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Christmas 2016 will see us selling from our new site located in Battlesbridge
Fresh Cut PREMIUM 6ft non drop Nordmann Fir ONLY £28
Open daily from Saturday 26th November to Friday 23rd December. 9am to 6pm every day apart from 21, 22 & 23rd of December where we will open at 10:30 and close at 4pm!
Formerly Christmas Tree Farm, Hawkwell. Please note our new farm address is CHRISTMAS TREE FARM, BATTLESBRIDGE, Woodham Road (Old Road), Battlesbridge, Rettendon, Essex, SS11 7QL
Christmas Tree Farm is a dedicated family run Christmas tree farm that has been growing the finest real Christmas trees for over 25 years. We grow the trees and pride ourselves on providing the freshest best quality, real trees available. We hope you will come and visit us to see the friendly and fun environment, where the whole family can come and choose your very own tree.
We are hosting a special pumpkin picking weekend at the Christmas tree farm, where we have been growing 100s and 100s of pumpkins for the last year.
We will be hosting this event to raise money for Alzheimers research.
Our pumpkins start from 25p and go to £2.50 for very large pumpkins.
We are located just just off Rettendon Turnpike on Woodham Road (old road) Look forward to seeing you there!
After a successful weekend we're pleased to announce we will also be open Saturday 29th October 9am - 5pm & Sunday 30th October 10am - 3pm for more PUMPKIN PICKING with the proceeds going to Alzheimer's research.
Thank you to everyone that has already come to visit us.
Christmas Tree Farm, Hawkwell has the biggest choice of trees available in Essex, with numerous sizes on sale and growing from 3ft to 20ft (1m to 6m). We continue to develop new varieties and will have more than 10 tree types for sale this year. The farm also sells a huge range of attractive water holding tree stands, from traditional wrought iron designs to the latest water holding stands from the USA. You will also find hand made holly wreaths, mistletoe and a large display of authentic Christmas decorations. We will have numerous varieties on sale and growing at the farm that include varieties of Fir, Spruce and Pine. Most have excellent needle retention and a sweet scent that will fill the room and make them the ideal tree to decorate and admire.
Let's start from the beginning; the only way to buy a fresh real Christmas Tree is direct from the grower! The only way to then care for your real fresh tree is by using a water holding stand. We have a huge range of stands available and will not only advise which types are suitable but our knowledgeable staff will also advise you how to care properly for your trees.
Our aim is to provide the highest quality Christmas Trees, that will be the ideal centrepiece of your Christmas celebrations. Trees which are bought from us are grown in accordance with the British Christmas Tree Growers environmental Code of Practice and are guaranteed fresh. Provided care is taken in looking after your trees they will survive the Christmas period well. Above all they must be kept well watered in a water holding stand.
It is essential that cut trees should be fresh when purchased. The needles should not be dull and dried up. The branches should not be brittle. The outer needles should not fall off if the tree is gently shaken. After you have bought your tree it should be kept outside in a cool shaded place, preferably standing in water, until it is required indoors. Before bringing the tree indoors it is an advantage if about half an inch is cut off the butt in order to open up the pores of the tree. Mount it in a water-holding stand and place it away from direct heat. Keep the container topped up with water every day; you will be surprised how much it needs.
All of our trees have detailed tree care instructions on the reverse of their labels.
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Can the state still bring up that the test was positive for alcohol?Or the fact that it can't be used mean they can't bring it up at all?And you guys are the best thanks for taking your time for us little people.Your answers are always so informative.
Not quite right.
You're correct that Title 17 of California Code of Regulations, which regulates forensic alcohol testing, says the two breath tests have to be within .02 of each other. However, failure to comply with Title 17 does NOT mean the tests are inadmissible in court.
A competent DUI defense attorney will know how to use this discrepancy to show that the results are suspect, and to question the competency of the person who administered the test and didn't get another sample to establish Title 17 compliance..
It might not come in as evidence at a DMV hearing, where eidence rules are less strict than in criminal court. Instead of having an expert witness testify about the test results, DMV usually just uses Title 17 compliance to get the test results into evidence. If the results don't comply with Title 17, DMV could have an expert witness testify to lay the foundation to admit the test results, but that rarely happens in DMV hearings.
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Your attorney will be able to use this to seek a dismissal of the charges based on these numbers. The prosecutor will still be able to use the samples though. It is usual that the officer did not take a third sample as the device should generate an error reading. Do not expect to go into court yourself and seek a dismissal as it will not happen.
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I want to make a copy of an existing virtual machine to place on a backup server for disaster recovery purposes. It will only be started if the original VM is stopped. I have copied the files, and when it starts it asks if the VM has been copied or moved. Should I say copied and create a new UUID, or say moved, so it keeps the original UUID?
Apr 15, 2009 at 8:19 UTC
No, SQL doesn't care about the MAC address, it just cares if it can get on the network or not. You could have issues with having the same machine online in two places so make sure to either isolate your VM from the production network, or power down the production machine while you're testing.
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Apr 15, 2009 at 8:03 UTC
I've always said COPY and it works fine.
Apr 15, 2009 at 8:04 UTC
Hi rlow - getting a new UUID generates a new MAC addess for the VM's NIC. In the past, I have always said "copied". I then test the copied VM (especially if it was a backup in case of disaster. I'd recommend you do the same (to be sure).
Apr 15, 2009 at 8:12 UTC
Would the new MAC address cause problems if you needed to restore something to the "backup" VM, from a backup tape? Using Backupexec with a SQL agent. The server is windows 2003, and is runing a SQL 2005 database for our document imaging system. If we had to resort to the backup, we might also need to restore the SQL database to bring our images up to date.
Thanks for your help.
Apr 15, 2009 at 8:19 UTC
No, SQL doesn't care about the MAC address, it just cares if it can get on the network or not. You could have issues with having the same machine online in two places so make sure to either isolate your VM from the production network, or power down the production machine while you're testing.
Apr 15, 2009 at 8:23 UTC
Thanks for the help!
Apr 16, 2009 at 9:03 UTC
I usually say moved. I've had issues where I had to run Windows Genuine (dis)Advantage or a program needed the licensing fixed on some VM's where I said Moved.
Apr 16, 2009 at 9:16 UTC
Be aware however that some 3rd party applications ARE MAC aware. We ran into this porting over a print server that uses RPM Elite. Since I couldn't recreate the original MAC address 100% (ESX requires a certain range), it reset the software to "Trial Mode" with no warning and 30 days later we were scrambling to get it running.
Apr 16, 2009 at 9:33 UTC
Did you have the problem with having to run WGA when you MOVED or COPIED?
Apr 17, 2009 at 7:00 UTC
Could you save the "wpa.dbl" and "wpa.bak" files from the system32 folder and copy them onto the new vm to save going through the activation nonsense again?
Wish I'd been able to do that yesterday on a client's computer when the drive crashed and when activating the new install spent over an hour with first MS product activation support group and then MS technical support and then finally MS installation support group trying to figure out why the oobe wizard wouldn't populate the installation ID field.
It's all billable time, but I'd rather have been spending the time with my kids than going in circles with MS over their protectionism complex!
All that being said, in the OP question, I'd move the vm and save the UUID if the vm was being saved for DR purposes.
Apr 17, 2009 at 11:27 UTC
I believe it was when I copied the VM.
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The Xbox 360 gets a great arcade stick in the shape of the Hori Fighting Stick EX2 Virtua Fighter 5 Edition for Xbox 360. It looks like a solid piece of hardware that brings back feel of the arcade. There is a review of it at the Seattle PI blog.
Assassin's Creed is one of a number of highly anticipated multi-platform games coming to Xbox 360 and PS3. It seems the developers of Assassin's Creed are running into a few issues on both platforms. The 360 is unfortunately showing the limits of DVD capacity, which is causing problems for the developer. For more, please see GamePro.
Halo 3 (see our review) undoubtedly sold a lot of units, but did it sell systems? Yes, industry analysts are predicting strong 360 sales during the launch period for Halo 3. Uber-Analyst Michael Patcher has suggested that monthly sales of the 360 may have hit 450,000, something of an Xbox 360 sales frenzy. That 450,000 in one month will put the 360 ahead of Wii and streets ahead of Sony's PS3. For more, please see GAMER.BLORGE.
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Star fullback Billy Slater's absence leaves a big hole for Melbourne, but Warriors counterpart Roger Tuivasa-Sheck has plenty of respect for his replacement.
The Storm will have Cameron Munster in the No.1 jersey in Auckland on Sunday when they look to make it three wins to start 2016.
Slater has been ruled out for the rest of the NRL season after a second shoulder reconstruction in nine months.
"He's a massive loss for them, just the player he is, but Munster coming in isn't a bad option," Tuivasa-Sheck said.
"He was there for most of last year too, so he knows their game well."
Munster, who made his debut in 2014 with his sole appearance that year, filled in when Slater was sidelined in 2015, playing 19 matches and scoring seven tries.
Tuivasa-Sheck said one edge that Slater did bring was the understanding honed over time with his Kangaroos and Queensland teammates in hooker Cameron Smith and half Cooper Cronk.
While the Storm have made another fast start to a season, the Warriors have fielded plenty of flak after dropping their first two matches to extend their losing streak to 10.
Bearing a lot of the scrutiny has been their own spine of Shaun Johnson and new recruits Tuivasa-Sheck, Jeff Robson and Issac Luke.
Tuivasa-Sheck said combinations were a work in progress.
"We're training hard and we're trying to make everything crisp, polish it all up," he said.
"Game time is a different situation. You have to play on the run and you have to make sure you have the knowledge of what each other has and that's what I'm working on."
A big-name signing from the Sydney Roosters, Tuivasa-Sheck admits to disappointment in his own early form as a Warrior.
While there have been plenty of running metres – 200 in both weeks – there have also been a couple of costly missed tackles, something that rankles with a player who prides himself on his defence.
"Missing two important tackles, one-on-ones, has been a real downfall," he said.
"I've sort of been focusing on my attack, so defence is where I need to pick up."
* The Warriors have lost 10 in a row, one short of the club record of 11 in 2010-2011.
* Their last victory came against Melbourne – 28-14 win at Mt Smart Stadium last July, when Nathan Friend produced his spectacular back-flip offload.
* While Melbourne have had far more overall success that the Warriors, they lead by just 18-16 in head-to-head meetings, with two draws.


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Woodrow Wilson was the first democrat elected with the support of blacks. The NAACP broke with the repubs and endorsed Wilson. He immediately implemented Jim Crow in the federal government.
I have heard all of this but never seen it documented so nicely. Thanks for posting. This is one to print and save for those office debates.
Don't forget:
Dear Editors:
Legislation to ban lynching fell victim to Senate filibusters, despite pleas for its passage by seven presidents, between 1890 and 1952. And It was mostly filibustered by Democrats.
Kinda of ironic, isn't it?
I am sure this information will be included in the Philadelphia mandatory African-American history courses.
Kind Regards,
I wonder if I wrote something like this for Black History Month and submitted it to the local liberal rag if they would publish it.


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Mike's Dive Store offer an extended returns policy of 30 days - so you can be rest assured if the suit, piece of diving equipment or gift doesn't suit then just send it back and we will either exchange it or offer a full refund less any postage costs. Too easy!
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Hospital ships provide afloat, mobile, acute surgical medical facilities when called upon to the United States military. There have been additional medical vessels serving in other roles - ambulance vessels, rescue ships, and evacuation ships.

Though today the United States Navy operates only two dedicated hospital ships (T-AH-19 USNS Mercy and T-AH-20 USNS Comfort), hospital / medical ships of many types have been part of the United States Navy at least since 1801 (the Navy operated its first Hospital Ship during the years of the Tripolitan War [1801-1805]). Other navies have operated hospital ships earlier than that, as hospital ships possibly existed in ancient times - the Athenian Navy had a ship named Therapia [Latin translation, "Therapy"), and the Roman Navy had a ship named Aesculapius (a god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology), their names indicating that they may have been hospital / medical ships.

Hospital Ships enjoy a special status - this special status was internationally recognized under the second Geneva Convention of 1906 and the Hague Convention of 1907. Specific restrictions for a hospital ship are outlined in Article four of the Hague Convention X:

The ship must be clearly marked and lighted as a hospital ship

The ship should give medical assistance to wounded personnel of all nationalities

The ship must not be used for any military purpose

The ship must not interfere with or hamper enemy combatant vessels

Belligerents, as designated by the Hague Convention, can search any hospital ship to investigate violations of the above restrictions

Belligerents will establish the location of a hospital ship

As well, the convention established that during times of war, hospital ships would be exempted from dues and taxes imposed on vessels in the ports of the states that ratify the treaty.

Fast forward in time - the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea was adopted in June 1994 by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law after a series of round table discussions held between 1988 and 1994 by diplomats and naval and legal experts. According to the San Remo Manual, a hospital ship violating legal restrictions must be duly warned and given a reasonable time limit to comply. If a hospital ship persists in violating restrictions, a belligerent is legally entitled to capture it or take other means to enforce compliance. A non-complying hospital ship may only be fired on under the following conditions:

Diversion or capture is not feasible

No other method to exercise control is available

The violations are grave enough to allow the ship to be classified as a military objective

The damage and casualties will not be disproportionate to the military advantage.

In all other circumstances, attacking a hospital ship is a war crime.

Backing up again, and concentrating on the U. S. Military.

During the first World War (aka "The Great War"), hospital ships were first used on a massive scale – but in WWI, hospital ships were mainly used to transport sick and wounded military personnel from the Theaters of Operations to Hospital facilities in the United States.

World War Two again saw massive use of hospital ships, but their use was based on who operated them - the Navy wasn't the sole branch of the United States Military to operate hospital ships, for a time the Army also operated them [in fact, the Army operated a fleet of ships of its own, see Ship Hull Classifications – The Rest of the Armed and Uniformed Forces].

During World War II, the Army decided it was their own responsibility to transport their wounded, and so wanted to arrange evacuation with their own ships. There were a total of 27 hospital ships in operation for the evacuation of Army casualties. The Army Transport Service operated 24 hospital ships which were manned by civilian crews (employees of the Army Transport Service) and Army medical staff, and the Navy operated 3 Hospital Ships (Comfort, Hope and Mercy) that were manned by the Navy but staffed by the Army Medical Department. However, as noted, the Navy and Army operated hospital ships with different purposes - Navy hospital ships were fully equipped hospitals designed to receive casualties direct from the battlefield and also supplied to provide logistical support to front line medical teams ashore, while Army hospital ships were essentially hospital transports intended and equipped to evacuate patients from forward area Army hospitals to rear area hospitals (or from those to the United States) and were not equipped or staffed to handle large numbers of direct battle casualties.

Most of the U.S. Military's hospital ships started out as craft with a different role, and renovated to become hospital ships. The three Navy Hospital Ships (AH-6 USS Comfort, AH-7 USS Hope and AH-8 USS Mercy) were the only vessels built as hospital ships for the U. S. Army fleet - the 24 U.S. Army-operated Hospital Ships were converted from other types of ships. The three Navy ships staffed by the Army served in the Pacific during WWII, while 24 Army ships served first in Atlantic Theaters, with some later being transferred to the Pacific, while others were decommissioned when no longer being needed for evacuation of patients from the European Theater. By the end of WWII, the Navy had 15 Hospital Ships in operation.

For that matter, some Navy hospital ships were prior Army vessels. For example, when the Spanish-American War broke out [1896], the passenger ship John Englis was purchased by the United States Army for use as a hospital ship, and renamed Relief. In 1902, the Navy acquired the ship and operated it as USS Relief until 1918, when she was renamed to Repose to allow the name of Relief to be assigned to AH-1 USS Relief.

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Processor: Intel Core i3
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible graphics card (at least 1024 Mb of VRAM).
DirectX: Version 11
NOTE: change the game language in the Options menu
I saw this game on Steam yesterday and it looks interesting. Something on it remember me a mix of Tenchu, Splinter Cell and Soul Reaver series, them, i need to try it.
Thanks again for the upload. You guys are awesome!
What…no Dishonored? It most reminds me of dishonored. Like a third person version of it.
The build of the enemies, dark aura stuff, teleporting just like dishonored and so many things.
same here lol
it a SPANISH GAME SUUUUUUUUUUUUUU FUERZA ESPAÑA, PODER ESPAÑOL
this gog version includes the update?
is it version 1.02c?
can multiplayer with lan or something?
Yes you can. But, you and your firend must be online on the same router…
And one more thing… Internet connection required to play multi.
what the difference is with the Codex version?
Can you please provide a link to v22.214.171.124 update only, because I downloaded the gog version before the update was added
I downloaded the collectors edition and the game says version 1.016. Anything I can do to update the game without downloading the whole file? Also I'm getting really low fps. Anything I can do to improve it? My specs:
i7 3632qm 2.2ghz
Nvidia 640m gpu
4 gb ram
nope there is nothing you can do about it. you need a more powerfull laptop. you can look on the steam page what the minimal system requirements are. for example you need 8 gb ram and a minimum of 2 gb in your gpu
how do i play multiplayer? teach me the details
just download it..
the Version Says 1.02c ?
Any Leads??
Plzz Admin add patch 1.04b
My Dear Admins 🙂 I am in very need of that Patch 1.04b Please Upload GOG Version of this patch. Again Many Many Thanks
Thanks a lot Admin 🙂 Keep up the great Work Love it 😀
How can I change my name if I want play online ?
For the moment, my name is unknown and when i want play with a friend we have the same name.
Any one have a solution for this problem ?
patch/update v18.104.22.168 cant used it say eror
what the difference is with the Codex version?
codex use works with crack, gog no use crack.
how do i install the patch?
how to install Soudtrack/OST +Artbook ?
When i open the .rar file it asks me for a password, what is it?
Ok i found it im just stupid
aragami assassin masks dlc gog version, please
plz update 01.07
Xbox one controller don't work since 18.104.22.168 and 22.214.171.124 for me !
Please can you tell me if is it the same for you ?
Thanks for your answer 🙂
Problem solved, just delete the "Xinput" files in the installation folder of the game ! Thx 🙂
thanx i wondered why it wouldn't work 🙂
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NIMS Recruitment 2016 Junior Staff Nurse Internees 100 Jobs
Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), Hyderabad has issued a Notification for the Recruitment of100 Junior Staff Nurse Internees posts. The Eligible candidates may apply through the prescribed application format on or before 30th April 2016.
Important Dates:
- Opening date of application form 13th April 2016
- Last date for Submission of application form is 30th April 2016
Vacancy Details:
- Junior Staff Nurse Internees
Educational Qualifications:
- The candidate must have passed the Degree B.Sc. Nursing from a Recognized University, Nurse Council or Intermediate Examination with general nursing course passed certificate or equivalent.
Age Limit:
- The candidates' age limit should be the Minimum of 18 years and the maximum of 34 years as on last date of application form. Upper age relaxation for SC/ST/OBC candidates as per of 5 years of age limit.
Pay Scale:
- The candidate's salary of Rs. 17000/- per month
Selection mode:
- The candidates' selection will be based on Personal Interview
Application Fee:
- The candidates' application fees to pay of Rs. 1000/- for Gen and the Rs. 500/-for SC/ST category candidates through the form of cash counter or DD in NIMS.
How to Apply:
The Eligible candidates may apply through the prescribed application format along with original photocopies and certificates he office of Executive Registrar, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Panjagutta, Hyderabad (Pin Code 500 082) as on before 30th April 2016.
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text: Power-One has one of the market's most comprehensive offerings of solar inverters, ranging from residential to utility applications, and a broad global manufacturing footprint. It also has a power solutions portfolio that is adjacent to ABB's power conversion business. Power-One employs almost 3,300 people, mainly in China, Italy, the US and Slovakia. In 2012, it generated $120 million in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) on sales of approximately $1 billion."This transaction delivers significant value to our shareholders and will enable Power-One to accelerate its growth," said Richard J. Thompson, CEO of Power-One. "Together we can better address the growing worldwide demand for innovative, renewable energy solutions and strengthen our global leadership. I believe ABB is the right partner and now is the ideal time for our companies to join forces." ABB's leading portfolio in power and automation, global footprint and service organization make it a natural player in solar PV. For many years ABB has brought its solutions to the solar PV industry and is on track to generate sales of more than $100 million in solar inverters in 2013. Solar inverters are one of the fastest-developing technologies in power electronics, requiring substantial research and development (R&D) resources. In 2012, ABB invested about $1.5 billion in R&D overall. "The combination of these two successful companies will create significant value-driven growth based on innovation – which means inverters offer opportunities for differentiation – global reach, high quality and technology leadership," said Ulrich Spiesshofer, head of ABB's Discrete Automation and Motion division, into which Power-One will be integrated. "The acquisition supports the implementation of the division's strategy for renewable energy and the goal to build on our strength in power electronics." The transaction is structured as a merger and is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including approval of Power One's shareholders at a special meeting and receipt of customary regulatory approvals. The merger agreement contains certain agreed deal protection mechanisms. Investment funds affiliated with Silver Lake Sumeru have entered into an agreement to vote in favor of the transaction. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2013. ABB will finance the transaction out of its own funds.


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|By AdamantiumBladez
|Part of the Avatar: Beyond the Void continuity.
This is the news and updates page for Avatar: Beyond the Void.
27 April 2014
Due to the approach of exams and tests, it has been incredibly difficult for me to be writing while these are going on. I will be making small updates and additions to the fanon, but ultimately they will be lesser and nothing will be set by a date because it will become impossible to meet up with them (as they already have).
Therefore, as of now until the exam season ends, the continuation of this fanon will be slowed and the next chapters will be put on hold until I have time to write them. The forthcoming chapter will be done when it's done and I'm sorry for the inconvenience this is causing to my subscriber (or -s) and to anyone that is reading it. Please understand. .
25 May 2014
I have published another chapter, but I am still not finished with exams. There will still be no confirmed date on the next chapter, and there still won't be until the exams are finished.
Thank you to anyone who was waiting patiently for the next chapter, and thank you for being patient still. This means a lot that people are reading this fanon. .
4 July 2014
Exams are all finished and the new chapter has been published at last. I'm not saying that will write the chapters faster, but I am going to try and publish a new chapter every two weeks or so. For all my subscribers, as they already are aware of, if I run late on the deadline, the first POV will be readable to them as apologies for the delay.
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7 November 2014
Before anyone asks; no I am not dead and no I haven't given up on the series. Progress has been slow due to long projects taking up a lot of time and the time I do have gets distracted easily, which I apologize for. With all the LOK stuff happening, it is hard to keep up with continuity at the moment with all the new revelations happening (Chief Sokka much?)
It would have been easier if LOK Book 4 was broadcasting a year later so it wouyld be easier to divide my attention, but I'm not complaining that I don't enjoy it coming out so early.
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Jez Butterworth is a playwright known for works which toy with the darker side of human nature. His play 'Jerusalem' opened on Broadway in 2011 where it was nominated for a Tony award. Like its predecessor, The River is a bewitching play written in Butterworth's very poetic and often quite searching style which presents man's wild nature alongside the wildness of nature itself.
The nature of the play and its inherent mystery means that the finer details of its plot and characters should be kept a secret. We can, however, reveal the following: The Man (our nameless and rugged central character) has whisked his new lover away to a remote woodland cabin where he wants to go trout fishing in the darkness of the new moon. As the play evolves we become less sure about his intentions... or of the nature of his relationship with those he entertains at his cabin.
"And the next day I went back to the river, and I took off my clothes and I dived in the water, and I looked for the fish, and I couldn't find it, but when I surfaced, I was holding something. Something else."
The River received its world premiere in London in 2012 at the Royal Court Theatre. This Broadway production will be directed by the director who helmed the premiere, Ian Rickson, and marks the sixth collaboration between Jez Butterworth and Ian Rickson. Hugh Jackman will star opposite Laura Donnelly - who appeared in the West End production and will be making her Broadway debut in this one - and Cush Jumbo.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Let's talk about outfits, and power, and authority: a fashion post omnibus
Will Miller wrote an incredibly smug response, that mocks Gulliver in taking the very structure of her opening to turn it back on her, disavowing her claims: "If what students call me determines whether I am respected or not, I'm not deserving to be in a classroom." Miller, unsurprisingly, seems completely at ease in his own prose, without the faintest whiff of self-reflexivity jarring his lightly sarcastic and righteous tone.
Ugh. This is making me tired. This is a feminist blog and you know our politics so I'll just lay it out: this is the epitome of clueless (in this case white, male) privilege. It's snotty, and silencing, and smug, and denies Gulliver's experience. Will Miller: stahhhhhhp.
I don't want to argue this. I want to start a grounded conversation about the how's and why's of managing one's authority in teaching. Erin wrote about the first name issue. I did, too, in a post about email. And we've had a post about the politics of eyewear. And one on how people treat me nicer when I look pretty than when I don't. Melissa has written about haircuts and so have I. And boots! All of these produced great, useful discussions: what's great is hearing about other people's experiences and strategies even if and especially when they differ from my own. Read the comments: they're thoughtful and engaging and awesome!
I want to talk about my clothing choices and ask you to share yours, if you'd like.
My current positionality is this: mid-career tenured academic, coming into an administrative post in July, 41 and mostly look it, white, cis-gendered, not visibly disabled, normative height / weight range, conventionally pretty. Privileged also in the sense that I'm pretty fluent in the rhetoric of clothing, and adept at constructing (and having access to the tools to construct) grammatically correct utterances in this language.
Me, I'm all about blazers lately. Nothing connotes immediate authority like a blazer. Mine all feature rolled up sleeves, so it's more fashion-forward than banker-bland, but there's something very comforting to me about the work jacket. I'll wear it over a dress, or with a skirt, or dress pants. I can even wear my beloved black yoga jeans and the jacket makes it work appropriate. I have blazers (with suits and not) in: rust/black herringbone wool, grey wool, grey cotton, black wool, navy wool, chartreuse cotton, blue suede (yes!). Most were on sale, some were full price, two were from consignment shops, but they read "expensive" and "tasteful." I often take it off to teach, but put it back on for meetings of all sorts. I keep one in my office, in case I happen to be without, and I need one.
Sometimes I'm in situations where I'm the only person under 45, and the only woman who's not an adminstrative assistant to some older man. Sometimes I'm teaching 17 year old. Sometimes I'm on TV. Blazer on / blazer off, like glasses / contacts are choices I can make fairly easily that allow me to manipulate others' perceptions of me, and thus, manage my interaction with them, in some small way. Bear in mind that I have dramatically two-toned hair, and that I wear fashion-forward nailpolish (today nine fingers are mint green and one is sunshine yellow). The blazer is part of the whole package.
How about you? Maybe you are like Steve Jobs and hate to think about clothes and have a functional uniform. Maybe you are junior and trying to stay fashionable and a very limited budget. Maybe you are a little older and thinking about appropriateness. Or something else. Please share!
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Blazers+casual shirts+smart skirt/pants were my go-to uniform when I taught at Algonquin. A lot of the students were my age or older, so I could dress down only if I felt I'd gained the trust of my students. But my look in the first few weeks of a semester was always "severe librarian."ReplyDelete
I even wore these monster heels for particularly daunting classes... Looking at those shoes now, I have no idea how I did it. Past-me was way less clumsy, apparently.Replies
Once, in a pair of leather-soled kitten heels, I completely lost traction on the terrazzo right in front of the lecture hall. Fell down on my rear end. Fail. Now it's rubber soles all the way.Delete
I am sitting at my desk wearing cropped pants, a tunic, boots, and -- you guessed it! -- a blazer. I almost always wear a scarf and loud, authoritative heels for stomping my feet.ReplyDelete
Also, look! Betabrand used female PhDs for its latest campaign! Not totally groundbreaking in terms of conventional beauty standards and the selected models, but hey! a start: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/clothing-company-uses-female-phds-instead-of-regular-models
The blazer I'm wearing today is black wool with a bit of stretch, and it is, gulp, just over ten years old: it's from my Going on the Market Job Interview Suit.ReplyDelete
What a weird and interesting ad campaign ...
Well, Katrina Gulliver's post hits pretty close to home, what with my being a white, male professors who often invites his students to "call me Dave." In my defense, I will note that I look like I've just come in from mowing the lawn mostly because of a lack of fluency in the rhetoric of clothing ... dressed up, dressed down, I look like I mighta just been pushing a snow shovel or lawn mower. Mostly the student comments at the end of the term focus on my footwear.ReplyDelete
If experiences from the privileged side are relevant at all to this discussion: I tend to hear "Dr" and "Sir" as expressions of disrespect, not of respect --- people, especially those who grow up with money, learn to use titles as a way of camouflaging sentiments, it's always seemed to me. This may just indicate unresolved issues from a resentment-filled working class upbringing, but those forms of address rub me the wrong way. I know it's not fair for me to react that way, so going to first names if possible removes that reaction from the equation. I don't think I"m really the Dave that Gulliver has in mind since nobody will mistake me for cool, and I really don't want to undermine colleagues by going to first names (which I'm less emphatic about than I used to be for just the sort of concerns than I used to be, for reasons of just the sort under discussion here, though I certainly don't *discourage* it) , but the decision about what to ask people to call you is complicated. And, though I admit to not really being any good at reading clothes, being a white guy who wears a blazer to work every day conveys, it seems to me, a very different self-image and to make a different statement about one's ambitions than they seem to for Aimee.
Hi Dave! I'm glad you weighed in. Your last statement is exactly right, isn't it: a blazer means something different on your body than it does on mine, for complicated reasons that exceed our individual subjectivities and personalities. And you have your reasons for the first name policy and the snow-shoveling clothes.ReplyDelete
I read a similar post from a similarly positioned academic man, and what he came to was this strategy, which I think is wise: go meta, and talk about it with your students. Like, I prefer you call me by my name rather than 'Dr.' or 'Prof' because [insert interesting reason addressing class and status here]. Then you acknowledge that a university is a diverse place with instructors with autonomy and that they might ask students to address them differently.
A strategy like this takes the complications out of your own head, and turns them into a teachable moment, right. And its a good lesson for all of us to learn that when we doubt which pronoun or which honorific or which first name or what pronunciation people prefer, the best course, the most respectful course, is to ask.
How bad are your shoes? Must be pretty bad if students comment on them. I have a male colleague who wears boots so destroyed they always remind me of the Fredric Jameson chapter with the workbooks in them...Replies
Further proof that "go meta" is always good advice! Thanks.Delete
The shoes get fewer comments than they used to years ago, actually. The change was my daughter reaching an age (happened when she was, what, eight?) where she would say things like "Dad, you can't go out wearing that shirt with those pants. Pattern with pattern. Don't go out that door.") The shoe problem was usually a matter of opting for comfort over style. Like, the running shoes I'd used for 500 miles the previous summer being demoted to walking shoes and worn with blue jeans.
I did my PhD at Simon Fraser. It rained on my first day of tutorial teaching. I wore flower print "fashionable" rain boots. I was a pretty young first-year PhD, so I definitely looked the same age as my undergrads. As student's filed into the classroom it was pretty apparent that no one recognized that I was the instructor. Students came and sat right beside me and started chatting with me about the semester. I happened to have one of those students in several other classes over the course of my PhD. He later admitted to me that once he realized I was the instructor he had felt very silly about sitting right beside me, and being stuck there the whole class while I ran the tutorial. He said it was the rain boots that had thrown him off. He didn't think any instructor would ever wear rain boots to teach at a university. Newb mistake on my part. Rain boots are NOT appropriate teaching attire. Lesson learned.ReplyDelete
Fun post! I tell my first year students to call me Dr. Rak or Professor Rak. In my experience, they get nervous if I don't tell them what to call me. I agree with Gulliver that informality is often an indication of priviledge in the classroom (you can be informal if you are really, really powerful). I don't tell my upper-year students what to call me and I let them choose.ReplyDelete
As for outfits, it's interesting. When I came out I stopped wearing dresses and skirts to work because I am butch-identified. But I have always dressed up for teaching days--blazers, suits, dress pants, black jeans if it's really, really cold out--because I like wearing work clothes at work. I am 47, a full professor and I do not wear makeup. I don't have discipline problems as a teacher. I don't miss those dresses, skirts and heels one bit!
Oh, Danielle! What a story. I've had it happen where people mistook me for "staff" at a meeting where I was "faculty" and the problem with that misunderstanding is that the person who makes it feels embarrassed about and then wants to avoid you. Which is not productive, right?ReplyDelete
And Dr. Identity -- you're right that it sometimes puts students on the back foot if they're waiting for us to give them cues they need. It's like going out for a job dinner and waiting to see if the host orders a drink or not, and being discombobulated when they ask the guest to order first. Oh! And I love having different clothes for Work than for Home, especially since my ritual when I walk in the door is to head upstairs to put on my sweats. And your group-affiliation as butch-identified, of course, adds a layer to the choices you make. Remember when women couldn't be professional and wear pants at the same time? What?
Now on days that I meet with my TAs, I mostly just wear outfits that I think digiwonk will like...just in case we pass in the hall...ReplyDelete
I mostly work with senior administrators and faculty, and in university terms I'm a positive baby; it's easy to feel, or be made to feel, like 32 is actually 22 when surrounded by Venerable People. That means that I dress to be taken seriously at all times. My uniform of choice is a pencil skirt (plain or patterned, and chosen because I just plain don't like pants), tights, blouse/light sweater, jewelry or scarf, intellectual/hipster glasses, and distinctive shoes (my favourites being metallic silver brogues and ass-kicking Fluevog ankle boots). On Fridays I wear jeans, but they're always black (@Aimee: yoga jeans FTW!) and always topped by a blazer.ReplyDelete
But even though I'm always dressed professionally and even though I'm privileged with a face and a body that tend to command respect (I'm pretty, but not too pretty, I'm tall and not slight, I carry myself with authority) I still get things like today, when a faculty member who has trouble remembering my name decided that my new nickname was "that nice girl with the weird email address" (it was funny, but I'm definitely not a girl), or a few weeks ago, when a professor emeritus basically called me a young whippersnapper who (to his surprise, it seemed) had effective advice for graduate students about presenting at conferences. And aside from wearing a suit to work (overkill in a fairly relaxed office) or suddenly aging by ten years, I feel like I'm just going to have to deal with it for awhile.Replies
It's funny but I just used the exact term "whippersnapper" in the same coming-from-old-guy context in a talk last week. Well, not funny, exactly. But absolutely true that we have to use clothes to mitigate age difference: sometimes for me this means LOLcat t-shirt with undergrads on writing workshop days, so that I seem more human to them, but usually it means dressing 'grownup' to fend off whippersnapper comments.Delete
ZOMG everyone should have yoga jeans. The black ones I frequently wear to work, paired with jacket and blouse. I also have purple ones. And blue-denim ones.
I have black and dark denim and TEAL, which I lurve. I've also found that shop.ca occasionally has them on sale, which is a rarity.Delete
When I first moved into an administrative position in the faculty I thought I'd better dress up more. So I bought kick ass shoes and some straight skirts and jackets. But I've gone back to a more casual, more "me" style of dressing. I still wear great footwear (8 pairs of fluevogs and it's just a matter of time before there are more), but I will wear jeans and a nice sweater instead of always going for the jacket. Oh and a nice scarf. Why? Because the men in the office don't necessarily dress up.ReplyDelete
We all sorta take our lead from the Dean who wears suits (and really cool ties and cufflinks) only when he has to meet with the upper administration or the public. On other days he might easily wear a plaid shirt and jeans. I like that in this admin unit it's not corporate or even quasi corporate. I like that I don't have to don a uniform to be taken seriously.
That said, I'll be happy to put on a dress again. This brutal winter it's been all pants all the time.Replies
Ah, yes, I should've thought of that as it's implied in Gulliver's piece: what's appropriate is also judged in part by what other people are wearing, particularly the senior people. You don't want to be the worst dressed but being the 'best' dressed can sometimes be an act of aggression, too.Delete
I miss skirts, too.
I am a doctoral candidate who teaches. Late 30's, tall, pixie cut hair. I wear nice pants or dark jeans, and always a "third piece" (blazer or sweater). I model my style on "What Not to Wear," and usually find that I wear brighter colors than other profs. I wear Frye shoes and boots almost exclusively-- even their ballet flats seem "strong" to me. I think my height and strong features lend me some authority; I have never been disrespected in the classroom openly, and only once by a "silverback" (from another school). I wear skirts on occasion-- always to the knee or longer, and usually with tights. I often wear fashion scarves or bold jewelry, but I would describe my classroom style as "bright and strong." Which is the kind of woman I want to be.ReplyDeleteReplies
WHAT NOT TO WEAR IS MY FAVORITE SHOW OF ALL TIME.Delete
I have strong features, too, inviting comparisons to Marlene Dietrich from my early teens, which was not appealing to me then, but I can see how not having a button nose now makes me look ... patrician.
I found this post and the comments very interesting. I also thought that Will Miller's piece was pretty much a case-study in mansplaining, but most of the commenters at IHE really schooled him. I got a wider spread from hearty agreement to a complete mauling.ReplyDelete
I also try to dress fairly conservatively in the classroom, by which I mean not showing bare shoulder or skin above the knees. (being warm here I don't get much time to bring out the blazers, alas - when I taught in London I always wore different types of jackets).
Like S I also wear bright colours a lot.
I guess the naming (and sartorial) debates play into - for me - broader concerns about the status of academe. In a country where universities are (almost) entirely state funded, there is a constant pressure to justify ourselves and what we "cost" the taxpayers. We face budgetary strictures, as in the UK and perhaps it is the same in Canada (although I have not worked there). We have a lot of assessments of what we've done (the REF in the UK and ERA in Australia) and this puts academics on the defensive about our value.
However, people respond in different ways. My approach is to double down on presenting myself as A PROFESSIONAL, in all the ways that "professional" is coded in Western society (dressed smartly, using titles, formal emails, etc). There are a lot of members of the public who are skeptical about what we do, I feel that we (as academics) are often our own worst advocates (this is something I've also written about for IHE).
But when there are people who think we only work 6 hours a week, spend our days messing around, then dressing for work like they dress *on the weekend* kind of gives them ammunition. If we're seen to be in our offices, dressed like white collar workers, we (in my mind anyway) can promote the idea that what we do is a "real job".Replies
Well hello Katrina! So glad you're here!Delete
The publicly funded and under threat model is one we know here in Canada, too. And sometimes I do in fact get mad at other professors who seem determined to remain unprofessionalized in any meaningful sense, out of some misplaced idealism that just means that we are ever more open to outside attacks for our six hour weeks and our hobo aesthetic and our unwillingness to learn how to use the photocopier for ourselves.
I don't want to serve the master of particularly virulent national op-ed columnists, but showing respect for my own credentials and my own job by changing out of my pjs before I come to work does not seem like a step too far, to me at least ;-)
As another actual Dave, who tries to walk a careful line between first-name collegiality and work-dress professionalism, I very much appreciate the schooling this topic is dishing out to my male colleagues who clearly do not give a damn what anyone else thinks they look like, because they can, because privilege. Of course, since they won't read it, it's tragically wasted, but at least we know there are good feminist arguments for taking it more seriously.ReplyDeleteReplies
And of course, if enough men in a department decide that every day is lawn-mowing-chic day, then every woman who tries to dress up to gain a bit of traction in the classroom looks that much more frumpy and humourless. It's all related, right? Thanks for your comment!Delete
Really loving this conversation. 3rd year assistant prof at a 2 year CUNY community college. We are a federally designated black and hispanic serving institution and the population of our students is INCREDIBLY diverse. Many first gen immigrants, many first gen college students. Mostly lower or working class individuals. Lots of underserved or "at risk" populations. The context of the institution where I teach absolutely affects what I look like and the ground rules of decorum in the classroom. First year was a jacket and tie, pretty formal looking. Second was just a jacket and jeans with maaaaaybe an occasional tie thrown in. This year I'm wearing jeans and some long-sleeve flannels and/or denim button downs. We've got some of the most fashion forward students I've ever seen. All colors, all styles, all flavors. Students who do more with a pair of leggings, glitter, and a leather jacket than I could ever imagine. But we've also got students who wear the same pair of clothes to class all semester because that's all the've got. I'm real conscious of how I act and dress in front of my students. The more formal attire has felt less and less important to me. I don't know if it does what I need or want. Mostly a jacket and ties makes me sweat. My hair gets the most attention from my students. Basically it looks a lot like David Lynch's hair? Maybe Tin Tin's? I'm an aging goth and it's the way I remember, I think. Fashion is incredibly important to my students, looking cool or sharp, and I feel like I'm growing more comfortable in a style that feels good and that isn't as marked as a suit and tie. Maybe I'm talking about multiple languages of respect? I'm not sure. I usually ask students to call me Dr. Ben, but again this is sort of a work in progress as our students sometimes have different exposure to formal modes of address and just don't have very much experience in relationships with authority figures that aren't toxic. Really fascinating to think about, thanks.ReplyDeleteReplies
Ooooh, great comment, Man Not Named Dave -- I guess I omitted from my own positionally the fact that I'm at an R1, with mostly quite privileged students, and a high proportion of international students, some of whom are less inclined to see women as authority figures, and some who are way more used to a much more formal classroom space than is the norm here.Delete
Your strategy sounds good, and your students sound really interesting. Just like the rest of us who are thinking about clothing critically, you are trying to maximize your impact as a teacher, in this case by becoming more approachable to your students. A great goal. Thanks for your comment!
I once taught a spring session course where I was determined to wear sandals every day, and sometimes did wear clothes I mowed the lawn in. I should mention I am an Old White Male who switched into the academic world when my middle management corporate peers were planning early retirements and I am aware that my privilege makes it somewhat easy to perform "authority" (though I do mean "perform": whiteness and maleness does not make one immune from impostor anxiety). Fact is, I fret over the Dr-Prof-first name thing. I usually try to finesse it as best I can -- I prefer the formal address in formal situations but try not to let it torque me. I've left the sandals behind. Four years ago I decided to wear a jacket and tie on teaching days; it's a way of telling myself that I am taking on the role, like it's my uniform. I've even been known to play the theme song from "the Good The Bad and The Ugly" as I knot my tie on days when I need to pick myself up, or when I have a Big Thing to accomplish -- I envision the scene before the big showdown where the music plays as the characters suit up. I know, a very Old White Male meme. But I think the jacket and tie allows students to put me in a box marked "professor" or "instructor" or at least "bland." And while I hope I am approachable, I am not particularly concerned with being palsy or cool -- and I have _never_ been fashion-forward. --Mark G.ReplyDelete
Namewise, even when I'm very clear in class on the issue, students tend to be all over the place, especially in email. I think the fact that I'm a PhD student teaching a course confuses them, as the ones who want to go more formal seem at a loss when they're told that Professor and Dr aren't on the table. They don't seem to like using "mister" at all. One point I've found I've had to be firm on is that while the first name is okay, nicknames are absolutely unacceptable. "Mike" turns into "Mikey" in a distressingly short period, and that way madness lies.ReplyDelete
This is a great post and I have thought about these concepts as well. I love blazers and I definitely think they add to the "feel" of academia, if there is such a thing. I have blogged about this as well, last year here http://allthingspedagogical.blogspot.ca/2013/02/the-clothes-make-woman.htmlReplyDelete
and have had many discussions with others about clothing choices for female academics.
I have taught in the university and college setting for about 9 years and as someone who does not look her age, I have taken the blazer look to create the kind of tone I want at the beginning of class. This does not mean I am stuffy instructor, but rather it helps me both physically and mentally negotiate the learning spaces in encounter.
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Iran's press predicted a failure at Annapolis; they may well be proved right
As widely expected, the Iranian media were less than supportive of the Annapolis Peace Conference. It wasn't that they hadn't been invited -- the average Iranian is used to being snubbed by the West and has developed a thick skin to this sort of thing. Instead, local pundits amused themselves by stating the obvious flaws in the process.
The English language Kayan International, for example, quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying, "When the real representatives of the Palestinian resistance groups did not attend the meeting, and the rights, votes and will of this nation were not recognized, the conference would be fruitless."
Article first published by Ohmynews International
Reprinted by OpEdNews.com
True to form and never one to miss an opportunity, the president added that, "It is impossible that the Zionist regime will survive. Collapse is in the nature of this regime because it has been created on aggression, lying, oppression and crime." According to translators who viewed the original Farsi, the president said Zionist regime, as in government, and not Israel as a state.
It's a bit like saying we'd like to see the end of the Bush administration and their policies, not necessarily the end of the United States of America as a country. Too subtle a difference for some to grasp, perhaps.
The three main protagonists, the U.S., Israel, and Palestine agreed to seek a peace deal by the end of 2008 that would create a Palestinian state, Kayhan said, but the core issues like the status of al-Quds (Jerusalem), the borders of a future Palestinian state, and the fate of Palestinian refugees remained unresolved.
Well, at least there was some progress. Or was there? Kayhan reported that within a few hours of the announcement, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the 2008 deadline for a deal might not be reached. Translation: It won't be reached. The status of Jerusalem will see to that. The borders, the security walls, the settlers, the refugees.. well, they are just supporting intractable problems.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the forum's only achievement was a couple of documents that haven't actually been finalized by the signatories. "It was a show."
He said the documents for signature couldn't be finalized in time, suggesting the differences are very deep. It could also signify that insufficient time was given for the conference which again lends credibility to the accusation that it was nothing more than a glorified photo-opportunity.
Kayhan made a pointed statement in their editorial, "The truth is, the first formal direct negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians in seven years took place between leaders who both represent less than 30 percent of their respective populations."
They didn't point out, through politeness perhaps, that the negotiations were being hosted by a leader with an even sorrier approval rating.
This theme was echoed in a front page leader in Iran Daily which said, "Bush hopes for a foreign policy success to polish his legacy, but the unpopular war in Iraq, the main factor in his low public approval ratings, could limit his room to manoeuvre."
The paper added, "Olmert's public standing is also low, partly due to last year's Lebanon war and rightist coalition partners have warned against concessions. Abbas lost control of Gaza to Hamas in June and only holds sway in the West Bank."
The popular daily, noting the obvious absence of Hamas from the proceedings, said inviting Abbas was a blatant interference in the internal affairs of the Palestinians, and an obvious attempt to prop up the faltering Abbas regime.
The paper said the conference achieved nothing more than to "widen the broad schism between the rival Fatah and Hamas."
Tehran Times, in a below-the-fold wire service piece, reported that Arab commentators had dismissed the process as a U.S. media event, an attempt by Bush to rescue his image after failures in Iraq and Afghanistan . The article said Abbas will return to Palestine without anything. Well, except for a few vague promises and a few extra snaps for his photo album.
According to PressTV, however, that's more than the Syrian's received for their trouble. Their delegation left the peace conference without even a specific promise from Israel to restart stalled talks over the Golan Heights.
The general consensus among the local media seems to be a joint "we told you so" -- and unless Abbas does a Neville Chamberlain on his arrival home, waving a dog-eared document declaring "Statehood in our time," it appears they may be proved right.
Friday, 30 November 2007
Iran Press Watch: Annapolis
Iran's press predicted a failure at Annapolis; they may well be proved right
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At City Council's work session on Tuesday, Todd Delk from the City's office of Transportation Planning gave a presentation on the various requirements for producing a Traffic Impact Analysis study and the methods through which those analyses are obtained.
Among the site plans that require traffic studies are ones that have shopping centers larger than 23,000 square feet, grocery stores larger than 20,000 square feet and apartments with more than 240 units. Although an office must be 64,000 square feet to require a traffic study, a fast-food restaurant with drive-thru only needs to be 6,000 square feet.
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- Year:
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- Length:
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- Hull Material:
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Doc's Holiday is a fine example of the Chris Craft 501 Constellation, having spent her life in fresh water until 2012 and now permanently relocated in Port St Joe, FL she shows far above average. Four cabins, each with a private head and private shower stall, large and bright living area in salon and galley-up, comfortable pilothouse for inclement weather and spacious fly bridge for entertaining.
Details that set this Chris Craft 501 Constellation apart from the others include her galley-up layout, stabilizers, three-zone hot water base board heat in addition to reverse cycle air conditioning, engine room, and back-up cameras.
Nobetec nav system and computer
Lifeline 8d batteries
Refit galley in 2015.
NEW Jan 2016 -
New Thrermostat, cooling system to include inner coolers cleaned
Fresh oil and filters
Racors cleaned.
New Helm chair cushions
Sept 2016 -
Fresh bottom job, replaced cutlass bearings and zincs.
Jan 2017 -
Paint touch-up
Companion way and stateroom wall coverings redone
After coolers done and new gaskets
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Recent engine inspections done by local Detroit dealer show that the engines are well within specs/tolerances and have many hours of service life remaining.
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Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
Boat Name
Doc's Holiday
LOA: 50 ft 6 in
Beam: 15 ft 4 in
Maximum Draft: 4 ft 4 in
Total Power: 1100 HP
Engine 1:
Engine Brand: Detroit Diesel
Engine Model: GM6V92
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Location: Starboard
Engine Hours: 3200
Engine Power: 550 HP
Engine 2:
Engine Brand: Detroit Diesel
Engine Model: GM6V92
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Location: Port
Engine Hours: 3200
Engine Power: 550 HP
Fresh Water Tanks: (240 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: (760 Gallons)
Holding Tanks: (100 Gallons)
Number of single berths: 3
Number of double berths: 2
Number of heads: 4
Forward Guest Cabin
- Offers twin over/under berths to stbd with a shelf and hanging locker to port. Just aft to Stbd is a shower stall with a separate enclosed head to port. An overhead hatch lets in air and light and provides emergency exit to fore deck.
- Aft to stbd with a desk and chair fwd and an athwartship settee that cn be used as a berth. Ample storage here in cabinets, shelves, and drawers. Cabin ports to stbd keep this cabin very bright. Across the passageway to port is a second enclosed head and a separate shower stall.
VIP Stateroom
- Further aft along the passageway, with a double island berth (easy access on either side). Storage is hanging locker, cabinets and drawers. Cabin ports to stbd brighten this cabin. A third enclosed head with a separate shower stall in this cabin.
Engine Room
- Accessed aft of the VIP stateroom via a large door. Incredibly spacious and brightly lit by overhead lights. Plenty of space to maneuver around the engines for service work.
- Console is fully equipped with electronics for navigating in inclement weather. Doors to port and stud allow easy access to either side deck. Long settee along the aft bulkhead of the pilothouse provides a nice perch with a great view for the helmsman, or a place to read for the crew while at rest.
- Visible through an etched glass window within the bulkhead. Attractively-curved counter sweeps across the width of the vessel, facing aft, allowing the cook to be social with those relaxing in the salon. Fully equipped with a full-size refrigerator and freezer to port, four-burner stove in aft counter, large sink in fwd counter with trash compactor and dishwasher below. There is storage in cabinets and drawers below the counters
Main Salon
- spans the width of the vessel with panoramic views through large windows to port and stud and through glass doors that slide all the way open aft to the cockpit. Protected from the weather when necessary, this salon opens brightly to the outside, letting in a terrific crossbreeze when the weather is nice. A plush couch to stud, recliner aft to port, chairs, and a coffee table provide a pleasant lounge for the crew.
Master Stateroom
- Down spiral staircase to port is a King-size island berth on center with a large mirror along the aft headboard. There is a vanity with a chair aft to port and a large shelf to stbd. Additional storage is in hanging lockers, cabinets and drawers. This cabin enjoys sole access to a master head with shower stall (located behind a door in the fwd bulkhead).
Additional Information
- Pop-up bar in main salon
- Digital TV's and DVD players in main salon and master stateroom VacuFlush heads
- Reverse cycle air conditioning/heat
- Three-zone hot water base boar heating
- Marquip boarding stairs
Outside stereo system consists of:
- Upper deck - 5 speakers
- Woofer under upper helm
- Aft deck - two speakers w/ volume control
- Front sun pads - 2 speakers
Other equipment
- West Marine RIB -- new in 2012, with Mercury outboard
- Delta 65# anchor with 159' chain and 200' rode
- Fortress 50 storm anchor
- Adult and child PFD's
- Life ring
- Flares
- Four-person valise packed life raft
- Search light
- Life Sling
- Magma propane grill on flybridge
- Fenders & docklines
- NEW GE full-size SS refrigerator and freezer
- NEW Parquet flooring
- NEW galley faucets
- Corian counter and sink
- Thermador four-burner stove
- Thermador convection microwave
- Kenmore dishwasher
- Thermador trash compactor
- 12V DC electrical system
- (2) 8D house batteries - NEW 2015
- (2) 8D engine start batteries - NEW 2015
- (1) 4D generator battery, new -- summer 2013
- 220V AC electrical system
- Onan 20kW generator, 1938 hours
- New starter on generator -- fall 2013
- Xantrex 3000W inverter with upper control in galley
- 2) independent radar systems and (2) independent plotters
- Nobeltec radar at both stations - NEW 2015
- Nobeltec plotter at both stations - NEW in 2015
- Nobeltec Odyssey software - installed in 2015
- Furuno 4kw radar at lower helm
- Garmin 182/c GPS plotter -- new in 2013
- Cetrek 737 auto pilot at lower helm
- Standard Horizon Infinity VHF
- Standard Horizon LH10 hailer
- Datamarine Link 5000 depth, apparent wind, speed, log at both stations Bennett trim tabs
- Engine room and back-up cameras
- Twin Detroit GM 6V92 diesel engines, 550HP each with approx 3100 hours
- Oil spinners/cleaner system for engines and generator - double time between oil changes
- Niad Stabilizers
- Air Seps on the engines
- Algae x fuel cleaners on both engines
- Electronic gear and throttle controls at upper and lower helms
- Hynautic hydraulic steering system
- Oil change system
- 2.25" stainless shafts
- four-blade bronze props
- Dual Racor primary fuel filters for each engine
Hull & Deck
Safe side decks lead to a large foredeck with sun pad on the cabin top for lounging outside.
Fly bridge is accessed via an interior companionway in the pilothouse. Captain and mate enjoy twin pedestal seats at the upper helm, while guests relax in a large U-shaped dinette aft. Easily entertain guests on the Flybridge in comfort with the wet bar with ice maker.
- Solid fiberglass hull
- Swim platform
- Stainless stanchions and bow rail with teak handrail
- Maxwell 2200 electric windlass with chain and rope vertical drum Electric davit for hoisting dinghy
- Bimini for fly bridge
- Freshwater and saltwater wash downs in aft cockpit
Personal items, ditch bag, and EPIRB
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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