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PG Wodehouse goes to Washington
The next convention of The Wodehouse Society (US) is being held in Washington D.C on the 19th-22nd of October 2017.
It is difficult to imagine a more genial occasion than one which brings together fans of an author once described by Stephen Fry (in his introduction to the anthology What Ho!) as:
'…the finest and funniest writer the past century ever knew'
Stephen Fry
In 2015, some of you may recall, I had great pleasure in attending my first convention, Psmith in PSeattle. These fabulous binges occur just once every two years, and in 2017 the event is being held in Washington D.C. on 19-22 October.
Regular convention goers enjoy these events as an opportunity to connect with old friends and make new ones through a shared love of Wodehouse.
Young Tuppy had the unmistakable air of a man who has recently been round to the Jug and Bottle. A few cheery cries of welcome, presumably from some of his backgammon-playing pals who felt that blood was thicker than water , had the effect of causing the genial smile on his face to widen till it nearly met at the back. He was plainly feeling about as good as a man can feel and still remain on his feet.
(from 'Jeeves and the Song of Songs' in Very Good Jeeves)
The 2017 convention, arranged by The Wodehouse Society's Washington Chapter, offers an array of Wodehouse-related entertainments –from 'serious-minded' talks to music and theatrical performances. The keynote speaker is Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Michael Dirda and the programme will include music performed by Maria Jette & Dan Chouinard. Maria and Dan have performed at previous conventions, featuring songs with lyrics by Wodehouse, as well as songs referenced in Wodehouse's writing.
The Wodehouse Society conventions attract attendees from all over the world, and offer a welcoming haven for like-minded souls to meet and forge friendships.
As Stephen Fry goes on to say:
Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today – whatever that may be. In my teenage years the writings of P.G. Wodehouse awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me. But more than that he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind. He mocked himself sometimes because he knew that a great proportion of his readers came from prisons and hospitals. At the risk of being sententious, isn't it true that we are all of us, for a great part of our lives, sick or imprisoned, all of us in need of this remarkable healing spirit, this balm for hurt minds?
Many of us have been similarly restored and improved by reading Wodehouse –and if you are thinking of attending your first convention this year, you are assured of a warm welcome.
Visit the Wodehouse Society website for more details, including a programme and registration form.
And if you see me, say hello! I'll be in the lobby of the Crown Plaza Hamilton Hotel, wearing their best armchair fashionably tight about the hips. If you approach with a pink chrysanthemum in your buttonhole and start rambling about rain in Northumberland, I shall know what to do about it.
Utopia 500 years (Plumtopia 5)
You may not have noticed, amongst the hullabaloo of 2016, that this year marked the 500th anniversary of Sir Thomas Moore's Utopia. As the year draws to a close (and good riddance to it) I wanted to spend a few moments reflecting on Plumtopia, which celebrates a more humble fifth anniversary this year.
Sir Thomas Moore invented the word Utopia as a name for the fictional world he created in 1516. The word is derived 'from the Greek ou-topos meaning 'no place'*. Few people today have read Moore's original work, but the term he created has evolved to acquire meaning of its own.
Oxford Dictionaries Online give as their definition:
…an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect: The opposite of dystopia.
It's not a definition I'm happy with, although it expresses the thoroughness with which any form of ideal or idealism is dismissed in the modern age. It insists that Utopia can only be imagined. And as few people (certainly nobody credible) would argue that perfection is possible, it discredits 'Utopian' thinkers before they've even opened their mouths.
This is not so 'off topic' as you might think. Returning to my first piece in August 2011, I began this blog in Search of Plumtopia:
Wodehouse, affectionately known as Plum, sets such pleasingly lofty standards for humanity that perhaps what I'm really seeking is Plumtopia..
The decision to blend Utopia with Wodehouse's Plum (the name by which he was known throughout his life) was a conscious decision that reflected my purpose exactly. I was disgruntled with the world** and found the one Wodehouse created to be a better one. Five years later, I've seen more of the world, but I'm no more gruntled than I was in 2011. And I continue to hold with the unfashionable notion that Utopia is worth striving for.
Plumtopia has not fulfilled the serious-minded promise of this first post, thank goodness, but the 500th anniversary of Utopia provides a fitting occasion to revisit my original idea of Wodehouse's world as a Utopian ideal. This may cause some of you to click your tongues.
He then said something about modern enlightened thought which I cannot repeat.
Joy in the Morning (1946)
Rest assured I shall resume my usual hearty 'what ho-ing' in due course, and in the meantime hope that you'll indulge me.
The world Wodehouse created doesn't quite fit the given definition of Utopia. As the product of fiction it is part-imagined, but it's a world with firm roots in the Edwardian era of Wodehouse's early life. Wodehouse experts, including the late Norman Murphy, have made countless connections between characters and locations in Wodehouse's fiction and real-life examples. Wodehouse himself, discussing the world of Bertie Wooster in a Preface to Joy in the Morning (1946), said:
The world of which I have been writing every since I was so high, the world of the Drones Club and the lads who congregate there was always a small world –one of the smallest I ever met, as Bertie Wooster would say. It was bounded on the east by St. James's Street. on the west by Hyde park Corner, by Oxford Street on the north and by Piccadilly on the south. And now it is not even small, it is non-existent.
The world Wodehouse depicted is recognisably and authentically of its time and, reading beyond the Drones stories, takes in much wider territory than the boys of London SW1. And yet his world is widely considered to have never existed. How can this be?
Perhaps it's the things he left out – war, violence, poverty, injustice, death and disease are, with rare exceptions, absent from his writing. It's not my place to speculate on Wodehouse's reasons, but none of these subjects are intrinsically funny, and it's not unreasonable that a writer of humour should give them a wide berth. The result is a world that perhaps appears more fictional than real.
But it is not a perfect world. There is still great wealth inequality (though not poverty). Nor has the power of the upper classes to exercise snobbery and prejudice been eliminated, although in practice their unsavoury plans are usually thwarted. At the other end of the spectrum, Wodehouse's less pecunious characters survive on limited incomes, employed in positions not entirely to their liking. Crime is present, although predominantly non-violent. Thieves tend to restrict their activities along the lines dictated by Robin Hood — stealing from the rich (who are frequently the perpetrators also) and giving to the poor, although defining 'poor' for redistribution purposes varies wildly between individuals.
While falling short of perfection in many respects, Wodehouse undoubtedly improves upon reality. His characters employed in menial positions are respected in their roles, treated fairly, and live comfortably free from want. At the upper end of the spectrum, his aristocrats and wealthy business magnates are 'mostly harmless' (to borrow from Douglas Adams). While they may not demonstrate the high moral standards we like to see in persons of stature, they do not abuse their servants, or take yachting tours of favourite tax havens with friends from the arms-trade.
The opportunities for women in Wodehouse's world are least as good as Wodehouse's contemporaries, often better. Women from different social backgrounds take part and succeed in a broad range of careers and activities; they need not be young or beautiful, and finding love is not their only purpose. There isn't a single preferred model of man or womanhood that must be conformed to. The sun is almost always shining. And the ideal ratio of village pubs per inhabitant is 1:1.
Put simply, there's a lot to like!
Wodehouse's idyllic creation also has its critics, who object (as far as I can understand the argument) on the grounds that he presents an idealised view of Britain that brushes socio-economic issues under the carpet and romanticises the aristocracy. As George Orwell (who enjoyed Wodehouse's work and defended him after the Berlin Broadcasts) put it:
…Wodehouse's real sin has been to present the English upper classes as much nicer people than they are.
George Orwell In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse (1946)
There is some truth in the assertion, but it's a blinkered one, because Wodehouse presents people from all walks of life as our better, brighter selves. He avoids unpleasant, difficult truths and softens the edges of human folly so we may laugh at them. He doesn't just idealise the aristocracy, as so often claimed– Wodehouse idealises us all.
It has long been my view that the messages we take from Wodehouse's work are generally the ones we bring to it ourselves. P.G. Wodehouse didn't set out to create a Utopian ideal. This is something I have divined from the world he created which, free from the worst excesses of human behaviour, seems a great improvement on our own.
To give Wodehouse the penultimate word:
I suppose one thing that makes these drones of mine seem creatures of a dead past is that with the exception of Oofy Prosser, the club millionaire, they are genial and good tempered friends of all the world. In these days when everybody hates everybody else, anyone who is not snarling at something – or at everything – is an anachronism.
Preface to Joy in the Morning
I may be silly (although in 2016, who could tell) but I think Wodehouse's world is one worth striving for.
Cheers and best wishes to you all for a happy, hearty new year, and much Joy in the Morning !
Footnotes & Further Reading
* Source: Notes on Utopia from the British Library online
** Thomas Moore's dissatisfaction with English society, 500 years ago, still strike a chord in 2016:
…for what justice is there in this: that a nobleman, a goldsmith, a banker, or any other man, that either does nothing at all, or, at best, is employed in things that are of no use to the public, should live in great luxury and splendour upon what is so ill acquired, and a mean man, a carter, a smith, or a ploughman, that works harder even than the beasts themselves, and is employed in labours so necessary, that no commonwealth could hold out a year without them, can only earn so poor a livelihood and must lead so miserable a life, that the condition of the beasts is much better than theirs? For as the beasts do not work so constantly, so they feed almost as well, and with more pleasure, and have no anxiety about what is to come, whilst these men are depressed by a barren and fruitless employment, and tormented with the apprehensions of want in their old age; since that which they get by their daily labour does but maintain them at present, and is consumed as fast as it comes in, there is no overplus left to lay up for old age.
from Utopia (1516)
A Visit to the Wodehouse family archives
On a beautiful autumn day, I left London's Victoria Station for the glorious Sussex countryside to visit the home of Sir Edward Cazalet, P.G. Wodehouse's step-grandson. I had met Edward and his wife Camilla, Lady Cazalet, in London during the summer, and they generously invited me to visit their home to view the family's archive of Wodehouse materials.
The train journey was a pleasant, uneventful affair, which did not seem, to me, to be in quite the proper Wodehouse spirit. I ought to have been playing 'Persian Monarchs' with a genial stranger, or thumbing through a volume of poems by Ralston McTodd. But the closest approximation I could muster was an affinity for Lord Emsworth.
Lord Emsworth, in a train moving in the direction of home, was behaving like a horse heading for his stable. He snorted eagerly, and spoke at length and with emotion of roses and herbaceous borders.
Leave it to Psmith (1923)
It did seem a pity to be traveling merely as myself, and not an imposter. There is a lot to be said for adopting an alias, particularly when your own persona is as dull as my own. Polly Pott managed to pass herself off at Blandings as Gwendolyne Glossop, daughter of the eminent nerve specialist Sir Roderick Glossop (in Uncle Fred in the Springtime). With a bit of forethought, I might have presented myself as his other daughter. But forethought was never my strong suit, and I arrived with a sheepish sense of having let the side down.
I needn't have worried. Edward Cazalet's deep affection for his grandfather and enthusiasm for his work ensured a mutual understanding from the start. I spent the day giddy with joy as we looked through Edward's impressive archive of Plum's letters and personal materials, including notes for stories and draft manuscripts in various stages of devolvement.
Wodehouse's letters include correspondence with well-known figures of the day, including Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, and Richard Burton. Reading his personal correspondence with family and friends (a tremendous privilege) left a lingering impression of Plum, the man. The impression is a good one. His private letters (many of them published in Sophie Ratcliffe's P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters) are imbued with the same qualities as his fictional work, displaying sharp wit tempered by a generous spirit.
The other night, having run out of 'Murine', Ethel squirted some stuff into her eyes which the vet prescribed for Wonder, and a quarter of an hour later complained of violent pains in the head and said that the room was all dark and she couldn't read the print of her Saturday Evening Post. Instead of regarding this as a bit of luck, as anyone who knows the present Saturday Evening Post, she got very alarmed and remained so till next morning, when all was clear again. It just shows what a dog has to endure. Though, as a matter of fact, I believe dogs' eyes are absolutely insensitive. I don't think dogs bother about their eyes at all, relying mostly on their noses.
Letter to Denis Mackail (March 28, 1946)
P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
There is also a good deal of love in them.
My darling Angel Bunny.
Gosh, how I am missing my loved one! The house is a morgue without you. Do you realise that – except for two nights I spent in NY and the time you were in the hospital – we haven't been separated for a night for twenty years!! This morning Jed waddled into my room at about nine, and I said to myself 'My Bunny's awake early' and was just starting for your room when I remembered. It's too awful being separated like this.
Letter to Ethel Wodehouse (July 6, 1967)
P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
In the afternoon, Edward took me on a walking tour of the family farm and shared memories of afternoon walks with Plum, during visits to his grandfather's home in Remsenburg (Long Island, New York). Nature had pulled up her socks and ordered us an exceptionally fine day to compliment the rolling farmland views, and I found myself pondering as Rogers, or possibly Hammerstein, once pondered, whether somewhere in my youth or childhood I had done something good.
This joyous feeling reached a crescendo shortly before the cocktail hour, when I visited the cosy attic in which Plum's treasured possessions have been lovingly preserved by Edward and his family. It contains Plum's reading chair, his hat and pipe, golf clubs — even his personal statue of the infant Samuel at Prayer. The room is lined with bookshelves containing books from Wodehouse's own library. The remaining walls are adorned with family photographs and sporting memorabilia.
Never a brilliant conversationalist, I was unequal to expressing this pleasure to my hosts at the time. I simply alternated between gaping and grinning for the remainder of my visit.
I don't recall doing 'something good' in my youth or childhood. Or since, for that matter. But I did spend five years in Van Diemen's Land without the usual preliminaries of having committed a crime. Perhaps my visit to the Cazalets was Fate's way of evening out the ledger.
Thoroughly gruntled!
I have dyspepsia!
Yesterday I received the Doctor's diagnosis of an ailment that has been troubling me for some time. I have dyspepsia!
I don't suppose a doctor ever received such a joyous response to this news as mine did. I practically whooped around the surgery. For now, I can read my favourite poem, by Lancelot Mulliner in 'Came the Dawn', with the added poignancy of personal suffering.
DARKLING (A Threnody)
By L. BASSINGTON MULLINER
(Copyright in all languages, including the Scandinavian)
Black branches,
Like a corpse's withered hands,
Waving against the blacker sky:
Chill winds,
Bitter like the tang of half-remembered sins;
Bats wheeling mournfully through the air,
And on the ground
And nameless creeping things;
And all around
And Despair.
I am a bat that wheels through the air of Fate;
I am a worm that wriggles in a swamp of Disillusionment ;
I am a despairing toad;
I have got dyspepsia.
from: Came the Dawn (Meet Mr Mulliner )
The physician stopped short of prescribing Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo, but I suppose one can't have everything.
Wodehouse to the rescue again
Plumtopia has been a selfish venture from the beginning. It was born from my own dissatisfaction with life, and the search for a better kind of world – that I called Plumtopia. Having never met a fellow Wodehouse fan I presumed I'd have no audience, and consequently wrote entirely to please myself. I do love the sound of my own keyboard. But then something wonderful happened. People started to read, to comment, and even identify with some of the thoughts and feelings I expressed. I may be no closer to finding Plumtopia, but there is comfort in knowing that I'm in dashed good company.
That dashed good company includes Noel Bushnell. Many of the blogs I read are rousing social and political commentaries that cause the blood pressure to rise and the soul to despair (not that I blame writers for reflecting a troubled world). So reading Noel's aptly titled Wodehouse to the rescue felt like an application of soothing balm. I loved it!
Today, I'm sharing his terrific follow up piece, commemorating the Centenary of P.G. Wodehouse's collaboration with Guy Bolton, and Jerome Kern. It's a must for Wodehouse fans.
I presented the following talk to the Ferkytoodlers group of serious thinkers over lunch at the Melbourne Savage Club on Wednesday, 11 November 2015. I intended to post it here with suitable modifications and credits the following weekend but, when I awoke that Saturday morning to news of the dreadful events in Paris overnight, somehow the works of a long dead author and the peaceful world of his imagination seemed less important. It seemed in bad taste to be prattling on about trivial entertainment when people were being murdered.
Of course, the Paris massacre is by no means unique in our world – alas! – and as I brooded on this bleak topic I was reminded of a remark Wodehouse blogger Honoria Plum made in a comment on my first Wodehouse to the rescue piece. She referred to the sentiment behind her blog, Plumtopia, as "looking for snippets of…
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The Great Wodehouse Romances: The true romance of PG & Ethel Wodehouse
Each February at Plumtopia I take a break from my usual pontifications to celebrate some of the 'Great Romances' from P.G. Wodehouse's work, to mark the anniversary of his death on St Valentine's Day, 1975. This year, I'd like to break with the formula a little by touching on the great romance of Wodehouse's own life — his wife Ethel.
Wodehouse biographer Frances Donaldson wraps up their courtship in a sentence: 'They met on 3 August 1914 and on 30 September they were married.' They met on one of Wodehouse's frequent visits to New York, and were married at The Little Church Round The Corner. Ethel Wayman (nee Newton) was a young widow, also visiting New York from England. Like so many of his fictional heroines, she was a woman of spirit, energy and determination. An extrovert and unlike her husband in character, Ethel nonetheless understood his needs and protected him from the practical demands of life, so that Wodehouse was free to write, walk and engage with the world as it suited him.
They seem to have lived in perfect sympathy with one another. Wodehouse said, in an interview with Gerald Clarke ( P. G. Wodehouse, The Art of Fiction No. 60 in the PARIS REVIEW ):
'I think a writer's life is the ideal life'.
It was Ethel who made this life possible, and Wodehouse depended on her. It's tempting to see their relationship reflected, in typically self-depreciating style, throughout Wodehouse's writing.
"… she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need."
The Adventures of Sally (1922)
Wodehouse's love for Ethel was genuine and life-long. Writing to her on the occasion of their 59th wedding anniversary, Wodehouse pays tribute to the Great Romance of his own life.
My precious angel Bunny whom I love so dear.
Another anniversary! Isn't it wonderful to think that we have been married for 59 years and still love each other as much as ever except when I spill my tobacco on the floor, which I'll never do again!
It was a miracle finding one another. I know I could never have been happy with anybody else. What a lucky day for me when you agreed with me when I said 'Let's get married'!
The only thing that makes me sad is your health. How I wish there was something I could do. What is so extraordinary is that you come to me in pain and not having slept and you look just as beautiful as you did fifty-nine years ago. But how I wish that you could get a good sleep.
I wish I could say all the things I would like to say, but really they can all be said in one sentence – I LOVE YOU.
Bless you
Your Plummie
(P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters edited by Sophie Ratcliffe)
Wishing you all very Happy Ever Afters of your own.
Overcoming Boggarts, Dementors & Roderick Spode: The Transformation of Emotion as a Coping Strategy
Today's reading comes from the blog of ZanyZigZag, Clinical Psychologist in training and P.G. Wodehouse lover. Her post today touches on subjects close to my heart.
I'm not opposed to a bit of positive thinking. Some of my best friends are optimists. My concern is that 'positivity' has become a socially desirable behaviour, helped along by claims that it's good for you. We are encouraged to distance ourselves from 'negative people' and 'negativity' has been demonised as behaviour to overcome (or at least hush up in society and the workplace). Under the guise of negativity, some very useful and important behaviours — like criticism and complaint — have been demonised too. It's hardly surprising that these ideas gain traction. They are a gift to governments, employers, and maladjusted spouses the world over.
Yes, a world without criticism and complaint would be lovely. But until our world is also free of its problems — violence, injustice and inequality — criticism and complaint remain necessary forces for change. If you're concerned about wealth or gender inequality, for example, just imagine how things might be if nobody complained. One can hardly be blamed for bouts of pessimism in such a world, and I'm deeply suspicious of the idea that a life of sustained positivity, unbalanced by 'negative' thoughts, is a healthy goal to aspire to.
As someone who is not one of nature's optimists, this isn't something I'm likely to suffer from. I worry and I brood. I fail to spot the bluebird. I feel that until the world is put right, I'm somehow failing in my responsibilities as a human being. For me, and I suspect for many people, P.G. Wodehouse is more than a great writer. His writing has a transformative power –providing bluebirds when bluebirds are in short supply. As I said in my recent talk in Seattle on the Psychology of the Individual: for some people, reading Wodehouse is the icing on the cake of a happy life. For others, he is a lifeline.
I have been meaning to write a new blogpost for months now, but due to the demands of my clinical psychology course I have been struggling to find the time. The evidence for my plea that this course seems to have taken over my life is clearly illustrated by the fact that even this blogpost has a psychology-related theme to it. It also, however, mentions Harry Potter and Wodehouse, so all is not lost just yet.
In case any of you have eyed the title of this post with scepticism and are concerned that it will in some way be celebrating the "power" of positive thinking, let me reassure you that this is absolutely not the case. I am a confirmed cynic when it comes to affirmations, mantras and "inspirational" quotes – and feel vindicated by studies like this (hyperlink), which demonstrate that positive thinking can actually be harmful rather…
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Psmith in Pseattle: our little paradise
What Ho, old beans!
Last week I attended an excellent binge at The Wodehouse Society's (TWS) 18th convention, Psmith in Pseattle. It was my first TWS convention, and even more psensational than anticipated. So, climb upon my knee, Sonny Boy, and I'll tell you about it.
As a TWS first timer, I entered the lobby of the impressive Fairmont Olympic Hotel under a cloud –not one of Seattle's famous v-shaped depressions, but a personal one. Having lived almost exclusively behind a keyboard for the last few years, my people skills are not what they once were. Nor are my trousers, which are let out far more often than I am. So it's fair to say I was not at my confident best, and beginning to wish I'd stayed under my little rock in Somerset UK. Added to this, I had recklessly agreed to appear as a speaker and was feeling a strong affinity with Bertie Wooster ahead of his infamous talk at Miss Tomlinson's school for girls.
"Girls," said Miss Tomlinson, "some of you have already met Mr. Wooster — Mr. Bertram Wooster, and you all, I hope, know him by reputation." Here, I regret to say, Mr. Wooster gave a hideous, gurgling laugh and, catching Miss Tomlinson's eye, turned bright scarlet.
in 'Bertie Changes his Mind'
All that began to change, very quickly. As I traipsed across the lobby, I spied the familiar, well-groomed head of TWS president Karen Shotting rising on the escalator. Recognising her from her photograph, and forgetting that we had never met, I buzzed over to say 'What Ho' like a long lost friend. A short while later, I was on back-slapping terms with a substantial gang of Wodehouse experts and enthusiasts, including Tom Smith, Barbara (the dream rabbit) Combs, Elliot Milstein, Bob Raines (soon to be TWS president), Ken Clevenger, and Tony and Elaine Ring. The name Tony Ring is familiar to most Wodehouse enthusiasts and I'd been daunted by the prospect of meeting him, but his effervescent personality put me immediately at ease, and the sparkle in his eye told me that this shindig was going to be fun.
The following morning, I encountered Elin Woodger Murphy (Wooster Sauce editor and all round good egg) sploshing about in the hotel pool. Having already provided me with guidance and support from afar, Elin took me under her wing and, with the fabulous Jean Tilson, we forked our way through some very decent breakfasts at Seattle's Pike Place market. Later in the lobby of the Fairmont Olympic, I got to meet online friends for the first time — like Vikas Sonak, and David and Katy McGrann — and make new ones, like Katherine Jordan, Eileen Jones and Ninad Wagle (Alpine Joe). From my strategic position by the bar, I was also well-placed to spot debonair newcomers sporting chrysanthemums their in buttonholes [enter John Dawson].
Wodehouse in song
The formalities began on Friday evening with soprano Maria Jette and pianist Dan Chouinard, who performed songs from Wodehouse's Broadway career and songs mentioned in his work, like My Hero and The Yeoman's Wedding Song.
A minion came on the stage carrying a table. On this table he placed a framed photograph, and I knew that we were for it. Show Bertram Wooster a table and a framed photograph, and you don't have to tell him what the upshot is going to be. Muriel Kegley-Bassington stood revealed as a 'My Hero' from The Chocolate Soldier addict.
I thought the boys behind the back row behaved with extraordinary dignity and restraint, and their suavity gave me the first faint hope I had had that when my turn came to face the firing quad I might be spared the excesses which I had been anticipating. I would rank 'My Hero' next after 'The 'Yeoman's Wedding Song' as a standee rouser…
in 'The Mating Season'
Maria sparkles on the stage like a Wodehouse heroine leapt from the page, and it was a great privilege to hear these songs performed by musicians of such calibre. If you missed out, Maria and Dan's two CDs of Wodehouse music are available online. Mixing it with the professionals, an enthusiastic Tom Smith (one of our Pseattle hosts) and his associate 'Percy Pilbeam' treated us to a rendition of Sonny Boy. No CD recording of this memorable performance has yet been released.
Riveting Talks
The joy continued on Saturday with riveting talks. If you missed them, they'll be published in forthcoming editions of Plum Lines, quarterly journal of The Wodehouse Society (US) , not to be confused with Wooster Sauce, quarterly journal of The P G Wodehouse Society (UK) — if you join both societies you get eight lovely journals in the post every year. Each talk was worthy of further discussion, and I took plenty of notes, but for now you'll have to be content with a summary.
I was riveted from the moment Elliot Milstein drew his first breath, on the subject of Wodehouse's opening lines, and listening to Ken Clevenger let himself go on the subject of fish was a long-awaited pleasure. During the luncheon break, I made a Skype call to my family in England to gloat that I'd been educated on the difference between orphreys and chasubles by William Scrivener, who was once a pale young curate. Peter Nieuwenhuizen's talk on Wodehouse in the comics covered new ground (for me at least). Graphic novels are incredibly popular with young readers and the potential for introducing them to Wodehouse in this way is very exciting. Tad Boehmer's talk on researching Wodehouse took us into the world of special collection libraries (I wanted more!) and Elin Woodger's topic 'P.G. Wodehouse, Feminist' was a topic close to my heart (as readers of Plumtopia will know). For anyone still in doubt about Wodehouse's appeal to women, Elin confirmed that more women had registered for the convention than men.
John Dawson spoke about the exciting Globe Reclamation Project , an international gang of Wodehouse lovers (Dawson, Ananth Kaitharam, Neil Midkiff, Ian Michaud, Arthur Robinson, Raja Srinivasan and Karen Shotting) who have spent the last two years researching, transcribing and evaluating material written during Wodehouse's time at the Globe newspaper (1901-1909?), aided and abetted by Wodehouse experts Norman Murphy and Tony Ring. John spoke passionately about his personal quest to find everything Wodehouse wrote, and the hard working collaboration that has provided so much 'new' material for all Wodehouse readers to enjoy. The product of their labours is available to read — in two handsomely bound volumes: P.G. Wodehouse in the Globe Newspaper Volumes 1 & 2 . This is a non-profit undertaking, with funds raised used for ongoing research (any surplus will be spent making Wodehouse books available in school libraries). A discount is available to Wodehouse Society members.
Closing the day, and well worth the wait, was Wodehouse's biographer Robert McCrum. As someone who has delved so deeply into Wodehouse's life, it was moving to hear him speak of Wodehouse's withdrawal from his painful war-time experiences into the 'wonderland' he created. As McCrum put it, 'Wodehouse was, in fact, happiest in a kind of artistic solitary confinement.'
In my talk on the modern Wodehouse reader, I commented that many of us read Wodehouse to escape the irksome captivity of modern life, just as Evelyn Waugh predicted.
Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in —
Evelyn Waugh
Listening to Robert McCrum, it became clear to me that Wodehouse needed the world he created as much as we do. It was his 'Plumtopia'. I don't think I've ever felt closer to Wodehouse than I did at that moment.
McCrum has shared his own impressions of Pseattle in this little piece for The Guardian: Americans celebrate PG Wodehouse in Seattle .
Tony Ring entertained us between talks with something cryptically listed on the programme as 'Mr. Punch's Spectral Analyses'. These proved to be a selection of ghost stories written by Wodehouse for Punch magazine (1903-1904) — a fitting selection to mark the occasion of Halloween. Here's a taste:
A groan and a weird phosphorescent gleam at the foot of the bed told that the spectre had arrived, right on the scheduled time as usual. I took no notice. I wished to make the ghost speak first. A ghost hates to have to begin a conversation.
"You might speak to a chap," said a plaintive voice, at last.
"Ah, you there?" I said. "The family ghost, I presume?"
"The same," said the Spectre, courteously, seating himself on the bed. "Frightened?"
"Not in the least."
"Hair not turned white, I suppose?"
"Not to my knowledge."
"Then you are the man I have been wanting to meet for the last hundred years. Reasonable; that's what you are. I tell you, Sir, it hurts a fellow when people gibber at him, as most of your human beings do. Rational conversation becomes impossible."
MR. PUNCH'S SPECTRAL ANALYSES II.— The Ghost with Social Tastes.
Punch, August 12, 1903
A handsomely printed set of these stories was provided to conference goers, but if you missed out you can read them online at Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums .
Rummage and Revels
There is still much to be said– about the masked ball, the costumes, the auction, and NEWTS skit — but I have other things to do, and presumably you do too. The one thing I must mention is the rummage sale. Just imagine for a moment that you are in a shop devoted to Wodehouse. There are Wodehouse books, and books about Wodehouse. You can also pick up sheet music, costumes, cow creamers, pictures, bookmarks, badges, bags and all manner of merchandise. No shop of this kind exists, but for two days in October the TWS rummage sale comes close to this Plumtopian ideal.
Added to these pleasures, I continued to make new friends, too many to list, but sitting with Donna Myers for the talks, and between Anita Avery and Tim Richards at dinner were highlights. There was an awkward moment when I met long-time Facebook friend Michael Sheldon in person — as he recognised me, but I couldn't place him because he looked nothing like his Facebook photo (for all the wrong reasons). He won the 'Scary Enough to Put a Golfer Off His Stroke' award for his impersonation of Bill Lister (from Full Moon).
How to join the next binge
The next convention will be in Washington DC — Capital! Capital! — in October 2017. Dates will be confirmed shortly.
It's an experience I highly recommend. I was welcomed with great kindness, in spite of my expansive trousers and questionable character because, as Anita Avery put it, 'We Wodehouse fans look after our own.' And she's right. After many years spent searching for Plumtopia, I may not have found a place that feels like home, but I have found my people. As Wodehouse put it:
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
in 'Strychnine in the Soup'
Wodehouse's Portrait of an Ideal Man
This post on Wodehouse's portrait of an ideal man struck a chord with me. Hope it strikes you too… in a thoughtful sort of way that is, not roughly, like a stuffed eelskin from behind.
Birthday Sipsmith & Tonic
It's time again for my annual birthday binge and, as luck would have it, I have recently happened upon a marvellous brand of gin to celebrate with. And while I don't usually go in for endorsements at Plumtopia, (it's not that sort of blog) I couldn't resist sharing the label with you. It's so Plum. It also happens to be a fine dry gin.
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The Magrette Moana Pacific Pro Steel is now up for pre-order
I will freely admit, there is a soft spot in my mechanical watch heart when it comes to Magrette. This is because they produced the first automatic that I had to grace my wrist, and the smell of that pine box that it came in sticks with me to this day. Well, that, and the…
Reader Reviews: Magrette Dual Time
Guess who's back, back again. Yes, that's right, it's time for another reader review! Ok, sure, it has not been that long since we featured one but we really enjoy sharing what our readers are wearing, and what they think of the watches they are spending quality time with. Today, we have a review from Jose C of the Magrette Dual Time watch, the spiritual successor to the Magrette Regattare 2011. On with the show!
Introducing Belmoto Timepieces
Sometimes, a brand will want to branch out into new designs – this happens quite a bit, across many industries. If there is some concern that the new direction might dilute or otherwise confuse what had already been built, a new brand will be created, allowing some other avenues to be explored. Of course, all the expertise and history travel along from the sister brand, which makes what we have with the Belmoto Timepieces an interesting proposition.
Watching the Web for December 5, 2015
It is hard to believe it is December already, but it is, so it is time to roll out our weekly edition of Watching the Web. Here, we highlight interesting articles we come across on other sites, as well as identify which of our own recent articles were the most popular over the last week or so. For this week's article, I have an ultra thin tourbillon, a new brand from one of the men behind Magrette, and a Damascas steel watch from GoS. From our pages, the posts about new Magrette models, the Lew & Huey Phantom and the Crowdfunding Round Up topped the list.
New Watches From Magrette for 2016
Finding out about new watches from brands we like is especially fun. You get to learn about what is new and changed on existing models, and sometimes even see something brand new being introduced. A lot of that sort of information happens in dribs and drabs, or in the giant flood known as BaselWorld. Well, Magrette likes to do things their own way, and they simply sent out an email detailing what was coming for 2016, to give those interested a chance to pre-order. So, with that background, let's have a look at what is in the cards for Magrette next year.
The WWR 2015 Holiday Gift Guide
Earlier this year I was attending an alumni event and the subject matter turned to watches (how I turned it there I don't recall). One of the group asked what I would recommend for her to get her boyfriend as a gift. My first question was how much money she wanted to spend. When she said roughly $1,000, I immediately recommended a Weiss. Her question also got me thinking about how I could organize the 2015 holiday gift guide. So for this iteration, I will recommend my favorite watch (or watch related gift) in each of several price ranges. Chances are, if I like it, especially if it under about $1,500, we have covered it in the past, since that is the kind of people we are; but there may be watches here (especially at the high end) that have not graced our pages.
Magrette Moana Pacific Pro, A Kiwi in New Colors
I was introduced to Magrette through a good friend, who found the brand before I started writing for WWR. Of course, Patrick has been a fan for a while, and I have also covered a few of their watches here. If you follow me on Instagram, you will see that I occasionally post wrist shots of my hand wound Moana Pacific Chronograph, which I love. So when I see new additions to the Magrette Moana Pacific Pro line, especially ones as pretty as the blue dial version above, I want to spread the word.

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Cannes: Animated 'Animal Crackers' Selling Around the World (Exclusive)
Arclight Films is selling the project, which has a voice cast that includes Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Danny DeVito, Ian McKellen and Sylvester Stallone.
Animated film Animal Crackers is taking a bite out of Cannes, with Arclight Films bringing the film to the market and making sales in key territories.
The adventure comedy features a high-wattage voice cast including Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Danny DeVito, Ian McKellen, Sylvester Stallone and Raven-Symone.
Directed by Tony Bancroft and Scott Christian Sava, Animal Crackers centers on a family who must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a run-down circus from being taken over by their evil uncle, Horatio P. Huntington.The catch is, once anyone eats an animal cracker, they turn into that animal.
Arclight Films is handling worldwide sales on Animal Crackers, which has sold in several territories including the U.K. & Canada (E-One), Latin America (Imagem), Philippines (Captive Entertainment), Middle East (ECS), Bulgaria (A Plus), Portugal (Prisvideo), India (Pictureworks), South Korea (Atrium), Israel (Filmhouse), Iceland (Myndform), and the Czech Repuplic, Hungary and Romania (Prorom).
"We're excited to be working with Scott and the incredibly talented Animal Crackers team," said Gary Hamilton, managing director of Arclight Films. "The expertise of the cast and crew is unrivaled and the end result is a top-notch, superbly animated feature film that audiences worldwide will enjoy immensely."
The film was produced through Scott's Blue Dream Studios and its sister company Blue Dream Studios Spain, headed up by Jaime Maestro and Nathalie Martinez, with funding coming from South Korea, China and North America.
"This film has been a labor of love, said Sava. "We have put together this amazing story, and we are so excited that Arclight Films is going to help us share it with the world."
In what marks John Krasinski's first major studio directorial release, The Office alum will write, direct and star with wife Emily Blunt in the Paramount/Platinum Dunes feature A Quiet Place. It's also the first time the duo has appeared onscreen together. Even though they are co-credited with appearances in 2011's The Muppets, they did not share scenes.
The storyline for A Quiet Place is being kept under wraps. Production is scheduled for this fall. Krasinski re-wrote the script from an earlier draft by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods. Paramount originally bought Beck and Woods' spec before Krasinski boarded. We hear the studio is very high on the duo and put a blind write-to-direct deal in place.
Krasinski and his Sunday Night partner Allyson Seeger will serve as executive producers along with Beck & Woods. Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller of Platinum Dunes will produce.
A Quiet Place marks Krasinski's third feature directorial. His movie The Hollars premiered at last year's Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. Recently, Krasinski served as EP on the Oscar-winning pic Manchester by the Sea. He'll next be seen in Kathryn Bigelow's Untitled Detroit Project, and stars as the title character in Paramount TV/Platinum Dune's Jack Ryan Amazon series which will air next year. Previously, Krasinski co-penned the Gus Van Sant natural gas fracking drama Promised Land with Matt Damon which won high praise at the National Board of Review and the Berlin Film Festival.
Blunt is currently in production on Disney's Mary Poppins Returns which will open on Dec. 28, 2018. She was recently nominated for a BAFTA and SAG award for her turn in DreamWorks/Universal's The Girl on the Train which made $173.2M worldwide. Throughout Blunt's career, her films have amassed close to $2.7 billion at the global B.O.
Next up for scribes Beck & Woods' is Haunt, which the duo will direct from their original screenplay. Broken Road's Todd Garner, Nickel City Pictures' Mark Fasano, Ankur Rungta, and Vishal Rungta are producing with Jeremy Stein as EP. The duo are also writing the pilot Zeroes for Sony Pictures TV and Davis Entertainment, based on the book by New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti.
Krasinski and Platinum Dunes are repped by WME. Blunt is repped by CAA and The Artists Partnership. Beck & Woods are represented by ICM Partners, Madhouse Entertainment, and Manatt, Phelps, & Phillips.
I've added some photos of Emily attending the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles, California (January 29). Thanks to AliKat for the photos! Stay tuned for more updates very soon.
I've added some photos of Emily at AOL's BUILD series London (September 21).
The gallery has been updated with photos of Emily attending the world premiere of The Girl on the Train, at Odeon Leicester in London, England (September 20).
Emily Blunt shares Julie Andrews' reaction to Mary Poppins Returns casting
After a string of increasingly dark roles including Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Sicario (2015), and Oct. 7's hotly anticipated The Girl on the Train, Emily Blunt is ready to lighten up. "I enjoy the challenge to be versatile… [but] I want to find the silliness again," she tells EW.
And her next major role will be a big departure from The Girl on the Train: She's stepping into Julie Andrews' iconic shoes as Mary Poppins in Rob Marshall's Mary Poppins Returns, currently slated for a December 2018 release. "I feel a little more trepidation with this [character] because she's so emblematic of people's nostalgia," Blunt says. "It's such an important character in people's childhood."
While Andrews' version of the magical nanny was sweet but firm, Blunt says her Mary Poppins will be slightly different — closer to the character from P.L. Travers' original series. "We're delving into the books a lot more," she explains, "which is a different version of the character, I'll say that much." When she's reminded that book Poppins is slightly tougher than fans of the 1964 film might expect, Blunt gives a coy smile: "She's a little meaner, yeah."
Blunt hadn't yet spoken to Andrews when she sat down with EW in early August, but Mary Poppins Returns director Rob Marshall had — and he relayed the experience to her. "Rob said he was in the Hamptons, and he saw [Andrews], and he said, 'It's top secret, but Emily Blunt's playing Mary Poppins,'" Blunt recalls. "And she went, 'Oh, wonderful!'"
"I felt like I wanted to cry," she says. "It was lovely to get her stamp of approval. That took the edge off it, for sure."


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Kansas Aqueduct Study
A Kansas Aqueduct Study is underway to update and evaluate the technical, legal political, financial and other aspects of a concept developed in 1982 to divert Missouri River flows to western Kansas. This concept was conceived by the U.S. Department of Commerce to evaluate a water transfer element (aqueduct) that would replace depleting irrigation water from the Ogallala Aquifer with available renewable surface water.
Through the Corps planning assistance cost-share program, an update to the 1982 study has begun. The update is expected to take 12 months to complete.
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this place was disgusting the table was sticky it was a dirty place- the food was not good- the service delayed and I would advise u to run in the opposite direction- I luv Cuban food, this is not good here- not at all- I...More
The Cuban & corquetta sandwichs were fresh, the cafe con leche & cuban expresso were delicious. Open late & has a walk up window
Had a meal of pork chops, rice and beans and platanos. Overall not bad. Chops were actually as I like them...A bit fatty. Came with onions and minimal seasoning. Rice and beans were average. You can sit inside or outside. If you're looking for peace...More
Our plan was to eat at another restaurant right on the water, but it was packed! So we drove out of the parking lot and drove a short distance to El Bohio. Certainly not on the water, but a good local eatery. My husband and...More
When I need my Cuban sandwich fix, I stop by this restaurant and order for take out. It is always fresh and very tasty. I have never eaten inside the restaurant, but I bet all the food is good since it is usually busy every...More
Nice decor, authentic Cuban menu. I had avocado stuffed with shrimp salad; my husband had grilled grouper platter. We both enjoyed the food and had more than we could eat! The wait staff was very patient and explained ingredients, answering our questions. Definitely recommend it!
The lady at the window was fighting with someone over parking. As well, we found a bug in our food. I could believe it. I called the health department on them.
Both of the people in our party ordered the Cuban sandwich. Though the sandwich was quite large, the flavor was "eh". I thought the ham was too salty so I removed it from my sandwich. Without the ham it was mostly a bread sandwich, but...More
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Towards a New Deal for Care and Carers
Jointly with other members of the PSA Commission on Care, WBG launched Towards a New Deal for Care and Carers.
The event was chaired by Baroness Ruth Lister, with insightful contributions for our expert panel:
Barbara Keeley MP, former Shadow Minister for Care
Dr Dan Poulter MP, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health Services
Caroline Abrahams, Director at Age UK
Sam Smethers, Chief Executive at the Fawcett Society
Professor Shirin Rai, Commissioner, PSA Commission on Care
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In partnership with the LSE's Gender Institute, the Women's Budget Group is hosting a special members' event on what Brexit will mean for women. The Women's Budget Group are beginning work to explore the impact of Brexit on women's rights, and we invite members with...


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Are current leadership roles and relationships appropriate in a rapidly changing world? Do we need to rethink key assumptions about leaders and leadership? Are you confident about the appropriateness and effectiveness of your chosen leadership styles and behaviours? These are questions facing leaders today and Understanding Leadership by Libby Nicholas and John West-Burnham can help find the answers, with an approach that is neither normative nor prescriptive but rather exploratory and developmental. Applying research and case studies from inside and outside the educational canon, Libby and John challenge prevailing orthodoxies and invite readers to reflect on their personal understanding as the basis for translating theory into practice. All leadership behaviour is based on a number of fundamental personal assumptions about the nature of human relationships and the basis on which human organisations function. Understanding Leadership helps leaders make their implicit understanding explicit and so informs and aids development of professional practice. Effective leaders develop and grow by understanding their personal mindscape - the mental map with which they make sense of the world - and developing it through reflecting, exploring, testing and questioning. The usefulness of any map is determined partly by its scale and partly by the information it depicts. As leaders develop, so their personal mental maps become more sophisticated and more detailed. The purpose of this book is to help leaders understand and refine their maps through reflective self-awareness - facilitating the journey to understanding leadership. Leadership is fundamentally concerned with the complexity of human relationships, performance, engagement and motivation - leadership has to be seen as relational. Leadership involves emotional engagement and sophisticated interpersonal relationships. The idea of a hero-leader single-handedly transforming a school is perhaps not a particularly useful or relevant vision of effective leadership for today. Libby and John encourage leaders to arrive at their own working definition of effective leadership and analyse how the myriad of carefully examined models and case studies might apply in their own school context. The eight chapters are underpinned by the following themes, questions and points of reflection: why leadership?; creating a preferred future - leading change; leadership as a moral activity; learning as the core purpose of school leadership; leading through collaboration and cooperation; building capacity - sharing leadership; leading through relationships; and leadership and personal resilience. High performance, effective leadership can be truly transformational. Leadership cannot be taught; it has to be learnt. It could be argued that school leadership is primarily concerned with learning: the leader's own, and facilitating that of the children. Questioning, interrogating and analysing ideas and practice are fundamental to that learning process. Libby Nicholas and John West-Burnham prompt leaders to do just that. Suitable for school leaders at all levels - head teachers, principals, assistant and deputy heads, middle leaders aspiring to senior roles - and in all educational settings. The book will also be of interest to education system leaders - chief education officers and directors of education - and, indeed, anyone concerned with developing effective school leadership; for example, governors and trustees, CPD trainers, coaches and mentors.
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LOS ANGELES — Australia's Rod Pampling followed up his scintillating first-round 60 with a three-under par 68 Friday to maintain a one-shot lead in the US PGA Tour tournament in Las Vegas.
Second-round play at TPC Summerlin was suspended because of darkness with 19 players still on the course.
Pampling's 14-under par total of 128 put him one stroke in front of American Brooks Koepka, who carded a 67 for 129.
Aaron Wise was 12-under for the tournament with four holes remaining when play was halted, and Chris Kirk was in the clubhouse on 11-under 131 after a 65.
Pampling appeared to feel some letdown after challenging for a 59 Thursday, opening with two bogeys in his first five holes.
He recovered by playing his last 13 holes in five-under with six birdies.
"Just two silly mistakes that I made," Pampling said of his slow start. "I knew things were still good. I didn't panic. I made a good one on I think it was our sixth hole for birdie and then made a great up-and-down on 16. That just kind of righted the ship, and then after that I was fine, and we played nice after that."
Koepka, ranked 22nd in the world, grabbed a share of the lead after an eagle at the par-five 16th, but dropped a shot with a closing bogey.
Kirk, whose 36-hole total of 131 was his lowest since a 130 at the 2013 Sony Open in Hawaii, briefly held the clubhouse lead.
Feng shoots 64
Shanshan Feng shot an 8-under 64 Saturday to take the TOTO Japan Classic lead, putting the Chinese player in position to close the Asian swing with consecutive victories.
Feng birdied the final two holes for a one-stroke advantage over Ariya Jutanugarn, the 20-year-old Thai star who leads the LPGA Tour with five victories. Jutanugarn had a 68 on another chilly day at Taiheiyo Club in the tour's first tournament in the Tokyo area since 1991.
Feng won last week in steamy conditions in Malaysia for her fifth LPGA Tour victory. She has finished no worse than a tie for fourth in her last six events. She started the run with the Olympic bronze medal, tied for fourth at Evian in France, opened the Asia trip at home in China with a fourth-place tie, was second in Taiwan and tied for third in South Korea before winning.
Jutanugarn has a 13-point lead over Lydia Ko in the player of the year standings. Ko was tied for 52nd at 1-over after a 71.
Suzann Pettersen (66) and Kang Soo-yun (69) were 9-under on the pine tree-lined Minori Course.
Willett slumps as Olesen rises
Masters champion Danny Willett slumped as Denmark's Thorbjorn Olesen hit a new course record 62 to open up a six-shot lead on day two of the Turkish Airlines Open Friday.
Willett had hit an opening-round 69 but dropped back to a tie for 56th place after failing to record a single birdie in a three-over-par 74.
Olesen, 26, capped his round with an eagle along with eight birdies and just one bogey in a nine-under-par effort to move to a 15-under 127 total in ideal scoring conditions on the Regnun Carya resort course.
Two players — Spain's Adrian Otaegui and Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee — share a distant second on nine-under par.
Italy's Matteo Manassero, 23, showed a return to form with a 68 to move into a share of third alongside Swede Joakim Lagergren, England's David Horsey and China's Li Haotong.
First-round leader George Coetzee of South Africa slumped to a share of 13th place at five under par after putting two balls into the water in taking a quadruple bogey at his 10th hole in an eventual round of a two-over-par 73. — Agencies


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Burlington's Newman debuts at Artworld gallery
David Newman of Burlington, Ont., has been working artist for over 30 years but on Jan. 24 was playing host to the first official showing of his works at Artworld Fine Art Gallery in Toronto.
Newman, in his early 60s, has been working in charcoal, oil, watercolours and even metal piping over the years to create diverse works but his duties running his own financial-services company based in Oakville, Ont. as well as spearheading the Federation of Canadian Independent Deposit Brokers have tended to monopolize his time. In recent years he has developed his own style, starting with images of such settings as Bronte Creek Provincial Park in Oakville and Dundurn Castle in Hamilton to create vivid landscapes done in acrylic paints on treated, textured surfaces, incorporating photographic images and imagined topography. In the Bronte Park series, small grey/brown images of an old farmhouse in winter are extended into rampant swaths of brilliant yellows, greens and oranges, cascading into a waterfall of terrain. He gets extra depth using slabs of wood – even part of an old door – as a canvas and then layering on the acrylic. Here, he was initially inspired by the sheen of a tabletop in a pub.
Newman has had individual works of art shown in past years but never a full showing until Donna Child, gallery director of Artworld, encountered one of his works and began negotiations. Child told FYI, "Artworld Fine Art is in the business of selling art, promoting art and educating our clients and art enthusiasts on the many various aspects of art … David's mixed media paintings are very unique and bring a new artistic perspective to our gallery." At the opening, there were eight Newman works on display.
Newman was beaming on opening night. "The chance to relive some of the experience of the creation with those attending was a very interesting experience into itself – I found it exhilarating and awakening," he said afterwards.
"As to the art scene, being among established and renowned artists at a premier gallery is a wonderful and humbling experience – I guess some would say it's validation – which is very nice and reassuring that other artists, collectors and a whole bunch of friends turned out to the event. It's very encouraging to hear such lavish praise and be in this type of a public forumm whereas some of my prior works resides in private hands."
Artworld Fine Art Gallery, 365 Evans Avenue, Toronto.
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September 22, 2015
Re: Senior Portraits and Senior Advertisements
Dear Students, Parents and Guardians of future graduates of the class of 2015,
Congratulations! Having a senior student is something to celebrate. Seniors are on the cusp of making adult decisions, going to college or starting a career. It is a very important period in everyone's life and it is a time that everyone wants to remember.
In order to prepare for these memories, the yearbook staff is already preparing for the end of the year and graduation. Senior portraits must be taken by Boyd Anderson Photography by November 28, 2015 in order to be included in the annual. Do not wait to make an appointment! Make it now! The yearbook cannot accept senior portraits by any other studio for publication. The sitting for a standard portrait session at Boyd Anderson is complimentary and purchases are not required. In the portraits, students must wear proper clothing. Boys should wear a collared shirt and tie, but coats are optional. Girls should wear an appropriate blouse or sweater (remember that hoodies don't look nice!). For appointment information, please contact Boyd Anderson Photography at 619.444.1184, visit their website athttp://www.boydanderson.com/ or stop by their offices at 8400 N. Magnolia Ave., Santee, CA 92071.
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On the BR-277 highway in Paraná, a pair on a motorcycle cut off a car, and got violently hit. The bike exploded, and both bikers spun through the air.
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Had Lehman not collapsed on Monday, it would, in its role as corporate broker to Lloyds TSB, have been reaping tens of millions of pounds in fees from the takeover of HBOS.
Lehman was crowing two years ago when it captured Lloyds as its first corporate broking client. Now the fees will go elsewhere, as other bankers snap up Lehman's old clients.
Acting as corporate broker consists of providing impartial advice regarding a company's investor base. That is fairly humdrum stuff, until a big deal or fundraising comes along, when they gain the box seat to advise and pick up bumper fees.
Lehman, which acted for Lloyds on the sale of its Abbey Life insurance unit, would have been in line to share as much as £50 million if Lloyds captures HBOS at its current market value of £10 billion.
The fall of Lehman leaves Citigroup as sole broker and in pole position to scoop the fees jackpot. But rivals are already scrambling for a role on the high-profile deal.
Morgan Stanley could be an early winner as the American bank advises Lloyds and is also broker to HBOS.Lehman's rivals are also scrambling to snatch Lehman's five other FTSE 100 brokerships — Legal & General, 3i, Invensys, the London Stock Exchange and Tesco. All are reviewing their broking line-up following Lehman's collapse.
Lehman's presence in corporate broking was small compared to rivals such as Cazenove, the Queen's stock-broker, which has 35 FTSE 100 clients on its broking books, but its client lists will be of interest to Bob Diamond.
Diamond tried to buy Cazenove four years ago before the firm struck a deal with American bank JP Morgan. Barclays is in talks to lift the firm's European investment banking team.
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Over the last 10 years, one of the most impressive developments within the United States prison system has been the advent of video visitation technology. These systems are often based on a VoIP, a protocol of internet telephony that allows for calls to be placed that are both extremely high quality and very cheap.
With video visitation, this technology has been taken to the next level, allowing for inmates to maintain almost constant daily face time with their loved ones on the outside. This is had a number of positive benefits, both on the institutions and on the inmates themselves. But perhaps the greatest contribution of the video visitation system has been its proven ability to reduce recidivism and create more well-socialized inmates who are capable of successfully reintegrating into society upon the completion of their sentences.
But there are many other, smaller benefits that video visitation confers upon the institutions in which it is installed. One of those is the dramatic reduction of in-person visitations. Long the Achilles heel of prison security protocol, in-person visitations create an opportunity for those on the outside to pass contraband into the hands of inmates. These include drugs, weapons and even cash. This has long presented one of the most serious threats to the ongoing safety and efficiency of America's penal institutions.
But with video visitation, inmates and their family members no longer have the need to meet each other in person. With high-quality, high-definition displays, video visitation provides an experience that is comparable to that of in-person visitation but without any of the added cost or risks that the latter imply.
Another direct benefit of video visitation being used to replace the traditional in-person visitation is the fact that inmates no longer have to be physically moved throughout the prison itself. This has also long been a point of conflict, bringing gang members into territory that they don't control and potentially creating the conditions for attacks on officers and other inmates.


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River Towers Condos: Prices, Pictures, Facts and Map
High-rise condos backing to a National Wildlife Preserve
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River Towers is a beautiful condominium community located just blocks from the GW Parkway. River Towers is a green and serene oasis unique in Northern Virginia. The building is surrounded by 27 acres of woods and wetlands! The heart of the Old Town shopping district is just 3 minutes away. 3 minutes in the opposite direction is suburbia: Lowes, Target, Marshall's, Chili's, T.G.I. Fridays. Traffic in the area is relatively free from congestion. This is truly unique in Northern Virginia. You can have it all.
- Excellent views of either the Potomac or Alexandria
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- Handicapped accessible.
- Small pets (under 35 pounds) welcome.
- Located on 27 acres, some of which include a federally protected wildlife preserve.
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- Boat storage and a kayak rack on site.
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This week started out sad for me because of Parrie's passing, but the Lord knows how to balance out your grief with happiness. I'm getting a sister-in-law!
Ian asked Jenna to marry him at sunset on a dock near our town with a diamond that was Jenna's grandmother's. Afterward, we surprised Jenna in downtown Woodstock to celebrate!
We also celebrated my mother-in-law's birthday! I picked this bouquet for her as a gift.
I've been taking Puck on a couple of short walks everyday, so that she can get used to being on the leash. Eventually we want to be able to take her camping and on adventures. Right now, she still panics if she sees another dog, person, cat, leaf...it's kind of frustrating, but I'm hoping there are better days ahead.
Ophie's been enjoying the sunshine!
This week has been tough. I go from super happy and then to sad when I remember Parrie's death. Please keep me in your prayers. This weekend is her service, and I know it won't be an easy weekend. In spite of any sadness I feel, I know that the Lord has a purpose and he's given me so much to be happy about. Thank y'all for your prayers!


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This collage wants to reflect on how I see motherhood, even if I am not a mother. This role seems to be quite complex, challenging and extremely vulnerable.
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• My artworks are based on vintage found objects (photos, postcards, LP covers, etc.), so they are one of a kind.
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