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7 pm Update: Hurricane Guillermo Tracks Over Hawaii
on Aug 2, 2015 at 7:39 pm
The latest forecast for Hurricane Guillermo takes the system over the island chain as a tropical storm. There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect, but a watch is likely to be issued for portions of the state as early as Monday morning.
Hurricane Guillermo Update – 7 p.m.
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As of 5 p.m. HST Hurricane Guillermo was 725 miles east southeast of Hilo, Hawaii. The storm is moving west northwest at 10 mph.
Guillermo is now a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph with higher gusts. The slow weakening is expected to continue over the next couple of days.
There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect, but a watch is likely to be issued for portions of the state as early as Monday morning.
A High Surf Advisory is now in effect for east facing shores of all islands. The National Weather Service says surf will building to 5 to 8 feet this afternoon… 8 to 12 feet tonight… and 10 to 14 feet Monday.
The latest forecast for Hurricane Guillermo takes the system over the island chain as a tropical storm. The National Weather Service says "while Guillermo is expected to be moving steadily west northwest as it passes across the island chain… Abundant moisture drawn into the circulation will bring the potential for very heavy rainfall and flash flooding on Wednesday and Thursday. The details on the timing… Location and amount of rainfall remain uncertain."
NWS Discussion – 5 p.m.
The satellite presentation of Guillermo continues to slowly degrade. Deep convection is pulsing around a difficult to locate center with the most persistent cold tops confined to the northeast quadrant. A 2346 UTC SSMI pass and a 0013 UTC AMSU pass were helpful in determining a center position. Dvorak current intensity estimates were 5.0/90 kt from SAB and 4.5/77 kt from HFO and JTWC… While final t numbers were lower at 4.0 to 4.5. CIMSS Adt suggested 70 kt… And given reconnaissance data from earlier in the day… The official intensity has been lowered to 75 kt.
The initial motion is toward the west-northwest… Or 295 degrees… At 9 kt. A low level ridge sits about 1500 nm to the northwest of Guillermo… While a North Pacific upper level trough has carved out a weakness in the mid to upper level ridge just north of the hurricane. Guillermo will continue to move on a similar bearing for the next few days into the weakness aloft… Taking the system near or possibly over the Hawaiian Islands on Wednesday and Thursday. The track forecast has been changed little from the last advisory and remains near a rather tight cluster of GFS… ECMWF… And the consensus models. The HRWF has moved back slightly closer to the consensus… While the GFDL continues to send a stronger system northward on Wednesday.
Weakening is expected to continue through the forecast period. As Guillermo continues to move into the break in the mid to upper level ridge… Outflow within the northwest quadrant will become disrupted further and vertical wind shear will slowly increase. The rate of weakening has been changed little since the last advisory… And the forecast closely follows the icon… With SHIPS predicting more rapid weakening beyond 48 hours.
As Guillermo moves closer to Hawaii… Watches may be issued as early as Monday morning for portions of the state. However… It is still too soon to determine with certainty which islands are most likely to experience the greatest impacts from Guillermo. It is also important to note that significant impacts can extend well away from the center.
The NOAA G-IV jet conducted a synoptic mission north of Guillermo earlier this afternoon. This sampling should improve the model initialization of the environment affecting Guillermo. The next G-IV mission is scheduled for tomorrow morning… And the next U.S. Air Force mission into Guillermo is scheduled for this evening.
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Singer, songwriter, and rapper Frank Ocean.
Frank Ocean wrote a heartbreaking note about his experiences with homophobia, in response to the recent mass shooting at a LQBTQ nightclub in Orlando that took 49 lives.
"Many hate us and wish we didn't exist. Many are annoyed by our wanting to be married like everyone else or use the correct restroom like everyone else," Ocean posted on his Tumblr. "Many don't see anything wrong with passing down the same old values that send thousands of kids into suicidal depression each year."
"So we say pride and we express love for who and what we are," the post continues. "Because who else will in earnest?"
It would be an understatement to say Ocean has been laying low for the past few years, but the singer used to have an active social media presence; he used Tumblr to come out to fans when he released Channel Orange.
In his post, Ocean recalls the moment he became aware of homophobia as a child, details its corrosive effect on the world and contemplates his own faith.


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August 28, 2014 · 7:53 am
THE DRAGON ENDS AT INDIEGOGO, AT 102% FUNDED, BUT CONTINUES AT PHOENIX ARK PRESS
A very big thank you to the Street Team and everyone who supported me and the campaign! It's over on Indiegogo but now the adventure begins at Phoenix Ark Press. So most of the perks available there are now available here and also linked to the project that stays up online on Indiegogo, with all our fun, talent and hard work. People interested in still supporting, in being part of something, can go there then or be redirected to the page above here at Pre Ordering Dragon In The Post
Meanwhile it would be nice to raise some more for blind people and the 100 mile South Downs Way walk by clicking the button
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THE SOUTH DOWNS WAY'S HAPPY END, CROWD CAPITALISM AND A DRAGON HAS UNDER 65 HOURS TO GO!
This photo of the chalk horse is for Steph, DCD walked as hard as Les Miserables for Kelly, he went with gentle irony for Justin, he spread his wings for Yasmin, he watched kites for Sol, he told stories for Jonathan, he quoted Stevenson for Di, he kept talking and trying for Sheila and he applauded the Ice Bucket challenge for Laura, all of whom have kept standing up for him, when others didn't. You've really made the Street Team and those needed thanks to others too is yet to come.
You can make a difference now too to Dragon In The Post, in these racy last hours, by BACKING DRAGON IN THE POST AND PHOENIX ARK PRESS
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Hooray! It's a really glorious feeling crossing those great white hunchbacks that edge the bleached blue sea at Eastbourne, those rightly named Seven Sisters, that end at the steadily eroding Burling Gap, to stop at last on Beachy Head and look back on another brilliantly clear blue day. It seemed as if I could really see back across all those hundred miles traversed and straight to Winchester, in the West, once a capital town of ancient Wessex and the Treasury of England. Now I should study the maps, fill out the blogs (with so much missed), put up three little films I made to Facebook and The Indiegogo Gallery too and leave some kind of useful or perhaps inspiring record for anyone wanting to walk the South Downs Way themselves. I think I'll try to 'publish it' and keep on trying to raise money for the Royal National Institute for the Blind. Meanwhile, on the way I came up with a new term for what crowd funding might be about, in the future and an age of such impossible capital differentials. Not America's hated socialism, not just a shop front window on the internet for the same as ever, but some new idea for a way forward where money is an inevitable part of the scenery but where some new spirit and awareness needs to develop alongside- Crowd Capitalism. What do you think?
But I did it, pack on back, hazel staff in hand, trying to have a go with Dragon In The Post too and I'm chuffed. I blogged it all as I went, even if few were reading, which you can read now by scrolling down or clicking on the page above – "The Winchester Chronicles". Of course the lack of a ticker-tape parade at the end, or any thronging, cheering supporters, dressed in Dragon costumes, (I call it the James and The Giant Peach Syndrome) can lead to a little deflation. Or perhaps it's a lack of contributions from folk I encountered on the walk, for a book or charity, who I told my story to. Or that's mostly coming back into the dizzy, preoccupied world, that really started after winding out from Dean's Place hotel, after a super-powered, fuller-than-English breakfast, meaning I ate everything. Along the little river Cuckmere, passed that mysterious chalk horse no one knows the name of, through aptly named Litlington and down to the estuary where the Seven Sisters National Park begins and the green fields suddenly exploded with bank holiday trippers, chasing dogs, children, kayakers and of course the cars and buses rattling noisesomely between Eastbourne and Brighton – nyawwwwwgn!
You start to dissolve back into the unremittingly ordinary, dare I say humdrum, the doplar shift of time and life and death. Which every traveller knows the sigh of on their return, like that Stevenson inscription on the Toby Stone on Stanes 'Street' – "home is the sailor home from the sea and the hunter home from the hill". Yet especially from real walkers, there's a knowing smile or greeting if you are carrying a pack and walking stick and look a little foot sore and many "well done's" from folk I told, with a real glint of admiration in their eyes. No time for laughing, trendy Japanese tourists then finding the sight of windswept me very griggly – which means a bit of raughing at a weary sigh. "I'm not weary," I cried indignantly "I just came 100 bloody miles!" No time for the irritating scruff of the traveller at Eastbourne Station either, as I asked about the absurdly long Sunday service, (over three hours, with two changes, although partly because I refused to go back more expensively to London to get to Winchester) and who quipped "Walk it the mate, will only take a week." "I'm not your mate, mate, and I just did, in six days." But that put me back in the world too, as did the genteel Eastbourne ticket lady objecting to my cussing. "Oh please, I wasn't bloody swearing at you and don't be so bloody provincial." Still, it was good to stop half an hour in Brighton, since I've never been and to touch the still fizzy, saucy picture postcard, Quadrophenia feel of the merry place.
But people's approval at coming a 100 milles reminded me of that wunderlust back in Tich, something very deep in the blood, from friends who suddenly wished they were coming too, or were out there having their own adventure, an instinct as old and primitive as being free, or wanting to conquer the world. Before you do such a thing, a kind of imagined map in the head develops of possibilities, dangers, 'anything could happens', needed kit or warning notes, but the best is gaining the experience and knowledge of it all and sharing it too. Which is why I was annoyed with myself for moments of un-self-reliance, when I stopped thinking and looking and asked others instead. It seemed to lead to two big mistakes. First the day before yesterday when I went storming off too far south towards the sea, after a cracking and perhaps over confident morning. It had brought me back up to Black Cap, then to the sharp turn south ,above Ashcombe Bottom, to the campsite and weird blue-tied security guards sitting reading The Sun in their unmarked car, outside Housedean Farm. Were they spotting for drugs, protecting the Telscombe's judge's family out for a night's wild camping or trying to cheer up the lonely looking fellow humping his solitary tent back to Brighton. The truth is you can sense a lot of loneliness in people too in their travels and wrestles with the wild. I saw my first seagulls tipping down that hill, and several often sullen looking young camping groups, as well as a pure white cow, not quite as noble as Shadowfax or the deer in Fire Bringer. That farm lies on the thundering A27, where I took a photo of the South Downs Way sign for Facebook, backed by the nasty motorway, then crossed the bridge. So up and out again onto the escarpment, blustery now with a more threatening breath of the sea, and massing clouds, un-wondering whether or not there was any ominous meaning in cows half standing up, half lying down. It's sitting back in doors in the remorselsy damp of Winchester's chilly, pre-autumn drizzle that I realise how incredibly lucky I was last week with the weather, and how miserable those downs could very quickly become, caught in a storm, or blown into over emotional shapes on the way, like the trees on the down-tops sculpted into wave forms by the wind. That's how they grow and how we grow sometimes too, since all exists in its element.
So out passed Loose Bottom, down Jugg's Road, by Slump Bottom, with posh Lewes to the East, reminding me of the nice bloke in the George and Dragon that lovely sunny lunchtime in Houghton and thoughts of Black Tie picnics at Glyndebourne too, to Swanborough Hill by Home and Long Bottom. That made me think of a children's series years back about War Time refugee kids in long grey shorts meeting a Mrs Gotobed, in a place called Granny's Bottom – so coming up with the laughing cry "Go to bed, in Granny's bottom!" Tee hee. That made me ponder my flatmate Norm's puns back home though and hurry on to Beachy head. I am almost sure now it was at Swanborough Hill I must have missed the sign and tipped off too far south, after some guy on his Mobile Ap said Southease was 2.8 miles away, but all down hill from here. The truth is I was really trying to tell him about Dragon In the Post, but I took the wrong Down, down the wrong hill! That extended bit of the Way was repaired by Roger and Hazel though, elder walkers as tough as ferrets, who marched me back passed the young stud horses, through the charming village of Telscombe, where that important security guarded judge lives, according to Roger, though centred for big cases in Lewes, and where there is also a neglected Youth Hostel. They kindly pointed out the road again at the motor cross circuit on the hill. Looking at the map now it is 2 miles, so my total detour must have been six. Yet any irritation I'd got it wrong so close to the end, or that long metalled roads just hurt more, was eased by eating wild apples o, and the fact that the sun seemed to blaze again and the weather clear as soon as I got back on The South Downs Way. It felt like magic. It snaked me towards the River Ouse in the valley and so to really charming Southease, with its little railway line beyond, worthy of the Watercress Line back in Arlesford. It wasn't the newness of the hostel there that appealed, although it was built last year, but the pleasant farm barn style and its busy energy; the original way it's done too, for adults and children. Like the giant Connect Four set in the garden or the interesting information about nearby Ramdeen, haunt of Virginia Wolf and that Bloomsbury Set we are clearly failing (though not entirely) to re-start back home in Tichborne. So, after the sweet girl in the cafe extended her hours to make me a delicious toasted ham and cheese banquette, with a bottle of larger, irritating her grumpy, plump table wiping colleague and my continued struggles with my draining mobile phone, trying to contact a friend, at 5pm came the momentous decision whether to stay here, or march on over the top for the six and a half miles to Alfriston.
I'm glad I did, if it was quite a hike, because the girl's remark that "I wouldn't get the satisfaction" if I cheated a little with a cab was absolutely right. Besides, I wouldn't have met a young man in a Macmillan Cancer t-shirt who had just run 48 Miles in a day from Woking, training for real charity raising, nor a sweet girl with her black mongrel about to walk up Beddingham Hill. Either youth, hope or memory stepped in there, because she was quite wrong that it was only twenty minutes over Firle Beacon to Alfriston – the long evening journey down Bostal Hill took a good forty minutes. But so to private recitations of Gray's Elegy In A Country Churchyard about drowsing tinklings lulling the too-distant, bloody folds, among the fish eyed sheep, a warm, golden evening, that stealthy fox and the growing shadows of over Alfriston, long before the sun set on the hill, nestled as it is into the darkling folds of the valley. It is an odd place, surrounded with wealthy modern homes, several with Solar Panelled rooves, pompously named driveways and sleek, rich cars, but with a very old centre. So it was a delight to pass The George Inn and see a sign saying its beer licence had been granted back in 1597. That year Shakespeare bought New Place in Stratford, six months after his 11 year old son Hamnet's death, his brother Edmund was just seventeen, and in the beery, bear-baiting, brothelly reaches of semi-outlaw Southwark, the Rose theatre was still working hard by Winchester Palace in London. While the Swan theatre in Paris Gardens was closed for the summer for staging that lewd and seditious Ben Jonson Play "The Isle of Dogges". Shakespeare's troupe had triumphed North of the river in Shoreditch though, their new patron Lord Carey had been enrolled in The Order of the Garter, to become Lord Chamberlain too and for which Will probably wrote The Merry Wives of Windsor, set with Falstaff at the Garter Inn. Two years later The Globe would go up in 1599, after the troupe dismantled the wood from The Theatre and took it south of the river. If the bod at Deans Place is right about the super rich Record Producer's raves in his mansion nearby though, or the steamy inter marital goings on in the finest hotels, then England is as thankfully as lewd as ever, to be gently reprimanded by Shakespeare's pricking Fairies. In Shakespeare lust is not the crime, betrayal is.
So to that astonishing purple-blue misty morning yesterday, on walking day six – allowing time out to return to Southampton, and the last push. Not exactly a push, because from Alfriston it all seems to hurry towards you instead and sweep you back into the tide – that was the river, this is the sea. The second irritation at asking the way though was the irritating nasal bloke who stopped with his mates and went on and on and on about what you might see or miss, as the South Downs Way seemed to split into many little tracks here, like its own estuary, then who came out with clunking guide-book phrases like "very historic Alfriston", or the vital importance of the Long Man of Wilmington too. Which you can only do if you take the eastern track around the Seven Sisters Reserve. The choice of seeing that is balanced against that un-named chalk horse though and the beauty of meandering along the Cuckmere instead at the valley bottom. I confess to a mile's cheat too by hopping a lift with a Swedish redhead, but even in times of yore they wanted an adventure and I like testing the hitch hiker spirit. So to the sea and up, up, onto those roller-coastal Downs again. As you look along of course, at the Dove- white edges and back along the snaking Down tops to Winchester too, with true pride, you again remember that's what the Downs you have just crossed are – billions of years of steadily accreting crushed sea shells, chalk, eroded and sculpted by wave and then wind, and given a thin and so very recent layer of earth and grass, farm and housing, forms and passing meanings. Who can remember it all? All being eroded too, as everything is really moving and changing, like the houses at Burling Gap, below the little light House where they shot The Lives and Loves of a She Devil, that are year by year falling into the sea. No wonder the South Downs Way is so clearly marked with wooden signs, to give even more poignancy to those mournful wooden crosses and flowers memorialising sadder endings at Beachy Head, saying CLIFF EDGE. But there, it's done and it was great.
David Clement-Davies set out on Monday last and reached the absurdly busy Beachy Head Pub on Sunday August 24th, 2014, around 4pm.
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DRAGON IN THE POST HITS THE BBC AND THE KATIE MARTIN SHOW, IT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE, SO DCD CHEERS UP AND GETS BACK ON THE SOUTH DOWNS!
WELL, there you go. Picked up from Storrington today and drove back to Southampton with Alex for a slot on the Katie Martin Show on BBC Radio Solent. Which made me absurdly nervous and forget most of the things I wanted to say. Katie Martin is very nice, and certainly onside, besides, celebrity media likes positive, but I guess you always feel you've a bigger story to tell! Not only that but with one contribution today, perhaps it ain't about a Media rush at all, but me! Hey oh. You can hear it all, here and now, which exactly like the project is up On Line only for the next seven days:
GO HEAR DCD ON THE KATIE MARTIN SHOW! BUT TO ADD, YOU HAVE TO START AT 1:11:50
Which is partly why it was so great to walk it all off again and rejoin the South Downs Way, at the Chanctonbury Ring beyond little Washington. I'm afraid I owe the way a few miles. If you can find some dragon of storytelling here though it's at these strange, rare ring mounds, and the track that winds up through knotted, tangled and ancient forest, back to the escarpment and the effort to rise above it all. They are either barrows, hill forts or just strange eruptions that curl up the land itself and in them you can see all the power of ancient myths and storytelling, like Mary Stewart's dragon in The Crystal Cave. But after scrubby Southampton it was a joy to get back up there, under sun and cloud and set off again. Only a two hour straight walk, with no breaks, but always more surprises. So now you realise you're getting closer and closer to the sea, after that clear, straight chalk path, with such beauty around, and quite a shock then to come over the brow and look down all the way to Brighton. Like the huge scar of a chalk quarry, that looks like a vast, white and unattended bowling alley, Brighton from the hills is frankly a blot on the landscape. Just because it's man made and the memorial up here to someone's "beloved South Downs" is so true, all about a love affair with the Downs growing in me too. Oh why, oh why though, did the song just before my little spot have to be Hewey Lewis and the bloody News, with The Power of Love – "makes one man cry and another sing." If only they knew! That's it though, it don't take money, it don't take fame…what will this take?
It was the stiff sea breezes gusting over the tops, in a glowing early evening, that made me feel I was already on a beach, or the downy, blowsy gentleness of it all, touched of course by the threat of power plants and Brighton Pleasure Pavillions that made everything seem at sea. But then, when the light moves and the clouds are high, when beetling track suddenly tumbles into mown pastures, these Downs not only become beloved, and feminine, and gentle, but you see entirely why England was always a part of the sea beyond and all is one. To get more real, I thought of Orwell and Animal Farm, as I came through a piglet farm, with sweet new snorters nudging the mud, then huge sows squealing in the wind, as crows lined the fencing and got a bit depressed again. So to another tip into a river valley, as the river Arun follows the Downs to the East, the strangely unnerving sight of a sign saying Eastbourne only 40 miles. I was making for The House of The Rising Sun!
So here I sit, amazed by the beauty of the hills and light above the wimpy homes, across the car park in Upper Beeding, at The Rising Sun pub, bemused that Miss Martin's show hasn't made the breakthrough either, pleased by the warmth of my hosts Sue and Barry, who are preparing for their three day beer festival, in the most popular of the three pubs here, because it's all about people, and wondering why a posh bloke like me is chatting to a geezer about selling kitchen units, next to saucy postcard wallpaper, courtesy of a certain Dupenny down in blousy Brighton. Still, with all I know since coming to the country about real pub life, I must just have more fun. They're a nice lot here, salt of the beeding earth, tattooed and all, and I am turning to comedy, as I chat to a guy with a cocktail business in Brighton called Mixology and try to mix it up. I have mucked up the route tomorrow, having travelled further than I thought, so will keep you posted. Sue does a cracking walker's breakfast and the son of the house, going on about writers, how he isn't educated or a reader, but loved The Shadow of The Wind, thanks to his ex girlfriend, may have saved my life in reminding me what it's really about – writing and weaving inspiring stories. A girl at the bar who had gown home for a bit to watch a Bake Off moved me too in talking about Children's Books and how people just don't read any more.
You can crowd fund Dragon In The Post, right now, pronto, by going to Indiegogo.com and looking it up!
You can also sponsor my walk for the RNIB at JustGiving.com/David-Clement-Davies
The Rising Sun pub does good value pub grub and simple b&b, singles at £35 and £70 a double, with ensuite bathroom. Telephone 01903 814424
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August 16, 2014 · 12:23 pm
THE SOUTH DOWNS WAY CHARITY WALK GOES INTO THE HAMPSHIRE DAILY ECHO TOO!
Splendid, just found out that after The Hampshire Chronicle ran a very positive little story, although only about the Dragon In The Post book project, now The Hampshire Daily Echo are running something on the charity element of The South Downs Way walk next week. It felt lovely to get a first independent donation of £50 today, that you can add to in sponsoring a writer by clicking
Remember there is also a charity element in the book campaign that ends on August 27th if you take the £50 perk, whereby £10 will be donated to the RNIB too – BY CLICKING HERE AND PRESSING CONTRIBUTE NOW
DCD – Phoenix Ark Press
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ON THE ROAD AGAIN FOR THE SOUTH DOWNS WAY AND A PROJECT COUNTDOWN!
I don't know how else to move the fates on now and push Dragon In The Post forward, except to stretch some muscles before I set off next Monday from Winchester to Eastbourne. I know a three mile round trip walk into Arlesford is hardly pushing it (climbing St Catherine's Hill tomorrow though), but with a hazel wand in hand and looking like a twit, it's all freeing too: Watching the cooling change in the weather, after torrential rain these past few days, wondering about light-weight food, imaging how I should break up the walk and generally mixing dread with excitement. So to young deer grazing by the watercress beds, astonishing mountains of cloud worthy of Rannoch's journey through hope and despair in Fire Bringer (soon to be republished, thanks to what we've achieved already at 72% funded) and that carcass of a dead bird on the tarmac I passed before, beginning to return to our primordial soup. A very flattened feeling, if feeling is the right word, when there isn't any left. An eagle was riding the thermals too though, heron elegantly guarding their spots on the Itchen and with the wheat fields nearly cut for the harvest, all well in the world.
Is it cynical to mix my own project with trying to raise a bit of sponsorship money for the RNIB – The Royal National Institute for The Blind? I don't think so, and something is better than nothing, if I'm doing the bloody thing anyway. S kindly did a chalk sign in my local pub and if it has no effect on Dragon In The Post, I can do it for another reason too. Also for the fun of writing it up though, having a go, mixed with a vague despair, so rubbed in by the desultory attitude of The Hampshire Chronicle recently – damn their humdrum eyes. Does it mean that either no one will be reading, or wishing disaster on the whole mad enterprise with a typical small county sneer? In fact, since I can see something of a readership in the searches and hits on this site, I know a few people are reading. But why, why!?
To see perhaps if they are exposed for the Hot Fuzz secrets of a wayward Hampshire Life? To find inspiration in my Hardyesque mastery of a country eye? To share a little in some sense of mutual life adventure? Who knows and honestly who cares, except that sometimes I wish people would listen a little harder. Then comes the delight of 'projects', for charity or anything else, dissolving into fun encounters and chance meetings, which any walk should be about too – R the wildflower pirate and his girlfriend, who said, as I rounded the bend into their yard on the way home, that she had been wondering about the odd bod down the pub trying to crowd fund a book, just three minutes before. A bit like the blog on Facebook today about a mum whose daughter had dreamt of someone called Robin Williams, only to wake to discover the awful news! Then my immediate neighbour turned up to feed her recently broken horse Marmite sandwiches (keeps off the ticks apparently) and resist my disreputable efforts to get her co-stabler to let me ride her mount. How hard it seems to have an adventure these days! Delightful as she is, she insists that I'm a man with more leisure than sense, more money too (though she is wrong about both, sadly) and that a walk is pointless and I should come up with carefully targeted marketing strategies, before it all ends on August 27th. Yes, perhaps,but it isn't quite the point of a long fight with publishers and the Internet, and something that is about trying for some connection, as much as anything else. Nor of my very conscious strategy to have some fun and experience, to share that too, rather than endlessly complaining about some people's meanness, or why we have stopped listening to each other.
I should tell her that my devilish plan, for what it's worth, is this: To walk for myself and sheer enjoyment, to not fret too much about how hard it is to 'sell' an idea and to have a blast. Meanwhile, of course, behind every hedgerow, in the windiest coppices, perched on their chairs of high opinion down the local pubs and sizzling the bacon of their own hopes and dreams, not to mention some natural Schadenfreude, the dream is thousands of Hampshire folk will turn to watch a week's walk to Beachy Head and a Countdown to project success or failure and intervene at just the right moment too. I've lost all hope my compatriots will walk a bit, or rise from their beds to meet me in Eastbourne with ticker tape and prolonged applause, but I know this, on this Hampshire walk I won't be entirely lonely either.
David Clement-Davies sets out to walk the South Downs Way next Monday, August 18th. A small charity element has been written into the £50 pledge at Indiegogo.com but you can sponsor him purely for the charity too, by writing to this blog or to David's pages on Facebook. We are at 72% funded on Dragon In The Post with 15 days to go and you can support a book and publishing project now by CLICKING HERE
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Tagged as Corwd Funding, Dragon in The Post, Hampshire, Indiegogo, Royal National Institute For The Blind, South Downs Way
PHOENIX ARK PRESS TURNS TO PRIVATE EYE!
It won't come out until there are only five days left to run of the heroic Dragon In The Post campaign, but you never know, so we've now turned to the funniest newspaper in the land, Private Eye, and placed an add in the back which reads as follows:
"We're nearly there, with a week to go! Help annoy nasty mainstream publishers
by crowd funding a once best selling author's kid's novel at
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dragon-in-the-post/x/8028980"
Well, after being ticked off for words about 'humdrum' by The Hampshire Chronicle (shurely shome mistake – Ed), what can you do but chuckle and be creative? By the way, did I tell you about the school magazine I helped do in the age of the dinosaurs called 'Private Parts', that one of those donnish fellows at Westminster School called the best he'd ever seen? No? Thank God for that.
PA PRESS
The image and the cover of Private Eye is from the Wikepedia entry on the paper
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Tagged as Crowd Funding, Dragon in The Post, Indiegogo, Private Eye
August 6, 2014 · 10:20 pm
DCD HUMS AND DRUMS ABOUT HIS HAMPSHIRE CHRONICLES!
Perhaps I've been a bit remiss lately, since I blogged about a walk into Winchester, or that fun visit to Jane Austen's house, where the care taker had read my novels. Remiss in not writing more about my wildest adventures living in ravishing Hampshire, while trying to crowd fund a story too at Indiegogo, Dragon In The Post. Which have included some highly colourful and vaguely drunken beer festivals, although I of course abstain, a caste of sometimes enchanting or very eccentric characters, the most astonishing electric storm I've seen in years, with lighting rippling through the leaden Hampshire skies like veins in a Norse God's angry biceps, or a brief taste of the ancient Winchester Hat festival, haunt of largely disenfranchised artists and musicians.
Picaresque joys that henceforth will be retitled "My Hampshire Chronicles". Not least because of a little spat today with the esteemed members of the Fourth Estate, journalists on that very local paper, that reached up to the editor himself! The reason for my own chagrin, or sheer disappointment and frustration, was that after having been interviewed and photographed for The Hampshire Chronicle near three weeks back and hoping a piece might give us a shot at some real hearing, a hope shared by backers too, I was ticked off for my impertinence in even ringing to enquire, and on a hectic news day too, if the article might come out tomorrow. Only to be told again that it wasn't and that 'I was doing my cause no good'. What cause, I cry, if fairly mainstream media does not even listen, which is the very paradox or point of the project too? A not-so-impertinent call then, made with some reason, I still insist, since a piece had been written, time spent, hopes raised and if I hadn't extended a deadline recently the whole thing would have come to an end this Saturday anyway, un-regarded, at least in literate Hampshire circles. I had also appealed just rather honestly, I hope, to fellow wordsmith's obvious love of reading and writing, yet underlining that, like journalists, crowd funding authors have deadlines as well. Perhaps they did not know, though I certainly told them. Then I transgressed most mightily though when I followed my putting-of-the-phone-down with cross emailed thoughts on the grave matter, which produced a very curt editorial response from the man at the top – Leave our journalists alone!
Evidently the real transgression though was to suggest, from clearly worthless common report, I add, that this attempt to break back through into wider publishing, or at least say something frank about the difficulties for modern writers of platforms and publishing, agents and things, these mass-phenomena days, or to share news of a skilful novel itself, might actually be as interesting to real readers on some human level as other articles in the paper that were perhaps a little 'humdrum'. A swift dismissal at my rabid persecution of his poor journalists, nonetheless, effectively telling me to take a hike worthy of walking The South Downs Way, and then "Furthermore, I take issue with your claim of the 'humdrum fair' published in the Hampshire Chronicle. It's puzzling, then, that the paper has twice been short listed for weekly newspaper of the year in the past eight months!" He should read Dr Johnson's letter to the Earl of Chesterfield! I'm afraid I have not done due journalistic diligence, being only an ordinary member of the reading and writing public, in inquiring if the worthy organ had actually won – once or twice.
Fair play though, forget the weary exposure of this long-fighting author, wrestling with something so difficult and sometimes demoralising too as trying to speak through Social Media, indeed something often so highly anti-social as Facebook, in my opinion. Which in such hugely wealthy country circles as Hampshire seems immediately associated with a kind of begging too, as my local publican remarked, or only worthy of pennies tossed into a hat, fair or foul, down Winchester High Street. (Not a monstrous £25 for a real, signed, First edition, or other 'perk' levels too.) My efforts to explain that writing a novel is not the same as busking, romantic as it is, largely fell on puzzled, cloth cap ears, down the pub. But then remember the enormous strain on belaboured working journalists too, as the chimes of ancient Winchester Cathedral ring out their nightly Angelus, hurrying us all towards every future's inevitable deadline. Faintly heard echoes down there in the hectic Hampshire news rooms, thrumming to the constant tap of ticker-tape and coping with the daily hurricane of emotional threats and demands in trying to solve the Gaza Crisis, exposing nests of nasty foreign terrorists, challenging the appalling Capital gaps at Davos, which crowd funding might one day help to remodel a little, or dealing with the ever running issue of the local art bypass. What place indeed for a little fairy tale about a Dragon delivered to a boy in an eggbox, to take you to a better world?!
I think all I have ever asked is a fair crack of the whip though and did from The Chronicle too, but never annoy a journalist or editor, they're especially unforgiving, or un-impartial, nor try to do something a little differently. Then I've just changed my mind on everything, even aspiring Dragon Warriors – be a lover not a fighter! My final, endlessly witty reposte to this tearing off a Gaza strip though was that "perhaps you would like to publish a letter of complaint to the editor!" Complaining no more works though than gloom, or insisting anyone should ever do anything in life, so smile, laugh, take what media pennies you may with a hum of musical gratitude and march on. As I must start training again for that 100 miles walk to an August finishing line (I hope no dead line), and these pages will just return more humbly, Sir, to enjoying writing itself. If even writing about being largely ignored, or unread, in sunny Hampshire! Ah me. No wonder several promises made have not been stuck to, like posters promised up in Waterstones, or certain meetings unreliably unmet. Then clearly"In Hertford, Hereford or Hampshire Crowd Funding is hardly ever heard of, or happens." Apologies though to disappointed backers for letting the good song down.
David Clement-Davies – August 2014
You can still help find a constituency and crowd fund a story, that you can read part of on Wattpad and hear on audio too, perhaps support an organic little publisher as well, Phoenix Ark Press, by clicking here AND BACKING DRAGON IN THE POST. The project closes on August 27th. Many thanks. The photo is a still from the animation up at Indiegogo showing an as yet unopened egg box!
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Tagged as Deadlines, Dragon in The Post, Indiegogo, Journalism, The Hampshire Chronicle
A NEW EXCERPT FROM DRAGON IN THE POST
At 69% funded and over £3,100 DCD publishes another except from Dragon In The Post you can read on WATTPAD or listen to the audios in blogs below.
You can join the adventure and contribute too by going to DRAGON IN THE POST IN INDIEGOGO
Tagged as Crowd Funding, Dragon in The Post, Indiegogo, New Instalment, Wattpad
A MEMORIAL, STEPHANIE JACKSON AND THE DRAGON STREET TEAM
You know crowd funding feels a bit like fighting the first war, at times, and with Dragon In The Post a little stuck at 69% funded is sometimes like wading through mud, and perhaps just as futile trying to make a key breakthrough! But when you heart is at its lowest there come the Street Team again to inspire and surprise and, for yesterday's Memorial for the opening of the First War, commemorated so extraordinarily beautifully in a river of poppies outside The Tower of London, 20 year old Stephanie Jackson's lovely poem:
Upon the bloodied fields of red,
Above the canon roar,
Among the gathered soldier men,
'Up and over'
Comes the call
'Those who turn back you shall shoot'
No cowards will survive,
And into no man's land
They fled
Upon the battle cry.
And now the fields are green again,
Where bodies fell and lay,
Oh so many years ago,
Upon this fateful day.
Stephanie Jackson August 2014
Whether we win or lose this fight I am so proud, so why not come and share your own work too, your ideas, passions, photos and paintings? Most especially we need a great push now and your interest and contributions by SUPPORTING DRAGON IN THE POST HERE
The photos are of the WWI river of poppies flowing around the walls of The Tower of London. The memorial remains there until November 5th.
Tagged as Crowd Funding, Dragon in The Post, Indiegogo, Poetry, Stephanie Jackson, Tower of London
DAVID CLEMENT-DAVIES READS AGAIN FROM DRAGON IN THE POST
Wonderful that we are 68% funded already, to crowd fund and send out the first edition book DRAGON IN THE POST. So DCD does another reading to encourage you all to please come on board now and back the project too. You can get a signed copy, in the post, Clare Bell's Ratha's Creature, support a 100 mile walk along The South Downs Way and receive many other perks by clicking here and BACKING THE DRAGON NOW
To hear the audio just click the arrow below. To hear the first reading too just CLICK HERE Thank you.
The picture is a painting for her own Dragon novel by one of our main backers and great member of the Street Team, Kelly Baker, up at the indiegogo gallery now
PA PRESS https://phoenixark.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/2nddragonreading.mp3
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Ring in the fall season with this list of delicious pumpkin candy recipes! These favorite pumpkin candies include chocolate bark, truffles, fudge, marshmallows, and more. Some candies use pumpkin puree, some use pumpkin flavoring, some use pumpkin bread or cake, and some are just decorated to look like pumpkins!
Pumpkin marshmallows are soft, pillowy marshmallows that taste like pumpkin pie! Pumpkin puree and lots of spices give these homemade marshmallows a great autumn flavor.
Pumpkin spice truffles are pumpkin-shaped truffles that are bursting with flavor from pumpkin puree, cream cheese, cinnamon graham crackers, and plenty of spices.
These 3-D chocolate truffle pumpkins are too good to share with the trick-or-treaters--you'll want to hoard this candy all to yourself! The glossy pumpkins are completely edible (and delicious!), and they're filled with a rich, fluffy chocolate truffle mixture.
Pretzel pumpkins have only three ingredients, can be made in 10 minutes, and will soon be your new favorite Halloween candy! Pretzel twists are dipped in orange candy coating and topped with a small green candy. It's simple, but it's so good!
Pumpkin chocolate truffles are smooth, creamy chocolate truffles with a hint of pumpkin pie flavor from pumpkin puree and fall spices. The pumpkin is subtle but adds a lovely autumn taste to these candies.
Pumpkin cake pops are moist bites of cake on a stick decorated to look like pumpkins! You can use any flavor of cake and frosting that you like, but I recommend using a pumpkin spice cake and cream cheese frosting to fit in with the pumpkin theme. Don't miss the photo tutorial showing how to make pumpkin cake pops!
Pumpkin chocolate bark has a gorgeous swirl of orange pumpkin-flavored chocolate running through rich semi-sweet chocolate. This beautiful treat makes a perfect Halloween candy, and it couldn't be easier to make.
Rice crispy treats get transformed into jack o' lanterns in this adorable Halloween candy recipe! These orange-flavored rice crispy pumpkin balls also make great Halloween decorations or party centerpieces.


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Korean firms seek VN links
Workers process food for export to Japan and the RoK at Ngô Quyền Processing Export JSC in Kiên Giang Province. In the first three months of this year, the RoK sold commodities worth US$7 billion to Việt Nam. - VNA/VNS Photo Trọng Đạt
HCM CITY – Executives from 10 companies in Korea's Hamyang County yesterday met with 50 Vietnamese counterparts in HCM City to exchange information and explore business opportunities.
The visitors specialise in supplying agriculture-based products like apple, pear, onion, strawberry, king oyster mushroom, bitter melon tea, Korean traditional black raspberry wine, wild ginseng drink, purple sweet potato drinkables, walnut-shaped songpyeon, white lotus naengmyeon, lotus leaf tea, and others.
Im Changho, mayor of Hamyang, said through the meeting his county sought to promote its quality agricultural products and wild ginseng.
Hoàng Văn Anh of the Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry said trade with Korea has grown rapidly and it is now one of Việt Nam's largest trade partners.
Korea is also among the largest foreign investors in the country, having more than 4,000 companies that employ more than 700,000 people, he said.
The Việt Nam-Korea Free Trade Agreement that took effect last December is expected to open up businesses opportunities in the two countries, he said.
In addition to business co-operation, Korean firms with their technological prowess could help Vietnamese firms develop agricultural products and export markets, he said.
Hamyang and CEOLink Corporation, a pioneer in Việt Nam in offering online and offline B2B business models, signed an agreement to promote the county's products in Việt Nam.
RoK's exports to Việt Nam
The Republic of Korea (RoK) exported more to Việt Nam in the first quarter of 2016 compared to the same period last year, while its exports to other nations, particularly China, dropped significantly, reported the Korea International Trade Association (KITA).
In the first three months, the RoK sold commodities worth US$7 billion to Việt Nam – its third biggest importer – representing a 7.6 per cent annual increase. By contrast, revenue of the country's shipments to its number one importer China fell by 15.7 per cent annually to $28.5 billion, the biggest drop in the past seven years.
Regarding the types of products imported to China, the number of conductors, flat screens, petrochemical products, auto spare parts and synthetic materials plunged during the given period. Park Jin-woo, head of KITA's market research office, said China had invested heavily in expanding local conductor manufacturing to reduce imports.
He advised Korean firms to exploit the potential of the household-article market.
Also in the first quater, the RoK's export value to the US and Japan decreased by 3.3 and 13.1 per cent to $16.8 billion and $5.5 billion, respectively. -- VNS
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igus has replaced many of the metallic bearings in a car with their long life, no maintenance plastic bearings. This tour demonstrated that plastic bearings can last in automotive environments. The tour will put the bearings though rough terrain, multiple climates, and long distances.
A visit to a customer's car wash as the iglide car cleans up for visits.
This white paper centers on designing cable management systems for six-axis robots in three separate sections, and optimizing cable management for robotic applications.
Follow along again with the iglide car as it travels through China and South Korea.


The internet is full of great resources if you want to review your recruitment metrics. There are 51 suggestions on this list and a comprehensive 83 ideas here.
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Tandberg helps Hall of Fame reach out to students
The Pro Football Hall of Fame's Educational Outreach Program launched in 1984. Since that time more than 160,000 students have visited the museum through field trips. Today, the program is thriving as it continues to not only offer free field trips to kindergarten through eighth grade students but reaches out to schoolchildren across the country through its interactive videoconferencing technology.
The Hall of Fame began broadcasting via videoconferencing technology six years ago and has seen great growth in the past two years. Today, the Hall of Fame connects to schools using state-of-the-art technology provided by Tandberg.
Tandberg, a market share leader and the fastest growing company in the telepresence and videoconferencing industry, recently donated equipment to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The company replaced the Hall of Fame's equipment with a new HD videoconferencing system.
"The addition of the new equipment provided by Tandberg will further enhance the Hall's already award-winning broadcasts by allowing us to bring the history of the game to students across the country in high definition," stated Jerry Csaki, educational programs coordinator. "The new system has provided students with the finest broadcast quality that can be offered."
The Hall of Fame will utilize the Tandberg system to hold nearly 300 videoconferencing broadcasts in 2010. All videoconference programs are supplemented by pre- and post-conference classroom activities which are aligned with national standards of education. Those lessons are developed by the Hall of Fame's Educational Advisory Panel which consists of kindergarten through 12th grade classroom educators, most of whom are national board certified.
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M. K. Gandhi: 'The man who played shadowy role in Kashmir Politics'
M. K. Gandhi, the 'pioneer and apostle of peace' was born 148 years ago on October 2, 1869. The young Gandhi grew to manhood in the state of Gujarat, where the impact of the West was more remote than in the administrative centres of British imperialism at Bombay, Calcutta and Madras. The saints and values of devotional Hinduism shaped his consciousness and reinforced his adoption of peaceful leadership. Gandhi experimented with his life as few others have. He was at once a devoutly spiritual, religious person as well as an astute politician. He introduced an entirely new way of leadership to organize and run nations and to transform cultures of violence into cultures of nonviolence.
Gandhi's philosophy bears the influence of a number of sources and ahimsa forms the basic foundation of Gandhian Thought. Apart from Bhagavad-Gita, Isha Upanishad and Bible he was highly influenced by Tolstoy's 'The Kingdom of God is Within Us', Ruskin's 'Unto This Last', Thoreau's 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience' and Plato's dialogues of Socrates. All these influences make him a moderate leader though not undisputed. Gandhi's legacy includes not just the brilliantly waged struggle against institutionalized racism in South Africa, the independence movement of India, and a ground-breaking path of interreligious dialogue, but also boasts the first widespread application of nonviolence as the most powerful tool for positive social change.
Gandhi's role in Kashmir affairs is very much dramatic and diplomatic.
Gandhi, however, has a contested legacy along with his leadership tagged on him. He has himself acknowledged the launching of Non-cooperation movement as his 'Himalayan blunder'. Not only this he is being contested on his role in the Gandhi-Irvin talks of 1930's subsequently of which Bhagat Singh was hanged. More importantly, Gandhi's role in Kashmir affairs is very much dramatic and diplomatic. Of course, his prominent leadership in India's freedom struggle fetched him the title of 'Bapu' but that doesn't exonerate him from the guilt he is blamed for. He played a pale shadowy role in the Kashmir politics. He is credited by the majority of Indians and blamed by a healthy section of Kashmiris for his role in preventing the Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir from taking an independent decision, which thus paved the way for a forceful accession of Kashmir resulting in the creation of a perpetual conflict between the two powerful neighbors.
This very conflict has consumed lakhs of Kashmiris since 1947 and has the potential of consuming much more if a nuclear spark kindles out between the two countries.
When Gandhi met Maharaja nobody knows what exactly did Gandhi tell to him, but the chain of events that followed his visit is the stark indicator of what must have happened. His meetings with Hari Singh and Tara Devi changed the equation in India's favour. An ardent supporter of Kashmir Independence, Ram Chandra Kak, the Prime Minister of Kashmir, was dismissed on 11th of August and replaced by Janak Singh and then by the Indian loyalist, Mehr Chand Mahajan. Orders for construction of a bridge over the Ravi River, near Pathankot, to allow connectivity between India and Jammu and Kashmir were issued. The road between Jammu and Kathua was improved and a telegraph line was constructed between Jammu and the valley. This was possible because of massive assistance from India, once it was assured of accession. The Union of India has been taking a lively interest in the subject and indications are that the Hindu Maharaja of Kashmir, Hari Singh, has lately been much influenced by representations made by Gandhi who visited Kashmir in early 1947.
One anecdote is that Gandhi refused to eat food at Hari Singh's residence on the conditions that Maharaja should change his mind regarding his decision of remaining independent.
Gandhi although was successful in making things possible for Indian union by insisting the last Maharaja of Kashmir but he as a man of peace is blamed to brought illimitable miseries and disturbed peace to the people of Kashmir.
The author is RTI activist and can be reached at peerbilal.rti@gmail.com
Disclaimer: Views expressed are exclusively personal and do not necessarily reflect the position of Oracle Opinions.
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In A Lonely Place Blu-ray Review (1950)
Dr. Loomis 25th November 2016
I keep a close look at what new Blu-ray releases come out both here in the UK and also the US. One that instantly stood out was the Humphrey Bogart film In A Lonely Place released by The Criterion Collection. Here's my In A Lonely Place Blu-ray review.
To be honest I'd never seen it before but as it stars Bogart and is from the film noir genre it sounded intriguing, I just had to take a look.
If you happen to live in America then you will no doubt be familiar with Blu-ray releases from The Criterion Collection and it's great that they have released this lesser known Bogart classic which has had a full 2K restoration.
Now as someone who resides in the UK I hope the rest of The Criterion Collection will receive a UK release soon.
In A Lonely Place Blu-ray Review (1950) Film Noir
Directed By Nicholas Ray
Written By: Based On The Novel By Dorothy B Hughes / Screenplay By Edmund H. North & Andrew Solt
Music By: George Antheil
Blu-ray Region: Region B (UK)
Released By: The Criterion Collection
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith
The film is about Dixon Steele aka Dix (Humphrey Bogart) who is a Hollywood screenwriter. With his last film being considered a flop he is looking for inspiration for his next project.
His agent points him toward a novel and asks him to read it with view to writing the screenplay. The first thing to say is Dix is not the easiest person to deal with. For one thing he has a very short fuse as we discover in the opening titles when he has a run in with a fellow motorist.
So he is hanging out with other film writers at a bar but his agent wants him to read this book, Dix is not really interested. He is in luck however as the hat-check girl, Mildred Atkinson is reading it. He simply asks her to come back to his place and explain the plot to him.
They arrive back at his home and briefly meet one of Dix's neighbours Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame).
With Dix now familiar with the book he asks Mildred Atkinson to leave giving her some money to go and find a cab.
Note he does not call her a cab he simply gives her some money and ushers her out of the door.
A Murderer?
This is where the film really starts as the next thing we see is Dix being woken up by a 5am knock at the door by the police. Mildred Atkinson has been found murdered and Dixon Steele is the prime suspect.
He is however in luck as his neighbour Laurel Gray seems to back his story up about Mildred Atkinson leaving around 12.30am.
What follows is an intense fast paced love affair between Dixon Steele and Laurel Gray. They are seemingly made for each other. Their dialogue is witty and absolutely fabulous as is their witty interplay, Dix has finally found his perfect match or has he?
Maybe Laurel Gray is the one to help him keep a lid on that short temper of his, but let's not forget he is still in the frame for the murder of Mildred Atkinson.
With Dix in love he begins to write he has found his passion, he is reinvigorated what could possibly go wrong?
Did he kill Mildred Atkinson? Will his new screenplay be well received? For the answers to these questions you will need to watch the film.
At the heart of this film we have two key players, Dixon Steele (Bogart) and Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame) and in order for it to really work they need to put in good performances.
Bogart originally wanted Lauren Bacall to play Laurel Gray but I believe she was under contract and unavailable so Gloria Grahame was cast instead. Who knows how it would of turned out if Bacall had of been free to take up the role and I guess we will never know.
But here's the good thing I don't need to know. The reason being, Gloria Grahame is simply amazing in the role and is Bogart's perfect match. They bounce of each other better then you could ever imagine. I'm pretty sure director Nicholas Ray must have known he was on to something special with these two.
Gloria Grahame is both beautiful and captivating, she delivers witty dialogue in a role that is seemingly made for her. I was really blown away by both lead performances.
The film shows the different sides to Dixon Steele's personality one minute his is about to punch someone's head in and the next he is full of the joys of being in love, finally finding his perfect match. Those moments can't last as we see Bogart's acting put to the test as Dix becomes a paranoid and broken man. A truly outstanding performance.
One odd feature with this film is the fact that none of the characters are really that concerned about the murdered woman Mildred Atkinson. You will understand why it is done the way it is when you see the film. This is Dixon Steele's story!
It should be noted the novel the film is based on is just that, based on. It is in many ways very different, many things have been changed. The main emphasis and point of view have been changed as has the ending. I can't say too much without spoiling the film.
Director Nicholas Ray should be given a huge amount of credit for directing a stylish looking film. The use of the light in Bogart's face really helps convey his emotions. Pacing is just about perfect as we learn more about what makes Dixon Steele tick. The tension increases as he begins to lose it emotionally.
Most of the film takes place around a small square courtyard in which apartments surround. It has that Rear Window feel going on, where one person can look into another's apartment.
It's all really well done too.
Love Bogart films here is another on Blu-ray
Conclusion- In A Lonely Place Film Review
In A Lonely Place maybe one of the lesser known Bogart films, but really is an outstanding one. Bogart and Grahame simply sizzle with chemistry!
It's the first time I have ever seen this film and I can think of nothing negative to write.
With its recent UK release on Blu-ray I think this is one film you should take a closer look at.
In A Lonely Place Blu-ray Review
In A Lonely Place Blu-ray Review – How did the Blu-ray version turn out?
The film has had a 2K restoration and the picture quality is flawless as is the audio. It really is a joy watching these classic films when they have been restored to this level.
No speckles or flickers of dirt found.
Let's hope more classics come to the UK from The Criterion Collection and with same level of restoration.
The only downside The Criterion Collection Blu-rays are more expensive but for any film fan / buff it's well worth it as long as restorations are of this level.
Blu-ray extras include a few documentaries. The Gloria Grahame and In A Lonely Place Revisited being the ones of particularly interest.
Now to my movie rating for In A Lonely Place Blu-ray (1950)
Movie Rating: RECOMMENDED / MUST SEE
Blu-ray: OUTSTANDING
In A Lonely Place (1950) is available now on Blu-ray from Amazon.co.uk
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Director(s): Nicholas Ray
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid
Genre: Film Noir
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Q: Getting count of strings using Binary Search Tree in Ruby I want to get the count of various strings stored in different files. Actually I need two types of counts. For a string str,
1.) Total no of occurrences of the string str throughout all the files.
2.) Number of files having the string str.
Below is my RUBY Code for it in which i have managed to get the total count.
But i can't get the file count. I have used arrays instead of files for simplicity(analogous to files) and an instance variable 'flag'.
My concept is that if flag = 0, it means the string is encountered for the first time in the first array. So the filecount(or arraycount in this case) is incremented and flag is set to 1. So when the same string appears in the same array , flag is already set to 1 and nothing happens.
When an array is over, all the flag values are set back to 0.(I think so)
But something's not working as expected. Thanks in Advance..!
    class Tree
  attr_accessor :left
  attr_accessor :right
  attr_accessor :data
  attr_accessor :count
  attr_accessor :flag
  attr_accessor :howmanyfiles

  def initialize(x=nil)
   @left = nil
   @right = nil
   @data = x
   @count = 1
   @flag = 0
   @howmanyfiles = 1
  end

  def search(x)
      if self.data == x
        self.count = self.count + 1
        if self.flag == 0
          self.howmanyfiles = self.howmanyfiles + 1
        end
       return "#{self.data} found" #self
      else
       ltree = left != nil ? left.search(x) : nil
       return ltree if ltree != nil
       rtree = right != nil ? right.search(x) : nil
       return rtree if rtree != nil
      end
    nil
  end

  def insert(x)
   list = []

   if @data == nil
    @data = x
    self.flag = 1
   elsif @left == nil
    @left = Tree.new(x)
    self.flag = 1
   elsif @right == nil
    @right = Tree.new(x)
    self.flag = 1
   else
    list << @left
    list << @right
    loop do
     node = list.shift
     if node.left == nil
      node.insert(x)
      break
     else
      list << node.left
     end
     if node.right == nil
      node.insert(x)
      break
     else
      list << node.right
     end
    end
   end

  end

  def traverse()
   list = []
   yield @data
   list << @left if @left != nil
   list << @right if @right != nil
   loop do
    break if list.empty?
    node = list.shift
    yield node.data
    list << node.left if node.left != nil
    list << node.right if node.right != nil
   end
  end

end

  items = ["Amal","Hai", "Bob", "Bob", "Cat", "Cat", "Amal", "Dog", "Rizu", "Zol","Amal"]

  tree = Tree.new

  items.each {|x|

    if tree.search(x) == nil
       tree.insert(x)
     end}

     ObjectSpace.each_object(Tree) do |obj|
      obj.flag = 0
     end

     items1 = ["Amal","wet", "jjj", "Cat"]
     items1.each {|x|

       if tree.search(x) == nil
          tree.insert(x)
        end}

        ObjectSpace.each_object(Tree) do |obj|
         obj.flag = 0
        end

        items2 = ["aa","Amal", "jjj"]
        items2.each {|x|

          if tree.search(x) == nil
             tree.insert(x)
           end}

     ObjectSpace.each_object(Tree) do |obj|
    puts obj.data.to_s + " " + obj.count.to_s + " " + obj.howmanyfiles.to_s
   end

  tree.traverse {|x|  print "#{x} "}
  print "\n"

OUTPUT - in format of string         total_count        ArrayCount
aa 1 1
jjj 2 2
wet 1 1
Zol 1 1
Rizu 1 1
Dog 1 1
Cat 3 2
Bob 2 2  <--Bob is only present in first array but still output says 2.
Hai 1 1
Amal 5 3
Amal Hai Bob Cat Dog Rizu Zol wet jjj aa

A: The question seems clear from the first two paragraphs, but I can't understand how a binary search tree could be used to advantage. My solution is a straigtforward approach to obtaining the desired counts.
Code
def get_counts(filenames, target)
  filenames.each_with_object([0, 0]) do |fname, arr|
    n = File.read(fname).scan(/#{target}/).size
    next if n.zero?
    arr[0] += n
    arr[1] += 1
  end
end

where files is an array of filenames and target is the string we are searching for.
Example
Let's start by making 3 test files.
filenames  = ['file1', 'file2', 'file3']
text       = ["Hoya, Bob. Your bro's name is Bob too. Eh?",
              "I gotta go feed my cat",
              "A girl named Bob?"]

filenames.zip(text).each { |fname, str| File.write(fname, str) }

Confirm the files were written:
filenames.map { |fname| File.read(fname) }
  #=> ["Hoya, Bob. Your bro's name is Bob too. Eh?",
  #    "I gotta go feed my cat",
  #    "A girl named Bob?"]

Suppose we are looking for the string
target = 'Bob'

Then
tot, files = get_counts(filenames, target)
  #=> [3, 2]
tot
  #=> 3
files
  #=> 2

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Butch Davis hired to coach at North Carolina
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Topic: Butch Davis hired to coach at North Carolina
JOEDY McCREARY
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Former NFL and Miami Hurricanes coach Butch Davis will return to the sidelines as coach at North Carolina, which is 1-9 and hasn't beaten a Division I-A team this season.
He will replace the fired John Bunting, the school said Monday. The hiring had been widely expected the past week after Davis' name rose to the top of the list of candidates.
Davis, who will turn 55 on Friday, brings a reputation for orchestrating turnarounds - which is just what the struggling Tar Heels need. North Carolina ranks among the worst offenses and defenses in the country.
"Butch Davis became our first choice early in the process, although we did not know of his interest in us," athletic director Dick Baddour said. "We were excited to learn of his interest in Carolina and our football program and proceeded from that point. He's a first-class individual who is committed to preparing his student-athletes for success in all aspects of their lives."
Davis coached the Miami Hurricanes from 1995-2000, compiling a 51-20 record before leaving for the NFL's Cleveland Browns and leaving behind the players with whom Larry Coker won the national title in 2001. He went 24-35 with the Browns before resigning in 2004 and has worked the past two seasons in broadcasting.
School officials said Davis agreed in principle last week to take the job. Terms were unavailable and the contract will be released once the school's trustees approve it.
Baddour said none of the key figures involved in the hiring would be available for additional comment until Davis is formally introduced as coach on Nov. 27, two days after the Tar Heels play Duke in their season finale.
"The timing of my decision to consider coaching opportunities, and the opening at UNC seemed to intersect perfectly," Davis said. "Dick Baddour made my introduction to Carolina happen in a well-planned, well-organized manner and did an outstanding job of presenting the virtues of UNC - its people, its strong commitment to both academics and athletics, as well as the exciting, active part it plays in the community. Obviously, he succeeded."
The announcement came 22 days after Bunting was fired following an embarrassing shutout loss at Virginia.
Almost immediately, speculation centered on Davis, and so did the school's search. Davis spoke of his desire to return to coaching, but didn't specify which jobs interested him. Last week, media reports linked Davis to the North Carolina opening.
"I am very impressed with Butch Davis' record as both an outstanding coach and strong advocate of academic performance," university chancellor James Moeser said. "My own personal interaction with Butch, supported by all of my conversations with faculty and administrators who have known him over the years, confirmed the view that he has the values and commitments we care about most at Carolina."
Davis is the third football coach hired by Baddour in the past decade. Baddour promoted Carl Torbush when Mack Brown left for Texas in 1997, then fired Torbush and hired Bunting in 2000.
Bunting is 25-45 in his sixth season as the coach at his alma mater, and hasn't had a winning season since his first team went 8-5 in 2001 and beat Auburn in the Peach Bowl. Bunting is owed $286,200 a year through the 2009 season.
Tar Heels may consider Butch Davis
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