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The Bitter Truth is the fifth studio album by American rock band Evanescence. It was released on March 26, 2021, through BMG Rights Management and was produced by Nick Raskulinecz. It is the band's first album of all-new material since their 2011 self-titled third album.  The Bitter Truth received a positive critical reception. It reached number 11 on the US Billboard 200, top five on the Billboard Independent, Alternative, Hard Rock, and Rock Albums charts, and the top 10 of multiple international album charts.

Background and recording
Lead vocalist Amy Lee first spoke about a new studio album for the band in July 2018. In an interview with Detroit radio station WRIF, Lee confirmed that the band planned to work on a new album following the end of their tour in support of Synthesis.

In an interview with Sirius XM backstage at Epicenter Festival at Rockingham Speedway in May 2019, Lee again confirmed that a new album was in the works. Blabbermouth.net reported that Lee was hoping the album would be ready for release in 2020. "We're just gonna get together and see what happens this month," she said, "and start doing that more regularly until we feel like we're ready to do it."

Lee then provided an update on the album in November 2019, while taking part in a Reddit AMA. Responding to a question pertaining to new music from the band, Lee commented that she was "absolutely living in it" and was "listen[ing] to our new music every day."

The band entered the studio in January 2020 with Nick Raskulinecz, with whom they had previously worked on 2011's Evanescence. Although originally planning to work with several producers across the album, the band's plans changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This then turned Raskulinecz into The Bitter Truths sole producer. In August, the U.S.-based band members returned into the studio to finish writing and recording after taking COVID tests, and German guitarist Jen Majura had to work remotely. On September 9, the album was nearing completion, with "70% done". Recording was completed in November.

The album was announced in April 2020, and was originally planned for release in late 2020. The pandemic delayed the album's completion, however, and eventually pushed it to a March 2021 release.

Lee talked about the core theme of the album:

Composition
The album is described as alternative metal, gothic metal, heavy metal, and hard rock.

Amy Lee disclosed the inspiration behind the new songs in a Marie Claire interview:

"Yeah Right", "Feeding the Dark", and "Take Cover", the latter previously debuted live in the 2016 live shows, were originally written for the 2011 self-titled album, but were reworked a decade later.

Release and promotion
The Bitter Truth was first announced with the release of its lead single, "Wasted on You", in April 2020. Its second single, "The Game Is Over", followed in July. The band released an additional two singles in August's "Use My Voice" and December's "Yeah Right" (as a promotional one). The former featured guest vocalists from bands such as Veridia, Within Temptation, The Pretty Reckless and Halestorm. The latter, meanwhile, was released to coincide with the announcement of the album's tracklist and release date. The fourth single, "Better Without You", was released on March 5, 2021.

To promote the album in advance, the band performed the first single "Wasted on You" at the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show on February 19, 2021. The band also toured Europe in 2022, in a co-headlining tour alongside Within Temptation.

Reception

Critical reception

The Bitter Truth received a positive critical reception. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has a weighted average score of 78 based on eight reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Dannii Leivers of Metal Hammer deemed the album "darkly emotional, empowering and politically charged", which is "nestled between the bold and the familiar" and has "some surprises up its sleeve". Writing for Rolling Stone, Jon Dola complimented Lee's songwriting and her ability to "sound intimate and revealing even when the music engulfs her in a maelstrom", calling the album a "take-no-prisoners battle for redemption" that bares "life's battle scars". In Renowned for Sound, Mike Corner said the record "remains satisfyingly heavy throughout", and in combination with Lee's vocals it reminds how deftly Evanescence can "harness the power of heavy rock music".

Josh Weiner from Atwood Magazine praised the album's energy, instrumental work, emotional range and uplifting theme of perseverance, concluding that "Evanescence prove that they're still a hugely compelling act" and "all of the band's positive virtues have endured". Entertainment Weekly writer Sydney Bucksbaum said Lee's voice "has never sounded more passionate than it does on The Bitter Truth". Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph felt that the mature tone and sharp lyrics "make up for an old-fashioned sound". For Gigwise, Vicky Greer regarded the album a "bold show of emotions that occasionally gets lost in translation" as the "vocals and lyrics are somewhat lost in production, lacking a certain emphasis – if you don't listen at maximum volume, you might miss out on some of the finer details of the album." Los Angeles Timess Suzy Exposito said Lee wrote "her fiercest songs to date" and "Evanescence continues to own the space where frosty electronic currents collide with volcanic surges of metal catharsis and coagulate into hard rock candy". The Bitter Truth is a "beast of many moods" endowed with "stellar" musicianship and vocals, Garry Bushell reviewed in Daily Express.  Danielle Chelosky wrote in Spin that Lee's strength "is clearer than ever, and she's reclaiming even more this time", while the "reckoning and pain" of experiences permeates the album with "vivid imagery", vulnerability and empowerment alongside a "bigger and bolder" sound.

Kerrang!s Nick Ruskell said The Bitter Truth offers "comfort, catharsis and a new perspective", with Lee's contemplations looking outward as much as inward in forward-thinking notion alongside an "ever-expanding musical palette, still rooted in the vaguely gothy metal of old, but now with the heaviness taken further and punctuated with electronics and keyboards". Thomas Green of The Arts Desk considered the album "a sturdy testament to lead singer and band-boss Amy Lee's continuing surety of vision". Reviewing for Consequence, Claire Colette viewed the record as an "triumphant" return, "reminiscent of the band's older material but also entirely fresh", with the band's passion and energy "evident throughout" and Lee's "immense talent as a vocalist and songwriter consistently shining through". The album was deemed "emotionally charged" by Scott Mervis of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and "dynamic" by Chicago Sun-Times writer Selena Fragassi. Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic called it "one of the band's most engaging works, balancing sonic power with Lee's inimitable vocals and songwriting", and carrying listeners "on a journey both familiar and fresh ... pushing Evanescence into the future with a graceful maturity and worldly perspective." Revolver called The Bitter Truth a "triumphant statement of perseverance, with Lee seizing her role as alt-metal elder stateswoman for some of the hardest hitting songs of her career."

Accolades

Track listing

Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Bitter Truth.

Evanescence
 Amy Lee – lead vocals, piano, keyboards, additional programming
 Troy McLawhorn – guitar
 Jen Majura – guitar, backing vocals
 Tim McCord – bass
 Will Hunt – drums

Additional musicians
 David Campbell – string arrangements
 Alan Umstead – strings contractor, concertmaster
 Nashville Music Scoring – orchestra
 Lzzy Hale – backing vocals (track 8)
 Taylor Momsen – backing vocals (track 8)
 Deena Jakoub – backing vocals (track 8)
 Lindsey Stirling – backing vocals (track 8)
 Sharon den Adel – backing vocals (track 8)
 Lori Lee – backing vocals (track 8)
 Carrie Lee – backing vocals (track 8)
 Amy McLawhorn – backing vocals (track 8)

Additional personnel
 Nick Raskulinecz – production, mixing, recording
 Nathan Yarborough – engineering
 Logan Greeson – assistant engineering
 Nick Spezia – strings engineering
 Ted Jensen – mastering
 Tiago Nuñez – programming (tracks 2–11)
 Will B. Hunt – additional programming
 Chris Vrenna – additional programming (track 10)
 Scott Kirkland – programming production (track 1)
 Josh Hartzler – cover photo
 P.R. Brown – album design, photography
 Nick Fancher – photography

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

2021 albums
Evanescence albums
Albums produced by Nick Raskulinecz
Albums impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
Albums postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Gothic metal albums by American artists


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100 elephants killed in 2 years across south
All India News
Kunjumon has lived most of his adult life in the forests of Kerala — as a government watchman and then as a cook for poachers. Going by his confessions to the police, he didn't find the transition any dramatic: both his roles have been passive.
But an incident sometime early last year changed his life. He was witness to poachers shooting down a baby elephant. Kunjumon later told some foresters that he couldn't bear the sight, but kept mum — till it became unbearable. In June this year, the 62-year-old walked into a forest office and poured his heart out.
When they called him a mad man, he went to another office and detailed his association with the poaching gang and the killings the gang had carried out in the forests of Vazhachal, Munnar and Parambikulam. What emerged in the probe was a massive poaching operation for tusks (ivory) in not just Kerala, but neighbouring Tamil Nadu and Karnataka as well.
While investigators in Kerala found that the gang had killed more than 20 elephants in 10 months, forest officials told TOI that the toll in the southern region in the past two years could be as high as 100. And this would be the gravest of periods for elephants in the south after forest brigand Veerappan was gunned down in 2004.
Investigations in the past two months have led forest officials as much to elephant carcasses as to a rotten nexus of poachers and some forest officers. No wonder, among the 40 people arrested in the case so far is a forest range officer and a deputy range officer. They also found poachers' dens in the Vazhachal forest and at least 17 country-made guns.
The latest of seizures came on Tuesday, when a team raiding the Adimali area in Idukki recovered more guns, suggesting that the racket had spread from Malayatoor to the Munnar forests. Across the border, in Tamil Nadu, officials found rampant poaching in Sathyamangalam and Mudumalai tiger reserves, and Bandipur in Karnataka.
With inputs from Kunjumon, forest officials identified the mastermind, a man called Aikaramatton Vasu, but before they could reach him, he was found dead in a farmhouse in Dodamarg in Maharashtra. There was a suicide note. So now, it's mostly stock-taking of the quantum of poaching that has been silently happening. "We have recovered some 50kg of ivory, but we aren't sure if they all came from wild elephants," said a Kerala vigilance officer. Curiously, they found that some of the ivory was more than 10 years old, suggesting that poaching had been happening for a long time.
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It's not just the demand for illegal artifacts that aids poaching; medical myths have contributed to the latest spurt. "We suspect some ayurvedic drug makers are part of the illegal business chain. Some of them have been selling potions with ivory content as a magic remedy for baldness," a Kerala forest officer said.
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The Dulwich Society Journal for Summer 2020.
Lost houses of Dulwich: Bessemer House and The Grange, Denmark Hill
By Bernard Nurse
The grounds of Bessemer House were described by the historian of Camberwell, William Blanch as "the most charming spot within the hamlet" of Dulwich. They were laid out after Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-1898) acquired the lease of the house in 1863, and remained until the house, estate and The Grange next door were compulsorily purchased by Camberwell Borough Council in 1947 to create the council's Denmark Hill Estate. The house had a long history of occupation by a series of wealthy and influential residents and, with its neighbours, as a residential hotel in later years.
The two houses, 165 Denmark Hill and the house immediately to the south, number 167 were built between 1850 and 1852 on the site of a single house with extensive grounds which was demolished two years earlier. The older house and land had been acquired by two City merchants who lived locally. William Boutcher (1795-1883) was a partner in the Bermondsey firm of Boutcher, Mortimer & Co., who were said to be one of the largest importers of American leather. His partner in the purchase, Thomas Shepperson (1808-1857), was a linen draper with premises in Cheapside occupied by the firm of Allin and Shepperson. Boutcher built number 165 and lived there with his wife, daughter, a cook, two housemaids, a kitchen maid and general servant according to the 1861 census. Shepperson lived at number 167 with his wife, but when he died in 1857 his widow moved to a house on Herne Hill. Their son Allin (1826-1891), a leather merchant like Boutcher, was occupying the house in 1861 with his wife, four children and five servants.
Both houses were described by the Dulwich Estate as "good and substantial" but 165 was larger, on three floors, and grander, with classical features and more land attached to it. This was the one that the highly successful inventor and engineer, Sir Henry Bessemer leased in 1863. Shortly afterwards he rented the house next door for his daughter, Elizabeth and her husband, William Wright, the chief clerk at Trinity House, the organization responsible for maintaining lighthouses. Wright's house was called Cartmel House at this point and was mock Tudor in design with two floors.
By this time Bessemer had made a considerable fortune from his inventions and was able to spare no expense in developing his estate. In the 1870's, Blanch wrote that the house he acquired ten years earlier was 'less pretentious and imposing in size and ornamentation than it is at present'; so he may have added the tower, parapet and grand porch. The most distinctive feature was the large conservatory built on the side of the house; this was designed by Bessemer, assisted by the Estate architects, Banks and Barry who were responsible for the new Dulwich College a few years later. It was heated from a crypt below and highly decorated with marble, mosaics and mirrors with designs based on the Alhambra palace, Granada.. Above was a 40 foot high dome glazed with stained glass; in the central space beneath was a marble basin filled with specimen plants and the whole could be brightly illuminated at night by 80 gas burners in Roman lamps. In front of the house was a lawn, graced with deer, next to it was a number of greenhouses for growing plants such as vines, peaches, oranges, orchids, ferns and rare plants. Bessemer gradually acquired more land so that the estate eventually extended to 40 acres, stretching from Denmark Hill on the west to Green Lane on the east and as far as the railway line approaching North Dulwich station on the south east.
Blanch considered the view from the marble terrace at the rear of the house as "perhaps unsurpassed around the metropolis", in the distance stretching across from Forest Hill, Sydenham Hill, Crystal Palace to Tulse Hill. In the foreground, sloping down the hill, Bessemer introduced a kitchen garden, a model farm with a meadow for cattle, and a large lake. The earth from the lake was used to create a spectacular grotto with one room representing a Moorish palace and another a natural cavern in which exotic ferns of great size hung from rugged pillars. Two buildings in the grounds reflected Bessemer's scientific interests. He suffered from seasickness and tried to design a vessel with stabilisers; it was not a success but a model of the steamship Bessemer was erected in the grounds. He also experimented with designing a large telescope in a revolving observatory and was still working on the lens at the time of his death in 1898. He lived in the house with his wife and household which consisted of himself and his wife, a butler, cook, two maids, gardener and coachman.
William Wright, his family and household lived at number 167 for over 40 years, during which time it gained its name as The Grange. In 1871, it included his wife, their two surviving children as well as four servants and two coachmen living above the stables. Twenty years later, their children had left but their granddaughter had moved in and the household included a butler as well as cook, kitchen maid and two housemaids. William Wright died in 1908, the lease was assigned by Shepperson's successor to Edwin Henry Bartlett and the property began its use as a residential hotel. Initially there were just two boarders, both teachers from Northumberland, apparently sisters, one retired; the cook came from Norway and the porter from Switzerland.
Meanwhile, Bessemer House continued in private occupation after the death of Sir Henry, leased from 1899 by the fur and skin merchant Arthur Felix Hirschel (1853-1913). He was born in Germany, but became a naturalised British citizen in 1892, when he was living in Hampstead. Hirschel was a partner in the firm of Hirschel and Meyer, based in Leipzig but with offices throughout the world, including London, Paris, Moscow and Shanghai. The firm had an extensive international trade dealing in seal skins and ermine among other products. He lived at number 165 with his wife and a large household of seven servants; they had no children. The land off Green Lane which Sir Henry Bessemer had also leased for his model farm with its herd of Alderney cattle was assigned to Hirschel "for athletic purposes". A number of tennis clubs were established there. Adjoining the railway line from North Dulwich Station, the fields were acquired by JAGS in 1912 and were partly used by the botany teacher, Dr Lillian Clarke for practical lessons in the subject and was where she planted a wood, created a country lane and developed examples of British habitat such as a peat bog and a pebble beach. These features, including the Natural Order beds are still maintained by the school.
Hirschel and his wife moved back to Hampstead shortly before he died in 1913, and the lease was assigned to another wealthy businessman, Sir William Vestey from 1909 to 1922. William and his brother, Edmund, made their fortunes by pioneering the use of refrigeration to preserve foodstuffs. They eventually acquired the largest refrigerated fleet in the world, forming the basis of the Blue Star Line, and owned over 2,000 butcher's shops as well as many cattle ranches in Argentina. William was created a baronet in 1913 for his part in making cheap food more widely available. During World War I, he allowed Bessemer House to be used as a soldier's convalescent hospital. However, encouraged by his second wife who had worked during the war at Kingswood House, he took a lease on this property in 1919, and they occupied it a few years later. Unfortunately Bessemer House appears to have suffered during its occupation by soldiers and Vestey's subsequent neglect. When he tried to sell the lease, the Estate Governors took legal action against him for breaching covenants to keep the house in good repair.
165 Denmark Hill then joined 167 as a residential hotel, and in 1923 became part of the group run by William Wilson and his wife Laura and which included numbers 161 and 163, John Ruskin's former house. Vestey agreed to pay the Governors £1750 (equivalent to about £100,000 today) and legal fees, Mrs Wilson agreed spend no less than £2,000 (over £120,000 today) on repairs and alterations and was granted a new lease for all four properties for 30 years from June 1922 for a ground rent of £800 a year (just under £50,000 today). They were run as separate units: two hotels, Bessemer Grange and Ruskin Manor possessed 200 rooms with gas fires and sports facilities that included a nine-hole golf course on 40 acres of land, and a tennis club with thirteen courts.
Both buildings were damaged during World War 2. According to the Camberwell Golden Jubilee booklet of 1950, over 14,000 homes in the borough had been either destroyed or badly damaged and all except a few hundred out of the 40,000 total had suffered some damage, so there was desperate need for new housing locally. In 1947, the buildings were compulsorily purchased by Camberwell Borough Council and demolished to make way for the Denmark Hill Estate. At the time of its opening the estate was the council's biggest scheme, providing 682 homes. It was unusual in being built on the site of some of the largest houses in the area rather than on low quality housing. The Bessemer House conservatory stood on what is now the Basingdon Way circle while Bessemer Grange was situated between Basingdon Way and the Tayside Court flats. Hillcrest Lodge, near what is now the junction of Sunray Avenue and Denmark Hill, and served The Grange, was not demolished until 1961. An old oak tree in the playground of Bessemer Grange Primary School is the only survivor of the trees planted in the grounds of Bessemer House.
The Patents of Sir Henry Bessemer
It is not only the number if patents registered by Sir Henry Bessemer of his inventions over his lifetime, but the sheer variety of his work. Some 129 patents were registered in his lifetime and although he notionally retired in 1870, seven years after moving to Denmark Hill, he continued to register a wide variety of inventions and adaptions. The patents registered when he first was a resident were in connection with his pig iron converter processes for iron and steel manufacture and the apparatus and presses used, however in 1864 he was registering patents for projectiles and ordnance and in complete contrast, that of grindstones and artificial stone. In 1869 he registered yet another patent on the conversion of molten pig iron to malleable iron and steel. It was an intensive year for him and a further six patents connected with this process were registered.
His well-documented experience of suffering from seasickness led to his first patent for the construction of vessels designed to avoid the condition and are referred to in the article above. However, the subject clearly obsessed Bessemer and further patents in connection with solving of seasickness through the construction of vessels with gyroscopically suspended saloons in order to alleviate the problem continued to intrigue him for several more years. Ships' alarms were another subject of his patenting.
Quite a different study produced yet another patent in 1871 when Bessemer's interest turned to the asphalting of pavements and the following year, probably stimulated by his desire to build in his grounds at Denmark Hill an observatory with a gigantic telescope, a patent for the manufacture of reflecting lenses. His continuing enthusiasm involving vessels led to other aspects of marine engineering and for machinery to facilitate the loading of ships. His final patent, registered in 1883 for was machinery to load railway rolling stock
Sources: Patricia Jenkyns, The Story of Henry Bessemer, revised edition, Herne Hill Society, 2013; William H. Blanch, Ye Parish of Camerwell, 1875; Brian Green, " Farming in Dulwich", Dulwich Society Journal, Summer 2012, Paul Bessemer provided valuable assistance and Sharon O'Connor kindly assisted by researching census returns, directories etc.
Gustav Holst and the Whitsun Festival in Dulwich 1920
By Philippa Tudor
At the end of the 1920 summer term Gustav Holst left his post at James Allen's Girls' School (JAGS) after 16 years of teaching class singing there. Although he was no longer on the payroll, JAGS retained a special place in his heart. He returned on a number of occasions, endearing himself to his audience by referring to JAGS as "home", and on Whit Monday 1926 JAGS gardens were Holst's chosen venue for the première of his first choral ballet, The Golden Goose. As well as rewarding his former pupils by making good use of the bundles of music manuscript paper which they presented to him as a leaving gift, before he stopped formally teaching at JAGS Holst organised one of the three-day Whitsun festivals which he regarded as amongst the highlights of his own music making, and indeed of his life.
The Dulwich Whitsun Festival was held at a time when its participants needed something to celebrate. Thousands of men from Dulwich and nearby Camberwell had enlisted to serve their country in the Great War. Hundreds were killed, some not as a direct result of war but from the sudden and devastating Spanish Flu which swept Europe in successive deadly waves in 1918 and 1919. The 800 or so beds in the Southwark Union Poor Law Infirmary on East Dulwich Grove, just down the road from JAGS, had been requisitioned for use as a war hospital, and over the next four years between 14 and 15 thousand wounded soldiers were tended to there. In June 2019, as Holst was returning safely from his own war-related service with the YMCA, the mostly elderly civilian occupants of the Infirmary were returning to their institutional home. Dulwich schools had remained open throughout the war one way or another, and by May 1920 Dulwich village had regained much of its semi-rural tranquillity.
JAGS was the young Gustavus von Holst's first teaching post, which he started in 1904, the year after his honeymoon. His daughter Imogen later explained how "he came back to England without a penny in the world, but with the firm conviction that it was time to give up the trombone and that he would spend his life composing". Life was hard for the struggling composer and his wife, and they barely made ends meet through the ingenuity of Holst's wife Isobel making clothes for her friends, which she was good at, and music-copying, which the surviving evidence suggests she was not. Just in the nick of time Holst's great friend from the Royal College of Music Ralph Vaughan Williams suggested that he should replace him at JAGS. After a term's probation Holst had proved his worth and was taken on on a permanent basis.
Teaching in Dulwich was never convenient for Holst. Arriving in time to play the piano for Friday morning assembly before a full day's teaching involved an early start from his home in West London. The maid who joined the small von Holst household after the birth of daughter Imogen in 1907 "… couldn't bear to have to call him on the mornings when he taught at Dulwich, as it seemed hard that anyone who always looked so tired should have to go to work so very early. She would compromise between duty and inclination by tapping as lightly as possible at the door, and whispering hoarsely: 'Ere's yer ot water, sir. Poor man.'"
The conditions for teaching music at JAGS were not ideal - in contrast to those at one of his subsequent major teaching appointments at St Paul's Girls' School, where in 1913 a new music wing was opened, complete with a sound-proof room built to Holst's demanding specification. Singing classes at JAGS were held in what is now the Holst Hall, as Mary Nash (JAGS 1918-1924) recalled:
"During the day we went, form by form, into the Dining Hall, with the form rooms on either side in use for normal lessons. The room on the right hand side of the hall was called the "shutter classroom", that shutter not completely blocking the all-day singing, as I remember when it was our form room!, and there was always a certain amount of traffic through the Hall, and the dinner tables being set out, also people crossing the gallery - so hardly the ideal setting."
The fact that Holst stuck it out for so long is an indication of his deep affection for his JAGS pupils. So too was the music he wrote for them, which includes some of his most beautiful choral works. In 1905 Holst collaborated with the headmistress on a series of tableaux based on Tennyson's poem "The Princess". His songs were to become some of his first serious music to be published, and are still frequently performed across the world. He turned the vicissitudes of the physical space in which he had to teach into an advantage, using for the first time an echo chorus in "The splendour falls". One of his pupils described "the choir singing and walking off along a corridor and shutting themselves in a far-off room getting softer and softer - leaving the audience straining their ears for the last note." Holst was later to use a similar technique in his most famous composition, The Planets Suite.
Throughout his time teaching at Dulwich, however, Holst's future fame was far from apparent. In public life he was painfully shy, but he soon became a popular teacher. In 1910 the School Inspectors reported: the "large classes [usually two forms together] are managed with extraordinary skill by the Master, who contrives to teach them not only Singing but a good deal of the technique of the subject". The younger girls sang with "an alertness and precision of attack which are very uncommon even with very much older children".
Holst deprecated the music usually served up at girls' schools. He enjoyed teaching precision in part-singing by getting his pupils to sing rounds such as the Dargason faster and faster. One current Dulwich resident recalls his mother simply describing his lessons as "fun". Another early published work (1908) was Holst's edition of Michael Este's 17th madrigal "How merrily we live", which was one of his favourite pieces at JAGS, and which quickly entered the repertoire for singing competitions. As well as working their way through the National Song Book, Holst's JAGS pupils sang Orlando di Lasso's "Adoremus Te", Victoria's "Duo Seraphim", and the four Brahms part-songs for female voices, horn and strings. When he started teaching at JAGS there was no school orchestra, so for the Brahms performance Holst enlisted Adolf Borsdorf, probably the best horn player at the time, and the founder of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Holst, like Borsdorf, suffered from the anti-German sentiment rampant during the First World War, despite the fact in Holst's case that his ancestors were not in fact German. Repeatedly turned down for war service, unlike Vaughan Williams, and unlike his wife, who became a volunteer ambulance driver, Holst was frustrated by the fact that his contribution was limited to leading his adult pupils in singing in underground shelters to raise morale. On 31 May 1916, when the plans for the Battle of the Somme were underway, the Prime Minister announced the postponement of the traditional Whitsun holiday in munitions areas. Holst's response was to organise the first of three annual Whitsun festivals at his home town of Thaxted in Essex, which he and its participants experienced as "a feast - an orgy" of music-making.
In 1918 Holst was finally accepted for war-related service with the YMCA in Salonica. As well as his always poor health his surname - von Holst - had been viewed as a barrier to service. Former JAGS pupil May Moore, recounting second-hand memories by her friends, later remembered "being told that when Mr Holst, like many other people with German-sounding names, changed his name by deed poll, the school was told that they must be very careful to call him Mr Holst and not Mr Von Holst."
Whilst he was absent abroad the JAGS brownies were encouraged to write to Holst, and some of his picture postcard replies are now treasured in the JAGS archives. When making plans for his arrival back in England at the end of June 1919 Holst prioritised early visits to St Paul's Girls' School and JAGS. He was certainly enthusiastically greeted at the latter, writing to his friend Whittaker: "I'm having a wild time. My clothes were nearly torn off by 350 small people at my Dulwich school yesterday."
But Holst's absence from the weekly grind had also provided time for reflection about the next phase of his career. Whilst reluctant to abandon teaching, he also wanted to cut back on the time spent commuting so as to spend more of the week in Thaxted, and thus to have more time to compose. By 1919 he had already composed several of his best-known works, including The Planets Suite and The Hymn of Jesus. He spent the late summer of 1919 writing his beautiful Ode to Death in memory of musicians who had been killed in the war. He also composed his Festival Te Deum for chorus and orchestra, and, as his notebook records in brackets, he "revised old things for press". The Hymn of Jesus was published in 1919 and when Holst conducted its first public performance in March 1920 it was such an overwhelming success that there were calls from the audience for a repeat performance there and then. Overwhelmed himself by the acclaim to which he never became accustomed, Holst walked out into the street whilst the applause continued. Although the even more popular Planets Suite did not receive its first complete performance until the end of 1920, unbeknownst to his pupils in Dulwich and elsewhere their teacher was about to become a musical celebrity.
Thus is was that JAGS teachers wrote in the School Magazine after his untimely death in 1934, having decided to cut back on his school teaching commitments:
"Holst wanted the James Allen's girls to share, for once, at least, such a wonderful experience, so with the permission of the Dulwich College authorities the Whitsuntide Festival of 1920 was held in the Old College Chapel and its garden … He wanted them to have every chance of enjoying music, for he believed with Bach that 'the aim of music is the glory of God and pleasant recreation.' "
Moving the Whitsun Festival from Thaxted, where the parish church is exceptionally large and uncluttered, to Dulwich involved careful organisation. Fortunately this means that Holst's Dulwich festival is particularly well documented, with several pages of pencil notes in his pocket notebooks detailing his plans as they evolved. A contingent of his pupils at Morley College for working men and women in Waterloo were to "come Sat wet or fine". The venue was Christ's Chapel and its gardens, and Holst mapped out how to arrange the choir both inside and out. He noted down the number of places in the chapel, reckoning on seven in each stall, with the basses spread out. Outside he spread the choir members across one of the sides of the quadrangle.
Holst's notes document how he built up the three-day programme, and administrative details, from arranging for music copying, to counting the copies of scores, deputing someone to fetch the music on the Saturday morning ("Dulcie see to it?)". From an early stage of his planning a masque arranged by his 13-year-old daughter Imogen was to be included, despite the fact that she was never a pupil at JAGS. That involved him correcting the proofs of her dances, arranging for a suitable location for its performance, briefing his daughter, and ensuring the "girl singers put away music stands etc." before it.
The link with Thaxted was provided by borrowing its famous Bach banner, to be carried in procession, as well as incorporating some of the music performed in previous Thaxted Whitsun festivals. This included Bach's Sleepers Wake and several settings by the English Renaissance composer William Byrd. The Dulwich festival was particularly rich in first performances, with Holst's own Short Festival Te Deum sung with an orchestral accompaniment and dedicated to Morley College. Holst's manuscript amendments to the typescript programme show that he had intended Bach's Soul array thyself - one of his favourite cantatas - to take the place of the second hymn at the first service on the Saturday, but in the event all three hymns were those he had composed or arranged himself - A Festival Chime, Turn Back O Man and Let all mortal flesh keep silence. To Holst's delight his friend Ralph Vaughan Williams participated in the Festival for the first time, bringing with him the manuscript for the first performance of the Kyrie from his Mass in G Minor, dedicated to "Gustav Holst and his Whitsuntide Singers". Imogen Holst's own composition for her dancing masque was another first performance, subsequently repeated at her school at Eothen, and now preserved with her archive at the Britten-Pears Foundation.
Musicians from all three of Holst's main teaching commitments were to come together for three days of rehearsal, liturgy and music-making. As at Thaxted, those involved came from Morley College and St Paul's Girls' School, but in 1920 there were fewer of the latter, and JAGS pupils were added to the mix.
Before the first Thaxted Festival Holst had deliberated over the dress code for the musicians, who at Thaxted included some of the local factory workers, and Holst was always careful to ensure that poverty was not a barrier to participation. Having first thought of white - appropriate for Whitsun and the standard "best dress" for girls in the early 20th century - he alighted on the much cheaper solution of achieving a measure of uniformity for the female singers by his wife Isobel making veils in the colour chosen by the wearer for a shilling each. The colourful veils were retained for the Dulwich Festival, but this time the girls wore their white dresses. Years later Catherine Fairbairns, who left JAGS in 1927, so would have been quite young in 1920, recalled "going with my mother to buy a few yards of colourful chiffon. We could choose whatever colour we liked. I chose orange. We then wore them as veils at a gathering in the Chaplain's garden and danced around in front of the audience. I hadn't the vaguest idea what all this was about!"
Fortunately, several other more formal accounts of the great weekend were preserved, including in the annual magazines of all three of the participating organisations. The July 1920 edition of the St Paul's Girls' School magazine The Paulina provides one of the most complete contemporary accounts:
"For some of us the Whitsun Holiday of 1920 will be among the most memorable we have ever spent. I mean for those who took part in the Musical Festival at Dulwich. This Festival has been held for many Whitsuntides, but never before near enough to London to make it possible for a general invitation to be extended to Paulinas. So for most people it was a new and completely thrilling experience. But only a small number of those taking part were Paulinas; the rest were members of Mr. Holst's choir and orchestra at Morley College - including several Old Paulinas - and girls from the James Allen School. Saturday afternoon was spent in rehearsing, and for those who hold that "a bad rehearsal is a good performance," the rehearsal was entirely satisfactory" On Sunday the real thing began; morning service was at 10.30, beginning with a procession, at the head of which was carried a banner bearing this inscription; "The aim of Music is the glory of God and pleasant recreation." The service took place in the quadrangle of Old Dulwich College, with the choir and orchestra on one side of the path leading to the Chapel, and the congregation on the other.
It was very hot, so hot that the sun nearly melted the varnish off our instruments; but what matter? We were making music. After morning service the choir adjourned to the Chapel, where we sang, unaccompanied, sixteenth century music during the Communion Service. This was the most beautiful music we ever sang, and our only wish that we could do more of it and still more. Our labours concluded, we hurried off to the James Allen School for our well-earned lunch. We (Paulinas) picnicked in the girls' cookery kitchen, and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
On Sunday afternoon we went over to the Infirmary, where we repeated a great deal of the music of the morning for the benefit of those who were unable to come and hear it for themselves. After an interval for tea, we went back to the College for evening service. The spirit of the Festival seemed to have spread right through Dulwich; it almost felt quite natural to be walking through the streets attired in white dresses and veils, even on Bank Holiday people used to ask us as we went by if we were "singing up at the College again this evening," and the size of the congregation both on Sunday and Monday showed that our efforts were appreciated. Anyone might come into the Quadrangle or the Chaplain's Garden (where the Mystery Play and several other things were performed on Whit Monday evening), for as long as he or she liked; and it was no unusual thing to see tennis parties, arrayed in "whites," sitting on the grass listening for half an hour or so in the interval of playing tennis.
As well as glossing over the important details of what music was actually performed - information supplied by the programme with Holst's own corrections - the Paulina review omitted to mention the important participation of both Holst, as principal conductor and organiser, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Former JAGS pupil Dorothy Callard, who had progressed from being a naughty pupil to playing strings in the Morley Orchestra, was about 22 at the time. She later recalled the significance of the "Informal Music in Chapel" on the Sunday evening:
"The most exciting thing that happened was, that whilst we were eating our lunch in the chaplain's garden, Mr Holst came to me and said Uncle Ralph is writing us a Communion service for our festivals. He has brought the Kyrie with him this morning. Now you borrow my fountain pen and go into the vestry and make eight single voice copies and we'll try it through. So I did. Twelve of us went up into the chapel gallery, with Mr. Holst perched on the corner of the balustrade, and Ralph Vaughan Williams on the organ seat …"
The Monday morning was a repeat of the previous day - Holst often liked his musicians to perform things more than once. The afternoon and evening were more relaxed - rehearsing, some of the group having a guided tour of the Picture Gallery, sacred music by Holst's professional friends in the Chapel and then, from 6-8 pm, music in the Chaplain's garden. Starting with folksongs with orchestra "to be sung by everyone", the programme moved on to Haydn's London Symphony (Holst corrected the typescript reference to the London Symphony Orchestra), three unspecified madrigals and then, before the "concluding informal Music in the Chapel", a mystery play on the unseasonal Christmas theme of the adoration of the shepherds.
As for Gustav Holst himself, he had no regrets at having held the Festival in Dulwich rather than Thaxted. To him Whitsun was "as wonderful as ever." He wrote to the future vicar of Thaxted, Jack Putterill: "I don't sympathise with your wish to have the first Whitsun or the first anything else over again. What I enjoy in life is the breaking out of the same Spirit in new Forms. Surely that is the great thing in life."
In March 2020 Morley College choirs were starting to rehearse for the celebration of the centenary of Holst's Whitsun Festival in Dulwich, with a repertoire based on his typescript programme, when another pandemic cast its long shadow across the world. At the time of writing, if the celebration planned for 28 June 2020 proves impossible the intention is to mark this major event in the musical history of Dulwich in 1921.
NOTE: All illustrations are copyright by the Britten-Pears Foundation and the National Picture Gallery and reproduced in this Journal with permission. The quotation from Holst's letter to Jack Putterill is reproduced with thanks to his daughter, Sylvia Heath.
Lost Houses of Dulwich - Carlton House, Herne Hill
By Sharon O'Connor
Built in 1819 and demolished less than a century later, Carlton House was a huge Georgian villa on the Dulwich side of Herne Hill, where Casino Avenue and Danecroft Road stand now.
Its first residents were Elhanan Bicknell (1788-1861) and his family, and the house was known simply as 'Herne Hill'. Bicknell, a partner in the leading whale oil merchants Langton & Bicknell, was the Charles Saatchi of his day. The Athenaeum named him one of the top four collectors of contemporary British art of his day and his collection included Turner, Gainsborough and Landseer. His house was always open to artists and connoisseurs including John Ruskin, who lived just across the road; Brian Green has covered the story of the Herne Hill art set in his article on Stephen Poyntz Denning (Journal Winter 2014). Bicknell lived here with the second, third and fourth of his wives. The Bicknell sons who grew up at the house included Henry Sanford, art collector and son-in-law of the artist David Roberts; Herman, a surgeon, traveller and Orientalist; Sidney, a soldier and writer; and Clarence, a botanist, archaeologist and artist.
The house itself was impressive. Clarence Bicknell's biographer, Valerie Lester, described it as having 'the air of a prosperous Late Regency matron: imposing, bosomy, pale and stucco-fronted'. Less than five miles from London yet surrounded by the rural splendour of woods and meadows, the villas on Herne Hill were huge and those atop the hill commanded views for miles around.
Royal Academicians and men of note were royally entertained at dinner parties of around two dozen guests, including Turner, whom Bicknell had talent-spotted before even Ruskin, buying his paintings while he was still unknown. The old drawing room in the centre of the house had walls lined with mahogany (to keep out the damp) and then covered with white and gold rococo panelling. It was then used to display watercolours but instead of framing the paintings, Bicknell set them into the wall panels; he even used Turner's Rivers of France to decorate the door panels. In another drawing room were hung other Turner masterpieces including Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio which Bicknell bought from the Royal Academy in 1841 for 250 guineas. In 2006 it sold for over £20 million, a record for a British painting.
Carlton House effectively functioned as a gallery with open house for artists, family and friends to view the paintings and Bicknell's other collections of books, musical instruments, telescopes and microscopes.
When his next-door neighbour, a very cantankerous man named Prior died in 1851, Bicknell bought his property and added it to his, extending the house and adding a large conservatory, creating more space for his ever-growing art collection. Five years later he added a billiard room.
In 1858, when his former partner, Mr Langton, died, Bicknell bought his meadows and part of his gardens, bringing Carlton House's grounds to around twelve acres. By then he had also bought most of the houses along Herne Hill, owning almost everything on both sides of the road from Red Post Hill to St Paul's church. Not that there were many houses at that time: Sidney wrote that 'from the veranda at Herne Hill, as far as the Norwood range of hills bounding the horizon, dense woods and meadow foreground filled the view, no houses were visible, and it was constantly a matter of surprise to the artist visitors, that London should be only 5 miles instead of 100 distant'.
Bicknell died in 1861 and the house was sold two years later, leaving an estate of around £500,000. His house and grounds together with two smaller residences sold for over £14,000. Sidney was scathing about the next resident of the house: 'Mr Nicholson pulled down the centre of the house … and rebuilt it in the worst taste, christening it Carlton House'.
Edward Chambers Nicholson (1827-1890), was a chemist and dye manufacturer. He was born in Lincoln and after the death of his mother was sent to live with an aunt in Uxbridge where he went to school. In 1845, aged eighteen, he enrolled as one of the first students at the Royal College of Chemistry on Oxford St and after five years there, two as a research assistant, he left to investigate the chemistry of ironmaking in South Wales. Following a move to Aberdare in Scotland, he contracted typhoid fever, forcing a return to London. In 1853 he married Louisa Stephens and, with two fellow college students, he set up Simpson, Maule and Nicholson, a chemical manufacturing company based in Walworth. Nicholson led their research and development work and it was said that 'in him was united the genius of the manufacturer and the habits of a scientific investigator'. One of his most important discoveries was a method of making magenta dye and in 1862 the firm produced the world-famous 'Nicholson's blue' dye, named after him.
By 1865 the firm were the largest producers of coal tar colours in Britain. They outgrew the original premises in Walworth and moved to the purpose-built Atlas Dye Works at Hackney Wick. A number of other companies began using his magenta dye process so Nicholson decided to sue. Unfortunately, his patents were badly drafted and after three years of long and costly litigation a House of Lords judgement declared they were invalid. Others could then go ahead with magenta dye manufacture and the resulting competition brought about a 95% collapse in dye prices. Nicholson however, was still a very rich man and in 1868, aged only 41 he retired from the business. He never lost his interest in chemistry though, he continued to subscribe to periodicals and journals, acted as Steward at Imperial College dinners and continued his research work, registering new patents up until 1870.
Nicholson died at Carlton House in 1890, leaving an estate of £146,000. The house was sold at this stage: the 1890 Solicitors' Journal advertised Carlton House together with Frankfurt Villa and Horns Lodge. However, Nicholson's wife Louisa and son John both continued to live there until Louisa died in 1898 after a long and painful illness. The contents of the house were then sold by Messrs Broad & Wiltshire and included two pianos, three Chubb safes, 200 iron hurdles, three cows and a calf.
In 1901 Sir Henry George Smallman (1854-1923) moved into the house with his large family. Smallman was the son of Hammelton Luff and Henry Gowlett Smallman, publican and large-scale builder in Wandsworth, Brixton Hill and East Dulwich who also built the Gowlett Arms in Gowlett Road.
In 1880, Smallman, then a solicitor had married Louisa, eldest daughter of Richard Strong, JP, governor of Dulwich College and MP for Camberwell North. They had six sons and three daughters. Like so many in Dulwich, Smallman was very much involved in the City of London's administration. He was an alderman from 1898-1906 and a sheriff in 1905 He was knighted in 1906.
Henry and Louisa lived at Carlton House with all nine of their children and to look after them they had a butler and cook (a husband and wife team), a nurse, four maids and a groom. One son, Henry Richard George Strong Smallman, known as Harry, qualified as an architect and surveyor in 1904, and designed the Electric Cinema in Epsom and the Gaiety Cinema in Poplar. He was also responsible for the redesign of many London pubs. In 1905 the Smallmans moved to Beckenham,
Dulwich and Herne Hill had become less fashionable as increasing public transport meant that the area changed from being a rural wealthy retreat, marked as 'upper middle and upper classes, wealthy' on English social reformer Charles Booth's 'poverty map', to a middle-class enclave. Large houses were demolished to make way for residential roads and Carlton House was no exception. However, the Dulwich Estate's qualitative control meant that incoming residents were still described as 'comfortable or well-to-do', though Booth says they were not 'natural churchgoers' and spent their Saturdays bicycling, playing tennis and 'indulging in music and dancing'. On Sundays 'they rose after midday and strolled in Brockwell Park'. In 1903 an auction was held to sell off Carlton House's building materials 'to clear the site for new roads'.


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The First Teaser for Darren Aronofsky's New Thriller Looks Terrifying
'mother!'—starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, and Michelle Pfeiffer—premieres September 15.
by VICE Staff
On Monday, Paramount Pictures offered up a first look at Darren Aronofsky's latest psychological thriller mother!, and though it's hard to parse out exactly what the hell it's about, it's already guaranteed to be terrifying.
Aronofsky is a master of messing with his viewers' heads. The Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan director is known for creating hyper-disturbing movies that rely less on cheap thrills and more on the stunning inner workings of his characters' minds, usually mired in the darkest chapters of their lives. As eerie voices swirl around Jennifer Lawrence in the 30-second teaser for mother!, it looks like Aronofsky's latest project is bound to follow suit.
mother!, which stars Lawrence alongside Javier Bardem, Westworld's Ed Harris, and Michelle Pfeiffer, traces the arrival of a few "uninvited guests" at a couple's home, "disrupting their tranquil existence," according to Paramount. The teaser doesn't offer much else—mostly, we hear snatches of its stars screaming at one another—before we see a patchwork of explosive, disconnected scenes after Lawrence shouts "murderer!"
Bardem won an Oscar for his bone-chilling portrayal of the villain in No Country for Old Men and tends to wind up playing characters who are downright evil—from Reiner in The Counselor to James Bond's foil in Skyfall. Though Lawrence is better known for her roles in blockbusters like Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and the Hunger Games series, she proved she could tackle thrillers with the Oscar-nominated Winter's Bone back in 2010.
Hopefully we'll get to see more of what this frightening foursome gets up to when the full trailer drops on August 8. Until then, watch a teaser for mother! above.
Darren Aronofsky's mother! hits theaters on Friday, September 15.
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JEWELS WITHIN #4, Come on In!!
Okay I'm a happy camper again, I hate when I go through the moods. I did my weigh in today and I actually lost 2lbs this week. I'm really surprised because I haven't execercised all week. Just done the normal chasing around the kids and cleaning house. I didn't overeat all week so maybe thats what did it. Anyway I'm happy to say that I'm down to 216 #!!
I hope eveyone else is doing well. Amanda were are you?!
Stay within 2000 calories per day. Hopefully that will be 1800. I can never seem to get that low though.
Again concetrate on drinking more water. Yada, yada, yada.
Angel - how did you get the jewels on your post? It looks so cute!
Hello to everyone else, hope your weekends were fun and relaxing. Back to work today. Ick.
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Just a quick Hi! I am busy all week! I have an all day training tommorrow and then I work that night. But I get friday off! Yeah! of course I will probably be painting or something house related!
As for as my weight. I have been sooo busy I have not had much time for exercise and my eating has not been the best. I know that once I don't have a house full of guests it will get better. That is what I hoping at least!
Hope all is well. Will try and check in later!
Where in the world is everyone??
I'm doing okay with the exercise I guess, have only done it once this week so far, but that is better than last week.
I have to take my 2 year old to a pediatric cardioliogist tomorrow, those words are scary, she has a heart murmur and I was told that shes fine they just want to be sure. Her doctor said something about the flow not sounding quite right. Now that the time to take her is almost here I've been driving myself crazy with what-ifs, like what if the dr. just didn't want to worry me and is waiting the ped card. to do that. I swear if that doctor didn't tell me something I'll go to his office and raise all kinds of ****!! Of course it could be nothing, because from everything I've read heart murmurs can occur quite frequently in kids and go away on there own. Then again it depends on the type of murmur it is. See how I'm doing this to myself. I am praying that everything is fine and I'm just doing the overly worried mother bit. Which is probably all it is.
Anyway, I'll let everyone know how it goes.
Hi everyone. Sorry it's been so long since I have posted. I have been really busy the last couple of weeks. I don't think I've been home one evening. And I have been having computer problems and haven't had the time to sit down and try to figure out what is wrong. My ds was here today and he helped me out with it somewhat.
Angel, what did you find out about your daughter? My son developed a heart murmur when he was only 2 1/2 mo. old. It did finally go away on its own. I also developed one about 12 years ago. Mine is still there though. I've had a heart ultrasound done though and everything is okay.
I have been doing really good at drinking my water. And everyone was right - the body does adjust. I still visit the bathroom alot but not as much as at first!! I have been doing pretty good getting my walking in. The toning I have kind of lapsed on but am going to get back to that. I just got a new tape for toning in the mail that I am hoping to try either tonight after my walk or tomorrow evening.
Well my mom is on MSN so I guess I'll chat with her. Take care everyone.
Hello all! I haven't posted in MONTHS - and I do mean MONTHS!
I have spent most of the morning catching up on reading from the rest of Thread #2 and Thread #3 and now this one. It looks like all of y'all are still on track - but I wish I could say the same for me. Started back on the 'diet' aka 'lifestyle/food change' - which ever is the politically correct term. I know it isn't Sunday but I am going to go ahead and post my goals for the remainder of the week.
#1 - No snacking at work and don't let my hunny talk me into snacking late at night after kids are asleep and we are watching a movie.
#2 - Drink at LEAST 64 oz of water every day if not double that.
#3 - Get some sort of exercise - walking or pilates dvd - in every evening.
I am going to promise that I will try to post every day but my schedule is SOOO hectic nowadays it is really hard to find the time. As it is I am at work now posting this so I guess I could use my lunch hour everyday to post and then it would also remind me to eat healthy. Sounds like a pretty good plan, don't ya think?
Anyway - I hope to hear from everyone soon and hope everyone has a great week!
Okay - how in the world is it possible that noone has posted since my post last week? Is everyone okay? Did everyone have a great weekend and are just too tired and busy to hop on the net and drop a line?
I had a great weekend - stuck to eating right - drank my water - exercised Thursday, Friday and Saturday - but took a day of rest on Sunday with my honey bear. Honey bear is also trying to lose some weight so it is making it easier for me - because we both keep each other on track and he isn't sabotaging my efforts - know what I mean?
MAKE HEALTHY AND SMART FOOD CHOICES!!!!
I hope I hear from some of y'all soon! As I am sitting here typing away I am wondering - did you start a Jewels Within #5 and I missed it???
I really hope to hear from y'all soon! Keep on track and have a great week!!!
Hello-I'm still around. Things have been kind of crazy here-but I'm trying to get back on track. I will be back to post again soon.


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Esther M. Brechbill, 93, of Chambersburg, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born April 12, 1929 in Letterkenny Township, she was a daughter of the late Daniel D. and Mary S. Sollenber... Read More
Esther M. Brechbill, 93, of Chambersburg, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born April 12, 1929 in Letterkenny Township, she was a daughter of the late Daniel D. and Mary S. Sollenberger Byers. Her beloved husband, Blaine J. Brechbill preceded her in death.
Esther was a faithful member of Emmanuel Fellowship Church. She labored faithfully in prayer for the church and others. Her home was a place of gracious hospitality to many. She dedicated most of her life to making a home for her family. Esther was an avid gardener, and loved flowers and people. She also served as a budget Scribe for The Budget Newspaper for many years.
She is survived by five children, Joseph B. Brechbill of Bedford, Donald L. Brechbill and wife Mary Ann of Chambersburg, Bernice K. Brechbill of Harrisonburg, VA, Edward B. Brechbill of Duncannon, and Verna M. Garber and husband Marvin of Madras, OR; daughter-in-law, Joan Brechbill of Chambersburg; 21 grandchildren; 53 great grandchildren; and one brother, Daniel D. Byers and wife Ruth of St. Thomas. Aside from her parents and husband, Esther was preceded in death by her daughter, Wilma J. Brechbill; daughter-in-law, Susie Brechbill (wife of Joseph); granddaughter, Priscilla Garber; two sisters, Mary and Thelma Byers; and two brothers, Jacob and Arthur Byers.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at the Portico River Brethren Meeting House, 5501 Fort McCord Road, Chambersburg, PA 17202. Interment will follow the service in Brechbill Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 2:00 – 4:00 PM and 6:00 – 8:00 PM on Monday, January 23, 2023 at the church.
Arrangements are entrusted to the Thomas L. Geisel Funeral Home, Chambersburg, PA.
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Preparing for A Rhino Rescue Mission
By Devin Murphy on July 03, 2020
This blog post was originally published by Sumatran Rhino Rescue.
In the dense tropical forests of Sumatra, four teams of conservationists comb through sections of forest looking for subtle, but distinct signs of some of the rarest animals on the planet. Their trained eyes are looking for twisted branches, footprints with three toes, or fresh dung. All are telltale signs of the presence of a Sumatran rhino.
The teams are in the early stages of a bold mission to capture Sumatran rhinos and move them to a Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in support of the Government of Indonesia's national Sumatran rhino breeding program that aims to safeguard the species from extinction. If the teams are successful, the project's legacy will be future generations of rhinos that will one day return to the forests of Sumatra.
Though the project has been temporarily delayed due to COVID-19, the international team of experts hopes to be able to start capturing rhinos in early 2021.
Sumatran Rhino, photo by: Barney Long
"First we have to find them, which is harder than you would think, so we have been conducting surveys over the last year," explains Barney Long, senior director of species conservation for Global Wildlife Conservation, which is a member of the Sumatran Rhino Survival Alliance. "It's difficult and it takes months to get all of this data together."
In order to find rhinos, the teams are conducting surveys, which are like meticulous games of hide-and-seek. They search small grid cells of forest that are 4 kilometers by 4 kilometers. They comb through the block and if after searching nearly every inch of it, they don't find a rhino, they can black that grid out on their master map and move on to search the next.
If teams do find signs of a rhino, then they transition from a detection survey to a trajectory survey. During a trajectory survey, a team will track a rhino and learn the trails it's using, including the places it likes to visit, like wallows and salt licks. They will also put up camera traps to learn as much about the individual rhino as they can such as gender, age group, and health condition. That sets the stage for the next phase of the rhino rescue mission: moving the rhino to a Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary.
Jeff Holland, Sumatran Rhino Senior Advisor for Training, Husbandry and Capture at the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Species Survival Commissions (IUCN SSC), will work with an Indonesian capture coordinator, veterinary team, and local logistics team on the ground in Sumatra to catch the rhinos. Together, they will build the traps for capturing rhinos.
"It's a lot of back work," explains Holland. "The traps are about 12 feet long 4 feet wide and about six feet deep and that's literally dug on a forest trail and can take anywhere from two to three weeks depending on the condition of the soil and the terrain."
After the capture teams have dug the traps, they wait. It can take weeks or months for a rhino to enter the trap. But whenever it happens, the capture team will be ready. They will have a camp nearby that is staffed 24 hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. Every day they will check the trap for a rhino.
When the capture team has caught a rhino, they will quickly move it to a boma, a large circular paddock in the forest. The capture and veterinary teams will ensure the rhino is safe, healthy, has plenty of food and water and is disturbed as little as possible.
Holland will help organize logistics for moving captured rhinos from the bomas to a Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary. The team may carefully move a rhino in a crate to a main road where it can be driven to a Sanctuary. If the boma is in a deep and inaccessible part of the forest, they may need to airlift the rhino out using a helicopter.
"A lot of it's going to be dependent on the location of where the trap is set, where the rhino's captured and the weather," explains Holland. "Using a helicopter, it's a lot quicker and allows us to operate in more remote locations. But you need to have a backup to be able to get them out by ground. So, we'll have contingencies for both."
In the coming months, the international team will prepare for the captures. They will undergo training and extensive assessments to ensure they are ready to capture and move such precious cargo. The assessments will make sure they have the necessary skills, safety protocols, emergency protocols and backup emergency protocols in place to make a capture successful.
"And we will not allow a capture to happen until we're satisfied that the logistics are sorted, the capacity and training has all been done and all of the protocols are there," says Long.
If everything goes according to plan, in the future there will be many healthy Sumatran rhinos ready to return to the forest.
"I would like to see a large number of them in a forest and breeding," says Holland. "If we're successful here and get the breeding going, hopefully one day we'll get them back into the forest. That's the ideal situation. That's what the whole ultimate goal is."
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Uncaught ReferenceError: deleteBook is not defined

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Sweet Potato Guest House is nearby the biggest night market in Taiwan (Shilin Night Market), and also it only takes you 5 to 10 minutes to get Taipei Jiantan MRT station. You will feel comfortable to stay here and make new friends here.
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Q: postgres pgagent job status I have installed PostgreSQL 9.6 in win 10.
Also installed pgAgent for job scheduling.
I have create one job for batch file execute but it showing status 'r','i'.
What is the meaning of status field.
I have attached screenshot.
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How can manage log in pgaAgent?

A: These are the statuses of pgAgent:
r running
s success
f failed
i internal failure
d aborted
Using pgAdmin you can check the logs by clicking on the step, then on the statistics panel, then you will see what the job "wrote" in the output column.


The latest Hospital News from new medical breakthroughs to the latest hospital equipment and also highest scoring hospitals and negligence hospitals. Also what's New with NHS.
The field of medicine carries more importance than any other field of life and the reason for that is pretty simple. It is the fact that everything that is done in it is related to the sustenance of the human life and nothing carries more important than that. In that perspective, the most important part of the field of medicine is the place where it is practised and that is the hospitals. What goes on in our hospitals and what role they are playing in combating the many deadly diseases that are all around us, is a question that holds a lot of importance. Therefore, it is our responsibility to keep ourselves well informed about the things related to hospitals and the purpose of that is to make sure that we benefit from them to the max. To help you out with keeping yourself well informed with regard to hospitals, we are sharing with you some of the most important news related to hospitals. Keep reading to find out more.
The use of technology in the field of medicine has had a tremendous amount of positive impacts and in recent times, there has been a new development that seems to be taking it to a whole new level. The Humber River Regional Hospital in Toronto is breaking ground for a whole new institution that will be seeing much more technologically advanced environment than you would find in a traditional hospital. The focus of this new hospital is to provide patient-centred care to every individual that comes to this new hospital for treatment. The whole idea behind this is to use technology for creating an environment that is capable of performing integrated communication between the patient, the staff and the relatives of the patient. The introduction of digitised systems in areas that are related to quality assurance will mean a much more efficient and greener delivery of service. Patients will experience the maximum amount of comfort, privacy and security in this new institution and as a result, this hospital will be the first of its kind in all of northern America.
One of the longest operations ever conducted of its kind, this operation has achieved the improbable in an impossible amount of time. The surgeons at the Texas Foetal Centre at the Children's hospital were already preparing for the long upcoming procedure when they found out after multiple ultrasounds that the two babies were sharing a chest wall. Preparations were also made to ensure a safe delivery and soon after the birth, the two girls, Knatalye and Adeline were taken for the surgery. The surgeons worked with Knatalye for 23 hours and with Adeline for 26 hours before they were both declared safe. The separation happened after 18 hours had already passed. The two teams of surgeons who worked on the babies said that the babies also shared organs and due to that, there will be a need for further surgeries too after they have recovered fully. This is the first successful surgery of its kind and the parents of the girls were extremely thankful to all the staff involved in the surgery.
The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota achieved a whole new level in eye surgery when recently they operated a 68 year old man and gave him a bionic eye implant. The second implant that was placed into his right eye had an electronic chip with it too which together with the implant is capable of bypassing the damaged retina and send light wave signals to his optic nerve. The patient whose name is Mr. Allen Zderared started losing his sight about two decades ago due to retinitis, an incurable eye disease and by 2005 his sight was completely gone due to which he also had to stop working. After the implant, the scenes were quite emotional as the man started to see again after such a long time and hugged his wife who he recognized after all this time in blindness. The doctors also praised Mr. Allen as a very courageous and remarkable man who kept on going through all those years and dealt so bravely with his disability. The process of restoration is slow but steady and now Mr. Allen can make out shapes and recognise himself in the mirror. Seeing this amazing feat of medical science shows how far we have come and what we are capable of and it also opens doors for new possibilities in terms of medical research.


Join Coach Carrie on a new imaginary adventure every week with our trusty friend, the soccer ball! We get great feedback from parents of players in our program and are consistently asked two things: 1) when will you offer programs for younger girls and 2) when will you start forming teams?
We are excited to now offer programs now for players starting in Kindergarten! Check out our Winter Skills Blast, a 3 week clinic for Kindergarten - 2nd grade girls. This is a 3 week soccer clinic designed specially for this age group, run by Coach Carrie, who has a Kindergartener as well. It's going to be a BLAST. Sign up soon, space is limited.
And to be honest, #2 probably won't ever happen. We love being an independent organization without the pressure metric of "wins and losses". Our focus is on skill and player development in a fun, low pressure setting. We want girls to enjoy the game, develop the skills and hopefully keep on enjoying soccer for years to come!


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THE JOURNEYMAN
From playground to dugout: PE teaching brothers schooling Lincoln in 'Moneyball'
Monday September 19 2016, 12.01am, The Times
The Cowley brothers, Danny, left and Nicky, are attempting to change Lincoln's fortunes after their arrival from Braintree Town
BRADLEY ORMESHER FOR THE TIMES
When Danny Cowley was appointed manager of Lincoln City in May, it was the first time in almost 30 years that they had targeted and appointed a manager of another club. To clarify, since the appointment of Colin Murphy from Stockport County in 1987, all of Lincoln's managers have either been out of work, employed in another capacity elsewhere, or promoted from within.
That certainly points to some rather uninspired decisions at Sincil Bank over the years. The late Keith Alexander did lead Lincoln, on the verge of liquidation, to the League Two play-offs in four consecutive seasons between 2002 and 2006, although ultimately he was unsuccessful. Other than that, it has been slim pickings for a club enduring their sixth season outside of the


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En geometría, la ortobicúpula triangular elongada es uno de los sólidos de Johnson (J35). Como sugiere su nombre, puede construirse elongando una ortobicúpula triangular (J27) insertando un prisma hexagonal entre sus dos mitades. El sólido resultante es superficialmente similar al rombicuboctaedro (uno de los sólidos arquimedianos), con la diferencia de que tiene triple simetría rotacional sobre su eje en lugar de simetría cuádruple.

Los 92 sólidos de Johnson fueron nombrados y descritos por Norman Johnson en 1966.

Volumen
El volumen de J35 puede calcularse como sigue:

J35 se compone de 2 cúpulas y un prisma hexagonal.

Las dos cúpulas forman 1 cuboctaedro = 8 tetraedros + 6 medios octaedros.
1 octaedro = 4 tetraedros, así que en total hay 20 tetraedros.

¿Cuál es el volumen de un tetraedro?
Constrúyase un tetraedro cuyos vértices coincidan con los vértices alternos de un cubo (de lado , si el tetraedro tiene aristas unitarias). Las cuatro pirámides triangulares que quedan si se quita el tetraedro del cubo forman medio octaedro = 2 tetrahedra. Por tanto,

El cálculo del prisma hexagonal es más directo. El hexágono tiene área , por lo que

Finalmente,

Valor aproximado:

Enlaces externos

Sólidos de Johnson

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MILWAUKEE -- Can't afford to fly the family somewhere? There are plenty of places to visit right here in the Midwest. Andrea Khan with the Family Backpack joins Real Milwaukee with a bucket list of destinations that are practically in our backyards.
While planning our family vacations over the last decade, I combed through hundreds of family travel blogs and, in the end, wished there was one place – one site – that was easy to search and contained the best of these posts.
And so I created one.
I first ventured out of the country to France in high school and I have been traveling ever since. Now with a husband and three school-aged kids, I have 32 countries and 30-plus states under my belt. I still have a lot of the planet to explore and adventures to experience – and I can't wait to do so with my family!
I often use the expression with my family – and some of my close friends – "wheels up." To me, this means to keep moving and growing, whether it's out the door on a regular Tuesday morning or into the world with the desire to experience something different. This is what I wish for myself, my family and for you.
However, as much as I enjoy planning trips, it can also be an overwhelming and a time-sucking experience. No parent has the time to troll the Internet for 20 hours to research a vacation.
I hope the Family Backpack inspires you to travel with your family, explore new places and head off the beaten path occasionally just to make life more interesting. Whether you drive 45 minutes away from where you live or fly across the world, I would love to hear about it.
Learn more about the rest of our team.


I've been reading Thaw by Fiona Robyn for the past two days and it's hard to find the words to tell you about the experience. Fiona Robyn's writing is lyrical and moving, not only her words but the images she creates are poetic bubbles flying into the air and yet leaving their imprint on you. I think it's best if you see for yourself. Fiona has generously decided to share her novel for free, you can read one journal entry (the novel is written as a diary) each day here, or if you get addicted and can't stand the wait, buy Thaw.
The first journal entry is below and you can continue reading tomorrow here.
Charlotte Marie Bradley Miller. I looked at her hands for twelve minutes. It was odd describing what I was seeing in words. Usually the picture just sits inside my head and I swish it around like tasting wine. I have huge books all over my flat — books you have to take in both hands to lift. I've had the photo habit for years. Mother bought me my first book, black and white landscapes by Ansel Adams. When she got really ill, I used to take it to bed with me and look at it for hours, concentrating on the huge trees, the still water, the never-ending skies. I suppose it helped me think about something other than what was happening. I learned to focus on one photo at a time rather than flicking from scene to scene in search of something to hold me. If I concentrate, then everything stands still. Although I use them to escape the world, I also think they bring me closer to it. I've still got that book. When I take it out, I handle the pages as though they might flake into dust.
Mother used to write a journal. When I was small, I sat by her bed in the early mornings on a hard chair and looked at her face as her pen spat out sentences in short bursts. I imagined what she might have been writing about — princesses dressed in star-patterned silk, talking horses, adventures with pirates. More likely she was writing about what she was going to cook for dinner and how irritating Dad's snoring was.
I've always wanted to write my own journal, and this is my chance. Maybe my last chance. The idea is that every night for three months, I'll take one of these heavy sheets of pure white paper, rough under my fingertips, and fill it up on both sides. If my suicide note is nearly a hundred pages long, then no-one can accuse me of not thinking it through. No-one can say, 'It makes no sense; she was a polite, cheerful girl, had everything to live for,' before adding that I did keep myself to myself. It'll all be here. I'm using a silver fountain pen with purple ink. A bit flamboyant for me, I know. I need these idiosyncratic rituals; they hold things in place. Like the way I make tea, squeezing the tea-bag three times, the exact amount of milk, seven stirs. My writing is small and neat; I'm striping the paper. I'm near the bottom of the page now. Only ninety-one more days to go before I'm allowed to make my decision. That's it for today. It's begun.
Keep on reading, it will grip and enchant you, you won't be the same after reading Thaw.


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Muheeb Azat Issa Al-Balushi (; born 23 January 1991), commonly known as Muheeb Al-Balushi, is an Omani footballer who plays for Al-Nasr S.C.S.C.

Club career statistics

International career

Muheeb is part of the first team squad of the Oman national football team. He was selected for the national team for the first time in 2009. He made his first appearance for Oman on 9 September 2009 in a friendly match against Qatar. He has made appearances in the 2012 WAFF Championship and the 2014 WAFF Championship.

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1991 births
Living people
People from Salalah
Omani footballers
Oman international footballers
Association football defenders
Al-Nasr SC (Salalah) players
Oman Professional League players
Omani people of Baloch descent
Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Oman


This is no crowded workshop, it's an intimate, informal, interactive experience. Limited to only 16 photographers, internationally published photographer Clay Cook will reveal his philosophy in the photography business to his intricate post processing workflow and everything in between. Not only will you learn the proper steps to making a great image, you'll have the opportunity to create stunning photographs yourself to take your portfolio to the next level. You won't just take home a notebook full of scribbled jottings, you'll take home a new found energy and knowledge to be the best photographer you can be. It's not about the equipment or technical know how, it's about you, your eye and heart.


Have you pressed play on your copy of the Red Nose Day Schools' song?
The funny fundraising event is fast approaching, so, if you haven't already, it's time to check the post room for your copy of the free enhanced CD that's been sent out to every school in the country. On it you'll find the official Red Nose Day Schools' song, Entertain!, backing tracks, a video, a 'words on screen' version (where projected lyrics synchronise with the music), lyrics, and a score – in fact everything your children will need to be singing along and raking in the money on Friday March 18th.
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Our aim is to discover vulnerabilities in communications & electronic systems and secured devices. From there we will develop solutions which will defend against these. These solutions will have both offensive • Near-field and far-field applications for attacking, decoding and recovery of encryption keys from communications systems.
• Extract cryptographic keys from a device or communications channel through side-channel leakage.
These keys include, but are not limited to, AES, DES, TDES, RSA, SHA-1 as well as unknown encryption methods.
• Extract passwords used for access to secret data.
• Reverse engineer the algorithm flow in chips.
• Reverse engineer the instruction flow for CPUs.
backdoors or even the attachment of an unexpected or unauthorised device to the system being monitored.
• Failure analysis to spot any faults in the operation of a given chip.
• Reverse engineering of design in microcontrollers, smartcards and FPGAs.
• Analysis of ASICs and custom chips.
• Health monitoring of chip operation.
QVL was formed in 2008 on the back of a research project conducted alongside our long term partners at The Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. The results of this project have led to the development of revolutionary sensor technologies. These technologies have become increasingly important and relevant with the advent of global electronic warfare and cyber threats, be it to National Security, large corporations or critical infrastructure.
Currently the organisation comprises a small team of expert scientists and engineers. Their experience encompasses cryptanalysis, RF systems, semiconductors and network security. During their various careers, the team have worked in a range of industries such as military, automotive, education and security.


Steven, a 35-year-old leukemia survivor, smokes up to two packs of cigarettes a day. "I can't control whether I smoke or not," he says. "Whether it's walking the dog [or] watering the grass, I need a cigarette." While Steven admits to his cigarette dependency, he says his fondness for alcohol is under control, despite being a two-time DUI offender. "I don't think I have a problem with drinking," he says.
His wife, Kelsey, is pregnant with their first child and says Steven has become extremely angry and violent towards her when he drinks. Her biggest concern, however, is losing her husband to a relapse of leukemia. Will he see that he's blowing his second chance at life?
It's an addiction that affects 8 million Americans: chewing tobacco. Patrick, 51, says he chews every single day. "I have made multiple promises that I would quit, and I have a 3-ounce bag of tobacco that controls me," Patrick confesses. Patrick's habit is ruining his teeth, his health and his marriage. "I can't remember the last time we had a real kiss," says Terri, Patrick's wife of 22 years. Terri is a self-proclaimed "exercise freak," who runs in the morning, then hits the gym after work. "[Exercising] is good for her, but when it interferes with family time, it gets me upset," Patrick says. Can 72 hours in The Doctors' House save Patrick and Terri's union?
Could you have a drinking problem and not realize it? E.R physician Dr. Travis Stork explains the signs of alcoholism, and demonstrates alcohol's detrimental effects on the liver.
The Doctors are the exclusive contributors to USA Weekend magazine's HealthSmart column. Check out the latest health tips here!
Dr. Travis explains how addiction affects the brain, and the team tackles surprising addictions that are hitting the headlines.
Are you trying to curb an unhealthy habit? The Doctors share three simple tips to keep you on track to quitting.
• Chewing sugarless gum can help fulfill an oral fixation, as an alternative to smoking, chewing tobacco or drinking.
• Sipping acidic beverages like cranberry juice can help curb cravings.
• Go for a walk! Walking 30 minutes a day can help reduce withdrawal symptoms like depression and anxiety.