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| "Biodetermine" by Paul Handley |
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For our 4th issue we have a poem by poet Paul
Handley.
Paul Handley spent a career as a student and
a student of odd jobs. He has a paralegal
certificate, attended law school for a year,
has an MA, MPA, and is abd. He has driven a
cab, scraped fish guts, sold meat
door-to-door, Director of a truck driving
school and multiple others. Paul has had
work published or forthcoming in Burst!,
Hobble Creek Review, iddie, Macabre Cadaver,
the Maynard, Short Story Library, The Smoking
Poet, World Of Myth and Yellow Mama
Here is the text of the piece:
Any art, video, music, writing etc is
Copyrighted, 2008
Biodetermine
by Paul Handley
Paul Handley works at a homeless shelter,
where he resides most of the time. After a
decade of working for the Foreign Service he
went back to school and received an MFA from
William and Mary. He has been socking away
writing in paper journals and for the first
time is not too overwhelmingly embarrassed to
share some of it.
Paul Handley is one of his many names. He
lives on a skiff tied up in Lake Okeechobee
working as a hunting and fishing guide, all
tax-free. Weapons, books and Southern
Comfort are his best friends.
Paul Handley is transgendered on the advice
of his father. Paula was a star camogie
player in college. Paula now works as a
sales manager that has imbued the sales staff
with a proportional sense of fear and is
considering reversing her operation. She
wrote a pilot about her experiences that
aired in the fall of 2006 that resulted in
threats by sponsors to pull all network
advertising.
Paul Handley has developed a philosophical
treatise of which the theme is that the
circle of infinity has gaps that amass
building materials until enough essentials
fall into the spacer to launch a new circle
of infinity with its own identity.
Paul Handley has passed away and released his
poems for submission to every journal in all
six states that he lived. The prophecies
contained in them are to be taken literally.
Paul is the groundskeeper at Ritter's Point
on the weekends where he makes sure the
lighthouse functions, clears away tourist
debris and once cared for a deserted baby sea
lion until it was old enough to fend for
itself. During the week he is a fluffer in
the old-fashioned sense for legitimate film.
Paul Handley is a Hebrew man who runs a camp
for hate groups that shoot placard targets
painted of Blacks with watermelon heads,
Catholics wearing miters, and Jews adjusting
dials on a TV. He will be able to retire to
a nine-hole golf course he owns in Nova
Scotia in approximately twelve years.
Paul Handley is an entity in a shell of a
body. It's been a long hard journey. The
only way to break the monotony of the screams
in his head is through intense yoga and
meditation. Poetry is his spectrum of
serenity to chaos.
Tags : poetry paul handley bio humor literary magazine arts nerdfighting |
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Affichage : 103
Durée : 168 s |
| Handley Page Hampden |
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The Hampden was the last of the twin-engined
medium bombers to go into service during the
expansion of Bomber Command in the late 1930s
and, together with the Wellington and
Whitley, it bore the brunt of the Royal Air
Force's attacks against Germany in the early
years of the Second World War.
Better manoeuvrability and performance than
its two contemporaries led to high
expectations, but early war time operations
proved the aircraft had serious deficiencies.
Two particular problems were identified. The
very narrow fuselage provided cramped
accommodation for the crew causing fatigue on
long missions. Unlike other British medium
bombers the Hampden had no multi-gun
power-operated turrets. Its fixed forward gun
was next to useless and the three flexible
gun mountings in the nose and fuselage had a
limited traverse which produced a number of
blind spots. Modifications were put in hand
to provide more guns but the fuselage design
remained a problem throughout its service
life.
After a disastrous, but mercifully short,
daylight campaign Hampdens were switched to
night operations until 1942 when a number
were converted to carry a torpedo. Eventually
144 aircraft were modified in this way and
the type continued in service with Coastal
Command as a torpedo bomber until December
1943.
Tags : Handley Page Hampden RAF RCAF WW2 Aviation Aircraft |
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Affichage : 9841
Durée : 45 s |
| ITMA - Tommy Handley - It's That Man Again - |
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ITMA (It's That Man Again) was one of the
most famous BBC Radio programmes on air
during the War. Starring Tommy Handley ITMA
was designed to keep up morale. Handley was
the Minister of Aggravation and Mysteries at
the Office of Twerps and the radio series was
based in the Ministry. Such a playful 'go' at
government was acceptable in the first few
years of the war but as the war proceeded
such take-offs were not considered good for
morale. The show changed its name to "It's
That Sand Again" set in the town of
Foaming-at-the-Mouth. Handley played the part
of the town's mayor. After 1941, the show
reverted back to its original name - the
darker days of the war were behind the
government. ITMA continued throughout the war
and ran through to 1949. The last ITMA was
broadcast on January 6th, 1949, and Handley
died unexpectedly just three days later.
During the war, as many as 40% of the
population tuned into ITMA and it is
difficult to overstate the importance this
radio show had on the nation's morale. This
film extract comes from 1941 and proved just
as popular with war time cinema audiences as
on radio.
Tags : ITMA Tommy Handley World War Comedy BBC Radio British |
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Affichage : 5328
Durée : 534 s |
| Handley Page H.P.42 |
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This is some better quality film than I
originally posted
The Handley Page H.P.42 and H.P.45 were
British four-engined long-range biplane
airliners designed to a 1928 Imperial Airways
specification by Handley Page of Radlett in
Hertfordshire.
The H.P.42/45 were the land-based airliners
of Imperial Airways and along with the
company's later flying boats are well
remembered. Eight aircraft were built, four
of each type; all were named, with names
beginning with the letter "H". One was
destroyed in an airship hangar fire in 1937
but the remainder survived to be impressed
into Royal Air Force service at the outbreak
of the Second World War. No lives were lost
in civilian service (a record thought to be
unique for contemporary aircraft) but by 1940
all had been destroyed.
The H.P.42 was designed for the long-range,
Eastern routes and the similar H.P.45 was
built for the European routes. In Imperial
Airways service, the H.P.42 was designated
the H.P.42E (E for "Eastern" routes - India
and South Africa), while the H.P.45 was
called the H.P.42W (W for "Western" i.e.
European routes). The H.P.42 and H.P.45
designations were Handley Page's identifiers
but this was not commonly known at the time.
The H.P.42 was a large unequal-span biplane
of all-metal construction except for the
fabric coverings of the wings, tail surfaces
and rear fuselage. The wings were braced by
Warren girders. The tailplane was of biplane
configuration with three fins. The H.P.42 was
powered by four Bristol Jupiter XIFs of 490
hp (365 kW) each, while the H.P.45 used four
Bristol Jupiter XFBM supercharged engines of
555 hp (414 kW), greater fuel consumption
being traded for more power. In both cases,
two engines mounted on the upper wing and one
on each side of the fuselage on the lower
wing.
The crew compartment was enclosed, which was
a new development and there were two
passenger cabins, one fore and one aft of the
wings. The H.P.42 carried six (later twelve)
in the forward compartment and twelve in the
aft. There was substantial baggage room. The
H.P.45 seated 18 forward and 20 aft, with
reduced baggage capacity.
The first flight was on 14 November 1930, by
G-AAGX later to be named Hannibal, with
Squadron Leader Thomas Harold England at the
controls. The certificate of airworthiness
was granted in May 1931, permitting
commercial service; the first flight with
fare-paying passengers was to Paris on 11
June of that year.
When the H.P.42s were finally withdrawn from
civil service on 1 September 1939 they had
recorded almost a decade of service without
causing any major accidents
General characteristics
Crew: 4
Capacity: 24 passengers
Length: 92 ft 2 in (28.09 m)
Wingspan: 130 ft (39.62 m)
Height: 27 ft (8.23 m)
Wing area: 2,989 sq ft (278 m²)
Airfoil: RAF 28
Empty weight: 17,740 lb (8,047 kg)
Loaded weight: 28,000 lb (12,700 kg)
Powerplant: 4× Bristol Jupiter XIF radial
engine, 490 hp (365 kW) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 120 mph (195 km/h)
Cruise speed: 95-105 mph (150-170 km/h)
Range: 500 mi (805 km)
Rate of climb: 790 ft/min (4 m/s)
Tags : Handley Page H.P.45 Imperial Airways biplane airliner aircraft aviation history |
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Affichage : 7397
Durée : 68 s |
| Misery Farm by Tommy Handley |
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The song Jollity Farm was made famous in 1929
by Leslie Sarony, then revived in 1967 by The
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band on their Gorilla
album. Lesser known is the song's
predecessor, Misery Farm, written in early
1929 by Jay Wallis. The song provided the
inspiration for Jollity Farm's first line
"There's a farm called Misery but of that
we'll have none". Misery Farm was also
recorded by Leslie Sarony, but is here sung
by Tommy Handley, who later went on to find
great fame in the radio programme ITMA (It's
that man again)
Tags : Gramophone 1929 Misery Farm Tommy Handley Leslie Sarony Jollity Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Victory |
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Affichage : 508
Durée : 147 s |
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