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Yeah, found it now.

TBH, I had forgotten what the thread was called and was hoping that scanning the names of the threads would trigger recognition. Sadly, recognition did not fall on me.
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They've aged a bit since they had a studio in Clearwell Castle just round the corner from my shop.
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And not many original members either. Just Ian Paice, if you're going to be pedantic, from the first iteration. But also Roger Glover and Ian Gillan from the classic line-up.
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Paul-R wrote: 07 Dec 2023, 11:49 I thought we had a thread for YouTube videos but I must have been wrong. Anyway, here will do as well as anywhere.

A great song respectfully covered by Deep Purple.



The whole album of covers (Turning To Crime) is well worth a listen. Created during the Covid lockdown it shows that an album of covers doesn't have to suck.
Hmm, I'm pretty sure Elvis Presley had alot of albums that were covers, did he do a an original song apart from Jailhouse rock (I think that was original)
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Lots do covers and some are better than the originals.
Here's another album of all covers.


My favourite Purple album remains "The Book Of Taliesyn"
And the cover of Oh Well is by Dea Matrona on the streets of Dublin (busking).

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Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in. (The Register).
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This from another forum, contains divers eelements that interest several, particularly Neil, who will probably have more interest in the last item than most.


Who designs the icons on the UK road signs?
Apart from the ones that were derived from standard signs in common use around Europe, the pictorial signs for the wholesale re-signing of British roads in 1965 were designed by Margaret Calvert.

Some stuffy eyebrows were raised when Calvert replaced the iconography of the old-style “school” sign
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in which a boy and girl, carefully separated and in very middle-class school uniforms, cross a road,
with this more inclusive design, the older girl holding the younger boy’s hand.
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This was one that Calvert was particularly pleased with as she based it on herself as a child with her younger brother, although she’s on record as saying that her personal favourite was the wild animals sign
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drawing on the early photographic work of Eadweard Muybridge (Edward Muggeridge before he went silly)

Margaret Calvert also designed the Calvert typeface, originally as part of a branding proposal for the French new town of St Quentin-en-Yvelines. The proposal was rejected but the font was subsequently picked up by the Tyne & Wear (Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland) Metro
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Interesting Steve.
NewcastleFalcon wrote: 30 Sep 2016, 23:39 Interesting "Torch of Knowledge" sign for the School in the background, this one is from Geograph for Blackawton in Devon and is the oldest school sign in the County. Very probably still there on Main Street, it is on google street view from 2011. Plenty bonus points for a an original pic of a bike or car next to the sign!
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NewcastleFalcon wrote: 15 Dec 2023, 01:12 Interesting Steve.
NewcastleFalcon wrote: 30 Sep 2016, 23:39 Interesting "Torch of Knowledge" sign for the School in the background, this one is from Geograph for Blackawton in Devon and is the oldest school sign in the County. Very probably still there on Main Street, it is on google street view from 2011. Plenty bonus points for a an original pic of a bike or car next to the sign!
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A torch of similar design features on the crest of my boy's boarding school in Sydney - school magazine is still called "The Torchbearer"
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Sometimes I wonder if this world has gone completely mad!!!:
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Well, give them some credit Mick, they are all blue :)
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This comes up from time to time but this is the most complete explanation I have seen:-

Such an incredible, mostly unknown story.
In 1933, a beautiful, young Austrian woman took off her clothes for a movie director. She ran through the woods, naked. She swam in a lake, naked. Pushing well beyond the social norms of the period. The most popular movie in 1933 was King Kong. But everyone in Hollywood was talking about that scandalous movie with the gorgeous, young Austrian woman.
Louis B. Mayer, of the giant studio MGM, said she was the most beautiful woman in the world. The film was banned practically everywhere, which of course made it even more popular and valuable. Mussolini reportedly refused to sell his copy at any price.
The star of the film, called "Ecstasy," was Hedwig Kiesler. She said the secret of her beauty was "to stand there and look stupid." In reality, Kiesler was anything but stupid. She was a genius. She'd grown up as the only child of a prominent Jewish banker. She was a math prodigy. She excelled at science. As she grew older, she became ruthless, using all the power her body and mind gave her.
Between the sexual roles she played, her tremendous beauty, and the power of her intellect, Kiesler would confound the men in her life including her six husbands, two of the most ruthless dictators of the 20th century, and one of the greatest movie producers in history. Her beauty made her rich for a time. She is said to have made - and spent - $30 million in her life.
But her greatest accomplishment resulted from her intellect, and her invention continues to shape the world we live in today.
You see, this young Austrian starlet would take one of the most valuable technologies ever developed right from under Hitler's nose. After fleeing to America, she not only became a major Hollywood star, her name sits on one of the most important patents ever granted by the U.S. Patent Office. Today, when you use your cell phone or, over the next few years, as you experience super-fast wireless Internet access (via something called "long-term evolution" or "LTE" technology), you'll be using an extension of the technology a 20-year-old actress first conceived while sitting at dinner with Hitler.
At the time she made Ecstasy, Kiesler was married to one of the richest men in Austria. Friedrich Mandl was Austria's leading arms maker. His firm would become a key supplier to the Nazis. Mandl used his beautiful young wife as a showpiece at important business dinners with representatives of the Austrian, Italian, and German fascist forces. One of Mandl's favorite topics at these gatherings - which included meals with Hitler and Mussolini - was the technology surrounding radio-controlled missiles and torpedoes.
Wireless weapons offered far greater ranges than the wire-controlled alternatives that prevailed at the time. Kiesler sat through these dinners "looking stupid," while absorbing everything she heard. As a Jew, Kiesler hated the Nazis. She abhorred her husband's business ambitions. Mandl responded to his willful wife by imprisoning her in his castle, Schloss Schwarzenau. In 1937, she managed to escape. She drugged her maid, snuck out of the castle wearing the maid's clothes and sold her jewelry to finance a trip to London.
(She got out just in time. In 1938, Germany annexed Austria. The Nazis seized Mandl's factory. He was half Jewish. Mandl fled to Brazil. (Later, he became an adviser to Argentina's iconic populist president, Juan Peron.)
In London, Kiesler arranged a meeting with Louis B. Mayer. She signed a long-term contract with him, becoming one of MGM's biggest stars. She appeared in more than 20 films. She was a co-star to Clark Gable, Judy Garland, and even Bob Hope. Each of her first seven MGM movies was a blockbuster. But Kiesler cared far more about fighting the Nazis than about making movies.
At the height of her fame, in 1942, she developed a new kind of communications system, optimized for sending coded messages that couldn't be "jammed." She was building a system that would allow torpedoes and guided bombs to always reach their targets. She was building a system to kill Nazis. By the 1940s, both the Nazis and the Allied forces were using the kind of single frequency radio-controlled technology Kiesler's ex-husband had been peddling. The drawback of this technology was that the enemy could find the appropriate frequency and "jam" or intercept the signal, thereby interfering with the missile's intended path.
Kiesler's key innovation was to "change the channel." It was a way of encoding a message across a broad area of the wireless spectrum. If one part of the spectrum was jammed, the message would still get through on one of the other frequencies being used. The problem was, she could not figure out how to synchronize the frequency changes on both the receiver and the transmitter. To solve the problem, she turned to perhaps the world's first techno-musician, George Anthiel.
Anthiel was an acquaintance of Kiesler who achieved some notoriety for creating intricate musical compositions. He synchronized his melodies across twelve player pianos, producing stereophonic sounds no one had ever heard before. Kiesler incorporated Anthiel's technology for synchronizing his player pianos. Then, she was able to synchronize the frequency changes between a weapon's receiver and its transmitter. On August 11, 1942, U.S. Patent No. 2,292,387 was granted to Antheil and "Hedy Kiesler Markey," which was Kiesler's married name at the time.
Most of you won't recognize the name Kiesler. And no one would remember the name Hedy Markey. But it's a fair bet than anyone reading this post of a certain age, will remember one of the great beauties of Hollywood's golden age - Hedy Lamarr. That's the name Louis B. Mayer gave to his prize actress. That's the name his movie company made famous. Almost no one knows Hedwig Kiesler – a/k/a Hedy Lamarr - was one of the great pioneers of wireless communications. Her technology was developed by the U.S. Navy, which has used it ever since.
You are probably using Lamarr's technology, too. Her patent sits at the foundation of "spread spectrum technology," which you use every day when you log on to a wi-fi network or make calls with your Bluetooth-enabled phone. It lies at the heart of the massive investments being made right now in so-called fourth-generation "LTE" wireless technology. This next generation of cell phones and cell towers will provide tremendous increases to wireless network speed and quality, by spreading wireless signals across the entire available spectrum. This kind of encoding is only possible using the kind of frequency switching that Hedwig Kiesler invented.
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Fantastic story - thanks for posting!
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That's definitely doing the rounds... I saw that on Farcebook this morning... Quite a tale...
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