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Warcraft is a franchise of video games, novels, and other media originally created by Blizzard Entertainment. The series is made up of three real-time strategy (RTS) games where opposing players command virtual armies in battle against each other or a computer-controlled enemy and includes, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness and its expansion Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal and Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. The last and best selling title of the franchise is the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft and its seven expansions, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria, Warlords of Draenor, Legion and Battle for Azeroth. A spin off online card game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, was released which features elements from World of Warcraft; it was later renamed to just Hearthstone.
The series also resulted in the publishing of several books relevant to the Warcraft universe setting, covering a wide range of the timelines of the universe. A collectable card game was also published, which offered those who bought booster packs a chance to gain access codes to limited in-game content in World of Warcraft. An upcoming film adaptation is planned. A number of comics have also been released alongside the books, further covering parts of the universe's storyline. A short-lived, online-subscription only magazine was also available, but later ceased publication after just 5 issues.
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2.1 Battlegrounds
2.2 Heroes
2.3 Bruiser
2.4 Healer
2.5 Melee Assassin
2.6 Ranged Asasssin
2.8 Tank
2.8.1 Unconfirmed
2.8.2 Unknown
2.8.3 Cancelled
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All games in the series have been set in and around the world of Azeroth, a high fantasy setting. The series initially focused on the invasion of the Human Kingdom of Azeroth by the Orcish Horde which arrived in Azeroth via a dark portal, from another world, referred to as Draenor. In Warcraft II the war is brought on to most of the Eastern Kingdoms and expends the conflict, with Trolls, Goblins and Ogres joining the Orcs and Dwarves, Gnomes and High Elves joining the Humans. At the end of the expansion the Orcish home world is shattered into pieces by demonic magics and becomes known as Outland. Warcraft III expanded the world of Azeroth, revealing the continent of Kalimdor, the new races of Night Elves and Taurens and a new major threat, The Burning Legion. World of Warcraft expended the world of Azeroth even more by introducing the continents of Northrend and Pandaria, forming two major factions, The Horde which includes the Orcs, Trolls, Tauren, Goblins, Blood Elves and Forsaken and The Alliance which includes the Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes, Night Elves, Worgen and Draenei with both factions having representatives of the Pandaren race. Major elements introduced to the world included the Titans, Old Gods and Elemental Lords.
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There are currently 41 Warcraft heroes in the game, including 6 Bruisers, 9 Healers, 6 Melee Assassins, 11 Ranged Assassins, 1 Support, and 8 Tanks.
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Dudley Do-Right - Snidely Mounted Police
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Premiered on Saturday, 26 Nov 1960 12:00 AM
Rocky and Bullwinkle began life in the 1950's television show, The Frostbite Falls Review. It was created by Jay Ward and Bill Scott. Their names in that show were Rocket J. Squirrel and Canadian Moose. The Frostbite Falls Review was not very successful so Rocky and Bullwinkle became the stars of their own show, Rocky and His Friends. The show was co-created by Alex Anderson and premiered on November 29th, 1959 on ABC. Added to the cast were Boris and Natasha, two Pottsylvanian spies. The show also featured various segments; Peabody's Improbable History, Fractured Fairy Tales, Mr. Know-It-All, and Aesop and Son. In 1961, the show moved to NBC and was renamed The Bullwinkle Show. In 1964 the creators moved the show back to ABC where it was cancelled at the end of that season. The next year the show did reappear back on ABC; Bullwinkle and Rocky were replaced by Hoppity Hooper, while the other segments remained. The show ran on ABC until 1974. It was then syndicated under the n
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E.1 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (1) - Upsidaisium
E.2 Aesop and Son - The Hares and the Frog
E.3 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Remove a Mustache, Without Getting Any Lip
E.4 Dudley Do-Right - The Centaur
E.5 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (2) - Big Bomb at Frostbite Falls or The Exploding Metropolis
E.6 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (3) - The Road to Ruin or Mine Over Matter
E.7 Fractured Fairy Tales - Androcles and the Lion
E.8 Mr. Know-It-All - Falling Asleep on the Job Can Lead to a Rude Awakening
E.9 Peabody's Improbable History - Louis Pasteur
E.10 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (4) - Two Flying Ghosts or High Spirits
E.11 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (5) - Crash Drive or Oedipus Wrecks
E.12 Fractured Fairy Tales - King Midas
E.13 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Remove an Unwanted Guest From Your House -- And Make More Living Room
E.14 Dudley Do-Right - Railroad Tracks
E.15 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (6) - Fender Benders or The Asphalt Bungle
E.16 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (7) - Burning Sands or The Big Hot Foot
E.17 Aesop and Son - The Frogs and the Beaver
E.18 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Be a Star Reporter
E.19 Peabody's Improbable History - Robin Hood
E.20 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (8) - Death in the Desert or A Place in the Sun
E.21 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (9) - The Boy Bounders or Plane Punchy
E.22 Fractured Fairy Tales - Little Red Riding Hood
E.23 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Do Stunts in the Movies - Without Having the Usher Throw You Out
E.24 Peabody's Improbable History - Robinson Crusoe
E.25 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (10) - A Peek at the Peak or Your Climb is my Climb
E.26 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (11) - You've Got a Secret or Out of Sight, Out of Mind
E.27 Fractured Fairy Tales - Ugly Duckling
E.28 Bullwinkle's Corner - Rocky Bye Baby
E.29 Peabody's Improbable History - Ponce de Leon
E.30 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (12) - Boris and the Blade or Shiek Rattle and Roll
E.31 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (13) - Sourdough Squirrel or Hardrock Rocky
E.32 Fractured Fairy Tales - Hansel & Gretel
E.33 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Run the Four Minute Mile - In Ten Seconds
E.34 Dudley Do-Right - Foreclosing Mortgages
E.35 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (14) - A Creep at the Switch or Sudden Pacific
E.36 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (15) - The Train on the Plane or The Overland Express
E.37 Fractured Fairy Tales - Cinderella Returns
E.38 Bullwinkle's Corner - The Village Blacksmith
E.39 Peabody's Improbable History - John L. Sullivan
E.40 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (16) - Danger in the Desert or Max Attacks
E.41 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (17) - The Missing Mountain or Peek-a-Boo Peak
E.42 Aesop and Son - The Lion and the Aardvark
E.43 Mr. Know-It-All - Wouldn't a Trophy Look Good Over Your Fireplace - Or How to Get a Head
E.44 Peabody's Improbable History - Leonardo Da Vinci
E.45 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (18) - Go Down Mooses or The Fall Guy
E.46 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (19) - Rocky and the Rock or Braver and Boulder
E.47 Aesop and Son - The Jack Rabbits and the Mule
E.48 Bullwinkle's Corner - The Children's House
E.49 Dudley Do-Right - Snidely Mounted Police
E.50 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (20) - Mountain Mover or Boris Sneaks a Peak
E.51 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (21) - Bullwinkle's Rise or This Goon For Higher
E.52 Fractured Fairy Tales - The Goose and the Golden Egg
E.53 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Be a Barber or Ten Ways to Clip Your Fellow Man
E.54 Peabody's Improbable History - Paul Revere
E.55 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (22) - Boris Bites Back or Rebel Without a Pause
E.56 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (23) - Bullwinkle at the Bottom or A Mish-Mash Moose
E.57 Fractured Fairy Tales - Three Little Pigs
E.58 Bullwinkle's Corner - The Barefoot Boy
E.59 Dudley Do-Right - Mother Love
E.60 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (24) - Double Trouble or The Moose Hangs High
E.61 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (25) - Jet Jockey Rocky or One Point Landing
E.62 Aesop and Son - The Dog and the Shadow
E.63 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Water-Ski or Five Steps to Easy Drowning
E.64 Peabody's Improbable History - Confucius
E.65 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (26) - Too Many Crooks
E.66 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (27) - The Cliff Hangar or Taken for Granite
E.67 Fractured Fairy Tales - The Pied Piper
E.68 Bullwinkle's Corner - The Raven
E.69 Dudley Do-Right - Mountie Bear
E.70 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (28) - Supersonic Boom or The Old Mount's A-Moverin'
E.71 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (29) - The Big Blast or A Many Splintered Thing
E.72 Fractured Fairy Tales - Slipping Beauty
E.73 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Be an Indian in One Easy Lesson or You Can Be a Tonto, Pronto
E.74 Peabody's Improbable History - Nero
E.75 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (30) - The Steal Hour or A Snitch In Time
E.76 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (31) - Crime Without Rhyme
E.77 Fractured Fairy Tales - Snow White, Incorporated
E.78 Bullwinkle's Corner - Woodman, Spare That Tree
E.79 Peabody's Improbable History - Captain Matthew Clift
E.80 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (32) - Truckdrivers in the Sky or Follow the Fleet
E.81 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (33) - The Squirrel Next Door or High Neighbor
E.82 Aesop and Son - The Cat and the Fifteen Mice
E.83 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Own a Hi-Fi on a Low Income and I.Q.
E.84 Peabody's Improbable History - Vasco Nunez De Balboa
E.85 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (34) - The Spell Binders or Hex Marks the Spot
E.86 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (35) - It Takes Two to Tangle
E.87 Fractured Fairy Tales - Rumplestiltskin Returns
E.88 Bullwinkle's Corner - Excelsior
E.89 Dudley Do-Right - Inspector Dudley Do-Right
E.90 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (36) - Bye-Bye, Boris or Farewell, My Ugly
E.91 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (1) - Metal-Munching Mice
E.92 Fractured Fairy Tales - Leaping Beauty
E.93 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Be a Human Fly
E.94 Peabody's Improbable History - Race Of Tom Thumb
E.95 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (2) - Bullwinkle Bites Back or Nothing but the Tooth
E.96 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (3) - Knock on Wood or Bullwinkle Takes the Rap
E.97 Fractured Fairy Tales - Puss n' Boots
E.98 Bullwinkle's Corner - Simple Simon
E.99 Dudley Do-Right - Recruiting Campaign
E.100 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (4) - A Knock for the Rock or The Lamp Is Low
E.101 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (5) - Window Pains or The Moosetrap
E.102 Aesop and Son - The Goldfish and the Bear
E.103 Mr. Know-It-All - The Most Economical Form of Transportation - Hitchhiking
E.104 Peabody's Improbable History - The Battle Of Bunker Hill
E.105 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (6) - Doorway to Danger or Doom in the Room
E.106 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (7) - Boris Makes his Move or The Miceman Cometh
E.107 Fractured Fairy Tales - Jack and the Beanstalk
E.108 Bullwinkle's Corner - Hickory Dickory Dock
E.109 Peabody's Improbable History - The Pony Express
E.110 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (8) - Big Cheese Boris or I'd Rather be Rat
E.111 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (9) - The Space Rat or Of Mice and Menace
E.112 Aesop and Son - The Vain Crow
E.113 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Be a Hobo or Ten Easy Steps to a Bum Career
E.114 Peabody's Improbable History - Stephen Decatur
E.115 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (10) - The Shot Heard Round the World or First National Bang
E.116 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (11) - The Rat-Pack Attacks or Sharrup You Mouse
E.117 Fractured Fairy Tales - Tom Thumb (aka Tiny Tom)
E.118 Bullwinkle's Corner - Little Bo Peep
E.119 Peabody's Improbable History - Alexander Graham Bell
E.120 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (12) - Bucks for Boris or Rocky Pays the Piper
E.121 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (13) - Fright Flight or A Rocky to the Moon
E.122 Fractured Fairy Tales - Aladdin's Lamp
E.123 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Disarm a Live 500 Megaton TNT Bomb in Your Own Workshop in Your Spare Time to Amuse Your Friends or Just Yourself Even
E.124 Dudley Do-Right - Out of Uniform
E.125 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (14) - Bullwinkle Bellows Again or Moonin' Low
E.126 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (15) - Bongo Boris or The Hep Rat
E.127 Fractured Fairy Tales - Goldilocks and the Three Bears
E.128 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Be a Beatnik
E.129 Peabody's Improbable History - Commander Peary
E.130 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Metal-Munching Mice (16) - The Spies of Life or When a Fella Needs a Fiend
E.131 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Greenpernt Oogle (1) - Greenpernt Oogle
E.132 Aesop and Son - The Canary and the Musical Hares
E.133 Bullwinkle's Corner - The Daffodils
E.134 Peabody's Improbable History - Pancho Villa
E.135 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Greenpernt Oogle (2) - The Mail Animal or Bullwinkle Stamps His Foot
E.136 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Greenpernt Oogle (3) - Burgled Bullwinkle or The Moose Nappers
E.137 Fractured Fairy Tales - The Enchanted Frog
E.138 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Conquer Your Acrophobia
E.139 Dudley Do-Right - Lure of The Footlights
E.140 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Greenpernt Oogle (4) - A Crown for Bullwinkle or Monarch Moose
E.141 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Greenpernt Oogle (5) - Squirrel in the Scope or Ring Around the Rocky
E.142 Fractured Fairy Tales - The Pied Piper #2
E.143 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Fix a Flat, and Retire Your Car
E.144 Peabody's Improbable History - Lord Francis Douglas
E.145 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Greenpernt Oogle (6) - Block Party or The Happy Headsman
E.146 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Greenpernt Oogle (7) - The Wizard Biz or Bullwinkle Lays an Egg
E.147 Aesop and Son - The Fox and the Minks
E.148 Bullwinkle's Corner - The Bee
E.149 Peabody's Improbable History - Sitting Bull
E.150 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Greenpernt Oogle (8) - Riptide Rocky or Drips Adrift
E.151 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Greenpernt Oogle (9) - Blood and Sand or Three for the Show
E.152 Fractured Fairy Tales - The Beauty and Her Beast
E.153 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Avoid Tipping the Waiter
E.154 Dudley Do-Right - Bullet Proof Suit
E.155 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Greenpernt Oogle (10) - Bullwinkle's Landing or Moosle Beach
E.156 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Greenpernt Oogle (11) - The Sand Blasters or Big Bang on the Beach
E.157 Aesop and Son - The Owl and the Wolf
E.158 Bullwinkle's Corner - Fan Club #1
E.159 Peabody's Improbable History - Christopher Columbus
E.160 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Greenpernt Oogle (12) - The Brave and the Boulder or To Each His Stone
E.161 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Rue Brittania (1) - Rue Britannia
E.162 Fractured Fairy Tales - The Enchanted Fish
E.163 Bullwinkle's Corner - Peter Piper
E.164 Dudley Do-Right - Miracle Drug
E.165 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Rue Brittania (2) - Earl and Water Don't Mix or Next Time, Take the Drain
E.166 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Rue Brittania (3) - Moose Gets the Juice or Mourning Becomes Electra-cuted
E.167 Fractured Fairy Tales - Prince Darling
E.168 Mr. Know-It-All - Buying a Used Car
E.169 Peabody's Improbable History - French Foreign Legion
E.170 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Rue Brittania (4) - Episode 120 or 123
E.171 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Rue Brittania (5) - Explosive Situation or Don't Make it Worse—It's Badenov
E.172 Aesop and Son - The Centipede and the Snail
E.173 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Be an Archeologist and Dig Ancient History
E.174 Peabody's Improbable History - Guglielmo Marconi
E.175 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Rue Brittania
E.176 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Rue Brittania (7) - Fifty Cents Lost or Get That Halfback
E.177 Fractured Fairy Tales - Son of Beauty and the Beast
E.178 Bullwinkle's Corner - Pat-a-Cake
E.179 Dudley Do-Right - Elevenworth Prison
E.180 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Rue Brittania (8) - The Scheme Misfires or You Can Planet Better Than That
E.181 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Buried Treasure (1) - Buried Treasure
E.182 Fractured Fairy Tales - The Frog Prince
E.183 Bullwinkle's Corner - Thanksgiving Day
E.184 Peabody's Improbable History - Scotland Yard
E.185 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Buried Treasure (2) - A Tisket a Casket or The Bury Box
E.186 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Buried Treasure (3) - The Bank Busters or The Great Vaults
E.187 Aesop and Son - The Fox and the Owl
E.188 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Take Your Covered Wagon Through the West While Being Attacked by Over 2000 Savages
E.189 Peabody's Improbable History - John Holland
E.190 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Buried Treasure (4) - Sweet Violence or The Yegg and I
E.191 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Buried Treasure (5) - Many A Thousand Gone or The Haul of Fame
E.192 Fractured Fairy Tales - The Golden Goose
E.194 Dudley Do-Right - Saw Mill
E.195 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Buried Treasure (6) - Down To Earth or Me and My Shatter
E.196 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Buried Treasure (7) - Hop Skip And Junk or Bullwinkle’s Big Tow
E.197 Fractured Fairy Tales - Son Of Rumplestiltskin
E.198 Bullwinkle's Corner - Sing a Song of Sixpence
E.199 Peabody's Improbable History - Louis XVI
E.200 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Buried Treasure (8) - Bucks for Boris or The Green Paper Caper
E.201 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Buried Treasure (9) - When Moose Meets Moose or Two's a Crowd
E.202 Aesop and Son - The Hound and the Wolf
E.203 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Sell Encyclopedia, Door-to-Door
E.204 Peabody's Improbable History - Francisco Pizzaro
E.205 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Buried Treasure (10) - The Midnight Chew-Chew or Stick To Your Gums
E.206 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Buried Treasure (11) - Boris Badenov and His Friends?
E.207 Fractured Fairy Tales - The Elves and the Shoemaker
E.209 Peabody's Improbable History - Daniel Boone
E.210 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Buried Treasure (12) - Bars of Steal or The Hard Cell
E.211 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Buried Treasure (13) - Subway Finish or An Underground Round
E.212 Fractured Fairy Tales - Speeding Beauty
E.213 Bullwinkle's Corner - How to Be Happy (Though Miserable)
E.214 Dudley Do-Right - Finding Gold
E.215 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Buried Treasure (14) - The Last Edition or Five-Scar Final
E.216 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Last Angry Moose (1) - Last Angry Moose
E.217 Aesop and Son - The Fox and the Winking Horse
E.218 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Wash Windows and Be a Smash Success
E.219 Peabody's Improbable History - William Shakespear
E.220 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Last Angry Moose (2) - A Punch in the Snoot or The Nose Tatoo
E.221 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Last Angry Moose (3) - Fun on The Freeway or The Quick and the Dead
E.222 Fractured Fairy Tales - The Princess and the Goblins
E.224 Dudley Do-Right - Mountie Without a Horse
E.225 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Last Angry Moose (4) - Bullwinkle Makes a Movie or The Feature from Outer Space
E.226 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Wailing Whale (1) - Wailing Whale
E.227 Fractured Fairy Tales - Snow White Meets Rapunzel
E.229 Peabody's Improbable History - Zebulon Pike
E.230 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Wailing Whale (2) - Vagabond Voyage or The Castoffs Cast Off
E.231 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Wailing Whale (3) - Fear on the Pier or What's Up Duck?
E.232 Aesop and Son - The Sick Lion
E.233 Bullwinkle's Corner - The Wind
E.234 Peabody's Improbable History - The First Golf Match
E.235 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Wailing Whale (4) - TNT for Two or Fright Cargo
E.236 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Wailing Whale (5) - Underwater Eyeball or The Deep Blue See
E.237 Fractured Fairy Tales - The Little Princess
E.239 Dudley Do-Right - Mother Whiplashes Log Jam
E.240 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Wailing Whale (6) - Underwater Moose or The Aqua-lunk
E.241 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Wailing Whale (7) - Terror On The Seas or We’ve Only Begun to Fright
E.242 Aesop and Son - The Porcupine and the Tigers
E.244 Peabody's Improbable History - William Tell
E.245 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Wailing Whale (8) - Blank Night or The Age of Nothing
E.246 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Wailing Whale (9) - Defective Story or A Muffled Report
E.247 Fractured Fairy Tales - Thumb Tom
E.249 Peabody's Improbable History - James Macneill Whistler
E.250 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Wailing Whale (10) - Leaky Lyrics or Bullwinkle Plugs a Song
E.251 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Wailing Whale (11) - Follow the Swallow or The Inside Story
E.252 Fractured Fairy Tales - Slow White and Nose Red
E.253 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Win Friends and Be Influential With People
E.254 Dudley Do-Right - Stolen Art Masterpieces
E.255 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Wailing Whale (12) - Playtime for Rollo or Rest In Pieces
E.256 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Wailing Whale (13) - A Whale of A Tale or Thar She Blows Up
E.257 Fractured Fairy Tales - Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess
E.258 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Be a Successful Baseball Umpire
E.259 Peabody's Improbable History - Ferdinand Magellan
E.260 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Wailing Whale (14) - Fast and Moose or Charley's Antlers
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What Happened to the Pitching Staff Swingman?
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There are baseball books that normal people buy, and then there are baseball books that obsessive, maniacal baseball lovers buy. Let’s put it this way — if you’re on a date with someone who has Moneyball or Summer of ’49 on his or her shelf, you’re probably OK. But if your significant other owns Weaver on Strategy or Dollar Sign on the Muscle, you should excuse yourself, because you’re dealing with a real nerd. (That said, if you don’t think I’m one decent bassist from headlining Glastonbury with an electro-synth power-pop foursome called Dollar Sign on the Muscle, you’ve got another thing coming.)
Weaver on Strategy, as the title might suggest, is a look inside the managerial genius of Earl Weaver, and serves as something of a proto-Moneyball version of Clausewitz’s On War.
In Strategy, Weaver discusses at some length how he was fond of breaking in rookie pitchers in a long reliever/spot starter role before introducing them to the rotation the following year.
The swingman role has all but disappeared from the modern game, where managers are chained to the concept of the one-inning reliever like Prometheus to the rock. But one wonders why there hasn’t been an imaginative, risk-taking team who’s taken to breaking in young pitchers this way.
After all, if you’re worried about Stephen Strasburg or Matt Harvey or Shelby Miller or Jose Fernandez blowing out their arms by pitching too many innings too soon, why not limit them to two- or three-inning relief appearances and five-inning starts? That way, you strengthen your bullpen and acclimate your young stud starter to the major leagues at the same time.
Even accepting the conservative tendencies of major league managers, there has to be a reason why nobody’s tried this with a top pitching prospect. I have a couple of theories:
First, once you send a top pitching prospect to the bullpen, there’s no guarantee he’ll be able to transition back to starting. Adam Wainwright went from starter to closer to starter, but in the cases of Joba Chamberlain, Neftali Feliz, Daniel Bard, and Aroldis Chapman, among others, it hasn’t worked as well.
Granted, the swingman role is different from a one-inning reliever’s, so maybe building up a starter’s stamina wouldn’t be as hard. But forcing, say, a 22-year-old to transition from the rotation to the bullpen and back is still a risk that teams are unwilling to take with such a prized commodity as a frontline pitching prospect.
Second, a big part of what differentiates a good starter from a reliever is the ability to get batters out more than once in a game by using varied pitches and approaches. So it might actually be better for a pitcher’s development to have to turn the lineup over three times in AA or AAA instead of just once in a two-inning relief appearance.
Third, if you’re going to limit a pitcher’s innings in the name of preventing injury, you’re probably not going to want to subject him to a long reliever’s schedule. Part of the reason most teams don’t carry a dedicated swingman anymore (in addition to the 12-man pitching staff making more relievers available than a manager can use) is that they don’t know when they’re going to need him. A team could go three weeks without having a starter get knocked out of the box early or without getting deep into extra innings, then encounter such a situation twice in three days. An organization with a potential no. 1 starter on its hands would probably want to keep that pitcher on a pretty rigid schedule rather than subject him to the uncertainty of a swingman’s workload.
Finally, just because a pitcher is young doesn’t mean he can’t be the best pitcher on the team, as Strasburg proved last year and Harvey and Hernandez, at least so far, are out to prove this year. Even if you’re committed to a strict innings limit, it doesn’t make sense to spend those innings on mop-up and emergency start duty. Good starting pitching is hard to come by, and when a team finds it, it needs to use it, even if there’s only going to be 150 innings’ worth.
Relief pitcher usage is one of the biggest potential areas for improvement in major league strategy and roster construction. But even with the opportunity to develop a potential star and help out the bullpen at the same time, the star-prospect-as-swingman concept might just be too risky.
Michael Baumann (@MJ_Baumann) writes about the Philadelphia Phillies for Crashburn Alley of ESPN’s SweetSpot Network.
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3 H1N1 deaths in Hyderabad lead to epidemic fears
Three swine flu deaths in 24 hours have set off alarm bells in the city and prompted health department officials to scour for more possible undetected cases and distribute anti-viral pills.TNN | December 18, 2014, 07:46 IST
A 22-year-old student, who was admitted to a private hospital in the city with the H1N1 virus, died of respiratory complications on Monday, the first death due to the contagion in the city this year.
HYDERABAD: Three swine flu deaths in 24 hours have set off alarm bells in the city and prompted health department officials to scour for more possible undetected cases and distribute anti-viral pills.
In 2009-2010, swine flu caused by the H1N1 virus spread from Central Mexico to 74 other countries killing an estimated 2,84,000 people. Since 2009, over 3,900 people have died of the deadly virus across Indian states including 157 in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Telangana health department officials said a 30-year-old man from Padmavathi Colony in Uppal, a 25-year old woman from Jeedimetla and a 55-year-old man from Siddipet in Medak district died due to swine flu attack.
While the first two deaths were reported at the state-run Gandhi Hospital here, the third patient died in an ambulance while being shifted to Gandhi.
Authorities also reached out to close relatives of the three deceased patients besides marking the nearby localities for distribution of Oseltamivir, the antiviral medication used for treating swine flu cases.
The overall death toll from swine flu in Telangana and AP since January 1 this year stands at 13 which authorities said were worrying signs that the virus could have mutated and patients may not respond to anti-viral treatment as before.
While the government grapples with the sudden rise of swine flu, Hyderabad district disease surveillance officials were caught napping when a confirmed swine flu patient fled from Gandhi Hospital on December 15, said Dr K Narasimhulu, nodal officer for H1N1 at Gandhi Hospital. “We are trying to trace him,” he said.
Authorities have identified 50 households in Siddipet, where for five days, all the families will be given 75 mg Tamiflu drug as a preventive measure as part of prophylactic antiviral therapy, said Dr Balaji Pawar, DMHO, Medak district.
However, Ranga Reddy district health officials are yet to trace relatives and close contacts of the two swine flu victims.
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What is it? Moderate intensity exercise is somewhere between walking and sprinting, easy and hard. A common example is running/ jogging a long distance at a moderate pace. Most training is done at this level. You’re working out at a steady pace, you’re really sweating, and you can feel those happy hormones kicking in.
How long, how hard? Moderate intensity exercise, as the name suggests, is moderate in intensity. It’s also long in duration, lasting between 30 minutes and 2 hours. Moderate intensity exercise is between 70% and 80% of maximal heart rate. You’re breathing steady, controlled and fast. You’re sweating after a few minutes and can just about talk in short sentences.
What’s happening to your body? You’re working out in the aerobic training zone. Exercising at this intensity improves cardio-respiratory fitness – boosting lung power and strengthening your cardiovascular system. Moderate intensity exercise increases the number and size of blood vessels, improves the efficiency of blood circulation in the heart and skeletal muscles, and increases heart and lung capacity.
Why do it? Exercising at moderate intensity improves fitness and is great for weight loss. You’re working out hard, but you’re also working out long enough, to burn a lot of calories. But even better, this way of exercising improves the body’s ability to burn more fat during exercise. According to research moderate intensity exercise also reduces stress, increases cognitive capacity, lowers the incidence depression, improves general mental health, and reduces the risk of diabetes.
Who should do it? Moderate intensity exercise is great if you want to lose weight, are training for an athletic event, want to increase energy levels, endurance, general fitness and performance.
How to use? Aim to exercise for 20 to 60 minutes at moderate intensity, at least 3 times a week. It’s great for improvers, and intermediate and advanced exercisers. Start slow, and build up intensity and duration gradually.
If it’s too challenging to exercise continuously at this level turn it into an interval workout and incorporate some periods of rest, during which you go slower, to allow for recovery.
As with all training techniques, mix up your exercise routine, and consider including tempo training, LSD, interval training and fartlek, depending on your goals and fitness level.
What is Moderate Intensity Exercise? was last modified: February 29th, 2016 by the team
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#FlavaInYaEar Former NFL Player Cierre Wood Charged With Murder
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Ex-NFL player Ceirre Wood, 28 is facing child abuse, neglect and now murder charges! for 5 year old Larayah Davis. According to Fox 5 News in Las Vegas, The 5 year old died from a laceration in her liver after a "extreme" workout. Wood would force the young girl to participate in these workouts when she misbehaved. Reported through TMZ, Davis was force to complete unbearable workouts, completely unfit for her age such as; sprints through the apartment, wall squats, push-ups and sit-ups. On the day of her death April 9, allegedly Larayah was misbehaving, Wood order her to do sit-ups, which he called "learning though fun." Wood described the 5 year old, as "chunky" and when she wasn't able to complete the second set of sit-ups, she flail backward hitting her head on the floor. News 3 Las Vegas, says when police arrived to the ex-player home, which he shared with the young girl mother Amy Taylor, 25 Larayah was unresponsive. She was taken to Summerlin Hospital Medical Center where she later died that night. Autopsy report from Fox 5 says, the 5 year old had bruising on her torso, legs, and abdomen, as well as a past history of fractured ribs, and multiple concussions to the skull. The mother, Amy Taylor admits she would sit on her 5 year old daughter chest and stomach as a punishment for misbehaving.
During his football career Cierre Wood balanced around from team to team. Read from NBC News, The 28 year old, ran 2,500 yards in the University of Notre Dame, 3 games with the Houston Texans in 2013, two games with the Buffalo Bills in 2015 and 4 years in the Canadian Football League before tearing his ACL in 2017. Larayah father, Danaun Davis came eye to eye with his daughters killer Thursday morning, when Wood was set to see a judge. He tells Fox news reporter, he just spoke to his daughter the night before confirming he would see he again in 2 weeks, Mr.Davis lives in California and has been split from Amy Taylor for about 3 years. Allegedly he was fighting for full custody of his daughter, Davis also tells reporters the last few months Larayah has not been wanting to go back home and she tried to warn him, "I'm sorry i didn't listen!" He cry's out to cameras. The Davis family describes Larayah as a fun,loving young girl that didn't have behavioral issues, she was much loved by everyone. Both Wood and Taylor are charged with child abuse, neglect and murder they're currently being held without bail, next time they would be in front of a judge is May 21. Mr.Davis is hoping for the death plenty.
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Listening Tests
Proposal on listening tests
Topic: Proposal on listening tests (Read 16826 times) previous topic - next topic
Phantom_Photon
Hi, I've been lurking for a long time, don't let the user data fool you.
I second (or, umm, twelth) the vote for some kind of transparency test for the peace-of-mind reasons stated above. (A friend just ripped 250 CDs to 160kbps Quicktime AAC then left the country, leaving CDs behind; I'm not sure what to tell him when he asks if they're good enough ;-)
What about throwing something else into the mix: transparency of the various online stores? AFAIK, there wouldn't be copyright issues from taking a short clip of something bought at iTunes or the like and comparing it to FLACs of the original CD.
I know you can't chose bitrate with them, but, once samples were identified that, say, seemed to not be transparent to a good number of people at 128kbps, then we could compare them to the store-downloaded one (encoded with whatever they use) to see if it's just as opaque.
Just a thought; I'm sure others here could dream up better implementations.
shadowking
Sample A might be transparent at 110k yet another may need 190k..
The important thing is consistency and I think such a test will only reveal 50% of the story. We need to show that a codec is consistently good at a certain bitrate range e.g - mpc is solid in 140-190k range: meaning it can encode majority of samples without problems, without needing wild bitrates to deal with pre-echos, sharp transients etc.
wavpack 4.8 -b3x6c
that the best codec would be the one that handles most of the problem samples well.
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Yes, the best codec - for problem samples!
There's no guarantee that it will show the same behaviour on "normal" samples. And what's the point of a test that only show results applicable to a small share of the musical styles?
Well, I would support a transparency test, to determine at which bitrate the codecs become transparent (throughing out the lower outlyers, biasising the results to people with better ears - which is not me). And then test each of the codecs at their transparent settings with problem sample. I would be supprised if the results of a transparency test show requirements for bitrates > -aps for lame, q5 for mpc, ect (the recommended settings already). In fact I think these setting are probably overkilling, allowing for more "head room", which is fine (hey, I encode in FLAC). So the test I was proposing was HA recommeded settings on problem samples.
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=21072
Omion
(throughing out the lower outlyers, biasising the results to people with better ears - which is not me)
You're so mean! You'd throw me out?
Anyway, I think that all the people would be important to keep, then one could say that "95% of the people think MPC is transparent at 160kbps" and that would be that.
If you're averaging the results, it might be good to throw out the very top (guruboolez ) and very bottom (me), but I think a percentile rating would be more informative.
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" - Vroomfondel, H2G2
Id be throwing myself out as well. I just fear that keeping everyone would lowering the quality to a threshold where those with better hearing would hear more artifacts. Its just the way its reported but all info would be available to you. I think it would be more useful for my personal sanity to know the results of the top 5% of the testers for transparency, since after averaging me in the results would probably be much lower, and I, like many others here am just obsevive-compulsive with the quality, even though I would probably never know the difference.
I have some spoken word comedy albums and would be interested in the speech test.
I have the feeling that we're saying just about the same things. The way I understand it:
Average the top 5% of the listeners' bitrates, so that around half of those 5% will find the resulting bitrate transparent.
Find the bitrate that 95% of the people find transparent, so that only the top 5% can ABX them.
Either way, the bitrates should be about the same. Your way would result in a slightly higher bitrate, but as I said before, I think percentiles would be better than averaging a subset.
Derge
Some of the excitement about conducting a transparency test might arise from the bitter, unassailable fact that there has never been a decent one. Ever. Tell me if I'm way off base here. Transparency has my vote.
markanini
I think speech listening tests would be intresting, since there hasnt been any tests. I use FLAC for archiving my CD's so a transparency thresold test would not be intresting for me, and such a test would be very difficult to conduct.
Last Edit: 2004-08-13 11:06:17 by markanini
oluv
sorry i am new here, so please don't flame me if my proposition is ridiculous to you.
for me not the fixed bitrate is important, but the resulting file-size. if we compare differently encoded samples at the same bitrate, there might be still some samples seriously bigger than others. and the funny thing ist, that the smaller files might sound "better" or nearer transparency than others. and this would interest me personally.
my aim would be the lower bitrate end, like 80-128 kbps. because at these rates the user can save a lot of data compared to 192kpbs or above.
in the last days i was playing around with ogg vorbis a lot, with the conclusion that 96kbps is totally enough for some material and for other tracks even lower. it is very recording-dependent, but most of my test-material i encoded sounds perfect at 128kbps with ogg and i won't go up much more, because at the higher rates the differences in sound are not so obvious anymore.
so, let's try to produce the smallest possible files, that still sound good not to say "transparent".
is this nutty?
Madman2003
Most listening tests are in my eyes low bit rate tests, i would like to see a test of how codecs work in the 175-225 kbps range. My codec of choice would have to reach transparancy almost always in that range.(the size of 200+ bit rates is not an issue for me) I would like to see how ogg vorbis (1.1 RC1, megamix 2 and 1.1 RC1 with advanced encode options set to different settings) goes against musepack.
Madman2003.
I might be interested in conducting the "about" 160k test (which is something I discussed a long time ago in another thread). Contenders would include:
mpc --standard
lame --preset medium (I would push for 3.96.1)
vorbis (settings TBD)
aac (Nero? Itunes?)
wma OR wma pro (not both)
Though the number of participants would be limited by the difficulty of the test, I think this would be offset somewhat by the greater interest in the test, i.e. people elsewhere tend to scoff at the 128k tests ("OMG, 128k is so horrible, it's worse than AM radio, I'd rather cut my ears off, nobody uses 128k"). I'd make the test longer, perhaps make it into a series of tests, to give people time to participate. ABX results would be required.
Subgroups could be analyzed to get more information, i.e. what were the results on the most difficult samples, what were the results for the most sensetive listeners, etc. The definition of the subgroups would be defined beforehand to avoid introducing bias.
There would need to be a vorbis test beforehand to determine which combination of -q, impluse_noisetune and impulse_trigger_profile produce the best results at similar bitrates to the other codecs in the test. The same might be true of other codecs (as lame --preset 128 was determined not to be optimal prior to the last 128k test).
Also, a 160k test might be a good "feasability study" for future "transparency" tests.
I am *expanding!* It is so much *squishy* to *smell* you! *Campers* are the best! I have *anticipation* and then what? Better parties in *the middle* for sure.
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dev0
I said it before and I'll say it again: A 160kbps (actually 170kbps judging from your suggested settings; and everything above) test is not feasible and worth nothing.
The transparency threshhold test is more interesting, but will probably be difficult to conduce, since it requires lots and lots of ABXing.
<bitter>I wonder how many of the people requesting such a test have actually succeeded at ABXing any modern codec at those bitrates on more than a handful of samples. Until they haven't: STFU.</bitter>
Personally I'd vote for the speech-codec test, since it's an area, which has been neglected at HA.org before but deserves more caverage.
Last Edit: 2004-08-13 19:18:09 by dev0
"To understand me, you'll have to swallow a world." Or maybe your words.
Yup. It's nutty
File size depends on exactly two things: bitrate and song length. The files that are "seriously bigger" are the ones that are "seriously longer" than the other songs. If you wanted every song to be exactly 5MB, then you'd be using 5MB for a 30 second song, and 5MB for a 10 minute song. The 30 second song would have MUCH higher quality than the 10 minute, since there are more bits used to describe every second of the 30-second song. It's better to focus on bitrate than file size.
The point of a high-bitrate test, Dev0, is not:
1. To prove conventional wisdom wrong
2. To prove YOU wrong
That handful of samples would provide empirical data (something we do not have yet) on where codecs fail at high bitrates. What we have now is: "Conduct your own tests and see if 160kb/s is good enough for you.", which is a discouraging and unappealing cop-out to most people. We could do some good with a test like this, so long as we resign ourselves to failure before we begin. The greater failure to me is in conducting tests which do not really need to be conducted.
File size depends on exactly two things: bitrate and song length. The files that are "seriously bigger" are the ones that are "seriously longer" than the other songs.
of course i know that the size is lengthdependent. that was not the point. i was only confused by the fact that with ogg some files are bigger than others, although the same bitrate is assumed.
but now i read that in fact with ogg the bitrate varies from one build to another at the same quality-setting. that means that -q4 can be 120kbps while with another build it's even 160 at -q4. as i do not see the "actual" bitrate in my player i thought it could be something else that had influence on the file-size as well.
sorry for my ignorance. but therefore i am here, to learn something
sehested
I would like to know the transparency level of each codec, but I see a number of problems related to such a test.
Which of the following should be considered the transparency level?
- The level at which the top 5% can't ABX problem samples from original
- The level at which the top 5% can't ABX 95% of the samples from original
- The level at which the top 5% can't ABX average samples from original
- The level at which I can't ABX problem samples from original on my stereo
- The level at which I can't ABX problem samples from original on my iPod
- The level at which I can't ABX average samples from original
I would probably be more interested in the last three and could find the transparency level by doing my personal listening tests, once the problem samples have been identified.
A transparency test with public interest should be based on the results from a population of testers that should each report the transparency level supported by ABX tests. That would require not only a number of codecs to be used but also a number of predefined settings for each codec.
In the end it would require a series of listening tests, say a seperate transparency test for each codec.
It would be nice to know both the 5% problem sample transparency level and the 5% average sample transparency level. Then you could say: "95% of people can not distinguish even problem samples from the original using these settings".
Whether I am amongst these 95% I could soon find out and if not then select these settings comfortably knowing that I would probably never hear any artifacts no matter what I encoded.
Then again, it seems like a LOT of work for this comfort.
I therefore second Phong's suggestion of a 160 kbps listening test.
BTW I expect some of the codecs to be transparent to most users at 160 kbps.
Ah. I see what you're saying. I think I should point out that Vorbis(*) quality settings are not mapped to specific bitrates. Files encoded with -q4 should have the same quality, but in order to do that they might need a different bitrate. Even with one build a -q4 file could be 120, and another 160. It all depends on how hard they are to encode.
No need to apologize about ignorance as long as you're trying to overcome it
(*) Just to be picky, Ogg is the container and Vorbis is the actual audio codec. A lot of people confuse the two.
I've been thinking about this a lot, and the test would indeed be hard to pull off. I've especially been thinking about where the threshold should be, although my thoughts were:
- 95% of the people can't ABX any samples
- nobody can ABX more than 5% of the samples (this would require at least 20 samples, though)
- 95% of the people can't ABX 95% of the samples (sort of a combination between the first two)
The last three on your list really only have to do with you, so there's no need for everybody to participate. You only need yourself to figure out where they're transparent to you.
It would be quite a bit different from other listening tests, but I think that's a lot of the appeal for it: there hasn't been anything like it.
PS. I think you got something a bit wrong with your "which of the following" list. For example:
If the top 5% can't ABX them, then the bottom 95% CERTAINLY can't. You'll end up with the level where nobody can ABX them. I think you mean that only the top 5% CAN ABX them.
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Last Edit: 2004-08-13 21:24:37 by Omion
Sure, my mistake.
I'm interested in a multiformat test at 96 kbps, for reasons I've already mentioned here on July 9. If I understood her/him correctly, slippyC has also shown interest in this rate range.
This between-64-and-128 test should be a lot easier to organize than a 160 kbps or transparency threshold test, however interesting the latter seem, even to me. So while we're debating the hows and whys of these kinds of transparent bitrate tests - which could take a while, or so it looks - I figured we could just as well get a 96 kbps test going, and fill up that huge gap between 64 and 128. By the time all noses point in the same direction for that long awaited transparency test, a 96k test could well be over and dealt with
Come to think of it, 96 kbps is often the bitrate online radio stations consider broadband transmission quality, at least for the stations I listen to most regularly. I don't know about your impression, but in this part of the Internet I get to chose between narrowband, which is usually 32 kbps, and broadband, which is 96k most of the time (128k is a little less common in this case).
I want to point out that speech listening test would be good to have because IP telephony is getting more common and soon it might be part everyday life and there wouldnt be a better listening test made by anyone else than Hydrogenaudio. So theres a good reason to do a speech listening test even though most HA members are most intrested in the performance of mid to high bitrate lossy codecs.
marcan
I'm coming up with something completely different. I’m looking for quality and distribution on the net.
I distributed mp3 encoded directly from 24 bits and I was impressed by the result.
My proposition is for pcm 44.1/16 dithered <> 44.1/24 mp3 lame –api. The purpose is to find out which one is closer from the original pcm 44.1/24. These tests should be done with 16 and obviously 24 bits playback.
If the mp3 is better, it could bring a better quality with the largest compatibility.
I don't consider myself very well up in lossy codecs, but my guess is that 44.1/24 LAME --alt-preset insane (so 320 kbps) will be near to impossible to ABX from an original 44.1/16 PCM.
Besides, very few people, even among HA members, have 24 bit soundcards.
Do some ABX testing for your self since most people encode from CD which is 16 bits.
I don't think so, 24 bit sound card are very common these days.
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Ground Covers: Solutions for Problem Landscape Areas
Many landscapes have problem spots where nothing seems to grow properly or look attractive. The area below a large tree possessing a dense leaf canopy is a good example. Plants need light in order to thrive and, unfortunately, the area beneath a tree receives relatively little. Couple this with the competitive nature of the root system of many species of trees and one has a problem area to deal with. Fortunately, there are species of plants commonly referred to as ground covers that occupy areas such as the preceding quite well and serve as an attractive solution to the problem site.
By definition ground covers are (relatively) low, dense-growing plants requiring minimal maintenance that establish a monoculture in areas of the landscape. They can be classified into those that tolerate shade and those that require copious sunlight. The latter ground covers are often used for special purposes such as to prevent soil erosion or choke out weeds. For the sake of this article we will concentrate on those ground covers which can tolerate heavy shade such as in the situation described above.
Shade-tolerant ground covers fall into two distinct groups: evergreen and deciduous. Bugle weed (Ajuga reptans), creeping lily-turf (Liriope spicata), English ivy (Hedera helix), perwinkle (Vinca minor), Japanese spurge (Pachysandra terminalis), and wintercreeper euonymus (Euonymus coloratus) are among the best evergreen ground covers for shady areas. While most are planted for their foliage, several of the preceding (e.g. bugle weed and periwinkle) bear attractive flowers in the spring of the year as well.
Bishop's goutweed (Aegopodium podograria), lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis), mock strawberry (Waldsteinia fragarioides), sweet violet (Viola odorata), sweet woodruff (Galium odoratum) and wild ginger (Asarum europaeum), and are deciduous ground covers that also thrive in shady areas. There are a number of other accent plants (e.g. hosta and fern) that can be used in heavily shaded areas, but they tend have lesser ground cover effect.
In addition to shade and roots, other factors may produce problems for plant growth and development beneath a tree. Trees with heavy canopies often shed water (especially during light rains) greatly reducing the availability of moisture to plants below. Hence, frequent watering of newly planted ground covers is needed for rapid establishment. Even after established, watering often becomes a necessity, especially in periods of dry weather. Adequate soil preparation through the incorporation of organic matter will help to encourage root growth and ease stress on newly planted ground covers. This, along with adequate water and fertility should cause them to establish themselves faster.
The accumulation of leaves is yet another problem for ground covers to contend with under trees, especially if the trees are large. Ground covers should never be allowed to be totally covered with leaves. This is especially critical for evergreen ground covers during the fall and winter. While a thin covering in the winter is not harmful, it should not be so think as to totally block light which evergreen plants need year around.
Leaves that are very soft (e.g. maple) and hold moisture should be totally removed from ground covers to prevent them from matting during wet weather those suffocating the plants beneath them. Leaves of species with stiffer leaves (e.g. oak) have a lesser tendency to suffocate plants below them when wet, if they are not too thick. Removing leaves from ground covers is more of a task than raking them from the lawn; therefore a leaf (lawn) vacuum can help reduce the work. A few leaves may be allowed to remain since they will not harm the plants below them and quickly break down during the ensuing growing season. This helps to add valuable organic matter to the soil occupied by the ground cover.
Growth rates vary by species, but most plants that tolerate shade do not grow quickly simply because there is little light for photosynthesis. Initial spacing of ground covers depends both on species planted and how rapid one wants a dense stand of that species. In most cases planting on six- to eight-inch centers is needed for quick cover. For those wishing to economize, wider spacing may be practiced with the realization it will require more time to establish a dense stand. If wider spacing is practiced, mulching the area between plants will help to conserve moisture, control weeds and make the area more attractive.
Under large trees with shallow, aggressive roots it might be difficult or impossible to improve the soil and plant the entire area. In such cases, it probably is more practical to establish pockets of improved soil where there are fewer roots and establish ground cover plants in those pockets. Once established, the ground cover's roots should compete fairly well with the tree's roots and establish an attractive, uniform stand. Remember, however, that the roots of trees like improved soil and will establish themselves in the pockets created. For this reason frequent watering and occasional fertilization especially is important for ground cover establishment and continued growth.
Finally, while ground covers tend to choke out competing weeds once established, shade-tolerant weeds can be problematic while the ground cover establishes itself. As mentioned above, mulching between plants can help prevent weeds. If weeds do appear they should be removed promptly to prevent them from slowing the development, speed of cover and general attractiveness of the desirable ground cover.
Ground Covers: Solutions for Problem Landscape Areas (05/01/11)
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Orion Media deploys IMImobile’s ‘DaVinci Social’
Orion media deploys IMImobile’s ‘DaVinci Social’ platform across all their radio stations
London, United Kingdom, 1st July, 2014 - IMImobile a global technology company providing software and services which help businesses capitalise on the growth in mobile communications, today announced that Orion Media is deploying DaVinci Social, IMImobile’s market leading TV and Radio broadcasting platform, across all their radio stations.
Orion Media operates five FM radio stations and three AM services in the East and West Midlands. Together they are the most listened to commercial radio brands in the Midlands, broadcasting to 1.2 million listeners a week. IMImobile’s DaVinci Social platform will allow Orion Media to manage all audience engagement from multiple mobile and social media sources through one single platform, giving each radio station a coherent and unrestricted view of how their listeners are interacting with their radio stations, leading to better engagement insight and audience management. In addition, Orion Media will use DaVinci Social’s Campaign Management Console to deploy and manage all SMS voting and competition campaigns, which are entered via a short code.
IMImobile, the UK’s leading provider of audience engagement and interactive broadcast solutions to commercial and non-commercial TV & Radio broadcasters, developed and launched DaVinci Social to allow broadcasters to adapt to the changing demands of the social multichannel radio listener. DaVinci Social enables broadcasters to manage and curate high volumes of audience inbound content across multiple mobile and social communication channels, such as SMS, MMS, Email, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Inbound content is conveniently displayed in separate streams, allowing content to be easily managed and replied to regardless of channel it originated from.
Using DaVinci Social, Orion Media will be able to manage, curate, distribute and analyse user generated content, allowing their radio stations to easily integrate user generated content into the live environment to enrich their programs in order to create a more meaningful conversation with their listeners, adding a new layer of interactivity to the radio experience.
Phil Riley, Chief Executive at Orion Media commented, “We chose IMImobile due to their strong heritage and deep understanding of the radio broadcasting sector. The DaVinci Social platform allows us to interact with our audience without the need of multiple tools, streamlining the process of sorting, integrating and responding to our listeners to create a more interactive radio experience.”
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The Sculpturing Of Human Injustice At ICJ Croatia v Serbia Genocide Case
February 8, 2015 by inavukic 29 Comments
Dr Zvonimir Separovic
Photo: Screenshot Z1 TV 5 February 2015
On 3 February 2015 the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered the verdict in the landmark case «Croatia vs. Serbia».
The ICJ decided that neither Croatia nor Serbia committed genocide against each other during the war of Serb aggression against Croatia 1991-1995 as evidence provided to the court by the Croatian (and Serbian) legal team was inadequate to prove intent of genocide, i.e. to destroy the whole or a significant part of a nation/people. Furthermore, the court decided that Serbia could not be made responsible for the acts of genocide established as fact which occurred prior to April 1992, when Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY – Serbia and Montenegro) arose from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). After the declarations of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia to secede from communist Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro were the only states of former Yugoslav federation that took upon themselves the pursuit as “heirs” of communist Yugoslavia, thus maintaining the Yugoslav People’s Army as one of its instruments of aggression. The other instrument of this aggression and genocidal intent were the Serb nationals who lived in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and turned into rebels against independence that would see untold brutality and destruction in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The ICJ did find that Serbia was the aggressor against Croatia.
With mountains of evidence available to the Croatian legal team to bring before the ICJ as evidence of genocide the fact that the same team failed to bring adequate evidence before the court can only point to abysmal sabotage and fowl political play that seeks to equate the aggressor with the victim.
Croatian legal team obviously provided no serious evidence to substantiate the claim that there was intent to commit genocide on its territory, in particular by Serbia, even though acts of genocide were committed and were widespread. When a legal team whose duty it is to provide evidence that substantiates claims in court fails to choose the proving evidence to present to the court from the mountain of evidence available then you know that sabotage is afoot.
The International Court took into consideration all the evidence related to each point of the definition of genocide and ruled that there was no evidence to support the claim. How just is the ruling? The only “justness” would seem to arise from the fact that such a ruling was sculptured in advance of the trial, which would utilise political manoeuvring in changing the name of the defendant – from FRY to Serbia – thus ensuring Serbia a ground to argue that it, as a state, was not responsible, not a subscriber to the UN Genocide Convention, to any acts of genocide perpetrated between 1991 and April 1992 (and this was the time when both the intent and the ferocity of acts of genocide were committed systematically in Croatia by the Serbia/Montenegro led FRY, which controlled the Yugoslav People’s Army of former Yugoslavia). Also, by ensuring that evidence presented by the Croatian side in court was both lacking and often unacceptable (e.g. unsigned affidavits or statements!).
According to the United Nations International Court of Justice, the acts of genocide established in the court all happened without special intent of genocide!
The more powerful International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) had already established a lot of facts of Serb aggression, which included numerous and systematically perpetrated criminal acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing of Croats and other non-Serbs. At present the ICTY is considering the case of Goran Hadzic, former president of the so-called «Republic of Serbian Krajina /Republika Srpska Krajina» («RSK») in Croatia where a great deal of the acts of genocide were committed against Croats and Croatia prior to April 1992. Milan Martic, another former president of the unrecognized Republic of Serbia Krajina, is serving a 35-year sentence according to the Tribunal’s ruling. Milan Babic, the third president of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, admitted guilt and made a plea bargain with the prosecution. He testified against his former associates and the Serbia’s leadership. Babic was found hanged in the prison cell in 2006, an apparent murder. The fact that he killed himself was supported by evidence.
It seems that a great deal of effort was applied by the so called international justice to come up with a new version of events that took place during the former Yugoslavia conflict to let anybody meddle in and change the story. But this effort was evidently propped up by certain Croatians who held high positions soon after the death of Croatian first president Franjo Tudjman in 1999 and these were the Croatians most of whom stood by communist Yugoslavia and did not want an independent Croatia in the first place.
In support of Serbia’s counterclaim, the court heard that there was no Serbia as a separate state at the time (1991-April 1992) as it was part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which was later transitioned into Serbia and Montenegro.
The Court never explained why all of a sudden Serbia became a defendant in that case which was originally filed against FRY and Croatia’s legal team failed to adequately argue similarities between the two, i.e. in essence, inseparable legal entities when it comes to the people responsible for crimes committed.
On 5 February 2015, Zagreb1 television program “Veterans Today” interviewed prof. dr. Zvonimir Separovic, who was the justice minister in Croatia at the time the original lawsuit for genocide against FRY was filed with the ICJ in 1999. Dr. Separovic compiled the genocide claim with the aid of David Rivkin, a leading US attorney. Dr Separovic stated that the Claim had then been changed starting with Ivica Racan’s social democrats government (former League of Communists) and subsequently changed even more to suit Serbia – he points the finger at Stjepan Ivanisevic (Racan’s justice minister), Ivan Simonovic (Racan’s deputy foreign minister) Ivan and Ivo Josipovic (former social democrat/League of Communists, attorney and current outgoing president of Croatia). This team, along with their political partners had changed the original Claim filed by Croatia in 1999. They removed FRY as the defendant i.e. removed Montenegro from the equation (even though quite a number of Montenegrin officers and soldiers served in the Yugoslav People’s Army at the time of aggression against Croatia) and inserted Serbia alone.
Not only that, this team of legal professionals had removed the Second pleading from the original Claim, which dr Separovic says had in it that Serbia ordered the withdrawal of some 100,000 Serb nationals from Croatia, after the acts of genocide against Croats had been committed and the removal of this point from Croatia’s original Claim was, according to dr Separovic, done with view to enabling Serbia to mount a counterclaim in which it (wrongfully) said some 200,000 of Serbs were forcibly deported from Croatia in 1995.
A book/memoir written by Radivoj Cvjeticanin (“Zagreb Indoors”), a former Serbia’s ambassador to Croatia, from page 231 reportedly talks about meetings with Ivan Simonovic and Ivo Josipovic which point to the Croatian players seeking advice and instructions from Serbia as to how to approach and what to say at the international court of justice – how to best relativise the Claim to aid Serbia!
There’s only ten days left of Ivo Josipovic’s presidency in Croatia and he is contemplating his future career, including returning to his previous position as law professor at University Of Zagreb. This would seem a most opportune time to commence lustration in Croatia and prevent any such person as is Josipovic taking up an important seat in the country’s education system, or any other system for that matter. The disloyalty to Croatia evidenced in the above is scandalous and unacceptable. One must ask: how can a law professional (Ivo Josipovic) who has evidently been heavily involved in sculpturing the human injustice that came out of the ICJ judgment (through adverse changes to original lawsuit Claim and through biased and inadequate selection of evidential material to be presented to the court as evidence) be permitted to represent Croatia in any official capacity at all? Surely, this cannot be permitted.
And so what of the ICJ decision in the case of genocide Croatia v Serbia? There’s no appeal to it. The only things left are for Croatia to continue prosecuting individual war crimes suspects, to remove the impunity for war crimes or suspected war crimes given to thousands of Serbs, to pursue rigorously the destiny of the many war victims still recorded as missing and for researchers and historians and lawyers, who have no need to use political compromises, to keep addressing the facts and justice for the victims. Ina Vukic, Prof. (Zgb), B.A., M.A.Ps. (Syd)
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Communist Yugoslavia, Croatia, genocide, ICJ, ICTY, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, Ivan Simonovic, Ivo Josipovic, lustration, Radivoj Cvjeticanin, Serb aggression, Serbia, Stjepan Ivanisevic, Zvonimir Separovic
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Old Fart says:
No one in NATO or US/BRITAIN wants to talk or remember about the Croatia v Serbia Genocide Case, THEY THEM SELF’S CREATED …
And if the judgment went the other way, Old Fart, would their reps who wheeled and dealed on the ground under “peace keeping” mandates find some that should be found in courts I wonder…
That will never happen …They have buried most of the evidences
It’s said that the ruling of the court in the Hague leaves sufficient ground for interpretations which is rather a bad news than a politically correct neutrality aimed at boosting the reconciliation process. In this way, the crimes are left to the conscience of the political elites at the moment or in the future in the region but also in the EU which was a direct observer of the events in the beginning of the 1990s and a participant in finding a peaceful solution. So, apart from insisting all countries in the region to persecute the war crimes, the EU should also demand from the political elites to condemn the crimes of the former regimes.
Especially communist crimes, Observer
Mak says:
the Court did make a record of the events during the wars, and the atrocities that were committed have been documented, but when dealing with such atrocities it is utterly inhumane and unjust to bring the court decision that punishes no one! The factual findings by the court will give no solace to victims and if it was the courts intention to “set historic facts in place” once again the history is written by the wrong people and once again humanity will not rest, complete peace will not be achieved until the perpetrators of these atrocities are made to answer for them
And, Mak, those that try to set the record straight, despite ICJ ruling, in the future will surely be called revisionists. How brutal a path the justice and the truth can endure
Roots says:
The ICJ has done absolutely nothing to advance peace and justice in this case. It founds acts of genocide only to rule there was no genocide by sheer chance of using the outdated definition of genocide that arose in 1948 after WWII. Shame on them!
Roots, thank you on your comment and I agree.
Pluto says:
The “and you, too, Brutus” quote from Julius Caesar could have applied here were Josipovic, Racan et al were true friends of Croatia, but as it seems they were not and so things are much more sinister than a “friend’s” betrayal
Indeed, Pluto
Zeljko says:
What is the definition of genocide?
What are the criteria before acts can be classified as genocide.
I think the most important aspect of this whole court case is the lack of “will to win” on the part of the Croatian legal team. If they did not perform to the best of their abilities (because they were told not to?) or because they willfully sabotaged the case then that is tantamount to treason. What are the names of the lawyers that worked on the case?
Genocide convention UN Article II: (a)Killing members of the group;(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Vesna Crnić-Grotić led the Croatian legal team – when last year the government removed professor Damaska (Yale uni) from the team I felt a strong sense of things going wrong and in particular sabotage I also became alarmed at the relatively overwhelming presence of Britisj lawyers on the Croatian team sir Keir Starmer and prof. James Crawford etc
Opinio Iuris says:
Ina, your conspiracy theories have no basis. Effective litigation requires excellent advocates who know how to argue a case and Crawford (unlike Crnic-Grotic or Damaska) is exactly that. He is a top tier international law expert and an outstanding barrister. Importantly, what you fail to mention in your quote of the convention is the crucial element of genocide: the intent to destroy. If there is no such intent on the evidence, there is no genocide. Killing hundreds with intent to displace them is not genocide, you have to have evidence that the intent was to destroy (think about the Holocaust). Luckily, there was no genocide in Croatia and I am still slightly bewildered about why people actually seem to wish there was genocide (in which case the ICJ would have ruled accordingly).
There no conspiracy theory here as far as I’m concerned, Opinio luris, there is also a legally acceptable argument that given the modern modes of aggression (modern as if post date when Convention was defined) e.g. intent to destroy an ethnic group from a geographic area “village by village” etc could be justified grounds to rule with precedence and re-define the genocide definition. No one wishes for genocide but since it did occur then it needs to be treated without political attributes or outdated definition etc – that is my opinion based on facts and not a conspiracy theory
Pluto, this is it! Just read the interview with prof. dr. Mirjan Damaska, prof. at Yale and expert in intl. law who was removed from the Croatian team and you will see. I hope Ina will translate it for you all. In a few words: we could have had the same verdict as in the Bosnia vs. Serbia case, i.e. that Serbia is responsible for not PREVENTING genocide, particularly in the area of eastern Slavonia. The politics, that is Josipović, Pusić, Šimonović did all to prevent even such outcome. Btw. ‘full’ genocide would have not passed as it is almost impossible to win the case with such a narrow definition of it.
Budding in here, Klara – Damaska’s mention of political influence in legal team has a lot of meaning and why the current government chose British legal consultants is a ground open to many reasonable adverse speculations… while the verdict may not have been different with a different team it does bother as to how quite bit of evidence presented was not accepted by the court – the team must have known that in advance as standards are quite clear so why file unverified or unverifiable statements etc at all!? This was calculated rather than stupid in my opinion.
Very disturbing, very disappointing and unfortunately very predictable outcome. Yes, now all fingers are pointed at both SDP govts. (Racan’s and Milanovic’s) and their alleged manoeuverings and connivings in order to sabotage Croatia’s case against Serbia – but when all the dust settles, what will be the real ramifications for those involved? Will anyone(HDZ) hold those publicly named individuals responsible – will investigations be mounted, will lawsuits be filed? After all, these people have been accused of treachery and as such, if found guilty, there could be no greater criminal consequences. But lets not just stop at SDP and their political culpability, there is enough blame to go around.
When the Croatian constitution legitimizes/justifies and asserts to the world that Tito’s Communist Yugoslavia was the rightful precursor of modern Croatia – then you have a BIG problem. Just to restate: Tito, his Partisans, his Communists, his regime – is now formerly ensconced in the most important document that we as a nation possess.That was at the very least a massively stupid misstep or at the very worst a calculated treasonous act. Where was the logic – we voted 97% for secession from Yugo, we fought a war against Yugo, but still we recognize our enemy and thank him for our persecution of the last 45 years by their honorable mention in our constitution! Thank you Mr. Tudjman and HDZ.
When the supposed political right is full of lefts(leftists) then you have another BIG problem. HDZ was so full of Communists in the early 90’s that to call them right wing (desnicari) was a misnomer. Was there ever a case where a person was refused membership? It seemed like no political pedigree was too bloody to be accepted. Coming from a former communist system, it would be understandable that membership would include former card carrying communists – BUT – when key political/military/judicial etc. positions were retained by or filled by those who were notorious stakeholders in the former regime then the problems can and did only get bigger. Thank you Mr. Tudjman and HDZ.
When those thousands of insurgents who could have stood trial for waging war against Croatia and Croatians were unilaterally granted amnesty from future prosecution- and were thereby free to be employed as civil servants, as policemen, as the representatives of the govt. against which they fought — more problems -thank you Mr. Tudjman and HDZ.
These few examples are used to point out that no political party or leader is blameless and that we owe it to ourselves to hold accountable those whose actions/decisions had negative consequences whoever they may be and from whatever political option. If nothing else, these revelations into the behind the scenes manipulations of SDP should be a warning to us to be vigilant in overseeing and holding accountable those who we empower.
Yes Velebit, antifascism is mentioned in the Constitution as a foundation for independent Croatia and obviously that must be removed for what happened after the constitution was sealed was the brutal war and after it peaceful reintegration of Eastern Slavonia etc by 1998 then Tudjman died – obviously not having time to ponder on the mistake made with antifascism in early days for as it happened after the war we know that the foundations of independent Croatia lie with the war veterans etc… much work lies ahead including taking the amnesty given top suspected and known criminals away..
Rex Croatorum says:
The theory of legal vacuum until April 1992, the definition of genocidal intent and counting ratio are a shame.
Serbia is successor to Yugoslavia in every regard but not when it comes to attacking other countries? 16,000 dead (least we forget an additional 7,600 dead Croats in BiH) 145 mass graves and over half a million refugees/displaced people in RH is an insufficient number of victims to speak of genocide?
Although the court acknowledged acts of genocide, they dispelled genocidal intent as there were not enough killed. The truth is we defended more than was allowed (who remembers the arms embargo). If we had defended as everyone expected, there would of been a second Bleiburg, with figures of hundreds of thousands dead which according to these judicial games would then constitute genocide? Is it too bad they could not wipe out all 4.5 million of us? Its as if they want to make us believe that if we had not so furiously defended, Vukovar would not be so destroyed? If we immediately surrendered, there would be no Ovcara?
Was it that difficult to prove that in addition to those killed at Ovcara in Vukovar actually ALL killed, raped and expelled were on one psychological level part of the monstrous Serbian plan? The reality is the distribution of these acts of genocide (actus reus, which the court acknowledged) were not isolated cases, yet took the form of a continuity throughout the whole country. But what can we expect when the whole suit was sabotaged by out own fifth column yugo scum, after they did not unsucessfull in throwing out the whole suit.
The judgment or should one say the criteria for genocide the court took, Rex Croatorum, is a licence to kill or commit acts of genocide with being responsible for them – yes indeed the court found that these acts perpetrated against Croats were many and across several regions etc but still not enough for their big genocide…although I understand that the definition the court took stands as rule in UN but they could have at least shown some humanity and made a statement that the definition need review …
…why would this Josipovic, Racan, Milanovic et. al. seek to sabotage Croatia in these genocide trials at the Hague? Why would this so-called “Dr.” Josipovic, want to be under the Serbian jackboots forever? Why would someone want to be branded a “useful idiot” by the Serbian communists? The Royalist Jugoslavia and Tito’s Jugoslavia were just a “non de plume” for a Greater Serbia anyway!
Josipovic, as for his being a “legal expert” on international law…well, I don’t think so!
But, as stated before, you have to respect the Serbians because they………………………. …KILL THEIR TRAITORS!
Tempus Fugit – thank you on your comment however it was partially deleted because there was no corroboration or evidence regarding the law degree etc
I have one word for all of this and its called equalization. This is something that was in the works for quite some time that I elaborated on this post a while ago while defending Gotovina et el. Does that mean I agree with he verdict? absolutely not. But the big picture for the ICJ was to protect many powerful people and countries that had a hand in our defense. We all know that powers in the USA / Britain etc would have been subject to the courts trial for the defense in Croatia and Bosnia and that Israel would have had to been accountable for violating arms embargo when they shipped weapons to the Serbs that killed many people. Being that this war was the largest in scope since ww2 there are a lot of interests by certain groups not to equate it to the same level for political and historic reasons. None the less we have every obligation through any means possible including out side of law to hold all of those who harmed our country and people accountable.
I do hope though, Michael, that those “foreigners” who committed or added to or participated in war crimes or allowed them to occur… will come before the courts sooner or later. The verdict at ICJ does not preclude that and it certainly is a record of atrocities that did occur.
NorwayMan says:
There are Winds once Again coming from Serbia telling Croatia ” you have no rights to indepedence we will return you by force ” will Croatia defend itself once Again ?
I think so, NorwayMan, if it comes to that
A very important precedent, keeping in mind an extensive definition of Genocide as the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
… Thanks for bringing this case into the spotlight, Inavukic… All the best to you. Aquileana 😀
Thank you, Aquileana, much appreciated
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Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch review: The new iPad makes a powerful case for replacing the traditional laptop.
When Apple launched the first iPad Pro a few years back, the idea was to clearly push the envelope on what a mobile device could do. The tablet was a popular segment then, but it still could not do a lot things a laptop could, and hence put off some of the potential buyers.
The first iPad Pro was way more powerful than any tablet before it and it also came with the Apple Pencil stylus and audio quality unheard of in any mobile device. Three years on, Apple has refreshed its iPad Pro range with two new models, one 11 and the other 12.9 inches, but both with the capability to out any laptop to shame.
Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch specifications: 12.9-inch (diagonal) LED display with IPS technology 2732 x 2048-pixel resolution at 264 pixels per inch (ppi) | A12X Bionic chipset | 64GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB storage space | 12MP rear camera with f/1.8 aperture, 4K recording | TrueDepth 7MP front camera, Face ID | iOS 12 | Type-C USB port | 10 hour battery life
Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch price in India: Starts at Rs 89,900
As someone who has used an iPad for many years, it was apparent that this was a different tablet altogether in terms of design. The new iPad Pro is thinner and has a consistent thickness all through. It seems like a slick slab of metal and glass, and that is something I can live with.
The other noticeable change is the missing Home button, which also means Apple could afford a much thinner bezel than before. As a result this version also ushers in FaceID onto Apple tablets. There are still power and volume buttons on the sides. In horizontal orientation, the tablet is flanked by two sets of speakers on both sides.
Apple’s iPad Pro has a stunning 12.9-inch Liquid Retina Display.
The iPad Pro has a stunningly clear Liquid Retina Display, which at 2732 x 2048-pixel resolution makes it a pleasure to consume content on. Now, there is more to the consumption angle here. If the first iPad Pro showed the world great audio can be achieved on mobile devices too, this version gives this audio quality serious stereo capabilities.
You can actually hear car chases as you would in a cinema, with sound moving from one side to the other. On a tablet, that is just something you have to hear to believe.
Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch: FaceID
Apple is ushering its FaceID with the new iPad Pro. This for me is the most natural way to unlock any device — there’s a bit of wishful thinking here, hoping the technology comes to laptops too soon. On the iPad, while the set up has to be done in vertical orientation, the unlocks works even when the tablet is horizontal, as you would use it most of the time with the keyboard folio.
This presents an awkward problem: that of the hand coming in way of the camera. So Apple detects this and prompts you to let the camera see your face. FaceID on the iPad, with no hindrance, is as fast and accurate as it is on the iPhone.
The Pencil now pairs and recharges by just sticking to the side of the tablet.
Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch: Apple Pencil and Keyboard Folio
The Apple Pencil launched in the earlier version didn’t really offer an experience at par with the Samsung S-Pen or the Microsoft Surface Pen, primarily because it didn’t feel natural. For me the experience was akin to holding a marble stick. Now, Apple has a version 2.0 of the Pencil, which is natural to hold and is easier to use overall.
And it solves another major problem. The Pencil now pairs and recharges by just sticking to the side of the tablet. While this ensures the Pencil has charge at all times, it also makes sure it is literally at spot where you will end up using it.
I for instance have not really bothered to use this or other stylus much because they are easily forgotten. Overall, the Apple Pencil is much better than before, but I still won’t call it the best one around.
There is a new keyboard folio too. While the concept is essentially the same, there are two slots now which means you can keep the iPad more upright or in a lean back mode, which works better for consuming content.
The new iPad Pro is thinner and has a consistent thickness all through. It seems like a slick slab of metal and glass, and that is something I can live with.
Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch: Performance
This is where the Pro in the Apple Pro starts making more sense. If the first iPad Pro could offer performance better than any other tablet till that point, the 2018 iPad Pro, powered by A12X Bionic processor can do better than a lot of laptops out there, certainly the standard issues in most offices across the world.
A testament to this power is the fact that Adobe will in a few months release Photoshop for iPad, and that too a full-blown version, not something toned down to work on an underpowered device.
You can see this raw power at work even now. With apps like Trace, you can work on multiple layers and create vector images. You can run multiple-power hungry apps and cycle between the as you please. You can run scores of tabs pop Google Chrome. You can run AR Apps like Augment and play music as you run it. At no point will the iPad Pro groan or complain. Nor will it heat up or crash.
And this is the audience that Apple is clearly looking to woo. With apps like Photoshop and Autocad, it will be trying to shift laptop users to the iPad which could for some workflows be more natural that using the a laptop with a mouse.
Despite the better display and more powerful battery, the iPad Pro 12.9-inch battery easily lasted me a day or regular work. Or should I say you can work eight hours on this device on a full charge with network on.
Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch: Verdict
I have made at least two trips where I have had just the iPad for work. I have been able to do my regular writing, even working on the WordPress CMS, opening and working on Google Sheets and Slides and consuming all forms of content from text to audio books and video with no cause for complaint.
The only extra feature I kept craving for was a mouse and maybe even that’s possible now thanks to the USB-C port which as replaced the earlier lightning port.
The iPad Pro is now good enough to let you leave your laptop at home and even if you are not thinking of this a replacement for a laptop, it is clearly the best tablet out there. However, buy the Apple Pencil only if you need it.
But then do get the keyboard, despite its hefty price tag, as this is an important part of the replace-laptop experience. Come to think of it, the iPad Pro is now a better buy than the MacBook Air, certainly for that target audience. What else do I need to convince you that the best tablet has just gotten better.
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Sunshine Week: Brandon Quester’s take on public records
by Brandon Quester | March 15, 2019
inewsource is taking part in Sunshine Week, an annual weeklong celebration that highlights open government and access to public information. Director of Data and Visuals Brandon Quester shared his take on requesting public records and some of his favorite sources for finding open information.
A recent story that drew from public records
One of my favorite stories that relied on public records was a piece I collaborated on with former inewsource healthcare reporter Cheryl Clark. The topic was a bit morbid – a rise in diabetes-related amputations in California – but it also had not been previously reported or identified as a growing trend.
Clark has covered healthcare topics for longer than I’ve been a reporter. Her deep knowledge of complex health systems, including a long list of sources to rely on during reporting, were key to this successful records request and the resulting story.
What we identified was a “shocking” trend that clinicians across California – and San Diego in particular – were amputating limbs of patients with diabetes at an alarming rate. Over the course of six years, these types of amputations grew by more than 30 percent in California. In San Diego County, the increase was 66 percent.
To do this reporting, we needed data from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the agency responsible for collecting information about patients discharged from California hospitals. Clark requested more than 100 separate billing codes, by body part and procedure from 2010 to 2016. This data detailed the number of amputation procedures done on diabetes patients across the state.
The challenge wasn’t just getting the data. We had to understand what the data could and could not tell us, and how we could use it to inform our reporting.
Because there’s no data that tracks the total number of patients with diabetes in the state, we had to find a way to compare the statistics from one county to another. We used California Department of Finance population projections to calculate a rate of occurrence for diabetes-related amputations, or the number of amputations per 100,000 residents.
Diabetes experts across California didn’t have an answer as to why the increase was happening. But because of Clark’s detailed reporting, a state lawmaker cited the data in his effort to get more money for diabetes prevention.
The lesson here is know the type of information you need and where to get it. And that there are often important trends hidden between columns and rows if you know how to look for them.
My favorite sources for public information
1. San Diego Open Data Portal
This well-maintained open data portal has a wealth of information. Users can search datasets, view samples of data layouts and access the documentation about what each field represents. The city staff who run it are also very responsive to requests and questions. You can find everything from pothole repair requests to parking meter transactions to the number of fire incidents.
2. SanGIS
This website is a terrific source of geographic data. It could be boundaries of voting districts to property parcels to earthquake faults. You’ll need to create a user account to access this data warehouse, but it’s free. inewsource has used SanGIS for our election maps, our graphics on Mello-Roos taxes, and other detailed maps and data that you can find on data.inewsource.org.
3. U.S. Census
Whether you’re looking for hyper-local data on demographics or educational attainment, or trying to understand statistics at the state or national level, the U.S. Census Bureau is one of my favorite places for data. The interface on the website can be a bit cumbersome, but organizations such as censusreporter.org have a much more user-friendly interface.
4. Bureaus of…
Tons of federal agencies collect and maintain data, much of which we refine to report at the local level. Some of my favorites start with “Bureau of…”
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
5. Data.World
Data.World is a relatively new company that compiles, hosts and shares data from sources across the U.S. and world. You can find information from local health departments to national statistics to international data repositories. You can also download the data or ask questions of it through a slick online interface. Hint: inewsource uses this to post specific databases publicly, such as our data behind the America’s Wall project, which you can find here.
Best rejection for public records
My favorite records request rejection was from a county recorder when I was working in Arizona. It was funny in a sad kind of way, but it ended up working out in my favor. Here’s what happened:
I was working on a story about rejected ballots from the 2012 election, trying to find out why a high number of ballots cast had been rejected, and what that meant for Arizona’s voters and the people who managed elections.
I requested the number of and reasons for rejected ballots from every county in the state. I asked for those to be produced in a database format, to include all rejected ballots, broken down by type of ballot. Most county recorders complied with my request, but one didn’t.
In an accidental email (cc’ing me in addition to every county recorder in Arizona), the records clerk said, “We aren’t giving him anything … nobody else is either.”
The employee went on to say, “The other counties aren’t giving up more than the (statement of vote) either I think so he’ll probably just go away.”
The employee was wrong. I didn’t go away.
I reminded the employee that if Arizona’s public records law is not followed it can result in a felony conviction. For good measure, I drove to that recorder’s office a few days later, about four hours away, and asked the same employee for additional records. It worked.
bureau of economic analysis bureau of labor statistics san diego open data portal Sunshine Week 2019-03-15
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About Brandon Quester:
Brandon Quester is director of data and visuals at inewsource. To contact him with tips, suggestions or corrections, please email brandonquester [at] inewsource [dot] org.
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21 Savage’s ICE Arrest: Everything We Know
scalptur February 8, 2019 Uncategorized Leave a comment 105 Views
21 Savage’s recent stoppage at the hands of ICE has raised a surplus of questions. While the hip-hop community mobilizes to stand united in the #Free21Savage movement, fans are left picking up the parts. Many have already impounded the “2 1 is British” narrative, letting “en guarde” ad-libs and musket citations wing. Others have taken a more actively involved approaching, lending their signatures to an official petition.
Different reports seem to circulate every hour, constructing it difficult to piece together an accurate timeline. For the above reasons, it merely stirs feel to assemble a comprehensive guidebook to 21 ’s ongoing legal story. Should you be confused, concerned, or simply curious, consider taking the time to familiarize yourself.
Shareif Ziyada/ Getty ImagesTWO COUSINS ARRESTED
On February 3rd, 2019, 21 Barbarian and his cousin Young Nudy were both were detained in Atlanta. While initial reports seemed to indicate that local police had been targeting both artists in one fell swoop, their arrests were later revealed to be unconnected. An associate of Nudy named DJ BJ claimed that the cousins weren’t even in the same vehicle, let alone were detained in the same running. Yet both rappers were arrested nonetheless; Nudy, by Atlanta police, 21 by ICE agents.
For those wondering, Nudy was booked on aggravated assault and gang accusations. His solicitor W. Scott Smith has since issued a statement: “We believe that Young Nudy is innocent and this is a case of mistaken identity. Young Nudy’s legal squad works in close cooperation with law enforcement agencies to ensure this case does not get blown out of proportion.”
Moses Robinson/ Getty Images, Scott Dudelson/ Getty Images
On the other hand, 21 located himself in ICE custody. At the time report of the arrest infringe, a tweet from WSB shared the following statement from ICE spokesman Bryan Cox: “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement( ICE) apprehended unlawfully present United kingdom government national Sha Yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph AKA’ 21 Savage’ during a targeted procedure with federal and local law enforcement agencies spouses early Sunday in metro Atlanta.”
The invocation of a United kingdom government origin story soon led to an explosion of internet “wit, ” in spite of the potentially serious consequences. Meanwhile, the same ICE spokesman continued to clarify what happened, explaining that 21 originally arrived on American clay in 2005( stimulating him approximately 12 years old ), but the following year, failed to abide by the criteria of his expired VISA. ICE even proceeded to assassinate the rapper’s character, labelling his entire public persona as “false.” ICE’s original proclamation also alludes to 21 ’s federal narcotic cost, which occurred in 2014, when the rapper was twenty-one. The strange thing is, it seems to be invoked as a catalyst for his forced deviation, despite having appeared five years ago. Not to mention, service charges was since expunged from his record, though such formalities matter little to ICE.
So how did ICE come to nab 21 in the first place? Contrary to early reports, it was not merely a instance of “wrong place, incorrect hour, ” nor was it in any way related to Nudy’s charge. Earlier today, TMZ reported that 21 Savage actually filed for a U-Visa in 2017, which would allow him to tour outside of the United States. Of track, that has meant that ICE were already aware of the rapper’s status. While it has yet to be confirmed, speculation is demonstrated that ICE led a background check , noticed 21 ’s prior offense, and used it as ammunition in their campaign for deportation.
Not only that, but Law enforcement agencies are increasingly attempted to drive home the “British National” narrative, using loaded, evocative words in what would seem to be every proclamation. Though the young sun invested the majority of his life in Atlanta, a few tweets seemed to delete his entire neighbourhood identity in one fell swoop. The thought that one cannot come to develop a newfound dwelling seems decidedly at odds with America’s founding principles. Lest we forget, 2Pac himself was born in New York, and is to continue to emblemize the west coast. In any case, 21 ’s reputation as an Atlanta-bred act surely took a slam, at the least insofar as the internet was concerned.
Prince Williams/ Getty Images“THE BRITISH INVASION”
So where is 21 Savage actually from? And how did he find himself on American clay in the first place? Many had now been claimed 21 ’s birthplace as Dominica, with XXL citing an alleged pre-fame Facebook page as a tenuous source. Yet small island developing of Dominica was indeed under British govern up until 1978, so the timeline doesn’t precisely line up.
On February 4th, the Daily Mail cleared the air by posting a facsimile of 21 ’s birth certificate. The rapper was actually born in the London borough of Newham, the son of Heather Joseph and Kevin Emmons. It would appear that 21 and his mother eventually moved to Atlanta, leaving behind two sisters called Kyra and Jayda, which is now run as dance choreographers.
In truth, it appears that 21 ’s origin was never truly a secret. People simply neglected to looking deeper, because in reality, why would they? Yet the proof is out there. A video from last-place summertime features his mother sharing a few words at her son’s Back To School Drive. In it, her British accent is evident, though people simply began making a big deal of it in recent days. While many will likely flock to the clip as evidence of 21 ’s British descent, it provides a dual purpose: highlighting his contributions to the Atlanta community.
Though 21 ’s father is officially documented as Kevin Emmons, The Breakfast Club’s Angela Yee has claimed Dr. Amsu Anpu to be the rapper’s father. At this moment, it’s difficult to assess whether Emmons actually changed his name, or if Dr. Anpu is a father figure in 21 ’s life. The Dr. has occasionally posted photographs of 21 Savage in a celebratory way, with captions that indicate a familial associate. At this time, Dr. Anpu has shared the circulate #Free21Savage petition on his Instagram page. For what it’s worth, he does, in fact, have a British accent.
THE FALLOUT
Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images
Earlier today, the rapper’s lawyer Charles H. Kuck, has issued the following statement 😛 TAGEND
“ICE incarcerated She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, the well-known Atlanta based recording artist and songwriter also known as ‘2 1 Savage.’ Based upon incorrect information about prior criminal charges and now refusing to liberate him on alliance of any amount, despite the fact that he has a pending U-Visa application( as the victim of crime) with USCIS, and that he has succour from removal available to him. Mr. Abraham-Joseph has never concealed his immigration status from the U.S. government. The Department of Homeland Security has known his address and its own history since his filing for the U Visa in 2017, yet they took no act against him until this past weekend. ICE can only continue to detain individuals who are a threat the community or a flight risk to not show up at their hearings. Patently, our client is not a flight danger, as he is widely recognizable, and a prominent member of the music industry. Likewise, Mr. Abraham-Joseph’s is clearly not a danger to the community, and in fact, its own contribution to local communities and academies that he grew up in are examples of the type of immigrant we want in America.”
ICE has not charged Mr. Abraham-Joseph with any crime. As a minor, their own families overstayed their work visas, and he, like almost two million other children, was left without legal status through no faulting of his own. This is a civil law violation, and the continued detention of Mr. Abraham-Joseph serves no other purpose than to unnecessarily penalize him and try to daunt him into giving up his right to fight to stay in the United States. He rose above the difficult circumstances of his youth to achieve success and could contribute to our society that rival any of those by a natural born citizen. Mr. Abraham-Joseph has US citizen children that he supports and is eligible for succour from deportation. We and he will fight for his liberation, for his family, and his right to remain in our home countries. No one is looking forward to less from him.”
Interestingly enough, Kuck’s statement suggests that ICE is applying intimidation tactics on the rapper, which coincides with another disturbing discovery. “He is in lockdown for 23 hrs of the day, ” clarifies Savage’s co-manager Stone Mound Meezy. “No tv or all communications besides our 10 min telephone call … everything I’ve told him that has been happening established him happy& stirs this time fly by thank y’all for the support.” Such an image substantiates the intimidation cited by Kuck, and we can only hope that 21 preserves a staunch resolve. After all, the person or persons have rallied around his cause, even though they are ICE seems hellbent on dedicating him the boot.
Despite the rapper’s sudden change in fate, the entire rap play appeared to have combined behind him. A petition, started by Black Lives Matter activist Patrisse Khan-Cullors, has been widely circulated by 21 ’s collaborators, and social media has been abuzz with his fellow artists sharing considers, prayers, and terms of encouragement.
Though some might still attempt to discredit the rapper’s Atlanta roots, in reality, he remains an integral member of the community. Not merely did he grow up there, but he forged relations, witnessed the deaths among his best friend, and developed into the man and artist he is today. In the end, losing 21 would be a jolt to the entire rap play, and we can only hope this mess gets sorted out before long. For now, it’s still free 21 Savage! And lest we forget, Young Nudy!
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A Game By Its Cover 2018
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A topic by PersonaBlack created Jul 31, 2018 Views: 393 Replies: 12
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PersonaBlack350 days ago
Was browsing the game choices this weekend and fell in love with this cover immediately,
The cover actually feels like the inverse of another game I did recently 'Vicious' and is a really good opportunity to do the reverse of its theme of nihilism.
The main focus will be narrative over gameplay, but the world will have a tight puzzle box set up with minor survival horror elements. You're mostly looking for fragments of your memories in order to come to terms with your own death and existentialist dread, while simultaneously being chased by the metaphor monster which represents ___________ ...no spoilers.
at the moment the player has floating movement for navigation, and one of the first upgrades will be a familiar that can attack and move separately from you to reach places you can't
HighwireAct350 days ago
I love your art here! This is looking seriously stunning so far, and I'm intrigued by the premise!
Shweep350 days ago
I like the aesthetic so far. Really matches the cover.
Eurritimia350 days ago
This will look amazing!
thanks very much everyone, the support really does mean a lot.
slowly moving forward with level design at the moment, there's a bit much to the scope of this so the version made for the jam will probably use a lot of stills for the memory scenes in order to make the date. The story isn't going to get to overly deep, I'm not a strong writer and other people have done this subject better already, so there's going to be a lot of emphasis on visuals to compensate.
and yes the game has colors ;p i'd actually like to use them in some way for problem solving is time allows. Also up for suggestions on some cool feature linked to the players death, like maybe a small randomized maze you have to escape to return to the game?
Small weekly update, most of the map is set up for the first chapter, since the game is a bit large I'm going to focus on getting to a really good continuation for the story. Also having someone compose some music which going pretty smooth so far.
green areas are chapter 2
small update, maps about 100% along with the opening cut. all that really left is 4 short cut scenes and adding a few enemies. things are going so smoothly that after releasing part 1 at the end of the Jam I'll be jumping into yuri jam with a much bigger project I've been wanting to do for a while.
also have the main characters outfit designed, it changes tone to match the mood on the room. She had more animation originally but it felt more like a fighting game sprite, her stillness works better for the feel of the game. side note, 'she' needs a name, open to suggestions.
and added a pretty cool puzzle along with the typical item hunt, it's nothing on the level of old silent hill games but it's original and matches the game.
She looks like a Sofia to me. (Sophia??)
Jordgubben332 days ago
My initial thought is "Esther", probably because it sounds like "Esper".
The name should match the story some how. Have you tried https://www.behindthename.com/ ?
for progress puzzles are 100% and there are now 3 enemies and a sorta boss, and a weird combat mechanic. trying to knock out the memory scenes by the weekend.
So I actually really like the name sophia, but there already a sophia/sophie who's a main character in next months project ;) Will keep esther in mind, the answer to your other question though is yes, name meanings come up a lot in the next game so if you pay attention you'll be able to figure out which girls aren't human really fast.
This one kinda plays more with tarots, the lead is 'the queen of pentacles'
Chapter/part 1 is 100%, just need to adjust a few small things found in testing, maybe a full upload tomorrow? I know the jam has been extended but the plan was to start another game in a few days so maybe the extra time could go to beta testing and fixing things in the game.
alright, part 1 is done, ready for download https://personablack.itch.io/ghost
obviously would love any feedback regarding the project, really need to take a break from it for a second, working on a game daily that's supposed to be depressing and real takes a bit out of you... so the next game will probably have dancing cats....
TTIO301 days ago
I enjoyed this. The art and music are amazing. Sadly, the controls are a bit awkward.
It's quite difficult to do precise movement - this could maybe be rectified by having her take a second or so to reach maximum speed? Also, the rate of falling isn't consistent - when going left or right you fall more slowly than when standing still. This might be intentional, but it feels awkward.
I'd appreciate a Linux build when you get back to this. Looking forward to seeing more :)
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New Solution for Scanning Electron Microscopes Includes Immediately Available Color Images for Fast Analyses and Highly Precise Data
author/source: Thermo Fisher Scientific
New ColorSEM technology from Thermo Fisher Scientific provides scientists more complete sample information and increased productivity
Scientists, engineers and researchers can now instantly view and analyze meaningful elemental content that is differentiated by color directly from a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The Thermo Scientific ColorSEM technology is the first commercial solution that includes integrated elemental analysis with unique color imaging. It produces live color images directly within the simplified SEM user interface (UI) without switching to conventional Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) analysis or another user interface. This new technology allows users to generate more complete information from their samples, can be less intimidating for inexperienced users, and can increase productivity compared to current techniques.
"Like the move from black and white to color televisions, this solution will make greyscale SEM images a thing of the past," said Mike Shafer, president of materials and structural analysis at Thermo Fisher Scientific. "Immediate access to colorized elemental information means our customers can see differences they may have otherwise missed in regular SEM imaging and provides users of all experience levels with more intuitive information that can propel their research forward."
The Thermo Scientific ColorSEM technology solves two user problems:
It integrates SEM and EDS into one technique. Researchers often use SEM imaging with EDS analysis to determine the elemental composition of a sample, which can be time-consuming and intimidating for inexperienced users. By integrating the SEM and EDS into one imaging technique, ColorSEM increases productivity and eliminates the need to move from one UI to another. The faster, easier-to-use process makes it possible for academic institutions to accommodate more researchers within a single multi-user lab with a higher throughput.
It allows users to see true elemental content, differentiated by color, instantly. Scientists, researchers and engineers using SEM need to observe similarities and differences within their samples, but greyscale SEM imaging lacks elemental composition information. Elemental content produced with the new ColorSEM technology is automatically generated with differentiated colors, allowing users to immediately see defects or tell features apart in a sample area.
The ColorSEM technology will be available in the fourth quarter of 2019. Thermo Fisher will demonstrate the solution at the Microscience Microscopy Congress (MMC) 2019 in July and at Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) 2019 in August.
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Le Hinton Speaks in THE LANGUAGE OF MOISTURE AND LIGHT
By Joseph Ross on June 24, 2014
Poet, editor, and publisher, Le Hinton, has given poetry lovers a real gift. The Language of Moisture and Light, his fifth poetry collection, speaks in an honest vocabulary about love, memory, loss, and the constant struggle to be human. This books takes the reader to the center of those realities. Even the book’s covers, front and back, are mirror images of a barely opened door. So regardless our point of entry, we end up at the heart, exploring those realities, especially memory and loss.
The Language of Moisture and Light divides into two sections. The first, “Moisture,” the second, “Light.” These poems are open and accessible. Yet their language is rich, layered, and beautiful. Every now and then, I found my breath taken away. Hinton uses his skills quietly, crafting lines and stanzas with multiple opportunities for meaning. Let’s dive in to a few of these excellent poems.
“No Doubt About it (I Gotta Get Another Hat)” is a magnificent elegy to poet Chris Toll. I heard Le Hinton read this poem before I read it on the page. Hearing it first, I had the distinct memory of being stunned at the poem’s last line. The poem uses an interesting, almost Basquiat-like device– of crossing out words. This poetic tool takes the reader in a couple of directions at once. Its final lines “I know why he / is in ache” sums up and turns the poem in a devastatingly beautiful way. I have since learned that this poem will appear in the upcoming edition of Best American Poetry and I’m delighted that Le Hinton’s work will receive that kind of national exposure.
Hinton delves deeply into memory in many of his poems. “47th & Baltimore” explores an apartment building and the life it holds– or doesn’t hold.
Apartment 11 dances out the door for trick or treat
singing Handel’s hallelujah in Spanish.
Apartment 5 marvels at the hearts and flowers
engraved on toilet paper, gentleness on tiny corners.
It closes with these lines:
7 fills the building with bread
At midnight, Apartment 1 sits by the window, still waits
for her ghost to come home.
“First Day of School, 1958” is a frightening poem about race and memory. The speaker recalls being physically abused by white boys at school. Then he recalls the systematic way teachers, acting for the system, misunderstand the child and deepen the abuse. Hinton again uses crossed out words to great effect.
The “list poem,” as a form, shows up a couple of times in this collection. In “Metaphysics 101/ Open Book Test” Hinton uses this form beautifully. Some of this poem is amusing, some dives dangerously into the power of memory again. The poem is a list of questions including these:
1. If you owned a racehorse, what would you name it?
2. Do you always abbreviate the term et cetera? Why or y
not?
It goes on:
9. Which word best describes your life:
a. emulsified
b. limp
c. queasy
d. zippy
10. What should you have done?
(No explanation required.)
In the poem “Epidemic,” Hinton uses the front-to-back and back-to-front effect well. The poem, is two 11-line sections, whose order is reversed. It works.
“Catching a Butterfly, March 8, 1971” is a magnificent persona poem in the voice of boxer Joe Frazier. You can hear both the threat and the sadness in Frazier’s words.
One of my favorite poems near the end of the collection is “Muse (Transposing)” In this poem, the speaker directly addresses Muse, the source of inspiration, in a hopeful and confident way. The speaker first remembers:
You were with Monk tempting
all those black keys
in a semi-dark chocolate room, 13
round tables full of liquor.
You were with Trane, backlit glistening
in the shadows, (bleeding the edge)
shedding thick, dissonant
scales.
It concludes:
Now, you are with me in the glare
of an Earl Grey morning.
White-empty walls, a blank page, 26
letters full of risk.
Le Hinton’s poetry leads, satisfies, and then surprises. All of this is just what good poetry can do when it is carefully crafted. The Language of Moisture and Light is a collection full of craft, in the shape of rich, strong poetry. I hope many people will find and read this book.
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Malcolm X Park Gets Us out of “Me” and into “We”
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Pilon: An Integrated Tool for Comprehensive Microbial Variant Detection and Genome Assembly Improvement
Bruce J. Walker ,
Contributed equally to this work with: Bruce J. Walker, Thomas Abeel
* E-mail: bruce@broadinstitute.org (BJW); aearl@broadinstitute.org (AME)
Current address: Applied Minds, LLC, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Thomas Abeel ,
Affiliations Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Terrance Shea,
Margaret Priest,
Amr Abouelliel,
Sharadha Sakthikumar,
Christina A. Cuomo,
Qiandong Zeng,
Jennifer Wortman,
Sarah K. Young,
Ashlee M. Earl
Bruce J. Walker,
Thomas Abeel,
Sarah K. Young
Bruce J. Walker Thomas Abeel ... Ashlee M. Earl
Advances in modern sequencing technologies allow us to generate sufficient data to analyze hundreds of bacterial genomes from a single machine in a single day. This potential for sequencing massive numbers of genomes calls for fully automated methods to produce high-quality assemblies and variant calls. We introduce Pilon, a fully automated, all-in-one tool for correcting draft assemblies and calling sequence variants of multiple sizes, including very large insertions and deletions. Pilon works with many types of sequence data, but is particularly strong when supplied with paired end data from two Illumina libraries with small e.g., 180 bp and large e.g., 3–5 Kb inserts. Pilon significantly improves draft genome assemblies by correcting bases, fixing mis-assemblies and filling gaps. For both haploid and diploid genomes, Pilon produces more contiguous genomes with fewer errors, enabling identification of more biologically relevant genes. Furthermore, Pilon identifies small variants with high accuracy as compared to state-of-the-art tools and is unique in its ability to accurately identify large sequence variants including duplications and resolve large insertions. Pilon is being used to improve the assemblies of thousands of new genomes and to identify variants from thousands of clinically relevant bacterial strains. Pilon is freely available as open source software.
Citation: Walker BJ, Abeel T, Shea T, Priest M, Abouelliel A, Sakthikumar S, et al. (2014) Pilon: An Integrated Tool for Comprehensive Microbial Variant Detection and Genome Assembly Improvement. PLoS ONE 9(11): e112963. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112963
Editor: Junwen Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Received: August 25, 2014; Accepted: October 16, 2014; Published: November 19, 2014
Copyright: © 2014 Walker et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Data Availability: The authors confirm that all data underlying the findings are fully available without restriction. All sequence data files are available from the Sequence Read Archive database (accession numbers SRX347313, SRX347312, SRX105400, SRX110130, SRX347317 and SRX347316).
Funding: This project has been funded in part with Federal funds from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No.:HHSN272200900018C. This project has been also been funded in part with Federal funds from the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under grant U54HG003067. TA is a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation-Flanders. The funders played no role collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; and in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Massively parallel sequencing technology has dramatically reduced the cost of genome sequencing, making the generation of large numbers of microbial genomes accessible to a wide range of biological researchers. For example, a single Illumina HiSeq2500 has the ability to generate the equivalent of 300 bacterial genomes of sequencing data in a single day using only one flow cell. Comparisons of whole genome sequence data from hundreds of microorganisms have provided unprecedented views on all aspects of microbial diversity, and there is growing recognition that ‘hundreds’ of genomes is the minimum scale needed to address pressing questions related to microbial evolution, diversity, pathogenicity and resistance to antimicrobial drugs [1]–[4]. As such, the methods needed to analyze these large volumes of data — including assembling and calling variants relative to a reference — must be robust, accurate, scalable, and able to operate without human intervention.
Several computational methods exist that make improvements to the quality of draft assemblies by recognizing and correcting errors involving (i) single bases and small insertion/deletion events (indels) [5], (ii) gaps [6], (iii) read alignment discontinuities [7] or by reconciling multiple de novo assemblies into an improved consensus assembly [8]. However, no single tool performs integrated assembly improvement of all error types. Computational tools for identifying sequence polymorphisms also exist [9], [10], but focus primarily on identifying variants in the human genome [11], and particularly small events (SNPs and small indels) or structural rearrangements (chromosomal rearrangements) [11]. Furthermore, many of these tools require multiple steps to identify and subsequently filter variants to remove noise and false calls. In addition, for tools able to identify variants that exceed the length of the sequence reads (read-length) being evaluated, they generally indicate the approximate chromosomal location and estimated size of the predicted variant relative to the reference, but often do not provide exact coordinates [11]. For insertions that are longer than the read-length - particularly common in the microbial world - current tools do not assemble and report the inserted sequence.
We introduce Pilon, an integrated software tool for comprehensive microbial genome assembly improvement and variant detection, including detection of variants that exceed sequence read-length. Conceptually, Pilon treats assembly improvement and variant detection as the same process (Figure 1). Both start with an input genome — either an existing draft assembly or a reference assembly from another strain — and use evidence from read alignments to identify specific differences from the input genome supported by the sequencing data. Applying those changes to a draft genome assembly yields an improved assembly, while reporting the changes with respect to a reference genome yields variant calls.
Figure 1. Simplified overview of the Pilon workflow for assembly improvement and variant detection.
The left column depicts the conceptual steps of the Pilon process, and the center and right columns describe what Pilon does at each step while in assembly improvement and variant detection modes, respectively. During the first step (top row), Pilon scans the read alignments for evidence where the sequencing data disagree with the input genome and makes corrections to small errors and detects small variants. During the second step (second row), Pilon looks for coverage and alignment discrepancies to identify potential mis-assemblies and larger variants. Finally (bottom row), Pilon uses reads and mate pairs which are anchored to the flanks of discrepant regions and gaps in the input genome to reassemble the area, attempting to fill in the true sequence including large insertions. The resulting output is an improved assembly and/or a VCF file of variants.
In genomic regions where read alignments are poor, Pilon is capable of filling out and correcting sequence through an internal local reassembly process. This capability allows Pilon to further improve assemblies by filling gaps and correcting local mis-assemblies, and it also enables Pilon to capture many large insertion, deletion, and block substitution variants in their entirety. These larger events are often completely missed or inaccurately characterized by conventional variant calling tools that rely solely on read alignments. Pilon has built-in heuristics to determine which corrections and calls are of high confidence, so no separate filtering criteria need be specified. This allows for the automated processing of hundreds or thousands of data sets representing different microbial species with minimal human intervention.
We benchmarked Pilon both as an assembly refinement tool and variant caller. For assembly refinement, we used finished reference genome sequences from Mycobacterium tuberculosis F11, Streptococcus pneumoniae TIGR4 and Candida albicans SC5314 as benchmarks to evaluate the accuracy of Pilon in improving draft assemblies. Pilon-improved assemblies were more contiguous and complete than non-Pilon-improved assemblies and contained improved sequences for genes implicated in pathogen-host interaction and virulence. We also evaluated Pilon's performance against tools specializing in assembly base quality improvement and gap filling, and, in each case, Pilon made more correct improvements while making far fewer mistakes than the other tools. For variant calling, we used read data from M. tuberculosis F11 to call polymorphisms against the finished M. tuberculosis H37Rv genome to evaluate Pilon's ability to accurately call polymorphisms. Pilon performed as well or better when compared with two state-of-the-art variant detection tools in calling small variants, and Pilon differentiated itself in its ability to identify large-scale variants.
Assembly improvement evaluation
Assessing accuracy on bacterial assemblies.
To test the accuracy of Pilon's improvements on bacterial assemblies, we sequenced and created draft assemblies for two bacterial strains with finished references: S. pneumoniae TIGR4 and M. tuberculosis F11 (see Methods). These strains were chosen because they represent different GC content (40% and 66% GC content, respectively) and both possess genomic features that are known to confound assemblers, leading to mis-assembled and/or incomplete genome sequences [12]–[14]. Sequence reads from both libraries were aligned back to their respective draft assemblies using BWA [15], and Pilon was run with those alignments.
To assess the benefits of running Pilon, we compared the original draft and Pilon-improved assemblies to each other and to their respective finished genome sequence. Pilon made significant improvements to the contiguity of both draft assemblies, increasing the contig N50 size by 443 Kbp for S. pneumoniae TIGR4 (see Table 1) and 196 Kbp for M. tuberculosis F11, even though the F11 draft assembly had been generated with assistance from a close reference. In addition, Pilon assemblies were more complete, with the M. tuberculosis F11 and S. pneumoniae TIGR4 Pilon-improved assemblies containing an additional 11,516 bp and 9,608 bp, respectively.
Table 1. Summary assembly statistics before and after Pilon improvement.
Observed gains in genome coverage and contig N50 were principally due to Pilon's ability to recognize and fill (or partially fill) by local assembly “captured gaps”, i.e., missing sequence between contigs within a scaffold. When run with default settings, Pilon does not introduce ambiguous bases or additional Ns during this process. Across the two draft assemblies, Pilon completely and accurately filled 17 of the 44 captured gaps (39% closure rate) including 8 gaps that represented more than 1 Kbp in sequence length (see Table S1). None of Pilon's gap closures were incorrect, though one was judged to be “no worse”: the sequence used to bridge the gap was correct, but an error in the original assembly in one of the gap flanks was not detected by Pilon. An additional 14 gaps (32% of total captured gaps) were partially filled by Pilon, and 13 (93%) of those extensions were error-free. The one partial fill judged to be “Incorrect” involved a repetitive structure that Pilon extended into flanking sequence belonging to a different copy of the repeat.
We compared Pilon's ability to close gaps in these assemblies with two other tools commonly used for this purpose, IMAGE [16] and GapFiller [17] (see Table S1b). Pilon's overall gap closure rate was only somewhat higher than that of the other tools, but its accuracy was dramatically better. Across the two assemblies, IMAGE closed 13 captured gaps (30% closure rate) but only two of those closures were found to be correct by alignment with the reference (15% precision). Similarly, GapFiller closed 16 of captured gaps (36% closure rate) in the two assemblies, but only four of its closures were correct (25% precision). In addition to filling captured gaps, Pilon also corrected 43 single-bases and 4 small indels across both genomes, and all 47 changes were found to be correct by alignment against the reference (100% accuracy; see Table S2). By comparison, iCORN [18] made 47 single-base changes and 2 single-base deletions, but only 35 of the 49 (71%) of its changes were correct.
Optionally, Pilon can also make changes to genomic locations at which it finds significant evidence for more than one alternative, choosing the allele with the most support even where the evidence is insufficient to make a confident call. When run with this option on these assemblies, Pilon made 10 changes to ambiguous bases, but only 3 were verified to be correct. This option is turned off by default starting with Pilon version 1.8.
Pilon also detected and attempted to fix local mis-assemblies by reassembling contig regions that were suspected to be incorrectly assembled. Three of these regions were correctly fixed (see Table 1 and Table S1) and a fourth we classified as “No worse”. For the latter, Pilon correctly identified a repetitive region within the original M. tuberculosis F11 draft assembly that contained extra sequence with respect to the M. tuberculosis F11 reference. However, Pilon's change introduced a deletion with respect to the reference, underscoring the difficulty of accurately assembling repetitive regions with short read data [13].
For the M. tuberculosis F11 and S. pneumoniae TIGR4 Pilon improved assemblies, there were 13 and 4 regions, respectively, where Pilon detected a problem in the draft assembly, but was unable to provide solutions. In each of these cases, Pilon flagged the coordinates of the problematic region, and, in 10 of these cases, it also reported the length of the detected tandem repeat confounding resolution of the region. For example, Figure 2 shows scaffold00001 coordinates 3159800–3159898 of the M. tuberculosis F11 draft assembly, along with Pilon-generated genome browser tracks representing some of the internal metrics it used to identify this region as problematic. In this case, Pilon noted that it was unable to resolve a 57 bp tandem repeat, which enabled an experienced analyst to confirm the presence of a mis-assembly and accurately narrow the bounds of the unresolvable region. Manual comparison of the draft assembly with the reference revealed that there should have been three full and one partial copies of the 57 bp repeat in tandem, whereas the draft assembly only contained one full and one partial copy of the repeat.
Figure 2. Example Pilon generated genome browser tracks.
This region was flagged by Pilon as containing a possible local mis-assembly, but Pilon was unable to determine a fix due to a tandem repeat sequence. The tracks shown here include: Pilon Features track indicating the extent of the region flagged by Pilon as containing a potential mis-assembly, Valid Coverage track indicating the sequence coverage of valid read pair alignments excluding the clipped portions of the alignments, Clipped Alignments track indicating the number of reads soft-clipped at each location, Pct Bad Alignments track indicating the percentage of the total reads aligned to each location which are not part of Valid Coverage. These tracks are created with the ‘—tracks' command-line option. Together, these tracks reveal the true bounds of the mis-assembly, and indicate that there are likely missing copies of the tandem repeat in the draft assembly. In this case, manual analysis revealed the draft assembly was missing two of three full copies of a 57-base tandem repeat.
Effect of assembly improvements on gene calls.
To assess the impact of Pilon-improvement on gene calls (i.e., functional interpretation of the genome), we examined Pilon improvements with respect to genes by investigating the regions that were affected by Pilon modifications and the effect of these modifications on coding sequences. Thirty-two genes and seven intergenic regions were impacted by Pilon changes to the M. tuberculosis F11 Pilon-improved assembly; of these, nearly all (95%; 37 of 39) were correct improvements. Nearly half (13) of the genes that were affected by a fix involved transposases that were completely or partially filled with sequence that perfectly matched the reference genome (see Table S3). One additional transposase had a single base pair corrected with perfect match to the reference. A particularly complex 13 Kbp region in M. tuberculosis F11 is highlighted in Figure 3. This region harbors three sets of transposases in close proximity that were not captured in the draft M. tuberculosis F11 assembly, but were accurately filled in by Pilon. Two of the gaps were completely closed, and the third transposase set was completely captured along with an additional gene. However, due to Pilon's conservative overlap requirement for closure (95 bp), that gap was not closed despite a 42 bp overlap in the extended flank sequences.
Figure 3. Comparative view of a transposase-rich region of the M. tuberculosis F11 genome (coordinates 1,991,000 to 2,006,300) obtained from the draft (A) and Pilon-improved (B) assemblies.
In the draft assembly, three regions containing transposases (shown in blue) remained unassembled resulting in gaps. In the Pilon-improved assembly, all three sets of transposases were successfully assembled. The Pilon-improved assembly also contained a hypothetical gene, TBFG_11790 (shown in red), missing from the draft assembly. Though TBFG_11790 was not fully closed in the Pilon-improved version, closer inspection revealed that there was a 42 bp overlap in assembled sequence at this site. By default, Pilon will not close gaps unless there is at least 95 bp overlapping sequence to minimize spurious joins.
Of the remaining 19 genes, 6 were PE/PPE family protein encoding genes. Five corrections were perfect and, in one case (TBFG_11946), Pilon identified the problematic region, but could not completely resolve the problem. However, the correction that Pilon applied did not make the situation worse. Pilon also identified and accurately corrected a mis-assembly (highlighted in Figure S1) in which a gene had been truncated due to a collapsed repeat in the draft assembly.
In S. pneumoniae TIGR4, 20 genes and 12 intergenic regions were affected by fixes from Pilon. A majority (15 of 20) of the improved genes were transposases, of which Pilon was able to completely or partially fill 8 that matched completely and perfectly with the reference; the remaining 7 were individual base pair corrections. Pilon was also able to partially fill other genes encoding repetitive cell wall surface proteins - including choline binding protein A [19] and pneumococcal surface protein A [20] - both implicated in adhesion and virulence in S. pneumoniae.
Assessing accuracy on the assembly of the larger, polymorphic genome of C. albicans.
To evaluate Pilon's ability to accurately improve assemblies of diploid genomes containing a high level of heterozygosity, we ran Pilon on an Illumina ALLPATHS-LG assembly of the SC5314 strain of C. albicans (Methods), for which there is a high quality reference curated by the Candida Genome Database (www.candidagenome.org). At 14.3 Mb, the C. albicans genome is 3- to 7-fold larger than the bacterial genomes evaluated here. It consists of 8 chromosomes that are present at diploid levels with an average of one SNP found at every 330–390 bases, although large regions of most chromosomes display loss of heterozygosity [21], [22].
Pilon was capable of improving the assembly and added >33 Kb of sequence (see Table 1). While the increase in contig N50 was relatively small (56 Kb), Pilon completely or partially filled 61% (156 of 256) of the total captured gaps including in both homo- and hetero-zygous regions of the genome. Homozygous regions had a slightly higher fraction of completely closed gaps (33%; 8 of 24) as compared to heterozygous regions (20%; 46 of 232). Of completely filled gaps, 93% had full length alignment to the reference (including 300 bp of their flanking sequences) at 94% sequence identity or higher. Less than 100% identity is to be expected when comparing a heterozygous genome assembly against a flat reference. In several of the lower-identity cases, most of the base differences were in the flanks present in the draft assembly rather than the filled gap itself, suggesting that the gaps may have been caused by the original assembler's inability to assemble sequence through a highly polymorphic region.
Pilon also identified and corrected regions in the reference assembly where the read alignment evidence disagreed, including 44 regions that were likely mis-assembled. The nearly 27,000 corrected single-bases were mostly at heterozygous sites; Pilon identified these as potential bases to fix, as the majority of read-evidence favored an alternate allele from the reference base in the draft. These positions represented about half of the ∼70,000 heterozygous SNP positions in this Candida genome [23]. While we did not investigate every change that Pilon made to this assembly, our results indicate that Pilon is suitable to be run on larger diploid genomes and can improve the quality of a draft assembly, resulting in fewer and longer contigs and an improved gene set.
Assembly improvements in a production environment.
Given promising results from the benchmarking experiments, we implemented Pilon in the Broad Institute's de novo genome assembly production pipeline and assessed its performance by comparing assembly metrics from Pilon-improved assemblies of 50 representatives of the Enterobacteriaceae (including Escherichia, Klebsiella, and Enterobacter) to non-Pilon improved versions. Pilon reduced the mean number of contigs in the 50 assemblies from 33.7 to 20.9 (see Figure S2), a 38% reduction in total contigs representing closure of 47% of captured gaps. As a result, Pilon nearly doubled the contig N50 from 392 Kbp to 780 Kbp (99% increase; see Figure S3), capturing, on average, an additional 14,681 bp of sequence per assembly. This increase in genome size equates roughly to the addition of ∼14 genes per genome (based on the average bacterial gene size of ∼1 kb). Scaffold numbers were unchanged since, currently, Pilon does not attempt to join or break scaffold structures.
Variant detection evaluation
Assessing accuracy of polymorphism calls.
To test the accuracy of Pilon's variant detection capability, we used BWA to align approximately 200-fold coverage of reads from the same M. tuberculosis F11 fragment and long insert libraries used in the assembly improvement assessment to the M. tuberculosis H37Rv finished reference genome. We generated two sets of variant calls with Pilon, one using both fragment and long insert reads as input, and one using only fragment reads. We also ran two popular variant detection tools, GATK UnifiedGenotyper (GATK-UG) and SAMtools/BCFtools (SAMtools), starting with the same aligned fragment BAM. All variant sites, including substitutions, deletions or insertions, were identified and two categories of variants were assessed: single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and multi nucleotide polymorphisms (MNPs) greater than 1 bp. Predicted polymorphisms were compared to a curated truth set of variants produced by comparing the M. tuberculosis F11 finished genome to the finished M. tuberculosis H37Rv genome (see Methods), resulting in a list of 1,325 events (summarized in Table 2) of which the majority were SNPs. We then compared Pilon's performance to that of the other two variant detection algorithms.
Table 2. Summary of variant types curated in the M. tuberculosis H37Rv and M. tuberculosis F11 finished genome comparison.
Overall, Pilon performed better in identifying SNPs, including single nucleotide insertions and deletions than did GATK-UG or SAMtools (Table 3). Pilon identified 8 to 11 percentage points (pp) more single nucleotide substitutions, 4 pp more single nucleotide deletions, and 4 to 8 pp more single nucleotide insertions from the curation set than did GATK-UG or SAMtools, respectively. Pilon's ability to precisely call single nucleotide substitutions was also high - only 3% of calls were not accounted for in the curation set - which was on par with the other two tools. Similarly, Pilon had perfect precision in calling single nucleotide insertions and only 5% of single nucleotide deletion calls were not accounted for in the curation set.
Table 3. Recall and precision metrics for M. tuberculosis F11 variants called against M. tuberculosis H37Rv by Pilon (with and without long insert library data), GATK UnifiedGenotyper and SAMtools.
For MNPs, we allowed for a combination of two or more smaller events in the prediction set to contribute to a larger variant since there may be equivalent ways of representing the changes as a series of smaller edits (see Methods). Pilon greatly outperformed the other two variant callers in accurately identifying variants that involved more than one nucleotide (see Table 3; bottom three rows). Pilon identified three times as many multi nucleotide insertions as either GATK-UG or SAMtools (63% versus 17 or 21% of curated events), but made slightly more false predictions. For multi nucleotide deletions, Pilon identified two times as many events from the curation set than did GATK-UG or SAMtools and made fewer unsupported calls. In addition, Pilon identified all six curated multi-substitution events while the other two tools missed at least one, even when multiple SNPs were accounted for in these regions.
We next examined how overlapping the three tools were in either missing or overcalling variants. Panel A of Figure 4 summarizes the total number of variants appearing in the curation set that could not be detected by one or more of the variant callers. Pilon uniquely missed only one curated variant, while SAMtools and GATK-UG missed many more (32 and 13, respectively). The majority of variants that were missed by Pilon were also missed by SAMtools and GATK-UG (52 events). In addition, all three tools made predictions that were not supported by the curation set (summarized in Panel B of Figure 4), but, among unique unsupported events, Pilon and GATK-UG had ∼3-fold fewer than SAMtools. Altogether, there were only 21 predictions where two or more of the tools agreed that there should be a variant called, most of which were SNPs, although four of the seven events shared by Pilon and GATK-UG were multi-nucleotide indels (5–15 nt in length).
Figure 4. Venn diagram of the overlap in false negative (A) and false positive (B) calls by the three variant detection tools, Pilon, GATK UnifiedGenotyper and SAMtools.
False negative calls are the number of unique events from the curation set that was missed by each tool. Overlaps in the Venn diagram show the number of variants that were missed by multiple tools. False positive calls are the number of predictions from M. tuberculosis F11 that were not supported by the curation set. Overlaps indicate predictions that were shared among tools.
Given the broad definition of ‘multi’ in Table 3 (>1 bp), we also evaluated how well Pilon performed for variants that were larger than 50 bp (see Table 4). We chose 50 bp since it is a length that is larger than the size of events for which short-read aligners are typically able to align, but shorter than the individual read length of the data used (101 bp). Overall, Pilon was able to accurately identify 74% of these large variants, including 100% of substitutions, 68% of insertions and 77% of deletions from the curated list. Of the eleven insertions that were missed by Pilon, eight involved a repetitive element (5 tandem insertions and 3 IS6110 insertions). Similarly, the six deletions not detected by Pilon involved deletion of one or more copies of a tandem repeat. Four of these tandem repeat regions were correctly reported by Pilon as possible tandem repeat variants in its standard output, but Pilon currently makes no attempt to provide a definitive copy number call in the presence of significant tandem repeat structures. Pilon also identified three events >50 bp that did not match variants in the curation set. These unsupported calls occurred within complex variable regions of the genome in which multiple nearby repeat structures prevented Pilon from correctly identifying the precise correct location or form of the events.
Table 4. Pilon's performance in calling variants in M. tuberculosis F11 that were larger than 50 nt.
Since Pilon performed well in identifying and resolving MNPs and since GATK-UG and SAMtools were not explicitly designed to call these large variants, we sought to compare Pilon's MNP calls to that of methods specifically designed for MNP detection [11]. Though neither was described for use on microbial data, we evaluated how well BreakDancer [24] and CLEVER [25], two algorithms developed to detect large variants in eukaryotes, performed in calling MNPs on the M. tuberculosis test set. BreakDancer was unable to identify any MNP found in the curation set and CLEVER identified 21 multi nucleotide deletions, of which only 1 corresponded to a variant in the curated list. No large insertions or substitutions were predicted (data not shown).
Evaluating Pilon variant calls without long insert data.
It is unsurprising that Pilon was better able to call larger variants since it is optimized to use both fragment (or small) and long (or large) insert libraries. Since many sequencing projects do not have access to long insert data and to also make a more direct comparison to existing variant callers that are not optimized to accept these data, we evaluated Pilon's performance using data from fragment insert libraries alone. To do this, we ran Pilon using the aligned fragment paired end reads from the M. tuberculosis F11 genome to the M. tuberculosis H37Rv finished reference genome. We then compared this output (“Pilon-frags”) to the previously analyzed output from GATK and SAMtools and to Pilon output using data from both library types (“Pilon”).
Pilon-frags performed well in identifying both single and multi nucleotide variants (see Table 3). Pilon-frags identified only 2 pp fewer single nucleotide substitutions, 4 pp fewer single insertions and 4 pp fewer single deletions as compared to the original Pilon output. Pilon-frag performance in calling SNPs was better or on par with both GATK-UG and SAMtools. Remarkably, Pilon-frags was also able to identify a large fraction of the MNPs, with nearly identical performance to Pilon with long insert read data. Pilon-frags also performed very well in calling variants larger than 50 bp (see Table 4), with one less insertion call and 4 fewer deletions calls as compared to Pilon.
To better understand the qualitative differences in what Pilon and Pilon-frags reported, we examined the concordance between results for each variant type. For SNP calls, we observed high concordance in the outputs from Pilon-frags and Pilon (95.2%; 871 of 915 events) (see Table S5). Discordance in SNPs often involved a position where a variant was found in both Pilon runs, but was considered high quality in one and low quality in the other. In fact, only 7 of 915 SNPs (0.8% of total) were confidently predicted to differ between the two Pilon run conditions, suggesting that the value of long insert library data when calling SNPs is small. However, for SNPs within repetitive regions of the genome, long insert data appeared to be very helpful in disambiguating these events (Table S6). Small indel variant calls were also highly concordant for the two Pilon runs (93.3%; 56 of 60 events), and 78.5% concordance (73 of 93) for large indels.
For larger variants, the discordance between Pilon with and without long insert data was larger (see Table S5), particularly in regions of the genome encoding transposable IS6110 repeat elements. While Pilon-frags detected many of these events, the sequences that were assembled and reported at these sites were often incomplete, as illustrated in Table S7. Given the length of the IS6110 repeat (∼1.3 Kbp), the fragment pairs — only ∼180 bp apart — were unable to span the entire length of the IS6110 elements, leading to two large indels being called, one coming in from each side of the IS6110 e.g. Table S7, position 1,541,957. Pilon's improved ability to capture the full sequence of larger insertions is the primary value of including long insert read data for variant calling applications.
Assessing large-scale genome duplications.
In addition to identifying substitutions and indels of various sizes, Pilon is able to identify areas in which the read evidence suggests additional copies of large genomic regions (>10 Kbp) compared with the input draft assembly or reference genome. These regions could indicate large collapsed repeats in an assembly improvement application or large genomic duplications in a variant detection application. To evaluate Pilon's ability to identify large duplications, we re-sequenced M. tuberculosis T67, a strain previously reported to harbor a large-scale duplication [26], using fragment and long insert libraries, and aligned the reads to the M. tuberculosis H37Rv finished reference. Pilon was then run to detect variants in T67 using H37Rv as a reference.
Pilon identified two duplication events that were >10 Kbp in size and separated by ∼3 Kbp at M. tuberculosis H37Rv coordinates 3,494,063–3,551,070 (57 Kbp) and 3,554,192–3,712,284 (158 Kbp) resulting in a combined duplication of ∼215 Kbp. The left gene boundary (Rv3128c) of the first predicted duplication and right gene boundary (Rv3427c) of the second predicted duplication corresponded to the upstream and downstream boundaries in the previously reported M. tuberculosis T67 duplication [26]. Upon closer inspection, the 3 Kbp intervening region contained two copies of the IS6110 element, which are routinely found in multiple copies within the M. tuberculosis genome (16 copies in H37Rv) [27]. Because these elements occur so frequently in the genome, the incremental coverage from the duplication was not sufficient for Pilon to identify them as part of the duplication event, breaking a true large duplication into two reported pieces.
Pilon is an assembly improvement algorithm and variant caller that identifies differences between a draft assembly or closely related reference assembly using evidence supported by the sequencing data, resulting in either an improved assembly or a list of variants in VCF format. We have demonstrated Pilon's performance on several microbial genomes with varying GC-content and different ploidy. Our results indicate that applying Pilon yields more contiguous and accurate assemblies. Furthermore, variant calls made by Pilon are of high quality when compared with other state-of-the-art tools, and Pilon's ability to find insertion and deletion events considerably larger than read-lengths sets it apart from traditional variant calling tools.
For many of the sub tasks that Pilon performs, there are a variety of existing tools that might be used in sequence to achieve similar output as Pilon. However, using existing tools to achieve the full complement of analyses performed by Pilon would require implementation of a complicated workflow that hands data around to various tools, and development of post-processing algorithms to ensure that results from the various tools are in agreement. Pilon is a single, benchmarked tool that performs comparably well, if not better, than other tools that do only a fraction of the work. In addition, Pilon is easy to use and is successfully being utilized for assembly and variant detection of thousands of data sets in Broad Institute's production pipelines.
We showed that the assembly improvements that were introduced by Pilon were both accurate and biologically relevant. In particular, several highly repetitive genes that were captured by Pilon are known to play a role in virulence and host-pathogen interactions [28], [29]. To date, it has been difficult to study these genes comparatively, because they are often not captured or are only partially captured in draft assemblies. Furthermore, we were able to place more genes with repetitive features accurately in the genome. In the M. tuberculosis case, Pilon improved the sequence accuracy and placement of genes encoding transposases, which have an important role in genome reorganization in this species [27] and are used in strain typing schemes [30]. In addition, for M. tuberculosis, Pilon had a significant impact on the repetitive, GC-rich and not well understood PE and PPE genes, an expanded family of highly repetitive genes that account for about 10% of the gene repertoire in this species [31], and are implicated in pathogen-host interactions and virulence [32], [33]. Pilon was able to resolve these repetitive structures because of its ability to use the long-distance mate pair information afforded by long insert libraries. In addition, data from long insert libraries often enable Pilon to completely fill in large sequence insertions and assemble across gaps.
For variant calling, the primary benefit of Pilon over other variant callers is its ability to capture large sequence polymorphisms and highly polymorphic local regions by performing a local assembly to generate complete sequences. By capturing intervening sequences in large variants, Pilon enables a more comprehensive view of the biological differences between strains e.g., new genes that confer antibiotic resistance or virulence. In addition, by integrating the SNP and large sequence variant detection in a single tool, Pilon is less likely to erroneously call SNPs in regions that are affected by a large variant. Long insert libraries provide information that resolves larger, multi-nucleotide events, in particular by allowing Pilon to completely assemble inserted sequences. However, even without long insert libraries, most of these events are identified, albeit often with an incomplete alternative sequence.
Pilon was also able to perform comparatively well in calling small variants, including SNPs and small indels. While all three variant callers benchmarked in this study had similar precision in their calls, Pilon demonstrated better recall (fewer false negatives) on single-base polymorphisms. There are two reasons for this. First, there are a few local areas of the genome with very high polymorphism rates between F11 and H37Rv. When the local polymorphism rate is very high, the short-read aligners are unable to produce enough good alignments for any of the tools to call the base differences from the resulting pileups. However, Pilon was able to detect some of these problem areas and reassemble them into block substitutions, correctly capturing dozens of polymorphic locations the other tools were unable to resolve. Second, the use of long insert libraries allowed Pilon to make definitive calls inside some repeat regions by heavily weighting long insert reads which were unambiguously anchored to the flanks of the repeat area, capturing additional true SNPs.
We note that GATK contains a highly sophisticated collection of tools for variant calling. However, several of its tools and their associated best practices for human variant calling are not applicable to many microbial projects, because they rely upon a database of known variant locations (such as those found at dbSNP) to perform recalibration. For microbial variant calling, the extent of variation across the microbial species under investigation is typically unknown, so no such catalog of variation is available a priori. There is also a fundamental difference between GATK and Pilon's approach to variant calling. GATK's UnifiedGenotyper is designed to be aggressive in detecting possible variants, relying on a user-controlled VariantFiltration step to filter out calls of lower confidence or quality to minimize false positives. Pilon, on the other hand, relies exclusively on internal heuristics to make a determination of which calls are confident. This makes Pilon easy to use “out of the box” in a highly automated environment, though it is less configurable than GATK for custom applications.
There are several areas where improvements could be made in future versions of Pilon with respect to assembly improvement and variant calling. First, it seems likely that there will be some benefit in iteratively applying Pilon in the assembly improvement and insertion variant calling process. Currently, Pilon builds out the gap/inserted sequence without re-aligning reads to build off the newly extended sequence. Using an iterative strategy has recently been used with some success by PAGIT [6]. Second, Pilon currently does not attempt to make fixes to larger structural issues within assemblies or make changes to scaffold architecture. With data from long insert libraries, it should be feasible to break and/or join scaffolds accurately. Third, tandem repeats continue to be challenging and may require a more specific approach. These regions are inherently difficult with short read data because there is no unambiguous information in the data to determine how many copies are present. This challenge is true for any de novo assembly; in order to resolve a tandem repeat, reads are needed that anchor into unique sequence on either side and read through the entire tandem repeat sequence. Lacking this, tandem copy numbers can only be speculated from mate-pairing information, depth of coverage calculations and library insert sizes.
Currently, Pilon is rather conservative in its corrections: (i) it uses a large cut-off to merge overlaps, and (ii) it will not attempt to resolve significant tandem repeats structures definitively. Notwithstanding the challenges encountered with tandem repeats, Pilon does an excellent job with other repetitive sequences and is able to fix many genes of known repetitive gene families and is able to fill in many transposable elements.
While we have evaluated Pilon's assembly improvements on both haploid and diploid genomes and obtained positive results for both, we acknowledge that there is still significant opportunity for future improvement in Pilon's handling of diploid genomes. Pilon could be enhanced to understand IUPAC ambiguity codes in its input genome and generate them in its output, and Pilon's heuristics for identifying insertions and deletions in diploid genomes could be improved, including its ability to recognize and report heterozygous indels. Finally, the local reassembly process could be improved to perform better in heterozygous regions. Even so, our results indicate that in its current form, Pilon is able to make valuable improvements to diploid genomes.
We have evaluated Pilon's performance using microbial genomes with finished references. However, there is no inherent limitation on the size of genomes to which Pilon can be applied. For example, we have used Pilon to improve assemblies of larger genomes, including 16 strains of the Anopheles genus (∼200 Mbp diploid genome), but we were unable to verify the accuracy of Pilon's improvements since these genomes have not been finished. Pilon runs within minutes on small microbial genomes and will complete overnight on larger eukaryote genomes, such as Anopheles, which is similar to the tools included in our benchmarking.
Ultimately, Pilon has great utility and addresses an urgent need for better and more efficient methods to deal with the thousands of microbial genomes that are being produced. We have shown that Pilon performs well as compared to the state-of-the-art for both assembly improvement and variant detection, often outperforming these tools. Pilon is also unique in its user-friendly integrated approach to assembly improvement and is unique in its ability to identify large variants accurately in microbial genomes. As a recent addition to the production process for microbial genomes at Broad Institute, Pilon has been used to automatically improve the quality of over 8,000 prokaryote and eukaryote genomes prior to their submission to Genbank, and it has been used to call variants on over 6,000 genomes.
Detailed algorithm description
Input requirements.
Pilon requires an input genome in FASTA format and one or more BAM files containing sequencing reads aligned to the input genome. The BAM files must be sorted in coordinate order and indexed. For Illumina data, these BAM files are usually produced by an aligner such as BWA [15] or Bowtie 2 [34]. It is recommended that single best hit or random selection among equal best alignments is used as input into Pilon. Pilon can use three types of BAM files:
Fragments: paired read data of short insert size, typically <1 Kbp. Reads should be in forward-reverse (FR) orientation;
Long inserts: paired read data of longer insert size, typically >1 Kbp. Reads should be in forward-reverse (FR) orientation. Sequencing of long insert libraries that are generated using the standard Illumina mate-pair library preparation protocol typically result in reverse-forward (RF) read orientation, so they will need to be reversed in the BAM file.
Unpaired: unpaired sequencing read data.
To use Pilon with default arguments, read length should be 75 bases or longer and total sequence coverage should be 50x or greater, though deeper total coverage of >100x is beneficial. Pilon can also make use of longer reads, such as those from Sanger capillary sequencing and circular-consensus or error-corrected reads from Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) sequencing. However, Pilon is not currently tuned to the error model of raw PacBio reads, and their use may introduce false corrections.
Pilon makes extensive use of pairing information when it is available, so paired libraries are highly recommended. Pilon is capable of using paired libraries of any insert size, as it scans the BAMs to compute statistics, including insert size distribution.
Improving local base accuracy and identifying SNPs.
Pilon improves the local base accuracy of the contigs through analysis of the read alignment information. First, Pilon parses the alignment information from the input data and summarizes the evidence from all the reads covering each base position. Alignments can be less trustworthy near the ends of reads, especially in differentiating between indels and base changes, so Pilon ignores the alignments from a small number of bases at each end of the read, which is configurable at run time. For each base position in the genome, Pilon builds a pileup structure which records both a count and a measure of the weighted evidence for each possible base (A,C,G,T) from the read alignments. The contribution of base information from each read is weighted by the base quality reported by the sequencing instrument as well as the mapping quality computed by the aligner.
When Pilon is building pileups from paired alignment data, only reads from “valid” pairs (i.e., those with the PROPER_PAIR flag set in the BAM by the aligner, indicating the reads of a pair align in proper orientation with a plausible separation) contribute evidence to the pileups. It is crucial that the PROPER_PAIR flag is set accurately by the tool that produced the BAM file. A count of non-valid alignments covering each position is also kept to help identify areas of possible mis-assembly. Pilon also keeps track of “soft clipping” in the alignments, which exclude sub-sections of a read which aligned poorly. A tally of soft-clip transitions is kept at each genomic location as another aid in identifying possible local misassemblies.
From the pileup evidence, Pilon classifies each base in the input genome into one of four categories:
Confirmed: the vast majority of evidence supports the base in the input genome;
Changed: the vast majority of evidence supports a change of the base in the input genome to another allele;
Ambiguous: the evidence supports more than one alternative at this position;
Unconfirmed: there is insufficient evidence to make a determination at this position due to insufficient depth of coverage by valid reads.
Ambiguous bases can occur for several reasons. If the genome is diploid, this is expected at heterozygous polymorphic locations. Difficult-to-sequence regions may result in a large enough fraction of sequencing errors to result in an ambiguous call. Finally, if the input genome has a smaller number of copies of a repeated genomic structure than occurs in the true genome (a “collapsed repeat”), the aligned reads may have originated from more than one instance of the repeat structure; where there are differences in the true instances of the repeat, the alignments can show mixed evidence.
Paired read information, especially information from long insert libraries which span a longer distance, is extremely valuable in helping resolve ambiguous locations due to collapsed repeats. Pairs for which one read lands inside a repeat element, but the other lands in unique anchoring sequence on the flanks of the repeat help to resolve the true base content of the repeat structure. Data from long inserts will typically have a higher alignment mapping quality than short-range fragment pairs that lie completely within the repeat because the fragment pairs may not be able to be placed uniquely among the repeats. Since Pilon uses mapping quality to weigh the evidence from each read, the long inserts can often pick the correct haplotype variations of the repeat structure.
Pilon includes corrections to single-base errors in its output genome, and optionally, it can also change ambiguous bases to the allele with the preponderance of evidence.
Finding and fixing small indels.
While recording the base-by-base pileup evidence, Pilon also records the location and content of indels present in the alignments. Indel alignments which represent equivalent edits to the input genome may appear at different coordinates in the alignments. For instance, if the input genome has the sequence ACCCCT, but the read evidence suggests one of the Cs should be deleted (ACCCT), each individual read alignment might show a deletion at any of the four C coordinates. Pilon shifts alignment indels to their leftmost equivalent edit in the input genome, so that the evidence from all the equivalent edits is combined into evidence for a single event at a one location.
Pilon makes an insertion or deletion call if a majority of the valid reads support the change, though that threshold is lowered somewhat for longer events, as it is typically more difficult for aligners to identify longer indels in short read data. Called indels from the input genome are fixed in Pilon's output genome.
Fixing mis-assemblies, detecting large indels, and filling gaps.
Pilon is capable of reassembling local regions of the genome when there is sufficient evidence from the alignments that the contiguity of the input genome does not match the sequencing data. For assembly improvement applications, this could be an indication of a local mis-assembly. For variant calling applications, this could be caused by insertions or deletions too large to be reflected in the short read alignments.
Pilon tries to identify areas of potential local read alignment discontiguity in the contigs of the input genome by employing four heuristics: (i) a large percentage of reads containing a soft-clipped alignment at a given base position, (ii) a large ratio of invalid pairs to valid pairs spanning a location, (iii) areas of extremely low coverage and (iv) rapid drops in alignment coverage over a distance on the order of a read length. Once Pilon has identified an area for local reassembly, it treats the suspicious region (which may be a single base or a larger region) as untrusted, using alignments to the trusted flanks on both sides to identify a collection of reads that might contribute evidence for the true sequence in the suspicious region.
Unpaired reads with partial alignments to the flanks are included in the collection. For paired data, Pilon identifies pairs in which one of the reads is anchored by proper alignment to one of the flanks (e.g., with forward orientation on the left flank, or reverse orientation on the right flank), but whose mate is either unmapped or improperly mapped (e.g., to a remote location in the genome). For fragment pairs, both reads of such pairs are included in the collection; for long inserts, only the unanchored read is included in the collection.
From the collected reads, Pilon builds a De Bruijn assembly graph (default K = 47). For each k-mer in the reads, it uses the same pileup structure to record the bases which follow that k-mer, including weighting by base quality. Then, the pileups are evaluated to determine the link(s) to the next k-mer(s); this results in either a single base call, resulting in one forward link to the next k-mer, or an ambiguous call, resulting in two links forward and a branch in the assembly graph. This process automatically prunes the assembly graph of most sequencing errors, as infrequent base differences are unlikely to present enough evidence to affect the forward links. A minimum coverage cutoff of five for each forward link also prunes the assembly graph of many false links that could appear because of sequencing errors.
Pilon then tries k-mers from the trusted flanks as starting points to walk into the untrusted region from each side, building all possible extensions with up to five branching points (25 possible extensions). Tandem repeats with combined length >K cause loops in the local assembly graph, and they are detected by noting when the assembly walk reaches an already-incorporated k-mer. Pilon currently does not attempt to determine the copy number of such tandem repeats; instead, it will report the length of the repeat structure encountered in its standard output, and it will not attempt to close the two sides.
When no tandem repeat is detected, the resulting extensions from each side are combinatorially matched for possible perfect overlaps of sufficient length (2K+1) to be considered for closure. If there is exactly one such closure and it differs from the input genome, the assembled flank-to-flank sequence will replace the corresponding sequence in the input genome. Since the default k-mer size is 47, an overlap of 95 bases is required for closure.
If there are no closures or more than one possible closure, Pilon will identify a consensus extension from each flank. If an optional argument is set to allow opening of new gaps, Pilon will replace the suspicious region with the consensus extensions from each flank and create a gap between them; otherwise, it simply reports that it was unable to find a solution. These reports identify areas that an assembly analyst might wish to investigate manually.
Pilon also attempts to fill gaps between contigs in a scaffold (“captured gaps”) in the input genome. In order to fill captured gaps, Pilon employs the same local reassembly technique described above, treating the gap itself as the “untrusted” region. If there is a unique closure, the gap is filled; otherwise, consensus extensions from each flank are used to reduce the size of the gap. Pilon does not currently attempt to join or break scaffolds.
Large collapsed repeat (segmental duplication) detection.
Pilon includes heuristics that attempt to flag areas indicative of large (>10 Kbp) collapsed repeats with respect to the input genome. These are characteristically large contiguous areas that appear to have double (or higher) read coverage compared to the rest of the genomic element being analyzed. Long insert data are excluded from this computation, as we have found long insert coverage to be far more variable across some genomes. Pilon does not attempt to fix these potentially collapsed regions, but it does report them in its standard output for further investigation.
In variant calling applications, large segmental duplications in the sequenced strain with respect to the reference have the same signature as large collapsed repeats in a draft assembly; a duplicated region of the genome will result in double the number of reads covering that sequence. Pilon's reporting of large collapsed repeat regions can be used to identify candidate segmental duplications.
Output files.
Pilon generates a modified genome as a FASTA file, including all single-base, small indel, gap filling, mis-assembly and large-event corrections from the input genome. In the assembly improvement case, this is the improved assembly consensus. In variant detection mode, this is the reference sequence which has been edited to represent the consensus of the given sample more closely.
Pilon can optionally generate a Variant Call Format (VCF) [http://vcftools.sourceforge.net/specs.html] file, which lists copious detailed information about the base and indel evidence at every base position in the genome, including two scores regarding variant quality: the QUAL column, and a depth-normalized call quality (QD) field in the INFO column. For additional details on the VCF format, we refer to the VCF specification referred above. Changes generated by local reassembly, often triggered by larger polymorphisms in variant calling applications, are included as structural variant records (SVTYPE = INS and SVTYPE = DEL). Pilon can also, optionally, generate a “changes” file which lists the edits applied from input to output genome in tabular form, including source and destination coordinates and source and destination sequence. Finally, Pilon will optionally (with the —tracks option) output a series of visualization tracks (“bed” and “wig” files) suitable for viewing in genome browsers such as IGV [35] and GenomeView [36]. Tracks include basic metrics across the genome, such as sequence coverage and physical coverage, as well as some of the calculated metrics Pilon uses in its heuristics for finding potential areas of mis-assembly, such as percentage of valid read pairs covering every location.
Pilon's standard output also contains useful information, including coverage levels, percentage of the input genome confirmed, a summary of the changes made, as well as some specifically flagged issues which were not corrected, such as potentially large collapsed repeat regions, potential regions of mis-assembly which were not able to be corrected, and detected tandem repeats that were not resolved.
All sequencing data used for these experiments were generated from an Illumina HiSeq 2000 machine. For sequencing M. tuberculosis F11 and T67, two libraries were generated: one PCR-free 180 bp insert paired fragment library [37] and large insert 3–5 Kbp long insert library [38]. S. pneumoniae TIGR4 data also consisted of two libraries: one robotically size selected 180 bp insert paired fragment library [37] and a large insert 3–5 Kbp long insert library [38]. The sequencing data for C. albicans SC5314 was generated from three libraries: a robotically size-selected 180 bp insert paired fragment library [37], a gel-cut 4 Kbp long insert library [39], and a 40 Kb Fosill library [40]. Sequencing data were submitted to the Sequence Read Archive with identifiers: SRX347313, SRX347312, SRX105400, SRX110130, SRX347317 and SRX347316.
Assembly improvement.
All draft assemblies were generated using ALLPATHS-LG [41]. The draft assembly for Mycobacterium tuberculosis F11 utilized 100x of the 180 bp insert fragment library and 50x of the 3–5 Kb long insert library and was executed using ALLPATHS-LG v45395 utilizing the ASSISTED_PATCHING = 2.1 parameter and the M. tuberculosis H37RV reference genome for assisting (GenBank accession: CP003248). The draft assembly for S. pneumoniae TIGR4 was created using ALLPATHS-LG v45925 with default parameters and using 100x of the 180 bp insert fragment library and 50x of the 3–5 Kb long insert library. The C. albicans SC5314 utilized 100x of the 180 bp insert fragment library, 100x of the gel-cut 4 Kb long insert library and 50x of the Fosill library, and was assembled with ALLPATHS-LG v39846 utilizing the ASSISTED_PATCHING and HAPLOIDIFY options with the C. albicans SC5314 reference sequence as a reference for assisting.
We benchmarked Pilon's ability to close gaps in the draft bacterial assemblies against two tools built for this purpose, IMAGE v2.4.1 [16] and GapFiller v1.10 [17]. The same sets of sequencing reads used as input to Pilon were used for IMAGE (fragment library only) and GapFiller (fragment and long insert libraries). IMAGE was run in the manner implemented in the PAGIT [6] example scripts: 6 iterations, one with a kmer size of 61, three with a kmer size of 49, and two with a kmer size of 41. GapFiller was run for 10 iterations with a libraries.txt file specifying a ratio r = 0.5 and library insert sizes computed by Pilon from the aligned bams.
To evaluate the quality of Pilon's single base and small indel corrections to the draft assemblies, we also ran iCORN v0.97 [18], the consensus sequence improvement tool in PAGIT, on the same draft assemblies using the same sets of fragment reads. iCORN was run in the manner implemented in the PAGIT example scripts, only changing the library insert size mean and range parameters. For TIGR4, we used a mean of 180 and a range of 120–300. For F11, we used a mean of 226 and a range of 100–500, since the PCR-free library preparation resulted in a wider range of insert sizes.
Fixes to the assemblies (Table S1) made by Pilon and the other assembly improvement tools were assessed by extracting the changed region of sequence in the output genome along with 300 bp flanks on each side. These extracted sequences were aligned to their respective finished reference genomes with BLASTN [42], and the accuracy of the changes was assessed by manually inspecting the alignments for accuracy, judging each fix as “Correct” or “Incorrect”. For larger block changes which resulted from local reassembly (gap filling and fixing of local mis-assemblies), a third category of “No worse” was established for situations in which: (i) the draft assembly contained a mis-assembly in the changed region, (ii) Pilon made a change attempting to fix the mis-assembly, and (iii) the fix was not entirely correct, but was no worse than the original problem.
For the assembly improvement statistics, Bases added was calculated by tallying bases added in locations where resulting fixes resulted in a net gain of bases during gap filling and mis-assembly correction processes, as reported in the Pilon standard output indicated by the "fix gap" or "fix break" lines.
Variant calling.
Variant calls were made using M. tuberculosis H37Rv (GenBank accession: CP003248) as the reference and the M. tuberculosis F11 aligned read and long insert fragments as input data. From the sequenced fragment and long insert libraries, a random subset of read pairs was selected from each library to obtain an estimated 200x coverage of the M. tuberculosis H37Rv reference genome. Each library's reads were aligned to the M. tuberculosis H37Rv reference genome using BWA (version 0.5.9-r16) to generate BAM files suitable for input to the variant calling processes.
Pilon: Pilon was run with the —variant command line option, specifying the M. tuberculosis H37Rv reference genome and the above BAM file(s) as inputs. We evaluated two Pilon variant calling sets, one generated using both fragment and long insert library BAMs, and one using only the fragment library BAM.
GATK UnifiedGenotyper: Reads in the fragment library BAM were realigned by applying the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK version v3.2.2) RealignerTargetCreator and IndelRealigner tools on the fragment library aligned BAM file. Variants were then called from the realigned BAM file using UnifiedGenotyper run with the following settings: -nt 32 -A AlleleBalance -ploidy 1 -pnrm EXACT_GENERAL_PLOIDY -glm BOTH —output_mode EMIT_ALL_SITES. Low confidence variants were then filtered using VariantFiltration (VF) run with the following settings: —filterExpression "((DP-MQ0)<10) || ((MQ0/(1.0*DP))> = 0.8) || (ABHom <0.8) || (Dels >0.5)" —filterName LowConfidence.
These VariantFiltration settings filtered out variant calls at locations with less than 10 unambiguous read alignments, where 80% or more of the read depth had ambiguous mappings, where fewer than 80% of the reads supported the alternate allele, or more than half of the reads contained spanning deletions. This filter expression was based on one previously used to call variants from the European Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak [38], adjusting depth and allele balance thresholds to yield the best performance tradeoff between false negative and false positive results on these data.
SAMtools/BCFtools: The same aligned fragment library BAM file described above was used as input for variant calling using SAMtool/BCFtools v0.1.19 according to recommendations found on the SAMtools webpage (http://samtools.sourceforge.net/mpileup.shtml). samtools mpileup was used to generate pileups in bcf format, and variants were called using bcftools using the -bcg option. Finally, variants were filtered using vcfutils.pl varFilter -d 10 to filter out calls at locations where the aligned coverage was less than 10 reads. We chose the minimum depth of 10 to be consistent with the filtering used for GATK UnifiedGenotyper.
CLEVER and BreakDancer: The aligned fragment and combined fragment and long insert library described above were used as input for CLEVER v2.0rc3 and BreakDancer 1.3.6. clever —sorted —use_xa was used to generate calls for CLEVER. bam2cfg.pl -g –h was used to generate the BreakDancer config file, which was then used with breakdancer-max.
Curating differences between F11 and H37Rv.
Differences between the finished M. tuberculosis F11 (GenBank accession: CP000717) and M. tuberculosis H37RV (GenBank accession: CP003248) references were curated by employing a banded Smith-Waterman algorithm to align syntenic regions of the two genomes. Alignments were run, separately, for each syntenic portion of the two sequences. When the alignment diverged significantly, the program was run again to pick up at the next syntenic block. The resulting alignments over syntenic regions identified coordinates of small blocks of mismatches, typically only a single-base long, but in some cases up to 289 bp. Areas where there was a significant break in synteny or where the banded Smith-Waterman alignment produced questionable results were analyzed using either Nucmer [43], ClustalW [44] or Blast2 [45] to verify the nature of the difference and to obtain more accurate coordinates. In some cases, the alignments proved too difficult to get accurate coordinates, but approximate definitions of these differences were obtained. The resulting table of differences between the two references (Table S8) has each difference annotated with most likely coordinates, with two exceptions where the variation between the strains was so high that it was impossible to know whether each difference was captured individually. The two highly variable regions corresponded to coordinates 1636857–1639600 and 3928967–3949709, which, together, account for less than 0.5% of the M. tuberculosis H37Rv genome. These regions were excluded from all variant analyses.
Variant Assessment.
The resulting variant calls were compared to a manually curated set of differences between M. tuberculosis F11 and M. tuberculosis H37Rv as described above. Based on this comparison, recall and precision were calculated according to the strategy described in [46]. Briefly, recall is a measure of completeness of calls against the curated truth set; false negatives lower the recall score. Precision is a measure of the accuracy of the calls made; false positives lower the precision score. Specifically, recall = tp_c/(tp_c+fn) and precision = tp_p/(tp_p+fp), where tp_c is the number of true positive calls based on the curation set, tp_p is the number of true positive calls from the set of predicted variants, fp is the number of false calls from the set of predicted variants, and fn is the number of missed calls from the predicted variants based on the curation set. The F-measure is the harmonic mean of the recall and precision rates, providing an “overall” metric that captures tradeoff between recall and precision.
True positives in the prediction set had at least one variant site called in the curation set. For variants that affected more than a single base in the curation set (i.e., multi nucleotide polymorphisms), we allowed for a combination of two or more smaller events in the prediction set to be marked as correct, since tools may call a densely polymorphic region as a block substitution rather than a series of equivalent single-base changes. For example, for the multi nucleotide substitution in the curation set, ACCGT = > CCTGA, three SNP calls at the same location, A>C, C>T and T>A, would be counted as a true positive. In addition, predicted variants that affected more than 20 bases were allowed to match only partially with the curation set because there can be different ways to manually curate sites that vary among the M. tuberculosis F11 and H37Rv finished reference genomes. In particular, resolution of tandem repeats was challenging for both prediction and curation of variants since it was difficult to determine which copy of the repeat was inserted or deleted. In these cases, we counted the variant as correct if a similar event was predicted within 100 nucleotides.
Pilon is open source software available under the GNU General Public License Version 2 (GPLv2). Pilon is written in the Scala programming language, and it makes extensive use of the open source Picard Java libraries (http://picard.sourceforge.net) for parsing BAM and FASTA files. Pilon is compiled into a single Java Archive (JAR) file which runs inside a 64-bit Java Virtual Machine environment. Binary and source distributions can be obtained from GitHub (http://github.com/broadinstitute/pilon/releases/). Results in this paper were obtained with Pilon version 1.5. A summary of all command-line options is available in Table S9.
Online documentation, as well as two example data sets to test Pilon on the same data as was used in this manuscript, are available from the web site http://broadinstitute.org/software/pilon/. We provide the Streptococcus pneumoniae TIGR4 data set as an assembly improvement example and the Mtb F11 data set as a variant calling example.
Muscle alignment of TB F11 gene TFBG_12611.
Contig count reduction in production.
Contig N50 increase in 50 production assemblies.
Assessment of gap filling and local reassembly fixes. b: Comparison of assembly gap closures among Pilon, IMAGE, and GapFiller.
Assessment of base corrections by Pilon and iCORN.
Detailed information regarding the gene based assessment of F11 assemblies.
Detailed information regarding the gene based assessment of TIGR4.
Summary of SNP, small in-dels, and large in-dels in M. tuberculosis F11 relative to H37Rv.
Example SNPs only found with regular Pilon.
Example IS6110 insertion element variation.
Curation of Mtb F11.
Pilon Command Line Arguments.
We acknowledge the Broad Institute Genomics Platform for generating the Illumina libraries and sequence used here, and the Genome Assembly and Analysis Group and the A2E Group for their assistance in configuring and maintaining Pilon within the Broad Institute's production assembly infrastructure. We also thank Gustavo Cerqueira, Christopher Desjardins, Abigail McGuire, Jonathan Livny and, especially, Geraldine Van der Auwera for their helpful comments.
Conceived and designed the experiments: BJW TA CAC QZ JW SKY AME. Performed the experiments: BJW TA TS SKY. Analyzed the data: BJW TA TS MP AA SS CAC QZ JW SKY AME. Wrote the paper: BJW TA TS MP AA SS CAC SKY AME.
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THE VARDO
La Gitana: Mistress of magic
Katelan Foisy
Glamour, Tarot Archetypes, & The Crescent City
I dreamed of New Orleans long before my first trip there. At sixteen I made plans to get a chartreuse tattoo and move to Bourbon Street. It seemed the ideal when young and rebellious and in love with the characters in Poppy Z. Brite novels. (I still love them.) Over time it morphed into a love of history, jazz, and Marie Laveau. I would dream of walking along the streets and often looked to documentaries to see if these dreams were based in reality. These days I know the streets like the back of my hand. For all her glamour and all her grit New Orleans has long been the muse of many. When you step onto the land there’s an enchantment that wraps itself around you. It’s duality giving us deeper context to glamour and mirror work.
She guided me during my first experiments with color films. Ones that explored her magic, mirror and crossroads magic, and Romani proverbs mixed with poetry. I played with grainy textures and swung from the porch swing as storms rolled in and the caretaker told me stories of his life. I want to breath in the history of cities and their people. I want to make human connections and weave stories. If New Orleans was a tarot card she’d be a combination of The High Priestess and the Devil and I mean that with the highest respect.
The city has been home to many authors who found it to be conducive to the writing muse. William Faulkner, whose house is now a wonderful bookstore. Tennessee Williams wrote various plays including the classic including “A Streetcar Named Desire” while he lived in the French Quarter. His first Vieux Carre apartment is at 722 Toulouse St. now home to the Historic New Orleans Collection. Truman Capote took a greyhound to the French Quarter ending up at 811 Royal to master the art of writing. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s boarding house 2900 Prytania overlooks Lafayette cemetery in the Garden District. There he frantically edited the galleys of "This Side of Paradise." So how does this play into glamour and archetypes? Writers in general can harness both the magician and hermit in one while dancing with the Empress. They have the power to become both the star and the world through words and mythology. Here’s where glamour steps in, by spending time in the haunts of historical figures and great writers we can harness that energy within us by connecting to the land memory and those who dwelled there. Looking for the creative muse? Stand in Tennessee Williams’s old apartment or on the steps of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s boarding home and connect with the soil. Connect with the memory and spirit and feel the words seep into you. Looking to tap into luxury and old world style, then walk just a short distance too Commander’s Palace and bask in the rich history. Commander’s Palace has made stars out of it’s chefs and there, you can tap into that star quality or even the chef within you.
Faulkner’s former residence now Faulkner House Books.
On many of my trips to New Orleans I’ll pick certain destinations, certain hotels and Bed & Breakfasts and try to tap into whatever each one wants to share. Sometimes it’s the former streets of Storyville or to the crossroads where a former brothel may be. Other times it’s hotels where jazz musicians stayed on their journeys through the city. Last year, Sherene, a group of wonderful people, and myself lived in a world of glamour and ritual, where mirrors opened portals, and the breeze aided us in meditations. I believe fully in the power of mirrors and poetry as spells. I believe in bits of paper placed into building cracks and music as a frequency shifter. In fact I’ll let you in on a few little secrets. There is a Romani tradition that if you leave one of your belongings in a place you want to return to, you will always have a passage to entry. Years ago on my first trip to the French Quarter. My roommate at the time came into my bedroom and said “Pack your bag, we’re going too New Orleans on Saturday.” I had about $100 in my account but knew I needed to go. A friend of ours had a plane and was willing to bring us. I also knew if I took this gift, the door would open to even greater possibilities. In my bag I packed a key. I knew where I wanted to place it, where it would remain for many years undisturbed. And so I packed a bag and headed and didn’t mess with fate. The Wheel of Fortune was clearly on my side.
That’s me in the cockpit playing co-pilot.
That was my Fool’s journey, the absolute trust in this gift to unfold in so many ways. With New Orleans being the Crescent City it’s hard not associate her with the High Priestess. The rich history and secrets of the land can lead you down secret streets and into small shops filled with candles and herbs. They can lead you to perfumeries and carousel bars for delicious sazeracs or sometimes to Galatoire's for an evening with friend’s a la “Streetcar Named Desire.” Many nights I’ve spent doing mirror magic in rooms where ladies in waiting would pose for incoming suitors.
“For A Gadjo” above shows you a peek inside that mirror magic mixed with poetry. Films and photographs can be visual spells. It ended up creating it’s own spell when it was shown at the Cinamatique Francais in Paris as part of the Romani Avante-Garde Film Sessions. Years ago I purchased a brush and mirror set specifically for glamour magic. As I brushed my hair I looked in the mirror and saw myself transform into the person I knew I was on the inside. Now I’ve been doing this since I was a little girl. I remember getting ready for either pre-school or Kindergarten with a brush and mirror set and brushing my hair 100 times based on an old myth I had heard. I remember as I did this I would pretend to transform in the mirror. I didn’t know it then but I was performing magic.
And so every time I travel I bring one of my magic compacts and this brush and mirror set which I ensorcel with magical oils, intentions and secrets, and wrapped in wonderful scarves. I brush my hair in the mirror and say, “Let’s see what doorways we will open today and what Empress magic we can make. Let’s allow the crescent city to open her arms and show us her mirror so that we may find our own.”
I was telling this to Sherene one night in the Soniat House, where we held our last retreat. The air was cool and we were trying to keep candles from going out in the breeze. “We should do this every year.” She said and I knew in that moment we’d be in New Orleans every year on. Us and the city, the city and us, we had just made a pact. So if you’d like to join us on this magical journey “The Tarot Diaries” May 12-16 (My birthday!) we would love to teach you the secret paths of the major arcana and how they weave their way through the streets. We want to share the warm breeze in a mirrored courtyard and morning coffee/tea and meditations. We want you to enjoy the daily spreads of the cards, the messages and the numerology and dream work within them, how to incorporate glamour and tarot into your daily practice, and of course we want you to experience the glamour no other city has to offer. And if you’re not able to join us in New Orleans do not fear, we are offering a 1 day intensive on the Major Arcana. Learn how to find your soul archetype, understanding the archetypes and how they work through you, in depth look at the journey of the fool and how it pertains to you, and of course incorporating the magic of the tarot into your daily life.
Simple oil recipe to bring joy to the home through mirrors. Clean your mirrors and add a little bit of this oil too the solution or a bit of rubbing alcohol.
Orange peel, cinnamon, clove, and a bit of sweet orange oil mixed with almond or coconut oil.
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Little Isabel’s Christmas Joy – Part 4
Every time Isabel entered the parlor, a new carved animal rested in or near the stable but she never saw Mama or Papa go into the parlor without the children.
“How did they get here?” Isabel asked Mama and Papa but their reply was the same.
“Must have come to see the Baby Jesus!”
After dinner dishes were washed and put away, each child donned their coats, hats, scarves, mittens and boots while Papa packed the sleigh.
“Did you remember to put on your woolens?”
“Yes, Mama but they’re so scratchy!” Isabel said as she scratched her arms and legs. When she struggled to scratch her back, Mama smiled. “Okay young lady, I’m convinced.”
“All aboard!” Papa said as he helped Mama into the front seat and handed her baby Sylvia. “Poor baby,” he said, “you have her so bundled, she can’t move a finger and probably can’t breathe with that piece of blanket flopped over her face!”
“She wouldn’t be able to breathe at all if I didn’t protect her face. That cold air will take her breath away – especially once we get started. It’s awfully breezy, you know. Besides, this is a very thin blanket with air holes since it is crochet.” Mama lifted the blanket long enough to place a kiss on the baby’s head, smiled at the child’s cooing.” Isabel followed Eugene into the second seat, followed by Maggie and then Curtis.
“Mama, make them scoot over so I will have room,” Curtis said as he gently pushed Maggie against Isabel who slid into Eugene who bumped his elbow against the sleigh. “Hey, watch what you’re doing!”
“I didn’t do it,” Isabel said as she looked past Maggie in Curtis’ direction. “He did it!” “That’s enough, children,” Mama said cheerfully. “Let’s see, what shall we sing on the way?”
“Why don’t we sing Jingle Bells?” Papa said as he handed Isabel a leather strap with jingle bells attached. “Try to keep time with the horses,” he said with a grin. “See? They’re wearing jingle bells!”
The entire family began to sing. “Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way; oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.” The children finished three songs before they reached the Albright home.
“Oh boy,” Isabel exclaimed. “May I see Sally Anne?”
“Yes, you may. I wanted it to be a surprise but your friend is going with us. Mrs. Albright and Cookie have volunteered to take care of baby Sylvia while we are caroling.”
“Oh Boy!” Isabel stood up in anticipation and fell into Eugene’s lap.
“Hey, sit down silly goose!” Isabel jumped out of the sleigh, hitting a piece of ice, sliding face down into six-year-old Curtis who landed with a thump on the ground.
“Hey,” he said sternly, “watch where you’re going!”
Isabel looked down at the torn stockings and already felt the sting of skinned knees.
“Oh dear,” Mama said, “you must be careful. It’s awfully slippery out here. Are you alright?”
“I’m okay,” Curtis replied as he pointed to Isabel. “Looks like the silly goose skinned her knee.”
“Son, don’t call your sister silly or a goose. Now wipe the snow from your clothes and carefully stand at the foot of the steps so that we may sing at least one Christmas Carol for the Albrights before we go inside.” Isabel brushed away tears from her cold face and tried to sing Joy To The World with the rest of her family but her knee stung as well as her pride. Sally Anne was standing at the door when Isabel fell and cried out to her friend.
Papa picked up Isabel in his arms and led the family into the welcoming light of the Albright home. “Come in, come in,” Mrs. Albright said as she reached for baby Sylvia. “Oh, what a sweetie. Cookie and I have been looking forward to this all day, haven’t we Cookie?”
“We surely have,” Cookie confirmed and reached for Isabel. “Why don’t you come with me, child? Cookie will get you all fixed up!”
“Yes,” Mrs. Albright said, “Sally Anne has a pair of woolen stockings Isabel may have. She can’t go out into the cold with the torn ones.” And so Isabel followed the Albright’s cheerful cook into the kitchen to sit by the warm stove. When it was time to go, Isabel had a bandaged knee, new woolen stockings and a peppermint stick for being brave.
Three-year-old Maggie stood quietly behind Mama looking around the room and timidly receiving a gingerbread boy from Mrs. Albright. Sally Anne, dressed in her warmest clothes, a hooded cape, and a fur muff, stood by Isabel until Papa declared it was time to go. She jumped up and down with excitement and then ran to the Christmas tree. “May I please give Isabel and Maggie their gifts now, Mother?” With a nod of the head from her mother, Sally Anne reached for two beautiful hat boxes.
“This one is for you, Isabel,” she said as she handed her friend the largest package. “And this one is for you, Maggie,” she said with a smile. “You may open them when I say … Go!” Isabel looked at her little sister and they lifted the box tops together.
“It’s a muff! Just like Sally Anne’s! Look, mama, look!”
“It’s soft, Mama!” Maggie said as she ran her fingers over the soft fur.
“Oh Lillian,” Mama said with a catch in her voice. “You shouldn’t have!”
“We wanted to,” Mrs. Albright replied with a smile as she adjusted the muff around Maggie’s neck and showed her how to slip her hands inside. Maggie’s eyes grew enormous as a shy smile spread over her face. Isabel had hers on in record time.
“What do you say, girls?” Mama asked as she dabbed her eyes with a handkerchief.
“Thank you!” they said in unison.
“You’re quite welcome.”
“Mama,” Isabel pulled at her mother’s cape, “may I give Sally Anne her gift now?”
“Her gift is in the back of the sleigh so why don’t we wait until we come back to pick up baby Sylvia?”
“Yes, ma’am.” It was then Isabel noticed her two brothers wearing leather gloves instead of their knitted mittens. They were also eating gingerbread men, jamming them in their mouth as they turned toward the door.
“This is going to be so much fun,” Sally Anne said as she linked arms with Isabel. “This is the best night – ever!”
This is a muff and cape similar to to the muffs Isabel and Maggie received as gifts from their friend, Sally Anne.
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Real Steel (2011)
tags: Anthony Mackie, Dakota Goyo, David J. Fowlie, Evangeline Lilly, film, Hope Davis, Hugh Jackman, James Rebhorn, Kevin Durand, Real Steel, review, Robert Zemekis, Shawn Levy, Steven Spielberg
written by: John Gatins (screenplay) and Dan Gilroy & Jeremy Levine (story)
produced by: Shawn Levy, Susan Montford & Don Murphy
directed by: Shawn Levy
rating: PG-13 (for some violence, intense action and brief language)
runtime: 127 min.
U.S. release date: October 7, 2011
When the trailers and TV spots started coming in for “Real Steel”, many weren’t sure what to make of it. Robot boxing? Will this be a comedy? A sports movie? Both? The premise seemed like a big-screen version of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots or maybe a remake of Stuart Gordon’s 1990 sci-fi flick, “Robot Jox”. Thankfully, it’s more than just robots destroying each other (see Michael Bay for that), it’s a timeless tale of redemption and determination, set in a lived-in near-future, revolving around an estranged relationship between a father and son. It’s a safe bet that some will balk at the apparent clichés, overall predictability, and familial melodrama involved here. I get all that but I fell for the movie nevertheless and was surprised to find an entertaining family movie, serving that pre-teen age bracket that is so often overlooked.
In the year 2020, robot have replaced humans in the sport of boxing. It makes sense, considering the potential for severe brain injury in the ring. These colorful robots have fancy names and superimposed personalities, but cannot throw punches on their own and must remote-controlled (like a video game) outside the ropes, in order for them to fight. It takes someone who not only knows the latest (and best) models, but also one who knows how to punch in the right gameplay patterns.
Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is not that guy. He’s impatient and impulsive, relying on acquiring the latest souped-up hotrod robot and hoping it will be the end of his piling debt. Such behavior causes a strain on the relationship he has with Bailey Tallet (Evangeline Lilly), who runs the gym that belonged to her now-deceased father (Charlie’s former coach). The thing is, he does know boxing. He used to be a great boxer albeit one who never saw his star truly rise to the top. So, he’s still got a head for the sport, but that might be pointless since it’s no longer the sweet science of his prime.
Word comes to Charlie that one of his former flames has died, leaving behind Max (Dakota Goyo), his eleven-year-son he hasn’t seen since birth. His son’s aunt Debra (Hope Davis) steps in, seeking full-custody of the boy, but the state gives Charlie first dibs. In a scumbag move, Charlie strikes a secret deal with Debra’s husband, Marvin (James Rebhorn), which leaves Max with him for the summer with the promise that he hand the boy over to them in New York, when they get back from their vacation in Italy.
Now, we know the story from here as we see the clichés really start to pile up. The stubborn-yet-smart boy grows on Charlie and the two eventually bond while on the road, traveling from one underground robot fight club to the next. While the boy is mouthy (he’s got every right to be considering the only parent he has left abandoned him at day one), he’s also kind of endearing, which wins over Bailey and wears down Charlie. It’s also pretty obvious where the movie is heading when we see that Max loves robot boxing and like every kid his age, instinctively knows video games. A perfect match for Charlie, something that we see before he does.
One rainy night, as the father and son scour through a junkyard looking for parts, Max stumbles upon (literally) an old sparing bot named Atom ( a soulfully-designed creation). Seeing the discovery as some kind of bonding fate, Max lugs the entire robot back to the gym, determined to get him into fighting shape. Charlie balks at the idea at first, but it doesn’t take him long to see himself in his son and that Atom can take more heavy hits than any of the latest hi-tech models.
Once Max outfits Atom with voice command innards from more modern bots, Charlie reluctantly gets the kid a fight. And guess what? That’s right – Atom wins. Yes, we know more about the story than the actual characters do, but despite all that, the movie never loses its engaging charm. Of course, Atom’s wins increase as the summer goes on, going from rinky-ding fights to a shot at the WRB (World Robot Boxing) winning-champ Zeus, which result in a conflict for Charlie. He knows that he and his son are good together, but also knows that his world is dangerous for the boy, especially when an overacting rival (I’m talking to you Kevin Durand) seeking money, beats Charlie within an inch of his life, right in front of Max. (Clearly, Child Services didn’t get the big picture).
The picture inevitably swells to a perfect storm of emotional redemption (both for Atom and Charlie) and heartfelt connection (Charlie/Max/Bailey), and rewarding acceptance (Atom is crowned “The People’s Champion”). Again, nothing new here except the setting and the update to the sport. But is completely familiar to viewers who’ve watched movies most of their lives, may not be the case for those sitting in the audience Max’s age, especially boys.
It’s rare to find a decent movie that suits that often over-looked age of not-yet-a-preteen, It turns out “Real Steel” is such a movie. I’m thinking credit is due to the producing hands of Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemekis, who both know a thing or two about crowd-pleasing family films suitable for any age. I mention those two veterans because director Shawn Levy (“A Night at the Museum” and “Cheaper by the Dozen”) hasn’t done much to break through genre conventions in the past, with the exception of “Date Night” (a film that succeeded due to its cast).
Still, Levy convincingly establishes a perceivably odd environment, that is, once you kick back an accept it all. The CGI he employs for the robots is quite impressive, especially since we’re introduced to them in the brightness of broad daylight. The first time we see a robot fight is at a rodeo, not against another bot, but a raging bull. It may be a bizarre and silly juxtaposition, but it will undoubtedly either hook you. Unless you groan and roll your eyes at it all, but the audience I saw it with were clapping and laughing at what they saw, myself included.
Based on Steel, a short story by Richard Matheson (“I Am Legend”), which was made into an old Twilight Zone episode that had Lee Marvin in the Hugh Jackman role, this feature-length Disney distributed adaptation has scrapped the creep factor to service the genres it embraces. It takes a charismatic actor like Jackman though to make a selfish deadbeat dad likeable, and that he does. Newcomer Dakota Goyo is an impressive young talent, reminding me of young Ricky Schroeder from the 1979 remake “The Champ”, and it is great to see Evangeline Lilly (of TV’s “Lost”) get al larger role than what she had in “The Hurt Locker”. Her co-star from that film, Anthony Mackie does a good job with a small role as Charlie’s friend and entertaining boxing MC. Across the board, the cast injects a needed believability to an unbelievable concept.
Those expecting a movie about robot boxing will be disappointed there is more than meets they eye here. Not anything original, but at least it’s not two hours of insufferable (and indecipherable) clashing robots. We’ve seen three of those flicks already. A movie can be guilty of clichés and predictability and still be entertaining (as in the recent “Warrior”). Whether audiences will be in this movie’s corner remains to be seen, but I have a feeling it will be a hit.
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You are right in that it’s a perfect movie for the pre-teen. My boys are 10 and 12, and they absolutely loved it. Even Trevor, who leaned over about 20 minutes in to the film and said “Mom, this movie is sooo predictable, but it’s still really good!” hahaha. Heck, I thoroughly enjoyed it myself. Yes, you can see the plot coming a mile away, but it was well acted, well played, and well choreographed, and there’s a reason that this particular story-line gets played so often. Sometimes, you want to see what’s coming, and just sit back and enjoy the ride! 🙂
Considering the boys are becoming a wee bit too old to see the ‘kids movies’ (they didn’t want to go see The Lion King at the theater! 😦 ), but most of the action flicks they want to see are just not appropriate yet, it was great being able to go see this movie. The small amount of cussing in the movie was not unacceptable, given the environment the movie takes place in, and I was very happy that the romance part of the show took a back seat to the rest of the movie and was restricted to just a couple of kisses. Some things pre-teens just don’t need to see yet! hahaha
Harshad / Madhav permalink
That little boy make movie interesting and i like that ROBOT dance specially.
Nice blog and very nicely written.
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RNC Crushed February Fundraising Records, Raising $14.6 Million Last Month
Posted by Mary Chastain Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 1:00pm | 3/20/2019 - 1:00pm
The Republicans continue to dominate the Democrats when it comes to fundraising.
The Daily Caller reported that the Republican National Committee (RNC) raised $14.6 million in February, which is a record for a non-election year.
This comes after the RNC beat another record with $15.5 million raised in January.
Despite pouring $300 million into the 2018 midterms, the RNC remains out of debt due to all the money it brings in.
The RNC received $8.6 million in small-dollar donations, which made up 60% of the total. These small-dollar donations have become key to fundraising since the GOP saw success with it when President Donald Trump aimed at those during his 2016 campaign.
It’s not just the RNC. Other Republican committees have seen record breaking numbers. I don’t have the numbers for February, but the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) brought in $5.58 million in January, which is the most for that month. The Senate Republicans have pushed for the fundraising since they want to retain control of the upper chamber.
Democrats finally have a reason to hold up their heads. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) raised $11.6 million in February, which is a record for them. The committee only raised $7.2 million in January.
However, the Democrats overall still trail the Republicans when it comes to fundraising. Open Secrets show that the RNC raised almost $325 million in 2018 while the DNC raised around $177 million.
It looks like, despite the decent February numbers for the DCCC, 2019 isn’t starting off well for the Democrats. From Politico:
In addition to raising $8.9 million directly from donors in January, the RNC collected more than $6 million from two joint fundraising committees affiliated with the committee and the Trump campaign.
The Democratic National Committee — which does not have the advantage of a sitting president leading its party — started the year significantly behind its GOP counterpart, raising $6.5 million in January and finished the month with $6.5 million in the bank. The DNC also had $5.7 million in debt at the end of the month.
The RNC spent $10.5 million in January. Costs associated with raising money, such as mail production and telemarketing, were among the committee’s biggest expenses last month and it spent $1.7 million on postage, the single largest expense category.
The RNC also reported paying $600,000 in January to Parscale Strategy LLC, the firm affiliated with Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale. The payments were marked as “fundraising services.”
The DNC hasn’t released its numbers from February. Something tells me it won’t be as impressive as the RNC.
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bw222 | March 20, 2019 at 1:14 pm
Every time the RNC, NRSC, NRCC or state GOP calls I tell them that I won’t donate because I don’t want my money going to scumbags like Cory Gardener or Susan Collins. I only donate to conservatives (like Marsha Blackburn in 2018). But, they keep calling.
rdmdawg | March 20, 2019 at 1:49 pm
This is sad, giving money to people so opposed to building a border wall. People need to start donating directly to Trump and forget the uniparty.
Same Same | March 20, 2019 at 2:06 pm
I stopped giving to the RNC years ago. Now my money goes directly to candidates. That way I can be certain it won’t be used to prop up worthless RINOS like McCain.
buckeyeminuteman | March 20, 2019 at 2:08 pm
CR and Omnibus after CR and Omnibus. Debt ceiling raise after debt ceiling raise. Vote after vote to end Obamacare until you get a Republican president and actually can. Vote to condemn a border wall getting built after a promised border wall is what has gotten you elected and has continuously raised funding.
I’ll never donate to RNC. Haven’t for years and certainly never will again.
MAB | March 20, 2019 at 3:31 pm
I’m surprised that there are still so many donating to the RNC.
Individual candidates is the way to go.
JBourque | March 20, 2019 at 4:10 pm
Hey, I haven’t forgotten last fall. The DNC’s unhealthy finances stopped mattering as loads and loads of money poured into House races from excited liberal donors. There were lots of these headlines in 2017; they didn’t matter.
redc1c4 | March 20, 2019 at 6:18 pm
what everyone else has already said…
the RNC can go pound sand until they defecate a glass casting.
TheFineReport.com | March 20, 2019 at 7:12 pm
Giving the GOP a dime is like giving money to that rat paul ryan or mittens romney. Or even the likes of mcconnell.
Give to individual candidates, not that corrupt group of democrat shills so willing to betray our nation.
xsnake | March 20, 2019 at 8:19 pm
All money to go to non conservative Rino candidates.
sestamibi | March 21, 2019 at 9:25 pm
Some years ago I sent a handful of small donation checks to individuals candidates to the GOP National Senate Campaign Committee with instructions to get them to the candidates since this was before the internet and I didn’t have time to look up individual campaign addresses. Not one of those checks ever made it to be cashed.
Today it’s a lot easier to locate individual campaigns on line. NEVER give to aggregate campaign committees or party committees above the level of your own county.
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FIC: "You Make Yourself Another" (ST: TOS/ST:AOS) GEN
People deal with grief in different ways. One of mine is to write. There's an idea I've had since shortly after the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot movie, and in honor of Leonard Nimoy as we last saw him playing Spock, I sat down yesterday to finally write it up, and finished it this morning.
If you don't care for "Star Trek" fan fiction, well, feel free to pass this on by. But if you'd like to spend a few moments with my remembrance -- and you recall the First Season Original Series episode "The Conscience of the King" -- you may care to look under the cut.
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
- William Shakespeare
The little girl’s laughter was like the sound of a springtime brook, gurgling and chuckling over sun-dappled rocks. Her spun-gold hair twinkled in the floating lights as they thrummed back through the air into their charging cradles to shut down and be packed away for the next flight. Nine-year-old Lenore was already fascinated by the stage, by the respectful silence and raucous applause of audiences, the depth and wisdom of the ancient language of the Bard. After tonight’s show, as always, she was giddy, thrilled, and she gave him reason every day to face another.
But, as they stepped into the dressing room, Lenore and her laughter were stilled as if by a stasis field, and she stood, fixed and wide-eyed, looking up at the tall form in his gray robes, as sepulchral and foreboding as Hamlet’s father, waiting, silent, like a piece of set decoration, in the shadows of the corner.
Karidian – Karidian, you are Karidian! – was brought up short as well, for a moment, before regaining his composure. He was, though, an actor, and not just a good one but a great one – as he had to be! – so he was already calm and urbane after a heartbeat’s pause. “I thank you, sir, I truly do,” he said, allowing his weariness and pain to pour into his voice. “But my work exhausts me, and I’m unable to greet members of my audience. I simply do not have the–”
As he spoke, the figure straightened a bit and turned, pushing the gray hood back away from his face to fall around his shoulders, revealing silver hair and startlingly-sharp, dark eyes, as bright and incisive as a boys, and elegantly pointed ears. A Vulcan! One of so very few left, a catastrophe greater than even– He didn’t allow his mind to complete the thought. Still, this ancient Vulcan was extraordinary, and he was stilled by his presence.
“I am not here as an admirer,” the Vulcan said quietly, “although your Richard the Third is an extraordinary achievement. You play him with an almost familiar authority.” He glanced at Lenore. “Perhaps your daughter can seek a playmate while we converse?”
Karidian looked long into the abyss of those sharp, dark eyes, and what he saw there convinced him. “Lenore.” He didn’t even look at his daughter. “Go find Thelassa. She has questions. Andorians’ relationship with authority has never included royalty, and she is confused. Perhaps you can offer her some help.”
Lenore’s eyes were wide and her voice hushed. “Father...”
“Now, Lenore!”
“Yes, Father.”
He turned to watch her go, her blonde hair flowing out behind her like she was swimming underwater, then returned his attention to his forbidding visitor.
“My name,” said the Vulcan, “is Spock. Perhaps you have heard of me.”
Spock! Now the name was in the air, the face came into focus. Spock, the Vulcan from the future, returned to this time by the mad Romulan who’d destroyed the planet, and nearly the Federation in the bargain! Of what doom, Karidian wondered, was he harbinger? Which catastrophe did he herald? What does he know?
“I have heard,” he told the ancient Vulcan.
“My time here is fleeting. I have many visits ahead of me, many... words to offer. I cannot control your actions, and I will not act precipitously myself. That is not my place. But we must speak of Tarsus IV, and of your life before you were Anton Karidian.”
Karidian – Karidian! Karidian! – scowled at him in puzzlement. “Tarsus IV? Is that a planet? I have never–”
“You waste time, which I have told you is precious. Remember from where – and when – I have come. I do not visit you randomly or capriciously, Mr. Karidian. I will do you the courtesy of that name, but we both know it is not yours. Do not waste time with meaningless denials.”
The strength drained out of Karidi– of Kodos. He didn’t so much sit as collapse into his chair. He’d worked so hard to create this new self, this new life, and fought so hard to bring Lenore out of the hell he’d created with her innocence intact, to give her a life of art and of the soul, to leave one good, pure thing behind him. He’d made so many plans and preparations to try to deflect the questions if the ever arose... But now, when he was finally confronted with the truth, there was no question to deflect, no inquiry to dodge. There was knowledge, cold and absolute, in those unimpeachable, inarguable eyes. And how did it come out, he wondered. How did my infamy bring me low?
“It’s been so long, Mr. Spock,” he murmured. “So very long. And yet you still seem so soon and sudden.”
“You could go on,” Spock told him. “When I knew you, you were ten years older. Your career and art were famous and respected.” He paused. “I will not say that admiration was undeserved. The worlds you visited never knew that Anton Karidian was Kodos the Executioner. They did not know you were the famous planetary governor who ordered the killing of half his citizens.”
“I did not merely give orders. I did not send men to do what I would not, and leave my hands clean. I am not proud, but I will at least say that I did what I commanded of others. I know the blood that stains my hands.”
Spock merely regarded him impassively.
“There was a choice to be made, Mr. Spock, a terrible choice, and only I could make it! I had no way of knowing supply ships would be so quick to arrive! I had no way of knowing that dreadful choice forced upon me would be moot! What if they had not come? What if the projections the Federation sent me had been correct? Should I have let my people starve? Numbers do not care, Mr. Spock, about agony and morality. The numbers stand faceless and heartless, as cold as space. They know no pity and cannot be argued with. They are inexorable and implacable, and all I could see was that all of my people would die in abject misery before rescue was more than half-way there... Or half could live to see that rescue if the rest were no longer consuming precious resources.
“And, the decision made that only half of the citizens could be supported, what else could I do? Try to banish half from the colony? Create an insurrectionary force we were unequipped to fight, and set the colony against itself? Or, at best, two-hundred score citizens starving, weeping and suffering, outside the colony’s perimeter?
“No Mr. Spock. I cannot begin to describe the world of regret in which I live, but there was no other decision to be made. If any were to live, half had to die, and it was only logical to choose to save those most able to contribute, most able to safeguard the other lives. And it was as close to kindness as the cold equations offered that those who must die, die quickly, with a minimum of pain, rather than suffer a protracted and horrible death.”
Spock considered for a moment, then gestured about him. "And yet,” he said, “Here we are.
“What you say, taken in isolation, is flawlessly logical. As a Vulcan, I appreciate and respect logic, but I understand its limits. What you say cannot be viewed in isolation. It must be viewed in the context of the lived experience of the world.
“In that experience, I would pose to you this question: If you are convinced that what you did was right, that history would vindicate you, then why are we here? Why do we stand backstage in a dressing room assigned to Anton Karidian? Why did you prepare, in advance, a new identity to escape your past and your actions? If your actions can be defended, why do you not stand behind them?"
“Because the world is not always ready to appreciate logic. You will know from Earth's history that many, many thousands - to cite only an example - were killed for their sexual orientation, that women were stoned and slaughtered as whores. Hiding their sexual pursuits, though they were convinced those were not wrong, made sense in the context of the era. It may have been logical, but humans, as you know, aren't logical. Their emotions would have condemned me without trial.”
“You would make a decision, then, and claim it as moral, to sacrifice the lives of others, but safeguard your own from its consequences?”
“Those who died would have died in any case, whether a quick death under the beam of a phaser or a protracted one from starvation!” Kodos looked beseechingly at him. “What logical purpose would my death serve?”
“But they would not. The supply ships arrived even as you stood on the steps of the Capital with the phaser in your hand. You had no way of knowing that when you decided who would live and who would die, but you cannot say now that the murders you committed made no difference. Thousands died for nothing.”
“That was a matter of–”
“We are not speaking of your choices before, but your choices after. If you did not believe you did wrong, you would stand behind the choice you made. In my century in Star Fleet, I saw more than one Captain put his life on the line in defense of his decisions, and one do it more times than I care to count. You had the courage to make the decision. It was not fear, but shame, that made you flee once history came to judge.”
Kodos looked at his feet. “And what brings you to judge me now?”
“Kodos, I am not here to judge you. I am here, strange as it seems, to help you. I am here to save you heartache and death.”
“By throwing my sins at my feet.”
“I do not believe,” Spock said quietly, “that that is within my power. Is that not where they already lie?”
The sound Kodos heard escaping him had something to do with laughter and something to do with tears. “I think they hang around my neck like the albatross.”
Spock didn’t exactly nod, but still somehow acknowledged him. “In my timeline,” he said, “the Enterprise was summoned to Planet Q by Thomas Leighton, the research scientist. You remember the name?”
Kodos nodded. “One of the handful I fear so terribly, but for whose lives I am so grateful. One of the handful who were snatched away from the death I handed down.”
Spock nodded. “So, too, in my timeline. The Karidian Players had arrived on Planet Q. He’d seen you perform. He knew you at once. He called the Enterprise to show you to her captain. Captain Kirk, you see, had been another of the survivors.”
“No!” cried Karidian. “There was no Kirk! Not among the survivors, not among the dead! There were no Kirks on Tarsus IV!”
“In this timeline, no,” replied Spock calmly. “In this timeline, George Kirk died in Nero’s attack, six years before he would have served at the colony. His wife and son never saw Tarsus IV. But that was not the case in mine.”
“So here you are to avenge a wrong I never did to your precious captain.”
“I am here to avenge no wrong, Kodos. As I said, I am here to save lives, not the least, yours. Leighton was murdered at a party you were attending. Captain Kirk was not certain of your identity, but he was suspicious enough to arrange your passage on the Enterprise. One of our crew, a junior officer – not much older, in fact, than your daughter – who was also a survivor of Tarsus IV, was poisoned, and survived only through the nearly miraculous skills of our Chief Medical Officer.” Spock paused then, a slight motion of his lips almost suggesting a smile.
“I was sure of your identity, but the captain was not. So grave a charge, he would not make without utter certainty. But one thing I had learned. Of the nine survivors who witnessed your crimes on Tarsus IV, only those two, Kirk and Riley, remained. All the rest had been killed, through accident and misadventure that only became apparent when viewed as a pattern, as a series of systematic murders.”
Kodos’ head rose slowly, his eyes filled with dread and despair. “Did I sink so low, then? Did I become so craven as to murder, again and again, to protect the lie that was my life?”
Spock shook his head. “It is, I fear, worse than that. It is also something that I cannot merely tell you. You would be systemically, fundamentally unable to believe it.” He crouched in front of Kodos, eyes boring into his. “You must allow me to give you my thoughts, my memories. You must accept from me my knowledge.”
Kodos blanched in fear. In the Vulcan Mind Touch, there could be no secrets, no concealment! He would know, he would know! He already knows, Kodos. You know that.
He inclined his head. “I live my life in the worlds of Shakespeare, but it is Dickens who speaks to me now. Spirit, I fear you most of all. What terrors do Christmases yet to come offer?”
Spock’s head moved gently. “To such small extent as it may console you, it was not a Christmas that ended it. It was October, Earth calendar.”
Kodos’ jaw firmed. “Be done with it, then, Vulcan. Deliver me your verdict.”
The long, gnarled fingers reached and found places along the nerve clusters at the side of Kodos’ face: forehead, temple, under the ear, along the jaw. The fingers moved gently and prodded insistently as the sonorous voice murmured. “My mind.... To your mind... My thoughts... To your thoughts...”
A kind of ancient stillness poured through Kodos like a fog, and he saw, heard, tasted, smelled, felt flashes of experiences he couldn’t understand. A stone in pain. The minds of four-hundred Vulcans crying out in death. Nomad, Tan Ru. Kohlinar, Fal Tor Pan, a balding man with a French name and an English accent who somehow contained his father. The death-scream of a world, of a race, of all of Vulcan save the few thousand who were offworld when Nero’s device pierced its heart....
And then there was focus. Faces that were familiar but strangely different from those he’d seen on newscasts after Nero’s temporal attack. The Kirk he saw was a decade older, but also inches shorter, and with brown eyes instead of blue. Even as he noticed it, he felt Spock’s knowledge, that being born, weeks early, in space, aboard a shuttle with rudimentary artificial gravity, bombarded with the radiation of battle, had made subtle changes to Kirk’s appearance and development. The sense that the Kirk in his vision was somehow the “real” Kirk, and the one from the newscasts a substitute, laced with amusement at a personal prejudice that logic did not, could not support.
The memories bubbled up, the names of the nine – Nine! How extraordinary! – witnesses, and the dawning realization as their fates were pronounced by the library computer. Even in this region of space, two plus two equals four. Young Riley – Kodos remembered the Riley family: the boy had been a mewling toddler! – skulking backstage with a phaser, ready to do vengeance – or justice – upon him. But Kirk was there, persuading him, calming him, saving Kodos from a fate he could not deny he deserved...
And then catastrophe! Spock could not see them speaking, but his Vulcan ears heard. The voice was older, deeper, but a father knows his daughter, and Spock, Spock knew the voice as well, and was no more able to deceive in the Mind Meld than he. It was Lenore who said, No, Father. The time will never come. Tonight, after my performance, the last two who can harm you will be gone.
“What are you saying?” The words were torn from his throat aloud as the memory of his future cried out in his mind.
There were nine, Lenore said. Now there are only two, and they will be gone as soon as I– Don't look at me like that!
“What have you done?” Again, he cried in reality along with the memory.
Lenore had grown into a beautiful young woman. Spock had been concerned about her relationship with the brash captain. But her voice was full of madness now. What had to be done. They had to be silenced.
All of them? All seven? More blood on my hands?
No Father, not anymore. I'm strong, Father. It's nothing. This was what he’d made in the world. This was what he’d left it. The golden sunshine of his little girl, dismissing murders as of no account. How could this be? How could he have allowed it? We'll be ready. Don't you see? All the ghosts are dead. I've buried them. There's no more blood on your hands.
“No!” The word that time was solely his own, as he wrenched himself bodily away from the elderly Vulcan’s fingers. He tumbled to floor, eyes wide, hands clenched into fists. “No, please, in the name of God, no!”
“I...” the Vulcan’s voice was even rougher. He was recovering from the depth of the meld, and the sudden savagery of its parting. “I have no power to act or speak in the name of any deity, Kodos. I can only tell you the truth. It was only at the end that Captain Kirk became involved. In this timeline, of course, there’s no reason he would be involved at all. I can see no way that the alteration of history affects this. If you continue on as Anton Karidian, she will learn the truth, unbeknownst to you. She will kill. Not once, but again and again. Riley. Leighton. Eames. Molson. Moore, and more. That is the price of your freedom. In my timeline, Lenore Karidian accidentally killed you moments after that revelation. It broke what was left of her already fragile sanity. She lived out her life in an institution, and died without ever leaving it.”
“No...” The word was barely even breath as it left him.
“It is not given to me to decide for you, Governor Kodos. I could report what I know to the Federation Bureau of Justice, of course, but that is not my place. You’ve seen the course you have set. You’ve seen the destination that awaits you if you continue on as you are.”
Spock’s head suddenly angled slightly, and Kodos looked behind him. Lenore was approaching. On seeing his face, she grew alarmed. “Father! What is it, Father! What has he done to you?”
The Vulcan’s right eyebrow rose, and he looked pointedly from the girl to her father. That instinct to see attack, and to defend him, even now, even at nine years old.
“Nothing, my child, my child, Mr. Spock has done nothing but bring me tidings I needed to hear. Residual payment, you may call it, for a role I played long ago, one of which I have never spoken, but now I must.” He looked up at the Vulcan. “If you will excuse us, Mr. Spock, there is much I must do. Our lives are about to change, and Lenore must be prepared.”
Spock’s head inclined. “Quite so, Mr. Karidian.” He stepped to the door of the dressing room. “And for what it is worth, sir, I am very sorry. I do... sympathise, even if I cannot condone.”
“What’s done is done, sir. We cannot recall actions past, committed or omitted. We can only do our best with the world we have before us. It stings like a blade, sir, but I am well aware that it’s a great kindness you have done me, and, as strange as it may seem, you have my gratitude. Go in peace, Spock. I know what I must do.”
The Vulcan regarded him for a moment more, then turned and disappeared into the shadows.
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Black Author wins Copyright Case for Matrix movie
Posted: 18/02/2010 in Current Affairs
Tags: Copywrite, Matrix, Movie, Silver, Wachowski, Warner
Black Author wins The Matrix Copyright Infringement Case
This little known story has met a just conclusion, as Sophia Stewart, African American author of The Matrix will finally receive her just due from the copyright infringement of her original work!!!
A six-year dispute has ended involving Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers. Stewart’s allegations, involving copyright infringement and racketeering, were received and acknowledged by the Central District of California, Judge Margaret Morrow presiding.
Stewart, a New Yorker who has resided in Salt Lake City for the past five years, will recover damages from the films, The Matrix I, II and III, as well as The Terminator and its sequels. She will soon receive one of the biggest payoffs in the history of Hollywood , as the gross receipts of both films and their sequels total over 2.5 billion dollars.
Stewart filed her case in 1999, after viewing the Matrix, which she felt had been based on her manuscript, ‘The Third Eye,’ copyrighted in 1981. In the mid-eighties Stewart had submitted her manuscript to an ad placed by the Wachowski Brothers, requesting new sci-fi works..
According to court documentation, a FBI investigation discovered that more than thirty minutes had been edited from the original film, in an attempt to avoid penalties for copyright infringement. The investigation also stated that ‘credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers came forward, claiming that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge that the work in question did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers.’ These witnesses claimed to have seen Stewart’s original work and that it had been ‘often used during preparation of the motion pictures.’ The defendants tried, on several occasions, to have Stewart’s case dismissed, without success.
Stewart has confronted skepticism on all sides, much of which comes from Matrix fans, who are strangely loyal to the Wachowski Brothers. One on-line forum, entitled Matrix Explained has an entire section devoted to Stewart. Some who have researched her history and writings are open to her story.
Others are suspicious and mocking. ‘It doesn’t bother me,’ said Stewart in a phone interview last week, ‘I always knew what was true.’
Some fans, are unaware of the case or they question its legitimacy, due to the fact that it has received little to no media coverage. Though the case was not made public until October of 2003, Stewart has her own explanation, as quoted at aghettotymz.com:
‘The reason you have not seen any of this in the media is because Warner Brothers parent company is AOL-Time Warner…. this GIANT owns 95 percent of the media… let me give you a clue as to what they own in the media business… New York Times papers/magazines, LA Times papers/magazines, People Magazine, CNN news, Extra, Celebrity Justice, Entertainment Tonight, HBO, New Line Cinema, DreamWorks, Newsweek, Village Roadshow and many, many more! They are not going to report on themselves. They have been suppressing my case for years.’
Fans who have taken Stewart’s allegations seriously, have found eerie mythological parallels, which seem significant in a case that revolves around the highly metaphorical and symbolic Matrix series. Sophia, the Greek goddess of wisdom has been referenced many times in speculation about Stewart. In one book about the Goddess Sophia, it reads, ‘The black goddess is the mistress of web creation spun in her divine matrix.’
Although there have been outside implications as to racial injustice (Stewart is African American), she does not feel that this is the case. ‘This is all about the Benjamins,’ said Stewart. ‘It’s not about money with me. It’s about justice.’
Stewart’s future plans involve a record label, entitled Popsilk Records, and a motion picture production company, All Eyez On Me, in reference to God. ‘I wrote The Third Eye to wake people up, to remind them why God put them here. There’s more to life than money,’ said Stewart. ‘My whole to the world is about God and good and about choice, about spirituality over ‘technocracy’.’
If Stewart represents spirituality, then she truly has prevailed over the ‘technocracy’ represented in both the Terminator and the Matrix, and now, ironically, by their supposed creators.
Stewart is having discussions with CBS about a possible exclusive story and has several media engagements in the near future to nationally publicize her victory. June 13th 2004. Sophia Stewart’s press release read: ‘The Matrix & Terminator movie franchises have made world history and have ultimately changed the way people view movies and how Hollywood does business, yet the real truth about the creator and creation of these films continue to elude the masses because the hidden secret of the matter is that these films were created and written by a Black woman…a Black woman named Sophia Stewart. But Hollywood does not want you to know this fact simply because it would change history. Also it would encourage our Black children to realize a dream and that is…nothing is impossible for them to achieve!’
Greg Thomas, Editor
Courtesy of CNN IReport ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-358749
I saw this article and I am sharing by reblogging
Robin Dawn says:
Thank you for this true story about Sophia Stewart. To God be the glory!
Wow we have another creative person for our children to look up to! Sophia Stewart made history! #thewait was not in vain.
Next The Mahogany Project (http://www.mahoganyproject.org/events.html) will write and perform about the American Injustice System. We welcome your thoughts.
Omg……they always want to take the work that some else put in and put there name on it. Wow Hollywood!!!!
brettlotrietbest says:
Reblogged this on The MadDwarf and commented:
A thought provoking case in so many ways. Looking forward to a biopic of what went down.
Inge Taha says:
Reblogged this on Do Shoot The Messenger!.
Ms. K says:
Amen Sophia! Always knew in my spirit that a black person wrote the Matrix. I am praying for your success as you continue the work that you were called to create and do!
P.S. The Matrix is my favorite series..Thank you for your time and talent!!!
Ms. K
Penticular Blog - CONTACT INFORMATION - papasart@msn.com says:
THERE MAY BE A DEEPER POWER THAN THE LIARS WHO TRY TO TAKE FROM THE INNOCENT AND THE BLESSED, AMEN SISTER.
Ofentse says:
It’s sad to see the marginalization of African American creatives in Hollywood.The time has come to run our own media companies so that we showcase our talents.
Bill Cosby tried to buy Nbc and they’re castrating him.
Perfectothemodel says:
How pleasing and dignifying that she finally attained due justice. And now legitimately stands a chance to receive worthy praise for her work on authoring these movies. She will now, especially after publicizing her story to the larger masses be known as the rightful bellwether of fantasy films by the likes of the Matrix.
The Dime Session 12/6/13 says:
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ArtSci says:
Reblogged this on ArtSci.blog.
Tamora Lee says:
Ok can you explain why you stated black author is there an,agenda on why u used her race explain
Ummmm because if she was whitestablished the case would’ve been resolved in 1999 when she first filed. Don’t act like race didn’t have anything to do with the fight. Blacks always have to prove their case and like always credit is never willingly given, we have to fight for what’s right.
Robert Weatherspoon says:
She should receive 60%-65% of the revenue that was generated.
Valerie Anderson says:
Awesome, truth always prevails.
ATTN: ARTIST! Learn From Sophia Stewart And Protect Your Work | The Social Complexium says:
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iirebekah says:
Reblogged this on OnlyBlackGirl.
A Lesson From The Matrix: Protect Your Work! | Pop Culture Uncovered says:
sistapatience says:
Reblogged this on Sista Patience's Blog and commented:
Hallelujah Justice is served!
Author Wins The Matrix Copyright Case | Blerd Life says:
[…] Source: Jason Skywalker’s Blog […]
e cig juice says:
I’m not that much of a internet reader to be honest
but your blogs really nice, keep it up! I’ll go ahead and bookmark your site to come back later.
Vwambanji says:
Reblogged this on Vwambanji's Blog.
Uh, hey, I recognise this is an important issue and how important it is to recognise that it was in fact a black woman who created this brilliant story originally, but you can’t justify referring to Lana and Andy Wachowski as “brothers” when Lana is clearly a woman.
To do so is to dehumanise her, and that kind of bigotry is the same kind that originally prompted the two to cover up the fact that they used another woman’s story for their film instead of their own, so please don’t perpetuate it.
Jim E Henson says:
What is known and what folks tell you,Its all bs,anyone can say anything.And I remember reading the Sumerian,text long ago and what we have here is plagiarism.It was written some 7000 years ago,they talked of everything that the matrices conveys And yes they had stories of the wars of the gods The tablets talk of space travel Gene modification,you would think the lawyers knew.But then again its all main stream and their eyes are closed.to the real history.But I hope she understands they have their own security force.And she is messing with the Yakuza.
Alvin says:
WOW!! Maybe now Hollywood will do a film to educate the dumbos how Rock-n-Roll started.
fonz says:
Boipelo Maforah says:
wow!!! i would have never known!!! I am even more and more proud to be a black woman right now!!! God is great!!!
BigDog says:
White people have been stealing black peoples ideas for centuries, finally some justice.
“White people”? I’m a white person. I haven’t stolen any black people’s ideas. Most of the people I know are white. I don’t know any of them that have stolen anyone else’s ideas, either.
Don’t break this down to an us and them story. We’re all people – humans. Culture and skin colour are secondary.
Brian B. King (BKnovelist) says:
Reblogged this on BKNOVELIST and commented:
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I am glad truth eventually triumphed.
It doesn’t matter if she’s black of white , she WON!!!!!
Gregory Levi says:
What about Blade Runner & Metropolis? R dey hers 2?
The Mother of the Matrix | Indigo Babies says:
[…] really start with an update of where I am but I can’t as I have just read this articular. https://jasonskywalker5.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/black-author-wins-matrix/ . The Matrix was actually written by a Women called Sophia Stewart and her story is also the […]
igor carlier says:
Would be great if she decides to make the real movie since the brothers changed the script trying to avoid copyright issues .. i would love to see the real deal !!!
good win !
John T says:
sharron h. says:
Glad this has been brought to the light by someone. I pray Ms. Stewart gets everything she justly deserves and I pray that she does the exclusive soon so everyone can know the truth
jjackson says:
All I need to say is “The Moors”
Mr T (@TerryNOTA60) says:
I am pleased for Sophia The Matrix is telling us that world is an illusion. Mystics have been telling us this for thousands of years, we are in a simulated reality and the Universe is an Hologram. I don’t find that scary I find that liberating. When will the idiots who are destroying the planet through their greed realize this is a school and you can only graduate to the next level by being Loving and Caring:
“Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.”
Julian of Norwich
Marc's Voice » Middle of Ho Ho Ho season blogging 2013 says:
[…] Turns out the Matrix WAS largely based upon someone else’s work. Took 14 years to prove it! […]
sportstalkwith3js says:
Reblogged this on sportstalkwith3js and commented:
Its been a long time coming
Plknela says:
Wow I’m happy to see this happening!
Kema says:
If there’s any thing to be learned from her fight it’s that you can get away with dirt some of the time but not all of the time.
Good for her she deserves what she is owed and they stole her work and got rich they should pay price for being thieves!!!
James poole says:
Why is her race important?
L Garens says:
The constant reference to her being black really stood out to me. There is a photo! We know she is black. I am thrilled she won this, but she herself said it was not about race, but money!!
If this woman were white or oriental, Native American, etc., would the title have read that way? Doubtful.
This is the stuff that keeps racism going. Many will read this and even though she herself said it was not about race, many will still think it is!! Once the sublet thought of racism is indicated it will be picked up and believed.
Stewart is a success because she put in the hard work! She is a success because she fought for her rights. Nothing else. She is a fine example not just to blacks and black children, as this article spoke to, but to us ALL!! All colors! And to women in general!!
If this is a side victory for blacks and encourages blacks to do more in their lives on a personal level, great! Just do not let it be an example of a black being mistreated. Everyone in every color needs mentors and heroes!
Given what she has gone through with this, I am pretty sure if race was the real issue here this woman, a woman strong enough to fight a massive corporation and win, would have spoken to that herself!! She did not!!
She is an author, not a black author. If people want equality then they should stop dividing themselves by their color at every turn. Again, if this woman had been any other race, would her race be part of the title? Again, not very likely!!
This story is really about big corporation control over everyone regardless of race. That should be the focus here!! This was her real victory that this article focusing on race took away from her!!
One more thing to realize is that if these huge media groups covered this up, what other really important things to all of us do they cover up? How else are they molding and forming our minds and opinions to the wrong?
Be a critical thinker and when writers forming an article that will be read by the masses, be sure to critique your work to make sure you are not feeing into and perpetrating the wrong thoughts and actions out there, like racism.
Rock on Sophia Stewart, you are an amazing person!! Congratulations on you huge victory! You set a precedent that can now help other people in similar situations win their battles with media and these monstrous corporations also!!
Arlette says:
Thank you for so eloquently pointing out that racism isn’t the root issue of this article. As an African American im tired of this card being played when it is not relevant to the issue at hand. Core isues such as money and power are at the root of oppression toward most races or genders.
Mark Williams says:
It’s about time, now these guys and other hollywood companies will think twice about stealing writers works. They could have bought the script but decided to use it without buying it. That a shame to put a dark cloud over this movie. Next time buy it first before useing the product, same in your local stores.
Good for black author Sophia Stewart (who is African American, as you can see from the photo). This kind of thing goes on all the time – people submitting stories, songs, scripts, etc to publishers, only to see or hear a slightly modified version a few years later. No credit, no compensation. Lawsuits often fail because they’re clever enough to tweak the originals just enough to pass them off as original in court. So it’s great that Ms. Stewart, who is black, won her copyright claim.
The latest somewhat high profile example is the case of Hispanic designer Juan Luis Garcia whose poster designs for black director Spike Lee’s remake of Korean director Chan-wook Park’s revenge masterpiece Oldboy, were ripped off and used to promote the film, and even posted by the director Lee, who is African American, on his own blog. Let’s all cross our fingers for Hispanic Juan Luis Garcia and hope that is case turns out as favourably for him as black African American Sophia Stewart’s case did for her.
lavondastaples says:
Reblogged this on lavondastaples and commented:
I don’t know how I missed this ENTIRE story, but I did. is this yet another reason that self-publication has exploded? Is it better to get your work in the public eye, as yours, and forego submissions to established sources?
makeupismydope says:
Reblogged this on makeupismydope.
Anita Delgado says:
Why in the world is she only going to get 2.5 million when one of the actors of the Matrix, Keanu Reeves made 10 million? Now I may not be that bright,,, but dont the actors get paid off of what the movie makes? Keanu Reeves was not the only actor, and lets see, the producers, the special effects, come on,,, they didnt make the movie so they couldnt get any profits,, after all that money they made you mean to tell me the woman gets less money than one of the actors? yeah,, she has still be cheated, or her lawyer is just plain stupid.
Shondalynn says:
Good for you and your win
Arielle says:
Would you mind changing “Wachowski Brothers” to just “Wachoskis”? Lana Wachowski may have done something shitty to this woman, but that’s separate from her gender identity, which deserves to be respected.
syndax vuzz says:
Reblogged this on syndax vuzz.
Ronald says:
Wow, finally something done right…Poor greedy Hollywood.
JRM says:
Fine with the reasoning behind the Matrix payout but what’s the link to Terminator?
Makes me want to read “The Third Eye” for from my experience a book is always better than the movie. Hard to believe how much injustice people face and how others are kept in ignorance.
ThePoliticalVagina says:
Reblogged this on thepoliticalvagina and commented:
Sophia triumphs at long last, what an interesting woman.
A triumph for Sophia! A validation that the matrix is corrupt.
kaos says:
Seems like she is just cashing in on a coincidence to me. Her original story may have had some similar plotlines, but every Sci-Fi story with a christ- like figure will follow roughly the same path
Rafael Paulino says:
Incredible! Never give up!
SeattleAuthor says:
Reblogged this on Kurt R.A. Giambastiani and commented:
I hadn’t heard anything at all about this which is telling in and of itself. Not that I’m all that “in the loop” with Hollywood stuff, but given the popularity of The Matrix franchise and considering the time that has passed, I would have thought SOME word of this infringement would have leaked. Obviously, the Money is protecting itself quite well.
I had no idea about any of this!
rhodrimalin says:
Reblogged this on Over the Cliff and commented:
This is the first I’d heard of this story, quite interesting, it would also be interesting to either read the original or see it produced as a film in its own right – just to see how things compare. Glad she got her money in the end though.
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Well done Sophia and all involved!
I truly hope this will help other people who’ve had their ideas and work stolen get some justice and break the cycle of intellectual theft.
Johnny Calabro says:
I am very glad that justice has prevailed for the author of the original work, but does it really matter that she is black?
Actually, this isn’t accurate. She hasn’t won anything, whether or not you agree with her. I’m not saying she’s wrong or that she hasn’t been cheated – she might have been. I’m saying she hasn’t won anything.
https://www.snopes.com/politics/business/matrix.asp
Great victory. Truth may not run as fast as a lie, but in the end will win the race every time.
Amen Dennis
debra johnson says:
CONGRATS HONEY I KNOW ITS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING,SO GLAD YOU HUNG IN THERE AND FINALLY GOT YOUR DUE GOD BLESS YOU
jestene tucker bowen says:
So good, so Bless for her. Why must the big Corporation think that they can just stomp all over the little people. Creative thinking comes from all walks of people, if it’s my ideal why not pay me my just do, don’t try to Swindell me out of what’s rightfully mines. .Boom in that order… To her Cha Chang. ….
hatshepsut says:
Wow this is wonderful the most high was watching over her, that is wonderful queen.
Bruce jordan says:
In this world of darkness and light’. the truth gets it’s day in court. day’,s like this are here!
OUF tant mieux justice est faite !!!!!!!!
Annette Belk Tomlin says:
GB you my sister & PRAISE God that you He seen you through also He gave you the insight to creatively write this piece may you continue in your pursue & be Blessed One Love!!
Niecy Allison says:
barbrahk says:
Good for her!
I suggest a SIMPLE google search Sophia Stewart or a google search of:
Stewart v. Wachowski, 574 F. Supp. 2d 1074 (C.D. Cal. 2005)
JUSTICE! Thnk gudness the trooth can still be hurd.
In case you didn’t get the sarcasm, I was making fun of this post being up for two years now even though the story is completely false. Should probably amend or remove it.
talkingheadsmackdown says:
Author, how do I get in with Ms. Sophia?
patriciaange says:
Reblogged this on Sex and Relationships.
Mputle says:
These news are pleasing and I’m happy for her. Hollywood has a lot of dark and dirty secrets they don’t want the world to know.
R Gayle. says:
Met her years ago while i was doing security In nyc and she told me..i always believed her..she drove away in a limo saying i was the creator of matrix..IM Glad she won..
Arnita Bryant says:
Vindication is what I’m talking about, she persevered and got the job done, Congratulations Miss lady..
Raphaloujo says:
Sooooooooo happy for you! Finally. I had been waiting to see the truth come out. To God/The Universe/ The spirit be the glory!
Thank you for writing this blog and bringing the truth to life.
To the author, even bigger thanks for your contribution and talent to our lives. I am sure no amount of money can justify the legal horrors and emotional aspect of many years of your life due to this. Thank you for standing by your work, sticking with your lawsuit and not ‘disappearing’ as they were hoping.
kenglish says:
Her lawyer’s name is JESUS!!
Rosha Archie says:
Can anyone send me the laywer info on this case I need asap tks
david carson says:
I was routing for her, til all the “God talk.”
Sandy Coleman Shelton says:
Why would that change your mind?
Gina Johnson says:
I’m glad she continued to persue this and did not stop. Victory for the little people.
This has been going on forever-in the music business as well. the record companies took young artists songs, drugged them on some real creepy drug, put them in an institution, and sold the songs to the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith etc. I know 2 kids that this happened to. White kids. One was my sister. Of course no one would believe them because they were “crazy’, right? Look at the music business in the old days. All the Rock’n’Roll songs that were stollen from Black song writers MADE the music business. Nothing would surprise me. Men would kill babies for money. And Do.
Israela Amelia says:
well i don’t know about that, but it is known fact that Elvis stole music from african american artist from his time. he wasn’t the only one. i’m not even sure if race has anything to do with it either. the entertainment biz is full of scammers and swindlers
Hameyo says:
AMEN!!
Michael Peterson Pastor says:
Justice….what a mighty word…and even mightier reality…PTL Praise the Lord….Well done king Jesus from whom Justice flows…she stood with you and you gave her, her victory! Awesome story, biblical in indeed….Modern day bible stuff…the woman,,in this case a black women against the media giants…her faith in God borough her through…along with her pin and faithful loyal crew????…Amen! And again, I say AMEN.
bellaberri says:
Reblogged this on Rants & Raves.
I think she meant to the companies, it’s all about the benjamins…not for herself.
Marlon S. says:
That’s crazy…. Great story. To think that i’ve never heard of it before is amazing. Two franchisees that I love and saw get soo much media and internet buzz. Though I’m not surprised at all that the ideas for both came from a different source or that it was taken from a black person by a white man. Nor that even it was coverd up by the mainstream media. What is surprising is that all the time people rush to report lessor stories on nonsense or even half worthy information, no one picked up on this until now.
” You still believe that’s air your breathing”………..
just brings to light that you have no freedom of choice. five companies own all the media. the same thing goes for the supermarket five or six companies on all the products
Leslie Cuttino says:
I’m happy for you Ms. Stewart it’s nice to see justice. God Bless You.
Robert I totally agree, people don’t realize this plus they dictate to us what is and isn’t important news..
Michelle Watts says:
Get your coins Ms. Stewart…If Hollywood could make out from your work then you should get paid for your work, it is as simple as that! Congratulations! The Matrix and Terminator are truly some of the best movies ever made. Thank you!
Tanya Parker says:
What is her lawyer’s name?
Champagne Filmmaker says:
CHing CHing lol
Jayesh Patel says:
Its good she won the case….she deserves it for her talent…not that she is Black Author…….What a stupid headline for this blog.
I wholly agree!
Danisej says:
I think it is important to recognize that she is a black author. Within American history there is African American history. Its important for me to share this with my children. She even mentions that this will encourage them and others that the can be whatever they want to be in life. Now she is one of the greatest icons of Sci-fi movie history!
Antoinette Griffin says:
Thank you Danisej for understanding how important it is to our people, African Americans, that Ms. Stewart being Black not only is a victorious win for her but it is a victorious win for every African American that have existed, still do exist and will exist!!!! This kind of thing has been happening to our people ever since the time that the Europeans kidnapped, stole, and murdered our ancestors bringing them to strange lands turning them into slaves and selling them for money. As she herself mentioned this victory is for all Black People everywhere, Ms. Stewart included. This victory goes down in history as one of the greatest victories of African American History!!!!!!! Our God is a Just God visiting His Wrath and His Justice against the children of evil for a thousand generations!!!! Justice was just served to those thieves that stole away Ms. Stewart’s God given and God inspired Works of Arts!!!!!!! She is an astronomical artist way ahead her time!!!!!!!!
Sundi says:
It’s the perfect headline. This can be shared for motivation with our youth that their work can be great one day and how much of an impact it could have. The media and music these days is definitely the wrong way to go about it. It can also be a heads-up to youth to protect their work.
I’ll say it again- “Black Author wins Copyright Case for Matrix movie” is the perfect headline
I totally agree! The constant reference to her being black really stood out to me. There is a photo! We know she is black. I am thrilled she won this, but she herself said it was not about race, but money!!
This is the stuff that keeps racism going. Many will read this and even though she herself said it was not about race, many will still think it is!! Once the suble thought of racsim is indicated it will be picked up and believed.
Stewart is a success because she put in the hard work! She is a sucess because she fought for her rights. Nothing else. She is a fine example not just to blacks and black children, as this article spoke to, but to us ALL!! All colors.
If this is a side victory for blacks and encourages blacks to do more in their lives on a personal level, great Just do not let it be an example of a black being mistreated.Everyone in every color needs mentors and hereos!
She is an author, not a black author. If people want equality then they should stop dividing themselves by their color at every turn. If this woman had been any other race, would her race be part of the title? Not very likely!!
This story is about big corporation control over everyone regardless of race. That should be the focus here!! This was her real victory that this article focusing on race took away from her!!
One more thing to realize that if these huge media groups covered this up, what other really important things to all of us do they cover up? How else are they molding and forming our minds and opinons to the wrong?
Be a critical thinkier and when writers forming an article that will be read by the masses, be sure to critique your work to make sure you are not feeing into and perpetrating the wrong thoughts and actions out there, like racism.
Her victory is that she bought this beast and slew it! Very proud of you Sophis Stewart!!
Jayesh Patel, so typical of a statement from a person who probably is NOT black, Great headline, great story, and great results, PS we were born black before we had TALENT!!! and many black people had this done to them and never had the fight to the end in them….please don’t ever speak for black people, unless you are black and have had the same exact experiences of living in America Black!!!
Probably shouldn’t speak at all, let alone for other people, if you’re too lazy check if an article is accurate or not.
Ddjs says:
Great info!!!…never would have known. I am so happy for her.
KUJIFI Dauda says:
I humbly but strongly disagree with JoAnn. I agree one hundred percent with Niece and George Lewis. It does matter very much, about her race, because if this were the work of a white woman – she would be more famous than the ‘Harry Potter’ author. These movies have greatly impacted people of all races far outside of America. It is very important and only fair that black people the world over, know this truth and as George Lewis says – she is an inspiration, something greatly needed among black people, not only in America but the world over.
Rupert Thomas says:
Im in total ageement with Kujifi Dauda, i couldn’t have stated it better,some Ppl. are still in denial of the history of Black Ppl’s and Black Americans continual struggles against injustices in the media …Good on you Ms. Stewart , we’re very proud of your tenacity and standing up against the Establishment …
truthteller says:
Time Warner, what angels….what kind of racism is that?……how many other artist have been supressed. Revelation says all that is done in the dark will come to light…Just watch.. Race made all the matter in this ugly ugly, unjust magnanimous race.
Albert Gump Kaye says:
You think these people screwed her because she was a black woman?! Ridiculous. Many writers have been cheated in the exact same way. It’s absurd to think that if she were a “white woman” this wouldn’t have happened. Ridiculous.
Andrani Rosalila Foster says:
Preach Kujifi
ghalaax says:
Creator of the Matrix.. That may explain why the Oracle is a black woman 😉
At least, she will get rewarded for her work and that is the most important part.
Nice job 🙂
So first let me start by saying awesome job and way to fight the good fight.. Also would love to read “the third eye” but when it quotes you as saying ” I wrote it to wake people up and show them there is more to life then money” just saying miss you sued for 2.5 billion dollars and earlier in the article said “it’s all about the Benjamin’s” lol I found that ironic! But I digress cudos to you and I’ll look your work up awesome stories if you wrote them I’m a huge fan and I didn’t even know it
mbhcu98 says:
You are really good at taking things out of context. The article doesn’t state that she sued for 2.5 billion dollars. It states that the gross receipts of the Matrix and Terminator movies and sequels are over 2.5 billion dollars. Also, she states that it’s all about the Benjamins in rather than racial injustice from the perspective of the Film Industry. She doesn’t contradict herself in this article.
Le'eve says:
I think she was implying that it was all about the Benjamins for those that stole her work. Wouldn’t you want to be compensated for your work? especially work that was taken from you? I would, roll in the dollars. Now, it just makes it that much more comfortable for her to do the work she REALLY wants to do.
Sharita says:
Hey there! If you read the article in it’s proper context, you’d realize the mention of it “being all about the Benjamin’s” was Stewart’s response to being asked if the reason for her story being stolen, and her identity being kept under the table was due to her race. Her reply indicated that this whole ordeal was not because she is black, but because Warner Bros & partners wanted the money.
In regards to her suing them, that is only fair, it has nothing to do with being about money! Would you just sit back and let someone make billions off of your work, and not get what’s due you? Most likely not.
For the record, the article didn’t say she sued for 2.5 billion, it said the gross receipt for both films and their sequel totaled 2.5 billion dollars.
I just wanted to make sure you were getting the actual understanding of this article.
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back2eden2014 says:
Nick… Of course she sued for what is rightfully hers. That is only partial justice seeing she was robbed of her recognition. Even now, it is not widely broadcasted. And when she said it’s all about the Benjamins…she was referring to those that robbed her.
Tfain1 says:
I think you are misinterpreting the meaning of what was said…the third eye was about the awakening…”all about the Benjamins” is referencing the guys who own the media…she has been suing this company since 1999…the cost of this lawsuit might very well costed billions and we just don’t know the financial sacrifices she has endure
@ Nick you misread the entire story, the movies gross 2.5b .where in the story does it said “she sued for 2.5b”. paragraph 3. “as the gross receipts of both films and their sequels total over 2.5 billion dollars”. also ”Although there have been outside implications as to racial injustice (Stewart is African American), she does not feel that this is the case. ‘This is all about the Benjamins,’ said Stewart. ‘It’s not about money with me. It’s about justice.’
You are all correct that she didn’t contradict herself with the money issue on her end. But she did contradict herself with the “all about the benjamins” line. That was her reaction to being asked if she thinks the theft and coverup was due to racial issues. She says no, to those who did this it was about money not race. Yet then, if you read her press release that is quoted at the bottom, she says otherwise.
‘The Matrix & Terminator movie franchises have made world history and have ultimately changed the way people view movies and how Hollywood does business, yet the real truth about the creator and creation of these films continue to elude the masses because the hidden secret of the matter is that these films were created and written by a Black woman…a Black woman named Sophia Stewart. But Hollywood does not want you to know this fact simply because it would change history. Also it would encourage our Black children to realize a dream and that is…nothing is impossible for them to achieve!’
That doesn’t say anything about money. According to her it was about race. So, is there or isn’t there a race issue in her mind?
Claudette alexander says:
Hooray for authors everywhere. It warms the heart when justice is served. This is a case of David and Goliath
Jaysee coney says:
As A Long time writer, I Applaud Ms Sophia Stewart For believing IN HER GOD! HER SELF! & HER WORK! You made Me GET Off My Ass And Get back To The Creating Table and Created! THANK YOU SO SO MUCH! I Have some Great Storys I would like you to read ! How can I get in Contact With you and Here’s my Email Jaysee1@sbcglobal.net Yours Truly Jaysee
MQNIQUE says:
white men have been screwing black women forever, so this doesnt surprise me at all. they stole our families, our innocence, our stories… people may forget, but God never does!
You Are Superman says:
ACesPlace says:
Good for you! Stand up for yourself and try to get as much of the alternative media as possible to tell your story.
Michael Fortune (@MillsFortune777) says:
AWESOME Article i have been sharing it all day
carol savage says:
you go gurl!!!
William Kazak says:
I agree, an awesome victory.
Wow! Who knew?.. This story is a Great example of what Galatians 6:9 says:
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Ms. Stewarts faith, patience, perseverance, and humility paid off in the end. Congratulations and now lets begin to count your $$ Benjamins! 🙂
Lin Wood says:
Sophia Stewart [Mother of the Matrix] on Veritas Radio | The Third Eye: Where It All Begins…
(1h17m30s)
Where does James Cameron stand in all this? Since he made Terminator. He is after all one of Hollywood’s golden boys, so I imagine they did their best to keep his name out of it.
Tonya D. Goff says:
I am joyous for her triumph. The Matrix Series helped me to accept who I am as a spiritual being and was my guide during my journey of awakening. I am forever grateful for the Beautiful work!
Nina Kaytel says:
I always wanted The Matrix to be a story/book/novella.
Michael HarmonDavis says:
Bravo! Nuff Said…
I don’t care if she is Male or Female….Black, White, Hispanic or any other ethnic group.
What is Ms Stewart …. a talented author that had her works stolen. Justice definitely prevailed!!!!
journeyofjordannaeast says:
Reblogged this on journeyofjordannaeast and commented:
A friend of mine on Facebook told me that he submitted a screenplay or something to some Hollywood connections of his. Soon after Ray Donovan hit Showtime and he claims it was pretty much stolen from his idea. It’s such a shame when people are trying to climb the ladder of success with their art and their ideas and people that are less talented but more connected take advantage. I’m so glad this woman was able to see justice and recognition for her vision.
Color doesn’t matter? Yeah right. How important is it for a black child, who has nothing and not a bright future, to see that those billion dollar movies were created by a Black person? Things like that don’t matter…….. to white people but, that’s because you guys have countless models of creation and money in your history, here in the U.S. YOUR OPINION ISN’T RIGHT, IT’S JUST YOUR OPINION.
theother says:
Seeing as how I am not white and that I said that it shouldn’t matter what color the author is, what I say still doesn’t matter because it doesn’t conform to what a black person should believe?!?!?!? Oh and by the way, I am not married to a white person either!!!
JoAnn, just be quiet and quit when you know that your are out of line and your reasoning is warped.
Tiffany Williams says:
Yes! right on and well said! isn’t it funny and typical for white people to Always minimize Black people’s progress and success? SMH This Is a Big deal that a BLACK women was able to Defeat the White establishment in Hollywood! Hip Hop Hoorah!!
your right on the target with that comment, color mattered just as much as it did in chattel slavery, what an ugly ugly company is Time Warner.
I didn’t read that you won you case yet, so I am still praying for your Victory in Jesus. I am happy that I read your story because my daughter is a recent film student grad from the Art Inst.in L
A. I will forward this story onto her as a beware of predators because they are still out there. Keep pressing on my Sistah
Vee Ivanhoe says:
Poweful story of victory
Pastor James F. Matthews says:
What a blessed Woman i thank God for the wisdom knowledge and understanding that he has given Ms. Stewart and the Spirituality as well,May God continue to bless you Ms.Stewart.
cmac says:
I am so happy to see that Ms. Stewart was consistent, persistent and focused which provided the faith in the moment of doubt, and courage in the face of Goliath(TW, W.Brothers, and Joe Silva
Wesley Yount says:
Black. Red. Yellow. Green. Or Blue. Her color is irrelevant. Her plight & creativity are, however. I’ve been a fan of The Terminator & Matrix series since I was young. The resilience of Ms Stewart to essentially blow these media giants out of the water is highly admirable. My hat goes off to her.
Exactly!!! Kudos Mrs. Stewart….
Niece says:
It does matter about her race. This is not an isolated event when you link it to history. Many feel they can rob us of our talent and have done so and got away with it in our past. This is an important triumph in African American history. I will definitely tell my sons and family about this with pride.
just like we as Africans make up 90% of the n.b.a. and 75% of the N.F.L. yet being robbed and dictated to by the ownerships of the franchises whom are probably the same as Time Warner.or they at least have the same devilish mindset….
Akil El says:
That’s not the only truth that’s being hidden from the American public when it comes to our (Moorish Americans)people contributions to this country!!!
George Lewis says:
This is important information for our children and the world to know. She is a inspiration to have fought and won this battle. Bravo! Bravo, Ms Stewart!!
Breakout Theory says:
Wow. Such a huge injustice here! It’s interesting how big companies can stomp and infringe on the rights of others. Matrix was one of my favorite movies. Hopefully she comes out with new material.
Denise Credle says:
WOW..and WOW…Very happy to know JUSTICE has finally come. Thank you for standing up for what is right and YOU!!!!
Systajunie says:
Can any one provide a current status on this case. Hss this case reached a conclusion/decision? All Ihave read so far seem to relate to the early law suit. Jjago of Oxford England
What was the source for this article? People are saying she was falsely credited with a win before. And that on the final hearing she was a no-show (which doesn’t make sense to me but this is what’s being posted in somebody else’s article).
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HAPPY AS THE DAY IS LONG! DUKE HEITGER, RANDY REINHART, REBECCA KILGORE, JOHN SHERIDAN, JON BURR, RICKY MALICHI at JAZZ AT CHAUTAUQUA (September 22, 2012)
Happiness spreads through a room in seconds and tension vanishes. And musical happiness the great artists create — see below! — is especially wonderful because it combines expertise and play. The sounds that make us smile or weep are the result of decades of hard work but these masterful artists know that “being careful” results is flatness. Taking risks is the only way to free and beautiful expression.
So I think of this compact musical experience as a basket of blossoms for the spirit: flowers that won’t ever die, given graciously to all of us. It comes from a Saturday afternoon session at the 2012 Jazz at Chautauqua (September 23, 2012) and the Bringers of Bliss are Duke Heitger, trumpet and vocal; Randy Reinhart, cornet, Rebecca Kilgore, vocal; John Sheridan, piano; Jon Burr, string bass; Ricky Malichi, drums.
Two trumpets with rhythm, you say? A Battle for sure, as they “tie up like dogs” and play Faster, Higher, Louder? Only in the movies. Randy and Duke know Beauty and Song — as do John, Jon, and Ricky, so they daringly begin a set with the very pretty, very soulful MEMORIES OF YOU, which belonged to Louis before Benny claimed it as his own. And these brotherly musicians listen and blend, support and exalt — not for a second deterred by the crashing of dishes at the start:
BABY, WON’T YOU PLEASE COME HOME? features one of the nicest vocal pairings you will ever hear. No one needs to have the sweet subtle appeal of Miss Rebecca Kilgore’s singing explained, and she credits Mister Duke Heitger as one of her favorite singers. I wish they could do a CD together, but perhaps that will have to wait for a hip Renaissance patron of the arts. However, here is their 2012 Jaunt into Beauty:
NO MOON AT ALL was a request — thank you, wise Requester. What a song and what a performance from everyone:
HAPPY AS THE DAY IS LONG reminds some of us of Ivie Anderson (and Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler and the Ellington band) but even if it doesn’t, it is an apt description of how this set by these people made us feel. And after the playful trumpet battle, Slyboots John Sheridan starts off his solo with a nod to the dancer Taps Miller — immortalized in a Basie record of the same name. And there are hints of the dance called THE SKRONCH — on the fourth beat, then you ree-peat, but no matter. The grins at the end of this interlude were blinding, no fooling:
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Tagged Becky Kilgore, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Duke Heitger, Harold Arlen, Ivie Anderson, Jazz At Chautauqua, John Sheridan, Jon Burr, Louis Armstrong, Michael Steinman, Randy Reinhart, Rebecca Kilgore, Ricky Malichi, Ted Koehler
“PEACEMAKERS, HEALERS, RESTORERS, STORYTELLERS AND LOVERS OF ALL KINDS”: ANDY SCHUMM’S GANG at JAZZ at CHAUTAUQUA (September 23, 2012)
Reading my colleague M. Figg’s blogpost on Don Murray — meditations witty and sad — made me think, not for the first time that although the Great Hallowed Figures are dead and their recorded legacies are small (think of Frank Melrose, Frank Teschemacher, Rod Cless, George Stafford, Tony Fruscella, Leon Roppolo, Guy Kelly and a hundred others) there are vivid compensations in 2012.
We don’t have to restrict ourselves to the anguished study of too-short solos on a few records (think of Teagarden and Tesch having the sweetest conversation that you almost can’t hear on the Dorsey Brothers’ ROUND EVENING) . . . we have Living Players who bridge past and present right in front of us. “In front of my video camera, too,” I think with unbounded gratitude.
One of these fellows is the sly, surprising, lyrical, hot Andy Schumm, already legendary. (I know there are gatherings of listeners who are out-Schumming one another: “I knew Andy was a genius when I heard him in 1993,” “You did? I knew he was a genius before he was out of diapers,” etc.) My own acquaintance with Mister Schumm only started in this century, but he amazes every time, on cornet, piano, clarinet, drums, comb . . . more to come!
Here are Andy and friends at Jazz at Chautauqua just a few months ago: Mike Greensill, piano; Howard Alden, guitar; Bob Reitmeier, clarinet; Jon Burr, string bass; Ricky Malichi, drums — honoring the music of the early Twenties into the middle Thirties, with associations with Fats Waller, Jabbo Smith, James P. Johnson, Bing Crosby, Garvin Bushell, Phil Napoleon, Bix, Eddie Condon, and others. Lovely subtle forceful romping hot jazz — for our listening and dining pleasure, performances one can marvel at over and over.
MY SWEETIE WENT AWAY:
PERSIAN RUG:
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN:
SOMEBODY STOLE MY GAL:
Thank you, gentlemen, for so bravely creating this music for us — right out there in the open.
I take my title from sweet deep words uttered by the Dalai Lama — connected so strongly to this music: “The planet does not need more successful people. The planet needs desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.” Hail, Andy, Mike, Bob, Howard, Jon, Ricky . . . who fit so many of those categories in their musical generosities.
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PAGES FROM THE DIARY OF DILLON OBER
I cannot find out much information about the drummer-xylophonist Dillon Ober. John Chilton wrote no thumbnail biography of him; he does not appear in Sudhalter’s LOST CHORDS. I have no photograph to share with you (although Don Ingle says that Ober looked like Robert Benchley, later went to work in the Hollywood studios, and was a superb drummer).
All I can ascertain is that he recorded with a Ted Weems small band in 1922, with Irving Mills, Ben Bernie, and Jack Pettis in the latter half of the Twenties. After that . . . ?
But a jazz scholar who wishes to remain anonymous has been able to read a diary that Ober kept in that period. Aside from the intriguing period data (gigs played, personnel of bands, wages, names of friends, telephone numbers and addresses) there are a number of strongly worded philosophical statements: Ober was obviously someone who observed the scene closely and expressed himself wittily.
Here are two gems:
I like jazz music and my girlfriends to be SOFT and HOT. That FAST and LOUD that other people go for does nothing for me.
Those people who say they “like the music” are fine, I guess. We need them. But they want to talk to me before I’m playing, after I’m playing, sometimes even when I have the sticks in my hands. Do I come up to a doctor or a lawyer while he’s in the operating room or the courtroom to tell him how he should have done that operation or won that case? I can’t stand them.
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Tagged Ben Bernie, diary, Dillon Ober, Don Ingle, Irving Mills, Jack Pettis, Jazz Lives, John Chilton, Michael Steinman, research, Richard M. Sudhalter, Robert Benchley, Ted Weems
IN ITS GLORY: THE ALDEN-BARRETT QUINTET at JAZZ at CHAUTAUQUA (Sept. 22, 2012)
Howard Alden, guitar; Dan Barrett, trombone, cornet, arrangements, of course. A working band is one of the great glories of jazz. Although some prize the ideal of the jam session, where disparate musicians come together, elate and startle us, a group of players who have stood side by side for a period of time might create something more lasting. Think of Soprano Summit, of Davern and Wellstood, of the Ruby Braff trios and quartets, the Rebecca Kilgore Quartet. If you would like historical precedent, there’s the rapport that Bird and Diz developed or the Armstrong All-Stars.
The ABQ was nurtured by the friendship of its two California pals, then mentored even more by the aging but still very creative Buck Clayton. It held together as a working (and recording) band for less time than it should have, but one of the delights of Jazz at Chautauqua was the ABQ reunions that its late founder Joe Boughton insisted on and made possible. The charter members of the ABQ are Chuck Wilson, clarinet / alto; Frank Tate, string bass; Jackie Williams, drums — and in my delicious immersions at Jazz at Chautauqua beginning in 2004, I believe I saw an ABQ that was authentic in all but Jackie. And it always swung — a neat mixture of stripped-down Ellington colors, Kirby-with-guts classicism, a Basie rock, a Kansas City Six swagger.
Here, from the 2012 Jazz at Chautauqua, are two lengthy outings for this glorious band — Howard, Dan, Dan Block on alto and tenor, Frank Tate, Pete Siers. The first is a Buck Clayton composition and arrangement: Buck had very good times in France, so IN A PARISIAN MOOD is groovy, hardly gloomy:
Then, a beautifully realized nod to Buck’s colleague Lester with LADY BE GOOD, explained carefully by Professor Barrett:
I dream of a world where working bands of this sleek swing persuasion could work as themselves. We’re so fortunate that the ABQ can reassemble . . . too bad it seems to be only once a year.
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MONK’S HOMEWORK, 1933
Have you saved your high school notebooks? If you are like me, you disposed of them at the end of the school year with no particular regret — in fact, I sent my chemistry notes into a trash barrel with only feelings of relief. I see now that we may have been hasty, incautious.
The owner of this remarkable piece of schoolwork is asking one million dollars — or Best Offer — for it here on eBay. And an elaborate explanation of the circumstances affecting the fifteen-year old writer is offered at the bottom of the page. This is one page of a ninety-six page notebook. My transcription of this essay or draft of an essay may be imperfect, but the writer’s tone and content are perfectly clear.
Mr. Marks Thelonious Monk
E 4-7 February 9, 1933
My Favorite Magazine
My favorite magazine is the “Boy’s Life” magazine. I like it because it tells a great deal which interests boys. Forinstance: it has a great deal of stories of boy’s life, it tells you a number of camps in which you can spend up [?] the summer, it has a part in the magazine which tells you what the boys are doing in the world to become great.
It has a section in it which teaches you necessary things while camping. Most boy scouts read them, and I think it is a good magazine to read.
It is published monthly by the Manhattan Scout Council.
All the hallmarks of Monk’s later musical style are explicit here: the repetition of simple phrases — but offered at a slight slant, the insistence, the use of simple language. If you read this essay to the rhythms of a Monk piano solo it would make perfect chiming sense. The portrait of an adolescent Monk absorbed in tales of camping is still rattling around in my head, but I may get used to it.
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JON-ERIK KELLSO HONORS HENRY “RED” ALLEN (JAZZ AT CHAUTAUQUA, September 22, 2012)
Henry “Red” Allen deserves to be celebrated — a monumentally surprising individualist with deep New Orleans roots but as modern as you could want. He demonstrated his quirky powers for four decades on record and in performance: in one phrase, harking back to street parades and the great trumpet tradition including his friend and sometime employer Louis Armstrong, then creating dancing angular phrases that came from nowhere, broke in through the side window, tap-danced in the air, and left in a flash.
If the history of jazz had not been compressed by star-makers and taxonomists (Louis to Roy to Dizzy to Miles, no local stops) more people would have noticed that Red’s phrasing and note choices are as deliciously odd as Lester’s or Monk’s — earlier. With some splendid musicians, you can anticipate what they might play and what directions their solos might take: not Henry Red. And as a singer. he blends the romance of an African-American Crosby and the wildness of Leo Watson, the good grease of Lips Page — always recognizable as himself.
In the Thirties, Red worked with the Fletcher Henderson band, the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, and eventually with Louis’ large band — which grew out of the 1929-30 Luis Russell Orchestra, perhaps the happiest band in jazz. He recorded with a variety of blues singers, with Billie Holiday and James P. Johnson — but the records that many of us treasure are a series made for jukeboxes between 1933 and 1937.
Their premise was simple: get a small band of expert swing musicians (none of them famous enough to command salaries above scale), pass out current pop tunes, make sure the melody and lyrics were clear and distinct in an opening chorus, and let the fellows swing out.
Red’s cohorts on these recordings were (among others) trombonists Bennie Morton, Dicky Wells, and J.C. Higginbotham; reedmen Coleman Hawkins, Cecil Scott, Chu Berry, Hilton Jefferson, Russell Procope, Tab Smith, Buster Bailey, rhythm players Don Kirkpatrick, Horace Henderson, John Kirby, Bernard Addison, Lawrence Lucie, Walter Johnson, and others. Many years ago these records were available in complete chronological order on vinyl and CD, but those issues are hard to find. They rank with the best Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, and Mildred Bailey recordings.
But this is not simply a celebration of the hallowed dead. Rather, like so many musical occasions that delight me, the music presented below merges the past and the present at once. And if ever a musician could straddle 1933 and 2012 without ripping his suit trousers, it would be our man Jon-Erik Kellso. He is wise enough to play himself rather than copying Red, but he loves the small band recordings Red and Coleman Hawkins created. He and a congenial small band — Alex Hoffman, tenor saxophone; Bob Havens, trombone; John Sheridan, piano; Kerry Lewis, string bass; Pete Siers, drums — swung out in tribute to Red, Hawk, and the good music you could hear on a jukebox or at home in 1933-4 . . . at Jazz at Chautauqua 2012.
I’M RHYTHM CRAZY NOW comes from the (Horace) Henderson book, and it lives up to its title in an understated way:
THE DAY YOU CAME ALONG was a voluptuous hit for Bing Crosby at his most romantic — and it became a great showcase for Coleman Hawkins (yet another example of Crosby’s magnificent influence across “schools” and “styles”):
YOU’RE GONNA LOSE YOUR GAL, for better or worse, is purely instrumental here, so we miss out on the profound lines, “acting like a two-time lover / sneaking kisses under cover / you’ll wake up and you’ll discover”:
Fats Waller’s rhetorical urging us to joy, AIN’T CHA GLAD?:
From the very first session Red and Hawk attempted — with tuba and banjo at the orders of the recording executives — SISTER KATE:
I’VE GOT MY FINGERS CROSSED, a hot tune, might not have been recorded by Red — but Fats and Louis created memorable recordings of it (in Fats’ case, a film appearance) so it’s welcome here:
Tagged Alex Hoffman, Bennie Morton, Bernard Addison, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, blues, Bob Havens, Buster Bailey, Cecil Scott, Chu Berry, Coleman Hawkins, Dicky Wells, Dizzy Gillespie, Don Kirkpatrick, Fats Waller, Fletcher Henderson, Henry "Red" Allen, Horace Henderson, Hot Lips Page, J.C.Higginbotham, James P. Johnson, Jazz At Chautauqua, Jazz Lives, John Kirby, John Sheridan, Jon-Erik Kellso, jukebox, Kerry Lewis, Lawrence Lucie, Leo Watson, Louis Armstrong, Luis Russell, Michael Steinman, Mildred Bailey, Miles Davis, Pete Siers, Red Allen, Roy Eldridge, Russell Procope, Tab Smith, Walter Johnson
BEAUTIFUL SOUNDS FILL THE AIR: SAN DIEGO JAZZ FEST, November 21-25, 2012
My spirits are superbly high after a lovely long weekend at the San Diego Dixieland Thanksgiving Jazz Festival, now to be known as the San Diego Jazz Fest.
But first, an autobiographical digression. Even though the mirror says otherwise, I still in some deep way think I am nineteen. Nineteen can run from pleasure to pleasure; nineteen doesn’t need much sleep; ninteen will “be fine.” I did achieve a major birthday recently (“I am no longer 45 but still some distance from 78” is all I will say) and I went to San Diego somewhat drained of energy and nurturing a noisy case of bronchitis. I worry as I write this that many of my videos will have in the distance what sounds like a small terrier barking: that would be JAZZ LIVES with a cold, coughing. (For my loving readers who worry — JAZZ LIVES will live to video another day. I promise you.)
Because I felt physically awful, I saw and video-recorded fewer sets than I would have liked . . . fourteen or so over four days. I spent more time sittin’ in the sun (to reference Irving Berlin) in hopes that it would make me feel better.
I’m still coughing a bit but I feel glorious because of the music.
Here I must bow low to that urbane and generous man Paul Daspit, who has a fine humane sense for the little dramas that explode beneath the surface of a large-scale enterprise such as this. I am not sure how clearly most “jazz fans” understand how much work is involved in keeping a jazz party from self-destructing. Of course I mean the simple business of having a comfortable space for musicians to perform and listeners to hear. The Town and Country Convention Center, although it is mazelike by night and day, is exceedingly comfortable with a wide variety of performance spaces.
But a jazz festival is rather like a brightly-colored version of Noah’s Ark packed to the rafters with vigorous personalities. The facilities need to be looked after: lighting and sound and chairs; doors need to be locked or unlocked; musicians need a safe place to stow instruments and (whisper it) a place to sit down in peace amidst their kind, breathe deeply, eat something.
There needs to be a well-organized corps of willing volunteers: at their most kind, they tell us how to get here or there, where the restrooms are; at their most severe, they say the icy words, “You cannot sit there. You are not a ______.” And the interloper flees.
The musicians, and no one can blame them, want to know where they will be sleeping, eating, playing. The patrons have their own concerns, since each of us is occasionally an armchair general: “Why isn’t my favorite band (The Nirvana Street Joyboys) on the program this year? Will they be here next year? Why did the snack room run out of turkey sandwiches before I got here? Have you seen my husband? I left him here just a minute ago? Why are the sets so long? Why are the sets so short? Why did you arrange it so that my two favorite bands are playing at the same time? My eggs were cold at breakfast. . .”
That Paul remains serene, amused, and kind is a great thing. A lesser man might take up martial arts or retreat to his tent with earplugs. He applies tact to the afflicted area; he knows what can be fixed and what cannot; he moves on to the next person who Must Speak To Him, whether the subject is hot jazz or the threat of sex trafficking at jazz festivals.
The San Diego extravaganza was bigger and better than ever.
There was a true panorama of musical sounds: walking from left to right or north to south, I could hear a small tubaish group with a woman singing that life is a cabaret; a big band walloping through SING SING SING; a Jerry Lee Lewis tribute; rollicking solo piano boogie woogie by Mister Layland; a Sunday-morning Dixieland “hymn-along,” another woman inciting the crowd to sing along with her on GOODY GOODY; young Miss Trick showing us her version of OLD-FASHIONED LOVE .
Imagine! Two cornets are giving a properly ethnic flavor to ORIENTAL STRUT; in another room, someone is singing, “She’s got a shape like a ukulele.” In twenty-three hourlong solo piano sets, everything possible is being explored — Joplin to Bud Powell as well as James P. Johnson and Cripple Clarence Lofton. Elsewhere a clarinetist is playing DIZZY SPELLS at a vertiginous pace; a small gypsy-jazz group is romping through MINOR SWING; Joe Oliver is still King in another venue . . . and more. My weary math shows that there were over one hundred and eighty hours of music — although I, like everyone else, had to make hard choices. If I stay here for the full hour of _________, then I will miss ____________. Those choices were easy for me, because I didn’t have the energy to run around to catch fifteen minutes here and a half-hour there. (Also, a tripod and a camera makes for an ungainly dance partner.) So I saw / heard / delighted in less than ten percent of the jazz cornucopia here.
But — as Spencer Tracy says of Katharine Hepburn in ADAM’S RIB (I think) it was all cherce.
I saw a number of sets with my perennial favorites, the Reynolds Brothers, and they rocked the house, with and without guests. The rocking down-home Yerba Buena Stompers (that’s John Gill, Leon Oakley, Duke Heitger, Orange Kellin, Tom Bartlett, Kevin Dorn, Conal Fowkes, Clint Baker) offered both I MUST HAVE IT and JUST A GIGOLO; Chloe Feoranzo had a sweetly giggly set with her young friends; Grand Dominion surged ahead in a most endearing way. A dangerous (that’s a good thing) quartet of Carl Sonny Leyland, Clint (trumpet), Chloe (mostly on tenor), Marty Eggers (string bass), Jeff Hamilton (drums, just off the boat in the best way) played some deliciously greasy (also a good thing) music.
And I heard every note by the Tim Lauglin All-Stars with Connie Jones — and Hal Smith, Marty Eggers, Katie Cavera, Chris Dawson, Mike Pittsley. They floated; they sang; they decorated the air with melodies. People who like to trace such things would hear Teddy Wilson 1938, of the Bob Crosby Bobcats; Irving Fazola; the Basie rhythm section; the Condon Town Hall Concerts; Bobby Hackett; Abram Lincoln. All I will say at this point is that if someone had come to me and said, “Your room has caught on fire and you must come with me now to save your clothes,” while the band was playing, I would have said, “Let me be. I’ll deal with that when the set is over. Can’t you see that Beauty is being made?”
You’ll hear and see some of this Beauty, I promise you.
Thanks to all the lovely people who made my experience so sweetly memorable. The musicians! Mr. Daspit. Friends new and familiar: Sue, Juliet, Barbara Ann, Carol, Tom, Frank, Anna-Christine and Christer, Mary Helen, Rae Ann, Alene, Janie and Kevin, Donna . . . you know who you are. I am grateful to people, some of whom remain anonymous, who rescued me when I needed it — Orlando the young bellman and two dozen other people — I hope that none of you went home coughing because of me.
Let us say you are thinking aloud to your partner, “Sounds like fun. Why weren’t we there, Honey?” I leave the rest of that dialogue to you. But there will be a 2013 San Diego Jazz Fest. It will be the thirty-fourth, which is frankly amazing. Same place (the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center): November 27 – December 1, 2013. The invited bands include High Sierra, Bob Schulz’ Frisco Jazz Band; Reynolds Brothers; Paolo Alderighi; Stephanie Trick; Ray Skjelbred and his Cubs; Chloe Feoranzo; Glenn Crytzer; Katie Cavera; Dave Bennett . . . “and more to be announced.” Click here for more information.
For me, all I can say is that before it was officially Autumn in New York, I searched for and bought a 2013 wall calendar I liked just for the purpose of planning my Pleasures . . . I’ve already marked off November 27 – December 1 with “SAN DIEGO.” Carpe diem, dear friends. See you there!
Tagged Abram Lincoln, Bob Crosby Bobcats, Bob Schulz, Bobby Hackett, boogie-woogie, Bud Powell, Carl Sonny Leyland, Chloe Feoranzo, Chris Dawson, Clint Baker, Conal Fowkes, Connie Jones, Count Basie, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Dave Bennett, Duke Heitger, Glenn Crytzer, Grand Dominion, Hal Smith, High Sierra, Irving Fazola, James P. Johnson, Jazz Lives, Jeff Hamilton, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Gill, Katharine Hepburn, Kevin Dorn, King Oliver, Leon Oakley, Louis Armstrong, Marty Eggers, Michael Steinman, Mike Pittsley, Orange Kellin, Paolo Alderighi, Paul Daspit, ragtime, Ray Skjelbred, Reynolds Brothers, San Diego Thanksgiving Dixieland Jazz Festival, Scott Joplin, Spencer Tracy, Stephanie Trick, Stride piano, swing, Teddy Wilson, Tim Laughlin, Tom Bartlett, Yerba Buena Jazz Band
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Media releases from the Australian Province.
The latest media releases from the Australian Jesuit Province.
20 February 2019 – The Society of Jesus announces Universal Apostolic Preferences for the next ten years
The Society of Jesus last night announced Universal Apostolic Preferences to guide the Society in terms of focus of attention and resources for the next ten years.
The Provincial of the Australian Jesuits, Father Brian McCoy SJ said, ‘With our strong focus here on social justice, spiritual formation and formation of youth, the preferences already align well with the work of the Society in Australia and will help inform our own Apostolic Planning over coming months.’
17 December 2018 – Announcement: Redress, Review, Reporting
The Australian Province of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) has joined the National Redress Scheme for those who have experienced institutional child sexual abuse.
In the spirit of openness and transparency, the Australian Jesuits have also today announced the appointment of The Honourable Marilyn Warren AC QC, a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria to review the movement of former Jesuit brother, Victor Higgs, from Adelaide to Sydney.
The Society has today released its second Safeguarding Children Annual Report, reporting its responses to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse, as well as reporting complaints of abuse received in the 12 months to 30 June 2018.
Video Statement
9 October 2018: Joint Statement – Victor Higgs
On 9 October 2018 former Jesuit Brother, Victor Higgs was found guilty of offences committed whilst teaching at the College between 1971 and 1981. Saint Ignatius’ College, Riverview and the Province of the Australian Jesuits make the following statement in response.
“To those who suffered abuse by Victor Higgs we apologise without reservation for the pain and suffering they have endured as a result of the crimes committed against them.
“We express our deep regret and sorrow for what occurred.”
FULL Statement
31 October 2017: Australian Jesuits welcome Redress Scheme
The Australian Jesuits have welcomed the Commonwealth Government’s Redress Scheme for survivors of past institutional child sexual abuse, tabled in Parliament last week.
‘In contrast to the bill that has been tabled, we believe the Scheme should follow the Royal Commission’s recommendations in these areas, that all survivors should have access to the Scheme, the maximum payment should be $200,000 and the Scheme should run for longer than ten years’, Fr McCoy said.
2 June 2017: Australian Jesuit Province responds to divestment call
Australian Provincial Fr Brian McCoy SJ has committed the Australian Jesuits to joining with other organisations around the world in responding to the call to divest from fossil fuels.
Full statement from FR MCCOY
6 February 2017: Jesuits at the Royal Commission this month
Four Jesuits are set to appear before the Royal Commission during the ‘wrap up’ hearings into a broad range of issues related to the Catholic Church’s response to issues of sexual abuse.
10 November 2016: Jesuits welcome redress scheme
The Provincial of the Australian Jesuits, Fr Brian McCoy SJ, has welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement of a National Redress Scheme for survivors of sexual abuse.
‘I’m very pleased at the prospect of abuse survivors having an independent and fair process for seeking redress for the harm that they have suffered in institutions.’
7 September 2016: Comprehensive strategy to safeguard children and young people
A comprehensive strategy to enhance professional standards for the safeguarding of children and young people has been announced by Father Brian McCoy SJ, Provincial of the Australian Jesuit Province.
9 March 2016: Province statement regarding Victor Higgs
A statement from Jesuit Provincial Fr Brian McCoy in regards to Victor Higgs, a former Jesuit Brother who was sentenced in Adelaide earlier this year after pleading guilty to charges of abuse: ‘We condemn any abuse of children or young people, and offer an unreserved apology for the trauma caused by any Jesuit who betrayed others in this way. We also encourage anyone with evidence of criminal behaviour committed by anyone in our ministries to report the matter to the police so that the appropriate investigation can be undertaken.’
Ms Monika Lancucki
Email: monika.lancucki@sjasl.org.au
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Tag Archives: Guinness
Hedigans, The Brian Boru
James Joyce was fond of pubs, as was his father John Stanislaus, who drank the family inheritance away in them. His mother was no stranger to them either, having been born the daughter of a publican in the Eagle House Tavern in Terenure, formerly Roundtown, on the southern edge of Dublin.
Leopold Bloom posed his famous puzzle about crossing Dublin without passing a pub in the novel Ulysses, as he wandered out to buy a kidney for his breakfast on the morning of the 16th June 1904.
In May 2016 I worked out a route across Dublin without passing a pub. You can see the original blog post here. In late 2017, I started working out if you could cross Dublin by passing all of the pubs in Dublin that are mentioned in Ulysses and that still exist. This took rather longer than I expected. In large part, this is because lots of places we now routinely call pubs had different and more complex classifications in 1904.
Thom’s Directories classify Dublin. Amongst other things, Thom’s Directories list businesses, street addresses, nobility and gentry in Dublin on an annual basis. The introduction to my 1903 copy states:
Thom’s Official Directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the year 1903. Comprising British Foreign and Colonial Directories, Parliamentary Directory, Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage Directory, Naval and Military Directory, Statistics of Great Britain and Ireland. Government Offices’ Directory, University, Scientific and Medical Directory, Law Directory, Ecclesiastical Directory, Banking Directory, Postal Directory, County and Borough Directory, Lieutenancy and Magistracy of Ireland. Post Office Dublin City and County Directory.
We know that James Joyce used a copy of Thom’s Directory from 1904. This lists the following classifications of licensed premises where you could purchase alcohol:
Dining Rooms (see also Refreshment Rooms)
Grocers, &c. (See also Wine & Spirit Merchants)
Hotels and Proprietors
Refreshment Rooms (see also Dining Rooms)
Spirit Dealers (See also Wine and Spirit Merchants)
Vintners and Publicans (See also Wine and Spirit Merchants, and Taverns.)
Wine and Spirit Merchants (See also Spirit and Tea Dealers and Vintners.)
These are the simple classifications. In The Story of the Irish Pub, Cian Molloy highlights the many different types of licensed premises in addition to the Spirit Grocer’s licence.
Other valid licences in 1890 were a beer off-licence, a beer dealer’s licence, a spirit grocer’s off-licence, a spirit dealer’s licence, a methylated spirits licence, a shopkeeper’s wine off-licence, a wine dealer’s licence, a refreshment house wine and sweets on-licence, a sweet dealer’s off-licence, a theatre licence and a packet-boat licence.
Cian Molloy, The Story of the Irish Pub (p. 61).
Groceries were sold alongside alcohol, and it is difficult to separate out what we would know as a pub from a grocery shop. In Have ye no homes to go to? The history of the Irish Pub, Kevin Martin outlines how the mix of the grocery and the pub led to social problems.
In his 1902 paper presented to the Irish Temperance Society on ‘Licensing and Public-House Reform in Ireland’, William Lawson identified the problem of groceries mixed with draper’s shops, with licences to sell alcohol, as a particular social evil. In Dublin, 90 per cent of the trade was mixed in this way, which he felt allowed women to put drink on the grocery accounts and put families in debt. This type of pub – a spirit grocer – has played a significant role in the history of licensed premises in Ireland, and continues to be a design motif in new Irish pubs.
Kevin Martin, Have ye no homes to go to? The history of the Irish Pub (p. 83).
In Ulysses, various premises and proprietors are mentioned, and these are listed under several of the different classifications in Thom’s. By way of example, people drink in The Ormond which is listed under Hotels and Proprietors. We know that Mulligans of Poolbeg Street is a pub that has changed little over the years and features in the Dubliners short story Counterparts. It is categorised under Grocers, &c. in Thom’s Directory. Grocers &c. sounds like the most loosely defined of pubs, whereas we know Mulligans is the most definitive of pubs. The difficulty of definition is written about in Mulligan’s, Grand Old Pub of Poolbeg Street by Declan Dunne.
The nature and business carried on in previous times on the premises that Mulligan’s occupies is difficult to establish. It is described as a spirit grocer from its establishment in 1782 right up to the 1960’s. These traders were forbidden to allow alcohol to be consumed on the premises but were allowed to sell it.
Declan Dunne, Mulligan’s, Grand Old Pub of Poolbeg Street (p. 13).
We know from Counterparts that alcohol was served and consumed on the premises in the early 1900’s. As Dunne notes,
The term spirit grocer, then, has to be treated carefully. It is used in the text but it is important to bear in mind that while Mulligan’s was a spirit grocer by name, it was, at least from the 1860’s onwards, a pub by nature.
Alfred Millar interviewed by Kevin C. Kearns highlights another difficulty of judging what a premises was by its licence type,
“I started in the trade at 15 in the Red Bank restaurant on D’Olier Street. It was a public house and a restaurant.”
Kevin C. Kearns, Dublin Pub Life & Lore, an Oral History. (p. 155).
Pub Names
Joyce names actual Dublin streets, buildings and businesses throughout his works. When he wrote the later works of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, he had been in exile for a long period and had more freedom to name real people and places. This was not always the case. He began to write Dubliners in July 1904 in Dublin. He had arguments with the proposed publisher George Roberts about using real names of pubs and publicans. On 23 August 1912 he wrote to his brother Stanislaus to outline his defence to Roberts for naming the pubs,
ii) Public houses are mentioned in four stories out of 15. In 3 of these stories the names are fictitious. In the 4th the names are real because the persons walk from place to place (Counterparts)
iii) Nothing happens in the public houses. People drink.
iv) I offered to take a car and go with Roberts, proofs in hand, to the 3 or 4 publicans really named and to the secretary of the railway co. He refused.
v) I said the publicans would be glad of the advertisement.
vi) I said that I would put in fictitious names for the few real ones but added that by so doing the selling value in Dublin of the book would go down.
James Joyce, Letters of James Joyce Volume Two. (p. 312).
It is interesting that Joyce wants to name the real pubs that people walk between, the journey being significant, and that he wanted to ground the story in the reality of place. So also, do I.
Having made some ground rules for my Cross Dublin Without Passing a Pub run, I do the same here.
Rule One: Make the run relevant
The first rule is that the route has to have some relevance to the writings of James Joyce, and or his actual life in Dublin. This rule pretty much defines all the runs in these blog posts.
In my Cross Dublin Without Passing a Pub, I decided to try to find a route from 5 St.Peter’s Road in Cabra, the Joyce family home on 1904, on the north-west side of the city to 60 Shelbourne Road, on the south-east side. We know that this is the journey that Joyce made when he moved out of the family home. For this run, I picked the pub closest to Cabra and the one closest to Shelbourne Road as the start and finishing points, so as to align with the start and finish points of the previous run and also align the run with a journey James Joyce made. In this case, the pubs are The Brian Boru in Glasnevin and The Oarsman in Ringsend.
Rule Two: What is a pub?
I decided that any licensed premises named in Ulysses that you can still buy a drink in would constitute a pub for the purposes of this blog post. Some are bars in hotels, like The Shelbourne, and some are more like coffee houses, such as the Eccles Townhouse, but I figured if you could freely walk in and buy a pint of Guinness in them, then they could be included.
Rule Three: Pass all of the Pub’s that are still pub’s
There are too many pubs to drink in all of them and then run across the City, even if for sanity and stability’s sake you only drank water. A few are abroad, one or two are not identifiable and at least one mentioned is as far south as Blackrock. So I excluded any pubs, not in Dublin City. I limited the run to those pubs still trading as pubs while trying to pass as many other former pubs as possible.
Rule Four: Try to limit the length to 21k
This blog is named after the half marathon distance. I try to keep any long runs to c.21km. This lead to a lot of editing of this running route. But that is half the fun. I kept the run to every pub I can find in Ulysses that is still trading, and that, plus some road closures on the day, pushed the run to c.22k.
It took a long time to figure out the route. Obviously, you have to read or listen to Ulysses, or in my case both. Ulysses Annotated by Don Gifford and Robert J. Seidman is another essential read, as it lists the addresses of most of the pubs in the text and gives brief notes. A lot of time was spent reading Thom’s directories of 1903 and 1904. I then travelled around Dublin identifying where the original pubs were and what the present use is. In the case of Davy Byrne’s this is quite easy, some like Crimmins, now The Malt House are a little more difficult to identify.
Not all of the pubs mentioned have continuously traded as pubs since Ulysses was written. Davy Byrne’s has had the same name since 1904 but has changed ownership and interior. The Bleeding Horse has changed names a few times, and Mary Mac’s, part of Alexander Keyes pub was a travel agent when I was in college.
It was very common for names of streets and house numbers to be changed in Dublin. I have noted some in the text. In the route descriptions and the list of pubs, I give the present name, the former name as mentioned in Ulysses, the listing in Thom’s and the present address.
I have used various Thom’s directories for historical information. Generally, I use the Thom’s directory of 1904, because we know Joyce used it and the Thom’s of 1903, because I own a copy, and have it on hand. All of the directories are available to read in the Dublin City Library and Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2. D02 HE37.
In the descriptions below I have made reference to present day and historical Ordnance Survey digital maps available on www.osi.ie and maps.osi.ie. I have referred to the Historic Map 25 inch set from 1888 – 1913, which shows the layout of the city that most closely matches the layout of 16th June 1904. Google Street View and Apple Maps are useful tools.
I quote a passage or passages from Ulysses for each pub mentioned. Sometimes its short and sometimes I like the passage so much that I quote at length. I also give brief directional notes.
As part of the process and solely in the interests of research, I also visited each of the pubs still in existence to have a drink. Someone had to. I make occasional notes in the text about the pubs. I made several other trips to take photographs.
Right, enough of the research. Now for the running. Off we go.
The start of the pub run:
Pub One: Brian Boroimhe House
Thom’s 1904 Listings
Grocers, &c.: Ryan, J. M., Prospect terrace, Glasnevin.
Present Use: Hedigans, The Brian Boru. 5 Prospect Avenue, Glasnevin, Dublin 9.
Mac Maloney says this pub has been in the ownership of the Hedigan family since 1904 (p.125), the year in which Ulysses is set. Popular after funerals due to its proximity to Glasnevin Cemetery, Paddy Dignam’s funeral cortège passes it, Joyce referring to it in its Irish Language title.
They drove on past Brian Boroimhe House. Near it now.
The pub is commonly known as Hedigan’s after the proprietor. Most of the pubs in Dublin and in this blog are named after the proprietor, rather than by a descriptive name.
Kevin Martin explains why.
It became a legal requirement to display the proprietor’s name over the front door of the premises after legislation was passed in 1872. The legacy of this law is often cited as one of the unique features of an Irish pub. Often, a public house operates under a long-obsolete family name – a signature feature in the boom of ‘Irish Pubs’ outside Ireland. This change in legislation limited the previous inventive array of names in Dublin, The Sots Hole in Essex Street, The Wandering Jew in Castle Street, Three Candlesticks in King Street, House of Blazes in Aston Quay, The Blue Leg in High Street, The Holy Lamb in Cornmarket and the Golden Sugar Loaf in Abbey Street are all long defunct. Some pubs, such as The Bleeding Horse and The Brazen Head, kept both the family name and the original title.
I will pass both the Brazen Head and the Bleeding Horse, mentioned in the list above, on this run. The other pub names no longer exist. I head off from the Brian Boru, running directly south on Phibsborough Road.
Just over Cross Gunn’s Bridge, I cross the route of my previous blog post on pubs, Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub, which you can read, here.
Pub Two: Dunphy’s.
Grocers, &c.: Doyle, John 160 & 161 Phibsborough road.
Vintners and Publicans: Doyle, John, 160 Phibsborough road.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Doyle, John, 160 Phibsborough road.
Present Use: John Doyle, 160 Phibsborough Road, Phibsborough, Dublin 7.
Doyle’s is situated on what is now known as Doyle’s corner in Phibsborough, it used to be Dunphy’s corner and also Dunphy’s pub, which is how Joyce refers to it.
—And Martin Cunningham said, we wouldn’t have scenes like that when the hearse capsized round Dunphy’s and upset the coffin on to the road.
—That was terrible, Mr Power’s shocked face said, and the corpse fell about the road. Terrible!
—First round Dunphy’s, Mr Dedalus said, nodding. Gordon Bennett cup.
—Praises be to God! Martin Cunningham said piously.
Bom! Upset. A coffin bumped out onto the road. Burst open. Paddy Dignam shot out and rolling over stiff in the dust in a brown habit too large for him. Red face: grey now. Mouth fallen open. Asking what’s up now. Quite right to close it. Looks horrid open. Then the insides decompose quickly. Much better to close up all the orifices. Yes, also. With wax. The sphincter loose. Seal up all.
—Dunphy’s, Mr Power announced as the carriage turned right.
Dunphy’s corner. Mourning coaches drawn up, drowning their grief. A pause by the wayside. Tiptop position for a pub. Expect we’ll pull up here on the way back to drink his health. Pass round the consolation. Elixir of life.
At the time of the run, in March 2018, the pub was undergoing another refurbishment, but I doubt the name or use will change. Bloom thinks it’s a great location for a pub and it is, even if the pub, before its current refurbishment, wasn’t. I turn the corner at Doyle’s and head east on the North Circular Road in the opposite direction to the passage of Paddy Dignam’s funeral cortège, the route of which features in my blog post At Walking Pace, which you can read, here.
Pub Three: McAuley’s
Grocers, &c.: McAuley, Thos. 39 Dorset street, lower.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: McAulay, Thomas, 39 Dorset street, lr.
Present Use: The Big Tree, 33-40 Lower Dorset Street, Ballybough, Dublin 1.
Bloom is still obsessing about the location of pub’s when we pass our next pub, Mc Auley’s.
For instance McAuley’s down there: n.g. as position. Of course if they ran a tramline along the North Circular from the cattlemarket to the quays value would go up like a shot.
McAuley’s also features in the story Grace in Dubliners. Now called The Big Tree, it opens on irregular hours, principally around events in nearby Croke Park. A sign in the window says it opens for all matches and concerts. Perhaps Bloom was right, perhaps it is in a poor position, otherwise it would be open every day. It was the only pub closed every night I went there for my research. I don’t imagine I missed much.
I turn at McAuley’s and head southwest on from Dorset Street Lower, towards Dorset Street Upper.
Pub Four: Cassidy’s
Thom’s 1904 Listings, Dublin Street Directory: Dorset-street Upper.
71 Cassidy, James M., grocer, tea, wine and spirit dealer— ‘Dorset House’.
Present Use: Kavanagh’s The Temple. 71 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin 1.
A bent hag crossed from Cassidy’s, clutching a naggin bottle by the neck.
Cassidy’s is now Kavanagh’s The Temple, and the bent hag is crossing over Dorset Street from Cassidy’s towards Larry O’Rourke’s, directly opposite, which is mentioned several times in Ulysses.
Pub Five: Larry O’Rourke’s.
72 and 73 O’Rourke, Laur. grocer, and wine merchant, Eccles -st.
The Eccles Townhouse. Formerly Larry O’Rourke’s
Larry O’Rourke’s has had several name changes, the last two being to the Aurora Gastropub and now it is the Eccles Townhouse, which is more like a bistro than a pub, with an atmosphere to match. It still serves a pint of Guinness so I can regard it as a pub. It features in Ulysses when Bloom enters the novel, and both the pub and Larry O’Rourke are mentioned several times throughout in relation to Bloom, Blazes Boylan, and Molly. O’Rourke’s is just a few doors down from the Bloom’s house at 7 Eccles Street.
He approached Larry O’Rourke’s. From the cellar grating floated up the flabby gush of porter. Through the open doorway the bar squirted out whiffs of ginger, tea dust, biscuitmush. Good house, however: just the end of the city traffic.
With regard to these last three pubs, Bloom thinks Doyle’s is in a tiptop position, McAuley’s is in a not good position, and Larry O’Rourke’s is good, just at the end of the city traffic. Although I have run these pubs in sequence, Bloom’s thoughts on pub locations occur in separate chapters. It shows a consistency in the things Bloom thinks about, and obviously Joyce is aware of, in his native city. It also shows how creating a run can bring together thoughts and aspects of Dublin, scattered throughout the novel but rearranged in a different moving sequence in a way that a linear reading of Ulysses cannot.
Here are a few more quotes regarding O’Rourke’s and other characters in Ulysses, the onelegged sailor, Blazes Boylan, Molly Bloom and O’Rourke’s;
A onelegged sailor crutched himself round MacConnell’s corner, skirting Rabaiotti’s icecream car, and jerked himself up Eccles street. Towards Larry O’Rourke, in shirtsleeves in his doorway, he growled unamiably:
—For England ….
James Joyce, Ulysses (p. 185).
By Larry O’Rourke’s, by Larry, bold Larry O’, Boylan swayed and Boylan turned.
my belly is a bit too big Ill have to knock off the stout at dinner or am I getting too fond of it the last they sent from ORourkes was as flat as a pancake he makes his money easy Larry
I continue southwest on Dorset Street before turning southeast onto North Frederick Street, then downhill to Parnell Street east onto O’Connell, formerly Sackville, Street.
The Two Gallants came down here in Dubliners coming like my fellow runners and me, from a pub in Dorset Street. Lenehan and Corley both reappear separately in Ulysses and later in this blog post.
Findlaters
Grocers, &c.: Findlater, Alex & Co. ltd., 30 & 31 Sackville street, upper.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Findlater, Alexander & Co. (ltd.), 30 Sackville street, upper.
Present Use: Holiday Inn Express Hotel, 28-32 O’Connell Street Upper, Dublin 1.
Where do they get the money? Coming up redheaded curates from the county Leitrim, rinsing empties and old man in the cellar. Then, lo and behold, they blossom out as Adam Findlaters or Dan Tallons. Then think of the competition. General thirst. Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub. Save it they can’t.
Bloom is musing again.
In the Little Review serialised edition of Ulysses, the passage above is significantly different and reads,
Where do they get the money? Coming up redheaded curates from the country eitrim, rinsing empties in the cellar. Then, lo and behold, they blossom out as publicans. Then think of the competition. Save it they can’t.
James Joyce, The Little Review “Ulysses” (p. 53).
Joyce clearly replaced the word publicans with Adam Findlaters and Dan Tallons, presumably to give them the additional status of magnates and politicians. Oddly the sentence about the puzzle is left out in the earlier version, but the Save it they can’t text is left in. Perhaps it was a printer’s error, or maybe Joyce is referring to the redheaded curates blossoming out. The sentence works either way.
I often assume some errors come from the fact that the book was initially typeset in France where English is at best, a second language, but the Little Review was printed in the United States, so errors like “country eitrim” instead of County Leitrim seem less understandable.
Findlater’s occupied nearly an entire block of Sackville Street, Now O’Connell Street, upper. There is an excellent website with details of the Findlater family and their history and business interests, here. There is a picture of the premises in 1923, here.
You could get a drink in the Holiday Inn that now occupies the site, but as the building has been entirely reconstructed, I have disregarded it.
I turn and head north-east, running briefly along Cathal Brugha Street, before turning south-east down Marlborough Street.
I pass the Pro-Cathedral and turn west along Cathedral Street heading for Brannigans.
Pub Six: Brannigans
Grocers, &c.: Nagle, Jas Joseph, 9 Cathedral street.
Spirit Dealers: Nagle, James J. and Co. 9 Cathedral street.
Present Use: Brannigans, 9 Cathedral Street, Dublin 1.
Pub Seven: Madigans
Grocers, &c.: Nagle, Jas Joseph. Nagle, & Co. 25 Earl street, north.
Wine and Spirit Dealers: Nagle, J. & Co. 25 Earl street, north
Present Use: Madigans, 25 North Earl Street, Dublin 1.
Subsequently being not quite so down in the mouth after the two and six he got informed Stephen about a fellow by the name of Bags Comisky that he said Stephen knew well out of Fullam’s the shipchandler’s, bookkeeper there that used to be often round in Nagle’s back with O’Mara and a little chap with a stutter the name of Tighe. Anyhow he was lagged the night before last and fined ten bob for a drunk and disorderly and refusing to go with the constable.
The Nagle brothers Acky and Joe are mentioned in Ulysses. Joe Nagle owned pubs at 9 Cathedral Street and at 25 North Earl Street, and we pass them both in short sequence. It happens a few times on the run that I pass two pubs owned by the same publican that have the same name and that it cannot clearly be identified which one Joyce was referring to in Ulysses. In each case, I pass both.
Passing Brannigan’s I head to O’Connell Street, turning south for a block before I turn east on North Earl Street. I pass a statue of James Joyce along the way, somewhat haphazardly positioned. On the southern side of North Earl Street, across from Madigan’s is a vacant unit, formerly Meagher’s where Bloom played the role of the moneylender.
According to Christine Casey, Madigans (p. 232) was rebuilt in 1917-1919. Most of the buildings in this part of Dublin were destroyed in the rising of 1916.
Meaghers’s
Grocers, &c.: Meagher, Philip, 4 North Earl street.
Taverns and Inns: Meagher, Philip, 4 Earl street, north.
Present Use: Awaiting redevelopment. 4 North Earl Street Dublin 1.
Mr Bloom stood in his way.
—If you want to draw the cashier is just going to lunch, he said, pointing backward with his thumb.
—Did you? Hynes asked.
—Mm, Mr Bloom said. Look sharp and you’ll catch him.
—Thanks, old man, Hynes said. I’ll tap him too.
He hurried eagerly on towards the Freeman’s Journal office.
Three bob I lent him in Meagher’s. Three weeks. Third hint.
O by the by that lotion. I knew there was something on my mind. Never went back and the soap not paid. Dislike carrying bottles like that hag this morning. Hynes might have paid me that three shillings. I could mention Meagher’s just to remind him. Still if he works that paragraph. Two and nine. Bad opinion of me he’ll have. Call tomorrow. How much do I owe you? Three and nine? Two and nine, sir. Ah. Might stop him giving credit another time. Lose your customers that way. Pubs do. Fellows run up a bill on the slate and then slinking around the back streets into somewhere else.
Bloom is still interested in pub economics.
I continue down North Earl Street and into Talbot Street.
O’Beirne’s
Thom’s 1904 Listings, Dublin Street Directory: W. — Mabbot Street.
62 O’Beirne Bros. tea and wine merchants.
Present Use: Colvill House, Offices, Dublin 1.
Thom’s 1904 Listings, Dublin Street Directory: W. — Talbot Street.
26 O’Beirne, Bros., family grocers and wine merchants.
(A sinister figure leans on plaited legs against O’Beirne’s wall, a visage unknown, injected with dark mercury. From under a wideleaved sombrero the figure regards him with evil eye.)
O’Beirne’s and Cormack’s were diagonally opposite each other at the entrance to Nighttown on Mabbot, now James Joyce, Street.
Publican Eugene O’Reilly is interviewed in Dublin Pub Life & Lore, an Oral History.
“Anyhow I bought my first public house after I left McGill’s. I bought it from an old fella called Byrne. It was on the corner of Talbot Street and Corporation Street. This old fella was eight-something and it was a rough place and he was doing nothing in business…Now the pub was only a few hundred yards down from the Monto. It had a reputation for brothels…They were called kips…Back then droves and droves of these men were coming back from the war and all these unemployed men would be hanging outside my door there, standing around. ‘Corner boys’, we called them. They were all back over from England. These corner boys, they wouldn’t look well and they were a deterrent to trade.”
Kevin C. Kearns, Dublin Pub Life & Lore, an Oral History. (p. 160, 161)
The pub purchased is likely O’Beirne’s, as Corporation Street in 1904 was known as Mabbot Street, and is now James Joyce Street. It is interesting that Joyce has people hanging around on opposite corners, and they linger there for a long time, well past the war. Places get reputations and customs, and they can take a long time to change.
I turn the corner, heading a short distance north-east on James Joyce Street, before turning southeast on Foley, formerly Montgomery Street. At this point, I am heading for the greatest concentration of Joyce pubs in Ulysses, all mentioned in sequence as Stephen and Bloom pass them, and all still in existence as pubs. This says something about the area and the lack of change along Amiens Street, at the edge of the city centre.
Pub Eight: Cormack’s
Thom’s 1904 Listing
Grocers, &c.: Cormack, Thomas, 74 Talbot street.
Present Use: 74 Talbot Public House. 74 Talbot Street, Dublin 1.
(He stands at Cormack’s corner, watching.)
Cormack’s is now the Seventy Four, Talbot. I have lingered here, but pleasantly, inside in the Seventy Four. I can’t hang around watching this time.
Pub Nine: Dan Bergin’s
Grocers, &c.: Bergin, Daniel L., 46 Amiens street.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Bergin, Daniel L., 46 Amiens street.
Present Use: Lloyd’s Public House. 46 Amiens Street, Dublin 1.
Accordingly after a few such preliminaries as brushing, in spite of his having forgotten to take up his rather soapsuddy handkerchief after it had done yeoman service in the shaving line, they both walked together along Beaver street or, more properly, lane as far as the farrier’s and the distinctly fetid atmosphere of the livery stables at the corner of Montgomery street where they made tracks to the left from thence debouching into Amiens street round by the corner of Dan Bergin’s.
Dan Bergin had two pubs, and each was mentioned separately. In addition to 46 Amiens Street, he had a pub at 17 North Strand Road, which Fr. Conmee passes in the episode Wandering Rocks. The area was bombed during the emergency in 1941. You can see and read about the damage, here.
What remained of Dan Bergin’s at 17 North Strand after the Luftwaffe left, was demolished. The site is now a local health centre. It is one of the places of Ulysses pubs that I do not pass on this run, though I do pass it on the Dubliners run that you can read about, here.
Father Conmee went by Daniel Bergin’s publichouse against the window of which two unlabouring men lounged. They saluted him and were saluted.
Pub Ten: Mullet’s
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Mullet, John, 45 Amiens street.
Present Use: Mullet’s Public House. 45 Amiens Street, Dublin 1.
Pub Eleven: The Signal House
Thom’s 1904 Listings, Dublin Street Directory: W. — Amiens Street.
36 Hayden, Thos. F. family grocer and spirits merchant—The Signal House, and Great Northern tea and malt stores.
Present Use: J&M Cleary. 36 Amiens Street, Dublin 1.
J & M Cleary, formerly The Signal House
We are back with Bloom and Stephen, heading south along the western edge of Amiens Street. Next door to Lloyd’s is Mullet’s. The pub still has the same name as in Ulysses, though it changed a few times over the intervening years.
So, bevelling around by Mullet’s and the Signal House which they shortly reached, they proceeded perforce in the direction of Amiens street railway terminus, Mr Bloom being handicapped by the circumstance that one of the back buttons of his trousers had, to vary the time-honoured adage, gone the way of all buttons though, entering thoroughly into the spirit of the thing, he heroically made light of the mischance.
James Joyce, Ulysses (p. 501, 502).
Mentioned in the quote above, Cleary’s is one of the pubs which has an interior probably little changed since Ulysses was written and is tucked in below the Loopline Railway bridge. If you want to really know Dublin pubs, you must visit Cleary’s.
Pub Twelve: The North Star
Hotels and Proprietors: North Star, 26 to 30 Amiens street, J.C. Malone.
Present Use: The North Star Hotel. 26-30 Amiens Street, Dublin 1.
But as he confidently anticipated there was not a sign of a Jehu plying for hire anywhere to be seen except a fourwheeler, probably engaged by some fellows inside on the spree, outside the North Star hotel and there was no symptom of its budging a quarter of an inch when Mr Bloom, who was anything but a professional whistler, endeavoured to hail it by emitting a kind of whistle, holding his arms arched over his head, twice.
It’s late, and the streets are deserted as Bloom and Stephen move towards the River Liffey. The taxi rank mentioned in the novel has now moved from outside the North Star Hotel to across the street alongside Amiens Street Train station.
The North Star has undergone an extensive refurbishment recently and has moved upmarket. I continue southwards, crossing the bottom of Talbot Street.
Pub Thirteen: The Dock Tavern
Taverns and Inns: Dock, 1 Store street, Edward Hall.
Present Use: The Brew Dock, 1 Store Street, Dublin 1.
They passed the main entrance of the Great Northern railway station, the starting point for Belfast, where of course all traffic was suspended at that late hour and passing the backdoor of the morgue (a not very enticing locality, not to say gruesome to a degree, more especially at night) ultimately gained the Dock Tavern and in due course turned into Store street, famous for its C division police station.
Joyce describes the area as a not very enticing locality. He is right, and like his description of the dull inelegance of Capel street in Dubliners, it seems to me that some parts of cities do not change much, as evidenced by Capel Street and this part of the Dublin. Like Bloom and Stephen, I also pass the entrance to what is now Connolly Station on my way to the Dock Tavern. I turn right at the corner, heading along Store Street.
The back entrance to the morgue and the police station on Store Street are both still there, and I pass both, heading for Lower Abbey Street.
The Crown and Anchor
Post Office Annual Directory 1832 Listing
Hotels and Taverns: Crown & Anchor Tavern, 42 low. Abbey street.
And there sits uncle Chubb or Tomkin, as the case might be, the publican of the Crown and Anchor, in shirtsleeves, eating rumpsteak and onions.
The mention of the Crown and Anchor in Ulysses seems to refer to a prototypical pub in England. However, there was a Crown and Anchor pub in Dublin as listed in The Post Office Directory of 1832 (Appendix p. 84), at 42 Lower Abbey Street.
Joyce had an extensive knowledge of Dublin, and it may be that he had this pub in mind. The quote is from the Eumaeus episode of Ulysses where Bloom and Stephen are talking to the sailor, D B Murphy in the Cabman’s shelter by the Loopline Bridge, which is only a couple of hundred metres from the location of the real Crown and Anchor.
There was also a dice game called Crown and Anchor, popular with sailors, which is mentioned in the Circe episode.
The crowd bawls of dicers, crown and anchor players, thimbleriggers, broadsmen.
In Dublin, pubs are typically named and called after proprietors. There are a few pubs with descriptive names such as The Brazen Head, and there are very few with traditional names popular in England. This was not the case before 1872. In the 1850’s Dublin, there were two Prince of Wales pubs, as well as a Cock and Bull Inn.
Heading west on Lower Abbey Street I turn towards the Liffey Quays on Marlborough Street. At the Quays I turn right and head west on Eden Quay.
Mooneys sur mer
Thom’s 1904 Listings, Dublin Street Directory: W. — Eden Quay.
3 Gerald Mooney, wine & spirit mer.
Present Use: The Carlyle Club Townhouse. Private Members Club, 3 Eden Quay, Dublin 1.
—I see, he said. I didn’t recognise him for the moment. I hear he is keeping very select company. Have you seen him lately?
He had.
—I quaffed the nectarbowl with him this very day, said Lenehan. In Mooney’s en ville and in Mooney’s sur mer.
Gerald Mooney had two pubs in very close proximity, one on Middle Abbey Street and one on Eden Quay alongside the River Liffey. Lenehan has been to both with Stephen and in his usual manner has a jokey way of differentiating between the two locations.
Mooney’s sur mer overlooked the River Liffey and is now the Carlyle Club. You could probably get a drink in the Carlyle Club, in much the same way as you could in Bella Cohen’s in Nighttown, but I will disregard it.
I turn right and head north on the back lane that is Harbour Court, running under Wynn’s Hotel and onto Lower Abbey Street.
Pub Fourteen: Wynn’s Hotel
Hotels and Proprietors: Commercial and Family (late Wynn’s) 35 and 36 Abbey street, lower.
Hotels and Proprietors: Wynn’s (now Murphy’s) 35, 36 and 37 Abbey street, lower.
Present Use: Wynn’s Hotel, 35-37 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1.
Wynn’s Hotel
Wynn’s, as the name suggests is a Hotel, but I have included all Hotels in my general descriptor of pubs. It’s a nice place for a quiet drink, popular with people coming to Dublin from the country.
Like many buildings in this area of the city, Wynn’s Hotel suffered significant damage in the 1916 rising. You can see a description and a picture of the original hotel on the Archiseek website, here.
an invitation to supper at Wynn’s (Murphy’s) Hotel, 35, 36 and 37 Lower Abbey street
On the other side of Lower Abbey Street is The Ship.
Dining Rooms: Ship, 5 Abbey street, lower.
Grocers, &c.: Connery, W. and E., 5 Lower Abbey Street
Hotels and Proprietors: Ship, 5 Abbey street, lower.
Taverns and Inns: Ship, 5 Abbey street, lower. W. & E. Connery
Present Use: Ladbrookes Betting Shop, 5 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1.
The Ship is the first pub mentioned in Ulysses. It appears several times, in connection with Buck Mulligan, described by the name of its proprietor, Connery on one occasion.
—That fellow I was with in the Ship last night, said Buck Mulligan says you have g.p.i. He’s up in Dottyville with Connolly Norman. General paralysis of the insane!
James Joyce, Ulysses (p. 6).
—The Ship, Buck Mulligan cried. Half twelve.
—Good, Stephen said.
Have you drunk the four quid? The aunt is going to call your insubstantial father. Telegram! Malachi Mulligan, The Ship, lower Abbey street. O, you peerless mummer! O, you priestified Kinchite!
Joyfully he thrust message and envelope into a pocket but keened in a querulous brogue:
—It’s what I’m telling you, mister honey, it’s queer and sick we were, Haines and myself, the time himself brought it in. ‘Twas murmur we did for a gallus potion would rouse a friar, I’m thinking, and he limp with leching. And we one hour and two hours and three hours in Connery’s sitting civil waiting for pints apiece.
No doubt Joyce picked the Ship deliberately as the first pub as the journey of Telemachus begins, but he got the address incorrect as the Ship was at number 5, rather than number 6, Lower Abbey Street.
I previously wrote a blog post called He’s up in Dottyville with Conolly Norman that you can read here.
Mooney’s en ville
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Mooney and Co. (ltd.), 1 Abbey st. lower.
Present Use: Permanent TSB, 1 Abbey Street Lower, Dublin 1.
I have money.
—Gentlemen, Stephen said. As the next motion on the agenda paper may I suggest that the house do now adjourn?
—You take my breath away. It is not perchance a French compliment? Mr O’Madden Burke asked. ‘Tis the hour, methinks, when the winejug, metaphorically speaking, is most grateful in Ye ancient hostelry.
—That it be and is hereby resolutely resolved. All that are in favour say ay, Lenehan announced. The contrary no. I declare it carried. To which particular boosingshed …? My casting vote is: Mooney’s!
This will be Stephen’s first drink of the day. It will be far from his last.
I keep heading west across O’Connell Street.
Pub Fifteen: The Oval
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Egan, John, and Co., 78 Abbey street middle.
Present Use: The Oval. 78 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1.
—What’s that? Myles Crawford said with a start. Where are the other two gone?
—Who? the professor said, turning. They’ve gone round to the Oval for a drink. Paddy Hooper is there with Jack Hall. Came over last night.
The Oval has been trading on the site since 1822, although it was rebuilt after heavy damage sustained in 1916. There is a good article on the history of The Oval on its website, here. There is a great picture inside of the rebuilt pub standing along amongst vacant sites taken in the early 1920’s.
I continue on Middle Abbey Street, heading west.
Grocers, &c.: Manning, T.J. 41 Abbey street, up. and 18 Liffey street, lower.
Vintners and Publicans: Manning, T.J. 41 Abbey street, upper, 18 Liffey street, lr.
Present Use: The Bagel Bar, 41 Upper Abbey Street, Dublin 1.
That horsepoliceman the day Joe Chamberlain was given his degree in Trinity he got a run for his money. My word he did! His horse’s hoofs clattering after us down Abbey street. Lucky I had the presence of mind to dive into Manning’s or I was souped. He did come a wallop, by George. Must have cracked his skull on the cobblestones.
Bloom has a lucky escape by diving into Manning’s, which is now a Bagel Bar. I head towards Little Britain Street, going north on Jervis Street, across Wolfe Tone Square, west on Mary’s Street and North on Capel Street.
Barney Kiernan’s
Grocers, &c.: Kiernan and Co., 8, 9 and 10 Britain street, little.
Wine and Spirit Merchant’s: Kiernan & Co., 8, 9 and 10 Britain st., lit.
Present Use: Vacant. Awaiting redevelopment.
Done anyhow. Postal order, stamp. Postoffice lower down. Walk now. Enough. Barney Kiernan’s I promised to meet them. Dislike that job.
A most interesting discussion took place in the ancient hall of Brian O’Ciarnain’s in Sraid na Bretaine Bheag under the auspices of Sluagh na b-Eireann, on the revival of ancient Gaelic sports and the importance of physical culture, as understood in ancient Greece and ancient Rome and ancient Ireland, for the development of the race.
Barney Kiernan’s is the site of some of the best dialogue in Joyce’s writing. Joyce also refers to it by its name in the Irish language, Brian O’Ciarnain’s, the second pub after the Brian Boroimhe, where he does so. In the earlier Little Review Ulysses, it is simply O’Kiernan’s.
A most interesting discussion took place in the ancient hall of the O’Kiernan’s under the auspices of Sluagh na b-Eireann, on the revival of ancient Gaelic sports and the importance of physical culture, as understood in ancient Greece and ancient Rome and ancient Ireland, for the development of the race.
James Joyce, The Little Review “Ulysses” (p.274).
I have passed here before in the blog post, I’ve a thirst on me I wouldn’t sell for half a crown, which you can read, here.
Barney Kiernan’s is one of the most interesting pubs in Ulysses but has not been a pub for a long time. I turn south on Little Green Street.
Donoghue’s
Thom’s 1904 Listings, Dublin Street Directory: N.—Green -street Little
4 and 5 Donohue and Smyth, grocers, tea, wine and spirit merchants. Donohue, John, Smyth, Peter.
Present Use: Noor & Madina Asian Foods Limited, 4-5 Little Green Street, Dublin 7.
When, lo, there came about them all a great brightness and they beheld the chariot wherein He stood ascend to heaven. And they beheld Him in the chariot, clothed upon in the glory of the brightness, having raiment as of the sun, fair as the moon and terrible that for awe they durst not look upon Him. And there came a voice out of heaven, calling: Elijah! Elijah! And He answered with a main cry: Abba! Adonai! And they beheld Him even Him, ben Bloom Elijah, amid clouds of angels ascend to the glory of the brightness at an angle of fortyfive degrees over Donohue’s in Little Green street like a shot off a shovel.
A chariot would indeed be handy, but no luck. I turn and head east on Mary’s Abbey.
James and Charles Kennedy
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Kennedy, James and Chas, 150 Capel st.
Present Use: Brother Hubbard’s Café, 31-32, Saint Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 7. Now redeveloped.
The reverend Hugh C. Love walked from the old chapterhouse of saint Mary’s abbey past James and Charles Kennedy’s, rectifiers, attended by Geraldines tall and personable, towards the Thosel beyond the ford of hurdles.
I turn and head south on Capel Street, before turning to head west along Ormond Quay when I reach the River Liffey.
At this point, I cross the route of a previous blog post about the smells of Dublin, Pprrpffrrppffff, which you can read, here.
The Ormond
Hotels and Proprietors: Ormond, 8 Up. Ormond Quay, Mrs. De Massey.
Present Use: Awaiting redevelopment.
—Mr Boylan! Hello! That gentleman from Sport was in looking for you. Mr Lenehan, yes. He said he’ll be in the Ormond at four. No, sir. Yes, sir. I’ll ring them up after five.
Scaring eavesdropping boots croppy bootsboy Bloom in the Ormond hallway heard the growls and roars of bravo, fat backslapping, their boots all treading, boots not the boots the boy. General chorus off for a swill to wash it down. Glad I avoided.
Like Barney Kiernan’s the Ormond Hotel is semi-derelict, but like Kiernan’s, it is central to the novel in a way that many of the other pubs with only brief mentions are not. I try to include all the pubs that have dialogue or events taking place within them on this run, even if they have been redeveloped. Along Amiens Street, all of the pubs mentioned in Ulysses survive, but I have now passed several that have not.
I run along the quays heading west. I head north through Smithfield and up Manor and Prussia Streets as I head on my way to the City Arms Hotel.
I pass the corner of Arbour Hill, where the Cyclops episode opens, the point of a previous blog post, Alice the Elephant and the Fox and the Chicken that you can read about, here.
Pub Sixteen: City Arms Hotel
Hotels and Proprietors: City Arms, 51 Prussia st., Miss O’Dowd.
Present Use: Clarke’s City Arms, 55 Prussia Street, Dublin 7.
Clarke’s City Arms
The City Arms Hotel is mentioned many times in Ulysses. Formerly the Dublin residence of the Jameson Family, the City Arms Hotel was an early residence for Leopold and Molly Bloom. Jameson’s, a whiskey, is mentioned, and drunk, on two occasions in Ulysses.
In curating this run, I have had to make a number of choices. I decided to include all place names in Ulysses that you can get a drink in, even if drinking is not mentioned. The City Arms Hotel is a good example of the choices made. Alcohol is not mentioned in relation to the City Arms Hotel, and at first glance, Clarke’s City Arms pub seems not to be integral to the house. However, if you go into the pub, and it is well worth going into, you can see that it extends at the back under the original house. It also appears on the Ordnance Survey Maps of the early eighteenth century.
—That will do , Mr Deasy said briskly. I wrote last night to Mr Field, M.P. There is a meeting of the cattletraders’ association today at the City Arms hotel. I asked him to lay my letter before the meeting. You see if you can get it into your two papers. What are they?
Hate people all round you. City Arms hotel table d’hôte she called it. Soup, joint and sweet. Never know whose thoughts you’re chewing.
The fat heap he married is a nice old phenomenon with a back on her like a ballalley. Time they were stopping up in the City Arms pisser Burke told me there was an old one there with a cracked loodheramaun of a nephew and Bloom trying to get the soft side of her doing the mollycoddle playing bézique to come in for a bit of the wampum in her will and not eating meat of a Friday because the old one was always thumping her craw and taking the lout out for a walk.
* Yes because he never did a thing like that before as ask to get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs since the City Arms hotel when he used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his highness to make himself interesting to that of faggot Mrs Riordan that he thought he had a great leg of
I dont know who he is with that other beauty Burke out of the City Arms hotel was there spying around as usual on the slip always where he wasnt wanted if there was a row on youd vomit a better face there was no love lost between us
The City Arms Hotel and the next pub, Mr Crimmins are both quite far apart and on the edges of Dublin City in 1904. To get to the next pub, I head a short distance south on Prussia Street, southwest on Saint Joseph’s Street, south on Aughrim Street, west on Halliday Road, through Tobar Court, and down through Arbour Hill to the River Liffey. I cross the Liffey and head of Steeven’s Lane, at the top of which is The Malt House.
I cross the River Liffey. I have been to the northeast and northwest and now head to the southwest and southeast of Dublin. Joyce used all of the city for Ulysses, with the pubs distributed throughout.
Pub Seventeen: The Malt House
Grocers, &c.: Crimmins, W. C., 27 & 28 James’s street.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Crimmins, W. C., 27 and 28 James’s street.
Present Use: The Malt House Public House. James’s Street, Dublin 8.
From the sundial towards James’s gate walked Mr Kernan, pleased with the order he had booked for Pulbrook Robertson, boldly along James’s street, past Shackleton’s offices. Got around him all right. How do you do Mr Crimmins? First rate sir. I was afraid you might be up in your other establishment in Pimlico. How are things going? Just keeping alive. Lovely weather we’re having, Yes, indeed. Good for the country. Those farmers are always grumbling, I’ll just take a thimbleful of your best gin, Mr Crimmins. A small gin, sir. Yes, sir.
The Malt House is just to the west of Saint James’s Gate, the home of the Guinness Brewery, which is located on both sides of the road. On a run around the drinking establishments of Dublin, it’s good to pass the main brewery, having just come from the house of main whiskey distilling family. Guinness’s is mentioned several times in Ulysses.
I head south on Bridgefoot Street before travelling east on Oliver Bond Street. This street did not exist in Dublin in 1904, and I run through the site of the former Anchor Brewery the second largest brewery in Dublin, demolished in the 1930’s. To the south is the former Power’s Distillery. I turn downhill and head north on Bridge Street Lower.
Pub Eighteen: The Brazen Head
Hotels and Proprietors: Brazen Head, 20 Bridge Street, lower.
Present Use: The Brazen Head, 20 Bridge Street Lower, Dublin 8.
Corley at the first go-off was inclined to suspect it was something to do with Stephen being fired out of his digs for bringing in a bloody tart off the street. There was a dosshouse in Marlborough street, Mrs Maloney’s, but it was only a tanner touch and full of undesirables but McConachie told him you get a decent enough do in the Brazen Head over in Winetavern street (which was distantly suggestive to the person addressed of friar Bacon) for a bob. He was starving too though he hadn’t said a word about it.
—Yes, that’s the best, he assured Stephen to whom for the matter of that Brazen Head or him or anywhere else was all more or less.
The address as described is incorrect as The Brazen Head is on Bridge Street, rather than Winetavern Street. Perhaps Joyce intends the character, McConachie, to make the error. I feel I made an error when I went to drink in the pub. Overpriced and overrated. I won’t be back.
From the Brazen Head, I head east along the quays, past Winetavern Street into Exchange Street Lower and onto Essex Gate.
Pub Nineteen: Kavanagh’s
Grocers, &c.: Kavanagh, James, 27 Parliament street.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Kavanagh, James, 27 Parliament street.
Present Use: The Turks Head Public House, 27 Parliament Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
They went down Parliament street.
—There’s Jimmy Henry, Mr Power said, just heading for Kavanagh’s.
—Righto, Martin Cunningham said. Here goes.
Beyond Lundy Foot’s from the shaded door of Kavanagh’s winerooms John Wyse Nolan smiled with unseen coldness towards the lord lieutenantgeneral and general governor of Ireland.
Kavanagh’s is much changed. Now the Turk’s Head, it has an interior dominated by bright mosaics.
I cross Parliament Street and head down East Essex Street. I am back running through the city centre, and locations and references become more dense. I am glad I am not running through Temple Bar late on a Friday night, as I would struggle to make it through the crowds, who can barely walk.
Pub Twenty: The Clarence
Hotels and Proprietors: Clarence Commercial Hotel (ltd.) 6 Wellington quay.
Present Use: The Clarence Hotel. 6 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2.
Eat first. I want. Not yet. At four, she said. Time ever passing. Clockhands turning. On. Where eat? The Clarence, Dolphin. On. For Raoul. Eat. If I net five guineas with those ads. The violet silk petticoats. Not yet. The sweets of sin.
On. Through Temple Bar, I pass the front of the former Dolphin Hotel as I pass the rear entrance to The Clarence Hotel. They are across the street from each other.
References to the Dolphin are complicated because there were two at opposite ends of the same block, at 45 to 49 East Essex Street and at 9 Sycamore Street, with the same proprietor Michael Nugent. The Dolphin Hotel at 45-48 East Essex Street is now The Family Law Courts. At the opposite end of the block alongside Sycamore Street, is the other, now Bad Bob’s.
Hotels and Proprietors: Dolphin, 45 to 49 Essex street, east and 22 and 23 Crampton court, M. Nugent, Michael (limited).
Present Use: Dublin District Family Law Office, East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Pub Twenty-One: Bad Bob’s
Grocers, &c.: Nugent, Michael (ltd.), 34 to 37 Essex st.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Nugent, M. (ltd.) 34 to 37 Essex street, east.
Present Use: Bad Bob’s Public House, 35-37, East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Going down the path of Sycamore street beside the Empire musichall Lenehan showed McCoy how the whole thing was. One of those manholes like a bloody gaspipe and there was the poor devil stuck down in it, half choked with sewer gas. Down went Tom Rochford anyhow, booky’s vest and all, with the rope round him. And be damned but he got the rope around the poor devil and the two were hauled up.
—The act of a hero, he said.
At the Dolphin they halted to allow the ambulance car to gallop past them for Jervis street.
—This way, he said walking to the right. I want to pop into Lynam’s to see Sceptre’s starting price. What’s the time by your gold watch and chain?
On. I run on through Temple Bar.
Pub Twenty-Two: O’Neill’s
Thom’s 1904 Listings, Dublin Street Directory: S.—Essex -street East
29 O’Neill, J. J. tea & wine mer.
Present Use: The Norseman, 28E Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
McCoy peered into Marcus Tertius Moses’ sombre office, then at O’Neill’s clock.
—After three, he said. Who’s riding her?
—O’Madden, Lenehan said. And a game filly she is.
The last two quotes follow on directly. O’Neill’s also features in Dubliners, one of several pubs to do so, and I pass it in the Dubliners run, He went through the narrow alley of Temple Bar quickly, which you can read, here.
The clock on O’Neill’s is long gone, but time is pressing, and I continue on.
Bolton’s Westmoreland House
Grocers, &c.: Bolton, William & Co., 36 Westmoreland street.
Present Use: Redeveloped as The Westin Hotel, College Green, Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2.
He walked on past Bolton’s Westmoreland House. Tea. Tea. Tea. I forgot to tap Tom Kiernan.
Although you can get a drink in The Westin Hotel, the site has been comprehensively redeveloped since Bloom passed it. I exclude it from my list. I head straight across Westmoreland Street, and down Fleet Street.
The Star and Garter
Hotels and Proprietors: Star and Garter. 16 D’Olierstreet, John Whelan.
Present Use: House of Colour Creative Hairdressing, 16 D’Olier Street, Dublin 2.
—Good day, sir, Stephen answered blushing. The letter is not mine. Mr Garrett Deasy asked me to…
—O, I know him, Myles Crawford said, and I knew his wife too. The bloodiest old tartar God ever made. By Jesus, she had the foot and mouth disease and no mistake! The night she threw the soup in the waiter’s face in the Star and Garter. Oho!
The Star and Garter was on the corner of Fleet and D’Olier Streets. I cross and head north towards the Liffey on D’Olier Street.
The Red Bank
Hotels and Proprietors: Red Bank Restaurant, (Burdon Bindon’s), 19 and 20 D’Olier Street.
Taverns and Inns: Red Bank Restaurant, (ltd.), 19 and 20 D’Olier Street.
Present Use: Ashfield House Hostel, 19-20 D’Olier Street, Dublin 2.
Plasto’s. Sir Philip Crampton’s memorial fountain bust. Who was he?
—How do you do? Martin Cunningham said, raising his palm to his brow in salute.
—He doesn’t see us, Mr Power said. Yes he does. How do you do?
—Who? Mr Dedalus asked.
—Blazes Boylan, Mr Power said. There he is airing his quiff.
Just at that moment I was thinking.
Mr. Dedalus bent across to salute. From the door of the Red Bank the white disc of a straw hat flashed reply: spruce figure: passed
I like this quote. The memorial fountain sat at the junction of Great Brunswick, now Pearse, Street and D’Olier Street and was decorated with extravagant tropical leaves. I expect Joyce was aware of this when he wrote of Martin Cunningham raising his palm.
I come to the River Liffey and head east on Burgh Quay.
The Scotch House
Grocers, &c.: Weir, James & Co. (ltd.) 6 Burgh Quay.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Weir, James & Co. (ltd.) 6 & 7 Burgh Quay.
Present Use: Under redevelopment as offices. 6-7 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2.
U. p: up. I’ll take my oath that’s Alf Bergan or Richie Goulding. Wrote it for a lark in the Scotch house I bet anything. Round to Menton’s Office. His oyster eyes staring at the postcard. Be a feast for the gods.
—I know you did, Dilly answered. Were you in the Scotch house now?
—I was not, then, Mr Dedalus said smiling. Was it the little nuns taught you to be so saucy? Here.
He handed her a shilling.
Beside the Scotch House is the statue to Constable Patrick Sheahan who died while trying to save a man overcome with sewer gases. You can see the statue, here, and the pub and the statue, here. Joyce mentions the incident with regard to Tom Rochford, and you can read about the events and Tom Rochford, here.
Joyce must have liked the Scotch House. It appears in both Dubliners and Ulysses. If there is one Joyce pub I would want to bring back, this would be it.
I turn north on Hawkins Street, east on Poolbeg Street, south on Townsend Street and the east again on Pearse Street. When I get to Westland Row, I head south.
Hotels and Proprietors: Grosvenor, 5 Westland row, Mitchell & Co.
Present Use: Site redeveloped as part of Trinity College Dublin.
Mr Bloom gazed across the road at the outsider drawn up against the door of the Grosvenor. The porter hoisted the valise up on the well. She stood still, waiting, while the man, husband, brother, like her, searched his pockets for change. Stylish kind of coat with that roll collar, warm for a day like this, looks like blanketcloth. Careless stand of her with her hands in those patch pockets. Like that haughty creature at the polo match. Women all for caste till you touch the spot. Handsome is and handsome does. Reserved about to yield. The honourable Mrs and Brutus is an honourable man. Possess her once take the starch out of her.
Bloom is watching a woman outside the Grosvenor Hotel. The hotel was located opposite Westland Row, now Pearse Street, station. The hotel was demolished and in its place are modern buildings forming part of Trinity College Dublin.
Pub Twenty-Three: Conway’s
Grocers, &c.: Conway, J. & Co., 31 & 32 Westland row.
Present Use: Kennedy’s Public House, 31-32 Westland Row, Dublin 2.
Kennedy’s, formerly Conway’s
—I was with Bob Doran, he’s on one of his periodical bends, and what do you call him Bantam Lyons. Just down there in Conway’s we were.
Bantam Lyons doubted an instant, leering: then thrust the outspread sheets back on Mr Bloom’s arms.
—I’ll risk it, he said. Here, thanks.
He sped off towards Conway’s corner. God speed scut.
James Joyce, Ulysses (p. 70)
Bob Doran appears in Dubliners and pops up a few times in Ulysses. He was the punter sloping into the Empire, and he also appears in Barney Kiernan’s.
Kennedy’s was Conway’s in Ulysses. I used to know it as Kenney’s. According to Colm Quilligan in Dublin Literary Pub Crawl (p.98), it is because the “d” fell off the sign sometime around the 1990’s. The new name stuck, at least for people of my vintage.
The location is called Conway’s corner in Ulysses. Many corners in Dublin are named after pubs. Hanlon’s Corner, Leonard’s Corner, and Doyle’s Corner which was Dunphy’s corner in Ulysses. Somehow Conway’s corner has never become Kennedy’s corner.
This is a great pub. I plan to return regularly.
For now, I run eastwards on Fenian Street towards Holles Street.
Burke’s
Grocers, &c.: Burke, John, 17 Holles street.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Burke, John, 17 Holles street.
Present Use: Redeveloped as Lolly & Cooks, 18-24, Holles Street, Dublin 2
Burke’s! outflings my lord Stephen, giving the cry, and a tag and bobtail of all them after, cockerel, jackanapes, welsher, pilldoctor, punctual Bloom at heels with a universal grabbing at headgear, ashplants, bilbos, Panama hats and scabbards, Zermatt alpenstocks and what not. A dedale of lusty youth, noble every student there. Nurse Callan taken aback in the hallway cannot stay them nor smiling surgeon coming downstairs with news of placentation ended, a full pound if a milligramme. They hark him on. The door! It is open? Ha! They are out, tumultuously, off for a minute’s race, all bravely legging it, Burke’s of Denzille and Holles their ulterior goal. Dixon follows giving them sharp language but raps out an oath, he too, and on. Bloom stays with nurse a thought to send a kind word to happy mother and nurseling up there.
Burke’s was on the corner of Denzille, now Fenian Street and Holles Street. I turn the corner and run uphill, heading south on Holles Street and pass the famous maternity Hospital. Stephen and his companions drink in the Hospital, but it’s hardly a pub.
At Holles Street I cross my Dubliners 21k, He went through the narrow alley of Temple Bar quickly, the blog post, which you can read about, here.
I head west on Merrion Square North, Merrion Square West and Merrion Street before turning to head west on Merrion Row and on to Stephen’s Green North.
Pub Twenty-Four: The Shelbourne Hotel
Hotels and Proprietors: Shelbourne, 27 to 31 Stephen’s green, north. Jury and Cotton.
Present Use: The Shelbourne Hotel, 27-31 Saint Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2.
The Shelbourne Hotel
Who is this she was like? O yes! Mrs Miriam Dandrade that sold me her old wraps and black underclothes in the Shelbourne Hotel. Divorced Spanish American. Didn’t take a feather out of her my handling them.
Ho! Ho! I have to laugh. That secondhand black operatop shift and short trunkleg naughties all split up the stitches at her last rape that Mrs Miriam Dandrade sold you from the Shelbourne hotel, eh?
The Shelbourne is one of the pubs in Ulysses also mentioned in Dubliners, where it features in the story After the Race. It might have been simpler if Bloom had just bought himself a drink.
I turn north on Kildare Street, before turning and heading westwards on Molesworth Street.
Thom’s 1904 Listings, Dublin Street Directory: S.—Molesworth-street
10 Doran, Michael, grocer, wine, and spirit merchant.
Present Use: Under redevelopment as offices, 10 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.
Walking by Doran’s publichouse he slid his hand between his waistcoat and trousers and, pulling aside his shirt gently, felt a slack fold of his belly. But I know it’s whitey yellow. Want to try in the dark to see.
This pub is long gone, and the site is being redeveloped again as offices. Bloom feels the slack fold of his belly. As part of this run I have had a drink in each of the pubs, so what I lost in the running training I gained immediately back in the drinking, and I too have a slack fold on my belly.
At the end of Molesworth Street, I head downhill, north on Dawson Street.
Grocers, &c.: Long, P. J., 52 Dawson street.
Wine and Spirit Merchant’s: Long, P. J., 52 Dawson street.
Present Use: Carluccio’s Restaurant, 52 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
Tour the south then. What about English wateringplaces? Brighton, Margate. Piers by moonlight. Her voice floating out. Those lovely seaside girls. Against John Long’s a drowsing loafer lounged in heavy thought, gnawing a crusted knuckle. Handy man wants job. Small wages. Will eat anything.
I turn and head down Duke Street, heading west.
The Burton
Hotels and Proprietors: Burton, 18 Duke street.
Refreshment Rooms: Burton, 18 Duke street.C. Gavin.
Taverns and Inns: Burton, The, 18 Duke street.
Present Use: Hayes & Jarvis Travel Agents, 18 Duke Street, Dublin 2.
I pass the Burton at 18 Duke Street, scene of some of the best descriptions in Ulysses, with the diners scaring off Leopold Bloom. They are long but best quoted at length.
His heart astir he pushed in the door of the Burton restaurant. Stink gripped his trembling breath: pungent meatjuice, slush of greens. See the animals feed.
Men, men, men.
Perched on high stools by the bar, hats shoved back, at the tables calling for more bread no charge, swilling, wolfing gobfuls of sloppy food, their eyes bulging, wiping wetted moustaches. A pallid suetfaced young man polished his tumbler knife fork and spoon with his napkin. New set of microbes. A man with an infant’s saucestained napkin tucked round him shovelled gurgling soup down his gullet. A man spitting back on his plate: halfmasticated gristle: gums: no teeth to chewchewchew it. Chump chop from the grill. Bolting to get it over. Sad booser’s eyes. Bitten off more than he can chew. Am I like that? See ourselves as others see us. Hungry man is an angry man. Working tooth and jaw. Don’t! O! A bone! That last pagan king of Ireland Cormac in the schoolpoem choked himself at Sletty southward of the Boyne. Wonder what he was eating. Something galoptious. Saint Patrick converted him to Christianity. Couldn’t swallow it all however.
—Roast beef and cabbage.
—One stew.
Smells of men. His gorge rose. Spaton sawdust, sweetish warmish cigarettesmoke, reek of plug, spilt beer, men’s beery piss, the stale of ferment.
His gorge rose.
Couldn’t eat a morsel here. Fellow sharpening knife and fork to eat all before him, old chap picking his tootles. Slight spasm, full, chewing the cud. Before and after. Grace after meals. Look on this picture then on that. Scoffing up stewgravy with sopping sippets of bread. Lick it off the plate, man! Get out of this.
He gazed round the stooled and tabled eaters, tightening the wings of his nose.
—Two stouts here.
—One corned and cabbage.
That fellow ramming a knifeful of cabbage down as if his life depended on it. Good stroke. Give me the fidgets to look. Safer to eat from his three hands. Tear it limb from limb. Second nature to him. Born with a silver knife in his mouth. That’s witty, I think. Or no. Silver means born rich. Born with a knife. But then the allusion is lost.
An illgirt server gathered sticky clattering plates. Rock, the head bailiff, standing at the bar blew the foamy crown from his tankard. Well up: it splashed yellow near his boot. A diner, knife and fork upright, elbows on table, ready for a second helping stared towards the foodlift across his stained square of newspaper. Other chap telling him something with his mouth full. Sympathetic listener. Table talk. I munched hum un thu Unchster Bunk un Munchday. Ha? Did you, faith?
Mr Bloom raised two fingers doubtfully to his lips. His eyes said:
—Not here. Don’t see him.
Out. I hate dirty eaters.
He backed towards the door. Get a light snack in Davy Byrne’s. Stopgap. Keep me going. Had a good breakfast.
—Roast and mashed here.
—Pint of stout.
Every fellow for his own, tooth and nail. Gulp. Grub. Gulp. Gobstuff.
He came out into clearer air and turned back towards Grafton street. Eat or be eaten. Kill! Kill!
Bloom leaves and travels as I do, the short distance to Davy Byrne’s.
Pub Twenty-Five: Davy Byrne’s
Grocers, &c.: Byrne, David, 21 Duke Street.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Byrne, David, 21 Duke Street.
Present Use: Davy Byrne’s, 21 Duke Street, Dublin 2.
He entered Davy Byrne’s. Moral pub. He doesn’t chat. Stands a drink now and then. But in leapyear once in four. Cashed a cheque for me once.
What will I take now? He drew his watch. Let me see now. Shandygaff?
—Hello, Bloom, Nosey Flynn said from his nook.
—Hello, Flynn.
—How’s things?
—Tiptop … Let me see. I’ll take a glass of burgundy and … let me see.
Sardines on the shelves. Almost taste them by looking. Sandwich? Ham and his descendants musterred and bred there. Potted meats. What is home without Plumtree’s potted meat? Incomplete. What a stupid ad! Under the obituary notices they stuck it. All up a plumtree. Dignam’s potted meat. Cannibals would with lemon and rice. White missionary too salty. Like pickled pork. Expect the chief consumes the parts of honour. Ought to be tough from exercise. His wives in a row to watch the effect. There was a right royal old nigger. Who ate or something the somethings of the reverend Mr MacTrigger. With it an abode of bliss. Lord knows what concoction. Cauls mouldy tripes windpipes faked and minced up. Puzzle find the meat. Kosher. No meat and milk together. Hygiene that was what they call now. Yom Kippur fast spring cleaning of inside. Peace and war depend on some fellow’s digestion. Religions. Christmas turkeys and geese. Slaughter of innocents. Eat drink and be merry. Then casual wards full after. Heads bandaged. Cheese digests all but itself. Mity cheese.
—Have you a cheese sandwich?
Like a few olives too if they had them. Italian I prefer. Good glass of burgundy take away that. Lubricate. A nice salad, cool as a cucumber, Tom Kernan can dress. Puts gusto into it. Pure olive oil. Milly served me that cutlet with a sprig of parsley. Take one Spanish onion. God made food, the devil the cooks. Devilled crab.
—Wife well?
—Quite well, thanks… A cheese sandwich, then. Gorgonzola, have you?
There is more great dialogue happening in Davy Byrne’s, as well as the presence of the regular drinker, Nosey Flynn who was also there sitting in his usual corner as in Dubliners. Bloom sets up Davy Byrne’s for life, by having his Burgundy and Gorgonzola.
Davy Byrne’s is still serving glasses of Burgundy and Gorgonzola sandwiches. The exterior is similar to that of 1904, but the interior has been completely changed.
Oddly, Joyce gets the address wrong in the Ithaca episode in one of Bloom’s lists, placing it at 14 rather than 21. I am not sure why this would be. It cannot be easily explained as the mistake of a character in the novel.
Where had previous intimations of the result, effected or projected, been received by him?
In Bernard Kiernan’s licensed premises 8, 9 and 10 little Britain street: in David Byrne’s licensed premises, 14 Duke street: in O’Connell street lower, outside Graham Lemon’s when a dark man had placed in his hand a throwaway (subsequently thrown away), advertising Elijah, restorer of the church in Zion:
Joyce also refers to O’Connell Street rather than Sackville Street, even if it wasn’t officially renamed that until 1924. Perhaps Bloom’s, or Joyce’s Nationalist sympathies are coming through.
I started this piece on Davy Byrne’s with a passage by Joyce where he describes Davy Byrne’s character. In Kevin C. Kearns, Dublin Pub Life & Lore, an Oral History he interviews Michael Gill who describes Davy Byrne,
“And you take Davy Byrne, a most extraordinary man. Davy held court in his own place. And the story goes that he was making his will and was asked, ‘Did you make all that money filling pints?’ ‘No, not filling them.'”
Leaving Davy Byrne and his pub behind, I run on, turning right to head north on Grafton Street. I pass Adam Court, the back entrance to the Empire, now The Porterhouse Central.
Pub Twenty-Six: The Empire
Dining Rooms: Empire Restaurant, 29 Nassau street.
Refreshment Rooms: Empire Restaurant, 29 Nassau street.
Present Use: The Porterhouse Central, 45-47 Nassau Street, Dublin 2.
Mr Bloom, quickbreathing, slowlier walking passed Adam court.
With ha quiet keep quiet relief his eyes took note this is the street here middle of the day of Bob Doran’s bottle shoulders. On his annual bend, M’Coy said. They drink in order to say or do something or cherchez la femme. Up in the Coombe with chummies and streetwalkers and then the rest of the year sober as a judge.
Yes. Thought so. Sloping into the Empire. Gone. Plain soda would do him good.
We meet Bob Doran who appears in three pubs in Ulysses. He was also at Conway’s and in Barney Kiernan’s.
The Empire and now the Porterhouse Central stretch from Nassau Street southwards to the small lane that is Adam Court that runs eastwards off the bottom of Grafton Street. The nightclub, Lillie’s Bordello is located at the end of Adam Court. I talk about this in an earlier blog post, He knew the value of the name, here.
At the bottom of Grafton Street, I turn left and head west on Suffolk Street.
Pub Twenty-Seven: Slattery’s
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Slattery, Thomas J., 15 Suffolk street.
Present Use: O’Donoghue’s Public House, 15 Suffolk Street, Dublin 2.
Goodbye Ireland I’m going to Gort. So I just went round the back of the yard to pumpship and begob (hundred shillings to five) while I was letting off my (Throwaway twenty to) letting off my load gob says I to myself I knew he was uneasy in his (two pints off of Joe and one in Slattery’s off) in his mind to get off the mark to (hundred shillings is five quid) and when they were in the (dark horse) pisser Burke was telling me card party and letting on the child was sick (gob, must have done about a gallon) flabbyarse of a wife speaking down the tube she’s better or she’s (ow!) all a plan so he could vamoose with the pool if he won or (Jesus, full up I was) trading without a licence (ow!) Ireland my nation says he (hoik! phthook!) never be up to those bloody (there’s the last of it) Jerusalem (ah!) cuckoos.
A contentious selection this. Gifford and Seidman place Slattery’s at 28 Ship Street Great. But there was a Slattery’s at 15 Suffolk Street which seems to me to be a more likely reference. There is only a slight reference to the Slattery’s in the text. There are no pubs left in Great Ship Street, and I prefer to think of the reference as more likely to be this pub, which has been comprehensively redeveloped, as it is much closer to the city centre.
What a brilliant description of that essential aspect of pub life, as the narrator urinates and spits in the back of the yard.
Jammet’s
Refreshment Rooms: Jammet’s Restaurant, 27 St. Andrew st.
Present Use: Now H&M. 27 Saint Andrew’s Street, Dublin 2.
I run on past the original site of Jammet’s, which is also mentioned in Dubliners as Corless’s.
Why that highclass whore in Jammet’s wore her veil only to her nose. Would you mind please telling me the right time? I’ll tell you the right time up a dark lane.
I have now passed two former sites of Jammet’s restaurant as it moved from here on Saint Andrew’s Street to Adam Court.
From Suffolk Street, I loop northwards down Church Lane onto College Green and Dame Street, before heading south on Trinity Street and onto Saint Andrew Street, all to pass the locations of some of Stephen’s drinking haunts.
Jury’s Hotel
Hotels and Proprietors: Commercial and Family, 6 to 8 College green, Henry J. Jury.
Hotels and Proprietors: Jury’s Commercial and Family, 7 & 8 College green, Henry J. Jury.
Present Use: Now Offices under redevelopment.
—Show us over the drink, says I. Which is which?
This section is from one of the Cyclops episode’s long rambling lists. Amongst all the beauties of the landscape are the Guinness Brewery, The Scotch House and Jury’s Hotel, each of which I have now passed.
I run past the former sites of Jury’s, The Larchet, The Moira and The Bodega. All are close together, and all have been redeveloped.
Larchet’s
Dining Rooms: Larchet’s Hotel and restaurant (late Franklin’s, 11 College green).
Hotels and Proprietors: Larchet’s Royal Commercial, 11 College green.
Refreshment Rooms: Larchet’s (late Franklin’s), 11 College green.
Present Use: Under redevelopment
PHILIP SOBER
Take a fool’s advice. All is not well. Work it out with the buttend of a pencil, like a good young idiot. Three pounds twelve you got, two notes, one sovereign, two crowns, if youth but knew. Mooney’s en ville, Mooney’s sur mer, the Moira, Larchet’s, Holles street hospital, Burke’s. Eh? I am watching you.
So it’s not just me looking at who drinks what and where. Here Philip Sober is keeping a close eye on Stephen’s drinking. I have now passed all of Stephen’s watering holes.
The Bodega
Refreshment Rooms: Bodega, Commercial Buildings.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Bodega Co. The (ltd.) Commercial buildings, Dame street.
Present Use: Under redevelopment, Commercial Buildings, Dame Street, Dublin 2.
Ben Dollard with a heavy list towards the shopfronts led them forward, his joyful fingers in the air.
—Come along with me to the subsheriff’s office he said. I want to show you the new beauty Rock has for a bailiff. He’s a cross between Lobengula and Lynchehaun. He’s well worth seeing, mind you. Come along. I saw John Henry Menton casually in the Bodega just now and it will cost me a fall if I don’t…Wait awhile…..We’re on the right lay, Bob, believe you me.
The Moira
Hotels and Proprietors: Moira, 15 Trinity street.
Present Use: 15 Trinity Street, Dublin 2. Now Pichet Restaurant.
His eyes passed lightly over Mr Power’s goodlooking face. Greyish over the ears. Madame: smiling. I smiled back. A smile goes a long way. Only politeness perhaps. Nice fellow. Who knows is that true about the woman he keeps? Not pleasant for the wife. Yet they say, who was it told me, there is no carnal. You would imagine that would get played out pretty quick. Yes, it was Crofton met him one evening bring her a pound of rump steak. Who was it she was? Barmaid in Jury’s. Or the Moira, was it?
Bloom is thinking about Mr Power’s adventures.
Pub Twenty-Eight: Ruggy O’Donohue’s
Grocers, &c.: O’Donohue, M., 8 St. Andrew street and 23 Wicklow street.
Present Use: The International Bar, 23 Wicklow Street, Dublin 2.
The International Bar
Opposite Ruggy O’Donohue’s Master Patrick Aloysius Dignam, pawing the pound and a half of Mangan’s, late Fehrenbach’s, porksteaks he had been sent for, went along warm Wicklow street, dawdling.
I would not dawdle again in The International Bar, one of the most disappointing of Dublin pubs.
I run on down Exchequer Street, turning south on Dame Court, through the archway and west on Dame Street, before turning south at South Great George’s Street.
Grocers, &c: Andrews & Co., 21 and 22 Dame street.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Andrews & Co., 19 to 22 Dame street.
Present Use: Spar, 19 – 20 Dame Street, Dublin 2.
He looked at the cattle, blurred in silver heat. Silverpowdered olive trees. Quiet long days: pruning, ripening. Olives are packed in jars, eh? I have a few left from Andrews. Molly spitting them out.
Andrews was located on the corner of South Great George’s Street, there is a good image of it, here. It sold all sorts of produce. Perhaps not strictly a pub, I mention it in passing.
Running through the city has involved a lot of twists and turns, but I am now on the long straight stretch south along South Great George’s Street, Aungier Street, Redmond’s Hill, Wexford Street, Camden Street and South Richmond Street to the Grand Canal. Lots of different names for one relatively short road.
Rowe’s
Vintners and Publicans: Rowe, A., 2 George’s street, great, south.
Present Use: Vacant site. 2 South Great George’s Street, Dublin 2.
He stood at Fleet Street crossing. Luncheon interval. A sixpenny at Rowe’s? Must look up that ad in the national library.
Rowe’s was situated at the bottom of South Great George’s Street, where there is now a vacant gap site. Like Amiens Street, the pubs that are mentioned in Ulysses along the length of South Great George’s Street, Aungier Street, Redmond’s Hill, Wexford Street and Camden Street Lower and Upper and Richmond Street, apart from this one, mostly remain. This perhaps indicates the difference in land values in the city centre to the outer inner city, as well as the destruction of the north city centre in 1916.
Daniel Tallon’s,
Thom’s 1904 Listings, Dublin Street Directory: S.—George’s-st. Grt. Sth.
46 Tallon, Daniel, grocer and wine merchant, and 57 Lr. Stephen-st.
Present Use: Dunnes Stores Offices, 46 South Great Georges Street, Dublin 2.
Then, lo and behold, they blossom out as Adam Findlaters or Dan Tallons.
We passed Adam Findlaters on the other side of the city in O’Connell Street. Adam Findlater and Dan Tallon were Dublin stalwarts. Dan Tallon was the Lord Mayor from 1898 – 1900. As Lord Mayor, he laid the foundation stone for the Parnell Monument in 1899, just across from Findlaters on what was then Upper Sackville Street.
Pub Twenty-Nine: Delahunt’s
Grocers, &c.: Delahunt, Jos., 92 Camden st. lr.
Present Use: Ryan’s 92 Lower Camden Street, Dublin 2.
Pub Thirty: Delahunt’s
Present Use: Cassidy’s, 42 Lower Camden Street, Dublin 2.
Lenehan linked his arm warmly.
—But wait till I tell you, he said. We had a midnight lunch too after all the jollification and when we sallied forth it was blue o’clock the morning after the night before. Coming home it was a gorgeous winter’s night on the Featherbed Mountain. Bloom and Chris Callinan were on one side of the car and I was with the wife on the other. We started singing glees and duets: Lo, the early beam of morning. She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt’s port under her bellyband. Every jolt the bloody car gave I had her bumping up against me. Hell’s delights! She has a fine pair, God bless her. Like that.
James Joyce, Ulysses (p. 192, 193)
Lenehan is here walking with M’Coy, and in the next quote, we hear from Corley, who Lenehan walked through Dublin with, in the Two Gallants story in Dubliners. Things haven’t gone well for Corley, he is down on his luck, has fallen out with Lenehan, and after a chance encounter, Stephen ends up lending him a half-crown.
Delahunt’s features as a product rather than a place, but as Joseph Delahunt did own two pubs and they both still exist, I include them.
Pub Thirty-One: The Bleeding Horse
Thom’s 1904 Listings, Dublin Street Directory: S.—Camden-street, Upper.
24 & 25 Ryan, J. & M., family grocers, tea, wine, and spirit merchants.
Present Use: The Bleeding Horse, 24-25 Upper Camden Street, Dublin 2.
—Thanks, Corley answered, you’re a gentleman. I will pay you back one time. Who’s that with you? I saw him a few times in the Bleeding Horse in Camden street with Boylan, the billsticker. You might put in a good word for us to get me taken on there. I’d carry a sandwich board only the girl in the office told me they’re full up for the next three weeks, man. God, you’ve to book ahead, man, you’d think it was for the Carl Rosa. I don’t give a shite anyway so long as I get a job, even as a crossing sweeper.
Corley sees Stephen with Bloom. Robert Martin Adams in Surface and Symbol: The Consistency of James Joyce’s Ulysses thinks it unlikely that Bloom would have met Boylan in the Bleeding Horse as it was far out of his neighbourhood, and a good deal lower that on the social scale than Barney Kiernan’s (p.205). I can’t entirely agree as the Jewish quarter is very near to the Bleeding Horse, on the south side of the city. Barney Kiernan’s despite being close to the courthouse on Little Green Street on the inner north side, seems no more desirable a location socially.
Perhaps I am judging this too much by a contemporary context.
I run on past The Bleeding House to where South Richmond Street meets the Grand Canal.
Pub Thirty-Two: J. and T. Davy
Grocers, &c.: Davy, J. and T., 2 Charlemont mall.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Davy, J. and T., 33 Richmond street , south, and 1 Charlemont mall.
Present Use: The Portobello Public House. 33 South Richmond Street, Dublin 2.
The imprevidibility of the future: once in the summer of 1898 he (Bloom) had marked a florin (2/-) with three notches on the milled edge and tendered it in payment of an account due to and received by J. and T. Davy, family grocers, 1 Charlemont Mall, Grand Canal, for circulation on the waters of civic finance, for possible, circuitous or direct, return.
The bar of the Portobello appears old, but it isn’t, I remember working on it in the 1980’s. I turn east on Charlemont Mall and run alongside the Grand Canal. Then I cross Charlemont Bridge to the other side of the canal before heading south on Upper Leeson Street.
Pub Thirty-Three: Davy’s publichouse.
Grocers, &c.: Davy, J. and T., 111 Leeson street, upper.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Davy, J. and T., 111 Leeson street, upper.
Present Use: The Leeson Lounge Public House. 148 Leeson Street Upper, Dublin 4.
The Leeson Lounge, formerly J. and T. Davy’s is mentioned in Ulysses but in different ways in different editions.
—F to P is the route Skin-the-Goat drove the car for an alibi, Inchicore, Roundtown, Windy Arbour, Palmerstown Park, Ranelagh. F.A.B.P. Got that? X is Davy’s publichouse in upper Leeson street.
The professor came to the inner door.
—Bloom is at the telephone, he said.
—Tell him to go to hell, the editor said promptly. X is Davy’s publichouse, see?
—F to P is the route Skin-the-goat drove the car for an alibi. Inchicore, Roundtown, Windy Arbour, Palmerstown Park, Ranelagh. F.A.B.P. Got that? X is Davy’s publichouse in upper Leeson street.
—Tell him to go to hell, the editor said promptly. X is Burke’s public house, see?
James Joyce, Ulysses, The 1922 Text (p. 131, 132).
—F to P is the route Skin-the-goat drove the car for an alibi. Inchicore, Roundtown, Windy Arbour, Palmerstown Park, Ranelagh. F.A.B.P. Got that? X is Burke’s publichouse ‘n Baggot street.
—Tell him to go to hell, the editor said promptly. X is Burke’s publichouse, see?
James Joyce, The Little Review “Ulysses” (p. 115).
In the first quote from the Gabler edition of Ulysses, the pub where the Invincibles go to is Davy’s in Upper Leeson Street. In the earlier Little Review Ulysses, it is Burke’s of Baggot Street. In Ulysses, The 1922 Text it is a hybrid of both.
It was well-known that the Invincibles went to Davy’s in Leeson Street. It seems likely that the error being made, is being made twice by the editor in The Little Review in calling the pub Burke’s. However, written this way, it could be construed as an error by Joyce. In the 1922 text, the editor’s error and confusion are much more clearcut as he uses two different names for the same place in quick succession, Davy’s and Burke’s. It seems to me that the Gabler edition, in changing the discrepancy in names to having both references listed as Davy’s may be an overcorrection of the text and has hidden Joyce’s intentions.
Argue it amongst yourselves, I’ve got places to go and pubs to see.
It is not just names that change. As it happens, both the name and address of this pub have changed. The address in 1904 for J. and T. Davy’s, was 100 Leeson Street Upper, and is now The Leeson Lounge at number 148. The pub is in the same place, it is the numbering and name that changed.
This is the second pub owned by J & T Davy in quick succession. The family went on to found Davy Stockbrokers, leaving the licensed trade and their pubs behind them. I also leave the Leeson Lounge behind me, running off back to the canal by way of Sussex Terrace and heading east.
The next pub proves slightly difficult and highlights some of the complexities of this run. Tunney’s is mentioned several times in Ulysses. Just as there were several J & T Davy’s, there were two Tunney’s. It is generally assumed that Joyce refers to the one in Ringsend as it is closer to Sandymount where Paddy Dignam lived, but there is a chance that he also meant the one in Haddington Road. After all, it seems he referred to the two separate Dolphins in Essex Street. No matter, I will run past both. I head off along the southern edge of the Grand Canal towards Smyth’s of Haddington Road.
Pub Thirty-Four: Tunney’s
Grocers, &c.: Tunney, W.J.,10 Haddington road.
Present Use: Smyth’s Public House, 10 Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
I include Smyth’s pub, but I prefer to think of Tunney’s as the Oarsman rather than Smyth’s. I include the quotes relating to Tunney’s, there, in the last pub on my run, below. As it happens, I like to drink in both Smyth’s and the Oarsman, and I live between the two of them.
I run pass Smyth’s and head on down Haddington Road, turning right on Northumberland Road. At this point, I cross the point where Farrington in Dubliners is nearly home, which you can read about in my blog post Don’t beat me, pa! And I’ll…I’ll say a Hail Mary for you, here.
Pubs can be great fun, but alcohol can also have a downside. When I was researching pubs and pumpingship in Mulligan’s, the last pub that Farrington visited, I saw an advertisement that said A closed door shouldn’t hide domestic violence and that 2 in 5 people in Ireland know someone who has experienced domestic violence. The story Counterparts seems more accurately observed than ever.
Pub Thirty-Five: Keyes
Grocers, &c.: Keyes, Alexander, 5 and 6 Ball’s Bridge.
Present Use: Paddy Cullen’s and Mary Mac’s Public House, 14 Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
Mr Bloom admired the caretaker’s prosperous bulk. All want to be on good terms with him. Decent fellow, John O’Connell, real good sort. Keys: like Keyes’s ad: no fear of anyone getting out. No passout checks. Habeas corpus. I must see about that ad after the funeral. Did I write Ballsbridge on the envelope I took to cover when she disturbed me writing to Martha?
Hello, placard. Mirus bazaar. His Excellency the lord lieutenant. Sixteenth. Today it is. In aid of funds for Mercer’s hospital. The Messiah was first given for that. Yes. Handel. What about going out there: Ballsbridge. Drop in on Keyes. No use sticking to him like a leech. Wear out my welcome. Sure to know someone on the gate.
Alexander Keyes owned 5 and 6 Ballsbridge. They became Fagan’s after 1904 and at some point in time number 5 became an office and 6 continued as a pub. They are now reunited as Mary Mac’s and Paddy Cullen’s. There is a great picture in Mary Mac’s of Fagan’s pub. You can see it if you go inside. It is at the rear, on the right-hand side. Interestingly it shows the pub with a decorative parapet. The decorative parapet no longer exists, nor did it exist in the early photograph from the National Library Flickr account here. Perhaps the pub was decorated for the Exhibition of 1907. More research.
One more pub to go. I planned to run down along the River Dodder towards Ringsend and the final pub. Due to flooding, the river path was closed, so I ran down Shelbourne Road instead. It has the advantage is that it passes one of Joyce’s residences at 60 Shelbourne Road, but is a much less enjoyable way to finish a long run.
I have now crossed both canals, the River Liffey and the River Dodder, which flows to the last pub in Ringsend.
Pub Thirty-Six: Tunney’s
Grocers, &c.: Tunney, W.J., 8 Bridge street, Ringsend.
Present Use: The Oarsman Public House, 8 Bridge Street, Ringsend, Dublin 4.
The Oarsman, formerly Tunney’s
It was too blooming dull sitting in the parlour with Mrs Stoer and Mrs Quigley and Mrs MacDowell and the blind down and they all at their sniffles and sipping sups of the superior tawny sherry uncle Barney brought from Tunney’s. And they eating crumbs of the cottage fruitcake, jawing the whole blooming time and sighing.
The last night pa was boossed he was standing on the landing there bawling out for his boots to go out to Tunney’s for to boose more and he looked butty and short in his shirt. Never see him again. Death, that is. Pa is dead. My father is dead.
and it was Gerty who tacked up on the wall of that place where she never forgot every fortnight the chlorate of lime Mr Tunney the grocer’s christmas almanac
(Mrs Dignam, widow woman, her snubnose and cheeks flushed with deathtalk, tears and Tunney’s tawny sherry, hurries by in her weeds, her bonnet awry, roughing and powdering her cheeks, lips and nose, a pen chivvying her brood of cygnets.
The quotes above show how intertwined the pub and grocery were. In one instance a bottle of sherry is purchased, in another Paddy Dignam wants to go to Tunney’s to drink, and in another Mr Tunney is described as a grocer.
The end of the run
On a run like this, it is not possible to run by every pub in Dublin mentioned in Ulysses. My original plan was to identify and run by every pub in Dublin still trading that is mentioned in Ulysses, and pass as many others as possible.
I ran past thirty-six pubs still in existence and did some research by visiting all of them in advance. Of these pubs, Delahunts, Nagles and Tunney’s have been included twice, with two different pubs in the same ownership. It is not clear which one Joyce meant.
In a novel as complex and layered with references as Ulysses is, it is always possible that I may have missed some pubs in the text but of those identified, I pass most of them. Of those that are still pubs, I pass all of them, which was the plan.
The ones that I don’t pass and the reasons that I don’t are:
Overseas: The Bar MacMahon, Paris, France
Patrice, home on furlough, lapped warm milk with me in the bar MacMahon. Son of the wild goose, Kevin Egan of Paris.
There is a brasserie Mac Mahon at 17 Avenue Mac-Mahon, Paris. According to Robert Martin Adams, in Surface and Symbol, The Consistency of James Joyce’s Ulysses (p.148). Joyce initially used the name Minerva instead of Bar Mac Mahon in early drafts, changing to Bar MacMahon at a later stage. This was possibly because as he got to know Paris better, he may have found a more relevant Irish name.
Overseas: The Buckingham Palace Hotel, London, England
James Stephens’ idea was the best. He knew them. Circles of ten so that a fellow couldn’t round on more than his own ring. Sinn Fein. Back out you get the knife. Hidden hand. Stay in. The firing squad. Turnkey’s daughter got him out of Richmond, off from Lusk. Putting up in the Buckingham Palace hotel under their very noses. Garibaldi.
Being overseas, I couldn’t quite run to these two, nor the next three, which are all outside of the City of Dublin.
Outside Dublin: The Queen’s Hotel, Ennis, County Clare
Martin Cunningham whispered:
—I was in mortal agony with you talking of suicide before Bloom.
—What? Mr Power whispered. How so?
—His father poisoned himself, Martin Cunningham whispered. Had the Queen’s hotel in Ennis. You heard him say he was going to Clare. Anniversary.
—O God! Mr Power whispered. First I heard of it. Poisoned himself?
Outside Dublin: Breslin’s Hotel, Bray, County Wicklow
Hotels and Proprietors: Station Hotel, Bray (formerly Breslin’s).
Present Use: Redeveloped as The Ocean Bar and Platform Pizza, 7 Strand Road, Bray County Wicklow.
The second in the coffeeroom of Breslin’s hotel on a rainy Sunday in the January of 1892, in the company of Stephen’s father and Stephen’s granduncle, Stephen being then 5 years older.
I didn’t think I could make it to Wicklow and Clare on this particular run. Likewise, I did not get to Blackrock to visit Jacob Halliday’s, which is now a retail establishment. Gifford notes that Breslin’s was called the Station Hotel by 1904, presumably Joyce remembers the name from his childhood, part of which he spent in Bray.
Outside Dublin City: Jacob Halliday, County Dublin
Grocers, &c.: Halliday, Jacob, 38A, Main st., Blackrock.
Present Use: Thomas, P. Adam Auction Rooms, 38 Main Street, Blackrock, County Dublin.
the real and personal estate of the late lamented Jacob Halliday, vintner, deceased
Uncertain: O’Loughlin’s of Blackpitts
Thom’s 1904 Street Listing
Grocer and Spirit Merchants: O’Loughlin, J., 1 New Row South.
Present Use: Vivid Hair and Beauty, 1 Dean Street, Dublin 8.
Her fancyman is treating two Royal Dublins in O’Loughlin’s of Blackpitts
I could not find any exact location for O’Loughlin’s. Gifford and Seidman think it was an unlicensed shebeen, in which case it would not be listed in any official directories or records.
The website, James Joyce Online Notes state that it refers to O’Loughlin’s of New Row South, which is an extension of Blackpitts. This seems plausible to me, but it is no longer a pub.
Unknown: The Three Jolly Topers
Gifford and Seidman (p.166) say that this pub is north of Dublin on the River Tolka. They are possibly referring to a pub called The Jolly Toper which was at Cardiffsbridge, near Finglas, and that you can see on the Ordnance Survey online map, here. I could not find any definitive references to the location, or actuality of, the Three Jolly Topers.
There is a traditional musical air called the Three Jolly Topers and you can read about it and hear it, here.
Poor Mrs Purefoy! Methodist husband. Method in his madness. Saffron bun and milk and soda lunch in the educational dairy. Y. M. C. A. Eating with a stopwatch, thirtytwo chews to the minute. And still his muttonchop whiskers grew. Supposed to be well connected. Theodore’s cousin in Dublin Castle. One tony relative in every family. Hardy annuals he presents her with. Saw him out at the Three Jolly Topers marching along bareheaded and his eldest boy carrying one in a marketnet. The squallers. Poor thing! Then having to give the breast year after year all hours of the night. Selfish those t.t’s are. Dog in the manger. Only one lump of sugar in my tea, if you please.
It’s not just ladies underwear Bloom thinks about on his meanderings.
Unknown: shebeen in Bride street
Blind to the world up in a shebeen in Bride street after closing time, fornicating with two shawls and a bully on guard, drinking porter out of teacups.
Bob Doran makes another appearance, here in Bride street. Shebeen’s, being unlicensed pubs, are naturally are hard to trace. Shebeen comes from the Irish word síbin, which means illicit whiskey.
Unknown: Keogh’s
We had to search all of Holles street to find them till the chap in Keogh’s gave us his number. Remember?
This quote may not even refer to a pub, and if it does it was possibly near Holles Street, but definitely not in South Anne Street, the site of the well known Kehoe’s pub. I searched all of Holles Street in Thom’s 1904, and there is no reference to a Keogh’s on the street listing. There are some Keogh’s listed as Nobility, Gentry, Merchants and Traders, but none with commercial premises near Holles Street.
Unlikely: Cahill’s
Grocer’s &c.: Cahill, Timothy, 8 Liffey street, lower.
Present Use: Redeveloped as Spar, 8 Lower Liffey Street, Dublin 1.
From Cahill’s corner the reverend Hugh C. Love, M.A., made obeisance unperceived, mindful of lords deputies whose hands benignant had held of yore rich advowsons.
Gifford and Seidman (p.285) disagree with Gunn and Hart (p.102) as to the location of Cahill’s. Gifford and Seidman refer to the letterpress printers at 35-36 Strand Street and Gunn and Hart refer to Cahill, Timothy listed as Grocers, &c. at 8 Liffey Street. Both are listed in Thom’s Directory of 1904.
Either way, they are a few doors from each other, but there is only a view of the quays from Timothy Cahill’s. It’s now a Spar convenience store, so I don’t run past it.
Uninteresting or redeveloped locations
I didn’t run past the following, mainly because they have been redeveloped and are uninteresting in themselves. I list them in order that I would have passed them, before editing them out of the run.
Gilbey’s
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Gilbey, W. & A. 46 & 47 Sackville st. up.
Present Use: Offices, 46-47 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.
On the middle shelf a chipped eggcup containing pepper, a drum of table salt, four conglomerated black olives in oleaginous paper, an empty pot of Plumtree’s potted meat, an oval wicker basket bedded with fibre and containing one Jersey pear, a halfempty bottle of William Gilbey and Co’s white invalid port, half disrobed of its swathe of coralpink tissue paper, a packet of Epps’s soluble cocoa
W. and A. Gilbey’s have more licensed listings in Thom’s than any other group. I run by a few on the run. In particular 54 Upper Dorset Street, 90 Talbot Street, 74 South Great George’s Street, none of which are pubs today. The headquarters was at 46 and 47 Sackville Street, now the top of O’Connell Street, which was diagonally across from Findlater’s, across from The Gresham Hotel. Gilbey’s, like Delahunt’s, is noted more for the product than the place, so is not really a pub from Ulysses.
The Arch, Molloy and O’Reilly, 32 Henry Street, Dublin 1.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Molloy and O’Reilly, The Arch, Henry street.
Present Use: Vodafone, Mobile Phone Shop, 32 Henry Street, Dublin 1.
—What’s wrong with him? He said. He’s dead, he said. And, faith, he filled up. Is it Paddy Dignam? I said. I couldn’t believe it when I heard it. I was with him no later than Friday last or Thursday was it in the Arch. Yes, he said. He’s gone. He died on Monday, poor fellow.
As far as I can tell the original building had an arch in the front, the clue being in the title, and also in a photo that I saw online somewhere. This is no longer the case, and the building is a Vodafone mobile phone shop. It is on the opposite side of the Spire to North Earl Street that I run down instead.
Dan Bergin’s
Grocers, &c.: Bergin, Daniel L., 17 North Strand road.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Bergin, Daniel L., 17 North Strand road.
Present Use: District Health Centre, North Strand Road, Dublin 1.
This site was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1941, and nothing remains of the original premises. I decided to skip it on this run.
North City Dining Rooms
Thom’s 1904 Listings, Dublin Street Directory: W. —Marlborough-street.
11 The North City Dining Rooms— Miss Kate Collins proprietress.
Present Use: Irish Life Centre, Marlborough Street, Dublin 1.
—They buy one and fourpenceworth of brawn and four slices of panloaf at the north city diningrooms in Marlborough street from Miss Kate Collins, proprietress. They purchase four and twenty ripe plums from a girl at the foot of Nelson’s pillar to take off the thirst of the brawn.
I came close to here, but I could not quite fit it in. Anyway, it was not really a pub and is now part of the redeveloped Irish Life Centre.
The Old Ireland Tavern
Hotels and Proprietors: Old Ireland, 10 North wall quay.
Present Use: Citi, 10 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1.
So similarly he had a very shrewd suspicion that Mr Johnny Lever got rid of some £.s.d. in the course of his perambulations around the docks in the congenial atmosphere of the Old Ireland tavern, come back to Erin and so on.
The building is long demolished and is now the modern Citi offices. Not an interesting place to run by.
Crimmins
Grocers, &c.: Crimmins, W. C., 61 Pimlico.
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Crimmins, W. C., 61 Pimlico.
Present Use: Pimlico Tavern, 61 Pimlico, Dublin 8.
How do you do Mr Crimmins? First rate sir. I was afraid you might be up in your other establishment in Pimlico.
This pub is not far from The Malt House that I drank in, and ran by. Both were owned by Mr Crimmins. The present building has been completely redeveloped, with no trace of the original mentioned in Ulysses. I leave it be.
Cantwell’s
Wine and Spirit Merchants: Cantwell & McDonald
Present Use: The Picture Rooms, Photography Studio and Gallery, 12 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2.
By Cantwell’s offices roved Greaseabloom, by Ceppi’s virgins, bright of their oils.
This is on the Liffey Quay’s, near the front entrance to The Clarence Hotel and is no longer a pub.
Power’s, 18 Cope Street, Dublin 2. Now under redevelopment as the Central Plaza.
Thom’s 1904 Listings, Dublin Street Directory: —Cope-street.
18 Power, John T., wholesale spirit merchant.
Present Use: Under redevelopment, 18 Cope Street, Dublin 2.
Jesus, I had to laugh at pisser Burke taking them off chewing the fat. And Bloom with his but don’t you see? and but on the other hand. And sure, more be token, the lout I’m told was in Power’s after, the blender’s, round in Cope street going home footless in a cab five times in the week after drinking his way through all the samples in the bloody establishment. Phenomenon!
I edited out the former site of Power’s with the entire street being very different to that of 1904, with the Central Bank Development dominating the southern side. Power’s was a wholesale merchant, so probably not a place you could buy a drink to consume on the premises. Power’s was on the side of the former Central Bank of Ireland.
The Vegetarian
Hotels and Proprietors: College Hotel and Restaurant, 3 and 4 College street.
Ian Gunn and Clive Hart are of the view (p.41) that Bloom thinks that A.E. Russell and Lizzie Twigg have come from the College Hotel and Restaurant, The McCaughey Restaurant, Ltd. at 3 and 4 College Street. It has now been absorbed into the Westin Hotel as has almost all of the buildings on that block. I give it a miss.
His eyes followed the high figure in homespun, beard and bicycle, a listening woman at his side. Coming from the vegetarian. Only weggebobbles and fruit. Don’t eat a beefsteak. If you do the eyes of that cow will pursue you through all eternity. They say it’s healthier. Windandwatery though. Tried it. Keep you on the run all day. Bad as a bloater. Dreams all night. Why do they call that thing they gave me nutsteak? Nutarians. Fruitarians. To give you the idea you are eating rumpsteak. Absurd. Salty too. They cook in soda. Keep you sitting by the tap all night.
Finn’s hotel
Thom’s 1904 Listings, Dublin Street Directory: S.—Leinster-street.
1 and 2 Private hotel and restaurant, Finn, M. and R.
Present Use: Offices, 1-2 South Leinster Street, Dublin 2.
Striding past Finn’s hotel Cashel Boyle O’Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell stared through a fierce eyeglass across the carriages at the head of Mr M. E. Solomons in the window of the Austro-Hungarian viceconsulate.
One of the most important Joycean locations is Finn’s Hotel on Nassau Street, where Nora Barnacle was staying when Joyce first met her. The sign for Finn’s Hotel can still be seen, fading on the gable of the former Hotel.
This is an interesting location and will be central to a future run.
What can we learn from all of this?
Interestingly there are 36 pubs still in existence, almost equally split on the northside and on the southside of Dublin. I think this shows that Joyce had a knowledge of both the north and south sides of the city, having lived on both. Interestingly when he got a chance to move from the family home, he immediately headed south, back across the river Liffey and onwards to continental Europe.
Dublin’s most authentic James Joyce pub
In his book Have ye no homes to go to?: The History of the Irish Pub, Kevin Martin notes that you can buy a James Joyce Irish Pub Award. And you can. It seems you can buy it here for €395.00. But does it have any validity, credibility or authenticity? Hardly. It gets the quote from Ulysses wrong for starters.
What is the most authentic Joyce pub? As part of this blog, I tried to find every pub in Ulysses and create a run past all of the ones that remain in existence as pubs. I also decided to go and have a drink in each one of them, on a different day and before the run took place. Research. Most of them I already had drunk in, some I had worked on, but some were new to me. It meant that preparing for this blog post was a bit of yin and yang, what calories I lost in the run, I gained back in the research.
The most famous pub in Ulysses is probably Davy Byrne’s. It continues with the same name and location as in the novel, albeit with a change of ownership. But importantly the inside has been entirely remodelled. Principally in the early 1940’s and probably to some extent several times since. I know that I worked on a refurbishment in the late 1980’s as I did with The Brian Boru and also The Portobello, all while working with David Crowley Architects.
Many pubs changed names, sometimes several times. O’Neills became Farrington’s and is now The Norseman. It probably had numerous other names over the last century. Some like Mullet’s changed their name, as Mullet’s did to Dooley’s before reverting back to Mullet’s. Many pubs in the north city centre like The Oval were completely rebuilt after 1916.
Does it matter if a pub is just mentioned in passing in Ulysses, does that make it authentic? In one sense, yes, but for me, the most authentic would have to be one in which significant dialogue took place. So Barney Kiernan’s, The Bar in the Ormond Hotel, and Davy Byrne’s would be the strongest candidates. However, the first two are closed awaiting redevelopment, and Davy Byrne’s has been redeveloped so that the inside bears no relationship to the pub frequented by Nosey Flynn in both Ulysses and Dubliners.
The most authentic James Joyce pub is not to be found in Ulysses at all. Instead, you will find it in the story Counterparts in Dubliners. There are great scenes as Farrington admires the English actress and arm wrestles the acrobat Weathers, without success. The pub has the same name, is in the same place, and is little changed over the century, the parlour room where the main action takes place is still in existence in the back of the bar. It is the essential James Joyce Dublin pub, and I ran by it on this run. That it is reputed to sell the best Guinness in all of Dublin is a bonus.
While the pub itself does not appear in Ulysses, its name features in the opening line.
My casting vote is: Mulligans!
Adams, R.M. (1967) Surface and Symbol: The Consistency of James Joyce’s Ulysses. New York, United States: Oxford University Press.
Dunne, D. (2015) Mulligan’s: Grand Old Pub of Poolbeg Street. Cork, Ireland: Mercier Press.
Gifford, D. and Seidman, R.J. (2008) Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce’s Ulysses. 2nd edn. Berkeley, California, United States: University of California Press.
Gunn, I. and Hart, C. (2004) James Joyce’s Dublin: A Topographical Guide to the Dublin of Ulysses. London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson.
Joyce, J. (1966) Letters of James Joyce Volume Two. Edited by Richard Ellmann. London, England: Faber and Faber.
Joyce, J. (2008) Ulysses, The 1922 Text. Edited by Jeri Johnson. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Joyce, J. (2015) The Little Review ‘Ulysses’. Edited by Mark Gaipa, Sean Latham, and Robert Scholes. New Haven, CT, United States: Yale University Press.
Kearns, K.C. (1996) Dublin Pub Life and Lore: An Oral History Dublin, Ireland: Gill & Macmillan.
Martin, K. (2016) Have ye no homes to go to?: The History of the Irish Pub. Cork, Ireland: The Collins Press.
Maloney, M. (2012) The Dublin Pubspotter’s Guide. Dublin, Ireland: A & A. Farmar.
Molloy, C. (2002) The Story of the Irish Pub: An intoxicating history of the licensed trade in Ireland. Dublin, Ireland: The Liffey Press.
Nicholson, R. (2015) The Ulysses Guide. Dublin, Ireland: New Island Books.
Quilligan, C. (2013) Dublin Literary Pub Crawl, 3rd ed. Dublin, Ireland: Writers’ Ireland
The Post Office Annual Directory for 1832. Dublin, Ireland: John S. Folds
Thom’s & Co. (Limited) (1903) Thom’s Official Directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1904. Dublin, Ireland: Alex. Thom’s & Co. (Limited).
Barich, B. (2009) A Pint of Plain, Tradition: Change and the fate of the Irish Pub. New York, Unites States: Walker Publishing Company Inc.
Malone, A. (2001) Historic Pubs of Dublin. Dublin, Ireland: New Island Books.
McCarthy, J.F. and Rose, D. (1991) Joyce’s Dublin: A Walking Guide to Ulysses. New York, United States: St. Martin’s Press.
Oldenburg, R. (1997) The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and other hangouts of a community. Philadelphia, United States: Da Capo Press.
There is a more extended bibliography of background material here
Online References
www.jjon.org
http://maps.osi.ie
You can see more on my research output on the Dublin Institute of Technology repository Arrow, here.
Helping me out in the Pubs: The two Jolly Brians, Colm, Donal, Emmet, Harry, James, Joe, John, Liam, Michelle, Naomi, Nuada, Pat, Patsy, Paula, Sean.
And on the run: Peter, Paul, and Donal.
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Doctoral Dissertation Exam: Sarah Rangaratnam
Sarah Rangaratnam
PhD in English and Film Studies
Girls’ Voices of the Eighteenth Century: The Development of a Genre for Young Female Readers, 1749-1800
Friday September 7, 2018 10:30AM
Alumni Hall Boardroom, Waterloo Campus
Chair: Kathryn Carter
Advisor: Eleanor Ty
Committee: Andrea Austin, Katherine Bell
Internal/External: Andrea Brown
External Examiner: Dr. Lissa Paul (Brock University)
Just as they do today, adolescent girls functioned as a cultural force in the eighteenth century, and it was commercially viable for authors and publishers to attract and sustain the attention of these teenaged readers. Girls’ Voices of the Eighteenth Century: The Development of a Genre for Young Female Readers, 1740-1800, examines how four female authors leveraged elements of fairy tales, romances and gothic fiction, and developed dialogue and humour in their texts, to reflect the interests and literary awareness of their target audience of adolescent girls. My study begins with an investigation of the legacy of early French fairy tales in these texts, particularly in the work of Sarah Fielding, who was inspired by the potential of the fairy tale form and its cast of female protagonists. I then study the work of Mary Ann and Dorothy Kilner, who demonstrated the adolescent’s increasing awareness of power imbalances in the larger, adult world, and gave voice to the underdog in class and gender hierarchies. Finally, I consider the voice of female characters in the texts of Ellenor Fenn, who was subversive in her use of fairy tale and gothic features, recognizing that both genres were popular in the period with adolescent readers. Fenn was especially unique for her conscious appropriation of teenage colloquial speech in an attempt to entertain and engage her youthful audiences. Fielding, Fenn, and the Kilners recognized the potential of a new genre of text – the real precursor, it could be argued, to the contemporary YA novel – in which narrative form was expressly tailored to appeal to and to address the adolescent girls themselves. As experienced pedagogues, their intimacy with the young people in their care provided insight into the experience of eighteenth-century youth. This understanding especially shines in their work for adolescent girls, in which dialogue is rich, and characters seem to speak for the first time in their own voices.
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The Leadership Equation
10 Best Practices
Practice #5: Start With Yourself
Leaders need to display four personal qualities to build high levels of trust among the people around them. They need to be honorable, show enthusiasm and passion for what they do, display a well-rounded sense of humor, and stay humble and curious. In addition, they need to become master communicators and be adept at dealing with the complex, sometimes paradoxical, personal issues that leaders face. When blended together, these are the qualities that build trust.
When Franklin Roosevelt was running for president in 1932, a reporter asked him what he thought the job entailed. “The presidency is not merely an administrative office,” he replied. “It is preeminently a place of moral leadership. All our great presidents were leaders of thought in times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.”
Roosevelt provided thought leadership to the nation. But he also provided something else: he displayed four personal qualities that are necessary to build trust. In Chapter 4, I focus on those personal qualities. Like professional practices, these personal qualities can be learned. They may not be easy. But they are within everyone’s reach. Warren Bennis has said:
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born. In fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
To lead successfully, you need to have certain personal qualities—heart, honor, humility, and humor. I call these the 4 Hs.
Honorable leaders live up to their commitments. They make no promise that they can’t keep. Their word is their bond. They follow a code of reciprocity that enables other people to trust them—and to want to follow them. In the words of Rushworth Kidder, founder of the Institute of Global Ethics, it’s “adherence to the unenforceable.” Taking responsibility, giving credit where credit is due, behaving morally and ethically—these are the habits of the honorable person.
One of my favorite quotes is from Mark Twain.
“Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.”
Leading from the heart cannot be feigned or coached. Leading from the heart means suffering grave disappointments and experiencing the metaphoric deaths all leaders must go through. What distinguishes successful leaders is their ability to sustain passion through adversity.
What’s the most important attribute people look for in their managers/leaders? A study of most admired CEOs cited humility as the number- one—willingness to accept and admit their flaws.
People love leaders who display a sense of humor. When you poke fun at yourself, our cheater meters swing toward “trust.” If love is the universal language, then humor is the universal trust builder.
Becoming a Master Communicator
The word communication literally means “to make common.” At its most basic level, it means letting your needs be known. At its highest level, communication means building strong, trusting relationships with people whose perspectives are very different from your own. The educator and psychotherapist Virginia Satir wrote,
“Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world.”
Much of my work in developing leaders and leading organizations focuses on communication. Since publishing Straight Talk in 1998, I’ve continued to develop my understanding that people can develop four different levels—or “powers”—of communication.
The Four Paradoxes of Leadership
“It is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grand thoughts in embryo.” —Søren Kierkegaard
Change is difficult enough. But for people in leadership roles, change can be made even more difficult because the way forward is never clear. Everywhere you look there are difficult, sometimes paradoxical, situations. Here are four examples that you may have to grapple with. How you grapple with them will help define your success as a leader.
The Ambition Balance
True leaders are ambitious—but their ambitions are in service to something greater than themselves.
The Assumption Trap
Leaders need to make tough decisions—and yet almost always those decisions are based on a set of assumptions.
Differing Worldviews
To be a leader in an era of increasing globalization and diversity, you need to open yourself to understanding different worldviews.
The Succession Paradox
The question isn’t whether you have a succession plan. It’s how capable you are in surrounding yourself with people truly capable of taking your place and running the show. And therein lies the paradox.
To lead successfully, you need to have certain personal qualities—heart, honor, humility, and humor. I call these the 4 Hs. You also need to learn how to be a master communicator, effectively using all four powers to control your intention and your attention, show emotional intelligence, and respond to people from within their own frame of reference or “style.”
We also discussed why effective leaders need to be comfortable with paradox: leaders are chosen based on the congruence between the behaviors they manifest and the values that pertain in their culture. But what does this mean in a global organization? Ideas and notions about leadership can vary dramatically depending on where you are located—from country to country, office to office—even within the same building. Effective leaders know that while the organization operates in many cultures and worldviews, the organization has its own set of core values. They make a priority of ensuring that the core values of that culture are understood by every employee and customer.
When you put all these qualities together, you get one word: “integrity.” The word literally means “to be whole, unimpaired.” It conveys the notion of being trustworthy. It also implies the ability to think and act in ways that may be counter to the prevailing winds, but in ways that flow out of, in Roosevelt’s words, “a place of moral leadership.”
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Eric is the senior partner and founder of Leading Resources Inc., a consulting firm that focuses on developing high-performing organizations. For more than 20 years, Eric has successfully helped a wide array of government agencies, non-profit organizations, and corporations achieve breakthroughs in performance. His new book The Leadership Equation helps leaders achieve strategic clarity, manage change effectively, and build a leadership culture.
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Why I Wrote This Book
The Origins of Trust
Building Trust: The Five Building Blocks
Four Competencies That Build Trust
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The Importance of Trust and Spark
Trust + Spark = Leadership Culture
Practice #1: Align the Core Values
Practice #2: Sharpen the Focus
Practice #3: Lead Through Others
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Liminal Grounds
Natasha Majewski Embracing Uncertainty from Life's In-between Spaces
It all broke (down and apart and finally let some light through) on the Loneliest Road in America
August 23, 2015 August 26, 2015 Natasha Majewski 2 Comments
It all broke.
Well at least my car did.
Definitely me.
To let some light through.
I drove her into the ground, literally. She had been my trusty companion of 17 years. We had traversed desert raves and Southwest road trips, Burning Mans and coming-of-age stories, singing out loud and screaming out windows, and driving to different schools and grocery stores and jobs and everywhere else a car can take you.
And there she was, on the side of the The Loneliest Road in America in the Nevada desert: one electric window down past the point of no return, a passenger-side wheel blown out across desolate desert asphalt, a driver-side wheel scraped to its metal innards, grinding out its own swan song, and the paint eaten away from the radiator fluid that had spewed over 10 feet in a breakdown two days prior.
What a great place to finally break. She and I were Nevadans after all.
Oh epic journeys. It’s funny how they actually work out. I had visions of desert hot springs, Great Basin Bristlecones, cabin cribbage with a good friend in the Rocky Mountains, and a solo camp trip weaving through the layered desert colors and sandstone sculptures of Arches and Canyonlands.
And of me, finding myself somewhere in-between.
The calm before the storm was beautiful, as it usually goes, submerged in hot springs overlooking a desert meadow full of wildflowers under the full moon. It was here I took out all I had left of a painful ending to a relationship of 3 ½ years that I have been desperately trying to let go of over the past year. I thought I would cry, but under this full blue moon I took out letters and pictures and other assorted mementos and one by one held and thanked them. Then I burned or bathed them in desert moonwater. Afterward, I turned to this new man who held intimate space for me and, yes, we actually danced naked in a hot spring under the desert moonlight, a man to whom I was also saying goodbye. The next morning I woke up early, walked straight in between the sand and sage, and buried what I thought I couldn’t let go of.
We made it another 100 miles before she gave out close to Ely. And after side-of-the-road hitchhiking, desert-weathered car mechanics, a night drinking and playing pool in the locals’ bar, a small-desert-town-three-police-stop while getting my tent out of my car, and crying and camping in a train ditch, we got back in and headed to Great Basin National Park. I thought I’d make it all the way to Colorado, but I realized within hours nothing was really healed. It was all just temporarily fixed to get me to my next point. At least I made it to the Bristlecones Pines, some of the oldest known living things on the planet. I touched my forehead to a 3300-year-old tree still gnarling toward the sky through winds and rain at tree-line, reminding me that all beings weather adversity.
I had started this pilgrimage with an intention. In an effort to remember who I wanted to be, I decided I needed a trip to put me back in the right space. As a seasoned traveler, that is often the way I roll. I started this one with the intention of giving, receiving, and letting go.
So this is the part where I’ll interject to say that I highly DO NOT recommend a breakup trip. Nothing was quite as romantically parting-of-ways as imagined, except that night in the moonlight. We fought too much, from too little sleep, too much car trouble, and from taking a trip to break up. And besides the obvious, when you take a breakup trip things break, a lot…like everything.
Which brings me to waiting for a tow on the side of the Loneliest Road in America. It wasn’t so bad really, with lots of caring passer-bys, stopping to make sure we were ok and one even giving us waiting-for-a-tow beers. It was here I finally stretched out, looked into a cracking desert sky, and realized I had indeed let go to the best of my ability so far.
I let go of a pain that had turned my heart inside out for the past year, with a touch of gratitude. I let go of Lola, my 91′ Toyota Corolla, who had literally navigated me through the majority of my adult life. I let go of a man I still cared for, knowing it was time. And I let go of the person I had been, thanking it all.
All these intentions and hurts and desires went out of me and into the Nevada desert, into the smell of freshly opened sage flowers, into the desert sky silhouetted in wraps of grays and silvers and streaks of sunlight.
That is where it all broke.
That is where I broke.
That is where it opened up and some light came through.
Ever break so much you fall apart in the best way possible?
Awe-inspiring In-betweeneness: The Hagia Sophia
April 26, 2015 May 4, 2015 Natasha Majewski Leave a comment
There she was, Mary, looking down on us through two sublime prayers from the Koran, in-between. Reverence, resplendence, and a knowingness from two great faiths gazed upon on all who came to see how the sharing of such a majestic place could be, where co-presence created an alternate and transcendent reality.
I learned of the Hagia Sophia while traveling with a friend deep in the Andean mountains of Peru. “It is the most beautiful place I have ever seen,” she told me, a lady who, to date, has been one of the most epic seekers I have ever met. I knew I had to get there.
And so, five years later, here I was, looking up to Mary protecting with Mohammed’s prayers in a space so regal yet so simple.
The building itself impresses and some-what imposes. Built as a church using collections of materials from many different locations (Egyptian quarry stones, Thessalonian green marble slabs, Bosporian black rocks, and Syrian yellow stones), its original construction employed over ten thousand people. A slight rundown of history goes something like this: Originally an Eastern Orthodox cathedral (537–1204) converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral (1204–1261) back to an Eastern Orthodox cathedral (1261–1453) transformed to an Imperial mosque (1453–1931) and finally made its way to becoming one of Istanbul’s most famous museums (1935–present).
The story of this place is a good read, spanning many rulers, many earthquakes, renovations, pillages, conversions, murder and mayhem, and divinity and consecration. It was in the mid 1800s that murals and symbols representing both Christian and Muslim faiths were uncovered, cleaned, or placed up fresh, with the space still officially used as a mosque.
But it is not simply the architecture, materials, or historical presence that bestow such an awe-inspiring character. Instead, this place is known for its peculiar in-between nature, where people can come and feel completely present with two symbols of faiths often split down the center in the modern world. Inside the Hagia Sophia, they are together, holding this space of connection and respect side by side.
If only we could find this space more often, where the most beautiful and dignified aspects come together, each holding its own, yet finding intensity in how they fit together. This creation of such a sacred space is uniquely understood through two combined into one.
These spaces sitting in-between walls of politics, love, hate, faith, and inspiration embolden the possibility of co-existence, creating a truly magnificent place that attracts over 3 million people a year to witness such a powerful co-presence.
Here no one holds import. Instead these colors on walls, these sacred symbols of two faiths often at odds, synchronize and remind us what can be experienced from the grace of the in-between.
Have you ever been to these awe-inspiring spaces in-between?
Image Credit: Natasha Majewski
Walking the Labyrinth
April 25, 2015 April 28, 2015 Natasha Majewski Leave a comment
One foot, one foot, one foot in front of the other. Walk in a line. Walk zig-zaggy. Walk side to side. Dance and do yoga. Just keep moving, one foot, one foot, one foot in front of the other. Because inside the labyrinth, you are walking yourself to center, however that needs to be.
Labyrinths cross through many cultures as a space that exists within itself. It is a place to walk through you, a temporary moment to stop what you know and meditate meanderings of your feet, heart, head, and soul to whatever it is you are asking a question about to your own inner space. It is an ancient symbol of wholeness and wandering. Unlike a maze, a labyrinth only moves in one direction.
It is a place to lose oneself without getting lost.
I often walk the labyrinth in one of my favorite parks in my city. Hidden from most, it is a place of quietness. Leading up to its entrance paves a pathway lined with bricks sketched with names of people who lead the way. Names whose presence alone makes you slow down as you enter.
Sometimes I walk slowly, and sometimes I dance through the labyrinth. Sometimes it is early morning, midday, and on rare occasion, in the light of a full moon. Every once in a while, I’ll stop midway and do some yoga. Other times I’ll twist and twirl. Sometimes I hear nothing, sometimes I hear the whistles of bystander birds, and sometimes the mood is set by an amazing Joanna Newsom song.
Often I am alone in this special place, and when I get to the middle, I often have a chance to pray and make wishes from the center of the labyrinth. Not everyone knows this trick, but if I ever find someone in the center with me, I share this tidbit. Once a small boy about six walked it behind me, and when he made it to the circle where I was sitting, I told him this secret. His wish was that everyone could breathe in space. Totally an idea I can get behind.
We can all make these wishes in these in-between spaces of healing and movement leading oneself to one’s own inside. Cultures around the world use labyrinths for prayer, mediation, and healing. It is as if once you step inside, everything moves alongside your walking prayer.
What is it about these spaces that intersect our normality and allow us to literally step inside them for a moment, disconnecting from who it was we were supposed to be and allowing ourselves to surrender to who we are? Walking the labyrinth allows for just this kind of jump in-between.
Have you walked somewhere in-between today?
Image Credit: “Duomo Lucca cathedrale Lucques labyrinthe” by Photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons – g
In-Betweeny Geographers
April 21, 2015 Natasha Majewski Leave a comment
The power of in-between places has been studied by many earth explorers. Here are a few that really delve into those abstract identities of what makes a place a place.
John Kirtland Wright: In the 1940s, John Kirtland Wright pioneered concepts of human perception as an important factor to geographical understanding, writing about how the feel of a place was as important as the actual material composition. Wright called to fellow geographers to embrace rather than disregard their perceptions of the world, allowing their own siren call of the imagination to lead them, and their aesthetic subjectivity, with creativity as its guide, to direct world discoveries (Wright, 1947).
Wright, J. K. (1947). Terrae incognitae: The place of the imagination in geography. Annals for the Association of American Geographers, 37(1), 1-15.
Edward Casey: Humanistic and philosophical geographer Edward Casey explores multiple concepts of place, with perception as an important part of the process of understanding the world around us, to which he called us placelings. Casey writes:
“Minimally places gather things in their midst — where “things connote various animate and inanimate entities. Places also gather experiences and histories, even languages and thoughts. Think only of what it means to go back to a place you know, finding it full of memories and expectations, old things and new things, the familiar and the strange, and much more besides…(this) power belongs to place itself, and it is a power of gathering.” (1996, p. 24-25)
Casey, E. S. (1996). How to get from space to place in a fairly short stretch of time: Phenomenological prolegomena. In S. a. B. Feld, K.H. (Ed.), Senses of place (pp. 13-52). Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
Keith Basso: An anthropologist by training, Keith Basso’s work incorporates a philosophical search for place meaning beyond Western thought. In his investigation of Apache people’s connections to landscape, Basso concludes that “sense of place” is experienced in both the “heart and mind” (1996, p. 54). Basso scribes an elder’s poetic expression of his homeland, inspiring the title of his 1996 work Wisdom Sits in Places:
“Wisdom sits in places. It’s like water that never dries up. You need to drink water to stay alive, don’t you? Well you also need to drink from places. You must remember everything about them. You must learn their names. You must remember what happened at them long ago. You must think about it and keep on thinking about it.” (A passage told by Apache elder Dudley Patterson, p. 70).
Basso, K. H. (1996). Wisdom sits in places:Notes of a Western Apache landscape. In S. B. Feld, K.H. (Ed.), Senses of place (pp. 53-90). Santa Fe, New Mexico School of American Research Press.
Yi-Fu Tuan: A paramount figure in the formation of humanistic geography, Yi-Fu Tuan explored phenomenology and existentialism in the landscape, delving into ideas of sense and feeling of place, including how we bond to our environments emotionally. Tuan relates the fundamental importance of connecting an individual’s intimate relationships to places, writing:
“The feel of the pavement, the smell of the evening air, and the color of autumn foliage become, through long acquaintance, extensions of ourselves-not just a stage but supporting actors in the human drama” (1974, p. 452).
Tuan, Y.-F. (1974). Topophilia: A study of environmental perception, attitudes, and values (Morningside Edition 1990 ed.). New York: Colombia University Press. rs.
Doreen Massey: Social geographer Doreen Massey investigates construction of place, arguing that human activity plays a large role in the constant shifting expression of place identity. Massey focuses on the complexities making-up individual identities which transfer to place-making identities writing ” conflict between interests and views of what the area is and what it ought to become.” (1991, p. 276). Massey writes:
“Localities are constructions out of the intersections and interactions of concrete social relations and social processes in a situation of copresence…It is people, not places in themselves, which arereactionary or progressive. (1991, p. 278)
Massey, D. (1991). The political place of locality studies. Environment and Planning A, 23(2), 267-281.
Who are your favorite in-betweenies?
Were You Born to Travel?
Did your first savings account have a country you wanted to visit in the title? Do you dream in multiple languages? Do you feel safest and strongest and most in your skin on the road with a backpack holding most everything you need in life?
Do you feel more anxiety from the time between destinations than from not knowing if you’ll eat/sleep/get to where you’re going? Does moving to Africa with a month’s notice sound better than most other things? Do you cook things you learned in random places while listening to music you found in other random places while drinking wine you tasted in other random places? Do you know, really know how, to hitchhike/train hop/ walk through mountains?
Have you ever mimed or used animal sounds to obtain something simple like an egg or a Q-tip because you didn’t know the word in the dialect of the country you were in? Do you have friends from countries most people don’t even know exist? Do you really know the value of a good travel towel and hiking boots?
Can you sing songs you learned in Andean mountain villages? Have you ever lived with shamans in the jungle? Do you know how to navigate through borderlands with no money and no map?
Do you dream of making random ethnic cuisines in other parts of the planet? Have you seen the stars from different hemispheres? Do you know the calmness of being lulled to sleep by the movement of the train under you?
Can you fall in love in languages you can’t speak? Do you know intimate histories of off-the-beaten-track places because the old man in the village told you their stories? Have you ever danced fire on the streets and sold bracelets to get enough money for a bus ticket?
Do you have at least three maps on the walls of your home? Do you know the words to silly pop songs because you danced to them in Central European discotheques? Have you seen the sun rise, standing all alone, on the highest mountain on La Isla del Sol?
Will you remember where your feet have taken you? Will you know that the stories of places you have walked through make you who you are today? Will you smile at the memories of epic days filled with too much rain, too little money, being lost in a language you don’t understand, and still being excited to do it the next day?
Perhaps you were born to travel.
Tell me, how do you know you were born to travel.
Image credit: Carolyn Van Lydegraf
The Inside of a Small Home
I saw the inside of a small home today, a home built by four hands with dreams and passions and nails. A home made to house future imaginings. A home built for two made into one.
The builder talked about the way they had stained the wooden doorway piece to keep it resistant to rain and to create the start of a beautiful threshold.
He showed me the old tin lining they had collected from an antique store and painted, scratched, and painted again.
He talked about how they had found weathered pieces of wood from a torn-up barn waiting on the side of the road to be reused for something just like this.
He showed me the little hidden places underneath the bench, a bench that had just the right dimensions that had been sketched and resketched.
He told me how they had cut the ladder and painted it, and it had turned green, like it had been left outside for days.
He showed me how the wood turned colors form termites that had eaten away the inside of a tree, leaving an indigo swan song.
He showed me the pop up space in the bathroom for a hairbrush, popping it up and mimicking its use.
He pointed to the earthen paint and the small drawers to hide things away, and he told me of the utmost importance to have a large kitchen to have room for many guests with many dinners.
They had made it from nothing into something that two people could create. A place to rest, to dream, to build, to create, to love. And as I sat on top of the loft with the skylight built in for last glimpses at evening stars to send them off into the dream state, I saw how every place, every corner, held this intention. The intention of creating a home.
I also saw how this home was never going to be as it had been imagined. That this home was going to change and evolve into new dreams, new faces on pillows, new builds, new flowers in vases on counters, new books to fill a half-filled shelf, new laughter, new tears, new dirty feet, new mouths for new cups of tea, new snuggles, new life stories and processes, and new worlds colliding, contracting, and expanding.
This home this man had built. This home this woman had built. This home they had built together.
We build our dream houses, and we build them beautiful. That is the only way. And sometimes, their beauty only rests its head for a moment in the way we envision. Sometimes we put our hearts, our heads, our blisters, our sweat, our nails, our designs, and our imaginings into spaces that materialize different than they are conceptualized. But we build these spaces beautiful anyways. It’s really the only way we know how to build our dreams, even though we know this man’s house, this woman’s house, this beautiful house, is always changing.
What are the stories in the walls of your home?
A Small, Still Moment
It was early morning and the old Jeffersonian quad was quiet. I was walking, slightly hastily as usual, to my 9:00 Saturday morning class when a strange sound slowly started to pull on my ears. It was the sound of a violin softly singing into the air. I slowed and saw her, a young girl standing behind one of the many trees playing. As I walked past her, I slowed for a moment, but then carried on.
It was only when I could barely hear the sound anymore that I stopped to listen to it, really listen and register in my destination monkey-brain what was transpiring. Here I was, in my normal routine, and here she was to break it.
I turned around and started slowly walking back toward her, this time fully looking up at the scenario around me and here’s what I had missed: The soft sun of a quiet morning sifting down through 100-year-old giant trees blotting shimmying leaves against a lightened blue sky. The visceral reaction of a melody of strings moving through the ears, through the skin, and into the heart (strings are my favorite). The sounds of birds, many different kind of birds singing many different tunes across the branches. I had somehow missed this scene on my way through the first time. I had only seen the long sidewalk I had to cross to get to where I was destined to be and that I was on the other side of where I was going.
I stopped and watched her for a while. I was still aware that I needed to be somewhere. But for just a moment I was enraptured in this morning gift, this space presented to me to remember that the spaces I walk through on my way to where I’m going fully exist in their own right. That these spaces are always existing and perhaps I would connect more deeply into the world around me if only I opened my eyes and truly listened to it.
We so often are on track to our destination, that we forget to feel the breeze touching our ears or hear the conversations of birds over breakfast. I am a definite culprit of living somewhere ahead of myself or somewhere behind, both places that do not actually exist. This is not to say that that we should forget to put one foot in front of the other to get from here to there, but it is important to remember that the entire path is exactly that-a path, full of its own beautiful surprises and deviations. Sometimes when we stop and listen, we can remember a bit more of who and where we are in every moment.
I stayed listening until I needed to leave to make it to class exactly on time. But it changed my entire day, that small, still moment. A girl in a park playing violin for no one in particular and for everyone passing through who would stop and listen.
What still moments have you listened to lately?
Natasha Majewski
I am a traveler, geographer, and life experiencer of in-between territories. I learn from what's written across/ inside physical, cultural, and emotional landscapes and write and photograph their stories. Mountains, deserts, labyrinths, airports, neighborhoods, the human heart. All territories riddled in story. All spaces interlaced with the liminal realm.
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Re: Konqueror and Java
nntp (aka, usenet) client in kde?
KMail - deleting indexes
Mark Bidewell
Friday, 26 February 2010 Fri, 26 Feb '10
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Mark Bidewell <mbidewel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote: > Mark Bidewell wrote: >> Is there any trick to using java with konqueror? It seems that it >> doesn't load when I try to load test applets. > > You need to enable Java in the preferences, Konqueror doesn't use the > Mozilla plugin for Java. I don't know whether pointing it to just "java" or > "/usr/bin/java" will work (though I guess it will), > "/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java" (or lib64) definitely will. > > Kevin Kofler > > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > I ran some tests on: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml -Sun Java does not load -OpenJDK hangs on loading the applet. Thanks. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell
I ran some tests on: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml -Sun Java does not load -OpenJDK hangs on loading the applet. Thanks. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell
Sunday, 28 February Sun, 28 Feb
New subject: Konqueror and Java
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 08:01 -0500, Mark Bidewell wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Mark Bidewell <mbidewel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote: >> Mark Bidewell wrote: >>> Is there any trick to using java with konqueror? It seems that it >>> doesn't load when I try to load test applets. >> >> You need to enable Java in the preferences, Konqueror doesn't use the >> Mozilla plugin for Java. I don't know whether pointing it to just "java" or >> "/usr/bin/java" will work (though I guess it will), >> "/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java" (or lib64) definitely will. >> >> Kevin Kofler >> >> _______________________________________________ >> kde mailing list >> kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde >> New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org >> > > I ran some tests on: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml > -Sun Java does not load > -OpenJDK hangs on loading the applet.
I can confirm that /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java does not work for me in Konqueror (KDE 4.4). It used to work in 4.3. poc
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 08:01 -0500, Mark Bidewell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Mark Bidewell <mbidewel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote: > >> Mark Bidewell wrote: > >>> Is there any trick to using java with konqueror? It seems that it > >>> doesn't load when I try to load test applets. > >> > >> You need to enable Java in the preferences, Konqueror doesn't use the > >> Mozilla plugin for Java. I don't know whether pointing it to just "java" or > >> "/usr/bin/java" will work (though I guess it will), > >> "/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java" (or lib64) definitely will. > >> > >> Kevin Kofler > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> kde mailing list > >> kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > >> New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > >> > > > > I ran some tests on: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml > > -Sun Java does not load > > -OpenJDK hangs on loading the applet. I can confirm that /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java does not work for me in Konqueror (KDE 4.4). It used to work in 4.3. poc _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
Is that on the test page or another page? Thanks. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 09:22 -0500, Mark Bidewell wrote:
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 08:01 -0500, Mark Bidewell wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Mark Bidewell <mbidewel(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote: >> >> Mark Bidewell wrote: >> >>> Is there any trick to using java with konqueror? It seems that it >> >>> doesn't load when I try to load test applets. >> >> >> >> You need to enable Java in the preferences, Konqueror doesn't use the >> >> Mozilla plugin for Java. I don't know whether pointing it to just "java" or >> >> "/usr/bin/java" will work (though I guess it will), >> >> "/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java" (or lib64) definitely will. >> >> >> >> Kevin Kofler >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> kde mailing list >> >> kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >> >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde >> >> New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org >> >> >> > >> > I ran some tests on: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml >> > -Sun Java does not load >> > -OpenJDK hangs on loading the applet. > > I can confirm that /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java does > not work for me in Konqueror (KDE 4.4). It used to work in 4.3. > > poc > > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > Is that on the test page or another page?
Actually it's the New York Times Acrostic for today, which is practically the only Java page I ever visit. However when I try the above test page Java starts to load but then sits there saying "Loading Applet", apparently forever (i.e. more than 10 minutes). poc
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 09:22 -0500, Mark Bidewell wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 08:01 -0500, Mark Bidewell wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Mark Bidewell <mbidewel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote: > >> >> Mark Bidewell wrote: > >> >>> Is there any trick to using java with konqueror? It seems that it > >> >>> doesn't load when I try to load test applets. > >> >> > >> >> You need to enable Java in the preferences, Konqueror doesn't use the > >> >> Mozilla plugin for Java. I don't know whether pointing it to just "java" or > >> >> "/usr/bin/java" will work (though I guess it will), > >> >> "/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java" (or lib64) definitely will. > >> >> > >> >> Kevin Kofler > >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> kde mailing list > >> >> kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > >> >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > >> >> New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > >> >> > >> > > >> > I ran some tests on: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml > >> > -Sun Java does not load > >> > -OpenJDK hangs on loading the applet. > > > > I can confirm that /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java does > > not work for me in Konqueror (KDE 4.4). It used to work in 4.3. > > > > poc > > > > _______________________________________________ > > kde mailing list > > kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > > > > Is that on the test page or another page? Actually it's the New York Times Acrostic for today, which is practically the only Java page I ever visit. However when I try the above test page Java starts to load but then sits there saying "Loading Applet", apparently forever (i.e. more than 10 minutes). poc _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
Thanks for the additional info. I ran some more tests from http://www.nytimes.com/premiumproducts/crosswords/samples/Jan2801.2.html 1) Applet comes up in KHTML with openjdk 2) A white box is displayed with WebkitKDE and openJDK 3) Applet comes up in KHTML with Sun Java 4) A white box is displayed with WebkitKDE and Sun Java. The white box issue occurs with Chromium as well so I am beginning to think there is a missing optional Webkit component (especially since I cannot reproduce the bug with chromium in Arch or Ubuntu). -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 10:16 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 09:22 -0500, Mark Bidewell wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan [...]
> > I can confirm that /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java does > > not work for me in Konqueror (KDE 4.4). It used to work in 4.3. > > > > poc > > > > _______________________________________________ > > kde mailing list > > kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > > > > Is that on the test page or another page? Actually it's the New York Times Acrostic for today, which is practically the only Java page I ever visit. However when I try the above test page Java starts to load but then sits there saying "Loading Applet", apparently forever (i.e. more than 10 minutes).
For some reason the NYT Acrostic page now works! I stress that I haven't done anything to the system. The Java test page still sits at "Loading Applet". poc
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Pastor in valle Adurni ...
... has written, on his blog (the only criticism of which I can make is that his sabbatical prevents him from writing as often as one would wish), a very thought-provoking comment on my piece in re Liverpudlitana (incidentally, while I simply adore the coinage Hepatopolis, offered by a learned correspondent, it is a fact that Vatican documents from the dear old SCR used to latinise the Venice of the North as Liverpudlia). Let me take up and run with one point that Pastor makes: a preference for Bishops administering the Sacrament of Confirmation.
This is very Anglican. In the days when Christianity was an urban phenomenon, a thing of the polis, and pagani were by definition pagans, bishops did perform the unsundered initiatory process of Water-Baptism+Confirmation+First Communion. When Christianity spread into the countryside, this became impracticable and the East responded by keeping the Rite undivided and committing it to presbyters; the West retained the involvement of the Bishop, the par excellence Apostolic Minister, but divided the Rite. Dix used to point out that there were advantages and disadvantages in each choice.
Anglicanism has been the most determined tradition in confining Confirmation to Bishops. In the East, the parish priest regularly chrismates; in the Roman Communion there are many circumstances in which the Sacrament is delegated to presbyters. But in Anglicanism, the absolutist restriction of Confirmation to bishops has led to a deplorable corruption: the multiplication of Bishops as confirming machines who are rewarded for their drudgery by Status and the hope dangled before them of a diocese. That is why we have so many Anglican bishops: for example, in the area of the RC diocese of Plymouth, which, I think, has one bishop, the C of E has two and a half diocesans and four 'suffragans' (which in Anglican terminology means a bishop with delegated jurisdiction who serves a Diocesan). This is driven mainly by the need to have Confirmers. It means, of course, Mitres for the Boys ... well, soon, I suppose, for the Girls as well. I gather that this 'Area Bishop' corruption is becoming increasingly common, too, in Roman Catholicism; that bright young men become Westminster Area Bishops and, having Shown Their Quality, have their names put at the top of the Nuncio's ternas.
I will follow this with an analysis of the corruptions inherent in the modern practice of Episcopacy among Anglicans and Roman Catholics.
S Gregory Palamas
A kind friend has sent me a Kalendar published by one of the Melkite eparchies in North America. It is good to be reminded how similar the instincts of East and West are when it comes to liturgical observances; the West has Vigils and Octaves and the East has Preparations and days stretching out after a festival until they are concluded by a "Leave-taking". The East is happy to crowd several observances on to one day, just as the West has its 'commemorations'. Oops: I should have said that the West used to do all this, because two generations now have had to live with the Carthaginian General's vandalistic abolition of nearly all Vigils, Octaves and Commemorations.
This Melkite Calendar gives one particularly intriguing example of different observances crowded together on one day. In Orthodox Christianity, as my readers will be aware, the Second Sunday in Lent is the Sunday of the great fourteenth century Hesychast Doctor and mystical theologian, S Gregory Palamas ... the last but certainly not the least of the Greek Fathers. Sadly, nit-picking Westerners used to accuse him of heresy because of some of the terminology he used in his exposition of the wonderful mystery of our Deification in Christ. So, after the 1720s, when the Melkite Patriarch of Antioch, Successor of S Peter, renewed the fulness of his communion with that other Successor of S Peter a bit further West, it was deemed prudent to remove S Gregory from the Melkite Calendar. To fill the vacuum thus created, in 1843 the Patriarch Maximos III Mazloom made that Sunday the Commemoration of the Holy Relics.
In my 2011 Melkite Calendar, I see that S Gregory has returned to the Second Sunday in Lent. Splendid! Since the Patriarch of Antioch is - surely - the second most senior hierarch (after the Pope) of the Catholic world in communion with Rome, this is a tremendously authoritative affirmation, by the magisterium of the Catholic Church, of the sanctity and doctrinal soundness of S Gregory Palamas (and, by the way, in this calendar S Gregory also recovers his festival on November 16). Not that the Holy Relics have done runner. They share this same Sunday with S Gregory: a happy detail because Mazloom was one of the greatest Melkite Patriarchs, who secured the formal status of the Melkites as a Nation within the Ottoman Empire.
But I can't find within this Melkite Calendar poor old S Mark of Ephesus ... on whose festival a very dear friend of mine was chrismated into Orthodoxy. Nevertheless, I regard the reinstatement of S Gregory Palamas, who lived, taught, and was canonised outside formal canonical unity with the Apostolic See of Rome, as a good omen for the beatification, for the Ordinariate, of our Anglican Catholic beati.
Some time ago, Joshua sought clarification of what I wrote concerning fiducia. Let Dix explain the Proddy dogma:
"[Man] needs nothing more, can do nothing more, than be conscious of feeling that confidence in the merits of Christ's sacrifice. He must cling to that feeling of confidence, for it is all that stands between him and eternal torment. Yet even so, he must always remember that this feeling of confidence cannot really undo the terrible effects of original sin in his soul. The fact that he feels this confidence does not render anything he does or could do in itself pleasing to God. He is not in any way made holy even by 'justifying faith'; otherwise his own actions would aid in his own redemption and sanctification; grace would no more be the absolutely free gift of God, but something man had at least partially merited. He is therefore emphatically not made holy but simply 'accounted holy' by God, for the sake of Christ, whose righteousness is imputed to the believing sinner by God through a sort of fiction. But in himself the redeemed and 'justified' sinner remains an entirely sinful sinner still, and only the consciousness of his own faith in the redeeming merits of Christ stands between him and the damnation his own inescapable sinfulness entails. That is the famous doctrine of 'Justification by faith alone', which in the eyes of all protestants was the very essence of Protestantism."
Dix was vilified for what was called a travesty of the Prod dogma. But when, decades later, the ARCIC document on Justification attempted to explain and bury this old controversy, a critique published by English Evangelicals damned it on the simple grounds that they could not find in it the (for them) essential truth that "Fides est fiducia".
Hell, unless you can sustain within your gut a fervent feeling [fiducia] that Christ's merits have saved you! Scary, isn't it?. In such a preposterous perversion of the Christian faith, the Sacraments can only usefully function as tools to sustain this feeling. There is all the difference in the world between this dogma and our belief that the Eucharist is the objective reality, made present, of the Lord's One Sacrifice, so that we can enter into it, and be transformed by it.
Liverpool Rules OK!
Three cheers for the RC Archbishop of Liverpool, who has decreed that Confirmation should precede First Communion in his diocese. We Anglicans know that this is the right thing to do (however much we sympathise with some of the general principles behind S Pius X's promotion of frequent Communion), and it is good to see a rolling-back of the (really distinctly iffy) common RC practice of deferring Confirmation until after First Communion.
And another cheer for Liverpool; these Sacraments will be conferred on eight-year-olds. There has been a most unfortunate tendency among some in the Roman Catholic Church to follow a deplorable Anglican mistake: of regarding Confirmation as a sort of Christian Bar-Mitzvah, an adolescent Rite of Passage. In my view - I did spend 28 years teaching 13-19 year-olds - nothing is more misguided than mixing up the Sacraments of Initiation in this way with the hormonal problems which thirteen-year-olds are having to face. Moreover, Confirmation is a Sacrament, not a Rite of Passage.
I think this is the time to resurrect a persistent argument of Dom Gregory Dix; that Confirmation is in fact that Baptism in the Spirit of which Biblical and Patristic texts speak. So Confirmation really is terribly important; arguably more important, Dix provocatively urged, than Water Baptism!
Dix's argument has weaknesses; the biggest of which is that liturgical patterns in the early centuries, we now know, were not as uniform as he liked to think; which makes it a little dodgy to try to force every liturgical tradition into the same straight-jacket. But the main reason while Dix was so vilified was that his emphasis on the importance of Confirmation created a very unwelcome obstacle to the pan-Protestant ecumenical schemes then in vogue. It implied that one would have to tell Free-Church people that they lacked something immensely important; or the equally unfortunate alternative of telling them that they were OK after all because they had 'equivalent' rites, such as extending the right-hand of fellowship to adolescents (here again we have a spin-off from the old Anglican error that Confirmation is really about Adolescence).
You don't need to try to persuade me that Byzantium has got things right in its simple, logical, unwillingness to sunder the Sacraments of Initiation at all. I rather tend to think that too. Indeed, I suspect that, more recently than we always assume, Confirmation was conferred upon newly-born Westerners if only their parents were of enough consequence to have a tame bishop right on tap. Isn't this what happened to Elizabeth Tudor? Perhaps the general Western custom of separating Baptism and Confirmation would never have arisen if Christianity had stuck with the old Mediterranean city-bishopric system, in which the bishop was fairly accessible because he was in the nearest market town, rather than acquiring the vast tribal dioceses of Northern Europe*.
But the Instauratio Liverpudlitana is a splendid step in the right direction for Latin Christians. There are elements in S Pius X's 'reforms' which, a century later, can do with reexamination.
Will the Ordinariate be supporting LU or Everton?
*The Thames formed the boundary between Lincoln and Winchester!
Ordinariate, Anglican Patrimony, and theological method
In 1948, Dom Gregory Dix wrote these words in a private (and unpublished) letter:
What are the minimum requirements for [Eucharistic] validity? I suppose: (1) a priest; (2) bread and wine; (3) the Words of Institution. (I personally would reduce this last to any plain indication that the rite now being performed with bread and wine by the priest is intended as a deliberate fulfilment of the command at the Last Supper, touto poieite eis ten anamnesin mou. A repetition of the Words of Institution is the most compendious and unambiguous and best authorised way of doing this.)
Dix was writing about the 1552 Communion Office, not Addai and Mari (the Assyrian Eucharistic Prayer which lacks an Institution Narrative). But I suspect he had AM in mind when adding his bracketed caveat. He more allusively suggests the same conclusion when discussing AM in Shape of the Liturgy. In effect, this is the very conclusion that Rome herself came to (see an earlier post) in its agreement with the Assyrian 'Church of the East', some sixty years after Dix wrote.
I suggest that this represents a theological method which is data-driven and has immense respect for Tradition - so that it finds it extremely repugnant to 'invalidate' a sacramental formulary which has de facto sanctified countless Christian lives for centuries. This method is in marked contrast to a theological method which works from theoretical first principles (to the time-conditioned subjectivity of which it is often blind) to a priori conclusions which may make a nonsense of historical fact. The most disastrous example of this latter method was Eugene IV's Decree for the Armenians. I think there is something rather Anglican Catholic about the data-driven approach; that it might even count as part of our Patrimony.
I suggest further that this cultural/methodological divergence is an example of what Manning had in mind when, writing to Talbot (a dodgy and theory-driven character if ever there was one) he so memorably criticised Blessed John Henry in the words "It is the old Anglican, patristic, literary, Oxford tone transplanted into the Church". I would add to Manning's adjectives another: "historical".
It is Newman, not Manning, who has been beatified; Newman, not Manning, who is Benedict XVI's bed-time reading. Four cheers for the Old Anglican Patristic Literary Historical Oxford Method! I wonder if our Holy Father has copies of Dix?*
*I am certainly not suggesting that all RC theologians are theory-driven and all Anglican Catholics data-driven (or even that the two methods are exclusive, or that they inevitably reach conflicting conclusions); life certainly isn't as clear-cut as that. As an example of a very data-driven Roman theologian I would offer Benedict XIV (the last Pontiff before Benedict XVI to achieve enormous distinction from his writings as a private theologian); my own excursions into this massively and historically erudite pontiff suggest to me that he also was rather an Oxford-Newman-Dix sort of chap at heart ... the sort of bloke you could easily run into lurking behind a pile of folios in Duke Humphrey ... and that he could do with some resurrecting!
Very graciously, the Angelus Press has sent me a review copy of their ORDO for users of the 1961/2 liturgical books. I am very grateful; it is very interesting; and I shall write about it soon. But ...
... upon opening it, I immediately found an erratum slip. As an ORDO compiler myself, I instinctively felt a great tidal wave of sympathy. This is the ultimate, the appalling nightmare. As soon as the print run is finished, one discovers that one has got the date of Easter wrong or inserted the readings for year for Year A rather than Year B, vel sim.. But, when I looked at things more closely, I began to wonder why they feel that their original text is wrong. This is what the slip says:
On July 2nd the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (2nd class) is celebrated. The Feast of the Most Precious Blood will not be celebrated in 2011.
Now I instinctively think I feel that the Visitation should be celebrated that day. It is a much older feast than the Precious Blood. It was probably Urban VI who instituted it to beseech God for Christian Unity. There are Byzanine analogues. Whereas the Precious Blood is distinctly rather more parvenu.
But shouldn't a First Class Feast of Christ trump a Second Class Feast of the Theotokos?
Perhaps a reason lies in the fact that July 2 in 2011 immediately follows the Feast of the Sacred Heart. You could see the logic of suppressing the second celebration. But ... what happened? Did PCED issue a decree .... ???? Do SSPX follow PCED rulings? (Which Good Friday Prayer for the Jews do they use?)
Can anybody explain why, in the old and new Vulgates, and in the old and new Latin Office Books in texts for today, Apollos is (nominative) 'Apollo'?
My assumption is that Apollos is a syncopated form of Apollonios; and I find it potentially confusing that it appears in Latin indistinguishable from the name of the Archer of Delos and 'Partner', as we have to say nowadays, of Daphne and various other nymphs.
I spent nearly three decades nagging students to remember the S at the end of of Apollos!
Apology from me
A regular poster was irritated to find on a recent thread a comment under his name ... which he had not written. In fact he had ... because that Post was a heavily reworked version of something I wrote in early 2008, and still had its 2008 comments attached. I have now cleansed it appropriately. Sorry.
Sunday in the Chair of Unity Octave ... a Commemoration at Mass for S Nicolas Owen, the recusant carpenter who made so many of the 'priests' holes' in which Elizabethan Romanist clergy hid? An Oxford man born and bred, racked until he ruptured, and a great saint. It set me wondering whether, in this age of Apologies (I've lost count of how many groups the almost Blessed John Paul II was induced ... I hope non-infallibly ... to apologise to), our General Synod has yet apologised to English Roman Catholics for our long and bloody persecution of them, or to the Unitarians for so cheerfully burning them. Next ... has our House of Bishops yet apologised to the Catholic Movement for the persecution of the Ritualists by Victorian bishops? Have the successors of Archbishop Fisher apologised for his treatment of Catholic Anglicans in London during his episcopate there? Or has his successor updated Fisher's anti-Catholic bigotry by taking the lead in ferociously declining to consider church-sharing with the Ordinariate?
For, of course, the great favourite to be sneered at now is the Ordinariate. Witness that disgraceful 'Sunday' programme by Ed Stourton, about which I posted. How long shall we have to wait for Apologies ...
Then I hit upon a brilliant idea. Why can't the persecuting classes scythe through this important historical process by apologising at precisely the same time as they perpetrate their aggression? Thus, every time an Establishment bishop or archdeacon gets nasty with priests or people heading for the Ordinariate, or the Bishop of Barchester and his RC opposite number the Bishop of Silverbridge cosy up together and issue a joint declaration on the undesirability of the Ordinariate having any churches of its own, or "Spirit of Vatican II" papists and Grauniad journalists wax eloquently and Oh-so-amusingly about the dodgy characters entering the Ordinariate and the colour of their wives' hats: the computers of all these significant people could be programmed to issue simultaneously a sincere, 'historic', heart-felt, movingly-expressed, manly, open-and-honest, covering-all-the-details, gives-us-the-moral-high-ground, apology (copy to all the Press Agencies) for doing so.
You know it makes sense.
I've had my attention drawn to an interesting post in the blog Eastern Christian Books; which rather bears upon my last post ... and also upon a point I've made several times about the lack of an epiclesis (Byzantine style) in the Roman Canon being a sign of its immense antiquity - and about how questionable it is when "Western Rite Orthodox" (follow Bugnini and) tamper with this august monument to early Christianity.
Christian Unity Week
I think one of the most sensible things said in the realm of Ecumenism for quite a long time was the welcome given by the late Patriarch Alexis of Moskow to Benedict XVI's liberation of the Old Roman Ordo Missae."The recovery and valuing of the ancient liturgical tradition is a fact that we welcome positively".
I always feel uneasy about Western Christians who adopt a few of the sexier externals of Byzantine devotion and feel very pleased with themselves about it (Byzantine customs with regard to fasting are not commonly among the elements they appear to borrow). Likewise, I get no pleasure at all from the thought of footloose Byzantine Christians believing that their Christianity is incomplete until they have gone shopping in my tradition. Each lawful tradition is in itself a wholesome and holistic entire way of living the Christian life.
The real Ecumenism is: that each of us should drink ever more deeply in the pure fountains of our own tradition. As we come to know our own way to Christ better and better, we shall discover surprising things about our oneness in Christ*.
As Patriarch Alexis went on to say, it was purely through its rootedness in the Byzantine tradition of lived worship that the Russian Church was enabled to survive the twentieth century atheist persecutions. It is in commitment to the life of each tradition that the Lord, and the strength he gives, are found.
*To take as an example a small matter of detail: when recently, after carefully investigating the Roman tradition, I wrote about the Diaconate as a cultic, not philanthropic, Order, some Western comments did not grasp my point: ".... it's surely both .......", they cried, perhaps a trifle condescendingly, as if such an obvious thought could never have occurred to me.
But Russian Village Priest instantly knew what I was talking about.
ORDINARIATE millinery
Am I right in thinking that the clerus almae Urbis historically wear birettas without those French bobbles? and that, as clergy directly subject to the Roman Pontiff, clergy of the Ordinariate fall into that category (together with Redemptorists, Oratorians .... anybody else?)
Will such clergy need to borrow their wives' scissors on the morning of incardination?
And how about those sixteenth century Roman collars worn by Redemptorists and Oratorians?
I shall delete comments which make nasty insinuations about the priorities of Anglican Catholics.
Calendar matters: the ORDINARIATE
Do I take it that, automatically, the Commemorations of our Lady of Walsingham (September 21) and of Bl John Henry Newman (October 9) are, in the Ordinariate, Solemnities (or, depending on the language you speak, Doubles of the First Class)?
We ORDO Compilers need to know these things.
A model of Christian tact ...
... is found in the wording of the Vatican Information Service announcement of the appointment of the Ordinary (I wonder if "Reverend" rather than "Fr" means it was signed or prepared for signature between Thursday evening and Saturday noon). Anything which, as this announcement does, emphasises continuities rather than discontinuities is to be welcomed.
I wonder, too, how one names a non-episcopal ordinary in the new Eucharistic Prayers. "Ordinario"? In Te igitur, I rather think that Antistite, which does not actually mean Bishop, could be vague enough to stand. Does anybody know what happened, ex.gr., in Abbeys nullius, in the pre-Vatican II days?
The Mascall Ordinariate: only for Latinists
That most exquisitely Latin of Anglican theologians, E L Mascall, was haunted by a passage in Vergil's First Eclogue; the shepherd Tityrus says that Rome tantum alias inter caput extulit urbes/ quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi. His fellow Meliboeus asks Et quae tanta fuit Romam tibi causa videndi? to which he replies: Libertas ...
And now we take up our breviaries for First Vespers of the Feast of the Cathedra Petri; can there ever have been a Chair of Unity Octave like this year's? In the second nocturn, another great Latinist, S Leo, apostrophises another shepherd, S Peter, entering the City a couple of generations after Tityrus: Ad hanc ergo urbem tu, beatissime Petre Apostole, venire non metuis, et ... turbulentissimae profunditatis oceanum, constantior quam cum supra mare gradereris, ingrederis.
A stanza probably by S Paulinus II Patriarch of Aquileia, which used to be sung on the Feast of S Peter ad Vincula:
Petrus beatus catenarum laqueos
Christo iubente rupit mirabiliter:
custos ovilis et doctor Ecclesiae,
pastorque gregis, conservator ovium
arcet luporum truculentam rabiem.
ORDNARIATE: Common Sense and Mutual Enrichment
Just back from Bishop Andrew's First RC Mass in the Oratory ...
Well, it must still be All Right to refer to him as "Bishop Andrew" because Fr Aidan Nichols did so in his brilliantly characteristic homily. Fr Aidan has been House Theologian to the Ordinariate during all those many long years before The Project actually turned into The Ordinariate; he first sketched the theological meaning of an Anglicanism united but not absorbed in his The Panther and the Hind. Since then, there have been meetings of the FIF theological group with him in the cellars at Gordon Square; Fr Aidan always so gracious, so sympathetic, so helpful, so erudite, so generous. The first time I read a paper - a very poor one - in his presence, I remember how nervous I felt; but there was no need to.
Fr Aidan returned, today, to the great enterprise of gathering up the fragments that none be lost; of appropriating, for the good of all the church, the Anglican inheritance discerned through the purifying prism of Catholic Orthodoxy. He mentioned that Bishop Andrew is engaged in the liturgical side of that - but made clear, referring especially to Blessed John Henry and the Tractarian Fathers, that there is much more to it than Liturgy. His homily, I think, counts as the Programmatic Statement of the Ordinariate as far as theology is concerned. I hope he stays involved.
If Fr Aidan's homily was characteristic, so was Bishop Andrew's liturgy. Fine music (Byrd; Morales); Latin from the Sursum corda until the Communion. We had examples of what the American blogosphere now calls Common Sense and Mutual Enrichment. Sanctus covered the (silent) first half of the Canon Romanus and Benedictus the second half; we were spared those horrid 'Acclamations' after the Consecration. At the Invitation to Communion, Bishop Andrew continued his custom of using the New ICEL translation of Ecce Agnus Dei.
I arrived home to hear the end of the celebratory peal rung on the S Thomas's (ten) very fine bells. That's Patrimony, too.
Westminster Cathedral and the Ordinariate
No. I wasn't in "WC" this morning. I had a prior engagement.
I went to the Oratory Church in Oxford for the Reception of Mr James Turner, former Head Sacristan of Pusey House (of which I am privileged to be a Senior Research Fellow).
This splendid event represented all that is most attractive about the 'current religious scene'. James is young and intelligent, as are so may of those taking this stage in their own pilgrimages. It was good to meet again, at this event, Mr Andrew Wagstaffe, a valued friend since the time I taught him at Lancing College. He, also, was a Head Sacristan at Pusey before he entered into full communion six years ago; he is one of the half-dozen most brilliant people whom I had the fun of teaching (I think he may be known to that distinguished priest and blogger Fr Ray Blake).
Other friends were there; Mr John Whitehead, of Oriel College, a former Churchwarden of S Thomas's and now a member of the Oratory congregation; together with one of my present Churchwardens ... and ... and ... and apologies for not naming all of you. Others hovered invisibly present ... Martin, I thought of you, immured in your Norwegian seminary, during the Mass. Remember us in your prayers.
The rite of reception, and the Mass which followed , were in the pre-Conciliar rite; a final joyful evidence of the vivid reappropriation of the Catholic Latin tradition and of the Hermeneutic of Continuity which are integral to the Benedictine Renaissance in the Western Church. Sancte Pater, ad multos annos.
May the Immaculate Mother of God, our Lady of Walsingham, and Blessed John Henry Newman, pray for us all; and especially for Keith, Ordinary of our Lady of Walsingham.
Best wishes ...
... for a very happy New Year - I'm sorry that this is a bit belated for those living adjacent to the Greenwich meridian - all my readers who follow that Calendar which is actually to be found in the liturgical books dating from the Pontificate of that great pontiff, S Pius V, and in the liturgical books from the reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles II of most blessed memory.
May I take the opportunity of again recommending The Tridentine Rite Blog. Not only can one look at its Sunday-by-Sunday explanations of the Real and Organic Calendar; you can of course look back to last year and see what it says about an up-coming day.
I believe it is the decently humble custom of the Roman Catholic Church, in countries where the predominant Christian Calendar is Julian, to require even Latins to observe the Julian Easter. Two queries: does this principle extend to the fixed festivals; and: do Anglican chaplaincies in these countries follow the same humane and courteous principle? Or do we behave in accordance with our instinctive English and Anglican cultural arrogance?
... and so much for the King's Road.
Among those with whom I talked in Chelsea yesterday was a very agreeable chap called Fr Hemer, who teaches Old Testament. Perhaps I was over-mellowed by the excellence of the food and wine, but I found myself thinking that there would be worse things to do than listening to a Refresher Course from him. Though why I say "Refresher" I can't think. At least in my time, we Anglican seminarians were quite appallingly taught about the Bible; a load of improbable bilge about source criticism and pseudonymity and God only knows what. I never believed a word of it. Dogmatic Theology and Moral Theology and Church History, it would be a waste of time to revisit. But the Bible ... and, I have to admit, Canon Law ... well, that would fill some gaps.
To summarise, then: the prospect of free food at Allen Hall, combined with some intellectual stimulation ... would be very tempting.
... when I suddenly remembered my Home Communions, the food was strikingly good at the liturgical event upon which I stumbled in Chelsea last night. I entirely agreed with Bishop Andrew when, in a little speech at the end "on behalf of the Three Bishops", he said this very emphatically.
The liturgy, whatever it was, was clearly both episcopal and ecumenical in way that combined both of these things very cunningly. For example, the Three Bishops were dressed , like Byzantine bishops, in dalmatics, and very impressive they looked, especially Bishop Andrew with his beard. The Church Universal truly must breathe with both lungs.
Fortunately, there will be a photographic record of this splendid event. As well as Fr Bradley, there were some blokes present who looked ... from the Important way they bobbed around ... like Professional Photographers. But these latter rather puzzled me. They seemed to be taking many more pictures of Bishop Keith than of the other two.
I'm no judge of male good looks, burdened as I am with the curse of having to live my life with an incurable heterosexual condition. But it seemed to me that Bishop Keith is the least handsome of the three of them.
Ah, well, it takes all sorts.
Ordinariate Up in Arms
According to Papworth and Burke, the Arms of the old Augustinian Priory of our Lady at Walsingham were Argent on a cross sable five billets of the first: i.e. a silver shield with a black cross and on the black cross five silver rectangles. In use at the newly restored Shrine for donkey's years - I suspect Fr Fynes Clinton may have had a hand in all this; Heraldry was the sort of thing he was into - were the arms Silver; black cross; on the cross five lilies ... or so I think; I am going by memory. Also, in the first quarter was a golden representation of the Holy House: a breach of the usual convention that something gold cannot heraldically sit on something silver. However, this convention was very occasionally breached for overwhelmingly compelling reasons - such as in the Arms of Jerusalem. My theory is that HP or FC thought that the dignity of our Lady's shrine provided another overwhelmingly compelling reason! Incidentally, I have no knowledge whether the College of Heralds granted these arms; my hunch is that they were adopted without anybody troubling Queen Victoria Street.
None of us is supposed to use the arms of somebody else (not even if they have the same surname as ourselves!). If you have genuine connexion with some person, place or institution you may have arms which are like theirs but with some change to show the 'difference'. Thus the Holy See granted the see of Westminster arms indistinguishable from those of Canterbury except that they were 'differenced' by having the shield red rather than blue. The Holy See does not, I think, nowadays grant arms; although it does apparently expect bishops and those who in law are equivalent to bishops to have arms. The English heralds do still grant arms, but there are said to be legal reasons why they cannot grant arms to RC dioceses.
If anyone were ever to want arms - I can't think why they would - which were related to those of the Priory and/or shrine at Walsingham, the silver shield with a black cross and the lilies on the cross would be a good start; you could then 'difference' it by changing the colour of the cross.
Up and down the King's Road
Yesterday evening, as I was strolling up and down the King's Road in Chelsea looking for a bit of Night Life - we old gentleman tend to do that sort of thing - I noticed the familiar figure of Fr James 'Ubiquitous Camera' Bradley, who has chronicled every significant event in the Anglican Catholic world for decades - lugging his equipment along. Curious, I followed him discretely and discovered myself in a Roman Catholic place of worship which I gather was originally (1568) founded at Douai by a fellow of Oriel College, Principal of St Mary's Hall, and Proctor in this University called William Allen, after he very wisely scarpered abroad in the dark days of Elizabeth Tudor. Not that I'm sure Dr Allen would have recognised the Chapel as a place of Catholic worship ...
As you know, I am dreadfully ill-informed about the complex niceties of Novus Ordo worship, so I can't give you an intelligent account of what was going on. However, it seemed to involve our three Bishops, so I guessed it probably had something to do with this ORDINARIATE thinggy. Just in case I ever find myself having to use the Ordinary Form, I watched carefully what happened. There were some striking differences from what most Anglican Catholics are used to. For example: after the Consecration we tend to ring bells and waggle incense. But, it seems, in the Novus Ordo Mass, all the fire alarms go off while the celebrant is actually uttering the verba Domini over the Host; and keep ringing until after the Consecration of the Chalice. They come on later, too, to remind the congregation that it is Communion time.
The episcopae seemed to have a big role to play. They brought up the elements at the Offertory (yes ... I know what you're thinking ... a bit Parish Communionny) and had special blessings and things at the end. From time to time, the bishops seemed to kiss them. The service began with the sort of music you get in a Crem - Jesu joy or Come down O love Divine or something like that. It ended with the sort of business you get at weddings, with various fluctuating groups of people coalescing and dispersing and regathering for photographs. Altogether, a rich liturgical event. I felt most at home in the sung Ordinary of the Mass, Kyries etc., which was sung in dead languages, and when Bishop Andrew sang the Ite missa est at the end.
But, craftily, nobody accepted his rather peremptory order to "Go". We all tucked into some strikingly good food, wine, and conversation with some very agreeable people. Some of them had even read my blog.
Changing the subject rather, I have had a sudden illumination about what might be a good Coat of Arms for an Ordinariate. You remember that lovely medieval shield used by the Abbey at Walsingham: Silver; a black cross; on it, four lilies. Something like that ... perhaps the cross changed to blue or even S George's red ... would look very well.
Oops ... I 'm going to be late for my Home Communiuons. More later.
Benedictus es ...
A writer on another blog recently criticised a priest who conflated the Offertory prayers into a singular formula. Since this is an unauthorised alteration, the writer was right to call it a liturgical abuse. But he also criticised it on the grounds that the separate offering of Bread and Wine was "theologically significant". Well; perhaps it is; I don't know what reasons he had in mind for saying this. But I think anybody going very far down that particular path needs to watch what they say. In the Sarum Rite, the Bread and Wine were offered together, with one prayer, and the Ecclesia Anglicana was for a thousand years in peace and communion with the Holy See. And the Dominican Rite - the traditional one - still offers the elements together; and the Order of Preachers is still in full communion with Rome. This represents a sustantial piece of traditional praxis. It can't be theologically unCatholic to offer the elements together.
Personally, I intensely dislike those prayers anyway on a practical ground: because I find them immensely difficult to say. Since they are so similar to each other, you can't lift the elements up and say the prayer on autopilot; you have to look at a printed text or else concentrate mentally on getting each lot of words right. I bet there isn't a priest in the Latin Church who hasn't at some time bungled it.
I also dislike the words "spiritual drink". I know poma pneumatikon is a clever borrowing from I Corinthians; but as a spoken formula judged in literary terms -particularly in its English versions - it seems to me to make the end of the prayer collapse into an unattractive bathos. I certainly understand those people who improve it with the phrase, from the Canon, "Cup [Chalice?] of Salvation".
But the plain fact is that these prayers are not ordered by the rubrics to be said aloud; that is merely an option on those occasions, and only those occasions, when there is no singing at the Offertory. For twenty or thirty years I did say them aloud in English at said Masses; but quite a long time ago I took to saying them, when I celebrated a Novus Ordo said Mass, silently and in Latin.
Well, to be honest, for some time now I have silently said Suscipe ... etc. instead. Happily, thanks to a writer on another blog, I can now justify this as Common-sense-and-mutual-enrichment.
Accipe potestatem offerre Missam ...
Very best wishes to our three bishops as they tomorrow revisit the concept of diakonia. I wonder if they will wear their old light-weight pontifical dalmatics for the ceremony.
On Saturday there will follow necessary formalities ensuring that their sacerdotal ministrations are acceptable to all Roman Catholics everywhere. I suppose that later in the year there will be similar ceremonies for those priests and deacons who decide to apply for entry to the ministry of the Ordinariate and are accepted. God bless them, whoever they may be.
I wonder if they will all be 'done' simultaneously. Let us suppose - just to pluck a number out of the air for the sake of hypothesis - that some 50/60 or so priests were concerned. Wouldn't that be rather a lot of prostrate bodies to accommodate on one floor? We wouldn't want Fr X to kick Fr Y in the eye ... er ... purely, you understand, by accident.
If there were two such events, would it not be be very much in the spirit of Summorum pontificum for one of them to be OF and the other Antiquior? There would be an additional bonus of an ecumenical kind. It would mean that, when the Vatican is finally reconciled to the SSPX, those ex-Anglicans who had been 'done' antiquius would not have the inconvenience of having to be 'ordained' yet again to satisfy SSPX scruples. It would also make our orders acceptable to all those other fussy traditionalists who have noisy doubts about the adequacy of the post-conciliar Pontificale and even amusingly suggest that it falls under the condemnation of Apostolicae curae.
Mgr Rifan must be one of very few working bishops in full canonical union with the See of Ss Peter and Paul to have been consecrated with the glorious old Prayer for Episcopal Consecration used in the Roman Church before iffy Oriental formulae were substituted by Bugnini (if one wanted to be tendentious, a failing which I have always avoided like the very plague, one could argue that the Rite of Episcopal Consecration in the Prayer Book Ordinal retained more features and phrases from pre-Reformation rites than does the current Pontificale). So Rifan would be the ideal chap to do this job. Orders conferred by him would never need to be repeated (until, that is, the Latin West submits in all humility to Third Rome).
Aesthetically, it would be rather jolly if the antiquior ceremony were done within the genuine baroque lay-out and furnishings of the Brompton Oratory - the Gesu near Harrods - rather than in the midst of the totally unconvincing 'Byzantinism' of the Hagia Sophia by Victoria Station. Those involved would feel more at home, too; there is somehow something cosily familiar and Anglican about the atmosphere of Romanita created in their churches by the Sons of S Philip. I wonder why.
*New readers, if any, may - passim - be assisted hermeneutically if I confess that I have sometimes been suspected of writing with my tongue in one of my cheeks.
Ordinariate
I'm a trifle puzzled by the Westminster announcement that the Ordinariate will be erected "on or before Saturday January 15". Our three bishops are due to be deaconed on Thurday January 13; and Canon Law appears to say that a deacon has to be incardinated to ensure that there are no horrid acephalous clerics roaming around (a delightfully grotesque, even Gothick, piece of imagery to scare to the kiddies with ... "Swallow your Cod Liver Oil, dears, or the ACEPHALOUS CLERIC will GET you"). But we Anglicans know nothing about Canon Law ... perhaps a Roman Catholic can explain this oddity to me.
I had rather hoped that the erection of the Ordinariate might have been dated January 6. I will delete comments which purport to explain why I had rather hoped this.
culture changes (3)
Continues ...
It is an idea deeply embedded in most ... I think I may mean all ... traditional rites, that the Eucharistic Prayer is far from being a folksy prayer which the celebrant hopes will be short enough to stop the people getting bored, and which, if he is trendy enough, he will invite them to join in saying so that they 'feel involved'. This Prayer is a profound mystery in which the celebrant is, as it were, halfway out of this world, alone and face to face with the God whom Moses met when he climbed the mountain and entered the cloud at Sinai. Early Ordines tell us that at the beginning of Te igitur surgit Pontifex solus et intrat in canonem ... surgit solus Pontifex et tacite intrat in Canonem*: I am sure that I am not the only priest who, as he raises his hands at Te igitur, senses vividly that he is, like the High Priest on the Day of Atonements, entering the Holy of Holies to offer sacrifice for all the people before the Holy God who dwells in unapproachable light. The Byzantine priest enters the Royal Doors in order to sacrifice; some of the older Roman churches still possess the hooks to hold the curtains round the ciborium which concealed the celebrant from view.
I believe it can be shown that the developed form of the Canon Romanus, with its careful distinctions between nos servi tui/servitus nostra, and plebs tua sancta/cuncta familia tua, dates from the time when distance and curtains separated the celebrant and his sylleitourgoi from the People. The inaudible recitation of (most of) the Canon is a central feature of sound liturgical praxis; if it cannot be immediately restored, I suppose the next best thing is its recitation in a language not understanded of the people, or its recitation in a voice which at least does not officiously strive for audibility. (Why on earth, in OF Latin Masses at Brompton, is the celebrant when at the altar electronically amplified? If he simply said the Eucharistic Prayer in a clara et elata voce and left to God the management of the laws of Physics which determine how much of it the people in the various parts of the nave could hear, that surely would fulfill the rubrics?)
This restoration of a sense of the Holiness and otherness of the One Oblation of the Lord Once Offered is going to be the greatest task, the most laborious up-hill struggle, for all those Western clergy who desire to re-enter the historic, ecumenical liturgical consensus of the Latin West and the Byzantine Churches and the Semitic Christian East. Its destruction in the West a generation ago was one of the greatest successes of the Evil One. Its recovery is the calling of faithful clergy in the third millennium.
*Jungmann comments: "The Canon is a sanctuary into which the priest enters alone".
Concluded.
The sort of liturgical culture which Anglicans and Roman Catholics have experienced since the 1960s is in fact a culture which was common in English Protestant Non-Conformity for many generations before the 1960s; and in a Protestant ethos it represents the theologically right and appropriate liturgical expectation. If the faith-feeling, fiducia, is the salvific reality to which the Christian must cling, then worship can have no other purpose than to produce and sustain it. It is not for nothing that Protestant ideologues have seen the Sacraments - on the rare occasions when they celebrate them - as merely 'enacted Words'. The problem for us is that for nearly half a century many Anglicans and most Catholics have been indoctrinated into that same essentially Protestant presupposition. When, now, they are exposed to something ancient and authentic, they can feel excluded by the celebrant - "Why isn't he attending to me?": the reaction of the toddler whose mother seems now to be devoting to the new baby all the love and attention upon which previously that toddler had an exclusive claim. "Leave your horrid private God alone and turn round and be my friend again". These poor layfolk are bound to feel repulsed; the outrage done to their gut-instincts may even make them revolted.
Those of my readers who do not know their Dix off by heart may be amused - as well as instructed - by his well-known account of his Methodist grandmother.
It is an uncanny fact that there is still scarcely any subject on which the imagination of those outside the faith is more apt to surrender to the unrestrained nonsense of panic than that of what happens at the catholic eucharist. As a trivial instance, I remember that my own grandmorther, a devout Wesleyan, believed to her dying day that at the Roman Catholic mass the priest let a crab loose upon the altar, which it was his mysterious duty to prevent from crawling sideways into the view of the congregation. (Hence the gestures of the celebrant.) How she became possessed of this notion, or what she supposed eventually happened to the crustacean, I never discovered. But she affirmed with the utmost sincerity that she had once with her own eyes actually watched this horrible rite in progress; and there could be no doubt of the deplorable effect that solitary visit to a Roman Catholic church had had on her estmate of Roman Catholics in general, though she was the soul of charity in all things else. To all suggestions that the mass might be intended as some sort of holy communion service she replied only with the wise and gentle pity of the fully informed for the ignorant.
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In my experience, pretty well every clergyman in the C of E knows exactly how services should be done. Indeed, in some cases he knows so well that he is constantly growing into even better knowledge, with the result that his people often have to adjust periodically to the particular stage which their pastor's liturgical researches have reached. Whether such is true in other communions, I have little first-hand knowledge. But I suspect that it is not only among Anglicans that there can sometimes be a gap between clergy and laity, which can result not only from the changes they are made to experience in their own churches but the surprises which they encounter when they move house and parish. This is partly because the laity are naturally conservative; by which I mean that they often find it less than easy to change instincts which they acquired 20, 30, or 40 years ago.
For 40 years now, many worshipers in the Western Churches have become accustomed to a particular form of 'participation', in which there is an expectation that liturgy is for them in the sense that it has some of the characteristics of entertainment or didaxis. They expect that their hierophant will relate to them; look at them; anticipate their spoken or assumed responses; be concerned that he is 'getting through' to them. He gathers them into what he is doing by looking at them across the altar; he interjects little relational asides to keep them with him; instead of standing in a pulpit six feet above contradiction, he walks up and down the church as he informally sermonises. It is possible that these expectations have been reinforced by the interactive and participatory modes fashionable in television.
I think we priests sometimes fail to realise how very different (and difficult) it is for laity, who for a generation have known nothing but this, when they are offered 'traditional' worship. Worship, I mean, where the fundamental sense is that something objective is being done which, for its essential effectiveness, depends not one tiny bit upon the understanding or 'participation' or even presence of laity. We find it easy to yawn at phrases like " ...with his back to the people." Oh dear, we cry, not that old nonsense again. But for people whose liturgical experience has hitherto been a priest preoccupied with their responsiveness, suddenly to experience a liturgist who is focussed primarily on what he is doing coram Deo, must be just shattering.
Noveritis, fratres carissimi ...
... as I proclaimed after the Gospel at Mass this morning. Then, after the Last Gospel, I blessed chalk. It was the first year I have done this; Wikipedia says that it is a central European custom. I have been wondering whether its spread in recent years to England is related to immigration by groups from EU member countries. I have wondered the same thing about the Rorate Mass. OR were both these things taken by immigrant groups to North America, from where they have now drifted across on the Gulf Stream? Are further such goodies on their way by whatever route?
I have also been wondering about a Responsio ad dubium which the Ecclestone Square Liturgy Office secured from PCED and which they represented as ordering that even in celebrations of the EF the Epiphany should be transferred to a Sunday. My recollection is that Ecclestone Square refused to disclose the actual text of the Responsio they had received, so that the LMS then submitted its own dubium which elicited a rather different reply. Has the Ecclestone Square Responsio ever been published, or is it still covered by some sort of Official Secrets Act?
I hasten to add that at S Thomas's we did keep last Sunday as an External Solemnity of the Epiphany. We are terribly mainstream.
You won't like this ...
... but, if I were the Commission Ecclesia Dei, I would be working towards a new Editio Typica of the Extraordinary Form in which some very minor changes would indicate that the EF is not fossilised. We are not 1962 fetichists (or are we?). The way ahead for the EF is for the most judicious of minor corrections in the 1962 missal. Nobody should take any notice of fundamentalists who believe that anything which the reformers of the 1960s favoured is automatically beyond the pale; and a reincorporation of elements - Vigils, perhaps, and Octaves - which were unwisely cut out during the early Bugnini tinkerings of the 1950s, is most desireable. Have I got this right?
The main change I would make in the Ordo Missae would be in the Preface. I would punctuate Domine, sancte Pater, omnipotens aeterne Deus. Because: Domine reproduces in Latin the tetragrammaton YHWH and reminds us that the God we worship (for are we not all, as Pius XI put it, Spiritual Semites?) is the God of our forefathers in Faith, the People of Israel. Sancte Pater is the way in which the Incarnate Word addressed his Father, particularly in the Gospel according to S John, Chapter 17.
Or would you be happier if I simply omitted all the commas, leaving the word-division to the celebrant?
Or will you only be happy if I make no change whatsoever?
We were told in Summorum Pontificum that some of the OF Prefaces would be incorporated in the EF and a recent interview given by Mgr Pozzo implies that this will soon happen. I can't see why it should cause any ill-will do do this, particularly if they are made optional. The SSPX ORDO reveals that in that Society they use Prefaces for the Saints and for Advent ad libitum. And if it is acceptable for the inter-war popes to have added prefaces for the Sacred Heart and Christ the King and ... most most revolutionary of all in view of the large numbers of Requiems that used to be said ... for the Departed, why are Prefaces from fifty years later problematic? (I do, on the other hand, strongly support the caution shown by Mgr Pozzo with regard to allowing the post-conciliar lectionary to be used with the old Mass. The old readings are inextricably bedded down in the old propers.)
My own preference, however, would be that OF Prefaces incorporated in the Traditional Missal should be mainly restricted to those which were recovered for the OF from the early Roman sacramentaries ... not least those identified, by liturgists such as Callewaerts and Capelle, as probably from the pen of S Leo or other early pontiffs ... rather than being Clever Compositions by post-conciliar committees headed by ... er ... And I do not favour the very jejune conclusions which link some of those newer prefaces to the Sanctus.
Fr Zed and the verb histemi
I notice that Fr Zed spells Apostacy sic. I have also noticed, in American books, Exstacy.
Is this a 'regular' Americanism? We in Old Europe (what is the objectionable Rumsfeldt doing nowadays?) tend to assume, for fairly obvious reasons, that derivatives of histemi* are spelled (spelt?) -stasy. I wonder what our transpontine cousins consider the countervailing arguments to be.
Enough on Fr Zed for today.
*I doubt if I have ever blushed more deeply than I did when, in my first term in this university, my Tutor for Greek Prose Composition, the immortal, the fabulously erudite, the magnificently Australian Margaret Hubbard irritably moved her cat off her gin-bottle, drew heavily on her cigarette, and said "Tush, Mr Hunwicke, do we not know histemi?"
Fr Zed comes into line.
On December 16 I did a post suggesting that, while Say the Black and do the Red was a splendid exocet to direct against liberals, traditionalists should not bother too much about it themselves.
Now: January 3: Fr Zed announces his conversion to my tentative suggestions. Dealing with the question of starting the Canon while the Sanctus (and Benedictus) are still being sung, he invokes Common Sense and the Mutual Enrichment of both forms of the Roman Rite to justify it, at least when the sung Sanctus is a bit long.
Perhaps the next edition of his mug should read COMMON SENSE AND MUTUAL ENRICHMENT.
What is most striking about this, of course, is that Fr Zed, most laudably, is suggesting direct and unambiguous disobedience with regard to a very clear rubrical direction. IGMR para 30* clearly describes the Eucharistic Prayer as the principal "oratio praesidentialis". And para 32* requires that all these 'presidential' parts must, because of their inherent nature ("Natura partium 'praesidentialium' exigit ..."), be rendered "clara et elata voce ... et ab omnibus cum attentione auscultentur".
Bugnini could hardly have made that clearer, could he?
Three cheers for Fr Zed in his new incarnation! Don't forget you read it in Hunwicke first.
* paras 10 and 12 in the 1975 Missal.
And now Fr Zed has spotted it too
Regular readers became completely bored, months ago, by my continual ranting about the typographical carelessness, and illiteracy with regard to the Latin Language, in the modern Vatican.
In the last week, Fr Zed has done two posts on the subject.
Those of you who use recent editions of the Liturgia Horarum can amuse yourselves by very easily looking up one of the worst examples of culpable carelessness. It concerns Feb 22: Cathedra Petri. This Feast has to be printed in Vol 2 and Vol 3, because it might come before, or during, Lent.
In Vol 3, the Patristic Reading is printed, as far as I can see, accurately [except for utraque (neuter plural) being printed with the accent on the middle syllable: a systemic mistake in Vols 2, 3, and 4 of LH (not, curiously, in Vol 1)].
But in Vol 2, a couple of lines are omitted from the first paragraph of the Reading from S Leo. This omission makes the entire passage gibberish. (Correct your Vol 2 from your Vol 3!)
And S Leo is the most lucid and graceful of Latinists.
An elegant reminder ...
... on the NLM, of M l'Abbe Quoex. C A P D . Incidentally, Did Fr Quoex have a bobble on his biretta? Look at the first photograph in NLM. Does being a Savoyard rather than French mean that one eschews the froggy bobble?
And I hope you read, on Fr Tim's blog, his brilliant "Ten Reasons Why I Never Wash".
But, most of all, I was moved by Fr Ray Blake's piece on the Church in Iraq.
Can anyone dispute the immensely high quality of the English Catholic blogosphere?
The Ordinariate: a punch-bag for all the nutters, liars, and trendies
So I listened to the "Sunday" programme at 7.10 a.m. on the Home Service to hear what it had to say about 'Ordinariate' news. It was presented by one Ed Stourton, who, I gather, is descended from an old recusant family but at some point decided that his own sexual mores needed to be more "nuanced" than those of Christ (he followed his nuances by abandoning his wedding vows and shacking up with a BBC cutie). He should have been caned more often at Ampleforth: this morning he used a word "cacaphony", which I can only imagine is a combination of the Latin cacare and the Greek phone and presumably means "the sound one makes while defecating". His programme exemplified his own neologism to perfection.
Among the gurus on his programme, he had one Paul Vallely, who 'advises' the RC bishops of England and Wales and, a few years ago, wrote some 'Report' or other for them. This Vallely writes also for the Indescribably Boring and for Jezebel's Trumpet. You see the sort of individual he is. Needless to say, he calls himself a "cradle Catholic". He began with some remarks about the English translation of the Mass which seemed to me quite extraordinary: he said it had been changed by Rome against the inclination of the Anglophone bishops. Asked about the Ordinariate, he referred to the three men and five women who were received into full communion last Saturday as "rather dodgy characters" and said he would "rather they stayed where they were".
This clear message was hammered home by a limerick composed, we were told, by an official, card-carrying, member of the Great and the Good: Terry Waite - a bloke who caused a lot of hassle decades ago by getting himself kidnapped by 'Islamic extremists'. Here is his deathless verse, read out to the sound of approving murmurs from Stourton:
A cleric whose fondness for Rome
Made him leave both his Church and his home.
As he said his farewells
His church rang the bells
But the Romans let out a loud groan.
Somebody should explain to this opinionated bore that 'groan' rhymes neither with 'Rome' nor with 'home'. And someone should point out to this tedious semiliterate that the sentence which begins "A cleric" and then launches into a relative clause ("whose ... home") is never completed but is replaced by a new sentence beginning "As he ...". The exquisite simplicity and stylishness of the limerick form is sabotaged if both rhyme and syntax are treated with such contemptuous disrespect. Waite, like a lot of silly people, seems to think that the limerick is just an adolescent opportunity for being offensive or obscene. It isn't.
Personally, I am all for diversity. Show me an "Islamic Extremist" and I will willingly buy him a friendly G and T. But what is the use of having mullahs and ayatollahs and Al Qaeda and all that, if they cravenly chicken out of simple philanthropic duties such as that of keeping the Waites of this world carefully immured in sound-proof cellars for rather longer than the merely four years they did manage on the last occasion they got hold of him? They should try harder next time.
Stourton's programme was full of the usual guff about Tolerance. Apparently, we are not allowed to kick anybody nowadays. Except ... of course ... Anglicans who want to accept Pope Benedict's invitation. It's always Open Season for the sniggering classes to heap cheap and malevolent abuse upon them.
Please don't write in to tell me that Waite is really a Saint. If he is, run along and pray to him yourself and kindly leave me out of it.
There seems to be surprise about today's news.
Well, I did try to drop massive hints on December 18 for anybody who cared to read between the lines and didn't need everything spelt out as for toddlers.
The Five Bishops are very considerable men who have tirelessly, selflessly, done an impossible job, tending struggling oases in a parched and hopeless desert. God bless them and reward them.
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A sneak peek of Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde’s 40th birthday photoshoot has been released by her makeup artist, and they look absolutely stunning!
Recall that the award-winning actress, to celebrate her day has said that she will stage a five-day event.
The event will kick off from February 7 to 11.
According to the actress who made her acting debut in 1995 at age 17 in Venom of Justice, the week-long event will begin with a widows and orphan birthday outreach.
This, she says, will be followed by a couple’s retreat, a renaissance trip to trace the beginning of slavery and a symposium with the theme “Mental Slavery and The Emancipation Of The Black Race.
“The climax will be an Omotola grand ball to be held in Lagos,” she said.
Omotola got her first big role in the critically acclaimed film, Mortal Inheritance (1995). In the movie, she played a sickle-cell patient who fights for her life despite the odds of survival.
The film is regarded as one of Nigeria’s best movies ever made. Since then, she has starred in several blockbuster movies, including Games Women Play, Blood Sisters, All My Life, Last Wedding, My Story, The Woman in Me and a host of others.
After shooting roughly 300 straight to video movies, Omotola received her first cinematic movie role in the 2010 film, Ije.
The film was shot on locations in Jos, California and Los Angeles. Ije was the highest grossing Nollywood film at the time – a feat later broken by another film, Phone Swap (2012). That feat has since been surpassed by several other movies.
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3 weeks ago / June 21, 2019
The latest updates on local electoral information are as follows.
Forest of Dean: The postponed election in the three seat Newent and Taynton ward held on 20 June was won by Julia Gooch (Independent), Gill Moseley (Liberal Democrat) and Vilnis Vesma (Liberal Democrat).
Isle of Wight: The byelection in Whippingham and Osborne ward held on 20 June was won by Stephen Hendry. Conservative gain from an Independent who had joined the Labour Party.
Merton: The byelection in Cannon Hill ward held on 20 June was won by Jenifer Gould. Liberal Democrat gain from Labour.
Neath Port Talbot: The byelection in Pelenna division held on 20 June was won by Jeremy Hurley. He stood as an Independent candidate and succeeds another Independent.
Salford: The postponed election in Walkden South ward held on 20 June was won by Joshua Brooks. Labour gain from Conservative.
South Ribble: The postponed election in Farington West ward held on 20 June was won by Karen Walton and Stephen Thurlbourn. Conservatives hold both seats.
Wandsworth: The byelection in Furzedown ward held on 20 June was won by Graham Loveland. Labour hold.
Changes of allegiance
Arun: Tracey Baker, who was elected for the Liberal Democrats in River ward, has left the party to sit as an ‘Independent Independent’ councillor (ie not part of the Independent group).
Boston: Tracey Abbott, who was elected as an Independent for Wyberton ward, has joined the Conservative group for the purposes of committee assignments but is not a member of the party.
Cheshire East: David Marren, who was elected for the Conservative Party in Shavington ward, has been expelled from the party over criticism of the former administration.
Corby: Bob Rutt, who was elected for the Conservative Party in Rural West ward, has left the party to sit as an Independent councillor.
Conwy: Following the recent change of administration, the political groups have restructured. An Allied Independents group has been created by two former Conservative councillors Frank Bradfield (Craig y Don division) and Donald Milne (Llandrillo yn Rhos division), together with previously unaligned councillors Gareth Jones (Craig y Don division) and Anne McCaffrey (Capelulo division). Two councillors have moved from the Independent group to join Plaid Cymru: Garffild Lloyd Lewis (Llangernyw division) and Elizabeth Roberts (Betws y Coed division).
Doncaster: Nigel Cannings, who was elected as an Independent in Tickhill and Wadworth ward, has joined the Conservative Party.
Flintshire: Kevin Hughes, who was elected as an Independent councillor in Gwernymynydd division, has joined the Liberal Democrats.
Herefordshire: The ‘True Independents’ group has been formed by Bob Matthews (Credenhill division) who had been a member of the Herefordshire Independents group. Four other councillors have joined, three of whom were previously ungrouped. The True Independents are outside the administration.
Lewisham: Alan Smith, who was elected for the Labour Party in Catford South ward, has left the party to sit as an Independent councillor.
Middlesbrough: Three councillors have left the Middlesbrough Independent Councillors Association and are sitting as individual Independent councillors. They are Lee Garvey (Berwick Hills and Pallister ward), Antony High (Ayresome ward), and Ashley Waters (North Ormesby ward). Two of the three are cabinet members.
New vacancies
Hartlepool: Hart ward, after the resignation of Independent councillor Jean Robinson who was elected for the Labour Party. Term ends May next year.
City of London Corporation: Coleman Street ward, after the resignation of Common Councilman Stuart Fraser. Term ends 2021.
City of London Corporation: Farrington Within ward, after the resignation of Common Councilman Thomas Anderson. Term ends 2021.
Dates for byelections
Hartlepool: The byelection due in Hart ward will be held on 25 July.
Gloucester: The byelection due in Barnwood ward will be held on 25 July.
Gloucester: The byelection due in Podsmead ward will be held on 25 July.
City of London Corporation: The byelection due in Coleman Street ward will be held on Tuesday 30 July.
City of London Corporation: The byelection due in Farringdon Within ward will be held on Wednesday 24 July.
Stafford: An election petition has been lodged challenging the 2 May result in Haywoods and Hixon ward, which elected Alexander Brown (Conservative) and Brendan McKeown (Independent). The petitioners, from the Conservative Party, seek a recount as the total number of votes in the declared result is significantly less than would have been expected from the number of verified ballot papers.
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Neuroscience researcher exploring ketamine as depression therapy
Treatment-resistant depression can be very debilitating for patients who have tried a number of different antidepressants with no relief. Mark Niciu, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and one of the newest members of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, is studying the antidepressant mechanisms of an experimental drug that has shown to bring patients relief within hours.
Specializing in psychiatry wasn’t even on Niciu’s radar until he started taking neuroscience and psychopharmacology courses during his MD, PhD training at the University of Connecticut.
“I also love the multidisciplinary aspects of psychiatry and the opportunity to spend more time with patients than typically permitted in other areas of medicine,” he said.
During his medical training, Niciu developed an interest in the intersection between mood and alcohol use disorders, which have high comorbidity and mechanistic similarities, including effects on the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate. And later during his residency training at Yale University, he began looking into ketamine as a therapy for treatment-resistant depressive disorders.
Niciu then went on to work as a Clinical Fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health with Carlos Zarate Jr., MD, Chief of the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch. Zarate has made great strides in understanding the antidepressant effects of ketamine, although the long-term effects of the drug are still unknown.
“If someone with depression received an IV infusion of ketamine, they might feel better within hours as opposed to standard antidepressant medications, which often take weeks-to-months of daily use for efficacy,” Niciu said.
The first study of ketamine’s rapid-acting antidepressant effects was completed at Yale in 2000. In 2006, Zarate replicated the findings and since then, “the field has just exploded,” Niciu said.
Although still an off-label or experimental therapy, ketamine clinics have popped up all over the country for the treatment of depression and other psychiatric conditions. Another major focus has been the development of alternatives to IV administration. One potential option is an intranasal spray. The University of Iowa, led by William Coryell, MD, professor of psychiatry, recently participated in a multisite industry-sponsored clinical trial examining the efficacy of intranasal esketamine in treatment-resistant depression.
In his clinical and translational research, Niciu has been particularly intrigued by the finding that patients with a family history of alcohol use disorder have an enhanced and longer antidepressant response to ketamine, compared to those without familial risk for alcoholism.
“If you have a first degree relative with alcoholism and you received ketamine, your antidepressant efficacy on average may be improved,” he said.
Niciu has been working to understand the mechanisms and develop biomarkers of ketamine’s fast-acting antidepressant response, especially in this particular patient population where the effect seems to be stronger and longer-lasting. In animal models of depression and clinical populations, ketamine has rapid effects on brain circuitry and synaptic plasticity.
“In depressive illness there’s an overall weakening of synaptic contacts,” Niciu said, adding that ketamine has been shown to increase the strength of connections in key areas of the brain that have been shown to play a role in mood disorders, such as the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus.
How ketamine does this so quickly is still a contested issue. One idea is that ketamine leads to a glutamate surge in the brain which ultimately strengthens the synaptic connections between neurons.
Niciu hypothesizes that patients who have a family history of alcohol abuse have a more pronounced glutamate release leading to enhanced synaptic plasticity. In addition to this clinical research, he will continue to investigate ketamine’s cellular and molecular effects in stem cell-derived “brain in a dish” models, which he started during his fellowship at the NIMH.
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Martian 'Perseverance Valley' in Perspective (Vertical Exaggeration)
Close-up of a Mars Meteorite
Cleaning a Martian Meteorite
A slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars placed inside an oxygen plasma cleaner, which removes organics from the outside of surfaces. This slice will likely be used here on Earth for testing a laser instrument for NASA's Mars 2020 rover; a separate slice will go to Mars on the rover.
Martian meteorites are believed to be the result of impacts to the Red Planet's surface, resulting in rock being blasted into the atmosphere. After traveling through space for eons, some of these rocks entered Earth's atmosphere. Scientists determine whether they are true Martian meteorites based on their rock and noble gas chemistry and mineralogy. The gases trapped in these meteorites bear the unique fingerprint of the Martian atmosphere, as recorded by NASA’s Viking mission in 1976. The rock types also show clear signs of igneous processing not possible on smaller bodies, such as asteroids.
This artist concept shows the location of the RIMFAX instrument on the next rover scheduled to launch for Mars.
Artist Concept for RIMFAX
These two images illustrate the value of being able to identify different compositions at very small scales.
The Importance of Nested Scales of Observations, Fine Scales
An animated flyover of the Martian surface explains why Mars’ Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide ancient lake-delta system, is the best place for Mars 2020 to find and collect promising sampl...
Mars 2020 Target: Jezero Crater
This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying a Mars rock outrcrop.
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #2
Rohit Bhartia of NASA's Mars 2020 mission holds a slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars. This slice will likely be used here on Earth for testing a laser instrument for...
A Martian Meteorite for Mars 2020
This high-definition image was taken on Sept. 7, 2018, during the third and final test flight of the ASPIRE payload. It was the fastest inflation of this size parachute in history and created a pea...
ASPIRE Parachute
A technician works on the descent stage for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission inside JPL’s Spacecraft Assembly Facility. Mars 2020 is slated to carry NASA’s next Mars rover to the Red Plan...
JPL Tech Works Mars 2020 Descent Stage
JPL engineers are working on a small helicopter that could 'scout' a trail for future Mars rovers, but getting a chopper that could fly in the Martian atmosphere is tricky.
Crazy Engineering: Mars Helicopter
This Mars map depicts the final four locations under consideration for the landing site of Mars 2020.
Mars 2020's Final Four
This illustration depicts the mechanism and conceptual research targets for an instrument named Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals, or SHERLOC.
Ultraviolet Instrument for Mars 2020 Rover is SHERLOC
This artist's concept is loosely based on the Curiosity rover in NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. Mission planners would potentially leverage aspects of this rover design for a Mars ...
Mars Rover Artist's Concept
This calibration target for Mars 2020's SHERLOC instrument includes five samples of spacesuit material, the first to ever be flown to the Red Planet. By studying how these samples degrade in th...
Spacesuit Material Going to Mars
This artist concept shows the Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, which will travel with NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate ...
Mars Helicopter (Artist's Concept)
This is an artist concept of the Atlas V541 launch vehicle that will carry NASA's Curiosity rover on its way to Mars.
Curiosity Launch Vehicle, Artist's Concept
An artist's rendering of the SuperCam instrument aboard the next generation Mars rover scheduled to visit the Red Planet in 2020.
Artist's Concept of the SuperCam Instrument for Mars 2020 Rover
This is the first Mars flight hardware that has been designed, assembled & tested at NASA-Johnson Space Center, led by Jacobs/JETS Chief Scientist Trevor Graff.
SHERLOC Calibration Target in the Clean Room
This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying its surroundings.
Planning for NASA's 2020 Mars rover envisions a basic structure that capitalizes on the design and engineering work done for the NASA rover Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012, but with new sci...
Artist's Concept of Mars 2020 Rover
This image shows major components of NASA's Mars 2020 mission in the High Bay 1 clean room in JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility.
Mars 2020 Components in High Bay
This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying rocks with its robotic arm.
The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability and potential of heavier...
On June 21, 2019, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory install the main robotic arm on the Mars 2020 rover.
At Arm's Length
More than 1,500 individual pieces of carbon fiber, flight-grade aluminum, silicon, copper, foil and foam go into a Mars Helicopter.
This Helicopter is Going to Mars
The first flight of an advanced supersonic parachute system for Mars 2020. The test took place on Oct. 4, 2017 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia.
NASA's Mars 2020 Supersonic Parachute: Test Flight #1
In this image, taken on June 13, 2019, engineers prepare the starboard legs and wheels — otherwise known as the mobility suspension — for integration onto NASA's Mars 2020 rover.
This Is What a Pit Stop Looks Like at JPL
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2B: Bryan Dwyer
BROCKTON, Mass. ---- The Massasoit baseball team scored six times in the eighth inning to break the game open and received a strong pitching performance from starter Jake Morris en route to a 12-2 victory against Holyoke CC on Thursday afternoon.
With the win, Massasoit evened up its league record at 2-2 and sits at 3-9 overall for the season.
HCC jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first, by collecting three two-out hits in the frame.
From there, it was Morris' game into the eighth, retiring the side in order in four of the next six innings. The righty allowed just the two first inning runs (one earned) off eight hits, struck out four and walked two in seven-plus innings of work. Morris (1-1) also received plenty of support from his defense, as the Warriors spun a trio of double plays in the win.
Things did get a little dicey for Massasoit in the top of the eighth. Leading 6-2, Morris put the first two runners on and was lifted for fellow freshman Tim DeCouto (Whitman). The righty did his job, retiring the next three batters in order to keep the four-run lead intact to earn the save.
From there, the momentum followed Massasoit to the batter's box as the home squad erupted for six runs to close out the 12-2 win in eight innings.
Offensively, the Warriors finished with 12 hits, two each from Nick Andrews (Raynham), Bryan Dwyer (Abington) and Dylan Ashburn (Norton). Ashburn knocked in four, Andrews posted two RBI and Dwyer scored three times in the win.
After three straight games, the Warriors are off until Saturday, with a doubleheader at Quinsigamond slated for 12 PM.
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Teaching Innovation: The Use of Useless Worlds
bySam Hollon
"World building" is a powerful tool once realized only by storytellers. Now it's on the verge of transforming education.
Three hundred audience members at the University of Southern California left their seats. They stood up, gathered into small groups, received decks of colorful cards, talked, and wrote. The groups comprised members from fields spanning education to urban planning and game development to linguistics. Over the course of the ten-hour workshop, a website filled up in real time with writing, photos, and artwork with as much diversity as its creators’ backgrounds — all describing the island nation of Rilao, which, strictly speaking, does not exist.
Built from the DNA of multiple real world cities, the Rilao Project is a vast fictional world initiated and developed by the USC World Building Media Lab and world building classes at USC Cinematic Arts, Media Arts and Practice . . . Rilao is a fictional city that is meant to function as a narrative laboratory for the future, building organically from defined rule sets and massive collaboration. While Rilao has the conditions and elements of a real city, its fictional status allows us to imagine possibilities that aren’t governed by city planning, political constraints, etc. It is a space that dares cities, institutions and industries more broadly, to dream. (World Building Media Lab, USC School of Cinematic Arts)
Creators, innovators, and educators around the globe are in the process of discovering a tool once largely seized upon only by storytellers. That tool is world building.
What Is World Building?
In the context of world building, a world is a space in which people, places, objects, systems, ideas, and feelings can exist. Worlds can be more or less separate from, secondary to, our own, primary, world, or exist within it.
The universe of Harry Potter is an example of a secondary world. It contains not only the stories and characters of J. K. Rowling’s novels, but also house elves, quidditch, Hogwarts, holiday celebrations, atmosphere, feelings, and ideas — all the implied possibilities, pieces of context, and implications that lend themselves to further storytelling. George Orwell’s 1984 is another secondary world, but one that has more directly entered the primary world through its impact on popular consciousness around totalitarianism, surveillance, and language. New York City can also be understood as a world, one so iconic that it has inspired its own reconstruction in the forms of novels, movies, paintings, and YouTube videos beyond number. Of course, New York is also a world you can visit, live in, and physically and culturally affect. In other words, it’s a firmly rooted piece of the primary world.
Taking the concept of worlds a step further, we can understand every physical, social, and cultural environment as a world. World building is the process of designing or changing a world, and we’re doing it all the time without realizing it through our interactions with others.
If you’d like a longer introduction to the concept of world building, you can read my earlier article here.
From Media to Education
Until the last several decades, world building was largely viewed as relevant to authors, specifically fantasy and sci-fi authors creating worlds without any clear, direct impact on society beyond entertainment. Then game designers realized the potential of world building for creating immersive, interactive experiences. From there the use of world building began spreading through other forms of media — visual art, cinema, virtual reality. Simultaneously, academia became increasingly interested in understanding world building in relation to literature and storytelling, perhaps in part as a result of shifting attitudes toward speculative fiction.
The benefits of world building to media are clear: a novel can support a story, a character can support a series of novels, and a world can support any number of characters. World-centered thinking can also provide an additional, useful lens for understanding and contextualizing those characters and their stories. The Marvel franchise is a prominent example of world building at work, with the Marvel Cinematic Universe tying together initially unconnected storylines into a relatively unified whole.
But the power of world building doesn’t stop with media. We’re now living in the next phase of the maturation of world building, and education is the next frontier. World building is a powerful tool for three ends that are increasingly crucial to 21st-century education. Those are:
motivating learning,
teaching creativity,
and preparing innovators.
These specific uses correspond to three broad functions of world building:
engagement,
thought experiments,
and lived environments.
We’ll explore each of these functions in turn in relation to how they apply to education and innovation.
World Building to Motivate Learning: Worlds as Engagement
World building is inherently engaging when meeting its own goals. Here’s a definition that helps illuminate the reason for this:
Definition A: World building is the process of creating frameworks (worlds) for stories and other designs to spring from and inhabit.
Put differently, world building is about discovering and constructing creative spaces that you want to explore and that not only contain current things, ideas, and content but suggest further creations, typically including narratives. (All the movies, TV shows, books, and games in the Star Wars franchise cannot encompass the whole of the world of Star Wars. That world will continue to suggest new characters and plotlines and is the reason for the incredible number of Star Wars productions and spinoffs.) Those creations then become part of the world framework and open new paths of interest, leading to yet more creations. And so on. The more engaging a framework, the more expansively and intricately it will be built; the more a framework is built, in general, the more engaging it is, by virtue of having more potential “hooks” for expansion.
What does this mean for world building as an educational tool? Framing learning within a world framework lends context and purpose to content being learned and autonomy to the learners. In self-directed learning environments, those qualities are central.
“Scenario” or “mission” framing is a longstanding way to make projects more engaging for students. Take, for example, problem solving using environmental science or social psychology or engineering to sustain a fictional Mars colony. The scenario is fun, yes; potentially interactive, like a game; and grounds the learning experience. But take the fiction further, and the magic begins.
Extending from a scenario — a largely linear “plot” — to a world with clear knowns and generative rules amplifies the grounding effect by creating a deeper context for learned content and provides feedback for student decisions, suggesting additional routes to explore and allowing for high levels of student autonomy. Perhaps students have a set of initial resources at their disposal and know, or must discover, the effects on those resources of success or setbacks for each possible solution in their Mars mission. What approaches to the mission best use those resources? What additional research is required by those approaches? What alternate missions, unexplored or merely implied, might replenish the resources required for assigned tasks? Just as a world can support many characters’ stories, it can support many learners’ autonomous scenarios.
AHB Community School is a K–8th grade alternative school in Austin Texas. Every Friday, the school offers an optional Friday enrichment program, Game of Village.
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Each game has a setting with a geographical location and historical time period as well as a minimal storyline introducing a conflict. Villagers (students) make three-inch-tall Peeps (avatars) out of various materials.
Game of Village is a hands on role playing game designed to de-mystify the adult world . . . Through play, we design, build and bring to life, an historically accurate scale model village. We explore a range of building techniques, histories, social studies, governments, civics, cultures, applied math and more. Collaboration, cooperation and creative problem solving are all daily fare in Village. Villagers open businesses, apply for jobs, attend college, participate in their local government and more. Each game is inherently unique and arises from the imaginations of the players themselves. For this reason Villagers may play year after year, learning more about themselves and the world around them as they play. (Game of Village)
The director of Game of Village, Cheryl Kruckeberg, describes the program in more detail here.
Using world building as engagement works just as well throughout adulthood as it does with children. The Interactive PlayLab is a company that taps into the engagement potential of world building, designing interactive performances, which the PlayLab defines as “any experience in which the ‘audience’ become co-creators of a fictional narrative.” The company’s goal is to “[transform] everyday life through serious play.”
Play is a powerful process. It is a means by which we “try on” the roles that we may adopt. Children have license to play. As we grow older, we come to think of the roles we are playing as “who we are.” The opportunities to play new roles seem to be fewer, occurring mostly when a new role is thrust upon us, like becoming a new parent. The capacity to discover new facets of ourselves through play exists at any age, but the older we get, the more it seems that our “license to play” has been revoked. Wirth Creative believes in the power of play and creates experiences in which individuals rediscover their capacity to play, in ways that are both illuminating and empowering. (Interactive PlayLab)
The PlayLab creates a range of digital and mixed-media performances and interactive fictions layered on top of real-world locations such as Austin, Texas. While playing in new environments, participants get out of their everyday roles, are allowed and encouraged to explore choices and themes they wouldn’t otherwise, and are invited into an environment where they can grow personally and creatively.
Programs like Game of Village and the Interactive PlayLab leverage the contextualizing and generative power of world building. As one aspect of a world framework emerges, it asks others to be expanded. The potential of world frameworks, however, does not stop at engagement — it creates bridges and it reframes.
World Building to Teach Creativity: Worlds as Thought Experiments
The core process of world building entails and teaches creative thinking. Let’s return to our definition of world building:
Here’s an alternate definition:
Definition B: World building is asking and elaborating on a question through answers and further questions.
The process of making (and challenging) assumptions and then finding, formulating, and answering questions is central to creativity. If you can be good at those things, you can be highly creative. World building differs from general creativity in that worlds are designs with the specification that they be able to house additional designs. The questions, ultimately, are the goal, and the answers are extensions of a thought experiment rather than direct solutions to a problem.
Answering and the work it entails is a powerful, straightforward way to develop and practice creativity. It requires and trains three key skills:
asking productive questions,
providing answers,
and making connections.
In our initial, scenario-style lesson frame, students in the class work toward a mission to sustain a colony on Mars. Problems arise within the scenario, the students learn skills to overcome those problems, and they are (hopefully) excited and engaged while they do it. To extend that scenario to a world, we created a set of knowns that students could ask questions about, affect, and base decisions on. The grounding and contextualizing effects of being placed in a world allow for more creative solutions than learning in a void — this is a part of what we mean by the “generativity” of world building. Still, however, students could only ask those questions, manipulate resources, and make decisions in-world. That is, as if they were characters living in that world. They’re world building, but in a highly limited way.
To make learners a full part of building the world alongside or independently of instructors means shifting students’ choices in answering questions about the world from actions (e.g. “We increase each family’s fuel ration.”) to assertions (“Fuel is scarce in the colony since the incident in ’68.”). Students are enabled to ask the questions — any questions — that form the core questions of the world and the assumptions it makes. The answers can come from outside research or experience, emerge from the established world framework, or, nearly always, from both. Regardless, the learners become the direct source of answers. Full ownership of the world is in their hands.
The primary role of instructors becomes to facilitate collaboration among learners and steer the world building project toward asking productive questions. Finding the right questions is perhaps the most difficult task in world building. (For this reason, despite all the specialized and elaborate tools created by writers, interactive designers, and world building enthusiasts, simple checklists of world building questions are a mainstay of world building resources.) With a large number of creators, this task becomes doubly challenging and important. Ideally, all questions about a world could be explored. But, as each question leads to several more, this quickly becomes impossible. Instead, for an effective world building effort, instructors and students must work together to create a system, a central plan, a way to focus all creators on a common set of questions, with a system for how to select answers.
There are as many ways to carry out world building as there are world builders. However, in creating a productive system, particularly in collaborative world building, the general principles of good design apply:
Empathize with your audience and understand its needs.
Clearly define the problem you’re trying to solve.
Generate many, innovative solutions by challenging assumptions.
Create a prototype by selecting and combining solutions.
Test your solutions.
Repeat the process above, iterating until you reach a final solution.
Over the last year, I’ve been designing and testing a general system for collaborative world building for the web app WorldLab. The steps follow the design process above but connect it explicitly to making worlds:
Define the end goal for your world building.
Clearly state the world’s premise, a foundational set of truths about the world, an initial “what if.”
Ask questions about the implications of the facts established about the world (starting with the premise), and generate many answers.
Select and combine answers to establish as true within the canon of the world.
Eliminate inconsistencies.
Repeat the process above, iterating until the world’s canon is large and detailed enough for your purposes.
Projects at the World Building Media Lab do an excellent job of balancing student-led work with a clear path and set of outside resources provided by faculty. Both the process and the product bring out creativity. Here’s one example of a world built at the Media Lab:
In early 2017, the [World Building Media Lab] began a major collaboration with the USC Bridge Institute at the Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience in USC’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, with additional support from Havas XVIII, to create a fully experiential virtual world in a single cell, using metaphors of the complex systems of a city. The goal is to use storytelling and world building to present scientific detail in ways that are engaging and approachable for both laymen and experts. By creating a virtual Cell as a City, based on the structure and function of a pancreatic beta cell, we will allow people to explore a rich biochemical world while engaging concepts, pathways, and implications through narrative, all backed by scientific rigor.
The World in a Single Cell project brings together a broadly interdisciplinary team of scientists, storytellers, artists, programmers, and conceptual thinkers, all with a proven track record of creating the next wave of content and experiences. This project has healthcare, educational, and STEM aspects and outcomes, as well as providing an opportunity to further empower women moving into (and staying in) the scientific education and training pipelines. This project can also flip 180 degrees to look at ways that nature’s pathways and processes might inform and be applied to future city design. We also envision that our “Cell City” can serve as an extensible framework/platform where other scientists can add their results, expand details, and connect related work.
Our long-term goal is to create a rich and diverse world that scales from atomic to cell to organ to human. Immersive media like virtual reality provide a unique portal into systems both large and small, and when combined with narrative elements based on scientific rigor, promises to enable a new generation of education, research, and collaboration. (World Building Media Lab, USC School of Cinematic Arts)
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Through planning and expanding a world framework, learners practice creativity by asking productive and open-ended questions, finding answers, and sorting through knowns, drawing on both outside learning and the information internal to the world framework. One effect of this inquiry-driven process is that it ignores arbitrary boundaries between subjects, disciplines, and individual media. To create well-rendered worlds requires and enables a more holistic — or more peculiar — approach than is taken in traditional learning environments. In these ways, world building trains learners to uncover connections and ask questions new to the primary world.
World Building to Prepare Innovators: Worlds as Lived Environments
World building underpins and empowers innovation. To understand why this is, let’s first return to the design thinking process:
That methodology allows for creative solutions that solve pressing problems affecting real people. World building is particularly relevant to three of these steps: (1) understand your audience and its needs; (3) generate many, innovative solutions by challenging assumptions; and (4) create a prototype by selecting and combining solutions.
Here’s yet another definition of world building:
Definition C: World building is the shaping of the experience — context — of a person or character.
This definition is different (at least in emphasis, if not in implication) from the first two in that it introduces perspective. In our original scenario, students took on in-world perspectives, making decisions and being led to information by the pressures exerted on characters within our fictional Mars colony (read Stant Litore’s book here if you’d like to explore further how worlds translate to pressures). We all have in-world perspectives in our lived environments, in the primary world. In the last section, we shifted to out-of-world perspectives, students making what-if assertions, following their curiosity about the world, and releasing assumptions.
When actively world building from either perspective — in-world and out-of-world — world builders’ attention and imagination are drawn down paths different from the well-trodden routes that are ordinarily accessible in daily life. Questions that aren’t normally relevant jump out, and answers spring from the framework. World builders’ creative intuition changes to fit the environment at hand, this other world.
There are creative advantages and disadvantages to each of the two perspectives, however. As an out-of-world world builder, you can freely define the experience of those in-world. But in-world world builders know that experience far better and know better its implications. This means that the ability to empathize with those in-world is extraordinarily important to out-of-world world builders.
The full power of world building comes to bear when you marry the two perspectives. For example, another project from the World Building Media Lab:
Dry City imagines a future in which water has been privatized, commodified, and transformed into currency in the wake of global economic disaster.
Inspired in part by the award-winning work of Kunlé Adeyemi and his architecture, design and urbanism company NLÉ, the 2015–2016 world building class of student architects, interactive media designers, musicians, engineers, urban planners, animators, filmmakers and artists chose to focus on the Nigerian city of Lagos and its neighborhood of Makoko in the mid-2030s due to Lagos’ rapid urbanization, Nollywood influence, booming economy, and growing population . . .
Following the [World Building Media Lab’s] world-centric narrative design methodology, the students collaboratively envisioned multiple interlocking and holistic aspects of this future world, deeply grounded in research into real present-day Lagos conducted through texts, videos, articles, and interviews with guest speakers from Nigeria, Lagos and Makoko and experts in various fields . . .
Keeping a human lens firmly at the center of the world build, each student developed a character and then envisioned a day in their character’s life, imagining everything from the contents of a character’s purse to their daily routine from hour to hour. This bottom-up speculation enriched the students’ understanding of Makoko, Lagos, and the larger world in 2036 . . .
These explorations use a wide range of media and platforms, including app prototypes, physical artifacts, photography and web-based graphic design, fictional blogs, a film festival and experimental social media storytelling. (World Building Media Lab, USC School of Cinematic Arts)
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Dry City draws on the primary world with real stories, facts, and data; it asks vital questions: “How will rapidly growing cities adapt to water shortage? How will people live in those cities?”; it envisions and details a place so dynamic and intricate and engaging that we primary worlders can picture life there; it places learners there to empathize with and to extrapolate out the situation of the world’s inhabitants; and it asks new questions: “How should we plan cities for future water shortage? How should we plan communities in 2018?” Those and endless further questions. By the nature of world building, Dry City proposes “innovative solutions” that “challenge assumptions” and “prototypes” those solutions in a fictional, constructed environment.
How might we translate “answers” from Dry City into solutions that are relevant, applicable, and timely in the lived environments of the primary world? What insights can we gather by world building frameworks and viewpoints? What insights do we miss by sticking to the primary world? World building expands our imaginative capabilities and, when combined with empathy, prepares us to make real-world innovations.
The Use of Useless Worlds
World building began with the storytellers and quirky game developers. Then it spread across media. Now it’s moving to education as educators and companies realize what it is. It’s a way of creating frameworks that ask to be expanded and drive us to learn more. It’s a way of formulating a question, linking it to others, and teaching us to find answers. It’s a way to bridge lived environments and new perspectives, guiding us toward a better actuality. World building at its best — that is, when it asks questions that speak honestly to the issues facing our own world — trains us to ask what-ifs well, allows us to picture outwards, and sparks us into action. Then, world building transcends from imaginative entertainment to applied imagination.
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Getting our summer on
Finally set up our bikes to carry the kids and went for a ride and a barbeque by the big brown Wisła, all full of foam and swirling brown water from the southern rains. They had no objection to travelling this way and were happy to have their own (hideous gendered) helmets at last.
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Comparisons are odious
This is what my mother used to tell us when our constant competitive childhood ranking (his is better, his is bigger, she got more!) was getting her goat. It sounds like a piece of wisdom inherited from her own mother, and possibly used for the same purpose.
I make them anyway. It’s a constant source of amazement to me, how different my children are. I could touch each of their bodies with one finger and know whose it was- Janek’s dense wombat-flesh, Maja’s springy little muscles. I watch their different kinds of bravery- Maja, who hides behind my leg and wards off strangers with a murderous scowl, has no qualms about sliding headfirst down the slippery-dip. Janek is devoid of any fear whatsoever of unknown humans, and goes about the playground stretching out his arms to other people’s Babcias, saying try!try! (this is what they say when they want to do something and need help).
Their absolute and irrefutable difference has saved me endless mothering guilt, in particular over Janek’s eczema, which I would otherwise think was my fault. It’s one of the biggest advantages of twins- seeing the way they turn out to be themselves, regardless.
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Conversations with my daughter
Do you want to go back to bed? No, no, no.
Is Babi coming today? tak, tak, tak. (emphatic nodding of the head).
Holy mother of God- she is talking back! She also has her first bilingual words- shoes/buty and light/ lampa. It’s like the walking – I know everybody does it, but when my kids do, I am amazed and delighted.
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Why having children doesn’t mean social death
Who knew? Because when you don’t have children, all the staying home at night because you don’t have a babysitter, all the not going to restaurants because your kids will wallow in the sugar bowl and then smash it into a thousand pieces, all the I’m- too -tireds and I-can’t-because-it’s- nap- times seem to mean it’s all over. But I, ladies and gentlemen, would like to report, both truthfully and optimistically, that it’s not.
My first inkling came when I managed to find a mother’s group. We would meet once a week in a yoga studio, do yoga for a while (our kids were still tiny, and only one was ambulatory), and then talk about our tribulations- about our experience of birth and feeding, about what had happened to our relationships, about what had happened to us. Most of us were on our first babies, and still reeling. Contact with strangers is harder to make in Poland, but we seemed to have created a charmed circle where the usual rules of standoffishness didn’t apply. We would share our dark secrets amongst a chorus of wails, and I would go home feeling slightly less shipwrecked.
I also have another set of new friends which my children have brought me . A couple of months after they were born, looking for some connection, I joined a Facebook group of women who had twins due around the same time that mine were. Most of them are in the States, but some are in Europe, one in Australia, one in the Gambia. It’s secret group, which means that our ‘real’ friends can’t see anything that we write there. And oh, how they save my sanity. Together we have obsessed over sleep, over feeding, over the weights and skin conditions and moods and teeth of our offspring. Many of us have older kids, and one has already produced a younger sibling for her twins.
But it’s not only about children. When I get a new job which I desperately want to boast about, I boast to them. When one of their husbands is diagnosed with MS, she tells us. We confess our pain, our fear, our isolation, our triumphs. We advise each other and commiserate and cheer each other on. It’s the internet, and we are total strangers, and engaged in that most competitive of businesses-motherhood-, but we are gentle with each other, and unjudgmental.
And then there are the playground friends. At the mummy-cafe, I met an Austrian who takes care of his daughter while his wife works, and a Frenchman who does the same. We go to the playground, and try not to lose our children or let them kill themselves, while engaging in desultory conversation about all manner of things. The Frenchman divulges his plan to become a failed writer (“I’m well on my way”,) the Austrian tells me about his hobby of motorbike racing and shows me a picture of the 6 screws and a metal plate he had put in his knee after an accident. We cover the usual- food, sleep, a quick boast about new achievements- and then are free to talk about ourselves.
I expect it to go on like this, more or less. There will be preschool and school, and they will have friends whose parents I might like or not, but they will bring us into the orbit of people we would never otherwise have met. I don’t expect each and every one of them to be my bosom buddies, but it makes me realise that maybe kids aren’t tyrannical little jailers after all.
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16 month lexicon
It occurs to me that these are the final moments when I will be able to even attempt counting the words that the kids know, and I will likely want to remember at some point what was going on when they started talking, so here is a list of words they use at the moment. Besides these words, they also have a repertoire of yelps and gasps to express surprise and shock.
bath (this word leads to a frantic rush to the bathroom and desperate attempts to tear off clothes and climb into the bath)
uwaga (look out!)
no,no,no, no, accompanied by a wagging finger
daj! (or try)
doon-doon (a word used in my family for generations to describe a cave made out of sheets or blankets)
lampa (light)
nana (all food and drink)
gloom (this clearly means milk, though I have no idea where it came from)
pić (drink)
tak (yes), maybe?
butybutybutybutybuty (shoesshoesshoesshoesshoes)
papa (byebye)
hauhau (woof woof- apparently this covers all animal noises, so koalas and cats also say hauhau)
tam (there)
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In the USA, Google-owned Boston Dynamics released a video this week of their latest Atlas robot.
Atlas is 175 centimetres tall and weighs 81 kilograms. In the video, he takes a walk in the woods over uneven and snowy ground. He picks up boxes. He gets to his feet after being knocked over. He follows a box being dragged in front of him.
These simple things alone represent a considerable advancement in robotics technology. How long before your local shelf stacker at the supermarket looks something like a friendly Terminator?
The wave of technological innovation keeps getting bigger and bigger.
The innovation and investment happening now
Google (officially called Alphabet these days) has been busy. While the robotics division has been playing with Atlas, the company announced new a dictation tool on Google Docs.
It’s Silicon Valley’s latest move to make the keyboard obsolete, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Perhaps more important is what’s fuelling the advance in dictation tech: artificial intelligence that helps computers decipher what people are saying.
The WSJ further notes that Google’s speech recognition technology is now so good it can automatically generate captions for YouTube videos.
Get used to interacting with computers. Let’s hope their listening skills are better than mine.
That’s not all. Google also announced on Wednesday that it’s going to add Google Fiber to parts of San Francisco. That’s the 11th US city with a planned, or existing, Fiber network, delivering speeds of one gigabit a second. The major cities of Los Angles and Chicago might be next.
I reported on this last year and will say the same thing now. Google Fiber is laying something like 21st century railroad tracks across the continental US, like the railroad barons of the 19th century.
Instead of carrying cargo, these tracks carry data and information. But they will drive innovation and productivity higher in the same way.
That’s something to keep an eye on in the future. But, right now, the tech world is turning its attention to one thing only.
It might be the biggest shift since the personal computer…
An industry bigger than the personal computer?
Imagine for a moment you’re walking across a wooden plank over a deep, rusted pit.
How would you feel if someone asked you to step off it?
Software worker Erin Bell didn’t feel safe enough to move at all.
Here’s the kicker, according to the Wall Street Journal back in January:
‘In reality, Ms. Bell was walking on a carpet with a virtual-reality headset strapped to her face. “I knew I was in a virtual environment,” she said later, “but I was still afraid.” ’
Yes, virtual reality headsets are about to hit the market in March and April.
You can see from Ms Bell’s example how powerful this technology is already.
Some analysts are touting that Virtual Reality (VR) will be as game changing as the PC and smart phone. Could it be even bigger?
Quite possibly. One company to keep an eye on is Oculus, because they’re at the forefront of VR technology.
The Oculus virtual reality system is called the ‘Rift’. It’s due to launch in April.
Why Facebook paid $2 billion dollars for this company
Oculus was the brainchild of 23 year old Palmer Luckey. He sold Oculus to Facebook Inc. [NASDAQ:FB] for $2 billion in May 2014.
Some say they overpaid, but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. He’s positioned his company at the centre of this industry.
Zuckerberg believes VR will become the next major computing platform, changing how we live, work, and communicate.
Or, as he puts it…
‘Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face – just by putting on goggles in your home.’
‘The reason we’re interested in it as a social company is because we think this is going to be a new way people interact.‘
VR creates a totally new and intuitive way to interact with your environment, using hand gestures and a graphical 3D interface.
In the long run, the VR headset could become as lightweight as a set of glasses.
Right now most people associate VR with video games. Developers in the gaming space have been the first to recognise the potential.
But other industries are following.
For example, the American home improvement company Lowes uses the technology to help customers envision their household remodelling plans. Lowes wants a competitive advantage in the US home improvement market.
Sotheby’s is beginning to show luxury homes in VR. If we extrapolate this trend, it won’t be long before any real estate buyer can tour a house from their living room. Think of the savings in time — and money — and potential for international buyers.
VR will stream live events like sports and concerts, solving the problem of limited seating. Any event will be available to anyone, anywhere. Watching in VR will essentially make you feel like you’re physically attending with the best seat in the house.
VR may also be the future of movies, where you can be completely immersed in the film.
The list of potential applications for VR is endless. This is why over at Cycles, Trends and Forecasts we say we’re living in a time of prodigious technological innovation — probably unmatched in human history.
Advances in self-driving cars, synthetic biology, 3d printing, robotics and energy are brewing what we’re forecasting as the biggest boom of all-time over the next 10 years.
Taken from an article by: Callum Newman at Money Morning
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Bev said she was taking a day for herself and I was delighted to oblige. She was no picnic when she wanted to be alone. She was out the door almost before I gave her my answer. I heard her car start and heard it stall because she never followed my advice to let it warm up for half a freaking minute. Then she was gone.
So what now? I always felt short of time and now that I had some I couldn't think of an interesting way to use it. And what would happen when Bev returned on a loop of discovery because she'd forgotten the checkbook and found me exactly where she had left me, except for the first thin coating of dust? I got a move on.
About loops of discovery: Our lives are one big loop of discovery, if we're paying attention. But within this ultimate loop turn infinite smaller loops we aren't aware of until they close, the closing heralded by a small moment of understanding. Loops can have such a long time frame--a marriage, a childhood--that we're barely aware of them. The shortest loop I've experienced is the one that opened me up to the whole idea.
It was at a movie with Bev. A winter matinee. After the show we climbed back into our parkas and hats and set off for the rear exit, thinking it would discharge us close to our car. But when we pushed the door open we realized that we had been turned around by the multiplex's interior maze and our car was parked on the opposite side of the building. We backtracked, and there in the aisle, by our seats, was one of my gloves. The loop closed so fast I laughed. Bev asked why. I tried to explain but the idea was new in my head and I could hear myself confusing her.
"Sounds like luck to me," she said.
The discovery, the under-standing, at the end of a loop can also be painful. At work it was my habit to leave the quadrant of cubicles I shared with (clockwise from me) Kelly, Shelly, and Floyd at three o'clock every afternoon to purchase an extra-large iced tea with lemon and mint and to dispose of two to four minutes watching other people engaged in their own loops of discovery. Before leaving my desk, I asked my quadrant mates if they wanted anything while I was out and they were polite enough to say no.
While I waited for the elevator a bolt of lightning glazed the lobby window. I circled back for the collapsible umbrella I kept in my bottom drawer.
Floyd was at my desk. Shelly and Kelly were turned toward him in laughing communion. He was doing an impression of me. It was pretty good. My reappearance caused such a gush of embarrassment that I felt bad for them. Bev would have called my unexpected return, or unexpected discovery, bad luck. I would have said I learned something about myself: Cut down the noise when I'm eating.
First stop on my day alone was a mall near our town house. The mall contained an art supply store where I planned to purchase a couple pounds of sculpting clay. A starter lump. I'd always meant to be an artist.
In the mall's parking lot, a woman in an oversize GMC van was trying to back out of a narrow parking space between an eight-inch-high concrete island on her left side and a Hyundai on her right. The van was onion-dip brown, venetian blinds in all the windows, a rec room on wheels.
The woman had the steering wheel turned hard to the right, compressing the driver's-side fiberglass running board against the island each time she tried to go back. Twice she got stuck, went forward until she was free, then repeated the maneuver, her steering wheel still all the way to the right.
I butted in. "Turn the wheel left," I advised. "Then go forward."
She looked built of bird parts: tiny hollow bones, feathery black hair, anxious features.
I mimed a spin of the wheel to the left.
Her eyes took me in. Still in reverse, she goosed the gas and accordioned the running board a fraction of an inch more.
"No. Left!" I spun my phantom wheel again. I wanted to reach in and turn the damn steering wheel for her. But we were just strangers in a parking lot. She might scream if my hand crossed the plane of her window. I didn't want to spend my free day sculpting a gun out of jail soap.
I jerked my thumb. "Forward!"
She put the van in park. Opened the door. "You," she said.
She hopped out. Waved me in. "You. You."
The seat was so close to the steering wheel I had to squeeze in sideways. The electric toggle switch for adjusting the seat was near the floor, and while it slowly slid back I took a moment to look around. The dash console was outfitted with a gooseneck map light and a four-hole cup caddy. A potted plant grew in one of the holes. Another held a spray bottle of water. Wind chimes played on the radio. It looked like about a mile to the rear window. The back seats had been removed and tall, slender plants in green pots filled this cavernous space wall to wall and floor to ceiling.
I turned the wheel to the left and inched the van forward until it floated free of the concrete island. The wind chimes stopped. It hadn't been the radio I'd heard but rather an interlude on a tape I now clearly heard hissing in the speakers.
A sound of trickling water commenced. A woman spoke. The van's owner leaned in through the window and reached across me to turn up the volume. I felt the oddest sensation of her imposing on me.
"Let us talk about water," the woman on the tape was saying.
"It is life and good fortune and should be used for the positive energy that it brings. A fountain or an aquarium--some form of moving water--helps stimulate qi and has a calming effect."
The air in the van was lush and shadowy, grooved by the venetian blinds. I felt very relaxed. Very at home.
"A flat mirror provides a perfect mirror image," the voice said, "so yin becomes yang and bad qi becomes good."
I backed halfway out. A passing car bounced sunlight through the van's windshield and triggered a green burst in the plants behind me. It was the briefest illumination. But enough. I hesitated a moment, then turned the wheel just enough to bring the van's front corner unnecessarily close to the Hyundai. This new difficulty gave me time to think. The woman moved with me, absorbed in the tape. I gave her a deflecting smile that I don't think she noticed.
"The xue is the ideal spot for a house. Open space in front is the ming tang. It is surrounded by the spirits of four mythical animals. The distant front view is the red bird; the black tortoise is the hill of protection at the back; azure dragon to the left; white tiger to the right."
She placed a hand on the window's rim. Maybe she had seen my phony smile. I thought I saw in her expression the first realization that she might have made a mistake inviting me to get behind the wheel.
"It is best if a stream of water runs in front of the house. The heaven qi will descend the hill and be contained by the water."
I chewed my lower lip as if frustrated by the van's enormity and the constriction of the parking space. I raised a finger to her and backed up. The van's retreat pulled her hand off the window. It was a simple maneuver to turn the wheel, to glide out of the parking space.
"You must find the center of your house."
Yes, that was it. I would go home.
The woman walked around in front of the van. I waited until she was out of the way and then I floored it. Wind through the window rattled the blinds. At the mall exit I signaled, turned, and sped away.
Far from being nervous in the van because it was stolen, I was embarrassed by the monstrous size of it, the way it ate up space, air, and natural resources. I imagined my fellow motorists resenting its existence. It's not mine, I wanted to shout out the window. Not my wide ass. Not my drag on the environment.
But it was my marijuana forest.
The woman on the tape told me: "Your life force, your good qi, wants both freedom and discipline. Treat it with respect and golden felicity. It is you. You alone know its best qualities and its qualities in need of development. Good qi needs both pampering and obstacles to press against.
I knew exactly where I would put the pot, knew the path I'd follow transporting it plant by plant from the van, through the door, across the hall, and down to the basement. A Ping Pong table awaited, currently employed as a holding area for everything lacking an assigned place of its own: magazines we meant to read, unironed laundry, repair projects put off and allowed to shame me in recollection. The table's green surface, swept clear, would be perfect for the orderly rows of plastic pots. In fact, if I wasn't mistaken, the rear of the van was the exact dimensions of a Ping Pong table.
I would read up on the project I had undertaken. I would study the dynamics of illegal plant growth. I would buy my supplies at a variety of stores to avoid a pattern of purchase that could lead to detection. How much water did they need? How much light? I had no idea when the crop would be ready. And when it was ready, what was required of me then? I hadn't smoked pot in years. The science of it, the vital details that would make it a success, were mysteries to me. I only knew I was excited because it was something new to think about; a new source of conversation, even if it had to be whispered.
I steered into our driveway and reflexively reached for the garage door remote control that was clipped to the visor of the car I'd left at the mall. As my fingers poked at nothingness an unpleasant thrill of disbelief coursed through me. What the hell was I doing? If the bird woman thought nothing of turning her van full of pot over to a stranger, she might also think nothing of calling the police to report her van full of pot had been stolen.
The woman on the tape said, "It is bad luck to have your staircase directly opposite your front door, because qi and money can run straight down and out of your life."
Bev and I lived in a town house, each town house with a one-car garage and an automatic opener. The units were laid out so we never had to see our neighbors face-to-face. We only had to listen to them through the walls.
Not much qi. Out front, where there should have been a flowing stream, was a river of traffic.
I parked in the driveway and ran for the front door. For a moment the lock stymied me. Then I noticed I was trying to use the keys I'd taken out of the van. A blue rabbit's foot. A small canister of pepper spray in a red leather thumb case. A gold letter F, weighty and ornate.
My three keys, lacking knickknacks, looked unlived in. What did my home say about me? Was my life force, my good qi, crimped and truncated by my home's meagerness, the way the rooms didn't flow into each other in a felicitous pattern? There were unexplained outjuttings of wall that we suspected were the flip side of extra space added to our neighbors' living area. We assumed they had the same complaints about us. We heard their fights, their sex, their barking azure dragons.
I went to the garage and hit the button that operated the door. It ascended in three flimsy, folding panels. The phone rang behind me.
"You're home," Bev said.
"Where are you?"
"Out and about."
"Not so easy having a day to yourself, is it?"
"Gloriously easy. Are you staying home?"
"I was out. And I'll be leaving again soon."
"Because, if you were staying home there's a mountain of laundry to be done--you could do."
"I could put in a load--"
"It's not safe to leave it."
"Might vibrate the neighbors' bowling trophies off their shelves?"
Bev laughed. I heard in that laugh the reality of our situation: she was crazy about me.
"Why did you call?"
She was not ordinarily without an answer.
"To check on me?"
"It seemed silly to not be accomplishing something at home."
"Laundry."
"For starters."
"What else?"
"A change."
"Accomplish a change?"
She was quiet for so long I had time to remember the van. "I've got to go."
"I want a baby," she said.
I could only think: she isn't so fed up that she doesn't want to have sex with me. At least once more.
"It's time. Don't you think?"
"That is a big change."
"You can handle it."
"I've gotta go."
She said nothing.
"The car's running. I just ran in."
"Run run run," she said, sounding like a kid whose surprise didn't get the desired reaction.
"It's not...I'm not saying no."
"We've been married eight years."
"Don't I know it."
"I've just been thinking. Lately. What's the...if we don't have kids, what are we doing being married?"
"You mean, the point?"
"That's too harsh. But, yeah."
I felt the call closing in on me. "Why we are married."
"Something like that."
"Exactly like that," I said.
"To be together? To...be together."
"I'm coming home."
Back outside, I found a cop was circling the van. He had a gun and a badge, but something unofficial about his appearance kept terror from consuming me. Then I realized: he was wearing bedroom slippers.
He thrust out a hand. I shook it.
"Listen. I'm off duty. Just got home. I was on my way to bed when I looked out and saw your van."
"You wear your gun at home?"
The tenor of my question wasn't what he expected. His demeanor flickered from Officer Friendly to Joe Friday then back.
He shrugged. "It's a habit. Talk to a citizen, strap on the iron." He tapped his chest. "Got my vest on, too." He smiled, in charge again. "So don't try nothing funny."
He cupped his hands around his eyes and put his eyes to the van's windshield. I expected in quick order the disbelief of discovery, the cuffs, the ride, the one phone call.
"This is a seriously long van," he said. "How long, exactly?"
"You know...I'm not sure."
He positioned himself at the left corner of the van and proceeded to pace off the length, heel to toe. I heard him counting as he passed me.
"The reason is," he said, when he had finished, "the village has an ordinance that prohibits parking a vehicle that blocks the sidewalk. And this boat is definitely blocking the sidewalk."
"You got me." I raised my hands.
A woman came around the corner then, dragged along by a German shepherd on a leash of heavy chain. The dog's wet, black plum of a nose sampled every scent the air had to offer.
"Helen!" the cop barked.
The woman's hair was planed down to a blond stubble. "His name is McGruff," she said, her eyes tiny and unadorned.
"Helen is blind and deaf," the cop said with a malign enthusiasm. "DeeDee picked him out herself. Her dream was for Helen to grow up and work for U.S. Customs."
The dog swept its nose over the left front tire of the van; definitely leaning toward being interested in something, but not quite there yet.
"The vet who examined him saw the problem right away." He laughed. "Now Helen has a seeing-eye human."
McGruff was on his hind legs, running his nose over every square inch of the driver's door he could reach.
"You want Daddy's breakfast?" DeeDee said to the dog, jerking the chain so hard it hummed.
"Deed," the cop pleaded, but with no feeling warmer than cruel amusement.
The dog left toenail trails in the sidewalk as it was dragged away.
The cop looked bottomlessly unhappy. "So I call him Helen," he said, shrugging, walking back inside.
The van's door handle was wet. Dog smell got on my palm. The interior was quiet and peaceful. I didn't feel comfortable until I was on the move again, when that van was no longer blocking the sidewalk. The forest behind me swayed in the turns.
The bird woman was on a cell phone, standing at the mouth of the parking space like she had been saving it for me. I'd been gone less than half an hour. I had so much experience driving the van that I was able to slip back into the space without any extra maneuvering.
She said something to someone on the phone, a melody of clucks and gongs. She checked the cargo, said something else, then folded the phone away.
"You!" she said.
I got out. "Yeah, sorry. Bad qi."
The word got her attention. She looked at me with new respect.
"My mistake," I said, handing her the keys. My car was over there. My wife was on her way home. She wanted a baby. I'd get the sculpting clay some other time.
"You." She slapped the van's flank and waved me into the driver's seat. I had not solved her original predicament.
"You," she said. "You."
She kept the keys in her possession until she was in the passenger's seat. She patted the driver's seat. With her hand she mimed the arc the van would make backing out of the parking space. But she would ride along this time.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Tim Anderson.
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News › Latest News
Climate advisers call for earlier ban on conventional cars
By John Wood – 12 July, 2019
The organisation that advises the Government on its strategy to deal with climate change has again called for an earlier ban on sales of new diesel and petrol cars.
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has published its 2019 report to Parliament, which highlighted areas of immediate concern, such as lack of progress on new car and van CO2 performance, EV registrations and biofuels uptake.
It also outlined specific priorities for the road transport sector in 2019/20, calling for:
• a sales ban on conventional vehicles moved to 2030-2035 (the government is still sticking to its proposed date of 2040) and clarification that this means only battery electric or other zero carbon emission vehicles will be sold after that point;
• a clearer approach to EU vehicle standards and testing;
• stronger incentives to purchase cleaner vehicles including fiscal instruments;
• plans for roll-out of zero emission HGVs and stretching targets for CO2 reductions; and
• schemes to support walking, cycling, public transport.
It also includes as priorities for the long-term:
• continued development of charging infrastructure;
• a decision on the future for HGVs in the 2020s; and
• a 98% reduction in emissions by 2050.
Other actions recommended are for a clarification of the UK regulatory approach to the EU 2020/21 new car and van CO2 targets, and for the setting of stretching CO2 targets for new cars and vans beyond 2020, requiring a high electric vehicle market share. The report says that a ‘real world’ testing regime must be used alongside standardised tests.
CCC chief executive Chris Stark said: “The next 12-18 months is key to improving our policies if we’re to stay credible globally.”
LowCVP managing director Andy Eastlake said: “Road transport was highlighted as one of the key areas of concern in terms of meeting our climate targets. We need to make real, accelerated progress in delivering effective policies over the coming period.
“As our recent Annual Conference highlighted, we must make rapid progress on the electrification of cars and vans, in particular, but we need to use all the tools in the box to tackle the hard to electrify applications, and make immediate progress with the current fleet by ensuring that the combustion fuels we use in the short to medium term are as low carbon as it’s possible to make them.”
Government advisers urge earlier ban on petrol and diesel cars
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Researcher Finds 390,000 Websites with Exposed Source Code
Tuesday Sep 4th 2018 by Developer.com Staff
Some Web developers are making it too easy to access their Git repositories.
Security researcher Vladimír Smitka said he found 390,000 Internet domains with a .git folder in a publicly accessible part of the site. That could lead to problems if the folder includes sensitive information. "Sometimes you can get very sensitive data such as database passwords, API keys, development IDE settings, and so on," Smitka said. "This data shouldn't be stored in the repository, but... I have found many, many developers that do not follow these best practices."
Smitka has notified the developers involved. "After sending the emails, I exchanged about 300 additional messages with affected parties to clarify the issue," Smitka reported. "I have received almost 2,000 thank-you emails, 30 false positives, two scammer/spammer accusations, and one threat to call the Canadian police."
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THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD - Michael Dress - "A Vértöl Csöpögö Ház" (1971)
Just got back from a couple of days in Computer Hell, and you know that's never any F'n fun! Now on the other hand, what IS fun are compilation films! "The House That Dripped Blood" is a right fine example! "A Vértöl Csöpögö Ház" is the title in Hungarian!
How many times have you said, "that would have been a pretty good movie if it would have only been about 20 minutes long?" This film is just that, and is more like four short stories, three of them having been written by one of THE top writers ever, Robert Bloch! IF you don't know who Robert Bloch is, I only have one word to say to you,"PSYCHO !"
The good thing about movies like this is that there's no time to waste!
An author of horror stories and his wife are the first victims to move into the "House That Dripped Blood."
The author's sketches of his character have come to life, and come to get him!
Everybody has a skull, it's just that most people choose to keep them inside their head!
For a guy with crappy makeup and a bad haircut, this dude really creeps me out!
Michael Dress is the composer of the music for tonight's feature, and is a mystery unto himself! Do a search for Michael Dress, and all you're going to find are sites about Michael Jackson dress up dolls! In fact, we've never had a reason to write about Michael before tonight either! Michael died at the early age of 39, but still, in that time, he managed to chalk up 9 credits that included "The Mind Of Mr. Soames" and "Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin In The Bronx!"
The second story features Peter Cushing, and was written by Russ Jones. Out of gazillions of pics, this might be the best portrait of Peter Cushing ever!
The second tale revolves around Jackie's Museum of Horror, the wax vampire is in the image of who else but Christopher Lee?
Peter is mesmerized, and falls in love with this wax figure. I don't really get it, she looks like Ozzy Osbourne to me!
The madness ensues! There were too many great shots, I probably should have done this film in four separate posts!
After teasing you with a wax version, the third story stars Christopher Lee! It doesn't hardly seem possible, but Chris Lee has more than twice as many credits, at 274 and counting, than Peter Cushing, who still had a massive amount at 131.
Chris is having some problems with his kid, he's not really that great of a parent!
Chloe Franks was twelve when this film was made! Chloe came down with rheumatoid arthritis in the 90's and is now the Director of Leadership Programmes for The Disability Partnership, an organiztion that helps out folks with disabilities!
If your kids get into drugs, it can be pretty bad, but if they get into witchcraft, it can be even worse!
The last story is about an aging actor played by Jon "Worzel Gummidge" Pertwee and his co-star, the comely Ingrid "Marcilla-Carmilla-Mircalla Karnstein" Pitt!
Jon is not happy about all the cheapness involved in his latest film, including this guy's makeup, so he goes out and buys himself an authentic looking Dracula cape! Speaking of, in the picture up there of Forry Ackerman, you see that he has on a Dracula cape! That was one of THE original capes that Bela wore in his role as Drac! I don't know who owns it now!
I glanced at this the other day, and because of that funny hammer shaped R, my mind read this as Curse of the Buttsuckers!
As it turns out, this cape is just a little too authentic, and turns Jon into a vampire!
If you didn't guess, this last tale is pretty much a comedy! I love the title of this book, "The Vampire: His Kith and Kin!"
You used to be able to rent "The House That Dripped Blood" on Netflix, but for some reason, it's no longer available! Another one bites the dust!
too beautiful for words!
Dr. Theda said...
I have not seen this horror anthology film in many years.....
Great Post....the image that really sticks in my mind is of Jon Pertwee at the end of his segment with his eyes crossed and lying on his back staked.....
Eegah!!
This is a eally good movie. It wsa he furst time I saw Jon Pertwee. One doesn't forget that.
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Ellie Goulding, Lily Allen + More Brits React to England’s World Cup Loss
Scott Barbour/Stuart Wilson, Getty Images
Every four years, the best soccer players in the world compete for their respective countries in the World Cup, and fans seem to come out of the woodwork.
On Wednesday (July 11), England played Croatia in the semi-final. The winner would go on to play France in the championship game on Sunday (July 15). England's Kieran Tripper supplied the first goal just five minutes into the game. Croatia's Ivan Perisic equalized in the second half, and then Mario Mandzukic scored a stunning goal in the final few minutes of play, giving Croatia the 2-1 win.
While Croatia will go on to play France for the World Cup title in a few short days, Brits all over the world are crying into their pints today—celebrities included.
"Heartbreaking... but beautifully played. So proud of our boys!" Ellie Goulding tweeted.
"Not coming come," Lily Allen tweeted, in reference to the England slogan "It's coming home," alongside a gif of Britney Spears crying.
"One day, It will come home. And it will feel incredible. x" James Corden lamented.
Check out the best celebrity Twitter reactions below.
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Source: Ellie Goulding, Lily Allen + More Brits React to England’s World Cup Loss
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Meghan Trainor Champions the #MeToo Movement in Colorful ‘No Excuses’ Video
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The M-train is officially back on track.
After teasing new music earlier this week, Meghan Trainor returned on Thursday (March 1) with "No Excuses," a boy-banishing girl power anthem with a pastel-saturated video to match. "You must've confused me, confused me with someone else / There ain't no excuses, excuses, babe / Your mama raised you better than that," she belts on the hip-swiveling refrain.
Trainor, whose spent the last two years undergoing surgeries for a vocal cord hemorrhage, also detailed the new song in an interview with People, explaining it was inspired, in part, by the #MeToo movement.
"When I do look back — especially to when I was 18 and 19 in the industry, talking to older adults, mansplaining was very real, and it’s still real — you feel like you’re fighting for your word, fighting to show them you do know what you’re talking about," she told the outlet. "I finally reached a point where I needed to write a song about it ... It just reminded me we need more respect in the world, and we need more respect for each other at every age."
She went on to tease her upcoming third album, for which "No Excuses" marks the first single. "We have an entire album — except one ballad — of big pop anthems with big choirs that are my family; my family’s yelling and singing on the entire album! And when you hear these songs, you’re just like, 'Wow, that’s loud and powerful,'" she continued. "I wanted to bring back some of those powerful ’80s moments and just big anthems; that’s my favorite kind of music."
Trainor last released 2016's Thank You. A release date for her new record has yet to be announced. Watch the video for "No Excuses" below.
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Batman is an American superhero film based on the Batman television series. The Dynamic Duo has to face four supervillains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Actors: Adam West ,
Adam West 19 September 1928, Walla Walla, Washington, USA
Burt Ward ,
Burt Ward 6 July 1945, Los Angeles, California, USA
Lee Meriwether ,
Lee Meriwether 27 May 1935, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cesar Romero ,
Cesar Romero 15 February 1907, New York City, New York, USA
Burgess Meredith ,
Burgess Meredith 16 November 1907, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Frank Gorshin ,
Frank Gorshin 5 April 1933, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Alan Napier ,
Alan Napier 7 January 1903, Birmingham, England, UK
Neil Hamilton ,
Neil Hamilton 9 September 1899, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
Stafford Repp ,
Stafford Repp 26 April 1918, San Francisco, California, USA
Madge Blake ,
Madge Blake 31 May 1899, Kinsley, Kansas, USA
Reginald Denny
Reginald Denny 20 November 1891, Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Leslie H. Martinson 16 January 1915, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Keywords: #Adam West #Batman: The Movie (1966) #Burt Ward #Greenlawn Productions #Lee Meriwether #Leslie H. Martinson #Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation #William Dozier Productions
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Professor receives Michigan World Language Association teaching award
Contact(s): Julie Foss jfoss@svsu.edu
Tom Lovik, professor of German in Michigan State University’s Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, received the Michigan World Language Association’s, or MIWLA, Georges J. Joyaux Post-Secondary Educator Award on Oct. 18 at MIWLA’s annual conference in Lansing.
The Georges J. Joyaux Award is given to an outstanding post-secondary faculty member or administrator who is committed to the principle of expanding Americans’ understanding of world languages and cultures to enhance their standing in education, culture and business in the world.
Lovik’s nomination received the support of administrators and colleagues who noted that he “has demonstrated time and again the depth of his commitment to expanding students’ understanding of the world with a maximum of collegiality and mentorship and a generous sense of citizenship in the world of language education beyond the boundaries of the university.”
Nominators cited his authorship of an influential German textbook, his editorship of “Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German,” the leading scholarly journal for German language and culture pedagogy and his service to students both inside and outside the classroom.
More information about the Michigan World Language Association can be found on the organization’s website.
Tom Lovik, professor of German in MSU’s Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, received the Michigan World Language Association’s Georges J. Joyaux Post-Secondary Educator Award.
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English: One Piece
Synonyms: OP
Japanese: ONE PIECE
Aired: Oct 20, 1999 to ?
Broadcast: Sundays at 09:30 (JST)
Producers: Fuji TV, TAP, Shueisha
Licensors: Funimation, 4Kids Entertainment
Studios: Toei Animation
Source: Manga
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
Score: 8.531 (scored by 499,607 users)
Ranked: #932
Popularity: #35
Favorites: 82,493
Ranked #93Popularity #35Members 874,501
Fall 1999TVToei Animation
Episodes: /?
PV Manga UK 6, English dub version
Gol D. Roger was known as the "Pirate King," the strongest and most infamous being to have sailed the Grand Line. The capture and execution of Roger by the World Government brought a change throughout the world. His last words before his death revealed the existence of the greatest treasure in the world, One Piece. It was this revelation that brought about the Grand Age of Pirates, men who dreamed of finding One Piece—which promises an unlimited amount of riches and fame—and quite possibly the pinnacle of glory and the title of the Pirate King.
Enter Monkey D. Luffy, a 17-year-old boy who defies your standard definition of a pirate. Rather than the popular persona of a wicked, hardened, toothless pirate ransacking villages for fun, Luffy’s reason for being a pirate is one of pure wonder: the thought of an exciting adventure that leads him to intriguing people and ultimately, the promised treasure. Following in the footsteps of his childhood hero, Luffy and his crew travel across the Grand Line, experiencing crazy adventures, unveiling dark mysteries and battling strong enemies, all in order to reach the most coveted of all fortunes—One Piece.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Several anime-original arcs have been adapted into light novels, and the series has inspired 40 video games as of 2016.
Preview Manga
Adaptation: One Piece, One Piece: Loguetown-hen
Side story: One Piece Movie 1, One Piece Movie 2: Nejimaki-jima no Daibouken, One Piece Movie 3: Chinjuu-jima no Chopper Oukoku, One Piece Movie 4: Dead End no Bouken, One Piece Movie 5: Norowareta Seiken, One Piece Movie 6: Omatsuri Danshaku to Himitsu no Shima, One Piece Movie 7: Karakuri-jou no Mecha Kyohei, One Piece: Taose! Kaizoku Ganzack, One Piece: Umi no Heso no Daibouken-hen, One Piece: Oounabara ni Hirake! Dekkai Dekkai Chichi no Yume!, One Piece: Mamore! Saigo no Dai Butai, One Piece: Nenmatsu Tokubetsu Kikaku! Mugiwara no Luffy Oyabun Torimonochou, One Piece: Jango no Dance Carnival, One Piece: Yume no Soccer Ou!, One Piece: Mezase! Kaizoku Yakyuu Ou, One Piece: Straw Hat Theater, One Piece Film: Strong World, One Piece: Romance Dawn Story, One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0, One Piece 3D: Mugiwara Chase, One Piece 3D: Gekisou! Trap Coaster, One Piece Film: Z, One Piece: Episode of Luffy - Hand Island no Bouken, One Piece: Romance Dawn, One Piece: Glorious Island, One Piece 3D2Y: Ace no shi wo Koete! Luffy Nakama Tono Chikai, One Piece Film: Gold, One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia, One Piece Movie 14: Stampede
Character: Dragon Ball Z, Toriko, Kyutai Panic Adventure!, Kyutai Panic Adventure Returns!
Summary: One Piece Movie 8: Episode of Alabasta - Sabaku no Oujo to Kaizoku-tachi, One Piece Recap, One Piece: Episode of Nami - Koukaishi no Namida to Nakama no Kizuna, One Piece: Kinkyuu Kikaku One Piece Kanzen Kouryakuhou, One Piece: Episode of Merry - Mou Hitori no Nakama no Monogatari, One Piece: Episode of Alabasta - Prologue, One Piece: Episode of Sabo - 3 Kyoudai no Kizuna Kiseki no Saikai to Uketsugareru Ishi, One Piece: Long Ring Long Land-hen, One Piece: Episode of East Blue - Luffy to 4-nin no Nakama no Daibouken, One Piece: Episode of Sorajima
Alternative version: One Piece Movie 9: Episode of Chopper Plus - Fuyu ni Saku, Kiseki no Sakura
Other: One Piece: Cry Heart, Oishi-sa Hajikeru! One Piece, Sono Me ga Mitsumeru Mono
Characters & Voice Actors
Monkey D., Luffy
Tanaka, Mayumi
Roronoa, Zoro
Nakai, Kazuya
Hirata, Hiroaki
Nico, Robin
Yamaguchi, Yuriko
Okamura, Akemi
Tony Tony, Chopper
Ootani, Ikue
Usopp
Yamaguchi, Kappei
Yao, Kazuki
Trafalgar, Law
More staff
Cook, Justin
Uda, Kounosuke
Director, Episode Director
Sakai, Munehisa
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard
Nagamine, Tatsuya
Edit Opening Theme
#01: "We Are! (ウィーアー!)" by Hiroshi Kitadani (eps 1-47)
#02: "Believe" by Folder5 (eps 48-115)
#03: "Hikari E (ヒカリヘ)" by The Babystars (eps 116-168)
#04: "Bon Voyage!" by Bon-Bon Blanco (eps 169-206)
#05: "Kokoro no Chizu (ココロのちず)" by BOYSTYLE (eps 207-263)
#06: "Brand New World" by D-51 (eps 264-278)
#07: "We Are! (ウィーアー! 〜7人の麦わら海賊団篇〜)" by the Straw Hat Pirates (eps 279-283)
#08: "Crazy Rainbow" by Tackey & Tsubasa (eps 284-325)
#09: "Jungle P" by 5050 (eps 326-372)
#10: "We Are (ウィーアー! 〜10周年Ver.〜)" by TVXQ (eps 373-394)
#11: "Share the World" by TVXQ (eps 395-425)
#12: "Kaze wo Sagashite (風をさがして)" by Straw Hat Crew and Mari Yaguchi (eps 426-458)
#13: "One Day" by The Rootless (eps 459-491)
#14: "Fight Together" by Namie Amuro (eps 493-516)
#15: "We go! (ウィーゴー!)" by Hiroshi Kitadani (eps 517-541, 543-589)
#16: "Hands Up!" by Kouta Shinzato (eps 591-628)
#17: "Wake up!" by AAA (eps 629-686)
#18: "Hard Knock Days" by GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE (eps 687-746)
#19: "We can! (ウィーキャン!)" by Kishidan and Hiroshi Kitadani (eps 747-806)
#20 "Hope" by Namie Amuro (eps 807-855)
#21: "Super Powers" by V6 (eps 856-)
#22: "OVER THE TOP" by Hiroshi Kitadani
Edit Ending Theme
#01: "memories" by Maki Otsuki (eps 1-30)
#02: "RUN! RUN! RUN!" by Maki Otsuki (eps 31-63)
#03: "Watashi ga iru Yo (私がいるよ)" by TOMATO CUBE (eps 64-73)
#04: "Souchinosuke (しょうちのすけ)" by Suitei-Shoujo (eps 74-81)
#05: "BEFORE DAWN" by AI-SACHI (eps 82-94)
#06: "fish" by The Kaleidoscope (eps 95-106)
#07: "GLORY -Kimi ga iru Kara- (GLORY-君がいるから-)" by Takako Uehara (eps 107-118)
#08: "Shining ray" by Janne da Arc (eps 119-127, 129-132)
#09: "Family" by the Straw Hat Pirates (ep 128)
#10: "Free Will" by Ruppina (eps 133-156)
#11: "FAITH" by Ruppina (eps 157-168)
#12: "A to Z ~One Piece Edition~ (A to Z〜ONE PIECE Edition〜)" by ZZ (eps 169-181)
#13: "Tsuki to Taiyou (月と太陽)" by shela (eps 182-195)
#14: "DREAMSHIP" by Aiko Ikuta (eps 196-206)
#15: "Mirai Koukai (未来航海)" by Tackey & Tsubasa (eps 207-230)
#16: "Eternal Pose (エターナルポーズ)" by Asia Engineer (eps 231-245)
#17: "Dear friends" by TRIPLANE (eps 246-255)
#18: "Asu wa Kurukara (明日は来るから)" by Dong Bang Shin Gi (eps 256-263)
#19: "ADVENTURE WORLD" by Delicatessen (eps 264-278)
#20: "One Day" by The Rootless (ep 492)
#21: "We go! (ウィーゴー!)" by Hiroshi Kitadani (eps 542, 590)
More theme songs
344 of ? episodes seen
Maxine (All reviews)
3633 people found this review helpful
There are two responses I get, without fail, every time I try to get someone new to watch this show. "I don't like the art style" or "I've seen the dub - NO THANKS." I'm guilty of both of these myself. But if there's one thing I need to stress before even getting started on this review, it's that the 4Kids dub is NOT One Piece. For the love of god, PLEASE do not think it is. If you've suffered the misfortune of seeing some of the 4Kids episodes, just erase them from your mind and start fresh. They butchered it, there's really no other way to put it. They cut episodes, changed the dialogue to fit a MUCH younger and apparently far less intelligent audience (almost insultingly so), gave the characters RIDICULOUS voices, and pretty much watered down the entire series. FUNimation has done a much better job so far from what I've seen, but regardless, watching it in its original Japanese form with subtitles is really the way to go.
As for the art style, it's true, it's completely different from almost anything else I've seen. Much more "cartoonish" and maybe not what you'd expect from an anime. Despite that, you end up loving it. I wouldn't even say that you have to "get used to it" because it's not something that detracts from the rest of the series in any way. It didn't even take me two episodes before I was thoroughly enjoying it and seeing it as a fresh, new style, exciting almost and unlike anything I'd experienced before. Now, some 300+ episodes later, I can't remember ever NOT liking it, or even why I would have. Especially now with One Piece being aired in high definition, the art is crisp, clean, colorful - VERY sharp and wonderful to look at.
Now that we've got those two points out of the way...
One Piece is actually one of the best shows I've ever seen, anime or otherwise. The plot is pretty basic at first. Monkey D. Luffy has just set out on his own to find the legendary treasure 'one piece' and become Pirate King, and he's looking for a crew to sail with him. You'll find yourself falling in love with each and every new member as Luffy finds them. They're all extremely well developed, with interesting backgrounds and unique, fun personalities. They form one very quirky crew that's always discovering new adventures and somehow getting themselves into trouble as they strive to achieve their dreams. Each main story arc introduces new minor characters as well, and they're just as much fun and easy to fall in love with as the Straw Hat crew. Not one character is left out or feels like they're there for no reason. Everyone has a purpose and adds to the storyline, and one of the really cool things about One Piece is that these 'purposes' often resurface at later points in the series. No detail is left untouched, and you'll seriously be amazed by the way Oda threads together plots and characters and blends all their stories perfectly the more the series progresses.
The plot itself, though fairly straightforward at first like I said, quickly evolves into something HUGE. Much of the beginning of the series is dedicated to forming the crew and letting you get to know the characters, though it's definitely never lacking in action, but once they reach the Grand Line, you're swept up in adventure after adventure and following some of the most fantastic story arcs you'll ever watch. The battles and fights are well-paced, with the final boss fight almost always being completely EPIC. But even through the action, One Piece never quite loses it's lighthearted, humorous edge. The episodes are sprinkled with PLENTY of funny moments, never too many and never too few. There's always a wonderful balance of action and humor.
One Piece also has its fair share of heart-wrenching moments, which may take you by surprise! There are some EXTREMELY powerful scenes and episodes that kind of blindside you and leave you wondering when you became quite so emotionally attached to certain characters or other things. I've definitely found myself near tears or actually crying at more than one point. One Piece has it all - amazing characters, the never-ending yet never TOO over-the-top humor, exciting battles, fun adventures, heartbreaking moments with quick to follow touching moments. And underneath everything, there's always the theme of friendship and teamwork, of working to reach your dreams and helping those closest to you achieve theirs, of growing and maturing as a person and discovering the power within yourself to overcome obstacles of any sort, of just BEING THERE for the rest of your crew when they need you - of being NAKAMA.
In a word, One Piece is perfect. And perhaps I'm just biased, being an obviously OBSESSED fan at this point, haha, but what can I say? It's been running for 344 episodes so far and not ONCE have I wondered or hoped that it would start to reach an end. It is, simply put, amazing.
So why should you watch One Piece?
Because you're missing out on one hell of a fantastic show if you don't at least give it a try.
holdenn (All reviews)
One Piece is by far the best shounen anime out there that I have watched.
But not all share the same views as I do, lets remedy that, shall we?
A long time ago, there live a fearsome pirate king who goes by the name of Gold D. Roger. He was able to attain everything. But alas he was captured and sentenced to execution. In the brink of death, he proclaimed that he left the great treasure, One Piece, somewhere in the Grand Line and it is for anyone to claim. This event ignited the Great Pirate Age.
In the world of One Piece, there is such a thing as a Devil Fruit. A devil fruit is a fruit bearing some supernatural ability and whoever devours it will get a unique ability however its origins are unknown. There are three types of Devil Fruit, Paramecia, a fruit that can materialize your body into a property. Zoan, a fruit that gives humans the ability of a certain animal, but if its an animal, it gives the ability of humans. And the last but certainly not the least Logia, is a fruit that makes the consumer manifest a certain element. But of course nothing is perfect. If you eat any of the Devil Fruit, you will be rendered immobilize when submerge in the water.
And where is our protagonist? The anime revolves around our mentally impaired boy, Monkey D. Luffy or a.k.a The Straw Hat Pirate(title came from his worn-out straw hat that he always have on). When our boy here ate a devil fruit that turns the consumer's body into rubber, he sets off to find Shanks, his pirate idol to return his straw hat as promise and find One Piece to be able to earn the title of Pirate King. Along the way he gathers all kinds of oddballs for his crew, The Straw Hat Pirates.
Now how exactly is One Piece different from the hundreds of shounen out there. Well, it isnt. It is exactly what a shounen should be. It follows the lose-train-win formula. So how is it any better? Bingo. Because it incorporates the formula into something fresh and simple.
One Piece arcs can be surprisingly good. There were even times that I was shocked at some plot twists and revelations. It has a very interesting setting as well. And what might that be? The World. The whole world is One Piece's oyster. It varies from vast, scorching deserts to cold snowy mountains, the concept of adventure here is well defined, it really makes you feel that world isnt small after all. And that my friend, is what an adventure anime should really be.
One Piece knows how to pull it off, be it comedy or serious, and believe me, One Piece knows how to be serious when it needs to be. But it never forgets its roots at the same time, and that is the emphasis of friendship and the bond of Nakama/Friends that glues the whole crew together.
Most shounen anime's suffers immensely from originality. Because of this, it is hard to distinguish characters from each other, especially in my case as I have my fair share as an otaku. And most of the characters in em lack depth and substance, its hard to remember a character when you know very little about him. But One Piece is immune from this disease. Each character of One Piece is very... say....unique that you'll find it hard to forget about them. They all have their individual motives, strengths, weakness and even quirky traits. Plus, each individual of the Straw Hat Pirate Crew has an immersing past, that'll be hard for you not to get delve into. And they all have a certain role, not one character gets overshadowed by the other. They do meaningful interactions with each other. And regardless, that each member is vastly different from each other, they all formed a formidable bond. Even the by-passing characters are memorable.
In contrast to the majority, I find the animation to be creative. Just like how the characters are different and distinguishable. Unfortunately people see it as something of a turn off, and quickly judges One Piece as something infantile. I am not going to lie. One Piece will not go beyond the borders of a shounen. It is not mature. But thats not the point here. An anime doesnt need to be ripe to be good. It just needs to be entertaining. Although I do enjoy a deep, thought-provoking anime, an anime doesnt need to be complex to be satisfying. It can be anything, as long as it offers gratification. And One Piece does.
Another potential problem is its popularity. Most people consider mainstream anime's to be somewhat of a failure because of its targeted demographic, and that is everyone. "If its able to attract toddlers, then it sucks" that seems to be case for most people. Some people neglect any anime that is able to summon countless little children in its area, thus abruptly convicting it as over-rated. Heck, some people even constantly hunts threads, just to be able to crack Narutard jokes off some newcomer. Do not judge One Piece from its fans. Judge it for what it is.
Do not be mistaken, I am not saying One Piece is for everyone. In the end, its all about taste. But if your have any hint of love for shounen surging in your veins, there is no reason for you not to watch this, not one bit.
In short, the plot is very promising, the main cast is several but well flesh out, the battles are very diverse, and engaging and the comedy doesnt get old, even after 300 episodes. But One Piece is not a masterpiece. It does not break any ground whatsoever. No matter how you see it, its still your typical shounen.
Regardless of this, the level of enjoyment I receive from One Piece is insurmountable. And sometimes thats all you need. Scratch that. Most of the time that's all you need.
mkzxwing (All reviews)
761 people found this review helpful
Warning: Minor Spoilers
If I were to say anything bad (and I will have to do that as this review is not a positive one) about this anime that would not offend the hardcore fans (and I know there are a lot) is that it's PAINFULLY slow.
Even if you leave the fillers aside, still- the plot itself progresses in such a slow pace that it's rather hard to watch. Now for a younger audience it may not matter that much, but to me as a higher age audience, it matters greatly, after all, out of the 23~ minutes of each episode 3 are spent on opening and ending (which is usual I guess), but in most episodes, roughly 5 (!) or more minutes are spent on a recap of the current story arc, as if the creators of the show forgot it's a shounen anime and instead got the idea that the audience are elderly people with Alzheimer.
But ok, this means there is still 15 minutes left per episode right? Well, not really. In most episodes, the heroes get separated. When they do, the anime tries to keep track of ALL of them simultaneously, cutting every few minutes. This wouldn't be so bad IF after the cut, the same exact scene did not repeat itself (example - a few seconds that show one of the main heroes standing and looking at a place/ villain that is shown from a few angles. Then the anime continues elsewhere, and when it comes back to the same place, the same exact scene is shown). That may not sound as much, but in drastic cases that can sum up to a few minutes (the worst case I bothered to count was almost 4 minutes of time wasted on watching the same scene). Combined with a lot of other tricks, I'd say that a lot of episodes are left with about 11 minutes of actual content on average. That is simply dreadful.
Now to say some positive things for contrast- the story is actually very interesting and the characters are well done... BUT, no matter how good something is, if you drag it out too much (and this is indeed the case with One Piece), even the best story in the world and the best characters possible (not to say one piece has neither of those.. The story is great, and the characters are good, but not more) will not keep you entertained, and turn even the best story possible into a boring experience.
Now back to the negatives. NO ONE DIES IN THIS ANIME. This is of course an exaggeration, as some people actually do die in this anime BUT only when it's critical to the plot. At all the other times, the characters "die" just to add drama and to come back a few scenes later.. Sometimes to "die" again and add even more "drama" (added "" because at this point its more awkward/silly after one time rather than dramatic). The worst case of this I saw was with Brownbeard who "died" something like 5 times over 2-3 episodes (if I remember right), and still stayed alive in the end while the show tried to suck as much drama out of this as possible. And this brings me to the next point- fake drama. They seem to try and squeeze out as much of it as possible, at every opportunity they get. From crying children (and adults) to characters repeatedly "dying" and to the most cliche tearjerkers possible at every turn of the story. They even go as far as to try and make the villain's henchmen AND EVEN THE VILLAIN himself have a tragic past that you are supposed to relate to and feel sorry for (because seems a villain can't just be evil because that is just the way he is, he had to become evil because something bad happened (lol)). Also I mentioned crying.. There is an unbelievable amount of it in this anime. And that would be ok (I guess) if
A- they did not try to milk it for drama (yep, that's a word that sure gets a lot of use when discussing this anime huh?) every single time
B- they didn't think that when someone cries, he instantly turns ugly, with snot running down his nose and with the worst face expression possible, regardless of gender, age or how emotional he is.
I'd say a lot more, but there is already a lot of text, and it's enough to sum it up - this anime is not one I would recommend someone to watch under any normal circumstances (maybe only if someone made a shortened version with all the repeats, openings, endings and cuts removed thus making the whole anime be at around 300 episodes max), I watched over 600 episodes myself, and I can safely say that although some parts were enjoyable, it was mostly rather boring when looked as a whole, and I am regretting the time I spent watching it (as of what i watched it so long- my friend recommended it to me and I did not expect it to last this long. I usually finish what I start, but this is ridiculous.)
Unknown of ? episodes seen
Lord_Rutsah (All reviews)
*Contains major spoilers*
Well I'm about to do what most people consider suicide... Talk bad about One Piece...
Following: Full-fledged review and chibi review-version at the end for those who can't read:
To be clear about this: I have seen all movies and all the episodes released until now (ep 658) and while there are tons of things I'd like to talk about, one thing stands above all: One Piece never grew up like other shounen did. Naruto, Bleach, Dragonball and even Fairy Tail have become more mature and improved themselves over the passage of time. One Piece is still the same non-serious, immature nonsense that first aired in 1999.
Well to begin with One Piece's famous strongest point, the story... I am just not impressed. Ignoring the fact that after 600 episodes the anime's new arc revolves around talking toys and chibi fairies (childish as hell), most of One Piece's arcs are practically the same. Straw Hats arrive at said island, where a tragedy has been happening despite the place appearing bright on the outside, the whole tragedy originates from 1 man who is usually evil for the most pitiful of reasons, straw hats get seperated into 3-4 groups, straw hats kick villain ass, a big feast is thrown in by the glad citizens where another arc is foreshadowed before they move on to the next island. And while people will argue that the "War of the Best"arc was different, I still didn't find it the least bit interesting (2 deaths only? really?).
Staying on the story part, lets talk about what's arguably the most important story element in a shounen: The villain. One Piece has yet to show us a villain whose appearance isn't laughable. Crocodile was wearing a coat in the middle of the dessert, Enel's ears were too long not to notice, blackbeard is missing way too many teeth to be taken seriously, Donflamingo... I can't even begin to name the things that make him not-even-slightly threatening. In general One Piece follows the brilliant rule that "evil is stupid" and the protagonist's charge-ahead thoughtless moves always prevail against the plans the villains had been setting for a few good decades now. Going for villains' backstories, it's usually brilliant writing such as: Stupid for the Yolo, big misunderstanding in the past, pity jealousy and "we will explain it some time in the future". Sorry, its just hard to take these guys seriously.
Still on the story part: Being so kid-friendly is annoying. I can't get over how War of the Best, the "grand battle" of One Piece only had 2 victims, or how the Colosseum in the Dressrosa arc had no casualties whatsoever in a "battle to the death". Oda grow some balls and KILL people. Also regarding Ace's death in the War of the Best... I am not amused by how all of One Piece fans claim it as the most tragic thing to ever happen and yet we knew nothing about Ace other than the flashbacks. You could just as easily have put a Nazi Officer in his place and I'm sure the fanbase would still be crying buckets if we saw a flashback of said officer playing with the snow as a child while some uninspired dramatic music was playing. I can't decide if I'm more annoyed by the awful writing or how moronic the fanbase is.
Humor & Fanservice: Waaaaaay too repetitive. It was funny in the first 100 episodes, now I just want to chocke puppies every time Brook makes a skeleton joke or Luffy and Chopper get overly excited about something. On the fanservice + story part: There is no female lead. Nami and Robin became important characters for their respective arcs (Arlong + CP9) but right after that they slipped in the background and became minor characters. Still on the Fanservice part: Oh yeah, sex, flirting and even love don't exist in this universe. Everyone trying to take part in one of those is either a villain-in-disguise or someone about to be tricked because of their stupidity. In general: For One Piece Sex/flirt/love is stupid (right next to "evil is stupid").
Sound Part: 1st: The variety is a total disappointment. I can't remember a single track that actually got me on the edge of my sit. 2nd: The animators don't even make proper use of the soundtracks that already are avaliable to them. For example remember the final fight Luffy had against Crocodile. Do you remember the epic music? Obviously no because some moron decided that the fight shouldn't have music at all. Now imagine if at the same scene (final moments before Crocodile's defeat) One Piece's original opening "we are" was added. Suddenly the scene becomes 100% more exciting. They already had the copyrights, it's not like adding it would hurt anyone! The sound effects are equally terrible. Just look at the brilliant sound effect of Sanji repeatedly kicking Don Flamingo in ep 655... Sorry but I have made RPG Maker games with better sound effects than this. On the voice acting part: MOTHER OF ALL ATTROCITIES, IT'S HORRIBLE. Just look at the age of the voice actors, half of them are about to die (and I'm crossing my fingers). The voices are completely unfitting for most of the cast, not sounding at all like the age they're supposed to portray (well that's a big surprise...). Of course screams of despair, crying etc etc don't sound even relatively convincing.
Animation: Just awful. Way below the antagonism. The only worse animation example I can provide in a relatively similar episode release period was the "fast-paced-action" in the Naruto Vs Pain battle, and that was an artistic mistake on the studio's part that was never again repeated for exactly that reason. I won't even go into detail describing how lazy the studio is, using the same footage OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
Action: Doesn't really exist. One Piece doesn't ever show a proper fight without something goofy (aka annoying morons making even more annoying jokes) breaking up the seriousness. When the anime does decide to get serious it's just Luffy screaming on top of his lungs cliche lines while the villain doesn't even bother debating and just tries to kill Luffy (not that I blame them). The fights mostly consist of 10 seconds of action being repeatedly shown with slightly different soundtracks playing on the background each time and villain lengthy monologues inbetween them, usually followed by concentration-breaking flashbacks of things we have already seen a million times. If you're hoping for creative fast-paced excitement look elsewhere.
One Piece is like a kid that never grew up. After 600 episodes, despite all the "hardshps" our protagonist came through, he never really matured, none of the characters did. The tone of the anime didn't mature either. a graphics improvement and a gradual increase of the cast members being the only notable changes since the beginning of the anime and for me it has just become too monotonous, too boring. Once Piece is waaay past its due, but there is a single reason it stays alive. Nostalgia. People are willing to overlook all of its flows simply because it serves as a bridge for times when things were simpler for them (or so they remember at least). But if someone was to judge One Piece for what it really is and not for the happy memories of being taken by daddy to the Luna Park he would see it for what it is: Trash.
CHIBI REVIEW VERSION:
Aweful animation and soundtrack, followed a story that quite clearly follows a pattern even for its jokes, overly repetitive and with action that doesn't really remind of action. Immature, with annoying characters that are portrayed as "smart" rather than "morons" and laughable villains. Stay away.
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Albrier, Frances M., American, 1898 - 1987
San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, founded 1945
National Urban League, American, founded 1910
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ink on paper (fiber product)
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This document is part of a scrapbook that was compiled in 1956 and 1957 by Frances Albrier during her term as president of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW). The scrapbook highlights the Chapter’s efforts to register voters and educate Bay Area residents on the importance of voting as a part of the Citizenship Education Project which was jointly sponsored by the NCNW and the National Urban League.
This flyer promotes the voter registration goals of the NCNW's Citizenship Education Project. The slogan at the top of the flier reads, "A Voteless People Is a Hopeless People." The flier is adhered to the top half of page 47 in Frances Albrier's scrapbook (2010.60.1).
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Newspaper clipping announcing a NCNW Junior Council Columbus Day meeting
San Francisco Independent, founded 1955
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This newspaper clipping from the San Francisco Independent announces a Columbus Day meeting to be held on Friday, October 12, 1956 by the Junior Council of the National Council of Negro Women. The clipping is adhered to the bottom half of page 47 in Frances Albrier's scrapbook (2010.60.1).
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A newspaper clipping with a photograph depicting women associated with the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women standing along a motorcade route holding signs urging citizens to vote. The clipping is located between pages six (6) and seven (7) in Frances Albrier's scrapbook (2010.60.1).
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A newspaper clipping announcing the beginning of the Citizen Education Project taped to a sheet of white paper with “Citizenship Education Project: First Phase" typewritten at the top of the page. The word "newsitems" is typewritten inside a square box in the center of the page. The clipping headline reads: "NCNW Begins City-Wide Poject [sic] For Citizenship Education." The sheet is taped to page seven (7) of Frances Albrier's scrapbook (2010.60.1).
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Hurok, Sol, American, 1888 - 1974
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Fire, Fire, Firemen Put the Fire Out! - Yucca Restaurant, Culver City, California, 1960's
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Claymore, Houseki no Kuni Recommendations
Claymore, Houseki no Kuni
Both shows feature a cast mostly composed by women fighting "monsters"; on Claymore, women are ranked by power, on Land of the Lustrous by hardness and role; the main character seems to be the weakest one; the male figure is the leader. As the story progress, the main character starts to question the leader, and the purpose and reason behind fighting the monsters. Notice that the animation is different, Land of the Lustrous is CGI, and Claymore is way more violent. But I definitely recommend both.
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Both animes are about a female lead who begins as the weakest among a class of fighters and evolves through constant hardships to become among the strongest. Boiling the plots down to once sentence, they are the same. Both heavily feature revelations about the past, though Claymore has a greater focus on the backstory of the main character while Houseki has a greater focus on the backstory of the world. Both take place in an alternative world, although Claymore is more medieval while Houseski is more fantasy/futuristic. Both involve a motivating relationship between the main character and a supporting character who is not involved in most of the action but is always present on the main character's mind. In Claymore, the supporting character is a weak male while in Houseki it is a powerful girl. Overall, if you enjoyed one of these, there's a high probability you will enjoy the other, though you might not see the similarities until halfway through the season. read more
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Zanu PF burns as ‘chefs’ fight
Last updated Apr 26, 2017 270 2
By Fungi Kwaramba
The ugly tribal, factional and succession wars devouring President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF have once again reached worrying levels, amid revelations that the party faction opposed to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeding President Robert Mugabe is facing a complete annihilation.
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This comes as the party’s national commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, remains under pressure in the troubled ex-liberation movement after 10 of the party’s provinces passed votes of no confidence in him over a slew of untested allegations, which include planning to topple Mugabe.
At the same time, it has also emerged that Matabeleland North has put in motion plans to haul before the coals politburo member and Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo, who — together with Kasukuwere — are two of the alleged kingpins of the Generation 40 (G40) faction.
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On his part, the Tsholotsho North legislator upped the ante yesterday as he fought back furiously — mercilessly savaging fellow politburo member Obert Mpofu who had indirectly criticised him over the weekend.
Well-placed sources also told the Daily News that what had started as a women’s league move or strategy to reign in former heavyweights, Eunice Sandi Moyo and Sarah Mahoka, was in fact the beginning of “a much bigger project — the G40”.
“What is happening to Kasukuwere and to Moyo, is part of a broader plan to annihilate the G40 faction, as critical realignments take place in the party. It’s not a coincidence that Sandi Moyo and Mahoka were expelled from the party and that Kasukuwere and his colleagues (in the G40 camp) are also facing the same fate,” a central committee member told the Daily News yesterday.
“Connect the dots. Sandi Moyo and Mahoka were forced out after all provinces endorsed their ouster and it is the same with the political commissar (Kasukuwere). There is now convergence among former rivals over this issue and G40 is the target,” they said.
Former women’s league deputy secretary, Sandi Moyo, and its then treasurer, Mahoka, resigned from the influential Zanu PF organ before the politburo was set to endorse their expulsion last month.
The duo — both said to be key G40 players — had been accused of undermining powerful First Lady Grace Mugabe and engaging in fraudulent activities, among a litany of other allegations.
Similarly, Kasukuwere has been fighting to save his political career over the past few weeks, with angry Zanu PF supporters pushing for his ouster from both his party and government positions, over a raft of charges which include plotting to topple Mugabe from power.
And it emerged at the weekend, through Mpofu, that Moyo could be facing anxious days ahead as well, after his home province put him on political notice — accusing him of criticising government policies, including the much-touted command agriculture programme.
But the ex-Information minister, hit back yesterday, accusing his fellow Cabinet minister of having deliberately misled the Matabeleland North provincial coordination committee.
“While on government duty in India, my attention has been drawn to reckless, irresponsible, disrespectful and unacceptable remarks about me by Mpofu . . . at an extraordinary meeting of Zanu PF’s Matabeleland North provincial coordinating committee in Lupane on 23 April 2017,” Moyo said.
“From the published remarks . . . it is clear that . . . Mpofu abused the PCC, as he so often does, in his mistaken belief that just because he has a big body he should throw his weight around and usurp the PCC for his personal purposes . . . that the people of Matabeleland North have come to loathe for its depravity,” he said, adding the “allegation that I worked with . . . Kasukuwere to set up parallel structures to topple . . . Mugabe would be laughable but for its very serious implications”.
“Thanks to the successionist antics of the likes of Obert Mpofu, the time has come to say without fear or favour that the allegation that Kasukuwere has set up parallel Zanu PF structures to topple . . . Mugabe is high sounding nonsense,” Moyo charged in a hard-hitting statement.
Apart from Moyo and Kasukuwere, Manicaland province on Friday passed a vote of no confidence in its chairperson Samuel Undenge, while plans are also apparently afoot to depose his wife, Letina, as the provincial chairperson of the women’s league.
Insiders claim that the duo is part of the G40 faction.
Apart from the two, Harare provincial political commissar Shadreck Mashayamombe, has also come under increasing pressure to leave his post.
He was given a reprieve at the weekend when the province suspended a prohibition order barring him from conducting party business that he had been slapped with by disgruntled party members.
Insiders also told the Daily News yesterday that Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s unprecedented attack on war veterans — and particularly that they were behind Kasukuwere’s woes — was part of a fightback plan by the “panic-stricken” G40.
The Zanu number two is said to be sympathetic to the G40 faction.
“The Kasukuwere war is not about Zanu PF. The Kasukuwere issue is between him and (war veterans chairperson Christopher) Mutsvangwa, not Kasukuwere and Zanu PF. They want to infiltrate you because Mutsvangwa wants to put their person,” Mphoko said.
“How genuine are those people? They never speak when the president is being insulted. They just say Kasukuwere must be fired at the same time they are the people who allow others to insult the president. We’ve seen such things,” he said.
Yesterday, the war veterans hit back saying Mphoko was “seeing shadows” as they had nothing to do with the current brawling in Zanu PF.
Victor Matemadanda, the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) secretary-general described by Mphoko as a “renegade” war veteran, roundly criticised the VP over his comments.
“He wants to liken me to Selous Scouts when we know that he deserted the war and had a lavish wedding in Mozambique. If he thinks we can cause demonstrations countrywide then we are influential. They (Zanu PF) must just admit that they have failed,” he said.
“We are very happy that he accepts defeat . . . we made him vice president. We were sent to see him as we were countering the Gamatox faction that wanted Simon Khaya Moyo to be the vice president representing Zapu. I was the one who was sent to approach him and found him . . . in Makokoba,” Matemadanda said.
“The mission was to make him sit down along with other Zapu members like (State Security minister) Kembo Mohadi to choose who would become the vice president and national chairperson,” he thundered.
“I never liked him because he always regarded himself as a Mozambican. But he was able to assert himself over Mohadi. I remember one day he called me asking for directions to State House . . . he was lost. We left deserving people out because we were all being used to push out people who were regarded as gamatox,” Matemandanda added. Daily News
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This post – thanks to Dion’s bus service!
Posted on October 29, 2015 by Neil
Dion’s Bus Service is a living legend in the Illawarra.
Dion’s Bus Service was founded in 1923 when Thomas Dion commenced operating a service from Wollongong to Balgownie followed by a service to Bellambi. It is currently the oldest operating bus operator in the Illawarra.
From December 1927 until 1931 a coach service was operated to Sydney. In January 1928 it commenced operating route 1 services from Wollongong to Austinmer, along with five other operators. In August 1929, Barney Dion commenced operating a service from Wollongong to Kiama…
That Kiama run has long ceased, but there is a story about it my father told me. It is recounted here.
And that’s not all!
The Headless Ghost of Dunmore House is reasonably well-known in Kiama. The Chair of the Illawarra Business Chamber, Les Dion, of Dion Buses, sent a copy of the Dion family history to the Pilot’s Cottage, in which it is recorded one of his uncles witnessed the Headless Ghost while working as a bus driver on the last Kiama run of the night in the 1950s. According to this account he chased the Ghost with his bus, until it threw a rope up into the trees and disappeared. Other ghost stories mentioned in the dusty old files include the Swamp Bull of Terragong Swamp, near the Honey farm at Kiama Downs. It is recorded in the Honey family history that they went down to a hole in the swamp where they thought the swamp bull lived and blew it up with explosives. Another ghost story mentioned is the sight of the boat coming down Minnamurra river in the early morning mist on Boxing Day, the same time every year as a famous tragedy on the river.
See this 2013 story:
It’s not often you bump into a local legend on a bus – or driving one, for that matter.
Aged 93, Les Dion snr took a lap around Wollongong on one of his family’s iconic buses yesterday to celebrate 90 years of Dion’s Bus Service.
From humble beginnings with a single Model T bus with wooden seats and canvas sides in 1923, Dion’s grew into an Illawarra institution as it ferried thousands of locals to work, school and beyond.
‘‘I’m proud as punch for what the family did,’’ said Les Dion jnr, now manager of Dion’s after taking over from his father.
‘‘They went through some tough times, the Depression and the world wars, so it’s some pretty big boots to fill.’’
To celebrate nine decades in the Illawarra, Dion’s yesterday offered free bus rides to its customers.
Jacob Robinson, of Fairy Meadow, was one of those who instantly recognised Mr Dion snr when he got on the bus.
‘‘I remember Les when he used to drive my bus to school,’’ Mr Robinson said; Mr Dion snr only retired from driving buses at age 85.
‘‘Dion’s is one of the most recognised names in the Illawarra. It’s massive for any company to reach 90 years in business.’’
As a comparison, Dion’s has lived through 23 Australian prime ministers; is six times older than the WIN Entertainment Centre; and had been in operation for almost 20 years by the time Wollongong was officially named a city in 1942.
The company also started at a time when Chinese immigrants were a marginalised section of Australia, making its success all the more remarkable due to tense race relations at its inception.
‘‘The Chinese heritage, that was a challenge as well, but when you look at this community, everyone is so respectful of them,’’ Mr Dion jnr said.
‘‘That’s what makes the job hard, living up to the standards set.’’
And as for the future?
‘‘I don’t know about another 90 years, but we’ll be around as long as we can,’’ he laughed.
Let me tell you about yesterday and the Austinmer bus – possibly this one:
I had spent some time with friends at Steelers but rather than lunching there I went over to The Brewery. After an excellent lunch I wandered out to the old Catholic cemetery to pay my respects to the memorial of William Smith, who arrived in 1822 on the “Isabella 1” with my convict ancestor Jacob. See Tangible link to the convict ship “Isabella” and the immigrant ship “Thames”.
I then wandered over to City Beach:
Returning to the bus stop nearest The Brewery I saw that the 2.30 Dion’s Austinmer bus was about to go. I decided to catch it back as far as City Diggers, where I alighted.
No sooner was I off the bus than I realised my mobile phone and my camera were no longer in my pocket. Tragedy! I contemplated what to do over a glass of red at Diggers, then went down to the bus stop near the Greater Union cinema and waited for Dion’s buses returning to Wollongong. The driver of the one I stopped rang the depot and reported my loss. About ten minutes later as that same driver was outward bound up Burelli Street he called to me out the driver’s window: “They’ve been found!” and told me to go to the Depot in Fairy Meadow.
I did so – by Dion’s bus of course. No phone or camera handed in yet though. The woman at the desk contacted the driver of the bus I had been on originally, which happened to be returning to Wollongong at that precise moment – and yes, he had my things. As soon as I reached the stop near the Depot he arrived, gave me back my belongings, and a free ride back to Wollongong. So around two hours after my loss all was restored!
So you see, if it wasn’t for the lovely people at Dion’s those photos above (and a few more) would have gone forever! But Dion’s have a reputation for kindness. The story goes that during the Depression they often gave battlers free rides.
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By Robert Sanders, Media relations| October 26, 2012 July 21, 2015
October 26, 2012 July 21, 2015 Robert Sanders
Social animals usually congregate for protection or mating or to capture bigger prey, but a University of California, Berkeley, biologist has found that the terrestrial hermit crab has a more self-serving social agenda: to kick another crab out of its shell and move into a larger home.
The terrestrial hermit crab Coenobita compressus lives inside a discarded snail shell and forages for plants and carrion along the Pacific coast from Mexico to Peru. Photos by Mark Laidre, UC Berkeley.
All hermit crabs appropriate abandoned snail shells for their homes, but the dozen or so species of land-based hermit crabs – popular terrarium pets – are the only ones that hollow out and remodel their shells, sometimes doubling the internal volume. This provides more room to grow, more room for eggs – sometimes a thousand more eggs – and a lighter home to lug around as they forage.
But empty snail shells are rare on land, so the best hope of moving to a new home is to kick others out of their remodeled shells, said Mark Laidre, a UC Berkeley Miller Post-Doctoral Fellow who reported this unusual behavior in this month’s issue of the journal Current Biology.
When three or more terrestrial hermit crabs congregate, they quickly attract dozens of others eager to trade up. They typically form a conga line, smallest to largest, each holding onto the crab in front of it, and, once a hapless crab is wrenched from its shell, simultaneously move into larger shells.
“The one that gets yanked out of its shell is often left with the smallest shell, which it can’t really protect itself with,” said Laidre, who is in the Department of Integrative Biology. “Then it’s liable to be eaten by anything. For hermit crabs, it’s really their sociality that drives predation.”
A free-for-all takes place whenever three or more hermit crabs congregate, with all crabs intent on displacing someone else to get a larger shell.
Laidre says the crabs’ unusual behavior is a rare example of how evolving to take advantage of a specialized niche – in this case, land versus ocean – led to an unexpected byproduct: socialization in a typically solitary animal.
“No matter how exactly the hermit tenants modify their shellters, they exemplify an important, if obvious, evolutionary truth: living things have been altering and remodeling their surroundings throughout the history of life,” wrote UC Davis evolutionary biologist Geerat J. Vermeij in a commentary in the same journal. For decades, Vermeij has studied how animals’ behavior affects their own evolution – what biologists term “niche construction” – as opposed to the well-known Darwinian idea that the environment affects evolution through natural selection.
“Organisms are not just passive pawns subjected to the selective whims of enemies and allies, but active participants in creating and modifying their internal as well as their external conditions of life,” Vermeij concluded.
Laidre conducted his studies on the Pacific shore of Costa Rica, where the hermit crab Coenobita compressus can be found by the millions along tropical beaches. He tethered individual crabs, the largest about three inches long, to a post and monitored the free-for-all that typically appeared within 10-15 minutes.
Most of the 800 or so species of hermit crab live in the ocean, where empty snail shells are common because of the prevalence of predators like shell-crushing crabs with wrench-like pincers, snail-eating puffer fish and stomatopods, which have the fastest and most destructive punch of any predator.
A marine snail shell newly vacated by its gastropod owner (left) and a shell that has been remodeled by a hermit crab.
On land, however, the only shells available come from marine snails tossed ashore by waves. Their rarity and the fact that few land predators can break open these shells to get at the hermit crab may have led the crabs to remodel the shells to make them lighter and more spacious, Laidre said.
The importance of remodeled shells became evident after an experiment in which he pulled crabs from their homes and instead offered them newly vacated snail shells. None survived. Apparently, he said, only the smallest hermit crabs take advantage of new shells, since only the small hermit crabs can fit inside the unremodeled shells. Even if a crab can fit inside the shell, it still must expend time and energy to hollow it out, and this is something hermit crabs of all sizes would prefer to avoid if possible.
The work was funded by UC Berkeley’s Miller Institute.
Niche construction drives social dependence in hermit crabs (Oct. 23, 2012, Current Biology)
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That's certainly been the case this year, as television audiences for golf's major championships have swelled since Woods has returned to the fray, most recently with a second-place finish at the U.S. PGA Championship in Bellerive.
The final-round coverage of the tournament on CBS Sports saw a 73 percent increase on last year's event for the same day as Brooks Koepka finished two shots clear of a resurgent Woods.
An average 8.5 million watched in the U.S. -- up from 4.9 million when Justin Thomas secured his first major title last year -- the highest figure since 2009 when Woods again finished runner-up.
As the tournament reached its conclusion at 7:00 p.m. ET, viewing numbers peaked at 12.3 million.
While Koepka was winning his second major title of the year, it was the Woods effect that got people watching as the 42-year-old chased a 15th major title and first since 2008.
Woods has recovered from a series of major back surgeries in recent years and shot the lowest final round of his major career on the way to finish just two shots shy of Koepka.
"Tiger Woods wins the 2018 PGA Championship with a score of -14," tweeted CBS golf writer Kyle Porter. "Brooks Koepka finishes second at -16."
Woods' return to major championships has seen a boost to viewing figures throughout the year.
NBC's final-round coverage of The Open in July, where Woods held the lead before finishing three strokes behind winner Francesco Molinari, was up 38 percent from last year.
The final-round overnight ratings were the best since 2000 when Woods completed his career grand slam. It was also the most-streamed golf event ever on NBC Sports' digital platforms.
At the Masters, meanwhile, there was an 18 percent increase over the previous year on CBS as Woods starred in his first major since 2015, finishing tied for 32nd.
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CCD career crawl takes Owls behind the scenes
Katharine Shilcutt
– October 11, 2018Posted in: Current News, Featured Stories
Inaugural arts and entertainment tour introduces students to jobs in creative fields
On the last day of midterm recess, a gorgeous Tuesday with nicer weather than Houston had seen in months, a group of Rice students climbed aboard a bus bound for downtown. Their destination: the Alley Theatre, the first of three stops they’d make on the inaugural arts and entertainment career crawl organized by the Center for Career Development (CCD).
A panel of artisans at the Alley Theatre spoke about their career paths on the first stop. (Photo by Katharine Shilcutt)
While their peers enjoyed a final day of rest before heading back to classes, this group including chemistry majors and architecture students alike met with leaders in Houston’s arts and entertainment landscape. Their goal: learning about careers in creative fields.
At the Alley, artistic associate Brandon Weinbrenner led a behind-the-scenes tour of the theater’s production of “Twelfth Night” and introduced a panel of Alley artisans to the students, who learned about the math involved in lighting design and the ingenuity involved in constructing props. At the Asia Society Texas Center, director of education and outreach Michael Buening offered a glimpse into the machinery involved in running an arts-centered nonprofit and allowed students to absorb its “New Cartographies” exhibit, which touches on everything from economic migration to refugee movements.
And inside the studios at KTRK-TV, reporter Christine Dobbyn allowed the students to remain on set for the live 3 p.m. news broadcast, which followed a tour of the station itself. Selfies with the anchors ensued, naturally. But more importantly, the students were exposed to jobs many had never considered before the career crawl — even if their own interests were already geared toward the arts.
“As an architecture student, I believe that the space architects design is critical to shaping the experience of people, especially in places like museums and theaters that display art,” Hanszen College freshman Elina Chen said. “Before this, I didn’t know that there are so many jobs involved in making one event — like a play — happen.”
Students explored the Asia Society on the second stop. (Photo by Katharine Shilcutt)
Though it’s the first to be focused on the arts, Tuesday’s trip was the fourth career crawl the CCD has organized since 2017. Past crawls have been similarly themed, from a purpose-driven trip to Austin to visit employers such as Whole Foods and Livestrong to a sustainability career crawlthat toured facilities across Houston.
“Since the career crawls are meant to take students off campus to explore job functions, industries and organizations, we target opportunities that wouldn’t typically come to campus,” said Michelle Passo, the CCD’s experiential education program manager. “We know the hiring timeline for the arts is usually not until the spring semester or as needed, so we wanted to empower students with knowledge of places and potential career paths early in the semester.”
The CCD pays for the crawls, making them accessible to all students. Passo and her colleagues at the CCD also encourage any and all students to attend each crawl — regardless of major or year — because having an open mind is crucial to finding opportunities and careers in the real world.
“For example, someone interested in the arts, communication and entertainment industry might think the theater is comprised of actors and directors — which is true — but there are so many full-time staff members at the Alley in roles ranging from technical, design, finance, IT, administrative, marketing and more,” Passo said. “Similar to externships, these short-term experiences can reinforce interests as much as they may shift a path away from an industry.”
Students posed with KTRK-TV anchors after the 3 p.m. news broadcast. (Photo by Katharine Shilcutt)
Jones College freshman Katelyn Landry came to Rice to become a journalist. Despite the lack of a formal journalism program, Rice offered the humanities major opportunities to obtain firsthand experience in other ways, such as writing for the Thresher and participating in programs like those offered by the CCD. At KTRK, Landry eagerly peppered Dobbyn with questions; Dobbyn gamely answered each one before handing off her contact info for any future queries.
“I feel renewed and reassured in my interest in journalism,” Landry said after the final stop. “I also feel curious about other careers in the arts, communication and entertainment industry that I had not previously known about, such as community outreach and education.”
Tags: Architecture, Center for Career Development, Humanities, School of Humanities, Visual and Dramatic Arts
About Katharine Shilcutt
Katharine Shilcutt is a media relations specialist in Rice University's Office of Public Affairs.
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Sorry, Kentucky, South Carolina: No booze with your ballots
Olivier Knox
The Ticket November 3, 2012
Let's say the 2012 campaign—the flood of attack ads, the torrent of junk mail, the mere trickle of inspiring proposals—has you reaching for an Election Day drink. Tough luck, voters in Kentucky and South Carolina: No booze for you!
Eighty years after Prohibition's repeal, those states are the only ones holding on to bans on serving alcohol in restaurants and bars or selling it in liquor stores on Election Day, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. DISCUS is, as you can guess, not a huge fan.
"The Election Day sales ban is a relic of the Prohibition era when saloons sometimes served as polling stations," according to DISCUS Vice President Ben Jenkins. "Repealing the ban on Election Day alcohol sales would provide consumers with much-needed convenience—whether they're celebrating election returns or mourning them." According to DISCUS, five states—Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Utah and West Virginia—have eased similar restrictions since 2008. The original bans, many of which date to Prohibition, also reflected a desire to curb the buying of votes with booze. Kentucky has been considering lifting the restrictions.
South Carolina, though, isn't messing around, according to its laws on alcohol:
"It is unlawful to sell alcoholic liquors on Sunday except as authorized by law, on statewide election days, or during periods proclaimed by the Governor in the interest of law and order or public morals and decorum."
Breaking that law is a misdemeanor offense. A first conviction can carry a fine of $200 or 60 days imprisonment. That goes up to a fine of $1,000 or imprisonment for one year on second offense. Caught and convicted a third time? The fine rises to $2,000 and jail time goes up to two years.
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Mixer presents United DJs of America Vol. 17: Scott Hardkiss
R.I.P. Scott Hardkiss
March 25, 2013 Darren Ressler 46 Comments
DJ/producer Scott Hardiss passed away unexpectedly earlier today. In the early ’90s Scott Friedel was a member of pioneering San Francisco DJ/producer trio Hardkiss which was rounded out by musical partners Gavin and Robbie. The Hardkiss Brothers (who weren’t biologically related) helped nourish and influence the era’s fledgling West Coast sound — psychedelia mixed with Balearic, house and techno — via Bay Area warehouse parties as well as remixes and productions issued on Hardkiss Music. After relocating to New York City in the late ’90s, Scott, who also recorded under the God Within moniker (listen to his classic “Raincry” below), went on to remix for the likes of Elton John, George Clinton and The Flaming Lips. In 2009 he released his well-received debut album, Technicolor Dreamer, and he also contributed music to various film, television and commercial projects led by Spike Lee, Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater.
When I was running Mixer magazine, I worked closely with Scott on Mixer presents United DJs of America Vol. 17: Scott Hardkiss released in 2001. I got to know him well on a professional and social basis. Scott was a singular individual who marched to his own beat; he was an exceptionally talented individual who saw the world with a unique view. He was wildly intelligent and had an incredibly dry sense of humor that always brought a smile to my face. Whenever Scott was behind the decks, I’d marvel at the soundtrack he wove together with strains of house, breaks, trance and beyond that few could replicate.
Have a listen to his Essential Mix and soak in the essence of Scott Hardkiss’ beautiful musical soul.
Update, March 26 12:00pm: There has been an outpouring of love from people remembering Scott on social media. (See below.)
Wade Hampton (a.k.a. WishFM), who knew Scott during their days on the San Francisco scene, told Big Shot: “Scott was a visionary. Although he was as elusive as any DJ could be at the dawn of our EDM movement, he helped build a loyal strong family unit with Hardkiss Family. That’s all that mattered to us. As long as we knew he always reaching for perfection, the path we took really didn’t matter…and this cool cat attained it all the time. I’ll miss my homie dearly.”
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Video Of Thurman Blevins Being Killed By Police Causes Outrage
The cops “never looked at Thurman as a regular human being,” activists said.
Written By Nigel Roberts
Plans were underway for a protest on Tuesday (July 31) in Minneapolis after the police released bodycam footage Sunday of two officers gunning down Thurman Blevins.
SEE ALSO: Protesters Demand Answers After Minneapolis Police Officers Killed A Fleeing Man
The Minneapolis Police Department posted graphic videos from each officer’s camera that shows them jumping out of their cruiser on June 23 and chasing 31-year-old Blevins, who protested that he did nothing wrong as they pursued him into an alley and shoot him from behind. The video ends with what appears to be a gun laying next to the Black man’s bloodied body.
“The audio concluded these officers never looked at Thurman as a regular human being but a (mother f******),” a Facebook post from Justice For Thurman Blevins Jr. said. “Thurman posed no threat to be viciously gun downed. These officers deserve to be put in jail and prosecuted to the fullest degree of the law, put on leave WITHOUT pay and FIRED from the Minneapolis Police Department ASAP!”
Activists planned to gather at the Hennepin County Government Center Tuesday afternoon for a rally dubbed “PLEASE DONT SHOOT ME” EMERGENCY PROTEST!”
"Thurman "June" Blevins had no chance of coming out this encounter alive with these officers Ryan Kelly and Justin Schmidt.
Thurman Blevins was a practice target."https://t.co/6Mf17sHaHt pic.twitter.com/adQbfci8Yp
— Twin Cities GDC (@TCGDC) July 30, 2018
Thurman Blevins Jr. was executed by the Minneapolis Police Department. He was shot multiple times in the BACK while being chased. That is sickening. Yes, he had a gun. If a white man had a gun, the media and the police would just say it was his 2nd amendment rights to have a gun.
— Lauren (@lauren_moen) July 30, 2018
Officers Justin Schmidt and Ryan Kelly were responding to a 911 call about a man firing a gun into the air. Blevins was sitting on a curb near a woman with a child in a stroller when they arrrived. As soon as they pulled up, one of the cops yelled, “He’s got a gun,” and Blevins ran away. During the chase, Blevins screamed, “I didn’t do nothing bro,” ”Please don’t shoot” and “Leave me alone.”
Investigators concluded that both officers fired their weapons, according to the Associated Press. An autopsy found he was shot multiple times. Schmidt and Kelly are on paid administrative leave.
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COLUMBO COMBAT
By Terry Schermerhorn
The daughter of “Columbo” star Peter Falk claims her stepmom is hiding the Alzheimer’s-suffering TV detective from the rest of his loved ones, in an ugly family rift headed to court.
Catherine Falk wants power of attorney for her 81-year-old dad, who is worth more than $7 million and susceptible to fraud, she claimed in an LA County Superior Court petition filed last week.
The daughter, through lawyer Steven Hogan, also claims stepmom Shera Falk has cruelly prevented her and others from seeing her dad since Father’s Day in June.
“He has Alzheimer’s that has gotten significantly worse,” Hogan said yesterday. “She wants to make sure he gets the care he needs.”
Shera Falk did not immediately return calls for comment.
Catherine Falk said her dad can’t take care of himself.
“He forgets events that have occurred and remembers events that did not occur,” she claimed in court papers.
The papers also claim Peter Falk “is unable to manage his financial resources or to resist fraud or undue influence” and can “easily be deceived into transferring away property.”
A judge is set to hear the complaint on Jan. 27.
A dazed and disheveled Falk was photographed in April wandering the streets near his Beverly Hills home.
According to Catherine Falk’s legal petition, Peter Falk crashed his car into an office building six months ago.
Catherine Falk – a former private investigator-turned-suburban soccer mom – and her dad haven’t always been on the best terms. In 1992, she filed a lawsuit against him, ultimately settled out of court, after he apparently stopped paying her college tuition.
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Paul Sowers
On Pride and Other Obvious Particulars: #ADOS and the Mainstream’s Next Phase of Reputation Tearing
June 30, 2019 Paul Sowers
1.) That conversation actually seems like quite an important one to have, given the marked disparity in outcomes in America among those two groups. And to the extent that anti-black U.S. public policy has played a pronounced, multi-generational role in shaping ADOS outcomes—whereas the other group, whose family members’ arrivals in this country post-date the origins of American black castehood, and who thus necessarily stand outside of that particular history and its radiating disadvantage—then the implications for due justice and specific repair should be obvious enough.
2.) ADOS really do a perfectly fine job themselves in emphasizing their political movement’s non-affiliation with N’COBRA, whose sclerotic campaign for reparations over the past several decades has been met with about as much enthusiasm as a ladle of grey slop tossed down on one’s dinner plate. Contrast this to #ADOS, which, in relation to N’COBRA and in a mere fraction of the time, has been able to take the issue of reparations for American Descendants of Slavery into the HOV lane of movement politics and has since basically not looked back.
3.) I guess one person’s ‘controversy’ is simply another person’s awareness. Because that’s all that #ADOS—from the absolute, very beginning of the political project, long before it even referred to itself as #ADOS—has ever attempted to create. What they are doing is, moreover, an extremely admirable and courageous thing to undertake in a moment where the impetus in left politics is to essentially collapse all distinctions that exist between dark-skinned people and to studiously avoid addressing some uncomfortable realities about who within that coalition has in fact benefitted from structural ADOS lockout. It’s courageous because confronting those truths as that which necessarily make reparative justice in America the exclusive province of ADOS is—as we are seeing—such an obviously solitary endeavor. The liberal establishment, particularly its media apparatus, is notoriously committed to doing the custodial work of maintaining the status quo and defending by whatever means those political candidates who signal to the relevant interests that their presidency will function reassuringly as a total non-interruption of business as usual, the organizing principle of which has always demanded ADOS at the very bottom. The more urgent connection to be made, seems to me to be, to individuals who see advocating for the type of justice that ADOS is owed as something that is controversial and who then go to these media outlets and label it as an ‘issue.’ Because Carr is right—we have indeed seen this show before. And the more relevant question, for those of us on this side of things, is: for whom are people like Carr working?
4.) Lastly, what should be glaringly obvious to anyone who is paying even minimal attention to the #ADOS movement—and not just jumping in to opine for plaudits from a cohort of similarly ill-informed or willfully deceptive people—is that it is not about asserting ‘pride of privilege in oppression,’ but rather pride in being the group who built the richest nation in the world. And it’s just so hard not to hear, in the calumny that is so often directed at #ADOS, overtones of indignation at the indisputable and rightful claim that animates their movement toward freedom: that the justice for that is theirs.
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Tag Archives: Binanga HKBP
Mob Threats Lead to Closure of Church Building in Indonesia
Posted on August 31, 2010 by particularkev
North Sumatra congregation unable to withstand pressure from local officials, Muslim clerics.
JAKARTA, Indonesia, August 13 (CDN) — Police and local government officials joined forces with a Muslim mob to close a church in North Sumatra Province on July 30, with church leaders forced to promise never to hold services at the site.
The Rev. Leritio Panjaitan of the Binanga HKBP (Huria Kristen Batak Protestant) Church on the Gunung Tua-Sibuhan Highway in Siboris Dolok Village, Sipirok, North Sumatra Province said government officials and mobs threatened to burn the facility if worship continued there.
Pastor Panjaitan said rejection of the church was aided by the presence of a Quranic boarding school, Darul Hasnah Madrassa, which appeared in the vicinity six months ago.
“I have received information that the leader of that madrassa [Islamic school], Dr. Gong Matua Siregar, has incited citizens to reject the presence of the church,” Pastor Panjaitan said.
She said that a local government official admitted to her that the head of the madrassa had pressured him to close the church.
Pastor Panjaitan added that the church had applied for a building and worship permit long ago but that authorities had not acted on it, and that all necessary administrative requirements had been fulfilled.
The head of the Sipirok Majelis Ulama Indonesia (Assembly of Indonesian Muslim Clerics, or MUI), Haji Fahri Harahap, has said it is clear that the residents of the area, long predominantly Muslim, do not want a church there.
The closure means 80 people have lost their worship place.
“At this time, we haven’t decided if we are going to move to another place,” Pastor Panjaitan said. “But temporarily, the congregation will worship by moving from house to house.”
The congregation had first used the building in 2005. After several months, objections began from a Muslim group called the Congregation of the Binanga Sipirok Islamic Forum.
They wrote a letter to church officials requesting that the congregation no longer hold worship services in the area, as the majority in the area were Muslim and there was a fear of “Christianization.”
With no answer from the church, the Islamic group asked the local government to apply pressure, and local government officials wrote to the church requesting that all worship activities cease in order to avoid disturbances with area Muslims. The church leaders and congregation agreed and did not use the building from March 2006 through 2009.
During that time, the congregation worshipped in another building at a distant location, requiring members to incur travel expenses. As the area Christians were largely poor, they asked church leaders to consider using the building again. The elders questioned local residents about the reopening of the church building, and in February the congregation began using it again.
On July 23, however, Regent Basyrah Lubis warned the church to stop worship activities.
Up to that point there had been no problems with the local people, church leaders said, noting that the village leader had no objection to the presence of the church.
With pressure building, however, church leaders met with regional government officials and the MUI, who said many groups opposed the presence of the church and ordered that all Christian activities in the area cease.
Otherwise, the officials and Muslim clerics said, the local government would not be responsible if protestors came and burned the church.
In spite of this brazen threat, church officials decided to continue worship services. Pastor Panjaitan said worship is a human right.
“This is a matter concerning human relations with God, and government should not interfere,” she told Compass.
Noting that their threat was not heeded, government officials again called church leaders to a meeting on July 29. This meeting included the MUI, the district officer, the head of the Department of Religion, and demonstrators who objected to the presence of the church. They forced elder L. Situmorang to sign a letter pledging not to use the building and not to hold worship services on the property, church leaders said.
Initially Situmorang declined, asking for three days to consult with other church leaders, church leaders said, but the next day he was called and forced to sign the letter to stop worship.
Report from Compass Direct News
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Evaluation of Distolingual Canal/Roots in Mandibular Molars and Mesiobuccal Canals in Maxillary Molars by CBCT
Filiz Namdar Pekiner*, M. Oğuz Borahan, Asım Dumlu
Department of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey
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Issue: Suppl-1, M4
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DOI: 10.2174/1874210601711010360
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Background/Purpose:
The objectives of this study were to identify the bilateral distolingual (DL) canals / roots of the mandibular first molars and second mesiobuccal (MB2) canals of the maxillary first molars in the same Turkish individuals using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT).
A total of 150 CBCT images including all mandibular and maxillary first molars were retrospectively investigated in a Turkish subpopulation. The patient age, sex and presence of roots and root canals were assessed. The frequency, of bilateral DL canals, DL roots, and MB2 canals were reviewed. Data were analyzed using Fisher’sexact test and Chi-square test.
The prevalences of right DL canals, DL roots and MB2 canals were 31.3, 14.0 and 34.7%, respectively. The prevalences of left DL canals, DL roots and MB2 canals were 31.3, 4 and 27.3%, respectively. There was no statistically difference in the frequency of right and left DL canals, DL roots of mandibular first molars and MB2 canals of maxillary first molars according to gender.
CBCT is a competent tool for the detection of additional distolingual canals/roots and second mesio buccal canals, and it is a valuable aid for dentists providing root canal treatment.
Keywords: CBCT, Endodontic treatment, Root canal, Molar, Mesiobuccal Canal.
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Success of endodontic management depends on the accurate debridement of the root canal space followed by complete obturation for obtaining the three-dimensional seal [1, 2]. Especially in multirooted teeth, root and root canal morphology variations are a constant challenge for management [3]. Therefore, a comprehensive knowledge of the root canal anatomy and its morphological variations is essential for successful treatment [2].
The mandibular first molars is known to display the most complex root and root canal morphology of the mandibular dentition [4]. Therefore many studies have reviewed the anatomy of the root canals of the mandibular first molars, and noted both complex anatomic variations and abnormalities [5, 6]. In these studies, the presence of a distolingual (DL) root of the mandibular first molars was reported to be 21.09-33.33% in various populations [7, 8]. However, it is reported that the presence of second mesiobuccal (MB2) canals of maxillary first molars is noticeably rare [6].
CBCT provides three-dimensional information of maxillofacial region and is increasingly being used in many of the dental specialties [8]. In terms of three-dimensional evaluation, two-dimensional imaging like periapical radiography and panoramic radiography loses the battle for the lack of perception [3,9]. Anatomical variations in the anatomy of the distal root/canal of mandibular molars and mesiobuccal (MB) canal of maxillary first molars may be determined through careful evaluation with the aid of multiple angled pretreatment radiographs. A two-dimensional image is obtained by conventional radiographs and they do not always reveal the actual number of roots and canals present in cases [10]. Recently, CBCT has been used in endodontics for the evaluation of the root canal morphology. An advantage of the CBCT imaging over the conventional radiograph is that it is proved to be a valuable technique for the diagnosis and evaluation of root canal anatomy [9, 11, 12]. Neelakantan et al. Found that CBCT was as accurate in identifying root canal systems as the modified canal staining [13]. Likewise, Tu et al. Showed a higher prevalence of extra roots in the mandibular first molars assessed by CBCT when compared with conventional radiography [14].
The aims of this study were to identify the bilateral distolingual (DL) canals / roots of the mandibular first molars and second mesiobuccal (MB2) canals of the maxillary first molars in the same Turkish individuals using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT).
2.1. Patient Data
This retrospective study sample is consisted of 150 patients (77 female, 73 male; 21-55 years old, mean 27.66 ± 6.08 years) who visited the department of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology at Dentistry Faculty and had CBCT scans for different purposes. 150 cone beam CT examinations of these patients with large FOVs showing all the mandibular and maxillary first molars fully erupted, formed apices and lacked root canal fillings, posts, and crown restorations, were picked up from the PACS (Picture Archiving Communication Systems) between 2012-2013 and were included in this study. CBCT was performed on a Planmeca Promax 3D Mid (Planmeca Oy, Helsinki, Finland). The ProMax 3D Mid CBCT machine was operated at 84 kVp and 4 mA with an 16×16 cm FOV, with the voxel size was 0.2 mm. The CBCT assessment was performed directly on monitor screen (Monitor 23 inch acer 1920x1080 pixel HP Reconstruction PC, USA). All of the included mandibular and maxillary first molars had completely form root apices and lacked root canal fillings, post, and crown restorations.
The exclusion criteria included patients with history of trauma and/or surgery involving the maxillofacial region, systemic diseases which affect growth and development, or clinical and/or radiographic evidence of developmental anomalies/pathologies affecting the maxillofacial region. All digital imaging were viewed in the axial plane by Romexis 2.92 software (Planmeca Oy, Helsinki, Finland).
The study was carried out according to the recommendations of the Helsinki declaration and the study protocol was approved by the Local Committee of Research and Ethics of Yeditepe University (Protocol No: 212).
2.2. Observer
An oral and maxillofacial radiologist (FNP) interpreted all images. Firstly, the assesment of patient age, gender and presence of roots and canals were performed. Secondly, the presence of DL roots and DL canals in the 150 right and 150 left mandibular first molars and their bilateral concurrence were recorded. If a DL root or DL canal was clearly separated from the distobuccal root or distobuccal canal, respectively, their presences were defined on the axial plane images (Fig. 1). Lastly, the presence of an MB2 canal in the 150 right and 150 left maxillary first molars was recorded if it was clearly separated from main MB canal (Fig. 2).
The data were analysed with SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) for Windows 15.0. (SPSS Inc., Chicago. IL., USA). Descriptive statistical methods (mean, standard deviation, frequency) were used for the evaluation of the data. Chi-square test, Continuity (yates) Correction and Fisher’s exact test were used to evaluate the comparison of qualitative data. P values of less than 0.05 were interpreted as significant.
Fig. (1). Axial sections showing bilateral mandibular first molars with DL roots.
Fig. (2). Axial sections showing right maxillary first molar with an MB2 canal and a left maxillary first molar without an MB2 canal.
A total 300 mandibular first molars and 300 maxillary first molars were included in the study sample since every subject had mandibular and maxillary first molars on both sides. The prevalences of DL roots, DL canals of mandibular first molars, and MB2 canals of maxillary first molars were 11.3, 62.6, and point 6.0%, respectively.
The distributions of right DL canals, DL roots and MB2 canals were 31.3 14.0 and 34.7%, respectively. The distributions of left DL canals, DL roots and MB2 canals were 31, 3, 4.0 and 27.3%, respectively. There was no statistically difference in the frequency of right and left DL canals, DL roots of mandibular first molars and MB2 canals of maxillary first molars according to gender (Table 1).
Table 1. Distribution of right and left DL canals, DL roots of mandibular first molars and MB2 canals of maxillary first molars according to gender.
Male (n=73)
Female (n=77)
Total (n=150)
n (%)
+36 DL Root 2 (2.7%) 4 (5.2%) 6 (4.0%) 0.682
++46 DL Root 9 (12.3%) 12 (15.6%) 21 (14.0%) 0.566
++36 DL Canal 19 (26.0%) 28 (36.4%) 47 (31.3%) 0.173
++16 MB2 Canal 20 (27.4%) 21 (27.3%) 41 (27.3%) 0.986
+ Fisher’s Exact test ++Chi-square test
In Tables (2-4), the prevalences of the bilateral distolingual (DL) roots / canals of the mandibular first molars and second mesiobuccal (MB2) canals of the maxillary first molars are shown respectively. The rates of bilateral concurrence were significant for all variables p < 0.01.
Table 2. Evaluation of the relationship between 36 DL root and 46 DL root.
46 DL Root
Presence 4 (2.7%) 17 (11.3%) 21 (14.0%) 0.004**
Absence 2 (1.3%) 127 (84.7%) 129 (86.0%)
Total 6 (4.0%) 144 (96.0%) 150 (100%)
Fisher’s Exact test ** p<0.01
Table 3. Evaluation of the relationship between 36 DL canal and 46 DL canal.
46 DL Canal
Presence 30 (20.0%) 17 (11.3%) 47 (31.3%) 0.001**
Absence 17 (11.3%) 86 (57.3%) 103 (68.7%)
Total 47 (31.3%) 103 (68.7%) 150 (100%)
Continuity (yates) Correction ** p<0.01
Table 4. Evaluation of the relationship between 16 MB2 canal and 26 MB2 canal.
26 MB2 Canal
Absence 13 (8.7%) 85 (56.7%) 98 (65.3%)
CBCT imaging technique was used in this study to evaluate the presence of mandibular first molars having distolingual roots/canals and second mesiobuccal canals of the maxillary first molars .
The prevalence of DL roots of mandibular first molars in this study was 11.3%, which was similar to those in previous reports [15, 16]. In addition, Scafer et al. Observed that the overall incidence of patients with three-rooted mandibular first molars was 1.35% and rare in a German population [17]. In contrast, the prevalence of DL roots of mandibular first molars was assesed by Kim et al. and it was reported that 24.7% had DL roots which was higher than our results [6]. Their result was similar to previous reports in Korean population with Mongolian traits [18, 19]. In other study, Tu et al. Determined the high prevalence of the DL root in mandibular first molars among the Taiwanese population [14]. In the present study, the prevalences of DL roots of mandibular first molars were lower in Turkish patients compared with Mongolian traits confirming previous findings that its incidence has been linked to specific ethnic groups [4, 6].
The percentage of DL roots of mandibular first molars was higher on the right side (14%) than on the left side (4%), and there was a siginifcant difference in this present study. In addition, the results of our study indicated a higher rate of unilateral prevalence of DL roots of mandibular first molars. Tu et al. and Song et al. also have observed right side predominance for DL roots of mandibular first molars [18, 20]. On the contrary, some studies showed that DL roots of mandibular first molars occur more frequently on left side [21, 22]. In other study, Miloğlu et al. [4] observed that the ratio of right/left side was quite similar, and the authors explained this incoordination could have resulted from variations in the populations, sample size, case selection and methods used.
Similarly, like in other studies, our study portrayed that there were no significant differences between the female and male subject for DL roots of mandibular first molars [23-25].
Although as many as five canals and as few as one and two canals occasionally occur in mandibular molars, the presence of four canals is relatively frequent [21, 26, 27]. In this study, the prevalence of DL canals of mandibular first molars was 31.3% on the left side and 31.3% on the right side, which was similar to the results of previous studies [6, 15]. In addition, similar with other studies there was not a significant difference in incidence of distolingual canals according to gender of patients.
There are many variations in canal number and configuration in maxillary first molar [28, 29]. Therefore, the authors stressed that failure to detect, debride, and fill a second mesiobuccal canal (MB2) of first permanent maxillary molars was one of the main causes of poor long-term prognosis after root canal treatment in these teeth [26]. According to the results of our study, there was not a significant difference in incidence of MB2 canals in terms of gender of patients and the prevalence of MB2 canals of maxillary molars falls within the range of these previous studies. The study protocols (in vivo or in vitro) and the techniques used to identify canal configuration may lead to differences observed between these studies.
CBCT scanning has been used in endodontics for the efficient evaluation of the root canal morphology although intraoral radiographs still remain the imaging technique of choice for the evaluation of endodontic patients. CBCT with relatively low patient doses and small voxel sizes should be preffered for diagnosis in patients who present with contradictory or non-specific clinical signs and symptoms associated with untreated or previously endodontically-treated teeth [30]. The position paper published jointly by the American Association of Endodontists (AAE) and the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (AAOMR) does not support the routine use of CBCT for all cases except when complex root canal anatomy is suspected [31].
To determine variations in root canal morphology, various techniques have been suggested: conventional and modified tooth staining and clearing, conventional and digital radiography, contrast media radiography and computed tomography (CT). CBCT has a superiority over conventional periapical films due to its ability of to reduce or eliminate superimposition of surrounding structures [32]. Therefore, CBCT is the best imaging technique for the evaluation and identification of additional root/canals. For this reason, we evaluated these root/canal anatomic variations by using CBCT from axial sections.
Dentists should be familiar with root canal morphology and should be aware of unexpected canal morphology when performing endodontic treatment. Also, clinicians should carefully observe CBCT scans of patients justified for other reasons to investigate the presence of extra root/canal. The present report portrayed the use of a cone-beam computed tomography examination as a tool for the diagnosis and negotiation of extra canals in the distal root/canals of mandibular first molars and second mesibuccal canals of maxillary first molars. Information gained through this type of studies will be used in the future for diagnosis and endodontic therapy which may contribute to aid clinicians in the prediction of additional canals.
No Animals/Humans were used for studies that are base of this research.
The editor declares no conflict of interest, financial or otherwise.
This study is presented in 14th European Congress of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology on 25-28June 2014, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and supported by Marmara University Scientific Research Project Council (Project no: SAG-D-090414-0085).
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Droplet Microfluidics: Diluting Droplets - Andrew Beck
CHEM-ENG 590E: Microfluidics and Microscale Analysis in Materials and Biology
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2 Droplet Formation
3 Diluting Droplets
3.1 Digitizing A Multi-Stream Intersection
3.2 Merging Droplets With An Intersecting Flow
3.3 Digitizing A Gradient Flow
3.4 Stepwise Dilution
The ability to conduct micro scale dilutions within a low cost and high efficiency device has not only been helpful to chemists and biological researchers working with very small scale fluid interactions, but it has also opened up entirely new platforms on which to conduct experiments accurately on the micro scale. One area of significance within recent generation microfluidic systems is the ability to conduct accurate and ultra small volume dilutions, especially with reference to single micro volume droplets. The general principle of the droplet dilution system is that a droplet or series of droplets may be formed in which there is a set concentration of various molecules and that the ratio of molecules may be maintained or adjusted as desired. The ability to control and adjust concentrations of molecules within a single droplet in a near automated system has led to the adoption of such systems within areas as drug discovery, biological assay development, analytical chemistry, and more.
This category of microfluidic systems fall into a few major design categories, but in general they either operate by splitting a multi-component flow into droplets, or by combining droplets to form a new product droplet with its own ratio of molecules. The process of spitting a mixed flow into product droplets is often known as digitizing flow and can be accomplished via Y- or T-junction geometries. The second method of combining droplets to form new concentrations is often done by merging two flowing droplets, but also can be done by adding a droplet to a stationary volume.
Droplet Formation
Fig. 1: Droplets generation of a system composed by water and soybean oil with PGPR at Y-junction, Qc = 30 lL/min, (a) q = 0.8, (b) q = 0.5 and (c) q = 0.2; at T-junction, Qc = 19.2 lL/min, (d) q = 0.8, (e) q = 0.5 and (f) q = 0.2 (scale bar length: 500 lm).3
Droplet formation is often achieved at either a Y- or T-junction where a feed flow enters a cross-flow, as seen in Figure 1. This liquid – liquid interface is well understood and the generation of single component droplets easily controlled by capillary, inertial, and viscous forces. The basic principles of this system are that immiscible flows connect in such a way that as one intersecting flow is introduced to the main flow some volume of the intersecting flow's lead portion is sheered off and thus forms a droplet.3
Diluting Droplets
The mixing and dilution of droplets is often undertaken in one of three ways, multiple flows intersect to form a multicomponent droplet, A droplet is merged with another droplet or droplets, or a stream with some chemical gradient along its axis of flow is digitized into droplets of constantly varying concentration. In all these designs the basic goal is to form droplets with some controlled dilution between multiple chemical components.
Digitizing A Multi-Stream Intersection
Fig. 2: The colored aqueous streams are solutions of red and green food dyes.2
By taking advantage of the T-junction's ability to form droplets, a diluted droplet may be formed by feeding the T-junction interface a mixed laminar flow. This design allows for variation in droplet concentrations simply by adjusting feed flow rates. This is demonstrated in Figure 2 where flows of red and green dye are fed to a T-Junction and their resulting droplet can be mixed via active or passive mixing depending on design and operating parameters. The composition of the droplet is a function of the feed stream component ratios and mixing method is determined by whether there is interaction between the droplet and the edge of the channel.
Fig. 3: Droplets were mixed rapidly by recirculation shown by white arrows. Plugs (droplets that block the channel but do not wet the walls) were transported with no dispersion.2
The method of mixing the produced droplet to reach a state of homogeneity is determined by operation and design parameters. Mixing of the droplet falls into the categories of either active or passive mixing. Active mixing of the droplet is accomplished via interactions between the droplet and the wall surfaces of the channel. In active mixing of the droplet the no-slip boundary condition of laminar flow along the wall surface causes the exterior edges of the droplet to be held back and eventually swirled back into the center of the droplet, thus causing active and fast mixing of the droplet.
If the droplet is very small compared to channel dimensions and thus does not interact with the walls of the channel no active mixing will take place. Thus, passive mixing(diffusion) will dominate the process. In passive mixing of the droplet the swirling action of the droplet will not take place and the droplet's component parts will slowly diffuse in an effort to minimize molar osmotic differences. Swirling of the particle (active mixing greatly reduces the time before droplet will be well mixed. This swirling process is initiated as soon as the T-junction, as can be seen in Figure 3. The required length of the channel droplets must pass down before they are properly mixed is heavily dependent on style of mixing and can be reduced if more swirling action can be induced inside the droplets.
A weakness of this style of design can be that flows require some stabilizing time before any accurate or steady production of diluted drops may be achieved. A strength of this system is that once stability of flow has been achieved this system is sustainable and will not need to be re calibrated before the desired number of droplets has been formed.
Merging Droplets With An Intersecting Flow
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Fig. 4: A Train of droplets being individually mixed with a second liquid entering through a T-junction. The flow rates are 400 microliters per minute on the droplets, and 100 microliters per minute on the aqueous stream.6,7
In this method individual droplets may be diluted by contact with an intersecting flow. An example of this is in Figure 4 where droplets passing a T junction collide and mix with a newly forming droplet. This method allows for individual droplets to collect a specific and adjustable amount of diluting secondary chemical. Dilution ratio is controlled by adjusting flow of T-junction fluid (yellow in figure), or my adjusting size of passing droplets (blue in video). This allows for droplet by droplet specific dilution ratios.6,7
The concentration and volume of the product droplet are functions of both the passing droplet and the intersecting flow's volumetric flowrate and composition. The final product droplet's concentration is given by the relationship:
[math]C_{final}=\frac{C_{initial}V_{initial}+C_{flow}V_{flow}}{V_{final}}[/math]
Where [math]C_{final}[/math] is the concentration of the product droplet formed via this interaction. Similarly, [math]V_{final}[/math] is the volume of this product droplet. [math]C_{initial}[/math] and [math]V_{initial}[/math] are the concentration and volume of the initial passing droplet before it is intersected by the intersecting flow. The concentration and the volume absorbed by the passing droplet from the intersection flow are likewise represented by [math]C_{flow}[/math] and [math]V_{flow}[/math].
Digitizing A Gradient Flow
Fig. 5: Axial dispersion of chemical gradient before T-junction digitizes flow.1
Fig. 6: Concentration gradient in successive droplets.1
The process of creating a flow with a gradient of chemical or molecular concentrations is done via adjusting feed and buffer flow rates over time. Feed and buffer solutions are mixed together and as they continue to flow they diffuse into each other. As buffer flow rate or a feed stream flow rate is adjusted the result is to change the downstream concentration. This resulting flow with varying concentration as a function of time may then be digitized to gain droplets with various concentrations.
Digitizing of the flow is accomplished via a T- or Y-joint. As flow with changing concentration or ratios of molecules passes through the droplet forming joint a digitized flow of droplets. The stream of produced droplets will have a gradient of concentrations as shown in Figure 5 and 6.
Central to this design is the ability to adjust feed flow rates and flow rate of buffer solution. The Wereley Lab at Purdue, which is responsible for the design depicted in Figures 5 and 6, achieved this functionality using three peristaltic pumps.
Stepwise Dilution
Fig 7: Part 1 - Four time points showing one cycle of the serial dilution. Part 2 - Twelve sequential output droplets.8
The serial dilution, also known as a stepwise dilution of a mother droplet operates under the principle that as droplets of buffer solution are added to a mother droplet of some set chemical concentration an output droplet will be produced with volume equal to buffer droplet and concentration as a function of of the diluted mother droplet. The concentration in each successive output droplet is reduced as a function of the droplet number and can be given via the below equation with [math]V_{M}[/math] being the volume of the mother droplet and [math]V_{d}[/math] being the volume of the output droplet.
[math]C_{output}=(\frac{1-V_{d}}{V_{M}})^n[/math]
A weakness of this style of design rests mainly with challenges getting the first mother droplet to form. Also, as this mother droplet will eventually reach a point where its composition has asymptotically approached the buffer solution composition there will eventually be no noticeably difference between buffer solution and the output droplets.
While microfluidics, which includes droplet dilution devices, have been largely impactful on the biological and chemical disciplines of science and engineering there are a few applications that are especially important. Within the biological sciences nearly no test has been of more significance than the development of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)9. This is a process traditionally completed within a 0.5 mL volume PCR tube, yet using droplet microfluidic systems this single sample 0.5mL batch test may be transformed into a continuous process on the microscale, known as Digital PCR9. Hatch et al8 demonstrated a microfluidic device that via high speed sperial dilution was able to generate one million 50 picolitre sized droplet PCR samples in under seven minutes and then run image analyses on all one million samples simultaneously10. Not only does this greatly reduce the sample size needed to run successive experiments, but it also conducts more experiments in a short period of time then ever has been possible before. High throughput, low cost digital PCR using droplet diffusion microfluidics promises to greatly enhance quality of PCR testing.
The synthesis of enzymes and proteins are laboratory procedures vital in drug discovery, production, and clinical testing. Traditionally, this has involve the culture of cells and purification of their produced molecules. These molecules would be tested against various compounds or used in subsequent biological experiments. Mazutis et al12. has demonstrated a method where via a microfluidic droplet diffusion device he was able to accomplish in vitro protein synthesis. More impressive still is a recent publication in which the team was able to generate proteins from amplified genes in a process very similar to PCR. In this experiment the team demonstrated that via a microfluidic droplet diluting system they were able to generate and screen [math]10^6[/math] unique proteins with only 150 microliters of reagents11.
1. Thakur, Raviraj, et al. On-Chip Dilution in Nanoliter Droplets. The Royal Society of Chemistry, 14 July 2015, https://doi.org/10.1039/C4AN01829J.
2. Tice, Joshua, et al. “Formation of Droplets and Mixing in Multiphase Microfluidics at Low Values of the Reynolds and the Capillary Numbers.” ACS Publications, Langmuir, 12 Aug. 2003, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la030090w.
3. Ushikubo, F. Y., et al. “Y- And T-Junction Microfluidic Devices: Effect of Fluids and Interface Properties and Operating Conditions.” SpringerLink, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 6 Feb. 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10404-014-1348-4.
4. Wang, Jiajun, et al. “Fluid Mixing in Droplet-Based Microfluidics with a Serpentine Microchannel.” RSC Advances, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 25 Nov. 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5RA21181F.
5. “Overview of ELISA.” ThermoFisher Scientific , ThermoFisher Scientific , http://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/life-science/protein-biology/protein-biology-learning-center/protein-biology-resource-library/pierce-protein-methods/overview-elisa.html.
6. Trivedi, Varun, et al. “A Modular Approach for the Generation, Storage, Mixing, and Detection of Droplet Libraries for High Throughput Screening.” Lab on a Chip, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 18 Aug. 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C004768F.
7. “Droplet Merging and Mixing in a T Junction.” Youtube, Microfluidics and BioInstrumentation Lab @ Wayne State University, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLRpG-hzm9s.
8. Niu, Xize, et al. “A Microdroplet Dilutor for High-Throughput Screening.” Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, 23 May 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1046.
9. Niu, Xize, et al. “Droplet-Based Microfluidics: Enabling Impact on Drug Discovery.” Journal of Biomolecular Screening, Journal of Biomolecular Screening, 15 Nov. 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1087057113510401.
10. Hatch, Andrew C., et al. “1-Million Droplet Array with Wide-Field Fluorescence Imaging for Digital PCR.” Lab on a Chip, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 29 Sept. 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1LC20561G.
11. Fallah-Araghi, Ali, et al. “A Completely in Vitro Ultrahigh-Throughput Droplet-Based Microfluidic Screening System for Protein Engineering and Directed Evolution.” Lab on a Chip, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 26 Jan. 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2LC21035E.
12. Baret, Linas MazutisJean-Christophe, et al. “Multi-Step Microfluidic Droplet Processing: Kinetic Analysis of an in Vitro Translated Enzyme.” Lab on a Chip, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 6 Aug. 2009, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/B907753G.
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An encouraging, comforting voice permeates O.K., Gabrielle Smith's second album in her solo project Eskimeaux. O.K. invites us to view the world through Smith's eyes, and somehow it feels as if Smith is lending her ear to you rather than the other way around.
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The most appropriate word to describe Gabrielle Smith's solo project Eskimeaux might be "togetherness." The band founded Brooklyn songwriting and art collective the Epoch in 2011 along with several of their friends, but this sense of mutual support and do-it-together philosophy has long been a part of Smith's M.O. She originally formed Eskimeaux in 2007, all the while happily joining her peers' and fellow collective members' bands—Bellows, Told Slant, and Frankie Cosmos. Smith's songs reflect this type of profound concern for the well-being of those around her, an eagerness to take a backseat when others need her and a longing to still express her own sharp meditations on love and loneliness.
Several of the songs on O.K. are new versions of previous recordings, but this time around Smith has scaled back to outline each melody in clearer brush strokes. Where certain tracks on 2013's Igluenza were monotone or drawn out, they graduate to fully formed pop on this release. Before, "I Admit I'm Scared" felt flat despite its visually compelling lyrics ("Everything I said spewed like sparklers from my mouth/ They looked pretty as they flew but now they're useless and burnt out"), while here it's one of the album's strongest moments. Subtle harmonies slowly coax Smith's gentle alto into a confident soar over Felix Walworth's galloping drum fill. She casually divulges secrets as though her arm is already on your shoulder, her quiet relatability spiking upwards at the climax ("If I had a dime for every time I'm freaking out/ We could fly around the world or just get out of your parents' house").
This encouraging, comforting voice permeates O.K. It may not always come in the form of a soft whisper in the night, but somehow it feels as if Smith is lending her ear to you rather than the other way around. Whether she's letting you know that it's okay to be scared and sad—notably on danceable bedroom pop number "Alone at the Party"—or tenderly confessing how important you are ("The Thunder Answered Back"), the sweetness isn't saccharine, it's sincere and intimate. And when the entire band accompanies Smith on the latter track, she serves gut-wrenching doses of candor: "It must feel like fucking hell/ To be a patchwork of yourself." Smith is a hyper-aware observer, able to pinpoint others' despair just as well as her own.
Sonically, O.K. is the most fitting pallette for Smith's work. In the past she's played around with drum machines and broken synth beats, which weighed her down in gloomy, droning noise. This LP finally matches Eskimeaux's illuminating presence. She slips from sparse indie-folk to ethereal pop throughout the record, each arrangement rich and meticulously composed. The band never overpowers Smith's celestial vocals, and she's able to keep up with the slow-burning tension when it eventually detonates. Walworth's attentive drumming is a welcome addition that swells and retracts to complement Jack Greenleaf's twinkling synth arpeggios.
At face value, it's easy to mistake Smith's nursery rhyme name-dropping and misty-eyed warmth for childlike naiveté. However, she's no Pollyanna—she's simply acknowledging the darkness and aiming to move past it. O.K. invites us to view the world through Smith's eyes. The unassuming strength of her vision is what makes that invitation so worth accepting.
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Written by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
Narrated by Brad Meltzer, Scott Brick, and Josh Mensch
Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that led to the modern day CIA.
In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York, William Tryon, and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington himself.
This is the story of the secret plot and how it was revealed. It is a story of leaders, liars, counterfeiters, and jailhouse confessors. It also shows just how hard the battle was for George Washington and how close America was to losing the Revolutionary War.
In this historical masterpiece, New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer teams up with American history writer and documentary television producer, Josh Mensch, to unravel the shocking true story behind what has previously been a footnote in the pages of history. Drawing on extensive research, Meltzer and Mensch capture in riveting detail how George Washington not only defeated the most powerful military force in the world, but also uncovered the secret plot against him in the tumultuous days leading up to July 4, 1776.
This program includes a bonus conversation with the authors.
Publisher: Macmillan AudioReleased: Jan 8, 2019ISBN: 142729917XFormat: audiobook
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BIM | Building Information Modeling
How can you benefit from Building Information Modeling?
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is increasingly getting the attention of organizations involved in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), as well as the owners and operators of buildings (facility managers and real estate managers). In this context, BIM is a digital model representing physical, technical, and functional characteristics of a building. BIM is a shared data and knowledge platform for all stakeholders involved and provides a basis for decision making during the entire lifecycle of a building:
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Different stakeholders at different phases of the lifecycle of a building add, query, or edit information in the Building Information Model to support their own function and share this information with other stakeholders.
Building Information Modeling is much more than a 3D CAD drawing representing a floor plan or construction detail. BIM benefits include data of interest to many stakeholders during the full lifecycle of the building, such as buyers, owners, occupants, facility and real estate managers, safety inspectors, lawyers, and emergency planners. BIM can also support the creation of surrounding processes, including geographical analyses, urban planning, and landscaping.
As building maintenance and operations reflect over 90% of total lifecycle costs, real estate and facility managers have an increasing interest in using Building Information Modeling (BIM) because the model keeps essential information on multiple aspects of a building or asset. These include spatial information, technical documentation, cost information, vendor data, or operating guidelines. BIM facilities management reduces the traditional information loss associated with handling a project from the AEC team to the building owner and operator. By closing this gap between construction and building operation, all available data helps in saving time, effort, and money in running and maintaining the building during its entire life cycle, including its demolishment.
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FAQ - How can you benefit from BIM as a Facility Manager?
Both a BIM and IWMS systems use data for multiple processes throughout a building’s lifecycle. Facility and property managers are becoming increasingly interested in the benefits to maintenance and operations that integrating the two systems can bring.
Many dimensions in the application of Building Information Modeling
BIM can include many dimensions of data to support processes for different stakeholders. A Building Information Model includes 3D coordinates and vector information that represent the geometry of the building and its components, including eventual geospatial data.
4D BIM adds time as a new dimension to the model. This enables planners and constructors to visualize activities subsequently on a time line, for example in the sequence the construction needs to be created.
5D BIM includes the linking of cost related data to any component of the Building Information Model, allowing designers, contractors or investors to visualize the progress of construction activities and its related costs over time.
6D BIM is the “As-Built” model including information such as product data, maintenance manuals, photos, warranty data, manufacturer information, and contacts. 6D BIM plays a key role in using BIM successfully during the operations phase of buildings and therefore needs special attention from Facility Managers and Real Estate professionals.
Uses of BIM in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC)
Using Building Information Modeling as a central information and collaboration platform during design, engineering, and construction of any building provides many benefits. It reduces the number of data sources drastically, resulting in
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As multiple technical disciplines like construction detailing and electro technical and mechanical engineering are unified in one BIM platform, the impact of any change in any discipline is immediately visually available for all other disciplines. This increases interdisciplinary collaboration and drastically reduces failures or clashes during the design, engineering and construction phase.
BIM in operations
Building owners, facility and real estate managers, and service providers can benefit from BIM as it keeps vital information for many processes during the operations phase of a building’s lifecycle. Information such as spatial data, asset details, documentations, and graphical information can support processes during the operation of buildings like space management, asset management, maintenance planning, energy management, and reconstruction projects during the lifecycle. To ensure that the BIM is enriched with relevant and useable information for building maintenance and operations, it is key to analyze this information during the initiation of the AEC phase.
For processes supported by IWMS or CAFM solutions, a bidirectional BIM connector allows data exchange between BIM and IWMS. Because the geometrical data remains maintained and changed in the BIM, data exchange with IWMS occurs on a frequent basis.
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Some leading products for BIM are Revit (Autodesk), ArchiCAD (Graphisoft), Bentley and Tekla. To re-use BIM successfully in operations, the previously mentioned integration with IWMS and CAFM solutions is a key requirement. BIM software vendors and the AEC industry are taking several initiatives for standardization exchange formats like the Constructions Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) in the United States.
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In the United Kingdom, the government started the Government Soft Landing (GSL) program that aims to reduce operating costs and improve carbon performance by involving users and operators during the design process. “Soft Landing” also refers to a smooth transition from the construction phase to maintenance and operations. For any governmental project in the UK, the use of BIM becomes mandatory from 2016.
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Looking for new states of matter
by Peter Ehrhard, Missouri University of Science and Technology
By studying how materials transform at ultra-low temperatures, a Missouri S&T theoretical physicist hopes to discover new states of matter.
Funded by a $229,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Thomas Vojta, professor of physics at Missouri S&T, is researching how slight changes in the chemical composition of materials can dramatically change their properties.
"My research looks at quantum phase transitions – transformations of materials occurring near absolute zero – and how they take place," says Vojta. "In connection with these transformations, exotic new quantum states of matter can appear – for example, superconductors that can carry electric current without any losses."
Until recently, it was believed that materials had to be cooled to temperatures below negative 400 degrees Fahrenheit – close to absolute zero – in order to transmit electric current with no loss, an effect known as superconductivity. Current research shows that some materials can become superconducting at warmer temperatures. But to reach room-temperature superconductivity – where the effect would have enormous technological impact – new kinds of superconducting states may be required. Once they are discovered, researchers could continue to improve the materials' superconductivity, leading to lower costs and faster advances in the field, Vojta says.
His research in quantum phase transitions could be one method of finding new states of superconductivity in certain materials.
"Quantum property phase transitions are similar to the changes that occur when you boil water," says Vojta. "These abrupt transformations directly affect superconductivity, and we want to find out exactly how and why."
Vojta uses a supercomputer he built with his colleagues and students to model these quantum phase transitions and to compute various materials' properties. Called the Pegasus IV High-Performance Computing Cluster, the homemade PC cluster is made up of 156 quad-core computer nodes that are used for computational research in condensed matter and statistical physics.
Team finds elusive quantum transformations near absolute zero
Provided by Missouri University of Science and Technology
Citation: Looking for new states of matter (2016, January 1) retrieved 17 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2016-01-states.html
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BANKS Goddess
Review: Banks, Goddess
The occasionally wonderful debut album from Banks is ultimately an exercise in unrealized potential.
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Hear another one from the LA songstress's hotly anticipated Goddess.
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Watch a new music video from the trending singer/songwriter's forthcoming debut, Goddess
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The L.A. singer will release her highly-anticipated debut album, Goddess in September.
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Marvel Action For Young Wallcrawlers
by Vince Brusio
If you’re into comics, you know that nothing stays the same. Evolution is constant. That you can bank on. Just like you can bank on how Spider-Man will always be tweaked for a new generation. This year, IDW Publishing leads the charge to help bring the Wallcrawler into a new chapter of his development with Marvel Action: Spider-Man #1 (SEP180644) written by Delilah S. Dawson with artwork by Fico Ossio, and both IDW’s Editor-in-Chief John Barber and Group Editor Denton Tipton weigh in with details, and a glimpse of new wild Webswingers.
Marvel Action: Spider-Man #1 (SEP180644) is in comic shops November 28.
Vince Brusio: Why is Spider-Man swinging around the offices of IDW Publishing? How did this new universe happen?
Denton Tipton: IDW has been working with Marvel on our Artist's Editions, comic strip reprints, and various other projects for many years now, and this venture is very much a product of that developing relationship along with IDW's success with Star Wars Adventures.
John Barber: Marvel’s always looking for good ways to bring their characters and stories to a wide audience. IDW’s had a lot of success in bringing comics to younger readers, and to audiences that maybe aren’t already enmeshed in the world of comic books. When you factor all of that stuff together, IDW and Marvel working together on these comics makes a great deal of sense.
Vince Brusio: What continuity is first being established in this book? Peter’s in high school, correct? Is he a freshman? A sophomore? Has he already been bitten by the radioactive spider?
Denton Tipton: These titles will have their own continuity, and it's a completely fresh start. Peter in his junior year of high school, and well along in being Spider-Man.
John Barber: We’ll see stuff that’s familiar, reimagined in fresh new ways, and we’ll see some stuff that’s wholly unique to the story Delilah Dawson and Fico Ossio are telling. It’s classic Peter Parker but with plenty of contemporary twists.
Vince Brusio: How do Gwen Stacy and Miles Morales figure into this story? Are they in the same grade as Peter? Do they live in the same neighborhood? Bottom line: will we get an origin story, or have things (history) already been put in motion, and we’re being dropped into ongoing “current events”?
Denton Tipton: All three have powers, but only Peter has donned a costume at this point. For the rest, you'll have to wait and read for yourself!
John Barber: What Denton said! It’s super-cool to get to bring Miles and Gwen into the mix on these comics. Having them onboard really makes this comic have a unique feel — this comic has its own personality.
Vince Brusio: This book is said to be for an “all ages” audience. Could you elaborate on that label for us? Does this mean that the audience for TMNT Adventures is the same as for Spider-Man #1?
Denton Tipton: It's targeted squarely for 8-12 year olds, but can be enjoyed by readers of all ages.
John Barber: Part of what we’ve been joking about with Marvel is that it’s for 8-12, but for a long time just about every comic was.
Vince Brusio: What is the most rewarding part of your job working on this new book?
Denton Tipton: It fills me with great joy to be able to share with kids the inspiration that comic books gave me at that age.
John Barber: I’m really happy to get to see these exciting takes on Spidey — plus Avengers and Black Panther — unfolding in front of me, and getting to play a small role in guiding them! I really love these characters, and it’s fantastic to get to work with amazing creators, and with all our friends at Marvel. Which sounds like marketing talk, but that’s the truth!
Vince Brusio writes about comics, and writes comics. He is the long-serving Editor of PREVIEWSworld.com, the creator of PUSSYCATS, and encourages everyone to keep the faith...and keep reading comics.
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~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.
Tag Archives: New York Primary
Bernie Sanders dodges on Rosario Dawson’s Lewinsky comments
Posted by bydesign001 in Election 2016
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2016 Democratic presidential primary, Bernie Sanders, bullying, election fraud, Hillary Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, New York Primary, NYC Board of Elections, Voter Suppression
Throughout the 2008 and 2012 presidential election season, Progressives controlled the message, for the most part kept their talking heads in check when it came to propaganda (not to mention voter and election fraud).
Well that was then and this is now. Progressives set their creation loose on the country and the ideologues cannot (will not) allow themselves to be controlled.
Enter Rosario Dawson who while ragging Hillary Clinton this weekend over Super Pac donations invoked Monica Lewinsky and the intimidation, suppression of voters by the Progressive establishment desperate to control the message and outcome of the 2016 Presidential election.
Dawson’s statement obviously referred to the “mistaken” purge of more than 126,000 Democratic voters living in Brooklyn, New York from the rolls by New York City’s Board of Elections between December 2015 and last week’s primary. [Coincidentally (not), Bernie Sanders was born in Brooklyn.]
Yeah, that is going to leave a mark. Moreover, I do not believe that Bernie Sanders can handle Rosario Dawson or for that matter, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The Hill by Jesse Hellmann
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Sunday did not directly answer a question about whether it was appropriate for actress Rosario Dawson, a Sanders surrogate, to mention former White House intern Monica Lewinsky at a rally Saturday.
“Rosario is a great actress and she’s doing a great job for us,” Sanders said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I have no idea in what context Rosario is talking about, but I would hope that all of our people talk about the real issue.”
Sanders also said people should be talking about climate change instead of his surrogate.
“And, by the way, it might be a good idea for all of us, including TV networks, to start talking about the planetary crisis of climate change,” Sanders added[…]
Continue Reading — Sanders dodges on Rosario Dawson’s Lewinsky comments
Let’s be real, even if Sanders could check Dawson, he would not. Doing so would not risk angering his supporters for the likes of Crooked Hillary.
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New York State Primary: Chaotic!
2016 Presidential Election, Chaos, Corruption, disenfranchisement, New York Primary, New York State Board of Elections, purging voter rolls
No Republican ballots in Harlem? Now that’s just racist and/or ideologically biased.
A voting location in Brooklyn closes for the day at 7:50 a.m. and at another, the site coordinator didn’t bother to show up?
Let’s be honest. Did anyone expect to see any less in Communist mayor, Bill de Blasio’s New York City?
I suspect that I was one of the lucky ones.
CBS-New York
It’s primary day in New York and as many voters scramble to cast their ballots before, during, and after work, some are also running into unfortunate circumstances.
It’s not often that New Yorkers’ votes are pivotal in a presidential primary and many at polling places across the state are determined to make their’s count.
Many of the voting problems occurred early in the morning, 1010 WINS’ Carol D’Auria reported.
http://cbsloc.al/1MGwzP6
Continue Reading — ‘Corruption In Full Force’: Voter Claims There Were No GOP Ballots In Harlem
What a way to begin primary day in New York State and yes, it was just the beginning.
New York State’s primary process is closed, something of which most New Yorkers were unaware and didn’t pick up not even last week when the mainstream failed to elaborate on the reason as to why Donald Trump’s children were unable to vote for their father in today’s primary.
In the case of registered Independent voters in NYS, things went downhill fast as they were not allowed to vote today being that which until today, most New Yorkers.
Adding to that, there was a massive purge of Democratic voters supposedly due to a computer glitch of sorts. One heck of a computer glitch, party affiliations were switched without explanation and without consent.
According to reports, the majority of voters purged from the rolls are from Brooklyn.
On Monday, advocacy group, Election Justice USA, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court against the New York Board of Elections asking the judge to open up today’s presidential primary to 63,000 plus voters purged from the voter rolls.
…voter rolls on April 1 showed the borough had 853,687 registered Democrats who are considered “active” because they voted at least once in the last four years.
But in November, there were 917,508, or 63,558 more.
The board said the numbers changed because many once-active voters were moved to the inactive list.
But that list grew by only 9,154 voters — from 82,807 to 91,961 — leaving 54,404 Brooklyn voters missing….
In spite of Election Justice USA instructing independent and disenfranchised voters to vote by provisional ballot, (i) those voters were turned away and (ii) District Judge Joanna Seybert (EDNY), a Clinton appointee, “denied the request, and delayed a hearing on an emergency lawsuit,” as reported by Think Progress.
Social media is all over it.
Election Justice USA on #NYPrimary voter purge #tytlive #Feelthebern pic.twitter.com/preGsd9bI6
— Jordan (@JordanChariton) April 19, 2016
@JordanChariton My county (Clinton) told me they don’t know what provisional ballots are and turned me away. They don’t participate.
— Kyle Stevens (@kste715) April 19, 2016
Today, @JordanChariton is everybody’s official #PrimaryDay reporter. MSM journalists aren’t reporting on what’s really going on.Thanks dude
— #Demolicious (@GreenDayZainab) April 19, 2016
Cruz and the GOP elites don’t care. They hate voters, disenfranchising >1M in just the last week alone. #NYPrimary https://t.co/2yPvJBMP8V
— American Hank (@_HankRearden) April 20, 2016
Record-setting screw-up on #NYPrimary sparks Board of Elections probe: “It’s time we clean up this mess” https://t.co/7rcxMxWChk
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 20, 2016
CORRUPTION IN FULL FORCE in Harlem…I’m told there are NO republican ballots available and I was given this one pic.twitter.com/qaDrctjhOG
— John Burnett (@IAmJohnBurnett) April 19, 2016
I’m NO more republican ballots in Harlem!!! @FoxNews @CNNPolitics @NBCNews @CBSNews @ABC I have to wait for delivery pic.twitter.com/upBzLx3vZG
After showing voter card I signed book and given @democrat ballot. I asked for @GOP ballot, told no more and to wait pic.twitter.com/iFBo3whmI8
Leftist #NYValues via poll corruption. Harlem’s 3 @GOP delegates just as valuable as other NY district @tedcruz @JohnKasich @realDonaldTrump
Finally received my @GOP ballot in Harlem!!! pic.twitter.com/B9WVyKKp4I
Hope ballots are NOT like petitions that require everything to be correct. It’s “Affidavit” not “Affidaivt” pic.twitter.com/Bhypi7rh9z
I won my court order! It took me 4 hours but I get to cast my ballot for @BernieSanders. I could cry. #nyprimary pic.twitter.com/W4mIudgUZW
— Matt Miner (@MattMinerXVX) April 19, 2016
@sheiman @BrianLehrer Sanders is in the last half of alphabet. Clinton in first half. COINCIDENCE, NEW YORK?
— SteveMagnusonVEVO (@stvMAG) April 19, 2016
2/2 @BrianLehrer So those w/last names @ end of the alphabet had to vote by affidavit. They may get rest of the names later. #NYPrimary
— sheiman (@sheiman) April 19, 2016
@thinkprogress Good. New York Democrat here – and I want to keep it the way it is – closed to not-Democrats.
— Denise Oliver-Velez (@Deoliver47) April 19, 2016
New York election judges become last resort for disenfranchised primary voters https://t.co/yfxu1CiDMA pic.twitter.com/OCcY1pDPu9
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) April 19, 2016
Creepy @gqforbes tweets out article by Soros-Funded @thinkprogress. Hmmm. @realDonaldTrump #dtmag @DanScavino https://t.co/Rlf1WesI9S
— TavernKeepers (@TavernKeepers) April 19, 2016
Your absurd conclusion casts a shadow on a lawful & explicit process, undermining vote confidence for the benefit of #CLICKS. @thinkprogress
— Only4RM (@Only4RM) April 19, 2016
Massive # of #Brooklyn residents knocked off voter lists — #NYC Comptroller Stringer to investigate. #NYPrimary https://t.co/Hn8dO3nnU7
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Ahhhhhhhh, Andrew Cuomo, Bill de Blasio and Bertha Lewis (formerly of ACORN)’s New York. Warming up for the November presidential election and de Blasio’s re-election in 2017.
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Good-bye grass, hello gravel
November 8, 2016 § Leave a comment
Remember when I wrote about a neighbor who was “unclear on the concept” of transitioning from a water-hog front yard of grass to one with low water-using plantings? (No? You can read about it here.)
My complaint was that the spread of gravel substituted for grass might have met the letter of the California Friendly® Landscape Incentive Program, but not its spirit. Granted, the new yard had a few drought-tolerant plants scattered about. They were hardly enough, however, to create the “friendly landscape” promoted by the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power and Metropolitan Water District. Those rocks would not convert CO2, a greenhouse gas, to user-friendly oxygen or be good at capturing rainwater. In fact, they would absorb heat and increase temperatures.
Turns out, I was on to something.
Bloomberg Businessweek recently featured an investigation into what the two water agencies got in return for their $428 million incentive program. The story focused on the work of a company called Turf Terminators that banked 12 percent, $44 million, of that pot o’ gold, the largest single share.
Turf Terminators was created by a couple of 20-something entrepreneurs who jumped into the program just as the MWD raised its rebate from $1 to $2 a square foot in 2014. City residents can get an additional $1.75 from the LADWP for a juicy total of $3.75 for every square foot of lawn removed. The company’s pitch to homeowners was that in return for rights to whatever rebate was owed them, Turf Terminators would replace their lawns for free. And Turf Terminators would even handle the paperwork.
Technically, the company should not have been in the rebate game: Landscapers were required to be in business three years in order to participate. Turf Terminators solved this problem by buying out a contractor who’d been around for a while and, presto change-o, the subsidies began to flow.
Turf Terminators claimed that in less than two years, it removed 16 million square feet of grass from 12,000 lawns. Not everyone was happy with the results, however, and they vented on Yelp. This lament from a Porter Ranch homeowner was typical.
So here’s the deal: before you hire anyone to rip up your yard consider the implications of what that means. Your front yard will look like a crappy gravel parking lot or an abandoned drive-in theater. If your grass already looked bad then this just might be an improvement.
Not the case for me. My, once, lush beautiful green yard now looks like it’s only missing an abandoned car on blocks then the image would be complete.
Having a gravel yard hasn’t saved me any money. My LADWP bill is pretty much the same.
I can’t say for sure if my neighbor’s yard is a Turf Terminator creation, but it fits the profile: a few plants, a lot of gravel, and, over time, weeds poking up through a supposedly impermeable barrier. Customers also reported broken drip irrigator controls and plantings that failed to thrive, even after multiple replacements.
The MWD was well aware of these problems. Emails obtained by Businessweek through FOIA requests show that MWD staffers “griped about the slapdash nature of the of the [rebate] applications.” Lawn sizes looked inflated and photographs didn’t match what was at the listed address.
Staff also knew about the quality control issues. When a city councilman invited media outlets to observe Turf Terminators replacing his lawn, an MWD resource specialist took a look at photos of the new yard and compared the dense plantings there with a redone yard in her own neighborhood. “They obviously knew the job was at a council person’s, because it doesn’t look like any other project out there,” Businessweek quotes from her email to the program director.
In May 2015, the MWD board met to consider whether to extend the program beyond its initial $88 million funding, which had been gobbled up in less than a year. During public comment period, community and environmental activists communicated their concerns about inappropriate landscaping. Their critique would be echoed a month later in an L.A. Times Op-Ed by noted landscape architect Mia Leher and colleagues. They said in part:
Gardens and lawns act as air conditioning for L.A., which is only getting hotter with climate change. Plants and trees provide shade and transpire moisture to cool the air; gravel and artificial turf don’t. In fact, they create the opposite of a virtuous cycle: Fewer plants means more heat, and more heat means faster evaporation from watering, swimming pools and vegetation. More heat also means more water to support the same landscape.
Yet the MWD board went ahead and committed an additional $340 million without any requirements on how lawns should be replaced or with what.
Just a few months later, in July 2015, all of the new money had been promised to applicants and MWD called a halt to the program. (The LADWP continues their incentive rebate of $1.75/square foot.)
The water district professes to be pleased with the outcome of their incentive program. They reckon a potential savings of 7.5 billion gallons of water per year. Yet as Leher and her colleagues tried to tell the agency, calculating water savings is a complex business. They advocated instead “rainwater harvesting, gray water reuse and recycling water from sewage treatment plants” to reduce the use of potable water for watering. “Incentivizing turf removal and not reuse is shortsighted.”
A week after the MWD turned off the rebate spigot, Turf Terminators announced it would accept no new customers. The company completed jobs already “incentivized,” then laid off most of its 450 workers.
As criticisms of their work grew, the company subsequently hired a public relations firm that calls itself “a leader in crisis management of all types.” Businessweek’s request for an on-record interview with Turf Terminators principals was refused.
The men behind Turf Terminators have not exactly folded their tents and slipped away into the night. Rather they’ve formed a new company from the ashes of the old: a contractor services firm called Build Savings. Its website invites homeowners to hire Build Savings to install “money saving home upgrades. The LADWP provides rebates for some elements of such upgrades.
As evidence that their company was competent to do such work, an early iteration of the Build Savings website asserted it had successfully “completed 12,000 installations.”
Perhaps realizing that truth in advertising was warranted, that claim has been removed.
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Categories: Appetizers, Fish and Shellfish
Provencal sardines
By Russ Parsons | Sept. 3, 2003
Michael Cimarusti is a big guy, built strong and square like a small-college linebacker. So it's a little funny to see him so excited that he's almost hopping up and down. Incongruous, maybe, but perfectly understandable: Cimarusti is chef at ... Read more
Total time: 1 hour, 15 minutes | Serves 6
Note: From Michael Cimarusti of Water Grill.
2 slices prosciutto, cut in shreds
1 onion, sliced thin
1 pound plum tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped (about 2 cups)
4 red and yellow bell peppers, roasted, peeled, seeded and chopped
4 salted anchovies, rinsed and chopped
12 sardines (about 1 1/2 pounds)
1/4 cup fine fresh breadcrumbs
2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
Step 1Heat 4 tablespoons of olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the prosciutto and cook until soft, 5 minutes. Add the onions and cook 3 to 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook about 1 minute, then add the tomatoes and peppers.
Step 2When the tomatoes begin to melt, add the white wine and anchovies; reduce the heat. Cook until the liquid has evaporated, about 30 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Step 3To clean the sardines, cut the head at the top and the bottom just behind the gills, cutting to but not through the spine. Grasp the head and give it a twist to snap the bone, then pull gently to remove it. Most of the entrails will come away with the head. Discard these. Using the point of a sharp knife or kitchen scissors, slit the sardine open along the belly and rinse it well. Still using just the tip of the knife, cut through the fine ribs on either side of the spine without cutting all the way down through the skin. Grasp the spine and gently work it free down to the tail. Snap the bone at the tail and discard the spine. Cut off the fins and remove any fine bones. Repeat with the remaining filets. The fish will be served flesh-side down, so that side can look less than perfect.
Step 4Pat the filets dry and neaten them up, trimming the tops and the belly flaps to make rectangles. Season with salt and pepper on both sides. Brush the skin sides with mustard, then sprinkle them with breadcrumbs. Pat to fix the crumbs in place.
Step 5Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over high heat. When the oil is almost smoking, add the sardines, skin-side down and reduce the heat to medium. Cook the sardines until you see the meat on the top of the flesh side begin to turn color, 4 to 6 minutes.
Step 6While the sardines are cooking, reheat the tomatoes and peppers . Just before serving, add the basil and mix well.
Step 7Spoon the tomato-pepper mixture in equal portions onto six small plates. Lift the sardines from the skillet with a slotted spoon and place 2 of them skin-side up on each mound of the tomato-pepper mixture. Serve immediately.
319 calories; 14 grams protein; 13 grams carbohydrates; 3 grams fiber; 23 grams fat; 4 grams saturated fat; 50 mg. cholesterol; 314 mg. sodium.
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Michael Cimarusti is a big guy, built strong and square like a small-college linebacker. So it's a little funny to see him so excited that he's almost hopping up and down. Incongruous, maybe, but perfectly understandable: Cimarusti is chef at Water Grill, one of the best seafood restaurants in the country, and what's got him so worked up is fish.
Not just any fish, but the early-morning selection at International Marine Products, the wholesaler that supplies top sushi bars and restaurants across Southern California. Unfortunately, it doesn't sell retail (a nearby competitor, American Fish, offers a similar but smaller selection to the rest of us at Los Angeles Fish Co. market). But walking through this market with someone who knows fish is like taking a master's seminar in seafood.
How can you tell when a fish is really fresh? What is the difference between yellowfin and yellowtail? And just what the heck do you do with a cuttlefish like the one Cimarusti is holding?
"These are great," he says, picking up a giant as big as a turkey platter. Its pure white flesh is spattered with its wet black ink. Cimarusti loves cuttlefish for its sweet, sea-mineral flavor and tough-tender texture.
"Last week I got one and cut it into a big rectangle and then sliced the rectangle into three sheets, like laminates, and then cut them into postage stamp-sized pieces. I seared them directly on a hot flattop and sprinkled them with lemon juice and olive oil and a little fleur de sel. It's so flavorful you don't need to do too much to it."
International Marine isn't the only seafood wholesaler in Southern California, or even the biggest. But it seems to have the most unusual products. And for that reason, it is almost irresistible to chefs.
Cimarusti visits twice a week. Mark Peel and Suzanne Tracht visit weekly, even though their restaurant Jar is a steakhouse. Every Tuesday this summer they've had a tasting menu based on what they found that day at the fish market.
One recent menu featured fatty little steaks of wild sockeye salmon served with pickled mushrooms and slivered baby ginger, followed by roasted baby yellowtail the size of small trout, with parsleyed potatoes and a garlicky aioli.
Of course, that menu is arrived at only after careful shopping and several long discussions. The sockeye steaks come from the one perfect whole wild fish they are able to find. "Some of these are farmed," Peel points out while picking through the various bins holding salmon. "You can tell by looking at the tails; see how ragged they are? They're held in such close quarters they wear each other down. And look how fat they are. They just sit around and eat all day; they're like pigs."
Two wild salmon are passed over because of suspicion they've been handled roughly. "Look at the scales," Peel says. "See those lines? That's where they struggled against the gill net. The meat will be mushy there."
Those little yellowtail that Tracht finds so irresistible are one of four sizes of that fish at the market that day. "See, we've got the babies, then the kids, then the teenagers and their parents," says Joji Kusayanagi, a brand manager at IMP who serves as an unofficial seafood guide for many of the chefs.
Yellowtail is not to be confused with yellowfin. The first, called hamachi at sushi bars, is in the jack family, kind of like smaller tunas. Yellowfin, more commonly called by its Hawaiian name ahi, is a true tuna.
"Since these yellowtail are so small, I'd really like to roast these whole," Peel says.
"Sure, we can do that," Tracht says, "but you're going to be the one who's going to have to peel each one when it comes out of the oven. That skin isn't good."
The chefs prowl the market like kids on a treasure hunt, lifting lids to see what's underneath and digging through the live holding tanks. Peel and Tracht clamber over cartons to get to the top holding tank and squeeze the carapace of every single lobster to find the two with the hardest shells.
"This isn't a good time for lobster because they're molting," Peel explains. "When their shells are soft, there's not as much meat. But every once in a while you find some that haven't molted yet."
There's sculpin still covered with the thin layer of mucus that protected it in life. "That hasn't been out of the water more than 12 hours," Cimarusti says. "You can still see the vitality in the fish."
A whole box of tai snapper regard you curiously, big clear eyes bulging as if slightly embarrassed to be found in such a situation. "Such cute faces," Cimarusti says with a laugh.
He picks up an amberjack by the tail. It's so stiff it stands out like a board in his hand. "This hasn't even gone through rigor [mortis] yet," he says. "It hasn't been out of the water more than a day."
Cimarusti looks in awe at a tuna, as firm, black and glistening as an overinflated truck tire. "I love that fish, it's so big and burly," he says. "Everything about it is so regal. When you catch a tuna, you can just tell; they struggle so hard."
As he inspects the fish, Cimarusti pats them with a craftsman's gentle touch, the way a woodworker might stroke a particularly perfect piece of Madagascar ebony.
"When you have stuff like this," he says, "it's easy to be creative."
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Quick Review: InstallShield Developer
Installation program adds new features in latest release, including InstallScript.
By Mike Gunderloy
InstallShield's latest release of their Windows application deployment product is an impressive combination of past successes and new technologies. Notable here is the support for their own InstallScript scripting language within Windows Installer setup files. This makes it easy for users of previous versions to move to the latest Windows Installer technology (version 2.0 is fully supported) without a huge investment in rewriting custom scripts. The product also offers support for both 64-bit and hybrid 32/64-bit installations, Internet deployment support, and excellent integration of help directly into the InstallShield user interface. Other key features include an excellent dialog editor, full support for globalization, and wizards that will get you started on building a new setup amazingly quickly.
Overall, InstallShield Developer provides an excellent mix of features. I'm particularly impressed by their attention to the learning curve involved in building professional setup programs. Windows Installer technology is far from simple, but you don't have to understand it at all to deploy your product with the Windows Installer; just let InstallShield do all the work. When you get a little more adventurous, you can experiment with tools such as the dialog editor or the drag-and-drop Registry editor. The truly hardcore developer has full access to all the internals of the setup through tools like the script editor or the direct editor view of the underlying Installer tables.
If you're developing applications for the commercial market, this product will do a great job of carrying you through the critical deployment phase of the project.
Mike Gunderloy, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, is a former MCP columnist and the author of numerous development books.
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Browsing by Author "Salayo, Nerissa D."
Changes in farm management and production systems: Response to shrimp culture problems in the Philippines
T Matsuura, ND Salayo, SV Siar, DB Baticados & JH Primavera - Regional Fisheries Research, 2004 - Japan Regional Fisheries Society
Community-based stock enhancement of abalone, Haliotis asinina in Sagay marine reserve: Achievements, limitations and directions
ND Salayo, RJG Castel, RT Barrido, DHM Tormon & T Azuma - In K Hajime, T Iwata, Y Theparoonrat, N Manajit & VT Sulit (Eds.), Consolidating the Strategies for Fishery Resources Enhancement in Southeast Asia. Proceedings of the Symposium … Strategy for Fisheries Resources Enhancement in the Southeast Asian Region, Pattaya, Thailand, 27-30 July 2015, 2016 - Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
The Sagay Marine Reserve (SMR) under the National Integrated Protected Area System (NIPAS) is one of the many reef areas in the Visayan Sea in the central part of the Philippine archipelago. The SMR covers 32,000 ha or 59% of coastal waters north of the mainland Sagay City. Donkey’s ear abalone is one of the most sought mollusks traded by small-scale fishers in Molocaboc Island located within the SMR. High buying prices in local and international markets compared with other fish catch motivated fishers to target abalone and caused its overfishing. SEAFDEC/AQD, with support from the Government of Japan Trust Fund (JTF), conducted a community-based stock enhancement through a tri-party collaboration between the fisherfolks of Molocaboc Island, the Sagay local government at the village and city levels, and SEAFDEC/AQD. The study showed that the decision and implementation of stock enhancement and the definition of its objectives and relevance involves the strong engagement with stakeholders. For over a period of eight years (2007-2014), we learned that stock enhancement necessarily involve high financial investments and enormous transaction cost over a long period of time which are often not affordable to local governments of coastal communities in Southeast Asia. Thus, community-based collaborations may help achieve enhancement and restocking goals.
Financial analysis
ND Salayo & DHM Tormon - In Training Handbook on Rural Aquaculture, 2009 - Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
Governance and co-management strategies
RF Agbayani & ND Salayo - In Training Handbook on Rural Aquaculture, 2009 - Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
Legal regulatory framework, policies and issues
ND Salayo - In Training Handbook on Rural Aquaculture, 2009 - Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
This chapter on the formulation of legal regulatory framework and policies is intended to complement governance of fisheries and aquaculture systems and enable effective practice of rural aquaculture in developing countries in Southeast Asia (SEA).
Managing excess capacity in small-scale fisheries: Perspectives from stakeholders in three Southeast Asian countries
ND Salayo, L Garces, M Pido, K Viswanathan, R Pomeroy, M Ahmed, I Siason, K Seng & A Masae - Marine Policy, 2008 - Elsevier
The management of fishing capacity--in both inland and marine fisheries--is a major policy concern in most countries in Southeast Asia. Excess capacity leads to a number of negative impacts, such as resource use conflicts, overfishing, environmental degradation, economic wastage, and security threats. This paper presents the results of a regional study that examined various approaches to managing excess fishing capacity in small-scale fisheries in Southeast Asia. More specifically, the paper presents an analysis of perceptions of stakeholders in Cambodia, Philippines and Thailand regarding preferred solutions to addressing excess capacity. The paper concludes with a discussion of policy guidance for addressing excess fishing capacity based on the stakeholder-preferred solutions.
Managing fisheries conflicts through communication planning: Experience from inland fisheries of Bangladesh
K Murshed-e-Jahan, ND Salayo & U Kanagaratnam - Fisheries Research, 2009 - Elsevier
Increasing population, ineffective management, competition among fishing gears over access to resources and proliferation of destructive practices are imposing severe stress on the inland water bodies of Bangladesh. These factors also contribute to the increasing incidence of conflicts among fishery stakeholders. When unabated, these conflicts are potential threats to the livelihoods of millions of the poorest fishing communities that depend on these resources. Effective communication between conflicting parties is perceived as a key for establishing successful negotiations for managing conflicts. On this premise, this paper presents and assesses a Fisheries Conflicts Communication Framework, henceforth called FishCom, a tool for developing plans and strategies for managing fisheries conflicts in the inland fisheries of Bangladesh. This tool embodies a structured participatory process intended for use by policy-makers and conflict management practitioners. They have important roles in catalyzing and effecting changes that are instrumental in minimizing, if not totally eliminating conflicts. Experiences from applying FishCom in the inland fisheries study sites in Bangladesh show that it has enabled a systematic stakeholder-inclusive identification and evaluation of fisheries conflicts and planning of communication interventions to manage them.
Mariculture development and livelihood diversification in the Philippines
ND Salayo, ML Perez, LR Garces & MD Pido - Marine Policy, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper aims to evaluate mariculture as sustainable livelihood diversification option for coastal fishers in the Philippines and guide policy development in this direction. Mariculture in the Philippines refers to the culture of finfishes, shellfish, seaweeds and other commodities in cages, pens, stakes and rafts in marine environment. This paper evaluates the biophysical and socioeconomic contexts in which mariculture operate. Ten years after launching the first mariculture park organized and managed by the country's government fishery agency, and the nationwide promotion of this program, only 273 ha or 0.54% of the 50,150 ha total area planned for development has been established. Mariculture has not met its expected results due to a number of problems. This paper revisits the policies, organization, governance and administration of mariculture parks in the country. It also discusses the issues and challenges with mariculture as a livelihood diversification option within the context of ecosystems approach to fisheries management in the Philippines.
Meeting social and economic challenges in Southeast Asian aquaculture: Targeting rural aquaculture development for poverty alleviation
ND Salayo, DB Baticados, EV Aralar & BO Acosta - Fish for the People, 2012 - SEAFDEC Secretariat
In 2010, five Southeast Asian countries led by Vietnam and followed by Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, and the Philippines, have successfully joined the ranks of the world’s top 10 producers of food fish from aquaculture. Taking into account aquaculture production in general which includes seaweeds, the region’s production from aquaculture had contributed more than 45% to the region’s total fishery production, about 24% to the world’s production from aquaculture, and about 10% to the world’s total fishery production in 2010. As shown in the statistics reports, most of the aforementioned countries recorded double-digit growth rates in aquaculture production from 2006 to 2010, ranging from 18 to 62 percent. Another milestone in the fisheries sector of the region is the engagement of about 11 million people in aquaculture and its ancillary industries. In spite of these figures, the region’s rural areas where aquaculture development is taking giant strides remain the most impoverished groups in most countries of Southeast Asia. In an attempt to address this concern, SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department compiled the results of the implementation of its program on Meeting Social and Economic Challenges in Aquaculture which had been tried in local setting in the Philippines, with the objective of developing aquaculture technology adoption pathways that could be promoted in the other Southeast Asian countries with the same conditions as those in study sites in the Philippines, as means of alleviating poverty in rural areas.
Milkfish Chanos chanos cage culture operations
AG Gaitan, JD Toledo, MT Arnaiz, EGD Ayson, JP Altamirano, RF Agbayani, ND Salayo & CL Marte - 2014 - Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
Series: Aquaculture extension manual; No. 58
A 42-pages extension manual describing the biology, fingerling production, site selection, cage design and construction, measurement & analysis of water & sediment quality parameters and economic analysis.
Milkfish marketing in the Philippines
ND Salayo - In IC Liao & EM Leaño (Eds.), Milkfish aquaculture in Asia, 2010 - National Taiwan University; The Fisheries Society of Taiwan; Asian Fisheries Society; World Aquaculture Society
Milkfish produced from aquaculture is one of the most traded fish in local markets and it also provides export earnings for the Philippines. Annual per capita consumption of milkfish among Filipinos is 4 kg which comprise the major portion of the 25 kg annual intake of all types of fresh fish. Increasing milkfish production from aquaculture constitutes the strategies for securing fish food supply, especially for the growing middle- and low-income households. However, there are diverging analyses and criticisms on the effectiveness and performance of the milkfish industry in improving access to fish and protein sources among the poor in the Philippines. The generally increasing volumes of milkfish production due to improved technologies are indeed desirable. But higher levels of production does not guaranty the availability and access to fish food supply, especially in geographically dispersed production and consumption centers around the archipelago. Efficiency in marketing perishable fishery products is a crucial factor to ensure availability of safe and fresh milkfish in deficit areas. This review of milkfish marketing literature showed that meeting the milkfish demand-supply gaps, in geographic and temporal sense, is an immediate market objective for the Philippines. The spatial and inter-temporal variations in production volumes influence investment decisions on infrastructures and other public support systems. There is enormous challenge for the industry in view of the declining productivity of capture fisheries, the emerging preference for organic food and value-added forms arising from socio-cultural transformations and lifestyle changes among consumers. This chapter elaborates on the potentials of the milkfish industry by presenting the challenges for traders who should deal with the issues on the demand side of the market; and the challenges for milkfish farmers and processors who should act on the supply side. The constraints and corresponding strategies to meet potentials are also discussed.
Modyular na pag-aalaga ng tilapya sa mga kulungang lambat
RV Eguia, MRR Romana-Eguia & ND Salayo - 2011 - Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
An extension manual detailing traditional cage culture method, concept of modular cage culture, economic feasibility of modular cage culture, and post harvest processing.
Price index for milkfish: An info tip for producers and consumers
ND Salayo - SEAFDEC Asian Aquaculture, 2002 - Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
Price relationships in Philippine milkfish markets: Univariate and causality analysis
ND Salayo - Aquaculture Economics and Management, 2006 - International Association of Aquaculture Economics and Management (IAAEM)
Uncertainties and lack of information on milkfish product prices, along with production-related problems with inputs, generally constrain efficient resource use in milkfish grow-out operations. Milkfish growers complain of fluctuating product prices such that when output price is low, they refrain from investing in inputs and technologies recommended to boosts production. The industry wants to know the state and behavior of milkfish prices. ARIMA models showed instantaneous price relationships between monthly wholesale prices in Manila and the regional producing areas. The cross-correlations of the error terms of the ARIMA models showed that prices in Manila are related with Lucena, Dagupan, Iloilo, and Zamboanga prices, but not with Cebu. Seasonal price indexes are higher (> 1) from December to May and lower (< 1) from June to November. Milkfish grow-out operators may benefit from understanding these patterns of price movements.
Social preparations towards community-based approach to stock enhancement in Sagay Marine Reserve, Philippines
ND Salayo, RJG Castel, DHM Tormon, RT Barrido, MFJ Nievales & T Azuma - In MRR Romana-Eguia, FD Parado-Estepa, ND Salayo & MJH Lebata-Ramos (Eds.), Resource Enhancement and Sustainable Aquaculture Practices in Southeast Asia: Challenges in Responsible Production … International Workshop on Resource Enhancement and Sustainable Aquaculture Practices in Southeast Asia 2014 (RESA), 2015 - Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
Stock enhancement involves a set of management approaches which include the release of hatchery-produced aquatic organisms to enhance or restore fisheries. Stock enhancement of various species has a long history in developed countries and it showed that releases have the potential to yield substantial benefits for various fishery stakeholders. While the biological objectives of stock enhancement were often successfully achieved in most of these enhancement initiatives, some results showed that actual social gains in terms of yields, distribution of benefits and institutional sustainability are often inconclusive. The high cost of stocking accrues to the government which means these are supported by public funds. Meanwhile, benefits are dissipated across various stakeholders, some of them did not at all contribute and participate in the stocking program. In such government-initiated and publicly-funded stock enhancement programs, the lack of sense of stewardship among direct fishery stakeholders was observed to have contributed to a vicious cycle of excessive extraction of fishery resources for individual economic benefits.
Developing countries such as the Philippines would be confronted by budgetary limitations if it has to adopt the stocking strategies applied in developed countries. Thus, with reference to the success of co-management approaches for managing fishery resources in the Philippines, a community-based strategy for enhancement of fishery stocks was explored. SEAFDEC/AQD, with support from the Government of Japan Trust Fund, initiated a community-based approach to stock enhancement in Molocaboc, an island barangay or village within the Sagay Marine Reserve (SMR). The initiative aims to ensure that its goals and strategies are within the social milieu of local stakeholders, i.e. fisherfolks are without financial assets to contribute or pay for the enhancement of the fishery and stock enhancement is often not a priority approach to address fishery resource depletion for most local governments. However, the social assets of fishing communities could be explored to implement stock enhancement. This paper describes the social preparation executed from 2007 to 2011 in order to orient a fishing community such as Molocaboc towards a successful enhancement of overfished species. Initially, the project focused on donkey s ear abalone Haliotis asinina to provide an example for other species. Abalone or kapinan in the vernacular is one of the over-extracted fishery resources in Sagay City. It is one of the high-priced catch among fishers in coastal communities in the Philippines. High buying prices compared with other fish catch motivated small-scale fishers to target abalones and caused its overfishing.
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RESEARCH NEWS from Swansea University Library
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October 28, 2013 October 29, 2013 ~ ISS Research Support
Until recently most discussion about Open Access was concerned with journal articles, but this year an increasing amount of attention has been paid to the publishing of research in open access books.
A large number of books are already made available to all through Open Access. The Directory of Open Access Books already links to over 1,500 academic peer-reviewed books from over 50 publishers. The OAPEN Library is another excellent site for those searching for freely available academic books. Most of the books provided by these websites are in the arts, humanities and social sciences, fields in which a high proportion of research is published in books.
OAPEN-UK is undertaking an extensive project seeking to find and explore a model for open access publishing which suits the needs of researchers, research funders, learned societies and other key groups. It is considering what changes are needed to facilitate the open access publication of monographs. It will investigate whether (or to what extent) open access publishing has an effect on print sales of books. A recent OAPEN report from the Netherlands has concluded that Open Access publishing has had no negative effect on sales of books published in the Netherlands and that it increases online usage and discovery considerably.
Proponents of open access publishing of monographs point out that sales of books have declined hugely in recent years, as journal and book prices have increased and libraries have been unable to buy so many books . Open access publishing can provide a means for research outlined in books to be much more widely read about , used and cited than it would otherwise be.
Much debate continues about the future of open access books, especially in the Arts and Humanities. An essay by Nigel Vincent entitled The Monograph Challenge, one of eight papers in the British Academy’s publication Debating Open Access, thoughtfully explores the issues surrounding open access books in the humanities and social sciences.
Caren Milloy in a recent interview with JISC Inform Innovative approaches to publishing open access monographs gives a brief summary of various possible business models for open access publishing of monographs in the humanities and social sciences.
While there is no general agreement yet about the most appropriate model for publishing of open access monographs, the opportunity to disseminate research within books very much more widely through Open Access is attractive.
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Gibson TB-3 Mastertone Conversion with Steve Huber Tone Ring 5 String Resonator Banjo (1926)
Gibson TB-3 Mastertone Conversion with Steve Huber Tone Ring Model 5 String Resonator Banjo (1926), made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, serial # 8226-45, dark mahogany lacquer finish, laminated maple resonator, laminated maple rim; maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, black hard shell case.
This is a very fine and interesting 1920s Gibson Mastertone conversion to 5-string banjo, with an original 1926 TB-3 rim fitted with a very finely made older replica 5-string neck and a special flathead conversion tone ring by the maestro of these, Steve Huber. As all-original Gibson Mastertone 5-string banjos from this period are almost unobtainable, nearly all examples in use today are similarly converted from Tenor or Plectrum.
The Mastertone TB-3 was Gibson's baseline professional tenor banjo, but still a medium/fancy instrument and considered a Gibson working musician's classic. The model was the lowest grade banjo with the full Mastertone flange, resonator, and tone ring hardware package; the original resonator is bound on the bottom edge but otherwise plain. The 1926 tone ring was originally the arch-top ball bearing style, coupled with the 2-piece tube-and-plate flange in use at the time.
This banjo has been fitted with the special Huber flathead conversion tone ring that does not require cutting the rim, which brings the sound into the classic Bluegrass realm. While the combination of this flathead ring with the two-piece flange is not absolutely the Bluegrass standard, it still makes for a very fine-sounding instrument at a price only a small fraction of what an original flat-head, one-piece flange Mastertone rim alone would command.
The maple neck is similar in style to what a period RB-3 would have carried, but with a slightly longer 27" scale. The original TB-3 used a mahogany neck, and the combination of the long scale and harder maple construction definitely add to the power of this instrument's sound. The fingerboard and headstock face have a notched diamond pearl inlay similar to the original, with a larger "Mastertone" block with slightly oversized lettering at the bottom end. The two lower tuners are 5-Star Planets with composite buttons, while the upper two are cammed modern Scruggs pegs. The tailpiece is a 5-string replica of the original Presto style.
The workmanship on the neck is very fine if not exactly to original Gibson spec. We don't know who made it, but it is to a higher standard than some we have seen! The original tenor neck is included, as is the tailpiece and original arch-top tone ring, still housed in the labeled box Mr. Huber shipped the rim in. This package makes for a wonderful collection documenting some of this banjo's history, from birth as a jazz 4-string to its current incarnation as a bluegrass powerhouse.
Overall length is 37 3/4 in. (95.9 cm.), 11 in. (27.9 cm.) diameter head, and 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 27 in. (686 mm.). Width of nut is 1 1/4 in. (32 mm.).
This banjo is in excellent playing condition overall, with some typical finish wear to the resonator and back of the neck. The lacquer in both areas shows numerous small scuffs and dings, but no major loss. The chrome plating on the rim hardware is largely intact, with some small areas of dirt and wear but no major loss. The bolts to mount the resonator have been replaced by small screws.
The neck finish shows an area of small dings and chips to the finish on the back around the 7th-10th fret area, and the heavily yellowed lacquer on the binding is worn off in a number of spots. The lacquer on the headstock face is similarly yellowed and chipped off in spots.
There are railroad spikes in the fingerboard at positions 7 and 9, and a filled hole from a previous spike at fret 10. There is a small piece of rosewood chipped off the treble side of the fingerboard at the rim joint, and an equally small piece of binding missing on the bass side.
Overall a really great-sounding and playing banjo; one of the nicest tube-and-plate conversions we have handled. The tone is rich and full but still with the bluegrass "ring" Mastertones are so sought after for. Includes a more recent HSC and the original Tenor neck and tailpiece, along with the dismounted original archtop tone ring. A unique conversion and a very fine player's instrument. Excellent Condition.
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Archive for Ministry of Railways
Organisation Structure of Indian Railway Visit: http://LTRSNRMU.blogspot.com/
January 3, 2010 · Filed under Indian Railways, Mamata Banerjee, Ministry of Railways, Organisation Structure of Indian Railway, Railway Board
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Anomaly Committee : Meeting and decisions on 12th Dec.2009
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National Anomaly Committee : Meeting and decisions on 12th Dec.2009
The first meeting of the National Anomaly Committee was held on 12th December, 2009. Secretary (Personnel) chaired the meeting. staff side Com. Umraomal Purohit, Com. S.K. Vyas and Com. K.K.N. Kutty attended and participated in the discussion. In the opening remark, Com. Umraomal Purohit drew the attention of the Chairman of the non-functioning of the Departmental Councils in various departments and the consequent non setting up of Departmental Anomaly Committees. He also raised the issue of the order of the DOPT defining the term Anomaly, which was at variance with the one given in 1997. He recalled the discussion he had with the official side in the matter when it was agreed that the definition of the term would be the same as was in the order of 1997. Responding to the remarks made by the Staff Side Secretary, the Chairman said that his office would take steps to ensure the functioning of the JCM at all levels and informed the meeting that the National Council of the JCM would meet on 16th January, 2009 and the notice therefore has already been issued. On the question of anomaly, it was informed by the Chairman, that all efforts would be taken to address all questions of anomaly and resolve them. The official side clarified that all questions of disparity in relativities would also be addressed except on those on which the 6th CPC has gone into and taken decision enumerating reasons. The Chairman asked the staff Side to bring to the notice of the DOPT/DOE of all those items which stand rejected by the concerned Departmental Anomaly Committees taking shelter under the extant definition.
We now reproduce the items which were discussed and the decisions arrived on each of them.
The item Nos. 1 to 4 and 5(iii)(iv) and 7 were grouped together and discussed as they were identical in content. For the sake of convenience, we reproduce item No. 3 which covers all the above mentioned items.
Fixation of Pay in Revised Pay Scale
The VI CPC in para 2.2.19 (vii) has indicated that where prerevised pay scales have been merged it has been done by extending the existing minimum prescribed for the highest pay scale with which the other scales are being merged. Accordingly it has also been stipulated in 7(1) (A) of the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 that if the minimum of the Revised Pay Band / Pay Scale is more that what is determined by multiplying the existing basic pay as on 1.1.2006 by a factor of 1.86 and rounding of the resultant figure to the next multiple of 10, the pay shall be fixed at the minimum of the revised Pay Band / Pay Scale. Note 2B below Rule 7, ibid and illustration 4B given in the Explanatory Memorandum to the Revised Pay Rule apply to cases of merger of Pay Scales. Note 2 B states that pay in the revised Pay Bands will be fixed in the manner prescribed in accordance with Clause (A) (i) And clause (A) (ii) of Rule 7. In illustration 4B a case of an employee in the pre revised pay scale Rs.5000-8000 drawing Rs.5600 as on 1.1.2006 in the pay scale of 6500-10500 has been indicated with which the pay scale of Rs.5000-8000 stands merged.
Taking these into account the pay in the Pay Band in the case of all employees in the Pay Scales of Rs.5000-8000 and Rs.5500-9000 has to be fixed at Rs. 6500 multiplied by 1.86 i.e. Rs.12090. The fixation tables for pay scales 5000-8000 and 5500-9000may therefore be modified fixing the pay in the pay band at Rs.12090 wherever it is less than that amount.
Illustration 4B in the explanatory memorandum to the Revised Pay Rules 2008 may be modified as under:-
Existing Scale of Pay 5000-8000
Pay Band PB-2 9300-34800
Merged with Pay Scale 6500-10500
Existing Basic Pay as on 1.1.06 Rs.5600
Pay in the PB-2 Rs.5600 X 1.86 = 10420 As per Clause (A) (i) of Rule 7(i) of Revised Pay rules 2008
Pay in the PB-2 Rs.6500- X 1.86 = 12090 As per Clause (A) (ii) of Rule 7 (i) of Revised Pay Rules 2008
Grade Pay Rs.4200
Revised Basic Pay Rs.16290
The Staff Side pointed out that what has been recommended by the 6th CPC in Para 2.2.19(vii_ in respect of fixation of minimum pay in the Pay band for merged pay scales had not been taken into account while computing the pay band and the table. After some discussion, the official side stated to have a re-look into the matter.
Item No. 5(i)
On Revised Pay Rules. 2008
(i).Option
It has been mentioned under sub rule 4 thereof that the option once exercised shall be final and should be exercised within three months from the date of notification of the rule vide Sub rule I thereof. Since it is very difficult to comprehend and assess the implication of such option, we propose that the first option exercised within three months may not be treated as final and the employees be permitted to revise the option within six month of the date of exercising the first option.
The official side has agreed to allow another option. The Staff Side also pointed out during the discussion that the option exercised by the officials under F.R. 22(I)(A(1) on promotion has been restricted to only first promotion, which appears to be unreasonable. The official side has agreed to examine whether the above option can be allowed to cover all promotions.
Item No. 5(ii)
(ii). Special allowance and qualification pay which are taken for fixation purposes on promotion should be doubled with effect from 1.1.2006 and not from 1.9.2008 as it cannot be construed to be an allowance. If this is not done, senior employees will suffer loss in emoluments, in case of persons who are promoted during the period between 1.1.2006 and 1.9.2008.
It was pointed out that the item relating to 5th CPC is still pending at the Standing Committee. The Official Side stated that the item would be covered when a decision is taken on the item relating to 5th CPC.
Item No. 5(vi)
(vi) Rule 9. Date of next increment
It is seen after going through the stipulation in the above rules that a person whose increment falls on 1.1.2006 will get the increment on 1.1.2006 in the pre revised pay scale and will get the next increment in the revised pay structure on 1.7.2006 i.e. on expiry of six months. Similarly those, whose next increment is between 1st July, 2006 and 1st December, 2006 would also be granted next increment in the revised pay structure on 1.7.2006. On the other hand, the persons whose increment dates are between 1st Feb. 2006 and 1st June 2006 have to wait for more than 12 months to get the next increment on 1.7.2006. This is quite anomalous. In the case of those who retire during the period between 1st Feb. and 30th June, they will suffer a loss of one increment perpetually thus affecting their pension. It is, therefore proposed that the persons whose increment falls between 1st February and 1st June, 2006 may be given one increment on 1.1.2006 as a one time measure.
The official side agreed to issue orders to cover those in service between 1.1.2006 and 1.7.2006 as a one time measure. The Staff Side however, pointed out that they have made the suggestion for a one time measure on the specific understanding that Rule 9 of the Revised Pay Rules 2008 has no applicable in the fixation of increment date in future as in those cases, the Fundamental Rules will have the application. The Official side was of the opinion that the Revised Pay Rules will override the provisions of the Fundamental Rules. The Staff Side then contended that the increment of an official cannot be postponed except on award of a penalty after initiation of the disciplinary proceedings. The official side after some discussion agreed to reconsider the issue in the light of the contention made by the Staff Side.
Item No. 5(vii).
(vii). Tax deduction from salary:
Spread over of the arrears of salary is permissible under section 89 (a) of the I.T. Act. No tax will thus become payable by Group D employees on account of receipt of arrears eventually. Therefore, executive instructions may be issued not to deduct any tax from the arrears payment pertaining to the Group D employees. In respect of others, they may be allowed to exercise option to tax the arrears either on receipt basis or accrual basis.
Decision .
Since the arrears have all been paid after deduction of tax, this item was not pressed.
Item No. 5(vii)Temporary Status Casual Labourers
As per existing scheme the employees who are afforded temporary status are paid the wages computed with reference to the minimum of the corresponding scale of pay of regular employees. In the case of Group D temporary status employees, it will become necessary that they are afforded the requisite training if they are non- matriculates.
Orders would be issued in the case of temporary status employees. In the case of those who died /retired between 1.1.06 and 1.9.2008 grant of grade pay of Rs. 1800 without training was raised by the Staff Side. It was agreed that the Govt. would take a decision in their case favorably.
Item No. 6.
Benefit on promotion.
It is an accepted proposition that an employee when promoted to a higher post involving higher responsibility should get a suitable raise in his salary. It was on this consideration that FR 22-C was framed whereby the promotee was first granted an increment in the lower Pay Scale and then fixed at the appropriate (next) stage in the higher grade.
At the time of V CPC it was agreed that minimum increase in salary on promotion shall not be less then Rs.100/- There are certain grades in which, on promotion, a hike of Rs.650/- is being allowed with reference to pre-revised pay scale.
In these circumstances grant of only one increment in the lower Pay Band / Pay scale and difference in grade pay, if there be any, being granted on promotion is certainly inadequate. We therefore propose that minimum benefit on promotion should not be less than 10% of the Pay+Grade Pay of the feeder post.
The official side stated that the above item was not covered under the definition of anomaly. However, after some discussion, it was agreed that the official side would further discuss the issue outside the forum of the Anomaly Committee.
Fixation of pay on promotion.
The minimum Entry pay with Grade Pay in the revised pay structure for direct recruits appointed on or after 1.1.2006 has been specific vide first Schedule, Part –A, Section II of the Gazette Notification of the Govt. of India, Ministry of Finance No. G.S.R. 622 (E) dated 29.8.2008.
On promotion, the pay of the promotees should not be less than the direct recruits.
In VI CPC structure there is no pay scale and new concept of grade pay has been inducted, which should determine the status. As such the following provisions need to be inserted below clarification 2. ‘The method of Fixation of Pay on promotion on or after 1.1.2006.
"on promotion to the higher grade pay of an employee should be fixed appropriately and in any case it should not be less than the entry Pay in the revised pay structure for direct recruits appointed on of after 1.1.2006 for the post." further, on promotion to the next higher grade pay an employee should be fixed by adding 10% of pay, plus the grade pay as demanded by NC/JCM in its memorandum submitted to the Chairman, NC/JCM/Cabinet secretary on 8.4.2008.
The Official Side agreed to issue enabling orders in the matter.
Refixation of pension/family pension.
Para 9 of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension’s O.M. No. F.No. 38/37/08-P&PW (A) dated 1.9.2008 states as under:-
"The consolidated pension / family pension as worked out in accordance with provisions of para 4.1 above shall be treated as final basic pension with effect from 1.1.2006 and shall qualify for grant of Dearness Relief sanctioned thereafter.".
This has left uncovered the provision made in para 4.2 of the same OM, which lays down as under:-
"The fixation of pension will be subject to the provision that the revised pension in no case, shall be lower than fifty present of the minimum of the pay in the pay band plus the grade pay corresponding to the pre-revised pay scale from which the pensioner had retired. In the case of HAG + and above scales, this will be fifty percent of the minimum of the revised pay scale."
Since refixation of pension has been allowed both under paras 4.1 and 4.2, they should both he covered in para 9 of the OM. It is requested that para 9 of the said OM may be revised including both paras 4.1 and 4.2 thereof.
Orders have been issued vide O.M.dated 12th and 14th September, 2009
Item. No. 9.
Anomaly in pension for Government Servants who retired/Died in harness between 1.1.2006 and 1.9. 2006
The Sixth Central Pay Commission lays down inter-alia that once an employee renders the minimum pensionable service of 20 years, pension should be paid at 50% of the average emoluments received during the past 10 months or the pay last down, whichever is more beneficial to the retiring employee.
As per the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension O.M. F.No. 38/37/08-P&P(W)(A) dated 2nd September 2008, these orders shall come into force with effect from the date of issue of this OM, namely 2nd September 2008 and shall be, applicable to all Government Servants becoming entitled to pension after rendering the minimum qualifying service of 20 years or on completion of 10 years qualifying service in accordance with rule 49(2) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972.
However, the Govt. servants who have retired on or after 1.1.2006 but before the date of issue of this OM (2.9.2008) have been debarred from this benefit. They will be governed by the rules/ orders which were in force immediately before coming into effect of these orders. In other words their pension will be calculated on average emoluments received during the last 10 months and not on the actual pay last drawn. It is requested that this discrimination should be removed.
Orders are under issue. The Staff Side raised the inordinate delay in fixing the revised pension and disbursement of arrears to pensioners. The official side assured to monitor the payment of arrears to pensioners. The refusal on the part of many banks to issue the due and drawn statement even on requisition was also brought to the notice of the Chairman. The Director (Pension) assured that suitable instructions would be issued in this regard to all Banks.
Item No.10.
Commutation of pension.
The minimum period of service for eligibility for pension is 10 years. For appointment to Government Service the minimum age is 18 years. In view of this, if a person is appointed at the age of 18 years he cannot become eligible for pension unless he has served for a period of at least 10 years and attained the age of 28 years i.e. when his birthday falls in the 29th years.
The table adopted a per the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension’s OM No. 38/37/08-P&PW (A) dated 2.9.2008 shows the minimum age of next birthday after retirement as 20 which is not understood. It is requested that suitable amendment to the table referred to may be notified.
The item was withdrawn by the Staff Side.
Item No.11 to 14. These items were deferred for discussion at the next meeting.
Parity in pension of all pre 1996 retirees with those who retired on or after 1.1.2006
The Government have already accepted in principle that there shall be parity in pension amongst pensioners irrespective of the date from which they had retired.
Accordingly pension of all pre 1986 retirees was revised with effect from 1.1.96 by first determining the notional pay which would have been fixed as on 1.1.86 (treating as if the employees were in service on that date) and then the Notional Pension was updated by applying the same fitment formula which was applied to serving employees.
We, therefore demanded that the notional pay of all pre 1996 retirees may be fixed as on 1.1.96 in terms of Revised Pay Rules, 1996 and the notional pension as on 1.1.96 may be revised w.e.f. 1.1.06 by applying the same fitment formula which is applied in the case of serving employees i.e. by multiplying the notional pension as on 1.1.96 by 1.86 + the Grade Pay of the Pay Scale (V CPC) from which they would have retired.
The revision of pension has been done by applying the formula of Basic Pension as on 1.1.96 + Dearness Pension (50% of Basic Pension) + Dearness Relief on Basic Pension + Dearness Pension+40% of Basic Pension.
This is not the same that has been granted to serving employees. In whose case the Grade Pay which is the fitment benefit is 40% of the maximum of the Pre-revised Pay Scale.
As such the Pensioners should also be granted 50% the of Grade Pay of the Pay Scale from which they had retired by way of fitment benefit and not 40% of Basic Pension.
The Staff Side pointed out that the 6th CPC in order to maintain the existing modified parity between the present and future retirees had indicated that it would be necessary to allow the same fitment benefit as is being recommended for the existing Government employees vide para 5.1.47 in page 338. However, the Commission recommended that all past pensioners should be allowed fitment benefit equal to 40% of the basic pension. The statement and the recommendation made to give effect to the statement was at variance giving rise to anomaly and disparity in pension entitlement between the past pensioners and the future pensioners. After detailed discussion, the official side agreed to consider the issue once again.
At the conclusion of the meeting, the Staff Side took up the matter concerning non representation of Postal Federations in the National Council as some members of a Federation which could not muster even 5% membership had been approaching one court or the other in a bid to delay the verification process and consequent recognition of the Associations and Federations in the Postal Department. As it would be a never ending process, the denial for the unions who had mustered more than 75% of the membership representation in the National Council would be a miscarriage of justice, the Staff Side added.. The Director (SR) of the Postal Department, who had represented the Postal Department in the official side agreed with the contention of the Staff Side and reported to the Chairman, that they had granted adhoc recognition to the Unions who had mustered the requisite membership and the Department Council had also been convened and met on adhoc basic. The question of granting of representation to the representatives of the Staff in the National Council had been referred to the Department of Personnel and their advice in the matter was being solicited. The Chairman assured the Staff Side to look into the matter and take appropriate decision soon.
The denial of revised higher Grade Pay to Master Craftsmen of Workshops in MMS in the Postal Department, while affording the same to those in Railways and Defence was also raised by the Staff Side. The Department of Expenditure pointed out that they had not received any reference from the Postal Department in this matter, whereas the official side representative of the Postal Department stated that they had referred this matter to them earlier. After some discussion, it was agreed that the Department of Expenditure and the Postal Department would sort out this matter expeditiously.
CBI will conduct criminal enquiry of Railway Accidents. GM, DRM & Branch Officers may held Responsible- Railsamachar
October 25, 2009 · Filed under Branch Officers, CBI, CBI Enquiry, CRB, CRS, DRM, Enquiry, GENERAL MANAGER, GM, Maharashtra, Mamata Banerjee, Ministry of Railways, motorman, Mumbai, Railway Accident, Railway Board, Railway Safety, Railway Vigilance
रेल अधिकारी अपना ‘कट’ लेना बंद करें-रेलमंत्री
रेल अधिकारी ‘क्लब कल्चर’ छोडें
रेल दुर्घटनाओं की सीबीआई से आपराधिक जाँच कराई जायेगी
दुर्घटनाओं के लिए जीएम, डीआरएम् और ब्रांच अफसरों को जिम्मेदार ठहराया जाएगा
नई दिल्ली : मथुरा में हुई दो ट्रेनों की दहशतनाक टक्कर के तुंरत बाद ठाणे, मुंबई में २३ अक्तूबर को ट्रैक के ऊपर पुल का गर्डर/pa[plaa[na गिरने saoहुई दर्दनाक घटना और लगातार ३०-३५ घंटों तक सभी ट्रेनों के बंद रहे आवागमन से मुंबई के लाखों दैनिक रेल यात्रियों की परेशानी को देखकर और शायद इससे होने वाली अपनी भारी आलोचना से बचने के मद्देनजर रेलमंत्री सुश्री ममता बनर्जी ने २३ अक्तूबर को ही आनन – फानन रेलवे बोर्ड पहुंचकर पुरे बोर्ड की इमरजेंसी मीटिंग बुलाकर सभी अधिकारियों की लम्बी खिंचाई का डाली।
सूत्रों का कहना है की ममता ने अधिकारियों को सामानों की खरीद और आउट सोर्सिंग तथा टेंडर सिस्टम में अपनी कमीशनखोरी खत्म करने को कहा है। सूत्रों का तो यहाँ तक कहना है की ममता ने इसके लिए वास्तव में ‘कट’ जैसे टपोरियों की भाषा के शब्द का साफ़ इस्तेमाल किया जिससे ईमानदार अफसरों के होठों पर भी मुस्कराहट उभर आई, यह देखकर रेलमंत्री भी उनका मंतव्य समझकर हलके से मुस्कराए बिना नहीं रह सकीं।
रेलमंत्री के आदेश पर एक तरफ़ पैलेस ऑन व्हील्स का मजा ले रहे दक्षिण पूर्व रेलवे के महाप्रबंधक श्री ए.के.जैन को उनकी छुट्टियाँ रद्द करके तुंरत वापस बुलाया गया तो दूसरी तरफ़ उनके और लालू के सबसे बड़े सिपहसालार रहे सीऍफ़टीएम्/द.पू.रे.श्री बी.डी.राय, जो की इस पड़ पर पिछले करीब ५ सालों से बिराजमान थे, को तुंरत प्रभाव से इस पद से हटा दिया गया है जिससे तमाम अफसरों के कलेजे को काफी ठंढक मिली है क्योंकि लालू वरदहस्त होने के कारण श्री राय अपनी मनमानियों के चलते बहुतों को अपना दुश्मन बना लिए थे।
उधर मथुरा के पास हुई ट्रेनों की टक्कर और उसमें दो दर्जन से ज्यादा मौतों के लिए जिम्मेदार ठहराकर ममता ने आगरा मंडल के मंडल रेल प्रबंधक श्री के.जी.त्रिपाठी को उनके पद से हटा देने का आदेश दिया है।
२३ अक्तूबर की इमरजेंसी बोर्ड मीटिंग में बताते हैं की रेलमंत्री ने न सिर्फ़ रेल अधिकारियों की सभी विदेश यात्राओं पर अगले एक साल तक के लिए प्रतिबन्ध लगा दिया है बल्कि पिछले ५ वर्षों के दरम्यान जितने भी फ्रेट रेकों का एलाटमेंट हुआ है सभी की जाँच सीबीआई से कराने को कहा है। सूत्रों का कहना है की रेलमंत्री ने आउट ऑफ़ टर्न रेक एलाटमेंट की गलत परंपरा को तुंरत प्रभाव से रोक देने को कहा है.
–rola samaacaar
Delay killed motorman R Ramchandran, Mumbai Local Accident, Sudhir Kumar, CRS,will conduct an enquiry
October 24, 2009 · Filed under CRS, Maharashtra, Mamata Banerjee, Metro, Ministry of Railways, motorman, Mumbai Local Accident, Sudhir Kumar
Freak Rly mishap kills two, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced a compensation Rs 5 lakh to the families of those killed, Rs 1 lakh to those seriously injured and Rs 10,000 to those who received minor injuries in the Thane bridge collapse.
TMC, CR in blame game Even as the railway services are yet to be restored, a blame game has started between CR and Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC). While CR spokesperson A K Singh said they have asked the TMC to carry out necessary repairs, however, they have not done it yet. On the other hand TMC City Engineer K D Lala said that they have several times sought permission of the railway to change the girders, however, the CR never accorded permission.
Probe ordered Commissioner Railway Safety, Central Circle, Sudhir Kumar will conduct an enquiry on Monday at Thane station, and on Tuesday in Divisional Railway Manager’s office at CST-Mumbai.
Delay killed motorman R Ramchandran, the motorman who died in the tragic accident near Thane railway station was battling for life for over three hours in the motorman’s cabin as the firemen failed to remove him from the debris in time.The motorman was trapped in his cabin as it was completely damaged. Pipeline, overbridge falls on Kalyan local Trains to Pune, Nashik, Nagpur affected
Two persons including a motorman were killed and 10 others were injured, two of them grievously, when a portion of under construction Road Over Bridge along with adjacent water pipelines collapsed over a speeding suburban train in Kopri between Thane and Mulund stations on the Central Railway, severely disrupting the train traffic.
The train, K37, was on its way to Kalyan from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus when the incident took place at 10.52 am.The mishap in which the pipeline carrying water from western part of Thane to the eastern parts burst and the railway overhead electricity wires snapped threw railway traffic out of gear. Normalcy is expected only by Saturday evening.
As soon as the report of the incident came, an accident relief van was rushed to the spot.
Services on all the four up and down lines were affected because of the accident. It would take nearly 30 hours to restore the services, CR officials said.
On Friday evening, train services were being run between CST-Ghatkopar and ThaneKalyan and beyond. Pass-holders of CR were allowed to travel on Western Railway (WR) and harbour routes.
WR tied up with MSRTC to run buses between Borivli and Thane/Bhiwandi. Similarly, pass-holders were also allowed to travel between CST-Vashi-Thane route. As many as 88 additional buses were deployed between CST-Sion-Ghatkopar-Thane.
Heavy rush was seen at some railway stations, however, CR was constantly updating the passengers through SMS alert system besides Radio and TV announcements.
The girders and pipes fell on the motorman’s cabin and the adjacent luggage compartment, trapping several people including the motorman. While most of the trapped commuters were rescued by the onlookers present and fire brigade personnel, the motorman identified as R Ramachandra (43) remained trapped inside his cabin till 2.30 pm. He, however, died before he could be rushed to the Thane civil hospital.
One more person who had died earlier was identified as Subhash Popat Nikam, a resident of Bhandup.
Of the 10 injured all of whom are undergoing treatment at the Thane civil hospital, the condition of two is said to be serious
Ministry of Railways Clarifies on withdrawal of temporary stoppages of certain trains in East Central Railway
June 28, 2009 · Filed under East Central Railway, Ministry of Railways, withdrawal of temporary stoppages
PIB Press Release
On 1st June, 2009, around 300-400 agitators gathered at Khusropur station between Fatuha-Patna section on Danapur Division of East Central Railway(ECR) and torched an empty AC Chair Car coach attached to Train No. 3226 Dn there after detraining the passengers. The agitators were protesting against the cancellation of stoppage of 2391/2392 Shramjivi Express at Khusropur. The mob later set on fire the empty coaches of 543 passengers running between Rajgir and Danapur in a similar fashion. No casualty or injury was reported in the incident.
In this connection, it is clarified that 33 temporary stoppages were earlier given by the local Zonal Railway administration of East Central Railway (ECR), Hajipur at different stations in response to public request and the stoppage at Khusropur is one of these. On 26th May, 2009 a Notification was issued by ECR to the effect that these stoppage, which were of temporary and experimental nature, were being withdrawn by the Zonal Railway because these stoppages were not found to be commercially justified.
It is clarified that the decision of withdrawal of temporary stoppages was taken by the Zonal Railway without the approval of the Ministry of Railways. No directives for withdrawal of these stoppages were given by the Minister of Railways. In view of the public sentiments, the Minister of Railways has however, directed that these temporary stoppages which were withdrawn by ECR, be restored with immediate effect.
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Home Type Adventure & Dual-Sport Motorcycle Reviews 2017 Suzuki V-Strom 650 | Road Test Review
2017 Suzuki V-Strom 650 | Road Test Review
Greg Drevenstedt
That 90-degree V-twin won’t win any beauty contests, but it has won us over with its user-friendly, playful personality. Horsepower and torque are up for 2017. Photos by Kevin Wing.
Because we test so many different bikes, Rider staffers are often asked, “What’s the best motorcycle?” That’s not an easy question to answer, in part because it depends on how the motorcycle will be used and what the rider’s priorities are. What began as a simple question soon turns into a drawn-out discussion about style, performance, handling, comfort, versatility, reliability, price and anything else that influences what types of motorcycles appeal to different people. “Best” really depends on your point of view.
The new V-Strom 650 gets styling like the V-Strom 1000, engine updates from the SV650 and traction control.
One motorcycle that checks many of the boxes that are important to touring riders is the Suzuki V-Strom 650. With its liquid-cooled, 645cc, 90-degree V-twin lifted from the popular, budget-friendly SV650 sport standard, the V-Strom 650—affectionately known as the Wee Strom in deference to its big brother, the V-Strom 1000—is a light, affordable adventure tourer that’s been a top-seller in Suzuki’s lineup since it debuted for 2004. In our last full test of the V-Strom 650, back in February 2012 after the bike got its first major overhaul, we said it was “the ideal do-it-all middleweight—peppy motor, rugged chassis, effortless handling, comfortable seating, 250-mile range, reasonable price.” Those are admirable traits, and they still apply to the updated-for-2017 V-Strom 650. But there’s something about the bike that’s particularly endearing, that allows it to punch far above its weight, yet isn’t easy to pin down. You won’t find it in the specs or dyno chart. The V-Strom 650 is built to a price and, on Jett Tuning’s dyno, the new bike made a modest 68.7 horsepower and 44.2 lb-ft of torque at the rear wheel.
The resin luggage rack has integrated passenger grab handles and sits flush with the passenger seat, which makes it easy to strap on a large duffel or tail bag.
The V-Strom 650 got a significant makeover this year. For much of their history, the V-Strom 650 and V-Strom 1000 were hard to tell apart visually, but the 650’s update for 2012 and the 1000’s update for 2014 gave them distinct styling, allowing each to stand on its own. Suzuki decided to return to kindred styling for both models, with the 650 adopting the 1000’s rally-style fairing with a prominent beak, vertically stacked headlights and a luggage rack with integrated passenger grab handles. Suzuki has further harmonized the V-Strom lineup in terms of available colors and accessories, and there are XT versions of the 650 and 1000 that feature tubeless spoked wheels and other adventure-ready components.
The 645cc V-twin borrowed from the SV650 makes 68.7 horsepower and 44.2 lb-ft of torque at the rear wheel.
The V-Strom 650 has received the same engine updates as the 2017 SV650, with more than 60 changes including new camshafts to boost power, resin-coated pistons to reduce friction, dual spark plugs for better combustion and Suzuki’s Low RPM Assist and Easy Start System. Both horsepower and torque have increased compared to the previous model, and peak torque now arrives at 6,500 rpm instead of 7,500. Also new are a traction control system, instrumentation and handlebar switchgear adopted from the V-Strom 1000, as well as a new exhaust and lighter, 10-spoke cast aluminum wheels. Traction control offers two intervention modes or it can be turned off, but the standard ABS isn’t switchable.
Most V-Strom 650s will never leave the pavement, but the bike’s 19-inch front wheel and rugged chassis are suitable for light-duty off-roading. Adding a skid plate and hand guards would be a good idea, and traction control can be turned off but ABS can’t (unless you yank out the fuses). Adding Suzuki’s stylish, 39-liter (total) factory accessory saddlebags costs $865.90.
Riding the V-Strom 650 again after a few years was like catching up with an old friend—picking up where we left off and never skipping a beat. Suzuki’s press launch for the new V-Strom 650 and 1000 was held in Lake Arrowhead, California. After logging miles on the 1000 during the press ride (read our first ride report on ridermagazine.com), I rode home on the 650, taking Angeles Crest Highway up and over the San Gabriel Mountains, crossing Dawson Saddle at 7,900 feet and savoring the curves and scenery on one of America’s truly magnificent motorcycling roads. I slalomed back and forth, around bend after bend and between rocks that had tumbled into the road, with an ease and grace that few other motorcycles can match. Even though the V-Strom has budget-spec suspension, brakes that aren’t especially powerful and Bridgestone Trail Wing 90/10 adventure-touring tires that aren’t especially grippy, it has a preternatural ability to communicate to the rider exactly what is happening. Riding near the V-Strom’s limit (or the rider’s) feels perfectly natural because the bike never feels skittish or unpredictable.
New 10-spoke cast aluminum wheels are lighter than before. Dual 2-piston Tokico calipers have limited bite and power, but feel at the lever is good.
Soon after my solo ride home from the intro, Managing Editor Jenny Smith and I embarked on a two-day, 500-mile comparison ride on the V-Strom 650 and Kawasaki Versys 650 LT. We headed into the southern Sierra Nevada, to the river-rafting town of Kernville and around Lake Isabella, a reservoir that went from nearly bone-dry to full after one winter of heavy rain and snow. For photos and testing, we spent a fair amount of time riding up and down Caliente-Bodfish Road, a rural two-laner that’s one of the steepest and curviest roads in California. I’ve probably ridden Caliente-Bodfish a couple dozen times on all sorts of motorcycles, and I don’t think I’ve ever gone faster with so little effort than I did on the V-Strom 650. Even with the throttle twisted wide open and slammed closed countless times, diving deep into corners hard on the brakes and stutter-stepping the rear tire over rough pavement coming out of corners, the Wee Strom never threw in the towel. It absolutely refused to give up.
Instrumentation and handlebar switchgear are carried over from the V-Strom 1000, and a standard 12V socket is located on the lower left side of the dash (not shown).
Of course, most V-Strom 650 owners don’t treat their bikes like that. There are legions of “Stromtroopers” out there using their DL650s as daily commuters, grocery getters, weekend escapers and long-distance tourers, not as sportbikes in ADV clothing. But part of what makes the V-Strom 650 so special is that it’s the ultimate two-wheeled chameleon—it can be whatever you want it to be, within reason. It will never be a sit-low, feet-forward cruiser, and its 32.9-inch seat height, while average among adventure tourers, still puts it out of reach for many riders with short inseams (the 0.9-inch lower accessory seat should help). And given its modest power output, the V-Strom 650 isn’t the best choice for fully loaded, two-up touring, but it will get the job done.
Despite the V-Strom 650’s modest power and budget-spec brakes and suspension, it is as playful as a puppy in the curves. The bike is light, well-balanced, intuitively nimble and communicates to the rider exactly what is going on at the contact patches.
No, the V-Strom 650 isn’t perfect. Its seat could provide better support for all-day riding, its windscreen’s three-way height adjustment shouldn’t require a hex wrench (though the new one is 0.35-inch taller and provides good protection) and hand guards should be standard equipment. But let’s not forget, this is an $8,799 motorcycle. For that price, it can be customized to your liking and still not crack five figures. And for that price you’d be hard-pressed to find a motorcycle that clutches and shifts so effortlessly, that so dutifully obeys every steering input (even with its 19-inch front wheel) and allows the rider to sit so naturally in a comfortable, upright position. Sure, lots of bikes are more powerful and sophisticated (and more expensive), but few are as well balanced and user-friendly as the V-Strom 650.
Dodging oak tree shadows on a steep, serpentine section of Caliente-Bodfish Road, which is located on the southwestern edge of the Sierra Nevada. An ideal place to ride a bike like the V-Strom 650.
Having been on the Rider staff for nearly a decade, I’ve had the good fortune of riding and testing most of the street-legal motorcycles made by every major manufacturer, and I’ve found something to love about every single one of them. That experience—riding hundreds of different motorcycles on countless roads over roughly 250,000 miles—doesn’t make answering the “best motorcycle” question any easier. But if you asked me, “If you could own only one motorcycle and you had to spend your own money to buy and maintain it, what would it be?”, the Suzuki V-Strom 650 would be near the top of my list.
A relaxed, ride-all-day seating position, decent wind protection and a 250-mile range makes the V-Strom 650 perfect for touring. And with an MSRP less than $9,000, it won’t break the bank.
2017 Suzuki V-Strom 650 Specs
Base Price: $8,799
Warranty: 1 yr., unltd. miles
Website: suzukicycles.com
Type: Liquid-cooled, transverse 90-degree V-twin
Displacement: 645cc
Bore x Stroke: 81.0 x 62.6mm
Valve Train: DOHC, 4 valves per cyl.
Valve Insp. Interval: 14,500 miles
Fuel Delivery: DFI w/ SDTV & 39mm throttle bodies x 2
Lubrication System: Wet sump, 2.7-qt. cap.
Transmission: 6-speed, cable-actuated wet clutch
Final Drive: O-ring chain
Ignition: Electronic
Charging Output: 390 watts max.
Battery: 12V 10AH
Frame: Cast aluminum twin-spar, cast aluminum swingarm
Wheelbase: 61.4 in.
Rake/Trail: 25.4 degrees/4.2 in.
Seat Height: 32.9 in.
Suspension, Front: 43mm stanchions, adj. preload, 5.9-in. travel
Rear: Single link-type shock, adj. rebound & preload (remote), 6.3-in. travel
Brakes, Front: Dual 310mm discs w/ 2-piston calipers & ABS
Rear: Single 260mm disc w/ 1-piston caliper & ABS
Wheels, Front: Cast, 2.50 x 19 in.
Rear: Cast, 4.00 x 17 in.
Tires, Front: 110/80-R19
Rear: 150/70-R17
Wet Weight: 467 lbs.
Load Capacity: 448 lbs.
GVWR: 915 lbs.
Fuel Capacity: 5.3 gals., last 1.1 gals. warning light on
MPG: 87 PON min. (low/avg/high) 41.0/46.9/58.5
Estimated Range: 248 miles
Indicated RPM at 60 MPH: 4,400
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W.Wilkins September 6, 2017 at 8:21 pm
Three new ‘Stroms (’09, ’12, ’15) and over 160 000 kilometers has taught me the Wee doesn’t display excellence, but it’s still an excellent bike. The brakes are just okay, as too the suspension. The ergonomics are better than okay for my 5’10” 190 pound body. The seat is better than my Beemer, Honda VFR, or any other bike I’ve owned over the fifty years I’ve ridden. And the engine? A jewel. I’m fortunate that the ‘Strom isn’t my only bike, but if I had to have only one, there’s no doubt it would be my first choice – hands down. Everyone should be so so lucky to own one.
hans welbergen September 7, 2017 at 4:15 pm
I bought a Wee Strom in 2017 and put a Russel seat, GiVI crash bars and a GIVI screen on it and gave it to my son to use for a 8000-mile ride. He on the Strom and I on my St1300. Effortless! I have been riding it a lot as well. A wonderful bike it is. I added a happy trail highway bar and foot pegs and it is now the feet forward highway cruiser for my aging knees. You can’t beat this bike for the money!
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10th Edition of the Riviera Maya Jazz Festival
by Vanessa Martínez del Río
Artistic Director of the Riviera Maya Jazz Festival Fernando Toussaint, confirmed the lineup of the 10th edition of this grand event, where the natural beauty of the Mexican Caribbean and the talent of living jazz legends such as Wayne Shorter come together on Playa Mamitas beach for a breezy, star studded concert in paradise.
The show also features names like the Big Band, Poncho Sanchez, John Scofield and Djavan, a Brazilian jazz-pop musician making his first appearance in Mexico. Get your tickets now and sway to the smooth beats of jazz and the rolling of the waves during this cultural phenomenon on November 22nd-24th.
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Hilltop Residence at Laucala Island
By Jennifer Ryan on October 1, 2010
Photo by Kalus Lorke
The Resort: “No problem” is the response to most requests made at Laucala Island. From coconut-milk baths to midnight tee times at the David McLay Kidd–designed golf course, the more than 300 staff members at this private-island resort—located 45 minutes by plane from Fiji’s international airport—are equipped to arrange just about anything for their guests, who never number more than 80 at a time. Such exclusivity, of course, means that reservations are irrelevant once you arrive at Laucala, which includes five restaurants that remain open whether two couples or 20 families are in residence on the 3,000-acre island. Walk up to the activity center for an impromptu water-ski session, and a boat driver will be ready and waiting.
The Villa: The Hilltop Residence sits at Laucala’s highest point, affording views of palms and the Pacific Ocean in every direction. Guests’ immediate surroundings within the main one-bedroom house (two guest villas sit just across a lawn) include a thatch-roofed library, a lap pool, a hot tub, and outdoor lounge areas. Private access roads ensure that guests of Laucala’s 24 other villas need not know who is staying at the Hilltop, which comes with a butler and chef, as well as a golf cart for easy transport to the resort’s restaurants, golf club, spa, marina, and beaches.
The Highlight: Watching from a daybed on the villa’s 270-degree-view pool deck as the sun rises over the ocean during breakfast and sets over the ocean during cocktails.
The Price: From $25,000 per night for up to six guests. +679.888. 0077, www.laucala.com
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Book Max for iOS Offers Readers a Smart Marketplace to Discover eBooks
September 23, 2016 in Books (E)
[prMac.com] Bath, United Kingdom - Renniksoft today is proud to announce the release and immediate availability of Book Max - The Smart Marketplace for eBooks 1.0.7 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. The new app is an elegant, stylish, and fun method of finding new eBooks to read. Anyone can simply tap the search icon in the middle of the screen, begin typing a search term, and the app immediately begins presenting options. The user scrolls through the results, reviews the information for books that look interesting, and with a single tap, can be taken to the iBookstore to make their purchase.
In addition to its comprehensive search abilities, Book Max also offers an easy-to-use browsing feature that allows any reader to browse various genres of eBooks at their leisure, all via the app's innovative navigation bubble interface. Users simply tap a category bubble from the app's opening screen, and they'll be presented with a randomized list of categories and titles, offering up a seemingly unlimited selection of books to choose from.
"Finding the right books to fit your interests can be a real pain in the neck. Whether you're online, or browsing your local bookstore, book discovery is still stuck in the 20th century," says founder of Renniksoft, Clive Skinner. "Book Max truly does offer a 'smart marketplace' for eBook readers, bringing the complete library of the iBookstore to users in an easy-to-use, and enjoyable search tool that they carry in their pocket."
* Easy-to-use search interface
* Unequalled bubble navigation interface makes eBook discovery fun and easy
* Search, find, and purchase eBooks from one easy-to-use app
* Integrated social networking features
* Custom color by camera option creates personalized app color scheme
* Always free, with no in-app purchases
Book Max offers the ability to browse any category of the iBookstore. Categories include: Tech, Travel, Romance, Mystery, Humor, Career, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, and many more. If a user chooses to tap a category to browse, in many cases they'll be presented with sub-categories to select from, depending on their mood. For example, by tapping "Fiction," a reader can select from such fiction genres as: Action Adventure, Horror, Religious, Historical, Classics, and more.
Once a reader decides on a particular book they'd like to take a closer look at, they can access more details about the book, discover other books by the same author, purchase and download the book, and even share the reading selection with family and friends on Facebook and Twitter via the app's handy social networking features.
Users can also customize Book Max to display their own, one-of-a-kind color scheme. Simply tap the color wheel at the bottom of the page, point the device's camera in the direction of a favorite color, tap the "Save" button, and the new custom color scheme is in place for a one-of-a-kind look.
Renniksoft has a history of offering iOS device users easy-to-use and innovative apps. They're the brains behind the popular "Movie Genius," and "Telly Genius" apps that offer movie and television fans a better way to discover entertaining video and film content. With the release of Book Max, the company is applying that same fresh approach to eBook discovery.
Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
* Requires iOS 9.0 or later
* Universal Application
* 21.8 MB
Book Max - The Smart Marketplace for eBooks 1.0.7 is free, and is available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Books category.
Book Max - The Smart Marketplace for eBooks 1.0.7
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