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Do you know when joint calling will be officialy implemented for RNAseq?
Meantime, is there a way to perform joint calling anyway (incremental analysis is not neccesary since I have less than 20 runs and enough computational resources)?
first of all, congrats to the whole team, this is great work, and the ability to all use a comparable pipeline should prove very valuable.
Would you have any estimate as to when the RNAseq pipeline would be available on Firecloud?
We should be able to get the pipeline into FC fairly quickly if that would be helpful to you.
Due to the idiosyncrasies of the project this particular WDL was developed for internally, it has a built-in RevertSam step that allows it to take any aligned bam and reprocess it from scratch, including alignment with STAR. Ultimately I would like to take that out to standardize on uBam as start point to the pipeline. We already have a separate WDL for the reversion process for those who need it.
But that would add on some time for the script modifications; we could already make the existing version available in FC if you think you could work with that.
there is no emergency, I think it's better to wait until the WDL is modified in order to start from uBAMs; it would be quite wasteful to align the reads just to then get the resulting files through RevertSam.
I was planning on doing genotyping of RNA-seq data for several samples this week. I noticed that the GATK4 RNA-seq workflow is still "in development". Would you all recommend still genotyping RNA-seq data with GATK3 to ensure accuracy at this time? Or is GATK4 fine to use (I can write my own WDL methods if needed)?
I am assuming you are asking about the workflow here. In that workflow, HaplotypeCaller and SplitNCigarReads still use GATK3. You should be fine substituting GATK4 in those. The team has ported those tools in GATK4 but have not validated them in the workflow yet. It would be great if you could try it out and let us know how it works.
I was wondering if using the latest version of STAR aligner instead of the one that is in WDL would constitute a significant divergence from GATK Best Practices for RNAseq short variant discovery workflow?
I am trying to follow the Best practices, but it always throws the error that "Error retrieving content: Could not parse content retrieved from forum database."
would you please check that?


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Gas cooktops are a great choice for people looking for an affordable and sustainable home appliance option, but with so many cooktops available on the market, how can you decide which one to buy for your home kitchen? We've compiled a list of our favourite cooktop features to help you decide which cooktop is right for your family.
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How to scroll on a Mac computer in 4 different ways, or change your scrolling preferences
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You can scroll on a Mac using the trackpad, which actually reverses the scrolling direction when compared to a PC.
You can also scroll on a Mac using the spacebar, the up and down arrows on your keyboard, or your mouse — and it's possible to change the scrolling preferences on your trackpad if you wish.
For those who are new to Mac computers, the differences in scrolling from PC's can present a bit of a weird hiccup.
At first, it will feel strange to get used to the scrolling gestures and navigate with windows when everything feels a bit backwards. But after a bit of regular use, all that confusion fades away.
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NFL's San Francisco 49ers To Play Next Two Home Games In Arizona After Santa Clara County Bans Contact Sports – Update
UPDATED, 12:48 PM: The NFL's San Francisco 49ers said today that they will play their next two home games at the Arizona Cardinals' home field after Santa Clara County — where Levi's Stadium is located — enhanced its Covid-19 guidelines for professional, collegiate and youth sports over the weekend.
The team's Monday Night Football matchup next week against the division-leading Buffalo Bills and its December 13 game against the Washington Football Team will be played at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ, with the Cardinals set to play this Sunday at home and the following weekend on the road.
"The San Francisco 49ers have come to an agreement with the National Football League and Arizona Cardinals which allows the 49ers to host their Weeks 13 and 14 home games against the Buffalo Bills and Washington Football Team at State Farm Stadium in Arizona," the club said in a statement today. "The Cardinals organization, State Farm Stadium and League officials have been supportive and accommodating as we work through the many logistical issues involved in relocating NFL games."
No word yet on the fate of the 49ers' scheduled Week 17 home game against the division-rival Seattle Seahawks. San Francisco is coming off a Week 12 road win against another NFC West rival, the Los Angeles Rams.
Coincidentally, the NFL said today that the 49ers-Cardinals game set for December 26 will air exclusively on Amazon Prime Video and Twitch.
NFL Shuffles Schedule Again, Moves Baltimore Ravens-Pittsburgh Steelers Game To Tuesday After More Covid-19 Cases
PREVIOUSLY, November 28: An already difficult National Football League season just got tougher for the San Francisco 49ers.
The NFL, already reeling from having to move a Thanksgiving Day game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Pittsburgh Steelers twice because of Covid-19 concerns, now may have to find a home for the 49ers to finish their season.
On Saturday, Santa Clara County, home of the 49ers and their home field Levi's Stadium, forced the issue Saturday by creating enhanced Covid-19 guidelines for professional, collegiate, and youth sports. That means no contact sports in any place in the county.
The ban includes a 14-day quarantine for anyone traveling to the county from more than 150 miles away. The new orders are set to begin Monday.
"All recreational activities that involve physical contact or close proximity to persons outside one's household, including all contact sports, will be temporarily prohibited," the order said. "People can continue to engage in outdoor athletics and recreation where social distancing can be maintained at all times."
The 49ers have two home games scheduled that would be affected, including Dec. 7 against the Buffalo Bills Monday night and Dec. 13 against the Washington Football Team. Those games will have to be relocated, and the team will have to find new practice facilities outside the county.
James Williams, counsel for Santa Clara County, said at a press briefing today that nobody is exempt from the new rules.
"[This] will temporarily suspend activities that require direct physical contact or interaction in Santa Clara," Williams said. "So, that means that for those teams, they will not be able to play games or have practices where they have direct contact within the county."
The new health guidelines also affect the Stanford and San Jose State football teams, and the NHL's San Jose Sharks. Stanford has a home game scheduled for Dec. 12, while San Jose State has home games set for Dec 5 and Dec. 12.
Erik Pedersen contributed to this report.
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How does the 25th Amendment work?
By Tal Axelrod - 09/21/18 03:23 PM EDT
The New York Times reported Friday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Rod RosensteinFeds will not charge officer who killed Eric Garner The Hill's Morning Report — Trump retreats on census citizenship question Judiciary issues blitz of subpoenas for Kushner, Sessions, Trump associates MORE proposed secretly recording conversations in the Oval Office with President Trump Donald John TrumpPompeo changes staff for Russia meeting after concerns raised about top negotiator's ties: report House unravels with rise of 'Les Enfants Terrible' Ben Carson: Trump is not a racist and his comments were not racist MORE last year and discussed the possibility of Cabinet officials invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him.
But what is the 25th Amendment? And how does it work?
The 25th Amendment was ratified in the aftermath of President Kennedy's assassination and is primarily intended to define the presidential order of succession.
It is divided into four articles to describe the different scenarios under which a president would leave office.
The first article explains that if a president dies, resigns or is removed from office, the vice president would immediately become the president. This was used when President Nixon resigned and was replaced by Vice President Ford.
The second article explains that if a vacancy arises for vice president, the president will nominate a replacement, who will take office once confirmed by majorities in both chambers of Congress. This was used when Vice President Ford picked Nelson Rockefeller to be his new vice president.
The third article allows the president to temporarily delegate responsibilities to the vice president, who operates as the acting president until the president informs congressional leaders he is able to resume executing the office's duties. Presidents often use this article when undergoing medical operations.
The fourth article, which was the one Rosenstein reportedly discussed using, creates a process for the president's removal from office.
Under this article, the vice president and cabinet officials would vote on the removal of the president. If the majority votes for removal, then a letter is sent to the president pro tempore of the Senate, now Sen. Hatch (R-Utah), and Speaker of the House, now Rep. Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanOcasio-Cortez top aide emerges as lightning rod amid Democratic feud Juan Williams: GOP in a panic over Mueller House Republicans dismissive of Paul Ryan's take on Trump MORE (R-Wis.), informing them of their vote.
The president could send a counter-letter saying he is capable of performing his duties, allowing the president to continue work as usual, unless the vice president and cabinet send another letter within four days restating their case. Under such circumstances, the vice president would become the acting president while Congress votes.
Both houses of Congress would have to vote within 21 days in this case, and a two-thirds vote from each chamber is required to remove the president from office and fully institute the vice president as the replacement. If the vote in either chamber was to fall short, the president would resume his duties.
The fourth article has never been used.
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Jersey home was studio for evil child-porn empire (30.03.08)
News of the World, 30th March 2008
by Philip Whiteside and Lucy Panton, Crime Editor
VILE pictures of babies being raped were taken for a child porn ring at the Jersey kids' home of horror, police feared last night.Experts think the home is the source of many of the network's 9,000 sick pictures, discovered in an infamous haul in Holland in the Nineties.It was dubbed the Zandvoort stash, after the town where it was found- but the studio was never uncovered.
Experts are now 90 per cent certain it was the baby unit at Haut de la Garenne's Aviemore wing. Some of the victims in the black and white pictures were just 18 months old.
None has ever been traced.
A Belgium anti-paedophile group which uncovered the pictures in a computer shop has contacted Jersey police. Deputy Chief Officer Lenny Harper said: "We are looking at the claims and will follow up significant new lines of inquiry."
Pictures of a second "punishment room" cellar were released this weekend. It is three times bigger than the first chamber but the ceiling is even lower, meaning children would have stooped. More than 200 people say they were abused or know victims. Around 40 people have been identified as potentially being involved in the abuse or covering it up.
The News of the World can also reveal that 121 sex offenders roam Jersey unsupervised as it has no sex offenders' register. Their crimes range from paedophilia and rape to downloading child porn and cops say they may pose a risk. Politicians say they will make the register law this year.
Haut de la Garenne
Owen said: November 21, 20145:12 pm
Jersey Stinks of Zandvoort (Morkhoven / Droit Fondamental):
(French) http://fondationprincessedecroy.morkhoven.org/001-Jersey_stinks_zandvoort-FR.htm
(English) https://belgianjustice.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/child-abuse-jersey-stinks-of-zandvoort/
Sources given (2008):
http://fondationprincessedecroy.morkhoven.org/001-jersey_stinks_zandvoort–source.htm
http://fondationprincessedecroy.morkhoven.org/001-Jersey_stinks_zandvoort–source-GB-2.htm
Sources in French (2008):
http://fondationprincessedecroy.morkhoven.org/001-Jersey_stinks_zandvoort–source-FR.htm
Owen said: November 22, 201412:21 am
L'affaire Zandvoort, posted 21 August 2013 by Francis Hus on antiogre.overblog.com (in French)
http://antiogre.overblog.com/l-affaire-zandvoort
(followed by a list of sources).
Marcel Vervloesem followed his investigation of the paedophile network linking Temse in Belgium and children from Portugal (Madeira) by trying to find out what had becoe of a missing 12 year old German boy Manuel Schadwald. After a confrontation with Robby van den Plancken, an associate of the criminal child trafficker Lothar Glandorf who had been seen with Schadwald, he tracked down Gerrit Ulrich, a German thought to be involved in the trafficking of children from Berlin to the Benelux countries, to Ulrich's flat in Zandvoort, Netherlands. After speaking to Vervloesem and giving him documents and a CD-ROM, Ulrich fled to Italy where he was killed by van den Plancken.
A cache of CD-ROMs, baby clothing and other items was found at Ulrich's flat. The CD-ROMs contained tens of thousands of criminal images of children, including pictures of rape and torture some even involving babies. Vervloesem informed the Dutch authorities. The flat in Zandvoort also contained computers on which hundreds of thousands of images were stored and accessed via an internet site called Appollo [sic]. Clients made payments to a bank account under the name Appollo which was also the name of Ulrich's yacht in which he had visited France, the Netherlands and the UK and entertained clients. Paedophile orgies had been filmed on the yacht. Ulrich's contacts also included clients in Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Eastern Europe and the US.
Although the French authorities were reluctant to pursue inquiries a French paedophile named Jacques Dugué was found to be the source of a number of the Zandvoort images and thought to be part of a network. The pictures also included photographs taken at Coral, a residential establishment in the south of France caring for children with a range of difficulties. The children were found to have been abused by staff and, it was alleged, by outsiders including prominent public figures, among them a senior ministerial aide. Links to various French abuse and criminal networks were identified, as well as possible links to active members of far-right organisations.
The Zandvoort images were linked to the Belgian paedophile network of which Marc Dutroux was a member when a victim ("X1", Régina Louf) who had identified Dutroux as being involved with networks that had abused her recognised the photo of Katrien De Cuyper, a young girl who had gone missing and six months later been found strangled in Antwerp. Louf said she had last seen Katrien de Kuyper at an orgy filmed in a castle near Antwerp during which the girl had been killed. The last time Katrien was seen before her disapppearance was at a cafe downstairs from the offices of two Dutch pornography businesses in which Gerrit Ulrich was a major investor.
Marcel Vervloesem was subsequently accused of child abuse in less than straightforward circumstances. Despite being found guilty of raping three children, possession of pornographic images and fraud, he was supported by anti-paedophile groups, some of whom believed he had been sent to prison to prevent him from pursuing inconvenient investigations.
Sources cited by the author in the original French text:
1) « Le livre de la honte – les réseaux pédophiles », Serge Garde et Laurence Beneux, 2001, Le cherche midi
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-I85Z-Qb7Q
3) http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/1998/07/17/409008-pedophilie-l-horreur-sur-internet.html
4) http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/des-enfants-violes-sur-internet-18-07-1998-2000167198.php
5) http://www.humanite.fr/node/368339
6) http://www.liberation.fr/societe/0101342065-avec-le-pedophile-jacques-d-des-victimes-de-pere-en-fils
7) http://www.liberation.fr/societe/0101403061-un-pedophile-condamne-a-trente-ans-de-prison
8) http://fr.scribd.com/doc/57910363/Crapouillot-Affaire-du-Coral-1982
9) http://antiogre.overblog.com/l-affaire-du-coral-2
10) « Sexus Politicus », Christophe Deloire et Christophe Dubois, 2006, Albin Michel
11) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo5KCz_ps0c
12) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjyimx_pedophilies-messes-noires-et-snuff-movies-en-france_news
13) http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/les-parents-juges-pour-viols-sur-leurs-filles-16-11-2001-2002589312.php
14) http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/seize-et-douze-ans-de-prison-pour-le-couple-monstrueux-18-11-2001-2002594322.php
15) http://www.leparisien.fr/une/le-couple-prostituait-ses-enfants-15-11-2001-2002586887.php
16) http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/enquete-sur-un-reseau-pedophile-a-angers-13-01-2002-2002731863.php
17) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQXghgcyZwE
18) http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/societe/20070913.OBS4815/le-parcours-judiciaire.html
19) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHGViXCSriA
20) http://www.liberation.fr/evenement/0101363515-la-coupable-negligence-du-tribunal-d-auxerre
21) http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/quatre-magistrats-devant-leurs-juges-18-03-2002-2002904053.php
22) http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/la-garde-des-sceaux-parle-de-17-disparitions-12-02-2002-2002813325.php
23) http://www.liberation.fr/evenement/0101363519-un-sinistre-pavillon-a-appoigny
24) http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologie_de_la_p%C3%A9dophilie
25) http://www.liberation.fr/france/0101218375-pedophiles-des-violeurs-parmi-les-voyeurs-un-suspect-chez-qui-la-police-avait-trouve-des-cassettes-s-est-pendu
26) http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/societe/20000510.OBS4274/ado-71-trois-ans-fermes-pour-alapetite.html
27) http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/mandat-d-arret-contre-le-pedophile-condamne-11-05-2000-2001367007.php
29) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqfps1_les-dossiers-x-affaire-dutroux_news
28) « Les dossiers X », Annemie Bulté, Douglas de Coninck et Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, 1999, Editions EPO
30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku6Hcuoqq-Y#at=16
31) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph4oydpllkE
32) http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/le-chasseur-de-pedophiles-condamne-pour-viol-d-enfants-08-02-2008-3296039516.php
33) http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/le-chasseur-de-pedophiles-condamne-pour-viol_470028.html
34) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVEKggJ1jYc
35) http://www.rtl.be/info/votreregion/flandre/851066/un-chasseur-de-pedophiles-autoproclame-derriere-les-barreaux
Note for blog author – if moderation is delayed due to sources, here is an updated test of sources cited:
1) "Le livre de la honte – les réseaux pédophiles" ["The book of shame – paedophile networks"], Serge Garde et Laurence Beneux, 2001, pub. Le Cherche-Midi (22.11.2014)
book – http://www.amazon.com/Le-Livre-honte-r%C3%A9seaux-p%C3%A9dophiles/dp/2862749168 (22.11.2014)
live link – video "Affaire Zandvoort -Les Fichiers de la Honte" ["The Zandvoort Affair – Files of Shame"] (Les Faits de Karl Zéro series, 13eme Rue); retrieved 22.11.2014
live link – La Dépêche newspaper website, article retrieved 22.11.2014
live link – newspaper website, article retrieved 22.11.2014
live link – L'Humanité newspaper website – article not retrieved; referenced information confirmed by article at http://www.humanite.fr/node/283009
live link – Libération newspaper website, article retrieved 22.11.2014
live link to Scribd save of 2 articles from Le Crapouillot magazine (Pédophilie et provocations policières – Le Vilain Manege du Coral [Paedophilia and police provocation at Le Coral], by Vincent Acker, and L'affaire du Coral – Comment la police manipule les pédophiles [Le Coral – how the police manipulate paedophiles]), retrieved 22.11.2014 (full text only available by downloading)
embedded link disabled – view instead at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dMJmKDNR9c
video clip of news broadcast "Téléjournal de 1982 sur l'affaire du Coral" – on Francis Hus YT Channel), retrieved 22.11.2014
10) "Sexus Politicus", Christophe Deloire et Christophe Dubois, 2006, Albin Michel
book – http://www.albin-michel.fr/Sexus-politicus-EAN=9782226172556 (22.11.2014)
live link – video "Un magistrat identifié dans l'affaire de Zandvoort" ["Amagistrate identified in the Zandvoort Affair"], interview with Pr Jacqueline de Croy – on Francis Hus YT Channel), retrieved 22.11.2014
live link but replaced by alternative clip (child interviewees' faces anonymised): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkqdl1_snuff-movies-et-messes-noires-en-france_news , retrieved 22.11.2014
live link – Le Parisien newspaper website, article retrieved 22.11.2014
live link – video: "Témoignage Véronique Liaigre – Satanisme à Agen" ["Testimony of Véronique Liaigre – Satanism in Agen"] (broadcast on French channel TF1, 5.7.2001), (22.11.2014)
Nouvel Observateur article, retrieved 22.11.2014
removed video link – replaced by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URCUwSndeLs "Emile Louis: les disparues de l'Yonne" ["Emile Louis – The Disappeared of the Yonne"] Faites entrer l'accusé series (Faites Entrer l'Accuse YT Channel), retrieved 22.11.2014
live link – French Wikipedia article, retrieved 22.11.2014
live link – Nouvel Observateur magazine website, article retrieved 22.11.2014
live link – video: "Les Dossiers X" – Affaire Dutroux ["The X Dossiers" – the Dutroux Affair] by Jeanne Burgermister (Zembla Dutch documentary television series), retrieved 22.11.2014
28) "Les dossiers X" ["The X Dossiers"], Annemie Bulté, Douglas de Coninck et Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, 1999, Editions EPO
book – http://www.amazon.co.uk/Les-dossiers-Belgique-laffaire-Dutroux/dp/2872621539 (22.11.2014)
live link – video: "Analyse d'un psychiatre ayant expertisé Régina Louf" [opinion of psychiatrist responsible for preparing expert report on Régina Louf] (Francis Hus YT Channel), retrieved 22.11.2014
live link – video: "Détention Marcel Vervloesem affaire Zandvoort Karl Zero 1/2" [Karl Zero report on arrest of Marcel Vervloesem, 1/2] (251meganeYT Channel), retrieved 22.11.2014
live link – L'Express magazine website, article retrieved 22.11.2014
live link – RTL Belgium website, article retrieved 22.11.2014
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Owen said: November 24, 20149:46 am
Summaries of Werkgroep Morkhoven / Fondation Princesse de Croy / Droit Fondamental information relating to Zandvoort and the Zandvoort cache including some pictures believed to originate at Haut de la Garenne:
http://fondationprincessedecroy.morkhoven.org/07-ZandvoortBase.htm (mainly in French, some translations into English)
http://fondationprincessedecroy.morkhoven.org/06-resume-zandvoort_1__fr-en-it.htm
(2 webpages, content appears to be identical, original French, "free translation" into English and Italian)
Owen said: December 9, 20141:32 pm
At 31:48 minutes into the "Affaire Zandvoort -Les Fichiers de la Honte" ["The Zandvoort Affair – Files of Shame"] (Les Faits de Karl Zéro series, 13eme Rue), retrieved 22.11.2014, photocopies of Gerry Ulrich's file of contacts show the British Council in Kiev and the FCO at King Charles's Street among the addresses line to Ulrich's network – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-I85Z-Qb7Q .
For a copy with English subtitling of the 2nd section of the clip including the above, see
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a93_1389838483&comments=1
The Ulrich British Council and FCO contact details shown at 12:28 minutes into this section.
corr.: "among the addresses linked to Ulrich's network"


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PLIN'Y THE ELDER. GAIT'S PLINIFS SECUN Drs. The author of the celebrated Historic Natu rails. Ile was horn in the north of Italy, probably at Novum Comum (Conio), A.D. 23. Whether it was his birthplace or not, Novum Comum was certainly his family's place of residence, since he had estates in its neighborhood. While still young he was sent to Rome, where his ample means and high connections secured him the best education. At the age of twenty-three he entered the army, and served in Germany as commander of a troop of cavalry under Lucius Pomponius Seeundus. of whom. in later life. he wrote a memoir. He traveled over nearly all the frontier of that extensive province, visited the Chanel and the sources of the Danube, composed (luring the intervals of military duty his treatise De Icculatione Equestri. and commenced a history (afterwards completed in twenty books) of the Germanic wars. On his return to Rome in 52 with Pomponius, he entered on the study of juris prudence; but his pleading wa, unsueees-ful. and, accordingly. he retired to his native place. There he wrote his S'tudiosus, a treatise in three books on the training of a young orator from the nursery to his entrance on public life. and ap parently intended to guide the education of his nephew; also his grammatical work, Dubius Scow), in eight books. Shortly before Nero's death we find him a procurator in Spain. where, in 71. he heard of his brother-in-law's decease, and of his being intrusted with the guardianship of his nephew, Pliny the Younger. whom he adopted on his return to Rnme before 73. pa,ian, the reigning Emperor, whom he had known while in Germany, received him as one of hi, most intimate friends; and it was at this period that he completed, in 31 books, and brought down to his own time the Roman history of Aufidius Bassus. His mode of study at this time was a model of systematic assiduity. He would begin his studies by candle-light in au tumn at a late hour of the night. and in winter at one or two in the morning. Before daybreak he would call on the Emperor, for whom he would proceed to execute various commissions; this done he would return home and resume his studies. A slender meal would follow; after which he would take notes or extracts from the hook which were read to him. The practice of jotting down important facts or observations was habit ual with him, and he was often heard to say that there was no book, however bad, from which some good could not be got. A cold bath, fol lowed by a light meal and a short sleep, occupied another interval, after which he would study till the cenc, or dinner-time. Even at this meal some
book was read to him on which he would make comments. When on a journey, again, he was never without a secretary at his elbow, provided with a book and tablets. By this mode of life he collected an immense mass of materials. from which he compiled his great Historic Naturalis, published about 77. No fewer than IGO rob/mina of note, were found at his death. two years afterwards. At the time of the great eruption of Vesuvius, which overwhelmed Herculaneum and Pompeii, in 79, he was stationed off Misenum, in command of the Roman fleet. Eager to examine the phenomenon more closely, lie landed at Sta.
where he was suffocated by the vapors caused by the eruption. He was, as his nephew tells u-, corpulent and asthmatic, and so sank the more readily. None of his attendants shared his fate. The story of his death is described in two letters of his nephew. Pliny the Younger, to Taeitu-, written many years after the event (v., 16 and 20).
Of all his works. only his Historic Ycturalis has come down to us. It comprehends astronomy. meteorology, geography, mineralogy, zo6logy, botany. everything, in short, which is a natural or non-artificial product. Moreover, the work is interspersed with digressions on such subjeets as human institutions and inventions. and the history of the fine arts. It is divided into 37 books, the first of them being a dedicatory epis tle to Titus. with a table of contents of the remainincr hooks, and embraces, as we are told in the preface. 20.000 matters of importance. extracted from about 2000 volumes. Its scientific merit is not great. There is little attempt at philosophical arrangement: the observations are nearly all taken at second hand, and show small discrimination in separating the true from the false. or the probable from the marvelous. His meaning is often obscure. owing to his lack of personal acquaintance with the matters of which he treats and his failure to grasp the true sense of the authors whom lie cites or translates. But the work is a great monument of industry and research, and most valuable as supplying its with on a great variety of subjects as to which we have no other means of information. The best critical editions of the test are those of Siihfg (S vols., Gotha. 1851-5S) ; Jan (Leipzig, 1S75-80) and Mayhoff (a recension of Jan, Leipzig. 1875-97). There is an old English translation Holland London, 1601). and a more recent one, in Bohn's Library. by Bo. Lock and Riley t Loudon. 1s55-571. Pliny's Chap on the history of art art' edited, with com mentary, by dex-Blake and Sellers (London, 1896).
From "New International Encyclopedia" by Daniel Gilman (1905)


6 wide inch pothole which is about 2ft deep encroaching into a drain with no support. A car or lorry could break into it or a child get their foot in it.
Street Light outside 66 Foxcroft Drive remains lit for 24 hours every day.
Trees restricting view to oncoming traffic.
2xVehichles parked on pathway. neither have moved recently & ape ear permanently parked up/abandoned. One vehicle didn't appear to get taxed according to DVLA. One is a silver blue Mercedes A Class the other a Silver Ford KA.
ASDA, BLACK BOURTON RD, CARTERTON OX18 3HQ Lots of black bags and household waste in the recycling area. Large items of furniture and a mattress. Really looks a mess and makes it hard to get to a bank to deposit your recycling.
ASDA, BLACK BOURTON ROAD, CARTERTON, OX18 3HQ Mattress, prams and other large items in recycling area of store.
Speed limit on Upavon not marked properly, is it 30mph or 40mph?
Cover on Light number 1 has fallen off. not damaged but needs putting back up.


And because Senators come cheap these days, it likely will pass.
The tribe alleges employees at Wells Fargo branches on the vast reservation "routinely misled customers into opening unnecessary accounts and obtained debit and credit cards without customers' consent." They also allege Navajo elders "were purposely confused and deceived into purchasing products to help employees meet banking quotas." The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in New Mexico, said "since at least 2009 and continuing through 2016, Wells Fargo employees at branches on the Navajo Nation routinely opened unauthorized savings and credit accounts, misled customers into opening unnecessary accounts, obtained debit cards without customers' consent, and enrolled customers in online banking without proper consent." The suit alleges Wells Fargo employees told elderly Navajo citizens who didn't speak English that in order to have their checks cashed, they needed to sign up for savings accounts they neither needed nor understood. The tribe also alleges Wells Fargo representatives stalked basketball games and flea markets to sign up consumers for unnecessary accounts and "opened accounts for underage Navajo citizens, going so far as to falsify birthdates to avoid obtaining necessary parental consent."
All of these allegations sound like business as usual for Wells Fargo, which seems to have a vulture's instinct for other people's money and the ethics of your basic Gaboon viper. The L.A. Times got a quote from the consigliere of this particular entity.
Wells Fargo spokesman Jim Seitz said in a statement that the bank could not comment on ongoing litigation, but he reiterated steps the bank has taken to compensate consumers and change practices in the wake of last year's accounts scandal. "Over the past year we have taken significant steps to make things right for our customers, including members of the Navajo Nation, who may have been affected by unacceptable retail sales practices," he said.
As happy as I am that Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Nina Simone made the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducting The Cars before the J. Geils Band is an insult to every rock and roll fan inside the Route 128 corridor. Live performance has to count for something. But that's just me being unacceptably provincial. But what I still do not get is why Little Feat, Link Wray, and Warren Zevon get stiffed, year after year. Did Lowell George once refuse to pose for Annie Leibovich? Did Zevon eat Jann Wenner's puppy? None of this makes sense.
Come on. This ain't right.
Yes, I saw it. Yes, it's good. Yes, you should see it. (The Porgs are just tiny, wet-eyed, uninteresting Tribbles, though.) I'm more interested in this new Spielberg about The Washington Post and the Pentagon Papers. I may be wrong but, if you're going to make a movie about a newspaper and the Pentagon Papers, it really ought to be The New York Times, no? (Apparently, this has occurred to some NYT vets, too.) It has been explained to me that this is really a character study of Katherine Graham. (Meryl!) If so, I hope it ends with her famous warning to the press not to get too nosy about government secrets, because that would be bad.
The redoubtable Dave Neiwert has finally finished his magnum opus about the alt-right and the rise of modern neo-fascism. I'm about a third of the way into it, and it's quite typical of Dave's work: lucid, impeccably researched, and damn scary. It's an important book because, I think, all hell is going to break loose next year and it would be nice to know as much as possible about the people who opened the door for hell to break loose.
Weekly WWOZ Pick To Click: "Savannah Mama" (Blind Willie McTell): Yeah, I pretty much still love New Orleans.
Weekly Visit To The Pathe Archives: Here are some Finns having fun in the 1920s. Let's all do the Greasy Pole Dance. Not so fast there, Farenthold! History is so cool.
Is it a good day for dinosaur news, AP? It's always a good day for dinosaur news!
Fossils from New Zealand have revealed a giant penguin that was as big as a grown man, roughly the size of the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The creature was slightly shorter in length and about 20 pounds (9 kilograms) heavier than the official stats for hockey star Sidney Crosby. It measured nearly 5 feet, 10 inches (1.77 meters) long when swimming and weighed in at 223 pounds (101 kilograms)… The newly found bird is about 7 inches (18 centimeters) longer than any other ancient penguin that has left a substantial portion of a skeleton, said Gerald Mayr of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. A potentially bigger rival is known only from a fragment of leg bone, making a size estimate difficult.
I think measuring prehistoric fauna by units of hockey player goes a long way to explaining things to the uninitiated, and is another way that dinosaurs lived then to make Sidney Crosby, and us, happy now.
The Committee was impressed by Top Commenter Nathaire Carcossa's question for the stubbornly loony ol' Jedge Roy Moore.
Any word on whether Moore has decided to concede to General Grant's terms?
Sometimes, I am completely convinced that those terms were far too generous. Anyway, well-asked, and 80.17 Beckhams to you.
I'll be back on Monday after a weekend in which I am sure there will be some GOP's Big Win gobshitery flying through the air. Be well and play nice, ya bastids. Stay above the snake-line, or off the greasy pole you go.


Obviously this isn't a fantasy story. But the story of the Titanic has always been a favorite of mine so I had absolutely had to read this book when I saw it.
Writing a novel about Titanic is, I think, an interesting exercise in balance.
In order to be successful a Titanic novel has to show or discuss something new, or shine a light on some aspect or person that has been previously under-emphasized.
At the same time, your audience knows how this story ends. Knowing the ending to a story often takes a lot of the suspense out of the experience of the reading, which is why such care is taken in not revealing spoilers to people that have not read/watched something yet (with the exception of the ***holes on the internet following the release of The Force Awakens).
Allan Wolf's attention to historic detail and using actual people who were actually on the Titanic as his only characters (with the exception of one) accomplished this balancing act very well.
The choice to write the story in "poetry prose" was an interesting one. I use quotation marks because I'm not sure it was actually poetry. Mostly it was just every sentence punctuated by its own line on the page with the occasional rhyme here and there. But it did manage to allow the reader to see through the eyes of the people that were on the ship in a way another method of writing may not have.
The only real complaint that I have with the story was a lack of imagery during the sinking of the ship. I ended up relying on documentaries I've seen and the James Cameron movie to envision the scenes in my mind. The part where the ship breaks in half I don't recall being described at all. I had been looking forward to reading that part of the book and then there was just…nothing. It went from the last lifeboats rowing away to everybody being in the water with little in between.
Still a great telling of the well-known tale. I loved reading about what happened to the characters that survived at the back of the book. I don't know what it is about the story of the Titanic that makes me want to devour everything I can read about it.


Pee-wee Herman embarks on his next great adventure in the funny and fetching first trailer for the new Netflix film, Pee-wee's Big Holiday.
The clip finds Paul Reubens' beloved character living the life and working as a cook at a diner in a tiny, idyllic town, when a burly biker (Joe Manganiello) arrives and convinces him to take a vacation. From there, things get very silly, very quickly.
Pee-wee finds himself stranded after giving up his car to a trio of bank robbers, and the trailer offers a series of snippets teasing all the odd places he ends up, from the woods to New York City to an Amish village to a snake farm. On the way, Pee-wee escapes a candle-lit date by jumping off a roof, flies through the sky (temporarily) via umbrella and, for good measure, makes squeaky fart noises with a balloon in front of the Amish.
Pee-wee's Big Holiday will premiere at SXSW before arriving on Netflix March 18th. The film was produced by Judd Apatow, directed by Wonder Showzen vet John Lee and written by Reubens and Paul Rust.


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Keckwick and the Land of Sea and Fret:
The Woman in Black (1989)
Robert Taylor explores the role of Keckwick and the landscape of The Woman in Black (1989) in a time when regional networks created event television....
Robert Muller writes in his introduction to The Television Dramatist (1973) that "The great days of the television play are past. But then Great Days always lie in the past. The golden age is never present."(1) Muller goes on to contextualise this statement, which is relevant to its period, further discussing the issue that one-off plays are never repeated and destined then (in perhaps one of the earliest mentions of such practice) to be wiped in order to allow recordings of future productions to take place. His purpose of bringing together a collection of television plays is to produce something that stands as testament to the play that may never be seen again.
Fast-forward some fifty years later, and we now live in an age where we can access surviving television by digital and physical formats that wouldn't have been dreamt of back in the early seventies and with their elements restored to the point that productions often look better than they did when they were originally broadcast. What I found striking about Muller's statement was how relevant it remained for there are still television productions locked away and mostly forgotten and, until very recently, this applied to a particular television film that I had experienced a long time ago and held dear ever since.
The Woman in Black is representative of another product of a golden age produced when the ITV network was still broken up into distinct regional broadcasters, in this instance Central Television, and each would use their funding to produce drama and entertainment output often to compete with each other and produce content that would be of a high standard, shared between regions and, potentially, sold overseas. ITV, itself, was set up in 1955 as a direct competitor to the BBC and was designed to be completely independent television.(2) One might argue that since the early 1990s, and several mergers later, the existence of just two divisions in the network somewhat waters down the potential for independent, quality production.
The impact of proper regional channels often meant the occurrence of event television which, in the days of four television channels, was a special occasion. Money and talent would be spent on entertainment, drama and film often of modest budgets but with committed cast and crew who used every ounce of their creativity to produce something memorable and lasting. The Woman in Black was preceded by another, largely unseen, Granada film production of Pied Piper, an adaptation of Nevil Shute's World War Two novel. Massively overtaking the ambition of the BBC who relied solely on their premiere television showing of the Hollywood movie, Legal Eagles for their 'event' that Sunday evening.
The confidence that ITV had…. those were genuinely great days.
Arguably, there has not been a better (or even equalled) television ghost story since Central Film's 1989 adaptation of The Woman in Black. The film seeped into my pores and took hold of me on that Christmas Eve all those years ago. A ten-year-old, who had a staple diet of horror movie classics and anything remotely supernatural but who had never seen a ghost story on-screen (I was too young to remember or even know of the BBC ghost stories for Christmas from the 1970s and during the 1980s there had been a severe drought of such programmes). The result of that viewing, in 1989, had left a certain childhood television trauma, a cold and sweaty fear that lasted weeks and months afterwards. I constantly lived with the memory of The Woman in Black. Memory because such was the effect it had upon me, I was told by my parents that I wasn't to watch it again and it was subsequently taped over on the following Christmas Day. Wiped from existence.
But it never really left me. Even Rachel Portman's score jingled around in my head for all those years after just one solitary viewing and when a video search company finally sourced a deleted sell through copy for me, I sat down with baited-breath and discovered that I had remembered the entire film with a good amount of clarity. By now in my teens, I began to appreciate just what a masterful piece this was and my love for the adaptation was born. In particular, I learned just what wonderful things can unfold when, as director Herbert Wise did, you allow your actors to breathe and discover their character and not burden them by over-direction. This coupled with Kneale's spare dialogue and you have a treasure of a production. The cast in The Woman in Black is a stellar one and everyone has something to give no matter the size of the role.
"There's no road, Mr. Kidd."
Arthur Kidd, sent from a London firm of solicitors to a small town on the east coast, has been tasked with clearing up the papers and estate of the recently deceased Mrs. Drablow and put the house up for sale. A reluctant task but Arthur is clearly told that it will benefit his future with the firm and therefore has no option but to proceed and go forward. For vastly different reasons two characters that later assist Arthur, Sam Toovey and Mr. Keckwick (who will be his link between the bustle of progressing early twentieth-century life and the uninhabited decay of an estate that must be settled) also need to go forward but less for ambition and a secure future and more for survival and self-protection.
The production design and location work, overseen by Jon Bunker, is glorious in its representation of a landscape that is as wasted, ancient and the bearer of as many secrets as the ghosts that walk it. And as we journey with our protagonist, Arthur, away from the town of Crythin Gifford and into a deathly, cold and uninviting environment of sea and fret, he is accompanied by Keckwick who is no stranger to the marshes nor the house and seems unburdened by the fear that holds upon others.
Relatively mute in Susan Hill's original novel where Keckwick is used simply as a device to further instil the unfriendly, weary tone of which Arthur has already encountered during his short stay in the village but Nigel Kneale breathes life into him, affording depth and hints of a meaningful past, with dialogue that can drive the narrative and yet be minimal and laced with regional dialect, a skill that Kneale displayed through-out his five decades as a writer. Keckwick's voice is no exception and what actor William Simons delivers is understated brilliance.
Most famous for his role as PC Alf Ventress in the much loved and phenomenally successful ITV series Heartbeat, Simons was born in 1940 in Swansea and had a successful career as a child actor appearing in several film and television serials. However, by his teenage years he had developed severe acne-causing a degree of facial disfigurement that led him to turn to stage management and radio work for a few years before returning to television making the first of many appearances in Coronation Street beginning in 1968, Rumpole of the Bailey (1987), The Ruth Rendall Mysteries (1989) and also becoming typecast as a police officer with roles in Juliet Bravo, Emmerdale Farm, The Bill and The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries. Simons once said of his accidental typecasting, "I have played policemen many times in my career. I think I'll be buried in blue!"
Simons was a patron of Changing Faces, a charity supporting people with visible differences and challenging stigma. He spoke of his own experiences following his facial scarring and medical procedures to attempt to alleviate the condition, "I developed acne so bad, I just wanted to run away and hide." Keckwick's visual appearance is not described in any detail in Nigel Kneale's script but by sheer coincidence, Susan Hill's description of Keckwick in her novel appears to resemble a similar affliction to Simons himself. 'I noticed that his nose and much of the lower part of his face were covered in bumps and lumps.'(4)
Both a relatively small part as well as a break away from his typical role, Simons embraces the character of Keckwick giving him a dour and blunt quality but one that is not without some pathos. Much like the landscape of a good, ghost story, which is often barren and archaic as well as being left alone and quite out of time, this appears to be very much the same for Keckwick, a man of the land and he merges with it just as much as the ghosts that haunt it. In this adaptation, there is a habit of discreet reveals. At the funeral of Mrs. Drablow, we first encounter the woman in black standing at the back of the church and later shifting into view in the churchyard. Then there is Samuel Toovey, appearing motionless from the dispersing cloak of a crowd following an accident in the market square. But with Keckwick, he is just there, waiting, sat upon his pony and trap outside the Gifford Arms. One gets the impression that he will always wait.
Simons gives the sense of a man quite at ease with the land and its dreadful secrets where many others are not. He is a man who will visit Mrs. Drablow "twice a week regular" whereas other locals will barely acknowledge Eel Marsh House and the Drablow family. This characterisation appears to have been deliberately honed down by Kneale because there is an exchange of dialogue from the first draft of the screenplay that is omitted from later drafts and gives the impression that Keckwick is not comfortable about the place.
34. EXT. KECKWICK'S TRAP–DAY
Arthur is staring about, impressed by the sheer, bare openness of it.
ARTHUR: It's beautiful.
KECKWICK: You might say so. Or not.
ARTHUR: I do.
KECKWICK: You must like lonesomeness. This is the lonesomenest place God ever made. If he made it…(5)
Maybe this exchange was too audacious when, at this point, we have only had subtle hints at any ominous foreboding. I think most likely, it contradicted Keckwick's otherwise passive attitude and therefore was excised from further drafts. Keckwick took time for Alice Drablow where others did not. Maybe because she paid him well, as she herself reveals from beyond the grave via the Edison Phonograph, but Keckwick is clearly affected by her death and mourns her. It is as if she gave in purpose and instead all that he has now is to wait for the next person who might need him whilst, seemingly, being unaffected by superstition and tragedy that it otherwise connected with the place.
He has heart and soul and the need to share his remembrances of the otherwise forgotten and shunned Mrs Drablow. Arthur dismisses him in what may be Arthur's only misstep in his otherwise impeccable good nature.
39. INT. EEL MARSH HOUSE. MRS. DRABLOW'S ROOM. DAY.
Heavy Victorian furniture and decorations. Thick curtains. Glass-fronted cases of old books, dull oil-paintings. On the table are more books, one or two of them are open at a particular page as if just abandoned by their reader. And piles of papers.
A huge armchair with loose covers sags with the imprint of a constant occupant.
KECKWICK: This was her chair. It was me that found her. When she died. I found her dead. Last week that was. Just sitting there. I thought she'd say, Good morning, Mr. Keckwick. But she didn't.
Arthur turns a bundle of papers over. Receipts, notebooks, all sorts. He glances up at the shaded lamp above.
ARTHUR: Is that really electric light?
KECKWICK: Come, I'll show you.(6)
Driven by duty of work and his evident, playful curiosity of electric light, Arthur has dismissed Keckwick's evidently needed rumination. Yet, Keckwick does not even expect to be heard and simply proceeds to show Arthur the generator. It is clear this is a man who has been affected by tragedy and is brow-beaten into minimal expectations of life. Arthur is young and there is no sense that he has been beaten into any acceptance in life or affected by tragedy. His inability to hear Keckwick is not intentional. And if Keckwick is in any way trying to warn Arthur then it is clear he doesn't know how to.
"I'll be back before the tide. Three 'o' clock, no later"
Showing Arthur, the electricity generator, Keckwick appears to break from character and shows his attitude towards the idea of technology. "He must've been keen on new-fangled things", in reference to Mr. Drablow's outhouse installation. Suggesting that Keckwick doesn't invite change into his world and rather would keep advancements at bay. The rise and fall of the tide are reassurance and affirmation of time and routine. No need for new-fangled things.
In life, we are dismissive of things we fear can change us, that we do not understand and that threaten to change our way of life, perhaps even displacing us from routine and occupation. And there is a scientific theory that even the most fearful, dreadful superstitious beliefs have their basis in a safe, well mind. "Individuals accept superstitious beliefs when they lose their sense of control over events and outcomes, or when conditions are dubious. Superstitions make individuals perceive their surrounding worlds as meaningful, predictable and controllable."(7)
Keckwick needs purpose and meaning in his life but when he looks at the marshes outside, he knows it's only a matter of time before something… and he quickly disperses leaving Arthur be until his return. This is the only visual clue we have that he might be uncomfortable, in some way, to spending any more time here than he needs to.
Keckwick punctuates a watershed moment in the journey of Arthur, of which there is no turning back, and what's more, he took him there. Samuel Toovey will later try to rationalise Arthur's experiences during a chat by the fireplace but the next few minutes, as Arthur explores the forgotten, half-sunken graveyard, clearly signifies something of the uncanny and malevolent directed solely towards him that will have far-reaching consequences. The tide has already come for Arthur and there is no turning back.
Toovey, is very much more a guardian figure, warm, straight-forward and quite matter of fact. He also seems to adopt rationale as a positive, dominant force in is life as if it might expel the nightmares. And he is looking out for this young man who is at the start of his life and career. Toovey has the benefit of foresight to do so and to try to be protector to Arthur. Not dis-similar to Keckwick, he appears to have accepted life for what it is and will make do although displays levels of a rather belligerent manner at one point, over dinner, "there's no point at all, except to go on and on. Doing it becomes its own reason, you see? But in the end, there's no point at all."
Is it that the small, insular world of sea and fret that insulates those affected by their homestead into a condition of endurance and forbearance? Smaller communities are often as strong as they are insular, but one doesn't get the impression that the town of Crythin Gifford has any community spirit. The woman in black has devastated them all in some way and there is no great show of unison rather people trying to find their own way through threat and tragedy.
Arthur is shown care by both Toovey and Keckwick but remains an outsider to both of them (he will never be in on the secret by their doing) and whilst Toovey remains grounded, more secure and steadfast in his attempts to educate, to challenge and to go on and on, Keckwick will merely function and manoeuvre the land he knows like the back of his hand, remain where he is and where he always will be. He is a shadow through the fret. A fret that continues to seep into a town that just acknowledges it's there and that shuts its windows tightly to keep it out.
(1) The Television Dramatist, Robert Muller, Paul Elek Ltd, 1973, p.7
(2) Commercial Television, A guide to the constitution and working of the new service, The Times, 19 August 1955
(3) William Simons Obituary, The Guardian, 27 June 2019, The Telegraph, 27 June 2019
(4) The Woman in Black, Susan Hill, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1983, p.76
(5, 6) The Woman in Black, Nigel Kneale, First Draft Screenplay, November 1988
(7) International Journal of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Superstitions: A Culturally Transmitted Human Behaviour, Fatik Baran Mendal, 2018
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BlogFrys.com Open Preview and Picks
Frys.com Open
October 15th – 18th, 2015
Silverado C.C. (North Course)
Napa, Ca.
Sangmoon Bae (not defending)
The field includes 12 of the top 50 in the latest Official World Rankings, with two top-ten player #3 Rory McIlroy & #7 Justin Rose. The other top 50 players are #12 Brooks Koepka, #15 Hideki Matsuyama, #28 Chris Kirk, #30 Brandt Snedeker, #31 Robert Streb, #33 Kevin Na, #38 Ryan Palmer, #44 Daniel Berger, #47 Hunter Mahan #48 Charl Schwartzel.
Last year there were only 6 top-50 players in the field, so double the amount from last year.
The field includes 9 of the Top 25 on last year's final FedEx point standings for 2015. Those players include #8 Justin Rose, #15 Rory McIlroy, #16 Hideki Matsuyama, #18 Robert Streb, #20 Steven Bowditch, #23 Brandt Snedeker, #24 Brooks Koepka and #25 Kevin Na.
The field includes 8 players in the top 25 on last year's PGA Tour money list, Those players include #6 Justin Rose, #7 Rory McIlroy, #14 Robert Streb, #15 Hideki Matsuyama, #17 Brandt Snedeker, #19 Brooks Koepka, #23 Steven Bowditch,and #25 Daniel Berger.
The field includes all 2 past champions: Jonas Blixt (2012) and Bryce Molder (2011).
A perfect way for fantasy golfers to check on the past performance of all the players in the Frys.com Open field is our performance chart listed by average finish. One last way to check who is the best is through a special formula worked out in Golfstats that gives us the best average performances at Frys.com Open in the last five years or check out our sortable 8-year glance at the Frys.com Open.
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Who's Hot in the field for the Frys.com Open
British Masters
Dunhill Links
BMW Champ.
Italian Open
KLM Open
WGC-Bridgestone
(292.33 pts) DNP DNP T2
(-5) DNP T6
(180 pts) DNP DNP T12
(-5) DNP CUT
(167.33 pts) DNP DNP T12
(6.5) DNP
Robert Streb
(5.5) DNP DNP 10
Matt Jones
(117.33 pts) DNP DNP DNP DNP T32
(0) DNP DNP 21
Kevin Na
(17.5) DNP
(91.67 pts) DNP T2
(100) DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT
(-3.33) DNP DNP DNP
(87.67 pts) DNP DNP DNP CUT
(-5) DNP DNP 43
Steven Bowditch
Daniel Summerhays
(2.33) DNP DNP DNP
(13) DNP DNP 43
(-5) DNP T43
(64.33 pts) DNP DNP DNP DNP T7
(-10) DNP T19
(31) DNP DNP DNP CUT
Kyle Reifers
(54.33 pts) DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T25
Nick Watney
Jerry Kelly
(10.67) DNP DNP DNP
(48.5 pts) DNP DNP DNP DNP T64
(48 pts) DNP DNP DNP DNP T45
William McGirt
Who's Not Hot in the field for the Frys.com Open
(-23.33 pts) DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT
(-5) DNP WD
Jason Kokrak
Erik Compton
(-14.17 pts) DNP CUT
(-10) DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP WD
(-2.5) DNP WD
Geoff Ogilvy
(-10 pts) DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT
Chad Campbell
(-8.67 pts) DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT
Chesson Hadley
(-8.33 pts) DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP 74
Chad Collins
(-8.33 pts) DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT
Hard to believe that just like that 2015 is over, and the 2016 season is starting up. Yes, because the new wrap around schedule makes playing in October in the 2015 season, it's a great way of getting a jump on folks. In the old days of the PGA Tour, when you showed up the first week of January at Kapalua, everyone started out at zero dollars and when FedEx Cup points started in 2007 you had zero points and everyone's year was off and running. For some, especially those from Europe, they wouldn't make their first start until 8 weeks into the season at the WGC-Match Play, which use to be the last event on the West Coast swing. Even with the late start it was no problem because they knew that there were 32 events before the season ended at the Tour Championship.
Things are seriously different these days on the PGA Tour. When the PGA Tour decided in 2013 to change the last seven events on tour and go to a wrap-around schedule in which those events started out the season instead of ending the year, it brought lot's of change and created for some a magical way of getting better results on the PGA Tour. When those events ended the season it was all about saving your tour card for the following season and making a few more dollars. Now these fall events have become important to keep your season balance because it's become a big advantage for players to tee it up early.
Two years ago Jimmy Walker won the Frys and then followed it up with wins at the Sony Open in Hawaii and the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-am. After that Walker had top-tens in the Masters, Players Championship, Colonial, U.S. Open, PGA Championship and the Deutsche Bank. He finished 2014 7th in the FedEx Cup race and 4th on the money list
In the 2015 season, Robert Streb got off to a great start finishing T31st at the Frys.com Open, then the next week finished T-10th at the Shriners Hospitals. When he won in his third start of the season at the McGladrey, it made his whole year and he stayed #1 in the rankings through Hyundai. He dropped to 11th after the Masters and dropped to a season low of 15 after the Players but worked his way back to 5th going into the PGA Championship with a runner-up finish at Greenbrier and a 5th at WGC-Bridgestone. He went on to finish 18th in the FedEx Cup race.
The point is you have to play in these fall events or you find yourself too far down. For Adam Scott he wanted to spend time in Australia with his wife and their new child. He didn't start until the Florida swing, which meant the tour was a third of the way over. Scott went on to have a terrible year.
Going up against the NFL is suicide but the problem for the PGA Tour is if they don't do the events, someone else will. Players will play in Europe or Australia or Japan or Asia. So they have these tournaments, in which folks are sponsoring. The Tour also got a big break, over the last couple of years the Golf Channel became the place to watch golf. They don't mind competing with the NFL even though I have been told that Golf Channel loses a fortune with these fall events. With this and the advent of events in Asian coming online, this created a way for the PGA Tour to complete against the NFL. Frankly it's like background noise, nice to have PGA Tour golf in the fall but it's still not the same as golf between the Hawaii stops and the Tour Championship.
Still at the end of the day the events in the fall are getting more marquee names and increasing viewership. Still many "purists" would love to see the tour shut down after the Tour Championship and not start again until January, but that is never going to happen.
About the Frys.com Open:
This event started in Scottsdale, Arizona and after three years at Grayhawk transferred to CordeValle Golf Club, close to it's sponsors headquarters in San Jose. The hope was that CordeValle would be a temporary home as it's been a dream to hold the event at the Institute Golf Course in Morgan Hill, CA. But construction problems and such have forced the event not to be played on the ultra private course that very few have ever seen. So CordeValle was to be a short term fix, and for last year and this year the event is being played in Napa Valley at the Silverado resort. Then the event is supposed to move to the Institute Golf Course (which is suppose to be a great course) next year, but after the success at Silverado I would be a days pay the switch doesn't happen.
Many will not remember, but Silverado was a proud site of the PGA Tour between 1968 to 1980 and then held a senior event, the Transamerica between 1990 and 2002. So Silverado had a deep relationship with professional golf. The resort changed direction because it didn't need to spend the money to host a professional event. Napa Valley has become a great destination for couples over 40, between the great weather and the vineyards, Silverado didn't need it. The resort lost some of its touch and needed some sprucing up. One of the areas that have been improved was the golf courses. There are two of them, the South and the North, a couple of years ago Johnny Miller put together an investment group that purchased the courses, and Miller reworked the North Course. What Miller did was revamped all of the greens, put in new bunkering and realigned the fairways and trimmed the trees that were too cumbersome. Of course because of the downturn of the golf marketplace, Miller didn't go crazy by changing a lot of the holes, adding lakes and streams. Still Miller is happy at the work, and he is hopeful to be able to do the same to the South Course.
So what will the pros find this week? The greens are one of the things that Miller points out that makes it a better course. "These greens are as tough as Augusta at high speeds," Miller said to Golf.com. "I would probably have five three putts a round." The course was also increased from 6,900 to 7,203. Now on the surface this may be too short for the best pros in the world. So I can see both the long distance players having a field day while the shorter hitters also enjoying shorter approaches to the greens. One thing that was brought out in the 13 years it was played in the 70s, the caliber of champions which included players like Billy Casper, Johnny Miller, Tom Watson and Ben Crenshaw among it's champions.
Another important aspect of the Miller redo, in an effort to improve playability and aesthetics, turf renovation got rid of Kikuyu grass and return the course to its original mix of rye and Kentucky bluegrass condition.
The course was a big hit with the players, sponsors and fans and provided some great theater.
New things for 2016:
We are always looking for new things to put in and we have an idea that we are working on for the new year. Each course has historical stats for different stats catagories and ranks them with the other courses on the PGA Tour for that year. So we are going to take the four stat catagories that are tough for the week and then take the players in the field, look for their ranking for those sta compared to all the other players. We will add up their rankings for the four different catagories and figure out which players are top for the week. We are still working on the format but here is a taste of what we are working on, giving out the top-20 in this year's field off of our list:
We haven't come up with a name for it yet, but for now we are calling it COURSE KEYS
(P.S. sorry it's ugly right now)
This is based on the most important stats for Silverdo, based on data from last years Frys.co, and using data from all the players for stats from 2015.
Strokes gained Tee-to-Green Can't rank this stat for course data
Putting from 10 feet and in: Silverado ranked 2nd of the 39 courses in the 2015 ranking
Par 3 scoring average: Silverado ranked T-9th of the 52 courses in the 2015 ranking
Driving accuracy: Silverado ranked 14th of the 51 courses in the 2015 ranking
Rank Strokes Gained Rank Putting Rank for Rank for Total rank
NAME Tee-to-green from 10 feet & in Par 3 average Driving accuracy four catgories
Jason Bohn 40 31 18 5 94
Brendon Todd 70 1 28 10 109
Will Wilcox 20 76 2 18 116
Jim Herman 52 27 18 33 130
Graham DeLaet 67 18 8 47 140
Jerry Kelly 69 65 2 9 145
Russell Knox 23 63 35 28 149
Ryan Moore 43 62 49 11 165
Robert Streb 27 25 2 123 177
Brendon de Jonge 57 60 18 44 179
Kevin Na 28 52 18 84 182
Chad Campbell 44 94 13 41 192
Webb Simpson 7 164 8 26 205
Jon Curran 111 17 49 32 209
Justin Rose 6 111 28 64 209
Daniel Berger 33 27 49 104 213
Johnson Wagner 121 6 2 86 215
Colt Knost 129 46 35 7 217
George McNeill 50 73 35 60 218
Zac Blair 142 20 35 23 220
Here are some of the secrets of what it takes to play well at the Frys.com Open:
Last year hitting fairways and putting became the keys to playing well. Silverado had the 14th hardest fairways to hit last year so hitting it straight is important. Also putting was important, on putts from 4 to 8 feet it ranked the 4th hardest to making those putts and from inside 10 feet the 2nd hardest on tour.
Since course is still new for a good share of the players, experience will play a very limited role. Traditionally tournaments on the PGA Tour that hold events for the first and second year, are won by journeymen and players with very little experience winning. Last year's winnner Sangmoon Bae fit that bill so expect the unexpected for this week.
Johnny Miller says the greens are perfect and fast, so good putter should have a field day.
Scrambling is also very important because it's not that demanding around the greens at Silverado. Last year it ranked 25th hardest, still to win you have to get up and down on those greens you miss.
Lastly a lot of journeyman are in the field. Yes there are 15 winners from last year's PGA Tour season. Yes Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose are in the field. Yes 8 players from the 2015 Tour Championship are in the field along with four players (Steven Boditch, Chris Kirk, Hideki Matsuyama and Charl Schwartzel are in the field. But also in the field will be a lot of pro's that just got their tour cards off the Web.Com Tour playoffs. Off the list of 50 qualifiers there was room for the top-35 this week and only three (Patton Kizzire, Kyle Stanley and Anirban Lahiri aren't in the field) So look for the winner being a Jamie Lovemark or a Chez Reavie, fresh from getting their Tour cards over a Rory McIlroy or Justin Rose.
Weather should be like it always is in the Napa area, picture perfect.
Who to watch for at the Frys.com Open
Of course we are going to make Rory the favorite, he is the best in the field and on paper should win. He has the game but can he perform to his full potential is the big question.
Now this is a course that he should do very well on. He hits it straight off the tee and does do well putting from ten feet in.
Full Frys.com Open RecordFull 8 year glance at his record
He has finished 3rd in this event the last two years. But giving him more of a nod he was 8th in strokes gained tee-to-green and can also putt well enough to do well.
Another with two top-tens the last two years including a T-8th last year, his putting makes him my favorite. He was 1st in putting from 4 to 8 feet and 14th inside 10 feet.
Jason Bohn
He is on top on our Silverado keys to victory, yes he missed the cut last year but still think things will change for him, in looking at his record for 2015 he played well on tough courses like Quail Hollow, Colonial and Robert Trent Jones.
Playing for the first time at Silverado, has some of the key stats like 4th in putting from inside ten feet to make him one of our favorites
Was T-3rd last year at Silverado, he did finish T-4th in the Deutsche Bank last month.
Brendon Todd
T26 CUT CUT
Playing for the first time at Silverado, he led the putting inside 10 feet stat and it's the ball very straight.
T8 CUT T6
Hasn't played in this event since it was in Arizona in 2009, have to like him because he has won the last two years in fall events. Also very high in our Silverado keys, think he will surprise a few.
Still surprised he hasn't won yet, 2016 should be the year.
He finished T-8th last year but comes in high on our Silverado keys, 17th in making putts inside 10 feet.
CUT T72
Another of those players that could win in 2016, he was 17th in strokes gained tee-to-green and shouldn't worry about him missing the cut last year.
Was T-12th last year, another of those young guns that could win in 2016.
Thomas M says
Great idea bringing the course keys to the table! I tried something similar last year with some success. With your resources I am excited to see what it can produce. Keep up the great work.
Glad you like it. We are in the final process of automating the process so that you can get everyone in the field with stats. The top-10 will be in the preview each week. The new chart, which we are going to call "Key to playing this week's course" will be a part of our Golfstats IQ. If you haven't checked it out you should.


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Armie Hammer refutes 'Batman' rumours: 'No one has checked my availability' (exclusive)
Hanna Flint
Yahoo Movies UK 19 February 2019
In an alternate timeline, DC fans would have seen Armie Hammer playing Batman in George Miller's Justice League: Mortal but, alas, that never came to fruition.
However, the rumour mill has gone into overdrive ever since Ben Affleck confirmed he wouldn't be returning as Bruce Wayne, freeing up the role for another actor to take his place in DC's upcoming solo film The Batman.
Hammer's name is among those that have been linked to the film, to be written and directed by War For The Planet of the Apes' Matt Reeves, but he confirmed to Yahoo Movies UK that he had not been approached for the job.
"No one who can actually give me the job has asked me if I'm interested," Hammer said. "I don't even know if they are done – they are still working on a script.
"I don't think that they are close to production but I can conclusively tell you that no one has checked my availability, which is a bummer."
The Call Me By Your Name star was due to play the Dark Knight in George Miller's cancelled Justice League: Mortal, and now he's back in the frame if you believe certain reports online.
The 32-year-old actor currently has three films on his upcoming slate: Opioids drama Dreamland, Sir Kenneth Branagh's Death on the Nile, and Ben Wheatley's remake of Rebecca.
Hammer can next be seen on UK screens in On the Basis of Sex as Marty Ginsburg, the husband of iconic Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, played by Felicity Jones.
The film chronicles RBG's early legal career and the struggles she faced as a woman battling against gender discrimination, with her supportive tax lawyer husband by her side.
Read more: Matt Reeves teases 'very emotional' The Batman
"I liked the idea of playing this guy who was so self-assured and non-threatened that he was willing to defy the gender norms at the time, Hammer said. "You know in the '50s, '60s and '70s, where this movie really takes place, men didn't stay home and do the cooking and take care of the kids it just wasn't done.
"So imagine you're Marty Ginsberg, you're in the kitchen, you've got your apron on and you're cooking and one of your friends comes over and walks in and goes, 'well how the hell are you, are you wearing an apron are you cooking? What the hell is going on?'" the actor continued. "This is a guy who was so confident in himself and so secure that he just went, 'yeah, I'm cooking and guess what, it's f**king delicious would you like some?' I liked that self-possession that he had."
Armie Hammer plays Marty Ginsburg opposite Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in On the Basis of Sex
Marty could easily be described as a feminist for his support of his wife's ambitions and career but Hammer doesn't readily use that label for himself. "I'm not sure that I can actually be a feminist, I'm not sure how that works for guys but I know that I would like to consider myself a feminist ally," he explained.
The conversation around gender politics has certainly had a resurgence in recent years while the political landscape in the UK and the US has seen significant unrest. Hammer certainly hasn't had a problem with speaking out on political issues in the past, but he thinks that despite the "tumultuous" climate of the last decade it might just be the "shake-up we need."
"There seems to be a lot of uncomfortable change going on and hopefully that transitions into growing pains and it happens for the better, but I don't know, it depends on where you look," he mused. "Right now we're in the UK, you guys have a lot of changes going on. We've got a tumultuous situation going on in the States right now.
"If you look at it in the microcosm it seems like, depending on if you're a pessimist or an optimist, you can look at it two different ways but if you look at the macrocosm maybe this is just a shake-up that we need."
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In 2017, Southern Company's dividend yield was 4.78 percent, compared with 1.85 percent for the Standard & Poor's 500 index. Our dividend increased for the 16th consecutive year.
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Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
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An Expatriated Adventurer: Charmian Clift and the Utopian Possibility
Susan Carson
For 20 years Charmian Clift wrote fiction and non-fiction from locations in Australia, England and Greece. When she returned to Australia from Greece in 1964, she explored new career opportunities in newspapers and television. Throughout this long period of publication Clift worked on an autobiographical fiction that she hoped to publish when time permitted. This paper examines the dimensions of a utopian spirit that supported Clift's journey across countries and genres in search of an authorial self in which she felt most 'at home. Travel memoir, journalism and fiction, as well as extracts from Clift's unfinished autobiographical work 'The End of the Morning,' are examined to describe her engagement with utopian principles as a way of achieving, through writing, social change and personal fulfilment.
Expatriation; Charmian Clift; Utopian writing; Life writing; travel writing; Peel me a Lotus; Honour's Mimic; George Johnson; Images in Aspic
Ashcroft, Bill. 'The Ambiguous Necessity of Utopia: Post-Colonial Literatures and the Persistence of Hope'. Social Alternatives 23.3 (2009): 8–14.
Bloch, Ernst. The Principle of Hope. Trans. Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice, and Paul Knight. Cambridge: MIT P, 1995 [1953, 1959].
Boelhower, William. 'Ethnic Biography and Autobiography'. Melus 9.2 (1982): 5–23.
Claeys, Gregory, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010.
Clift, Charmian. 'An Exile's Return'. Images in Aspic. Sydney: Collins, Angus Robertson, 1992. 93–96.
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