in that city, he was ordained by St. Alphege the Bald. In 943, he joined the Benedictines at Glastonbury under St. Dunstan. He became the abbot of Abingdon in 955 and bishop in 963. Ethelwold worked with Sts. Dunstan and Oswald of York in bringing about a monastic revival after the Danish invasions. He also expelled the canons of Winchester, replacing them with monks. Ethelwold founded or restored the abbeys of Ely, Chertsey, Milton Abbas, Newminster, Peterborough, and Thorney. He authored Regularis Concordia, a monastic decree based on the Benedictine Rule, and his school of illumination at Winchester was famed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelwold_of_Winchester

St. Peregrinus, 643 A.D. Irish or Scottish hermit. Peregrinus was originally a pilgrim who, on his way home from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the holy places, chose to become a hermit in the area around Modena, Italy. He remained there for the rest of his life. https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/015.html

St. Rioch, 480 A.D. Bishop Abbot of lnisboffin, Ireland. He was a nephew of St. Patrick and the brother of Sts. Mel and two others, Melchu and Muinis. They were the sons of Conis and St. Darerca. Rioch was a missionary bishop.

ST PETER FABER, JESUIT,A roommate of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier from their university days, this gentle guide of souls was a master at giving the Spiritual Exercises. He allowed himself to be spent for the Lord and his Church, helping the Jesuits to become established all over Europe. His feast day is August 1. St Peter Faber, Jesuit - Information on the Saint of the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/08/01/st-peter-faber--jesuit.html

ST. ALPHONSUS MARIA DE’ LIGUORI, ST. ALPHONSUS MARIA DE’ LIGUORI, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH, FOUNDER OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE MOST HOLY REDEEMER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonsus_Liguori

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Preferably neutral or masc, any theme but maybe like dark academia / mythology-ish? Not too uncommon or like "weird" preferably lol. Maybe starting with L? Thanks

Sure thing! I hope these help :)

Lawrence, Laurie, Lee, Lucien, Lewis, Lorentz, Lanthimos, Luca, Lucas, Lincoln, Leighton, Leland, Lane, Leroy, Logan, Lachlan

Allen, Abbot, Atticus, Bennet, Basil, Bernard, Carmelo, Claude,Clive, Clyde, Edison, Edward, Ellum, Fraser, Francis, George, Hamish, Mallory, Milton, Montgomery, Norman, Oliver, Percy, Peter, Simon, Sylvester, Theo, Thomas, Victor, Vincent, William

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Twenty Premier League teams and 24 Championship teams entered the competition at this point, joining the 20 winners from the second round. A total of 32 fixtures were played in the third round, including eighth-tier Merseyside club Marine taking on Premier League high-fliers Tottenham. Southampton's clash with Shrewsbury Town was postponed after a number of positive Covid tests among the League One outfit's players and staff.

The first round proper of FA Cup kicked off on November 6, with games also being played on November 7, 8 and 9. A total of 48 clubs from League One and League Two enter at this phase of the competition as they join the 31 winners of the previous round along with the bye recipients - on this occasion, Chorley Town. Those clubs joined the 32 winners from the qualifying stages of the competition, which got underway at the end of August and concluded on November 4.

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What really happened to Glenn Miller?

The famous bandleader vanished without trace en route to entertain Allied troops in 1944, but what happened to him?

At the end of the 1930s, just as the Second World War was breaking out in Europe, Glen Miller’s band introduced America to the new, unique style of brass-band music they had been working on for a number of years. It was a smooth, upbeat sound that struck an instant chord both with the middle-aged and an optimistic youth learning how to jive and swing. Radio stations across America played Glenn Miller records all the time and Hollywood was quick to sign up the new star and his band. Two films were released:  Orchestra Wives in 1941 and Sun Valley Serenade in 1942. The Glen Miller Orchestra were the Beatles of their generation (or, for the younger reader, Oasis; and if you’re thinking of One Direction, then you should be in bed by now). By early 1942, America had entered the fray, joining the Allied Forces in their efforts to repulse the Nazis. Miller enlisted later that year, on 7 October. On completion of his basic training, he transferred to the Army Air Corps: his first military assignment was to gather another orchestra, the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band, with a brief to entertain Allied troops in Britain. He was delighted to be back in touch with his old Hollywood friend David Niven, whose job it was to arrange entertainment for the troops across Europe. Eighteen months later, the D-Day landings signalled the start of the liberation of Europe and by November 1944 Paris was finally free of German soldiers. Even though Allied Bombers were still pouring across the English Channel on their way to tackle targets further into Europe, the Parisian party was now in full swing. David Niven organized a six-week tour for the Glenn Miller Band that was to begin in the French capital on 16 December 1944. The band were due to arrive on the 16th, but Miller wanted to travel a few days early to attend what he called a ‘social engagement’. Arrangements were duly made for him to fly from the airfield at Twinwood Farm near Bedford in a small American-built, propeller-driven craft called a ‘Noorduyn Norseman’ that would be piloted by John R. Morgan. Lieutenant Don Haynes, a show-business agent drafted into the US Air Force to manage the Glenn Miller Orchestra while on tour, drove his famous charge from London to RAF Milton Earnest to prepare for his cross-Channel flight the following day. According to Haynes, John Morgan arrived in the Norseman at Twinwood Farm at 1.40 p.m., collected Miller and, in spite of poor weather conditions, took off again at approximately 1.45 p.m. This was the last anyone saw of Glen Miller: he had vanished from the world and into the history books. The alarm was raised when he failed to meet up with Don Haynes and the band in Paris four days later. After a frantic search of the entire city’s likely haunts, the Glenn Miller Orchestra had to play the show without their famous bandleader, announcing that ‘Major Miller cannot be with us tonight’. Nobody ever saw him again, or, at least, could prove that they had. The puzzle began in earnest when, just three days later, the United States military announced his death, which was extraordinary in itself, given that in the confusion of a recently liberated France many people went missing for much longer periods, often ‘absent without leave’ (AWOL). The question was why would officials make such a final announcement so soon after the musician, albeit a world-famous one, simply failed to show up at a few concert performances? Pete Doherty does that all the time these days and nobody announces him dead as a result. It was a question Helen, Miller’s wife, also asked but not until over a year later, in February 1946, when Colonel Donnell wrote to inform her that her husband had been flying that day in a combat aircraft, not the Norseman, and that the plane had taken off from Abbots Ripton airfield near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, many miles from where Haynes had left Miller. The mystery deepened when it was claimed that the flight had been bound for Bordeaux, far from Miller’s intended destination. There was no explanation of how he would be travelling the remaining distance within France. In fact, no further information was given at all, and so speculation raged about whether Miller had lied about his movements to his friends and the rest of the band, changing his stated plans at the last minute, or had gone AWOL, or even that he had been shot down by enemy fire. A military cover-up seemed increasingly likely. Imagine that: the military might not be telling the truth about something! After the war, John Edwards, a former RAF officer, set out to prove Miller had been on board the Norseman, for which all he needed was a copy of the official accident report from the National Personnel Records Center in St Louis. But he drew a blank: that office maintained that the records had been ‘lost in a fire’, while the Washington Department of Records denied such a file had ever existed. Edwards’ efforts to prove the absence of a military cover-up began to convince him that the reverse must be true. What he now wanted to know was why. And when some documents were finally discovered, they were found to be written illegibly, the signature blurred and undecipherable. This, strengthened by the fact that the military had initiated no search of any kind for the missing bandsman, began to fuel speculation that the US government knew exactly what had happened to Glenn Miller and had known it immediately, hence the early announcement of his death. After all, imagine Oasis singer Liam Gallagher going missing on a morale-raising visit to troops in Iraq, there being no search for him and the UK government firmly announcing he was dead only three days later, but without producing a body. Furthermore, no records of what had happened to him would ever be released while every government agency claimed to know nothing about it. On second thoughts, that is a bad example. With today’s government, led for so long by Tony Bliar (sic), and with the current Conservative replacement, it is all too easy to imagine. What is known is that the Norseman did crash into the sea, as it was discovered by divers in 1985 six miles west of Le Touquet in northern France, but there was no evidence that Miller, or indeed anyone else, was on board at the time and the reasons for the accident remain inconclusive. All that was revealed is that the propeller was missing but not when or how it fell off. In 1986 the novelist and former RAF pilot Wilbur Wright took up the challenge and asked the US Air Force Information Center in California for the accident report on the missing Norseman. He was informed that no accident had been reported on that day and, in fact, no Norseman aircraft had been reported as missing throughout December 1944. Another mystery and another lie, as Wright subsequently discovered that eight Norsemen had been reported missing that month. Wright then repeatedly wrote to every US state department and records office he could find requesting information relating to the disappearance of Glenn Miller. But he was ignored until his letter of complaint to President Ronald Reagan encouraged a response out of the Military Reference Office. They confirmed there were several documents relating to the accident, but then failed to produce them. However, all other departments continued to insist all records had been lost, destroyed, mislaid or had never existed in the first place. When Wright telephoned George Chalou, the man in charge of the records office, to complain, he was alarmed by Chalou’s reaction during the conversation. According to Chalou (in a taped conversation with Wright): ‘They will never get them back either. Those files have been under lock and key for years and that is where they will be staying.’ There had been a cover-up after all. After extensive research, Wilbur Wright’s eventual conclusion was worthy of one of his own novels: that Glenn Miller probably had arrived in Paris two days before his band, where he was met by David Niven. Niven then set off to dramatically rescue Marlene Dietrich from the clutches of the Nazis, while Miller holed up in a brothel in the Parisian red light district awaiting their return. Unfortunately, with time on his hands (and plenty of alcohol), he ended up becoming involved, and badly injured, in an unseemly bar brawl. The American authorities were horrified to discover the world’s best-loved musician in a seedy brothel with a fractured skull. Miller was immediately airlifted to back to Ohio, but he later died of his injuries. Wright proposes three main strands of evidence. The first is based on the fact that David Niven makes no mention of Miller in his autobiography The Moon’s a Balloon, published in 1971, despite the pair knowing each other well. Wright sees this as indicating Niven’s awareness of the incident and his decision, for the sake of good grace and the Miller family honour, never to mention it again. (Indeed, he never even mentioned the name Glenn Miller to either his biographer, Sheridan Morley, or to his second wife.) The second line of ‘proof’ given by Wright is that Helen Miller soon moved to Pasadena in California where she bought a burial plot with room for six graves. As her immediate family consisted of five people – herself, her son, daughter and parents – it is therefore assumed that Miller himself occupies the last plot. When asked, the cemetery administrators denied Miller’s presence but took a full fifteen months to reply to Wright’s letter of enquiry, suggesting to Wright that both the family and local grave diggers were in on the cover-up. For him the clinching piece of evidence is that, in 1954, a Parisian prostitute – still plying her trade opposite Fred’s Bar, the brothel bar where Miller was alleged to have been drinking the night he went missing – told somebody that her then boyfriend had told her what had happened to Glenn Miller, confirming the whole Parisian brothel story. If that all seems a bit thin – and let’s face it, it does – that’s because the authorities only needed to remove one word and the whole cover-up could have been completely unnecessary. Think about the difference between reading ‘Glenn Miller died after being involved in a fight in a brothel bar’ and ‘Glenn Miller died after being involved in a fight in a bar’. That’s it, no international outcry, just a respectable period of public mourning. No shame would have been heaped upon the Miller family and no extensive and complicated cover-up story would have been necessary. But if Wright’s hypothesis is true, how could all those people who would need to have been involved for this story to have any basis in fact – including any witnesses, the French police, military personnel, flight crew, medics, doctors, nurses, administrators, grave diggers, family, friends, Uncle Tom Cobbley and probably Inspector Clouseau himself – have not failed to give the game away hundreds of times over the ensuing fifty years? Instead we have the silence of a film star, a six-berth burial plot and the testimony of a Parisian tart well past its sell-by date. My vote goes with the recent evidence that has emerged that Miller was on board the Norseman after all. The new story has a much more convincing explanation of the American fear of the truth coming out. According to this theory, Miller boarded the Norseman at Twinwood Farm on 14 December 1944, just as Don Haynes said. The aircraft took off at 1.45 p.m. By 2.40 p.m. it was travelling through what was known as a jettison zone in the English Channel, an area set aside for returning bombers to drop their undischarged loads safely into the sea before they crossed the south coast. A fully laden bomber exploding on landing could wipe out an entire air base, so the jettison zone was stringently enforced. The only bomber to use the jettison zone that afternoon is known to have crossed it at around 3.40, at the time Miller should have been landing in Paris, and so it has never been thought relevant to the Miller mystery before. However, it has only recently been noticed that, while the Miller flight would have been charted on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), all military flight operations were logged using Central European Time, which is one hour later. Therefore bombers were releasing their loads directly over the area Miller’s Norseman would have been flying through, at a much lower level and in the opposite direction. Did the Americans hit their favourite musician with some not-so-friendly fire? There is certainly strong witness evidence to suggest they did, including some of the military aircrew themselves. Fred Shaw, a navigator in one of the bombers, claimed, in an interview for an amateur film, that he saw the bombs his aircraft jettisoned strike a small plane beneath him. According to Shaw: ‘I had never seen a bombing before so I crawled from my navigator seat and put my head up into the observation blister. I saw a small high-wing monoplane, a Noorduyn Norseman, underneath us.’ Mr Shaw claimed he didn’t make any connection to the disappearance of Glenn Miller until he saw The Glenn Miller Story in 1956. ‘There is a kite down there, I told the rear gunner, there’s a kite gone in,’ Shaw continued. ‘He then replied, yeah, I saw it too.’ At the time authorities had dismissed his claims as a publicity-seeking exercise, but Shaw remained adamant he had seen the small plane spiral out of control as a result of being hit. In a sworn statement, given on 10 April 1999, Fred W. Atkinson Jr, a member of the 320th Air Transport Squadron responsible for taking Miller to Paris, stated the following: You will recall in the movie, The Glenn Miller Story, the letter that Glenn Miller wrote to his wife that day he expressed the feeling that he might not see them again. Given the weather conditions and the type of aircraft that was a realistic probability. Several days after our plane left London, we were notified that an aircraft that might be ours had crashed on the coast of France and that the occupants were dead. We dispatched a plane to that location and the aircraft and the bodies of our pilots were identified. Our crew also said that the other body definitely was that of Glenn Miller. They said there were identification papers and dogtags on his body. Our second crew that was in London at the time verified they had witnessed Glenn Miller and our two pilots board the aircraft and depart Twinning Farm. I recall the papers being processed to salvage our aircraft and report the death of our pilots on the squadron morning report. This report was turned in on a daily basis and notes the changes in status of all personnel as they occur. We had not experienced any deaths in our squadron until this time and this was a ‘double whammy’ to us because of the loss of our pilots and the loss to the US Armed Forces of probably the greatest morale booster (along with Bob Hope) that we all loved. The flight logbook of another airman, Derek Thurman, appeared to corroborate the claim: ‘The bomb aimed down in the nose saw an aircraft first, remarked on it. The navigator shot out of his seat to have a look through a side blister and he saw it sort of whip by, then the rear gunner said “it’s gone in”, sort of flipped over and went in. Whether it was brought down by a blast from one of the bombs, or was hit, is anybody’s guess, really.’ These three reports, all from independent sources, are consistent in the details they provide. The idea that a small aircraft could have been hit or damaged by an explosion nearby, thus causing its pilot to ditch it on to the beach, breaking its propeller, is not so far-fetched. And if so, the idea that the American military may have recovered the bodies, then dragged the prop-free plane back into the sea and created a cover story, is a racing certainty. It tends to be the case that the first information to emerge from a suspicious incident such as the Miller mystery is the most accurate and reliable, especially where governments are concerned, as they won’t have had time to concoct a story to suit their purposes. For my money, Miller was accidentally shot down by the very military he was travelling to Europe to entertain. The Miller family were told the truth, which explains the sixth burial plot, and in return for their patriotism in never speaking publicly of the accident, were handsomely compensated for their loss. David Niven, on the other hand, was warned he would never work in Hollywood again if he ever mentioned the matter to anybody, so he didn’t; and the French prostitute was just looking to sell a story for enough francs to buy a new horse whip and a couple of cheap bottles of Beaujolais. It is hard to conceive of a more ludicrous story than the idea Glenn Miller was beaten up in a Parisian bordello and died of his injuries. In the case of Liam Gallagher, however, I doubt there would be any such cover-up if he was found dead in a Basra brothel. Although these days it’s far more likely he would be stabbed on the school run by a teenager after his mobile phone. - Albert Jack Albert Jack AUDIOBOOKS available for download here  

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