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An introduction to Lady Windermere's Fan
- Article written by: Andrew Dickson
- Themes: Fin de siècle, Popular culture
- Published: 5 Nov 2018
Oscar Wilde's first hit play, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), is a hectic upper-class comedy, in which the tangled complexities of the plot are rivalled only by Wilde's sparkling and witty dialogue. Relating an enjoyably unlikely story of a wife who suspects her husband of having an affair, only for the 'other woman' to be unmasked as her own mother, the drama was a hit on the London West End stage, and made Wilde rich. But despite its diamond-sharp one-liners, there is more to Lady Windermere's Fan than mere entertainment: it is above all a subtle social satire, particularly pointed about the hypocrisy of Victorian attitudes to women and sex. Its meticulous construction and deft balance between comedy and seriousness point the way towards Wilde's later scripts An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, perhaps his masterworks.
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The background to the play
By the early 1890s, it looked as if Wilde – then in his late 30s – might never have a successful career as a dramatist. Born in Dublin in 1854 and educated at the University of Oxford, Wilde spent his 20s as a freelance poet, lecturer, critic, and well-dressed man about town, yearning all the time to be taken seriously as a playwright. His first play, a tragedy called Vera (1881), failed when it was produced in New York; his second, a dour historical work in Shakespearian verse called The Duchess of Padua, was rejected by the actress who commissioned it. Despite receiving attention for his essays, and causing a scandalous success with his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) – there were calls for the work to be burnt because of its homosexual themes – it looked likely that theatrical success would elude him.
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Eventually Wilde was persuaded to try his hand at comedy. He was interested by contemporary French drama, where plays full of social intrigues and unlikely plot twists were all the rage, and also read the wildly funny comedies of English dramatists of the late 1600s. Revealingly, he was also fascinated by the pioneering experiments in realist social drama being made by the contemporary Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen, and realised that – with a bit of work – some of Ibsen's darkest themes could also work in a funnier key. Wilde began work on the script during a summer visit in 1891 to the Lake District of northern England, which gave him many of the names in the play (Lake Windermere was nearby, while another character is named after the town of Darlington in County Durham). He continued refining the script through the rest of that year, sharpening its dialogue and polishing the plot.
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This is the second draft typescript for Act One of Lady Windermere's Fan. It was typed by Mrs Marshall's Typewriting Office on the Strand, London, in 1892. Both actor's lines and stage directions have been changed by Wilde in pencil. This volume was originally stapled together but has been disbound for conservation reasons.View images from this item (44)
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When Lady Windermere's Fan went on stage at the St James's Theatre in London the following February, the reviews were positive – one newspaper proclaimed that 'Mr Oscar Wilde is nothing unless brilliant and witty' – and audiences rushed to see it. Wilde had finally won the success he craved.
Programme for Lady Windermere's Fan at St James's Theatre, London, 20 February 1892
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Set over four acts that occupy a 24-hour period, the play begins in the drawing room of the grand London residence of the young and apparently loving couple Lord and Lady Windermere. Lady Windermere's preparations for her 21st birthday ball are abruptly ruined by the revelation that her husband has been seen visiting a beautiful, mysterious older woman, Mrs Erlynne, and giving her money. Lady Windermere is appalled and does her best to find out the truth. Her husband denies that he is having an affair.
The second act is set that same evening. Both Lady Windermere and her guests are astonished when Mrs Erlynne appears at the ball; even worse, it appears that Lord Windermere has invited her. Humiliated, Lady Windermere decides that she will leave her husband for another lover, Lord Darlington. Mrs Erlynne, meanwhile, seems determined to marry one of her rich society friends – with financial assistance, naturally, from Lord Windermere.
Act 3 takes place at Lord Darlington's house, where Lady Windermere has fled. She debates whether to return to her husband, only to be confronted yet again by Mrs Erlynne, who insists she must. When Lord Windermere unexpectedly arrives, Lady Windermere hides, leaving her fan on the table by mistake. Mrs Erlynne kindly covers up for her and pretends that Lady Windermere has never been there.
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In the final act, the truth is uncovered – or at least some of it is. It transpires that Mrs Erlynne is in fact Lady Windermere's mother, who abandoned her as a child and left with another man, ruining her reputation. Twenty years later, she has reappeared under an assumed name, and proceeds to blackmail Lord Windermere, threatening to reveal that she is not in fact dead (as Lady Windermere has always believed), and thus bring shame upon the household.
Yet, when this is all revealed to the assembled cast, Lady Windermere is out of the room, and her husband decides to keep the secret from her so as to preserve the happiness of their marriage. Likewise, she decides not to admit that she was on the point of leaving him. Mrs Erlynne cheerfully departs for overseas, leaving numerous mysteries and secrets behind her.
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'A play about a good woman'
Lady Windermere's Fan seems at first glance like little more than a wonderfully enjoyable comedy, filled with characters who spend most of their time trading witty remarks. Many of its best lines have gone down in history: the lovelorn Lord Darlington's 'we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars' must be one of the most quoted phrases Wilde ever wrote, closely followed by his declaration that 'I can resist anything anything except temptation'. A line Wilde wrote in Vera – 'life is too important a thing ever to talk seriously about' – also seems to describe Lady Windermere's Fan, particularly when you try to make sense of its far-fetched plot (as one early review put it, 'there are many obvious improbabilities in this fable').
Yet the play is far more radical than it first appears. Written only two years after the British premiere of Ibsen's A Doll's House, which provoked huge controversy for a plot in which a woman leaves her husband and children to lead an independent life, Lady Windermere's Fan experiments with remarkably similar themes, only in the guise of comic satire rather than anguished melodrama. Subtitled 'a play about a good woman', it imagines what might happen if Ibsen's heroine was English rather than Norwegian, and if she suddenly reappeared on the scene 20 years on, just as her daughter is trying to assert her position in fashionable London society. Like much of Wilde's best work, the play balances themes that are faintly absurd and also entirely serious.
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Sexual politics and secrets
The Irish-born Wilde always had a sharp eye for the double standards of the English upper classes, particularly their attitudes to 'respectability' and virtue between the sexes, which permitted many men to behave exactly as they wanted (as long as their escapades took place behind closed doors), while condemning women as 'fallen' if they dared to step outside the bounds of conventional life or marriage. Most of his audiences would have expected Mrs Erlynne to be a tragic character desperate to escape the shadows of her past; instead, she is essentially the heroine of the piece, and gloriously quick-witted too ('Ideals are dangerous things,' she tells her daughter at one point, 'Realities are better'). In this she looks intriguingly like a version of Wilde himself, particularly when you reflect that, like Mrs Erlynne, he too had secrets about his love life: three years after Lady Windermere's Fan was produced, he was put on trial for having a relationship with a younger man and sentenced to two years in prison. He died in exile and poverty in Paris a few years later.
Despite Wilde's early reputation as part of the so-called 'Aesthetic' movement, which insisted that art should be free from social responsibilities (their rallying cry was 'art for art's sake'), Lady Windermere's Fan manages to be sharply observant about upper-class English society. It is all the funnier for so being so mercilessly precise about the world it mocks, and genuinely mischievous in its hint that the secret to a happy marriage is for both partners to keep secrets from one another.
In the comedies that followed, Wilde exploited these themes to the full: An Ideal Husband teasingly suggests that supposedly 'ideal' men are sometimes anything but, while The Importance of Being Earnest (a 'trivial play for serious people') satirises the playboy antics and double lives of London bachelors. Wilde's greatest achievement may have been in getting his wealthy, well-dressed and fashionable audiences to laugh at themselves – without them realising that they were the butt of the joke.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has arrived in Pakistan to show his backing for the country's persecuted Christian minority and to ask Muslim leaders for help in building better relations.
The Most Rev Justin Welby is due to meet politicians as well as bishops from the Church of Pakistan before travelling to Bangladesh and India.
The trip, conducted amid tight security, is part of a promise to meet leaders of the Anglican community as early as possible after taking up office and comes as Christians in some parts of the developing world suffer attacks at the hands of Islamist groups.
Xavier William, of Life for All Ministries who is due to meet the archbishop on Wednesday, said the visit was a source of comfort at a time when Pakistan's Christian community - and other religious minorities – faced unprecedented pressure.
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Even though major progress is being made around the world when it comes to equal pay and gender equality, the change happening in the United States still has a long way to go. But even though the US fell four places since last year in the World Economic Forum's annual report on gender equality, some states in America are definitely prioritizing it more successfully than others.
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Executive Summary: Effective May 2011, Georgia's Restrictive Covenants Act (RCA) represented a significant change to pre-existing Georgia law. Since then, however, very few courts have interpreted the RCA, leaving employers and practitioners alike with questions over how, and under what circumstances, restrictive covenants agreements may be used to protect an employer's legitimate business interests.[1] One of the few decisions interpreting the statute, CSM Bakery Solutions, LLC v. Debus (N.D. Ga. 2017) underscores the reality that some employees in Georgia simply are immune from post-employment non-compete provisions – even where the covenants are reasonably tailored in duration, geographic proximity, and scope of precluded activity.
The plaintiff in the case, Kathleen Debus, was previously employed in the sales department by a Georgia-based bakery-supply manufacture, CSM Bakery Solutions, LLC (CSM). In 2016, she became a sales representative assigned to one of CSM's biggest grocery clients, Jewel. During her employment, Debus signed an employment agreement where she agreed, for a period of one year following the termination of her employment, not to compete against CSM or solicit any of its clients with whom she had worked while at CSM. Specifically, she agreed that:
for a period of one (1) year after Termination, [she would] not, directly or indirectly, own, manage, operate, join, control, be employed by or with, or participate in any manner with a Competing Business anywhere in the Territory where doing so will require [her] to engage in Competitive Activities or provide Competitive Products or Services.
Four months after she became a sales representative, Debus left CSM to join Lawrence Foods Inc., a direct competitor of CSM. In her new position, Debus performed the same or similar duties that she performed for CSM – including some directly with Jewel.
CSM sued Debus and Lawrence Foods seeking a preliminary injunction to enforce the restrictive covenants contained in Debus' employment agreement. Debus responded by arguing that her employment did not fit within the scope of the RCA. As a consequence, she claimed, the restrictive covenants contained in the agreement were unenforceable.
In its opinion, the court first explained that non-compete provisions in Georgia are only enforceable if they are reasonable in duration, geographic proximity, and scope of activities precluded. The court went on to explain, however, that even if a non-compete is reasonable in those three respects, it is not enforceable if it does not meet the threshold question of whether the employee falls within the scope of the statute in the first place.
Specifically, the court explained that under the RCA a former employer cannot enforce an agreement that restricts competition by any employee who did not, in the course of his or her employment with the former employer:
4. Perform the duties of a key employee or of a professional.
Analyzing the statutory language, the court found Debus' employment with CSM did not meet any of the exceptions set forth above as follows:
The court also briefly addressed the non-solicitation of customers provision contained in Debus' employment agreement, which prohibited her from soliciting "for the purpose of diverting, taking away or disrupting, or of attempting to disrupt any of CSM's prospective clients or clients." The court found Debus had not violated the provision despite her post-CSM contact with Jewel. The evidence at trial showed CSM lost most of Jewel's business prior to Debus leaving (for reasons unrelated to Debus) and the court reasoned that it would be difficult for Debus to solicit a client CSM did not possess at the time she left employment.
Accordingly, the court granted Debus' motion to dissolve the preliminary injunction against her.
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Although there is relatively little case law on Georgia's Restrictive Covenants Act, CSM Bakery Solutions makes clear that Georgia courts still cautiously analyze and construe the applicability of post-employment restrictive covenants. In light of this case, practitioners should continue to carefully draft restrictive covenants agreements and prudently discuss them with their clients. Likewise, employers should judiciously evaluate whether their employees – as a threshold matter – meet one of the four exceptions listed above to ensure that otherwise reasonable restrictive covenants are enforceable against them.
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Chloe Penn is a background character in Grojband.And Laney Penn's Sister
Chloe is a tall girl with bright red hair and a pink headband. She wears a white shirt with black sleeves and short green pants.
Episode AppearancesEdit
- Smash Up Terby - She was one of the girls seen running up to Nick Mallory's Motor scooter after he got off of it. She was seen hugging and kissing it. Throughout the rest of the episode, she was seen multiple times on a date with Party Danimal at the Carnival Derby and at the end of the episode, she was one of the girls carrying Nick's motor scooter.
- Pox N Roll - She was one of the people who attended the Chicken Pox Party.
- Space Jammin' - She was seen waiting in line for Sludgefest. Later in the episode, she was seen in the audience, cheering for Grojband.
- Wish Upon a Jug - She was seen eating a corn dog at the Rodeo Throw.
- All You Need is Cake - She was in the audience at Bake Barnera's wedding.
- Helmet - She was the audience of the Swiss Choco Watch Expo.
- Queen Bee - She was seen in the audience of the Pollination Nation.
- Super Zeroes - She was seen standing in awe when Stiletto was introducing herself.
- Ahead of our own Tone - She was mind-controlled by Trina.
- Line of Credit - Nick Mallory whistled which made Chloe and two other girls run up and carry Nick's motor scooter away.
- Six Strings of Evil - She was seen in Trina's flashback. Nick Mallory was flossing and then he threw his floss away. Chloe ran up and caught it, and put in in her mouth and started chewing on it.
- Rockersize - She was seen sitting next to Grojband in the arena.
- Grin Reaper - She was one of the people who wore the wristbands that Torbo gave out. She was later seen getting vaporized to death by Torbo.
- Rock the House - She was seen in the audience for the curling competition.
- War and Peaceville - She was seen in the audience while Corey was singing the Peaceville National anthem.
- Kon-Fusion - She was seen sitting at a table with her friends, watching DJ Fusion mix foods together. After seeing the Grojmans play on stage, she threw up and ran into the bathroom to throw up some more.
- Pop Goes the Bubble - She was seen in the crowd at Bubble Fest.
- Girl Fest - She was seen carrying Nick Mallory through the crowd of screaming girls while Nick was talking to Trina. She was seen later in the episode, cheering for Laney in the audience.
- Hologroj - She was one of the people who ran away in fear from Hologrojband.
- The Pirate Lounge for Me - She was seen in a flashback of Kin and Kon's Rock Lore about Melodious Monk. She was dressed differently, wearing an orange beanie and glasses and an orange sweater. She fainted when Melodious Monk pointed and winked at her.
- Soulin' Down the Road - She was at the mall trying on make-up but then Trina drove up in her car trying to run her over and made her run away screaming.
- That's My Jam - In the song, That's My Jam in the line "I know you like it ma'am", Corey pointed to her as he sang it.
- It's in the Card - She was seen at the end of the song "Love It's in my Heart" on a date with Party Danimal.
- Curse of the Metrognome - She was seen in the audience in Trina's flashback for the New Year's Ball Drop. She was seen again in the audience for the New Year's Cube Drop.
- Chloe has been unofficially confirmed by Todd Kauffman to be Laney Penn's sister.
- She has constantly been seen expressing an attraction for Nick Mallory in the episodes Smash Up Terby, Line of Credit, Six Strings of Evil, and Girl Fest.
- She has also been seen expressing love for Party Danimal in the episodes Smash Up Terby and It's in the Card.
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Public Health England (PHE) have released a new resource to support relevant bodies making representations within the licensing process; see here for A practical approach to making representations to a licensing authority.
Under the current licensing framework, responsible authorities (RAs) include stakeholders such as the police or public health who can comment on applications or apply for a review of a licence in certain circumstances. Members of the public with issues concerning licensed premises do so via their relevant local authority, or report criminal matters to the police.
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The resource states it aims to help RAs to firstly identify applications that may negatively impact promotion of the licensing objectives, and secondly to apply a stepped approach to making a representation. The guidance however nods to the complex and varied nature of local licensing processes, for example, stating that a decision to license a premises 'is a balancing exercise between equally valid but conflicting interests'.
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Ask Art: People are Nervous about Too Much Change, Can I Lead Lean Incrementally?by Art Byrne
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Ask Art: People are Nervous about Too Much Change, Can I Lead Lean Incrementally?by Art Byrne
Well, it depends on what you mean by "incrementally." Lean, or continuous improvement after all, is nothing but a series of small gains that add up to big results. From this perspective implementing lean could be said to be all incremental. If what you are really asking is "Can't I go at this slowly and carefully to avoid any mistakes?" then the answer is no, you cannot - at least not if you expect to show good results.
Implementing lean is nothing if not a constant series of 'leaps of faith' into the unknown. The moment that machines have to be moved or the office rearranged into a better flow, the question of "But what if it doesn't work?" will always be there. The fact that you thought this through quickly, say during a one-week kaizen, only adds to the anxiety. But you have to take the leap.
Moving machines on the first day of kaizen is a leap of faith to be sure: you can damage them, waste time hooking them back up, risk customer service in a number of ways, and push the operators way out of their comfort zone. But if you don't move them you won't learn anything and you won't improve. Dramatically reducing your inventory is another leap of faith that will generate huge resistance: you risk customer stock-outs, and vendor problems, not to mention the removal of a safety stock of material "just in case" anything goes wrong. But clinging to excess inventory will also keep you from: freeing up a lot of floor space (where you used to store this inventory), creating a safer work place, improving your quality, lowering your costs and freeing up a significant amount of cash that you can reinvest back in the business in new products or acquisitions to grow your market share and increase your enterprise value.
Sometimes everything works just great. More often, it doesn't. Keep leaping. Figure out what went wrong, fix it and keep moving forward. Many of the people on your team will want to stop and go back to the way you have always done it. Your job is to not let this happen. Never go backwards.
A key role for the lean leader is to push through problems as they pop up. Every business has numerous unexpected problems that seem to show up at the worst possible time. The reaction of most companies is to go backwards. A traditional batch company will respond to customer service problems, for example, by building more inventory. The lean leader on the other hand wants to lower inventory. He will push hard to uncover the root causes for the customer service problems and put fixes in place as soon as possible. Only the leader can take this approach. It is a leap of faith that you can solve the problems quickly enough so you don't have to take a step backwards and 'build more inventory.' You never want to do that. It is admitting defeat, and a slippery slope in the wrong direction.
You also have to overcome the 'lore' that exists in almost any company or industry. By 'lore' I mean the beliefs that develop over time about the way something must be done and are then taken as gospel. I was once on the board of a jewelry company and showed them how to go from an eight-week lead-time for making a ring to just two days. The lore in the jewelry industry was that it takes eight weeks to make a ring. This type of lore would be perpetuated whenever anyone hired a new VP of Operations because they would look for someone with 'jewelry industry experience.' Unfortunately, industry experience almost always comes with a fixed set of useless ideas about the way things have to be done. Every company or industry that I've encountered has its own 'gospel.' The thing is that you can't make much progress toward becoming a lean enterprise unless you challenge these head on and get beyond them.
Of course, taking leaps of faith and overcoming industry lore requires that the leaders create an environment where it is okay to fail. Learning from your mistakes is how you get better. I was always much more worried when I hadn't heard about a lot of small failures for a while. It made me think that maybe people were just saving up for the really big mistake that could threaten the company's existence.
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I prefer an incremental approach. Start with quailty circles. Let the cream rise to the top. Use this cream for the major initiative.
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Lean isn't "nothing but incremental improvement." There are also Kaikaku, or step function, improvement opportunities through 3P, Kaizen Events, and other approaches. We can sometimes reinvent a process, not just incrementally improve it. Don't get me wrong, incremental Kaizen is powerful and it's a core aspect of Lean... but it's not the only way.
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I also suggest that "a Kaizen" doesn't only mean "a weeklong Kaizen Event." Not all small incremental Kaizen improvements require a formal event, as you've written about before. I think it's less confusing to the readers if you say "Kaizen Event" when you mean that instead of saying "a Kaizen."
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Kevin, thanks for your input.If you prefer an incremental approach then that is what you should do. You won't get to a lean state very fast but you will be much happier. So good luck. I hope you are succesful. Art.
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People don't resist change. Look at their private lives and see the changes 'they' have made over the last 5 years.
The key to understanding this problem is to realise that people don't resist change; they resist 'BEING CHANGED'. All you have to do is put people in charge of their own change process. Give them some simple problem solving tools (not six sigma), a clear direction for the required changes/improvements (*P.Q.C.D.D --- 4 D's --- E.F.S.F), time to address the issues in teams of **'Real Experts', a supportive management attitude and then get out of their way. You will be amazed by the results. You can see this process in operation on You-tube under 'Sid's Heroes'. This an extract from a six programme TV series we made with the BBC in 1994,
Good luck releasing your own Heroes.
*For the business. --- Improve Productivity and Quality. Reduce Costs and Delivery times. Delight Customers. (All these values must be improving faster than any existing or future competitor).
* For our machinery, processes and systems; Zero – Downtime, Delays, Defects & Damage to our people (Accidents).
*For themselves. --- Make their jobs, Easier, Faster, Safer and more Fun/enjoyable.
*We must create companies that can win on the global battlefield, and are secure, challenging and enjoyable places to work.
**'Real Experts' are the people who do the work, and have first hand experience of the different elements of the problem to be solved, or the situation to be improved.
The survival of your organisation and the job security of your people depend upon you improving these values faster than any existing or future competitor.
Before we start a programme we conduct a series of 1 hour briefings (10 sessions a day with 25 people/ on each) with the people who will be involved in the change programme to ask for their help. We explain the above to delegates, and while they don't always believe me, when I ask them would you like to, the answer is always 'Yes'. The rest is just letting them prove they are the 'Heroes' I know them to be. Watch the video to see where my confidence comes from.
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Perhaps my interpretation of parts of this article are incorrect, but where you mention "leaps of faith" concerns me.
You can't make a change without knowing that change is an improvement on the existing change, surely? Mainly through some sort of problem solving session, root cause, data analysis, VOC etc etc. If you have done all that, the "leap of faith" is more of "a step of logic" in my mind.
I'm sure it was Albert Einstein who said "When I have a week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend 6 days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious"
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Teags85, thanks for your comment. I think perhaps you are being a bit too literal in the way you interpreted this. The trap for the traditional company is speending massive amounts of time over analyzing everything to make sure there will be no misteaks, and then of course finding out, oops, they missed something and had a big problem anyway. This just makes them more cautious the next time around and progress slows down even further. With lean you are going much faster. Yes you don't make the move without studing it and determining that it should lead to a better result. Even so, something unexpected could still happen and you would have a problem. The lean company will respond very quickly, fix what went wrong and go foreward. The traditional company will more likely go back to the way it was as a first step and then go back to the lenghthy analysis to get a better result the next time. Both companies took a "leap of faith" when they actually moved the equipment [or rearranged the work flow, etc.]because there is always risk no matter how you plan. The lean company however moved forward while the traditional company, at least temporarily, went backwards.
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Of course, you really do not know what to do until you set up an experiment to measure the current state of lean in your company. I was lean in companies that did not know what lean was. If you have money for consultants, someone in your company is doing a good job.
Maybe you are ready to go full steam. You have lean people and there is a high level of trust between gemba employees and management. The opportunities in such a company would be limited because innovation is alive. In these companies you have to make major changes in order to keep those who want to think. I quit two jobs from boredom.
Most companies have preliminary work to do. The experiment will tell you how to proceed.
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I would advise anyone on a lean journey to fail fast and fail often. Keep an open mind and learn as you go. The journey is a lot more like sailing than driving - you know where you want to go but "they be monsters" and other unknowns along the journey. Strong currents, and both favorable and unfavorable winds. The best way to keep the crew together is celebrate wins, communicate frequently, and hang together.
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Ther's nothing like incremental or anyother type of change. It's simply change and the pace of it depends entirely on how enthused or not the CEO who must be leading the change is. It all depends on him leading the charge for change. If he hasn't understood LEAN he will be incapable of changing anything
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Mohamed, thanks for your comment. I can buy your thought that change is chane however you define it. Your comment on the leaders [CEO in your example] is spot on. I always advize companies that if the can't get there CEO to lead the charge then they shouldn't try lean at all. Just be the best batch company you can be and hope that none of your competitors goes lean.
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One surprising — but fairly easy — change is to replace the garage door, which on average costs $1,291. According to the report, more than 80 percent of the cost is recouped during a resale. Other renovations and remodels worth their price tag include a steel entry door replacement (102.1 percent cost recouped), a minor kitchen remodel (72.8 percent cost recouped) and replacing wooden windows (72.4 percent cost recouped).
For upscale projects, replacing fibercement siding reaps 80 percent of the initial cost, while replacing vinyl windows recoups just more than 70 percent of the initial cost. Big renovations you might think are worth it, but aren't: master suite additions (52.7 percent of cost recouped), an additional bathroom (53 percent cost recouped) and a home office remodel (45.8 percent cost recouped).
The data from the past seven years show a downward trend in the overall cost-to-value ratio, which began with eroding home prices and a rise in construction costs, but is now largely due to a drop in resale values.
So what's the bottom line? The report suggests that in terms of remodeling, it's most profitable to concentrate on the exterior of the home than the interior.


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Backbone of Automotive Safety SystemsVIP Experts Blog - Synopsys
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Safety features have always been important in the automotive industry; it has certainly become the most critical requirement for autonomous vehicles. Have you ever wondered what technology makes it possible for multiple sensors located at front, rear sections and inside the doors to work in a coordinated manner for early crash detection and operate the vehicles air bags thereby protecting precious human life?
The Motorola SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) and its variants have been a popular choice among system designers thanks to low pin count and compact design features. With growing safety requirements, an industry standard interface is required now, more than ever, to avoid multiple vendor interfaces with custom drivers. SafeSPI industry standard is designed to support the time sensitive requirements of active and passive safety systems alongside qualities of SPI.


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Pizza Hut Teams Up With NFL Star Running Back Todd Gurley To Tackle Childhood Literacy
|PLANO, Texas, Nov. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Nearly 35 years after launching its iconic BOOK IT! program, Pizza Hut is expanding its commitment to literacy through its partnership with the National Football League by joining forces with Pizza Hut NFL player ambassadors and team partners to shine a spotlight on the importance of reading to kids and parents across the nation.
This Giving Tuesday, Pizza Hut is teaming up with Los Angeles Rams All-Pro running back Todd Gurley to amplify his commitment to childhood reading through activations in the community, on the field and across social media during Weeks 13-15 of this NFL season.
"In our first year as the Official Pizza Sponsor of the NFL, we have a powerful opportunity to work with the League, its teams and players to do even more to support childhood literacy – a cause Pizza Hut has championed for more than three decades," said Marianne Radley, chief brand officer, Pizza Hut, U.S. "The support of these NFL players really exemplifies their commitment to success on and off the field for kids across the country, and we're privileged to work with athletes like Todd Gurley. His passion for literacy will not only inspire young readers but will also help drive awareness for this critical social issue we're hoping to improve."
This year, Todd will champion literacy for the NFL's My Cause My Cleats initiative by wearing custom-designed Nike cleats dedicated to reading during the LA Rams home game on Dec. 16. The cleats feature Todd's children's book of choice, "The Magician's Hat" written by fellow NFL player Malcolm Mitchell, and Pizza Hut partner First Book, a nonprofit dedicated to creating equal access to quality education for children in need.
"Growing up, I was taught that reading and writing were the foundation for my education," said Todd Gurley, running back for the Los Angeles Rams. "Knowing the importance of literacy programs for kids across the country, I'm teaming up with First Book and my fellow Georgia alumni and Super Bowl champion Malcolm Mitchell, author of 'The Magicians Hat', for My Cause My Cleats."
Leading up to their designated My Cause My Cleats home game on Dec. 16, the LA Rams and Pizza Hut will bring children from Inglewood together for a once-in-a-lifetime reading event with Todd to further emphasize the importance and power of reading.
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The brand is also extending its relationship with Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Tyler Lockett, who teamed up with BOOK IT! earlier this season to surprise students at a Seattle school, spending the afternoon with them to discuss the power of reading and imagination. In late December, Pizza Hut, the Seahawks and Tyler will host another special reading event in Seattle to inspire young readers in the local community.


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Geithner Hoses Economy to Help Banks
CNN says that Geithner will delay the results of the "stress tests" on banks "until after the first-quarter earnings season [ends for most banks on April 24] to avoid complicating stock market reaction".
In other words, instead of closing the insolvent zombie banks in order to save the economy (leading economists say that we have to let the banks fail or the economy will not recover), Geithner will delay announcing that the banks are broke so that their stock remains artificially high. Indeed, in Washington parlance, "delaying" the release of information often means burying them forever.


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Importing an existing wallet into your Jwallet is simple and straightforward. You'll need the Private Key or Mnemonic for your existing address.
Importing your wallet address for the first time
When opening the Jwallet application for the first time, you will be prompted to either Create a New Wallet or Import Wallet.
- Select Import Wallet to get started
- Enter Wallet name and click Next
- Input your Mnemonic Passphrase (12 words) and click Done
- Enter your wallet Pin code/Password
You should now be able to view your imported wallet's balance and send / receive tokens.
Importing additional wallets to an existing wallet
You can import multiple addresses into the same wallet. To import an additional address to an existing wallet:
- Click the Wallet Manager icon in the top left corner of the screen
- Click Manage
- Click the ⊕ in the top right corner of the screen
- Select Import Wallet
- Enter Wallet name and click Next
- Input your Mnemonic and click Done
- Enter Wallet Pin code/Password
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- /nuyn"tee fuyv"/, n.1. a cardinal number, 90 plus 5.2. a symbol for this number, as 95 or XCV.3. a set of this many persons or things.adj.4. amounting to 95 in number.
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GOOD News? Bad News?
We Giants people are used to both these concepts – although recently it's been in the form of 'Good Half Season, Bad Half Season'!
Anyway, this was the theme chosen by our latest guest, Danny Lockwood of the League Weekly, who had much to say on the subject.
It is excellent news that RL has a superb trade press, League weekly is solvent, it looks like Salford will be saved, and the game has people like Ken Davy.
However, this 'heartland' trade press is constantly overlooked by the national media.
And Rugby League has a lot of bad finances.
Sport England has cut the funding to the RFL, resulting in the demise of lots of development posts.
At the same time, while a lot of clubs do have serious benefactors, others thought they had and discovered the opposite to their cost!
The economics of sport is that it is in a dire situation. Not just our beloved game, but all sports.
However, comparing League to Union, we are in comparatively safe hands.
These days, Union is not our main competitor, it is the NRL over in Australasia.
They have just negotiated a £670m deal over five years. That is £134m each year.
Compare that to our Sky TV deal of £90 million – over five years!
Let's keep it to ourselves, but this means the NRL can afford anyone who they choose!
More good news. A British player has been voted the best player in the world – and Kevin Sinfield is staying put. (You had to be present to detect the irony in some of this comment!).
The bad news is that Leeds will probably win the World Club Championship again. (For our Leeds readers, we could hardly tell what Danny was saying due to his tongue being firmly lodged in his cheek!)
RLWC 2013 (the Rugby League World Cup 2013) will be a success – although we're not going to win it!
How can we compete with all the resources New Zealand and Australia have?
True, they do not have the almost perfect half-back like we (England) do in Danny Brough, but sadly it looks like we will not play him either!
Danny (Lockwood) proved to be an excellent and entertaining guest. It has been judged sensible to not relate all he told us!
So, as Mick Beevers said at the end of the night, "Thank you Danny, and here is your HGSA honorary membership certificate".
Meanwhile, these are the forthcoming Events.
On Friday, January 25 it's our annual Pre-Season Meal.
This year we shall meet in the Sportsman from 6.30pm and transfer to the Marimonte on Viaduct Street for 7.30. The event is almost sold out. Contact Margaret Callaghan (07414 270 760) for details.
Ahead of the London Broncos home match on February 10, we shall be having a disco for the juniors, and then on Monday, March 4, there's a Fans Forum at the John Smith's Stadium.
For further information please visit our website, www.GiantsSupporters.co.uk , or contact Dave Calverley on 07887 878 425.


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The internet, unfortunately, is no longer a safe space to do any kind of experimental thinking, particularly for somebody with any kind of "brand." … No, if you're going to change your mind, you might have to go off-brand, and offline is the best place to be off-brand. Your bliss station, your studio, a paper journal, a private chat room, a living room full of trusted loved ones. These are the places to really think.
- Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad - Austin Kleon


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Author has written 7 stories for Teen Titans, Misc. Comics, and Batman.
We are Ira, Gula, and Superbia. We are a trio of writers who one day intend to publish our own novels and comics (if you know a good artist who would be interested in illustrating, drop us a line).
Until then, we're going to practice on here. Fanfiction provides us with a pre-existing framework, allowing us to expand our work upon style, character development, and similar facets that we are not as sure upon.
We typically don't like OC's and will instead delve into the obscure characters of a universe before including our own. The exception to this rule is 'A Fresh Rain,' as it is a story initially conceived by Ira who wanted to work on his villains and find out what voices emerge from them when they're written. Technically, 'Origins' can be counted as having OC's as well, but that's all of our characters in the universe we created for them.
Our primary fare is the Teen Titans, but we have plans for so, so much more.


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Six Creepy Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe has the ability to manipulate language so well that he could engage my imagination and get me terrified even though little was 'done' in the sense of horrible actions described. My imagination, under the power of his creepy words, conjured the atmosphere and did the rest by itself. In this recording I've chosen some of his stories that succeed so well in leaving lingering hair raising memories with me: The Telltale Heart; The Masque of the Red Death; The Black Cat; The Raven, the Casque of Amontillado and Berenice. I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I did reading them. (Summary by phil chenevert) (1 hr 59 min)
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Creepy Tales By: Edgar Allen Poe
Lynda Nieves
I loved hearing his literary works told by this narrator. His voice was easy to listen too and he spoke enthusiastically whenever parts of the story required it. This is my first book using this app and look forward to more!
I'm learning about Edgar Allan Poe in my . Class and I'm in 8th grade and my teacher got me addicted to this story that were reading this week so I love Edgar Allan Poe
great stories
I like the tone, pauses and the pronounciation of the reader, specially the reading of The Raven. As I am not a native English speaker, I easily understood the pronounciations. Better done than other readers of Edgar's work at librivox.
Very good
This is my first book in this app & I love it. Thanks to the reader I can enjoy the book without actually read it XD Well done :)
The seceret reviewer
brilliant reading and most brilliant tone and reading. first time hearing Edgar Allan Poe's stories and it was done amazingly. I have no bad points well done to the reader.
Fad Eld
Double thumbs up to the reader for he has read fairly clear enough, much better then those other readers who I have encountered , whose recording of the same stories were poor and uninteresting.
easily drowned out
Maybe it's because I have ADHD but I couldn't focus on this narrator at all. I would easily think about other things and be lost as to what was happening in the story. I listened to the first 3 short stories then had to stop. Also some of his pronunciation and his cadence drove me nuts. I can see how some might like it but his emphasis and excitement seemed misplaced that could have been focused better elsewhere.
good recording, although I've read this specific story by Edgar Allan Poe many times... its like a movie vs a book. I guess I've been reading it with more passion. ... kind of dulled down one of my all time favorites.


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Read and rate Travel Journal Entries for Everett, Pennsylvania, United States
May 18, 2014 - We are home!
We were welcomed home by Makayla, Sammy and Micah on Sunday evening. What a great ending to our Southwest trip. We traveled over 5500 miles without any major breakdown or flat tire. This is amazing given the terrible condition of some of the roads we traveled. We truly enjoyed seeing this beautiful country. Thank you for sharing our journey. We did have to discipline ourselves to do the journal everyday. It's amazing what you forget as you see so many places. Now we can start planning our next trip to the great north west! But I have to...Jump to full entry
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Apr 21, 2014 - Leaving home
Today we were able to begin our journey to the Southwest USA. The cold weather this Spring has made getting ready a real challenge. We will stop at Ft. Chiswell, VA tonight. We are planning on only driving about 300- 320 miles each day so we don't get exhausted early in the trip. We left home about 9:15 a.m. and traveled in beautiful weather..... what a relief!! There were a lot of gorgeous pink trees everywhere along the interstate. Some trees also had bright green leaves starting to show. Quite different from home. Somehow we got hungry...Jump to full entry
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Many pre-teens and young teenagers have colorful smiles -- they wear braces. Today's teen braces bear little resemblance to the "train tracks" that baby boomers may remember from their youth -- they're updated in style and make a colorful fashion statement that's good for their teeth! You can even get invisible braces, which are made by Invisalign.
It's not surprising that many teenagers wear braces. Dental experts estimate that more than two-thirds of the population need braces to correct dental problems that occur, including teeth that protrude or are crooked, teeth that overlap and crowd each other, and teeth that have gaps between them. In addition, some children need braces to align their teeth and correct their bite. Whatever the condition, children recognize that they will enhance their appearance in the long term. Parents know that they are actually making an investment in their child's health and appearance. Now with invisible braces children won't have to be self conscious of their smile when the are wearing orthodontic braces!
Not everyone who needs orthodontic braces gets them. Children who have problems with their teeth will not outgrow them, nor will their teeth "just take care of themselves." Crooked teeth or overlapping teeth will stay that way, and will be difficult to clean, which can lead to bacteria growth and gum disease. Bites that need correcting will cause difficulty in biting or chewing as time goes on. Teeth that are not aligned correctly may wear the enamel more quickly, which exposes the teeth to more damage.
It's a good idea to schedule an appointment with an orthodontist when your child's permanent teeth appear, sometime between the ages of five and seven. Your family dentist may recommend an orthodontic dentist in your area if he isn't able to fulfill your needs. You may also ask friends whose children have had orthodontic braces if they have any recommendations.
An early appointment is advised to spot any potential problems that require treatment. Timing is critical since delaying treatment can multiply some dental problems. The orthodontist will be able to tell you how your child's mouth is developing and whether any problems exist. At early ages, children's jaws are still growing; at about age 12, the mouth and jawbones begin to harden. Some children at the earlier ages require a retainer, which sometimes eliminates the need for teen braces at a later age. After this age any structural work may require complex surgery so early treatment is advised.
Because so many children have braces these days, much of the stigma of teen braces has disappeared. In fact, teen braces are often viewed as a fashionable rite of passage. While your child may experience some good-natured ribbing at first, chances are that lots of classmates have braces, too. Remind them that their smile -- and their dental health -- is important to you, and that it won't be long before the braces give way to straight, healthy teeth, guaranteed to make them smile! Plus invisible braces by Invisalign could allow your child to repair crooked teeth and have the smile they have always wanted without the teasing from their peers.
By Danine M. Fresch, D.D.S.
When asked what their orthodontist does, most people will answer "straightens crooked teeth." Yet there's a good deal more to it than that.
To practice in the field of orthodontics, a dentist must be trained not only in dentistry, medicine, and pharmacy, but in physics and engineering. They must have the touch of a master craftsman, and the eye of an artist. To fully serve their patients, orthodontists must be part scientist, part psychologist, part detective, and part businessman. Becoming an orthodontist requires four years of formal postgraduate training leading to a dental degree, and two more years of graduate studies in orthodontics. But their education doesn't end with a diploma. In many ways, that's where it begins.
Though it may not be obvious from the casual office visit, the practice of orthodontics has changed dramatically in just the last few years. With ongoing research have come continuing advances in ceramic, clear and invisible braces. There are more sophisticated tools to diagnose orthodontic problems, plus innovative materials and techniques to treat them. There are new drugs to control pain, and cosmetic dentistry procedures no one had heard of 10 years ago. Plus, the number of adults getting braces has risen dramatically. This means that now orthodontists must practice adult orthodontics which presents different challenges.
The field continues to change so rapidly that it's estimated orthodontists must acquire an entirely new set of knowledge every two to four years. In fact, in many states, meeting minimum standards for continuing education is mandatory for orthodontists to retain their licenses. In addition to the formal courses is all the time spent reading professional journals and reviewing new products. Fortunately, orthodontists have no lack of opportunity to learn. By the American Dental Association's count, some 3,000 to 5,000 organizations offer continuing education courses to those in the dental profession.
From the hundreds of thousands of hours of specialized training offered annually, each orthodontic professional can choose the courses he or she feels are most needed to expand and update his or her skills.
The practice of orthodontics is a profession, a science, an art, and a lifelong commitment to provide the best and most advanced possible care for your teeth.


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This episode originally aired on May 20, 2020.
In April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a first, unemployment numbers for women hit double digits.
Women make up two-thirds of part-time workers and the majority of the low-wage workforce. For women of color, the news is even grimmer.
Today on All Sides with Ann Fisher, we explore how the coronavirus pandemic magnifies the gender gap.
- Samantha Schmidt, gender and family issues reporter, The Washington Post
- Kelley Griesmer, president and CEO of The Women's Fund of Central Ohio
- Wendy Smooth, associate professor, women's gender & sexuality studies, Ohio State University


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Wed, 10 December 2008
Who are your favorite people to spend time with? Chances are, they are people that make you feel better about yourself. Some people are lifters--they make you feel good when you are around them. Other people are "downers," and have the opposite effect on you. What can you do to be a lifter in the lives of others?
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Wed, 10 December 2008
According to the Book of Revelation, there are three kinds of people: those who are "hot," meaning they are close followers of Christ, those who are "cold," meaning they have no knowledge of God, and those who are "lukewarm," meaning they are supposedly followers of Christ, but don't live according to His Word. In other words, they are hypocrites. What happens when you are "lukewarm"? In this message, Rod Loy examines how people become lukewarm, and how they can get "hot" again.
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Mon, 8 December 2008
You can tell a lot about someone by what comes out of their mouth. What would someone listening to you think about you? Even more, if you are a Christian, would anyone know it by the words you say? In this message, Rod Loy examines the importance of our words.
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Thu, 4 December 2008
Certain times of the year or events can cause us all to feel blue and even get depressed. What causes this issue in our life? How can we fix it?
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Thu, 4 December 2008
Feeling down about yourself? Feel like you're not good for anything? You need a lift! In this message, Rod Loy looks at the causes of poor self-esteem, and how we can find our worth in God.
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My latest column in Prospect magazine is all about ditching the tent and the bulky equipment and sleeping under the stars. A bivvy bag is helpful if you want a little bit of protection from the weather – but remember why you're outside in the first place. The photo above is from an idyllic night we spent on the cliff's edge near Skaill, Orkney, having taken some inspiration from the brilliant Alistair Humphreys.
Full text after the fold, or on the Prospect site here.
Sleeping beneath the stars—the art of camping without a tent
By cutting kit and preparation to a minimum, we can slot some microadventures into the wild into everyday life
by Cal Flyn / July 18, 2019
Have you ever slept outside, with nothing separating you from the sky above? If not, now that summer is finally here, I think it might be time for you to try it out.
My partner and I are moving to Orkney, the lush green archipelago off the north coast of Scotland, later this year. Last week we took the ferry across the Pentland Firth to start our house hunt, and it seemed like an excellent excuse to spend some time in the open air, on the beautiful Orcadian coast. There are charming guesthouses there, of course, but with excellent weather expected any time indoors seems like a bit of a waste. So we packed minimal equipment, ditched the car in a parking space by the beach, then headed out along the cliff path to find a nice spot to bivouac.
Bivouacking is camping, basically, but without the tent: take your mat and sleeping bag then simply pop them inside a thin, rainproof shell ("bivvy bag") that should protect you from any light rain (or heavy dew). It's a simple set-up, but a liberating one: no fiddling around with pegs or poles, and no canvas to block your view.
And what a view. By the time we found the perfect site, it was getting late—but the Sun doesn't set until after 10pm this time of year. It lowered itself, blazing red, into the waters of the Atlantic as we watched from a grassy flat wide enough to fit two bodies safely; a few feet away, the ground dropped away to create a sheer, craggy inlet (known locally as a "geo") where fulmars chuntered and catcalled to each other from their rocky ledges.
As we rolled out our mats and blankets, we attracted the attention of the locals. That is: a herd of cattle in a dozen shades of dun and tan and buff, who queued curiously along the fence line to watch our novel kind of nest building. The oystercatchers too came to have a look, piping their shrill cries and bouncing through the tussocks. But after a while, after we slid into our green bags and settled down to doze, the neighbours lost interest and returned to whatever business they had to attend to.
There we slept, a salt breeze running its fingers through our hair, the birds muttering their bedtime stories, the muffled sounds of the cattle grazing quietly in the field beyond.
Now, there's no getting away from it: the sleep you get while bivouacking is of a different quality to that in a bed. But not worse. It's lighter, more episodic. I drifted in and out, semi-conscious of the constant washing of the wave upon the rocks and the shifting watercolour of the sky—which, so close to solstice, is never truly dark. The night passed slowly, deliciously. Tentless, you see and savour everything. Last time we did something similar, we woke to see three baby otters playing on the beach—we wouldn't have seen that had we been zipped away.
There's a tendency among outdoors enthusiasts to get caught up in questions of equipment. The right kit can make an arduous experience much safer and more comfortable; a stormy night in a bivvy bag, with no extra shelter, could be miserable indeed. But focusing on kit and comfort can distract us from the aim of our expeditions, and insulate us from the very thing we've gone to experience. Plus, too much kit, and the thought of packing and carrying it all can be a daunting enough prospect to put you off.
A bivvy bag, on the other hand, plus other bare essentials for a night outdoors (a sleeping bag that packs down small, a blow-up rollmat), can be thrown into a tote bag and stashed in a cupboard or under your desk for a quick getaway. The adventurer Alastair Humphreys has been advocating just this. In his inspiring book Microadventures, he calls on city dwellers to dash off after work to snatch a night in the woods or up the nearest hill, then be back at your desk for 9am.
By cutting kit and preparation to a minimum, we can slot some microadventures into the wild into everyday life. But keep an eye on the forecast, eh?