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With a keen sense of humor, Aspen Mays explores the relationship between scientific investigation and the photographic medium to question what knowledge can be gained through systems of cataloguing, classification, and documentation.
For her 12 x 12 exhibition Mays produces a site-specific photographic installation titled Every leaf on a tree. The installation consists of two recent bodies of work: Every leaf, which documents every leaf on a tree outside of the artist's studio and consists of over 900 individual color photographs; and Every book, a series of photographs that document every book about Albert Einstein available through the Illinois Collegiate Inter-Library Loan service. These were then organized by Mays according to the color spectrum to create a series of individual "rainbows"—referencing Einstein's theories about light and gravity. With these works, Mays asks how the systematic presentation of individual parts affects our understanding of the whole.
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NASA's retired shuttle Endeavour heads west Monday (Update)
(AP)—The baby of NASA's space shuttle fleet is about to leave home—for good.
At sunrise Monday, Endeavour will depart Kennedy Space Center for a museum in California, with a two-day stopover in Houston, home to Mission Control and the astronauts who flew aboard the replacement for the lost shuttle Challenger.
Endeavour is the second of NASA's three retired shuttles to head to a museum. The youngest shuttle will make the four-day trip to Los Angeles atop a modified jumbo jet, bound for the California Science Center. Discovery landed at the Smithsonian Institution's display hangar in Virginia last spring. Atlantis will remain at Kennedy.
After taking off from the former shuttle landing strip Monday morning, Endeavour and its carrier jet will fly low over Kennedy and the beaches of Cape Canaveral, then head west toward NASA points along the Gulf of Mexico. The pair will swoop over Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where the shuttle booster rockets were made.
Next stop: Ellington Field near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Endeavour will remain at Ellington until Wednesday morning so space center employees can see the shuttle up close. Houston had bid for a shuttle; the loss still nags many there. NASA chose New York City as the winner for the shuttle prototype Enterprise, which was relinquished by the Smithsonian to make room for Discovery.
NASA's two other shuttles during the 30-year program, Challenger and Columbia, were destroyed during flight, with 14 astronauts altogether killed.
Endeavour was built to replace Challenger and made its flying debut in 1992, six years after the launch accident. It performed the next-to-last shuttle mission in May and June 2011.
During its 25 missions, Endeavour logged 299 days in space and circled Earth 4,671 times. Total off-the-planet mileage: 122.8 million miles (197.62 million kilometers).
After leaving Houston on Wednesday, Endeavour will stop for fuel at Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso, Texas, and then perform a low flyover of the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, which served for decades as an emergency shuttle landing site. Then it will head to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California, another old shuttle touchdown venue.
On Thursday, Endeavour will fly to Northern California, home to Ames Research Center in Mountain View. NASA plans low-level flights over San Francisco, Sacramento and other major cities before heading to Los Angeles and a late-morning arrival at Los Angeles International Airport.
NASA was mum Thursday regarding the exact times of all these flyovers for security reasons. Officials warned that the weather needed to cooperate to allow for such a full and busy schedule.
The shuttle will make its final 12-mile (19.3 kilometer) journey from the airport to the California Science Center, via city streets, on Oct. 12-13. It will go on public display beginning Oct. 30.
Atlantis' road trip—from a Kennedy Space Center hangar to the visitor complex—is scheduled for Nov. 2.
NASA retired the shuttle fleet last year under White House direction in order to focus more time and money on travel beyond Earth's orbit, first an asteroid and then Mars in the coming decades.
Private companies, meanwhile, are trying to pick up where NASA left off regarding the International Space Station. Until those businesses can provide spaceships for flying people, U.S. astronauts will need to rely on Russian rockets to get to the orbiting lab.
More information:
NASA: www.nasa.gov
California Science Center: www.californiasciencecenter.org/
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This small, sleepy town is one of Uruguay's lesser known vacation spots. From green parks, dramatic cliffs along the river, historic architecture to splendid beaches, there exists a wide variety of outdoor activities for summer fun in and around Fray Bentos, Uruguay.
Recognised for "the romance of the sun, the cliffs and the river", the town was conceived as a river port that still preserves its natural features with waters deep enough to allow large ocean going ships. This pleasant Uruguayan city is connected with the resort town of Gualeguaychu in Argentina through the Libertador General San Martín international bridge. Here the climate is temperate and humid, ranging between 17° and 20° C in the summertime and dropping considerably during the winter.
The town of Fray Bentos provides "Old World" charm, historic architecture, beautiful parks and plazas. However, it does not offer many dining choices and opening hours vary. Young Theater, Constitución and Artigas Squares, the public amphitheater, and the Solari Museum are other sites of interest open to curious visitors in search of the region's history.
There is a spectacular ten-kilometer scenic drive along the riverside cliffs beginning in the center of the town and ending close to the beaches of Las Cañas bathing resort, renowned for its sandy beaches, nautical sports, and fishing. Along this route lies Barrio Anglo, declared a National Historical Monument, where a group of over one hundred houses from the late XIX century with English and German characteristics surround the former Anglo meat slaughter house. This historic community was once the heart of Fray Bentos. Today there is an Industrial Revolution Museum in the old meat processing plant and buildings, a monument, and historic buildings for visitors to enjoy a glimpse of the past. This area is just southwest of the town of Fray Bentos. Its natural harbor gave birth to the town around 1859 on the cliff coast of the River. It was a major port for the region and led to the development of the city. Guided tours are available and adjacent to the museum is a small restaurant offering local fare.
Hotel RR is a family run property close to the main highway from the International Bridge between Argentina and Uruguay. It is a motel style complex with fourteen chalets set amongst beautiful trees and floral gardens. There is a small swimming pool for the hot summer days and the main lodge has a very large verandah with seats to enjoy the view. It is set back from the road and is very quiet at night. The rooms are simple, clean, with air conditioning and heating plus satellite TV. It is a five minute drive to the center of Fray Bentos and a car is a must. The prices are economical and include a continental breakfast buffet. It is a great place for a short stay when travelling around by car in this beautiful part of Uruguay.
For those touring this part of the Uruguay countryside Fray Bentos and Las Canas are ideal places offering unique indoor and outdoor activities to unwind during the lazy summer days.
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I just got back from a writing retreat I took last Monday through Wednesday with a writer friend from church. You can read about my experience here. What I will say is....IT WAS TOTALLY AWESOME, DUDE! Every writer needs a writing retreat - to collect your thoughts, to have focused time with the keyboard, to let your creativity fly uninterrupted.
So here's the thing, when Casey asked me what I was writing about for this post, I had no idea. So, I told her just pick something for me to write about and post it in the Weekend Edition. Surprise! I was assigned the topic of fun and inexpensive writing retreats. Yay, Casey! That's a fun topic!
And challenging.
So I divided up writing retreats into three categories, according to the size of your pocketbook.
- A day at Panera Bread or Starbucks. For the cost of a meal or drink, you can hang out and write to your hearts content.
- A day at the library. Tuck yourself away at your library for some quiet time!
- A morning/afternoon at your local park. Grab your lounge chair and sit in the shade with your laptop. Take a cooler with drinks and snacks!
- Museum
- A friend's house who is on vacation :)
- Hotel or hospital lobby?
- A room or rooms at your church. For an overnight retreat you could take air mattresses, order pizza, and have some fun!
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- A hotel room over the weekend.
- Rent (or borrow) an RV and head out to a state park. Depending on the size, you can fit up to 6 people in one of those!
- Rent a cabin at a state park. For about $60-$100 a night, you can sleep around 4 people and be surrounded by God's creation and inspiration.
- Again, a friend who has a lake house or a time-share they aren't going to use.
- There are church-run retreat places that will allow you to rent rooms. Often, these places include meals.
- Stay in a treehouse! Sleep two per treehouse and gather together for brainstorming and eating.
- Try a Bed & Breakfast! Erica Vetsch just went on a writing retreat with Mary Connealy and stayed in an awesome B&B. Check it out here.
- Some retreat places are especially designed for writers, such as The Porches on the James River in Virginia.
- How about a Georgian house overlooking Schull Harbour in West Cork, Ireland? Uh, yes! Check it out here.
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James Mollison – Where Children Sleep
"Where Children Sleep is about stories of diverse children around the world, told through portraits and pictures of their bedrooms. When Fabrica asked me to come up with an idea for engaging with children's rights, I found myself thinking about my bedroom: how significant it was during my childhood, and how it reflected what I had and who I was. It occurred to me that a way to address some of the complex situations and social issues affecting children would be to look at the bedrooms of children in all kinds of different circumstances. From the start, I didn't want it just to be about 'needy children' in the developing world, but rather something more inclusive, about children from all types of situations. It seemed to make sense to photograph the children themselves, too, but separately from their bedrooms, using a neutral background. My thinking was that the bedroom pictures would be inscribed with the children's material and cultural circumstances ' the details that inevitably mark people apart from each other ' while the children themselves would appear in the set of portraits as individuals, as equals ' just as children. This selection of diptych's from 56 in the book (Chris Boot November 2010). The book is written and presented for an audience of 9-13 year olds ' intended to interest and engage children in the details of the lives of other children around the world, and the social issues affecting them, while also being a serious photographic essay for an adult audience. "
Bilal, 6, Wadi Abu Hindi, The West Bank
Kaya, 4, Tokyo, Japan
Indira, 7, Kathmandu, Nepal
Risa, 15, Kyoto, Japan
Rhiannon, 14, Darvel, Scotland
Jaime, 9, New York, USA
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Roland Juno-Di
The Juno-Di is an updated version of the Juno-D that brings it more up to par with the Juno-G and Juno-Stage models. Roland has doubled the polyphony from 64 to 128 voices and packed in over 1,000 sounds thanks to twice as much waveform ROM (64 MB). They even gave it the same paint-job as the other Juno models. All this was done while retaining its original role as a good, cheap, portable entry-level synthesizer. Think of it as a Juno-G without the sequencer / audio-recording / workstation features.
The Juno-Di's 1,000+ sounds should be enough, right out of the box, to get any musician—entry-level or otherwise—going. They include grand and electric pianos, strings, guitars, brass, percussion, exotic instruments, modern synth sounds, and much more, including GM2-compatible sounds. Patches are organized into categories such as Piano, Guitar/Bass, Orchestra, Synth, etc. and are selected via dedicated category buttons located below the LCD display. The large scroll dial lets you quickly browse through all the patches within each instrument category.
The front panel is designed to be as simple and stream-lined as possible, offering only what is needed to quickly access, set up and play with its sounds. Five dedicated "Sound Modify" knobs provide access to basic parameters to tweak, including Envelope Attack, Release, Filter Cutoff, Resonance and Reverb amount. For all other sound editing you might want to do, a Mac/PC editor is included. From the computer you will have much more advanced access to its four tone generators, the TVF digital resonant filters, two LFOs (assignable to the pitch, filter, panning and level simultaneously), multi-effects, and many more Patch and Performance operations and parameters.
What really sets the Juno-Di apart from its bigger siblings is its lack of workstation features, most notably, the omitted sequencer and audio recorder. It does have an arpeggiator with lots of preset patterns, but you can't create your own, and it has some preset drum rhythm patterns, but you can't create your own. There's also phrase sampling and chord memory.
The Juno-Di is really a giant sound-bank of Roland's latest sounds with a 61-note velocity keyboard attached. Although it may not be a studio workstation, its portability features such as its light weight and ability to run on batteries make it ideal for traveling musicians. Additional features like Roland's D-Beam controller and a built-in vocoder with a mic input (and its own dedicated reverb) make it ideal for live performances. In addition, the "Song Player" can play SMF, AIFF, WAV, and MP3 files from a USB stick, that you can then jam along with like a real one-person band.
The Juno-Di is nothing like the original analog Juno poly-synths, except maybe for the look of the paint job. But it does offer Roland's latest technologies in their most portable and entry-level package. It really is a good general purpose keyboard for gigging but can also be good for advanced players looking for a cheap, quick and easy to use synth for lots of bread-and-butter sounds.
Demos & Media
Websites of Interest
Images from Perfect Circuit Audio and Roland.
Information provided by Ernosco.
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New bat virus could hold key to Hendra
Chance encounter Scientists say the discovery of a new virus in bats could help in the fight against the deadly Hendra virus.
The virus was found in bat urine at Cedar Grove south of Brisbane, and has been named "Cedar".
The Cedar virus is thought to be harmless to people and others animals, but it is a close cousin of the rare and deadly Hendra virus which also has a Brisbane connection.
It first appeared in Hendra in Brisbane's north in 1994.
Since then, Hendra has infected seven people and resulted in four deaths.
There have already been six outbreaks in Queensland this year and a woman who held a sick foal last month is still being monitored for the virus.
Scientists hope comparing Cedar with its viral cousin will help them discover why Hendra is so deadly, and how they can stop it.
CSIRO virologist Gary Crameri is among a team of scientists working on the discovery.
"We put that into mice, guinea pigs and ferrets and what we found was there was no disease in any of those animals," says Crameri.
"If we'd done the same thing with Hendra we would have seen dramatic disease in those species."
Crameri says scientists can now compare the two bat-borne viruses to determine which part of Hendra causes serious disease and death.
"Cedar doesn't cause disease at all in animals in the lab, [so] if we can find genes that are different between the two viruses then potentially we can unlock what it is about Hendra that makes it so lethal," he says.
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Crameri says the research will help develop treatments to save people who have contracted Hendra.
"One of the problems we have at the moment is that there's nothing the medical profession can do to specifically target the viruses once they infect people," he says.
"They can use general care techniques to keep them alive but they can't target the virus at all.
"Really that's what we want to try and get a handle on - what are the things that we can do what are the therapeutics we can develop to do that?"
Dr Hume Field from Biosecurity Queensland says any new information to help fight the killer disease is welcome.
"The challenge with Hendra virus is it occurs sporadically, and the likelihood is low but the consequences are high," says Field.
"So the reality is that every tool that we've got to counter the potential impact of Hendra is worthwhile."
The CSIRO has already been developing a Hendra vaccine for horses and that is due to be ready next year.
Researchers say it will provide an invaluable level of protection against the virus, but human treatments are still years away.
"It's a very much a light bulb moment from the point of view of we're on to something here - two viruses that are to all intents and purposes similar except for one major difference," says Field.
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"I shall devote myself to the instruction of the youth…Our hope is that no sacrifices in this noble cause will be lost, and that we shall enjoy the privilege of seeing our institution realize the expectations of its patrons and the friendly public…Our purpose is never to rest while Wabash College shall lack any advantages for the student, which are offered by the highest class of American colleges." - Elihu W. Baldwin, First President, Inaugurated July 13, 1836
"Whoever exerts an influence here, exerts an influence upon many individuals and upon great interests elsewhere. Whoever communicates any portion of his opinions or his character to young men here, communicates them to all after ages." - Charles White, Second President, Inaugurated July 19, 1841
"I address myself to the alumni of this College. You are our joy and our crown. As you go out among men, we ask you to remember this College, as the mother who bore you. Speak of her sometimes in those terms of fondness which shall be so grateful to her ear and so potent in the esteem of society, as 'our College,' as 'Old Wabash'…showing that you would rather lose the music of your own tongues that to forget Alma Mater." - Joseph Ferrand Tuttle, Third President, Inaugurated July 24, 1862
"So, this hour, grateful for the Wabash of the past…we together – students, teachers, trustees, alumni, friends of the College – together we pledge ourselves to the Wabash of today, to the Wabash of tomorrow." - George Stockton Burroughs, Fourth President, Inaugurated June 21, 1893
"The historic college is built upon the idea that its work is to educate men. Not simply to educate the intellect nor to train the hand or the eye or any other fractional part, but to educate the man himself. The work of the old-fashioned college is to lay the foundation for a complete manhood. Its aim is not to make specialists, but to make men." - William Patterson Kane, Fifth President, Inaugurated February 22, 1900
In assuming the duties of President of Wabash College I am not unmindful that humility most of all becomes me. When one has in mind the five presidents who were here and are not, it does not yet seem quite credible that one like myself is the sixth…One can only beg that he may not be altogether unworthy of his predecessors." - George Lewes Mackintosh, Sixth President, Inaugurated June 12, 1907
"It is essential…that the whole problem of individualizing education be kept in the foreground in the shaping of educational policies, in the administration of college affairs, and in the instruction of students. These, then, are the opportunities that our predecessors have handed down to us. May we in turn keep the faith and assist those whom we admit to our institution in their intellectual development; may we inspire them to right living; may we encourage them to search for the truth and reveal to them the significance of the message…that the truth shall make them free." - Louis Bertram Hopkins, Seventh President, Inaugurated December 3, 1926:
"Every day at Wabash should be regarded as an important day…full of the realization that here are citizens in the making…In its student body is the life blood of any school. For students it was founded – for students it should live…Friends of Wabash, let us join together this day…in a new pledge of cooperation and in a new dedication of effort for a stronger, more powerful, more effective Wabash." - Frank Hugh Sparks, Eighth President, Inaugurated October 25, 1941:
"There is a poetic quality about such a college. Its poetry is in its past. It is in the fact that for a century and a quarter students and teachers, trustees and friends, much like ourselves, have studied and played and worked and worshipped here, and now they are gone as we must shortly go…On this occasion, we who now constitute Wabash – students, teachers, trustees, alumni and friends – could do no better than to resolve to match the courage, the vision and the energy of our predecessors. If we do, we shall lift this college to still higher levels of usefulness, distinction, and honor." - Byron Kightly Trippet, Ninth President, Inaugurated October 13, 1956
"The men of Wabash will not break faith with the humane tradition or with their history. We will be relentless in our pursuit of excellence. We will continue to develop men to lead and to serve. We will not compromise our sense of high purpose." - Paul W. Cook, Tenth President, Inaugurated December 3, 1966:
"I want to see Wabash continue to excel as a small, independent, liberal arts college for men. That forthright definition will be the text for my remarks this morning, the convictions of one who believes with all his being that our type of college, that our own College, continues today with the special mission of service which motivated its founding; that Wabash will best serve by producing men of balanced judgment, broad knowledge and good character – 'Scientiae et Virtuti,' know-how and guts." - Thaddeus Seymour, Eleventh President, Inaugurated October 10, 1969
"If education at Wabash is anything, it is the cultivation of the intellect…the acquisition of skills which enable us to dissect and construct arguments, to disentangle the valid from the specious, and to order our beliefs in some proportion to the weight of evidence supporting those beliefs." - Lewis Spencer Salter, Twelfth President, Inaugurated October 10, 1978
"Thus a tradition for exceptional teaching in the liberal arts was begun. Names from the past like Mills, Thomas, Gronert, Brigance, Rogge, Haenisch, and Dean have carried this tradition forward, helping to create the richness for which a Wabash education so well known…Whether one looks at leadership activity, professional impact, or the percentage of graduates attaining the Ph.D., Wabash ranks with the finest institutions in the country." - F. Sheldon Wettack, Thirteenth President, Inaugurated December 3, 1989:
"Wabash is not simply a four-year college for men; Wabash is a lifetime experience for men and their families. It is not simply a four-year liberal arts program; Wabash is the beginning of one's independent life. It is not merely preparation for the real world; Wabash is participation in the real world. It is not rules, regulations, and judicial procedures; Wabash is trust, responsibility, and caring. It is not unique in the candor, rigor, and caring of the classroom experience. Wabash is above all about making men better." - Andrew T. Ford, Fourteenth President, Inaugurated January 29, 1994
"At Wabash, liberal education is not a package to be acquired, nor a problem that is solved, but a constantly renewed question, a disposition of the heart and mind as much as a curriculum. The liberal arts mark a way of being in the world…(We) recognize that in the defining terms of citizen and gentleman lie a lifelong project of critical thinking and exploration of ethics, art, and culture reaching for a complete understanding of what it means to be a gentleman, what it means to be a citizen." - Patrick E. White, Fifteenth President, Inaugurated January 27, 2007
"Our true academic mission — to liberally educate each and every student — is a timeless reminder of the lives we change here at Wabash College, one young man at a time. For while the problems facing higher education and the world are complex, the solutions need not be. Amidst the jostle and the fray and the haranguing static and noise that often surround our academic endeavor, stands our foundation: the simple gifts of the liberal arts. These profound gifts — the ability to act, to see, and to speak — are the bedrock that underpin teaching and learning at Wabash College." - Gregory D. Hess, Sixteenth President, Inaugurated October 11, 2013


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BeBe & CeCe Winans, Switchfoot Nab Grammy Awards
Brother and sister duo BeBe and CeCe Winans took home two Grammy awards on Sunday, adding to their already wide collection of gold statues.
The two won for Best Gospel Performance and Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album during the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony.
Other winners in the Gospel category included Switchfoot, Jerry Peters and Kirk Whalum, Diamond Rio, Patty Griffin, and Israel Houghton.
"Grammy!!? Wow... Thankful," Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman tweeted. This is the alternative rock band's first Grammy.
"Thank you to everyone for all of your support through Hello Hurricane. This has been an amazing experience for us and we are so thankful for our family, friends and fans," the five-member band said in a statement.
The Southern California band was up against David Crowder Band, Fireflight, Gungor and Lecrae for Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album.
Peters and Whalum nabbed the award for Best Gospel Song ("It's What I Do") while Houghton beat out fellow Christian music heavyweights Steven Curtis Chapman, Sanctus Real, Ricky Skaggs, and TobyMac for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album.
The worship leader tweeted, "So grateful. Just won Grammy #4 for LOVE GOD LOVE PEOPLE. Thanks to everyone for the love and supportive congrats we've gotten. Love u."
The ceremony on Sunday, held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, featured a tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, who is recovering from surgery. Yolanda Adams, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride and Florence Welch saluted Franklin with a special performance.
Other performers included Lady Gaga, Barbara Streisand, Mick Jagger, Gwyneth Paltrow, Justin Bieber, Usher, and country band Lady Antebellum – the big winners of the night.
A day before the ceremony, gospel legend George Beverly Shea, 102, received the Lifetime Achievement Grammy award.


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1a. First, whatever fiction/nonfiction classifier they use seems to work extraordinarily poorly--almost certainly worse than simply using the Library of Congress classifications that Gutenberg itself distributes with some of its dumps. It includes personal narratives, political essays, instructions for building bird houses, psychology texts, and so forth. If you click the "random" button on their page (which is a great thing to include), you'll see many of these.
2a. It also includes many collections of short stories or pairs of novels published in a single volume. Some of these are the highest scoring "plots" for their basic arcs: for instance, "The Wonder Book of Bible Stories" is the best instance of the inverse of plot 3, and only 1 of the top 5 representatives of (- SV 2) seems to actually be a single narrative.
I ran a spot check of 50 random texts in their browser. I counted 18 non-fiction; 20 novels or short stories; and 12 collections of short stories, or other multi-work texts. So roughly 40% of the texts used are actually what the authors say they are. This makes the conclusions only provisional at best. So many of the titles in the captions are obviously not stories that it's a little baffling they didn't bother to clean up their data set, or use one of the many *actual* fiction collections out there. [Edit: I noticed in the appendix that they classify "fiction" on the basis of length and download count. How they chose the parameters they use aren't clear to me; in any case, it's obvious that just length and download count are *terrible* inputs into a fiction/nonfiction classifier, so it's no wonder they do so poorly.]
Another question about plot as a time series is: can you predict what will happen? No one working in the field, to my knowledge, has tried to do this, but it could be interesting. In terms of emotional valences, this makes clear, I think, why the word salad null hypothesis is silly; if you want to predict the end of the book from the middle and beginning, you could do better than say "It will start randomly vacillating every word from negative to positive and so on."
What are we doing here?
Next on to some bigger questions of what it means to study plot. This and Jockers are two of the more prominent things recently using sentiment analysis as a proxy for "plot." I saw Ted Underwood on Twitter arguing that the next step must be following up on David Bamman's work on experimenting on whether sentiment analysis actually works by using Mechanical Turk to annotate the "emotional trajectory of texts."
I'm basically done thinking about all of these; the combination of my paper on topic-modeling arcs and my meta-reflections on algorithms, plots, and the Jockers-Swafford affair of 2015 for Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 give most of what I have to say formally about the issue. There are some slides from the IEEE paper that have nice interactives about the beginnings and ends of TV shows. But I thought I'd just blog out a few additional directions I'd like to see followed up.
I have some issues with the idea of validating sentiment analysis results being especially useful for literary analysis, principally because I don't think that even perfectly working sentiment analysis would be a very good way to measure plot. Citing Vonnegut is a bit of a bait-and-switch; he writes about "good fortune" and "ill fortune," not "positive sentiment" and "negative sentiment." Sentiment analysis is already trained on large numbers of human samples of whether something is positive or negative; if we want to explicitly test Vonnegut's hypothesis, we ought to be building new models that classify text as "fortunate" and "misfortunate," which should subtly differ from ""positive sentiment" and "negative sentiment."
Or we should be testing theories of plot that, unlike Vonnegut's, actually have any influence beyond a web video from a few year's ago. (Vonnegut doesn't even strike me as a writer who was especially good at plot, to be honest.) Train an LTSM model on human-tagged data that can accurately extract the "call to adventure" or the reaching of the innermost cave from a script, and then we might have something interesting, because there's a real interplay between the stories we consume through mass media and popularizations of Joseph Campbell.
Of course that brings me to the final problem here, which is that you *can't* use mechanical turk to label stories by their Cambpellian archetypes because ordinary readers don't speak in those terms. Is that a problem? Can we expect to find structures that most people wouldn't recognize?
I've said before that I think formal musical analysis is the real place to look here. One could, I imagine, try to classify every Beethoven sonata movement by its emotional trajectory; in some popular understanding of music that is what actually happens. But if macro-musicologists tried to do that, they'd obviously be missing out on the actual formal elements the composer was working with. Early 19th-century European music is organized tonally; a good model of its structure would look at tonal organization, not some nebulous notion of emotionality.
I do not believe there are general story principles as firm as classical-era sonata form. I do think that some combination of Joseph Campbell, commercial organization, and three-act structure conformism leaves contemporary television and movies somewhat predisposed to one or a few narratives that could be usefully explored. Which is why I think it's a huge strategic blunder for everyone working with plots to be looking at novels--probably the least coherent narrative form in existence--instead of any of the many other forms of narrative out there.
Even if there are "master plots," I suspect they will be revealed as much in terms of tension as emotion. (Tension is also more easily analogized to classical form music, for better or worse, as dominant-tonic relationships.) A plot classifier shouldn't be looking at local emotion; it should be looking at arcs of introduction of tension and release. This requires a very different form of machine reading; every gun on every mantlepiece needs to be tracked until it goes off. (As with everything else these days, this seems structurally better suited for neural networks than the locally tokenized texts we're mostly working with.) Tension explains a wide variety of plots that none of the emotionally based mechanisms can. For example, the preponderance of plots in my TV and movie database are procedurals which are not organized around a single character's rise and fall; instead, they proceed from crime to punishment, from disease to cure, or from acquisition to sale.
I have no idea how to define "tension." You could do it through Mechanical Turk, I guess. But what's really interesting is that we may be able to define it operationally. What sort of events in texts demand resolutions? What distinguishes beginnings from ends? These are more unsupervised questions than ones about emotional trajectories, and ones that might provide us with much more interesting questions to build on as well as answers.


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With all the spin coming out of the GOP about the D.C. Circuit having a lower caseload than during the Bush years – and thus not needing to have its vacancies filled – it's worth remembering what was said last month by someone who knows about these things. At a September 10 Senate subcommittee hearing, Tenth Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich – the chair of the Judicial Conference's Committee on Judicial Resources – responded to a question about the D.C. Circuit from Sen. Christopher Coons. Judge Tymkovich (who was put on the Tenth Circuit by George W. Bush) noted that the D.C. Circuit's caseload has, in fact, not fallen during the past decade:
I might add they haven't asked for a new judgeship in the last 20-plus years or so. They lost one to transfer [in 2008]. And their caseload has been relatively steady the past ten years or so, so we haven't seen any reason to reevaluate that because their caseload is about where it was ten years ago.
(He begins discussing the D.C. Circuit at about 1:35:00 into the hearing video.)
The Judicial Conference is an arm of the federal courts presided over by Chief Justice John Roberts and charged with setting policy on the administration of the federal courts. It regularly conducts exhaustive, in-depth analyses of the cases going through every single one of the nation's courts. On the issue of caseload, they generally know what they're talking about.


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The fiscal cliff problem's been pushed back for now, so you don't have to read up on what it exactly is for a few more months, but, more importantly, you also shouldn't worry about Beyonce lip syncing the National Anthem. Instead of worrying, there's this week's 5 Most Intentionally Funny Videos to watch and at which laugh heartily because they, unlike the two incidents above, were planned and executed flawlessly.
1. The Grawlix from Denver serve up a taste of what both police partners being nice guys would be like during an interrogation in Good Cop/Good Cop.
2. As part of the monthly competitive short form TV series Channel 101, Baby Mentalist deservedly topped the voting by parodying The Mentalist with a real baby.
3. Matt Damon exacts his revenge on Jimmy Kimmel by hijacking Jimmy Kimmel Live.
4. Rookie Magazine enlists Kumail Nanjiani to give advice to teenage girls, which turns into figuring out references that those girls will get.
5. The podcast Comedy Bang Bang gets its first video episode as part of The Video Podcast Network from the Sundance Film Festival with Paul Scheer, Casey Wilson, Michaela Watkins, and more.
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The nation paused over the weekend to remember the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to honor those who sacrificed that day and in the years since. If you want to look back at the weekend's events, our posts are collected here and NPR's "Reflecting On Sept. 11, 2001" special series of stories is here.
Earlier this morning, we posted about the subject that's sure to be a prominent issue in the 2012 presidential campaign — jobs. President Obama plans to send his $447 billion plan for boosting job growth to Congress later today. Then he'll set off on more trips around the nation to make the case that the plan needs to be passed "now" rather than later.
Meanwhile, other stories making headlines this morning include:
-- "U.S. Stock-Index Futures Fall Amid Speculation Greece Approaching Default":In the U.S. this morning, "stock futures fell, indicating that the Standard & Poor's 500 Index will extend last week's loss, as speculation Germany is preparing for a Greek default spurred turmoil in global financial markets." ( Bloomberg News)
Related headline from The New York Times: " Investors Brace as Europe Crisis Flares Up Again."
-- "Bastrop Fire 50 Percent Contained, 1,554 Homes Destroyed":"Progress continues to be made on the 34,000-acre wildfire. The blaze is now 50 percent contained." ( NPR member station KUT in Austin)
Related headline from Austin's American-Statesman: " Bastrop 'Missing' List Shrinks Quickly; Estimate of Destroyed Homes Climbs To 1,554."
-- Gadhafi's Son Saadi "Given Refuge In Niger":"Saadi Gaddafi had been let into Niger on humanitarian grounds and was due in its capital Niamey later, said Niger's Justice Minister Marou Amadou." The whereabouts of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi are still unknown. ( BBC News)
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Joseph Heller (born May 1, 1923, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died December 12, 1999, East Hampton, New York) American writer whose novel Catch-22 (1961) was one of the most significant works of protest literature to appear after World War II. The satirical novel was a popular success, and a film version appeared in 1970.
During World War II, Heller flew 60 combat missions as a bombardier with the U.S. Air Force in Europe. After receiving an M.A. at Columbia University in 1949, he studied at the University of Oxford (1949–50) as a Fulbright scholar. He taught English at Pennsylvania State University (1950–52) and worked as an advertising copywriter for the magazines Time (1952–56) and Look (1956–58) and as promotion manager for McCall's (1958–61), meanwhile writing Catch-22 in his spare time.
Released to mixed reviews, Catch-22 developed a cult following with its dark surrealism. Centring on the antihero Captain John Yossarian, stationed at an airstrip on a Mediterranean island during World War II, the novel portrays the airman's desperate attempts to stay alive. The "catch" in Catch-22 involves a mysterious Air Force regulation that asserts that a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions but, if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. The term catch-22 thereafter entered the English language as a reference to a proviso that trips one up no matter which way one turns.
Heller's later novels, including Something Happened (1974), an unrelievedly pessimistic novel, Good as Gold (1979), a satire on life in Washington, D.C., and God Knows (1984), a wry, contemporary-vernacular monologue in the voice of the biblical King David, were less successful. Closing Time, a sequel to Catch-22, appeared in 1994. His final novel, Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000), was published posthumously, as was Catch As Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings (2003). Heller also wrote an autobiography, Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here (1998), and his dramatic work includes the play We Bombed in New Haven (1968).


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Ivor Abadi, founder of The Twisted Wheel, talks about the Manchester club's role in the birth of the British mod culture and the northern soul music-and-dance movement during the 1960s. Memorabilia from the club and information about its history can be found at thetwistedwheel.com.
Northern soul is basically American soul music that became the popular soul music of Northern England. The Twisted Wheel opened in 1963 in Manchester, and what might be termed "soul music" probably started to come around about the same time. It wasn't actually called northern soul in the early '60s, but that's really the start of it.
The inspiration for the club was that young people needed a place to meet, listen to music, and dance. There were coffee bars in England at that time where people would meet, and they had music but no dancing. So we called our place a coffee dance club because there was no alcohol. We predominantly attracted a young crowd, say 16 to 22, though some were as old as 30.
We were five brothers. My older brother Jack came back to England in '62 after being in the States and the Philippines. We found a place in the center of Manchester and decided on wheels as the theme. That involved collecting all kinds of wheels—from cartwheels to bicycle wheels. We even had a ship's wheel from Paris. That formed the club's décor. It was just brick walls painted black, white, and red in a basement, with lots of little, cavernous rooms. It really had a character all its own.
We had two distinct sessions at the club: the ordinary session—four nights a week on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, when it would be open from 7:30 p.m. until midnight—and then the all-night session on Saturday, which drew people from a much wider area. They'd come from 100 miles away. This is the scene that ultimately developed into what we now call northern soul.
"Northern soul music is typically fast and very danceable."
I think we were at the right place at the right time when we opened because the Beatles had just started to hit. This was the baby-boom generation—people born in 1946, '47. There were a lot of young people, and they wanted something different.
Musically, we started with jazz and blues, which slowly became rhythm and blues, which became soul music, and then, eventually, northern soul. We didn't want to be as commercial as everybody else. So we were playing different music even in the early days. It wasn't pop-based.
Collectors Weekly: Who coined the term northern soul?
Abadi: Dave Godin, the editor of "Blues and Soul" magazine in London, visited The Twisted Wheel and heard the soul music we were playing at an all-night session. He wrote an article in which I think he said, "This is northern soul." In other words, it wasn't what they were playing in the south of England.
In London they had a lot of jazz clubs, and even in the late '60s they weren't listening to the faster dance music that inspired the unconventional dancing at The Twisted Wheel. There were no other clubs at the time where people were dancing like this.
Collectors Weekly: Was the club popular right away?
Abadi: Absolutely. I knew we wanted to have nonstop music. I didn't want interruptions from the DJs, who always wanted to talk. I wanted musical continuity. You have two turntables, and when one record is finishing, you blend it into the next one. We always wanted that. It was like magic, and we're not quite sure how that happened, but it was a big hit from the very beginning.
The club's first location was in the center of Manchester, where we stayed from January 1963 until September 1965. When the lease was up we moved across town and did business out of our second location from September '65 until about January '71.
Collectors Weekly: What were the other defining elements of northern soul besides music and dancing?
Abadi: I think the clothes. They were very smart and different. The girls used to wear duffle coats, which were very popular. And there was a period when they wore long gloves, which were very trendy and fashionable. The style of the people who came to the club was a bit exaggerated and unconventional.
They would also make their own badges uniting themselves to each other. We sell badges now as memorabilia, but we didn't have them then. They would come in with bags and have a change of clothes and shoes because it was an all-night session. The people who came to the club created its atmosphere. I think our very friendly atmosphere and the dancing were the most important things to our customers.
Collectors Weekly: What sorts of collectible memorabilia from The Twisted Wheel are popular?
Abadi: The original membership cards are the most coveted. They're available and not expensive. I still have a huge collection of different membership cards from the '60s—they go for about 5 pounds each. Original leaflets and posters are also very collectible. We did have pens with the club name on the side, just cheap pens. Nowadays we've also got new memorabilia—T-shirts, key fobs, badges, a few other bits and pieces—but all the original wheels that decorated the club are certainly collector's items.
Collectors Weekly: Can you describe a typical all-nighter?
Abadi: There would always be a queue outside because we'd have to empty the club from the early session. We'd let them in usually about midnight. They'd pay their money, take off their coats, and there'd be a coffee bar on the ground floor area. They'd meet up there, hoping to run into friends from all over the place, and they'd have a coffee. Then they'd take their bags to the clubroom, and maybe at that stage they might start exchanging records, which was a popular thing to do at the club.
We had three different rooms in those days, including two big rooms downstairs where records were playing. A live band would play in one area, but we'd have records playing in another. If the group was very popular, then we'd feed the sound all the way around the club.
The atmosphere was really charged, with lots of people dancing. We never had any flashing lights in the club. The lighting was situated behind the wheels, so some of the light came through bicycle spokes. It was all hidden lighting.
We were very strict about who we let into the club. We only wanted nice people. We never had any trouble, and the young people appreciated that. They came from all walks of life, and they all got on, which was strange. Usually people were cliquish and stuck to their own sort. But here they enjoyed something in common.
Collectors Weekly: And there was no alcohol, right?
Abadi: None at all. That was becoming very unusual as we got to the late '60s. Other clubs that served could only stay open until 2:00 a.m. But we were able to stay open all night because we didn't have alcohol.
When we first started doing all-night sessions, we used to close at about 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning. But because a lot of people came on public transport, they had nowhere to go until their public transport started again. So the local police came to us and asked us if we'd stay open a little later so that people weren't wandering the streets. The police weren't pleased that people were coming from other towns and cities.
We got blamed for everything that happened because we attracted all the people. And of course there was a little pep-pill scene in the '60s—amphetamines—and obviously some of them took pills, but not everybody. We got blamed for something that was happening all over the place, including schools and universities. Suddenly the pep-pill scene was portrayed as something we'd created, but that's another story.
Collectors Weekly: Who were some of the best-known northern soul DJs, and what did they play?
Abadi: Brian Rae was one, and he's still playing northern soul music today. Roger Eagle worked with us, but he's passed away. If anything, he was a little too way out. He was more interested in the purity of the music and was happy for everybody just to sit and listen. But that's not what the crowd wanted, or what we wanted, for that matter. Brian Phillips was another great DJ. I don't know where they all are today. Hopefully most of them are still alive.
The records they played came predominately from the States, in particular Chicago, New Orleans, and Detroit. They were imported by ship or plane. Of course these importers got to know us, and they sent records directly to the club, so we'd get all the new releases.
We also got a lot of records from the U.S. Air Force bases in England. There was one not too far away. The DJs used to communicate with airmen, and we would get the music they were playing, some of which became northern soul. Manchester also had Jamaican music shops. So we had this mix of Jamaican-style music, soul, and blues to produce a new overall sound.
Northern soul music is typically fast and very danceable. The dancing itself is also fast. The young people, especially the boys, would do acrobatic-type dancing, so they'd need a lot of space to do it. Sometimes one or two of the boys would take over the whole dance floor to the detriment of other people dancing. They wouldn't quite be doing somersaults, but you'd see them spin around on the floor.
I think the popularity of the records depended more on the sound and the tune. As long as the beat was there and it was danceable, it didn't really matter who the artist was. You could tell straight away if a song was a hit: You'd put on a record and watch the dance floor fill up, or vice versa.
Generally an artist would only have one popular northern soul record. There weren't too many artists with two or three. A few examples off the top of my head—these are all American artists—are Bobby Sheen, who made a record called "Dr. Love." The Invitations had "What's Wrong With Me Baby." Other popular tunes were "There's Nothing Else to Say Baby" by The Incredibles and "A Lil Lovin' Sometimes" by Alexander Patten. They were mainly Motown-based artists on the Tamla Motown label.
Collectors Weekly: Were the records 45s or LPs?
Abadi: Mostly 45s, the singles. But we had LPs for very popular artists, and we also played 10-inch records. We actually had our whole record collection stolen when we first opened at the second venue in 1965. We marked our records by punching a hole in the center label of the 45. When they were stolen, we knew they'd end up in other clubs. But even when we went down to the other clubs and found our records with the little hole punched in the middle, the police said, "It's circumstantial. It doesn't prove anything."
Fortunately, we didn't have to start from scratch because that's when the DJs started to bring in their own records. Obviously we built our own collection alongside theirs.
Collectors Weekly: How big was The Twisted Wheel's record collection?
Abadi: We had maybe 5,000 records prior to them being stolen. We probably bought 50 records a week, but if the records were widely available in the shops, then it wasn't what we were looking for because our clientele was looking for something different. The artists we played were on labels like Groovesville out of Detroit. There were also New York labels like Scepter and Wand, all the major American labels (Capitol, ABC, Columbia), and obviously the Motown record labels.
Although it was U.S. soul music, the records were usually not that well known in the States. I think when we were importing records our suppliers didn't realize the discs they were sending us were such hot properties in England. From our point of view, it was simply cheaper to import the records from the States than to buy them from retailers in the U.K.
We also played a lot of music that wouldn't be considered northern soul, such as records by Ritchie Barrett, who did "Some Other Guy." We played Chuck Berry, Bobby Bland, and Bo Diddley. His records were very popular, even though they were pure R&B, because the music was fairly fast. We played Booker T and the MGs, James Brown, Alvin Cash, the Castaways, the Toasters, Fats Domino, the Impressions, and Poison Ivy. "Shake" by Sam Cooke was a popular number.
There were a lot of popular English acts as well, including Cyril Davies' R&B All Stars, the Spencer Davis Group, the Dominoes, the Kinks, and Betty Everett. There are so many: Doris Troy, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Sonny Boy Williamson, Gene Chandler, Chubby Checker. Arthur Conley's popular song was "Sweet Soul Music," Don Covay's was "See-Saw."
We brought over a lot of acts from the States for two- or three-week tours. Every Friday and Saturday night we'd have a group on. We had to have English groups because there weren't always American groups around. Even though we opened in January of '63, didn't host any American groups until probably September or October when we started the all-night sessions.
Frequently, we'd book the bands we'd brought over into other clubs. We had Fontella Bass, Bob and Earl (their hit was "Harlem Shuffle"), Alvin Cash & the Crawlers.
The marvelous thing about the American groups as opposed to the early English groups is that when they performed live they all sounded exactly like their records. But three groups stood out by a mile: Jr. Walker and the All Stars, the original Drifters, and the Ike and Tina Turner revue, which had The Ikettes, who were absolutely fantastic on stage.
Collectors Weekly: Over the years, did your club remain popular?
Abadi: No question about it. We still captured they crowd even when new clubs started running competing all-night sessions. We had the atmosphere. I'm not saying that we weren't affected from time to time, but by and large the people stayed with us. Toward '69 or '70 it got a little more difficult because we didn't have an alcohol license and everyone else was getting them. Things perhaps waned slightly at the end, but we still had a very good following, and we were still bringing American groups over.
Collectors Weekly: Why did you close the club in 1971?
Abadi: It's ironic. The police didn't want us to have an alcohol license because they didn't want us to have all-night sessions. They were worried about the potential mix of alcohol and pills, which was nonsense, really, because we probably would've ceased the all-night sessions if we'd been granted a license.
We got turned down every time we applied for a license. So we carried on with the all-night sessions, and they continued to be popular, much to the annoyance of the authorities.
Finally, in 1971 we got an alcohol license. We closed The Twisted Wheel and opened a new club on the same premises called Placemate 7, which was a completely different club with a different crowd. It was a commercial decision. By this time there were other clubs playing northern soul, although none were as popular as The Twisted Wheel. It was time to do something different. I suppose Wigan Casino became the club that took northern soul into the next dimension.
Collectors Weekly: Is the northern soul scene still going strong?
Abadi: It's very big now. A lot of people have little northern-soul gatherings. Today, northern soul can be found almost anywhere in the U.K. It has stuck as a type of music.
(All images in this article courtesy of Soulbot.)
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I think this interview was a little clouded on some issues. The Twisted Wheel reopened about 10 years ago and the 'little gatherings' he speaks about are really large gatherings. They still play the original music at the present Wheel and its in the same building on Whitworth Street as it used to be in the 60's.
The term 'Northern Soul' is not used at The Wheel, this tends to be used about 'The Wigan' era in the 70's. The diving all over the floor type of dancing was not done.
Maureen Says:
i agree with maureen twisted wheel is the birth place of northern soul great djs like brian rae who still dj to this day sunday sessions at wheel are well lets say ive never seen such a great crowd of people great music ivor was there at the start but look were wheel is today biger than ever i only wish i was born to go 1st time around
leesoul70 Says:
i remember the special bank holidays at the wheel and actually helping out on the door ! fantastic memories of fabulous music and friends and characters of the scene x
jackie clowes Says:
I realy enjoyed the article, and I also think his opinion of the dancing, if he's talking 1970-71 is pretty close to the mark.
"The young people, especially the boys, would do acrobatic-type dancing, so they'd need a lot of space to do it. Sometimes one or two of the boys would take over the whole dance floor to the detriment of other people dancing. They wouldn't quite be doing somersaults, but you'd see them spin around on the floor."
Frank "Booper" New dancing to Alexander Patten – absolutely awesome.
Wonderful, wonderful memories.
David Meikle Says:
All the best Ivor.Hope you are keeping well.
Alan Williamson
Alan Williamson Says:
There are two books about the Twisted Wheel – CENtral 1179 which is itself a collectors item, and another one which is becoming a collectors item: The MANCHESTER WHEELERS, which does tell the real story of the 'Wheel'the drugs and the record collecting and the Mod scene at The Twisted Wheel.
The best book so far about collecting Northern Soul 45's is The Northern Soul Top 500 by Kev Roberts. A forthcoming book is the Top 500 Manchester Soul records – the genesis of the music that started off this phenomenon of Northern Soul mostly as played by Roger Eagle.
Dave Says:
Hi everyone,
I like all your comments, and welcome as many as possible.
Have you joined our website yet?
You can chat on the forum, and have a look at memoribilia available.
I need any stories for forthcoming book on The Twisted Wheel.
Keep them coming,
Ivor Abadi.
Ivor Abadi Says:
was way too young to attend the original wheel but have to take my hat off to the founders of this great music we have all grown to love and will cherish till the day we die
brian flanders Says:
My longest , lasting memory was seeing Rufus Thomas performing the Do the Funky Chicken in the "stage room ", on the left hand side as you walked down the stairs. It was Saturday 23rd January 1971 ( didnt know it then but only 2 weeks before the Wheel closed ) , the place was packed and it is was raining outside – you could tell it was raining as the rain was running down the walls on the inside of the club ! Rufus was in top form dressed in red hot pants and knee length white boots dancing to The funky chicken – that surreal memory has stayed with me down the decades. Great venue, lasting memories. Saw plenty of bands, didnt realise the influence they would have on me at the time. Also in Manchester used Pendulum , Top of the Town, as well as Top Twenty , The Birdcage , Casino , The Moon in Dukinfield.
My mates and I used to travel by train from Oldham and we used to put our return train tickets down our socks because at that time it was a regular thing to get ' rolled '. At least we had our tickets to get home the next morning !
Peter Tarnawskyj (Chinny) - Oldham Says:
Happy memories with Ivor, Jack and Victor. I think of you all often.
Hope you are well Ivor.
Loved the history.
Sylvia Birchenough Says:
Cheers Iver, went to the wheel fom the beggining to the end and loved every minute of it. So many classic bands as you say the original Drifters brilliant, Jnr Walker etc etc. Never any trouble, had to have some pills to dance all night, but very harmless. We dressed very smart dancing was great. Best time of my life Ivor thanks to your family and the great people you attracted.
peter hesketh Says:
Just returned to the uk spent many great nights at the old and the new wheel rgds to the gang I used to hang with and to dj Joe Makin and t who was a great mate all the best to Ivor as well.
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