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The over 100 kilometer Birkie Trail system attracts skiers, runners, bikers, trekkers, and hikers, from casual day-trippers to elite superstars. The Birkie trail was built for all silent sports enthusiasts to enjoy. The non-profit 501(c)(3) American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation maintains 100% of the trail system. Donations to help cover the annual maintenance costs are welcome. You can help with a personal donation which may be tax deductible (consult your tax professional) and by joining the Foundation.
Trail lights are now on for the season! Lights are located at both Highway OO Trailhead near Seeley, WI and Hatchery Creek Trailhead.
Birkie Trail ski passes are required December – March to ski on any part of the 107 km American Birkebeiner Trail System. 100% of funds collected go toward our growing costs to maintain the trail.
Trail passes or parking passes for Birkie Trail use are not required April – November, however if you are using the CAMBA mountain bike trails, please consider dropping a donation into the yellow tubes!
By order of the Sawyer County Board of Directors, no person may use that portion of the American Birkebeiner Trail System in Sawyer County between December 1st and March 31st unless they have purchased a Trail Pass. Sawyer County grants to the named holder of a Trail Pass a revocable temporary license to access the Trail System. Funds collected by sellers of Trail Passes are remitted to the County, which provides funds to the ABSF to maintain the Trail System. Sellers of Trail Passes act only as the agent of the County in collecting Trail Pass fees.
3.25.17 (11:00AM) – The Birkie trail system will officially close at 11:59pm on Sunday, March 26, until further notice. The trail system will remain closed until all frost leaves the ground and until the trail dries up. The closure is for all trail users – skiers, hikers, bikers, and other. The trail closure is by the authority of the Bayfield and Sawyer County Forest Administrators, in collaboration with the Birkie Trail Manager. Thank you for your cooperation in helping us to preserve and protect the trail during this transitional time. We will let you know the moment the trail is open for use! Until then!
– Chris & the Birkie Tail Staff
3.20.17 (10:00AM) – It's that spring-like time of year when the trail is in a bit of transition. With snowy areas, icy patches, exposed earth and the frost leaving the ground, the trail is vulnerable to use in some areas. No bike riding is allowed on the trail at this time. Gravel roads are a good option, although conditions vary there as well. The conditions are somewhat iffy for skiing, depending on area of the trail – north of OO is better than south of OO, where it is unsuitable for skiing. Please respect the trails and make your usage choices accordingly. The American Birkebeiner Trailhead area is closed to preserve the space. The conditions are rapidly changing with frost beginning to come out of the earth. Watch for updates and trail announcements before you head out on area trails.
– Chris & the Birkie Tail Staff
3.13.17 (5:00PM) – The Birkie Trail north of 'OO' is icy and considered unsafe for skiing. The trail conditions south of the OO Trailhead are inconsistent, primarily grass and ice, and unsuitable for skiing. The slight dusting of snow overnight did not improve trail conditions. We will keep you updated as trail conditions change.
– Chris & the Birkie Tail Staff
3.1.17 (10:00PM) – We received approximately 2″ of new snow yesterday. Tonight we groomed the skate lanes of both the Birkie Classic and Birkie Skate trails from "OO" north to the Fire-tower food station. It is thin with a few icy places – but really good coverage. Check back tomorrow for additional grooming.
– Chris & the Birkie Tail Staff
2.27.17 (8:30AM) – Trail Conditions update – The trail is now open for skiing – but please no walking or fat biking on it (until Fat Bike Birkie weekend), as we are still skiing in areas and are hoping for more snow so we can groom up all the trails for good skiing again! Currently there is a hard base over 90% of the trail and 10% grass! We will keep updating here as we attempt to groom more areas.
– Chris & the Birkie Tail Staff
Birkie Trails is the official app for the American Birkebeiner Ski Trail between Cable and Hayward, Wisconsin.
Included are a map (which will show your current location, and where you've skied), grooming report and tracking feature, showing time, distance and elevation gain.
Optionally, by using this app you can contribute to trail usage data, helping the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation manage and prioritize trail maintenance activities (grooming, trailwork, signage, etc). Available for both iPhone and Android.
Trail Reports compiled by Skinnyski.com.
The total climb on the Birkie Skate Course from the start line at Telemark to the finish line in Hayward (north to south) is 1,398 meters. The Birkie Classic Course's total climb from the start line to the finish line is 21 meters less or 1,379 meters.
The Birkie Classic Trail which ends at OO has a total climb of 727 meters compared to the Birkie Trail's total climb of 729 meters to that point. See chart to right for elevation break down.
In order to provide a better race experience for all skiers, the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation developed the Birkie Classic Trail. Construction for the new trail began in late 2006 and was completed in three stages by the Fall of 2008. The 27K Birkie Classic Trail was used in its entirety for the 2009 event with Classic Skiers enjoying their own trail from just past the Race Start to County Hwy. OO.
Construction cost for the 27K trail totaled $104,000, which was raised with the help of many generous donations from skiers, businesses, organizations and friends of the American Birkebeiner.
The trail was designed and laid out by ABSF Board member Dave Nelson of Hayward and Rhinelander. Jack Moin, Cable, who also is Trail Chief at Telemark was Trail Construction Chief for the entire project. The project was successful due to the efforts of these two men who donated many hours of their time. The trail was built with the help and hard work of many volunteers who came out to numerous work nights and days over the three years.
The 27K Classic Trail is 20' in width, and results in the Birkie Classic Race being 4K longer than the existing Birkie Trail used for the Skate course. Elevations of both trails is very similar with the major difference being that the Classic Trail climbs and descents are more gradual, but longer, facilitating the Classic technique. The two courses come together at each of the food/aid stations and close enough to be visible at several points.
The Birkie Classic Trail is groomed for both classic and skate skiing through the winter, but will be groomed for classic skiing only on race day. The trail is available for hiking, trail running and mountain biking the remainder of the year. There are no plans at present to further extend the Birkie Classic Trail.
The Birkie Classic Trail was built to provide the following benefits:
Contributing $1000 or more to the construction and maintenance of the Birkie Classic Trail:
Trail Ambassadors are working as an extension of the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation, interacting and educating fellow skiers about the Birkie Trail Pass system. Skiing out and back from various trailheads along the Birkie Trail. All Birkie Trail Ambassadors must be 18 years of age, or older.
Volunteer 4-15 hours as a Trail Ambassador and receive a free Birkie Water Bottle. Volunteer 16+ hours as a Trail Ambassador and also receive a free Individual Annual Birkie Trail Pass for the 2016-2017 season. Volunteers will be provided with a Birkie Ambassador bib to wear and informational notecards to hand out while skiing during their shift. Bibs and cards can be picked up the Fri-Sun the weekend of your shift and dropped back off Sat-Tues the weekend of your shift.


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text: ""Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein" Here is a list, because I don't want to organize my thoughts. I am not old enough or young enough for most of the things I'd really like to do. I hope to become a published novelist and run an online lit mag one day. I believe school is very important, but I don't like it. I believe eating is very important, but I don't like it. I write some poetry, but most people's poetry is just way over my head. I believe in simplicity and I am, in my purest form, a contradiction. I am an introvert, bound by dreams and stuck in the labyrinth. I am overwhelmed by the beauty in everything and everyone I see. I capitalize sufficiently or not at all, depending almost entirely on my mood. I try very hard to do everything well and I'm working on being less hard on myself. I love falling asleep because I find my realities in dreams. I write a lot and it seems like one of the best and worst things I can do with my life. If I couldn't write my heart out, I would die.


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Christina: All Of A FlutterMature
"Finally" I exclamed as the bell rang signalling the end of the lesson. My bum had gone numb, sitting in those uncomfortable and annoyingly squeaky chairs for an hour and it was a relief to stand up after what seemed an eternity of listening the my teacher droning on and on.
"Don't forget to write you essay" the teacher shouted over the noise of scraping chairs and chatter. I turned to Isobel my eyebrows arched, "Essay on the first day back, sheesh what a slave driver he is!" Isobel laughed at me.
"I'll catch up with you, I have just got to write the essay down so I don't forget it, or else i'll be ringing you at silly o'clock asking you what it is" I said, and with a half wave of farewell she left.
I had just finished scrawling down the essay and shoving my books back in my bag when a voice came from behind me. "Hey." I whirled around to find out who's voice it was been and was surprised to see Tom standing there.
Oh my absolute god, Tom Parker was talking to me! I thought gazing at his incredible beauty, his thick black hair, his big chocolate brown eyes which had a michievious glint in them. I had fancied Tom since I had first clapped my eyes on him in year 7, but I had never had the courage to tell him. Whenever I had plucked up the courage to tell him how I felt I had always been knocked back by finding out that he was now dating someone, so i kept schtum about my feelings.
"Uhh...hi?" I said, it was taking all my efforts to stop my cheeks from blushing a horrible scarlet colour.
"I'm Tom." he said to me simply, "I know, Christina. You can call me Chrissy if you want" I gave him a warm smile which he returned.
"Well, I kind of wasn't listening in class." I nodded when he said this, gazing at him again, and not quite catching the underlying message underneith this sentance.
"What I mean is, I don't know what the assignment is. The essay thing." he said, I nodded in realisation "Ahh, I see." "So, what is it?" he asked after several minutes. "Oh, right, umm...sorry. I was just---well, you know---the essay, right. Uhh..." I grabbed my bag and started to rummage around inside, finally pulling out the scrap of paper which I had scrawled the essay on. "Here it is," I declared triumphantly, as I unfolded the paper to read out the essay title. "It's a one-thousand word paper on death and dying and how it affects people. Can you remember that?"
He nodded, he must have had a good memory as he didn't write it down. "Yeah, thanks." I shoved the scrap of paper back into my bag then looked up him, "No problem." I smiled at him, my cheeks going slightly pink.
I was about the leave when he said something which made my cheeks go more than just pink, they glowed scarlett, luckily I had my back to him so he didn't see.
"Just in case I forget though, maybe I should have some way of contacting you." I turned to face him, covering my cheeks with my hands and said quickly, "Oh! Well, of course. Yes---well---will my cell do?"
He nodded "Of course it will. Perfect."
I pulled my backpack off my back and started to rummage around inside, searching for a spare bit of paper and a pen so i could give him my cell - oh my days - I pinched myself to check that I wasn't dreaming and this was actually happening. "Ouch" I whispered as my nails made indentations on my left hand.
The bell rang, making me jump, "Oh shoot!" I yelled, zipping my bag up, "I gotta go. I'll catch up with you later!"
At that I left the room, I was as red as a tomato now.
Isobel will never believe this!


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Is it you?
In a quiet and drafty place I smell the sweet scent of gardenia, and immediately I'm extremely interested if it's you.
The timing is all wrong, there are no footsteps that I can hear....and yet the feelings I have are the familiar ones that invisibly embrace me when it's you.
Why wouldn't you have come before now? Things are still, and I'm without the light. I'm stricken...for a flash of fear falls over me like a cold gust....is it you?
I wait here on bated breath pausing only for a second. With the hair standing hard and tall on the cape of my neck my heart beats so fast I feel my body pulsing along.
I can't its to difficult to imagine. But if it were, would this be it? Have you come for me? Have you come to flood my body and soul and then leave slowly like the sun?
Why can't I tell if it's you? I always felt that same soft touch, breathed in deeply that smell because it was you and I held that so extremely sacred.
I lay back looking into the cool blue changing from day to night. The tenderness eases me. My eyelids feel full as they hold all the tears....until that one falls, and stains my cheek.
Is it you?


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The DTR-Z500HD uses the same interface that's been packed into TVonics boxes for years. It's simple, intuitive and offers five different colour schemes – some a little garish, all very clear.
The focus on ease of use means that some features are slightly hidden away from view, but the near-minimalist approach to the UI makes this PVR a joy to use. There's virtually no learning curve to scale here, so technophobe users shouldn't have any problems as long as they're familiar with using a Freeview EPG.
This approach demands the occasional extra click from more advanced users though. For example, there's a search function in both the library and electronic programme guide, but to access it you have to press the fast forward button to scroll through the functions mapped onto the coloured "Freeview" buttons. TVonics started out its life working with the UK government as part of its digital switchover plans, and the demand for accessibility that's innately part of this is still here to see in the DTR-Z500HD's interface.
With two Freeview HD tuners on-board, the PVR can record two channels at once or watch a channel while recording another. Unlike some PVRs, you can't seem to record two channels and watch a third broadcast as part of the same multiplex. Try to change channel while already recording two and the DTR-Z500HD will prompt you to either cancel one of the recordings or return to watching one of the programmes currently being recorded.
Picking a programme to record is, as usual, a case of simply tapping the remote's record button while watching a programme or browsing the 8-day EPG. Each time you start a new recording, a prompt screen pop-ups that lets you select a series link recording with a simple press of the blue Freeview button. Series link is a standard feature of Freeview+, but this ultra-intuitive integration of it is a bonus.
Over the period of a week, we set the DTR-Z500HD to recording a slew of programmes, both HD and standard definition, and it didn't miss a beat. It has no problems recording two HD channels at once and the 500GB hard drive has enough room for around 250 hours of SD content. Typical of its simple interface, the library screen – housing all your recordings – doesn't tell you how many megabytes each recording is taking up. It's all about minutes rather than megabytes here, which may annoy power users recording a mixture of SD and HD content looking to free-up some space.
When connected to your TV over HDMI (and if you're going to be using SCART you should not buy this box) the DTR-Z500HD upscales SD content. You're given no control over the level of digital noise reduction processing going on in the background, but it does a good job of dealing with Freeview's lower-quality broadcasts. There's still significant mosquito noise visible around text and other defined areas of detail, but motion of more organic objects is very well-handled. Its processing appears less aggressive than the PlayStation 3's PlayTV tuner, but the resulting images are natural and very watchable.
HD content is also well-handled. Not all of Freeview's HD content is going to inspire "ooh"s, packed as it is with the low-budget lifestyle filler that's broadcast on most TV channels, but a standard benchmark of HD content, the nature documentary, looked fantastic. With detailed and vivid images, the DTR-Z500HD has what it takes to show what Freeview HD has to offer. It had no problems picking-up all four channels currently available in the London area - BBC One HD, ITV 1 HD, 4 HD and BBC HD.
Another crucial win for the DTR-Z500HD is operating noise. Although it gets warm to the touch during use and has a fan port at the back, it's virtually silent. You can hear the slight click of the hard drive during recording, and a slight whirr from the fan, but only if you get your ear within 15cm of so of the box. In normal usage, you won't hear a thing.
Talking of 'missing features', why is there barely a mention of the remote? It does have one, presumably? A general impression or even a picture of it would be nice, don't you think?
@romseyraver +1
Why no images of the GUI either?
@romseyraver @denis iii We'll be adding in additional images shortly.
Big buttoned remote - lovely. Thanks Andrew.
Did you try looping a Blu-ray player or anything through the HDMI inputs? Did it have any effect on the picture quality?
@Alan Edwards I put a PS3 and media box through it and didn't see any loss of pic quality. There really shouldn't be any problems given it's HDMI.
I picked up one today and it seems great, need to do a double software update to bring it up to date via USB. Did you find a use for the network connection? I've plugged it in to the network and it's obtained an ip address but it doesn't seem to have any network functions.
@coxyuk it's possible more functionality will be added with an update. Top of my personal wishlist would be BBC iPlayer and LoveFilm movie streaming - although I'll admit I can't really see them being added to this box. At present TVonics website suggests it's for red button voting within Freeview, which I doubt too many will be particularly bothered about.
Your review says that this PVR isn't the one to buy if you will be using a SCART connection to the TV. Why is this please?
I really like the machine except I keep getting an intermittent snowy screen then the machine clicks and I get the picture back. Does anyone know why I get this? Thank you
Bought mine 2 years ago, cost me £210, from day one, no end of problems, getting worst every week, l have to re tune it every month, when I watch a programme l have recorded, its like watching a dubbed movie, mouth out of sink. Like, right now, watching a programme, watching BBC2, on the screen it states "NO SIGNAL" when l bought it, from comet, they didn't want to know, pushed aside, no joy, got in touch with tvonics, they said post it back to us, which again, will cost me loads of money, l feel l have paid far to much as it is, there other option was, to send out a engineer to repair it, again would be around £45 min. my advice, is, stay well clear from this product, it's a waste of money.
It should be mentioned that this company has now gone into receivership, so if you buy one of these there will be no manufacturer's support or guarantee.
two questions :
when recording a HD video from HDMI input
1/ how is it recorded : 540 720 or 1080 p ?
2/ how is it recorded mpeg-2 ? mpeg-4 ?
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by Brett Larner
Kensuke Takezawa (Team S&B) came up short in his quest to score a new World Championships 5000 m A-standard mark to pick up a place on this year's national team. After tuning up with a 3000 m PB of 7:49.26 at last week's Gobierno de Aragon meet in Saragossa, Spain, Takezawa ran the 5000 m at the Ciutat de Barcelona meet on July 25.
With his teammate Yuichiro Ueno, who holds a B-standard mark of 13:26.31, having already secured a spot on the Berlin team by winning last month's National Championships, Takezawa needed to run under 13:20.00. He could only muster a 13:26.90, his best time since injury troubles began two years ago and one which cleared the B-standard but not the magic A-standard. As the fastest time of the year next to Ueno's, Takezawa's Barcelona mark earns him the national team alternate position.
Barring injury or illness for Ueno, Takezawa, who along with perennial rival Yuki Sato (Team Nissin Shokuhin) represents the brightest hope for the next generation of Japanese men's distance running, will stay home in August after having run in the 2007 World Championships and 2008 Olympics. Sato, who likewise set a 3000 m PB last week, has one final chance to make the Berlin team in the 5000 m when he runs today's Flanders Cup meet in Brasschaat, Belgium.
2009 Ciudad de Barcelona Meet - Men's 5000 m Top Finishers
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1. Silas Kipruto (Kenya) - 13:08.98
2. Jonas Cheruiyot (Kenya) - 13:15.69
3. Peter Kirui (Kenya) - 13:15.90
6. Kensuke Takezawa (Team S&B) - 13:26.90
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Cher: The Farewell Tour Glasgow SECC
'Will it start when all the people with tickets are in?' whispers the girl seated behind me at the Glasgow SECC, venue for the first night of the British leg of Cher's farewell tour.
'No, I think it just starts when it starts, whether everybody's here or not,' says her partner.
On the flight from London I'd been wondering who might go to a Cher concert, and it turns out the answer is pretty much everybody. While the couple behind me are not regular gig-goers, the rest of the crowd is a Graham Norton audience on a grand scale: families (three generations' worth), groovy silver surfers, younger pairs smooching as they juggle plastic pints, whooping teens, gangs of glittery twentysomethings on Girls' Nights Out (lots of rhinestone cowboy hats), posses of giggling middle-aged women, a few elegant transvestites and some very young, very cute gay men wearing sailors hats in homage to the video for 'If I Could Turn Back Time'.
Then there's me, in my own special minority category of, probably, one (even the young female journalist next to me has brought her mum). Having taken my seat at 8pm as instructed (the ticket said 'Showtime: 8pm' and I believed it), I'm feeling a bit lonely, not to mention inappropriately dressed in shades of slurry and greige, a stiletto-and-rhinestone-free zone.
There's a support act, which eats up the half-hour from eight to 8.30. Pam-Ann is a comedian whose spoof airline routine is very slick: 'I fucked up on the way here: hit an Easyjet. Trying to get the number.' I thought that was quite funny but the couple behind me tut-tutted 'rubbish' as Pam and her dancing boys finally disembarked. I think they might have taken against the spoof air safety video, featuring planes crashing and exploding into great balls of fire: this was Tuesday night, after all, and Glasgow had just suffered a full-blown explosive disaster of its own. Mind you, one should never underestimate the Glaswegian sense of humour, particularly in the face of adversity. During the drive from the airport my cabbie hadn't missed a beat when he asked me why I was here: 'Cher, eh? We just had an explosion in a plastics factory, and now I'm wondering if she wasn't to blame.'
I'm flagging a bit by the time Cher deigns to arrive at 9.15, after an advert for the forthcoming remake of Stepford Wives. (As far as I could tell, she's not in it but perhaps multimedia cross-branding - if you like Cher you'll love this - is where stadium gigs are at now).
Slowly it dawns on me that the first song is (sharp intake of breath here) a cover of U2's 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'. I recall that, several years ago, U2 were reportedly underwhelmed by the Pet Shop Boys' fabulous cover of 'Where the Streets Have No Name' (or perhaps it was the inspired segue into 'Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You') and I wonder what they'd make of this. Cher bellows the lyrics like a dying bison (it must be the Native American in her) while wearing a fur cape and a spangly bikini; soon there is the inevitable guitar solo executed by a grizzled all-American guitar hero-type in black T-shirt and jeans, trout-pouting and groin-thrusting as per the user instructions in the handbook of bombastic rawk.
The song is still grinding on when Cher exits for the first of many costume changes. She re-emerges from a giant 'elephant' for 'the Bollywood Bit' (and the crowd goes bonkers). So exhaustingly camp it makes a Pet Shop Boys gig look like Fight Club, this is as empty, self-congratulatory and humourless a spectacle as you could ever wish to miss. But don't get me wrong: I think Cher 'The Phenomenon' is just great. I adore the wigs, the surgery, the toyboys, the lesbian daughter, the preposterous frocks, the Oscar, and, altogether, the sheer fabulous Cher-ness of Cher. I just can't stand the singing.
Luckily this is a farewell tour, and the video screens are so busy I soon forget to look at the stage (Cher doesn't really do dancing but is a consummate side-to-side stage-strider). The clippings-fest is a fast-forward of a 40-year career, all the way from "I Got You, Babe', through 'Bang Bang', 'Gypsys Tramps & Thieves', and on into a squillion TV specials (check those celebrity guests) and movies.
The movie clips remind me that she's made more good films - Come Back To The Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Silkwood, Mask, The Witches of Eastwick, Moonstruck, Suspect, Mermaids, Tea With Mussolini and, er, Stuck on You - than she has ever sung decent songs.
Meanwhile the show goes on and on, via more feathers and headdresses and wigs and lollopy 'dancing' and sequins and denim and leather and incredibly tiny thongy-things. The woman really is in fabulous shape, even if she can no longer express any emotions other than mild surprise and pleasure, or possibly pain.
By the time we head towards the Eighties renaissance sub-section of the musical CV ('If I Could Turn Back Time') and the Nineties comeback ('Believe'), even some of the die-hards are flagging. When the man in front of me glances at his watch and turns to his wife, muttering, 'When does it end?', I take it as my cue to leave.
I desperately need some beauty sleep (preferably some of Cher's, if she's got any spare) but even as I dash for the first cab waiting at the rank, I'm hoping Cher ends up inside her Californian gated celebrity retirement community, finding whatever it is she's still looking for. A nice rubber of bridge, perhaps?
· Cher plays Manchester on 17 May, Sheffield on 19 May and London Wembley on 21 and 22 May


text: Speech writing A guide to speech writing and great speech writers. Christchurch primary school 2006 Today you will be writing your own speech. To help you do this we are going to look at two things in this presentation. Firstly we are going to look at how to structure a good speech. Then we are going to look at two excellent speech writers from the twentieth century. We will look at how they made their speeches so effective. We will try to use what we learn when we write our own speeches. So how do I structure my speech? Firstly, introduce yourself – people need to know how is talking to them Then ask for their attention – you are trying to convince people of something. Be polite! Then state your position. What do you believe? Now make a point – then ELABORATE on it. Saying what you believe is not enough. You must say WHY you believe it and WHY other people should believe it. Make as many points as you can. The more points you make the more convincing you become. In a speech you should try to give COUNTER ARGUMENTS, we will look at this later in the presentation. How should I order my speech? You need to grab your audience. Do this by: Making your best argument first. This will get people's attention. Save your second best argument for last – people will remember this. Give the rest of your arguments in order; second best to least best. Now lets look at an example!! Meet Mr William Shakespeare He lived about 400 years ago He wrote many many plays In his plays there were many great speeches We'll now look briefly at one to see if it follows our structure This is the speech given by Mark Anthony after the death of Julius Caesar in the play Julius Caesar Brief outline of the plot The characters Brutus and Marc Antony were involved in the assassination of the leader of the Holy Roman Empire, Julius Caesar. Marc Antony is now doing the dirty on Brutus. Marc Antony and Brutus were friends and they had a plan together. Brutus has just given a speech essentially saying the Julius Caesar had to be killed for the good of Rome. Marc Antony is now going to try to turn the people against Brutus with his speech. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest-For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men-Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. ASKING PEOPLE TO LISTEN FIRST POINT _ VERY STRONG LOTS OF COUNTER ARGUMENT. HE IS VERY CLEVERLY AND POLITELY DISAGREEING WITH EVERYTHING BRUTUS SAID THE KEY TO THIS SPEECH IS REPETITION AGAIN AND AGAIN ANTONY SAYS "AND BRUTUS IS AN HONOURABLE MAN" WHAT EFFECT DOES THIS HAVE? What have we learnt? Repetition works well in speeches. (we will look at this more in a bit) A really good trick to convince people is to sound like you are on the other side of the debate. Have your speech convince yourself. It shows people how they could be convinced. Who shall we look at now? Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. argued for equal rights for all Americans. At the time in America black people were treated as second class citizens. On August 28th 1963 King gave the most famous speech of the 20th century. It changed many people's lives. King was a powerful public speaker who lived for his beliefs. He was assassinated on April 4th 1968 as he stood to give a speech. Lets look at a part of his speech I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. What makes it great? The repetition of a very powerful phrase: "I have a dream" Use repetition in your speeches Create a powerful phrase Repeat it again and again It makes a speech POWERFUL Who next? Harold McMillan was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He gave a speech in South Africa about giving African people the right to govern themselves The extract we will look at is taken from a speech made on 3rd February 1960. What effect does this have? The wind of change is blowing through this continent, and whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all accept it as a fact, and our national policies must take account of it. Using metaphors in speeches The wind of change is a metaphor It is used to put a picture in people's minds Metaphors are very effective in speeches Can you think of some metaphors? Now you are going to write a speech about the skate park Structure, introduce yourself Ask the audience to listen to you State your position Make your best point Elaborate on it Make the rest of your points, elaborating on each Save your second best point until last Summarise your position Give a conclusion Thank the audience for their attention And remember Use repetition Convince yourself in your speech Use metaphors Finally I will now give you a writing frame to help you remember all these points. Good luck! And get writing!


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We kept what we did a secret from our moms. I didn't know about Artemis, but I wanted to avoid the smug looks on their faces. I knew Evelyn would give us crap for days. They returned about an hour after and I got dressed quickly. Artemis gave me a quick kiss on the lips before I hurried into my room.
They called us downstairs ten minutes later and we walked down as if nothing had happened. I knew he was thinking about it by the way he kept nudging me with a wink. I shoved him and he laughed. When we saw the look on our mothers' faces, though, that changed.
"What's wrong?" I asked, sitting beside Artemis at the table.
"You guys weren't watching the news?"
We were a little busy.
"No. Why?"
Evelyn sighed. "The abortion story: as you know, we went tonight to try and dispel it. It's not working." I glanced at Artemis. He looked furious. "So we have to be careful about how we're going to go about planning the wedding."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"If they see you picking things out, they're going to immediately assumed you're getting married because you're pregnant."
"Why is that a problem?"
This was all new to me so I didn't see the big deal.
"Imagine the headlines, Deidre," she sighed. She held her hands up and spread them "Charity Case: Married Because Pregnant?"
"Right," I muttered.
"Have you heard from your lawyer yet?" my mom asked Artemis.
He nodded. "He called me earlier this morning. He said he'll take the case but we'll have to be careful. He's worried about what the press would say should they find out. They could do a hatchet job."
"Haven't they already?" I mumbled. "God, this is a mess."
"Why can't we just ignore it all and go on like normal?" my mom asked.
"Because it will give off the impression that we don't take things like this seriously," Evelyn answered. "As you know, this all started because we're a family business. When people read that Artemis had a girl get an abortion, it is slowly destroying the company. I've already had 30 clients demanding to know if the abortion story is true. I'm glad they trust me or we would have lost them by now."
I rubbed my eyes. "Damn it. What's Larry doing?"
"Coming up with more material to argue our point," my mom answered. "Anything to counter that woman's claim."
My head shot up. "I know what to do!" They stared at me. "Call doctors in the area and find out who it is that 'verified' the abortion."
"She's probably already paid him off," Artemis said.
"Normally I would frown on this," I said, "but we can pay for him, too."
Evelyn had a curious expression on her face. "You know what, Deidre? I think you're on to something there. I'll give Larry a call."
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"What are you doing?" he asked as he hung lights around the living room.
"You'll see," I answered. I came across a group called 'The Trans-Siberian Orchestra' with two Christmas CDs. "Can you show me how to work the CD player?"
"Sure," he said and jumped off the step ladder.
He opened the disk insert. He took the current CD out and I hid the one I was about to put in from him.
"Aw, tell me," he begged. "Please!"
"You'll find out in, like, two seconds."
He chuckled and we waited for the player to read the disc. It eventually did and the music started. He laughed and kissed me on the cheek.
Next came the Christmas tree. I was excited. I hadn't decorated a Christmas tree in 10 years. They had a lot of ornaments and Evelyn passed them out to each of us. When it came time to put up the star, Artemis lifted me by my hips so I could put it up. I squealed at the sudden height but enjoyed it all the same. We stepped back to admire our handiwork and Evelyn insisted on pictures.
Christmas eve came quickly and I was incredibly excited. Evelyn wanted to do something but she was also nervous. She was afraid people were going to bring in cameras so we invited just a few people.
Larry came with sparkling champagne and a meat tray. Two people I didn't recognize that worked with Evelyn and my mom arrived with more booze and cheese and crackers. Artemis had invited his friends and I was excited to see Nancy again. I wasn't able to since the media was attacking me everywhere I went.
"It's great to see you again!" I said, giving her a hug. "Merry Christmas Eve!"
Nancy hugged me back. We ventured into the living room where Artemis had plugged his iPod into the radio again and was playing a mixture of all kinds of Christmas music. Evelyn introduced me to her two friends from work. One was named Sarah and was very kind. She made sure I understood right away that she didn't believe a thing the media said.
"Artemis is a wonderful young man," she said, shaking her head. "Those people are so awful."
The other's name was Grant. He was really young and was interning in the marketing department, too. He looked incredibly nervous to be among such well known people. When I asked why, he let out a nervous titter.
"I'm only 20 years old," he breathed. "Mrs. Kilgore hired me almost on the spot after seeing me at a competition."
"He's a wonderful worker," Evelyn insisted, making him turn red.
"So, who are you going to beat up at this party, Deidre?" Vince asked, putting his arm on my shoulders and I laughed.
"You if you don't get your arm off of me," I joked and he chuckled, stepping back.
They still didn't know about what happened to me and I kept it that way. I was glad that Artemis had also kept it a secret.
For the first part of the party, the women gushed over my ring and the proposal story.
"It was my mother's," Evelyn said, smiling at it fondly. "She wanted me to give it to Artemis when the time was right."
Artemis pulled me away to hang out with our friends after that. I was getting uncomfortable so I thanked him for saving me. I may be a girl, but I wasn't all about clothes and jewelry and makeup. Nancy looked happier than the last time I had seen her. She was sitting on James' lap and joking around with Vince. Artemis and I sat beside them on the floor and I leaned into him.
"Are you excited about tomorrow?" Mike asked and I nodded enthusiastically.
"I haven't had a Christmas in 10 years," I said without thinking and clamped my mouth shut.
Only Artemis and Nancy knew out of the group. They stared at me, curious, and I sighed.
"Deidre and her mother, Janine, really were homeless before we met," Artemis said quietly, giving me a kiss on the cheek.
The look on their faces was horror. Mike groaned, Vince shut his eyes, and James covered his face in Nancy's shoulder.
"I had no idea it was true," Mike breathed. "I am so sorry Deidre. That explains so much."
I shifted uncomfortably. "Thanks but I'm happy now. I visited the kitchen we used to go to. They were in trouble so we donated some money."
"What was it like?" Vince asked. "You don't have to answer if you don't want to."
"It's okay." I accepted some eggnog from my mom. That's when I realized everyone had heard and they were gathered around. "Just... I don't want this getting out more than it already has."
"Our lips are sealed," Sarah promised.
I took a deep breath. "Well, we started being homeless when I was 13...."


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Alan Thompson writes: I worked with Kenny Ball on a number of occasions. One programme I co-produced was Kenny's Personal Choice from Bristol which was broadcast by Radio 2 in 1991. Kenny told me once, in an interview recorded at a 60s festival, that he owed much of his success to Lonnie Donegan at Pye Records and that although he and his band had recorded a version of Hello, Dolly! no one could match the version by Louis Armstrong. That was Kenny – appreciative and modest about his achievements.
Mervyn Leah writes: In 1964, Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen were booked to appear at Leeds University with Sonny Boy Williamson II (aka Rice Miller), one of the American musicians who inspired the British blues boom. Sonny Boy had never worked with Ball's band and there had clearly been no rehearsals either, nor even an agreed running order. Before he was due on stage, Sonny Boy held court with a group of admiring students, telling tales about his colourful life and giving inpromptu performances on his harmonica. Envoys from the band came and went, but got nothing out of him.
The band went on first and played a string of their standard material. Then Sonny Boy shuffled up to the front of the stage and launched into a flawless performance, exchanging a few words with Kenny at the start of each number. This was sheer professional musicianship at work – and nothing whatever to do with planning or rehearsal.


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Easter is the celebration of Jesus's resurrection from the dead, three days after he was crucified, the premise for the Christian belief in an everlasting life. In urging peace, Francis called on Jesus to "change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace."
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• The Harvard-Westlake school wants to build a 3-story, 750-car garage on protected land
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- Jul 9, 2002David Downing (a Lewis scholar) writes:
>Lewis's experiences of Joy came to be associated with three constellationsMore at http://users.etown.edu/d/DOWNINDC/scifi.htm
>of images which he labeled Northernness, the island garden, and Homeliness.
>The first of these, "Northernness," was a nameless longing associated with
>pale winter skies, heroic Norse sagas, and Wagnerian opera. In his
>autobiography, he vividly recalls the first time he read Longfellow's
>translations of Icelandic myth, reading the simple words, "Balder the
>beautiful is dead, is dead," and feeling overwhelmed by "unsatisfied desire
>which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction" (Joy 17-18).
>Throughout his life Lewis possessed an intense attraction to "Northernness,"
>which he describe as a stern and ecstatic vision of things "cold, spacious,
>severe, pale, and remote" (Joy 17)
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Yesterday... And Today
|Yesterday and Today
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Yesterday and Today (rendered as "Yesterday" ...and Today on the record label and in most published discographies) is the ninth Capitol album release by the Beatles and the eleventh overall American release. It was issued only in the United States, Canada and Japan (in the 1970s). The album is remembered primarily for the controversy surrounding its original cover image, the "butcher cover" featuring the band dressed in white smocks and covered with decapitated baby dolls and pieces of meat. The album's title is based on the song "Yesterday." Early album cover proofs show the word "Yesterday" in quotes.[4]
Yesterday and Today included tracks from the Beatles' two most recent British LPs which had not yet been included on American albums, plus three from their upcoming LP in the United Kingdom, plus two songs which were back-to-back on a single:
- from the UK LP Help!, the tracks "Act Naturally" and "Yesterday" (earlier issued by Capitol as a single)
- from the UK LP Rubber Soul, the tracks "Nowhere Man" and "What Goes On" (also earlier issued by Capitol as a single), plus "Drive My Car" and "If I Needed Someone."[5]
- both sides of the double A-side single "Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out"
- from the upcoming UK LP Revolver, the tracks "I'm Only Sleeping", "Doctor Robert", and "And Your Bird Can Sing," issued here in duophonic mixes (see below).[6]
The hodgepodge nature in which Capitol Records compiled their albums irritated the group, who felt they had "put a lot of work into the sequencing" of the British versions.[7]
Release and reception
Released in June 1966, the Yesterday and Today album's controversial cover marked the first time the Beatles' judgement was criticised by the media and distributors. After advance copies were sent to disc jockeys and record reviewers, negative reaction to the cover photo was so strong Capitol recalled 750,000 copies from distributors to replace the cover. The total cost to Capitol to replace the cover and promotional materials was $250,000, wiping out their initial profit.[8] Nevertheless, the album reached #1 on the US Billboard charts by 30 July 1966 and certified gold soon after. It stayed at number one for five weeks.[9]
The "Butcher cover"
In early 1966, photographer Robert Whitaker had the Beatles in the studio for a conceptual art piece entitled A Somnambulant Adventure. For the shoot, Whitaker took a series of pictures of the group dressed in butcher smocks and draped with pieces of meat and body parts from plastic baby dolls. The group played along as they were tired of the usual photo shoots—Lennon recalled the band having "boredom and resentment at having to do another photo session and another Beatles thing"[10]—and the concept was compatible with their own black humour.[7] Although not originally intended as an album cover, the Beatles submitted photographs from the session for their promotional materials. According to a 2002 interview published in Mojo magazine, former Capitol president Alan W. Livingston stated that it was Paul McCartney who pushed strongly for the photo's inclusion as the album cover, and that McCartney reportedly described it as "our comment on the [Vietnam] war".[11] A photograph of the band smiling amid the mock carnage was used as promotional advertisements for the British release of the Paperback Writer single. Also, a similar photograph from this shoot was used for the cover of the 11 June 1966 edition of the British music magazine Disc.[12]
In the United States, Capitol Records printed approximately 750,000 copies of Yesterday and Today with the same photograph as Paperback Writer.[12][13] They were assembled in Capitol's four US plants situated in different cities: Los Angeles, California; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Winchester, Virginia; and Jacksonville, Illinois. Numbers designating where the covers originated were printed near the RIAA symbol on the back; for example, stereo copies from the Los Angeles plant are designated "5" and mono Los Angeles copies are marked "6". Mono copies outnumbered stereo copies by about ten to one, making the stereo copies far more rare and valuable to collectors. A small fraction of the original covers were shipped to disc jockeys and reviewers as advance copies. Reaction was immediate, as Capitol received complaints from some dealers. The record was immediately recalled under orders from Capitol parent company EMI chairman Sir Joseph Lockwood[14] and all copies were ordered shipped back to the record label, leading to its rarity and popularity among collectors.
At the time, some of the Beatles defended the use of the Butcher photograph. John Lennon said that it was "as relevant as Vietnam" and McCartney said that their critics were "soft".[12] However, this opinion was not shared by all band members. George Harrison (who became a vegetarian) was quoted as saying that he thought the whole idea "was gross, and I also thought it was stupid. Sometimes we all did stupid things thinking it was cool and hip when it was naïve and dumb; and that was one of them."[7] Capitol Records apologised for the offence.
Capitol initially ordered plant managers to destroy the covers, and the Jacksonville plant delivered most of its copies to a landfill. However, faced with so many jackets already printed, Capitol decided instead to paste a much more conventional cover over the old ones. The new cover, featuring a picture of the band posed around an open steamer trunk, had to be trimmed on the open end by about 3 mm (1/8 inch) because the new sheet, known as a "slick", was not placed exactly "square" on top of the original cover. Tens of thousands of these so-called "Trunk" covers were sent out. As word of this manoeuvre became known to the public, owners of the altered cover attempted, usually unsuccessfully, to peel off the pasted-over cover, hoping to reveal the original image hidden beneath. Eventually, the soaring value and desirability of unpasted-over Butcher covers spurred the development of intricate and complex techniques for peeling the Trunk cover off in such a way that only faint horizontal glue lines remained on the original cover.
Copies that have never had the white cover pasted onto them, known as "first state" covers, are very rare and command the highest prices. Copies with the pasted-on cover intact above the butcher image are known as "second state" or "pasteovers". Today, pasteover covers that have remained unpeeled are also becoming increasingly rare and valuable. Covers that have had the Trunk cover removed to reveal the underlying butcher image are known as "third state" covers; these are now the most common (and least valuable, although their value varies depending on how well the cover is removed) as people continue to peel second state covers. The most valuable and highly prized first and second state Butcher Covers are those that were never opened and remain still sealed in their original shrink wrap. Since the first documented collector's sale of a mono Butcher cover LP in 1974, which fetched US$457.00, the value of first state mono versions has consistently appreciated, reaching $20,000 in 2006.[15]
In 1987, former president of Capitol Records Alan Livingston released for sale twenty-four "first state" butcher covers from his private collection. When the original cover was scrapped in June 1966, Livingston took a case of already-sealed "Butcher" albums from the warehouse before they were to be pasted over with the new covers, and kept them in a closet at his home. These albums were first offered for sale at a Beatles convention at the Marriott Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport on Thanksgiving weekend 1987 by Livingston's son. These still-sealed pristine items, which included nineteen mono and five stereo versions, are the very rarest "pedigree" specimen "Butcher Covers" in existence. These so-called "Livingston Butchers" today command premium prices among collectors, the five stereo versions being the most rare and valuable of these. In April 2006, Heritage Auction Galleries sold one of the sealed mono "Livingston Butchers" at auction in Dallas for about $39,000.[16]
An extremely rare original "first state" stereo copy that was not from the Livingston collection was presented for appraisal at a 2003 Chicago taping of the PBS series Antiques Roadshow. It was still in the possession of the original owner, who had bought it at Sears & Roebuck on the day of release in 1966, the only day that the original Butcher cover versions were on sale before being recalled by Capitol. Although not in its original shrink-wrap, it had rarely been played and was still in excellent condition, and Roadshow appraiser Gary Sohmers valued it at US$10,000 - $12,000.[11]
Capitol Records of Canada vice president and A&R head at the time Paul White kept a mono cover and a stereo cover slick for his collection.[14]
There were no music tape versions of the Yesterday ...and Today "Butcher Cover". 8-track tape and reel to reel tapes were issued approximately one month after the vinyl album was released in 1966 and cassette tapes were not issued by Capitol Records until 1968.
Track listing
All songs are credited to Lennon–McCartney, except where noted.
- Side one
- "Drive My Car" – 2:25
- "I'm Only Sleeping" – 2:58
- "Nowhere Man" – 2:40
- "Doctor Robert" – 2:14
- "Yesterday" – 2:04
- "Act Naturally" (Morrison–Russell) – 2:27
- Side two
- "And Your Bird Can Sing" – 2:02
- "If I Needed Someone" (George Harrison) – 2:19
- "We Can Work It Out" – 2:10
- "What Goes On" (Lennon–McCartney–Richard Starkey) – 2:44
- "Day Tripper" – 2:47
External links
- Robert Whitaker Photography, Official Website
- 2011 Auction of "Butcher Cover"
- The history of the butcher cover
- The butcher cover
- The Real Truth Behind The Beatles Butcher Cover, includes detailed discography on all The Beatles Capitol Records releases
|Preceded by
Strangers in the Night by Frank Sinatra
|Billboard 200 number-one album
30 July – 2 September 1966
| Succeeded by
Revolver by the Beatles