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Welcome to the June 8, 2008 edition of surgexperiences.
So, I've taken the plunge and am hosting my first blog carnival. Many moons ago I was a philosophy major so I asked bloggers to submit posts with a more introspective and philosophical approach to medicine. I'm pleased to report that the SurgXperiences bloggers have met the challenge.
James Moore presents ... your angel is simply watching. posted at Spiritual Passages Part of a series on dying and life after death, This fascinating post describes near death experiences and what they are.
Øystein Horgmo , a medical cinematographer, presents Detachment posted at The Sterile Eye. Muses on remaining "detached" when witnessing the suffering and misfortune of others.
Jeffrey Leow provides a lesson on the eponyms associated with the famous Jean-Marie Charcot in: Charcot and Reynold posted at monash medical student.
Chris cites a recent article in: Everything I needed to be a surgeon I learned in kindergarden posted at Made A Difference For That One: A Surgeon's Letters Home From Iraq, saying, "It describes several hospitals that experienced decreased malpractice claims and settlement amounts after adopting a policy of full disclosure of complications and apologizing to the patient. It surprises me that anyone would ever follow a policy of concealment and refusal to apologize. " He points out that this is also called: Lying
Charles H. Green refers to the same New York Times article in
What Malpractice Suits Teach Us About Trust posted at Trusted Advisor Associates
He points out another interesting facet, "In other words, the motives of an apology are immediately undercut for the sake of a self-oriented outcome. The apology becomes impure: input is destroyed for the sake of an output. Lowered malpractice costs are no longer a byproduct, they become a goal. All sincerity is lost. And malpractice rates will go up, but with a higher-still level of cynicism."
David Khorram presents Carl Talk and the Folly of Aid posted at
Marianas Eye. This post deals with some of the pitfalls of working for aid organizations.
T. discusses The "F" Word posted at Notes of an Anesthesioboist. What's the "F" word? You'll just have to read the post to find out, won't you?
On the lighter side,
bongi prolifically (is that a word?) provides two posts:
gee thanks and small cut, big surgeon? posted at
other things amanzi. Bongi's wit is self evident.
In I'd like to donate my organs... at The Paper Mask,
Sheepish ponders options for organ donors when their organs are not suitable for transplants.
D. Singh points out the danger of putting one's medical information online in
Google Health Launched. Can We Entrust our Health to Google? posted at Internet Marketing Blog, saying, "Google has entered into the fray of online health record service via a simply branded service, Google Health. Google Health aims to empower us in managing our health information. Google Health proposes to store all this information in a secure and private environment. It even promises that it won't sell our data."
For those who still need their fix of practicality, rlbates, another prolific blogger sent in two posts: High Pressure Injection Hand Injuries and Abdominal Wall Reconstruction posted at Suture for a Living.
Ian Furst too, offers practical advice in Wait Time & Delayed Care: Block Booking for Procedural Patients posted at Wait Time & Delayed Care, saying, "It's about how to block book for procedural patients and control their wait time. Thanks Ian."
I hope you enjoyed this edition of SurgXperiences blog carnival. Thanks for the submissions and keep blogging!
I have to make a confession: I took advantage of the Instacarnival [beta] feature. Made things a whole lot easier. Hah!


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Evelyn Theriault, author of A Canadian Family: Acadian & French Canadian Genealogy, has started up a new blog carnival entitled A Festival of Postcards and very kindly emailed me to ask if I would like to take part by posting a postcard relating to the first carnival's theme, Wheels.
The photograph that I have chosen is one from my collection that is a print rather than a postcard, although it does appear to have been published as a postcard, as I will demonstrate. The photograph shows a procession of six decorated electric trams - known in North America as streetcars or trolleys - as well as a horse and cart being driven away from the photographer down the opposite side of the street and several individuals and groups of people, including the tram drivers - referred to as motormen - and conductors.
The reverse of the photographic print shows signs of having been removed from an album, but beneath the remains of album page still stuck to the print is a rectangular blue stamp filled in with a pencilled explanation of where and when the photograph was taken. The items that have been completed state:
System: DerbyThe empty boxes appear to relate to various aspects of the tram configuration, and for this reason I have wondered if the print originally formed part of a tram enthusiast's collection.
Date: Opening Day
Taken at: 27.7.1904 London Rd
"The Cars" on London Rd. Opening Day July 27th 1904 Derby Electric Trams
Postcard published by Lever Bros., Derby
Image © and courtesy of Tramway Information
Further research revealed that the Derby Tramways Company opened the first electrified tram routes for service on 27 July 1904. The Tramway Information web site has reproduced the image above from a postcard in their collection, previously featured as a "Postcard of the Month." It is clearly a print of the same photo as my print, with a slightly enlarged view, revealing a couple of young lads loitering in front of the first tram, and some text which appears to have been written in ink onto the negative. The web site provides the following explanation of the scene:
[The] postcard shows a line of trams standing in London Road on 27th July 1904 awaiting the opening ceremony, headed by car 3 which is decorated for the occasion. This is card 113 in a series by Lever Bros., Fine Art Dealers who were a local firm in Derby.According to Kelly (1912):
[The operation] started life as a horse tramway opened by the Derby Tramways Co. in 1880. In 1899 the company was taken over by Derby Corporation who set about improving and then electrifying the tramway with the first electric routes opening on 27th July 1904 from The Spot to the Harrington Arms in Alvaston, a branch to the Midland Railway Station and from The Spot to Abingdon Street where the depot was located. There were various extensions until 1908 which then brought the system up to fourteen miles in length ultimately operating some 78 trams. The system was built to the unusual 4 foot gauge.
Car 3 in our view was one of the original batch of 25 open top cars built in 1904 by the Brush Electrical Engineering Co. Ltd., of Loughborough. They seated 22 inside and 26 on top. They were fitted with 5ft 6in wheelbase Brush AA type four-wheel trucks with two BTH GE52 25hp motors and General Electric K10 controllers. The livery was dark olive green and cream.
In the 1930s, in common with many other British tramways, it was decided to replace the trams by trolleybuses, with the last tram running on 2nd July 1934, the trolleybuses themselves being withdrawn on 9th September 1967.
The tramways were taken over by the Corporation in 1899, and the system was then electrified and new offices erected in Victoria street in 1904.
813. "The Cars" on London Rd. Opening Day July 27th 1904 Derby Electric Trams.
Postcard published by J.S. Simnett, 2 Guild Street, Burton-on-Trent
Exactly the same photograph was also reproduced, with somewhat better results, and sold by J.S. Simnett of Burton-on-Trent.
Apart from Simnett's studio address and a Professional Photographers' Association (PPS) logo printed on the reverse, the text handwritten in blue ink appears to refer to details of the tram line:
4'0"9. cl. 2/7/34In other words, the service provided by the 25 cars manufactured by the Brush firm to a 4'0"9 guage was inaugurated in 1904, and they were finally withdrawn from service on 2 July 1934. It appears, therefore, to be another item from a tram enthusiast's collection.
1-25 Brush/04
"The Decorated Car" Opening Day 27th July 1904 Derby Electric Trams
Postcard published by Lever Bros., Derby
Image © and courtesy of Picture the Past
The caption to an image of another postcard published by Lever Brothers which is reproduced on Picture the Past reveals that the photographs were actually taken by the firm of Richard Keene Ltd. Although the reverse of the postcard is not reproduced, a handwritten date at the bottom of the front of the card ("15/11/04") is possibly the date that it was posted. It depicts the same Derby Corporation electric tram number 3, festooned with decorations and a sign denoting it as a "special car," with another tram (perhaps number 2) in partial view behind it, and the motorman and conductor in clear view. Picture the Past's caption states:
Car 3 at the front of a 6 car cavalcade on the first day of Derby Corporation Electric Tramways operation, wednesday, 27 July 1904. The cars were decorated and led a procession along the newly opened route. Richard Keene Limited were commissioned as the official photographers for the event (though this card is published by Lever Brothers). The cavalcade route was London Road, Osmaston Road, Alvaston and Abingdon Street. Tram no 3 was one of the initial batch of 25 cars supplied by Brush in 1904. It remained in service until 1933, the final parts of the tramway system being abandoned in the following year. The conductor (left) is Harrison Fletcher and the original postcard is addressed to him at 30 Pelham Street, Derby with the message "Dont you think this is a VERY PRETTY postcard."It is clear, therefore, that the firm of R. Keene Ltd. (Richard Keene himself had died a decade earlier) licensed the image to other postcard publishers in order to take advantage of the publicity surrounding the event.
A further image from the same group reproduced by Picture the Past shows a large unidentified group of company staff, a couple of mounted policemen and possibly some onlookers, standing in front of Tram No. 3 outside the Derby Tramways Company Depot in Osmaston Road on the first day of operation.
This event was the obviously the occasion for much celebration. Electrification, one of the most important industrial developments of the late 19th Century, resulted in great technological advancements throughout the world, and it did not take long for new uses to be found for this commodity. In Derby, after first being proposed in 1889, the Electric Light Station was built in 1893 on Sowter Road - next to the Old Silk Mill and very close to the town centre - and opened on 10 October 1893 [Source: The Derby Mercury, 16 May 1894]. Initially used only for the lighting of streets, shops and private houses, it was subsequently expanded several times to cater for the high demand created by developments such as the electric tram system.
In Affectionate Remembrance of the Derby Horse Cars
Postcard published by Charles H. Foster of 21 St James' Street, Derby
Image © and courtesy of The National Tramway Museum
Along with a celebration of the exciting new technology, there was some nostalgia for what was being replaced.
In Memory of the Derby Horse Cars
Postcard published by Mrs Ann Roberts of The Spot, 4 Osmaston Road, Derby
Image © and courtesy of The National Tramway Museum
The horse trams had been servicing Derby's streets for almost 25 years, and publishers such as Foster of St James' Street and Roberts of The Spot produced commemmorative mementoes of the event.
717. The Old & the New Cars, Victoria St, Derby
Postcard published by unknown photographer/publisher
Image © and courtesy of The National Tramway Museum
This postcard issued as number 717 in a series by an unidentified photographer/publisher has been reproduced by The National Tramway Museum in the Photograph Library on their Crich Tramway Village web site. It shows both horse-drawn and electric tram cars - "the old and the new" - in use on Victoria Street, Derby. The older cars continued to be used on certain routes for a few years until being completely replaced with the new ones. This view is of particular interest because on the left is the Derby Tramways Office at 4 Victoria Street, a building which was erected in 1904, and which has been featured in a previous Photo-Sleuth article because of its siting on the location of Derby's earliest photographic studio.
Victoria Street, Derby
Postcard published by J. Valentine
Image © and courtesy of Ann Hunt
This 1907 colourised "Souvenir Post Card," showing a very similar view to the black-and-white version, is one of many that was published over the next decade or two depicting views of Derby streets and including the ubiquitous trams. The distinctive Derby Tramways Office red-brick building is again at left, the grand, classic facade of the Athenaeum next door, with several forms of transport active in Victoria Street, including two of the electric trams, horse-drawn carts and carriages, and a motor car.
Reverse of postcard of Victoria Street, Derby (Valentine's Series)
Written and posted to Miss Smith, The Coombs, Glossop,
6.15 p.m. 17 April 1907 at Derby
Image © and courtesy of Ann Hunt
Last Car - Derby Trams
Postcard by J. Harwood, Printer & Publisher, Derby
The demise of the electric trams in 1934 was, once again, a golden opportunity for Derby postcard publishers, as shown by this undated example from J. Harwood of Derby, who also republished an old image, as shown below.
Inauguration of the Electric Trams at Derby, July 27th, 1904
Postcard by J. Harwood, Printer, Derby
Derby Corporation tram No.1, Crich Tramway Village
Image © Copyright P. L. Chadwick, courtesy Geograph.co.uk and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
Finally, tram car No. 1 is the only one of The Derby Corporation's electric trams to have survived, and is a permanent exhibit at the Crich Tramway Village. Although it has been fully restored, it is a stationary exhibit because of its unusual guage, which does not permit it to run with the many other surviving trams from all over the United Kingdom on the Tramway village's standard guage rails.
Thank you, Evelyn, for the opportunity to join in the fun and I wish you all the best for a long and fruitful run of what promises to be a fascinating carnival.
Post Script
John Prentice, who is webmaster of the Tramway Information web site, Manager of the Festival of Model Tramways, and Chairman of the Tramway & Light Railway Society, kindly sent me the following interesting information on the origins of my photograph of trams featured as the first image in this article:
I can tell you a little about the origin of your own photograph with the " rectangular blue stamp filled in with a pencilled explanation" on the reverse. These were photograph copies of the postcard done by the late Bob Parr and were sold to collectors in the 60s and 70s to help raise funds for tram preservation. He did hundreds of views. Some of the photos were from his own negatives of trams or those of other tram fans. Some were copies of postcards like this one. Others were copies of photos that had been in "Tramway & Railway World," a magazine published in the late 19th and early 20th century. They used to cost 6d (that is six old pence – 2.5p in new money). I have quite a few in my collection, bought at the time when I was just a kid. All had this rubber stamp so you could fill in details. Those from his own negs also were stamped "copyright R.B.Parr." Although postcard size they are not real postcards, only photos for enthusiasts.References
Anon (n.d.) Derby Power Station - Then and Now, on Bygone Derbyshire
Thomas, Hugh (1879) An Unfinished History of the World, Pan Books Ltd., ISBN 0330264583
Anon (1893) Local News: The Electric Lighting of the Borough, in The Derby Mercury, 26 July 1893
Anon (1894) Electric Exhibition in Derby, in The Derby Mercury, 16 May 1894; Issue 9358
The Derby Mercury, in 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Digital images online from GALE Cengage Learning
Kelly & Co. (1912) Directory of Derbyshire, from the University of Leicester's Historical Directories

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Homosexuality and Syphilis
Concerning homosexuality and syphilis, an early publication to propose the link between homosexuality contributing to the spread of the sexually transmitted disease syphilis was the English publication Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1962.[1] The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine made the following statement: "The importance of homosexual practices in the spread of venereal diseases has attracted particular attention recently. It almost seems that these practices are keeping syphilis alive in this country." [1]
The news organization Cybercast News Service reported the following about homosexuality and syphilis:
| The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says homosexual men accounted for 65 percent of the nearly 12,000 cases of syphilis in the United States in 2007, making them the "primary driver" of increased syphilis rates overall.
In a report on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) issued Tuesday, the government said syphilis, a disease that was almost eliminated as a public health threat less than 10 years ago, is on the rise -- with cases increasing each year since 2000.[2]
The CDC also stated that their data suggests that approximately 64 percent of all adult primary and secondary syphilis cases in 2004 were among men who have sex with men.[3] In 2003 in the United States syphilis rates were epidemic among homosexuals in urban areas.[4]
Concerned Women of America reported:
|Medical literature shows homosexuals to be at especially high risk for syphilis. The Archives of Internal Medicine reported on a study in 1991 that found, "Homosexually active men are significantly more likely to report syphilis and less likely to present with primary syphilis than heterosexual men." The British Co-operative Clinical Group noted that homosexuals acquired syphilis at a rate ten times that of heterosexuals. Other journals also note a high correlation of homosexuality and syphilis.[5]
The medical literature has many articles associating homosexuality with syphilis or reporting syphilis is increasing among homosexual men in various countries (syphilis is increasing in many developed countries among the homosexual men population).[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
Syphilis, Gay Bowel Syndrome, and HIV Infection
Syphilis is one of the conditions associated with gay bowel syndome which is condition which has been linked to HIV infection.[17][18][19]
British Medical Journal Overview of Homosexuality and Syphilis
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) wrote:
|Between the 1960s and the late 1970s homosexually acquired syphilitic infection increased, in keeping with liberalization of attitudes towards homosexual behaviour.7 Changes in behaviour in response to HIV/AIDS, particularly among homosexual men, may have contributed to dramatic reductions in syphilis in the 1980s. During the 1990s, until 1998, the number of cases of infectious syphilis diagnosed remained stable among both sexes in England, but then more than doubled between 1998 and 2000 (from 172 to 372) in men and rose by 53% (102 to 156) in women (figure).8 In 2000, 48% of syphilis infections in men were homosexually acquired, rates being highest in London (men 2.9/100 000; women 0.8/100 000) and in north west England (men 2.0/100 000; women 0.2/100 000) regions. The increases that have been observed over recent years are largely due to several localized outbreaks.[20]
Neurosyphilis and Urban Homosexual Populations in the United States
The LA Weekly reported the following in July 2007:
| On June 29, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that neurosyphilis — a serious and rare form of syphilis, which can lead to blindness and stroke — had been found in HIV-positive gay and bisexual men in Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago and New York...
Critics are peeved that government bureaucrats in Los Angeles County, despite the raging syphilis and emergent neurosyphilis in gay men, have leisurely spent their time over the past year developing and testing yet another marketing campaign.[21]
Peter LaBarbera reported relative to the issue of neurosyphilis and homosexuality:
| The increase in syphilis cases among gay men, particularly among those who are HIV positive, has been a concern for years. Most troubling is the occurrence of early neurosyphilis, when the infection spreads to the central nervous system and the brain.
Now a review of 170 possible neurosyphilis cases in four cities – Los Angeles (74), New York (47), Chicago (32) and San Diego (17) – has shed new light on the risks for HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM). The review was published in the June 28 issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report."
The report looked at cases over a 30-month period, January 2002 to June 2004, and narrowed them to 99 patients who had evidence of syphilis in their blood and physical symptoms compatible with neurosyphilis. Of the total, 57 self-identified as MSM, while 49 were HIV positive.[22]
See also
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A.J. King, The Complications of Homosexuality, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Volume 55 October 1962
- ↑ Homosexual Men Account for 65 Percent of Syphilis Cases, CDC Study Finds
- ↑ New CDC Data Show Syphilis Increasing in Men, CDC Media Relations Press Release, November 8, 2005
- ↑ http://www.aegis.com/conferences/NHIVPC/2003/MP-066.html
- ↑ 1997 webpage of Concerned Women of America is no longer in existence
- ↑ Trends in primary and secondary syphilis among men who have sex with men in the United States,American Journal of Public Health, Heffelfinger JD, Swint EB, Berman SM, Weinstock HS, 2007 Jun;97(6):1076-83
- ↑ A syphilis outbreak: recent trends in infectious syphilis in Birmingham, UK, in 2005 and control strategies, International Journal of STD & AIDS, Yarlagadda S, Acharya S, Goold P, Ward DJ, Ross JD., 2007 Jun;18(6):410-2
- ↑ Outbreak of syphilis, but not of acute hepatitis C, among HIV-infected homosexual men in Madrid, HIV Clinical Trials, 2007 Mar-Apr;8(2):98-101
- ↑ Methamphetamine use and sexual risk behaviours among men who have sex with men diagnosed with early syphilis in Los Angeles County, International Journal of STD & AIDS, 2007 Feb;18(2):93-7.
- ↑ Rising rates of syphilis in the era of syphilis elimination, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2007 Mar;34(3):154-61
- ↑ The syphilis outbreak in Northern Ireland, International journal of STD & AIDS, 2007 Jun;18(6):413-7
- ↑ HIV-1, sexually transmitted infections, and sexual behavior trends among men who have sex with men in Lima, Peru, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2007 Apr 15;44(5):578-85
- ↑ The resurgence of syphilis among men who have sex with men, Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2007 Feb;20(1):54-9
- ↑ Making sense of syphilis: beliefs, behaviours and disclosure among gay men recently diagnosed with infectious syphilis and the implications for prevention, Sexual Health, 2006 Sep;3(3):155-61
- ↑ Re-emergence of syphilis in Sweden: results from a surveillance study for 2004, Euro Surveillance, 2005 Nov 10;10(11):E051110.2
- ↑ HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis are increasing among homosexual men,Läkartidningen, 2001 Apr 11;98(15):1793-5
- ↑ The gay bowel syndrome: clinico-pathologic correlation in 260 cases.
- ↑ Medscape - New Look at "Gay Bowel Syndrome"
- ↑ Johns Hopkins HIV Guide - duplicate of Medscape's New Look at Gay Bowel Syndrome
- ↑ http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7356/153
- ↑ http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/gay-syphilis-scourge-skyrockets/16798/
- ↑ http://americansfortruth.com/issues/health-science/physical-health/page/2/


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Two weeks ago, I was speaking with a reader who had noticed a lot of trucks speeding past his Seminole Street home. There were dozens of large construction trucks with the names of King of Prussia landscaping companies on the side roaring by his house at all times of the day.
Obviously, he was frustrated. What could he do? He had called the police, who paid him a visit, but really couldn't offer much help. In Philadelphia, you don't really get cops camped out in side streets looking to issue speeding tickets. In fact, Philadelphia police are not allowed by law to use radar guns to track speeders.
The caller and I talked about the obvious problem. In Philadelphia, there really is no disincentive to speeding. Any driver can travel as as fast as he is comfortable with, knowing full well that there is no chance he'll get pulled over for a ticket.
You can contrast this with our neighbors in Springfield Township. There, you have zero chance of traveling above the speed limit without getting a ticket. I've passed three officers staked out for speeders on a 10-minute trip through the township more times than I can count. They're out on Mermaid Lane, Haws Lane and Bethlehem Pike constantly. Even on Sunday mornings. You can count on it.
The caller jokingly wondered if we could perhaps outsource speed enforcement to Springfield police. A nice solution, but one that would leave the streets of Flourtown and Wyndmoor as lawless as those of Chestnut Hill.
No, I said. I don't think there's much that can be done.
Than, last week, I was driving down a side street in Jenkintown and was surprised to encounter a pretty large speed bump in the middle of the street. I wasn't traveling quickly at all, but had I been going any faster, that speed bump would have fixed me and my car pretty well. By fixed, I mean snapped my axles in two.
Jenkintown has a number of speed bumps, or as they are officially called in the square-mile-sized borough, "speed humps." After disagreement with the fire companies, who had some pretty good reasons to be concerned about anything that would slow them down on the way to a fire, the boro installed them around side roads, making shortcuts around the always-busy Route 611 not so easy to speed down.
I can say this with certainty, speed bumps on side streets would definitely prevent cars from whipping up and down Seminole Street. Perhaps Willow Grove Avenue by Springside Chestnut Hill Academy could benefit from the same. Any long stretch without stop signs where a speed bump, or hump if you prefer, could be placed would greatly reduce speed and, one would think, increase safety.
In all likelihood there are myriad reasons why speed bumps wouldn't work. From obstruction of emergency vehicles to safety precautions I haven't considered. But as a way to enforce the speed limits of residential streets where there are no police to help, they might be the only really good way to slow traffic down.


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High school student's sharp eye helps save man stuck in ditch for hours
An Iowa man is recovering from serious injuries after spending an entire night in a ditch following a motorcycle crash -- and he has a teenager to thank for the rescue.
"It kind of just caught my eye, and I didn't think something was right," Melcher Dallas High School senior Jacob Best said.
Best said he had to do a double-take as he drove along Highway G76 near Melcher-Dallas Wednesday morning.
"I was just going down the road and saw kind of a glimpse of somebody with their hand up in the ditch," Best said.
That arm pointing in the air belonged to 37-year-old John Tyler, who was bleeding from the head and unable to move after his vehicle hit a deer.
"I asked if he was okay," Best said. "He said he wasn't and was pretty messed up, so I called 911."
Best stayed with Tyler until medics arrived. He was the only person who noticed Tyler in the over six hours he spent in the ditch.
"It was especially raining around here and he could have drowned in that ditch," Best said.
Best said it was upsetting to see Tyler in such bad shape, and he cannot get the image out of his mind.
"I have never seen anything like that before," Best said. "His motorcycle was completely totaled."
Tyler is now in intensive care at Mercy Medical Center. Hospital officials told KCCI that he is in serious but stable condition.
The Marion County Sheriff's Office is still investigating the crash.


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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – The MIT women's volleyball team posted a hard-fought 4-0 record and clinched first place at the Vassar College Invitational this past weekend. The Engineers outlasted Stevens Institute of Technology (25-22, 21-25, 25-20, 11-25, 15-12) and Wesleyan University (18-25, 25-19, 25-18, 25-21) on Friday before defeating the host Brewers (23-25, 23-25, 25-21, 25-18, 15-11) and Montclair State University (25-14, 25-23, 25-16) on Saturday. Junior Katie Spielbauer (Lakeview, Mich.) represented the Cardinal and Gray on the All-Tournament Team.
Junior Trinity Leonard (Mill Valley, Calif.) paced MIT's attack with 16 kills to go along with seven digs and a block against Stevens. Senior Kelly Schulte (Riverside, Calif.) tallied nine kills, three aces, three digs, and two blocks while fellow classmate Cecily Joujon-Roche (Laguna Hills, Calif.) totaled five kills, four blocks, three aces, and three digs. Spielbauer racked up 14 digs and six aces as senior Natasha Jensen (Columbia, Md.) chipped in six digs and two aces. Sophomore Jess Fessler (Shortsville, N.Y.) added four digs while junior Alyssa Rothman (Plainview, N.Y.) registered 34 assists and 12 digs.
Against Wesleyan, freshman Sarah Oberhelman (New Orleans, La.) led the way with 14 kills and a .375 hitting percentage. Schulte notched 10 kills, six digs, and three blocks while Joujon-Roche posted seven kills and three blocks. Sophomore Rachel Hunt (Arlington Heights, Ill.) contributed seven kills and two blocks as classmate Kristine Bunker (Falmouth, Mass.) earned four blocks. Spielbauer collected 13 digs and seven aces while Jensen picked up seven digs. Rothman finished with 33 assists and seven digs.
In MIT's come-from-behind victory over Vassar, Schulte totaled 10 kills, four digs, two blocks, and two aces while Leonard recorded 12 kills and five digs. Bunker posted six blocks and six kills as Joujon-Roche had six kills and three blocks. Spielbauer led the defense with 18 digs to go along with three aces while Jensen added seven digs and three aces. Sophomore Sharon Hao (San Jose, Calif.) compiled 17 assists, five digs, four kills, and two aces in two sets as freshman Nicole Gagnier (Atlanta, Ga.) amassed 17 assists, seven digs, three kills, three blocks, and two aces in three sets.
The Cardinal and Gray had a balanced outing in its sweep of Montclair State. In one set, freshman Kaitlin Ahlers (Colorado Springs, Colo.) notched five kills on seven errorless attempts for a .714 hitting percentage. Leonard contributed four kills, three digs, and two blocks as Joujon-Roche connected on three of her four swings and added a block in one set. Sophomore Tatiana Berger (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Hunt both had four kills while Oberhelman tacked on three kills and two blocks. Bunker totaled two blocks and two aces as Jensen picked up three digs and two kills. Fessler earned two aces while freshman Jody Fu (San Francisco, Calif.) gathered four digs. Gagnier dished out 19 assists as freshman Jenny Astrachan (Austin, Texas) tallied seven assists and three aces in one set. Spielbauer closed out the weekend with a career-high eight aces in addition to eight digs.
With an overall record of 8-0, the Engineers will kick off NEWMAC play on Tuesday, Sept. 13 at Mount Holyoke College.


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THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE! children's dreams made real
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Even after political, economic unrest in Pakistan, there is still something so good about this country that it stands adamant. We may be considered a third world country today but the undying hope and faith of people is what actually pushing it to do better. We may be poor but there are still a lot of people who don't turn their backs from their responsibilities as Pakistanis and donate generously in social causes to erase this blot of poverty.
Thankfully today, a donation has much more meaning than simply giving away the cash. It has become a trend to use internet for donors to donate online and the organizations to raise money on the internet as well. One of a fine example of it is of Seed Out. It has become world's first Islamic crowd funding organization with 0% interest rate and 100% transparency. Donors are able to raise micro entrepreneurs by funding different projects in Pakistan by a simple act of donating. This ultimately fights poverty and changes the lives of people in the most drastic of ways.
Infinite number of people now has the facility of donating online which in return help a lot of non-profit organizations to have online fund raising. This makes it possible to raise money for different projects and as a final result; micro entrepreneurs in the society are raised and poverty is being demolished.
It's about time that crowd funding came to Pakistan. Since crowd funding campaigns has made it possible for crowd funding organizations like Seed Out to address people around the globe and not just in Pakistan in a very insightful manner. This has helped in saving a lot of lives and bringing out a positive change in the society from places where one couldn't even imagine reaching to few years back. A contribution may be small but it might be the first kick for the concerned person to progress in the society. It might be their only chance to become something other than poor. Take matters in their own hands and remove the stigma of being unprivileged. Now imagine, a contribution of as less as 500 R.S has done this. This is the beauty of crowd funding that a pool of individuals who are making small contributions which are leading to such an impactful outcome. This has helped to empower the unprivileged in such ways that they have become merely independent from being completely dependent.
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Excluding asparagus, onions and melons, fresh-market area for harvest for 11 selected vegetables was forecast to rise 1 percent to 199,100 acres this spring, according to USDA's latest Vegetables and Melons Outlook report. The spring period covers roughly from April through June.
Prospective planting area was up for seven of the 11 crops, with the greatest percentage gains for snap beans, cucumbers and cabbage. California, which accounts for more than half of spring vegetable area, expects to harvest 1 percent fewer acres, with all of the reduction due to broccoli and carrots.
Periods of cool, wet weather slowed planting progress, crop maturity, and reduced the average size of California crops such as lettuce and cauliflower. Generally cool, wet weather across several Southern growing states, including Georgia, Florida and Texas, has had similar results for vegetable crops in these areas.
With an above-average snowpack (118 percent of average in mid-April) and above-average rainfall in some areas of central California continuing into mid-April, Central Valley irrigation water supplies will be a bit less limiting (although still historically very low) this summer, with both federal and state water allocations above the meager levels of a year ago.
In Florida, where growth of spring vegetables was slowed by periods of cool, wet and windy weather, growers expect to harvest nearly one-third of U.S. spring area for the 11 selected crops. Florida's area is expected to rise 6 percent from a year ago due to increased area for snap beans, cucumbers and cabbage.
Florida growers expect to harvest fewer acres of sweet corn, tomatoes, and bell peppers — crops which collectively account for about two-thirds of the state's spring vegetable area. Area for tomatoes, which annually accounts for about one-third of Florida's $1.4 billion in vegetable cash receipts, is expected to decline to 15,800 acres reflecting both weak demand from the foodservice industry and strong competition from imports and hothouse tomatoes.
Florida vegetable growers continue to recover from both the long period of freezing weather experienced this past winter and an unusually cool spring. Cooler-than-normal temperatures have delayed the maturity and marketing of Florida's spring vegetable crop. As a result, it may be early May before shipments for several crops (such as green peppers and tomatoes) begin to approach seasonal norms for the spring.
The freeze-induced high prices of the winter season are also slowly easing for warm-season vegetables such as green beans, sweet corn and squash. Smaller supplies resulted in upward pressure on most fresh-market shipping-point prices during the January-March quarter. As a result, winter-quarter farm prices (prices received at the point of first sale) for fresh-market vegetables jumped 16 percent from the relatively high (and also freeze-affected) levels of a year earlier.
With Florida fresh-vegetable shipment volume generally less than half of the average of the past three years, preliminary national winter fresh-market vegetable shipment volume (domestic plus import) was estimated to be down 8 percent from a year earlier. The decline in domestic output was mitigated by increased imports (largely from Mexico) which helped to offset a substantial portion of the missing Florida crop.
Meanwhile, winter fresh-market vegetable shipments from California and Arizona were about average. In general, stronger winter (January through March) market volume for crops such as cauliflower and leaf lettuce was outweighed by reduced shipments for tomatoes, radishes, sweet corn, snap beans and cabbage.
The yield on California's early spring lettuce crops in both Huron and Salinas was reported to be noticeably lower. For head and romaine lettuce, smaller heads (due to lack of sunlight and warmth) resulted in a greater share of the pack featuring 30 heads per 50-pound box instead of the standard 24 heads per box. Virtually all lettuce supplies transitioned from the Huron area in the central San Joaquin Valley to the Salinas Valley of Monterey County during the last week of April.
Assuming improved growing weather for the remainder of the spring, crop yields should slowly bounce back from their below-average early spring levels. Low yields and seasonally declining imports could keep upward pressure on some vegetable markets through mid-May. As a result, U.S. spring-season grower/shipper prices for commercial fresh vegetables are expected to average moderately above those of a year earlier.
Grower/shipper prices this spring are expected to average lower for crops such as sweet corn, lettuce and cauliflower while averaging higher for onions, tomatoes, and cucumbers.
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Birdhouses Add Dimension & Color as Nursery Decor
Some of us have a little birdhouse in our soul and others hang them in the nursery. They're inexpensive, completely customizable and what could better symbolize the "nesting stage" than a birdhouse?
If you really wanted to start from scratch you could build your own birdhouses, but they are also readily available (and inexpensive) at craft stores like Michael's, Hobby Lobby, etc. Decorate with paint, washi tape, or decoupaged paper or fabric. Some parents even made them into small night lights.
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July 11 – Happy Birthday Harry Wolter
It was certainly fun to watch the Yankees spoil Fenway Park's 100th Anniversary Celebration earlier this season when they overcame a 9-run deficit to beat Boston in front of thirty-something thousand stunned members of Red Sox nation and just about every living former Red Sox on the planet. A century ago, it was the Red Sox who overcame a three-run Yankee lead to win the inaugural game at Fenway, 7-6. Today's Pinstripe Birthday Celebrant was New York's starting right-fielder in that 1912 game, who became the first man ever to get a Fenway Park base hit, when he took a half-swing at Boston hurler Buck O'Brien's pitch and tapped the ball slowly on-the-ground toward the mound. O'Brien got to the ball but when he wheeled to throw to first, no one was covering the bag and Harry Wolter was safe and part of Fenway Park history.
Wolter had joined the Yankees (who were then called the Highlanders) in 1909, when the Red Sox put him on waivers and Yankee Manager, George Stallings grabbed the then 24-year-old native of Monterey, CA. Like many position players from that era, Wolter had spent the early part of his career doubling as a pitcher, before devoting himself full time to the outfield once he came to New York. The Yankees had picked him up at exactly the right time in his career. Wolter started in right field for New York in 1910 and hit a respectable .267 and scored 84 runs. After Wolter's home run beat the Red Sox in an early season game that year, Skipper Stallings told the press that the $1,500 paid to get the young outfielder was indeed a bargain. Wolter was just getting started.
During his second season in New York, he hit .304, belting 132 hits that included 17 doubles, 15 triples and 4 home runs. Although not especially big physically, this guy had good pop in his bat and the Yankees really did expect him to evolve into one of the league's top stars. Unfortunately, that evolution pretty much ended 12 games into the 1912 season, when Wolter broke his ankle sliding into second. He would come back the following year and once again start in right field, but he had lost much of his speed and his average fell to .254. The Yankees did not re-sign him following that 1913 season and he went back to California, where in addition to playing in the Pacific Coast League, he got involved coaching for the Stanford University baseball team. He would eventually serve as head baseball coach at that prestigious school for a record (since broken) 26 seasons.
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BELMONT, N.C. – Sophomore Shane Wilson had a career day for the Coker men's lacrosse team in its 22-12 non-conference loss to Belmont Abbey College on Wednesday (Mar. 19). Wilson tallied a career-high seven points on six goals and one assist for the Navy and Yellow.
In addition to Wilson seven points, Mike Martiello netted two goals and handed out three assists for five points, while Andy Campos registered three points on two goals and an assist. Rounding out the offense for the Cobras was Ryan Maurer with a goal and two helpers and Timothy Smith with a goal and an assist.
Martiello and John Elliott led the Cobra defense with seven and four ground balls, respectively. Goalies Tim Ryan (9) and Anthony Malik (7) combined for 16 saves on 38 shots faced by the duo.
The scoring pace in the first half of the contest was relatively slow as the Crusaders took an 8-4 lead into halftime. The third period would be a shootout as the Cobras and Crusaders went back-and-forth with scores. Belmont Abbey would tally eight goals in the period, while Coker managed to net seven of its own to enter the fourth period down 16-11. However, the Cobras would go cold, scoring only one goal over the final 15 minutes and allowing six to give Belmont Abbey a 22-12 non-conference win.
The Navy and Yellow will conclude its three-game road trip on Saturday (Mar. 22) when they take on the Bears of Lenoir-Rhyne University in a South Atlantic Conference matchup. The game is scheduled for a 4 p.m. start.
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Reviewing BBC Four's Top Of The Pops 1976/77 repeats, and assorted business related to the show
Thursday, 1 March 2012
TOTP 24/2/77 (tx 1/3/12): oh, what a circus
Meanwhile, here's someone's stream of consciousness version of Pops recappage.
Noel this week, before a chart the captions for which have turned an uncomfortable mushy peas green. Barry Biggs is still in the top ten.
Heatwave – Boogie Nights
Lots of videos this week but none with a more forceful setting than this. Heatwave are in virtual silhouette at the front, some neon pink lines behind, and every so often a set of full beam lights dazzle everything in their path as the two singers sway in a fashion that suggests meaningfulness. Eventually the lighting change reveals a band costume of black jumpsuits with some sort of yellow 'sun rays' motif around the wide collar and belt. On the energetic frontmen it works a treat. On the '70s British detective series criminal of the week' keyboard player and the well built, defiantly English session drummer, less so. Midway through the clip gets the Toppotron™ treatment, excitingly this week at a slight angle to the shot, the proleteriat in at least one Panama hat and who knows how much poor knitwear shuffling before their telescreen. Noel calls it "a somewhat melodic way to get proceedings underway" as if it's MOR pop, while not for the last time this week the applause at the end is overlaid by a medium-sized youthful sounding cheer. One or the other, come on.
The Racing Cars – They Shoot Horses Don't They?
"One of the songs that is particularly beautiful at the moment" is Noel's take on a ballad that takes the average RPM down hugely, before offering a blacksmith-based pun that does nobody any good. Once you've got over how alarmingly singer Morty looks like Bill Bailey with short dark hair and Simon Pegg's eyes it's notable how carefully it treads the line between anthemic and catatonic, never one thing nor the other. At the end the guitarist starts kissing/biting the neck of his instrument, possibly just because he can.
The Real Thing – You'll Never Know What You're Missing
And out of the tombola this time comes Eddie in the hat to go with his wedding suit from last time and a jacket that looks like it's made out of his dining room carpet, a white jacket with velvet pantaloons and the other two looking like they were rushed on stage in what they arrived in, including dungarees. Had they still not learned from the Americans about coding their gear? There's an acoustic guitar restored to the lineup too.
Mary McGregor – Torn Between Two Lovers
"She doesn't know whether to marry McTavish or marry McGregor". No. Serious, Noel, no. The video is a series of shots of tight close-ups of McGregor's face, but she still feels it necessary to hold a mike throughout. These were the early days of promo shoots, maybe some still needed the crutch.
Electric Light Orchestra – Rockaria
And another video, a full ELO onstage extravaganza in which the track's opera singer starts high up in a false castle and a quartered screen reveals Jeff's gang going at it ten to the dozen. Duelling cellists drag their instruments at right angles around the stage.
Barbara Dickson – Another Suitcase In Another Hall
Before Barbara can get underway Noel wants to introduce us to some people, Andrew Lloyd Webber looking about twenty while simultaneously not actually looking young at all and Tim Rice looking like a provincial PE teacher. Noel starts with a very strangely worded question: "Everyone says to me you've got so many hits on that LP, so many hits behind Evita, is that true?" Lloyd Webber, understandably confused, points out the first single was a number one and they've released the second. "I think we like this one at the moment best" Rice offers when asked which his favourite is, which is handy. It turns out to be both Noel's record of the week and his prediction for a number one, so its chances are sunk well before it can ever begin. Dickson looks very stern in her knockoff Laura Ashley, choker and ostentatiously huge flower in hair. To add artistic merit there's a shot from the far side of a harp being played by a disembodied hand. At the end a man in a bobble hat looks nonplussed.
Earth Wind & Fire – Saturday Nite
As ever, Noel's off on his own logic perambulation: "The next introduction sounds a bit like the sort of insurance company you'd need cover from if you were going to walk round a volcano". Having given Legs & Co mini-tunics that make no attempt to cover the underwear Flick seems to have set them on autopilot and let them go on the standard uptempo move set. Gill's trying, though, if the addition of what seems to be a Chaplin sped-up shuffle qualifies by itself as trying to add something new. It's not impressing the audience surrounding the dancefloor, who spent three minutes listening to disco, watching professional dancers and don't move a muscle throughout. Some men at the back stand with their arms tightly folded, women at the front look like they're being forced to be there. Is this Legs & Co's first time in front of a live audience on the regular show? They really needed to involve the crowd more, unless Flick's still reeling from the Ruby Flipper reproach - they did crowd participation a few times - and vowed not to go that far again.
Leo Sayer – When I Need You
"Two weeks at number one, it's got to stay there even longer". It did! Noel got a chart prediction right! Stopped clock and all that. Leo, the very definition of 'always available', gets all sort of multiplication camera tricks, but more telling is his standing before a catatonically swaying audience with his hands in his pockets again. It doesn't mean casuality by itself, Leo. Before cueing up Bowie's Sound And Vision to play under the credits - and at this stage of 1977 aren't we all waiting for certain gifts of sound and vision? - Noel promises Leo will be joining "the Swap Shop supergroup this coming Saturday". And yes, this was a thing - the show put together an actual supergroup which recorded covers of Roll Over Beethoven and Bo Diddley under Mickie Most's production. Leo sang, with backing from John Miles, Suzi Quatro, Kenney Jones of the Faces and... John Christie! 1977 was going to be marvellous for him after all.
And yes, he still had that smug face he pulls. Via this set of Swap Shop Book 1978 scans, which also features actual slides used in the chart rundown
EDIT NEWS: videos by Bryan Ferry (This Is Tomorrow) and Boston (More Than A Feeling, which you'd have thought would have been more of a pull than Rockaria)
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- Arthur Nibble said...
Dear oh dear, the studio audience wouldn't have needed Horlicks after that show. Pity anyone turning up hoping for a bop, finding themselves snoozing to one slow live act after another with not a medium pacer among them. The musical equivalent of watching Geoff Boycott and Chris Tavare open the batting for England.
For my money, the slowest and most boring show of the run so far. We peaked too early with the Toppotron (TM) on first, Heatwave's singers doing a prototype Chicken Tonight dance, one of them wearing a Joan Collins style headpiece, and Super Mario on drums.
Then come Racing Carszzzzzz – I suppose if you're going to have one hit, make it (seem like) a long one. Curiously excited audience participation to this song. I thought Morty had a touch of Steve Ovett about him.
No Bryan Ferry (one of the faster numbers in the initial running order), so straight to...that's not an explorer's hat – but what an outfit! Strange they mimed to the record when Chris gave such a great live performance last time. Couldn't see part of the screen due to the blurred fingers thrashing that guitar!
Mary McGregor doesn't look the strumpet sort at all, so this soporific effort jarred. I reckon she'd have more trouble deciding between breakfast cereals. Those lyrics – let me hold you close and tell you I've been cheating on you. Hmmm, subtle!
ELO were much more like it. My second fave of theirs after "Living Thing". Loved the cellist playing his instrument like a guitar near the end. I though he was going to do a Pete Townshend!
Suddenly someone leaves a tap on, as two drips appear in the studio. Loads and loads of hits in 'Evita', eh? Another great chart forecast by Noel, but at least Barbara did the song justice. Great set of pipes that gal's got. Almost as good as that bobble hat at the end.
Right, let's settle down for the best song of the evening, the one I've waited for...no no NO! We missed Boston's first appearance due to wiping, now this. At least we get one more chance to see it, but I'm fed up with the watershed wait. Maybe if Boz Scaggs had guested on "More Than A Feeling" they'd have shown it?
Had they run out of 2p's for the meter? I think Legs & Co were on but the lighting was way too dark to see them properly. The audience were sure engrossed in this performance! So, EW&F get plays on consecutive weeks for a new entry and climber with no studio appearance – surely some record?
Okay, Noel, we already know it was a record of the week of yours, but stop bigging it up. It just reminds me how many lemons you've predicted so far! Leo looked much smarter tonight, but somebody please sew up his coat pockets. At least he got more animated by the end, but scant consolation for the audience who must have been reaching for the Prozac (or Top Deck) by this stage.
To cap a hugely disappointing evening, a brief snippet of the sublime "Sound And Vision" (one for the Popscene folk's archives, as well as an amendment to the first two songs' running order on their database), smothered in canned applause and cut before the lyrics kick in. Blue, blue!
- 1 March 2012 at 23:13
- Angelo Gravity said...
Rod Temperton of Heatwave - surely the most unlikely looking pop star genius of all time? I don't know how old he was then but his face looked well lived in. But still, hats off to the guy, he wrote some of the best disco songs of the pop era. (an era that came to an end in 2006 when Jimmy switched off the lights).
I remember that Swap Shop supergroup - though I only recall Leo and Suzi being in it - so interesting to see the other names involved - I probably just didn't know who the others were at the time.
I don't mind the slow songs if they have a decent tune - I really like that RAcing Cars one.
Oh yes and I've found myself these past few days humming that Rubettes song - I didn't think much of it when I first heard it a couple of weeks back (don't remember it all from the time) but its really grown on me big time - I can see why it climbed into the top ten now
- 1 March 2012 at 23:55
- Rich Drury said...
Wow, what an awful episode - no wonder punk happened, and thank God it did!!
The '70s British detective series criminal of the week' keyboard player in Heatwave is none other than Rod Temperton, who not only wrote Boogie Nights but also several huge Michael Jackson songs including Thriller.
It was a relief to hear Bowie's Sound & Vision at the end after all that blandness.
Love this blog by the way - always a good read. Thanks!
- 1 March 2012 at 23:56
- Matra Rancho said...
A controversial opinion, but I've always hated 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' for two reasons, it's far far too slow and lyrically it doesn't seem to make a great deal of sense. Now, the first part can't be helped, but maybe if someone could tell me what the song is actually about it *might* possibly aid my enjoyment...
- 2 March 2012 at 00:20
- Steve Morgan said...
The lyrics of the song give some clues as to what it's all about. "Round and round the floor,together in time" "Just like a marathon, the belle of the ball".
It's actually based around a film of the same name, all about depression era America's obsession with dance marathons.
After weeks of almost continual, non stop dance contests one of the contestants is shot dead by the organiser, when asked by the police why he did it, his answer is, "They shoot horses don't they!"
Given the edits in this show which bogged it down to some extent, it encapsulated for me much of how I felt about the music in 1977, dull and depressing. We'd had two slow number ones in succession, then along comes The Racing Cars with their hit, Mary Mcgregor gives us an uptempo ballad all about infidelity and even ABBA come along a little later with a song about being divorced and single.
I haven't seen the unedited version yet, but I'm hoping that the addition of Bryan Ferry and Boston will give this show a beefier feel.
- 2 March 2012 at 07:00
- Steve Williams said...
Well, no wonder we started with a video as everything else was so tedious, this was a dull affair, though Noel would no doubt have approved of all the MOR on show.
It must be the second Swap Shop book that includes the page of lookalikes of John Craven, one of which - alongside Mr Spock, natch, and Michael Rodd - is Rod Temperton. I live in Cleethorpes but there's no blue plaque for Rod at all, which is a bit of a shame.
I notice Leo Sayer was on the same stage as Legs and Co, but while the audience seemed to tower over Legs - clearly the amount of ballads on show had dulled the audience not just to apathy but downright hostility - Leo seemed to tower over the audience. I was going to mention the Supergroup as I forgot that book was online. A great concept, though. Good to see Noel seeing John Christie right.
On the whole, though, zzz.
- 2 March 2012 at 08:36
- Arthur Nibble said...
Looking at that Supergroup photo, Leo Sayer was rocking the ice hockey look at the time - remember his garb from last week?
Sadly, that snippet of "Sound And Vision" could well be the best we get before the watershed. To answer my own question, it seems this song also did an EW&F - credits one edition, Legged the next - but next week's show has been wiped. The song gets one more meagre play over the credits in a few weeks.
- 2 March 2012 at 08:57
- Julie Joanne Bevan said...
Heatwave's drummer, Ernest 'Bilbo' Berger, is actually Czech, not British. They were one of the most talented disco bands ever; had they been based in the US rather than the UK, they would have been as respected as Earth, Wind & Fire. Keyboardist Rod Temperton, who subsequently penned hits for Michael Jackson, Michael McDonald, George Benson and many others, should have been made an OBE long ago.
- 2 March 2012 at 09:06
- Steve Does Top of the Pops said...
Thanks for the plug, Simon. I've added a link to this site on my own blog.
- 2 March 2012 at 10:05
- Steve Does Top of the Pops said...
PS. I agree with the consensus on here that it was a strangely dull affair.
Barbara Dickson was, though, the highlight for me. It's easy to forget what great delivery she had/has.
- 2 March 2012 at 10:18
- wilberforce said...
never mind an OBE, rod temperton should have been awarded a knighthood for "boogie nights" alone!
i wonder what bassist mario mantese did to offend the video director? apart from a very brief group shot at the beginning he's not featured at all - maybe he wasn't actually available for the shoot and a stand-in was used instead? if so the same thing was done by quo a few years later when their errant bassist was replaced by a dummy!
just a reminder - whoever is responsible for this ghastly new format please please PLEASE put it back the way it used to be!!!
- 2 March 2012 at 13:44
- Chris Barratt said...
Enjoyed Heatwave at the beginning - magical track. Their fate as a group wasn't so magical - the bass player ended up blind. mute and paralysed after being stabbed by his 'bunny boiler' girlfriend, and singer Johnnie Wilder was also left paralysed in 1979 after a tipper truck hit his car (he died in 2006)
- 2 March 2012 at 18:53
- THX said...
A pity Boston was left out, mainly because not as many viewers would have noticed they had an actual caveman on drums. If only Dave Grohl had taken that route when Nirvana "covered" More Than a Feeling.
Too many slowies last night, I agree, which made ELO and their cello frenzy all the more stark (and enjoyable) by comparison. But was that lady a real opera singer?
- 2 March 2012 at 18:53
- Noax said...
Well, well, he's back...
No, not Noel - the mighty Toppotron!
You know, there are many things in life I should be more proud of, but seeing Simon actually using the name on the blog has made me smile a lot.
Some general observations - green for the rundown and the credits! I don't think we've seen that before.
Also, could this be the hairiest edition yet? Noel's hair is particularly luxurious, and we've got Jeff Lynne, Babs, all of Boston (with bonus porn star moustaches for most of 'em) and Leo Sayer.
Heatwave - Weirdly, I have no memory of them from the time, even though I vaguely recall other performances from this period. Let's just say, they don't look how I expected...they actually look like 3 groups merged together to me!
Good song, but their best single will be along soon.
The Racing Cars - I can't hate this song somehow, despite the fact that it's so S...L...O...W.
The Real Thing - For those 2 people left in the country who remember Bo Selecta with some fondness, whichever Amoo is singing (I'm not going through that again!) has definitely got a 'Willy Wonka Vibe' going on.
Mary MacGregor - The kind of song I used to play on student radio in an 'ironic' way but which I now realise is a bit rubbish really.
ELO - I'd bet money on that woman NOT being a proper opera singer. Although I love ELO to bits this is one that I've never been keen on - to me it just seems like a rehash of 'Roll Over Beethoven'.
Barbara Dickson - I think I mentioned a few weeks ago during the mad woman's mercifully brief reign at the top that this is actually the best song of Evita (even Madonna managed not to mess it up!) and Babs really does it justice. I did half expect Ronnie Corbett to walk on specially to introduce it though.
Earth, Wind & Fire - Was it just me, or was this Legs & Co effort an utter shambles? Not much rehearsal time this week, by the looks of it.
Leo Sayer - I was momentarily confused at the mention of the Swap Shop supergroup, forgetting that Brown Sauce hadn't yet been invented. Luckily, Penny Keith don't need me at The Manor so that's it from me until next week.
- 2 March 2012 at 21:56
- Simon said...
- 2 March 2012 at 23:09
- Anonymous said...
If anyone cares, the Heatwave clip was from the German show Musikladen.
- 3 March 2012 at 11:13
- wilberforce said...
does anyone know who the female keyboard player in bryan ferry's band was? my guess is ann odell of blue mink, but that really is a guess...
ELO's "rockaria!" was one of the few hits with an exclamation mark ... i know dave dee dbm&t had a penchant for that kind of thing with "okay!" and "zabadak!", but after that the trail goes cold for me - can anyone come up with any others?
- 3 March 2012 at 14:48
- wilberforce said...
oh yes, heatwave's guitarist was stabbed to death as well - no wonder rod temperton decided to pack the band in to concentrate on songwriting!
- 3 March 2012 at 14:55
- Julie Joanne Bevan said...
Wilberforce - the keyboardist in Bryan Ferry's band was indeed Ann Odell, formerly of Blue Mink. She's still active in the business today, as a jazz pianist.
- 3 March 2012 at 14:59
- Vintage Reading said...
Very dull show this week and there wasn't even any eye candy for the laydee's (like the young Boz Scaggs last week!!) Best thing about this week's episode was Bowie's Sound and Vision on the credits.
- 3 March 2012 at 19:23
- Noax said...
wilberforce - Songs with exclamation marks....I like a challenge.
You'd think that 'Stop' by Erasure should have one, but it doesn't. 'Drama!' does however.
As does 'Stamp!' by Healy & Amos.
Some compilations seem to think that 'Start' by The Jam has one, but the chart books say no.
I'm sure there are more.
- 3 March 2012 at 20:54
- Arthur Nibble said...
You were so close there, Noax. You should have said "Stop!" by Sam Brown.
- 3 March 2012 at 21:05
- Erithian said...
... and in some sources, Lennon's "Instant Karma!"
- 4 March 2012 at 07:07
- Elsterpie said...
Arthur. Didnt understand your watershed remark re Boston.
Spent weeks and weeks listening to that on Gambos show as it climbed the Billboard chart 2 places at a time.
I then came across it in Bostocks manchester for 10p before it went into the UK charts. Best bargain ever? (bought it ten times since mind, on boston, bostons greatest hits, rock classics this that and the other)
Time does not improve 'They shoot horses dont they'
though. I saw them live a year later at mqnchester uni freshers ball and this was the bloody highlight. Dire
- 4 March 2012 at 17:08
- Arthur Nibble said...
Elsterpie, what I meant was, I don't usually (get the chance to)watch the late night re-runs, so I tend to rely on the 7.30 showings, which Simon analyses for ths blog. I find it a pain in the arse that BBC iPlayer doesn't update to the 40 minute versions once they've been broadcast.
Boston were actually on TOTP three times, the final occasion coming after they'd only risen one place in the prevous fortnight. We missed the video's first showing through wiping, so I waited another fortnight for the second showing only for it to be cut from the early edition.
- 4 March 2012 at 19:50
- Wellieman said...
Has anyone mentioned Help! by The Beatles yet?
Tend to agree with most about this weeks show.... Boogie Nights was the highlight for me, followed by Babs Dickson. As mentioned previously love the Boston song too, even on the full version slot it was cut short. The rest were a little, err, lacking in pace!.
I'm enjoying reading the cross section of opinion on all the various acts. Arthur Nibble kicked off with Rockaria being ELOs second favourite track for him. For me, nah, it was the weakest track on the otherwise wonderful 'A New World Record' and definitely agree with Noax about it being Roll Over Beethoven mkII.
Oh, and respect to Rod Temperton and Steve Williams from another Meggie here! It's my party piece with my American colleagues when they ask where I'm from.... 'Oh, the same place as the guy who wrote Thriller!'
- 4 March 2012 at 22:01
- wilberforce said...
i remember around the time of "boogie nights" being a hit, blues & soul magazine ran a piece on rod temperton mentioning he originated from (the unlikely place of) scunthorpe, and the man himself got in touch to correct them that he actually came from cleethorpes, so they printed an apology to that effect in the next issue - that's how i knew rod was a "meggie"!
intrigued by this manner of referring to the locals, i looked up cleethorpes on wikipedia and discovered that not only are there several other famous ex-inhabitants of this small seaside town (posh actress patricia hodge, michele "ooh betty!" dotrice), but also rather surprisingly it is actually the home of grimsby town fc!
- 5 March 2012 at 08:12
- seekenee said...
I liked it this week, despite all the videos. I'm glad I clicked on your meanwhile link, simon, that,s the funniest thing i've seen in ages, I didn,t notice what it really was till the top ten, i've gotten so used to light entertainment strangeness in the rundown. ...exclaimation point is on the sleeves and labels of LP and single for the Jam's Start! so I wouldn't go with the chart books on that one
- 5 March 2012 at 08:14
- wilberforce said...
having re-read some of the earlier suggestions, i've just remembered another "exclamation mark" hit myself: novelty item/one-hit-wonder napoleon XIV with "they're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!
if you think that was weird, then listen to the b-side where they've turned the tape over and recorded it playing in reverse (maybe that was where george martin got the idea for "backward cymbals"?)... and the label is printed in mirror-image as well!
- 5 March 2012 at 08:26
- Steve Williams said...
Just to say, I'm not a fully-fledged Meggie, I just live in Cleethorpes. It's quite gentirified these days.
Anyway, checking Rod Temperton's Wikipedia page to see how old he was in 1977 - 29! - I'd like to point out that the sleeve of the Boogie Nights album is remarkable. How come this wasn't featured in that collection of X-rated record covers on The Joy of Disco?
- 5 March 2012 at 13:11
- Arthur Nibble said...
There's another chest-fest on the cover of an album by Orleans. Not the sort of thing Toto Coelo bothered themselves with!
- 5 March 2012 at 13:53
- Noax said...
I think I went to Cleethorpes once. I don't remember much about it.
Anyway, another song with an exclamation mark - 'Wot!' by Captain Sensible.
And another that should have - 'Fire' by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
- 5 March 2012 at 19:32
- Arthur Nibble (again) said...
I went to Cleethorpes once, to watch Grimsby Town 0 Brentford 1 on a freezing Tuesday night in Spring 1993 - I'm also mad keen on footie and I've done all the 92 League grounds but I won't bore you with that. Anyway...
Here's my trump card!
- 5 March 2012 at 21:05
- Erithian said...
Good list Arthur but I'm sure we can find more. The Fabs were serial exclaimers, with both Help! and Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!
- 6 March 2012 at 06:02
- seekenee said...
Hi, Arthur, the iplayer does update to the long version eventually, not sure when exactly, sometime Sunday perhaps, anyone know?
- 6 March 2012 at 09:53
- Arthur Nibble yet again said...
Thanks for that, seekenee! I didn't realise.
- 6 March 2012 at 10:58
- wilberforce said...
regarding the article on the "!" mark - yes, i'm always guilty of (over) using it in my comments, but a full stop always looks so lame. (see what i mean?)
frank skinner bemoaned at some length the over use of the "!" in his excellent biography a few years back (note no exclamation mark, full stop or nothing after that sentence)
regarding bare chests, i personally find musicians (or anybody) posing in that manner rather troubling, especially when they're obviously not up to it like poor old bilbo from heatwave, but maybe that's due to the old "shirts and skins" thing in PE lessons at school. herbie mann was a repeat offender, but in his case it was an extremely hairy chest (unlike his head) which really is revolting! (sorry, can't help putting "!")
- 6 March 2012 at 11:15
- Erithian said...
Blimey, I'm late posting on these. Anyway … one thing I'm finding is that, by and large, the things I liked then I still like and so on, with one major exception: at 14 I thought Noel Edmonds was the height of sophistication, I even taped his chats with Flynn the milkman on my first cassette recorder - now his contrived intros are hugely annoying, and do you remember the one where he even crashed the vocal? Dear oh dear.
Heatwave – Having said that I have been happy to revise my thoughts on disco. Back then they were the enemy of "proper" music, and if I admitted to liking a disco record (and there were a few) it was a guilty pleasure. Now I'm happy to embrace them – except for some reason I can't work up any affection for this. Sorry!
Racing Cars – I still love this one, although it caught the flak for the general slow pace of the show (which was unbalanced by the uptempo stuff they cut out). It's sedate, yes, but it does have some momentum with the tastefully done drum backing. I love the circus riff dropped in after the word "carousel" too.
Real Thing – again, was never going to keep up their run.
Mary MacGregor – some interesting stuff on her on Wikipedia, not least that this was produced by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary fame. And that she wasn't at all fond of this song because she had no sympathy with the narrator!
ELO – I rushed out and got this single (one of 3 in this show, alongside Racing Cars and Boston). The charge of overproduction does get levelled at Jeff Lynne though, and not without justification – the "new" Beatles songs of the 90s were done no favours by his style.
Barbara Dickson – liked this at the time without being wildly excited, but she was the person of the match in the Gerry Rafferty tribute concert broadcast last week – obviously a great friend of Gerry's and a beautiful harmony performance with his family.
EWF – not overly fond of this one either I'm afraid! Maybe it's disco songs which are about nothing other than being at the disco?
Leo – good song well sung, if fairly bland.
Bowie – hope we'll hear more of it next time.
Boston – fabulous stuff. Note the singer's pioneering of the Harry Enfield Scouser look, and the bassist reminds me of none other than Derek Smalls of Spinal Tap.
Bryan Ferry – looked cool as anything, and hearing this again was probably the greatest pleasure of the whole show.
- 7 March 2012 at 20:30
- Old Applejack said...
I'll chuck in Hey Ya! by Outkast
- 7 March 2012 at 21:21
- Old Applejack said...
And Wake Up Boo!
- 7 March 2012 at 21:28
- Anonymous said...
Temperton must have earned a few bob if he co-wrote "Thriller" then...
- 7 March 2012 at 23:11
- Old Applejack said...
And how could anyone ever forget 'And That's Before Me Tea!'?
Oh, you had?
- 8 March 2012 at 09:44
- Arthur Nibble! said...
There was also an American band in the 90's called !!! which they pronounced 'chk chk chk'.
By the way, well done, everyone - I believe this is easily the number of comments for a thread on this blog. Now, let's see if we can beat it for the wiped edition coming up!
- 8 March 2012 at 10:54
- THX said...
I learned something from the captions for Boogie Nights on the BBC Four disco compilation last Friday (just caught up with it): the deep-voiced vocals ("Got to keep on dancin'") were by Clarke Peters, aka Lester Freamon from The Wire.
- 8 March 2012 at 19:14
- Dory said...
Love the way that Noel Edmunds looks up at the balcony where the maiden sings in ELO to their rock anthem Rockaria....a brilliant intro Noel!
- 15 March 2012 at 22:54
- wilberforce said...
apologies for the very late edition to this thread, but in the course of doing other things i have now stumbled across another "exclamation mark" hit: the sweet's immortal "blockbuster!"
- 29 March 2012 at 12:14


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Ivan Ivovic has been named MIT's head water polo coach, it was announced today by MIT Director of Athletics and Department Head, Julie Soriero. Ivovic brings almost 20 years of playing and coaching experience to the Engineers' program.
"I'm excited to be joining the MIT family," Ivovic said. "This is my first head coaching position and I'm eager to take the excellent student-athletes of MIT and get them ready for the stiff competition out there. With the beautiful, state-of-the-art facility, we will truly be prepared to go as far as we can."
"We are very excited to have Ivan join our MIT family and lead the water polo program," said Assistant Director of Athletics, John Benedick. "Ivan comes to MIT with a wealth of water polo experience that includes international play and Division I and III coaching. We are confident that he will lead our already successful water polo program to new heights."
Ivovic comes to MIT from Johns Hopkins University, where he was the assistant water polo coach. The Blue Jays ended their season by winning the Division III Eastern Championships and were tied for first in the nation for Division III in the final Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) poll that was released in November.
Before arriving at Johns Hopkins, Ivovic was the full-time volunteer assistant coach of both the men's and women's water polo teams at the University of Southern California, where he worked under famed coach Jovan Vavic, who has led his programs to ten national championships in his 18-year career at the university. While there, Ivovic helped run up to six practices per day and traveled with the teams to tournaments and training camps.
Ivovic started his coaching career in 2007 as the head assistant coach at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., a position he held for five years. During this time, he was the founder and the head coach of the Purple Eagles water polo club team, a year-round program for high school and junior high school athletes.
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Before attending this Princeternship, I did some research into education reform, watching documentaries like "Waiting for Superman" and "The Lottery" as well as reading the articles provided to me by my alumni host Sylvia Monreal '10. I didn't consider myself an expert on education reform by any means, but I thought that I had a pretty good idea of the issues surrounding education in this country and the possible solutions to those issues. I imagined that if only the education system fostered dedicated, passionate teachers who were fully aware of their enormous responsibility to impart knowledge onto their students, all children would display the drive to learn and consequently, would perform better in school. However, after observing the Citizen Schools program at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Newark, New Jersey, I realized how simplified my model for education reform was. Educating students at a school like this one where only 16% of seventh graders displayed proficiency in reading and language and only 20% of seventh graders displayed proficiency in math is not simply a matter of introducing "good" teachers into the classroom. Each and every Citizen Schools teacher I observed was exceptional in their selfless and seemingly infinite drive to help their students to not only learn basic skills like fractions but also to make thoughtful connections between the classroom and the "real world." Yet, to truly change a student's life and put them on the path toward a college education and a meaningful career does not just require good teachers, I soon realized. To accomplish this gargantuan task means changing the students' mindsets, combating other potential factors like broken home lives and the negative values imparted onto them by their peers, families, and the surrounding culture of the area – a feat that would seem impossible to many.
However, to the teachers I observed at Citizen Schools, this feat was just another day at the office. Watching them meticulously construct lesson plans and seamlessly conduct class in a chaotic environment gave me a newfound respect for the profession. Specifically, I remember walking into the class Sylvia was subbing on my first day at the Princeternship. Although these were not her normal students nor was this her normal responsibility at the workplace, Sylvia took on the task masterfully, leading a quiet group of about five or six girls in their homework in the midst of the turmoil that is the combination of a hot afternoon and tired children. The gentle way she interacted with the students was extraordinary and was mirrored in numerous other classes I observed. For instance, seeing Mr. Taylor help the kids with their homework on the second day of my Princeternship was like watching a conductor direct a world-class symphony. Keeping the class under control, he deftly went from desk to desk, using carefully constructed questions to encourage his students to arrive at the answer independently, fostering personal growth and self-reliance. Observing Ms. Lopez conduct a discussion on whether the wealthy have a responsibility to help the poor or seeing Mr. W begin a conversation with his students on the link between education and poverty produced similar feelings of amazement in me. And these are just a few isolated examples – every day at Citizen Schools was a new opportunity for me to look at the inspiring work of these teachers, giving me hope for the future of education in this country.
This Princeternship truly changed my perspective in a way that no other experience in my life has. It taught me to look for the positive in all situations, to devote yourself fully to what you love, and to persist even in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. It opened my eyes to a completely different world, forcing me out of the Orange Bubble mentality and broadening my outlook as a whole. Finally, it solidified my desire to do a program like the Citizen Schools teaching fellowship after I graduate so that I too can work toward the betterment of the American education system. I really cannot thank my Princetern host Sylvia and all of the teachers and staff I encountered throughout these three days enough for allowing me to experience this extraordinary opportunity.