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Village Voices 1-20 June 2019_vv 17/05/2019 18:49 Page 1 The local magazine for Hollesley, Boyton, Alderton, Shingle Street and Capel June 2019 Village Voices Village Voices 1-20 June 2019_vv 17/05/2019 18:49 Page 2 Dates for your June diary Sat 1 10.30 - 12 Boyton Coffee Morning, Boyton VH Fri 7 7.30 pm Quiz with Fish and Chip Supper, Sutton MH 411530 Sat 8 10.30-12 Boyton Fete Meeting, Boyton VH Fri 14 12 noon The Amaryllis Quartet, Town Hall, Orford Sat 15 2 – 4pm Bawdsey Market, Bawdsey VH Sat 15/ Sun 16 10 – 6 Flower Festival, All Saints, Sutton Sun 16 10-12.30 Coffee morning (free cuppa for Dad), Alderton VH Weds 19 7.30 pm Gardening Club, speaker Karen Kenny, Bowls Club Sat 29 12.30-4pm Hollesley Fete, Recreation Ground Boathouse Café Bawdsey, open Thurs-Mon 11-5pm Bawdsey/Felixstowe ferry every day 10-5pm Poppies Café Sandlings, open Mon-Fri 9am-1.30 Transmitter Block, Bawdsey, open Thurs and Sun 11am-4pm Shelby’s, Warren Hill open weekdays 8am-4pm weekends 8.30-3pm Blue Rabbit, Shottisham Caravan Site Sat and Sun 8.30-11.30am Regular Events Day Time Activity Where Who Monday 2 - 4pm Meet Up Mondays Shepherd & Dog Helen 411232 Monday 6.30/7.40pm Pilates Hollesley VH Sandy 410530 Tuesday 2pm Welcome Club Hollesley VH Marian C 411262 Tuesday Wk 2 & 4 2 - 4pm Peninsula Soc. Club Hollesley VH Alan 420092 Wednesday 2 - 4pm Outdoor Bowls Hollesley VH Terry 411458 Wednesday 9.45&11am Pilates Sandy 410530 Wednesday 10-11.30 Drop-in Weds. Alderton Swan Wednesday 6.30-8.30 Just42 Youth Club Hollesley VH Michael 412052 Thursday After school EVNU All Saints’ Ruth 412052 Thursday Judo Club Tunstall Julie 410483 Thursday Week 2 7.30pm Hollesley WI Hollesley Jenny 412019 glyn.chaplin@bt Thursday 5.45-7.15 (6.45 Karate Hollesley VH every 2nd Thurs) internet.com Friday 9.30-11.00 Yoga Hollesley VH Cathie 01728 747001 Friday 11.00am Coffee morning Shepherd and Dog Friday 7.00pm Whist Drive Hollesley VH Les 411642 Ist Saturday 10.30-12.00 Coffee morning Boyton VH Isobel 411409 Sunday (last) 8pm Charity Quiz Shepherd and Dog Please email [email protected] with updates to this information. Page 2 June 2019 www.villagevoices.org.uk Village Voices 1-20 June 2019_vv 17/05/2019 18:49 Page 3 From the editor Cheryl Gray ‘Summer time and the livin’ is easy ‘ - Du Bose Heyward and Ira Gershwin As Summer is upon us we can all enjoy our local surroundings to the full. A trip to Buttrum’s Mill in Woodbridge is always a joy and we are privileged to have such a beautiful working tower mill in our immediate vicinity. There are plenty of outdoor activities to attract our attention this month - let’s hope the weather supports them as well as the rest of us! Hollesley Youth Club, run by Just 42, is appealing for volunteers to help out on a rota system - Wednesday evenings at Hollesley Village Hall from 6-9pm during term time. (p.30) This is a most vital link for our local young people aged between 11-18 years. No previous experience is necessary, just an interest in supporting young people. Please do consider helping this most worthy project. Enjoy the Summer! Cover photo: Buttrum’s Mill, Woodbridge by Cheryl Gray Cheryl Gray Please note that the opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the editorial team. Editorial copy: Cheryl, Advertising Nick, Diane Gerry Bathe [email protected] [email protected] Copy on paper to: 1 Rectory Road, Laurie Forsyth, 11A, Parsons Hill, Hollesley, IP12 3JS Hollesley, IP12 3RB Tel: 01394 411376 Tel: 01394 411727 www.villagevoices.org.uk Page 3 June 2019 Village Voices 1-20 June 2019_vv 17/05/2019 18:49 Page 4 Face recognition – Dr Fred Stentiford’s research Dr Fred Stentiford of Boyton is singularly involved with unpaid pioneering research into face recognition. He did his PhD at Southampton University and first worked for Plessey at Havant, a British-based international electronics, defence and telecommunications company. He then moved to BT at Dollis Hill in London and later transferred to BT, Martlesham. He is a mathematician but believes the tendency to believe maths always represents the truth is holding up scientific research. He has recently given talks at two conferences, one in China and the other in the USA, in order to share his findings internationally. Due to a great deal of Contributed Dr Fred Stentiford misleading information, everyone mistakenly believes that facial recognition at Passport Control in airports is working – it is not! Fred’s painstaking research hopes to make this possible. Fred flew to Guangdong in China (not far from Hong Kong) with a colleague named Gary Disley, who looks after Broadband in this part of the world. Gary managed to obtain a grant to cover the cost of the trip (money in research work is hard to come by!) They were both to attend the International Internet Plus Exhibition. Fred was to give a thirty-minute talk entitled: Artificial Intelligence and Facial Recognition. This included a laptop slideshow on a huge screen in a large conference centre. There were several hundred people attending the talk which went down very well and was readily accepted. There followed lots of interested discussion but no challenges as there is nothing to challenge in such pioneering work. As an indicator, Fred stated that the police had 2,000 criminal images on screen and only 2% of them could be identified. Fred was in China for a week so had a good opportunity to have a wander round and found it quite an adventure. Everyone he met whilst there was very accommodating. Page 4 June 2019 www.villagevoices.org.uk Village Voices 1-20 June 2019_vv 17/05/2019 18:49 Page 5 In January Fred attended the Electronic Imaging Conference in San Francisco and paid his own expenses. He was the last to speak in the session but due to a previous speaker having time-consuming difficulties with his computer, there was regrettably no time for Fred to invite questions from the floor. This meant he was unable to assess the impact of his presentation on the audience. Fred’s paper is published and is on the internet: https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~fstentif/ Fred finds the research work both interesting and exciting. He gave another talk in London in April at the British Machine Vision Association. Here he presented a big poster with more details of his research work including photographs of faces and face-mapping between the images. Interestingly, the images do not have Contributed The reference face The candidate image to be of a high definition: 100 pixels wide is sufficient to be recognised. The candidate image is cross-referenced against the reference face to find commonality. The approach does not use training data because there is no guarantee that this represents unseen data. Similarly, this approach does not use pre-selected features because again there is no guarantee that these are present in unseen data. Fred is also working on other areas of research connected to facial recognition: speech recognition and marking essays through finding word relationships in documents. We wish him every success in his findings! 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We will share car transport to Bury St Edmunds in time to arrive at the cathedral for 2pm. We will be guided on a gentle reflective tour of the cathedral and then join the congregation for choral evensong. Afterwards there will be refreshments provided by the Friends of the Cathedral. Contributed There is no charge. Contact me St Edmundsbury Cathedral 01394 412053 or Judy Foulger [email protected] for further details and/or to book. Do you remember the motto, Live simply that others may simply live? The second intention from my study leave last summer was, Live simply. Our attention has been drawn recently to damage we humans are causing to our planet – plastic pollution, climate change and the decline in bio-diversity. UK attitudes and behaviours are changing. Single-use plastics are now often unacceptable; 16 yearold Greta Thunberg recently spoke to Parliament; Extinction Rebellion’s cause (if not method) was widely supported and for the first time since 1882, the UK went a whole week without generating electricity from coal.