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Fiction meets reality: “His grandmother had been friendly with the Queen’s aunt.. his father was a RAF pilot who’d flown with Prince Philip.” - Carole Middleton talking about her husband Michael’s father Captain Peter Middleton and grandmother Olive Middleton (neé Lupton) in The Crown.

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⋆ William, The Conqueror to Prince George of Wales ⋆

⤜ William I ia Prince George's 28th Great-Grandfather via his mother's paternal line.

William I of England

Henry I of England

Empress Matilda

Henry II of England

John of England

Henry III of England

Edmund, Earl of Lancaster

Henry III, King of England

Henry, IIIrd Earl of Leicester and Lancaster 

Sir Henry Percy, Ist Earl of Northumberland

Mary of Lancaster, Baroness Percy

Sir Henry Percy

Sir Henry Percy, IInd Earl of Northumberland

Sir Henry Percy, IIIrd Earl of Northumberland

Lady Margaret Percy

Agnes Gascoigne

William Fairfax

John Fairfax, Master of the Great Hospital

Rev. Benjamin Fairfax, Preacher at Rumburgh Church

Benjamin Fairfax

Sarah Fairfax

Philip Meadows, Mayor of Norwich

Sarah Meadows

Thomas Martineau

Frances Elizabeth Greenhow

Francis Martineau Lupton

Olive Christina Lupton

Peter Francis Middleton

Michael Francis Middleton

Catherine Elizabeth, The Princess of Wales

Prince George Alexander Louis of Wales

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Hihi!

I’ve been on such a West End kick, would you happen to have any Wicked versions with Oliver Savile or Jeremy Taylor as Fiyero?

Hey! I have an audio of each!

Willemijn Verkaik (Elphaba), Helen Woolf (u/s Glinda), Oliver Savile (Fiyero), Mark Curry (The Wizard), Sue Kelvin (Madame Morrible), Sarah McNicholas (Nessarose), Idriss Kargbo (Boq), Martin Ball (Doctor Dillamond) July 20, 2017; London

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uyAKrlLJrgwf1UnrVKYITr1QUPf6Xbd0

Emma Hatton (Elphaba), Maria Coyne (u/s Glinda), Jeremy Taylor (Fiyero), Philip Childs (u/s The Wizard), Liza Sadovy (Madame Morrible), Katie Rowley Jones (Nessarose), Sam Lupton (Boq), Russell Walker (u/s Doctor Dillamond) February 4th, 2015; London Evening show

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13rX0hgJPI1GJvvgg1J87OqPEl8M0kV91?usp=sharing

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Books read: April - June 2022

Mary Queen of Scots – Antonia Fraser

Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery (comfort reread)

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour – Ruby Hamad

I Who Have Never Known Men – Jacqueline Harpman (book club – I think I was the only one in the group who liked this!)

North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell (comfort reread)

One by One – Ruth Ware (I am not immune to thrillers from street libraries)

Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro (I am so biased – love everything he does)

Cold Enough For Snow – Jessica Au (BEAUTIFUL)

The Paris Apartment – Lucy Foley (what did I just say about thrillers and street libraries?)

The Ice Palace – Tarjei Vesaas

Bright Dead Things: Poems – Ada Limón (BRILLIANT)

Bunny – Mona Awad (not as bizarre as I was led to anticipate)

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (whyyy isn’t there a sequel?)

Scenes of a Graphic Nature – Caroline O’Donoghue

The Tunnel – Ernesto Sabato

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk (really enjoyed this but not everyone’s cup of tea)

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth – Warsan Shire (recommend to everyone)

Howards End – E.M. Forster

A Very Nice Girl – Imogen Crimp

The Sea, the Sea – Iris Murdoch (that’s the last Iris Murdoch book I’ll ever read)

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating – Elizabeth Tova Bailey (good for your health)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid (book club - surprisingly dull given the hype)

Dropbear – Evelyn Araluen (SUPERB)

There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job – Kikuko Tsumura

Great Circle – Maggie Shipstead (was her editor on hols or...?)

A Head Full of Ghosts – Paul Tremblay

Hare House – Sally Hinchcliffe (book club)

The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides (I think I bought this over ten years ago – finally read it)

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 – Cho Nam-Joo (infuriating in a good way)

Open Water – Caleb Azumah Nelson ( @a11sha11fade​ !!!!! This was the one I wanted to recommend – it’s absolutely gorgeous and heartbreaking and hopeful and healing)

The Last House of Needless Street – Catriona Ward (from a street library – not what I expected)

My Pen is the Wing of a Bird – Anon (recommend to EVERYONE)

Dream Work – Mary Oliver (comfort reread)

Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel

Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion

Sorrow and Bliss – Meg Mason (so worth the hype for me – loved it! But not everyone’s taste!)

The Sunlit Zone – Lisa Jacobson

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead – Emily Austin

Writers & Lovers – Lily King

Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell

Three Hours – Rosamund Lupton (street library thriller)

The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett (I so enjoyed this but also wanted more from it)

Flyaway – Kathleen Jennings (It’s niche but I absolutely adored this)

Currently reading:

The Dance Tree – Kiran Millwood Hargrave (please have a happy ending pleeeease please please)

Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales – Gordon Jarvie (editor) (comfort reread – my absolute favourite book from childhood and it is falling apart. Reading these slowly before bed because some of my novels have been TOO SCARY or too sad ha)

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Afternoon TV Stars - May 1976 - Days of our Lives - 10th Anniversary 

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WILLIAM & KATE FAMILY FUN FACTS

7th Earl Spencer & Olive Middleton

Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer a.k.a. the grandfather of Diana (therefore great-grandfather of William) is school friends with Olive Middleton’s (née Lupton, Kate’s great-grandmother) brother, Lionel Lupton. The men studied the same subject together at Trinity College.

Albert Spencer & Lionel Lupton signed up *together* to fight in World War I. Who would’ve though that generations later, Albert’s great-grandson would marry the great-grandniece (is that a word lol) of his friend, and fellow comrade, Lionel.

Reading about the Middleton family had me go down a rabbit hole, and there’s another fun fact about the Middletons & Prince Phillip!

Peter Middleton & Prince Phillip

Olive Middleton’s youngest son, Peter Middleton, is the paternal grandfather of Kate. 

Peter Middleton was Prince Phillip’s co-pilot on a two month tour of South America tour in 1962 (see 3rd picture). Peter apparently received a thank you letter and a pair of gold cufflinks from Phillip after their trip.

Again, we see this connection between Kate and William before they even knew each other (no matter how distant this reach is lol). Who would’ve thought that Prince Phillip’s grandson would marry his former co-pilot’s granddaughter one day.

Now I’m really curious if Peter Middleton & Prince Phillip ever met each other towards the end of William & Kate’s courtship. Peter died in 2010, at the age of 90, and while he couldn’t attend the wedding, I wonder if he and Phillip ever spoke to each other about the old times. 

Also, there’s the pilot connection between Peter Middleton, Prince Phillip, and Prince William. I wonder if the golden cufflinks were passed down to Michael but I doubt it as Kate’s father, Michael, has 3 brothers and he’s only the second eldest. But wouldn’t it be cool if, let’s say, George joins the RAF and wears the cufflinks gifted by one of his great-grandfather to his other great-grandfather? It completes the whole circle.

I also wonder if Kate & Phillip ever spoke about their family ties. But after reading about the Lupton & Middleton family, Kate’s family had more aristocratic ties than I thought. Her family has been wealthy for generations and no doubt are the Middletons doing a good job with Party Pieces. 

This is all so interesting to me and I love this connection between William & Kate before they even met! Even though it seems like all aristocrats or upper class people had royal connections at some point, this doesn’t change the fact that it reinforces my belief that they were meant to be 🧡

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SOLD 🎭 Wicked @ Victoria Apollo Theatre 2013 (#172)

Title: Wicked

Venue: Victoria Apollo Theatre

Year: 2013

With ticket 21st January 2013 and understudy slip for Christopher Howell appearing as The Wizard, Stuart Ramsey appearing as Doctor Dillamond

Condition: Good condition

Author: Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Book by Winnie Holzman. Based on the Novel by Gregory Maguire

Director: Joe Mantello

Choreographer: Musical Staging by Wayne Cilento

Cast: Louise Dearman, Gina Beck, Ben Freeman, Christopher Howell, Sam Lupton, Katie Rowley-Jones, Florence Andrews, Gemma Atkins, William Bozier, Oliver Brenin, Lauren Brooke, Philip Catchpole, Aisling Duffy, Hayley Gallivan, Emma Green, Chloe Hart, Jacqueline Hughes, Robert Jones, Sophie Linder-Lee, Tania Mathurin, Marc McBride, Stacey McGuire, Tom Muggeridge, Sean Parkins, Michelle Pentecost, Stuart Ramsay, Lindsay Taylor, Paulo Teixeira, Justin Thomas, Hannah Toy, Matt Turner, Lucy van Gasse, Oliver Watton, Jason Winter, Louise Ploright, Keith Bartlett, Miriam Margolyes, Nigel Planer

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Chó cưng nhà William - Kate qua đời

"Rất buồn khi tuần trước, chú chó yêu quý của chúng tôi Lupo qua đời. Lupo đã đồng hành cùng gia đình suốt 9 năm qua và chúng tôi sẽ nhớ nó rất nhiều - W & C", nhà Cambridge viết trên Instagram tối 22/11, đăng kèm bức ảnh chụp Lupo.

Nhà Cambridge thông báo tin buồn về cái chết của Lupo hôm 22/11. Ảnh: Instagram.

Lupo xuất hiện nhiều trong các bức hình của nhà Cambridge, trong đó có một bức ảnh chính thức của Hoàng tử George. Lupo là con của một con chó từng được nuôi bởi bố mẹ của Kate, ông Michael và bà Carole Middleton.

Bố mẹ Kate đã tặng Lupo cho vợ chồng cô như món quà cưới hồi năm 2011. Con vật được cho là đã giúp cặp vợ chồng hoàng gia chọn tên cho Hoàng tử George, sau khi họ viết vài cái tên khác nhau lên các mảnh giấy rồi rải lên sàn nhà. Lupo đã đi một vòng rồi dừng lại ở mẩu giấy ghi tên George.

Sau khi Hoàng tử George chào đời hồi tháng 7/2013, William viết: "Với tôi, Catherine và con trai nhỏ George hiện là ưu tiên hàng đầu, và cả Lupo nữa. Những người nuôi chó đều biết rằng khi bạn mang về nhà một đứa trẻ sơ sinh, con vật sẽ mất một thời gian để quen và thích nghi. Nhưng Lupo làm rất tốt, nó vẫn chạy loanh quanh trong nhà, và nó rất vui vẻ".

Trong bức ảnh được chia sẻ nhân dịp sinh nhật 3 tuổi, Hoàng tử George mời Lupo liếm cây kem của mình. Tổ chức bảo vệ động vật ở Anh RSPCA đã can thiệp vào bức ảnh này, khuyên người dân không cho chó ăn các sản phẩm có sữa, bởi chúng có thể bị ngộ độc.

Lupo xuất hiện trong ảnh mừng sinh nhật 3 tuổi của George hồi năm 2016. Ảnh: Instagram.

Kate được cho là đã đặt tên cho Lupo theo tên của bà cố nội là Olive Christina Lupton.

James Middleton, anh trai nữ Công tước xứ Cambridge, cũng bày tỏ sự tiếc thương trước cái chết của Lupo: "Chẳng có điều gì có thể giúp bạn chuẩn bị sẵn sàng tâm thế trước sự ra đi của chó cưng. Với những người chưa từng nuôi chó, hẳn họ sẽ khó có thể hiểu được sự mất mát này. Thế nhưng, đối với những ai đã dành tình yêu thương cho chó thì đều biết rõ sự thật rằng: chó không chỉ là thú cưng, nó là thành viên của gia đình, là bạn thân, bạn đồng hành trung thành. Nỗi đau mà tôi từng trải qua khi mất đi chú chó cưng đầu tiên Tilly hồi năm 2017 vẫn chưa dứt, và khi nghe tin về Lupo, cảm xúc xót xa lại dâng trào. Hãy yên nghỉ nhé Lupo".

Hồi năm 2013, nhà Cambridge đã phải gọi cứu hỏa tới giải cứu Lupo sau khi con vật bị mắc kẹt đầu vào cửa nhà ở Berkshire. Tuy nhiên, lúc cứu hỏa đến, Lupo đã thoát ra từ trước mà không cần đến sự trợ giúp.

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William, The Conqueror to Catherine, The Princess of Wales ⤜ The Princess of Wales is William I's 27th Great-Granddaughter  via her paternal grandfather’s line.

William the Conqueror (m. Matilda of Flanders)

Henry I, King of England (m. Matilda of Scotland)

Empress Matilda (m. Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou)

Henry II, King of England (m. Eleanor of Aquitaine)

John I, King of England (m. Isabella of Angoulême)

Henry III, King of England (m. Eleanor of Provence)

Edmund, Earl of Lancaster (m. Blanche of Artois)

Henry, 3rd Earl of Leicester and Lancaster (m. Matilda de Chaworth)

Mary of Lancaster, Baroness Percy (m. Henry de Percy, 3rd Lord Percy) - Coat of Arms

Sir Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (m. Margaret de Neville)

Sir Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy (m. Elizabeth Mortimer)

Sir Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (m. Lady Eleanor Neville) - Coat of Arms

Sir Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (m. Eleanor, Baroness Poynings) - Coat of Arms

Lady Margaret Percy (m. Sir William Gascoigne)

Agnes Gascoigne (m. Sir Thomas Fairfax) - Gawthorpe Hall, family seat.

William Fairfax (m. Anne Baker) - Gilling Castle, family seat. 

John Fairfax (m. Mary Birch) Master of the Great Hospital at Norwich, Norfolk

Rev. Benjamin Fairfax (m. Sarah Galliard), Preacher at Rumburgh, Suffolk.

Benjamin Fairfax (m. Bridget Stringer) died in Halesworth, Suffolk.

Sarah Fairfax (m. Rev. John Meadows) died in Ousedon, Suffolk.

Philip Meadows (m. Margaret Hall)

Sarah Meadows (m. Dr. David Martineau)

Thomas Martineau (m. Elizabeth Rankin) buried at Rosary Cemetery, Norwich.

Elizabeth Martineau (m. Dr. Thomas Michael Greenhow) died in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

Frances Elizabeth Greenhow (m. Francis Lupton)

Francis Martineau Lupton (m. Harriet Albina Davis)

Olive Christina Lupton (m. Richard Noel Middleton)

Peter Francis Middleton (m. Valerie Glassborow)

Michael Francis Middleton (m. Carole Elizabeth Goldsmith)

The Princess of Wales m. The Prince of Wales

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THE DUCHESS DIARIES

Just a few days ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Armistice Day, the Duchess of Cambridge paid a surprise visit to the Imperial War Museum.

The Duchess learned about the digital memorial for all those who served during the First World War titled 'Lives of World War I'. The incredible undertaking aims at creating 'a life story every man and woman who made a contribution during the First World War'

She spoke with the museum's curators and historians and also saw some of the museum's First World War Galleries. The Duchess was also able to see the original documents related to her great-uncles Lionel, Maurice and Francis Lupton all of whom were killed in action during the first World War. She also saw their photographs for the very first time.

She also looked at documents relating to her great-grandmother Olive Christiana Middleton née Lupton who along with her sister Anne worked as a VAD nurse during the war.

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4) The Quantified Self

After further discussions with Gareth and Oliver, I have decided to carry on with my research and focus on the Quantified Self movement, which practices self-tracking, a type of self-surveillance that consists on the collection of personal data for in-depth analysis and patterns recognition.

Self-tracking has a long history. It has first been introduced as a method of self-experimentation by the psychologist Allen Neuringer in 1981, who believed that psychologists could use the scientific method to their own bodies and discover better solutions to their problems, instead of observing. It has been done, for example, by Sanctorius of Padua in the 16th century, who has weighted himself, his meals and his excrements, studying the energy of an organism. 

But self-tracking is a big and important topic now. In fact, in 2007, two journalists of the Wired magazine, Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly, have founded the Quantified Self movement in San Francisco, promoting the use of sensors and new technologies to collect aspects of everyday life and improve. In fact, the motto of the movement is “self-knowledge through numbers”, where data become useful piece of information to optimise life. 

Deborah Lupton, is a sociologist and one of the main researchers on this topic. As Lupton says, the idea behind the QS is that “the more we know about ourselves and our bodies, the more productive, wealthier, wiser, healthier, emotionally stable and so on we can be”. Here, wearable devices are designed to quantify everyday exercise and rest, mood and diet, and then provide feedback to users such that they can better understand and possibly modify their activities and behaviour.

Moreover, self-tracking is applied in different areas. It can be applied to track food consumption, fitness, sleep patterns, sexual activity, finance, and many more.

Lupton has identified the self-tracking practice as a subculture as it is a way of living through data. She has identified 4 typologies: private where one person looks at personal aspects for self-awareness and self design. Pushed, motivated by particular others. Communal, sharing data among individuals through media platforms. Exploited, where individuals use personal data as a benefit of others.

Finally, to understand the motivations that drive users to self-track, Henner Gimpel has identified 5 principal reasons:

self-healing = becoming healthier

self-discipline = rewarding aspects of it

self-design = control and optimize “yourself”

self-association = associated with movement

self-entertainment = entertainment value

The Quantified Self is an active movement that has its own forum and website QuantifiedSelf.com . Also, they monthly create and attend meet-ups around different important cities, where they share experiences, suggestions, improvements and technologies used. In the Quantified Self website, there is plenty of material to develop ethnographic research of this user group. 

After watching many videos and analyse them, I got quite interested in two particular cases. 

One is Chris Angel, who has had a talk in 2015 in one of the Quantified Self London meet-ups. He says that using tracking devices has completely changed him and helped him losing weight and being constantly active, because finally he found something that was tailoring something to him, pointing out what is specifically good for him.Chris says that the need to collect is what made him want to exercise, to get better and fitter, and it was all down to the gamification of these devices. To the point he said that the game is the objective, fitness is a side effect.

Another example, is Alexandra Carmichael, author of the book “Getting a hold on your mood: a Quantified Self approach”. Alexandra, who battled depression for years, has started recording her mood 8 times a day since 2009. She started noticing and accepting patterns, but most importantly, welcoming her emotions. By constantly inserting her data and looking at her infographics, she says that self-tracking helped her to take control of her life and make informed treatment decisions, that doctors have not been able to help with during a decade of chronic pain.

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Italian shares jump on new coalition talks - markets latest news

Second Chinese suitor emerges as frontrunner to buy 'Boris bus' maker Wrightbus FTSE 100 and Europe's main share indices gain ground after yesterday's losses Boris Johnson should remind Merkel of these four hard economic facts when they meet​ Jeremy Warner: Global leaders are too divided to counter looming economic darkness ​ 10:21AM Transatlantic mergers slump British defence company Cobham is currently the subject of a £4bn takeover bid from US private equity group Advent. Our mergers and acquisitions reporter, Vinjeru Mkandawire, has been taking a look at the latest figures: The number of transatlantic mergers and acquisitions (M&A;) between the US and UK fell by nearly a quarter in the first half of this year, according to research by Deloitte. This was on the back of an 18pc decline in global dealmaking, which was partly driven by increasing uncertainty around trade tariffs and the global economy, the firm said. Transactions between the US and the UK were down 20pc compared to 2018 but still exceeded the combined number of deals between the US and Germany, France and Spain.   Deloitte’s Paul Lupton said that despite the fall in transatlantic deal volumes across many of the major European markets, there was still “strong appetite” for technology assets, which accounted for 28pc of all US-UK deals in the first half of the year.  “This is attributable to the asset‑light business models which enable greater potential for geographical expansion and scalability,” he said. 10:12AM Goldman Sachs predicting a 'very volatile' three months for Italian economy Credit: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP Economists at Goldman Sachs are predicting a bumpy few months for Italy's economy.  "In our view, the next three months will be very volatile and challenging for the Italian economy and its assets." They are also predicting a delay to the preparation of next year's budget if a new coalition cannot be formed and fresh elections have to be called.  9:59AM What next for Italy? The political upheaval in Rome has come at an awkward time for the country, as Berenberg's European economist Florian Hense has observed:  "With the submission of the 2020 budget to the Italian parliament and European Commission looming by 30 September and 15 October, respectively, the timing is unfortunate: Italy needs to find more than €20bn (£18.3bn) in savings to avoid the already legislated rise in the VAT by 3 percentage points in 2020." Berenberg has set out the three most likely scenarios for Italy:   1. Italy avoids snap elections for at least nine months: Five Star join forces with the Democratic Party (PD) for a new centre-left government, probably with Giuseppe Conte returning as prime minister. Markets could rally if the short-term uncertainty of snap elections is averted. The centre-left coalition could then focus on agreeing a budget and compromises with the EU over its deficit.  2. No poll for now but elections in early 2020: President Sergio Mattarella appoints a technocratic government to draw up the 2020 budget, with snap elections to follow early next year. Five Star and the PD could support the move as it would shield them from having to announce painful adjustments to the 2020 budget themselves. This option could avoid a volatile reaction from markets.  3. Snap elections later this year: The final option is for Mattarella to call snap elections for late October or early November. Current opinion polls suggest far right Matteo Salvini would likely win and become prime minister. A Salvini government could set Italy on a collision course with the EU over its budget. Bond yields could surge, driving up Italy's cost of borrowing.  9:36AM Italy seeks a new coalition in a bid to avoid fresh elections Italian president Sergio Mattarella (left) will try to find a viable coalition government after Giuseppe Conte (right) resigned as prime minister yesterday Credit: FILIPPO ATTILI HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX Italian president Sergio Mattarella will begin intensive talks with the country's political leaders today as he seeks to determine whether a new ruling coalition can be found after prime minister Giuseppe Conte resigned yesterday.  If a coalition cannot be found, Matarella will be forced to call fresh elections.  Conte resigned just over a year after agreeing to lead a populist alliance of the League party, led by Matteo Salvini, and the Five Star Movement. Mattarella, whose role as president is normally a largely ceremonial one, has the sole power to appoint governments and call elections. He is ready to give Five Star and the opposition Democratic Party, or PD, time to strike a deal. But he will allow them days, not weeks, to reach an agreement, Italian media reported.  The talks are set to begin this afternoon.  Rome's FTSE MiB index fell 1pc yesterday but has risen a healthy 1.46pc so far today.  8:59AM Fiat-Renault merger hopes buoy markets Credit: Eric Gaillard/REUTERS A report in Italy about continuing merger talks between Fiat Chrysler and Renault has helped to push shares in the car industry higher. The pair abandoned talks on a mega merger in June after meeting resistance from the French government, which is a major shareholder in Renault.  Take a look at the long road that led to Fiat Chrysler to propose a tie-up with the French manufacturer:  Timeline - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles For more on why we're seeing a wave of deals in the car industry, take a look at Alan Tovey's long read from the weekend: Automotive industry alliances: who's joining forces with who and why? 8:50AM A strong start for European shares European stock markets have enjoyed a strong start to the day, with all of the major indices gaining ground. Here’s how the continent’s blue-chip bourses stood as of about 15 minutes ago: The FTSE 100 was 0.5pc up France’s CAC 40 was 0.75pc up Germany’s DAX was 0.5pc up Spain’s IBEX was 0.75pc up Italy’s FTSE MiB was 1.19pc up Remember you can use our handy Markets Hub tool at the top of the blog to keep tabs on the latest stock market and currency movements! 8:34AM Ryanair - what's happening today? There's a lot to keep track of in this Ryanair story so this might help:  When are the strikes? Pilots in the UK and Ireland are planning separate 48 hour stoppages starting from midnight tonight in disputes over pay and conditions.  What's happening in the London courts? An application by the airline for an injunction to block UK pilots striking is to be heard by a judge in London on Wednesday.  What's happening in the Irish courts? The Irish High Court will rule on whether to grant the airline an injunction to block the planned strike by 180 pilots based in Ireland.  Anything else? Quite a bit, actually. The airline is also facing a wave of strikes over the next month by staff across its Spanish and Portuguese bases. The first Portuguese strike action is set to begin today. Belgian unions have told members not to comply with the carrier's request for them to staff flights that have been hit by the Portuguese industrial action.  And the share price? It's dropped 17pc in the past month.  Markets Hub - Ryanair Holdings 8:21AM Ryanair could attempt to break strikes Ryanair has been drawing up plans to keep as many services as possible in operation if it fails in its legal action. Just in from our transport correspondent Oliver Gill: One senior insider has told me @Ryanair has contingency plans in place to run all, or nearly all, UK flights even if the legal action fails and strikes go ahead. This will be announced after the High Court decision this morning.— Oliver Gill (@ojngill) August 21, 2019 8:15AM Ryanair's last ditch bid to avoid strike chaos Parked Ryanair planes will be a common sight in the next couple of days if strike action proceeds.  Credit: ALBERTO PIZZOL/AFP Ryanair should learn this morning whether its request to block 180 of its Irish pilots from striking tomorrow and Friday has been successful. The Irish High Court is due to issue its decision on whether the 48 hour stoppage can proceed.  Ryanair claims that the strike action breaches an agreement it reached with the union last year. The budget airline also claims that  the union has failed to submit detailed proposals ahead of balloting its members or issuing its strike notice and that the industrial action is timed to cause maximum disruption by coinciding with a scheduled strike by UK pilots.  We'll keep you up to date on developments throughout the day.  7:59AM Facebook moves to address privacy concerns Credit: Dado Ruvic/REUTERS Facebook is launching a long-promised tool that lets users limit what information the social network can gather about them on external websites and apps. The move is an attempt by tech firm to head off criticism of its privacy practices which have been heavily scrutinised in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.  Facebook said it is adding a section where users can see the activity it tracks outside its service, including through its "like" buttons. Users will be able to turn off the tracking.  The feature has been launched in South Korea, Ireland and Spain and is due to be rolled out in other markets in the "coming months".  7:37AM Ryanair in bid to stop pilot strikes Ryanair is going to the High Court today in an attempt to block Thursday's strike action. An application by Ryanair for an injunction is to be heard by a judge in London on Wednesday. In Ireland, Ryanair has also sought an order at the High Court in Dublin to prevent around 180 pilots based in Ireland from going on a 48-hour strike from midnight on Thursday. The application was contested by Forsa, the parent union of the Irish Airline Pilots Association. A judge is expected to give a ruling on Wednesday morning. 7:22AM Boris heads to Boris, while crisis reigns in Italy Good morning. Equities across Europe were lower yesterday amid political uncertainty, not least in Italy where prime minister Giuseppe Conte said he would resign. The pound went in the opposite direction after comments from Angela Merkel that Europe would think about practical solutions to the current Brexit impasse were interpreted as a chink of light in the stand-off between Downing Street and Brussels. Today the German Chancellor will be meeting with Boris Johnson in Berlin.  5 things to start your day 1) Second Chinese suitor emerges as frontrunner to buy 'Boris bus' maker Wrightbus: One of China’s biggest engineering companies has emerged as the frontrunner in the race to save “Boris Bus” maker Wrightbus. Weichai, part of giant state-owned conglomerate Shandong Heavy Industry, is in detailed discussions to buy the struggling bus company, The Daily Telegraph has learnt. 2) Shareholder revolts at annual meetings have “little impact” on restraining runaway pay across FTSE 100 companies, despite a fall in the average salary paid to chief executives last year, according to the CIPD and the High Pay Centre. Between 2014 and 2018 shareholders approved all FTSE 100 company pay policies presented at an AGM, with most votes sailing through, a report by the association for human resource professionals and the think tank found. 2018 income figures for the CEOs of the FTSE 100   3) Yellowhammer port chaos is not even Project Fear: it is slapstick, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. The Yellowhammer report excited my interest because it makes extraordinary warnings about ports in a no-deal Brexit, and I happen to have been talking to port officials over the past two weeks. These included the Boulogne-Calais chief and the head of the UK’s biggest port complex on the Humber. My conclusion is that the Yellowhammer section on ports cannot be true. 4) Britain is a touch richer than previously realised after new sums by the Office for National Statistics added an extra £26bn to annual GDP. The Government and charities replace buildings, machinery and other capital more frequently than expected, businesses develop more software in-house than was known, and services exports are larger than had been appreciated. 5) Lucy Burton finds out who the Hong Kong 'Superman' that's taking on British beer is: Hong Kong's richest man Li-Ka Shing. The 91-year-old was determined to change his circumstances from a young age, telling Forbes in 2010 that the "burden of poverty and this bitter taste of helplessness and isolation" that he felt as a child drove him on in adult life. He is the 28th richest person in the world with a net worth of around $32bn.   What happened overnight Asian shares flatlined on Wednesday as investors took a step back after recent gains, with focus now turning to a key speech by Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell at the end of the week. Rising hopes for China-US trade talks have provided a much-needed lift to markets over the previous two days but with few fresh catalysts, dealers are keeping their powder dry ahead of Friday's address. After positive signals from Donald Trump and some of his top advisers on Monday over progress in the talks with Beijing, and an olive branch with the delay of a ban on Huawei purchases, there have been few developments for traders to buy on. "Our trade-war headline-inspired relief rally appears to have run its course as I suspect there is still a lot of nervousness among US investors as the global economic realities are just too hard to ignore," said Stephen Innes at Valour Markets. With so much riding on the Fed, investors were understandably anxious. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dithered either side of flat after three straight days of gains. Japan's Nikkei slipped 0.3%, while Shanghai blue chips added a slim 0.06%. Hong Kong stocks went into the break slightly higher after swinging throughout the morning. The Hang Seng Index added 0.11 percent, or 28.98 points, to 26,260.52. Coming up today Interim results: Charter Court, Costain, Hansteen Holdings, Hostelworld, OneSavings Economics: Public sector net borrowing (UK), mortgage applications and house sales (US), Federal Reserve minutes

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Second Chinese suitor emerges as frontrunner to buy 'Boris bus' maker Wrightbus FTSE 100 and Europe's main share indices gain ground after yesterday's losses Boris Johnson should remind Merkel of these four hard economic facts when they meet​ Jeremy Warner: Global leaders are too divided to counter looming economic darkness ​ 10:21AM Transatlantic mergers slump British defence company Cobham is currently the subject of a £4bn takeover bid from US private equity group Advent. Our mergers and acquisitions reporter, Vinjeru Mkandawire, has been taking a look at the latest figures: The number of transatlantic mergers and acquisitions (M&A;) between the US and UK fell by nearly a quarter in the first half of this year, according to research by Deloitte. This was on the back of an 18pc decline in global dealmaking, which was partly driven by increasing uncertainty around trade tariffs and the global economy, the firm said. Transactions between the US and the UK were down 20pc compared to 2018 but still exceeded the combined number of deals between the US and Germany, France and Spain.   Deloitte’s Paul Lupton said that despite the fall in transatlantic deal volumes across many of the major European markets, there was still “strong appetite” for technology assets, which accounted for 28pc of all US-UK deals in the first half of the year.  “This is attributable to the asset‑light business models which enable greater potential for geographical expansion and scalability,” he said. 10:12AM Goldman Sachs predicting a 'very volatile' three months for Italian economy Credit: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP Economists at Goldman Sachs are predicting a bumpy few months for Italy's economy.  "In our view, the next three months will be very volatile and challenging for the Italian economy and its assets." They are also predicting a delay to the preparation of next year's budget if a new coalition cannot be formed and fresh elections have to be called.  9:59AM What next for Italy? The political upheaval in Rome has come at an awkward time for the country, as Berenberg's European economist Florian Hense has observed:  "With the submission of the 2020 budget to the Italian parliament and European Commission looming by 30 September and 15 October, respectively, the timing is unfortunate: Italy needs to find more than €20bn (£18.3bn) in savings to avoid the already legislated rise in the VAT by 3 percentage points in 2020." Berenberg has set out the three most likely scenarios for Italy:   1. Italy avoids snap elections for at least nine months: Five Star join forces with the Democratic Party (PD) for a new centre-left government, probably with Giuseppe Conte returning as prime minister. Markets could rally if the short-term uncertainty of snap elections is averted. The centre-left coalition could then focus on agreeing a budget and compromises with the EU over its deficit.  2. No poll for now but elections in early 2020: President Sergio Mattarella appoints a technocratic government to draw up the 2020 budget, with snap elections to follow early next year. Five Star and the PD could support the move as it would shield them from having to announce painful adjustments to the 2020 budget themselves. This option could avoid a volatile reaction from markets.  3. Snap elections later this year: The final option is for Mattarella to call snap elections for late October or early November. Current opinion polls suggest far right Matteo Salvini would likely win and become prime minister. A Salvini government could set Italy on a collision course with the EU over its budget. Bond yields could surge, driving up Italy's cost of borrowing.  9:36AM Italy seeks a new coalition in a bid to avoid fresh elections Italian president Sergio Mattarella (left) will try to find a viable coalition government after Giuseppe Conte (right) resigned as prime minister yesterday Credit: FILIPPO ATTILI HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX Italian president Sergio Mattarella will begin intensive talks with the country's political leaders today as he seeks to determine whether a new ruling coalition can be found after prime minister Giuseppe Conte resigned yesterday.  If a coalition cannot be found, Matarella will be forced to call fresh elections.  Conte resigned just over a year after agreeing to lead a populist alliance of the League party, led by Matteo Salvini, and the Five Star Movement. Mattarella, whose role as president is normally a largely ceremonial one, has the sole power to appoint governments and call elections. He is ready to give Five Star and the opposition Democratic Party, or PD, time to strike a deal. But he will allow them days, not weeks, to reach an agreement, Italian media reported.  The talks are set to begin this afternoon.  Rome's FTSE MiB index fell 1pc yesterday but has risen a healthy 1.46pc so far today.  8:59AM Fiat-Renault merger hopes buoy markets Credit: Eric Gaillard/REUTERS A report in Italy about continuing merger talks between Fiat Chrysler and Renault has helped to push shares in the car industry higher. The pair abandoned talks on a mega merger in June after meeting resistance from the French government, which is a major shareholder in Renault.  Take a look at the long road that led to Fiat Chrysler to propose a tie-up with the French manufacturer:  Timeline - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles For more on why we're seeing a wave of deals in the car industry, take a look at Alan Tovey's long read from the weekend: Automotive industry alliances: who's joining forces with who and why? 8:50AM A strong start for European shares European stock markets have enjoyed a strong start to the day, with all of the major indices gaining ground. Here’s how the continent’s blue-chip bourses stood as of about 15 minutes ago: The FTSE 100 was 0.5pc up France’s CAC 40 was 0.75pc up Germany’s DAX was 0.5pc up Spain’s IBEX was 0.75pc up Italy’s FTSE MiB was 1.19pc up Remember you can use our handy Markets Hub tool at the top of the blog to keep tabs on the latest stock market and currency movements! 8:34AM Ryanair - what's happening today? There's a lot to keep track of in this Ryanair story so this might help:  When are the strikes? Pilots in the UK and Ireland are planning separate 48 hour stoppages starting from midnight tonight in disputes over pay and conditions.  What's happening in the London courts? An application by the airline for an injunction to block UK pilots striking is to be heard by a judge in London on Wednesday.  What's happening in the Irish courts? The Irish High Court will rule on whether to grant the airline an injunction to block the planned strike by 180 pilots based in Ireland.  Anything else? Quite a bit, actually. The airline is also facing a wave of strikes over the next month by staff across its Spanish and Portuguese bases. The first Portuguese strike action is set to begin today. Belgian unions have told members not to comply with the carrier's request for them to staff flights that have been hit by the Portuguese industrial action.  And the share price? It's dropped 17pc in the past month.  Markets Hub - Ryanair Holdings 8:21AM Ryanair could attempt to break strikes Ryanair has been drawing up plans to keep as many services as possible in operation if it fails in its legal action. Just in from our transport correspondent Oliver Gill: One senior insider has told me @Ryanair has contingency plans in place to run all, or nearly all, UK flights even if the legal action fails and strikes go ahead. This will be announced after the High Court decision this morning.— Oliver Gill (@ojngill) August 21, 2019 8:15AM Ryanair's last ditch bid to avoid strike chaos Parked Ryanair planes will be a common sight in the next couple of days if strike action proceeds.  Credit: ALBERTO PIZZOL/AFP Ryanair should learn this morning whether its request to block 180 of its Irish pilots from striking tomorrow and Friday has been successful. The Irish High Court is due to issue its decision on whether the 48 hour stoppage can proceed.  Ryanair claims that the strike action breaches an agreement it reached with the union last year. The budget airline also claims that  the union has failed to submit detailed proposals ahead of balloting its members or issuing its strike notice and that the industrial action is timed to cause maximum disruption by coinciding with a scheduled strike by UK pilots.  We'll keep you up to date on developments throughout the day.  7:59AM Facebook moves to address privacy concerns Credit: Dado Ruvic/REUTERS Facebook is launching a long-promised tool that lets users limit what information the social network can gather about them on external websites and apps. The move is an attempt by tech firm to head off criticism of its privacy practices which have been heavily scrutinised in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.  Facebook said it is adding a section where users can see the activity it tracks outside its service, including through its "like" buttons. Users will be able to turn off the tracking.  The feature has been launched in South Korea, Ireland and Spain and is due to be rolled out in other markets in the "coming months".  7:37AM Ryanair in bid to stop pilot strikes Ryanair is going to the High Court today in an attempt to block Thursday's strike action. An application by Ryanair for an injunction is to be heard by a judge in London on Wednesday. In Ireland, Ryanair has also sought an order at the High Court in Dublin to prevent around 180 pilots based in Ireland from going on a 48-hour strike from midnight on Thursday. The application was contested by Forsa, the parent union of the Irish Airline Pilots Association. A judge is expected to give a ruling on Wednesday morning. 7:22AM Boris heads to Boris, while crisis reigns in Italy Good morning. Equities across Europe were lower yesterday amid political uncertainty, not least in Italy where prime minister Giuseppe Conte said he would resign. The pound went in the opposite direction after comments from Angela Merkel that Europe would think about practical solutions to the current Brexit impasse were interpreted as a chink of light in the stand-off between Downing Street and Brussels. Today the German Chancellor will be meeting with Boris Johnson in Berlin.  5 things to start your day 1) Second Chinese suitor emerges as frontrunner to buy 'Boris bus' maker Wrightbus: One of China’s biggest engineering companies has emerged as the frontrunner in the race to save “Boris Bus” maker Wrightbus. Weichai, part of giant state-owned conglomerate Shandong Heavy Industry, is in detailed discussions to buy the struggling bus company, The Daily Telegraph has learnt. 2) Shareholder revolts at annual meetings have “little impact” on restraining runaway pay across FTSE 100 companies, despite a fall in the average salary paid to chief executives last year, according to the CIPD and the High Pay Centre. Between 2014 and 2018 shareholders approved all FTSE 100 company pay policies presented at an AGM, with most votes sailing through, a report by the association for human resource professionals and the think tank found. 2018 income figures for the CEOs of the FTSE 100   3) Yellowhammer port chaos is not even Project Fear: it is slapstick, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. The Yellowhammer report excited my interest because it makes extraordinary warnings about ports in a no-deal Brexit, and I happen to have been talking to port officials over the past two weeks. These included the Boulogne-Calais chief and the head of the UK’s biggest port complex on the Humber. My conclusion is that the Yellowhammer section on ports cannot be true. 4) Britain is a touch richer than previously realised after new sums by the Office for National Statistics added an extra £26bn to annual GDP. The Government and charities replace buildings, machinery and other capital more frequently than expected, businesses develop more software in-house than was known, and services exports are larger than had been appreciated. 5) Lucy Burton finds out who the Hong Kong 'Superman' that's taking on British beer is: Hong Kong's richest man Li-Ka Shing. The 91-year-old was determined to change his circumstances from a young age, telling Forbes in 2010 that the "burden of poverty and this bitter taste of helplessness and isolation" that he felt as a child drove him on in adult life. He is the 28th richest person in the world with a net worth of around $32bn.   What happened overnight Asian shares flatlined on Wednesday as investors took a step back after recent gains, with focus now turning to a key speech by Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell at the end of the week. Rising hopes for China-US trade talks have provided a much-needed lift to markets over the previous two days but with few fresh catalysts, dealers are keeping their powder dry ahead of Friday's address. After positive signals from Donald Trump and some of his top advisers on Monday over progress in the talks with Beijing, and an olive branch with the delay of a ban on Huawei purchases, there have been few developments for traders to buy on. "Our trade-war headline-inspired relief rally appears to have run its course as I suspect there is still a lot of nervousness among US investors as the global economic realities are just too hard to ignore," said Stephen Innes at Valour Markets. With so much riding on the Fed, investors were understandably anxious. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dithered either side of flat after three straight days of gains. Japan's Nikkei slipped 0.3%, while Shanghai blue chips added a slim 0.06%. Hong Kong stocks went into the break slightly higher after swinging throughout the morning. The Hang Seng Index added 0.11 percent, or 28.98 points, to 26,260.52. Coming up today Interim results: Charter Court, Costain, Hansteen Holdings, Hostelworld, OneSavings Economics: Public sector net borrowing (UK), mortgage applications and house sales (US), Federal Reserve minutes

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This summer’s most inspiring design books

Summer is a time for creative renewal, and for many of us, that means new books. 2018’s most exciting new design books have something for everyone, whether you just want to peruse coffee table eye candy or you finally have time to pore over the essays you didn’t have a chance to read during the winter. We’ve compiled some of the most compelling new and forthcoming releases, from significant design research to pure, unadulterated fun. Find the first 10 titles below, and stay tuned for part two.

Architects’ Houses

By Michael Webb

[Cover Image: Princeton Architectural Press]

What happens when an architect becomes his or her own client? That’s the premise of the projects in Architects’ Houses, which looks at the stories behind homes designed by architects for themselves. Take the husband and wife team, Antón Gargía-Abril and Débora Mesa, whose studio spent more than a year on structural calculations for their remarkable balancing act of a home. When the architect is in the driver’s seat, the typical process–and timeline–for finishing a house can easily go out the window. Often, that’s what makes these buildings so worthy of our attention.

$41.82 on Amazon

California Captured

By Marvin Rand, Emily Bills, Sam Lubell, and Pierluigi Serraino

[Cover Image: Phaidon]

Marvin Rand is the most famous architectural photographer you’ve never heard of. Like his better-known peer Julius Shulman, Rand chronicled the aspirational architecture of mid-20th century California, but his work remained largely unknown until 2012, when journalist Sam Lubell discovered an archive of more than 50,000 of the photographer’s negatives and transparencies. California Captured (Phaidon) showcases nearly 250 of these images. Sleek, single-family homes by architects such as Richard Neutra, Craig Ellwood, and John Lautner figure prominently, in addition to Googie landmarks like the Theme Building at LAX and Tiny Naylor’s drive-through–all rendered in Rand’s crisp, unfussy style.

$40.19 on Amazon

California Crazy: American Pop Architecture

By Jim Heimann

[Cover Image: Taschen]

Almost 40 years ago, Jim Heimann published a book called California Crazy. It brought the state’s folly-filled pop architecture to the mainstream, documenting its theme parks, fast-food stands, and roadside buildings. In June, the book is being republished anew. It still features page after page of rich, archival photos of countless SoCal typologies–from buildings shaped like pumpkins, cameras, and ice cream cones, to studio sets and faux castles. But Heimann also reflects on what makes California such fertile ground for architectural experimentation and the “dicey business” of preservation, including how the first edition inspired new research into many of these formerly obscure structures (some of which no longer exist). Here’s hoping that the 40-year-update will become a regular thing.

$60 preorder on Amazon.

Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture

By Louise Harpman and Scott Specht

[Cover Image: Princeton Architectural Press]

Did you know the Smithsonian has more than 50 coffee cup lids in its permanent collection? Thanks to the work of architects Louise Harpman and Scott Specht, who have been collecting lids for years, this form of “invisible” design will be preserved forever. The duo’s new book about the typology, titled simply Coffee Lids, is a glimpse into the depthless variation and ingenuity of an object that few people have ever even considered. “Looking something as simple as a humble coffee lid is an entry into that conversation,” Harpman told Co.Design‘s Katharine Schwab, “to slow down, take notice, wonder, ask questions–what is that, how is it made, who designed it?”

$18.08 on Amazon.

How To Make Repeat Patterns: A Guide for Designers, Architects and Artists 

By Paul Jackson

[Cover Image: Laurence King Publishing]

Channel your inner M.C. Escher with How To Make Repeat Patterns (Laurence King). The guide, by paper artist Paul Jackson, reveals the rules of symmetry that undergird complex patterns and offers tips for producing your own designs, whether for wallpaper, architectural facades, or digital products.

$24.33 on Amazon

Inside North Korea

By Oliver Wainwright

[Cover Image: Taschen]

The humans in Oliver Wainwright’s photos of North Korean buildings look like scale models: Tiny figures, invariably dressed in drab tones, that serve only to underline the yawning size and shimmering jewel-tones of Pyongyang’s architecture. “It looks as if someone has emptied a packet of candy across the city, sugary pastilles jumbled up with jelly spaceships,” writes Wainwright, the Guardian architecture critic who visited the country on a tour in 2015, when he shot the photos in this Taschen tome that will be released in August. Unlike most accounts of the city, Inside North Korea (Taschen) offers a thoughtful analysis of Pyongyang’s urban history, situating its widely photographed architecture in context with the Kim dynasty and the way it seeks to articulate its goals through building. It’s sobering, and mesmerizing, at the same time.

$60 preorder on Amazon.

Lorna Simpson Collages

By Lorna Simpson

[Cover Image: Chronicle Books]

The collages in this monograph are a revelation. Artist Lorna Simpson takes models from vintage Ebony and Jet ads and gives them elaborate new hairstyles, using ink washes, geological formations, and other mysterious imagery. The book features 160 artworks that, together, form a meditation on the language of hair and black identity. As poet Elizabeth Alexander writes in the introduction: “The repetitions in these images suggest that we are thought of by some as a dime a dozen: undervalued, yes, but also, abundant. Black women are everywhere glorious and unsung.”

$29.95 preorder on Amazon.

Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life

By Julia Reinhard Lupton

[Cover Image: University of Chicago Press]

This inventive book by an English and comparative literature professor at UC Irvine examines the spaces that bring Shakespeare’s tales to life. Author Julia Reinhard Lupton analyzes dwellings in five classic works–Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter’s Tale–and draws on theory from the likes of Martin Heidegger and Don Norman to offer insight into everything from “the ethics of habitation and hospitality” to “the literary dimensions of design.”

$27.50 on Amazon.

Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours: Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy, and the Arts

By Patrick Syme and Abraham Gottlob Werner

[Cover Image: Smithsonian Books]

Skimmed-milk white. Arterial blood red. Celandine green. In the 19th century, naturalists were struggling to standardize the colors they observed in nature–without the utility of post-Industrial Revolution digital precision of CMYK or RGB. Werner’s Nomenclature Of Colours, published in 1814, gave scientists, artists, and naturalists a common language to talk about color–even Darwin famously used the color dictionary on his travels. This spring, the Smithsonian re-released the book in a small, pocket-sized version, perfect for travelers or anyone who spends time outdoors. It’s an evocative creative document–and a lovely antidote to life lived online.

$13.46 on Amazon.

Women Design

By Libby Sellers

[Cover Image: Frances Lincoln]

Women Design (Frances Lincoln) assumes the Herculean task of highlighting women’s contributions to design–including architecture, industrial design, digital design, and graphics–from the 20th century to the present day. It has no business being just 176 pages, but author Libby Sellers, a prominent British gallerist and curator, manages to pack a wealth of information in profiles of 21 women designers. Historic pioneers such as Denise Scott Brown, Ray Eames, and Lella Vignelli get their due, as well as contemporary stars like Neri Oxman, Patricia Urquiola, and Kazuyo Sejima. “Women have always been, and remain, a significant part of the design profession,” Sellers writes. “…Yet, if asked to name the design world’s greats, most people would produce a list of predominantly male names.” This book attempts to correct the narrative, and it tells some rollicking stories along the way. Be sure to check out the section on the “Damsels of Design,” a group of women industrial designers GM hired to address what a 1957 press release described as “woman driver’s problems” like “anything in cars that might snag their nylons.”

$30 preorder on Amazon.

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SOLD 🎭 Wicked @ Victoria Apollo Theatre 2014 (#170)

Title: Wicked

Venue: Victoria Apollo Theatre

Year: 2014

Condition: Marking

Author: Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Book by Winnie Holzman. Based on the Novel by Gregory Maguire

Director: Joe Mantello

Choreographer: Musical Staging by Wayne Cilento

Cast: Jennifer DiNoia, Savannah Stevenson, Jeremy Taylor, Philip Childs, Sam Lupton, Katie Rowley Jones, Chloe Ames, Kyle Anthony, Lee Bridgman, Lucyelle Cliffe, Nicholas Collier, Chris Cowley, Maria Coyne, Matthew Croke, Jeanie Dinger, Laura Emmitt, Kerry Enright, Joseph Fletcher, Rosie Fletcher, Sheila Grant, Emma Hatton, Daniel Hope, Lauren James Ray, Jasmine Kerr, Sophier Linder-Lee, Natalie McQueen, Oliver Metzler, Scott Monello, Rachael Muldoon, Sam Salter, Joe Toeland, Hannah Toy, Russell Walker, Liam Wrate, Liza Sadovy, Martyn Ellis

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Norikateatro’s Bootleg list! 💙

As of: February 16th, 2018 😄! Please message me if you want a bootleg! Do not comment *If you want to trade with me that’ll be really cool!

Miss Saigon Manila: December 24th, 2000 Full Show Cast: Lea Salonga (Kim) , Will Chase (Chris) , Leo Tavarro Valdez (Engineer), Ron K. Smith, Lisa Capps (Ellen), Robert Seña (They), Isay Alvarez (Gigi)

Miss Saigon London 5/19/14 Highlights (Tanya Manalang as Kim) Cast: Tanya Manalang, Alistair Brammer, Jon Jon Briones Highlights include: Kim's Nightmare - The Fall Of Saigon - Sun and Moon (Partial), Sun And Moon (Reprise), Movie In My Mind, The American Dream, Maybe, I Still Believe, The Last Night Of The World - Morning Of The Dragon (Partial), Why God Why. Musicalmania123's master.  

Miss Saigon 5/13/17 Lianah Sta. Ana as Kim Lianah Sta. Ana (alt. Kim), Jon Jon Briones (The Engineer), Alistair Brammer (Chris), Katie Rose Clarke (Ellen), Nicholas Christopher (John), Devin Ilaw (Thuy), Rachelle Ann Go (Gigi)

Matilda: Broadway March 6th, 2013

Cast: Oona Laurence, Bertie Carvel, Gabriel Ebert, Lesli Margherita, Lauren Ward, Karen Aldridge, Jack Broderick, Frenie Acoba ​

Aladdin (OBC) 

Anastasia: Broadway June 28, 2017

Cast: Christy Altomare, Derek Klena, John Bolton, Ramin Karimloo, Caroline O'Connor, Mary Beth Peil.

Beauty and The Beast:  Broadway- April 28th, 2002

Cast: Sarah Litzsinger as Belle, Steve Blanchard as Beast, Bryan Batt as Lumiere, and Beth Fowler as Mrs. Potts, and Nicholas Jonas as Chip

Chicago US tour: November 23th,  2005  Chicago, IL 

Cast: Paige Davis, Brenda Braxton, Tom Wopat, Carol Woods

Chicago: Broadway September 18th, 2002 Cast: Michael C Hall (Billy), Amy Spanger (Roxie), Stephanie Pope (Velma), Rob Bartlett (Amos), Roz Ryan (Mama), R Bean (Mary Sunshine). 

Cats- UK tour, Wolverhampton 30 March 2013 full show Cast: Joanna Ampil (Grizabella) Katie Warsop (Rumpleteazer) Clare Rickard (Jellylorum) Melissa James (Bombalurina) Lily Fraser (Demeter) Alice Redmond (Jennyanydots) Alicia Beck (Victoria/White Cat) Dawn Williams (Jemima) Nicholas Pound (Old Deutoronomy) Ben Palmer (Munkustrap) Oliver Savile (Rum Tum Tugger) Joseph Poulton (Quazo/Mistoffelees) Paul F Monaghan (Asparagus/Bustopher Jones/Growl Tiger:) Barnaby Thompson (Mungojerrie) Ross Finnie (Skimbleshanks) Jessica Buckby (Cassandra) Lizzi Franklin (Tantomile) Joal Morris (Carbucketty) Richard Astbury (Coricopat) Cameron Ball (Admetus/Macavity) James Darch (Alonzo) and Will Lucas (Bill Bailey).

Cats Broadway: July 2016 VOB (no small)

Cast: Leona Lewis (Grizabella), Tyler Hanes (Rum Tum Tugger), Ricky Ubeda (Mistoffelees), Quentin Earl Darrington (Old Deuteronomy), Eloise Kropp (Jennyanydots), Giuseppe Bausilio (Carbucketty), Jeremy Davis (Skimbleshanks), Kim Faure (Demeter), Sara Jean Ford (Jellylorum), Lili Froehlich (Electra), Daniel Gaymon (Macavity), Shonica Gooden (Rumpleteazer), Christopher Gurr (Gus/Bustopher Jones), Andy Huntington Jones (Munkustrap), Kolton Krouse (Tumblebrutus), Jess Le Protto (Mungojerrie), Georgina Pazcougin (Victoria), Emily Pynenburg (Cassandra), Arianna Rosario (SIllabub), Ahmad Smmons (Alonzo), Christine Cornish Smith (Bombalurina), Corey Snide (Coricopat), Emily Tate (Tantomile), Sharrod Wiliams (Pouncival)

Come Far Away (OBC)

Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway) Cast: Ben Platt, Laura Dreyfuss, Will Roland, Kristolyn Lloyd, Mike Faist, Rachel Bay Jones, Michael Park, Jennifer Laura Thompson (OBC)

Cinderella:  Broadway August 21, 2014  Cast: Paige Faure (Cinderella), Joe Caroll (Prince Topher), Victoria Clark (Crazy Marie/Fairy Godmother), Nancy Opel (Madame), Stephanie Gibson (Gabrielle), Ann Harada (Charlotte), Todd Buonopane (Jean-Michel), Branch Woodman (u/s Lord Pinkleton), Peter Bartlett (Sebastian), Andy Mills (Footman), Michael Callahan (Driver), Jill Abramovitz (Lady of Ridicule) 

Falsettos Broadway: October 28th, 2016 Cast: Christian Borle (Marvin), Andrew Rannells (Whizzer), Stephanie J. Block (Trina), Brandon Uranowitz (Mendel), Anthony Rosenthal (Jason), Tracie Thoms (Charlotte), Betsy Wolfe (Cordelia) 

Follies: Broadway  September 18, 2011

Cast: Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Danny Burstein, Rod Raines, Elaine Paige, Jayne Houdyshell, Rosalind Elias, Susan Watson, Terri White, Florence Lacey, Mary Beth Peil, Don Correia, Brian Shepard as (u/s) Young Ben, Christian Delcroix, Kirsten Scott, Lora Lee Gayer.

Finding Neverland (OBC)

Wicked Broadway:  Preview October 12th, 2003 Original Broadway Cast

Cast: Idina Menzel (Elphaba), Kristin Chenoweth (Glinda), Norbert Leo Butz (Fiyero), Carole Shelley (Madame Morrible), Joel Grey (The Wizard) Michelle Federer (Nessarose), Christopher Fitzgerald (Boq), William Youmans (Dr. Dillamond)

Wicked Chicago:  July 1, 2005- Cast: Ana Gasteyer (Elphaba), Kate Reinders (Glinda), Kristoffer Cusick (Fiyero), Gene Weygandt (The Wizard), Steven Skybell (Doctor Dillamond), Rondi Reed (Madame Morrible), Heidi Kettenring Nessarose), Telly Leung (Boq)

Wicked (Broadway): January 8, 2006

Cast: Shoshana Bean (Elphaba), Megan Hilty (Glinda), David Ayers (Fiyero), Rue McClanahan (Madame Morrible), Ben Vereen (The Wizard), Michelle Federer (Nessarose), Rob Sapp (Boq), Sean McCourt (Dr. Dillamond).

  notes: Shoshanna's, David's, Rue's and Michelle's last performances. Camera wanders at points due to the master's blind filming.

Wicked (Broadway):  May 28, 2006) (Megan’s Last)

  cast: Eden Espinosa (Elphaba), Megan Hilty (Glinda), David Garrison (The Wizard), Derrick Williams (Fiyero), Carol Kane (Madame Morrible), Jenna Leigh Green (Nessarose), Rob Sapp (Boq), David McCourt (Dr. Dillamond)

   Wicked First National Tour PROSHOT May 2006 - Victoria Matlock (s/b Elphaba), Kendra Kassebaum, Nicolas Dromard (u/s Fiyero), Jennifer Waldman (Nessarose), Alma Cuervo (Morrible), PJ Benjamin (The Wizard)

*Proshot from one camera at the back of the house. Sound is patched in from the soundboard and is incredibly clear. Some washout, but amazing to see the set and choreo like this.

Wicked Broadway: July 17th, 2008 Cast: Kerry Ellis (Elphaba), Kendra Kassebaum (Glinda), David Burnham (Fiyero), Cristy Candler (Nessarose), Ben Liebert (Boq), Lenny Wolpe (The Wizard), Jayne Houdyshell (Madame Morrible), Steven Skybell (Dr. Dillamond) Notes: Kerry’s first on Broadway

Wicked 1st National Tour: March 4, 2007    Baltimore, Maryland

Cast: Victoria Matlock (Elphaba), Christina DeCicco (Glinda), Cliffton Hall (Fiyero), Deedee Magno Hall (Nessarose), Barbara Tirrell (Morrible), P.J. Benjamin (Wizard), Josh Lamon (Boq), Tom Flynn (Dillamond),Paul Slade Smith as Witch’s Father/Frex

Lori Homles as Witch’s Mother/Melena Leslie Becker as Midwife/ Nanny

Wicked Broadway: October 9, 2007 (mp4) Stephanie J. Block (Elphaba), Annaleigh Ashford (Glinda), Sebastian Arcelus (Fiyero), Kathy Santen (Morrible), Lenny Wolpe (Wizard), Logan Lipton (Boq), Cristy Candler (Nessarose), Steven Skybell (Dillamond)

Wicked Broadway: July 17th, 2008 Cast: Kerry Ellis (Elphaba), Kendra Kassebaum (Glinda), David Burnham (Fiyero), Cristy Candler (Nessarose), Ben Liebert (Boq), Lenny Wolpe (The Wizard), Jayne Houdyshell (Madame Morrible), Steven Skybell (Dr. Dillamond) Notes: Kerry’s first on Broadway

Wicked Broadway: February 1, 2015

Cast: Lilli Cooper (s/b Elphaba), Kara Lindsay (Glinda), Jerad Bortz (u/s Fiyero), Brian Munn (u/s The Wizard), Kathy Fitzgerald (Madame Morrible), Catherine Charlebois (Nessarose), Robin De Jesus (Boq).

Wicked: Singapore April 22nd, 2012

Cast-  Zoe Jarrett (understudy Elphaba), Suzie Mathers (Glinda), David Harris (Fiyero), Anne Wood (Madame Morrible), Elisa Colla (Nessarose), James D Smith (Boq), Glen Hogstrom (u/s The Wizard)

Wicked Korea (Date: November 2013 )

Cast: Oak Joo Hyun (Elphaba), Jeong Sun Ah (Glinda), Lee Ji Hoon (Fiyero), Nam Kyoung Joo (The Wizard), Cho Jung Keun (Doctor Dillamond), Kim Young Joo (Madame Morrible), Lee Yea Eun (Nessarose), Kim Dong Hyun (Boq) 

Wicked First National Tour: February 24th, 2013

Cast: Dee Roscioli (Elphaba), Cassie Okenka (u/s Glinda), Cliffton Hall (Fiyero), Tom McGowan (The Wizard), Kim Zimmer (Madame Morrible), Demeree Hill (Nessarose), Justin Brill (Boq), Clifton Davis (Dillamond) 

Wicked  2nd National Tour (Madison, WI): May 28, 2013    Cast: Jennifer DiNoia (Elphaba), Hayley Podschun (Glinda), David Nathan Perlow (Fiyero), Walker Jones (The Wizard), Gina Ferrall (Madame Morrible), Zarah Mahler (Nessarose), Michael Wartella (Boq), Jay Russell (Doctor Dillamond).

  An absolutely beautiful HD capture with no obstructions. Jennifer is wonderful as Elphaba.

Wicked West End:  25th October 2014 Evening | Cast Change Kerry Ellis (Elphaba), Savannah Stevenson (Glinda)  *Final performance of Kerry Ellis, Sue Kelvin, Paul Clarkson and many ensemble members.

Wicked  West End: October 27th, 2014 Cast: Jennifer DiNoia (Elphaba), Savannah Stevenson (G(a)linda) Jeremy Taylor (Fiyero), Liza Sadovy (Madame Morrible), Martyn Ellis (The Wizard), Katie Rowley-Jones (Nessarose), Sam Lupton (Boq), Philip Childs (Dr. Dillamond)

Wicked Mexico: November 18th 2014

Cast: Ana Cecilia Anzaldúa, Crisanta Gómez (s/b), Jorge Lau, Anahí Allué, Paco Morales, Adam Sadwing, Beto Torres. Notes: Highlights include "No One Mourns the Wicked", "Dear Old Shiz", the Room Assignment scene from Let Her GO! to "What Is This Feeling?", "Popular", "Defying Gravity", "Thank Goodness", "No Good Deed" and "For Good". 

Wicked  2nd National Tour: 10/29/15 Cast: Mary Kate Morrissey (s/b Elphaba), Carrie St. Louis (Glinda), Jake Boyd (Fiyero), Liana Hunt (Nessarose), Wendy Worthington (Madame Morrible), Stuart Zagnit (The Wizard). Lee Slobotikin (Boq), Chad Jennings (Dr. Dillamond)

Wicked 2nd National Tour: November 6th, 2017

Cast: Jessica Vosk (Elphaba), Allison Bailey (u/s Glinda), Jeremy Woodard (Fiyero), Kristen Martin (Nessarose), Sam Sefarian (Boq), Chad Jennings (Doctor Dillamond), Stuart Zagnit (The Wizard), Wendy Worthington (Madame Morrible). 

Wicked 2nd National Tour September 24th, 2017 Cincinnati, Ohio  Jessica Vosk (Elphaba), Ginna Claire Mason (Glinda), Jon Robert Hall (Fiyero), Isabel Keating (Madame Morrible), Tom McGowan (The Wizard), Sam Seferian (Boq), Catherine Charlebois (Nessarose), Harry Bouvy (Dr. Dillamond)​ Notes: Jessica Vosk's final show.

Wicked Broadway:  June 21, 2016  

Cast: Rachel Tucker (Elphaba), Ginna Claire Mason (s/b Glinda), Jonah Platt (Fiyero), Peter Scolari (The Wizard), Judy Kaye (Madame Morrible), Dawn Cantwell (Nessarose), Zachary Noah Piser (Boq), Michael Genet (Doctor Dillamond).

Wicked San Francisco: September 5, 2010 (Last Show)

Marcie Dodd (Elphaba) Alli Mauzey (Glinda) Clifton C. Hall (Fiyero) Jody Gelb (Madame Morrible) Tom McGowan (The Wizard) DeeDee Magno Hall (Nessarose) Etai Benshlomo (Boq)

Wicked 1st National Tour: December 12, 2007; St. Louis, MO. Carmen Cusack  (Elphaba), Katie Rose Clarke (Glinda), Cliffton Hall (Fiyero), Alma Cuervo (Madame Morrible), Lee Wilkof (The Wizard), Deedee Magno Hall (Nessarose), Brad Weinstock (Boq), Tom Flynn (Dr. Dillamond)

Wicked UK/International Tour April 15th, 2017 Jodie Steele (alt. Elphaba), Carly Anderson (Glinda), Bradley Jaden (Fiyero), Kim Ismay (Mme. Morrible), Steven Pinder (Dr. Dillamond/Wizard), Emily Shaw (Nessarose), Iddon Jones (Boq) 

Wicked: Broadway August 11th, 2017

Cast: Jackie Burns (Elphaba), Amanda Jane Cooper (Glinda), Rondi Reed (Madame Morrible), PJ Benjamin (The Wizard), Ashley Parker Angel (Fiyero), Kristen Martin (Nessarose), Jye Frasca (Boq) Notes: Excellent HD capture of Jackie's return to the role, captured from the Orchestra.

Waitress (Broadway) − June 14, 2016: Jessie Mueller (Jenna), Keala Settle (Becky), Kimiko Glenn (Dawn), Drew Gehling (Dr Pomatter), Nick Cordero (Earl), Dakin Matthews (Joe), Eric Anderson (Cal), Christopher Fitzgerald (Ogie) (OBC)

Waitress ( Broadway) April, 2017 Cast: Sara Bareilles, Charity Angel Dawson, Molly Jobe as (u/s) Dawn, Chris Diamantopoulos, Will Swenson, Dakin Matthews, Eric Anderson, Christopher Fitzgerald 

El Hombre de La Mancha: Santiago, Chile Teatro Munipal:: 1974

Cast: Frankie Bravo, Jose del Campo, Omar Galarcé, Fernando Gallardo, Mary Hernandez, José Maria Langlais, Valentina Martinez, Alicia Quiroga, Carlos Trujillo

El Hombre de La Mancha: Madrid, Teatro Lope de Vega de Madrid

Cast: David V Muro (Cervantes / Quixote) The rest of the cast is unknown

Legally Blonde: Broadway (MTV Filmed) September 9th, 2007

Cast-Laura Bell Bundy, Christian Borle, Orfeh, Michael Rupert, Kate Shindle, Nikki Snelson, Richard H. Blake

Mary Poppins- US tour February 15 2013 Full Show Cast: Con O'Shea-Creal (Bert), Madeline Trumble (Mary Poppins), Madison Ann Mullahey (Jane Banks), Eli Tokash (Michael Banks), Chris K. Hoch (George Banks), Kerry Conte (Winifred Banks)

Man of La Mancha - Cast: Joan Diener as Aldonza (Dulcinea); Richard Kiley as Don Quixote (Cervantes); Dianne Barton as Antonia; Lee Bergere as Dr. Carrasco; Renato Cibelli as Captain of the Inquisition; Jack Dabdoub as The Innkeeper; Edmond Verrato as Sancho Panza (U/S); Eleanore Knapp as The Housekeeper; Robert Rounseville as The Padre; Ted Forlow as The Barber/The Horse (U/S); John Aristides as Juan; Robert Cromwell as Guard/Man of The Inquisition; Fernando Grahal as Tenorio/Dancing Horse; Laura Kenyon as Fermina; Jeff Killion as Man of The Inquisition/Guard; Hector Mercado as Dancing Horse/Jose; Rita Metzger as Maria; Shev Rodgers as The Horse/Pedro; Bill Stanton as Paco; David Wasson as Man of The Inquisition/Guard. 

Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway) − October 29, 2016: Josh Groban, Denee Benton, Brittain Ashford, Nicholas Belton, Lucas Steele, Gelsey Bell, Nick Choksi, Amber Gray

Hamilton Broadway August 13th, 2016 - Javier Munoz (Alexander Hamilton), Lexi Lawson (Eliza Hamilton), Sydney James Harcourt (u/s Aaron Burr), Renee Elise Goldsberry ( Angelica Schuyler), Christopher Jackson (George Washington), Andrew Chappelle (u/s Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Ephraim Sykes (u/s Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Anthony Ramos (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Rory O’Malley (King George), Roddy Kennedy (u/s Philip Schuyler/James Reynolds/Doctor), Thayne Jasperson (Samuel Seabury), Neil Haskell (Charles Lee), David Guzman (u/s George Eacker), Ensemble: Carleigh Bettiol, Hope Easterbrook, Karla Puno Garcia, Gregory Haney, Sasha Hollinger, Seth Stewart, Kamille Upshaw​

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: April 1st, 2017

Heathers- Concert reading at Joe's Pub - September 14 2010

Annaleigh Ashford (Veronica), Jeremy Jordan (Jason Dean), Jenna Leigh Green (Heather Chandler), Corri English (Heather McNamara), Christine Lakin (Heather Duke), James Snyder (Kurt), PJ Griffith (Ram), Julie Garnye (Martha)

Heather Off Broadway- Cast:  Dan Domenech as JD, Barrett Wilbert Weed as Veronica, and Charissa Hogeland as Heather Chandler

Phantom of the Opera: Broadway (June 21, 2016): James Barbour (Phantom), Ali Ewoldt (Christine), Jordan Donica (Raoul), Michele McConnell (Carlotta), Richard Poole (u/s Monsieur Andre), Craig Bennett (Monsieur Firmin), Rebecca Eichenberger (Madame Giry), Kara Klein (Meg), John Easterlin (Ubaldo Piangi) 

Spongebob the Musical: Chicago  (Try-Out)

Wants: Anything with Wicked, Cats México or Argentina, Dear Evan Hansen, Waitress, Heathers, The Wizard of Oz, and anything I don’t have!