I would like to start with Searle thought experiment – The Chinese Room Argument.
It raises some very important and fundamental questions which are inclined more towards metaphysics instead of artificial intelligence that's why I thought that I should include and discuss it right this moment because of its relativity with the current topic.
Searle proposed an imaginary situation in which he is in closed room having two slots. One Chinese slips in a paper through one slot written a question on it in Chinese language. Searle does not understand Chinese himself but he has a library inside the room containing all types of the books about Chinese characters. He matches the Chinese symbols written on the paper with the books available in the room, finds the answer, writes it in Chinese by copying same as appearing in the books and slides it through the second slit. The Chinese man reads the answer and founding it perfect, he (Chinese) assumes that the person, inside the room, is well versed with Chinese though Searle himself does not understand even a single letter of Chinese.
Searle argued against strong AI saying that mere a successful programming of any system is not sufficient enough to call it intelligent even if that system is able show some results similar to human mind. Although he accepts the state of weak AI to some extent but very rigid in his stance that mental phenomena could not produced by computer programming. He further stated that brain causes minds and minds cause consciousnesses. There are endless arguments both in favor and against the Searle. It is so pervasive that even a book is not enough to cover it all so the single line abstract of the Searle's argument is that machines do not think and understand no matter how advanced and sophisticated we made them and I agree with his conclusions in the broad sense though my reasoning is slight different.
In my opinion the Chinese room argument is much bigger issue than it appears on the surface. This thought experiment asks what the definitions of knowledge, brain, mind and consciousness are and how all these work. We have to understand two things before analyzing Searle argument; KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION. I feel that sometimes we tend to overlap both of them.
This phenomenon is very important and needs to be understood very carefully. Let me take an example. Every mathematician is familiar with Pythagoras theorem of a2 + b2= c2 and he uses it to solve problems. He can carry on successfully from this theorem further inventing many new theorems but his knowledge is incomplete just because of a simple reason that he has borrowed Pythagoras theorem and many other established formulas for his work without going through the process of inventing those so the effort and pain taken by his predecessors is missing from his experience.
INFORMATION MEANS THAT TYPE OF KNOWLEDGE WHICH IS NOT LEARNED BY THE OWNER. OWNER RECEIVES IT FROM ANY OTHER SOURCE. ON THE OTHER HAND KNOWLEDGE HAS TO BE LEARNED BY THE OWNER. IT IS ALL ABOUT THE PROCESS. PROCESS OF LEARNING IS THE PHENOMENON THAT DISTINGUISHES KNOWLEDGE FROM THE INFORMATION. PROCESS ENABLES THE OWNER OF KNOWLEDGE TO FEEL AND EXPERIENCE IT.
I want to make this issue clearer by using very common and easy examples. There are many cases in our daily life in which we experience knowledge even without noticing it. Let us take colors for instance. If we ask a five year child to explain the blue color, what will be his answer? We all know that he has the knowledge and understanding of blue color but he would not be able to explain it. The explanation of blue color is equally difficult for adults just because it needs to be seen or experienced. There is no other way of knowing it. Furthermore, it is one of those types of knowledge that do not have any counterpart in our world so one would not be able to explain it to anyone else through an example. This is what I would like to call knowledge. It is not transferable because words cannot describe it.
A blind man by birth cannot understand how blue color looks even if the wisest person in the world spends his whole life explaining because due to the lack of visibility, the blind man will only get information not knowledge. There are numerous examples of this phenomenon in our daily life. Without experiencing the whole process one can get only information and we generally misunderstand information with knowledge in day to day life.
Knowledge is complete phenomenon while information is only an abbreviation of end result.
The great Einstein formulated general theory of relativity first but he was not able to explain gravitation at that moment. Sometime later he tried to cope it with the concept of cosmological constant but could not succeed. Then, after 15 years since general relativity, he became able to come up with the solution in the form of curved spacetime and general relativity. In that span of 15 years, Einstein must have thought of numerous solutions, would have examined them from different angles and then negated them for one reason or the other. At last he gave the right version. Now, one can think that he or she knows relativity but it is not true as we have not gone through the process. We do not know those endless ideas those used to pop up in the mind of that great scientist. We do not know on which grounds he rejected all of them. We are only familiar with the appropriate version but he knew all the unfit versions also besides the right one so his understanding and knowledge had covered much more space in comparison of a person who knows the end result only.
A truth, even if it is truth, is never complete for the sake of knowledge, until and unless one does not know what is not truth.
Let us assume that we know that a work could be done or a problem could be solved in a certain way and we can say that is a truth or fact. So, it could be said for sure that for each and every way other than the right one is not the appropriate way and this saying is also truth or fact. Hence, we must understand that there are two types of facts; positive facts and negative facts. The number of negative facts will always much larger than the positive facts as we all know that there could be endless ways of doing a work wrongly while the proper way is only one but one could not know the all wrong ways unless and until he tries for the right way. Knowing the wrong ways is equally important otherwise we miss almost all other facts and left with only one which is the right version. So, we see that knowledge is not just a single truth but it comprises of endless facts and those could be acquired only if we go through the process.
Hence, the process is more important than the result even if it (process) is not fruitful.
I also want to put it mathematically because we often tend to believe more in numbers than the text in today's scientific world. Einstein took 15 years to reach the end version. 15 years means 5475 days or 782 weeks or 180 months. Given the versatility of that genius, we can safely assume that he got at least one idea in a month if not more and negated it in his mind. It means that he would have thought of 179 more ways of postulating the theory. In other words, we can say that he knew 179 wrong and one right version. Even if we take the most conservative approach by picking only one idea in a year, his knowledge stands at 15 times more than the others. So there is absolutely no comparison between the information and the knowledge.
Information is just a drop of the ocean of knowledge.
Now let us talk about the machines. In my opinion, there is no fundamental difference between super sophisticated computer which can beat world chess champion and a simple calculator. The basic problem with the computers is that they are open only to the information. There is no way of enriching them with the process of learning. The entity which is required to go through the process of learning is intellect or mind and without it acquiring knowledge is not possible. The functions and outputs of any other system other that mind are limited to the extent of the information supplied to it. All physical informative systems work on a very simple give and take rule. They just return or show what we feed them; not less not more. Although sometimes it appears that they are able to think, like in the case of world chess champion beating computer, but it is not true.
If we look carefully then we find that in this case, the world champion is not playing against a single computer, but all the chess playing minds those programmed the software consuming years. Actually, in objective view, it is clear that the super computer is doing nothing besides playing a role of a middle man between the world champion and the programmers. The actual game is being played between the champion and those programmers. The knowledge of the programmers is reflecting in the computer in the form of information. Computer may win the game but it does not proof that it (computer) has more thinking power or knowledge than the champion but win will be due to the reason that the total information fed by the programmers may exceeds the knowledge of the champion.
Sometimes, when information fed to any system becomes extraordinarily huge and pervasive, it (system) gives the impression to be intellectual. All informative systems, super computers which can talk and ultratech robots, even those which are in the wraps of the future, no matter how advanced and sophisticated those would be, will be informative only. I do not have any doubt in my mind whatsoever that we could not make those to think simply because we would never be able to provide intellect as it is not a physical thing and we cannot create it.
There is a lot of talk about the testing of thinking power of the systems; especially Turing test. This test claims that if any machine is able to answer questions in such way that resembles human behavior then it could be said that the machine is thinking. This test also sets a standard that if a human fails to identify the machine by reading its answers and mistaken it with human mind, then it is certain that the machine is thinking. I do not see any merit in this argument. As I said earlier, that when information of any system becomes enormous in comparison with human mind, it gives fake impression of thinking power. Given the development in computers and robotics in modern science, it is quite possible that many of them could be able to pass this test but, in my opinion, all this does not proof anything. We have to understand the meaning of "thinking" first before setting the parameters for the test otherwise the result could be misleading.
Thinking is a mental process. It takes a start from evaluation and analysis of anything. By doing this, thinking explores both types of facts regarding the issue; positive and negative. At first, it looks carefully at the first hand information of the subject, and then roams around the periphery of the core point. In the process, it collides with the other facts; it sometimes accepts them, sometimes amends them, sometimes negates them and sometimes adds to the tally by finding new ones. There are two basic characters of thinking; evaluation and evolution. Any system, which claims that it can think or has intellect, should be able to meet these standards. A thinking entity should have the capacity of testing, modifying and adding to the information provided to it without any help from outside the system.
Now let us judge machines. Machines cannot test the information. They accept it verbatim. There is no challenge from their side. If we replace all intelligent moves with silly and wrong move in the programming of chess playing super computer; it will not refute it; no matter how advanced chips it could have but it will play accordingly to the programming when the situation will arise. On the contrary, even an average chess player will not accept silly moves if anyone asks. Yes, computer can compare between two sets of information very precisely but it cannot decide by itself which set of information is right or wrong. If we tell it that the wrong version is right, it will act accordingly and vice verse. A thinking and intellectual entity will never do it. So there is clear-cut difference between thinking systems and informative systems. Machines do not fulfill even the other two conditions as neither they can amend the information nor add anything new to it by themselves. So, I am sorry to say but no physical system other than mind is able to cross the bar.
To summarize the issue we can say that information is not an alternate of knowledge simply because in the absence of intellect, no entity in the universe, can absorb any kind of knowledge. So, there could be no such phenomenon in the world that could be called artificial intelligence; neither strong nor even weak.


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Every year at this time, Dr. Chintan Desai and M1 CEO Joshua Katke reflect on those things and people for which they feel grateful. The holiday season is a great time to count our blessings and show gratitude!
Since M1 opened in Berkley, Michigan in 2014, we have continually added talented individuals to our team.
We are grateful for our administrative team, including Directors of Physician Relations Jodi, Jessica and Scott. These three talented marketers spend their days meeting with physicians and sharing information about all of the advanced imaging technologies M1 offers, including being the exclusive provider of NeuroQuant software in the state.
Our physician team continues to grow, too. Dr. Chintan Desai, whose entrepreneurial spirit brought M1 into being along with Joshua Katke's management and health administration expertise, is one of several doctors we rely on for precise reads of patient scans for all three of our locations – Berkley, Livonia and now Warren.
Dr. Reza Sazgari is a musculoskeletal and spine radiologist on our team, and we are just beginning a collaboration with the experts at Michigan State University. Additionally, our Warren site includes a relationship with Cleveland Clinic physicians, bringing their expertise to the state of Michigan and soon, they will read scans from all M1 locations.
It is thanks to our amazing, patient administrative staff that our clinics run smoothly and with friendly faces to greet every patient. Lisa, Jessy, Nicole, Angelica and Dominika, Laura, Armani, and Natalie are incredibly valuable to M1.
The key to our success over the last three years has been solely due to our amazing team of kind, dedicated professionals who believe in the M1 brand and in our philosophy of bringing best-in-class, cutting-edge medical technology directly to Michigan consumers. Happy holidays from the M1 team.


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Relocation: I'm an Executive, Get me Out of Here [Financial Times]
Financial Times, March 4, 2006
Last summer I cleared my house out until all that was left were bare floorboards and dustballs and I moved, with my family, to California. I thought I had covered all the bases, as far as you can when you are starting a new life on the other side of the world. We found a family naive enough to want to rent our house and embark on the wretched experience that is school selection in inner London. The possessions that remained after the big cull – 109 boxes of books principally – left Tilbury Docks on a ship bound for the US. We found somewhere to live and a school for the children and, within a few weeks, had settled into the American way of life.
The important things went right. But, of course, there were hitches. No move is without them. The removal company held on to our possessions until we agreed to pay a substantial supplementary bill. They said we had underestimated the volume of the consignment. US Customs refused to release our container because the paperwork wasn't in order. When the goods were eventually released, my computer's hard drive had died. A small-print clause I had failed to spot in our insurance meant that we were not covered. With no financial rating in the US, I was denied a credit card, and my US bank froze my account several times, ominously citing anti-terrorism legislation. Oh, and my application for health insurance was turned down.
There were no such irritations for Ian McGeechan, who recently took up the post of director of rugby at UK Premiership champions London Wasps. This involved a move from Scotland, where he was director of rugby for the Scottish RFU, to somewhere within a commutable distance from London. McGeechan handed over the logistics of the move to the Relocation Bureau, a small UK-based company whose clients include Logitech, Amazon.com, Volvo and Cancer Research UK.
The timing of McGeechan's move south was awkward in that it coincided with him having to be in New Zealand for the 2005 Lions Tour. "As I was 12,000 miles away from my wife, it was comforting for her to know that somebody was responsible for the move," he says. "The Relocation Bureau co-ordinated everything. They scouted out areas for us to live and narrowed down a selection of houses. They got a good feel of what my wife wanted in a house and, once we had chosen one, they co-ordinated solicitors, builders and so on. They always kept us informed and dealt with all the details – even organising for a new fence to be built around the house before we moved in. I couldn't have done any of that so it was good to feel the process was under control."
McGeechan's move was relatively straightforward, and domestic. But relocation companies really come into their own for globetrotters such as Nico Kelling, a senior manager at Infineon, the German semiconductor specialist. When Kelling moved from his home in Munich to Indiana for the company in 1998 he managed the relocation himself. "I spoke English and it was a short-term post so I just needed to find a furnished apartment to rent, which was easy," he says. But in December 2005, when Infineon assigned Kelling to Tokyo, they offered him the services of a specialist, Going-There Destination Services. "They carried out a home search and handled all the red tape such as alien registration with local authorities and setting up a bank account. They organised an initial orientation tour of the city and helped with questions I had over a driver's licence and phone service," says Kelling.
"The biggest challenge in Tokyo is the language barrier, so it was time-saving to have help, particularly on the negotiations relating to my rental contract, which would have been more difficult to do alone." He adds that he suspects having a Japanese-speaking expert on hand probably also widened his choice of places to live. "My options would have been limited to apartments with landlords who spoke English had I been looking on my own," he says.
Linda Behnke, a partner at Golding Capital Partners, is a serial globetrotter. She relocated four times in 10 years for a previous employer, flitting between Munich, New York and San Francisco. Each move was managed by Mobility Services International, a company that claims to "demystify relocation".
"They handled all aspects of the physical move," she says. "I was very happy with them so used them every time." Nevertheless she says each move was progressively more difficult. "This is partly because you amass more." But the more angst-inducing aspects were out of her – and the relocators' – control. "Every time we moved, the removal company underestimated the fee. I think it's because they are aware that there are other [higher] bids and they figure they can't lose as they will just change the price later," she says.
Linda says each move has resulted in breakages, although they have all been covered by insurance. She also underwent the heart- stopping experience of $50,000 "going missing" as it was being transferred between her European and US bank accounts. Only dogged persistence on her part in getting the banks to tackle the problem – and the paper (and e-mail) trail she had kept of all her correspondence on the matter – resulted in her funds reappearing five weeks later. Her advice now: find a bank that is accustomed to dealing with ex-pats and clients on the move.
Having learned the hard way, Linda has two more tips for those relocating: "The move will always cost 20 per cent to 25 per cent more than you think it will and the consignment will always arrive later than promised," she says.
These days, in a pressure-cooker global career market where a senior executive might be assigned a new post with as little as a week's notice, corporations routinely offer the services of a relocation company along with the transfer orders. Big multinationals move between 1 per cent and 4 per cent of their employees around the world every year and turn to relocation specialists such as Cendant, Prudential, Sirva and Weichert to help them do it. Many of the these behemoths include removal companies and real-estate networks in their corporate portfolios.
The benefits offered in a relocation package differ from one company to the next, and are negotiable depending on the seniority of the employee, the degree to which the corporation wants to retain him or her, and the perceived "hardship" factor of the move. Along with the task of physically moving a household and its contents, services may include assistance with selling an existing home, identifying suitable neighbourhoods and schools, as well as financing a home purchase in the new location. Orientation services may include guidance on setting up bank accounts and getting connected with local ISPs, access to on-the-ground agents with local expertise, as well as "spouse support", which might include information on local job resources or educational courses.
Companies engage relocators with one main objective: to move an employee swiftly and with the minimum amount of upheaval, so that they are at their desk and functional as soon as possible. "From a company viewpoint, the employee is at work working rather than house hunting, school hunting, or putting up pictures," says Craig Vassie, a partner at The Relocation Bureau. Or, as John Arcario, executive vice-president at Cendant Mobility, puts it: "If somebody is moved without a relocation expert it's the employer that suffers because you end up with a distracted employee and a potentially unsuccessful move."
Chuck Stewart, client services director at Going-There, says cost- cutting has had an effect on the nature of the perks offered by corporate relocation. Increasingly, advantages such as the employer buying and selling-on a home, bridging loans and compensation for a spouse's lost earnings are reserved for the "top brass", he says. And some companies are choosing the self-help option. "There's a trend for companies to give employees a lump sum and tell them to manage the move themselves," he says.
There is no average cost for a relocation. Variables such as the value of an employee's home and his or her seniority all play a part. The Relocation Bureau charges about £5,000 to relocate what it terms an "executive family". At the other end of the scale Arcario estimates that the outlay for a multinational moving a senior executive with expensive housing requirements from New York to London would be well in excess of the value of his or her annual salary.
It is not just the corporate world that hires relocation companies. Two years ago the University of Southampton introduced relocation services as part of its staff recruitment policy. "We wanted to attract the best staff from wherever they were based geographically," says Zelda Franklin-Hills, the university's head of staff diversity. "It is stressful moving to a new job and it makes sense to offer support to ease those pressures so new staff can settle in and contribute to the university quickly." Franklin- Hills has also observed how an offer of help with relocation can make the difference between a faculty member accepting a post at the university or elsewhere. "It can be the deciding factor between one job and another," she says.
Although it is difficult to see how having expert guidance cannot be beneficial for people on the move, there are times when relocation companies can be more of a hindrance than a help. This proved the case for one family who moved within the US last year. The non-profit organisation for which the husband is a director selected a relocation agent, ostensibly to work on the family's behalf. The agent was to sell the family's existing home and help them find a new one in the city they were moving to, as well as manage the bridging loan provided by the husband's employer and oversee the transportation of their goods. However, because the agent was overseeing the financial side of the move, which directly implicated the employer, the family didn't feel their interests were being best served.
The relocator also appointed a real-estate agent based in a town 20 miles from where the family wanted to live. Feeling he lacked the local knowledge they needed, the family had to negotiate to select their own realtor. "There were times when we seriously thought about getting shot of the relocator," says the mother of the family, who would rather not be identified, "even if that meant sacrificing the benefits that were being offered, such as the loan to buy a new home."
In the end, though, a good experience with a relocation company can mean the difference between a successful move and one that flounders or fails. Had I been forewarned about consignment size, credit ratings and how to fill in a health insurance application, I may have avoided some of the headaches of my move.
The value of having someone on hand with local expertise is also repeatedly cited by relocation companies and those who have used them as being critical to a smooth transition. "You might be moving to the Bay Area in California, but do you know which neighbourhoods have the right schools for your children, employment possibilities for your spouse and like-minded communities to live in?" says Arcario at Cendant Mobility.
Meanwhile Vassie at The Relocation Bureau recalls a case of an American executive who was moving to the UK for her first overseas posting for a large multinational. "She was being helped by US 'counsellors' based in Connecticut," he says. "As she needed to be within reach of Heathrow and a factory in Peterborough she was advised to live in King's Cross." It was a few years before the current regeneration scheme, and "it took us a while to persuade her that living next door to pimps and drug addicts wasn't exactly a good idea."
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Jared Padalecki Wished His On-Screen Brother Happy Birthday in the Sweetest Way
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Many people can't imagine life without Sam and Dean Winchester. Supernatural is an epic show with a large following. The fans aren't ready to say goodbye after 15 glorious seasons, but the end is near. Jared Padalecki recently wished his on-screen brother, Jensen Ackles a happy birthday in a fitting way. Read on to learn what he said and how fans are reacting.
Sam and Dean Winchester have been through a lot over the years
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Saving people and hunting things is just part of the family business for these two. Loyal fans know that the Winchester brothers have been through a lot over the years. They've lost those closest to them, including themselves once or twice. Many fans can't imagine life without them and dread the thought of the series coming to a close after this final season.
Jared Padalecki wishes Jensen Ackles a very happy birthday
Padalecki took the time to wish his on-screen brother Ackles a happy birthday. Ackles celebrated a birthday on March 1 and Padalecki sent him a sweet birthday shout out. It's an image of the two half hugging while looking at the ocean and fans are certainly here for it.
"Happy birthday @jensenackles In the 16 birthdays I've been able to share with you as a friend, you've become a brother. Now, we have one month left to play brothers on tv. No one I'd rather cross this finish line with…Let's take those boys home," he captioned the post.
The two on-screen brothers have clearly gotten close over the years. Playing someone's brother will do that to you.
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Fans of the hit series responded in large numbers. It seems everyone loves the brotherly dynamic between the two. It made people a little emotional to say the least.
"Excuse me while I bawl my eyes out," an Instagram user wrote.
"I'm not crying you're crying 😭," another fan said.
One fan said the two brothers helped them get through things. "I love u both thank u for getting me through the toughest of times," they wrote.
The tears were flowing after seeing the post. "Wow birthday wishes should make me smile not cry Jared," an Instagram user explained.
Another wanted to know if Padalecki was trying to make people cry. "So we really tryna make people cry rn," the user asked.
Someone else thinks it's the "cutest" post they've seen to date. "This is the cutest and heartwarming post I have ever seen. Long live the brothers," they wrote.
Numerous fans responded to let Padalecki know they were crying after witnessing the sweet post. People are extremely emotional that the show is coming to an end. It's hard for fans to wrap their heads around it all.
Luckily, Supernatural isn't over quite yet. Fans still have some time left with Sam and Dean Winchester. Hopefully in the future fans will still get to see them together again in some capacity.
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D: Jim O'Hanlon / 93m
Cast: Idris Elba, Gemma Arterton, Charlie Creed-Miles, Franz Drameh, Kierston Wareing, Tom Cullen, Ken Stott, Ashley Thomas, Ryan Gage
Max Moore (Elba) is a retired rugby player whose fame on the field has translated into a media career where he promotes a favourite, sports-related charity. His public image – seen in clubs and bars and at functions, often surrounded by attractive women – is at odds with the fractured home life he's trying to repair. He's estranged from his wife, Emily (Arterton), and their two young children. While Max plays at being a responsible family man in an effort to win Emily back (after sleeping with the children's nanny), she has embarked on an affair with an old friend, Jake (Cullen). Kingsley (Drameh) is a young man whose aptitude for street poetry, plus a chance meeting with well connected actor Terence (Stott), provides him with an opportunity to leave behind the gang he's currently a part of. And George (Creed-Miles) is a cab driver who, along with his wife Kathy (Wareing), is looking to adopt their first child. Over the course of several weeks their lives will intersect in unexpected ways, but each will be irrevocably changed by their experiences…
A low budget British drama with a glossy sheen to it, A Hundred Streets looks like the kind of movie that will offer a pointed and affecting social commentary on modern life in the UK capital, and which will examine in detail the pressures that people endure in order to get by. Alas, a closer inspection reveals a movie that paints its characters against a far broader canvas than might be hoped for, and by using brush strokes better suited to a daytime soap opera. Writer/producer Leon Butler (who raised the entire budget single-handedly), immediately gives the viewer two problems to deal with. The first is Elba's Max, a caricature of a faded sports star who behaves badly but underneath the promiscuity and self-loathing, has a good heart and loves his kids. Despite these good qualities, Max is unsympathetic from the start, and though Elba tries hard, remains so until the end, and a dramatically absurd sequence that sees him waving – and firing – a shotgun from a balcony window, while the police standby until Emily can get home and talk him down (and let's not mention the police marksman who has Max in his sights the whole time – for tension purposes only).
Neither Max nor Emily are characters you can warm to, so self-absorbed are they in their individual needs. This leaves Drameh's earnest Kingsley and Creed-Miles's dopey George to pick up the slack, but therein lies the second problem: their storylines are just as routine as Max and Emily's. Tragedy stalks them both, but in such a way that neither tragic incident comes as a surprise, or indeed the events and outcomes that follow. As the movie progresses, it becomes something of a tick-box exercise for the viewer, and for the movie makers, as the characters behave either recklessly for no reason, regressively for "dramatic" purposes, or reactively because the script demands it. Struggling to make more out of Butler's script than he's able to, director Jim O'Hanlon can only focus on the performances, and though Elba and Arterton are adequate, Creed-Miles, Drameh and Stott at least manage to make an impact in their roles, though this is very much against the odds. Stott in particular is good, but even he has trouble with some of the dialogue Terence is given, and hearing it makes you wish there had been more opportunities for improvisation.
Rating: 5/10 – formulaic and at times dramatically challenging – though not in a good way – A Hundred Streets aims for a modicum of prestige but misses by a square mile, and then some; adopting clichés as if they were the answer to every problem raised, the script undermines the movie from the word go, and as a result, leaves it in just as good a state as Max's career as a rugby star.


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Changes to the original screenplay of the film 'Swallows & Amazons' (1974)
One of the questions asked by fans of the film Swallows & Amazons, produced by Richard Pilbrow in 1973, is whether any of the scenes written by David Wood ever hit the cutting-room floor. Looking back through the original screenplay I can see that the answer is, not many.
The shots of finding Swallow in the boatshed, bringing her out and raising her flag were moved forward, under the Voice Over of the Walker children reading out the letters to their father.
Simon West talking to director Claude Whatham with Sophie Neville
There is a scene in the book set at Holly Howe when medical supplies are being packed for the voyage. This was shot with Virginia McKenna at Bank Ground Farm above Coniston Water, but must have slowed down the pace of the film as it was replaced by a montage of shots, which are much more exciting.
Virginia McKenna as Mother with Sophie Neville as Titty making Swallow's flag
Making patterans on the way to the charcoal burners, was a lovely scene from the book that was recorded but never included in the film. Captain John can been seen explaining how gypsies use them as secret markers in this black and white still from the film. It was shot on a mossy bank in oak woodland so very characteristic of the Lake District. It was at this dramatic location, high above Derwentwater that this behind-the-scenes shot of the director, Claude Whatham was taken. You can see Cat Bells in the background.
Claude Whatham talking to his cast: Sten Grendon, Simon West, Sophie Neville & Suzanna Hamilton
Mrs Ransome, who worked closely with the screenwriter agreed that the storm scene on Wild Cat Island would not to be included in the screenplay, which we all thought a great pity as children. Such a violent gale blew in one day when we were filming on Peel Island that we would have had the right weather conditions, but you can not include everything. Jane Grendon, whose son Sten played Roger wrote to tell me that before filming began, '…one of the very first things we were asked was, 'can Sten swim?" 'I know he could doggy paddle,' she continued. ' Neville (Thompson, the online Producer) organised swimming lessons at Pitville Pool, Cheltenham which included jumping off the diving boards. At the time I didn't know why and I don't think Sten is a natural in the water and the swimming lessons didn't prove very successful. Claude (Whatham) told me – at the end of filming I think, when he gave me a copy of he original script – these lessons were because in the original script Roger was to jump in the water after Uncle Jim walked the plank.' Jane sent me a copy of the page in question. I had not seen it before: It was a page of the script we never had the time or enough fine weather to shoot. I am so glad.
Readers often ask if any scenes involving the Amazons were cut, but none were left out. Nancy and Peggy simply do not appear in the book as much as one might remember.
Please leave any questions about the making of 'Swallows & Amazons' in the comments below.
Author Sophie NevillePosted on April 27, 2015 April 27, 2015 Categories 1973, Acting, Arthur Ransome, Autobiography, Biography, Claude Whatham, Cumbria, David Wood, Film, Film Cast, Film History, Film production, Filmaking, Lake District, Landscape Photographs, Memoir, Movie, Movie stories, Sophie Neville, Suzanna Hamilton, Swallows and Amazons, truelife story, Zanna HamiltonTags 1973, a page of a film script, a page of screenplay, Amazon boathouse, arthur ransome, Bank Ground Farm, Behind the Scenes, Claude Whatham, Coniston, Cumbria, film crew, Filmmaking, Kit Seymour, lake district, Lesley Bennett, Paterrans, Peel Island, Richard Pilbrow, Simon West, sophie neville, Stephen Grendon, Suzanna Hamilton, Swallows flag, Titty Walker, tv and film, Virginia McKenna, Westmorland6 Comments on Changes to the original screenplay of the film 'Swallows & Amazons' (1974)
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This post comes with a huge thank you to readers who have taken the trouble to write in, send emails or add reviews on Amazon about 'The Making of Swallows & Amazons'
Sophie Neville and Sten Grendon filming on Peel Island in 1973
'I very much enjoyed reading about all the background and stories of what is one of mine and my children's favourite films.' David Hambelton, Oxford
Kit Seymour and Lesley Bennet as the Amazon Pirates
'…an absolutely fascinating account…about a film we all thought we knew so well. Like so many members of The Arthur Ransome Society I am an utter devotee… I'm finding the background to filming quite fascinating, and if I had thought it possible, yours is the book I have always longed for to exist. I've been absorbed in it ever since it arrived, forcing myself to take it slowly and not gobble it up in one go. Of course I'll be back to it soon, dodging back and forth in tune with your narrative, indenifying particular scenes.' Jeremy Gibson, Witney
Simon West as John and Sophie Neville as Titty in Swallow
'If you liked the film, you MUST read this book. "Titty" is enthralling, and the story of the film is almost as exciting as the real story by Arthur Ransome. Essential reading for devotees.' Chloe Randall, Scotland
Suzanna Hamilton and Simon West on Peel Island
Children still ask me questions that never occurred to me:
'How did it feel to be on the island by yourself?' Alex aged 7. The truth of course is that I was never on the island by myself. Perhaps I should have been left there for a while so I could experience it. I would have relished the chance.
DoP Denis Lewiston and Director Claude Whatham in Coniston Water
Another boy asked, 'How did you do the water?'
This took my breath away for a second. 'How did we do the water? The water was real, and it was very cold,' I replied, explaining that we actually shot the film on four different lakes in Cumbria, all of which you can discover for yourself.
Have your children any questions? I'd love to hear them.
Simon West and Sophie Neville on Coniston Water
For more reviews of The Making of Swallows & Amazons on Amazon, please click here.
To see more still from the film that can be purchased as framed prints or on mugs etc please click here for StudioCanal's website.
To find out more about The Arthur Ransome Society please click here
Brenda Bruce as Mrs Dixon with Claude Whatham at Tent Lodge Cottages
Author Sophie NevillePosted on October 8, 2014 October 12, 2014 Categories 1973, Acting, Arthur Ransome, Autobiography, Cumbria, Film, Film History, Filmaking, Lake District, Letters, Memoir, Movie, Movie stories, Richard Pilbrow, Sophie Neville, Suzanna Hamilton, Swallows and Amazons, truelife story, Uncategorized, Zanna HamiltonTags 1973, Amazon Pirate, arthur ransome, book, books, Brenda Bruce, buoyancy aids, Claude Whatahm, Coniston, Denis Lewiston, Filmmaking, Kit Seymour, lake district, lanterns, leading lights, Lesley Bennett, outdoor pursuits, paperback, Peel Island, Roger Walker, Rowing, Simon West, sophie neville, Stephen Grendon, Suzanna Hamilton, Swallow, Swallow the dinghy, swallows and amazons, Swallows and Amazons mugs, Tent Lodge Cottage, tents, Titty Walker, tv and film, Westmorland8 Comments on Comments on 'The Making of Swallows & Amazons'
Very, very many thanks to all those who have taken the trouble to send in feedback about our paperback version of 'The Making of Swallows & Amazons: Behind the scenes on the Classic Film'.
The publishers have been thrilled to hear what you think, hoping that the will appeal as a good Christmas present.
Here are a few recent comments:
'Get a glimpse behind the scenes from Sophie Neville, who played Titty, in this gorgeous book, released to celebrate its 40th anniversary.' Yours magazine.
'Came home to a wonderful surprise – my copy of The Making of Swallows and Amazons! wonderful.' Pandora Doyle 'I love it! So excited. The photos make the book especially the coloured ones. I will be dipping into it all day!'
'…a delightful book, which tells the behind-the-scenes story of the film. Neville's account of exploring, sailing, and the green parrot will no doubt have readers reliving childhood memories and falling in love with the Lake District all over again.' The Lady
'I can't wait to read The Making of Swallows and Amazons! My eight year old daughter is also looking forward to it – she has learned to sail on Sydney Harbour just like the Swallows' mother did! (I learned to sail on other Ransome waters – near Pin Mill in Suffolk!). Thank you so much for sharing your memories of the experience with us – what a magical film!' Clare Havens, author
'I ordered two copies, one signed by yourself and one unsigned which is already becoming dog eared {my measure of a good book}.' Arnold Mostyn
David Bamford: (Antipodes) I am in the middle of reading Sophie's book about the Making of 'Swallows and Amazons' and enjoying every word of it! Now, when I see the stills, I remember her writing about how cold the weather was, and they were dressed in light summer clothes.
Loving @Sophie_Neville 's Making of Swallows and Amazons. Technicalities of filming with big unwieldy cameras. Plus lots #ambleside gossip. Eileen Jones @CumbriaPR
'It was great to read an account of how filming is not as simple as people imagine! Enjoyed it very much.' Martin Robinson
'A sort-of layman's perspective on filming is completely fascinating.' Nick Archer
'I enjoyed the book much more than I expected, if that doesn't sound v strange.' Tom Morgan. 'I thought I would enjoy it but I really, really enjoyed it. I… was very impressed by the flow and ease of your writing. My inherent nosiness helped of course.'
'Great book, I really enjoyed reading it.' Stephen O'brien
'Really enjoyed it. Lots of insight into/memories of 70s life (not sorry to have left that behind!!). Very interesting to learn more about your co-stars, and the other people involved in creating the film – my original discovery of your blog was having watched the film, and wondering "where are they now?" That question is comprehensively answered!! Also very interesting to learn about the process of film-making – we take so much for granted with digital video cameras these days. I guess for me the whole thing about learning about you, Suzanna, Lesley etc as people is what most interests me from a human point of view – kind of much the same as learning about the Altounyans and Collingwoods in Hardyment's book.' Paul Fernandez.
'Lovely to meet you in Ambleside, It was a great evening. Book and DVD are brilliant.' Ali Graham
'I matched your book to the DVD and the two made a really good present, even though I say so myself!' Barry Burles
To read more, please click here for reviews on the Amazon UK site
All photos (c) StudioCanal, reflecting the quality of the digitally restored blu-ray. To see official stills from the film please click here.
Author Sophie NevillePosted on September 29, 2014 October 4, 2014 Categories Acting, Autobiography, Biography, Cumbria, Film History, Memoir, Movie stories, Sophie Neville, Swallows and Amazons, truelife storyTags Ambleside, arthur ransome, book, book reviews, Coniston, Cumbria, Filmmaking, Kit Seymour, lake district, Lesley Bennett, outdoor pursuits, Peel Island, Richard Pilbrow, Roger Walker, sophie neville, Stephen Grendon, Suzanna Hamilton, swallows and amazons, tv and film, Virginia McKenna, Westmorland2 Comments on Comments on 'The Making of Swallows & Amazons'
Come to watch StudioCanal's newly restored Swallows and Amazons (1974) at Hackney PictureHouse
StudioCanal, who distribute the 1974 feature film of Swallows & Amazons (U), have a huge treat in store for film fans:
"40th Anniversary Restoration of SWALLOWS & AMAZONS, starring Virginia McKenna and based on Arthur Ransome's classic novel, will be released on brand new Special Edition DVD and first ever Blu-ray release on 4th August! Pre-order your copy here: amzn.to/1pmF7fe. Special anniversary screenings will be taking place – "
The Hackney PictureHouse will host the first London screening with Q&A by me, Sophie Neville, on Thursday 31st July at 11.00am. Please click here for details. Do join us!
It has been a difficult secret to keep. Virginia McKenna, Suzanna Hamilton and I were interviewed for the DVD extras, which I believe also feature Christina Hardyment exploring the film locations this summer while imparting information about Arthur Ransome who drew on his own childhood holidays in the Lake District to add detail and authenticity to the original story.
The 16mm behind-the-scenes footage that my parents took when they were with us on location back in 1973 was handed over to the technicians to use in the extras package. I haven't seen the finished version yet, although I did record a commentary to explain what was going on.
Hope to see you at some of the screenings! Let me know if you can come.
There will also be a number in Cumbria this August. Please go to Sophie's Events Page for details.
To read the press release please click here.
Author Sophie NevillePosted on July 22, 2014 July 22, 2014 Categories Acting, Arthur Ransome, Claude Whatham, Cumbria, David Wood, Film, Film History, Movie, Movie stories, Richard Pilbrow, Sophie Neville, Suzanna Hamilton, Swallows and Amazons, Uncategorized, Zanna HamiltonTags arthur ransome, Blu-ray, British Film, children, Children's activities, Christina Hardyment, cinema, Claude Whatham, Coniston, Cumbria, Denis Lewiston, DVD, DVD extras, DVD release, Entertainment, Family, Family Event, Family Film, FamilyFun, familymovie, Film, Hackney, Hackney PictureHouse, Kit Seymour, lake district, Lesley Bennett, PictureHouse, Richard Pilbrow, Simon West, sophie neville, Stephen Grendon, Suzanna Hamilton, swallows and amazons, Swallows and Amazons DVD, Titty Walker, tv and film, Virginia McKenna, Westmorland, Windermere2 Comments on Come to watch StudioCanal's newly restored Swallows and Amazons (1974) at Hackney PictureHouse
Announcing the publication of 'The Making of SWALLOW & AMAZONS'
The long-awaited paperback published by Classic TV Press
Sophie Neville who played Titty Walker
'Forty years after she enchanted film-goers as Titty in Swallows and Amazons, Sophie Neville has found a new audience… telling the behind-the-scenes secrets of the film of Arthur Ransome's classic novel.' The Daily Mail The Making of Swallows & Amazons '…is based on diaries, letters and old photographs which Sophie has turned into a heart-warming account of making the movie, which starred Virginia McKenna and Ronald Fraser.'
'The Telegraph ~ Culture: 'Set in the Lake District in 1929, the film follows four young adventurers who sail a dinghy around Lake Coniston, cook for themselves over campfires and sleep in makeshift campsites.'
'…The occasional chaos and terrible weather during filming contributed to the eventual popularity of the extraordinary and very much loved film.' The Times
'The film Swallows & Amazons is 40 years old, but thanks to its careful period evocation, its respect for Arthur Ransome's original book and the performances of its child actors, it's become a timeless classic. One of those children was Sophie Neville, who played Titty, and who kept a diary during the filming. That diary, with her adult recollections, is this book. It's a fascinating insight into filming on location in the Lake District… Classic Boat
'… The result is compulsive reading as she recalls that cold wet summer, while the camera crew wrapped up warm and she shivered in her skimpy dress as Able Seaman Titty Walker. Sophie brings to life all the many memorable characters who worked on the film and in particular the other children, the Director Claude Whatham who developed a great relationship with his young cast and the stars Virginia McKenna and Ronald Fraser. Nor are the other young actors forgotten for there are diary contributions from Suzanna Hamilton who played Susan, Stephen Grendon who played the Boy Roger and Kit Seymour who played Nancy Blackett. The text is supported by numerous illustrations showing life on and off the set.' Roger Wardale, author of Arthur Ransome: Master Storyteller and other books
'You don't need to be a Swallows & Amazons fan to enjoy this book – it's universal!' Winifred Wilson, Librarian of The Arthur Ransome Society
'This was a most unusual and interesting book. I picked it up expecting to browse through it, and found myself so drawn in to Sophie Neville's detailed, amusing and insightful description of film making in the 1970's that I was unable to put her book down. As Arthur Ransome fans, my family and I have always loved the film, and felt that Sophie Neville was 'just right' as Titty. What fun it has been to be introduced to the young twelve year old Sophie with her intelligent awareness of the challenges facing the production crew while she shivered in her cotton dresses. The many photographs and illustrations contribute richly to bringing the 1970s setting to life. Sophie recorded her experiences beautifully, and in so doing, added one more valuable book to the cultural heritage of all Arthur Ransome fans.' Juliet Calcott, English teacher, South Africa
Lots of photos throughout the book bring the scenes to life – a delightful read.' Celia Lewis author of An Illustrated Country Year
Sophie Neville has been chatting to Mark Forrest on The Evening Show.
Please see her post on the Funnily Enough, the website or click on his image above and slide the cursor to 02:14:20
Author Sophie NevillePosted on June 29, 2014 April 27, 2017 Categories Acting, Arthur Ransome, Autobiography, Biography, Christian, Cinema, Claude Whatham, Cumbria, David Wood, Diary, Dinghy sailing, Film, Film Cast, Film Catering, Film crew, Film History, Filmaking, Humor, Humour, Lake District, Landscape Photographs, Letters, Memoir, Movie, Movie stories, News, Richard Pilbrow, Sophie Neville, Steam train Haverthwaite Railway Station, Suzanna Hamilton, Swallows and Amazons, truelife story, Zanna HamiltonTags #1974, Acting, arthur ransome, Bank Ground Farm, book, book cover, book reviews, camping, child's diary, childhood memories, Christmas Present, Claude Whatham, Coniston, Cumbria, Daphne Neville, David Bracknell, Denis Lewiston, Derwent Water, Diary, EMI, film crew, Filmmaking, Gareth Tandy, health and safety, Ian Whittaker, Kit Seymour, lake district, Lesley Bennett, life jackets, Mark Forrest, Mark Forrest Evening Show, Martin Neville, memoir, new publication, outdoor pursuits, paperback, Peel Island, Ransome inspired Christmas Present, Richard Pilbrow, Roger Walker, Ronald Fraser, Ronnie Cogan, Simon Holland, Simon West, sophie neville, Stephen Grendon, Suzanna Hamilton, swallows and amazons, Swallows and Amazons Christmas Present, Tamzin Neville, Titty Walker, tv and film, Virginia McKenna, Westmorland, Windermere16 Comments on Announcing the publication of 'The Making of SWALLOW & AMAZONS'
Members of the Arthur Ransome Group have recently raised questions about what 'fell onto the cutting room floor' after we shot the movie 'Swallows & Amazons' in the English Lake District in 1973.
'I have always had the feeling that the Amazon's role in the 1974 film was very much secondary to the Swallows.' Stephen O'Brien posted. 'This was probably down to much of the Amazon's footage ending up on the cutting room floor. What do you think?'
The answer is that there were few scenes excluded from the film.
Virginia McKenna as Mrs Walker with Sophie Neville as Titty
One featured Virginia McKenna and Mrs Battys clock, which can still be found at Bank Ground Farm, our location used for Holly Howe. It was shot on the second morning and I fear that our director Claude Whatham might have taken it out because my own performance was rather stilted. I had quite a bit to say, most of which was really rather bizarre:
The pages of my diary written on 15th May 1973
The only other scene from Swallows & Amazons that I know was excluded was when the Swallows lay patterans on their way to visit the charcoal burners. The location was in a beautiful spot up above Derwentwater, the dialogue was straight from Arthur Ransome's book and our performances would have been fluent by the time we shot the sequence.
Suzanna Hamilton, Sten Grendon, Sophie Neville and Simon West as the Swallows
I can only expect that when the movie came in over-length these scenes were cut as the action was not exciting and had no influence on the plot.
In the original script the Amazons do not really appear until page 41 – which would equate to nearly half-way into the the film. I thought that there might have been one or two shots of the Amazons sailing that were never used, because there was a day spent filming on Derwentwater when Kit and Lesley who played Nancy and Peggy weren't feeling very well but I've checked the script and nothing that they said was excluded. Not one word. Perhaps David Wood who dramatised the book could somehow have increased the Amazons' parts. However, as Janet Means points out:
'…in the book we find out more about what the Swallows think but only about what the Amazons do. There is little about the Amazons except when the Swallows are present too (hiding Amazon in the reeds and Nancy berating Peggy for losing Amazon when Titty's made off with her). There's lots about the Swallows without the Amazons.'
One scene in the DVD of the film actually gets cut out of the television version. The clue is that it comes just before this photo was taken in Bowness-on-Windermere for Lancashire Life kindly sent to be by Stephen Sykes of Hill Top near Haverthwaite.
Sten Grendon, Simon West, Suzanna Hamilton and Sophie Neville as the Swallows in Rio, an official still from the film published in Lancashire Life in 1974
There are a few scenes in the screenplay that were never actually shot, but that's on a different tack. To read more, please see: The Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons.
Denis Lewiston, director of Photography on 'Swallows and Amazons' ~ photo: Richard Pilbrow, taken on Derwentwater in Cumbria, 1973
Our sad news is that Denis Lewiston, the brilliant Director of Photography on Swallows & Amazons (1974), died recently. After a long and fulfilling career he will be remembered fondly and admired for the numerous films he made, seeking excellence with every sequence.
To see some of the shots Denis set up for the film of Swallows & Amazons, please click here for the BFI site.
Author Sophie NevillePosted on June 20, 2014 June 18, 2015 Categories 1973, Acting, Arthur Ransome, Autobiography, Cinema, Claude Whatham, Cumbria, David Wood, Diary, Film, Film Cast, Film History, Filmaking, Lake District, Memoir, Movie, Movie stories, Photography, Richard Pilbrow, Sophie Neville, Suzanna Hamilton, Swallows and Amazons, truelife story, Zanna HamiltonTags 1973, arthur ransome, Bank Ground Farm, Bowness, Bowness on Windermere, Claude Whatham, Cumbria, David Wood, Denis Lewiston, EMI, EMI films, film editing, Filmmaking, Hill Top, Hill Top Haverthwaite, Kit Seymour, lake district, Lancashire Life, Lesley Bennett, Richard Pilbrow, Simon West, sophie neville, Stephen Grendon, Suzanna Hamilton, swallows and amazons, Titty Walker, tv and film, Virginia McKenna, Westmorland6 Comments on The cutting room floor
Your questions about Swallows & Amazons
~ Sophie Neville with Suzanna Hamilton on Coniston Water in 2003 ~ photo: Gordon Bourne
'How did Titty capture the Amazon?'
What did Swallows and Amazons wear?
The Swallows and the Amazons – where are they now?
These are some of the many questions that people type into search-engines. Members of The Arthur Ransome Group on Facebook have also had questions:
Dan Ford asked, 'I think I heard it said that the four Swallows and two Amazons all wore life-jackets under their clothes whilst filming. If that is so, they were very well concealed, so were they specially made for this use?'
We didn't wear life jackets under our costumes, we only ever wore buoyancy aids when travelling out to the location. Last time I went out rowing on Coniston Water I didn't wear a life-jacket either, which was very naughty.
Chris Roisndale asked: 'What became of 'Amazon' from the film? Is she still in existence like 'Swallow'?
Amazon at Bank Ground in 2003 ~ photo: Geraint Lewis
Suzanna Hamilton and I went out on Coniston Water in Amazon in when the BBC invited us to Bank Ground Farm to appear in Countryfile with Ben Fogle. We met her owners who live in Kent. I gather she was the same dinghy used to play Amazon in the 1963 BBC serial of Swallows and Amazons made when Arthur Ransome was still around to comment. Her owner told me, 'She was built locally on Windermere sometime in the 1930.'
Amazon under sail while filming Countryfile in 2003 ~ photo: Geraint Lewis
Duncan Hall writes, 'Just before Roger finds the camp, I'm fairly sure I can see a chimney in the background (somebody last said that it was a tree stump but it doesn't look like a tree stump) – did you film any "on island" sequences on the mainland? Also – I know Rampsholme on Derwent Water was used for some "Wild Cat Island in the distance" shots, but it was mostly Peel Island. Did any Windermere islands get used for Wild Cat Island locations?
The Boy Roger was definitely on Peel Island when he was looking for the camping place. I remember he got rather scratched by brambles. I can see what does look like a chimney in the background but it would have been a stump.
Some of the scenes set on Wild Cat Island were indeed shot on the mainland. This was because there is no light house tree on Peel Island. I don't think there was one in Ransome's day. We filmed the light house tree scenes on two different promontories near Friar's Crag overlooking Derwentwater and the Houseboat Bay. For a description of one location please click here.
'Peggy Blackett' & 'Amazon' in Secret Harbour on Peel Island: photo Geraint Lewis
Chris Clarke has asked, 'Were any of you allowed to keep props from the film set as a souvenir? For example, were the Amazons allowed to keep their red hats?'
A number of red hats were made and I think the Amazons may have been able to keep one each. Their hats were initially bright pink, but my mother was insistent they should be red and others were knitted locally. She tried to get ones made more like a finely knitted woolen hat of mine that would have been much more in keeping with Ransome's original sketches. However this picture was not known of back then and the Wardrobe Master, and the Director went with the design of the ones you see on the screen. Funnily enough the caps do look a bit pink in Mum's faded photo.
The Amazons in their red caps, sitting with the Walker Family at Holly Howe ~ a scene neither in the book or film of Swallows & Amazons: photo: Daphne Neville
I still have a bow, two arrows with green feathers and a pair of flags used for rehearsal props. I was given one of the pink hats but it meant nothing. I didn't keep any of my costumes, but Caroline Downer who played Dorothea says that she still has the buttercup yellow dress she wore in either 'Coot Club' or 'The Big Six'.
Scores of people have asked, 'Where was Swallows & Amazons filmed?'
One of the secrets of filming Swallows & Amazons is that while most of the film was shot on Coniston Water, we also filmed with the dinghies to Derwentwater, Windermere, Elterwater and rather a smelly lily pond.
Ben Fogle making a documentary about the locations used for Swallows & Amazons (1974)
~ photograph: Geraint Lewis who will be representing the Arthur Ransome Trust at a number of country fairs this summer ~ please click here for details
If you would like to sail the Swallow please click here for details
Author Sophie NevillePosted on June 7, 2014 September 22, 2014 Categories Arthur Ransome, Cumbria, Film History, Lake District, Memoir, Movie stories, Sophie Neville, Suzanna Hamilton, Swallows and Amazons, truelife storyTags Amazon the dinghy, arthur ransome, Arthur Ransome Trust, Bank Ground Farm, Ben Fogle, Coniston, Coniston Water, Cumbria, Daphne Neville, Falcon, Filmmaking, Geraint Lewis, Kit Seymour, lake district, Lesley Bennett, life jackets, Peel Island, photos of Amazon, Richard Pilbrow, Simon West, sophie neville, Stephen Grendon, Suzanna Hamilton, swallows and amazons, tv and film, Virginia McKenna, Westmorland11 Comments on Your questions about Swallows & Amazons


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Ethiopia, Egypt argue about dam project
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, June 7 (UPI) -- Ethiopia caused tensions with Egypt by diverting water from a Nile River tributary to build a hydroelectric power plant and dam, observers said.
Ethiopia began rerouting water from the Blue Nile last week for the $4.7 billion project, the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
The project is expected to be completed by 2017.
Although the construction started two years ago, tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia over the dam are just now becoming public, Voice of America reported.
Last week, Egypt's government said it did not approve of the building of the dam.
A spokesman for the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dina Mufti, said the country will not consider halting the construction.
Egyptian politicians were overheard on a live broadcast discussing ways to sabotage the project, Voice of America said.
Ethiopia demanded an explanation from the Egyptian ambassador this week.
"We are caught by surprise because some government officials, party leaders and civil society leaders, they were talking about Ethiopia violently and we were surprised. We are waiting for this tone to be watered down very soon," Mufti said.
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Beijing reports first Omicron case ahead of Winter Olympics
Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Officials in Beijing said Saturday that the Chinese capital has recorded its first case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 ahead of the Lunar New Year and the opening of the Winter Olympics.
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Iran is known for its strict policing of women's dress and behaviour. Women have spearheaded the fightback against enforced hijab so far, and now men are joining in.
In the last week, many men have posted photos of themselves wearing the hijab to social media, in solidarity with women in the country, who are forced to cover their heads in public, the Independent reported.
Many of the photos show a man wearing the hijab next to his wife or a female relative whose hair is uncovered.
In Iran, undercover agents, the so-called "morality police", roam the streets to ensure women wear the hijab and comply with the rules. Women face punishment, from fines to imprisonment, if they are seen without the hijab or are wearing it so far back that their hair is exposed, known as "bad hijab". These rules have been in place since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, before which fashion in Iran was unrecognisable from what we see today.
State-sponsored adverts portray women who cover their hair as honourable, while those who don't are objectified and compared to spoiled food. One advert depicts women who don't wear the hijab as an opened lollypop covered in flies.
Women in Iran have been campaigning against the enforced hijab and the strict laws governing their behaviour. Recently, many have even shaved their hair and dressed like men in order to avoid run-ins with the morality police.
The most prominent movement online against the enforced hijab is My Stealthy Freedom, fronted by journalist Masih Alinejad, which encourages Iranian women to post photos of themselves without hijabs.
Alinejad is leading the drive to involve men in the movement and has urged them to post their photos to social media with the hashtag #MenInHijab.
"Most of these men are living inside Iran and they have witnessed how their female relatives have been suffering at the hands of the morality police and humiliation of enforced hijab," she told the Independent.
She added: "Many men have gotten used to seeing women in compulsory hijab every day and you think that is normal. But for millions of Iranian women, this compulsory hijab is an insult to their dignity. "
One man, wearing his cousin's hijab, wrote on My Stealthy Freedom: "The fact that they are forced to wear something against their will tarnishes, in reality, the image of Iranians everywhere in the world. That's why this new campaign can at the same time draw attention to the plight of Iranian and also show the real face of Iran and Iranians."


One issue that typically arises in a study of the writing and transmission of the OT 'core' material, is that of 'borrowing'. This issue concerns to what extent the OT writers 'borrowed' ideas, theology, laws, religious practices from their 'pagan' neighbors, maybe even to the point of being dependent on those pagan ideas. There are those who claim that Judeo-Christianity is a 'copycat' religion, being created by massive plagiarism of the other (perhaps more basic and 'truer') religions of the world.
Since many of the alleged 'borrowings' occurred in the Wisdom Books of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes, I thought it would be good to survey these allegations, as well as to sketch out the nature and extent of Israel's borrowings from her neighbors in the ANE (Ancient Near East).
Proverbs is a collection of generally short, pithy statements (framed by a general 'pay attention' introduction) that represents the observations of 'the wise'. These statements are generally maxims and often are 'inductive generalizations'--the wise one looks out on experience and draws conclusions therefrom. As such, these pattern-statements apply to 80% of our experience. This majority of our lives IS predictable, and the principle that 'what you reap, you sow' and the logically-fallacious 'implication'--'what you reap, you MUST have sown' GENERALLY holds up. Proverbs articulates many of these 'prediction' sayings. (The word 'proverb' in Hebrew generally has a basal notion of 'to be like'--perception of a likeness or similarity within a pattern of data. Kidner: 28 and RHK: 1010-11).
Well, if 80% makes sense and 20% DOESN'T make sense (from our limited vantage point), then THE WHOLE THING is non-sensical (Since a conclusion you might draw from experience might be in the 80% or in the 20%--and you couldn't know which!). So this makes life--taken as a whole--inscrutable and therefore a 'vexation of spirit'...enter "Ecclesiastes". This strange book is apparently a teaching device on the necessity of an infinite 'horizon'. The book essentially takes a secular 'life-ends-at-death' position, and shows how pointless the position is. Sprinkled throughout are bits of "our" perspective (that charge OUR lives with meaning!)--that each event, each moment, each life CARRIES eternal consequences and implications (cf. 8.11-13; 3.17).
There were common questions approached: the problem of sufferings, successful living.
There were common needs: the instruction of the young, of administrators.
This period saw a tremendous amount of interchange with the surrounding nations--witness the 3,000 'political' wives of Solomon, the trade with Tyre (and gift of the Ten Cities!), and the idol temples built.
They said, "Come, let's make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not be lost, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets."
The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings"? Where are your wise men now?
What are the points of contact (e.g. similarities, shared features) between Jewish and other ANE wisdom literature?
Merikare was reminded that the god cares more for a good man's character than for a bad man's sacrificial ox (ANET:417)--cf. Prov 15.8: The LORD detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
Nor visit him for conversation.
Like chapters 1-9, and 31:1-9, these 'words of wise men' (i.e. 22.17-24.34) are nearer to the style of teaching-manuals than to nuggets of folk wisdom; and in 22:20 we have what now seems to be a deliberate reference to their particular prototype, in the words, 'Have I not written for you thirty sayings...?' If 'thirty sayings' is the right translation, it almost certainly invites comparison with the currently well-known Instruction of Amenemope, which not only has many themes in common with this set of sayings, but also addresses the reader with 'See thou these thirty chapters...'. In other words, here (it seems) is an Israelite counterpart to that Egyptian classic, in much the same way that Psalm 104 rewrites and transcends Ikhnaten's Hymn to the Sun, or that Psalm 92.9 claims for the true God what an Ugaritic poem had claimed for Baal.
And are flown away to the heavens.
The ANE obviously had priests, the wise, and prophets as well.
What are the points of discontinuity/disagreement?
Values--we have already noted that other ANE law codes placed much more importance on property than on human life.
Values-we have already noted that other ANE creation stories (e.g. Atrahasis epics) placed an anti-value on human life and procreation.
Gave twisted speech to the human race.
With lies, and not truth, they endowed them forever.
Job doesn't really answer the question--it merely places it in a larger context of God's eminence.
"Ludlul"--same as above: the main character turned out to be guilty anyway.
"Babylonian Theodicy"--has the main character succumb to the ordeal: "I will ignore my god's religion and trample on his rites"
View of overall meaningfulness of life--The secularist's acceptance of limited objectives in Ecc 9:7-9 is the same advice the ale-wife gave to Gilgamesh in the Epic (PANE1: 64). The biblical writers argue for a radically different perspective--that of 'remembering thy Creator'.
How then would we assess the extent, seriousness, and limits of Israel's 'borrowing' from her neighbors?
Forms could be used, but content of those forms had to be replaced with true worldview perspectives.
Certain ritual positions were ALLOWED (e.g. priests), but others were FORBIDDEN (e.g. shrine prostitutes, cf. Dt 23.16--No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.).
Certain ritual forms were NOT ALLOWED--even if stripped of 'content--cf Lev 19:27-28.
"Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard. Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
Summary: Israel's borrowing from her neighbors, in areas of religion and theology, DOES NOT include "CONTENT". Some linguistic and literary forms were okay (esp. in a 'spoof' or 'emphatic contrast' situation), but 'core' beliefs of Israel--monotheism, faith vs. magic/omens, God's surpassing wisdom, and the value of humanity--were NOT compromised in the literature.


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Q: Stop requesting url with cURL when using ranges For example, if I am requesting this url:
curl http://www.example.com/index.html?page=[1-100]

Imagine that only the range [1-3] exists in the query page. Why can't the cURL stop requesting urls when it arrives to number 4?
What I want is cURL to stop when it starts to request the page number 5 (since page 4 would return 404 code)

A: You should use the curl_getinfo function with the CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE option. The CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE returns the HTTP Code for the last requested page.
EDIT: Here is an example below which will also return the content of the page (assuming you want that functionality, if not you can modify it).
This while loop begins at page=0 and will continue to increment to page=1, page=2, etc... until it reaches a non-existent page and then will break out of the loop.
$response_code = 0;
$i = 0;

while ($response_code != 404 && $i <= 100)
{
         $cURL_handler = curl_init();

         curl_setopt($cURL_handler, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.example.com/index.html?page=' . $i);

         curl_setopt($cURL_handler, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

         $page_content = curl_exec($cURL_handler);

         $response_code = curl_getinfo($cURL_handler, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

         curl_close($cURL_handler);
    $i++;
}

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Metamora, Illinois, is a town of approximately 3,300 people, located in the northern part of the state. There are several RV parks in the Metamora area for RV campers to choose from. When staying at an RV campground in Metamora, visitors can enjoy bicycling and hiking on the many nature trails that surround the town. Guests can also tour the Metamora Courthouse, which is one of two remaining courthouses in the country where Abraham Lincoln practiced law. The courthouse has a museum section dedicated to the life of the former president.
Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park is located 15 miles south of Metamora, Illinois. There are 130 RV campsites with 50-amp electrical connections, water hookups and sewer service. The park has on-site laundry facilities, a dump station, restrooms with showers, fire pits for campfires, picnic tables, a fishing pond, horseshoe pits, a swimming pool, beach volleyball courts and nature trails.
The temperature in Metamora, Illinois in April tends to be very predictable, so you can generally count on the forecast and travel light.
The temperature in Metamora, Illinois in April is somewhat unpredictable, so be on the safe side and prepare for a variety of conditions.
The temperature in Metamora, Illinois in April is highly unpredictable, so use the forecast as a guide, but be ready for anything!
Carl Spindler Campground is located on the banks of the Illinois River, 15 miles southwest of Metamora, Illinois. There are 31 paved RV campsites, each with 50-amp electrical connections, water hookups and sewer service. The park has a dump station, a marina with a boat launch and boat docks, a beach along the Illinois River where guests can swim, a playground, on-site laundry facilities, restrooms with showers, a meeting facility for group gatherings and nature trails.
Kentuckiana Kampground is located 19 miles south of Metamora, Illinois. The facility has 340 RV campsites, each with 20-, 30- and 50-amp electrical connections, water hookups and sewer service. The park has restrooms with showers; an entertainment facility that features regular live music; a playground; two lakes for boating, swimming and fishing; basketball courts; and nature trails.
N., George. "RV Parks Near Metamora, Illinois." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/rv-parks-near-metamora-illinois-24436.html. Accessed 19 April 2019.
Rear of Metamora Courthouse State Historic Site seen from East Chatham Street in Metamora, Illinois, USA. In the foreground, the parking lot and utility trucks for Metamora Telephone Company (MTCO).


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Q: Why We Couldn't Create Pointer To Friend Functions Defined In A Class? struct A
{
  friend void f();
};

void f() {}

We could define a pointer to the f():
using FType = void(*)();
FType ptr_to_f = f;

But if we move the definition of the f() into the A, then we couldn't define any pointer to the f():
struct A
{
  friend void f()
  {
  }
};

using FType = void(*)();
FType ptr_to_f = f; //< error: 'f' was not declared in this scope

Why?
From this(Pointer to friend function) CPlusPlus forum:

a friend declaration is not a prototype.

But I don't understand it and couldn't find any documentation about it in:

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*C++ Draft

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Once again, in May, the government reports that public sector borrowing has come in lower than had been expected at £16bn.
The deficit remains startling but appears to be levelling off with the Office for Budget Responsibility predicting a shortfall of £155bn in the current financial year.
But the new numbers offer no room at all for complacency, especially as the OBR takes the view that the underlying deficit - when the impact of the ups and downs of the economy are eliminated - is actually worse than forecast in March.
The background to George Osborne's emergency Budget - to be delivered next Tuesday - is as dire as ever.
One only has to look across the channel at what has been happening in France and Spain to see the kind of pain which will be necessary from our own coalition.
Osborne has chosen to slip in his Budget on a Tuesday, between england's games against Algeria and Slovenia, and while the nation is focused on sun, strawberries and short skirts at Wimbledon. It is a narrow window in which to inflict pain and one should not doubt that Osborne and his LibDem colleagues are up for the fight.
There was clearly great satisfaction at the Treasury that it managed at the Mansion House to abolish the Financial Services Authority and empower Mervyn King and the Bank of England without the caterwauling which accompanies such radical change.
Indeed, all the evidence so far suggests that the new government is going faster and more boldly about the economic and financial tasks it has set itself than expected.
The OBR was delivered within days of taking office. The first down-payment of £6bn of cuts, promised in the election campaign so as to mitigate Labour's national Insurance increase, has been delivered. And an unexpected scythe has been taken to Labour's late spending projects freeing up £2bn immediately and placing a further £8.5bn of spending on hold.
Boyish chief secretary Danny Alexander may be less expert than his predecessor David Laws but is no less determined to make his mark.
Further down the Treasury batting order, new city Minister Mark Hoban is moving rapidly to bring closure to the decade-long scandal of equitable Life and is thinking hard about what to do with Labour's pensions tax raid on high earners.
A combination of the politics of the coalition, together with the adverse state of the public finances, makes this look like a government in a hurry.
But it also looks better organised than its predecessor. David Cameron is not a micro-manager of economic affairs like Gordon Brown was at number 10.
So this, together with the work done by the OBR, has helped to cut the undergrowth on the path to the emergency Budget.
At present no late night sessions will be necessary on Monday as late revisions to forecasts and tax changes are made.
The city consensus is that to achieve its goal of eliminating the structural deficit, the coalition needs a fiscal tightening of some £20bn each year.
This would be achieved via 20pc in tax increases and 80pc in spending and benefit reforms.
The debate about raising money from capital gains tax to help fund the LibDems' idea of bigger tax allowances (with the goal of a £10,000 tax-free band) has been well rehearsed.
The public also looks to have steadied itself for a hike in VAT.
The big arguments are around the size of the increase and the timing of implementation, with some people urging VAT at 17.5pc to remain in place until January.
Less attention has been paid to one of George Osborne's own pet projects. This is his determination to lower the top rate of corporation tax and pay for the change by removing some of the tax reliefs available to companies.
The most far reaching of the reliefs is the right to charge interest against tax which has distorted corporate behaviour in favour of bank and debt financing.
Given the radicalism we have seen so far from the new chancellor, I would not be at all surprised by a gesture, if not a big move, in this direction.
The problem with the up-coming Budget is that most of the decisions, tax raising and benefits freezing and cutting, are likely to have an adverse affect on demand just as the recovery is taking hold. clearly, the current easy money situation - as a result of low interest rates, quantitative easing and the sterling devaluation - will be there to offset the fiscal tightening.
The counterpoint to shrinking the public sector is that the chancellor needs to provide better tax and fiscal incentives to enterprise.
It would be disastrous if the wealth-creating sector of the economy were to be stifled.


Short Description: Litteraly meaing, beautiful. The Tamils regard him as their god.
Long Description: The god whom the Tamils regard as their own, he is the same as Subrahmanya, Skanda (Kanda), Karttikeya or Kumara. (The name means beautiful.) There are many temples to Muruga in the South, some of them built on hills like Pazhani (Palni) and Tiruttani. A considerable section of Tamil hymnal literature is devoted to him of which the Tiruppugazh is particularly famous.


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Bring Me The Horizon Cancel Tour After Oli Sykes Ruptures Vocal Chord
Bring Me The Horizon is celebrating the success of their most widely talked about album yet with a performance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'
"Is it Heavy Enough?": Bring Me The Horizon Talks Crossovers, Inspirations, and the Potential of a Halsey Collab
After successfully pushing both themselves and longtime fans out of their comfort zones, Bring Me The Horizon is continuing to set their sights on more unexpected crossovers.
Bring Me The Horizon Refused to Compromise on Polarizing New Album 'amo'
"We weren't gonna worry about what people thought about it, and that's the first time we've ever done that with a record," frontman Oli Sykes tells RADIO.COM.
Bring Me the Horizon's New Single was Supposed to be Limp Bizkit's
See if you can hear the Limp Bizkit influences in Bring Me The Horizon's new track, "wonderful life."
Are You Ready to Start a Cult with Bring Me The Horizon?
As promised by their cryptic teasing, "salvation returned" on August 21 with Bring Me The Horizon's new single, "Mantra."


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Gisele Huff
Executive Director, Jacquelin Hume Foundation
Gisèle Huff is executive director of the Jaquelin Hume Foundation. She has taught at Golden Gate University, San Francisco University High School, and Dominican College, and while at University High School was development director for twelve years. Huff is a founding member and chairman of The Learning Accelerator board, a board member of iNACOL, a member of the advisory board of Education Reimagined, and a member of the advisory board for Harvard University's Program on Education Policy. Her previous board service includes the National Charter School Research Project at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, the Digital Learning Council, and the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation.


The formation of racial-ethnic identity for minority children and youth matters, particularly in the context of home and school. Young children's racial-ethnic identity, "has implications for their relationships with in-group and out-group members and is associated with their level of perceived competency and self-acceptance," (Corenblum & Amstrong, 2012, .p. 133). Increases in cognitive development is associated with increases in racial-ethnic identity (REI) and REI is linked to self-esteem and attitudes towards the in-group.
Adolescents consider the idea of doing well in school a central component to their potential and perceived options for the future. The possible future selves of youth are developed based on personal ideals and social influences such as the family, school, peers, and the media. Youth who connect their academic identity to other important social identities, such as their racial-ethnic identity or social class, are able to work through academic challenges to attain academic goals. Likewise, when educational aspirations are synonymous with family values, youth are able to envision academic achievements and success as part of their academic possible selves.
I attended a predominantly Latino and Black school from my Head Start program to the Catholic school where I entered at Kindergarten and graduated in eighth grade. My future possible self as a Latina was nurtured at home and school. Though I didn't understand the impact of my micro and macro environments, I clearly benefited from my surroundings. I lived in a strong Latino household where culture, history, music, and language where overtly, and sometimes covertly, expressed and I attended a school community whereby my neighbors, the church, clubs, store owners, and peers I socialized with were of Latino or Black heritage. All around me, adults communicated goals of academic success and family commitment.
My educational foundation, while culturally affirming, did not adequately prepare me for high school's academic rigor. My older siblings, however, served as role models to continue with my future possible self as they overtly communicated the importance of completing high school, beginning and completing college, and having aspirations for their future career goals. I realized that this snapshot of my personal story was reflected in my research on Latino youth's racial-ethnic identity development and academic success. I discovered that there are key components to my experience that are echoed in the literature.
Afro-Latina, Lesbian, Anti-bias Educator, Mamá of two. Committed to enriching her life with a diverse village of people who will share their stories.