Sep 19 2022 - Regimental Colours

 

Is Imperial red on display today?  Imperial red is a representation of the red color of the Imperial Standard of Napoleon I.   It turns out to be scarlet.  That is what is in the Regulation Colours - the standard colours used in the armed forces of the countries falling under the Commonwealth of Nations.  United Kingdom military units usually carry two Regulation Colours: the Regulation King's Colour and Regulation Regimental Colour. These are often referred to as the standard or ensign. Scarlet is a bright red with a slightly orange tinge. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, scarlet and other bright shades of red are the colors most associated with courage, force, passion, heat, and joy. In the Roman Catholic Church, scarlet is the color worn by cardinals, and is associated with the blood of Christ and the Christian martyrs, and with sacrifice. The Canadian flag's colour of red is Gules.  But our Royal Canadian Mounted Police uniform is consistent with British regimental red and is scarlet.  When it comes to the funeral procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch today,  Mounties from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police will lead the procession, with members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and servicemen and women from the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth joining NHS workers in the procession. They will wear the Red Serge  jacket of the dress uniform of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It consists of a scarlet British-style military pattern tunic, complete with a high-neck collar and blue breeches with yellow stripe identifying a cavalry history. And that's our look at Military red today.

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Sep 1 2020 - See You In September

That's a song from 1959 and then again in 1966.    What a wonderful story it has:  Sid Wayne, the co-composer, would recall the song's inception: "I was in the habit of going from my home on Long Island every day to Brill Building, on Tin Pan Alley to meet with different songwriters there. We'd eat at Jack Dempsey's or The Turf Restaurant and then we'd go up to one of the publishers' offices and work in the piano room. We'd sit around saying to each other, 'What do you want to write today? A hit or a standard?'" At 11 a.m. on a Friday in June 1959 Wayne thus met up with Sherman Edwards: "he said, 'What do you want to write?' 'I'd like to write a song called See You in September,"' I said. We talked it back and forth and I think I may have contributed part of the opening music, but with Sherman it didn't matter, because he could throw me back half the lyric — that's how he worked. I think probably by two in the afternoon we got the song finished. It needed to be written; it was like boiling inside of us."  By 4:30 p.m. that day, Wayne and Edwards had reworked their composition, simplifying it so as to appeal to the teen demographic, and proceeded to make the rounds of publishers to pitch the song which, after one rejection, met with an enthusiastic reception from Jack Gold, owner of the local Paris label; by 8 p.m. he had telephoned the Tempos in their hometown of Pittsburgh. The group had been flown into New York City by the next day, Saturday. Sid Wayne: "By Monday the record was cut [with the Billy Mure orchestra], test pressings were Thursday, and by Friday the song was played on WNEW in New York. The thing took off like wildfire… Five hundred dollars to split between the two of us [ie. Wayne & Edwards]… was a damn good week's pay in 1961." The writing and production process seems so simple and straight-forward - everything happened within days.  That's something for us to remember that the 1950s and 1960s were simpler times. What would a salary be in 1961?  In 1961 the average income was $5,700 so at $250 a day x 250 working days in the year, they would make more than 10 times the average income, and if they only worked one day a week they were still double the average income.  He's right:  "Nice work if you can get it" This motion blur Canadian flag is from last October's visit to Kingston.

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On the Street Where You Live

There seem to be two kinds of ant jokes - those that start with ant, and those that conclude with ant.  How many jokes could there be with words that start with ant? There are almost 5,000 words. In comparison there are only 533 words that end with ant.  These seem to be the funniest jokes. The pavement ants seem to have concluded their nest-cleaning activity as there are little bits of ant rubbish on the driveway.  My street is a very quiet one so I can sweep the grass edging without any worries of any cars - careening or even creeping on my street.   Did you know that the busiest road in the world is Highway 401?  It carries 420,000 vehicles per day.  Remember our Niagara Falls statistics of 13,000,000 million visitors - they might make a contribution to the load. We can find out the busiest intersections in the world.  Here's the list - look how many US intersections there,  and even 2 in Canada.  I can't imagine this is on someone's bucket list - but it has to be with 7.5 billion people and various bucket lists. Place Charles de Gaulle- Paris, France The “Magic Roundabout” - Swindon, UK Nanpu Bridge Interchange - Shanghai, China Porta Maggiore - Rome, Italy Knight St and SE Marine Dr, Vancouver, Canada “The Plough” - Hemel Hempstead, UK The “Beijing Intersection” - Beijing, China Spaghetti Junction - Atlanta, USA Spaghetti Junction - Birmingham, UK Armdale Rotary - Halifax Flamingo Road and Pines Boulevard - Pembroke Pines, US Gibraltar Airport, Gibraltar I-95, I-287, NJ 440, and CR 514 Intersection - Edison, US Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange - Los Angeles, USA Kathipara Junction - Chennai, India Times Square - New York, USA Meskel Square - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ha Noi Intersection- Hanoi, Vietnam Shibuya Crossing - Tokyo, Japan You can see a picture of each intersection HERE. We're in downtown Toronto today for the flags that oversee the clock tower on Queen Street at City Hall.

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