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Ethiopia is of course reggae's spiritual homeland, so any attempt to re-connect Jamaican riddims with an Ethiopian sensibility is going to be a noble effort at least. This CD is far greater than that. It's a stunning, edifying combination of dub-drenched grooves, traditional Ethiopian sounds, towering walls of electronic texture and the sort of roots/jazz/soul/pop fusions we all know and love from the Ethiopiques series.
The mastermind behind it all is Dubulah, better known as Nick Page, a composer, guitarist, bassist and producer who was a founding member of Trans-Global Underground and, if this disc is any indication, remains a sonic experimenter of the highest order. Imagine Dub Syndicate merged with African Head Charge and transported to East Africa and you might get an idea of what this disc has in store. Or better yet, buy it and give a listen. You'll soon be awash in militant drums and bass supporting cavernous constructions of twanging, echoing, almost orchestral music with Ethiopian instruments and voices seeping in and out of your reverie like spirits caught between worlds and loving it. Listen closer and you'll pick up on other small thrills: subtle nyabinghi pulses; horns that wouldn't be out of place on a Cedric Brooks album; moments where the underlying beat drops away and seems to leave the remaining sounds floating on air; dub touches straight out of the '70s; electric and acoustic instruments perfectly blended and so very much more.
Dub reggae is the primary building block, though on a few tracks like the gorgeously breathy "Neh Yelginete (My First Love)" it's more of a jazz vibe carrying you off. But no matter what the feel, A Town Called Addis is brilliant, seamless fusion that reggae lovers, Ethiopian music fans, ethno-techno heads and global adventurers of every stripe will savor.
Interview: Things you didn't know about Derajah
By Angus Taylor
Interview: Ken Boothe in Kingston (Part 1)
By Angus Taylor
Interview: Kabaka Pyramid in Kingston
By Angus Taylor
Interview: Ben Up and Barnabas talk Channel One (Part 1)
By Angus Taylor
Chronixx - Chronology
By Erik Magni
Vin Morgan meets Lone Ark - Give Thanks
By Erik Magni
Riddimentary - Suns of Dub Selects Greensleeves
By Erik Magni
The 20 Best Reggae Songs of the first half of 2017
By Erik Magni
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> Hi All,
> I've used m0n0 for a long time in my home office. I work from home
> connecting to my employers MS PPTP VPN on an as needed basis.
> Essentially, I have a PC or two that have VPN logins to the head office
> for access to Exchange or corp file servers. My router (m0n0wall on
> Net4801) does not itself have a connection to the head office. I also
> have a substancial VoIP setup so managed QoS/traffic shaping is a must.
> My employer approached me about providing me with a router that was a
> VPN end point. They think that this might get around issues we have
> with DNS failure through the VPN. That has typically required hosts
> file entries for servers inside the corp firewall, even thought we are
> connected to the VPN.
You can use m0n0wall and ipsec with several other vendors. Some are
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outside, you can have m0n0wall use the company DNS. If not, you can
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25 Years Ago
1989 – Vandalia Chamber of Commerce was seeking volunteer greeters for the tourism center.
Between 250 and 300 honored Jim Staff at a retirement reception. Staff served in the field of education for 38 years and was superintendent of schools for Fayette County since 1959. Effingham and Bond counties were later added to his region.
Jane Eaton won the 11th annual St. Andrews Ladies Open Golf Tournament.
30 Years Ago
This week's Mystery Banks Photo: Taken in 1937, this photo shows four children of a local minister who started the Vandalia Ministerial Alliance.
1989 – Jeanne Gustafson was named interim economic development director for the city of Vandalia.
Dave Bell won the 10K run held in conjunction with the Grande Levée.
1984 – Jim Kelly and Anna Ruth Kains retired from the Fayette County Hospital Board of Directors. They were presented plaques by Chairman John Daniels. Marie Bristow of Vandalia and Elbert Finley Jr. of Ramsey replaced Kelly and Kains.
In 1914, The Vandalia Union celebrated its 50th anniversary by inviting readers to write reminiscences for publication in an anniversary issue. Many people took the editor up on the invitation, including Cynthia Luster Hickman.
Mrs. Hickman lived on the 400 block of North First Street, and her home stands today a beautiful representative of the Queen Anne style of architecture. Kyle Barker is the current owner.
She remembered that after the gold rush, men did not carry pocket books; they carried sacks full of gold, William Lee and Jake Albert included.
This week's Mystery Banks Photo: This team of local athletes was the champion of the men's fastpitch softball league in 1988. All but one of them were reared in Fayette County.
1989 – The Grande Levée was to include period crafts, tours, music and lots of homemade foods.
Jody Eyman was queen of the Bond-Fayette TMH prom.
35 Years Ago
1984 – Robert E. McCart and Michael D. Kleinik were appointed to sergeant positions on the Vandalia Police force this week.
1989 – Dan Meyer was named superintendent of St. Elmo schools.
Jim Virostko was hired as the new basketball coach at Vandalia Community High School.
Mulberry Grove's top students were Erik Grigg, valedictorian, and Bob Jackson, salutatorian. At Brownstown, Lisa Luster and Stephanie Pruett were co-valedictorians, with Teresa Grubaugh salutatorian.
John Campbell won the Golden Glove and Hustle awards for the Greenville College baseball team.
This week's Mystery Banks Photo: These siblings grew up in the Vandalia area.
Emmett Kelly, who became famous the world over as "Weary Willie," the sad-faced clown, had his beginnings in a small Kansas town.
1989 – Hail and high winds broke windows, dented vehicles and destroyed roofs and crops in Fayette County. The damage was estimated at $15 million.
South Central was the name chosen by students for the newly consolidated Farina LaGrove, Kinmundy-Alma school district.
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Squad Goals
"When worst comes to worst, squad comes first!" I don't know who came up with that quote, but when I found it I was totally inspired. I've been thinking a lot about homecoming dresses and seeing a lot of "promposals" on social media over the last few months. It got me thinking, is a date a necessary part of a fantastic homecoming, prom, party, etc. Edna Buchanan once said, "Friends are the family we choose for ourselves." and I couldn't agree more. I think hanging with the squad is way more fun than anything else! So take a note from Taylor Swift and rule the night with your squad! Faviana understands exactly what we mean, this week they released the amazing empowering images below which illustrate this point perfectly!
Sleeping Beauty
With Maleficent now on iTunes, we found ourselves re-watching an old
classic: Sleeping Beauty. Each side has a story and both villain and hero
are fabulously dressed. Sleeping Aurora is a perfect princess in pink. The
shades of blush remain a staple of this fantastic story. Browsing our
selection of Alyce dresses, we found some lovely choices worthy of a real-
life fairy tale. If you're in need of a homecoming gown or beautiful
birthday attire, these dresses are sure to make you feel just like a princess.
Beauty Vlogger in Alyce!
Youtube Vlogger Chelsea Crockett is all about beauty. She's known for
creating online tutorials to help her fellow teens. She was recently
featured in Seventeen magazine as one of the top vloggers to watch.
Homecoming fast approaches and Chelsea is looking for a dress! She
posted her favorite looks from Alyce Paris and asked her followers to
vote. We love both of these homecoming dresses! They're colorful, sassy
and full of glittery detail. Below, you'll find Chelsea's fabulous fall
tutorial. She uses a few products to create a wonderful, everyday look!
Homecoming Hair Ideas
(& How-Tos!)
We anticipate your every evening-wear need but, when it comes to hair, we
turn to the NewYorkDress Pinterest page for ideas. Our favorite pins are the
ever-helpful beauty tutorials. From nails to hair, you can find help with
anything. We choose a few favorites to give you ideas for homecoming season.
Are you up for an elegant chignon twist or a sexy sixties bouffant? Your hair
choice can depend on your level of glam and personal style. Play around and
try something new!
Popular Pageant Dresses
We love our pageant dresses, as do the gorgeous contestants of the
world. We gathered popular styles, along with current favorites to
showcase the stunning, floor-length looks of this category. You need
length, color and a good amount of glitter to equal the perfect pageant
dress. Pastels are in, but you can't go wrong with a sultry red look or
a classic navy hue. Each dress is more striking than the next. You'll be
a knockout whether you're competing or headed to a red carpet event!
Fairy Tale Homecoming
Homecoming is approaching and the more we think about picking a dress,
the more we picture a night of fairy tale moments. We recently re-watched
Disney's Enchanted, which is a fantastical fairy tale that combines magic
with our New York sensibilities. These gorgeous homecoming dresses are
made for the modern princess who wants to feel glam when they enter a
night on the town!
Wear These Homecoming Dresses
Again and Again!
Buying a new dress can be an investment, depending on the frock. Everyone
wants the ability and occasion to wear something more than once. We picked
a few homecoming contenders that can be re-worn for a variety of events.
Add a blazer or tights for a totally different look, or keep as is for an
elegant repeat that can worn day or night.
Quinceañera Dresses
A Quinceañera, or fifteenth birthday celebration is always a special occasion.
It is celebrated among Latin communities and marks the transition from
childhood to young womanhood. One of the signature elements of the
celebration is picking one out many gorgeous Quinceañera dresses. The goal
is to find a dress fit for a princess! This is where NewYorkDress comes in.
Our ball gowns are special in every way and make looking for a dress easier
than ever!
Celebrity Prom & Homecoming Looks
Celebrities were teens once too! They made wonderful (or cringe-worthy)
decisions when it comes to prom and homecoming attire. Check out some
of our favorite celebs in photos from their school-dance years (can you
guess who's who without looking?)and start shopping for your own
homecoming dress worthy of a homecoming queen!
Alternative Homecoming Styles
If you feel the urge for uniqueness and pretty princess styles turn you off,
then these alternative homecoming dresses are the way to go! Whether colorful
ruffles or bright polka dots, each dress has something different to offer. Fall
in love with these unique styles and colorful styling inspiration!
If you really want to be a head turner, go for this pink number by Jonathan
Kayne. The dress actually lights up! Check out the showstopper below.
Pretty in Pink Plus-Sizes
Fabulous plus-size dresses can be hard to come by these days. That's why
we're especially excited to showcase these perfect pink creations from Faviana
and Sydney's Closet. If you're thinking of homecoming dresses, keep these
lovely frocks in mind. Whichever you choose, we have no doubt that you will
be utterly pretty in pink!
Television's Most Memorable
Homecoming Looks!
We never get tired of looking back at our favorite TV shows chalk full of
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Diaries, two of our favorite shows of the moment. We're also in love with old-
school favorites like 90210 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Everyone looks
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amazing was that episode?!). Take a trip down memory lane as we celebrate
our favorite TV moments and the dresses that went with them!
Princess for A Night
When you think of a fairy tale, the dress is essential. Whether prom, wedding or
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Because you can't run any productivity apps locally, you'll probably be using Google Docs. In fact, with the exception of a few competitors, like Zoho and Microsoft Office 365, that's about it for choices. You won't have good options that enable you to create rich documents. And once you've created those docs, not to mention a load of your emails if you use Gmail, all of your stuff is sitting on a Google server, just waiting for the feds to come looking.
If you use Web mail today, you have that issue as well, but at least your other documents are securely stored on your company's servers or on your own local drives. And when you use a real PC or netbook, you can access those emails and documents wherever and whenever you need. That's not the case when you can't get online because you're on an airplane or there simply isn't enough bandwidth in the neighborhood to work.
All of us who have struggled with AT&T's network over the last couple of years should know just how frustrating that can be. But at least when AT&T lets me down, I still have access to all of my stuff. That wouldn't be the case if I were chained to a Chromebook or similar paradigm-shifting (yuck) device.
The spectrum shortage is serious
More than a year ago, I warned that a shortage of spectrum was becoming a serious issue that few publications had noticed. Well, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has taken heed, and last week at CES he said: "The coming spectrum crunch threatens American leadership in mobile and the benefits it can deliver to our economy and our lives."
To be fair, Genachowski has been sounding the alarm about this issue for some time. "I believe that that the biggest threat to the future of mobile in America is the looming spectrum crisis," he said at the CTIA conference in October 2009. He predicted that total wireless consumption could grow from 6 petabytes a month in to 400 petabytes by 2013. (A petabyte is 1,024 terabytes.)
"What happens when every mobile user has an iPhone, a Palm Pre, a BlackBerry Tour, or whatever the next device is? What happens when we quadruple the number of subscribers with mobile broadband on their laptops or netbooks?" Genachowski asked.
Great questions -- but we're still waiting for definitive answers. As part of its national broadband plan, the FCC last year proposed allowing broadcast TV stations to voluntarily sell some of their spectrum for mobile broadband purposes. In November, the Commerce Department announced a plan to allocate 115MHz of spectrum to wireless broadband in the next five years.
There's already some of the usual free-market Neanderthal opposition to anything the FCC and other parts of the government do to improve the communications environment, so we'll see what happens. Even in the best case, it will be years before that capacity is in place. But in the meantime, the shortage of spectrum is very real, and if you depend on wireless communications for day-to-day computing needs, you're going to be terribly frustrated.
That said, I certainly know we're moving away from a PC-centric world. Motorola's Atrix unveiled at the just-concluded CES, the iPad, and other Android devices ameliorate some of these issues. But the shift away from the PC is not going to happen overnight, and it'll be much more difficult than the digerati would have us believe.
I welcome your comments, tips, and suggestions. Post them here so that all our readers can share them, or reach me at email@example.com. Follow me on Twitter at BSnyderSF.
This article, "The PC era is not over -- yet," was originally published by InfoWorld.com. Read more of Bill Snyder's Tech's Bottom Line blog and follow the latest technology business developments at InfoWorld.com.


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Subject: Re: [Q-R] ListUncle
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 00:47:16 EST
In a message dated 03/25/2002 12:24:24 AM Eastern Standard Time,
<< Odena Chartier Gareau is the only one I have. I wasn't hiding it, honest I
wasn't...please don't put me in "time-out". <grin> This was sent to me by a
gal from GenForum, and all I have are estimated dates for her of 1855-1899.
No source information <ok, for that I go to the "time-out" chair> but please
forgive me, I was just beginning and knew nothing. Her parents were Moise
Chartier and Rosalie Goyette. Where the name Gareau came from, for her, I
have no idea. >>
Hi Ann,
I don't have your people but can take a really good guess as to where the
name GAREAU comes from for Odina.
In my file I have:
Jean-Baptiste Gareau (Jean-Baptiste Tondu-dit-St-Onge & Marie-Angélique
m. 24 Aug. 1807 @ St-Joseph-de-Chambly
Marie-Françoise Chartier-dit-Bénac (Joseph-Marie Chartier-dit-Benac &
Marie-Jeanne Jacques)
There is definitely a connection of sorts between those two names and she
could very well be a descendant of theirs.
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> Redirect Lan-traffic addressed to a specific DMZ-Host to a lan host if ssh is
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> But I didn't see any way how to put this into m0n0wall's GUI. Am I missing
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m0n0wall does not let you do destination NAT on traffic from the LAN.
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BUFORD — Jess Simpson doesn't care if his team breaks the state's all-time single-season scoring record of 682 points.
He really has just one number on his mind heading into Friday night's Class AAA state championship game.
"I could care a less if we get it or don't get it," said Simpson, Buford's head coach. "I'm just hoping for a one-point win."
Top-ranked Buford (14-0) enters Friday's title game, slated for a 5:30 p.m. kickoff at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, against No. 3 Washington County (13-0) needing just 11 points to break the state's all-time scoring mark, set by Dublin High in 2006.
The Wolves have scored 672 points through their first 14 games this season, while allowing just 92 total points to opponents. And while it's the offensive scoring record that could be broken Friday night, the Wolves are hanging their hats on their defensive effort this season.
"I feel like we definitely have parts of being one of the best defenses to come through Buford, if not the best," said linebacker Korie Rogers, a Clemson commit. "We have a lot of speed and we've got power on the D-line and at the linebacker position."
The Wolves are certainly on pace to be known as one of the greatest defensive units, and teams, in school history. They're already often compared to Buford's 2007 Class AA championship team, which finished with a 15-0 record and allowed just 66 points all season.
This year's set of Wolves hasn't allowed more than 14 points in a game (they gave up 14 to Gainesville, North Hall and Callaway), and they can put a bow on their legacy with a dominating performance against high-powered Washington County tonight in the championship game.
"That's something we talk about — being the best defense to come through here," senior safety Tre' Neal said.
"We don't have the big names, but statistically we want to be the best. That 2007 team, '09 team, we want to be the best of all of them."
The Golden Hawks enter the title game averaging 49.9 points per game, and have outscored their opponents 649-134 this season.
Quarterback A.J. Gray leads the explosive offense. The junior has passed for 1,682 yards, rushed for 1,308 yards and accounted for 32 touchdowns. Senior Melvin Hill (1,771 yards, 33 touchdowns) and Danyale Wicker (1,569 yards, 19 TDs) also play major roles in the rushing attack.
"I think it is the best-coached unit I have seen this year," Simpson said. "They have three great running backs, they have three or four talented receivers and then the quarterback is truly the quarterback of the team.
"He does it all for them; he starts at free safety, he runs the ball on offense, he throws it. You can tell he does a great job with the read zone on offense. He is a very talented young man."
While Washington County has playmakers on offense, so do the Wolves.
Joshua Thomas (946 yards rushing, 14 touchdowns), Thomas Wilson (812 yards, 16 touchdowns), Evyn Cooper (538 yards, 5 TDs) and Xavier Gannt (456 yards, 7 TDs) lead a Buford attack that is averaging a stout 272 rushing yards per game this season.
In the passing attack, quarterbacks Taylor Mitchell and Montgomery VanGorder have each thrown nine touchdowns this year and have combined for 1,520 yards passing.
The key to the offensive success this season has been the ability to play fast, when needed.
"As coaches and players, everybody in this building, we believe that knowledge equals speed," Simpson said. "The more we know, the faster we are going to play. And the faster we play, the better we are going to play."
Buford is 8-3 in state championship games since 2000, and 5-1 in title games with Simpson as the head coach. The Wolves' last loss in a championship game was in 2011, when they fell to Calhoun, 27-24, in overtime.
It's a loss that still motivates the players to this day.
"We definitely didn't like that feeling," Rogers said. "So we try our hardest to not let that happen again."
Added Neal: "Sophomore year was hard, especially watching it slip away. We worked so hard to come back, just to get back into the game, and then that first play of overtime, the ball just slipped out and we lost it."
Preparing for the championship game has brought challenges of its own for Buford.
Much like last year when they faced St. Pius X, the Wolves are facing a team in the championship game they haven't seen, an unfamiliar feeling after facing Calhoun in four straight title games from 2008-11.
Despite having never faced Washington County in school history, the Wolves have attempted to stick to a normal routine schedule as best as possible, although facing a team like the Golden Hawks certainly has posed new challenges.
"It seems like every time we are playing in one of these games, you're playing somebody that creates so many problems," Simpson said, "from the game planning then trying to get the gameplan installed on a Monday and then re-teaching it on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
"It's a whirlwind and there isn't a lot of sleeping, just a lot of people trying really hard one last time."
Much like Buford, Washington County is a storied program. The Golden Hawks have won three state championships in school history (1994, 1996, 1997) and last reached the state finals in 2004 when they fell to LaGrange.
The program has also placed six players into the NFL, most notably linebacker Takeo Spikes, a first-round pick in 1998.
"Obviously, they have a great tradition and they're excited to be back in the state championship game," Simpson said.
After breezing through the regular season and the opening two rounds of the playoffs, Buford has had to overcome tougher obstacles the past two weeks.
In the quarterfinals, the Wolves committed three turnovers in a 36-6 win over Carver-Columbus.
Last week, the Wolves faced their first deficit of the season when they trailed Callaway 14-7 at halftime in the state semifinals. A pair of second-half touchdowns and a season-high 221-yard rushing yards from Thomas propelled the Wolves to the come-from-behind 24-14 victory over the Cavaliers.
It's that adversity the Wolves have faced thus far in the postseason that could play a factor in Friday's championship game, given Washington County hasn't been challenged in a game since earning a 36-33 overtime win over Class AA title contender Lovett on Oct. 4.
Since that win over the Lions, the Golden Hawks have won eight straight games by an average of 41.3 points, which includes a 37-0 shutout over Ringgold in the semifinals last week.
"Every scenario helps you — playing in bad weather, playing behind, having a little bit of adversity, if you happen to turn it over two or three times like we did a few weeks ago — you need to have those growing moments and experiences," Simpson said.
"You don't want to get to the Dome and not have (had) those experiences happen to you. In the course of a season, you have to overcome it."


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If the Supreme Court scraps the Affordable Care Act in the coming days, California will lose out on as much as $15 billion annually in new federal money slated to come its way, dealing what state officials say would be a critical blow to efforts to expand coverage to the poor and uninsured.
The state is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the federal healthcare law because of its large number of uninsured residents — about 7 million people, or nearly 20% of California's population.
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Paris Achenbach '13 | December 5, 2012
I was outside of the Conservatory the other day when I ran into my friend Devin, a third-year double-degree student (in computer science and composition). He asked me what piece I was learning this semester on the piano. "Chopin's Nocturne in E-Flat Major," I told him. "The second one, the famous one."
"Nice," he nodded. "That's a beautiful piece."
"Yeahhhhhh," I started to agree. The truth is, it used to be my all-time favorite song on the piano - gave me goosebumps when I listened to it, sometimes made me drop a tear. But now? "I don't know. I feel like because I've been learning it and practicing it all semester, it's lost a lot of its magic."
"Wow, I'm sorry," Devin said, looking genuinely sorry. "That's really sad."
I shrugged. "It's just the way it is."
And somehow I'm okay with it. It didn't take me long to realize, after starting secondary lessons in the Con, that when you learn a piece - even if it's the most beautiful, kinetic, awe-inspiring music you've ever heard in your life - inevitably you take out its mystery. You have to: In the process of breaking it down, you're discovering the twists and turns of the music that make it so powerful.
And Chopin's Nocturne is no different, unfortunately. Now when I listen to Arthur Rubinstein's rendition of it (the best rendition, in my opinion), I don't feel the climatic build-up at 3:25, nor do I feel the familiar goosebumps when the piece drops at 3:36. I hear the precision of his trills, and wonder how can I do that?? I hear the quickness of his left hand - the subtleties of his chords - and feel agitated that my left hand sounds so clunky and distracting when I play it.
Before I started taking piano, I had always imagined the Conservatory students to have it so good - I mean, for their homework, they get to play guitar, or jam on their saxophone, or sing songs! What fun! Compared to sitting in lab for four hours studying the optical properties of minerals, or discussing Lucretian theories of democracy and politics, I would play piano any day.
But after almost three years of piano at Oberlin, I understand just how naïve this is. Playing music for credit is not "easy" or "fun" or "magical" or "lucky." Mostly, it's really freakin' hard. It requires you to pick apart your piece, play every little segment over and over, dissect it, tinker with it, cry over it, feel completely lame about it, then get over yourself and start practicing again. You have to be precise and diligent, creative and robotic. And then - after all of this - you have to re-discover the emotional beauty in the piece, and use it in your performance.
Yeah, good luck with that. There's no way, right?
Except that so many people here can do that, and do it every semester. I swear, from just my 2-credit piano lessons, I've gained an entirely new respect for the musicians here at Oberlin. I honestly don't know how they do it - how they play their music with such bravery and intensity, don't buckle under the pressure. You have to be such a strong and confident individual to be successful in the Conservatory. Don't get me wrong, you have to be strong and confident to be successful in just about anything you do - but with music, there's a deeper emotional component to your failures and successes. If you fail a chemistry test, it's because you either didn't study enough, or just aren't that good at chemistry (the latter of which is totally understandable). But if you fail at music, it can say something about your character. It could be because you didn't practice enough - but, more terrifyingly, it could be because you aren't resilient enough. Mastering chemistry requires diligence and smarts, but mastering a piano piece requires diligence and smarts, plus creativity, plus the immense capacity to both overcome emotional hurdles, and, simultaneously, to use that emotional component to bring the music alive.
This is Margarita Rovenskaya, my student piano teacher I had for three semesters. She always managed to bring a huge smile to my lessons, and motivated me to practice, while also making sure that I had fun and was happy. I admire Rita in more ways than I can say. Photo cred to Hannah Kalson.
Earlier this semester, I told my friend Adrian Jewell (fourth-year double-degree in neuroscience and piano performance) about my fears of "ruining" Chopin's Nocturne by playing it.
"I'm afraid I won't do it justice," I told him back in September. "Or, even worse, that I won't like the piece anymore, that it will be ruined forever if I try to learn how to play it."
He nodded. "Yep, you probably will," he said matter-of-factly. "But you know, that's okay. You'll gain a new appreciation for it. You'll hear someone play it at a party, or a recital, and you'll hear the beautiful ways in which they play their trills, or how seamlessly they make the transitions, and you personally will understand how hard it is to do that. You'll hear the piece in a brand-new way."
So I have. And I think that's worth much more than just two credits.
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Posted by: Anastasia on December 6, 2012 12:30 AM
I like this so much :) :) :) I'm currently working on the f# minor nocturne! they're beautiful pieces.
Posted by: Dale on December 6, 2012 12:37 AM
Don't listen to Adrian! Work at it! The beauty and mystery of music only grows the more you study!
Posted by: Anon on December 6, 2012 10:18 AM
Paris this is beautiful and much appreciated. You understand :)
Posted by: Con student on December 6, 2012 11:58 AM
You rock
Posted by: Brad on December 6, 2012 3:14 PM
I always try to play my favorite pieces of music; it doesn't ruin them for me at all. I always feel like I gain a more intimate understanding of them by studying them so closely, and I love that - and if I actually manage to play them well in the end I'm usually pleasantly surprised and mildly impressed with myself, which is also a feeling I enjoy.
Posted by: Ida on December 10, 2012 9:33 AM
A lovely piece of writing Paris. You do your father proud.
Posted by: Tomas on December 10, 2012 11:28 AM
So pleased and thanked-you to see Ms. Achenbach is blogging for Oberlin this year! Diggit, dude! I do wish you'd be more mindful about using gender neutral prepositions, though.
Interesting perspective on the act of recreation; I find in poetry that imitation & memorization help me grow closer to the poem and experience it more fully [laboring over a line I might have otherwise skimmed]. It sounds like this isn't your experience with musica -- perhaps that's cuz you're really a poet at heart. Consider a verse workshop for your next hardest easiest class!
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June 7, 2010Clothing company Urban Outfitters has recently launched the sale of two new tshirts – one telling young women to "eat less" and another telling young men to "protect your daughter's virginity." Really now? To this day, women around the world fight tooth and nail to be seen beyond their sexual and reproductive "worth." And one in five American girls and women struggle with an eating disorder (National Institute of Mental Health). Yet Urban Outfitters shamelessly uses sexist slogans to make a buck. That's low. In response to these degrading tshirts, Progressive Women's Voices alumna and national feminist spokesperson Shelby Knox has organized a girlcott of the company. On her rallying Facebook page for the cause, Shelby resoundingly writes: "Urban Outfitters has hit a new sexist low and it's time for women (and our male and gender non-conforming allies) to hit them where it hurts - the cash register. First there was the men's t-shirt admonishing 'Fathers, it's up to you to protect your daughter's virginity!' - http://ht.ly/1TycY - a creepy throwback to a time where men owned their female relatives and a woman's entire worth was between her legs. Now, there's a women's t-shirt promoting the virtue 'Eat Less' - also known as anorexia and eating disorders. http://bit.ly/cD9Zk4 Women and men deserve clothing that doesn't degrade their humanity. We're calling on Urban Outfitters to pull these items and issue a commitment to produce clothing that upholds the value of all people without regard to gender, race, or sexual orientation. Urban Outfitters seems to have paid attention to Shelby's campaign, as they apparently have stopped the sale of the "Eat Less" tshirt. No word yet on Shelby's proposed commitment. For an interesting discussion on the boycott, read the comments on the boycott Facebook page.


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A young Lakeridge team gave Lake Oswego everything it could handle on Tuesday night but, in the end, a stout defensive effort by the Lakers prevailed for a 1-0 victory.
It was the first victory the Lakers have recorded over their cross-town rivals in seven years. And it didn't come easily.
Like the boys game that preceded it, the first 20 minutes of play were slow and methodical as the teams settled into a rhythm.
Lake Oswego had an early chance when Mady Johnson laid a pass to Jacqui Wallis whose shot was saved nearly by A.J. Griffin.
The pace of the game picked up in the final few minutes of the half. Lakeridge's Jenna Horton had a solid shot on goal that was turned away by Kat Colson and then, with two minutes to go before the whistle, Lake Oswego's Cali Reis knocked a shot off the crossbar.
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'Our defense was very solid fending them off. They're a very feisty team,' Lake Oswego coach Dominic Yambasu said. Gabbie Lindeman keyed a strong back line that turned away the majority of good Lakeridge chances.
The scoring drought ended early in the second half. Just over a minute after the teams came back onto the field, the Lakers earned a free kick and Reis passed the ball to Melinda Madden who then knocked in the game's only goal.
Minutes later, the Pacers nearly answered when Jaimie Landreth's shot from close range went over the top of the goal.
Lakeridge got one of its best chances of the night midway through the way on a dangerous corner kick that wasn't cleared but second-half goalie Ashleigh Anderson made a solid save.
Lake Oswego hand a handful of near misses, including Julianne Parker's touch which hit off the crossbar.
The Lakers also had a pair of one-on-none opportunities that went unanswered. First, Johnson received a feed from Madden and her shot rolled just inches wide of the net.
And, minutes later, Johnson sent a terrific pass to Ally Rumpakis who also pushed a shot just barely off target.
'We probably should have had more goals but I am happy we are up there firing away. As time goes on those shots will drop in,' Yambasu said.
Lake Oswego racked up the shot attempts in the closing minutes but the Pacers still had a chance to salvage a tie. Horton took the offense on her shoulder in the closing minutes, beating defenders and creating opportunities.
In the final minute, she earned a free kick that was taken just outside the box. With 20 seconds to play the ball was sent into the goal box but the header was knocked wide of the net in what would be the final shot of the evening.
'It's always an emotional game no matter what. It's always going to be tough,' Yambasu said of the Civil War rivalry.
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Mardi Gras Food Ideas
February 21, 2012 by staff
Mardi Gras Food Ideas, Mardi Gras: those two words might make you think "No way!" Or it might make you scream, "No limits!"
If you fall somewhere in the middle – if you want to drink some Hurricanes or Abitas, and wear some beads but keep your shirt on – and can't make it to New Orleans for the parades, here are a few places around the country that might almost make you feel that you're there. And hopefully not worry about finding a clean bathroom.
At his 30-year-old-restaurant in Chicago, which now has three locations, Jimmy Bannos Sr. turns out remarkable Cajun food; training with legendary New Orleans chefs Emeril Lagasse and Paul Prudhomme will do that for your cooking. Bannos's cookbook, "Heaven on Seven: Where It's Mardi Gras All the Time!" makes you think it's going to get a little crazy on Fat Tuesday. Especially when you see the cover photo of Bannos with more beads than I would have thought humanly possible.
Basically every New Orleans-style dish you could want, the Gumbo Pot has got. The huge menu has a New Orleans Favorites section with classics like jambalaya, red beans & rice, 13 different po' boys as well as muffulettas; there's also meatloaf and frog legs and traditional or chocolate beignets, served with chicory coffee. There's a brand new location on Hollywood but the annual Mardi Gras party with zydeco music and parades takes place at the Farmer's Market at 3rd & Fairfax.
David Guas is an New Orleans native and at Bayou Bakery, he takes his heritage seriously. On Mardi Gras Eve, he's hosting a dinner with a jazz quartet playing (dancing!). "Beads and cups are yours to keep, costumes optional, and a Bourbon Street attitude necessary," says the website.
Fat Tuesday will feature parade-route fare including: crawfish etouff233;e, crab boil peppa weenies, Bayou Bakery's outstanding cream cheese-stuffed King Cakes and cups of Rebirth Punch.
This new spot in Queens checks off the greatest hits of Louisiana from boudin ballsto muffuletta, served whole or "nice half." Around this time of year, you'll see specials like any po' boy plus any Abita beer. They serve the Purple Haze, Turbo Dog, Amber, IPA or the root beer, which is terrific, for $15.
If you're in Atlanta and wanting to celebrate Mardi Gras with some pralines rather than a parade cup filled with Southern Comfort, then you should go to Sweet Auburn Curb Market. Miss D uses an authentic New Orleans recipe and Georgia pecans to make her terrific candies. She also has some amazing, New Orleans-inspired popcorns, like Cajun Fried Pickle, Banana Caramel and Jalapeno.
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:44:23 -0400
Sussex County A history
By Warren D. Cummings
Our First Citizen
Casper Shafer came from Germany to Philadelphia. Here he bought, sight
unseen, a tract of land along the Paulin's Kill at a spot where
Stillwater is now. In 1742 he and his father-in-law set out from
Philadelphia to find their purchase. They made the whole trip by
following first the Delaware and then the Kill until they arrived. The
father-in-law soon died, but Caspar dug in with a will. Soon tiring of
transporting his grain out by packhorse to the nearest mill, many miles
away, he constructed his own mill. Although his first homemade makeshift
could grind only three to five bushels of wheat or rye a day, it was
ample for the simple needs of the Wintermutes, Snovers, Staleys, Snooks,
Couses, and other families, mostly of German origin, who followed him
into the section within a few years.
Later he built a larger mill which produced a flour surplus which Shafer
loaded onto flatboats and floated down the Paulinskill to the Delaware,
and down the Delaware to the Philadelphia market. It was a short-lived
experiment, however, for the Paulinskill was much more valuable as a mill
stream than it was for Shafer's primitive navigation. The country was
filling up, and other milldams soon appeared.
One of the mills was built, though not until after the Revolution, by
Caspar's son Peter, at what is now called Paulina, and even later Mark
Thompson built a mill still further upstream at a spot which came to be
known as Marksboro.
Incidentally, these dams ruined the Paulinskill for shad fishing. When
Shafer first came, there had been lots of shad every April.
Caspar (sometimes he spelled it Casper) also had his troubles with the
Indians. One night while he was alone a party of savages surrounded his
house, yelling and making noisy threats. Annoyed by the racket, Mr.
Shafer came out and started across the fields for help. An Indian pursued
him--evidently one who didn't know the miller's reputation as the
strongest man for miles around. Shafer lost his temper, grabbed and threw
the Indian, then took off his own garters and tied up the warrior.
Continuing on to his neighbor's house with drooping stockings, he
summoned the help which drove the marauders away.
There is one more Caspar Shafer story which should be told. When the
Revolution came, Sussex County, under the new constitution, was allowed
three members of the Assembly and one member of the Legislative Council.
John Cleves Symmes was the first Councillor, and the Assemblymen were
Abia Brown, Thomas Peterson, and Caspar Shafer. Thus he was one of the
first representatives of Sussex in the government of our new State. Here
is an anecdote of his political career from the address of Benjamin
Edsall at the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the
County's founding in 1853:
"He was a man of few words, but clear-headed and energetic, and wielded
much influence in the House. When matters appeared to him to be going
wrong, his usual mode of expressing dissent, as I am informed, was to
rise in his seat, and with considerable vehemence, and in a
strongly-marked German accent, exclaimed, "Tas is nicht recht! Tas is
nicht recht!" and then he would briefly give his views and explanations;
whereby attention of members would be arrested, and not infrequently the
current of the proceedings changed."
Transcribed by
Joan Peterson
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VICTORIA will probably need to accept nuclear power within a decade if it wants to avoid blackouts, big electricity price rises and a blow-out in greenhouse gas emissions, according to a Monash University power generation expert.
Professor John Price, who has been involved in designing almost every form of power technology from wind and wave to nuclear, said proposals to store carbon dioxide underground could triple or quadruple the cost of power.
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Mametz and the Bois Francais Area
This village is located around three miles due east of Albert, and on the 1st of July 1916 was towards the southern part of front on which the British attacked. In this area, unlike further north, there was success on the first day when Mametz was captured and nearby Fricourt was taken on the 2nd of July. It was the 7th Division which attacked here and gained these early successes. As well as the village itself, this page also covers the Bois Francais and cemeteries near to that woodland. There is now a separate page on Fricourt.
Map of Fricourt and Mametz area
The area is of interest because the war poets Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon served in this sector with the First Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers in early 1916. They mention many of the place names around here in their memoirs.
Starting to the south of the village, on the D147 road between Fricourt and Bray-sur-Somme is Citadel Cemetery. The road layout near the cemetery has changed recently. By what used to be a small track leading to Citadel Cemetery and on towards the Bois Francais, a new roundabout has been constructed. From this, a new road (the D329) now leads off west towards Meaulte Aerodrome and Albert. There is also a large ditch structure near the roundabout. The turn to the left from the roundabout, towards Citadel Cemetery has a new tarmacced section for the first part.
Citadel Cemetery was named after a point marked as 'The Citadel' on trench-maps. There was a camp of the name here, and the cemetery originally started by the French, with the first British burials made in August 1915. Most burials were made by Field Ambulance units, and so most of the 378 buried here are identified. The majority died before the Somme battles of 1916.
To the front left of the cemetery are two graves standing by themsleves; one of an unidentified soldier and the other that of Private S Circuit of the 2nd Middlesex. These two graves alone form Plot 1. The other four plots are in the major part of the cemetery, to the right of the entrance: a grass slope with flowerbeds either side leads up to the Cross of Sacrifice and the rest of the Cemetery beyond. In the first grave in Plot 2 Row A, Brigadier-General Louis Phillpotts is buried. This officer was with 24th Division Royal Artillery, and is one of many such senior officers who were killed in the Great War. Beside him lies another Artillery officer, Captain H Crippen, MC, of the 56th Division Artillery, like Phillpotts killed on the 8th of September 1916.
A headstone in Plot 3 Row F is inscribed 'Believed to be Sapper H Curtis'. This is fairly unusual: when the identity of a body was uncertain, it was more usual to have an unidentified grave (inscribed 'A Soldier of the Great War Known Unto God'), with a special memorial 'headstone' elsewhere in the cemetery to commemorate the man. The two graves in Plot 5 Row G in the rear left corner of the cemetery are located right under a mature tree, and the left hand grave especially (that of Private Sparrow of the Machine Gun Corps) must be under the roots of this tree now.
One man buried here is Corporal 'Mick' R O'Brien of the Royal Welch Fusiliers. It was this man that Siegfreid Sassoon carried in from No Mans Land on the night of the 25th of May 1916, for which he was later awarded the Military Cross that he later threw in the River Mersey as part of his protest against the War. Corporal O'Brien had been a regular raiding partner with Sassoon before that night, but Sassoon was not one of the raiding party on the 25th of May. However, he waited anxiously for the raiders to come back into the British lines, and then, when some did not return, against orders went out after them. With help, he dragged O'Brien back in, although the man was already dead when they reached safety.
An officer from the 1st Irish Guards, Lieutenant Charles Tisdall, died on the 15th of September 1916 and is buried in Plot 2. He had won the Military Cross for actions on the 18th of May the same year near the Ypres Salient, when along with a Private Younge he repulsed a group of around 20 Germans who had attacked a bombing post. He was killed when the Irish Guards attacked north-west of Ginchy and was 23 when he died. The 1st Irish Guards suffered badly that day: the Second in Command of the battalion, Major T M D Bailie was also killed and is also buried here, whilst four other officers were killed or later died of wounds, and there were more than 330 causalties among the men. Afterwards, what was left of the battalion regrouped on the southern edge of Bernafay Wood, and then made their way back to camp here at the Citadel. Presumably they brought back some of their dead with them who were then buried in this cemetery next to the camp.
Graves of Lieutenant Charles Tisdall (left) and Corporal 'Mick' O'Brien
The track continues uphill from Citadel Cemetery across the sloping farmland and after a short while becomes unsurfaced and stony. A contour line here marked on trench maps was Point 110, and there are two cemeteries near this track which bear that name. The first reached travelling from Citadel Cemetery towards the Bois Francais is Point 110 New Military Cemetery, to the right of the track. The picture below shows both, seen from further down the track towards Citadel Cemetery.
Point 110 New and Old Military Cemeteries
The Cross of Scarifice stands directly in the entrance to this small cemetery, which was begun by the 403rd French Infantry Regiment in May 1915. The bodies of the 26 Frenchmen buried here were removed after the war, as were two German graves. The cemetery today contains just 64 Commonwealth burials, all made between February and July 1916. All are identified.
Point 110 New Military Cemetery
In his autobiography Goodbye to All That Robert Graves describes the deaths of three officers; David Thomas, David Pritchard and Mervyn Richardson. Thier graves are here, next to each other in the second row back on the left. Their deaths, on the 18th and 19th of March 1916, apparently followed shortly after an unwise comment by the adjutant of the battalion about how fortunate they had been in not suffering any officer casualties in recent times. Sassoon described Thomas in some detail as 'Dick Tiltwood' in his semi-fictionalised Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.
RWF Officers graves in Point 110 New Military Cemetery
Sassoon first met David Thomas in mid-1915 at Litherland, and described him as 'good as gold'. Thomas was a close friend of both Graves and Sassoon, and the latter's account of David Thomas's burial to the sound of machine gun fire is very moving. The inscription on Thomas's headstone reads 'Per crucem ad lucem' (through the cross, we reach the light). He was just 20 when he died. One can still hear gunfire in this area from time to time, as there is a clay pigeon shooting range near to the Bois Francais today.
A little further along the track, this time off to the left is Point 110 Old Military Cemetery. The Bois Francais is visible on the ridge above, and the gleam of the Basilica in Albert can be seen from here too. This cemetery is the larger of the two with just less than a hundred burials, again all identified. Once again, it was originally a French cemetery, taken over by the British in August 1915. This was probably given the name 'Old' as it had been started by the French earlier than the 'New' Point 110 Cemetery. In fact, before September 1916 the hill was not known by the name 110 at all, but rather as King George's Hill. Again, the original French graves have long since been removed.
Point 110 Old Military Cemetery with the Bois Francais beyond
On the headstone marking Private William Blandford's grave is an inscription that reminds you of those left behind: 'He waits for us above, resting in the Savior's love. His wife and little Nance.' William Blandford was from Blandford in Dorset, and served with 'B' Company of the 1st Dorsets. His wife was Lucy Amelia Blandford, living at 51A Dorset Street in Blandford. We can't know how old 'little Nance' was when her father was killed on the 5th of October 1915, but since William himself was only 22, she can't have been more than a few years old at the most.
Point 110 Old Military Cemetery
There quite a number of burials of men from the Manchester Regiment who died on the 6th of February 1916, including Lieutenant Thomas Murdoch aged 20 from County Antrim. Several men from Tunnelling Companies are also buried here, and one can reflect on the particular bravery it took to dig underground with the constant threat of the enemy blowing a counter-charge, or the tunnel collapsing, and thus those trapped being literally buried alive. For example there is Second Lieutenant Norman Isherwood of the 174th Tunnelling Company. His headstone bears the insignia of the Royal Engineers. He was 22 when he was killed in action on the 8th of October 1915.
Grave of Second Lieutenant Norman Isherwood of the 174th Tunnelling Company
It seems on walking along the row of graves that there are many very moving personal inscriptions at the base of the headstones here. For example, that on Private Edwin Isaac Harper of the Northamptonshire Regiment reads 'To our hero from Mother, Dad, brothers and sisters'. On Private Charles Cameron's headstone are the words 'Ever remembered. Our thoughts are always with him in this foreign land'.
The Bois Francais itself is just beyond these cemeteries: a small wood on a ridge, where the enemy lines were relatively close together as neither wanted to concede the high ground. The trenches near here had London names: Park Lane and Shooters Hill for example. Shell-holes and what may perhaps be the remnants of trench lines can be seen in the right side of the wood off the track. German trenches can also be seen on private land just beyond.
The lines here were incredibly close. The very acurate GPS based Linesman system allows a very good estimate to be made of locations of the German and British front lines. The photograph below shows the view from the position of the British front lines towards the German front lines in early 1916. The German front lines were located just where the shadows begin on the track from the trees above. The front lines were only some 40 paces apart - the position was on the brow of a hill and neither side wanted to give up any ground here.
The front lines were very close at the Bois Francais
From the Bois Francais to the right is the area where Seigfreid Sassoon earned his Military Cross on the 25th of May 1916. This is the site of Kiel Trench and the land here still bears the scars from the Great War. However there are also the remains of World War Two gun emplacements here. Walking further along the right side by the fence towards the trees gives better views of the remains of German trenches here.
Shrapnel can still be seen in the furrows of the fields here, rusty fragments of metal ninety years old lying alongside clay pigeon fragments from the 'Ball-Trap' shooting site a little further along.
Site of the Kiel Trench at the Bois Francais
In his Walking the Somme, Paul Reed describes very rewarding walks which cover this area and the sites around, also giving the historical background from b oth the military and the literary associations perspective. The book is thoroughly reccomended to those visiting the area.
Mametz in ruins after capture on the 1st of July. Photo: Vise Paris
Over the ridge to the north-east from the Bois Francais lies the village of Mametz. In the lee of the slope to the south of the village is the beautiful and moving Devonshire Cemetery. Probably one of the most famous and most visited cemeteries on the Somme, there is a stone by the cemetery gate which bears the inscription "The Devonshires held this trench, the Devonshires hold it still".
The stone by the entrance and the inscription at Devonshire Cemetery
The inscription was originally on a wooden sign, and the stone tablet replaced this in 1986. In Devonshire Cemetery lies the body of Captain Martin, who made a model of the ground the 9th battalion was to attack on the 1st of July, and predicted that they would be wiped out by machine gun fire from the 'Shrine' (located just in front of the graveyard in the village of Mametz). The views from the cemetery to the Shrine (left - showing the ground the Devonshires had to advance over) and from the Shrine towards the British front lines (right) are shown below.
View towards (left) and from (right) 'The Shrine'
Martin proved correct and is buried in the cemetery; his name inscribed along with two other Devonshire soldiers on one headstone. In the Cemetery, only two of the 153 burials are not Devonshires, and only one of the 151 Devonshires buried here did not die on the 1st of July. A small cemetery with just two long rows of headstones, this is a location in which to remember the tradgedy of the Great War, as the Cemetery is effectively the trench from which the soldiers who are now buried here attacked on the 1st of July 1916.
Very near the site of the Shrine, I saw a large shell lying waiting for collection by the ordnance disposal experts. I placed a normal paperback book by the side of it to give some idea of the size of this shell.
Large shell near 'The Shrine' in Mametz
A little further south-east along the road from the Devonshire Cemetery is another beautiful and very moving cemetery - Gordon Cemetery. On the 1st of July 1916, the 2nd Gordons attacked to the right of the Devonshires, so these two cemeteries, close to one another, represent their respective attacking fronts; the bodies of those who were killed being buried very near to where they had fallen. Despite the casualties, the attack here was successful, with gains made right through to the north of Mametz.
The cemetery contains two short rows of headstones, whilst the others are arranged in two semi-circles around the Cross of Sacrifice. Only the rows mark actual graves. At the front right of Gordon Cemetery in a row are the graves of six officers of the Gordons who died on July the 1st 1916. They were all Second Lieutenants, and one of those is listed by the CWGC as Nigel Lorne McNeil, attached to the 2nd Gordons from D Company of the 3rd Gordons. However, the file on this officer at The National Archives shows his name was actually Neil Lorne McNeill, born on August the 5th 1894, so just 21 when he died. He applied for appointment to the Special Reserve of Officers in March 1915, an application which had to be counter-signed by his mother, Marjorie C. McNeil, as he was under 21.
The report of his death, which was sent to the War Office 20 days after he was killed, describes his place of burial as "Behind grave in '67 Support Trench', by the roadside, near MANSEL COPSE, just S. of MAMETZ" with the map reference 62d F.11.c.8.3. Today he lies there still, and his grave is the second from the left in the picture below.
Officers graves (including N.L. McNeil), Gordon Cemetery
Unlike the graves of these officers, the majority of headstones in the cemetery do not mark actual burials. All the 'headstones' in the two semicircles record the names of soldiers who are known to be buried within the cemetery, as the exact location of their graves is not known. Not all burials are of identified soldiers, and one headstone commemorates "Four Soldiers of the Great War" - but otherwise all the special memorial headstones within these two semi-circles are of known men, all are 1st of July men and all are Gordons.
Special memorials for other ranks in semicircles at Gordon Cemetery
The only other known locations of graves within this cemetery are the three at the back left; again (like the officers graves) in a row, one is an unknown soldier who died on the 9th July 1916, and the other two Royal Field Artillery men, who died the day before. These three were also buried by the 2nd Gordon Highlanders when the cemetery was made, and their graves are shown below.
The village of Mametz itself is small, peaceful, and probably little changed for many years. The two pictures below show the outskirts of the village, in the 1930s and today.
Mametz in the 1930s Photo: A. J. Insall
The same scene today
Within the village is a Memorial to the 20th, 21st, 22nd and 24th Manchester Regiment, which was erected by the Western Front Association. These battalions were among those who successfully took the village of Mametz on the morning of the 1st of July 1916.
Memorial to the Manchester Regiment in Mametz
Dantzig Alley British Cemetery is located to the east of the village, on the road which leads to Montauban. It is very near to the site of Dantzig Alley trench, which was captured by the 2nd Queens and 22nd Manchesters on the 1st of July 1916. The photograph below right shows a stone inset in the wall, on the left side of the cemetery, just past a small shelter. This stone commemorates the Royal Welch Fusiliers killed on the Somme between 1916 and 1918.
The entrance inscription (left) and the plaque to the RWF (right) at Dantzig Alley Cemetery
This cemetery was started in July 1916, and used on and off nearly until the Armistice, when it contained 183 graves (these now form Plot One which constitutes the upper tier, at the front and nearest the road). As with many cemeteries, graves were also concentrated here after the war ended, and these are found in the lower tier at the back. The headstones in this lower part face away from the road, whilst those in the upper tier face towards the road. In all there are now just over 2000 burials or commemorations here, with around a quarter being unidentified soldiers. This is not as high a figure as for many other 'concentration' cemeteries, although I am not aware of any specific explanation as to why this should be. It is a beautifully kept cemetery, as the picture below (with flowers in bloom in late October) shows.
There is a further memorial to the Royal Welch Fusiliers (this time the 14th battalion specifically), which is located at the rear of the cemetery and is in the form of a seat. There is a Hedd Wyn quotation and the statement "Erected by the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and Men of the 14th (S) battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 38th Welsh Division in memory of their comrades". Also at the rear of the cemetery is a special memorial to 70 soldiers who were buried in two other cemeteries (Vernon Street, Carnoy and Bottom Wood, Fricourt) whose graves were later destroyed.
Special memorial (left) and the 14/RWF seat (right) at Dantzig Alley Cemetery
Sources & Acknowledgements
Commonwealths War Graves Commission website
Brig-General Sir James Edmonds: Military Operations France & Belgium 1916 (Volume 1)
Robert Graves: Goodbye to All That
Major & Mrs. Holt: Battlefield Guide to the Somme
Rudyard Kipling: The Irish Guards in thr Great War
Chris McCarthy: The Somme - the day by day account
Martin & Mary Middlebrook: Somme Battlefields
The National Archives: Various files
Paul Reed: Walking the Somme
Siegfried Sassoon: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
The Times & The Scotsman Archives
Jean Moorcroft Wilson: Siegfried Sassoon - the making of a war-poet