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Q: npm won't start:dev on NestJS application So I created a new NestJS application with the CLI. I got nodemon installed as a dependency and globally. My package.json looks like this:
"scripts": {
"build": "tsc -p tsconfig.build.json",
"format": "prettier --write \"src/**/*.ts\"",
"start": "ts-node -r tsconfig-paths/register src/main.ts",
"start:dev": "nodemon",
"start:debug": "nodemon --config nodemon-debug.json",

and my nodemon.json looks like this:
"watch": ["src"],
"ext": "ts",
"ignore": ["src/**/*.spec.ts"],
"exec": "ts-node -r tsconfig-paths/register src/main.ts"

So very basic setup. But if I try so start the dev server with: npm start:dev, I get this error message:
Usage: npm < command >

where < command > is one of:

access, adduser, audit, bin, bugs, c, cache, ci, cit,
clean-install, clean-install-test, completion, config,
create, ddp, dedupe, deprecate, dist-tag, docs, doctor,
edit, explore, get, help, help-search, hook, i, init,
install, install-ci-test, install-test, it, link, list, ln,
login, logout, ls, org, outdated, owner, pack, ping, prefix,
profile, prune, publish, rb, rebuild, repo, restart, root,
run, run-script, s, se, search, set, shrinkwrap, star,
stars, start, stop, t, team, test, token, tst, un,
uninstall, unpublish, unstar, up, update, v, version, view,
whoami

Specify configs in the ini-formatted file: /Users/XXXXX/.npmrc
or on the command line via: npm <command> --key value
Config info can be viewed via: npm help config

npm@6.6.0 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm

Did you mean this?
    start

My npmrc contains some credentials for my github repo from my job !

A: To run a npm script you must call npm run. So call npm run start:dev.


About 1,000 free living horses in the Danube Delta are disturbing the natural balance of the flora and fauna. Since autumn 2013, FOUR PAWS has been trying to stem the reproduction of the horses with humane methods, in order to protect the area as well as the horse population. By this time, fifty mares could have already been vaccinated with the immune-contraceptive.
But the efforts paid off; not only could fifty mares be vaccinated for the first time, some could already receive the booster injection. To make the effect of the immune-contraception last, the animals need to be vaccinated again every year before the heat period. However, the booster can be done remotely with the help of a dart gun, so the mares don't have to be caught and sedated a second time.
Moreover, the FOUR PAWS Team distributed food to the horses in January, approximately 400 hay bales, to help the horses in withstanding the cold season.


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← Valentine + Idle Hands
Slumdog Millionaire + Magic Mike →
Midsommar + The Lighthouse
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Double Feature | Year 13 (2021)
Happy halloween! An trip through the decades of horror lands in the modern era. For all that is awful in the one, hold on to this one moment where two arthouse horror films had a wide theatrical release. It it utterly insane that Midsommar was a pop phenomenon. People took their nine friends to see Midsommar. It was an actual summer hit. And it's fucking weird. Midsommar is about grief, it's about relationships, it has a host of things an audience has never seen before (and a lot of them audiences probably wish they still hadn't seen) and yet, here it is. A movie everyone saw. Isn't it a great time to be alive? For those still not convinced, enter The Lighthouse! This poster was in theaters. People saw the trailer infront of the highest performing movies of the year. And it's a constrained ratio, black and white, kitchen-sink insanity piece about two guys drinking late into the night and doing grunt work. It's so authentically about its subject, and yet somehow audiences still came. There's no secret hook, there's no gimmick. If there's a marketing tactic, it's to tell the audience what this movie is about and then ask them to come see this movie. And it worked.
Director: Ari Aster
Writer: Ari Aster
Starring: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
Writer: Robert Eggers, Max Eggers
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

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package io.wcm.caravan.pipeline.extensions.hal.crawler;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

import org.osgi.annotation.versioning.ProviderType;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMultimap;
import com.google.common.collect.ListMultimap;
import com.google.common.collect.Sets;

import io.wcm.caravan.hal.resource.HalResource;
import io.wcm.caravan.hal.resource.Link;
import io.wcm.caravan.io.http.request.CaravanHttpRequest;
import io.wcm.caravan.pipeline.JsonPipeline;
import io.wcm.caravan.pipeline.JsonPipelineAction;
import io.wcm.caravan.pipeline.JsonPipelineContext;
import io.wcm.caravan.pipeline.JsonPipelineOutput;
import io.wcm.caravan.pipeline.cache.CacheStrategy;
import io.wcm.caravan.pipeline.extensions.hal.client.HalClient;
import io.wcm.caravan.pipeline.extensions.hal.client.action.LoadLink;
import rx.Observable;

/**
 * Crawler walking on a HAL resource graph.
 */
@ProviderType
public final class HalCrawler implements JsonPipelineAction {

  /**
   * HTTP header for HAL link relation
   */
  public static final String HEADER_CRAWLER_RELATION = "Caravan-Crawler-HAL-Link-Relation";

  private final Set<String> startedUrls = Sets.newConcurrentHashSet();
  private final Set<String> processedUrls = Sets.newConcurrentHashSet();

  private final HalClient client;
  private final LinkExtractor linkExtractor;
  private final UriParametersProvider uriParametersProvider;
  private final OutputProcessor outputProcessor;
  private final StopCriterion stopCriterion;

  private CacheStrategy cacheStrategy;

  /**
   * @param client HAL client
   * @param linkExtractor Link extractor
   * @param uriParametersProvider URI parameter provider
   * @param outputProcessor Output processor
   */
  public HalCrawler(HalClient client, LinkExtractor linkExtractor, UriParametersProvider uriParametersProvider, OutputProcessor outputProcessor) {
    this.client = client;
    this.linkExtractor = linkExtractor;
    this.uriParametersProvider = uriParametersProvider;
    this.outputProcessor = outputProcessor;
    this.stopCriterion = StopCriteria.alwaysEnabled();

  }

  /**
   * @param client HAL client
   * @param linkExtractor Link extractor
   * @param uriParametersProvider URI parameter provider
   * @param outputProcessor Output processor
   * @param stopCriterion Stop Criterion
   */
  public HalCrawler(HalClient client, LinkExtractor linkExtractor, UriParametersProvider uriParametersProvider, OutputProcessor outputProcessor,
      StopCriterion stopCriterion) {
    this.client = client;
    this.linkExtractor = linkExtractor;
    this.uriParametersProvider = uriParametersProvider;
    this.outputProcessor = outputProcessor;
    this.stopCriterion = stopCriterion;

  }

  /**
   * @param strategy The cacheStrategy to set.
   * @return This crawler
   */
  public HalCrawler setCacheStrategy(CacheStrategy strategy) {
    this.cacheStrategy = strategy;
    return this;
  }

  @Override
  public String getId() {
    return "HAL-CRAWLER-(" + linkExtractor.getId() + '-' + uriParametersProvider.getId() + '-' + outputProcessor.getId() + ')';
  }

  @Override
  public Observable<JsonPipelineOutput> execute(JsonPipelineOutput previousStepOutput, JsonPipelineContext pipelineContext) {

    String currentUrl = getCurrentUrl(previousStepOutput);
    processedUrls.add(currentUrl);
    JsonPipeline startingPipeline = pipelineContext.getFactory().createEmpty(pipelineContext.getProperties());

    HalResource currentHalResource = getCurrentHalResource(previousStepOutput, currentUrl);
    ListMultimap<String, Link> links = linkExtractor.extract(currentHalResource);

    return Observable.from(links.entries())
        // create pipeline action
        .map(entry -> {
          String relation = entry.getKey();
          Link link = entry.getValue();
          Map<String, Object> parameters = uriParametersProvider.getParameters(currentHalResource, relation, link);
          LoadLink action = client.load(link, parameters);
          action.setHttpHeaders(ImmutableMultimap.of(HEADER_CRAWLER_RELATION, relation));
          if (cacheStrategy != null) {
            action.setCacheStrategy(cacheStrategy);
          }
          return action;
        })
        // filter unique by URL
        .distinct(action -> action.getUrl())
        // filter already processed URLs
        .filter(action -> !startedUrls.contains(action.getUrl()) && !processedUrls.contains(action.getUrl()))
        // filter actions for stopped crawler
        .filter(action -> !stopCriterion.isStopRequested())
        // add URL to processed and create pipeline
        .map(action -> {
          startedUrls.add(action.getUrl());
          return startingPipeline.applyAction(action);
        })
        // add this action to the pipeline
        .map(pipeline -> pipeline.applyAction(this))
        // get pipeline outputs
        .flatMap(JsonPipeline::getOutput)
        // get pipeline outputs list
        .toList()
        // process output
        .map(linkOutputs -> outputProcessor.process(previousStepOutput, linkOutputs));

  }

  private String getCurrentUrl(JsonPipelineOutput output) {

    List<CaravanHttpRequest> requests = output.getRequests();
    if (requests.isEmpty()) {
      return "unknown";
    }
    CaravanHttpRequest request = requests.get(requests.size() - 1);
    return request.getUrl();

  }

  private HalResource getCurrentHalResource(JsonPipelineOutput previousStepOutput, String currentUrl) {

    JsonNode json = previousStepOutput.getPayload();
    if (!(json instanceof ObjectNode)) {
      HalResource hal = new HalResource(currentUrl);
      hal.getModel().set("content", json);
      return hal;
    }
    return new HalResource(json);

  }

  /**
   * @return true if crawling has been stopped by the {@link StopCriterion}
   */
  public boolean isStopRequested() {
    return stopCriterion.isStopRequested();
  }

}

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These statistics cover Cardin's record during the 114th Congress (Jan 6, 2015-Jan 3, 2017) and compare him to other senators also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Aug 24, 2017. The statistics were updated on Jan 20, 2017 and Aug 24, 2017 to improve how we counted enacted laws. Originally published on Jan 7, 2017.
Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Cardin introduced 19 bills in the 114th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.
Compare to all Senate Democrats (98th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (94th percentile); All Senators (96th percentile).
Compare to all Senate Democrats (98th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (94th percentile); All Senators (97th percentile).
For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 114th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Cardin's score elsewhere on GovTrack.
Compare to all Senate Democrats (98th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (87th percentile); All Senators (94th percentile).
In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 36 of Cardin's 80 bills and resolutions had both a Democratic cosponsor and a Republican cosponsor in the 114th Congress.
Compare to all Senate Democrats (95th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (87th percentile); All Senators (94th percentile).
11 of Cardin's bills and resolutions in the 114th Congress had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward.
Compare to all Senate Democrats (89th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (79th percentile); All Senators (89th percentile).
The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 20 of Cardin's bills and resolutions had a companion bill in the House. Working with a sponsor in the other chamber makes a bill more likely to be passed by both the House and Senate.
Compare to all Senate Democrats (64th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (80th percentile); All Senators (81st percentile).
For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 114th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Cardin's score elsewhere on GovTrack.
Compare to all Senate Democrats (52nd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (30th percentile); All Senators (24th percentile).
Compare to all Senate Democrats (41st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (74th percentile); All Senators (69th percentile).
GovTrack looked at whether Cardin supported any of 22 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the Senate that we identified in this session. We gave Cardin 3 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills.


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Q: How can I set UIDatePicker to display dates for today and onward? Is there a way to set the date of the UIDatePicker to be dynamic? How can I set the Minumum Date to be the current date?

A: This is very simple Datepickerview with minimum date set to Today
class ViewController: UIViewController{

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    view.backgroundColor = .white

// Create a DatePicker
     let datePicker: UIDatePicker = UIDatePicker()

     // Posiiton date picket within a view
     datePicker.frame = CGRect(x: 10, y: 50, width: self.view.frame.width, height: 200)

     // Set some of UIDatePicker properties
    datePicker.timeZone = NSTimeZone.local
    datePicker.backgroundColor = UIColor.white
    datePicker.datePickerMode = .date
    datePicker.minimumDate = Date()

     self.view.addSubview(datePicker)

}

}

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Sport has always played an important role in society. Indeed, the first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC and today it is the most watched and publicized event in the world with 3.6 billion viewers in 2016 or 50% of the world's population! These Games also brought together more than 11,000 athletes, proof once again of the important place of sport today. Since the ancient Olympic Games, sport has been an opportunity to establish relations between peoples. The Olympic Truce established a period of peace between peoples at war. Sport is perhaps war, but, as the ancient Greeks wished, ritualized war, without arms, without bloodshed and without death. It is also an education for peace. Sociologists Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning have rightly pointed out: "At international level, sporting events such as the Olympic Games or the World Cup in football are, in a visible and regular manner, the only opportunity for unity For States in times of peace. The Olympic Games allow representatives of different nations to compete without killing each other. As with all sporting competitions, sport provides the touch of passion necessary when it is confined to sporting arenas. In this context, the competition is indispensable because the exploits of the foreign champions make us vibrate.
In addition to this privileged place, sport is known for its virtues on health. The regular practice of an activity makes it possible to have a good physical condition. It also protects against cardiovascular disease. Certain cancers, such as the breast in women and colon in man, can be avoided. This practice also improves sleep and effectively tackles stress, depression and anxiety.
Sport improves well-being through its structured and enjoyable practice that helps develop skills and channel emotions, while familiarizing with rules and offering common experiences. Exercising a positive influence on health and fitness, it generates a state of bodily well-being. It is also an important activity for the human being because it allows during the time of the exercise of diversion the intentions of the gloomy preoccupations to look back on the joy and pleasure that the movement provides. As it provides well-being sport and became a tourist movement.
So we can see that sport is very important today. Because of this, it seems correct to compare the main sports in France and Slovenia which are respectively football and skiing.
The French Football Federation (FFF) was created in 1919 and now has over 18,000 clubs and 2 million licensees. France is currently one of the top 5 European championships behind, Spain, Germany, England and Italy. The French championship consists of 2 professional leagues (Ligue 1 and Ligue 2), a semi-professional league (National) and several amateur leagues.
About Slovenia, the country ranks 30th, between Serbia and Slovakia. This rank can be explained by the youth of this country whose professional federation dates from 1920 but is recognized only officially in 1992 and also by its small size. Indeed, this country has as many inhabitants as there are licensed in France. Slovenia consists of a professional league, a semi-professional league and several amateur leagues and only 21,000 licensed.
The best known clubs in Slovenia are the Olimpija Ljubljana and the NK Maribor. Football is not yet fully developed in Slovenia, which explains the lack of participation of its clubs in cup of Europe. Nevertheless, the club of NK Maribor will succeed, twice, to qualify for the Champions League in 2014 and in 2000 by eliminating one of the best French clubs of the time, Olympique Lyonnais.
Slovenia's first official match took place on 3 June 1991 against Estonia and ended with a 1-1 draw. If this team has not won any competition, it nevertheless succeeds in qualifying for the 2002 and 2010 World Cup (eliminations in the first round) and the Euro 2000 (elimination in the first roundThe low sports results at the level of the clubs and the country mean that the enthusiasm around the national team is low compared to France. Again, the youth of this country is a disadvantage and the delay taken by Slovenia compared to other major football nations should narrow over the years. However, Slovenia has had great players such as Valter Birsa, Samir Handanovic, Jan Oblak and Robert Beric. In the FIFA ranking, Slovenia is currently 52nd. For the anecdote, there were 3 confrontations between France and Slovenia with each time a French victory.
La France et ses engagements.
Viessmann France soigne le bien-être de ses collaborateurs.
What is the link between eating meat and Global Warming?
Le sport en France entre pratique et spectacle 1919-1944.
The expansion of the Islam in France: a real obstacle for the democracy? Comparison with the British model.
Spaces and exchanges: To what extent, can we say that sports unites people?


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Home » Fractional Ownership Resources and Articles » General Information on Fractional Ownership » The Types and Categories of Fractional Ownership Arrangements
The Types and Categories of Fractional Ownership Arrangements
By Andy Sirkin
Fractional Ownership, Co-Ownership, and Shared Ownership
Understand the most commonly used fractional ownership terms and jargon.
Fractional ownership, co-ownership, and shared ownership can describe any arrangement where two or more people share ownership of something, whether or not they share usage. Fractional ownership seems to be emerging as the one most commonly used for time-based sharing of vacation real estate in the U.S., but co-ownership and shared ownership are often used to describe these arrangements in other English-speaking countries. The fact that an arrangement is described using one of these terms rather than another can be attributed to the seller's personal taste and the location of the project, rather than two the project type or characteristics.
"Private Residence Club"
Generally, a private residence club (or "PRC") involves equity ownership (although not necessarily deeded ownership) of a specific property with 4-13 owners per home. Private residence clubs tend to be on the high end of fractional ownership options with regard to unit size, amenity level and pricing. In most PRCs, usage is not unit-specific, meaning that a particular owner uses whichever unit (of appropriate size and type) happens to be available during his/her usage period.
"Destination Club" and "Vacation Club"
Destination club and vacation club mean different things to different sellers, and the definitions used here will not hold true across the board. Destination clubs and vacation clubs commonly involve multiple homes in different locations, with a usage system that allows participants to use any of the homes in the club. There are equity and non-equity variations, distinguished by whether or not the participants have an ownership interest (which can be deeded or non-deeded) in one or more homes controlled by the club. Both equity- and non-equity clubs often provide an exit strategy after a pre-set number of years of participation. In non-equity clubs, the amount received by the departing club member is generally based on the original purchase price, or on the price being charged for new memberships at the time of the member's exit, while in equity clubs the payout is based on the market value of the properties owned by the club.
Timeshare is perhaps the most misunderstood term in the fractional vacation property lexicon, largely because many sellers want to distance themselves from the high-pressure sales tactics, poor quality, and dismal resale performance of many first generation timeshare projects. Under the common legal definition, timeshare describes any arrangement where usage of property is shared based on time, and there is no reliable distinction between properties marketed as timeshares and those marketed as fractionals or private residence clubs. Contrary to what most people think, many timeshares are deeded and many fractionals and private residence clubs are not.
"Quarter Share"
Quarter share is used to describe any fractional ownership arrangement that involves four equal shares of ownership. Most quarter share arrangements involve deeded fractional ownership of a single home or condominium, but there are exceptions to this general rule.
"Equity" versus "Non-Equity"
In equity fractional arrangements, the participants own and use the shared property, while in non-equity arrangements they only use it. Ownership may mean being named on legal title to the shared property, or owning a trust, company or other entity that owns the shared property. The property that is fractionally owned may be a single home, multiple homes, or a multi-unit resort. In general, equity fractional arrangements are less risky, provide tax advantages, give the owners a greater degree of control over the shared property, and are more likely to hold value or appreciate over time. But like all generalizations, these can be misleading, and it is important to examine the merits of each particular offering.
"Deeded" and "Titled"
In deeded and titled fractional arrangements, the participants are listed on the legal title to the property. The property that is deeded may be a single home, multiple homes, or a multi-unit resort. The advantages of deeded fractional ownership are typically exaggerated, and the disadvantages are rarely appreciated. Compared with other equity fractional vacation arrangements, the advantage of deeded ownership is superior tax treatment for U.S. taxpayers who own U.S. fractional property, but this advantage only exists if all the fractional owners use the property exclusively as a residence. Other supposed advantages, such as better resale value, more owner control, and lower risk, are illusions. Moreover, deeded ownership has some significant disadvantages compared with other types of equity fractionals. Inadequate or improperly prepared fractional ownership documents (or worse, no documents at all) cause much more significant and expensive problems in deeded ownership than in non-deeded ownership. Deeded arrangements also have more cumbersome financing and resale procedures, and higher liability risks. If the shared property is not within a country with a quick, inexpensive and efficient system for transferring ownership and a well-developed non-judicial enforcement system, deeded ownership should be avoided.
"Condominium Hotels", "Condo Hotels", and "Condotels"
The terms "condominium hotels", "condo hotels", and "condotels" usually describe a hotel that has been subdivided into condominiums, where each owner owns the entirety of a specific condominium. Management operates the hotel and shares the proceeds with the condominium owner, who can also use the property him/herself, sometimes free of charge and sometimes for a fee. When there is only one owner per condo, these arrangements are not fractional ownership. But the terms are sometimes used to describe a hotel that has not been subdivided, where the owners own a percentage of the whole development rather than the entirety of a specific room or suite. When used in this way, the terms describe a type of fractional ownership, but the arrangement does not actually involve a condominium.
Andy Sirkin has focused on fractional real estate projects since 1985, and has been involved in the creation of projects throughout the United States, as well as Europe, and Central and South America, ranging in size from a single house or condominium up to hundreds of factional interests. This breadth of experience allows the firm to draw on a huge library of fractional project documentation as well as extensive knowledge of marketing and registration requirements for virtually any location where a project might be located or potentially marketed. Andy is the author of two books as well as numerous published articles, and has compiled a searchable disk containing the complete text and a summary of fractional ownership law for all 50 U.S. states. He has also created an extensive library of instructional material for fractional developers, brokers, and buyers, available at sirkinfractionallawyers.com. He is an accredited instructor with the California Department of Real Estate, and frequently conducts workshops and appears at conferences throughout the world. He currently splits his time between offices in Paris and San Francisco, and can be contacted via our contact form.


This PT-19 was given to Tony Daiuto president of the Monroe Marauders, upon which Tony then donated it to the local EAA Chapter 1241's Aviation museum, but not before volunteering the Marauders time to restore this aircraft for display purposes only. The EAA museum is located at the Florida Keys Airport in Marathon, Florida. The aircraft was picked up in Lakeland, Florida, where it had been in storage for many years. The process of piecing the plane together will take hundreds of hours to complete. But well worth the effort as they are a rare aircraft. Please stop by the Marauders headquarters and check out this beautiful aircraft as it is being put back into shape. We welcome volunteers and donations in getting this bird ready.
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran was born in Muscogee, Florida. Not only was she instrumental in starting the WASP's, but on May 18th 1953 she was the first woman to break the sound barrier. Flying a F-86 Sabre Jet. The WASP's was granted veteran status in 1977, and given the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.
The 38 WASP's of WWII that lost there life serving their country.


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MSDN: Inside the SQL Server 2000 User Mode Scheduler
By Bill Graziano on 8 March 2004 | Tags: Performance Tuning
Ken Henderson profiles the User Mode Scheduler (UMS) in SQL Server 2000 that requires developers to write code that runs efficiently, and yields often enough in the appropriate places. UMS provides more control and allows the server to scale better than it could with the Windows scheduler.
Link: MSDN: Inside the SQL Server 2000 User Mode Scheduler
Which is Faster: SAN or Directly-Attached Storage? (21 January 2008)
Benchmarking Disk I/O Performance: Size Matters! (30 October 2007)
What I Wish Developers Knew About SQL Server (Presentation) (11 October 2007)
Introduction to Parameterization in SQL Server (7 August 2007)
Using Indexed Computed Columns to Improve Performance (16 January 2007)
SQL Server Storage Engine Team Blog (7 June 2006)
Statistics Used by the Query Optimizer in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (1 June 2005)
Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability (29 April 2004)


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THE SECRET ROOM shall take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information of users. For the purpose of this clause, "personal information" shall be defined as detailed in the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 (PAIA). The PAIA may be downloaded from:
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The improbable history of 1 Woodchurch Road
by Dick Weindling and Marianne Colloms / November 16, 2016 /0 Comments/in Frontpage Article, History /
No. 1 Woodchurch Road in October 2016
No. 1 Woodchurch Road – the rather grandiose building towards the Priory Road end of the street – was for many years called 'New Place' and has been the home of several famous residents. Today of course it is divided into flats, but there can be few extant buildings in the area with such a distinguished collection of former residents.
Originally, it was the home of the famous artist John Seymour Lucas. He moved there from Long Acre in 1882 and the house with its purpose-built studio was designed by his friend, the artist and architect Sydney Williams-Lee. Lucas was a full Royal Academician, a group of only 80 people who are elected by their peers.
John Seymour Lucas by John Singer Sargent (1905)
He was known as a 'genre painter', his canvasses generally depicting scenes from the 17th and 18th Centuries. He also painted portraits, including some local residents such as his friend and neighbour the architect Banister Fletcher, and Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe the newspaper publisher. Lucas exhibited at the Royal Academy numerous times up to 1923. His wife Marie Elizabeth Cornelissen was a portrait and figure painter, who illustrated children's books, and his daughter Marie Ellen, also became a painter. Both women exhibited at the Royal Academy.
The Gordon Riots, 1780 by Seymour Lucas, (1879)
The house features a Queen Anne doorway which still survives today. When Fairfax House in Putney was demolished, Lucas bought the door with its beautiful shell cupola and installed it in West Hampstead.
The shell cupola over the doorway
In September 1891 Lucas was on a painting holiday in Spain and was involved in a serious train crash near Burgos. Initial communications at first said that he was dead, but this was not true. He was travelling with three friends: Herbert Fletcher, son of Banister Fletcher, William Cotton who lived at 'The Knoll' in West End Lane, and Maurice St Clair Long from Netherhall Gardens, son of the painter Edwin Long. Two trains collided; Maurice died at the scene and William a few days later. Maurice had been persuaded to go on the trip although his mother had wanted him to stay in England, following his father's death just four months earlier. The survivors returned home, transported in specially adapted railway carriages. Lucas suffering from a badly broken leg. In 1894, Lucas and Fletcher each received £80 compensation; William's and Maurice's families were awarded £120.
Mrs Lucas died in 1921 and John two years later, in May 1923. After his death another painter moved into the house and studio – Albert Henry Collings. Collings was born in Shoreditch in 1869, the son of a calligrapher and heraldic artist and was a very accomplished portrait painter who exhibited in Paris in 1893, and from 1896 onwards at the RA and other exhibitions. In 1936, he was commissioned to paint a portrait of Prince Edward VIII ready for his coronation but of course Edward abdicated because of his relationship with Mrs Simpson, so the portrait was never shown. With Edward's brother George now in line to be king, rather than start again, Collins just painted over Edward's head and replaced it with that of the new King George VI. Collings died on 6 May 1947 at a nursing home in Buxton.
Another famous occupant of No. 1 was Noel Johnson, the actor who played both Dick Barton and Dan Dare on the radio. He lived at the house for ten years from 1948. Dick Barton: Special Agent, was first broadcast on 7 October 1946. An astonishing 15 million people eagerly tuned in every weekday at 6.45pm to listen to the show (and its famous signature tune The Devil's Galop). Dick and his chums Snowey and Jock thrilled their fans by solving crimes, escaping from dangerous situations and saving the nation from disaster. The series ended after 711 programmes on Friday 30 March 1951 to be replaced later by The Archers. Johnson had a very long career in films and then TV, with more than 100 roles. He died aged 82 in a small village outside Cardiff on 1 October 1999. We wrote a whole article about the Dick Barton phenomenon back in 2012.
In July 1959, the Irish playwright and novelist Brendan Behan was fined 5 shillings and a further 15 shillings for the doctor's fees, for being drunk in Lansdowne Row Mayfair. He gave his address as No.1 Woodchurch Road. Well-known for his heavy drinking, he humorously called himself: a drinker with a writing problem. Behan was staying, as he always did, with his best friend Desmond MacNamara, the Irish sculptor and stage designer, who lived at 1b Woodchurch from about 1957 till his death on 8 Jan 2008. Later MacNamara remembered the incident and said, I had to bail him out of a West End police station. When I arrived, I found Brendan and all the police having a party around two crates of pale ale. MacNamara taught art at the Marylebone Institute and wrote a biography of Eamon de Valera.
On the mantelpiece in Woodchurch Road was his life-sized brass bust of Behan, with his jaw jutting out, hair tousled and his nose thrust forward like a hatchet ready to strike. He and Brendan talked about substituting the bust for that of one of the many politicians in London parks. They were sure nobody would notice. After several attempts, they abandoned it as it was too awkward to carry!
'Dick Barton' in West Hampstead
by Dick Weindling and Marianne Colloms / December 1, 2012 /1 Comment/in Features, History /
On 7 October 1946 'Dick Barton: special agent' began broadcasting on the BBC Light Programme. The first review which appeared in The Daily Worker said: 'It is so bad as to be almost beyond belief.'But despite this, the audience for the show with its famous signature tune 'The Devil's Galop', grew to an astonishing 15 million listeners who eagerly turned on their radio sets at 6.45pm every week day. Dick and his chums Snowey and Jock thrilled their fans by solving crimes, escaping from dangerous situations and saving the nation from disaster. The series ended after 711 programmes on Friday 30 March 1951 to be replaced by 'The Daring Dexters' a daily show about circus life, and then 'The Archers'.
In the first episode Captain Richard Barton MC, ex-wartime commando, introduced himself by saying:
'Six years of battle, murder and sudden death just spoil you completely for a nice, peaceful office job. Don't you agree, Snowey?'
From left to right, Dick, Snowey and Jock
Dick Barton was played by Noel Johnson, Snowey was played by John Mann and Jock was Alex McCrindle.
It's not widely known that Noel Johnson was a local, living in a flat at 1 Woodchurch Road, West Hampstead, from 1948 to 1958.
Johnson was born in Birmingham in 1916, and after leaving school he took up acting in local repertory. At the outbreak of War he volunteered for the Royal Army Service Corps. Injured and evacuated from Dunkirk, he spent a year in hospital before being invalided out of the Forces in 1941. He returned to local rep and married Leonora Peacock, a theatrical scenery artist, in 1942. He joined the BBC Drama Repertory Company in 1945.
Norman Collins, the controller of the new Light Programme, asked his assistant John McMillan to research the idea of a daily 'cloak and dagger' soap opera. McMillan wrote the synopsis and biographies of the main characters. Noel Johnson was paid £18 a week and given a trial run of six programmes. The anticipated adult audience never materialised. Instead, 'Dick Barton' became essential listening for school boys. The BBC bowed to pressure and released a code of conduct which the hero – and the writers – had to abide by. This was published in the Daily Telegraph in January 1948.
The 12 rules of Dick Barton
Barton is intelligent as well as hard hitting. He relies as much upon brains as upon brawn.
He only uses force when normal, peaceful means of reaching a legitimate goal have failed.
Barton never commits an offence in the criminal code, no matter how desirable the means may be argued to justify the end.
In reasonable circumstances, he may deceive but he never lies.
Barton's violence is restricted to clean socks on the jaw.
Barton's enemies have more latitude in their behaviour but they may not indulge in actually giving any injury or punishment that is basically sadistic.
Barton and his friends do not wittingly involve innocent members of the public in situations that would cause them to be distressed.
Barton has now given up drink altogether. Drunken scenes are barred.
Sex, in the active sense, plays no part in the Barton adventures.
Horrific effects in general must be closely watched. Supernatural or pseudo-supernatural sequences are to be avoided – ghosts, night-prowling, gorillas or vampires.
Swearing and bad language generally may not be used by any character.
Political themes are unpopular as well as being occasionally embarrassing.
(The inclusion of 'gorillas' in rule 10 seems a bit bizarre – perhaps this was a throwback to the movie 'King Kong'?)
In a later interview Johnson commented; 'Barton was a proper character at first. He drank; he smoked and had a girl friend. As soon as the producers cottoned on to the fact we had a youth audience, they felt they had to become moral guardians.'
Adults criticised the show. Miss Marion Seddon informed readers of The Illustrated London News that; 'children have no business listening at the homework hour to the exploits of Dick Barton and other characters leading abnormal lives.'
A letter to The Times said: 'The BBC seems bent on turning children into a new kind of drug addict. They grow more concerned from day to day about what Dick Barton may do next than about their futures or the future of England.'
Despite what some adults said the popularity grew. On one occasion, when the show was not broadcast because of technical problems, all telephone lines to the BBC were jammed and large numbers of children traveled to Broadcasting House to see if Dick was in trouble and needed help.
Rather oddly, at first people did not know who was playing the part. Only when the omnibus edition was introduced on 4 January 1947, did the world discover that Noel Johnson was Dick Barton. The huge audience made Noel Johnson a star. His son Gareth said: 'Dad was being asked to open fetes, to do things left, right and centre, which were all to do with Dick Barton. In kind of a way it coloured his career, for better and for worse.'
But Johnson felt type-cast and some producers refused to hire him. In 1949 at the height of his fame, when the BBC refused to give him a rise, he resigned. He went straight into a West End play, but as he said; 'needless to say it flopped.' The BBC tried to get him to change his mind and asked him how much he wanted. 'They asked me to name my price. I said, 100 pounds a week.' They said, 'it sounds like you want danger money.' Johnson replied, 'that's precisely what I want – and that was the end of it.'
So the BBC had to find a new Dick Barton. Over 1,000 people applied for the role, from policemen to dance band managers. A seven-year-old boy wrote on a postcard,'I want to be Dick Barton, I have a gruff voice and I can shout.' The role was eventually given to explorer Duncan Carse and then to Gordon Davies.
1950s book from the BBC
Within two years Noel Johnson was staring as 'Dan Dare' in Radio Luxembourg's adaptation of the Eagle comic character. This was a series which ran for five days a week from 2 July 1951for five years.
Johnson had a very long acting career in films and then TV, playing over 100 parts. Rather oddly, in a 1982 BBC2 play 'The Combination' he played a magistrate who admonishes two ten year old boys in court: 'If I had to point the finger at any single responsible body, it would be the BBC for churning out Dick Barton every solitary night of the week. If anything was guaranteed to warp the spirit of the young, it's that perverted rubbish!'
Towards the end of his career he appeared in the radio adaptation of 'A Dance to the Music of Time' by Anthony Powell. His numerous films included 'Withnail and I' (1986) and on TV 'Rumpole of the Bailey', 'Inspector Morse', 'Doctor Who' and 'A Touch of Frost'. He died aged 82 in a small village outside Cardiff on 1 October 1999.
There is a short interview with Noel Johnson and his wife Leonora, at his home in Woodchurch Road on Pathe News in 1948. This appears from 2.00 mins to 3.00 mins into the clip.
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/pathe-reporter-meets-2/
You can hear all of the famous 'Devil's Galop' signature tune by Charles Williams at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2eqX93umXo
There are several episodes of the original Dick Barton on YouTube, including:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZdER4GSRjw
Dick Barton has been most recently parodied by Mitchell and Webb's Sir Digby Chicken Caesar. There are lots of episodes on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QACSo5xk3dE


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Boat Hire. A longexposure shot taken at Pumicestone Passage, Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia with a Canon EOS dslr camera and a wide angle lens.


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In a Master Planned Community, all of the amenities and conveniences are planned and included ahead of time and are often in place before homes are built.
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Oooooh. Now, drag has made me uncomfortable for a long time, and I realised reading this that you'd nailed why. As a gender exclusive thing it does sometimes feel to me like an act of mockery. But, if anyone could be a Queen or King, is anyone could play with this on any terms – that would be inclusive, transgressive, exciting, and I would be much more comfortable with it. Thank you for this.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I'm glad to know I'm not alone in this line of thinking!


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Tune-Yards : …creep…Remixes EP Out Now
The final remix from Tune-Yards' …creep…Remixes comes today in the form of 'Look at Your Hands (ET.PATXKEISHH VIBEMIX)' by ET.PATXKEISHH. The full remix EP is released today featuring previously released remixes of songs off their 2018 LP I can feel you creep into my private life by Sylvan Esso, U.S. Girls and Suzi Analogue. ET.PATXKEISHH released their latest EP Camp Mars earlier this month.
+ Listen To …creep…Remixes here, on all streaming platforms +
Tune-Yards and U.S. Girls embarked on the first ever North American 4AD tour earlier this month. The 12-date tour will hit Burlington, VT tonight and Boston tomorrow, before wrapping up at NYC's Knockdown Center this Friday, 2nd November. The final show will also feature a DJ set by Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance. A limited edition 7" will be available exclusively on tour for 4 American Dollars.
In partnership with Revolutions Per Minute, Tune-Yards will be working to generate support for small-to-medium sized organizations who are educating and mobilizing voters in key states during this midterm election and beyond. Tune-Yards and U.S. Girls are highlighting organizations along their tour route or fans can visit Movement Voter Project to find one in their town. Garbus says, "I was particularly inspired by the work of Movement Voter Project and the organizations they are supporting because they work locally, have tangible and meaningful impact on important elections, and will be engaging whomever is in office after election day."
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Tune-Yards' fourth album I can feel you creep into my private life was released earlier this year to widespread praise and features the singles 'Heart Attack', 'Look At Your Hands' and 'ABC 123'. A fully collaborative effort between Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner who co-wrote and co-produced the record, Garbus' lyrics explore her place in the world, ruminating on race, politics, intersectional feminism and the environment. More recently, Tune-Yards released 'Mango', a collaboration with Lakeith Stanfield's musical project Moors. The duo connected with Stanfield through their work on the film Sorry to Bother You which they scored and stars Stanfield. The band performed singles 'ABC 123' on Jimmy Kimmel and 'Heart Attack' on Conan in January.
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This version of the childhood combination concentrates the flavors into a sweet dessert that appeals to all ages.
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-by-13-inch pan with butter, and line the bottom with parchment paper. Grease the parchment, and coat inside of pan with flour; set aside. Place butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on medium-high speed until fluffy, about 2 minutes. On medium speed, add eggs and peanut butter; beat until combined, about 2 minutes.
2. Whisk together salt, baking powder, and flour. Add to bowl of mixer on low speed; combine. Add vanilla. Transfer two-thirds of mixture to prepared pan; spread evenly with offset spatula. Using offset spatula, spread jam on top of peanut-butter mixture. Dollop remaining third of peanut-butter mixture on top of jam. Sprinkle with peanuts.
3. Bake until golden, about 45 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool; cut into about 36 1 1/2-by-2-inch pieces.


David Auburn's bittersweet, suspenseful two act drama, "Proof," was originally produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club in May 2000. Suzanne Birrell is the current director for her production (Birrell/Jones) now playing at Exit Theatre at 156 Eddy, in San Francisco through October 29 and 30th. I strongly advise you to see it. Off Market, Powell BARTand MUNI station, #27 Muni bus.
Gabrielle Patacsil plays Catherine, the tormented daughter of Robert (a brilliant Kevin Copps), a mathematical genius on the verge of solving a mathematical conundrum that has stumped great minds for centuries. Like John Forbes Nash, Jr. – – played by Oscar winner Russell Crowe in the film "A Beautiful Mind" – – he suffers a breakdown, but unlike Forbes, dies before he can complete his work. Catherine has inherited her father's genius and is deeply concerned that she may have inherited his mental illness as well. There is not one false note in Ms. Patacsil's portrayal of Catherine. She plays the fragile Catherine with nuanced emotions, striking the right chords in her relationship with her father and sister, Claire (Theresa Adams), as well as one of her father's former students, Hal (a delightful, engaging Eric Reid), now a mathematics professor himself, and self-described geek who also plays drums in a garage rock band that manages to get minor local gigs.
The action takes place on the back porch of their old, drafty house in Chicago, on a simple set consisting of wicker furniture and a wooden table and chairs. The play centers around Catherine's birthday, September 4th, opening with a scene between her and Robert, who pressures her to celebrate and do something to overcome her depression. They discuss "craziness." Robert says, "Crazy people don't ask if they're crazy." And that a crazy person would never admit that they are crazy. Still, crazy people don't know they are crazy. At the end of the scene, we realize he is an hallucination.
Theresa Adams is spot on as Claire, Catherine's sister, with believable concern for her sibling to assuage her guilt, perhaps? Claire has come from New York for their father's funeral and tries to persuade her sister to move there with her – – one of the many conflicts that surface between them. Catherine is paranoid about her father's work about which he has written extensively in hundreds of notebooks he has kept in his study. Hal has been called in to organize his notebooks. In one scene, as he is leaving, Catherine believes he has stolen one. They argue; she pulls off his backpack, which struck me as somewhat unlikely in that she comes off as frail and listless and he – – an able-looking guy. Still, this is a minor point and in no way affects the play's overall strengths.
Unless you have a program and refer to it throughout, it's possible to be confused. Where the scenes in Act One are chronological, the first scene in Act Two jumps back four years to when Robert was at his best and we see a happy father-daughter relationship. The scene that follows, flashes back to immediately after the last scene in the first act where guilt, blame, jealousy, and mistrust arise between the sisters. Catherine the genius had dropped out of college to care for her father for four years during his illness while homemaker, fashion-maven Claire (she bought Catherine a little black dress for the funeral) stayed in New York, rarely calling. A turning point in the play happens when Claire drops a metaphorical bomb on her sister, undermining what little security she has left.
Director Birrell dealt delicately with Copps portrayal of Robert's descent into madness in Act Two, which takes place some three years in the past. In a brief chat with her during intermission, she said that Copps nails it. Barefoot, sitting outside in the cold Chicago winter, he appears not only tortured, but to age and shrink within himself as Catherine, on a break from college, tries to make sense of his rambling notes which he has asked her to read. Sadly, she realizes, not at all the work of a brilliant mind, but as one who has lost it.
A startling find is revealed about Catherine's own work which furthers her father's. She entrusts it to Hal and an issue of trust enters the picture. The proof that it is hers resides in how her father noted his work as compared to Catherine. In the final moments of the last scene, whether it was intentional or not on the director's part, as Catherine gets ready to leave with Claire, she buttons her coat wrong which gives us an insight to her emotional instability.
Some have said that Auburn's "Proof" is a dark, depressing play and have staged it as such. Yet throughout, there is humor, especially between Robert when he was well and Catherine, and in her playfulness with Hal. There is a fine balance finding humor in a play dealing with the serious subject of mental illness, as well as in portraying insanity and genius. The actors' physicality throughout was true, seemingly spontaneous. Suzanne Birrell is the rare director who lets her actors take time to think during a scene. She is not afraid of pauses and trusts her actors to convey their character's inner workings in stillness.
Crystal Nezgoda not only worked up the perfect wardrobe for the actors to embody their characters, but is also Assistant Director. Chuck Jones designed the sound; the haunting, original music was composed by Suzanne Birrell.


A master criminal, the Boss, wants to crack the safe in the Gorgonzola Bank. The film opens with a planning session.
THE BOSS: All right, you lugs, listen up. As you can see on this diagram, the safe is in a lead-walled room, surrounded by a moat, surrounded by an electric fence, surrounded by a pit of crocodiles, surrounded by laser cannons, surrounded by a troupe of deadly circus mimes.
LUG: Boss, we'll never get in there!
Suddenly, the Boss and his lugs are standing before the safe.
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LUG: Boss, what are you doing?
Suddenly, the Boss finds himself at a fancy party, in the presence of Lon Gorgonzola, the banker.
GORGONZOLA: Even after all these years, I'm still amazed that you could just walk in there, spin the combination, and get it right on your first try. 7-7-7-4, just like that. How did you guess?
The Boss is back with his lugs before the safe.
THE BOSS: 7-7-7-4. And walla! The safe is opened!
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THE BOSS: I don't perceive it as ridiculous. I perceive it as big-budget science fiction.


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D0810: Francis Rolph Wood Pigeon Decoy, Early 1900s
Excellent wood pigeon decoy attributed to Francis Rolph of Lakenheath, Suffolk, United Kingdom, circa 1900-1910. The decoy is in original paint with light wear. It is unusual in that the head and body are carved in separate pieces, similar to many North American decoys, but a characteristic I've seen in no other English wood pigeons. It has carved shoulders and wings, the original bill, glass eyes and a pleasing patina. Painted in the specie's fall plumage, the full-bodied bird measures about 14.5" in length, 4" in width and 3.5" in depth at the breast. Francis was the father of James Rolph who continued carving decoys into the 1940s using the same basic pattern but with a one-piece body and head. One of Francis's decoys, unidentified as to maker, can be found in Joel Barber's book written in 1935 (Plate 54). English wood pigeons have garnered the well-deserved attention of American collectors. Similar in time frame to North American waterfowl and shorebird decoys, they have been used in the United Kingdom since the latter part of the 1800s with examples ranging from the deeply carved examples sold by Trulock and Harriss and R. Ward Co. to the more stylized examples of the Rolphs, Jaggard, Boddy and Robert Lange. See my other website, www.woodpigeondecoys.com, dedicated to the identification and documentation of these decoys and their carvers for additional information. SOLD
D0812: Ted Grace Feeding Wood Pigeon Decoy
Feeding wood pigeon decoy by Edward Arthur "Ted" Grace, Walderslade, Kent, United Kingdom, circa 1950s. The bird, painted in fall plumage, is in well-blended and detailed original feather paint with a nice patina. A very well-formed bird, it has screw eyes set in separate shoe eyelets to simulate eye rings, a cast metal bill and relief carved shoulders. The pigeon is hollowed from below with an inset metal plate marked "Pat. 431190" (Issued to Harry Boddy in 1935) to join the included aluminum stake for setting the decoy in the ground. There is a clasp at the back of tail to store the stake. Grace's purchase of Boddy's business in 1952 included the patent rights as well as remaining parts such as the attachment plates and stakes. According to the patent documents, "...under the action of wind, it (the designed means of attachment) simulates the action of a feeding bird". The hollowed portion of the body in these decoys is made from a second piece of wood, nailed to the of the upper body. This second piece is curved on top to fit a corresponding concave curve in the upper piece. Grace continued Boddy's work with relatively minor changes that can make the decoys by the two men difficult to distinguish between. Grace made his decoys with narrower and more tapered heads and necks (See last photo; Grace's decoy is on the left) and painted his decoys with a lighter palette than seen on those by Boddy. This decoy measures 14" in length and 4" in width. In original paint with overall light wear and a rub at the crown of the head, it has been lightly hit with shot. It is important to note that the very rare original stake is included. Stamped with the patent number, it is the only such example I've ever seen. For additional information on the work of Harry Boddy and Ted Grace, please visit my website, www.woodpigeondecoys.com, where you'll find a copy of my article from the Jan/Feb 2017 issue of Hunting & Fishing Collectibles Magazine as well as documentation of a number of other pigeon makers and examples of their decoys. Stand included. SOLD
D0779: Mint Robert Lange Wood Pigeon Decoy, Circa 1900
Mint example attributed to Robert Lange, Yorkshire, UK, circa 1900. There is a possibility, however, that the decoys attributed to Lange were actually made by an unnamed Scottish carver. Regardless, they were limited in production and are some of the finest early decoys the UK has to offer, perhaps second only to those of Trulock & Harriss. Stylistically, they are similar to some of the better North American shorebird decoys of the same period, with smoothly carved bodies and a deft brushstroke applied in what has been called a "Spenserian style". A solid-bodied decoy measuring 13.5" in length with applied wings, extended wing tips and a full, protruding breast, one would be hard pressed to find a finer example by this important maker (See www.woodpigeondecoys.com). This glass-eyed example, exhibiting an excellent patina, is in bright breeding plumage with mottled breast, neatly scalloped neck patches and fluid but precisely applied wing markings. Stand included. SOLD
D0813: Trulock & Harriss Wood Pigeon Decoy, Circa 1880s
Classic wood pigeon decoy from the gunsmith firm of Trulock & Harriss, Suffolk, England, circa 1880s. Their decoys are considered to be the premier examples of English wood pigeons known. This example is finely crafted with detailed shoulder, wing and tail carving, glass eyes and its original molded lead bill. The softly-blended paint is strong and original with an excellent patina. A large carving measuring almost 17" in length, the decoy exhibits overall feather carving with the breast and throat feathers carved in a fine scallop pattern and deeply carved edging on the wing coverts, primaries and fluted tail. The high head is carved in an alert position. As with many of the decoys by this maker, the lower portion of the breast is laminated to the rest of the body. Other than a small amount of chipping on the underside of the tail, the structural condition of the carving is exceptional. Although who carved these decoys for Trulock and Harriss is not known, a strong arguement can be made that the birds were made by the same craftsmen tasked with making the gunstocks for the gunsmith's primary product, perhaps on a seasonal basis or as a filler during slack periods. Lot 498 in the April 2015 Guyette and Deeter auction pictured a very similar example. See my other website, www.woodpigeondecoys.com, dedicated to the identification and documentation of these decoys and their carvers, for additional information. SOLD
D0811: Long-Billed Curlew Decoy
Handsome long-billed curlew decoy by an unknown carver, circa 4th quarter, 20th century. It has glass eyes and a very well-crafted cast iron bill and shows modest wear. A large bird measuring 16.5" from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, it is in intricately detailed original feather paint except for touch up to the neck where the head was broken off and glued back in place. The head is turned about 20 degrees to the right. Judging from the quality of the paint match, the repair was most likely done by the carver. The decoy is signed on the bottom with stylized initials, perhaps DK or RD. Stand not included. SOLD
D0641: Nantucket island Golden Plover Decoy, Circa Late 1800s
Solid-bodied, split-tailed golden plover decoy with carved eyes in summer plumage by an unknown carver from Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, circa 4th quarter, 19th century. The decoy is in original paint except for the bill which is a professional replacement. Structurally excellent, the bird has the letter "H" carved in its bottom and has been lightly hit by shot. It measures 10" in length. Stand not included.
D0809: Unknown Wood Pigeon Decoy, Circa Early 3rd Q, 20th C
Unknown balsa-bodied wood pigeon decoy in near-mint condition. It appears to have been influenced by the decoys of Harry Boddy and Ted Grace. It was most likely made in the late 1950s to early 1960s after Ted Grace's retirement from full-time carving in 1957. The eyes are somewhat similar in makeup to the Boddy and Grace decoys with a black-headed tack seated in a white grommet. The shoulder and wing edges are also lightly carved; however, the bill is wooden rather than poured lead and the paint, while similar in overall pattern, lacks the free-flowing brushstrokes of those by the earlier makers. In all likelihood, this was one of the last of the wooden decoys made for resale, soon to be replaced by counterparts made from fiberglass and other man-made materials. The decoy measures 14.5" in length. Stand not included. SOLD
D0808: Early Judge Malatrop Kovenhoven New Jersey Ruddy Turnstone Decoy
Very early painted-eye ruddy turnstone by Judge Malatrop Kovenhoven, Raritan Bay, New Jersey. A rigmate to this decoy from Summers Headley's collection was pictured on the cover of Decoy Magazine's Summer 1984 issue. Headley identified it as being circa 1870. The decoy is in stylishly- patterned bold original paint with a pleasing cracklature and its original nail bill. There are shot scars on the left side of the decoy. The decoy measures 11" from bill to tail and is 1.75" thick. Turnstones are among the rarest of shorebird decoys, and few as early as this example have been documented. Stand not included. SOLD