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John Mayer: Paradise Valley
20 Aug 2013 // 6:06 PM
Paradise Valley confirms that the country rock of 2012's Born & Raised was no one-off, and more importantly it demonstrates that this is the music John Mayer was meant to make all along. All these years later, the Mellow Mafia has a new capo.
Jazz Fest 2013: Notes from the Field and Photos
4 Jun 2013 // 7:00 PM
New Orleans' greatest festival turned into a music-filled swamp during the two weekends of Jazz Fest 2013. It was dirty, smelly and sonically delicious -- exactly the way Jazz Fest should be.
John Mayer & Twitter Quitters... What's It Mean for Fans?
15 Sep 2010 // 8:30 PM
Despite being boosted by Dave Chappelle (and doing a good guest shot at a Buddy Guy show I saw), you might not care much about
John Mayer - "Who Says" (video)
15 Oct 2009 // 3:00 AM
The fourth studio album, Battle Studies from the seven-time Grammy winner, John Mayer, is set to be released on November 17th. This album, which Mayer
John Mayer stops giving interviews and lets his music do the talking
26 Feb 2010 // 12:00 AM
John Mayer is one of the best rock-star interviews. He's thoughtful, articulate and deeply self-aware, as well as witty and self-deprecating. He doesn't duck tough
Win or lose, John Mayer says his work keeps him happy
8 Feb 2007 // 4:28 AM
John Mayer went out on a limb. No surprise there, because the Grammy-winning rock star not only speaks his mind but lacks a self-censor button.

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Data, dancing, development sciences and innovation
I blog fairly regularly about data-driven science, and the emerging 'fourth paradigm' of data-intensive research, in which – when the considerable technical challenges involved are better solved – significant computational power will be brought to bear to discover new knowledge from large, online, digital data sets. As part of a week-long Data-Intensive Research workshop (tweeted with the hashtag #datares) at the National E-Science Centre I gave a talk last Monday setting out our interests, needs and expectations, especially as they related to the voluminous genomics data becoming available. Through the wonders of the net, I was able both to follow other talks, and give my own, remotely.
The overlaps between Art and Science (and certainly of the creative processes that they involve) are often quite extensive, and we are keen to stimulate them where appropriate. Thus I enjoyed attending the EPSRC IMpact Exhibition at the Royal College of Art, where various scientific projects were given the conceptual treatment. The one that was probably of most potential interest to a BBSRC audience involved the rather clever (theoretical) use of bees to monitor the locations of particular plant genotypes by capturing their pollen for sequencing, and to report these locations via their waggle dances.
Bees and dance reconverged at our Innovator of the Year Award ceremony, where we saw a lovely excerpt of the very interesting piece (the Comedy of Change) that we co-sponsored from the Rambert Dance Company (aka Ballet Rambert) for Darwin Year. The winner of the Social Innovator of the Year prize was Dave Goulson from Stirling, who had developed an extensive network of some 7,000 partners in his bumble-bee research programme. The winner of the Most Promising Innovator of the Year was Michael McArthur of the John Innes Centre, while the winner of the Commercial Innovator of the Year prize, and overall Innovator of the Year, was Shankar Balasubramanian from Cambridge, who with his colleagues – in particular David Klenerman – invented and subsequently developed Solexa sequencing, an innovation now marketed by Illumina that has 50% of the considerable (world) genome sequencing market. The original project was dreamed up in the Panton Arms, sketched out on a single sheet of A4, and funded by BBSRC in Responsive Mode. Many congratulations to Shankar and his colleagues, and to all our 7 finalists!
As part of our strategic theme in Bioenergy and Industrial Biotechnology, I had a very useful meeting with David Clarke, Andrew Haslett and Akira Kirton of the Energy Technologies Institute. They are doing some wonderful work assessing the contribution that Bioenergy can make to the UK's needs, and early indications are that it is indeed considerable. Clearly every percentage increase in yields increases that percentage in parallel. Another important theme to emerge is that the more we can increase root biomass, the more we can capture and sequester carbon in soils – and the scales we are talking about might provide considerable mitigation in the face of global warming. Deep-rooting plants also have considerable benefits on soil structure and aeration, and this is clearly something we shall wish to develop as soon and as effectively as possible.
Such thinking (and the importance of the topic) is hardly confined to the UK, and we had an excellent meeting with the UK Collaborative for Development Sciences, a forum where we can cohere thinking on more global perspectives. One presentation concerned the impact of climate change on Bangladesh, a country that because of its low-lying landscapes, is at the sharp end of potential sea level rises accompanying climate change. The need to develop salt-tolerant crops (both food and non-food) is very clear.
The Foundation for Science and Technology has many interesting meetings, and last week I went to one (PDF) on the future of high-speed trains in the UK. Not my normal habitat (except as an almost daily user), but a fascinating illustration of how we can get infrastructure projects moving. Maybe some of these new trains will use bioenergy!
I have blogged before about the variation of activity/productivity between different scientists, and in generally it follows a Zipf (power law) distribution with a slope equivalent to approx 1/n2 (i.e. for every 100 scientists with an output of x there is one with an output of 10x). Naturally we have the data to analyse our own distributions of grants, and below are two plots showing the number of investigators who have held particular numbers of grants (i) during the decade 1/1/2000 to 31/12/2009
and (ii) that are live on or since 1/1/2010
Although these statistics could come with a large number of explanatory health warnings, on which I am not going to opine, it is interesting that the power law distribution does indeed hold very well over most of the range.
I was also pleased that this blog had been picked up by a young radiologist for her list of the top 50 blogs in biotechnology!
Related posts (based on tags and chronology):
Chemical spiders, agriculture and the next generation of bioscientists
23 November 2009
Strengthening a transatlantic bioscience partnership – part two (and a day in rural Lincolnshire!)
18 June 2015
Bioenergy, Open access, drug discovery and e-science
15 April 2013
Biotechnology for fuels and chemicals
08 May 2012
Unilever, Institutes, TSB and Foo
06 February 2012
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The author of iNavX for the iPhone also has GPSNavX (raster charts) and MacENC(raster & vector charts) for the Mac OSX platform. GPSNavX - Marine Navigation & Charting Application for OS X Works great with the free NOAA downloadble charts in the US.
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MacENC looks pretty neat, but I think I'll stick with my free Seaclear on a PC for the time being. MacENC has some nicer features and support is no doubt better but Seaclear offers about 90% of the capablity for 100% less money.
What does the iPhone app cost?
I think it was $49.95 for the app, the chart downloads are all free.
As soon as iPhone gets real GPS, and not the "interpolate between cel towers" crap it's got now, I might upgrade, and get the App too, as a backup.
Beej67 - iPhone 3g has true GPS. Time to upgrade!
I have a G3 and it isn't true gps from what i can see just the cell tower thing.
I'm pretty sure the new iphone 3g has true GPS. I have one and it works quite well. It may use cell towers to get a general location so the GPS doesn't have to "work so hard", use extra battery power, etc. But it does have GPS. Here's a blog article that describes how it works. Link
BTW, I just bought the iNavX software last night ($49.95) and it looks great. I'll try it out on the water on Friday. I'll let you know how it goes.
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Follow it closely and use the instructions for VOL headlights. These are the type you have in your car. Also, you should treat your car as having a TWO headlamp system. I know there are 4 lights, but both sets are aimed at the same time by one set of controls. Good luck!
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Walker named recycling coordinator, spearheads recycling effort at Move In
September 12, 2011 — by Kara Furlong Lindsay Walker was named campus recycling coordinator July 1, in time to spearhead recycling efforts at first-year student Move In in August. At this year's Move In, Vanderbilt recycled 34 percent more cardboard than last year – almost 18 tons in one day. This effort was accomplished in collaboration with Students Promoting...... KEEP READING »
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A sustainable Vanderbilt
September 5, 2011 — by Lucas Loffredo [Article originally featured on InsideVandy] Sustainability is, as defined by Vanderbilt University's Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO), "the development of a process or management system that helps to create a vibrant campus economy and high quality of life while respecting the need to sustain natural resources and protect the environment." Opinions...... KEEP READING »
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Year-long Green Bag luncheon series to address current sustainability topics
September 1, 2011 — Starting in September, the Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) and the American Studies Sustainability Project are sponsoring a Green Bag luncheon series that focuses on the environment and sustainability, both at work and at home. This educational series features informal lunchtime discussions and workshops – from sustainable food and dining choices to backyard composting...... KEEP READING »
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Sustainability speaker series kicks off Sept. 22 with Bill McKibben
August 30, 2011 — By Jim Patterson Environmentalist Bill McKibben will kick off a year of nationally recognized sustainability experts who will speak at Vanderbilt University as part of the American Studies Sustainability Project. McKibben, author of one of the first books on climate change for a general audience (The End of Nature, 1989), and founder of the activist...... KEEP READING »
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Chancellor: University getting greener, needs to be less dependent on federal dollars
August 26, 2011 — by Jim Patterson Vanderbilt must continue to develop new revenue streams to ensure its financial health in the face of federal budget deficits that are likely to impact government grants and awards, said Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos at Fall Faculty Assembly. "We must, to the greatest extent possible, control our own destiny," Zeppos said Aug....... KEEP READING »
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Vanderbilt students return to campus Aug. 20, move-in will be green
August 19, 2011 — By Princine Lewis, Vanderbilt News & Communications Vanderbilt University will begin welcoming first-year students to campus first thing Saturday morning, Aug. 20, when move-in begins at 7 a.m. at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, Vanderbilt's first-year student community. The students will live in residence halls known as "houses" – each of which is headed by...... KEEP READING »
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Sustainability theme to mark Vanderbilt 2011-12 academic year
August 12, 2011 — By Jim Patterson Issues of sustainability will be incorporated into many phases of the coming academic year at Vanderbilt University, including curriculum, a speaker series, documentary film series and field trips. "The Sustainability Project represents a compelling application of the full diversity of Vanderbilt's academic expertise to one of the most complex and urgent human...... KEEP READING »
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August 10, 2011 — By Vanderbilt News & Communications The Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) is holding a third round of community conversations Aug. 24-25 to gain feedback from the public regarding ideas for improving the city's transit investments along the Broadway/West End Corridor. The community conversations are scheduled to take place at the East Park Community Center on...... KEEP READING »
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August 1, 2011 — [Originally published by Vanderbilt News Service in the Vanderbilt View] By Kara Furlong The Sustainability Project sparks a campus dialogue about our relationship with the environment and commitment to its future Bangladesh, in South Asia, is a flat, low-lying land situated between the melting snowcaps of the Himalayas and the rising waters of the...... KEEP READING »
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July 12, 2011 — The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for Middle Tennessee that will remain in effect this week. Increasing temperatures approaching 100 degrees combined with high levels of humidity are predicted to cause heat index readings to reach 105-120 degrees, conditions that may pose a direct threat to those who work or spend extended...... KEEP READING »
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Recycling available at July 2 U2 Concert
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Green Building Council lauds One Hundred Oaks project
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Two Nashville juniors place third in national sustainability challenge
May 26, 2011 — By Missy Pankake, Vanderbilt News Service Two members of the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt, Catherine Caffey and Emily Alsentzer, finished third out of 24 finalists in the Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge, a national sustainability challenge. They will each receive a $5,000 scholarship and the School for Science and Math...... KEEP READING »
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Alexander leads nation with 6 sub 4 miles
At year's end, Colby Alexander lead all U.S. milers with six sub 4 efforts. His NJNY teammate, Johnny Gregorek was right behind with 5.
Additionally, he ran six 1500 meter races between 3:34 and 3:38 which translate to between 3:52 and 3:56 for the mile.
Twelve races of that caliber in one season is quite remarkable.
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Alexander earns top five ranking in 1500, Murphy 8th.
Track and Field News came out with their annual year-end rankings and Ohio was well represented at 1500 meters.
Colby Alexander earned a top 5 ranking (5th) and Clayton Murphy came in at 8th.
Colby's 5th place ranking was the highest by an Ohioan since Rob Myers ranked 5th back in 2007.
Colby's 3:34.88 ranked as the 3rd fastest 1500 by an American.
That time ranked 29th in the World and 10th among non-Africans.
He won the high profile Tracktown Summer Series 1500, ran more sub 4 minute miles than any other U.S. miler, was an Olympic Trials 1500 finalist and almost upset Olympic gold medalist Matthew Centrowitz at the NYRRC 5th Ave Mile, running 3:50.3.
As with Clayton's World ranking in the 800 (see separate thread), I thought Colby should have been ranked higher than 5th. Not much higher...but 4th...ahead of Manzano. Leo literally only had one good race all year (a 4th at the Trials) and otherwise had the worst year of his career. A ranking should be based on your body of work. Leo had no other races indoors or out to support a ranking that high. Barely top 10, IMO.
Clayton earned an 8th ranking based on his NCAA win and his 3:36.23, just 3 hundredths off the Olympic A standard. He was the 10th fastest American with his 3:36.23.
Way to rep Ohio!!
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**Letsrun.com is a popular running website catering to distance events. It has a mixed bag reputation. The negative rap it sometimes gets is because of the negative vibes the boards many times take on. BUT their up to date news and their reporting are reasons to visit.
**Their editors ranked each event for 2016 and came up with slightly different takes in many events than did our Bible, Track and Field News. Their criteria and protocol for ranking makes more sense to me than the criteria Track and Field News employs.
**For example, Letsrun counts indoor track. T&FN does not. If there is a World Championship, a U.S. Championship and a very competitive NCAA season, why wouldn't you count it? All of our Olympians ran indoors. It's not like HS where a good percentage of athletes don't participate.
**Also Letsrun will not give a high ranking to an athlete based on one good race. Unless it is an "off the charts" crazy fast time (like Jager's 3:32 1500 two years ago).They base your ranking on your entire year's body of work. T&FN will rank you very high based on one race, if it's the right one. Olympic Trials, for instance.
**LR had Colby 4th US and T&FN had him #5. That's usually a "splitting hairs" thing that really isn't too debatable until you see that the difference was T&FN put Manzano 4th (ahead of Colby) while LR only had Manzano an Honorable Mention. Letsrun got it right. Manzano's 4th at the Trials was his only good race of the year.
**Manzano didn't put up any other good races all year before or after the Olympic Trials. Didn't run indoors. Didn't run a top 10 time. Didn't win any races (not even close). In fact in head to head races with the top ranked runners, Leo never won. It was, in fact, the worst season of his career. LR got it right ranking Colby 4th.
Just my 2 cents.
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Colby Alexander and Clayton Murphy opened up their 2017 indoor seasons this last weekend.
Colby ran at the Armory in NYC in the Columbia East-West Challenge. He doubled, running the leadoff 1200 leg of the DMR for the Hoka NJNY Track Club and then coming back to run the 3000.
With Oregon, Penn, UCLA, UConn and Columbia in the DMR field, the goal was for the NJNY team to help set a fast pace to help set up some NCAA qualifying times for the collegiate entries.
Colby led off with the 1200 leg, running straight 29's for 6 laps, handing off in 2:54, giving NJNY a sizeable lead. It was a great first effort for the season as that is 3:52 mile pace.
In terms of helping the collegiate teams along, mission accomplished, as Oregon ran a collegiate leading 9:30. Edward Cheserek anchored with a 3:54 1600!
Alexander then capped off his first meet with some over distance work racing to an 8:10 in the 3000.
Clayton Murphy debuted as well, running in Boston at the New Balance Games.
He moved up in distance, running the 3000 vs a stellar field. He finished back in the field but ran a PR 8:16.
Both Colby and Clayton will be running the Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games in two weeks. This is the most prestigious indoor mile race in the world. It's a feather in our cap as Ohio track fans to have two former Ohio 1600 State Champs in such a world class event.
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Clayton Murphy, Colby Alexander and Cory Leslie competed in the Wanamaker Mile Saturday night at the 110th annual Millrose Games at the Armory in NYC. The Wanamaker Mile is the most prestigious indoor mile in the world
Ater a start that saw all three Ohio schoolboy alums get off the line slowly, they eventually began moving up thru the field. Murphy used his lethal kick on the final lap to nail down second in 3:54.31.. Alexander moved up over the final 2 laps to secure 5th in the 12 man field in 3:55.99 and Cory Leslie placed 9th in 3:57.86.
My observation was that Murphy's slow start cost him the win. Or at least a good shot at it. Eric Jenkins won in 3:53.23 but had already gapped Murphy with a lap to go. He simply had too much to make up on the world-class Jenkins. Likewise, I thought Alexander's slow start cost him a top 3 finish. He has beaten all 4 runners that finished ahead of him but not going out and running with them from the start may have hurt him Saturday.
The good news is that both Clayton and Colby recorded indoor mile PR's. Those times should easily be fast enough to qualify them for the USA indoor championships in March.
Top 5 at Millrose Wanamaker Mile
Eric Jenkins Nike Oregon Project 3:53.23
Clayton Murphy Nike 3:54.31
Kyle Merber NJNY TC Hoka. 3:54.67
Charles Philibert-Thiboutot asics Canada 3:55.33
Colby Alexander. NJNY TC. Hoka. 3:55.99
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Regarding my last post on Millrose, Clayton Murphy just moved up on the Ohio All-Time Milers List. Check out the revised All-Time Mile List as well as the All-Time 1500 list below:
Here is the updated list of top milers in Ohio history.
1) Tom Byers 3:50.84 run in 1982
2) Dave Wottle 3:53.3 (HT) run in 1973
3) Corey Leslie 3:53.44 run in 2014
4) Rob Myers 3:53.78 run in 2004
5)Clayton Murphy 3:54.31 run in 2017
6) Colby Alexander 3:54.94 run in 2016
7) Jeff See 3:55.24 run in 2012
8) Steve Foster 3:55.1 (HT) run in 1977
9) Kevin Ryan 3:55.9 (HT) run in 1983
10) Bob Kennedy 3:56.21 1994
NOTE: Dave Wottle's 3:53.3 was run in a race in Eugene, Oregon at Hayward Field. Pre invited Wottle to come and race him in a mile. Wottle outkicked Pre for the win in the second fastest time ever run by an American. Only Jim Ryun's World Record 3:51.1 was faster at the time. This race is featured in the "Fire On The Track" documentary on Pre.
NOTE: Colby Alexander ran a 3:50.30 mile at the NYRRC 5th Avenue Mile in 2016. That is the fastest mile ever recorded by an Ohioan indoors, outdoors or on a certified road mile
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And once again, relating to my last 2 posts, here is the All-Time 1500 list.
Colby Alexander 3:34.88 run in 2016
Rob Myers 3:34.89 run in 2005
Corey Leslie 3:34.93 run in 2013
Jeff See 3:35.21 run in 2012
Tom Byers 3:35.75 run in 1982
Dave Wottle 3:36.2 HT run in 1973
Clayton Murphy 3:36.23 run in 2016
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Looking at the last 3 posts by state the obvious, I find it remarkable that Bob Kennedy is just 10th on our All-Time mile list. Bob is one of our country's greatest ever. I realize Bob was more of a 5K guy but we know world class 5000 guys are required to possess world class mile speed. And he did show he had mile chops, as evidenced by his 3:56 PR. And that just shows you how high quality our state All-Time List is
It demonstrates the incredible level of talent that comes out of Ohio in the mile.
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My observation was that Murphy's slow start cost him the win. Or at least a good shot at it. Eric Jenkins won in 3:53.23 but had already gapped Murphy with a lap to go. He simply had too much to make up on the world-class Jenkins. Likewise, I thought Alexander's slow start cost him a top 3 finish. He has beaten all 4 runners that finished ahead of him but not going out and running with them from the start may have hurt him Saturday.
I don't think it was Murphy's slow start as much as it was that he didn't continually move up to the right position by the time they hit the 1200 mark. You can tell he wanted to sit back a bit in the beginning, which was fine, but he needed to move a bit sooner in order to be close enough to contend with 200 to go. You can even see that at one point he goes to move up after realizing Jenkins had made his move and ends up in lane three, not being used to the brevity of the straights. Tactically he just isn't experienced in a fast mile on a 200m banked, but I bet next time he'll be more than ready. He learns quick it seems.
Great showing by all three Ohio guys.
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OHIO MILERS 1-2 in USATF INDOOR NATS
Clayton Murphy and Brannon Kidder took 1-2 at the USA Indoor National Championships today at 1000 meters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Another Ohioan, Drew Windle (New Albany HS, 2011 D1 State Champ 800 Meters) placed 5th.
Murphy (2:18.60) and Kidder (2:19.10) were both under the USATF Chmps meet record. Murphy's winning time was the fastest in the world this year.
Colby Alexander was entered in the 1000 but was a last minute scratch from the meet. Had he run, Ohio could very well have had an excellent shot at a 1-2-3 finish!!
Congratulations to Clayton, Brannon and Drew!
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David was the son of a stockbroker, but he married Lady Pamela Mountbatten, the daughter of Earl Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, and his wife Edwina Ashley, who became one of Britain's richest women when she inherited millions from her grandfather in 1921. Lady Pamela was a cousin of Queen Elizabeth, and Ashley used to spend family Christmas at Castle Sligo, where the Royal Family were also frequent guests. Tragedy struck at Sligo in 1979 when Ashley was 16. His grandfather and his cousin Nicholas Knatchbull were in a boat that was blown up by the IRA and both were killed.
It was an unusual childhood, by turns grand and sad, with David's eye for per-fection a constant theme. It is no surprise, then, that Ashley has his own little tics that must have been difficult to live with, such as arranging the books in the house chromatically, rather than by subject or author, and removing any jackets that he found unattractive, which Allegra once admitted 'drives me mad. I can't find anything.' Now, she is free to arrange things as she likes (although ironically, she says she has taken to arranging books by colour herself, which her ex finds amusing).
Relations between the Hickses are civilised: halfway through our chat there is a volley of excited barks as Coco, the wire-haired dachshund, arrives from Ashley's country home. They share custody, she explains: she's with him in the country, and with Allegra in town. So they're on good terms? 'How can you not be on good terms with someone when you have fabulous children with them?' (The couple's daughters, Angelica, 18, and Ambrosia, 13, are both at boarding school.) 'Sometimes life is complicated but there are things that are above complication.'
Allegra, 49, looks like a Renaissance portrait. Effortlessly elegant in a slinky black and blue dress of her own design, teamed with opaque shiny silver tights and vertiginous black heels, her attire neatly illustrates her ability to pair up unlikely colours and patterns to form a harmonious whole. It's a talent amply demonstrated in her new book, An Eye for Design. Arranged thematically by season, it juxtaposes her fabrics with their inspirations: from lily-covered pools to fossilised trees and even
a broken road surface that echoes the
beading on a silk dress. 'What I wanted to say had to do with the creative process, not seen through the intellectual side, but through the six senses that are instinctive to our make-up as a human being,' she says. Actually, her own flair for design is something that few of the rest of us can hope to emulate, since she seems to have the rare gift of synaesthesia – as a child, when her parents played classical music, she 'saw' it in terms of changing colours. She also recalls being mesmerised, age five, by a Picasso line drawing of a dove.
That innate sense of colour and shape was fostered by her design-conscious parents. Allegra was born in Turin, the elder daughter of Carlo and Rosy Tondato. Her father, a physicist and musician, helped design the family home, a Modernist fantasy in glass (interestingly the Hickses insisted on nothing new in their home, while the Tondatos preferred nothing old). Her mother is, she says, 'The most stylish person I know. Compared to her, my sister and I are real slobs. She is 78 and looks 60. She's never been in the sun, which is unheard of for an Italian woman, so her skin is very beautiful.'
An early adopter, Rosy Tondato took up Pilates before anybody else had heard of it. 'She was macrobiotic when I was 13,' Allegra recalls, 'so no friends would come for lunch because they were horrified. And we had a glass table – the first one in Turin – so everyone knew you had to sit incredibly well and not drop any food. We had a rather eccentric way of living.' Although she admits her mother could be terrifying, she has learned to be grateful for the discipline she instilled. 'She taught me very strongly,' she says, 'the sense of strength of the soul. I was so horrified when I was growing up but I'm very grateful now. In moments of great difficulty, discipline is what keeps you going. You always have a choice in life: to learn or to succumb. You're bad at maths, what are you going to do? Or maybe you're bullied by someone. You either get manipulated or learn through it, which is maybe more my nature.'
Although Allegra has the unruffled air of a swan sailing serenely at the top of London society, she has recently been paddling like crazy to keep her head above water. She always had an artistic eye, studying life drawing at Parsons in New York, followed by fresco technique in Belgium and history of art at Sotheby's, but it was not until she had had her first child that she found the creative focus to launch a collection of textile designs in 1995. Once she had added boho-chic fashion to her portfolio, she was crowned 'Queen of the kaftan' by Vogue and amassed a coterie of devoted fans, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Jerry Hall. But all that couldn't prevent her business running into trouble two years ago, just after she opened her first store in New York.
'It was a very unfortunate moment for the whole world,' she shrugs. 'There were huge financial problems and we were one of the many casualties.' Her bank refused to extend her overdraft and the company went under. At the same time, the strains in her marriage reached crisis point. 'Don't they say that troubles come in twos, or threes? It was really very tough,' she muses. 'I was very contained. I had to recoup all my strength. But I had the right help and the right friends and a great family.' Her sister Frederica, now a New York-based architect, regularly flew over to visit her. 'She was supportive in a very lightweight way,' she says. 'And I had a couple of girlfriends for those days when you want to be alone but you can't be lonely. Everyone has days like those, when your fragility comes to the surface. It's interesting when you can deal with
them and your fragilities become strengths.'
Certainly, Allegra's business appears to be on a much firmer footing nowadays. A private investor, whom she doesn't name, helped to rescue the company, which she has now bought back. A new shop on Elizabeth Street in Belgravia opened late last year. 'If you have a passion, you don't lose it, no matter how bad things get. It is a great fortune,' she says. 'But I am keeping the business very small and manageable now. I'm not stretched in too many different directions, and I can control it better.'
This new pared-down approach extends to the designs themselves. 'My work is quite clean; it's straight, it's not hazy. I have more fun doing my designs. When I needed to regroup, I took it back to the bare essentials, to what I am about.' She takes me up to the library to show me what she means: scattered on the wraparound sofa are cushions in new fabrics, mostly shades of mauve, lilac and purple, with contrasting patterns.
A more significant change is the disappearance of
the declaration of Ashley's adoration, now hidden under beige paint. 'We had a leak,' explains
Allegra, 'and I would have had to repaint it all, and I thought that would be slightly excruciating, so I decided to change it. But I think life is fluid. You cherish, enjoy and love things and then it takes you in a new direction which you have to embrace. That is what life is about.' Indeed: she is now in a new relationship with an Italian who works in the food business, and admits that she is feeling happy and 'true to myself'. And she certainly looks it: she has
that Ready Brek glow of the emotionally fulfilled, if one could imagine her consuming anything so unstylish.
So how does someone so innately elegant celebrate the OTT festival that is Christmas? 'Christmas is for the children,' she says, 'so I do what they want.' Fortunately, they seem to be as tasteful as she is: the decorations she and Ambrosia have come up with for their dining room consist of baubles glued together and artfully placed on the mantelpiece, and a centrepiece of pretty silver stars. There will be no Christmas tree. 'The cemetery of trees in January is horrible,' says
Allegra, who will be having an Italian-
style Christmas on the 23rd with her daughters, sister and parents in London, then heading off to the country to celebrate again in the traditional manner with Ashley in Oxfordshire.
As a couple, the Hickses were always heading up 'most-invited' lists, and this is clearly still a very social house, with guests coming and going constantly. 'I have a very Latin approach to socialising,' says Allegra, whose preferred method of invitation is to phone her friends on the day and see if they're free. 'I hate formalities.'
Apart from getting in lots of pomegranate juice (as a non-drinker it's her favourite tipple, but she says it goes well with vodka, too), her top tip for successful entertaining is to keep it simple. 'I cook Italian – baked fish, rice, chocolate cake, lots of vegetables. It's never very complicated. I don't think people come for the food,' she says. 'What interests me very much is to introduce people to each other. I like the people who come to my house to be amused to meet each other. I always assume that they will have something in common. And I have a very good iPod. Music is very important for having fun.' Although Allegra's life is moving to a different rhythm these days, there's no doubt that she's enjoying herself as much as ever.
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The Rush are only down by 4 at the half. But that's because they let Iowa score early, along with miscues and poor clock management the Rush find themselves behind instead of ahead. Russ Michna has thrown 2 touchdown passes to Reggie Gray and Terrance Turner. The other touchdown came from a 1 yard run by backup Quarterback Luke Drone. And just before halftime Mike Salerno kicked a 20 yard field goal. But Iowa Quarterback J.J. Raternik has thrown 3 touchdown passes to 3 different receivers. Raternik also has a rushing touchdown to his credit as well.
The Rush need to stop making mistakes and get it together on defense if they are going to take over in the 2nd half. You can continue to follow me on Twitter: @GabeSalgado82 Hashtag: #Q101Sports Here are the halftime stats: http://livestats.prestosports.com/chicagorush/fball/?e=a1brgp62sbq5rupb


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Trojans Head Up Interstate for Pair of MPSF Games
March 6, 2013
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LOS ANGELES - The USC women's lacrosse team (3-3, 1-0 MPSF) remains on the road, this week, to face a pair of MPSF games in Northern California. The Women of Troy take on UC Davis (1-2, 0-1) on Wednesday night in Davis, Calif., before a bout against No. 18 Stanford (2-2, 0-0) in Stanford, Calif., on Friday.
Last weekend, the Trojans showed their mettle in the program's first-ever road games. USC earned an East Coast road-trip split with a 23-8 win over LIU Brooklyn and a tough 18-13 loss at Princeton. Freshman attack Caroline de Lyra was unconscionable as she scored eight goals against the Tigers en route to her second-career nine-point game.
USC has displayed a balanced attack all season with several players who have showcased their ability to go to goal and score when necessary. de Lyra leads the team with 21 goals and 15 assists, but freshman attack Caroline Cordrey is just a shade behind with 14 goals, this year. Freshman midfield Amanda Johansen also had 14 goals, and leads the team with 40 draw controls.
Freshman midfield Paige Bonomi scored five goals in USC's win over the Blackbirds and has 15 goals to date. On the other end of the field, freshman defense Courtney Tarleton has 18 ground balls and 11 caused turnovers to lead the Trojans. Fellow frosh Kelsey Dreyer has 11 ground balls. In goal, freshman Liz Shaeffer is one of the league's top netminders with a 12.69 goals-against average and 52 saves.
WEEKEND RECAP: The Trojans earned a split on their first-ever road-trip weekend as they knocked off LIU Brooklyn, 23-8, before dropping a tight 18-13 decision to Princeton. Freshman midfield Paige Bonomi scored five goals to lead USC against the Blackbirds, while fellow freshmen Caroline de Lyra, Caroline Cordrey, and Amanda Johansen each recorded four goals apiece. De Lyra lit the lamp eight times against the Tigers and had an assist to log her second nine-point game of the season. The Trojans trailed Princeton, 10-9, at the opening of the second half and fought hard to the finish, but had their three-game winning streak snapped.
ROCKIN' ROOKIES: A pair of USC freshmen brought home Rookie of the Week honors, for the week of Feb. 25. Freshman attack Caroline de Lyra was named the WomensLax.com Rookie of the Week on the heels of an incredible nine-point performance against Saint Mary's College as she led the Trojans to their first-ever MPSF win. De Lyra recorded three goals and posted an astonishing six assists to help USC to a 17-8 win. Freshman midfield Amanda Johansen was just as instrumental as de Lyra in USC's win over the Gaels and was named the MPSF Rookie of the Week for her efforts. Johansen had three goals and an assist for four points and picked up a pair of ground balls. Most notably, Johansen was unstoppable in the center circle as she claimed nine draw controls. Both awards are the first-ever in USC program history.
STARS AND STRIPES: Head coach Lindsey Munday and assistant coach Devon Wills are each current members of the U.S. women's national team that is set to compete in Oshawa, Ontario, for the 2013 FIL World Cup. Both players were members of the 2009 squad that won the World Cup. This time, Munday will also assume duties as the team captain when Team USA defends its world title.
STRONG START: The Trojans opened the program's first season against a tall order as they faced a pair of perennially ranked teams including top-ranked two-time defending NCAA champion Northwestern. NU went 21-2 in 2012 as it captured its seventh national crown in eight years. USC had just one night's rest before it hosted a 14th-ranked Massachusetts squad that was 19-2 overall in 2012. The Trojans fell, 18-5, against the Wildcats, and fought hard but were turned away, 18-9, by the Minutewomen.
KEEP TRACK OF THE TROJANS: Fans of USC women's lacrosse can follow the Trojans on Twitter. For a behind-the-scenes look at the program, scores, and news updates, follow @USCTrojansLax. All of USC's home games at McAlister Field will be webcast on USCTrojans.com via the Pac-12 Networks web portal.
CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS: USC's game against Oregon on Thursday, April 4, will be broadcast live on the Pac-12 Networks. The Trojans and the Ducks are set to draw at center circle of Pape Field at 4:30 p.m. PT.
EAST MEETS WEST: USC's first-ever varsity lacrosse squad features 15 players that hail from the East Coast. Seven come from New York, six call New Jersey home, and two are from Connecticut and Virginia. The Trojans have six players from California, a pair from Washington, and one, each, from Oregon and Colorado. The only player from a Midwest state is Caitlin Campion who hails from Western Springs in Illinois.
WORK IT OUT: Freshman attack Katie Austin is the daughter of legendary fitness guru Denise Austin. The elder Austin is a well-known fitness instructor, author, columnist, and a former member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Katie's aunt is former U.S. Open tennis champion Tracy Austin.
DOUBLE AGENT: Junior midfield Elizabeth Eddy is also a three-time letterwinner on USC's women's soccer team. Eddy was second on the team in scoring as a freshman with five goals. She once scored three in a single game against Cal on Oct. 10, 2010. The soccer forward led the Trojans with four goals in 2011 and was an All-Pac-12 honorable mention. Eddy's father Park Eddy played water polo for USC and was a member of the U.S. national team. She is also the great granddaughter of Arnold Eddy who was a head administrator in the USC athletic department in the 1930's and 40's.
UNDER INVESTIGATION: Freshman goalie Liz Shaeffer has her eyes set on one day becoming an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She is currently majoring in sociology and is also an avid fan of television crime dramas.
TONGUE TWISTER PARTY: Junior midfield Ceilidh Meagher's name might strike fear (or confusion) into most people's hearts when it comes to pronouncing it. It's really not as difficult as it looks, though. Ceilidh is Gaelic for "party" and is pronounced "kay-lee". Her last name is one syllable, pronounced "marr".
LEGGY MY EGGY: Freshman midfield Alexandra Plastaras acquired a unique nickname when she was a baby. Born to a father with Greek roots, and a Korean mother, she was affectionately called Eggy by her mother. Eggy (sometimes spelled "eggi") means "baby" in Korean.
SISTER SLEDGE: Freshman attack Caroline de Lyra got the rare opportunity to face her older sister Alexa in her first-ever collegiate lacrosse game. The elder de Lyra is a senior midfielder for Northwestern. Both sisters wear No. 25 on their backs and each guarded the other during the contest on Feb. 9. Caroline got on the board with an assist and a goal against the Wildcats.
SEVENTH HEAVEN: In a preseason poll of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation's (MPSF) head coaches, the Women of Troy were selected to finish in seventh place in their inaugural season. USC received 24 points in the poll to finish ahead of Fresno State and Saint Mary's College. For the fourth straight season, the coaches selected Stanford to win the league title.
TOURNAMENT TIME: The Trojans will compete in the West Coast's premiere league for collegiate women's lacrosse, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. The conference's top four regular-season finishers will converge upon Eugene, Ore., where Pape Field plays host to the 2013 MPSF Tournament hosted by the University of Oregon, May 3-5. Last year, the Ducks finished with a 7-0 mark and upended seven-time defending conference champ Stanford in the title match to earn the league's automatic berth into the NCAA championships.
FIELD OF DREAMS: To accommodate the national growth of the sport, the NCAA expanded the lacrosse tournament field from what was previously 16 teams to 26 teams in time for the 2013 championship. Now, all 13 conference champions will receive automatic bids while 13 more teams will earn at-large selections. The top eight teams will be seeded in the bracket and will host first- and second-round games. The top six seeded teams receive byes into the second round and serve as hosts for a neutral-site first-round game. The first-round winners then play at the top six seeded teams. Teams seeded seventh and eighth will also host, but will have to play a first-round game. The national quarterfinals are set for on-campus sites May 18 or 19, with the four winners advancing to the finals May 24-26.
LAXIN' FOR CHANGE: Assistant coach Hilary Bowen is the Women's Program Representative for an organization called Fields of Growth International that aims to harness the passion of the lacrosse community into positive social impact through global leadership development, service, and by growing the game. In the summer of 2012, Bowen joined the organization in Uganda for a special summer mission. Visit her blog Laxin4Change.blogspot.com to learn more about her, and the organization's mission.
VALID ID: The USC women's lacrosse team helps the Trojans turn 21. The Women of Troy become the famed athletic program's 21st sport. It is the 12th women's sport among the Trojans' 21. USC women's teams have won 23 national titles (14 NCAA) and lay claim to 64 individual national crowns.
BEACH BUMS: The USC coaching staff has truly soaked up all that is Southern California life. Strap on your rollerblades or hop on your bike and you might just run into them on The Strand (a bike path that runs along LA's trio of South Bay beach cities). Head coach Lindsey Munday lives in Manhattan Beach, assistant coach Devon Wills is just down the street in Hermosa Beach, while assistant coach Hilary Bowen and director of operations Regan Bosch are just a stone's throw away in Redondo Beach.


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PotBS - Interview @ The Game Musketeers
The Game Musketeers talk with Russell Williams about Flying Lab Software's upcoming MMORPG, Pirates of the Burning Sea.
Now that your game is in its extended beta, what has been the most rewarding part of bringing PotBS to life?
The most rewarding part is feedback. When you've worked on a game for years, it's fun to see real people playing it and telling you what they like and don't like.
How will the development of economic resources and the increased population of players affect the game world of PotBS?
The economy plays directly into the Realm vs. realm, and is the crux of our PvP areas, so tuning of it is critical. We're continually increasing the number of beta players so that we have the right critical mass to the tune the economy properly.
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Even the Queen is having trouble managing her budget in austerity Britain. Last month it was revealed that Queen Elizabeth II's rainy day fund was down to its last million.
A report by the Public Accounts Committee revealed the Queen's advisers were failing to control her finances while the royal palaces were "crumbling". Both Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle are reported to be in urgent need of repair with staff routinely catching rain in buckets to protect art and antiques.
As recently as 2001 the Queen's "reserve fund" was at a healthy £35million but now stands at a paltry £1million. MPs blamed the Royal Family's advisers for overspending.
Don't feel too sorry for the Monarch though. Queen Elizabeth II's rainy day fund may be looking a bit lame but she's worth a lot more than that – £320million according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2013.
Where does all this money come from?
Firstly, there's property – the Queen has one of the largest property empires in the world.
The Queen's holdings include Balmoral Castle in the Scottish Highlands, Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Kensington Palace. The Crown Estate, the company that owns and manages the sovereign's land, also owns large swathes of London's Regent Street, the Royal Parks, Ascot racecourse and 106,000 hectares of farmland. There are also stud farms, a fruit farm and marine land throughout the UK.
The Crown Estate is managed by an independent organisation on behalf of the Government. From April 2012, 15% of the profit from The Crown Estate goes to the Sovereign Grant (which partly funds the Queen), with the rest going to the Treasury.
Other royal assets include an extensive art and fine jewellery collection, and one of the world's largest stamp collections built by the Queen's grandfather
Although estimates of The Queen's wealth include the royal assets, these are not her private property – she can't sell them. Instead they are held by her as Sovereign on behalf of the nation and they will eventually be passed on to her successor.
So where does HRH's spending money come from?
The Queen essentially receives an income in three main ways: The Sovereign Grant, the Privy Purse and The Queen's personal wealth and income.
The Sovereign Grant came into existence in April 2012 and replaced the old way of funding the Royal family through the Civil List and various Government grants. The Sovereign Grant is equal to 15% of the profits from the Crown Estate from two years previously
The Sovereign Grant was worth £31million in the year 2012-13 but the Royal Household's net expenditure was £33.3million, hence the Queen needing to dip into her reserve fund to make ends meet.
However, Royal finances should be back on track soon. With the Crown Estate booming (it made a profit of £253million last year), the Sovereign Grant is £36.1 million for the tax year 2013-14 and set to rise to £37.9 million in 2014-15.
Out of this cash, the Queen must carry out her official duties, and maintain the "occupied" Royal Palaces: Buckingham Palace, St James's Palace, Clarence House, Marlborough House Mews, Windsor Castle, the buildings in the Home and Great Parks at Windsor, and Hampton Court Mews and Paddocks.
What's in the Privy Purse?
The next source of income for the Queen is the Privy Purse. This is a historical term used to describe income from the Duchy of Lancaster. It's used to meet both official and private expenditure by The Queen.
The Duchy of Lancaster is a portfolio of land, property and assets held in trust for the Sovereign. It's administered separately from the Crown Estates and generally used to meet official expenses incurred by other members of the Royal Family. In the financial year ending 31st March 2013, it was valued at £429 million. However the Queen can't get her hands on the capital of the portfolio, just revenue profits. This secured her an income of £12.5million in 2012-13.
The Duchy of Cornwall is yet another property portfolio held in trust, this time to meet, in part, the expenses of the monarch's eldest son and various members of his family. Prince Charles receives revenue from it to pay for his official activities, as does Camilla as Duchess of Cornwall, William and Kate (The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) and Prince Harry.
The estate was valued at £763million last year providing Charles with private income of about £19million.
The Queen's third source of funding is her personal income. This comes from her personal investment portfolio and private estates. The Queen personally owns the Balmoral and Sandringham Estates, which were both inherited from her father. The Queen's private income is used to meet her "private expenses".
So, what does the Queen spend her money on? It's mostly official duties such as travel for official engagements in the UK and abroad; the maintenance of Royal residencies; funding for the work of The Duke of Edinburgh which supports and complements that of The Queen; and salaries for employees of the Royal Household.


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By Nick Teale
Fran Merida is hopeful of securing a new contract at Arsenal and says the team has nobody to fear in the hunt for Carling Cup glory.
The midfielder scored his first Gunners goal on Wednesday night with a fearsome shot into the top corner to help Arsenal defeat Liverpool 2-1.
The 19-year-old's contract expires at the end of the season but the Spaniard has revealed he is looking to get a new deal after opening discussions with the Club.
"At the moment I am talking to the Club so I don't know what is going to happen," he said.
"I am really happy here so hopefully everything is going to be OK. We are going to sit down and talk about [a new contract]."
Merida was delighted with the victory over Liverpool and is now looking ahead to the Quarter-Final draw, suggesting Arsenal are ready to take on anyone.
"I scored my first goal for the Club so I am really happy and also because the team won against a really tough side," he said.
"The Carling Cup is really important for young players. We have to show what we can do and also enjoy it because we don't get many first-team games.
"We know that it will be a really tough cup because there are some strong teams left in the competition.
"There is no-one to fear because we can beat anyone.
"Last year we lost away so maybe people think we are not as strong away but I think we can win at home or away."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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BL 6-in 26-cwt howitzer
With the onset of World War 1 the need for a handier and more efficient howitzer than the 6-in 30-cwt soon made itself felt. Designers came up with the BL 6-in 26-cwt equipment, manufacture of which began in 1915. An example is shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 1: BL 6-in 26-cwt Howitzer Mk 1 on Mk 1 Carriage
The piece incorporated the latest technology; it was a combination of built-up construction and 'wire' winding, the latter being of steel riband 1/4 x 1/16-inch (6.36 x 1.59-mm) section. Rifling was polygroove plain section (PPS), of uniform twist, one turn in 15 calibres. The breech mechanism consisted of a Welin single-action screw with steep-coned obturator and a vertically acting lever breech mechanism (LBM), which speeded up opening and closing. See Fig. 2.
Fig. 2: Breech mechanism for BL 5.5-in gun, which is virtually identical to that fitted to the BL 6-in howitzer.
As with other early BL artillery equipments designed for use in the field, the howitzer was at first fired by 'T' friction tube, a method dating back to smooth-bore days. But tubes were so loose-fitting that the explosion of the propellant charge caused hot gas to leak back through the vent, causung severe erosion. A more efficient vent sealer had to be found.
Locks improvised from obsolete Martini-Enfield (ME) rifles were thereupon fitted and proved satisfactory as a temporary measure. They fired 'tubes vent sealing' which were simply .303-in cartridge cases suitably filled, and which effectively sealed the vent. Firing was by withdrawal of a pin by means of a lanyard. In due course ME locks were replaced by 'locks percussion H' (locks PH). A simple mechanism, its principal part was a striker withdrawn then released by a steel wedge attached to the firing lanyard. In turn it was replaced by 'lock PK' , more complicated but more easily operated. The changes to the firing system were the sole modifications made to the howitzer throughout its life, so satisfactory was its overall performance.
By the end of World War 1, 3633 howitzers had been made, not only for the British Army but also for allies and colonies including New Zealand. During the conflict the howitzer proved a thoroughly reliable piece, and consumed no fewer than 22,400,000 rounds of ammunition on the Western Front alone.
Mechanisation of field and medium artillery equipment commenced in the United Kingdom during the 1920s, but in New Zealand not until June 1938. Fig. 3 shows an example of a 6-in howitzer mechanised by fitting with very large pneumatic-tyred wheels for use by the Royal Artillery.
On the other hand the New Zealand Government adopted a local pattern conversion kit devised by the Public Works Department. It consisted of a bogie built up from four pairs of heavy truck wheels. The latter were designed to be turned inwards after the gun came into action, supposedly to make handling easier, but were of little help in this respect. The bogie was over-complicated, made the trail more difficult to traverse than with the old wooden wheels, and did not 'track' well behind the towing vehicle - as the trail of smashed one-way bridges in certain parts amply testified! See Fig. 4.
* The hydro-pneumatic recoil system proved so efficient and reliable that it was used on the BL 4.5-in and 5.5-in guns over 20 years later.
The howitzer remained on active service until 1941 and was declared obsolete in the UK in 1945. However, during its final years rifling became stripped in one or two, probably through metal fatigue. Despite these failures the New Zealand Army retained the howitzers for CMT (Compulsory Military Training) until a premature occurred around 1953 with extensive damage to the muzzle of the piece concerned. Luckily no one was injured, but the howitzers were quickly retired. Two of them may be seen in the Arrny Memorial Museum, Waiouru.
Having seen the damaged howitzer at the RNZEME Workshops while on a tour of duty to Burnham Camp, the writer prevailed upon the OC, the late Captain WC Hastings RNZEME, to saw off the muzzle and send it to the School of Artillery. There it proved useful for explaining details of gun construction, including wire winding. Unfortunately later staff consigned it to the scrap heap.
WL Ruffell
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