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4 victories, 1 draw, 15 goals scored. September was almost perfect for the Aiglons. And especially for two members of the squad, Mario Balotelli and Alassane Plea. The two forwards shared the titles of Aiglon of the Match between them throughout the month, and therefore it was just the two of them appearing on the voting card for the monthly title.

Once again, many of you have cast your vote on the Crédit Agricole Provence Côte d’Azur Facebook page. The voting closed this morning, the day after the victory over Vitesse.

You have chosen Mario Balotelli, with 69% of the vote. Goalscorer (5 goals including a brace against Monaco), picking up assists (at Waregem) and involved, the Italian takes home the victory and succeeds Allan Saint-Maximin. Balotelli will be presented with his trophy during the visit of Strasbourg by a supporter who will soon be drawn from a hat filled with the names of all of those who have voted on our partner’s page.


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MUSIC NEWS: FRICTION ‘Long Gone Memory’ ft. Arlissa (Ulterior Motive Remix)

Friction: he’s the face of Radio 1’s flagship Drum & Bass weekly Sunday show and is currently at work on his new album, which features the forthcoming monster single, ‘Long Gone Memory’ (Ulterior Motive Remix) featuring Arlissa on vocals.
Fresh from hosting the Original Penguin’s rooftop ‘Plugged In’ summer party above is the resulting live promo to accompany the song that’s currently all over the radio waves.
It’s the first video to drop for the track, and it captures the energy of Friction in a DJ setting.
Original Penguin continue to work with breaking acts and crossing genres with their Plugged In series which has this year already seen them hosting parties with Benga, Jake Bugg, Devlin and Miles Kane.
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10 questions with Peter Kumar of Gullwing Motor Cars

By Brian Earnest

Peter Kumar has been working in the car business since he was 14 years old and began running his own dealership in 1988. The inventory at his Gullwing Motor Cars operation in Astoria, Queens, is a testament to Kumar’s work ethic and his love for old iron. His building is packed nearly bumper to bumper with a dizzying display of European collector cars, including the company’s namesake, the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL. Kumar is always on the go, scouring the country for interesting vehicles that he can buy and sell.

Kumar has been around long enough to see plenty of peaks and valleys in the old  car  business, but like a disciplined stock market investor, he has kept the faith and stayed the course.

Recently we caught up with Kumar and fired some questions his way regarding the state of the old car hobby and his high-profile place in it.

Has business been busy this spring?

Yes, I just bought a couple cars today. I just bought a 1969 [Mercedes-Benz] 280SE convertible here locally this morning. I’ve been running around to Massachusetts, California, other states, everywhere. A lot of cars I can go check on myself. If I can drive it in 200 miles or so, I drive. Or else I fly.

What has the import market been like lately for you?

It’s been steady. I’ve been dealing with a lot of European cars: Lamborghini, Ferrari, Jaguar, Maserati… It’s been steady, not bad; not booming, but still going steady… It seems like there should be less and less cars around, but they are still coming. I used to think 15, 20 years ago that “This will be the last XKE I will ever be buying,” but they are still coming around. I bought 45 cars already this month, and two cars just today.

What has been the biggest reason for your staying power in the collector car business?

I would say, not bragging about myself, but it’s important to have a good reputation. We’ve been around 30 years … If I say I’m going to do something, I do it. We pay a fair price for the car and our margins our not big margins. We buy at a fair price and sell at a fair price. When we look at a car, we make a decision within 5 minutes, then we wire them the money. If we get a phone call [about a car], we move.

How many cars do you like to have in your inventory?

I like to have no more than 100 to 120 cars. Sometimes they don’t sell fast enough, sometimes we sell them within one hour, sometimes the cars sit for a year. You never know. Right now I have 175 cars. That’s a lot of cars — more cars than the room I have.

Everybody probably likes to ask the question: What’s hot right now?

Porsches are hot; 911 Porsches … 356s are hot. Old Jaguar XKEs are hot. All old Mercedes are good. The Gullwing, never in my dreams did I think it would go to a million, but it has surpassed that. Right now we have five in stock — two Gullwings and three SL roadsters.

What’s cooled off recently?

Some of the million dollar Ferraris, the prices have been cooling off. The $500,000 Ferraris have cooled off a little bit. That has surprised me a little, but I have seen it before. They cycle up and down, but they have been going up for seven, eight years.

Why the Gullwing Motor Cars name?

That’s my favorite car. That’s my dream car. A lot of times I wind up buying them because of my company name. People think of a Gullwing, they think Gullwing Motor Cars and we do have at least one all the time.

Besides Gullwings, what else to you consider your bread-and-butter cars?

I like everything, but I like the more original cars [best]. I like them original, but sometimes with the cars we are dealing with, you don’t have much for choices … Most of them were built before ’74, so they stopped building them more than 40 years ago. You don’t have much choice… I like the XKEs…any older Maseratis, Austin-Healeys, older Lamborghinis… any older cars.

Do you get involved much with auctions, either buying or selling?

I go to auctions mostly to meet people. I go to Pebble Beach, Amelia Island, Hershey, Scottsdale, but it’s mostly to see people. I buy sometimes, but not usually.

How long do you plan to continue on?

As long as I can go — as long as I have energy and good health. We started in ’88 … it’s been almost 30 years. You’ve got to love what you do, otherwise it gets boring. I’m into old cars. It’s a passion.

When you’re buying a Honda or Toyota or even a new Mercedes, they are boring. The old cars are much more interesting. And you always meet nice people in this business.

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If the scavenger hunt will be around your house try this: take a close-up (and somewhat difficult to dicifer) snapshot of items around your house. Try to just capture the pattern of the item, but make sure that with a little trial and error your love could figure out what the picture is of. Use the pictures as the clues to lead your sweetie from one item to the next. Give them the first picture and have it lead them to the item that the picture is of, there you will have hidden the next picture clue. That picture leads to the next item where you have another picture hidden, and so on. The final picture leads to the gift/prize. Hide your pictures in, under, behind or on the item.

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Here is an idea for clues: create clues to follow that are special places in your house. For example, “the first place we made love”, “the last place we made love”, “where I always hide love notes”, “where you are when I kiss you in the morning”, “the place where we had our last tickle fight”, “where I keep my lingerae”, etc.

Name that Place
For a more large scale version of the hunt above send your sweetie out of your house and around town. Use clues such as “Your favorite restaurant”, “The store we registered at for our wedding”, “Our favorite store to visit together”, “Where we get icecream”…. be sure get the merchants in on this. Give each merchant the next clue to give your sweetie when they come by. Try to keep this search down to no more than 5 places so it doesn’t take too long. Have the last clue lead your partner to a place where you can be waiting to have dinner together.

Date Night Hunt
Plan a “what we will do tonight” scavenger hunt. This is a short hunt to find pop, a movie, candles, blanket, and popcorn.

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These clues work if your hunt will be for your sweetie to find a bunch of gifts.
* Give a clue to 5 mutual friends. Have your sweetie call them one at a time so they can read off the clue to help him/her find the next gift.
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* Make an audio tape of you giving the clues to your sweetie. For example: “The first clue is…the back pocket of your favorite jeans”.

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Social banks use financial services to create a positive impact on society and the environment. They are characterized by having a primary goal of creating social and environmental impact, which implies that they avoid projects that are profitable but without social or environmental value. On a global level, social banks are organized in the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), where, amongst other Canadian institutions, Vancity is a member.

The question is—how are social banks different from mainstream banks in addressing social or environmental issues? While social banks claim to have a positive impact on society, they often have weak methods to verify this impact.

Storytelling is often used as a method to demonstrate impact. While this is a useful tool for presenting a compelling case to lenders and borrowers, it is a weak method for demonstrating impact. After all, mainstream banks can use the same method and appear equally focused on social or environmental objectives.

A bank creates its greatest impact through its role as a financial intermediary—through its selection of the projects the bank chooses to invest in. For instance, the Norwegian Cultura Bank places as much as 70% of their funds in social or environmental projects[1]. This is a high share, and is a strong argument for positive impact.

But how can the banks communicate this impact, so that ethical consumers can make a well informed choices? Mymaster's thesis made the case for impact measurement. I argued that social banks need to start measuring more precisely how they contribute to social or environmental impact in order to differentiate themselves from conventional banks.

My thesis analyzed the Dutch Triodos Bank and the British Charity Bank and studied how each approached the issue of measurement using two different impact measurement methods.

Charity Bank’s methodology is characterized by using the same impact measurement method across its entire loan portfolio. This is illustrated with a spider diagram in which every project is awarded a “score” on four consistent indicators. Triodos Bank’s in contrast, employs a more illustrative approach, whereby impact is illustrated across five sectors through the use of five indicators, (one indicator is assigned to each sector).

To summarize the results, my analysis concludes that the main strength of Charity Bank’s methodology is to apply a single method to all projects, and the main strength of Triodos Bank’s methodology is that it is descriptive and easy to understand. The analysis also showed that to some extent, both banks follow the path of a “logic” model, emphasizing a quantitative measurement of impact through input --> output --> outcome --> impact. These conclusions are important for further research on impact measurement, because they highlight possible properties for new measurement tools.

Measurement is essential. It is is a way to verify impact and to provide conscious consumers with the knowledge that their money will be used to do good.

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I'm not sure about the neckline on the first dress - is it a scarf? or part of the dress? but the rest if it is fine. The other two are very cute.

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Open Congress was Inspired by Free Software: software that challenges conventional practices of authorship, ownership and distribution. The innovative congress explored these implications for art, visual culture and cultural production in general. This was the Open Music Archive contribution to the open congress wiki:

We are currently working on a project researching and collecting music that has fallen out of copyright and is now in the public domain. This music will be distributed freely through a website (under construction).

For Open Congress, Ben will play a short DJ set of music made entirely of samples of the collected recordings, mainly sourced from 1920s 78rpm records. An accompanying slideshow will uncover the process of tracking this material.

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In addition to performing processional music, patriotic music, hymns, and support for the singing of Odes and accompanying occasional vocal solos, the fraternal organist is constantly called upon to supply incidental music.
This type of music, also known as "wallpaper music," while not primarily musical, is intended to provide a background, create a mood, or add atmosphere to the action happening on the floor.
It may take the form of something as simple as a low, ominous, held tone, or it could include just the manual parts of a chorale prelude played up high, very softly and slowly; it might involve anything from a horn fanfare to a drum roll to a passage lifted from a familiar organ composition to an improvised interlude, but it's a genre that typically does not extend to pieces designed for concert performance.
Incidental music, as it relates to organ playing, therefore comes in 2 general types: written and improvised.
If written, it may take the form of a very short prelude or verset, an interlude, a longer composition, a passage lifted from a composition, or a chorale (hymn) harmonization.
Some of the most useful material for this purpose can be found in the "44 Versets or Short Preludes for Keyboard" by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736-1809).
Albrechtsberger (photo) was an Austrian musician, organist, master of musical theory, acclaimed pedagogue, and teacher of, among others, Hummel and Beethoven; while he was a prolific composer, his status in musical history rests mainly upon his theoretical writing and his knowledge of counterpoint.
Most of his works remain in manuscript, but some of it was published, among which are the pieces in this collection; being written in the key of D Major throughout, they're all fairly easy to read, consist of just a few measures each (several are only 4 measures long, the longest one being 14 measures), and most of them are made up of short fugal expositions which come across well using a very light registration, such as a single 8-foot flute stop; herein lies their value.
The 2 Sketches available for downloading and printing on this web site [See menu bar, Free Stuff] are another source of incidental music and may be performed piecemeal or in their entirety to fit a time requirement.
Something a bit longer from the literature but without an obligatory pedal part might also serve the purpose at hand; this might include any of the other 2 Staff scores posted here [See menu bar, Free Stuff, subpage 2 Staff}, any of Vierne's 24 Pieces in Free Style, any pieces from Franck's L'Organiste, or similar works by Pachelbel, Dubois, Callahan, and others; the list of this type of repertoire is extensive.
Passages might also be lifted from longer compositions and used as incidental music, such as portions of the Choral from Vierne's 2nd Symphony, the first page of the Allegro from Widor's 6th Symphony adapted for 2 hands, etc.
As far as chorale harmonizations are concerned, there's probably nothing more useful for incidental use than the 371 Four Part Chorales of J.S. Bach; these are available in a plastic comb binding to lay flat on the rack, which is recommended; this collection represents every tune of the entire Lutheran hymnal of his day, which Bach treated in 4 part harmony, sometimes more than once; while there is no pedal part and each setting is not terribly difficult to read, the hand division at times can be tricky; there are also, at times, large stretches for the hands; their chief advantage is that they're short and lend themselves to fit a time requirement, but they're also a great study in learning the rules of part writing [see Hymns, Part III].
What finer models are there, as examples for study, than those left to us by J.S. Bach? ...
As for improvising incidental music when you don't have pedals in front of you, in the beginning, once again, it helps to keep it simple; there's nothing wrong with sticking to one key and a single 8-foot flute stop, keeping only one voice in each hand (soprano or alto in right hand, tenor or bass in left hand), and creating an interesting bicinium (piece in 2 parts only) based upon some simple motive or theme, such as the first few notes of a well known hymn tune; the hand that isn't carrying the idea can be used to work an interesting line around it, using mostly consonant intervals [See blog, Improvisation, Part I].
As to form, you can keep it as simple as possible there, too; just aim for an 8 measure period consisting of 2 phrases of 4 measures each; try to make the idea say something musical rather than having it sound like it's meandering; in the beginning, that's all you need to shoot for.
You can start with the hand carrying the idea, and then add the other hand to it; if you get stuck on what to do, you can go back and thin the texture down to a single line again; It's your improvisation, so you can't make any mistakes; and if you think you did, nobody, and I mean nobody, would know the difference.
The late and incredibly talented artist Bob Ross, when talking about painting used to say, "We don't make mistakes, we just have happy little accidents." [See blog, Musical Landscapes].
As you approach the final cadence, you might add a 3rd voice to create some harmony, then a 4th voice on the final chord.
Something this rudimentary comes across surprisingly well, lends a quiet peace to the floor work (it's almost perfect when the lodge room is tiled or purged), provides some relief from full chords on the stronger sounds, and helps the beginner get over any fear they may have of being vulnerable when improvising.
The more you do it, the more you exercise your imagination, the more you're going to enjoy success with it, and the more you're going to want to do it.
You might then continue this procedure, still using an 8-foot flute stop but extending it to another nearly related key or two, and then, in time, you might even try adding another voice to the right hand or left hand after the first two get going, thus creating a 3 part harmony throughout the piece.
If you're not sure at some point, you can thin the texture down again to a single line, see what it suggests for something new, and use it to move the music forward; you just need to keep playing, keep moving, and don't stop.
From there, once you're used to working the alto or tenor voice into the harmony separately, you're only one step away from working both of them into the harmony, at the same time.
It's a progressive science, with one thing gradually added to another, in successive steps [See blog, Layering Sheets Of Paper]; the important thing to understand is, you're making progress every day, and you get there in a shorter time than you might think.
It won't come by wishing for it; you just have to set yourself on the bench and try working with it on a regular basis, a little bit at a time, in little steps, and let it grow day to day, like any other skill [See blog, Improvisation, Parts I-V]..
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Photo:Rosina Fanny Holder Tarring Neville

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Photo:George Holder's Railway Identity Card

George Holder's Railway Identity Card

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Photo:Walter Holder from South Heighton

Walter Holder from South Heighton

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Photo:Ernest William Holder Born 31/12/1913

Ernest William Holder Born 31/12/1913

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Photo:Ernest William Holder and Peggy King. Married 25 April 1942.

Ernest William Holder and Peggy King. Married 25 April 1942.

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Photo: Illustrative image for the 'HOLDER FAMILY FROM SOUTH HEIGHTON' page
Photo:S Heighton School sometime in the 1930's

S Heighton School sometime in the 1930's

Photo:Irene Holder B 1920 Died 1942

Irene Holder B 1920 Died 1942

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Photo:Elizabeth Holder (Attrell) 1888 - 1974

Elizabeth Holder (Attrell) 1888 - 1974

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Photo:1914 - 18 Xmas card from Joseph Holder

1914 - 18 Xmas card from Joseph Holder

Photo:Rose Holder on her Wedding day

Rose Holder on her Wedding day

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Photo:Rose Holder with her Sister Gladys and Daughter Doreen

Rose Holder with her Sister Gladys and Daughter Doreen

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This page was added by Mel Allen on 12/05/2009.
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Hi Mel! I am a newcomer to Denton and am interested to find out all I can about the area. Can you tell me the whereabouts of the school in South Heighton?

It's interesting to see the majority of the children in the photo holding something to do in their hands! From books to knitting and weaving in various stages of completion. Any more photos? Fascinating..I love it!

By Sue Apps
On 01/02/2009

The school building is now the Village Hall and is located at the bottom of The Hollow, the road which runs down from South Heighton to join the A26.

By Pete Mason
On 11/04/2009

The Holder family had lived in the Newhaven, Denton & South Heighton area since the 1700's.
They first started working as carters on the Glynde Estate. They moved from South Heighton into Stock cottages which are located on the A26 just past the flint wall near the Railway crossing.
My Grandfather moved into the Railway cottages when he started work for the Railway as a Ganger. His job involved checking the railway line by walking the track from his house to Southease then all the way back to Newhaven.
He worked for the Railway company for 49 years during which time he only took one day off sick due to having developed a large boil on his shoulder where he carried his "keying hammer" which was used to knock in the wedges (known as keys) which hold the rail in place on the sleepers.
Before the 2nd WW the family used water from a well situated near their house until it became unfit to drink and the Railway started transporting the water in Milk churns on the Locomotives that travelled past their house daily.
The majority of children attended South Heighton School during their early years before walking to Council Schools in Newhaven town.

By Mel Allen
On 12/04/2009

I was speaking to my mother the other day and she said that the groceries were delived to the house by Mr Bannister who owned the shop in Newhaven.
Mr Mitchell delivered the Paraffin regularly. My Grandmother needed to go out one day and because Irene, her Daughter, wasn't very well and rarely left the house (Irene is the one with the dog in the Photo - dogs name was Bob), Grandma told Bob to look after Irene and not allow anyone into the house. Mr Mitchell arrived with the regular order of Paraffin and knocked on the door but Bob, snarling the whole time, wouldn't let him enter. Eventually he left and had to return another day.  When you can actually speak to the senior members of the Newhaven family it's wonderful how they relate some factual and funny stories.

By Mel Allen
On 27/04/2009

The school photo obviously shows pupils with the results of their handicrafts. Is it possible that some are scrap books holding newspaper cuttings or other items of local interest, if so wouldn't it be nice to see these scrapbooks now with their historical memories?

By Richard
On 13/05/2009

Is Ernest William Holder the father of Keith Holder - I went to school with Keith. He went onto Lewes Grammar, and later he worked for Bannisters Builders. The last time I saw him was when we were building the houses at the Guinness Trust housing site.

By Terry Howard
On 15/03/2010

I understand that Keith went to the US and has since died.

By Carol Walton
On 15/03/2010

Thanks Carol, the other lad we were friends with was George Sims

I think he went to America as well. They lived in Beresford Road on the mount, we used to go to his house and play guitars and banjo. His father ( of the same name ) was an artist, I have two of his paintings. Sorry about Keith, he was a nice lad.

By Terry Howard
On 19/03/2010

I also went to school with Keith, in the juniors. On leaving school at Easter 1960 I became an apprentice plumber with Oxley and Bennett Ltd. At that time, Southease railway station had three cottages, one detached for the station master and a pair of semi's for the signalmen. Each cottage had a hand pump at the kitchen sink to draw water from a well. I used to cycle out to these houses to repair the pumps when required, new leathers etc. I still remember some of the occupants, one in particular, was an elderly white haired lady spinster called Rosie, her father was a signalman many years before. Rosie, had this pure white hair and would grow it to about sixteen inches in length, have it cut, then it would be used to make judicial wigs. Back to the subject of the water supply, I don't remember these cottages ever having a mains water service. Water was delivered by train in winter when the pipes to the well were frozen. These houses were very basic and came complete with an outside "Elsan" closet, just the thing for the winter.

By Colin Brandon
On 18/11/2010

Keith Holder was my uncle, Ernie my grandfather and Roy my dad.

By Emily Stanton nee Holder
On 22/02/2011

I am doing my family history and Charles Barfoot, a cousin of my mother was headmaster of the school and living in the school house on the 1911 census. I would be interested in information on the school. Is the school house still standing?

By David Renney
On 17/10/2013

Hello, I am the daughter of Keith. I live in Kansas City, Missouri. He passed in January of 2008. Miss him dearly. It's so cool to read all of this about my family. Thank you, seriously. I'd love to hear more.

By Scarlett Holder
On 21/03/2014

Hello Scarlett, as I said above I went to school with Keith. He passed the 11-plus and went on to Lewes Grammer and I lost touch with him. I recall that for PE we used to have to sit crossed legged with arms folded on the floor and then get up with arms still folded, Keith used to struggle but he couldn't get up which is strange as he was very fit and a very good football player, or I should say soccer player. Later when I saw him at work he told me he thought he might go to America, this must have been late 60s or very early 70s. I never saw him again then his name came up here, its good to have contact with you.

By Terry Howard
On 22/03/2014

Regarding the school in South Heighton, my father George Holder said the Head Mistress was Mrs Stevens who lived in the School House and the teacher was Miss Cooper, he used to walk there every day from, Stock Cottages, the house behind the flint wall which has now gone, my dad is the youngest brother of the Holder family, we remember Keith well he used to visit my dad often, he taught him how to play football.

By Julie Dawson
On 29/05/2015

I have finally found this site again, it means the world to hear of my dad. His love for soccer, or football haha, never ended. It's so great to hear stories of him! He became ill in 2003 and struggled until 2008. Miss him every day!

By Scarlett Holder
On 29/10/2016

Hi all, I’m just curious if the Holder family were carters did they ever live at stable cottages whilst at South Heighton? Also does anyone know anything about the head carter Vic Waite?

By Daryl Harwood
On 18/04/2018

Hello. Does anyone have info on Joseph Holder?

I see the postcard from 1918-1919 and wonder if this was my great grandfather Joseph Holder. I have been trying to find the rest of my family heritage. His parents names may have been William Holder and Laura Shelton or Sheldon.

My great grandfather Joseph Holder was born in Newhaven, England in 1896 or 1897. He moved to New York in 1921 and married a woman there in 1930. He served two years in the U.S. air force in World War I. He was employed by Republic Light, Heat, and Power Company in New York, so I wonder if in Europe he worked on the railroad (If he was the one who sent the postcard).

If anyone knows of him or of any of his family, please contact me. I’d love to know more of my family’s heritage.

Just to add to your confusion there were two Joseph Holder's born in the Newhaven area around that time one birth registered in Dec 1895 the other 12 months later in the Dec 1896.

If any can help Leslie we can forward her email address to you.

Many thanks   John -- Editor

By Leslie (Holder) Escala
On 27/04/2018

Looking at George Holder's railway identity card, I thought  he looks a lot like Keith.  Can anyone else see the resemblance?

By Terry Howard
On 29/04/2018

Hi Leslie

I'm sorry to say that Joseph Holder in my family never married and died in Newhaven in 1930.

I hope you can find some answers in your research

Happy to help if you need some

By Mel Allen
On 05/09/2018

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Seriously. It is not super often that I crave something lacey, but I do find that it is suddenly what I am in the mood for when thinking about classic, dressier outfits. Don’t you just feel so nice is a good lace anything? It always feels expensive (even when it is not), and feminine, and just put together. I was consciously looking for something lace when I found this Banana Republic top and it was pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Love that.

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He begins with the classic (and my personal favourite) tomato soup, but rather than getting it out of a tin (like me), he prepares it with fresh produce and thickens it with bread.

He follows this with his own take on the traditional ham and mushroom pie, makes crispy duck salad with an Asian-style dressing and visits a steelworks in York to prepare Pittsburgh black-and-blue steak sandwiches for the staff.

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It’s one of the most provocative discussions you’ll hear this week – in a documentary tonight the man who was once in charge of promoting racial equality in Britain tells us ten Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True.

That man is Trevor Phillips, and today he explained on This Morning why he’s made the documentary and why he expects it will get everyone talking.

He explained: “We thought the way to get people to live together better was to stop people thinking bad thoughts. And if we stopped them thinking bad thoughts, then eventually they would stop saying them. Well actually, the truth is, they get driven underground.

“My point is, very simply, that we have to have ways of dealing with our differences.”

Trevor said that there is often such an ‘exaggerate sensitivity’ about these issues that sometimes as a society we aren’t even saying positive things about minorities.

You can find out Trevor’s ten true things about race, which Phillip described as ‘controversial things for me to say out loud’, in the video above.

Trevor also talks about how the case of Victoria Climbié and the 7/7 London bombings cemented his view that we have to talk more openly about race.

He said: “I realised there is a problem about us.

“The minute you do these things, everybody who doesn’t want to deal with these things dumps on you.

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Who says Katrina can’t speak proper Hindi? She’s been practicing constantly with friends and in her dubbing, so much so that Katrina has almost lost her voice while dubbing for Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani. Raj Kumar Santoshi is always known to be very particular about his actors’ language. For Ranbir in Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, who has a lot of colloquial Hindi to speak, Santoshi has personally been supervising the dubbing. But Ranbir is a very skilled at dialogue delivery. And getting the rustic colloquialism right is a cakewalk for him. For Katrina, dubbing is the most difficult part of the acting process. After all, she was initially dubbed by professional voice artistes. She finally won the right to speak on screen in her own voice in spite of a thick British accent. And now, Katrina Kaif is going through the worst tribulation of her brief career. Dubbing for Raj Kumar Santoshi’s Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani is the most challenging thing that Katrina has ever done. Says Katrina, ”I don’t have any colloquial lines like Ranbir. I play this Catholic Bandra girl who’s very dramatic. She’s funny to others. But not to herself. So, when I cry, I have to cry real tears but make sure they come across as funny. First of all, the lines are not comic in the dubbing theatre. So, I’ve to recreate the laughter of the sets in a studio without knowing if I am being funny enough.” For Katrina it’s excruciating. ”I don’t know whether I’m getting it right or not. I’m doing the dubbing under supervision. But this is the most difficult film I’ve dubbed for.” Now that she’s almost finished dubbing, she plans to go through the entire dubbing in Santoshi’s film and re-do the portions Santoshi isn’t satisfied with. A bigger challenge now awaits Katrina. In Prakash Jha’s Rajneeti, she must recreate all the rhetorics that she mouthed on stage in front of thousands of spectators, as a woman politician! ”The speeches I made have been taped. Now I have to listen to them, get the accent tone and voice quality right and dub in a studio.” Easier done than said.
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You can stop guessing which actors will be playing Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on the upcoming election-themed season of American Horror Story. The answer is: nobody.

The politicians will appear on the show, however. During a roundtable discussion for The Hollywood Reporter, AHS co-creator and executive producer Ryan Murphy explained that he’ll be using TV footage of Trump and Clinton for season 7. The FX series is due to return next fall, though an exact premiere has yet to be announced. (Would November 8 be too weird? Too perfect? Discuss.)

“Yes, it is a true American horror story, and we’re leaning into it,” Murphy said during the THR talk with TV showrunners like Jenji Kohan and Ava DuVernay. “American Horror Story begins with election night and the national conversation and both the euphoria and the fear.”

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The season is currently being filmed now, and while many of the exact plot and character details are still top-secret, Murphy has left fans with a few breadcrumbs. AHS regular Evan Peters will return for season 7, this time with blue hair. Billie Lourd, who starred on Murphy’s just-canceled Scream Queens, is rocking a long, silvery mane for her role. Our money is on them playing some potentially blood-thirsty protestors who have a bone to pick with the electoral college, but honestly, anything’s possible when it comes to this show.

According to IMDB, Murphy favorites Sarah Paulson, Cheyenne Jackson, and Leslie Grossman will also star, as will comedian Billy Eichner.

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The Death of Venice: How Venice Maintained Its Power, Until Forced to Commit Suicide

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By Wojciech Góralczyk | Pajiba Storytellers | June 13, 2014 |

OK, here’s the thing: the head of the Venetian state was called a Doge. It’s a regional spin on Dux (or Duke) but that’s beside the point, because you’ll all be picturing that f*****g dog anyway. For a time I despaired and judged you in advance, finding you lacking and basic. But then I remembered that Venetians also named part of their land army “The Dalmatian Guard,” and there’s only so much self-sabotage I’m willing to mitigate. So have your giggles, and hopefully they won’t derail the story — because this one’s kind of sad.

Venice was the product of people’s exhaustion with rapey tourists. A long time ago, during the barbarian invasions, tribe after tribe answered the call of the great Japanese subway packer in the sky and poured into Europe, cramming their predecessors ever deeper into the continent’s nooks and crannies — the most enticing of which was the Italian peninsula. The (Western) Roman Empire minded terribly, and therefore collapsed. Simple village folk, however, did not have this luxury, so instead around the 6th century a number of them started taking refuge in a nearby lagoon whenever a new band arrived. Eventually they dropped the commute, set up shop in the swamp, and bam - a commercial powerhouse was born.

From the start, Venice was a different sort of beast. The lagoon was an ever-changing maze of winding channels, which made a direct assault on the city very difficult. The other viable option — naval blockade — tends to be tricky when you’re dealing with a maritime power. As a result, Venice was the only Italian city never to be sacked (though not for lack of trying — she was besieged by, among others, Charlemagne’s hobbit* son Pippin, the Holy Roman Emperor, and a coalition of major 16th century powers).

Secure in her natural fortress, she also found herself insulated politically. A lot of the Middle Ages had to do with the struggle between people who wanted the supreme authority in the post-Roman world to go to the Pope (Guelphs), and those who preferred a lay Emperor (Ghibbelines). The clash was most pronounced in Italy, where it lasted well into the 15th century, and took up a lot of everyone’s beauty sleep. Venice managed to sidestep the issue by falling under the outermost skirt of the one entity that did not give a crap about the pecking order in what was left of the (Western) Roman Empire — the (Eastern) one. Byzantium turned out to be a great boss — one who didn’t have time to micromanage a fledgling republic on his western frontier while possessing enough prestige to ward off potential claimants.

Having covered their bases on the outside, Venetians also took great pains to stabilize themselves internally. Italy’s political fragmentation and aversion to standing armies made coups d’etat an everyday occurrence. Given enough charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent, anyone could land themselves a city state of their own: celebrity mercenaries (Milan), bankers posing as apothecaries (Florence), even psychotic preachers (both Milan and Florence). The Venetian answer was a ridiculously convoluted and self-stabilizing oligarchy. For a small taste - here’s how they determined the make-up of their Electoral College: 30 people were voted in, then reduced by lot to 9, those 9 voted for 40 new electors, who were reduced to 12, voted for 25 electors, who were reduced to 9 again, voted for 45, who were reduced to 11, and those 11 finally voted for the 41 electors who finally picked the Doge.

Tic-inducing as it was, the system worked. In over a thousand years, whatever the outside pressures, the Venetian government never buckled. Case in point: the plot that came closest to undoing it was foiled by a granny who, annoyed by all the commotion, chucked a flower pot from her window, killing the conspirators’ standard bearer and sending them running. (Well OK, by her and a highly accomplished secret police, but unlike them, she got her rent capped in perpetuity for her trouble.)

Finally, there came the cherry on top of the cake of Venetian exceptionalism — and it was a festering corpse. That they stole. From a tomb. In the Middle Ages, people took their religion — and their relics — very seriously. Everyone who was anyone had a finger bone from one saint or another, and certain high rollers could boast a splinter from the Holy Cross or one of a number of Jesus’s foreskins. At the municipal level, the game got upped to actual saints, or rather: their final resting places. The bigger the name, the more prestige you got, and the more pilgrimage revenue you raked in. Venice managed to scrounge up Saint Zacharias, who was a respectable C-lister, but her ambition was to set herself apart from the rest of the Italian cities … which is why a group of 9th century Venetian merchants took it upon themselves to steal the corpse of Saint Mark from its tomb in Alexandria. Granted, they reportedly had to bury the poor Evangelist in pork so the Muslim guards wouldn’t find him, but it was a brilliant PR coup, and gave Venice her other name — the Republic of Saint Mark.

For a very long time, she was the Mistress of the Mediterranean — and therefore of the all-important spice trade, which famously inspired Columbus to discover Shit, This Ain’t India. She owed her position to two things: her navy and her colonies, which included nearly all of the islands in the East Mediterranean, and Morea (aka Greece’s dangly bits). Her rule over her colonies and trade posts is best described as lenient but catty. For example: when in 1362 the citizens of Crete refused to accept new taxes until they were allowed to send a delegation of 12 sages (medieval speak for experts) to present their grievances, the central government replied that it was unaware 12 such individuals were to be found on the island. A pretty bitchin’ line as far as responses go, but bitchin’ lines at inopportune times sometimes do a revolt spark — and on this occasion the Cretans went berserk.

When she decided she had outgrown the need for a Byzantine protector, in 1204 she diverted the infamous Fourth Crusade to the Empire’s capital of Constantinople and sacked the city, delivering an unparalleled clit-punch to our collective cultural heritage in the process. The aftermath of this maneuver offers a nice glimpse into the Venetian mindset. The Republic’s Doge at the time — Enrico Dandolo, a blind 90-year-old who personally led the Venetian contingent during the siege — refused the Byzantine crown for himself in order to avoid a constitutional crisis. He did, however, drive a hard bargain for the spoils of war and immortalized his negotiating prowess with the title of “Lord of a Quarter and One Half of a Quarter of the Roman Empire.”

Ironically, by crippling Byzantium, Venice had sown the seeds of her own downfall. Having never quite recovered from the Crusade, the Byzantines were powerless to resist the advance of the Ottomans. The ailing Christian Empire was replaced by a robust Muslim one that proceeded to steadily rob Venice of her Mediterranean possessions. Not that they were to matter for much longer. The circumnavigation of Africa yanked all the main trade routes away from the Mediterranean and towards the Atlantic. And just like that the Queen of Trade found herself stuck in a commercial backwater, her major sources of revenue all but dried up.

To make things worse, she was still surrounded by people she had bossed around for hundreds of years, which would jump at a chance for a payback. And so, there came the Reinvention. For the last centuries of her life, Venice channeled all her remaining strength into making it SEEM like she was still all that. The Republic invested heavily in a professional diplomatic corps, a vast network of spies, and went into a frenzy of carnival opulence. Her aim was to control the conversation. To drive home the message “We’re so rich, powerful, and secure, it’s always a party in Venice Town” and hope that she blared so loud that no one would even think of peering behind the curtain.
And it worked, amazingly well. Until it didn’t.

The end arrived with the 18th century French Tantrum Bonanza (the Revolution and its aftermath), which was several orders of magnitude above anything that could be deflected with conjurer’s tricks. Venice attempted to stay out of the whole, and when that failed, she made the fatal error of pissing off Napoleon himself. He responded with an ultimatum: the dungeons in the Doge’s Palace were to be opened and the political prisoners kept inside them — released. The Republic’s Dalmatian Guard was to be disbanded, and its fleet placed under French control. Finally, the entire ruling oligarchy was to abdicate, their insignia of power burned under a specially erected “Tree of Liberty.” In other words, Venice was told to commit suicide.

There was no question of disobeying the ultimatum. The Venetian fleet, once the most powerful in the entire Mediterranean, now numbered two seaworthy ships, give or take two, while advancements in cannon technology had long stripped “impregnable” from the city’s resume. The only question was how to obey it, as the constitution simply did not provide any procedures for dissolving the state. Which is why the Venetian Senate met as usual, dealt with its regular day-to-day business, and then simply never reconvened again.

When the famed Ducal dungeons were opened, to the French commissioners’ consternation they yielded a total of 3 political prisoners. Like many an aspect of Venetian power projection, the stories of the ruthlessness and tenacity of her secret police were also greatly exaggerated.

The Venetians’ final act was a tragic farce. On 12th May 1797 they summoned the Great Council — a 1000+ strong body that consisted of the entire ruling oligarchy, and was therefore theoretically best-equipped to lend the seppuku an air of legitimacy. The Doge presented the French ultimatum and proposed a motion by which the oligarchy surrendered all its powers to a provisional government. When he was done talking, one of the Council members took the rostrum to open the debate, at which moment shots were heard just outside the palace.

It was the Dalmatian Guard — the Croats were leaving Venice as per Napoleon’s ultimatum, and discharged their muskets in a farewell salute to their Republic. But to the patricians who had for years watched the Revolution spread across Europe, it was the sound of it finally arriving at their doorstep, guillotines and all. Panic ensued, and the debate was abandoned amid frantic calls for a vote. The Councilmen rushed the ballot box, and upon performing their duty one last time, proceeded to shed their robes of office and slip out of the Palace’s side entrances.

The final tally was 512 in favor, 20 against, and 5 abstaining, but by the time the results were in, there was hardly anyone left to hear them. The last Doge of Venice, Lodovico Manin, declared the resolution adopted to an almost empty chamber. Then he calmly gathered up his papers, removed his ducal cap and handed it to his valet with the words “Take it, I shall not be needing it again.”

Venice’s millennial life apparently didn’t even warrant a whimper. When she finally succumbed, it was with a barely audible pop, as if a gleaming bauble had burst. Her famed opulence wasn’t that of Versailles - a distilled expression of the political and cultural juggernaut that was Bourbon France - but rather a carefully crafted spectacle. And that creation might prove to be her ultimate legacy. Venice the Republic is now long dead. Venice the City is dying as we speak, steadily depopulated by the very tourism that’s keeping her solvent, and slowly sinking into her lagoon. But Venice the Illusion, with its quays, canals, and carnivals? That one might very well last forever.

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