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Thanks for your interest in guitar lessons! Music lessons will enrich and develop your child's mind, heart, and body. Plus, the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual growth that your child will experience as a result of music lessons will be almost immeasurable. And with Suzuki Guitar Lessons, you can trust that your child is working with an excellent teacher, right here in Philadelphia.
Music Lessons: A Huge Advantage For Your Child.
Improves Academic Performance
Whether it is improvements in math, linguistics, abstract-reasoning, ACT scores, or GPA, study after study confirms decades of anecdotal evidence: Music Lessons will make your child Smarter.
Cultivates Social and Emotional Skills
Your child will learn how to collaborate, cooperate, and coordinate their effort with others in group classes.
Increases Self-Esteem
Breaking through a "plateau" performance level will increase your child's confidence in their own ability to overcome obstacles and create beauty.
Expands Discipline and Patience
Your child will learn the value of committing to their goals as they are able to play harder and harder pieces. They'll gain motivation from seeing the progress of their fellow students.
Unlocks Self-Control
By participating in activities that reducing over-stimulation and require focus and attention, your child's self-regulation and self-control will grow.
Teaches Non-Verbal Communication
Your child will learn to give and pay attention to facial and musical non-verbal communication when playing music with other children.
Boosts Attention Span
As your child progresses through the repertoire, their attention span will be challenged and grow as they play longer and more complex pieces and participate in group music activities.
Suzuki Music Teachers: Dedicated to The Art of Teaching
When you take lessons with me, you are confident that your child is getting great guitar lessons. Your child will be learning from me, a Suzuki-trained teacher who provides the same quality instruction that Suzuki-trained teachers have been giving all around the world since the 1930s. And let's not forget my expertise on the instrument, my deep knowledge of music, and a career committed to teaching music. With degrees in both classical guitar performance and music theory as well as a decade-long career of teaching music, you can rest assured that your child is learning from an accomplished musician, devoted pedagogue, and committed professional who is backed by the worldwide community of Suzuki music teachers.
I and 9 other guitar teachers participated in Andrea Cannon's 2016 Guitar Teacher Training Session in Alexandria, VA. As part of the course, we observed her giving lesson to a handful of students.
This student asked for a picture before his family moved to away last fall. His parents have sent me a few videos of his progress and he's doing fantastic!
Reviewing some repertoire with a student. Regular review is essential to progress!
One of my students performing on stage at the annual fall GPSA recital. His right hand is so far up the neck of the guitar because he is using the musical effect called "tasto".
The post-recital picture at the fall GPSA recital. Guitar, violin, piano, and flute students all came together to put on a show! (faces blurred for privacy)
What Parents and Professionals Are Saying:
My favorite thing... is to see Kale meet our son where he is at each time
If you're interested in learning guitar, we highly recommend Kale! …we loved it and made the commitment, and haven't regretted it for a second.
I believe the most important thing is having a connection with a great teacher… Kale has an amazing ability to connect with students of any age, and it has been amazing for us to see our young son develop a respect for his teacher and an enjoyment of making progress through practice. His relationship with Kale is… a rich enhancement of his overall view of the world and himself.
My favorite thing about our lessons is to see Kale meet our son where he is at each time and then find a way to learn more about himself at the same time as learning more about music — quite a feat given that it can be hard to get a four-year-old to do much of anything if they're not in the right mood.
I believe the benefits of his teaching can be infinite
Kale clearly has a deep understanding of child psychology. He was able to get a very impulsive, easily distracted toddler to follow directions and have a great time doing it. He was kind, understanding, and very tolerant.
I believe the benefits of his teaching can be infinite. Counting can become fun, patience a virtue, and for others, like my son, who struggle with speech, this can give them another method of communication and a confidence of self that is priceless...
For sure. Kale knows his stuff.
I've know Kale for over ten years and I've always appreciated his interest in deeply exploring many different guitar methods and teaching skills. I know that he brings a depth of knowledge and experience to his students, and doesn't get complacent, but is always learning and adapting his approach to fit a given student's needs. As a fellow music teacher, this is inspiring to see.
For sure. Kale knows his stuff.
Kale is good natured and has a great sense of humor... studying with him would never feel too "heavy" or too much like another thing you "have to do". He has also worked extensively with different age groups and knows a wide range of material. I think any student should feel confident that they have a qualified teacher.
No Guitar? No Problem. Guitar Rentals Available
I have guitars in a variety of sizes so that your child can learn guitar on an instrument that fits their body.
About Me
I have hitch-hiked from Colorado to Philly in 2 days, performed on a 14,000 ft. mountain at 2:00 am for a 24-hour mountain bike race, and sailed on a German tall-ship in the North Sea for a week directing young "campers" on basic sailing skills with my very poor German and complete lack of sailing knowledge.
One of my main hobbies is chess; I also am enjoying planning and planting our first community garden plot with my wife.
To get back to the point: I've been teaching guitar to students ages 3-76 in the Philadelphia area since 2006. I have two bachelors degrees in Music from Temple University; one in Classical Guitar Performance, the other in Music Theory. At the 2010 Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic's annual conference, I had the distinct pleasure of presenting my research. Of course, my paper had a title so typical of humanities research papers: "The Consequences of Cadential Failure and Virtuosic Rhetoric in Liszt's B-Minor Sonata".
After graduation, I continued my guitar studies with world-renowned lute and classical guitar teacher Patrick O'Brien and Rowan University Professor Kathleen Mayes. Since 2014, I've studied the Suzuki Teaching Philosophy and Guitar Pedagogy with Wan-Tsai Chen, David Madsen, Andrea Cannon, and Bill Kossler. I am also a memeber of the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Concert Ensemble.
What You'll Get When You Start Guitar Lessons:
We are really lucky to have found him!
My son began taking lessons with Kale when he was only 5 years old and has continued with him now for 3 years! ...Kale has such a way about him that, even when he is correcting my son, he does it with respect and kindness. ...Kale has passed down his love of music and instruments to my son... I have recommended him to many friends and will continue to do so--we are really lucky to have found him!
Our son loves Kale and playing music
Kale has been teaching our son Suzuki guitar for a year now, he began shortly after his third birthday. He is an excellent, patient and skilled teacher who really knows how to redirect an easily-distracted young learner. Our son loves Kale and playing music has had a great impact on him, we hope that this is the beginning of his life-long love for music.
Kale Meets His Students at Their Level.
Kale relates to his students, meeting them at their level. From young toddlers thru college-age, he connects the activities and the music to fit their interests and learning style.
He assesses the needs and interests of his students, and formulates a teaching plan for them as individuals. In this way, they receive instruction that truly motivates them to learn.
I think students will feel that their teacher takes an interest in them and cares to see them progress. They will appreciate the energy he brings to his teaching and will benefit from that.
Kale's great with kids--he's engaging, patient, and thoughtful.
My 11-year-old daughter has been taking guitar with Kale for about a year and a half now, and I've been very happy with our experience with him. Kale's great with kids--he's engaging, patient, and thoughtful. Every lesson, I can tell he's working to put himself in my daughter's shoes to understand what she's getting and what she's not. And Kale's not one of those teachers who's only interested in teaching technical skills. He helps my kid to think musically--playing interval-hearing games and such.
Would you like me to Teach Your Child to play Guitar?
I will work with you to make sure that your child gets all the the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual development that learning guitar provides. Likewise, we'll work together through the excitement of the recitals and the frustrations of bad practice weeks. Above all, we will stick with Shin'ichi Suzuki's guiding principle; that developing beautiful character comes first and making beautiful music follows.
I know that music lessons are a commitment for your family, too. With that in mind, I offer a 45-day money back guarantee (details below).
If you want your child learning from a teacher who is highly trained and experienced as both a guitarist and a teacher, contact me and we'll find a time for your audition session.
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There are many who say, "Who will show us some good?
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An International Perspective on the Challenges Facing the Wireless Infrastructure Industry
By Tom Leddo, Chief Strategy Officer and Lynn Whitcher, General Counsel
Different Cultures, but Similar Challenges
Md7 currently operates in fourteen different countries and eleven different languages. While there are obviously a lot of cultural differences between each of these markets, Md7 has found that each of these countries and regions within are facing a lot of the same challenges as each continues to upgrade and maintain their networks. And, believe it or not, we have also found that many of the solutions to these common infrastructure challenges are similar as well.
In short, Md7 acknowledges that each country and/or market within a given country is unique, but we have found through our efforts to acquire, modify, expand, extend, optimize and even decommission, tens-of-thousands of sites around in North America, Europe, New Zealand and Egypt that the challenges and solutions are more similar than one would assume.
Based on our experience over the last thirteen years, we find that all of the wireless operators we serve are facing the following two challenges.
- Managing capital expenditures (CapEx) on continuous and more frequent network upgrades in response to the ever-evolving consumer demand driven by the advent of smartphones, tablets and now even the Internet of Things (IoT).
- Managing operational expenditures (OpEx) in response to handset penetration rates in excess of 100%.
Or said another way, operators worldwide have to continuously increase the efficiency and bandwidth of their spectrum and networks while simultaneously operating on tighter budgets.
Independent of country or culture, it is simple economics. In all of the markets in which Md7 operates, the operator's growth curve has flattened as it crosses 100% penetration, while the customers are demanding more bandwidth at lower prices, on cooler devices.
Disruption is Needed Globally
It's clear that more cell sites are needed, but given the economic constraints of the industry, the traditional deployment model must be disrupted. In our previous article, More Cell Sites – Better, Faster, and Cheaper, we discussed the need to find a better way to acquire and build more cell sites (small cell, as well as DAS and macro sites) that is faster and cheaper. At Md7, we are investing a lot of money in R&D to find and improve upon solutions. We believe that the site acquisition process must be blown up and redesigned to be better, which we believe inherently results in cheaper and faster processes.
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China's government, turning 70, tells its story at the UN
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Four days before its communist government's 70th birthday, China on Friday condemned protectionism and unilateralism as "major threats," took not-entirely-subtle shots at U.S. economic policies and proudly pronounced itself "a country that is open and on the move."
With Chinese President Xi Jinping not attending this year's U.N. General Assembly, it fell to Foreign Minister Wang Yi to tell the story of the People's Republic of China at the seven-decade mark. He did so with dispatch and style, plowing through a speech that outlined many of his country's accomplishments, challenges, philosophies and international beefs.
He called China "an anchor of stability for world peace" and much more.
"Seventy years ago, China put an end to a period in modem history in which the country was torn apart and trampled upon. We stood up and became true masters of our country," Wang said.
The current chapter for China, a culture thousands of years old, began on Oct. 1, 1949 when Mao Zedong stood at a microphone atop Tiananmen Square in Beijing and declared a new government in the nation his communist guerrillas took from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists after a civil war.
When Mao died in 1976 after an extraordinary tenure punctuated by repression, famine and party intrigue, China began a period known as "reform and opening up." Senior leader Deng Xiaoping engaged with the West, re-established diplomatic relations with the United States and began a period of economic, technological and developmental growth — a "socialist market economy" that drove China to where it is today.
Which is, among other things, in a major trade dispute with the United States — a tariff battle that threatens global economic growth. That was not lost on Wang during his address at the U.N., where a large anniversary display in a heavily trafficked foyer offers onlookers a photo history of the world's most populous nation under communist rule.
"Erecting walls will not resolve global challenges, and blaming others for one's own problems does not work," he said, in a reference likely aimed at the United States. "Tariffs and provocation of trade disputes, which upset global industrial and supply chains, serve to undermine the multilateral trading regime and global economic and trade order. They may even plunge the world into recession."
"Facing the headwinds of protectionism," he said, "we should not just stand idly by."
China is offering to narrow a trade surplus with the United States by purchasing more American exports. But the Beijing government is resisting pressure from Washington to roll back technology plans that their trading partners say violate Beijing's free-trade commitments and hurt foreign competitors.
U.S. President Donald Trump postponed a planned tariff hike on Chinese goods ahead of the 13th round of talks in Washington in early October. Beijing has lifted punitive duties on soybeans in a move that helps both American farmers and Chinese pig breeders who need soy as feed.
Wang, whose address at times read like a listicle about "Things China Has Accomplished," was not shy about touting the formidable progress made by his nation, which he said "has done, in just seven decades, what it took some countries hundreds of years to complete." Chinese often express pride at the speed of their nation's progress and the rise in living standards for many since the country began to open to the larger world after Mao died in 1976.
Not unexpectedly, Wang cited growth and development as the engines behind China's successes thus far. "Development," he said, "is the master key to solving all problems."
China is in the midst of a major, multipronged global strategy called the Belt and Road Initiative, which is developing infrastructure projects in concert with scores of other nations and organizations. Beijing calls it a significant contribution to environmentally friendly growth, but others see it as an influence play designed to extend the country's footprint even further.
In his speech, Wang exhorted other countries to "seize the development opportunities" that the Belt and Road Initiative has created.
Overall, however, his speech seemed almost a position paper for China at age 70. It cast the country under Xi as a defender of peace and justice, an advocate of the principle of independence and a committed multilateralist — all assertions that the government's adversaries have taken issue with.
China has long emphasized what it calls its commitment to multilateralism, a stance that has become even more persuasive to other nations since Trump took office in 2017 and began to pursue an "America first" policy that has unsettled enemies and allies alike.
On Friday, on the sidelines of the U.N. meeting, Wang showed off another side of China's trajectory, officially collecting another in a spate of smaller countries that have ended diplomatic relations with Taiwan, the self-governed island that Beijing claims as part of its territory. Chiang's defeated Nationalist government retreated there in 1949 after being vanquished by Mao's Red Army.
Wang and the president of the island nation of Kiribati signed a document re-establishing relations. An announcement by China's official Xinhua News Agency cited the upcoming 70th anniversary and said the renewed China-Kiribati relationship "will undoubtedly add glory to this important historical moment."
"Over the past seven decades, China has turned itself from a closed, backward and poor country with a weak foundation into a country that is open and on the move," Wang said in his speech.
"Let me make it very clear," he told the global audience gathered at the United Nations. "China is a country with a 5,000-year civilization, 1.4 billion hardworking and courageous people, and a vast land of 9.6 million square kilometers. China will not ever be cowed by threats or subdued by pressure."
Ted Anthony has written about international affairs for The Associated Press since 1995. He was AP's Beijing news editor from 2001 to 2004 and director of Asia-Pacific news from 2014 to 2018. Follow him on Twitter at @anthonyted.


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Miss Wood, 57, said she was forced to rely on hired help to look after her children while she was high on cocaine during the early 80s.
The former model and the Rolling Stones frontman had two children together, Leah and Tyrone, and also brought up the sons they each had from earlier relationships, Jamie and Jesse.
Speaking on Radio 4's Women's Hour, she said: "I was an after 2 o'clock mother. Jay, the nanny would do the morning, I'd do the afternoon.
"I lived a life that was, I was up until four, five every morning, go to bed about then, get up at about two,' she added. 'I had a great nanny for years, my life was upside down for years.
"In the music business you stay up all night, maybe it's because of the drugs, and sleep all day."
Asked how the drug-taking affected her children, Miss Wood replied: "They didn't see what was going on.
"They just thought they had absent parents. They were very young. Looking back I wish it hadn't happened, I wouldn't recommend it, but it just happened. We were out of control for a year and a half.
"I'm very lucky, I got to a point and turned round and said I can't do this anymore. I wanted to be a great mum and I knew I wasn't being so I stopped.
"And I think I'm really a very fortunate person that I was able to stop like that.
"Ronnie carried on for three more years and I think the more I saw him do it after I'd stopped the more I thought I'm never going to do that stuff again."
Miss Wood, who was married to Ronnie for 26-years before their divorce in 2009, is releasing a new autobiography Hey Jo: A Rock and Roll Fairytale.


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For my first son's first birthday party (in 2007), I had a pirate-themed party. I asked all the guests to come dressed as a pirate. Here's grandpa and the birthday pirate boy. I made the boy's swabbie stocking cap out of a sleeve from a thrifted shirt. He wore a striped onesie he already had, and some pants with elasticized ankles that sort of look like short breeches or something. I put some of my own striped socks (pulled up tall) on him.
Pirate boy later got an eyepatch, a parrot finger puppet, and a plastic sword to round out his outfit.
Dressing up as a pirate was fun! One of the reasons I chose the theme (besides liking pirates a lot) is because everyone should be able to cobble together a piratey outfit from things they can find in their closets. For mine, I used a blue bandanna, a stripey shirt covered by an old work vest (turned inside out), rolled up pants, a chiffon tie around my waist, white knee socks and black buckled mary jane shoes. I also added a funky plasticky necklace because it had funny pirate charms on it.
Everyone interpreted the pirate look differently, which just added to the fun.
I used the back porch as our "ship" and made a sail out of two small wooden "boards" (but way smaller than boards) I got at Home Depot for less than a buck. I stapled a plastic tablecloth to the boards for a sail. I got the pirate flag garland, and some of the other piratey decorations at the dollar store. Also, I swear by using crepe paper and balloons to decorate for a party because they are easy and cheap, and make a huge impact for very little money.
I decorated the party table with "booty" displayed in decorative bowls and baskets we already had on hand. Some of the party booty: Gummy fish (bulk from Winco), gold coin chocolates, dollar store jeweled rings, dollar store eyepatches and spyglasses. I put tropical fruit from the grocery store in the basket to add to the atmosphere.
Pirate ship cake made out of cake (baked in a loaf pan) decorated with cookies and candy to make it look more piratey. I had long gold candles that I stuck out of the sides of the cake to look like cannons. Bamboo skewers were threaded through paper sails, and a paper cup became a crow's nest. Plastic pirates from the party store manned the ship.
Since I love first birthday parties to have a special cake for the special guest, I made a small loaf cake and cut it open to make it look like a treasure chest with M&M treasure in it.
You gotta have that gratuitous first birthday cake shot!
I know my son won't remember his first birthday, but I had a lot of fun planning it, and it was a great way to start out my birthday party giving traditions!


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Dr Darm has kindly agreed to do a Q&A for Forum members on his new Aesthera Laser device and other devices he uses on Rosacea, as well as questions on medications.
You can check out these web sites for more info and to perhaps help with specific questions you may have:
Please, please, please (did I say please?) could we stick to just questions in this thread. Otherwise it will make my job much harder to put the questions together for submission to Dr Darm.
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A violent, controversial true crime drama is fast becoming a hit on file sharing networks after authorities pulled it off the airwaves.
Thousands of viewers rushed to popular file sharing networks to download Underbelly, hailed by critics as an Australian version of The Sopranos, shortly after the broadcast of the premiere episode on Wednesday.
The show, based on true events of Melbourne's underworld gang wars in the late '90s, was banned in the state of Victoria by a Supreme Court judge due to an on-going murder trial involving key players from the gang wars. Australian law forbids the media – including dramatized TV shows -- from discussing criminal trials in case jurors are influenced.
(Watch a clip of Underbelly's intro, featured right.)
The 13-part mini-series follows the murderous rivalry between crime families in Melbourne, featuring disturbing violence, graphic sex scenes and explicit drug references.
The key players in Melbourne's criminal underworld, including the
Moran family and their rival, the maverick Carl Williams, are featured using their real names.
A search of popular torrent trackers shows the show is in high demand
-- the season's premiere episode, added less than 24 hours ago has already been downloaded nearly 30,000 times, with 5,000 downloads underway. By comparison, a copy of the most recent episode of hit HBO drama The Wire uploaded four days ago has been downloaded 38,000 times.
"Of course, what the ban and the court case has achieved is to increase interest in this TV show," said Alex Malik, a former legal counsel for the Australian Recording Industry Association and a former senior legal officer at the Australian Communications and Media Authority, in an article from the Sydney Morning Herald online.


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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- He is happier now. It is obvious. The pressure of Philadelphia is off his shoulders. The expectations. The demands. The politics. It is all gone.
Andy Reid can breathe again.
It isn't so obvious to Reid -- how his sense of humor is coming through in his coaching of the Kansas City Chiefs, how his new players are connecting with him in a way maybe his last few Philadelphia Eagles teams could not. Reid is more involved. That is a conscious decision. He is back scheming with his assistants, back installing his offense the way he did when he became a head coach in 1999. He's no longer in charge of personnel. He has gone back to his roots, to what he loves, to what made him successful.
For those who have been with him throughout his career as a head coach, the change in Reid in the past seven months is striking.
"I've seen life back in him," said Chiefs offensive coordinator Doug Pederson, who played and coached under Reid with the Eagles.
"He's got so much energy. It's scary," said Chiefs trainer Rick Burkholder, who was the Eagles' trainer throughout Reid's 14-season tenure in Philadelphia.
"I just see a rejuvenated guy, you know?" said assistant head coach David Culley, who served as a Philadelphia assistant during Reid's entire tenure there. "And it's good to see, especially with all the things that happened in the last year."
All the things. There was so much -- really dating to the 2011 lockout season -- with none more sad or sudden than the death of Reid's eldest son, Garrett, of a heroin overdose Aug. 5 at the Eagles' training camp in Bethlehem, Pa. There were also losses on the field, losses in the coaching ranks, the front office, the locker room. And there was the crushing pressure of unrealized expectations.
The Eagles had gotten so close to winning a Super Bowl in the 2000s, reaching five NFC title games and one Super Bowl, that nothing else but winning a Lombardi trophy mattered. Division titles didn't matter. Double-digit wins didn't matter.
So the Eagles started reaching, and Reid deviated from a plan that had produced much success. Instead of the team, there was the Dream Team. Instead of the day-to-day process, there was trying to jump over a bar that remained out of reach.
Last season, Philadelphia collapsed under the pressure of trying to win enough games to save Reid's job. The staff burned out. The result was disastrous: a 4-12 record that ultimately cost Reid the job he had held, remarkably, for 14 seasons.
Four days after Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie fired Reid on Dec. 31, Chiefs owner Clark Hunt hired him. Four days. Reid probably could have gone anywhere he wanted. San Diego. Arizona. But Kansas City personnel flew to Philadelphia, interviewed Reid, then promptly offered him a chance to start anew.
"He's got that fire back in him again," Culley said.
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Reid is a process guy. When he arrived in Philadelphia from Green Bay in 1999, he carried with him a thick binder that outlined in intricate detail his plan for how to deal with every aspect of his football team every day of the year. There were plans for how to deal with free agency, the draft, offseason practices, training camp, the regular season and the postseason. There were plans for coordinators, position coaches, trainers, equipment managers, ball boys and support staff.
At its core, the process was about discipline and detail.
That is the process Reid has returned to in Kansas City.
"We've reined in our process again," said Burkholder. "We're back to Andy Reid football: discipline, and everything's football, football, football."
Including for Reid. In the final four or five seasons in Philly, Reid would coach the team, but he would allow his position coaches and coordinators to coach the players. Reid would draw up plays and scheme and watch tape, but he would do so in the privacy of his office. He let offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg call the plays.
Now, Reid is in the offensive meetings. He opens the meetings. He closes the meetings. He schemes and plans and evaluates right next to Pederson and Culley -- who also serves as wide receivers coach -- and the rest of the staff.
Of the six coaches on offense, all but line coach Andy Heck have a Philadelphia connection with Reid. Tight ends coach Tom Melvin, like Culley, spent all 14 seasons on Reid's Eagles staff. Former Minnesota Vikings coach Brad Childress, once Reid's offensive coordinator in Philly, is on the staff as a spread-game analyst. Former Eagles cornerback Al Harris is an assistant defensive backs coach. Two strength and conditioning coaches from the Eagles moved to the Chiefs, as did Mike Frazier, the team's statistical analysis coordinator.
They all know how Reid operates. Reid doesn't have to coach his coaches. He can focus on the players.
In February and March, before players reported for offseason workouts, Reid was in the position coaches' evaluation meetings, breaking down film of the previous season to get an idea where to start.
"He was in all those meetings with us, which he hadn't been in the last four or five years," Culley said.
During the Chiefs' first training camp workout with quarterbacks, rookies and selected veterans, Reid stood with Burkholder observing a passing drill. He checked on every personnel grouping on both offense and defense, then settled back with the offense, advising new starting quarterback Alex Smith on everything from footwork to vision.
At his core, Reid is an offensive coach. While he hasn't admitted to making significant changes in his approach to this season from ones past, his assistants said his attention to detail is welcome. Reid is also implementing more of a "high-tempo offense that he's always wanted to do," Culley said. And while Pederson, a first-time coordinator, said he is calling plays in practice so the quarterbacks get used to the sound of his voice, it is Reid who will be calling plays once the regular season starts, also a change.
"He loves calling plays," Culley said. "Loves it. There's no question. He's been diagramming the whole time. A lot of things we did when he wasn't directly in the meetings -- calling plays -- he always had his input. Now, he's back into it. He's in there, and it's good to see that in him again."
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Mike Holmgren thought Reid should step away. After Garrett died during training camp and all of Reid's friends and peers poured into Philadelphia for the funeral two days later, Holmgren told Lurie he thought Reid should step aside for the season.
"He doesn't have to do this," Holmgren told the Eagles' owner.
Reid disagreed.
"Often times, he would listen to me," said Holmgren, who gave Reid his NFL start in 1992 with the Packers and is one of his closest confidantes. "That one, he didn't."
Two days later, Reid was back on the sideline coaching the Eagles in their first preseason game.
Reid doesn't want to talk about Garrett or about how he processes his grief. He wants to look forward, not back. But he grieved, and grieved hard, and then he did what he thought Garrett would want: coach.
At some point after it became obvious his Eagles tenure was coming to an end, Reid and his wife, Tammy, discussed whether he should continue coaching another team or take a season off. It was a short conversation.
"This is what I enjoy doing," the 55-year-old Reid said. "I think you're given a window in your life where you can do this, and then you're too old. You're very lucky to be doing it anyways. You're one out of 32 guys in the whole world. And then, it goes by fast. Those 14 years in Philadelphia went by like that [snaps fingers]. And I'm not getting any younger. You sit out a year, you're taking away another year you have an opportunity to do this. I look at it as a privilege, so I felt like I still have the energy, passion -- all those things to do it. I really didn't go the other way."
Before deciding to take the Chiefs job, Reid said he talked to Holmgren, longtime NFL coach Dick Vermeil, legendary Brigham Young University coach LaVell Edwards, and Hall of Fame coach John Madden.
"They knew how I felt," Reid said. "They were good. They were supportive."
Still, Holmgren and his wife, Kathy, again asked Reid about his decision while at the NFL owners' meetings in Arizona in March.
"No, no," Reid told Holmgren. "My way of dealing with it is to dive into my work. That's just how I am."
Said Holmgren: "I know how he is. He was that way with me. He works very hard at stuff. But I still thought maybe it was the best thing for him."
Reid understands Holmgren's concerns, but also knows he understands his passion. The Cleveland Browns, under new ownership and management, had jettisoned Holmgren, their president, last season, leaving him unemployed, without a team to lead or a job to embrace.
"This one, he kind of knows," Reid said of Holmgren. "He knew he was leaving Cleveland and how much he'd miss it, and he misses it. That's the same thing I'm in. If I sit out, you miss it. You miss what you're doing. I could see that in him. He didn't have to say a word."
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The Reids' other four children -- sons Britt and Spencer and daughters Crosby and Drew Ann -- are grown now. He and Tammy, as Reid said, are "empty nesters." So they bought a house in the trendy Plaza section of Kansas City, across from the upscale shops that line street after street. Valentino. Tiffany & Co. Sur La Table. Lululemon. Tommy Bahama. They're all there.
So is Reid's new favorite restaurant. Philadelphia has cheesesteaks. Kansas City has barbecue. Reid has tried them all, but his favorite is Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue. On his way home from work earlier in the offseason, Reid would call in an order and park his truck out front, and someone would bring him dinner to go.
"How great is that?" Reid said.
One night, Reid took Smith to dinner there. They talked about the BYU-Utah rivalry -- Reid played at BYU, Smith at Utah -- about their lives and about football. As Reid did with Eagles quarterbacks Donovan McNabb, Kevin Kolb and Michael Vick, he is forging a bond with Smith.
"The thing that really jumped out at me was how much you could tell he enjoys coaching and teaching, and I didn't know that," Smith said of Reid. "A lot of times, head coaches get away from the classroom and on the field. So many times they're doing administrative things or different stuff. But it was very cool to see him in installations early, out on the field. How much he enjoys coaching and teaching -- you could see it right away."
Reid is enjoying himself. For camp, he has his hair and mustache cut tight. He knows his team has holes -- it desperately needs a No. 2 wide receiver and pass-rushers -- but there is talent there. Smith is a perfect fit for Reid's West Coast offense. Running back Jamaal Charles is a star. Dwayne Bowe is an elite receiver. The offensive line has potential. The secondary could be great.
How many wins is Reid worth? Can he make the Chiefs relevant in November? Can he turn around a team that was 2-14 last season as quickly as he did Philadelphia, which he got to the playoffs in his second season?
The process will play itself out.
"I think, sometimes, change is good," Reid said. "I think it'll be great for Philadelphia. I think it'll be good for the Chiefs. Personally, I feel good. I'm enjoying this. It's good to be challenged. When you're someplace a long time, you know the routine, and sometimes getting out of that routine can be good. Brings a little energy, maybe."
In moving forward, Reid also has moved back. He has rediscovered what made him successful -- coaching -- and that has made him happy. That much is obvious.


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- Today was weepy. And I'm grateful for the solitude and silence to be weepy in.
- I laid in the perfect spot today for a nap where the hot Southwest sun shone directly on my face.
- Episodes of trashy reality tv that made me feel calm again.
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Throughout the long history of television's longest-running SF show, one question has continually popped up (and more often than not, been answered in a way that the questioner didn't appreciate). But can you really sum up the forty-five year history of Doctor Who just by asking "What are you doing here?" Apparently, the answer is yes, if this eight minute tribute to our favorite Time Lord is anything to go by. See if your own favorite character appears to ask the question of the day, below.
The video - made by YouTube poster NoDaylight - was originally a birthday present for a friend:
This was a birthday present I made for my friend's 40th in 2005. We have a long-running in-joke about the phrase "What are you doing here?" cropping up everywhere in TV shows. As we also both like Doctor Who, doing this seemed like a good idea.
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January 11, 2013
Wishing all visitors a happy & prosperous new year in 2013!
On April 1st of this year, Reel Pictures celebrates 20 years of operation!
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Head of 'outstanding' child safety board appointed as council strives to improve children's services
PUBLISHED: 14:17 11 January 2017 | UPDATED: 12:41 12 January 2017
Bromley's children's services came under fire from Ofsted in a report published last year
A new independent chairman of Bromley's Safeguarding Children Board (SCB) has been appointed by the council as it looks to turn around its struggling children's services.
Jim Gamble was awarded the Queen's Police Medal for distinguished service in a former role and is currently independent chair of the City and Hackney SCB - the first and only to be judged outstanding by Ofsted.
Mr Gamble's primary focus has been to improve safety by melding cutting-edge technology with traditional best practice.
His appointment comes in the wake of a highly critical Ofsted report published last year, which highlighted "widespread and serious failures in the services provided to children and families in Bromley" and branded the borough's service 'inadequate' in all areas.
After its publication, the council appointed former City of London Corporation director for community and children's services Ade Adetosoye as executive director of education, care and health.
Executive member for care services councillor Robert Evans said: "We need the right people in place to help us on our journey to excellence and I am delighted that Jim Gamble will be bringing his impressive experience in the field to Bromley by heading Bromley's Safeguarding Children Board.
"Jim will use his energy, inspirational leadership and independent challenge to strengthen safeguarding practices and processes across the Borough."
"I want to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing chairman, Annie Callanan, for her work and commitment to Bromley over the past few years.
"Annie's leadership enabled the Board to make a number of improvements and put a greater focus on safeguarding priorities, establishing good foundations for progress into the future."
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GARBO and Babe are missing after moving from the Gold Coast.
The two grey tabby cats went missing last week and their 79-year-old owner Betty Matthews wants them back home with her.
"They mean a lot ... my sanity, the keep me sane," she said.
Ms Matthews found the cats at different times in her life when they ended up in her backyard.
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Ernest Edward Cook 1865 – 1955
This serious boy, posing in a way very popular with Victorian photographers, grew up to be the founder of the Ernest Cook Trust; his family background exemplified the success of the rising middle class in the Victorian era and reflected the self-confidence and global outreach of the age.
Ernest's grandfather Thomas Cook, though born in a humble labourer's cottage in Derbyshire, grew up to head the internationally successful Thomas Cook Travel Agency. Thomas's son John Mason Cook also went into the family firm and it was his organisational genius and great energy which extended the Cook empire even further. It was considered natural therefore that young Ernest should, with his older brother Frank Henry (1862-1931), also enter the family business. A third brother Thomas Albert, who died in 1914 aged 47, worked in the firm before his brothers acquired his share, after which he bought an estate at Sennowe in Norfolk, to which he moved.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the two brothers Frank and Ernest found their forbears hard acts to follow though Frank in particular, who was an adventurous youth, enjoyed travelling and was good at acting as agent for the company in the more remote parts of the world.
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On his retirement in 1928, he and his brother unexpectedly sold the firm to Compagnie Internationale des Wagon-Lits of Belgium for the sum of £3,500,000 – a fortune at the time.
This made Ernest a wealthy man and it allowed him to indulge his many interests – and eventually led to the foundation of the ECT. Ernest devoted the remainder of his life to the preservation of English country houses, the estates to which they belonged, the paintings and furniture which they contained and the well-being of the communities of which the estates were the pillar.
Why Ernest was passionate about landed estates is not at all clear as he was a Londoner born and bred, but it is understood he had a deeply sentimental love of 'old England'. In buying estates he was preserving not only buildings and landscape, but the social, economic, architectural and environmental elements of rural life.
Ernest collected paintings and decorative arts; his first recorded acquisitions were made in late 1928 and 1929, when he bought 'Thames at Twickenham' by Richard Wilson, believed to have been one of his favourite paintings.
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After Cook's death and in accordance with his wishes, his house in Sion Hill became part of Kingswood School, Bath. This newspaper cutting about the sale dates from 1955.
Ernest's other interest was country estates, many of which were in a perilous state following the huge changes wrought by the First World War.
He went on to buy several country estates in the south of England as well as some very fine houses. These included the Assembly Rooms in Bath, Montacute House in Somerset, Bradenham House and Estate in Buckinghamshire and Great Matham (sometimes known as Great Maytham or Great Maythem), Buscot Manor and Estate and the Coleshill Estate in Oxfordshire which were all later given to either the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings or the National Trust.
In 1952, Ernest Cook established the educational charitable trust which bears his name and, between 1952 and 1961, seven of his remaining country estates were either assigned or bequeathed to the Trust. These were the Boarstall and Hartwell Estates and Penn Woods in Buckinghamshire, the Fairford Estate in Gloucestershire and the Little Dalby Estate in Leicestershire (1952), the Slimbridge Estate in Gloucestershire (1953) and the Trent Estate in Dorset (1961).
The original bequest has since been enhanced by the Trustees over the years in accordance with the wishes and interests of Cook.
The Hatherop Estate in Gloucestershire was added in 2002 and, in 2007, the Filkins estate, which was bequeathed by Sir John Cripps and his executors following his death in 1993, but which had been partly passed over to the Trust since then, was fully transferred to the Trust's portfolio.
The Trustees continue to manage these estates using the best of both traditional and modern estate management principles. For more information about the estates in the present day, click here.
One other little known aspect of Ernest Cook's philanthropy is the fact that he established the Fund for the Benefit of District Nurses with an anonymous gift of £100,000, to which he later added a further £60,000. It was only with considerable difficulty that Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, who took an interest in the Fund, learned the identity of the donor!
This was typical of Cook's self-effacing attitude, exemplified again by the fact that he was very upset when his identity as the person who had bought and given Bath Assembly Rooms to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, was revealed in 1931.
Ernest Edward Cook died on 14th March 1955 aged 89 years; the announcement in The Times said: 'Cremation private. No mourning. No flowers please'. Cook's legacy lies in the estates which have been preserved due to his generosity and the many, many organisations which have been enabled to educate children and young people in the subjects which so interested him.
Postscript: For five years until 2006, Tom Cook, descendant of Thomas Cook, Ernest's brother, who died in 1914 (see above) and therefore a great-nephew of Ernest Cook, served as a Trustee of the Ernest Cook Trust. On his retirement from the Board he planted a sequoia tree in memory of his great-uncle in the grounds of the Fairford Estate. The sapling was raised from seed obtained from trees on his Estate at Sennowe in Norfolk.


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Kayak series provides motivation to just do it
Great adventure series and stories by Terry Tomalin. My kayak's been gathering dust on the deck sinceOctober, but his adventures have inspired me to hit the water ASAP (who needs to do taxes this weekend, right?).
Last summer we kayaked in North Carolina, Virginia, Massachusetts and Maine. Maine was by far the best _ second only to Florida kayaking for beauty. We started in a fog so thick you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. When the fog burned off andthe sun broke through, we discovered a paradise.
Thanks to Terry for sharing his adventures.
Jean West
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Two years ago I said to a friend "I got a great idea for a paddling trip. We could circumnavigate Pinellas county." Well, procrastination being what it is, I never organized the trip but always had it in the back of my mind. When I saw Terry Tomalin's article in Sunday's paper I felt like Shackleton when he learned that Amundsen had beaten him to the south pole.
I guess I'm going to have to one-up Terry by doing the trip solo (Dang! I should have kept that to myself).
Congratulations on the accomplishment, and a great series of articles.
Steve Buck
via e-mail
I can't believe the Buccaneers tried to remove Brad Johnson's guaranteed $1.5 million in 2004 in such a deceitful and fallacious way. How much more sneaky and underhanded can the Bucs organization be, especially knowing that Brad Johnson was only trying to help by restructuring his contract to help generate salary cap money? Did the Buccaneers really think they would get away with such a deceptive maneuver?
I have often wondered why professional athletes utilize agents to help negotiate their contracts. I know now. I am sure it is difficult enough trying to interpret all the legal jargon and small print associated with a contract. However, make no mistake about it, there is nothing small about a $1.5-million oversight.
Joe Murphy
Sports talk-show hosts wonder why attendance isn't up at the Lightning games. They're playing exciting, playoff style hockey. My theory is that it is due to lack of media coverage.
The Times' coverage of the Devil Rays' spring training is at least five or six times as extensive in print as its coverage of the Lightning.
At least publish half as many photos of a hockey game as you did on a Monday following a Bucs game and try to get fans interested in a team that is going to the playoffs.
David Lubin
I'm really surprised that the otherwise outstanding Times sports section found space in the Sunday edition to mention a Pakistani-India cricket match but made no mention of Mount St. Mary's (Maryland) basketball coach Jim Phelan's retirement. Phelan coached his last game Saturday (a win) and retired after 49 years, during which he was on the sidelines for 1,354 games. His 830 wins places him third on NCAA's all time list behind the legendary Dean Smith and Adolph Rupp. College coaches all across the country Saturday wore bow ties in tribute to Phelan, whose long-time trademark was is his on-court bow tie.
Robert H. MacPherson
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Two industry leaders join us on this week's show.
Rick Coyne, CEO of the Professional Club Marketing Association also joins us to discuss membership and marketing. Rick let's us know what the number one mistake private clubs are making is. Find out if your club is going down that path. We also discuss the new ClubMark Partners program that is was set up to help clubs reinvent themselves. Lastly you'll get some details on this year's PCMA National Conference in Nashville, TN. Click here to visit the PCMA site.
Henry Wallmeyer, President and CEO of the National Club Association also joins us and gives us a sneak peak at what to expect at this year's National Club Conference in New York. There are some surprises in store in New York including a Friar's Club Dinner and an appearance by some big names.


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The creation Saturday of a national unity government in Sudan will signal the end of Africa's longest-running civil war and the success of two years of negotiations between the central government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) led by John Garang.
"This peace agreement will change Sudan forever. Sudan will never be the same again, because this peace agreement will engulf the country in a democratic and fundamental transformation," Mr. Garang said at the signing of the accord in Kenya in January. He is expected to be sworn in as first vice president at a ceremony this weekend in Khartoum, making him the first southerner to hold this position since Sudan's independence from British rule in 1956
The current fundamentalist government emphasized the ethnic and religious differences of Sudan's populations. The National Islamic Front took power in 1989 after a military coup overthrew the democratically elected government. Since then, it carried out human-rights violations that provoked worldwide outrage. In an effort to repair its image and start over with a clean slate, the government in Khartoum has undertaken major steps to win the trust of the United States, which was a major critic of Sudan for the past 15 years. Now, Washington and Khartoum have improved relations and Sudan has undertaken an intelligence partnership with the United States to combat terrorism.
Ambassador Michael E. Ranneberger, principal deputy assistant secretary of the State Department's Bureau of African Affairs, said in an interview at his office last week that the visit to Washington early this year of Salah Gosh, chief of Sudan's security services, was not a secret.
"Mr. Gosh met with top CIA and State Department officials because we wanted to use that opportunity to deliver a message to him to end the violence in Darfur," Mr. Ranneberger said. "The Sudanese government showed very good cooperation in our war against terrorism, and we want to continue doing that as we have mutual interest."
"July 9 will be a milestone in our modern history," Ambassador Khidir Haroun Ahmed, head of Sudan's mission in Washington, said in an interview at his office last week. "It is the first time in Sudan's history to bring the entire country on the right track and it could serve as a model for other countries of the region."
The peace agreement specifies a transition period of six years, after which the people of southern Sudan are to decide by referendum whether to remain part of Sudan or to separate from it.
Mr. Ahmed accused Mr. Garang of igniting the revolt in Sudan's western Darfur province. He said Mr. Garang told National Public Radio that the SPLM in southern Sudan has relations with the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) in Darfur, and "it is not a coincidence that the two rebel groups have similar names."
Mr. Ahmed said Mr. Garang's aim was to help the Darfur rebels start a rebellion to weaken the government and compel it to make compromises in the peace agreement.
Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, the SPLM representative in North America, called that connection baseless.
"The position of the SPLM toward the people of Darfur has always been clear," he said. "The SPLM stands in solidarity with the people of Darfur and with all the marginalized people of Sudan."
Mr. Gatkuoth also denied that the Sudanese government had made any concessions in the peace accord. "If you study the agreement, you can see that [Khartoum] didn't make any compromise but the SPLM did. One example is sharing the oil in the south with the north 50/50," he said.
The United Nations faces major challenges in addressing the needs of Sudanese war victims. Security Council Resolution 1590 mandates the agency to support the peace process between north and south Sudan and provide humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable groups.
"Besides its support to the north-south peace deal, the U.N., also in SCR 1590, is mandated to provide assistance to the African Union," said George Somerwill, public information chief with the U.N. Advance Mission in Sudan
Political observers are optimistic that Sudan is flourishing and witnessing a new era of openness, political stability, democratic transformation and growth, although it still suffers from intolerance to political opponents, press censorship and prevailing corruption.
A major development on the Sudanese political stage is the signing of a peace accord in Cairo between the Sudanese government and National Democratic Alliance (NDA). A delegation from the NDA will participate in the National Constitutional Review Commission (NCRC). However, major political parties under the umbrella of NDA have voiced concern about their proportion of power and parliamentary share.
The United States has signaled a shift in policy toward Sudan. The Bush administration apparently had hoped the north-south accord would allow it to lift sanctions and open investment avenues for U.S. oil companies in Sudan's recently developed oil wealth. Also, the newly emerging U.S. intelligence partnership with Sudan in its global war on terrorism is gaining significance in relations between Washington and Khartoum


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When it comes time to hop up your pony, few things get the enthusiast's heart racing as much as the thought of a supercharger. Edelbrock made a name in the blower business for itself when they trotted out their supercharger for the 4.6L Mustangs. Edelbrock is now back at it with its latest blower, the #1588 kit for the 2011 and 2012 Mustang GTs. We have talked about this kit before back in February 2011 when the blower first debuted.
I think all enthusiasts know when it comes to forced induction and longevity with your Mustang, the devil is in the tuning details. One of the best firms out there for tuning Mustangs is Brenspeed. The gang at Brenspeed took the #1588 supercharger kit and set up some of their famous packages to give you all you need for specific power levels from the blower itself down to the tune and tuner. Brenspeed says that it will be offering these kits in several stages when they are finally available on Brenspeed.com.
To tease us a bit the boys at Brenspeed put a new 2012 Mustang GT with an automatic transmission under the wrenches and bolted the blower and the strapped the Stang and its new found power to the dyno rollers to see what the car put down. Brenspeed knows that enthusiast demands more than claims so they were kind enough to video the dyno session for us. You can see the video yourself below. The car on the dyno only had Pype Bomb mufflers and was otherwise stock. The stock pull on the dyno put down 355 WHP and 357 tq.
The blower went on at 5psi and the beast awoke. The stock Edelbrock calibration put down 463 WHP and 419 tq to the wheels. You know with the tuning prowess Brenspeed has in house the stock Edelbrock tune wasn't going to stay. With Brenspeed's own custom tune, the car put down 492 WHP and 430 tq. As they say in TV land – but wait, there's more! The competition cold air kit was installed along with another Brenspeed tune and the power jumped again to 509 WHP and 441 tq. Those are some impressive gains all on 5psi and you know Brenspeed will probably have kits that give even more power.


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Sum up of week 2
You have reached the end of Week 2, well done!
This week, our objectives were to analyse the concrete policy instruments that cities can use to promote their heritage, to define labels and networks, and to explore the transformations, power dynamics, and effects of these instruments.
Heritage labels and urban networks can be viewed as mechanisms that enable the horizontal diffusion of norms on heritage protection and promotion.
How to differentiate between labels and networks? This can be difficult. For example, the UNESCO Creative City Network, in spite of its name, functions as a label because it selects cities based on a set of criteria. But in general, we can say that labels are mainly targeted at the public-at-large, whereas networks are addressed to professionals. Labels are to communicate, networks are to collaborate. Another difference is that labels put cities in competition, whereas networks are mostly about cooperation.
What are the main lessons from this analysis of labels and networks?
First, we have seen how transnational dynamics are reshaping the way we define, select, and promote our heritage. Through both city networks and heritage labels, professionals and citizens from different countries come together to define criteria and norms. We are moving away both from national and Universalist conceptions of heritage. For example, we have seen how the World Heritage List has extended its initial conception to include intangible heritage. We see a stronger concern towards valuing specific communities' heritage instead of a linear vision of civilisation.
Secondly, we have discussed the way in which cities take up governance functions that states do not readily fulfil while they should. We have seen how mayors as well as local cultural actors can stand up to challenge divisive conceptions put forward by nation-states. We have discussed the case of cities helping each other and finding solutions to better welcome and integrate migrants and refugees.
Next week, we will take a look at the types of actions that cities can take to use their cultural diversity to promote themselves on the international scale, with a focus on emerging global cities.
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Drayton Players
The Drayton Players web site is at www.draytonplayers.org.uk.
Last production
Absurd Person Singular, 3rd to 4th November and 10th to 11th November 2017
By Alan Ayckbourn. This slightly black comedy about the rise of a socially ambitious businessman is one of Alan Ayckbourn's most popular, and has been drawing laughter from audiences since it premiered in 1972.
Drayton Village Hall, Lockway, Drayton, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4LG.
As always the Drayton Snug Bar will be open from 7:00 each night.
Box office
For tickets please phone 01235 200350 or from Vickerys Store in Drayton.
Review of The Boy Friend
15th to 17th and 22nd to 24th February 2007
From the Oxford Daily Info.
Musical with fabulous 1920s toe-tapping tunes
Drayton Village Hall, Drayton, nr Abingdon, Thu February 15th - Sat February 24th 2007
Drayton Players have another success on their hands with The Boy Friend.
Deidre Jones, the director, suggested that they chose The Boy Friend because the Players had many talented teenagers, some of whom came to take part in My Fair Lady and had stayed. It was an excellent choice for their well-honed acting, singing and dancing skills.
It is Kate Green who takes on the lead character of Polly Browne, who is studying at Madame Dubonnet's Finishing School in Nice. Polly is a role that Julie Andrews played many years ago and Kate sings, dances and acts the part superbly. Polly has led a very sheltered life and invents a boy friend to fit in with her flapper class mates.
It is obvious from the very start that the era is the 1920s, from the striped blazers, straw hats and long necklaces. Very soon we see Bobby (played by Jason Green) and his partner performing an impressive Charleston.
When Stephen Hosking appears on stage as the handsome English messenger delivering a dress to Polly, there is obviously immediate chemistry between him and Polly. However, he does not immediately tell Polly who he is.
There are a number of very lively chorus numbers and the costumes throughout are excellent. For example, the beachwear in Act 2 is as distracting as you would expect of 1920s beachwear.
There are some pastiche characters such as Lord Brockhurst, who has a lustful eye and his wife, Lady Brockhurst - "the dragon". Georgia Alison played the flirtatious Mme Dubonnet well and the duet with Peter Jackson as Percy Browne was excellent.
When Polly and the messenger, whose name we eventually find out is Tony, again meet up in Act 2 they sing a romantic duet All we want is a room in Bloomsbury and it is obvious that both have strong tuneful voices.
Although the story line is predictable, there are one or two surprises, such as what happens when the gendarme appears.
Highlights in the third act included Anton King as Lord Brockhurst singing It is never too late to fall in love and Pepe and Lolita's very acrobatic Carnival Tango. In fact, throughout the show the dancing is lively and the whole production is of professional standard.
Unfortunately, the cast is too numerous to mention them all. It was good to see such a wide range of ages of cast members on stage. They must have had great fun throughout rehearsals (learning the Charleston, for example), but have worked hard to pull off such a polished performance. Do try to see this musical, but make sure you get there early, as it is popular and although there is a large car park, it was nearly full 15 minutes before the performance.
Previous productions
BusyBody, 5th to 6th February and 12th to 13th February 2016
A Dead Ringer For Murder, 5th November 2015
Ten Times Table, 24th to 26th February 2011
Black Comedy and Doggies, 25th to 27th September 2008
The Good Companions The Musical, 14th to 16th and 21st to 23rd February 2008
The Importance of Being Earnest, 20th to 22nd September 2007
The Boy Friend, 15th to 17th and 22nd to 24th February 2007
Comedy Drama Night, 28th to 30th September 2006
The Last of the Last of the Mohicans
The Spy Who Came In For the Phone