In 2003 she lost her right eye to skin cancer.

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Gish... 'a rampaging Mrs Venable' in Suddenly Last Summer, at London's Comedy Theatre in 1999.

A s a femme with more than a touch of fatale, Sheila Gish, who has died, aged 62, of cancer, was a formidable leading actor for the last 20 years of her distinguished career.

She had enjoyed success in many a light comedy, and as one of a versatile quintet in Alan Ayckbourn's Confusions at London's Apollo theatre in 1976.

But she really made audiences sit up as Racine's doomed heroine, Berenice, in Christopher Fettes's production at the Lyric, Hammersmith, in 1982, and, a year later, as Tennessee Williams's Blanche du Bois, directed by Alan Strachan, first at Greenwich and then at the Mermaid theatre.

The critics hailed an actor justifying a long, simmering claim to star status.

Both roles wallowed in helplessness and physical need, and Gish, the very opposite of a dumb blonde, with her tigerish technique, voluptuousness, energy and physical prowess on stage, gave unbeatable tragic performances.

Her Blanche, said Nicholas de Jongh, made a final exit as "a glazed version of Marlene Dietrich, quite mad but serene".

Gish was ideal casting in such rabidly reprehensible roles as Joe Orton's man-eating Mrs Prentice, in What The Butler Saw (in an otherwise tame 1990 revival), and the raddled, incestuous Yvonne (besotted with her young son, played by Jude Law) in Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles, directed to the decadent hilt by Sean Mathias at the National theatre in 1994.

With the same director, she delivered a rampaging Mrs Venable - opposite a ravishing Rachel Weisz - in another Williams hothouse drama, Suddenly Last Summer, at the Comedy theatre in 1999.

Again, her character was obsessed with her own son.

Her hair was lacquered and coiled "like a lion's mane after an expensive visit to the salon," said one critic; she resembled "some garden district Lucrezia Borgia in regal purple," said another.

Working with Fettes again in 2002, Gish played Racine's Phaedra at the Riverside studios.

The constant incestuousness was now becoming a bit of a cliché.

"Imagine a vampire drinking its own blood," said Benedict Nightingale, "or a ghost haunting itself."

I had never seen a Phaedra from whom life was so visibly draining, but the production was generally counted a failure.

Gish emanated physical strength and tenacity, even when afflicted by a cancerous tumour and losing her right eye in an operation to remove it in 2003.

Within weeks, she was rehearsing at the Chich ester festival theatre, where she opened as the over-the-hill actor Arkadina, in Phyllis Nagy's sprightly new version of Chekhov's The Seagull.

Gish did glamour as well as anyone, and her performance, stately as a galleon, was gorgeous with self-esteem, elegant and irresistibly vain.

Even the eye-patch seemed like an extravagantly good idea.

Sheila Gish was born in Lincoln, the daughter of an army officer.

In the course of a peripatetic postwar childhood, she stayed in an SS officer's house in the rubble of Dusseldorf, and saw child beggars in Egypt and Sudan.

After boarding school and Rada, she started work in rep, and met her first husband, the actor Roland Curram, with whom she had two daughters, Lou Gish and Kay Curram, both actors.

She met her second husband, Denis Lawson, in 1985, when they were both appearing in a BBC adaptation of Kingsley Amis's An Uncertain Feeling.

They fell deeply in love and Curram, with whom she remained on friendly terms, subsequently came out as gay.

On television, Gish demonstrated her range as a notable Mrs Fluck, Diana Dors's mother, in The Blonde Bombshell (1998), and resorted to more familiar type as Lady Montdore, a stuck-up character adept at spotting an eligible earl, in the 2001 version of Nancy Mitford's Love In A Cold Climate.

She took good film roles in A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg (1972), with Alan Bates and Janet Suzman, and in the Merchant/Ivory Jean Rhys film Quartet (1981).

These were but enamelled vignettes; her real business would always be on the stage.

She won an Olivier award as the steaming alcoholic Joanne in Stephen Sondheim's Company - "Here's to the ladies who lunch" - directed by Sam Mendes at the Donmar Warehouse, and in the West End, in 1995.

And, in Phyllis Nagy's Never Land, at the Royal Court (then occuping the Ambassadors) in 1998, she gave a remarkable exhibition of emotional displacement as a woman moving through alcoholism to rain-drenched despair.

Small - she was 5ft 4in tall - and lustrously blonde, with a magnificent figure, of which she was justly proud, Gish was a powerhouse performer, an outstanding character in the postwar British theatre, and much loved by her family, peers and colleagues.

She is survived by her husband and two daughters.

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La Cancha, the largest open air market in South America, is also an active place where locals can buy a range of items.

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Making your way through the vast maze of vendors and stalls in La Cancha, the largest open-air market in the Americas, you are in the heart of Bolivian culture.

Vibrant colors surround: brightly colored fruits and vegetables, a myriad of fabrics and clothing, unique handcrafts, and a rich assortment of additional Bolivian commodities.

Lively crowds of local people can be seen in every direction, as the bustle of conversation in Quechua fills the atmosphere of the market.

La Cancha is a locale for one to witness interactions among the Bolivian people, as they barter, trade, buy, and sell multitudes of products.

It is here where many Bolivian people produce their livelihoods.

When Amizade volunteers submerge themselves into this immense marketplace during programs in Bolivia, they are able to experience the colors, interactions, and liveliness of La Cancha, thus gaining a more profound understanding of Bolivian culture and people.

La Cancha is located in the city of Cochabamba, the fourth largest city in Bolivia with an urban population of around 608,000 people.

The marketplace covers a 15-block area of the city, where merchants and vendors come from all around to buy and sell goods during ferias (market days), which take place every Wednesday and Friday.

Each section of the marketplace is designated for particular products, such as agricultural produce, meat, fish, fabrics, and clothing.

Some vendors in the market are permanent vendors, who operate a steady stand that they rent from the city.

Others are mobile vendors, who travel to La Cancha and set up temporary stands on market days.

All of the vendors function in the informal sector of the Bolivian economy.

Though they are operating in the informal economy, many of these vendors rely on La Cancha as a vital method for producing their livelihoods.

During programs in Bolivia, Amizade volunteers get to wind through the pathways of La Cancha and observe firsthand how the informal economy of Bolivia functions.

Volunteers have the opportunity to purchase fresh produce, barter for authentic handmade fabrics and crafts, and interact with the local Bolivian people, thus becoming a part of the marketplace itself.

In the Quechua language, La Cancha means "walled enclosure", which is an ironic name when considering the actual setting of the marketplace.

When a person weaves in and out of the labyrinth of vendors within La Cancha, they hardly feel walled or enclosed.

Instead, one gets to experience the open air, the smell of fresh meats and produce, the radiating colors, and the vibrant bustle of crowds.

They get to enter and leave the vast variety of vendors as they please.

Visiting the marketplace of La Cancha is an extraordinary cultural and educational experience for Amizade volunteers, allowing them to gain a deeper understanding of the livelihoods, interactions, and culture of the Bolivian people.

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Similarly, the "Yorkshire Evening Post" pointed out that cycling was not a pleasant sight for a man, but that a woman's "abnormal hips" made it worse.

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Opposition to female cyclists who used the bicycle as a tool for anything other than graceful, leisurely riding was strongly revealed in the furore that followed the achievement of Tessie Reynolds, who, aged sixteen years old, raced from Brighton to London and back (a distance well over a hundred miles) in 8 and a half hours in 1893.

This is was not a cause for celebration within the cycling press.

Dubbing the whole event a 'lamentable incident', Cycling argued that,

'Every wheelman who has managed to retain a belief in the innate modesty and sense of becomingness in the opposite sex, will hear with real pain, not unmixed with disgust, of what we will call a lamentable incident that took place on the Brighton road early last Sunday.'

Cycling's main objection to Tessie Reynold's achievement came from their belief that,

'Nothing is more calculated to give cycling for women a set-back than this racing, above all, the sight of a young girl tearing her heart out along the highway, cheered on by a crew of male pacemakers.

Gentlemen of England, doth (you) like the picture?'

Cycling did not just object to Tessie Reynold's style of riding.

The editorial also included a complaint about her manner of dress, which Cycling had heard was,

'Of a most unnecessary masculine nature and scantiness.'

As you can see in the picture above, Tessie Reynold's wore cycling attire which revealed, horror of horrors, her legs and calfs.

In the late-Victorian period for a woman to reveal even a clothed pair of legs in public was seen to challenge her feminine modesty and 'becomingness'.

Ideas of feminine beauty were very much focussed on women appearing refined and graceful, and it was deemed that women's legs, particularly those belonging to 'stouter' women, did not fill this criteria.

As one writer in the Yorkshire Evening Post put it,

'A pair of legs working like cranks on a pair of pedals is ugly enough in a man; but in a woman, especially with abnormal hips, the sight is a caricature of the sweetest and best half of humanity'.

As such it was commonly advised that women wore skirts whilst cycling.

These were not ideal from a practical point of view.

These skirts were often heavy and cumbersome, offered a large surface area to any headwinds and made the very act of pedalling much more exerting.

'A skirt is intrinsically feminine, though it is idiotically irrational for cycling.'

There was also the additional worry of skirts getting caught in the wind and flying up whilst a lady cycled.

A vicar described how watching ladies cycling down hills in a wind had led to him and a 'group of idle lads at the street corner' seeing,

'What none of the male sex ought to be allowed to see, and what every woman with any pretention to modesty takes great care to avoid being seen.'

Efforts were made to combat these problems.

Many women wore narrower, shorter skirts which rested an inch or two above the ankle, with knickerbockers underneath to replace the layer of petticoats.

However, although an improvement this attire still did not offer the same freedom, safety and lightness as trousers.

This meant that, like Tessie Reynolds, some women took to wearing 'rational dress' whilst cycling, costume which consisted of either knickerbockers or 'bloomers' being worn without a skirt on-top of them.

These were often accompanied with a jacket, cut in a manner similar to those worn by men.

As revealed by the case of Tessie Reynolds, the British public were not exactly enamoured with this new form of feminine attire.

There will be another article about how women in rationals were received by the wider British public, but for the time being here is one women's description of riding through a town in rationals from 1895.

'I was favoured on numerous occasions with selections from 'Daisy Bell.'

Thirteen persons saluted me with the polite command of, 'Git yer 'air cut!'

Eight were extremely anxious to know my tailor's address; an even greater number requested the name of my hatter.

A ragged urchin ran alongside for some distance, and asked, 'Could yer oblige us with a match, guv'nor?'

A barber further down the road went one better by standing on his step and enquiring, 'Shave sir?'

Several pedestrians thoughtfully suggested that I should, 'Git orf and push!'

While an elderly lady imparted the information I was, 'a forward young minx!'

One man- how I thanked that man- doffed his oily cap and exclaimed, 'Bravo!

In spite of the attention my appearance excited, several acquaintances passed me without notice.'

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My goodness, that "scanty" costume of Tessie Reynolds is truly shocking!

Hooray for the man who "doffed his oily cap."

I love the phrase 'a forward young minx' as well, could still be used today!

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There are wonderful quotations throughout this post from Cycling.

What is the vol., issue no., date for the quotations used?

Huge apologies for the delayed reply, I've been busy with other things for quite a while.

For Cycling, the reference is: Cycling (London, England), Saturday, September 16, 1893; pg. 136; Issue 139.

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In fact, she took just 8 hours 30 minutes to cycle the 120 miles (190 km), thereby setting a record. Her father acted as the time keeper for the ride.
 Women's clothes at the time included long dresses and tight corsets, impractical for cycling; so Reynolds instead wore a "rational" outfit of pantaloons "cropped and cinched below the knee", with a shirt and long coat. It is likely that the outfit was made specifically for Reynolds by her sister, Ada, who was a dress maker. The outfit caused outrage, with suggestions that it was inappropriately masculine and that she was cycling in her knickerbockers. The publicity traveled as far as America, and the outfit was promoted by proponents of Victorian dress reform, as Reynolds clearly intended. She was active in promoting dress reform five years prior to the foundation of the local cycling dress reform club and continued to wear the outfit regularly.
 "Cycling" magazine wrote a scathing report on the "scantiness" of the outfit, complaining of loss of modesty and calling the feat a "lamentable incident".


St Swithin's Church was built between 1779 and 1790 by John Palmer.

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Parviainen continued jumping from hot air balloons and helicopters, including one for the  "Stunt Junkies" program on Discovery Channel.

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For this stunt Visa Parviainen jumps from a helicopter in a powered wing suit with two small turbojet jet engines attached to his boots.

The turbojets provide the thrust needed to achieve horizontal flight.

Visa hoped to reach speeds of approximately 120 mph and a flight distance of approximately 20 miles.

On his last attempt he "flew" for approximately two minutes; this time, using larger engines, he hoped to sustain horizontal flight for an unbelievable five minutes.

The wingsuit was modified to include the throttle, kill switch and fuel bladders in the cells of the wing.

The wingsuit flier enters freefall wearing both a wingsuit and parachute equipment.

Exiting an aircraft in a wingsuit requires skilled techniques that differ depending on the location and size of the aircraft door.

These techniques include the orientation relative to the aircraft and the airflow while exiting, and the way in which the flier will spread his legs and arms at the proper time so as not to hit the aircraft or become unstable in the relative wind.

The wingsuit will immediately start to fly upon exiting the aircraft in the relative wind generated by the forward speed of the aircraft.

A wingsuit flier manipulates the shape of his body to create the desired amount of lift and drag although most wingsuits have a 2 to 1 ratio.

This means that for every foot they drop, they go two feet forward.

With body shape manipulation and by choosing the design characteristics of the wingsuit, a flier can alter both his forward speed and fall rate.

A pilot can choose to manipulate his fall rate towards Earth with the goal of achieving the slowest vertical speed in order to prolong time in freefall, or the pilot can try to maximize the horizontal glide distance across the Earth.

The pilot manipulates these flight characteristics by changing the shape of his torso, arching or bending at the shoulders, hips, and knees, and by changing the angle of attack in which the wingsuit flies in the relative wind, and by the amount of tension applied to the fabric wings of the suit.

While still very experimental, powered wingsuits, often using small jet engines strapped to the feet or a wingpack set-up, allow for even greater horizontal travel and even ascent.

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 On 25 October 2009, in Lahti, Finland, Visa Parviainen jumped from a hot air balloon in a wingsuit with two small turbojet engines attached to his feet. The engines provided approximately 160 N (16 kgf, 35 lbf) of thrust each and ran on JET A-1 fuel. Parviainen achieved approximately 30 seconds of horizontal flight with no noticeable loss of altitude.


"Where Does This Door Go" debuted at number 30 on the US "Billboard" 200, and number four on the R&B Albums, selling around 10,000 copies in its first week.

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The couple, who never married, lived in Kingston, Jamaica

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It was a hectic afternoon at York Castle High in the mountains of northern Jamaica when Esmie McLeod bumped into a visitor she would never forget.

The plump stranger had come to withdraw her son, Lee Malvo, from school.

McLeod, the school's vice principal, was rattled by the news.

Malvo was smart and charming, a standout student who recited poetry at school talent shows and entertained his friends by mimicking TV cartoons.

But he was also an insecure 14-year-old, McLeod thought, who had been repeatedly uprooted as his mother changed jobs.

"Why you keep moving your child?" McLeod demanded sharply.

"You're lucky to have such a sweet boy."

The mother, beaming, assured her that she was moving her son to another Caribbean island for a better life.

But less than three years later, Malvo was sleeping on the floor of a homeless shelter in Bellingham, Wash., a withdrawn teenager whose past had been erased and whose future looked empty.

He dropped out of Bellingham High School after police questioned why he lacked an academic transcript and other basic documents.

He was strangely silent in social encounters, letting his older companion, John Allen Muhammad, talk for both of them.

And rarely did Muhammad let Malvo out of his sight.

In February, just two months later, a Tacoma, Wash., woman would be shot to death on her doorstep, the first of 21 shootings across the country in which Malvo and the ex-soldier he called "Dad" are now suspects.

How did the bright and bubbly youngster become a sullen and submissive drifter?

Was he an emotionally wounded child forced to obey a domineering father figure, or did he quietly accept the odd routine of moving from place to place, living on fruit and vegetables and sleeping in cars and shelters?

That question will be central during Malvo's prosecution for one of October's 10 fatal sniper shootings in the Washington area, a process that will begin Tuesday when a Fairfax County judge decides whether the 17-year-old will be tried for murder as an adult.

The portrait of Malvo that emerges from dozens of interviews with relatives, acquaintances, teachers, classmates, landlords, social workers and shopkeepers in Jamaica, Antigua and the United States does not make clear whether he was being coerced by Muhammad or willingly followed him.

Many who saw them together during the months leading up to the sniper shootings perceived Malvo's silent obedience as respect more than fear, although there were also signs the youth was worried about the hardships of their life on the road.

What is clear is that the seeds of Malvo's close relationship with Muhammad were sown long before the two met in mid-2000 on the Caribbean island of Antigua.

The diligent and delightful Jamaican high school student was also a boy whose mother and father were absent during much of his childhood, and adults and school friends from Jamaica remember how he longed for a full-time parent.

Muhammad filled that void, many of them now suggest.

Malvo's constant travels within the United States also fit a pattern established much earlier in his life.

As a youngster in the Caribbean, he was often shuttled among relatives, friends and virtual strangers.

Even while Malvo was excelling in honors classes at York Castle High, McLeod worried that he lacked guidance and stability.

He was left too often with people he barely knew, she said.

"This youngster was not taught to be afraid of strangers," McLeod said in an interview.

"Any child exposed to that kind of instability would crave security and acceptance.

The boy who would one day be accused of the sniper attacks was born Lee Boyd Malvo on Feb. 18, 1985, to Leslie Malvo, a mason, and Una James, a seamstress.

The couple, who never married, lived in a trash-strewed, working-class neighborhood in the Jamaican capital.

When Malvo was about 3, the family's fortunes appeared to improve.

They rented a two-bedroom wing of a home in a suburb of neat bungalows with white wrought-iron fences.

At Christmas time, there were all these little trucks," recalled the owner of the home, Meredith Calvin, 68.

But the relationship between Una James and Leslie Malvo soon deteriorated.

He left Jamaica to do masonry work in the Cayman Islands, sending money to the family.

"She had taken everything from the house," said Leslie Malvo, now 55.

The father, who has three other children by two other women, rarely saw his son over the years.

James tried to keep them apart, the elder Malvo said.

Still, the boy occasionally sought him out.

When Malvo was about 11, he arrived at his father's doorstep elated: He had scored top marks on his grade-school exams and been accepted at the well-regarded York Castle.

The father thought his son was turning out well, despite the lack of a male guardian.

But the boy's schooling was constantly interrupted.

James frequently changed jobs, often going abroad and leaving her son behind.

Some relatives said she had a relentless drive for a better life for her son and herself.

Others called it a compulsion for change.

James, 38, has not responded to repeated requests made through her lawyers for an interview.

When Malvo was 8 or 9, his mother brought him to her older sister's house in Endeavour, a village of zinc-roofed homes at the end of a rutted dirt road.

James and her son had been living on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, she explained, but the boy couldn't enroll in school because of problems with his legal status there.

The sister, Marie Lawrence, and her farmer husband raised Malvo for the next few years, along with their two older daughters.

Malvo fit right in, an obedient boy who prayed twice a day with the family.

Neighbors remember Malvo spending his time at the Seventh-day Adventist Church or poring over his school books.

"It was all about God and his schoolwork," said friend Aldrich Bloomfield, 16.

"He wanted to have a good career and help his family."

At the nearby Gibraltar All-Age School, where boys wore khaki uniforms, Malvo quickly became a standout.

He had a passion for reading, even snatching scraps of paper off the ground to peruse.

You look at the kid and you know he's cut out to be something great in life," said one grade school teacher, Beverly Clark.

Teachers recalled how he would stay after class to put chairs away and offer to carry an instructor's heavy bag.

Some now recall his eagerness in a different light.

"He's willing to assist" adults, McLeod said.

James checked in periodically with her son's teachers and pressed him to study, relatives say.

She was ambitious for him -- and for herself.

Like many Jamaicans, she hoped to escape poverty by leaving the country to work, investing her earnings bit by bit in a home in Jamaica where she, her ailing mother and Malvo could live.

About 1996, she paid nearly $3,000 for a piece of land in the southern Jamaican parish of St. Elizabeth.

Gradually, a cinder-block skeleton rose from the red clay earth.

But construction stopped more than a year ago.

Relatives and acquaintances wondered why James left Malvo so often and discouraged him from having contact with his father.

The two sisters' own parents split when they were young, leaving the girls with their impoverished mother.

We don't know father-love," Lawrence said.

James didn't realize that Malvo needed it, she said.

One School to Another Malvo entered the 1,000-student York Castle High in fall 1996.

As the school year ended, he announced he would be leaving.

But after a semester's absence, he was suddenly back.

The reason he had missed the fall 1997 semester was that his mother had gone to St. Maarten again.

Before leaving, she had brought Malvo to the home of a 21-year-old cousin, Semone Powell, in central Jamaica.

Powell agreed to take him in, enrolling him at nearby Spalding High School.

James suddenly turned up that December, saying she had been deported from St. Maarten and was reclaiming her son.

"Why take this kid moving and moving and moving?" Powell yelled.

Her son went back to York Castle, living with a family that took in boarders.

He spent the next two years bouncing around, staying with relatives, teachers and others.

Many of Malvo's guardians and relatives noted how he longed for a male figure in his life and gravitated toward older men in the homes or neighborhoods where he lived.

When Malvo was about 12, James took him for a brief visit to her birthplace, Jointwood.

It was the only time Malvo met his maternal grandfather, and relatives recall how they bonded.

"They cooked together, ate together," said a cousin, Rose Nembhard, 28.

"Lee was crying when he was going away."

Toward the end of his time at York Castle, friends noticed a change in Malvo.

He had always been interested in religion and spent hours talking with friends about the Bible and the concept of evil.

Now, he felt it was time to commit to his beliefs.

Malvo stopped swearing and tried to be more forgiving, recalled Onyeka Nevins, 17, one of his best high school friends.

For example, when an older boy threw him to the ground during a cricket match, Malvo got up and walked off.

At the end of his third year at York Castle, Malvo told his friends he was leaving again -- this time for good.

"I'm going with my mother" to Antigua, where she had found work and a home for them, a happy Malvo said.

A New Father Figure Malvo made the short flight to Antigua on July 9, 1999, to join his mother there.

He was soon enrolled in 10th grade at the Seventh-day Adventist School, and James earned money for the two by putting in a dozen or more hours a day selling chicken and drinks at a roadside grill.

At the 640-student school, Malvo immediately made his mark.

He worshiped with his classmates, played cricket and excelled in physics, chemistry, biology, geography and technical drawing.

In April 2000, Muhammad arrived in Antigua from Tacoma with his three children and developed a reputation as a smuggler of Jamaicans into the United States.

Authorities say he provided James with fraudulent U.S. travel documents she would later use to get to Florida.

Soon after Malvo began 11th grade in September 2000, his mother surprised their new landlord by announcing her plans to return to Jamaica to visit her ill mother.

The boy, she said, would stay behind, alone.

James left Antigua in late 2000 or early 2001 and didn't return.

Malvo lived at the two-bedroom house by himself for about three months.

The landlord eventually shut off the utilities, and Malvo moved in with Muhammad and his children.

With James gone from the island, the Jamaican honor student and the former Desert Storm soldier cemented their bond, and Muhammad's influence over the teenager started to take hold.

By March 2001, Malvo had converted to Islam, as his older companion had done 16 years earlier.

Malvo brought a copy of the Koran to school one day after startling his classmates on another occasion by reciting the tenets of Islam instead of delivering the morning prayer.

Malvo's teachers picked up on another change in the boy: His grades slipped for three straight months.

Muhammad showed up at the school one morning to say he was Malvo's uncle and now his guardian on the island.

Using a phone number provided by either Muhammad or the teenager, a school official called James in Florida to verify the man's claim.

By the end of March, Malvo was no longer showing up at Seventh-day Adventist, and his mother had stopped checking up on him by calling the school.

Malvo, carrying bogus U.S. identification, flew out of Antigua in May 2001 with Muhammad and his three children.

In Fort Myers, Fla., Malvo was reunited with his mother, who was working at a Red Lobster restaurant.

But by October 2001, he and Muhammad were living together in Bellingham, staying on and off at the Lighthouse Mission homeless shelter from Oct. 20 to Dec. 19.

Muhammad and Malvo, now going by the name John, presented themselves to everyone as father and son, and those who didn't already know Muhammad believed it.

No one even seemed to detect Malvo's Jamaican accent -- including a shelter manager who had worked with Jamaicans in Florida for 25 years -- and some now think he worked hard at disguising it.

The teenager dressed neatly in ironed slacks, white button-down shirts and polished black leather shoes.

Muhammad's supervision was so strong he walked Malvo every day to and from Bellingham High School, less than four blocks from the shelter.

"The thing that stood out to us was that [Malvo] was a follower of John's, that his purpose was to please John and always be in John's favor and do whatever John wanted him to do," recalled the Rev. Al Archer, the Bellingham shelter's director.

He added that Malvo "was almost always three feet away from John.

If you asked [Malvo] a direct question, he would answer it narrowly without straying into other subjects."

In December 2001, Malvo's mother rode a Greyhound bus 3,400 miles to Bellingham to reclaim her son.

But she and Malvo wound up getting arrested for being in the country illegally.

They were released in January after James posted bond.

Malvo would soon gravitate back to Muhammad and disappear with him again.

During the rare moments when Muhammad was not around, Malvo would engage other adults.

Rory Reublin, the shelter's resident manager, remembered when Malvo struck up a conversation in the cafeteria with two other residents at the dinner table while Muhammad was still on the serving line.

When Muhammad came to the table, he glared at the chatting teenager.

"Once he gave him that look, Malvo stopped talking in mid-sentence and dropped his head and kept eating," Reublin said.

"Right then I said to myself, 'That is power right there.

Archer remembered seeing Malvo and James together in Bellingham and noticing that the teenager was much more jovial, cracking jokes and giggling, than when he was with Muhammad.

"He seemed like more of a kid around her, while around him he seemed like more of a trainee," Archer said.

Around Malvo's 17th birthday on Feb. 18, he and Muhammad showed up in a Cost Cutter supermarket in Bellingham.

As Muhammad roamed the aisles, Malvo started talking to a woman who was offering free bite-size samples of cheese quesadillas.

The 70-year-old woman noticed that the boy kept nervously looking around.

"He would drop his head a little bit, and when he'd look up, his eyes were melancholic," she said.

Malvo told the woman a fabricated tale about how he and Muhammad were looking for a large apartment in Bellingham because Malvo's three siblings and his mother planned to move in with them.

Malvo complained that the rents in town were high.

When the woman tried selling him a box of the quesadillas, Malvo said ruefully that he had no refrigerator because he was living out of a car.

During his time with Muhammad, Malvo developed so keen an interest in health foods that Muhammad's old Army buddy Robert Holmes nicknamed the teenager "High Little Ginseng."

When Muhammad dropped hints to friends that he was contemplating violent crime, Malvo would remain quiet.

The youth merely smiled and nodded, for example, when Muhammad showed one of his friends a book on gun silencers and talked about plans to kill a police officer or shoot a fuel tanker.

By late July, Malvo and Muhammad had left Washington state and embarked on a meandering journey through the Southeast and mid-Atlantic, a trip that police say led to shootings in Maryland, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana and finally to the October sniper attacks that paralyzed the D.C. region.

Their whereabouts over that period have been retraced carefully by law enforcement authorities.

But with the duo moving ever more frequently, few people spent enough time with them to form a clear impression of their relationship and Malvo's frame of mind.

During a visit in Baton Rouge, La., one of Muhammad's cousins found Malvo so quiet it made her uncomfortable, while another relative simply attributed the teenager's silence to good manners.

Sharon Rybiski, the owner of Bickie's Health Foods in Hammond, La., who confronted Malvo in August about trying to steal a $1 cookie pack from the store, was struck by his "deadpan" expression during the incident.

Those who knew Malvo in Jamaica reacted with disbelief as news spread that the bookish boy with the beaming smile had been arrested in one of the deadliest series of killings in U.S. history.

"What's that you call them in America -- nerds?

Nerds know how to find the books," said Malvo's old friend Onyeka Nevins.

Powell, the cousin who had cared for Malvo, could not comprehend what had happened to him.

"There were so many people who loved Lee and took him into their hearts," she said, fighting back tears.

"All the people he was living with, we didn't know anything until we saw him on TV."

Staff writer Josh White and staff researcher Bobbye Pratt contributed to this report.

Esmie McLeod, vice principal of York Castle High School in Jamaica, confronted Malvo's mother about her decision to take him away and disrupt his life once more.

He was an outstanding student at York Castle, below, which he attended for nearly three years.

Aldrich Bloomfield, a friend in Endeavour, Jamaica, recalls Malvo's concerns: "It was all about God and his schoolwork.

He wanted to have a good career and help his family.

"Malvo lived for a few years in this house with his aunt Marie Lawrence and her husband and two daughters.

Neighbors remember Malvo as religious, obedient and studious.

Mary Beth Sheridan is a correspondent covering Mexico and Central America for The Washington Post.

Her previous foreign postings include Rome; Bogota, Colombia; and a five-year stint in Mexico in the 1990s.

She has also covered immigration, homeland security and diplomacy for The Post, and served as deputy foreign editor from 2016 to 2018.

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Lee Boyd Malvo was born on Feb. 18, 1985, to Leslie Malvo, a mason, and Una James, a seamstress.


From JJonak's MVP award, Blizzard created a special cosmetic skin for Zenyatta, the character that JJonak most frequently played, which was offered to viewers and players during the 2019 season.

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# Overwatch League's first MVP skin is pretty, lucky

Last season, Bang "Jjonak" Sunghyeon was crowned the Overwatch League's "most valuable player" (MVP).

The Zenyatta player is now being honoured in-game with a skin for his signature hero, which players will be able to buy for a limited time starting next week for 200 tokens (about $10, or you could earn them by watching 33 hours of live OWL broadcasts.)

It's expensive, but it is very cool, incorporating the colours of Jjonak's team, the New York Excelsior, and his signature octopus imagery.

In other words, the designers got lucky to be working with a brand as strong as Jjonak's.

Designing a skin to represent Jjonak undoubtedly took a lot of work (a piece by Emerald Gao on the League's website describes some of the process, and what happened when the New York Excelsior visited the offices for its unveiling), but there are a number of things that make it easier.

Firstly there's the fact that he's simply so well known for his Zenyatta play.

While many competitors switch between heroes, Jjonak is dedicated to the robotic monk healer.

He also doesn't play quite like anyone else in that role, dealing out huge amounts of damage with precise orb-volleys rather than focusing on healing alone.

Excelsior's dominance last season came in large part from facilitating that style of play in a way that other teams couldn't replicate.

Then there's the easy way in which the design, which draws on Excelsior's colours and logo, could still be personalised to Jjonak.

His in-game name is a shortened form of "jjomullak nakji" or "fumbling octopus," and he also has a tattoo of the creature.

No surprise, then, that this Zenyatta gets a cephalopod head and cute, tentacled orbs to fling at your enemies.

(Let's not think about the ethics of hurling his favourite animals at opponents.)

He's previously had all manner of different heads, including Egyptian gods and creepy, grinning nutcracker faces.

It's not really explained in the game why he likes to cycle through faces like a robotic Arya Stark, but it's convenient when it comes to applying Jjonak's influence in an easily recognisable way.

This string of good luck doesn't easily extend to other players.

According to Gao's piece, the MVP from the grand finals, London Spitfire's Park "Profit" Joonyeong, won't be getting his own skin, but if he did it wouldn't even be clear which hero it should be designed for; he's known for flexing between many damage dealers.

And it's likely that this year the award will go to the main tank player from either Vancouver Titans or San Francisco Shock, whichever ultimately ends up winning: Park "Bumper" Sangbeom or Matthew "Super" DeLisi respectively.

Neither of them have a hook quite like Jjonak's.

A yeti-based Reinhart or Winston would suit Bumper via the Vancouver Titans, but that's his team's branding, not his own.

Blizzard's artists are more creative than me, obviously, and they've come up with some great ideas in the past (as well as some terrible ones).

But not many players will make it as easy for them as Jjonak, which is a shame, because I'd love to see more of the players who have the brightest stories in the League get highlighted in the game.

Fans can buy their team skins, and often do for the hero their favourite player is known for, but that's not quite the same as showing your affection for the person specifically, who may change roles or teams, severing the association.

The solution, obviously, is to crown Kim "Geguri" Seyeon MVP so that I can finally get the frog D.Va skin I deserve.

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Deubner instructs young violists on the faculty at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in New York.

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Brett Deubner, one of this generation's most accomplished violists, has inspired worldwide critical acclaim for his powerful intensity and sumptuous tone.

Recent performances include concerto appearances with over 40 orchestras on 4 continents including the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Thuringer Symphoniker in Saalfed, Germany, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Knoxville Symphony, the Grainger Wind Symphony in Melbourne, the Filharmonic del Quito, String Orchestra of the Rockies, the National Symphony of Ecuador, the State Orchestra of Merida, Venezuela, the New Symphony of Sofia, Bulgaria, Orchestra Bell'Arte of Paris, Peninsula Symphony of California and the Kiev Camerata in Ukraine.

Brett Deubner is featured in Wikipedia for his viola transcription and recordings of the 2 viola concerti of Frank Lewin.

He has collaborated with some of today's leading conductors such as Ann Manson, Perry So, Lucas Richman, David Lockington, Patricio Aizaga, Oliver Weder and Rossen Milanov.

Brett Deubner's commitment to extending the repertoire for the viola is made evident by collaborations with some of today's greatest composers such as Samuel Adler, Lalo Schifrin, Andrew Rudin, David Del Tredici and several of this generation's leading young composers.

To date, over 80 works for viola including over 30 viola concerti and numerous solo and chamber works for viola have been dedicated to and premiered by Brett Deubner.

As a recording artist, Brett Deubner has 15 CDs to his credit on the Naxos, Albany, Centaur and Extreme Medium labels.

With French pianist Caroline Fauchet he released a debut cd on Centaur of 19th century works and this season they finished a new CD of all contemporary works written for them.

Also this season, Naxos released two cds by Brett featuring the viola music of Swiss composer Frank Ezra Levy.

Brett Deubner is an adjunct faculty member at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in New York City and formerly served on the faculty at the Boyer School of Music and Dance at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Constantly in demand as a master class visiting guest and chamber music collaborator, Brett Deubner is on the faculty of the International Festival at Round Top, the Musica Negli Horti festival in Tuscany, Italy and is the Artistic Director of the concert series, "Music and More" in New Jersey where he makes his home.


He is currently Managing Partner of a venture with Dow Jones.

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# Cass and Dow Jones launch CEO masterclasses

Lessons in Leadership designed to meet growing need for quality online learning

First published Monday, 13th November, 2017

by Amy Ripley (Senior Communications Officer)

Dow Jones and Cass Business School, part of City, University of London, today announced the launch of a series of digital CEO masterclasses.

With registration beginning today and classes starting in January, the programme is designed to meet the growing need for high quality and affordable post-secondary education for aspiring professionals and business students around the world.

Lessons in Leadership – CEO Masterclasses in Strategy is a digital course featuring the insights and perspectives of the world's leading global business leaders, combined with a cutting edge Cass curriculum.

The course is based on in-depth interviews with the world's leading CEOs conducted by William Lewis, the CEO of Dow Jones and Publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

Inga Beale, CEO of Lloyd'sRichard Edelman, CEO of EdelmanCP Gurnani, CEO of Tech MahindraJo Ann Jenkins, CEO of AARPJoe Jimenez, CEO of NovartisMuhtar Kent, Chairman and former CEO of The Coca-Cola CompanyAnthony Pratt, Executive Chairman of Pratt Industries and Visy IndustriesSir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPPBarry Stowe, Chairman and CEO of Prudential's North American business unit

"Creating this course has been a fascinating insight into what it takes to lead a modern global business.

If there is a secret formula for success, I would say CEOs with a strong sense of purpose and ambition tend to win the day.

This lessons-in-leadership course will be valuable to all business people planning to reach the top."

Professor Marianne Lewis, Dean, Cass Business School, said:

"We passionately believe that everyone, everywhere has the right to high quality, affordable higher education.

Constant learning is essential to success, whether you are hoping to improve your career prospects or even start a new business venture."

Peter O. Price, managing partner of Lessons in Leadership, added:

"We are really encouraged by the response of companies and organizations who have expressed a genuine desire to share with their ambitious teams these lessons learned by world leaders."

The first of a possible series of Lessons in Leadership courses will involve nine individual masterclasses.

Students who register will receive a free subscription to The Wall Street Journal during the 16-week course.

Students who successfully complete the course will receive a Cass Business School certificate.

For more information, please visit https://masterclasses.dowjones.com.

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Drake Levin died of cancer July 4, 2009 at his home in San Francisco, with his wife Sandra at his side.

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I just got word that Drake Levin, guitarist with Paul Revere & the Raiders, has succumbed to cancer today, passing away at the age of 62 at his home in San Francisco, with his wife Sandra at his side.

I knew that Drake had cancer, and hoped to visit him, but I never had the chance.

Best known as the guitar player for Paul Revere and The Raiders.

In 1966, Levin was forced to leave the performing version of the Raiders when the draft beckoned; to avoid a combat assignment, he joined the National Guard (a common strategy in those days, engaged in by at least one future U.S. president), which enabled him to record with the group during his time off.

The fact that this was done is an indication of how well Levin stood in with Revere, as well as his popularity with the fans and the worth of his playing, because producer Terry Melcher wasn't above bringing in session players whenever he felt it necessary.

Subsequently, after Phil Volk and Mike "Smitty" Smith left the band, Levin reteamed with them in Brotherhood, a promising trio signed to RCA that never got its full chance to be heard, owing to the members' lingering contractual obligations to Columbia Records from their Raiders work.

He subsequently demonstrated his worth as a guitarist by working with Ananda Shankar, Emitt Rhodes, and Lee Michaels, among other artists.

He has also participated in reunions of various ex-members of the Raiders, and worked with his friend Phil Volk on several occasions.

ClayColeShow.com also shared some information about Drake Levin's career in music:

When Drake Levin played lead guitar with Paul and the Raiders, he and bass guitarman Phil Volk would pull-off a showstopper: "Drake on top of the left speaker and Phil on right speaker … dancing!"

Those guys could and would dance plus play their instruments with superb results.

Drake and Phil would dance on the speakers and play guitars behind their heads at the same time!

Many guitarists can't play at that level without even playing behind their heads!

Once when they were performing at the Spanish Castle, a then- unknown Jimi Hendrix was in the audience, watching and learning from Drake.

This was in 1963 or 1964 before Jimi made it big.

Drake was obviously an influence to the guitar playing and showmanship of many musicians.

Paul Schaefer of "The Late Show with David Letterman" is a fan.

Drake was with Paul Revere & the Raiders starting in 1963 and on into '67.

While he was in the National Guard he would come to record with them in the studio and even fill in for Phil Volk during a couple of concerts, playing the bass.

Drake, Smitty and Phil left the Raiders in 1967 to form The Brotherhood.

Here's a few other pages that discuss Drake Levin:

One part street punk, one part John Lee Hooker

Paul Revere & Raiders – Past & Present Members

Curtis Lawson Band featuring Drake Levin – Live At The Saloon

The Sinners Band – one of the last bands Drake was involved with

Here's a clip that features Drake with Paul Revere & the Raiders:

Here's a semi-recent clip of Drake with The Sinners:

(thanks to Lloyd Phillips for sharing this cool poster on Flickr)

UPDATE: On Monday night, I got an email from Little Beach Girl:

This is the first time I have gotten to see your website; it's really groovy!

You have so many pages for fans of "Louie, Louie" to browse!

Paul Revere & the Raiders, namely Drake, Smitty, Phil, Mark, & Paul, could do "Louie, Louie" like no other.

As you know, these five guys, along with the super cool Terry Melcher, wrote and recorded a follow-up song, entitled "Louie, Go Home".

They recorded two arrangements of it, both of them excellent.

On your page for Drake, you have links to other websites' pages that talk about him.

I would appreciate it very much if you would add my links as well.

"Terry Melcher – Honoring A Musical Genius" is a website I started several years ago when I saw that there wasn't yet a website dedicated to Terry and his amazing artistry.

I have two pages that particularly highlight Drake's talents: one where I have an in-depth review of the album "Midnight Ride with Paul Revere & the Raiders"

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Why Paul Revere & the Raiders aren't in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is a cryin' shame.

However, I don't know how you missed not mentioning the passing away last Thursday of Sky Saxon of the Seeds.

I'm a fan of Sky Saxon & the Seeds, but there's two reasons why I didn't post anything:

1) When Sky died, I was on a roadtrip, where my internet access was limited to one session a day at Starbucks.

2) Other than being a garage rock icon, I couldn't figure out a LOUIE connection, or a personal story worth telling on this blog.

I did mention his passing on my Facebook pages, for whatever that's worth….

we have come to a time where we are witnessing the demise of our contemporaries who are going down like bowling pins…each one is leaving a musical heritage to be shared by all.drake levin, john lennon, michael jackson, jerry garcia and others are leaving us this tapestry of sound for all…

He was a kind and gentle man .He played a mean guitar and I feel he was one of the best.

I saw in the post above that Jimi H.saw him play.

I only heard this week that he was ill again.

Volk and he were going on a trip to Big Sur.

This was the end of the raiders (the where the action is~ ones)and the beginning of the Brotherhood.

They put out several Lp's and never got the credit they deserved.

Smitty and Drake were kind and played us a mini concert.

I wanted to write to him and tell him about the joy he bought to my friendsand I.

I'm truly saddened by this one, & I offer my heartfelt condolences to his wife & family.

Having had the honor & joy (it was really to see Drake & Phil, actually) of seeing the Raiders in concert 3 or 4 times, I was always absolutely Wowed by his skill & virtuosity.

Such a fabulous talent, & kind, yet edgy sense of humor.

I was sadden to hear of his death through the Louie Louie email group.

Another musician added to rock 'n' roll heaven at such an early age.

It was only a few years back that we lost another member of Drake's era with the Raiders with the sudden death of Smitty.

At least we know that the two of them are jammin' together again.

I saw Drake with the Raiders many years back in the 60's, and again with Fang and Keith at the Zuke Festival in Hayward, CA during the summer of 1999, and several times with Curtis Lawson Band.

May you rest in peace, Drake….thank you for all of the good times.

I only heard this afternoon about Drake's death.

I am truly sorry to hear about, and offer my condolescences to his family and friends.

I was crazy about him when The Raiders were on "Where The Action Is", but unfortunately never got to see them in person.

I used to think they were so much older than me and my friends, but I'm now 55 years old.

used to live across from his mom and sis Lori in late 60s.

me and friends were forever Raider and Brotherhood fans (friends) and will miss him.

My father just sent me the notice that my mom's cousin passed away.

My mom & her brother grew up with Drake, his brother & sister.

I never met Drake myself, but have always heard about him and am in touch with his sister (my second cousin??).

In fact I just got some pictures from Lori, of my uncle and his kids with Drake at a club where he was playing a few years back, to give to my uncle.

Although my mom passed away a few years ago, she always had nice things to say about her cousins and I am glad to have gotten to know at least one of them and their dad- who was my grandma's brother and such a sweetheart!

I had no idea that Drake Levin had died until today.

weeks(Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays) and now Drake Levin.

I'm a Raider fan and I'll miss him greatly.

I loved the raiders when i was growing up.

Rest in peace, Drake, you were one really cool guy.

Drake's brother Jeff got me my first roadie gig, with the Grass Roots in 1971.

My sympathies and prayers to Jeff and all Drake's friends and family.

Used to watch the raiders on Hullabaloo and shindig, in the mid 60's here in little ol' New Zealand.

The original PR&R were the most energetic band of that era.

Drakes work was very imaginative and improvisational.

Just listen to Just Like Me (possibly the first R&R double tracked solo??) Ther's Always Tomorrow, Louie Com Home, etc.

Even with the newer member, Jim Valley, they had tremendous intelligent, energetic songs (Good Thing, Ups & Downs).

Drake was a major influence on my playing (Started a 9years, am 56 now).

I really don't think all the guys, especially Drake, realized how influential they were and how much perople react to them on the classic stations.

Thanks for making the 60s and my life a happy one.

Very touching that his wife was by his side.

I think he influenced rock and roll players to a great degree.

DRAKE, YOU WENT "STEPPIN' OUT" ON US TOO EARLY.

A GREAT LEAD GUITAR PLAYER IN A GREAT BAND.

THE WORK YOU DID WITH THE RAIDERS ON "JUST LIKE ME", "KICKS" AND "HUNGRY" SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN YOU AND THE BAND IN THE R & R HALL OF FAME A LONG TIME AGO.

"HEY" TO SMITTY FROM ALL THE RAIDER FANS!

I had read sometime back that Jimi had learned by "Bo-Didley" how to play with his teeth and Purple Haze he played the lead part on a video..amazing!

I got that bit from Wiki-pedia, my favorite is: "All Along the Watchtower"

Sandra was a great companion and i know she will miss you most.

It's just not the same world without you, man.

It's was as if he had a joke inside him that he wasn't sharing with anyone else.

I first met him in 1966 when he loaned me his new black Thunderbird (I was still 15).

I enjoyed how Drake played the guitar with Phil.

I loved The Botherhood of Drake,Phil,Smitty and Mark.

Phill and Drake were so so good together .I

I cried when I heard about you and Smitty.

Thank you Drake for being the meaniest guitar player on "Steppin Out'I loved the songs that you did.

It keeps going through my mind even right now I hear you playing May you and Smitty rest in peace.

I pray that I will hear your music and the rest of The Raiders throught the Halls of Heaven.

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Universal Music Group's 2008 fire disaster + LOUIE LOUIE ?

RIP: Anthony Randall, lost son of Johnny Flamingo

RIP: Roky Erickson, psychedelic garage rock icon

RIP: Mike Wilhelm of the Charlatans, Flamin' Groovies, Loose Gravel

Levin subsequently performed with artists such as Ananda Shankar, Emitt Rhodes, and Lee Michaels (on the album "Barrel"). He also participated in reunions of various ex-members of the Raiders, and worked with his friend Phil Volk on several occasions.


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