Hope Jones Saves the World (Hope Jones Save The World)

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We know that City Council and city government have worked with deep empathy and urgency to make sure similar tragedies of the past are not repeated. But prevention requires sustained investment and attention, especially through periods of time when the spotlight of the media is directed elsewhere. Now is the time to improve systems that protect children, and to lift up social workers who care deeply and do their jobs well — not lambaste them. We must work together across city agencies and communities to ensure all children, regardless of the circumstances into which they are born, are cared for and afforded opportunities to thrive.” David is leaving to take up the position of CEO of the South of Scotland Destination Alliance (SSDA), supporting, representing and promoting tourism in the South of Scotland. A recruitment process has begun to identify a successor to David as SMP CEO. When I wrote this part of the book, I was inspired by schools near my home in London, who have built green walls around their own playgrounds, trying to prevent pollution from entering their air. I would be delighted if any readers were, in turn, inspired to plant green walls around their own schools.

Robert Hope-Jones (9 February 1859 – 13 September 1914) was an English musician who is considered to be the inventor of the theatre organ in the early 20th century. He thought that a pipe organ should be able to imitate the instruments of an orchestra, and that the console should be detachable from the organ. [1] Early life [ edit ]Hope-Jones’ activities continued, his enterprises frequently sailing very close to the financial wind and usually being wound-up in favour of yet another set-up. He licensed a number of organbuilders to use his designs, including Ingram of Hereford. Problems at the time of this last partnership resulted in Hope-Jones emigrating to America in 1903, where he immediately set about replicating the type of business activities he had left behind in England. Jones was born in Hooton, Cheshire, one of nine children of William and Agnes Hope-Jones. [2] His younger brother was the horologist Frank Hope-Jones. He started learning the organ at an early age, and by the age of nine, he was playing for occasional services at St Mary's Church, Eastham. [2] Hope-Jones devised numerous mechanical changes to make the instrument easier to play and improve the operation and sound of the organ, including: To answer that I guess one needs to have played them. Unfortunately that's been next to impossible for a very long time. Robin Richmond at the Wurlitzer Organ of the Trocadera at The Elephant http://stories-of-london.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/MWYW-21.11.63-ROBIN-RICHMOND.mp3

This "Hope-Jones Organ Company" was established in February 1907, the year of a financial panic. It failed to secure the capital it sought and was seriously embarrassed throughout its three years' existence. It built about forty organs, the best known being the one erected in the great auditorium at Ocean Grove, New Jersey. Wurlitzer organs were produced over a 32 year period (mostly theatre style, although a few church models were also made). Production peaked in 1926, when the factory turned out a completed organ for every working day of the year! In connection with telephony he invented a multitude of improvements, some of which were later in universal use. About this time he devised a method for increasing the power of the human voice, through the application of a relay furnished with compressed air. The principle was later utilised in phonographs and other voice-producing machines. He also invented the diaphone, later used by the Canadian Government for its fog signal stations and, in a modified form, also adapted to the church organ. [2]

Organ Society Told of Builder" (26 February 1969) Kittanning Simpson Leader Times, p.15, Kittanning, PA I wanted to fill the books with very simple, straightforward, and practical small steps that we could all take. Along with graphs and tables, giving information about the problems, there are simple solutions. For instance, Hope wants to give up eating factory farmed meat, so she offers her readers a recipe for lentil soup. She scrubs the toilet with an eco-friendly cleaner made from vinegar, lemon, and baking soda, and tells us how to make it ourselves. Robert Hope-Jones is widely accepted to be the father of the theatre organ. Born in the Wirral on the 9th of February 1859, Hope-Jones’ initial career took him into telephony. From the start, he showed two traits which characterised his later endeavours; extreme inventiveness, and a remarkable ability to garner commitment and involvement (financial and otherwise) from a wide range of people to projects which, if not completely impractical, would certainly end up on the margins of sustainability. Listen to Mr. Richmond playing the Hammond Organ during a Music While You Workprogramme for the BBCin 1963

Records from DHS and NETs, medical records, and Mawusi’s own home visit summaries and case notes reveal that under Casey’s kinship care, Hope Jones’ health and well-being significantly and severely declined over time. Mawusi is alleged to have failed on multiple occasions to follow up on instructions given to Casey to seek medical care for Jones, and is also alleged to have failed to file incident reports after observing injuries incurred by Jones. However, shortly after doing this, he committed suicide in 1914 in Rochester, New York, apparently, it is said, as a result of frustrations with the Wurlitzer Company. Mr. Hope-Jones had been banned from the factory floor since he had difficulty deciding when the manufacture of an organ was complete. In its turn, the Wurlitzer Company was frustrated with his tinkering with what they considered to be the finished product and holding up delivery. It is tragic that Mr. Hope-Jones chose such a solution to his difficulties and a sad loss for lovers of the Theatre Organ. Robert Hope-Jones was born on the 9 th February, 1859 in The Wirral, Cheshire. After leaving school, he was apprenticed at Laird’s the shipbuilders and then joined the Lancashire and Cheshire Telephone Company in 1881 and eventually became its Chief Engineer. With his knowledge of the properties of electricity and his obvious interest in the pipe organ, he apparently spent much time experimenting in ways to improve the instrument. The basic premises of his studies lay in the beliefs that the pipe organ could imitate the instruments of an orchestra and that the console should be detachable from the organ. His work led to his design of an electro-pneumatic action for pipe organs, which for many is considered to be the single most important advancement in the development of the Theatre Organ.Abandoning traditional draw-stops in favour of a curved ‘Horseshoe’ console layout with tilting stop tablets (so that they were within easy reach of the players hands). Few Hope-Jones organs have survived to the present time. Probably the largest and most complete example in the UK was the partially restored 1901 organ at Battersea Old Town Hall, now the home of Battersea Arts Centre, but much of the instrument was destroyed in a fire in 2015. [16] The organ at the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, built by Hope-Jones in 1908, has most of its original Hope-Jones ranks still intact and playable, although it has been vastly enlarged since then. [17] Another fully preserved Hope Jones organ is his Opus 2 at the First Universalist Church in Rochester, New York, which has been described as sounding "weighty and lush", with large-scaled 8-foot (2.4m) stops. [8] The Anglican Cathedral of St John The Baptist, St John's, Newfoundland is home to the one of only two Hope-Jones organs ever installed in Canada (built in 1904); the organ was rebuilt by Casavant Frères in 1927, however many original components remain. The other Canadian organ was that of Vancouver's Christ Church Cathedral of 1911, replaced by a Casavant in the 1940s. [18] Most importantly, it’s a place with strong and connected communities at its heart, and it’s these people I am most looking forward to working with in my new role as the SSDA continues to develop sustainable tourism in the South of Scotland.” Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer had built up his vast musical empire from humble beginnings: born in Saxony in 1831, he emigrated to America in 1853, having no money and little command of English and became the embodiment of the all-American dream of rags-to-riches. His company based in Cincinnati benefited from the Civil War, supplying instruments to the Union Army and in 1880 they commenced manufacture of pianos and then other instruments including automatic and coin-operated instruments and around 1900 they entered a marketing arrangement with the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Works in New York State to sell their band organs, eventually buying out the De Kleist Company who owned the works in 1909 and by now Wurlitzer also had large retail music stores in many major U.S. cities to sell their products plus other musical instruments, sheet music, pianola rolls, records, etc., etc. Organ Accompaniment to Silent Films Robert Hope-Jones featured briefly in another recent book, Colin; "The Foghorn's Lament" by Jennifer Lucy Allen is a history of foghorns and coastal people. I'm only part-way into it but it's fascinating and mentions RH-J in passing. Maybe that's where a few of your views came from?