The announcement that the Olympic rower James Cracknell is to row for Cambridge in the Boat Race this year make him the oldest competitor in the 190 year history of the event. Cracknell is eligible by currently studying for a Master's in Philosophy at Peterhouse College.
He is a six-times world champion and double Olympic gold medal winner (the first in 2000) and is twice the age of some of the crew members. Since first ‘hanging up his oar’ in 2006 he has been active including rowing the Atlantic with Ben Fogle, racing to the South Pole and then in 2010 being top British competitor in a six-day ultramarathon over 156 miles in the Sahara Desert. He also suffered brain injury from being hit by a lorry while attempting to cycle across America in 18 days (now recovered).
Cracknell describes his selection for Cambridge as ‘arguably my proudest achievement in rowing’. An inspiration to all who are in ‘retirement!’.
The Annual David Goldman Lecture at Newcastle University Business School was a fascinating presentation by Herb Kim as the 2019 David Goldman Visiting Professor of Innovation and Enterprise.
Kim, a Brooklyn born Korean American and a Princeton University graduate, is founder of the Thinking Digital Conference now in its 12th year as well as being founder of TEDx in Newcastle, London and Manchester. Highly regarded in his adopted North East, he is featured in Buzzfeed’s list of Geordie Heroes.
He gave a very lively account of his career and approach, a mixture of immense drive and chutzpah. The Business school is in for an exciting year but his regime of cold showers and ice baths may not be universally attractive.
An early life of abuse, parental neglect and rejection, followed by professional subjugation and domestic violence, Anna Mae Bullock from Nutbush Tennessee ultimately became pop ikon Tina Turner. The award wining musical at London’s Alwych Theatre, Tina, is a stunning show which crams in the life story with plenty of performances worthy of Tina herself at her best.
She is played by Broadway star Adrienne Warren who deserves her many accolades.
Unusually the audience were requested not to join in the songs until the closing numbers, and on reflection this enabled us to enjoy the quality of the show uninterrupted by raucous enthusiasm from the stalls.
My own ‘musical’ performance recently in Elstree was enjoyed by a rather smaller audience. A specially composed 15 verse musical ode for the Golden Wedding Party of brother and sister-in-Law David and Sheila, may have content too controversial to be shown on YouTube. I am still awaiting a challenge from my nephew Adam, a prominent defamation barrister, although he did hold the words for me!
A Luddite I am not. Advances in technology are to be welcomed whether it is voice commands to Alexa or to my car to make calls, change channels or trace postcodes. Soon the whole car journey will be automatic AI controlled, the car windows blacked out to enable me to watch a film on the extended in-car screen.
Pending this, I am still irritated that my new car is without a CD player. Is that progress? I am informed that there is no need because CDs are old technology, that I should stream music from my phone using Bluetooth with Spotify, Vimeo or Amazon. What about my hundreds of CDs which provided instant choice of album and track and did not drain all my data merely to access in-car music?
They will be stored with my cassettes, Bemax, videotapes, 78s, 45s,33s and my Dansette Major turntable and Grundig tape recorder- to await my appearance on the Antiques Roadshow in 25 years time.
(…and I have avoided any mention of Brexit, May-Hem, Malthouse or Back-Stop! No Big Deal?)
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The announcement that the Olympic rower James Cracknell is to row for Cambridge in the Boat Race this year make him the oldest competitor in the 190 year history of the event. Cracknell is eligible by currently studying for a Master's in Philosophy at Peterhouse College.
He is a six-times world champion and double Olympic gold medal winner (the first in 2000) and is twice the age of some of the crew members. Since first ‘hanging up his oar’ in 2006 he has been active including rowing the Atlantic with Ben Fogle, racing to the South Pole and then in 2010 being top British competitor in a six-day ultramarathon over 156 miles in the Sahara Desert. He also suffered brain injury from being hit by a lorry while attempting to cycle across America in 18 days (now recovered).
Cracknell describes his selection for Cambridge as ‘arguably my proudest achievement in rowing’. An inspiration to all who are in ‘retirement!’.
The Annual David Goldman Lecture at Newcastle University Business School was a fascinating presentation by Herb Kim as the 2019 David Goldman Visiting Professor of Innovation and Enterprise.
Kim, a Brooklyn born Korean American and a Princeton University graduate, is founder of the Thinking Digital Conference now in its 12th year as well as being founder of TEDx in Newcastle, London and Manchester. Highly regarded in his adopted North East, he is featured in Buzzfeed’s list of Geordie Heroes.
He gave a very lively account of his career and approach, a mixture of immense drive and chutzpah. The Business school is in for an exciting year but his regime of cold showers and ice baths may not be universally attractive.
An early life of abuse, parental neglect and rejection, followed by professional subjugation and domestic violence, Anna Mae Bullock from Nutbush Tennessee ultimately became pop ikon Tina Turner. The award wining musical at London’s Alwych Theatre, Tina, is a stunning show which crams in the life story with plenty of performances worthy of Tina herself at her best.
She is played by Broadway star Adrienne Warren who deserves her many accolades.
Unusually the audience were requested not to join in the songs until the closing numbers, and on reflection this enabled us to enjoy the quality of the show uninterrupted by raucous enthusiasm from the stalls.
My own ‘musical’ performance recently in Elstree was enjoyed by a rather smaller audience. A specially composed 15 verse musical ode for the Golden Wedding Party of brother and sister-in-Law David and Sheila, may have content too controversial to be shown on YouTube. I am still awaiting a challenge from my nephew Adam, a prominent defamation barrister, although he did hold the words for me!
A Luddite I am not. Advances in technology are to be welcomed whether it is voice commands to Alexa or to my car to make calls, change channels or trace postcodes. Soon the whole car journey will be automatic AI controlled, the car windows blacked out to enable me to watch a film on the extended in-car screen.
Pending this, I am still irritated that my new car is without a CD player. Is that progress? I am informed that there is no need because CDs are old technology, that I should stream music from my phone using Bluetooth with Spotify, Vimeo or Amazon. What about my hundreds of CDs which provided instant choice of album and track and did not drain all my data merely to access in-car music?
They will be stored with my cassettes, Bemax, videotapes, 78s, 45s,33s and my Dansette Major turntable and Grundig tape recorder- to await my appearance on the Antiques Roadshow in 25 years time.
(…and I have avoided any mention of Brexit, May-Hem, Malthouse or Back-Stop! No Big Deal?)
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