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Ron Blake (* 7. September 1965 in Saint Thomas) ist ein amerikanischer Jazzmusiker (Saxophone, Komposition).

Leben und Wirken
Blake lernte zunächst Gitarre; die Musik von Cannonball Adderley und John Coltrane brachte ihn als Schüler mit zehn Jahren zum Tenor- und Sopransaxophon, aber erst unter dem Eindruck der Musik von Gary Bartz kam er in den späten 1980er Jahren zum Jazz. Er nahm zwischen 1979 und 1981 am National Music Camp teil und besuchte die Interlochen Arts Academy 1980–1982, um dann an der Northwestern University zu studieren.

Blake arbeitete mit Bobby Broom, Roland Hanna, Bobby Hutcherson, der Clark Terry/Louie Bellson Big Band und Nancy Wilson. Zunächst lehrte er als Assistant Professor im Jazzstudiengesang der University of South Florida, bevor er 1992 nach New York zog. Dort wurde er für fünf Jahre Mitglied der Band von Roy Hargrove, mit dem er mehrfach in Japan tourte, um dann mehrere Jahre in Art Farmers Gruppe zu wirken. Dann spielte er in der Band der Fernsehshow Saturday Night Live. Auch gehört er zur 21st Century Band von Dion Parson und der Bigband von Christian McBride, mit der er einen Grammy erhielt. Zwischen 1993 und 2016 war er an 86 Aufnahmen im Bereich des Jazz beteiligt, so auch für Gerald Wilson und Kip Hanrahan; er war aber auch als Studiomusiker für Yerba Buena, Ry Cooder, Ziggy Marley und David Byrne tätig. 2019 ist er Mitglied im Lucas Pino Nonet. Zu hören ist er u. a. auch auf Geoffrey Keezers Album Playdate (2022).

Seine Kompositionen wie Of Kindred Souls werden von Roy Hargrove ebenso wie von Regina Carter interpretiert. Er lehrt als Professor an der Juilliard School.

Diskographische Hinweise

 Shayari, Mac Avenue, 2008
 Sonic Tonic Mac Avenue, 2005
 Lest We Forget, Mac Avenue, 2003
 Ron Blake Quartet Up Front and Personal Tahmun, 2000, mit Johnny Griffin

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Jazz-Saxophonist
Komponist (Jazz)
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Bond 24 Delayed - 007 May Not Return Until 2016???
Skyfall director Sam Mendes' decision not to return for a follow-up may have put the immediate future of the James Bond film franchise in doubt. Following the double whammy news that the British helmer was focusing on his Charlie and the Chocolate Factory stage musical instead of directing a sequel and that veteran 007 scribes Neil Purvis and Robert Wade were leaving the James Bond franchise after well over a decade of service, there is now huge doubt as to whether the previously announced November 2014 release date for Daniel Craig's next outing will actually be fulfilled. In a conference call with investors, MGM's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gary Barber sounded noticeably unsure about when James Bond will return to our screens. He said that they "are very excited about the franchise, we look forward to announcing a director soon. We are currently developing the screenplay and working with our partners. We look forward to developing the script soon and signing a director. We are hoping within the next 3 years it will be released." With no writer and no director attached, Bond 24 looks a long way for fulling the previously speculated Autumn/Winter shoot. Thankfully, rather than panicking and hiring any writer/director available, MGM and the Bond producers look like they are taking the wise step to not rush into an appointment to fullfil a release date, something which Quantum of Solace and especially the previous Pierce Brosnan movies could be accused of to their determent. Certainly Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros' model of taking their time with unleashing the Batman movies and making sure they were the best they could be has resulted in far better films than in the 90s and phenomenal box office returns. However it is particularly surprising after its $1.108 billion worldwide box office haul ($304.4 million domestic, $804 million overseas... including becoming the biggest film in the UK in history) and the rabid interest in seeing a sequel as early as next year... that they have seemingly taken this decision. Also, let's remind ourselves that Daniel Craig is 45-years-old and it's somewhat surprising they aren't pushing to get as many films out of him before he turns 50. Having said all this, the comment that MGM are "hoping within the next 3 years it will be released" doesn't necessarily mean that Bond 24 won't come out in November of next year, or in 2015. If they find a writer/director they like in the coming months, there would seem no obvious reason to delay Bond 24 further. Click "next" below to read our 5 Directors Who Could Replace Sam Mendes For Bond 24...
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Saturday 31st May 2008
(next update week ending 7th June 2008)
The past few days have been difficult as my AOL has been playing up and for a period I was unable to download attachments or even reply. After several wasted phone calls to the help line (New Delhi) at last I resolved matters but am still awaiting an updated disc to reload my software, after which I hope all will be well.
As a result of the foregoing and my trip at last finalised to Land's End this issue will be in two parts as I have had such a fantastic input from very many contributors. I would therefore ask those who may not see any reference to their contributions to please be patient as I will be publishing another page by the end of the coming week.
Referring to my Land's End trip I leave on Monday morning, 2nd June, on Motts M1 service to Reading, thence via Newbury, Andover and Dorchester to my first night stop at Lyme Regis. I then take the First X53 Jurassic Coast service to Exeter and onwards via Plymouth and St Austell to my second night stop in Fowey. On Wednesday I travel, mainly by first to Land's End and back to my third and final night stop at Penzance. On Thursday morning I take National Express ser vice 504 to Reading Calcot and thence by Reading Buses and Thames Travel to Oxford to catch the 18:30 737 service back to Stokenchurch. The trip will form the basis for a major article on these pages and apart from the hotels and food the trip will cost nothing, I hope !!
On the subject of photography in public places
I received a number of responses to my piece in the last issue.
Andy Millwood writes "Just a little note about photography, a subject much debated in your columns, I think the best remedy is to look a bit Casual, adjust camera beforehand, point it away, so that people don't think you're shooting at them and then when moment comes shoot. I find it helpful as I once got caught in this situation and got into heated exchange with the driver but I've learnt my lesson and not had trouble since. Try it, one has nothing to lose and it would be a shame if our hobby was banned."
Peter Edgar also wrote with a recent experience which is most worrying. Peter says "What a first class letter from John Morris, and I'm so glad you have printed it, I would also agree with your comment about everyone keeping a copy at hand.
I had my first experience recently at Shepherds Bush whilst photographing, took the two CPOs about half an hour to take my details and have them checked out, no doubt 100yards away there was mega drug dealing taking place, but I was more important.....................it really is a strange world at times!"
So I hope my trip to the south West is not spoilt by any similar experiences and that I will return to continue with the OCBP and not find myself incarcerated in some Cornish prison.
Transdev to buy Top Line Travel
Transdev Blazefield is to buy City Sightseeing franchisee Top Line Travel of York.
The firm, set up eight years ago by Peter and Susan Dew, runs 10 open toppers, plus seven school and local service buses. Transdev already owns Yorkshire Coastliner and Harrogate & District Travel, both of which operate into York.
Peter Dew, who will remain with the business, told routeONE: "We have always believed in the provision of a high quality service, but now we need the backing of a bigger group to further the next stage of our development."
A question from Australia - Steve Brown
I tripped over your Oxford & Chilterns Bus Page while Googling in search of information about the early days of Keith Coaches (Chesham).
In particular I am interested in any clues as to the date/place/context of the attached photograph showing a Keith charabanc-type vehicle, as I believe that my Dad is the man seated behind the driver.
Is there by any chance anyone among your bus enthusiasts who knows about such things, and would be willing to give me a few words of wisdom?
Any info at all would be much appreciated.
Steve Brown, Port Noarlunga, South Australia
From Bill Jackson on the gathering at Eastbourne 3rd May
I have a few weeks of your always excellent website to catch up with, but I thought I'd send you these pictures in the meantime. I realise that most are of buses beyond the Oxford and Chilterns area, but they are all interesting buses, snapped during their appearance at the Magnificent Motors day in Eastbourne (last Saturday - 3 May). Use as many or as few as you wish.
One of the visitors was Reading Scania 1012, and I've also included a picture of two preserved RMs. The others include a fine East Kent AEC, two wonderfully preserved Eastbourne single deckers (an AEC Regal - still in regular use by Eastbourne Buses for charters, and a Leyland Lion from the Eastbourne Lion Preservation Group), and a preserved Eastbourne Leyland double decker. Although I have lived in Oxfordshire for 30 years I was born in Eastbourne and have always visited regularly, and I remember these Leyland deckers were introduced (I think in the late 1960s) in an attempt to replace open-top buses. Most of the upstairs windows were designed to wind right down into the bodywork, which - together with the opaque plastic roof (seen in the picture) - was intended to have the same feel as an open-top bus in summer, but also to allow wet-weather and year-round use without major surgery! They were not popular with locals or visitors as an alternative to open-toppers, but remained in regular service use until OMO took over completely. A few were leased to London Country during their bus shortage in the 1970s, I think.
From Stephen Le Bras who visited Reading on 30th May
Not the hoped for seven Omnicity 'deckers but an interesting trip to Reading nevertheless- just two Omnicity 'deckers in service on the 17- 1101 and 1102 scheduled some distance apart- so difficult to photograph both. 1103 was being used as a publicity bus in the centre of Reading.
Otherwise, First 20366 on RailAir , 815-7 on the 21.
I did have a short ride on 501. Unfortunately the monitor which shows the next stop wasn't working. The one on 1101 definitely was working, giving an update visually and audibly!
From Tim Wild on Reading
I work in the centre of Reading and looked out of my office window on Wednesday morning to see 1101 stood next to the town hall, a short while later it was joined by 1102. There were a lot of RBL bosses and perhaps town councillors all very smart in attendance. After a time, with a video camera man in attendance, the vehicles departed with said dignitaries on board, there appeared to be a 30-45 minute run then both vehicles returned. They did not stop long before disappearing again and have not been seen by me since!
I attach a couple of photo's which I hope do not clog up your e-mail too much. I note with interest the slight variation regarding wording on the front of 1102 but not on 1101.
From Ian White about an RML at Chinnor
I went up to the railway at Chinnor this morning (Sunday) and waiting there was RML2446 working on a service between Chinnor Station and Princes Risborough Station just for today.
Attached is a picture of the said bus not looking at it's best I might say but maybe it's suitable for your site.
From Colin Cooke on Uxbridge 1st June
Uxbridge, Ruislip & Northwood Running Day - Central area meets London Country
Amersham & District Motorbus Society introduced a new running day to their now familiar events on Sunday 1st June with the Uxbridge, Ruislip & Northwood routes. This allowed for some very famous old routes to be resurrected including the 158 to Ruislip Lido, the 128 with two BL's doing the honours and one of my favourites the 309A, a very short route linking Northwood with Rickmansworth. Other routes being run included 211,220,223 and 225,347. So a good variety over 'green and red' routes. Special thanks to the organiser Peter Cartwright and his team, and as always the drivers and owners for yet another successful event.
My photos capture the 128 and 309 passing Batchworth Heath and DMS1868 making use of the famous 'Buses Only' turning circle at Ruislip Lido.
John Hammond visits Thornhill
John writes " An interesting capture of a RH Solo with the destination scrolling "On Break, please do not disturb thanks...."
Indeed this must be a first?
Oxford Bus Co vehicles at Thornhill Park & Ride today.
From Chris Lowe on events in Manchester
Chris took some nice pictures of vintage liveries on modern day buses up in Manchester and I hope readers will forgive me indulging myself as I have fond memories of NWRCC.
Two local operators have painted buses in the old NWRCC livery. Ah happy days.
Ex OBC 620, the first B10B to get the new livery, is now working up in Manchester and I think looks very smart.
Chelsea Flower Show in pictures by Gavin Francis
Last week the world famous Chelsea Flower Show took place and as ever London General operated some interesting buses on the special service from Victoria. Gavin took a number of interesting pictures.
Old faithful RM9 was out again with Frank at the wheel as always and the NVs in General livery look rather nice.
Don't know whose this is and what its origins are? What fun though.
From Caz Morgan – a day at Cheltenham Races
Caz Morgan, once the youngest PCV driver in Oxford is now working in Manchester for Stagecoach. She was involved in the Cheltenham event this year and took some nice pictures shown below.
Thanks to Richard Morgan for forwarding these pictures.
Slough Running Day – more input from Stephen Le Bras
Thanks for another interesting update. I liked the Slough and Windsor running day details- I was lucky enough this time to have a trip on STL441 on the 441 to High Wycombe. RML2589 shadowed us on the way and was needed at Beaconsfield for the photo shoot. The driver blocked off the traffic to allow everyone a chance to get a photo.
Dave Stewart records some experiences.
You wanted some stories about 'Travels with my Bus Pass', so here are a few of my recent travels with a London Elderly Persons Freedom Pass which may be of interest or amusement. As one who has had a London pass for a few years and has spent many pounds over many years buying bus tickets (usually one-day or rover-type ones) outside London, I now have this generous concession. It is one of the few benefits of being old (disbenefits are plenty, of course) and I wonder how long it will last like this, given the controversy over Government recompense to operators and fuel prices nowadays.
Bear in mind that with a London pass one can travel within London after 9am and on trains and tubes as well as buses, so my journeys described are the 'out of area' sections. What may well be of interest to readers is that Green Line routes 702, 724, 757, 758 and 797 can be used throughout (after 0930 of course) with the ENCTS (England National Concessionary Travel Scheme) passes. Holders of non-London passes can travel within Greater London on TfL buses only (but not on trams, DLR, Underground, Overground or National Rail) with the same time conditions as London residents, ie. after 0900 to 0430 Mon-Fri (rather than 0930 to 2330 outside London), and all day Sat/Sun/P-Hols. Anyone who has still not yet got a new 'proper' pass should - when in London - show both their old pass and their temporary pass when they board the buses. Just show the pass, it won't work on the Oyster reader for some time yet..
One thing that is radically different between London and elsewhere is the interaction with drivers. In London, only around 5% at the most (and often not even that) of passengers actually pay a fare when boarding and all buses are flat-fare anyway. Virtually everyone has Oyster cards, Travelcards, Bus Passes, Freedom Passes or children's passes, and they are just shown to the driver or 'zapped' on the card reader. No graduated fares so no need to ask or state destination. Assault screens are universal as are dual doors on most buses. So, very few speak to the driver when boarding and the vast majority get off at the middle doors so, being too far away, no 'thanks' are said to the driver. Contrast this with outside London where almost everyone states a destination (I am now getting used to it) - even free pass holders who then get a 'from and to' printed ticket. When leaving, single doors are almost universal, so most people say thanks to the driver. That doesn't mean to say the people in London are any less courteous (though some would disagree), it's just that there is no opportunity anymore to interact with the driver.
Trip No.1 just one week after the scheme started
I was in Kingston and on the spur of the moment and as a Travel Surrey Dart on the 451 was coming down the road, I decided to try out my pass outside London, initially in a rather modest way. My pass was accepted and I got a "free travel" zero fare ticket. It was printed valid as far as Hurst Road Tesco at West Molesey, which was - I believe - as far as one could go with a London ticket prior to 1st April. Anyway, I stayed on to Walton on Thames. The 451 was a long 10.7m Dart - Travel Surrey's buses are almost all of the 8.8m Mini Dart variant. Amazingly, a lady behind me remarked to her companion "this bus seems to have more seats than usual". So, 'normals' do notice differences in buses sometimes !! I then took another Travel Surrey Dart on 555 to Ashford. Driver grunted, "I suppose I could take that" he said reluctantly, wanted to know where I was going, and didn't issue any zero fare ticket (same company as 451, so I don't know which rule is right and nor do they, it seems). Then a TfL (London United) Dart on the 216 Ashford to Staines, so ok with my pass anyway. Then three trips on First Beeline, drivers accepted pass with no comment and no ticket issue (I guess they record the boarders on a button on the ticket machine?). A Wright-bodied ex South Yorks Scania on 71 Staines to Windsor. A 20min break and then a blue Citaro on 77 to Slough. After picking up the new timetable books I rode on one of the big ex-Welsh Volvo/ Plaxton coaches on 702, just 30 mins to Hammersmith, much of it down the offside bus lane on the M4. Quite impressed with First Beeline! Trip in the middle of day on a weekday, just the usual sprinkling of passengers, only two or three elderlies on the 71 and two on the 702 looking as though they were in it just for the ride.
Trip No.2, again more-or-less on the hoof, later the same week
UNO Scania double-deck from Queensbury to Hatfield. Took 20mins to get the short distance to Edgware, due to lots of local passengers at most request stops, and we finally passed Barnet Spires only 2 mins before being due at Hatfield Galleria 7 miles away, but made it by 1302 (due 1250). Then Arriva Green Line Citaro on 724 (1306) to St Albans, setting down at the new stop at the 'Peahen'. The route was recently removed from St Peter's Street due to impossible traffic congestion. Then an Arriva ex-gasbus DAF on 321 (1345) St Albans to Harpenden, followed by an ex Sovereign Dart (and still in Sovereign blue livery) but now with UNO Buses having been taken over from Centrebus in March (!) on 320 (1431) Harpenden to Hemel. Although blind had read Hemel Bus Station, driver said he was only going to Adeyfield rather than Hemel Bus Station (it was now a school day in Hemel although other places seemed to be on half term). At Cupid Green, changed blind to school route 820, dropped me at Adeyfield Queens Square shops. Luckily, an Arriva (ex-Sovereign) Volvo/ Wright Renown on 301 appeared on the other side of the road to get me to HH Bus Stn. Bus tickets quite a variety. The UNO 614 no ticket, 724 on Almex, it said 'London Free Travel' with from and to points printed. 321 and 301 (both Arriva) and 320 (now Uno) each issued 'Free Pass' Wayfarer tickets with 'ENCTS' code (Arriva) or 'England Concn' (uno), in each case with from and to points printed.
There was now a choice of routes towards Watford, the direct Arriva 500 or 550 but, ever one for "an experience", when an elderly N-reg Merc.711 turned up I plumped for the 352, taken over a few weeks earlier by Red Rose and going the long way round. Polish driver, pass accepted, issued a 'No Fare' ticket, purporting to be in return for showing a 'Herts Free Pass' and printed to Sarratt, perhaps my mention of 'Croxley' when boarding wasn't understood and everyone got a ticket to Sarratt. Set off at 1540 (this journey should be 1536 on SDO via local school - we didn't do that bit though, perhaps it was half term at that school?). 29-seat bus, very cramped with 20 passengers aboard, plus one folded pram and two wheeled shopping trolleys taking up the luggage rack (ie the back seat), numerous shopping bags and including rather bizarrely three African students (who went to Croxley Green)!. We set down ten in Bovingdon, picked up three others, on via Chipperfield and Sarratt, very narrow road, many squeeze-pasts - and met the other 352 (a Dart) coming the other way - a bit awkward to say the least and a fair bit of scraping past branches. Manual gearbox bus, bit of a boneshaker, much crashing over potholes and many sharp bangs from underneath (I was sitting over one of the rear wheels - which stayed attached!). Still, in spite of everything, got to Croxley Met Station more-or-less on time and alighted for a Met train (London pass now valid again) home.
As with trip 1 above, elderlies 'out for the day' only seemed to appear on the 614 in any numbers, other buses were just routine types of load.
Trip No.3, three weeks after the start
I had occasion to go to Ashford again. Hatton Cross to Ashford on Travel Surrey Dart on the 557. This time I got a 'free travel' ticket. In Stanwell, a crowd of young mothers and small children were at a stop. Looked like a crèche had just turned out. Amazingly, we took on five pushchairs and a fair amount of noise - didn't last long though, they were all off within a few stops further along and after the contents of a bag of Wotsits had been either (a) consumed by children or (b) dropped on the floor. Later in Staines and attempting to get to Heathrow Terminal Five (for the Piccadilly line home) and when the First Beeline Citaro on the direct route 71 failed to stop, I had to take the 'plan B', the 30-minute tour of Stanwell and Stanwell Moor on Travel Surrey Dart on the 441. I showed my pass. "We don't take that" said the driver, with some disdain. "Yes you do, it's a London Freedom Pass with the national symbols on it" I said. "I've never seen one of those" he said. "Well, you have now" I said, with some incomprehension, given that the route 441 (and indeed most of the routes of that company) operate to points within the TfL area and it was three weeks after the start of the scheme. I wondered how they would not know about it? No ticket this time. See earlier episode with this company in the same area. Called company later, who said they would deal with the apparent problem there. As it happens, I haven't needed to use their buses since to see if they did.
Other odd trips
In Brighton very briefly on the occasion of the coach rally on 19th April. Two Brighton & Hove rides from and to the Station. London Pass accepted without question. Both tickets printed 'Free Journey Travel Permit issued in conjunction with a valid Sussex Countycard'. I presume that there is just the same button for any old pass, no matter from where it originates and that 'Sussex' (or more probably Brighton & Hove citycouncil) is billed for it. During the recent Slough running day on 11th May, I took the opportunity to get back to Slough on normal services by using First Beeline Citaros from both Windsor and Maidenhead. Again, as in (No.1) above, pass accepted, but no tickets issued. This free ticket business comes in handy. how long will it last?
Trip No.4, mid-May
Decided to do a 'round-robin' in Bucks and Oxon, just to sample some services and vehicles. Been to the places many times but this was a bus trip just for its own sake. Piccadilly line to Uxbridge with normal London pass conditions. Carousel route A40 (a Renault AgoraLine) on the 0940 to High Wycombe. Left on time, 18 passengers ex Uxbridge, 9 of which were obviously pensioners. Picked up and set down several passengers along route and it seemed reasonably busy, quite a few had passes (Bucks passes or Seasons I presume). Due at HW 1020 but made it by 1032, largely because of the last bit from Loudwater. It looked like a gap in Arriva buses, we kept getting hailed at stops, got a few ditherers, one without any change plus a couple with Arriva-only tickets, and then a constant "pull of the magnet" at every red traffic light (of which there are loads) from Loudwater to the Bus Station. Thus a 15min connection reduced to a 3min one to catch the Arriva 40 (one of the new Solos) on the 1035 to Thame, but luckily from the very next departure bay. 16 passengers ex HW, but all except me had alighted by the time we got to Stokenchurch King's Arms. Then people started getting on there and variously en-route, 10 altogether and all went to Thame, which we reached on time at 1127. Arriva 280 (as usual one of the 'coach seated' Volvo Olympians) on the 1135 to Oxford. Nice comfortable seats and good views, but fairly few passengers. However, this changed when a large group of about 40 teenagers turned up at Wheatley and virtually filled up the bus upstairs. Noisy of course but all good natured, taking pictures of each other with phone cameras. Sounded as though they were all due to break up and leave school soon. An unexpectedly fast run (to me, anyway) up to the Oxford bypass roundabout and pretty clear through Headington, reaching the Carfax at 1220, only a few mins down. Although I know the city and its buses very well, a fairly fleeting run though Oxford like this just observing the myriad of passing buses reinforces what a very colourful and varied selection of types, operators and colour schemes can be seen in the city and it's always a fine place to get a 'fix' of something different.
After a short break to collect maps and timetables, I rode the 1310 Stagecoach 27C from Magdalen Street to Bicester, one of the new Enviro400 bodied Scanias. We were in a convoy of four buses up the Banbury Road but even then, there were a few local passengers off and on, and it seemed to take ages to the turnoff toward Gosford. After that, though, the fast performance on the Scania showed itself with a very fast straight run to Bicester, arriving only two minutes down. I could have taken the X5 all the way from Oxford but wanted to ride one of the Scanias, hence I then caught the X5 (Stagecoach Volvo/Plaxton coach) just from Bicester (1405) to Buckingham Tesco. I noted in one your earlier reports that the X5 route was in the scheme (and I presume that UC's X4 is also). Like most of the coaches on this route, it had curtains and seat belts and plenty of legroom, but with virtually no forward visibility due to the low driving position but the much higher passenger saloon. I could have sat at Tesco for half an hour but walked into Buckingham for some exercise. Two others alighted as well, who also walked into the town, it was a little further than I remembered and it took me 15 mins. The local bus into town is timed to leave Tesco 3 mins before the X5 arrives, and it did just that; the little green Plaxton Primo left as we were turning at the Tesco roundabout. I guess that the X5 goes only round the bypass because it might get caught in traffic in the town and make the long route unreliable. However the town was virtually empty on that day but the tight little corners and the river bridge would probably screw up the X5s in the peaks.
The purpose of going via Buckingham was to ride Arriva 66 to Aylesbury. The main hourly service continues to be worked by the elderly Leyland Olympians, indeed my departure (1445) was a G-reg example and we passed the other one half way along the route.. Upstairs on a double-deck, it is quite a scenic route, with some great views and it diverts through a number of attractive villages. It's a good 50/55- minute run, about 18 miles. Only a mere handful of passengers though, never more than about six at any one time. A short break in Aylesbury and then a marathon run on the Arriva 500. The 1600 departure to Watford was one of the former Green Line DAF/ Plaxton Prestige vehicles, still with the very comfortable green-moquette high-backed seats, and fairly rare on the road, due to their unreliability. Quite a busy journey and by the time some students had boarded on the Tring Road, we were virtually full. Most got off at several stops all through Tring but it was a steady off and on all the way to Hemel, where everyone except me and one other got off. Some new people boarded, and again a few more here and there along the way, all but one going all the way to Watford by which time there were 16 getting off. A pretty hard working run, timed 1600 AY to Watford 1738, we left at 1605 and got to Watford at 1748. Then back on TfL-services and a quick train ride with my London pass back home.
Apart from those on the Uxbridge- Wycombe A40, plus two persons on the 27C and one on the 66, there were no other fairly obviously elderly people going for a longish ride 'because they can' on any of the seven journeys. Yes, there were elderly people but other than those few, they were just people going home with shopping, going a few stops, that sort of thing, ie normal everyday local journeys that they would have done anyway. Each bus driver accepted my London Freedom Pass without question, all issued 'free pass' and/or 'no fare' tickets. What amuses me is the different terminology. As I found in Herts earlier, all Arriva tickets show 'ENCTS Pass' but others are different. My Carousel ticket shows 'BCC SG', Stagecoach Oxford 'CONC SGL', the X5 (which is United Counties and on an Almex) 'NAT OAP' . Six of the tickets showed 'from and to' points but Carousel's showed just 'Bus Stn'. Anyway, I worked it out at about 120 miles for nothing. Perhaps no-one but an enthusiast, though, would sit on buses for the best part of eight hours just for the fun of it !!
Very many thanks to Dave for a most interesting piece. It gives me strength for my upcoming trip.
Bill Jackson writes "I've also attached separately a picture for possible inclusion in 'Buses in the Landscape'. This is from my recent holiday in Gran Canaria. It shows a service bus from Global (the main operator) on the main road in Puerto Rico. Not the greatest picture of a bus, but evocative of the role of buses in dense holiday areas, perhaps."
Ian Kirby writes " my picture was taken from the churchyard in Widecombe in the Moor on Dartmoor. A Traveller's Choice, Carnforth climbs out of Widecombe and passes a Landtours, Farnham Irizar bodied Scania on the way down. 22nd April 2008."
John Marsh sent an interesting picture taken in Cambridge which I am publishing below. There are several more which I have held over to the next issue.
The second part of this page will be published next weekend following my return from the South West. Honestly I've run out of time.
Malcolm Crowe - Saturday 31st May 2008


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How To Identify And Value Mason Jars
This basic kitchen item brings up vivid memories for us of Mom canning in the kitchen. But did you know that they are collectible? Find out more about the history and collectibility of these common jars.
Jars were used by many a wife and mother to can and preserve food. They canned everything from mint jelly to beans to peaches in syrup. As a very necessary tool in the kitchen, the canning jar helped many families make use of harvests well into winter. While some food preservation is still done in pottery crocks, glass jars largely replaced stoneware starting in the late 1800s. The Mason jar was patented by Landis Mason in 1858 and Ball started producing these jars in 1885. Later, the process was "perfected" by Ball in 1913 when his factory was able to produce both the lid and jar to ensure a perfect fit each time.
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Ball jars were made in various colors, but the blue and clear colors are the most common. In 1976, Ball produced reproductions of the buffalo jars and created Bicentennial jars. In 2013 Ball made the Heritage Collection, which commemorates the 100 year anniversary of the historic 1913 breakthrough in their process. Since then, the company has produced several different modern colors, including purple and green. While colors produced in recent years may look similar, be aware that they have quite different values than the vintage colors. The smaller and more common vintage jars usually sell for less than $20. However, the vintage green jars or those with special wire carriers can sell in excess of $300.
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The logo is the best way to date the jars because the Ball logo changed throughout the years. Click here for a handy chart that gives dates for the different logos used. Note that the numbers on the bottom refer to mold numbers and not to model numbers.
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Features, Loyalists, Postwar Conflict (>1783) December 11, 2018 December 9, 2018
Putting a Price on Loyalty: Mary Loring's List of Losses
by John Knight
"Portrait of a Lady," 1771, by John Singleton Copley. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
The Revolutionary War took a heavy toll on Great Britain. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 left it not just bereft of former colonies but militarily humiliated, politically divided, and financially straightened. The cost of the eight-year war had averaged £12 million per annum and left the Treasury with a national debt of £250 million.[1] In addition, Britain had suffered the near collapse of many of her most lucrative import markets. It would have been understandable then, if her government had turned its back on North America, reneged on its financial obligations, and drawn a line under all its former associations.
It was to the immense credit of King George III that they did not do so. Indeed George, a man for whom loyalty was a dominant personal characteristic, insisted every American who suffered financially in support of the crown should receive compensation. His Ministers, both at and after, the peace of Paris, fully recognised this principle. Frustratingly it proved to be a principle much easier to recognise than to implement.
In 1784 British commissioners were appointed to investigate the nature of Loyalist debts, but after sitting ten years were still unable to make an award, as when a point was pressed on the American commissioners, they retired, "and would not return unless a promise was made them that that point should be abandoned."[2] Finally in 1802, a convention was formed between the British and American governments, by which the former accepted from the latter £600,000 in lieu of all the debts rendered as a consequence of the war.
Unfortunately, this was a fraction of the money claimants had already made upon the Government. John Ingram Lockhart MP, who became something of a champion in Parliament for the Loyalists' compensation claims, wrote, "Had the commissioners pursued their labours to a successful termination, they would in all probability have needed at least two millions as the whole amount of that class of debts to which their investigation was directed."[3] This financial disparity caused increasing amounts of friction between Loyalists and successive governments, as the Treasury now had a finite amount of compensation it felt obliged to pay out.
In addition, some politicians believed Britain had no responsibility to the Loyalists at all. Most prominent amongst these was Whig leader Charles James Fox who blamed British and American Tories for misleading the public about conditions in America and perpetuating the war.[4] Fox, however, appears to have been in a minority. Far more typical were the comments of John Willmott MP, a like-minded Whig, who had abhorred the war and regularly voted against Lord North's Government. Upon his appointment by Lord Shelburne as one of the two commissioners to inquire into the sufferings of Loyalists, he declared 'I would share with them my last shilling and my last loaf." Despite his personal opposition to the war Wilmott worked tirelessly in parliament to arrange for Loyalists adequate compensation.[5]
As a class, Loyalists had included some of the colonies' most wealthy and influential citizens. It was no surprise, therefore, to find them organised in Britain as a vocal and resilient enclave in the immediate years after the peace. Most had lost something. A few had lost everything. All contended that they had a right to the full amount of their debts, guaranteed as they had been by the American government in the original peace treaty.
They coordinated themselves into an aggressive force of lobbyists producing sophisticated pamphlets and books to support their case.[6] Indeed they proved to be as vociferous and resolute in their claims against the British Government as they had been supporters of it during the war. Incredibly, Loyalists and their successors were still making claims in parliament well into the middle of the nineteenth century, with individual petitions being debated as late as May 1844 during Sir Robert Peel's Ministry.[7]
Each claim or memorial was considered by the commission and adjudicated upon. These memorials give an insight into how the most wealthy and influential Americans lived in the period up to the outbreak of war and provide a fascinating snapshot of the life of America's prosperous elite.
One of the most revealing and extensive memorials came from Mary Loring, then living in the semi-rural village of Highgate in North London. In 1783 she presented a claim "To the Commissioner appointed by Act of Parliament for enquiring into the Losses and Services of the American Loyalists." This memorial was on behalf of her late husband Joshua Loring whom she described only too accurately as "so obnoxious to the people that he was repeatedly mobbed and otherwise ill-treated in such manner as to oblige him to leave his house."[8]
Loring had been a commodore in the British navy and with the outbreak of the war proved to be an intractable foe to the Republican cause. Challenged about what he would do when faced by a choice between remaining loyal and supporting the revolt, Loring replied: "I have always eaten the King's bread, and always intend to."[9] He was denounced by the Massachusetts Provincial Congress as "an implacable enemy to their country" on March 30, 1775. Despite this, the Lorings remained in Boston until 1776. When the army evacuated the city for Halifax, however, many Loyalists who had sought refuge within British lines went with them, the Lorings included. They travelled to Halifax and then on to England, where the commodore died suddenly in 1781 before the war's end.
From being the matriarch of one of the most wealthy and influential families in all of the American colonies Mary Loring was now in a state of financial penury, her husband's pension having been stopped in July 1781 even before his death. She wrote as a heartfelt introduction to her claim. "Your Memorialist has five Children, four Sons and a Daughter . . . She was not able to procure any Allowance whatever as his Widow until 5th May 1782 when it commenced at one hundred pounds per annumn."[10]
Mary Loring's memorial then proceeded to itemise and value the fixtures, furnishings and working accoutrements of their estate at "Jamaica Plain in Roxbury within five miles of Boston."It was almost a forensic list with the largest claim in the schedule being for the house and land at £2500, down to £3 for "60 barrells of Cyder." Little was left uncatalogued from these two memorials presented by her and her son Joseph Royall Loring (then serving in His Majesty's navy) and which were considered in December 1783 and April 1784.
At the head of the schedule, Mary began her claim with "A large well-built House, out Houses, Coach House & Stable with Sixty Acres of Land under the best Improvement." It is easy to discern in this description of her home and farm a great familial pride. For "Well built . . . Under the best improvement" was no idle boast. The Lorings were very much at the forefront of Boston's landed gentry, and this social status needed to be reflected by their home. At many times in its life, the house (which still exists today) was described as a "manse."[11] Originally taken from an archaic Scottish word for the residence of a clergyman, by the revolutionary period the term had simply come to mean a large imposing residence. It was formally seized by the Provincial Congress on June 23, 1775, and converted into an infirmary for rebel troops during the siege of Boston. The entire estate was then confiscated in 1779 and sold at auction. The Lorings received nothing from the proceeds.[12]
The Loring-Greenough House in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, was built by Joshua Loring in 1760. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. (Biruitorul/Wikimedia Commons)
Though the Loring House was an elite establishment, the property was very much an active farm and the manse stood at the heart of an expansive and flourishing agrarian estate. Farming remained the lifeblood of the everyday existence for even the most affluent in colonial America. It is not surprising then that most prolific items catalogued below the house refer to agriculture and include an extensive list of farm implements and livestock.
Significantly within these agricultural implements Loring consistently emphasises the word "iron," as in the £25 she claimed for an "Iron tooth harrow."[13] Today this metal is commonplace. But during the Revolution, ironworks were few and their finished products costly.[14] Most of Loring's contemporaries would have farmed using implements made almost entirely of wood with only the very tip being covered in iron. That they had such metalwork in abundance illustrates not just wealth but also that the estate was at the forefront of the nascent agrarian revolution, with its owners prepared to invest in the most modern farming implements.
It is ironic then that the most expensive claim Loring makes is not for any of her many pedigree beast or sophisticated machines but £90 for "300 Loads of dung in the yard."[15] This may at first seem whimsical, but before modern chemicals, manure was used as a rich fertilizer, an efficient fuel and even a useful building material.
What is interesting about the claim is it that whilst it provides ample evidence of the wealth of the family it also illustrates how they spent that wealth. Loring's memorial is an extensive catalogue of opulence exhibiting many luxurious furnishings imported from all over the world.
An English jacket and shawl in chintz, skirt in glazed printed cotton, 1770-1800. Chintz was also widely used for curtains and upholstery. (Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp. Photo by Hugo Maertens)
Most modern depictions of Revolutionary period interiors fall into the trap of depicting them as staid and drab with muted colours. This was much more in keeping with later Regency or Federal America. In fact, during the 1770s the rich were keen to make their houses as colourful as possible. Loring specifically highlighted her many multi-coloured "Chintz" furnishings. This calico fabric needed to be specially imported from India and was the rage in the decades immediately before the war.[16] So expensive was it that the £8 she claimed for "Chintz Bed Curtains" and "Chintz Window Curtains" would have been the equivalent of around four months wages for a Massachusetts butcher or carpenter. Despite its cost, it remained so popular that in Britain its purchase was banned when it began to impact disastrously on home-produced textiles. These so-called "Calico Acts" however did not affect the British American colonies and they remained a prime export market for the East India Company.
Mirrors or "looking glasses" as they were then referred to are also noticeably abundant on the list. We take them for granted today, but until the middle of the nineteenth century, they were rare and expensive items of furniture and a luxury few could afford. No suitable plate glass was manufactured in the United States before the nineteenth century, so these continued to be shipped from Britain and France. The difficulty of shipping such a fragile cargo made them a precious commodity and only added to their expense.
An English jelly glass, c. 1760. (Private Collection)
Even small items of glass were phenomenally expensive. She troubles to note "a pyramid of Jelly glasses" at £5.[17] Glass for dining is now commonplace and passes without comment. However, in 1780 it was a notable extravagance. Though there were some glass producers in the colonies (mainly German immigrants) they were skilled artisans and their produce was scarce. Most fine or "clear" glass needed to be imported from Britain. Desert glasses for jelly and flavoured ices indicate not only that the Loring's could afford to buy such relative fripperies, but that they also dined in an aristocratic, formal style.
Pride of place in the inventory is given to an "8 Day Clock with mahogany" at £20.[18] These were
An English eighteenth-century mahogany eight day long case clock. (Private Collection)
cutting-edge technological marvels in an age when some people still told time by checking the position of the sun. The rich now had the ability to dissect time precisely into minutes. They were priced as mechanical wonders. Even the cheapest were expensive status symbols and Loring has deliberately emphasised the clock's wood and movement type. Mahogany was the most expensive case wood, and an eight-day movement the most technologically advanced. The more common oak thirty-hour clocks were driven by a single weight. Though these were much less expensive than Loring's mahogany eight-day example they would still cost the equivalent of two years of a farm labourer's wages.
As leaders in local society, the Loring's were expected to play an active part in the church. The claim lists both "a Pew in the Church in Jamaica Plain" and "a Pew in Trinity Church in Boston."[19] This illustrates the custom, now lost, of renting Church pews. It was common in Anglican churches to auction pews to families or individuals as a means of raising income, especially in colonial America where churches lacked government support through mandatory tithing. The practice was almost universal during Loring's time in Boston, but the Revolution had profound effects on not just politics, but religious practices too. Those lacking the money for luxuries such as pews were demeaned by their relegation to "free seats," a practice that began to die off in America during the nineteenth century.[20]
Perhaps the most startling item in Loring's list is the £50 she claimed for "A Negro Man named London."[21] Though he is not denoted as a slave, there can be little doubt that London was such. Boston is not associated in popular imagination with the practice of slavery, yet Massachusetts was the first colony in New England with slave ownership and was a center for the trade throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Slave numbers in Roxbury increased with the progress of wealth in the town.[22] No legislation was passed in the state to abolish this practice until the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. In reality, however, the institution had practically died out by the late eighteenth century through judicial actions litigated on behalf of individual slaves seeking manumission. These cases began just after Loring's departure in 1781 and in such numbers that no slaves were listed in Massachusetts by the 1790 census.[23] Unlike Virginia and the Carolinas, few slaves were employed in field work, the cultivation of crops being unsuitable to those labor-intensive methods common in the south. As such it is more likely that London was a domestic servant or footman.
Mary Loring's memorial presents itself as an intimate illustration of everyday life of the wealthy in revolutionary America. It also graphically illustrates how much some Americans lost as a consequence of their allegiance to the British crown. Mary did not live long enough to see her claims come to a full settlement, dying in Middlesex, England, in 1795. Her family eventually received less than half of the £4,815 they claimed. She was to never see her beloved Roxbury estate again. She did, however, rear sons who provided exemplary service to Great Britain, particularly within the Royal Navy. This service was recognised by the Admiralty during the Second World War when the destroyer escort HMS Loring was named in their honour.[24] Symbolically it was built in Boston under lend-lease arrangements and was, perhaps, the most fitting tribute that could be paid to this remarkable Anglo American family.
[1]Stephen Conway, The War of American Independence 1775–1783 (London: E. Arnold, 1995), 189,
[2]Thomas Hansard, Parliamentary Debates, Volume 21(London: Longman, 1812), 802.
[3]The Parliamentary register: or, history of the proceedings and debates of the House of Commons, Volume 14 (London: John Stockdale, 1812), 481.
[4]"We have lost thirteen provinces of America; we have lost several of our Islands, and the rest are in danger; we have lost the empire of the sea; we have lost our respect abroad and our unanimity at home; the nations have forsaken us, they see us distracted and obstinate, and they leave us to our fate. This is your situation, when you are under the conduct of Tory ministers and a Tory system, when you are disunited, disheartened, and have neither confidence in your ministers nor union among yourselves; when your cause is unjust and your conductors are either impotent or treacherous." Speech in the House of Commons (November 27, 1781), reprinted in J. Wright (ed.), The Speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox in the House of Commons, J. Wright, ed. (London, 1815), 429.
[5]Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: From the Norman Conquest to 1803, Volume 16 (London: Bagshaw, 1814), 564.
[6]For the two most articulate publications produced on behalf of American Loyalists see The case and claim of the American Loyalists impartially stated and considered(London: "Published by their Agents," 1783), and Joseph Galloway, The claim of the American Loyalists reviewed and maintained upon incontrovertible principles of law and justice (London: G. T Wilkie, 1788).
[7]"Mr Jervis rose to bring forward the Motion of which he had given notice, that this House will, on Tuesday next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider . . . the following claim made by John Hopton Russell Chichester, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, as sole executor of Robert William Powell, an uncompensated American Loyalist, deceased, and that Her Majesty will be graciously pleased to advance to such claimant the amount of the balance due to the estate of the said Robert William Powell, for losses incurred in consequence of his adherence to his allegiance, as ascertained by the Commissioners appointed for that purpose, and to assure Her Majesty that the House will make good the same." House of Commons. May 30, 1844, api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1844/may/30/american-loyalists-mr-powell.
[8]Eva Phillips Boyd, "Jamaica Plain by Way of London," Old-Time New EnglandXLIX (April-June 1959):
[9]Chaim M. Rosenberg The Loyalist Conscience: Principled Opposition to the American Revolution (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018), 127.
[10]For the full inventory of Loring's claim see Boyd, "Jamaica Plain by Way of London."
[11]For the History and architecture of the Loring house see The Loring-Greenough House Boston Landmarks Commission Study Report, www.cityofboston.gov/images_documents/The%20Loring-Greenough%20House_tcm3-44535.pdf.
[12]Boyd, "Jamaica Plain by Way of London."
[13]Ibid.
[14]"Iron refining was as much an art as a science in the colonial era." Though the colonies produced a sizable quantity of pig Iron, they were banned by Act of Parliament from turning it into finished goods in order to protect British foundries. Most of their good quality pig Iron was exported to Britain to be worked into finished goods. Herbert A. Applebaum, Colonial Americans at Work (Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 1996 ), 211.
[16]The East India Company brought new goods and fashions to Europe, but North America became an increasingly valuable market. The light cotton chintz of India was particularly suited to the humid summers of the south-eastern states.
[20]The practice was criticised as encouraging a class distinction at worship by creating a "rich man's aisle" and a "poor man's corner."
[22]Francis Drake, "Roxbury in the Provincial Period,"in Memorial History of Boston, Justin Winsor, ed. (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1881), 355.
[23]Alden Bradford, History of Massachusetts, from the year 1790 to 1820 (Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1829), 30.
[24]The ship was commissioned into service in the Royal Navy as HMS Loring (K565) under the command of Lt. Anthony d'Evelyn Sangster. She served on patrol and escort duty in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean for the remainder of World War II. The Royal Navy decommissioned Loring in 1945 after the conclusion of the war and returned her to the U.S. Navy.
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J F Sefcik says:
I am unfamiliar with an 1802 convention whereby the US agreed to indemnify Britain £600,000 in support of the Loyalists. Can you share your source for that? Thanks.
John Knight says:
Yes, the National Archives at Kew. In 1794 a new treaty, commonly known as Jay's Treaty, was signed between Great Britain and the United States. However, as stated in the article it was deadlocked and achieved nothing. In 1802 a new convention was signed by the two countries for the mutual payment of claims. The board constituted under the seventh article of the treaty of 1794 resumed its work and the American government undertook to pay the sum of £600,000 in satisfaction of the money they might otherwise have been liable to pay. Loyalist claims in the UK were wound up under this new convention a decade later in parliament. Loyalist claims are referenced at Kew under the prefix FO 304. Unfortunately, none are available online except in abstract form.
Could you provide an exact citation? I'm fascinated by this previously unknown, at least to me, deal.
Text of the 1802 Convention can be found online via The Avalon Project at Yale and full details in volume 2 of the Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State series in Rufus King to Madison, 11 January 1802, also online in the Founders Online site.


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The stoopid season
Published by Don on July 12, 2015
I've been pretty impressed with how well my colonies have been building straight combs this year. In a top bar hive, it's good to check frequently to make sure that the combs are built straight. Since there is no sheet of foundation for them to build on, like in most Langstroth hives, the bees are free to build their combs in whatever shape they want. I give them a strip of wood (kerf) along the top as a guide and others make tapered bars, but in the end, how they build from there (straight down, off to one side, etc) is up the the whim of the bees. The beekeeper can help by placing newly forming combs between two straight combs.
All this changed a couple of weeks ago, when I went in to check on BnB1. One of the first combs I encountered was attached to the comb next to it, so when I moved it, I tore a big hole in the comb and made a mess of honey and wax in the hive. Another comb was attached to the bottom. (This comb was one I put in the freezer for a while to kill any potential mites in the drone cells. I wonder if it altered the structural integrity of the comb and they feel it needs more stabilizing). I cleaned up the broken comb as best I could and put it between two straight combs, but it still had a big hole in it.
BnB2 was a different story. The combs were still straight, but they started expanding the combs beyond the width of the bar which butted into the comb next to it. This forced the bees to build off to the side of the kerf instead of in the middle of the bar. I added some spacers and gently pushed the comb back into the center of the bar. I flipped it around thinking they would then build off to the other side.
We've now entered what I call the "stoopid season". The bees are building honey combs (as opposed to comb built for raising brood) and they seem to want to build them wider and weirder. It's also a very hot time of the year and they attach the combs to the sides for stability, so cutting these heavy combs away from the sides and moving them around introduces the possibility of the combs collapsing. I try to get into the hive early in the morning, so that they can shore the combs back up before the real heat of the day.
When I looked in BnB1 yesterday, they had filled in the hole in the comb I broke last time, but instead of just connecting the combs together, they decided to go perpendicular to the bar. This had the effect of messing the the comb behind it as well.
Cross-comb in BnB1
This nice new comb is pretty malleable, so I just bent it around and then stuck it between a couple of other combs. The comb that they attached to the bottom was stuck there again. It's a real pain to release the comb from the bottom, but I managed to do that without breaking anything.
Perpendicular comb in BnB1
In the end, it just takes a little more time to do the manipulations of the combs to keep things in line. But at this time of year, the bees are more ornery because they have honey to defend, so it's not as pleasant for either of us. But they are making some nice honey and I think we'll get to steal some this year. Here are some videos on a late summer's afternoon.
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Julie	· July 13, 2015 at 1:50 pm
Love the perpendicular comb! I've seen a few funny combs, but that one is really neat. Sort of looks like the face of an Easter Island statue. Enjoyed the vids. Your bees are looking awesome!
Don	· July 13, 2015 at 2:07 pm
That's a good description! I went into Sarah's hive yesterday after 2 weeks and they had really screwed up the combs at the back of the hive. At this time of year, I need to be in there every week! But they all seem to be rockin' right now!
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    throw JSINativeException(
        std::string("callGlobalFunction: JS global property '") + name +
        "' is a non-callable Object, expected a Function");
  }
  Function f = std::move(o).getFunction(runtime);
  return f.call(runtime, arg);
}

} // namespace

namespace detail {

void throwJSError(Runtime& rt, const char* msg) {
  throw JSError(rt, msg);
}

} // namespace detail

Buffer::~Buffer() = default;

PreparedJavaScript::~PreparedJavaScript() = default;

Value HostObject::get(Runtime&, const PropNameID&) {
  return Value();
}

void HostObject::set(Runtime& rt, const PropNameID& name, const Value&) {
  std::string msg("TypeError: Cannot assign to property '");
  msg += name.utf8(rt);
  msg += "' on HostObject with default setter";
  throw JSError(rt, msg);
}

HostObject::~HostObject() {}

Runtime::~Runtime() {}

Instrumentation& Runtime::instrumentation() {
  class NoInstrumentation : public Instrumentation {
    std::string getRecordedGCStats() override {
      return "";
    }

    std::unordered_map<std::string, int64_t> getHeapInfo(bool) override {
      return std::unordered_map<std::string, int64_t>{};
    }

    void collectGarbage() override {}

    void startTrackingHeapObjectStackTraces() override {}
    void stopTrackingHeapObjectStackTraces() override {}

    void createSnapshotToFile(const std::string&) override {
      throw JSINativeException(
          "Default instrumentation cannot create a heap snapshot");
    }

    void createSnapshotToStream(std::ostream&) override {
      throw JSINativeException(
          "Default instrumentation cannot create a heap snapshot");
    }

    std::string flushAndDisableBridgeTrafficTrace() override {
      std::abort();
    }

    void writeBasicBlockProfileTraceToFile(const std::string&) const override {
      std::abort();
    }

    void dumpProfilerSymbolsToFile(const std::string&) const override {
      std::abort();
    }
  };

  static NoInstrumentation sharedInstance;
  return sharedInstance;
}

Value Runtime::createValueFromJsonUtf8(const uint8_t* json, size_t length) {
  Function parseJson = global()
                           .getPropertyAsObject(*this, "JSON")
                           .getPropertyAsFunction(*this, "parse");
  return parseJson.call(*this, String::createFromUtf8(*this, json, length));
}

Pointer& Pointer::operator=(Pointer&& other) {
  if (ptr_) {
    ptr_->invalidate();
  }
  ptr_ = other.ptr_;
  other.ptr_ = nullptr;
  return *this;
}

Object Object::getPropertyAsObject(Runtime& runtime, const char* name) const {
  Value v = getProperty(runtime, name);

  if (!v.isObject()) {
    throw JSError(
        runtime,
        std::string("getPropertyAsObject: property '") + name + "' is " +
            kindToString(v, &runtime) + ", expected an Object");
  }

  return v.getObject(runtime);
}

Function Object::getPropertyAsFunction(Runtime& runtime, const char* name)
    const {
  Object obj = getPropertyAsObject(runtime, name);
  if (!obj.isFunction(runtime)) {
    throw JSError(
        runtime,
        std::string("getPropertyAsFunction: property '") + name + "' is " +
            kindToString(std::move(obj), &runtime) + ", expected a Function");
  };

  return std::move(obj).getFunction(runtime);
}

Array Object::asArray(Runtime& runtime) const& {
  if (!isArray(runtime)) {
    throw JSError(
        runtime,
        "Object is " + kindToString(Value(runtime, *this), &runtime) +
            ", expected an array");
  }
  return getArray(runtime);
}

Array Object::asArray(Runtime& runtime) && {
  if (!isArray(runtime)) {
    throw JSError(
        runtime,
        "Object is " + kindToString(Value(runtime, *this), &runtime) +
            ", expected an array");
  }
  return std::move(*this).getArray(runtime);
}

Function Object::asFunction(Runtime& runtime) const& {
  if (!isFunction(runtime)) {
    throw JSError(
        runtime,
        "Object is " + kindToString(Value(runtime, *this), &runtime) +
            ", expected a function");
  }
  return getFunction(runtime);
}

Function Object::asFunction(Runtime& runtime) && {
  if (!isFunction(runtime)) {
    throw JSError(
        runtime,
        "Object is " + kindToString(Value(runtime, *this), &runtime) +
            ", expected a function");
  }
  return std::move(*this).getFunction(runtime);
}

Value::Value(Value&& other) : Value(other.kind_) {
  if (kind_ == BooleanKind) {
    data_.boolean = other.data_.boolean;
  } else if (kind_ == NumberKind) {
    data_.number = other.data_.number;
  } else if (kind_ >= PointerKind) {
    new (&data_.pointer) Pointer(std::move(other.data_.pointer));
  }
  // when the other's dtor runs, nothing will happen.
  other.kind_ = UndefinedKind;
}

Value::Value(Runtime& runtime, const Value& other) : Value(other.kind_) {
  // data_ is uninitialized, so use placement new to create non-POD
  // types in it.  Any other kind of initialization will call a dtor
  // first, which is incorrect.
  if (kind_ == BooleanKind) {
    data_.boolean = other.data_.boolean;
  } else if (kind_ == NumberKind) {
    data_.number = other.data_.number;
  } else if (kind_ == SymbolKind) {
    new (&data_.pointer) Pointer(runtime.cloneSymbol(other.data_.pointer.ptr_));
  } else if (kind_ == StringKind) {
    new (&data_.pointer) Pointer(runtime.cloneString(other.data_.pointer.ptr_));
  } else if (kind_ >= ObjectKind) {
    new (&data_.pointer) Pointer(runtime.cloneObject(other.data_.pointer.ptr_));
  }
}

Value::~Value() {
  if (kind_ >= PointerKind) {
    data_.pointer.~Pointer();
  }
}

bool Value::strictEquals(Runtime& runtime, const Value& a, const Value& b) {
  if (a.kind_ != b.kind_) {
    return false;
  }
  switch (a.kind_) {
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    case NullKind:
      return true;
    case BooleanKind:
      return a.data_.boolean == b.data_.boolean;
    case NumberKind:
      return a.data_.number == b.data_.number;
    case SymbolKind:
      return runtime.strictEquals(
          static_cast<const Symbol&>(a.data_.pointer),
          static_cast<const Symbol&>(b.data_.pointer));
    case StringKind:
      return runtime.strictEquals(
          static_cast<const String&>(a.data_.pointer),
          static_cast<const String&>(b.data_.pointer));
    case ObjectKind:
      return runtime.strictEquals(
          static_cast<const Object&>(a.data_.pointer),
          static_cast<const Object&>(b.data_.pointer));
  }
  return false;
}

double Value::asNumber() const {
  if (!isNumber()) {
    throw JSINativeException(
        "Value is " + kindToString(*this) + ", expected a number");
  }

  return getNumber();
}

Object Value::asObject(Runtime& rt) const& {
  if (!isObject()) {
    throw JSError(
        rt, "Value is " + kindToString(*this, &rt) + ", expected an Object");
  }

  return getObject(rt);
}

Object Value::asObject(Runtime& rt) && {
  if (!isObject()) {
    throw JSError(
        rt, "Value is " + kindToString(*this, &rt) + ", expected an Object");
  }
  auto ptr = data_.pointer.ptr_;
  data_.pointer.ptr_ = nullptr;
  return static_cast<Object>(ptr);
}

Symbol Value::asSymbol(Runtime& rt) const& {
  if (!isSymbol()) {
    throw JSError(
        rt, "Value is " + kindToString(*this, &rt) + ", expected a Symbol");
  }

  return getSymbol(rt);
}

Symbol Value::asSymbol(Runtime& rt) && {
  if (!isSymbol()) {
    throw JSError(
        rt, "Value is " + kindToString(*this, &rt) + ", expected a Symbol");
  }

  return std::move(*this).getSymbol(rt);
}

String Value::asString(Runtime& rt) const& {
  if (!isString()) {
    throw JSError(
        rt, "Value is " + kindToString(*this, &rt) + ", expected a String");
  }

  return getString(rt);
}

String Value::asString(Runtime& rt) && {
  if (!isString()) {
    throw JSError(
        rt, "Value is " + kindToString(*this, &rt) + ", expected a String");
  }

  return std::move(*this).getString(rt);
}

String Value::toString(Runtime& runtime) const {
  Function toString = runtime.global().getPropertyAsFunction(runtime, "String");
  return toString.call(runtime, *this).getString(runtime);
}

Array Array::createWithElements(
    Runtime& rt,
    std::initializer_list<Value> elements) {
  Array result(rt, elements.size());
  size_t index = 0;
  for (const auto& element : elements) {
    result.setValueAtIndex(rt, index++, element);
  }
  return result;
}

std::vector<PropNameID> HostObject::getPropertyNames(Runtime&) {
  return {};
}

Runtime::ScopeState* Runtime::pushScope() {
  return nullptr;
}

void Runtime::popScope(ScopeState*) {}

JSError::JSError(Runtime& rt, Value&& value) {
  setValue(rt, std::move(value));
}

JSError::JSError(Runtime& rt, std::string msg) : message_(std::move(msg)) {
  try {
    setValue(
        rt,
        callGlobalFunction(rt, "Error", String::createFromUtf8(rt, message_)));
  } catch (const std::exception& ex) {
    message_ = std::string(ex.what()) + " (while raising " + message_ + ")";
    setValue(rt, String::createFromUtf8(rt, message_));
  } catch (...) {
    setValue(rt, Value());
  }
}

JSError::JSError(Runtime& rt, std::string msg, std::string stack)
    : message_(std::move(msg)), stack_(std::move(stack)) {
  try {
    Object e(rt);
    e.setProperty(rt, "message", String::createFromUtf8(rt, message_));
    e.setProperty(rt, "stack", String::createFromUtf8(rt, stack_));
    setValue(rt, std::move(e));
  } catch (const std::exception& ex) {
    setValue(rt, String::createFromUtf8(rt, ex.what()));
  } catch (...) {
    setValue(rt, Value());
  }
}

JSError::JSError(std::string what, Runtime& rt, Value&& value)
    : JSIException(std::move(what)) {
  setValue(rt, std::move(value));
}

void JSError::setValue(Runtime& rt, Value&& value) {
  value_ = std::make_shared<jsi::Value>(std::move(value));

  try {
    if ((message_.empty() || stack_.empty()) && value_->isObject()) {
      auto obj = value_->getObject(rt);

      if (message_.empty()) {
        jsi::Value message = obj.getProperty(rt, "message");
        if (!message.isUndefined()) {
          message_ =
              callGlobalFunction(rt, "String", message).getString(rt).utf8(rt);
        }
      }

      if (stack_.empty()) {
        jsi::Value stack = obj.getProperty(rt, "stack");
        if (!stack.isUndefined()) {
          stack_ =
              callGlobalFunction(rt, "String", stack).getString(rt).utf8(rt);
        }
      }
    }

    if (message_.empty()) {
      message_ =
          callGlobalFunction(rt, "String", *value_).getString(rt).utf8(rt);
    }

    if (stack_.empty()) {
      stack_ = "no stack";
    }

    if (what_.empty()) {
      what_ = message_ + "\n\n" + stack_;
    }
  } catch (const std::exception& ex) {
    message_ = std::string("[Exception while creating message string: ") +
        ex.what() + "]";
    stack_ = std::string("Exception while creating stack string: ") +
        ex.what() + "]";
    what_ =
        std::string("Exception while getting value fields: ") + ex.what() + "]";
  } catch (...) {
    message_ = "[Exception caught creating message string]";
    stack_ = "[Exception caught creating stack string]";
    what_ = "[Exception caught getting value fields]";
  }
}

} // namespace jsi
} // namespace facebook

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Hyderabad is culturally rich city of India. Renowned as the City of Nawabs, it specializes in aromatic biryani made from lamb and chicken. The traditions of the city have been passed down from Nizam monarchy.
The Hyderabad Tour with Ramoji Film City offers you a chance to visit some of the historical monuments, amusement parks, holy places and museums in the city..
Apart from sightseeing, you can also go for boating, joy rides and much more. Read the itinerary for further details.
On your arrival at Hyderabad airport, meet our IHPL guide. Begin your tour by visiting the beautiful monument, Char Minar; it is an amazing blend of granite, lime and mortar around which the state of Hyderabad started.
With four great gates, Char Minar is the oldest mosque in the Hyderabad. You then head to Mecca Mosque, the biggest Mosque in Hyderabad. The structure of the mosque is similar to that of Mecca Madina in Saudi Arabia. It is one of the largest mosques in India, which can accommodate thousand of devotees at a time.
Further, you visit the Qutaub Shahi Tomb, which represents the architectural tradition of Qutub Shahi dynasty. The tombs are set up in different styles, depicting Hindu, Persian and Pathan forms.
On 2nd day of the tour, pay your visit to famous Birla temple, dedicated to Lord Vishnu. The temple is a great blend of three different architectures; South-Indian, Utkala and Rajasthan. Settled at an altitude up to 280 ft, the temple offers you an amazing view of the city. You then head to the Salarjung Museum, which is a storehouse of various historic artifacts of the country. The collections include several Jade daggers belonging to Emperor Jahangir, Noor Jahan and Shah Jahan and the wardrobe of Tipu Sultan.
Further, enjoy the boat ride at Hussain Sagar Lake. Soothing your mind and soul, Hussain Sagar is one of the pristine lakes of Hyderabad. During your ride you can see the huge statue of Buddha standing on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the centre.
Located near to Hussain Sagar, you can also relish the picturesque NTR garden. The garden looks amazing with colorful flowers.
Now, proceed towards the fascinating laser show at Lumbini Gardens. It is one of the prime attractions, where you get to see the water shot up in sky, making a water screen.
The 3rd day of the tour is quite exciting and fun filled. Proceed to Ramoji Film City and explore the place with the tour guide.
Ramoji is one of the largest integrated film studios (certified by Guinness book of World records) which offer spectacular locations, games, rides, shows and other unlimited fun. There are number of films directed here in different languages; whether Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Bengali.
Packed with all natural and artificial entertainment options including picturesque landscapes, film-sets, amusement parks, statues, lamps, miniatures and hotels; Ramoji is truly a wonderland.
On the last day of the tour, you head to Hyderabad airport. Board the flight for your onward journey.


Have you ever come across this type of loan but are sceptical about whether you fit the eligibility criteria and whether you really need it? The term 'advance salary' loan is a relatively new concept but is similar to any other kind of loan.
Your vehicle breaking down all of a sudden before your payday.
You are required to pay an advance or lump sum cash amount before you shift into a new house.
There has been a medical emergency that needs immediate funds.
It is someone's birthday or anniversary and you must splurge in order to keep your loved ones happy.
These are just a few instances and examples of when you need money but your salary is not sufficient. While you cannot expect to wait for your next salary date to make the payments, you can certainly take a short-term loan to ease your financial stress and handle these situations with ease.
How Can You Avail the Loan?
A lot of banks and online creditors provide these kinds of loans. You will need to check with your bank and do some online research to find a good creditor. The application process is very easy for online creditors. All you need to do is apply online and fill in the required details. Following this, you will get an instant e-approval and the loan amount will be disbursed after verification of your documents.
With the best creditors, you must lie between 23 and 55 years of age, you must be a salaried person with a minimum monthly income of INR 15,000. However, a few creditors may have higher and more stringent eligibility criteria. Hence, you must assess your options well before choosing the right creditor.
Identity proof (Driving License/Voter's ID/Passport/ or Pan card).
Address proof (Driving license/voters ID/Utility bill/Bank Statements).
The interest rates are lowest for this type of loan. However, this is a variable factor and depends on the type of creditor. The lowest interest rates offered are at about 1.08% per month.
What Is the Minimum and Maximum Loan Amount?
This is again a variable factor and depends on the creditor-type. The standard maximum loan amount for this type of loan is INR 5 lakh and the standard minimum loan amount is INR 35,000.
What is the Loan Tenure Period?
The tenure for this type of loan is usually short and can range from a few days to a few months. Some creditors offer a flexible loan tenure that can be decided by the applicant. Hence, it can be anywhere between 2 months to 36 months.
Any salaried person is eligible for this type of advance salary loan. This type of loan has no charges for prepayment and due to high market competition, interest rates remain very low. This is the best option when you are in the need for quick money.
What Happens During Laboratory Testing?


Welcome to kitchen 101 by Dancing Through Sunday. This is a new series which gives you everything you need to have a fully functioning grown up kitchen (or pretend to have one anyway, like I do..). I aim to delve into my kitchen and get back to basics, sharing what I have learnt on my delicious foodie loving journey.
I never really learnt how to stock a pantry for the first time so my pantry had 2 tins of diced tomatoes, 4 soy sauces and an old empty packet of rice and two minutes noodles. Hopefully after this series, we can put the two minute noodles to rest and do away with sad looking fridges and pantries forever! Just kidding noodles, I could never give you up.
This first post is about the basic items needed to stock a pantry. With these ingredients, you have the base for a huge variety of different meals – just add your fresh ingredients and a few bits and pieces.
Before I start, all of these products are my personal favourites and this isn't a product review. Without further adieu..
Peanut butter: For toast, stirfry, baking, basically making my life great.. especially that peanut butter, oreo and pretzel slice.
Jam: Toast, scones, cheese and jam toasties. Yes.
The 5 objects above are all eaten almost daily! You could say they are the staples in DTS HQ. I buy Australian garlic where I can because Chinese garlic has often been bleached – no thanks. Can be stored in a dark, cool place. Garlic and onion are a staple to so many dishes and full of flavour. They keep well so are easy to stock.
Frozen things are good. They keep for a long time and are great for back ups/easy additions to meals. Pick some of your favourite stuff then freeze it. Frozen peas, frozen rasberries and frozen broccoli are the only things always in stock in my freezer. Peas because they are so easy to whip up into salads (Pea and Haloumi salad), stirfries, fried rice or alongside some mash. Rasberries because they are the yummiest snack ever and perfect with muesli. Broccoli because whenever I am sick I crave frozen broccoli, it's my thing. Whatever makes you feel better, stock it in your freezer!
Make sure you have a flour on hand so you can make simple and delicious things such as wholemeal gnocchi, wholemeal pizza dough, or wholemeal gingerbread men. Muffins, brownies, bread.. I could go on forever. I like to have a GF flour on hand incase you have to make a recipe for someone gluten intolerant.
Always having a range of oils, vinegars and sauces means you're able to whip up dressings and flavour stirfries whenever, whereever. Don't stinge on olive oil but also have a cooking oil on hand. I use coconut oil or olive oil but have a fancy extra virgin olive oil for dressings and drizzling.
I have SO many recipes using these bad boys (veggie chili, breakfast tacos, lentil bolognese) They are so simple to add to a salad, curry and are basically begging to be turned into a tasty Mexican meal. Chickpeas are also in stock however I made some hummus recently so they are on the next shopping list! Also include diced tomatoes and little mini tins of tomato paste for pasta.
8. Lentils, brown rice, wholemeal pasta, oats and polenta.
Not only is it cheaper to buy these things in bulk, but the jars look pretty and it helps inspire me wih dinner options some times because I can actually see what I have got. How's all those benefits?!
Spices can be daunting but they can really take meals to the next level. Above are the spices I use the most, being turmeric, chili, ground cumin, dried rosemary and paprika. Most of my recipes use these spices above and I think they are a great place to start – experimenting with them is the easiest way to get to know each spice.
Other things: I forgot to mention include vegetable stock, bread crumbs, dijon mustard, muesli, grass fed butter, a good quality sea salt and then you're ready to add some veggies and get cooking!
If you're after any foodspiration, head over to the recipe index. There is plenty of recipes using the ingredients above.
Whats a staple you keep in your pantry at all times?
If you have a friend that needs some pantry inspiration, share this article with them!
Im missing a few in the grains section. Are your jars really that clean ? You have put my pantry to shame.
This is such a great post. I have almost everything! I have enough tins of beans, chopped tomatoes and grains to feed a small army (Mother Hubbard just isn't my style.) We freeze leftover bread and blitz it in the Thermomix (or food processor) to make fresh breadcrumbs. I also freeze over ripe bananas which are great for smoothies, banana bread and instant ice cream! Oh, and don't forget the vegemite!
A great list! I recently cleaned my pantry out. It is over flowing with baking ingredients. I think I'll need to use them up. I love storing things like that in recycled jars, I feel they keep things fresher but that could be unfounded lol. I really like Verjuice (Sp) I don't drink so its a good substitute for white wine in things like risotto.
I always keep all my baking stuff and hardly use it again so I feel your pain!!! It just really adds up doesnt it?! Oh wow I haven't heard of that, I shall have to try it out because I never keep alcohol in the house.
Great post – I didn't know that about Chinese garlic, will try to buy Aussie in the future. I pretty much always have carrots in the house, I eat several raw every day. I also love tahini and always have cocoa powder to whip up chocolaty things!
Tahini is a must for delicious dressings and dips. Carrots are also so easy to munch on or grate into everything!
I always make sure to have a few tinned tomatoes in my pantry, as well. Tinned tomatoes and quinoa for quick week night dinners!
Oh yes, tinned tomatoes are a must. I forgot about them but I always have at least 2 tins!
A must-have item I'd also recommend is white miso. It last forever in the fridge and adds an amazing vegan umami flavor to dressings, sauces, soups, and just about everything else.
I try to always keep fresh turmeric now, it's so beautiful and not at all like the dried spice! Though not technically a cooking ingredient, I try to keep a herbal tea or two (and ever run out of coffee of course) and I always know if I'm out of coconut milk!
I have never used fresh turmeric before!!! I must try. I always have tea and coffee too and coconut milk! I totally forgot about those, oops.
I am a cheese lover so I am totally okay with that. I also have pasta on hand (rigatoni, spaghetti and penne usually). YUM now I want pasta.
Snap Bec, many of these are my staples too! Thanks for sharing, I look forward to seeing more of your grown up kitchen series.
There are a few things here that I probably should have in my cupboard so thanks for the reminder.
No worries!! This is just what works for me and what I cook but if it works for you too, thats awesome!
If I have onions, tinned tomatoes beans and herbs (GARLIC!) I can be fed.
I totally like your style. It's like a delish chili stew or fancy baked beans!
Such a great post, you have a healthy store cupboard. Your totally right if you have these things in stock you always have the basis for a healthy tasty meal. I think I generally have most of these things in my cupboard except the rice malt syrup which I'm curious about.
I have just enjoyed using it instead of table sugar in recipes. It's the same as using honey or maple syrup as a sweetner but I don't really like honey so rice malt it is!
Yay, I passed, I have everything you mentioned!! I'd need to add 70% dark chocolate to the list too!
This is so helpful – I've already spotted about ten items I'm missing in my pantry (aka all the healthy stuff lol). I have a big collection of spices at home too and I also keep pasta sauce, puff pastry and dark chocolate on hand.


After the positive response to the eladrin a couple of months ago in Unearthed Arcana, WOTC decided to explore four more elf subraces: avariel (winged elves), grugach (the wild elves of Greyhawk), sea elves, and shadar-kai (deathly servants of the Raven Queen). Later this month, a survey on these options will appear on the D&D website. Please try them out and let them know in that survey what you think.


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MSU horticulturist wins national award
Mr. Robert Nathan Gregory
MSU Extension Service
BILOXI, Miss. -- A horticulturist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service has received a national award for excellence in gardening communication.
Gary Bachman was awarded a Silver Medal of Achievement as part of the 2019 GardenComm Media Awards for his Southern Gardening television program. Winners of the Silver Award are entered for judging in the GardenComm Garden Media Gold Awards.
GardenComm is an organization of professional horticultural communicators. Its annual media awards program recognizes outstanding work in broadcast, electronic and print media, as well as photography and graphic design.
Bachman, who also works with the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, is a member of the Fellows of the American Society for Horticultural Science. His work will be honored at the GardenComm Awards and Honors Dinner on Sept. 7 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Along with Extension and Experiment Station horticulturalists Christine Coker and Patricia Knight, Bachman was also selected to deliver a presentation to the American Society for Horticultural Science in Las Vegas, Nev., later this month. They will discuss the disappearance of the Long Beach red radish and how their research led to its rediscovery.
Bachman is an Extension and research professor of horticulture at the MSU Coastal Research and Extension Center in Biloxi. Southern Gardening is a weekly segment designed to air within Mississippi television newscasts. It also is available in weekly newspaper columns, in radio podcasts and on social media outlets.
Bachman earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Clemson University. He went on to Ohio State University to get a doctorate. Before he came to MSU, Bachman was on the faculty at Tennessee Technological University and Illinois State University.
Visit the Southern Gardening homepage at http://extension.msstate.edu/shows/southern-gardening.
Released: July 3, 2019
Contacts: Dr. Gary R. Bachman
News Story Contact
Dr. Gary R. Bachman
Extension/Research Professor
Ornamental Horticulture Host of Southern Gardening
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Heat-loving Rudbeckia offer big summer blooms
Old Southern classic crinum lilies remain a good selection
Minor Echinacea species make big garden impacts
Beautiful and easy-to-grow coneflowers make them a hit
FLORAL DESIGNS for Christmastime
Marigolds (Tagetes erecta) for the Farmer Florist
Roses in Mississippi - The Allure, Lore and History of Roses
Publication Number: IS1663
The Plant Doctor - Cold Injury
The Plant Doctor - Plant Disease and Fertilization
Coast Gardener
Don't Touch Those Daffodil Leaves
Planting Spring Flowering Bulbs
Deadhead for More Color
Crazy for Coneflowers
Volcanoes are coming!


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Less than one per cent of web users like Microsoft's Edge browser
Charlie Fripp
When Microsoft first announced its shiny-new Edge browser – released with Windows 10 – it's fair to say that it didn't exactly inspire the masses to jump ship from Google's Chrome and Mozilla's FireFox.
It might have attracted curious onlookers who hoped Edge was going to be the browser that could finally put Microsoft back on the web surfing map. Sadly, this doesn't seem to have been the case.
According to some number crunching on web analytics page StatsCounter, less than 1% (0.82% to be exact) of people on the internet use Edge to get around cyberspace.
The chart above was created by displaying the top 12 desktop browsers between August and September this year, with all the versions of Google's Chrome and FireFox grouped together, respectively.
We are well aware that this is by no means the final version of Edge, but it definitely failed to make the impact that Microsoft had hoped for.
Some of Edge's bigger features include distraction-free browsing, extensive Cortana integration (Cortana is Microsoft's built-in helper, sort of like their Siri), a new tab interface, the ability to write on and share any web page and quite a bit more. But all these features don't seem to have swayed the masses.
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Charlie started his professional life as a motoring journalist for a community newspaper in Mpumalanga, Charlie explored different journalistic angles since his entry into the fast-paced world of publishing in 2006. While fostering a passion for the arts, Charlie developed a love for technology – both which allowed him to serve as Entertainment and Technology Editor for an online publication. Charlie has since been heavily involved in consumer technology for various websites and publications. He thoroughly enjoys World War II films and cerebral documentaries; aviation; photography and indie music. Oh yes, and he also has a rather strange obsession with collecting coffee mugs from his travels.
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