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More Than A Prize Unwon: The Manifold Legacies Of Rosalind Franklin
Dale DeBakcsy February 6, 2019
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When Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) succumbed to cancer at the age of thirty-seven, she left behind monumental contributions to three different fields of science, any one of which would have placed her on the short list of the world's most significant twentieth century scientists. And yet, when we talk about Franklin, we don't tend to say, "She ascertained the structural relation of the protein and genetic contents in the tobacco mosaic virus," or, "She discovered the molecular reason that certain types of coal can't be graphitized," but rather, "She wasn't sufficiently recognized for her part in the discovery of DNA's double helical structure."
Unique among scientists, she's remembered for something that happened to her, at the expense of the magnificent things she actually did. Nothing would have irritated her more than to have the stupendous scientific output of her final five years doing virus research at Birkbeck systematically ignored in favor of lascivious conspiracy theories about Watson and Crick stealing DNA's structure from under her nose. For there is much, much more to Rosalind Franklin than a citation scandal.
She was a scientist from the start. She showed felicity with mathematics and careful observation even in grammar school, and there seems to never have been a doubt that scientific research was what she wanted to do with her time on Earth. She came from a wealthy family that was as proud of its Jewishness as of its Britishness. Her father was energetic, with a passion for intellectual confrontation and insistence on expressive precision that would become hallmarks of Franklin's meticulous laboratory procedure.
Co-existing with the perfectionist laboratory Rosalind Franklin, however, was a rough and tumble adventuring Rosalind Franklin, one who loved nothing so much as scrambling across mountains at breakneck speed, sleeping in minimal shelter, and making delicious meals from whatever was at hand. Meeting foreign people and exploring challenging nooks of the world with them were the delights of her non-scientific life, and would be until the progress of her cancer reduced her to motor touring the areas she had once trekked boldly through.
Attending Newnham College at Cambridge, she finished her coursework as quickly as possible, ignoring the social rounds of dating and dances to concentrate on physics and chemistry, and soon landed a job during the Second World War researching coal for the government. That might sound a relatively dreary and unromantic first assignment, but it was actually of critical importance, and the work Franklin did in carbon made her name long before she even touched a DNA strand. The government's wartime interest in coal came from its ability to resist the incursion of some gases, but not others. Charcoal in gas masks had saved the lives of thousands because of its ability to filter out poisonous gases. Knowing that it worked, the British war department wanted to know why it worked, and that was Rosalind Franklin's very first task.
She performed meticulous analysis of different types of coal, and hypothesized that the existence of miniscule pores explained the varying diffusive properties of different types of coal. By subjecting coals of differing carbon contents to various physical transformations, she was able to construct relations between porosity, temperature, and pressure. That work resulted in an invitation in 1947 to do further coal research in Paris in the lab of the great crystallographer Jacques Mering.
These were her halcyon days, working in an intellectually stimulating cosmopolitan center, drinking her afternoon coffee in lab beakers with her fellow researchers while debating Sartre and Stalin, engaging in the boisterous good-natured bickering of Parisian daily life which she loved. And there was the research, learning crystallographic techniques at the elbow of a charismatic master-hand. According to the accounts of her closest friends, she fell in love with Mering, the first person she had ever had anything approaching romantic feelings for, though he had a wife and an inevitable mistress already. Franklin's work soon uncovered the fact that certain types of coal could not be graphitized. No matter what you did, how much you heated them, they couldn't be forced into the layered carbon sheets that are the hallmark of graphite.
She became a master of X-Ray techniques, firing the beams at her carefully prepared samples and then interpreting the pattern of resulting dark and light spots as a physical structure, methods that she would perfect in her work on DNA and viruses back in London. She was also briskly unconcerned with the health effects of working in such close proximity to the energetic rays without shielding, which no doubt contributed to her early and tragic death.
Had all things been equal, she probably would have stayed in Paris, living an exciting life of varied intellectual and physical challenge, but the fact was that her family was in England, and they wanted her to come back home. The chance came with an offer to work at King's College on the crystallography of DNA under JT Randall. She in no way wanted to trade the rich and expressive cosmopolitanism of Paris for the stodgy and silent English Way, but came anyway, intrigued at the prospect of applying her techniques to complicated biological molecules.
DNA at the time was not the genetic superstar it is now. When DNA was first isolated in the nucleus along with a small flotilla of various and exciting proteins, it was thought to be a minor player in cell development. Chemically, it was just not interesting enough to be the source of life's incredible variety. Common scientific wisdom held that the far more likely source of nuclear inheritance were the nuclear proteins, with the DNA playing some unknown subservient or organizational role. It wasn't until 1943 that Oswald Avery did his critical experiment demonstrating DNA's role in heredity, and even then with no explanation for how such a bland molecule accomplished what it did.
Rosalind arrived in England and set glumly to work, not realizing that circumstances were against her before she began. Randall had told Franklin that she was to work alone on DNA while he told two other researchers, Maurice Wilkins and Alec Stokes, that they would also be on the project. The result was that Franklin was outraged and defensive every time Wilkins tried to interpret her data, and Wilkins was flabbergasted at what the big deal was, since as far as he knew she had been informed all about his part in the project. Wilkins felt bullied, Franklin felt betrayed, and in that uncongenial atmosphere she labored away with her assistant, Raymond Gosling, to map the geometry of DNA through crystallography.
She quickly came upon a significant result, namely that DNA existed in two forms, and that the images taken thus far were an unclear combination of the two. By hydrating the DNA, it stretched out into a pure "wet" or "B" form, while unhydrated DNA took what was called the "A" form. The difference between the two structures suggested to her right away that, if DNA possesses a helical structure, the phosphate groups must be on the outside in order to allow them to interact with the water. When Watson and Crick and, an ocean away, Linus Pauling, built their original DNA models, they featured inward-facing phosphorous atoms, and it was Rosalind Franklin who set them straight on their error, allowing them to move forward.
Utilizing hydration techniques she'd learned in France, and a new multiple angle camera system, she was able to take what are generally considered the most beautiful crystallographic images of the mid Twentieth Century, images which clearly showed, to those capable of interpreting them, DNA's helical structure as well as some hints about how it packed itself.
Watson and Crick were model builders, who worked from the known information about base ratios (the A and T bases were always found in equal amounts, as were the C and G bases), molecular lengths, and crystalline structures to build likely models that filled in the unknowns. It was an approach that relied on leaps of intuition and a willingness to jump into untested territory. Franklin, by contrast, took the data from her crystallography and set down to the hard work of mathematically interpreting it using Patterson analysis to slowly build up a three dimensional model from a mass of accumulated data. For her, Watson and Crick's methods were slapdash because they couldn't prove what they had dreamt.
Sometimes slow and steady doesn't win the race, particularly when the hare is shown a shortcut. Franklin's best photograph of DNA, the famous Photograph 51 (see below), was given by her assistant, Gosling, to his thesis supervisor, Maurice Wilkins. Wilkins in turn showed it, without Franklin's knowledge, to Watson, who saw at a glance what it meant. Discussing the image with Crick, they realized at once that it implied a two strand, anti-parallel structure which, when coupled with their previous insights about base pairing, resulted in both the modern model of DNA structure and the solution to the mystery of how DNA replicates itself.
Franklin would, doubtlessly, have gotten there via her own more systematic route, but she didn't see the anti-parallel strand implications of her own picture, as Crick did, and hadn't been messing around with different base pair configurations to discover that, in a certain state, the A-T and C-G structures were the same length, as Watson had, and that turned out to make all the difference. When Watson and Crick published the full article announcing their results in 1953, Franklin's crystallography work was included in a separate article, but was outshone in the public perception by the elegance and implications of the Watson-Crick model.
In a way, it was just as well, because Franklin was simply done with working at King's College. She was starved for intellectual companionship, frustrated with Randall's handling of her work, tired of the cloistered mundanity of the school, and exhausted from the constant condescension. When a chance came to work with the brilliant JD Bernal at Birkbeck College, she grabbed it, leaving Gosling to wrap up their joint work of the previous three years. It was good bye and good riddance to DNA and a position that had only ever annoyed her, and hello to the most scientifically fruitful years she would ever know.
Bernal was a polymath genius who could converse about anything, and who had a knack for gathering together brilliant people and then leaving them alone to do what they did best. He paired Franklin with Aaron Klug to investigate the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus through crystallography, and a more perfect scientific duo has there rarely been. Franklin was all rigor and method, while Klug was speculative and imaginative, and together they published a flurry of papers that unlocked the secrets of plant virus structure, including the relative positioning of the protein and nucleic acid content. At her height, she was publishing six and seven papers a year in the most prestigious scientific journals of the day, while American universities fell over themselves to provide her with raw virus material.
The Rosalind Franklin of a year after the discovery of DNA was not a wounded and bitter woman unable to forget slights of the past. She was a successful and universally respected scientist at the very top of her game, doing precisely what she wanted to do. Unlike the vast majority of other researchers, she was not a university lecturer or attached to a private research institute – neither of those career paths interested her because she saw both as taking away from the purity of her work. Leaving King's, life was suddenly and fully as good as it had been back in Paris, and scientifically even better. Franklin was poised to become the world expert on viral structures.
A pair of cysts growing on her ovaries ensured that would not be the case. She began feeling abdominal pains while on tour in America and, upon her return, she had to have all of one and part of the other ovary removed, to be followed by a later full hysterectomy. That gave her time, but the cancer returned and Franklin underwent experimental chemotherapy treatment to try and fight the disease long enough to finish her work. Some days she was so weak that she had to physically crawl up the steps from her basement laboratory to her office, refusing all offers of assistance. She kept her illness to herself for as long as she could, continuing to carry out her experiments so long as she had the energy to stand, gearing her lab up for a study of polio virus structure that she would not live to see completed, spending her spare time with the Crick family (she, Watson, and Crick had long since buried the hatchet on whatever animosity there might once have been) or with her brothers, who were sensible enough not to keep asking about her health.
She died in a hospital bed in 1958, her body wasted away from the disease, the treatment, and the heroin she'd been given to cope with the pain, and her mind in a fog of hallucinations about Klug, the lab, and the work that had shaped her brief, brilliant life.
Lead image: Rosalind Franklin with microscope 1955. From the personal collection of Jenifer Glynn. Creative commons, Wikimedia
FURTHER READING: Brenda Maddox's Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA is my favorite book about Franklin, and is in my top five scientific biographies ever. It eschews raking up drama and outrage where Franklin felt none, and focuses on how much happiness and first-caliber work she was able to do once she left the poisonous atmosphere of King's College.
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Dale DeBakcsy is the writer and artist of the Women In Science and Cartoon History of Humanism columns, and has, since 2007, co-written the webcomic Frederick the Great: A Most Lamentable Comedy with Geoffrey Schaeffer. He is also a regular contributor to The Freethinker, Philosophy Now, Free Inquiry, and Skeptical Inquirer. He studied intellectual history at Stanford and UC Berkeley before becoming a teacher of mathematics and drawer of historical frippery.
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In the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound that came to be called Minimalism. These early works, characterized by a relentless pulse and static harmony, focused single-mindedly on the process of gradual rhythmic change. Throughout his career, Reich has continued to reinvigorate the music world, drawing from a wide array of classical, popular, sacred, and non-western idioms. His works reflect the steady evolution of an original musical mind. Writings on Music documents the creative journey of this thoughtful, groundbreaking composer. These 64 short pieces include Reich's 1968 essay "Music as a Gradual Process," widely considered one of the most influential pieces of music theory in the second half of the 20th century. Subsequent essays, articles, and interviews treat Reich's early work with tape and phase shifting, showing its development into more recent work with speech melody and instrumental music. Other essays recount his exposure to non-western music--African drumming, Balinese gamelan, Hebrew cantillation--and the influence of these musics as structures and not as sounds. The writings include Reich's reactions to and appreciations of the works of his contemporaries (John Cage, Luciano Berio, Morton Feldman, Gyorgy Ligeti) and older influences (Kurt Weill, Schoenberg). Each major work of the composer's career is also explored through notes written for performances and recordings. Paul Hillier, himself a respected figure in the early music and new music worlds, has revisited these texts, working with the author to clarify their central narrative: the aesthetic and intellectual development of an influential composer. For long-time listeners and young musicians recently introduced to his work, this book provides an opportunity to get to know Reich's music in greater depth and perspective.


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Like so many of you, I sat down to write a list of goals for the year to come. Alhough I've read debates about making goals and not making goals, I've always found that writing and keeping track of my list is extremely helpful for assessing where I've been, where I'm headed and which course corrections I'd like to make. This year, my list was easily broken down into four categories: career, home, traning/health and nature/outdoors.
The changes I'm planning on making that will affect the site?
I'll be switching the focus to "making conscious living accessible" and make sure ALL posts (be they about food, exercise, neuroscience, the outdoors or something else entirely) fit within this structure. I don't think this change will be that noticeable, as I've always been passionate about regular people (urbanites included. busy people included. people without tons of spare cash lying around included) being able to empower themselves through small steps as opposed to having to give up everything to live in a cave, travel the world or go into debt studying herbal medicine in the backwoods. But the focus will help the blog be a bit more focused and a bit less scattered.
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Q: Prevent scrolling of oversized child in parent with overflow: hidden (webkit) I have an issues with Webkit browsers. The issue happens when I focus my cursor to the <input> element and start to move mouse without releasing the button.
Here is a screencast - http://screencast.com/t/P1BnT7ZAdc
Here is a html/css demo - http://napokrovke.mysundays.net/webkit_bug.html
How can I prevent this behavior?

A: This is not a bug, its because you've set the wrapper to 300px, and applied the overflow property of hidden to it, which allows you to scroll around if the content within is greater than the 300px you defined, Im in firefox on OSX and I can also scroll around in it.
the only way this can be forced is maybe to apply this to the text field html markup
onmousedown="event.preventDefault ? event.preventDefault() : event.returnValue = false; this.focus()"

this should disable the user from dragging around when selected inside the box, but then it also disables you clicking inside the box, so using focus you have to focus this box manually. but if thats what you really want?

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HAVING earned our stripes with a magnificent seventh finish in last season's Sky Bet League One, we will be wearing them in 2018-19.
As our exclusive picture shows, our PUMA home kit for next season comprises a green and black vertical striped shirt, trimmed with a white V-neck collar and cuffs.
The 2018-19 strip is completed by white shorts, with black trim, and plain white socks.
The shirt will again carry the name of the club's main sponsors, Ginsters, with a black and white logo of the Westcountry-based savoury pasty manufacturers which perfectly complements the shirt's design.
Kieran Hemsworth, managing director of Ginsters, said: "Ginsters has been a proud member of the Green Army since our formation in 1969 and I couldn't think of a better place to have our new heritage logo than on the chest of this fantastic team.
Firebird, market-leading manufacturers of heating products, are continuing their partnership as back-of-shirt sponsors.
The shirt colours hark back to the very formation of the football club that eventually became Plymouth Argyle, with green and black being worn from 1886-1901 in various styles.
However, although we are going back to our roots in one sense, we have gone into action in green and black stripes only twice before – or one and a half times, to be more accurate.
We wore it in the first half of the 1973-74 Third Division season, when our colours were carried by the likes of Paul Mariner, Johnny Hore, Ernie Machin, Bobby Saxton and Steve Davey, and for the 1994-95 Second Division campaign, when Steve Castle, Paul Dalton, Mark Patterson, Kevin Nugent and Keith Hill were among the Pilgrims of the day.
The strips will be available from the Argyle Superstore from the first week of July; in the meantime, the Green Army can pre-order now to reserve their kit.


I went to the Library of Congress open meeting on bibliographic issues a couple of weeks ago. Interesting, but I think they have a long way to go. This meeting was a good stab at understanding users, both searchers and catalogers, but the tricky part is the model and system interface. How to support links and mashups and massive content generation and cataloging? There was some talk about tagging, but the anti-spam algorithms needed for low-trust, low-authority cataloging are far beyond the expertise and budgets of libraries.
The official writeup and lots of notes by Karen Coyle are good places for more thorough coverage.
Several speakers, both from the podium and the floor, were pinning their hopes on full-text search. I presume that is because they haven't tried implementing it. I appreciate the optimism, but full-text is Muggle Technology, not magic. Full-text is great for finding the next 20% or 30% of stuff, but most of your good results come from great metadata (including links and attention data). As Dan Clancy (Google Book and Google Scholar) pointed out, book search is much harder than web search precisely because you don't have as much link data (metadata). No one had any good ideas about how to get access to all that text so it could be indexed. Well, ideas besides Google Book.
Hey, why wasn't Brewster Kahle invited? Maybe the LoC already knows what he thinks, but a position paper would be handy for the rest of us.
On-line access to content is working OK. The only complaints were about the URL fields in library catalogs. If you don't know what MARC is, take a moment to look over MARC 856, Electronic Location and Access. It's a little more complicated than the <a> tag.
The day started with an interesting and dangerous talk by Timothy Burke on the wonders and difficulties of serious research using our current tools (see Karen's notes). It was mostly about searching techniques, though it wasn't really explained that way. I would have been happier if he'd started with some terminology from Marcia Bates. The personal view was helpful, but this should be well-understood stuff by now.
You don't have to understand the whole system to use part of it.
Once you do this, the fancy tools can be built on top of it. If you design for the fancy stuff, the system will never be simple and it will probably be over-fit to an old problem (like MARC is today).
One other point from Burke's presentation, universities no longer teach how to do literature search. Each discipline has general techniques and domain-specific ones (think chemical structure search), and this cannot be fobbed off on some other department. Striking out on your own might help avoid the prejudices of the field, but it can also mean missing and reinventing a lot of stuff.
I also saw some premature target lock-on. For example, converting subject headings to strings of standalone "subject keywords" is a lot of work, and is primarily useful for faceted browsing. Faceted browsing is good, but it is only one approach. We may be using facets because they are the best we can do with the HTML-based web apps of the past five years. Is it right for five years from now, when the conversion is done or did we just blow a wad of cash on another dead technology?
Finally, I should have asked Andrew Pace how much NC State spent on Endeca.
A side note — Google did a poor job of hosting this event. We had to park a half-mile away, there were no power strips for laptops, I couldn't get back on the GoogleGuest net after 10AM, we had a "mini kitchen" instead of the usual wide array of free munchies (dang!), and lunch was "here's a map of the area". No one stood up to say "let me know if there are any problems". A few people got power by unplugging the massage chair. Worst of all, the committee was ushered off to the Google Cafeteria, so there was no way to talk with any of them over lunch. Why have an open meeting if you aren't going to eat together? That was golden time with users, and it was squandered.
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I agree with you almost 100%.
Full-text search can be a quagmire and it certainly is not enough for real research. All those fancy technologies like NLP and concept clustering that fell over on the Web are far more useful in this situation.
Faceted search makes all that MARC stuff useful at least, and the dates are far more reliable than web pages.
Obsessing about converting subject headings is silly — they're not meant to be used as topic entries, there's a whole weird art to using LCSH and it's not particularly good for end-users.
Thanks for the citation to Rob Pike, I do like that formulation and am glad to give credit where it's due.


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We finally wrench to a stop in a village so remote it appears unreachable except by train. A sign reads "Saint-Corbenay" above a vacant concrete platform.
-- Fortune's Deadly Descent by Audry Braun. She really knows how to set a scene!
This is the second book in a series featuring Celia Hagen that started with A Small Fortune. Braun is the pen name of novelist Deborah Reed, author of Carry Yourself Back to Me, a Best Book of 2011 Amazon Editors' Pick.
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: Memories of her dire past fade as Celia Hagen enjoys life in Switzerland as a best-selling author, surrounded by an extended family, her beloved Benicio, and their imaginative young son Benny. But when Benny disappears from a train during an unexpected stop in the French Provencal countryside, Celia suspects her past may not be buried after all. With Benny gone, she quickly realizes her life wasn't nearly as idyllic as she believed. Infuriated by the unorthodox search efforts of Interpol and the French police, Celia, along with her older son Oliver, undertakes her own search, only to find that the village where Benny vanished has its own chilling history, and her interference in the case will have grave and irreversible consequences.
In the follow up to Audrey Braun's best-selling debut, A Small Fortune, Celia discovers just how quickly everyone she loves can spiral toward a life—or death—that none of them could have seen coming.
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I see you have Ring for Jeeves and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on your nightstand. I love the Jeeves books although I haven't read this particular one. I have lost count of how many times I've read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes! Hope you're enjoying both!
I have not come across this series before but am very interested - love a good mystery set in Europe. Enjoy!
Good teaser. That "vacant concrete platform" sure doesn't sound welcoming!
I love it, very mysterious and the cover is old fashion and gorgeous! Here is my Teaser! Have a great week!


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A Magical Winter Village Comes To Sydney
The Winter Village will make its debut in Parramatta, Sydney for its inaugural launch in New South Wales. Sydney-siders will get a chance to enjoy an alpine-inspired winter wonderland for three months, from June 19 – September 12, 2021.
The Winter Village has partnered with City of Parramatta's popular Winterlight for its 10th year running, to transform Prince Alfred Square in Parramatta into a winter wonderland, complete with an ice skating rink, igloo village, daily snow showers and food and drink pop ups serving the ultimate cosy comfort food.
The Winter Village is brought to life by Australian Venue Co, who operate a number of favourite pubs, bars and restaurants across Sydney.
Activations Operations Manager, Selena Majumdar is excited to debut The Winter Village in Parramatta, after plans to expand interstate were put on hold last year due to COVID.
"In a year where many Sydney-siders are looking for a new adventure without being able to travel overseas, we're thrilled to be able to finally bring The Winter Village to NSW and create an escape close to home for locals this winter. We're launching Parramatta with a bang and can't wait for friends and families to get a taste of our winter wonderland!"
City of Parramatta Council Lord Mayor, Cr Bob Dwyer said:
"Parramatta is definitely where it's at this winter. We're excited to be hosting The Winter Village in beautiful Prince Alfred Square, kicking off what is going to be a jam-packed program to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our iconic Winterlight festival – including our super popular school holiday events."
For the ultimate experience, guests can pre-book private igloos and cabins, perfect for an afternoon or evening of enjoying some drinks and sharing a bite to eat. Parramatta will have 20 igloos, each measuring 3.6m x 3.6m, which can host up to 8 people.
For those looking to get their igloo fix, the Standard Package Includes a grazing plate of chips, dips, mini pretzels and cured meats, fried chicken, mac 'n' cheese croquettes, fries with truffle aioli, herbed slaw, Greek salad, a choice of wine or beer, and a chocolate ice cream sandwich for dessert.
What's On in The Winter Village
Brunch & Skate
The new Brunch & Skate package will let the weekend warriors work up an appetite with a 45-minute skate session, plus a well-earned brunch in a private igloo. Brunch & Skate packages are available every Saturday and Sunday at 10am, for $35 per adult and $22 per child.
Ice skating passes can be booked online, with 45-minute sessions available during opening hours. Passes are $26 for adults, $18 for children aged 6-14 and $10 for children aged 3-5.
Let It Snow – Snow Showers
The Parramatta Winter Village will have daily snow showers at 12pm, 3pm, 6pm and 9pm.
Skate & Sip
Enjoy a complimentary skate session with any cocktail purchase! Available every Monday from 5-7pm.
Friday Happy Hour
Enjoy a complimentary drink with any skating pass between 4-6pm every Friday. Visit the skate hut for your skate session between 4-6pm on Fridays to receive your drink card.
Entry to The Winter Village is free, walk-in customers can order food & beverage directly from the pop up bar, with casual outdoor seating available. The Winter Village is operated by Australian Venue Co & sponsored by Emu Australia.
Along with marking its debut in Parramatta, The Winter Village will also return to Melbourne and pop up in new locations across Australia this winter including Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.
When: June 19 – September 12
Where: Prince Alfred Square – Cnr Church Sreet and Market Street, Parramatta NSW 2150
Opening Hours: Monday – Thursday: 11am-10pm, Friday: 11am-12am, Saturday: 10am-12am, Sunday: 10am-10pm
For more information visit here. Or follow along on Instagram @thewintervillage
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Cuddle Sticks 2 festival screenings
Excited that Cuddle Sticks 2 has been chosen for a few more fun film festivals this season.
Hey look at that, new artwork! If you are a "grammer", would love to have you follow my new "art only" account at:
https://www.instagram.com/mike.geiger.animation/?hl=en
Thanks!!!
Klik Animation Festival Amsterdam
Happy to announce Cuddle Sticks 2 will be making it's European debut at Klik Animation Festival in Amsterdam. For more information on the screening, please feel free to visit the link here:
KLIK AMSTERDAM
Lost Episode Fest Toronto
Cuddle Sticks 2 made it's first festival screening this week at the Lost Episode Fest in Toronto. Thanks again to the festival for their support. Hopefully more to come!
And it's out! Excited to introduce the latest series I was fortunate enough to Direct called "The 3 Amigonauts". Hope you enjoy it.
Just got word that The 3 Amigonauts will be premiering August 5th at 8 AM on YTV.
The show was created by Kyle Marshall (Loud House, Atomic Puppet) and produced at 9Story Media Group.
I was fortunate enough to direct the series and a proud of what our hard working crew was able to accomplish. Hope you all have a chance to tune in and check out the fun!
For more on the series, please visit the Tumblr site here:
https://3amigonauts.tumblr.com/
CUddle Sticks 2
The follow up to my film Cuddle Sticks will be premiering at Comic Con 2017 this weekend with the Spike and Mike Sick and Twisted screening. Please pop by if you around the convention center or if you are unable to attend (like myself), feel free to check it out below!
*Please note the video includes adult content. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.
My first animation
I recently spent some time at my mother's house and came across a VHS recording of the first animation I ever did. Circa nineteen-ninety-something?
Creator's Roundtable Podcast
I recently took part in a video podcast about the creation of cartoons with top notch fellow Ottawa based creators Phil Ivanusic and Dave Cooper. Moderated by the voice of our community Mr Mike Valiquette.
TIFF kids Industry event
For any budding creators interested in pitching in kids TV, Ill be part of a panel at the TIFF Industry conference April 20th titled "How to prepare and sell your show bible" along with many other very talented individuals in hopes of giving the audience some tips and samples of our process.
More information available at the link below:
http://www.tiff.net/events/how-to-prepare-and-sell-your-show-bible/
WInston lands in France and Belgium
From AWN :
eOne Announces Broadcast Sales for 'Winston Steinburger' in France and BelgiumEntertainment One inks deal with Cartoon Network in France and OUFtivi in Belgium for its new animated comedy series 'Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong' developed in collaboration with animation studio Sticky Pictures.
Winston's Canadian Air date
Happy to announce that Winston will make it's Canadian debut January 2nd at 7:30 on Teletoon. Hope y'all can tune in.
Tony Hawk X Kermit the Frog
I was recently part of an 80s X Animation art show in Ottawa called RADICAL! put on by the ever talented Tomi P and Joel MacKenzie.
Thanks again to these two folks. A great time was had by all.
International Broadcast sales for Winston Steinburger
From Kidscreen:
Toronto, Canada's Entertainment One (eOne) is taking its animated comedy series Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong overseas to air in the UK, Poland, the Middle East and North Africa.
Targeting kids six to 12, the 2D animated show will debut on POP in the UK this month, on Poland's Teletoon in December, and on MBC Group in the Middle East and North Africa beginning in September 2017. The new broadcast partners join a number of channels already airing Winston Steinburger, including ABC3 Australia, Teletoon in Canada, Clan TVE in Spain and BIGGS in Portugal.
eOne is also in discussions to expand the show's broadcast footprint with additional territories, including France.
Winston Steinburger was developed by eOne in collaboration with broadcasters Teletoon Canada and ABC3 Australia.
Love the Inktober idea, and have always wanted to learn to paint in Photoshop. So for my Inktober, decided to try to do a PS painting a day
Winston development / OIAF 2016
Today marks the last day of OIAF 2016. It's always so great to see old friends, make new ones, and experience the camaraderie among fellow industry folk. This year I was a part of a development panel called "Forks in the Road" about the specific path our productions took to eventually end up on TV. (Image below borrowed from Startoon)
I'm not the most seasoned public speaker, so unsure of just how much constructive information was actually conveyed, but appreciated the opportunity to be a part of the panel none the less. Thank you Michelle and Brandon (and Jamie and Miles) for the experience.
As part of the panel, I put together a few images on the various stages of Winston design throughout development and thought it might be something worth sharing here as well.
Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong originated in 2009 as a short film idea. Although it did get finished, and there were parts that I felt came out pretty funny, I was never happy enough with the final product to release it to the public.
The next stage of development came when I entered the "pitch this" contest at the Ottawa Animation Festival in 2010. I ended up entering the Winston idea and formatting quite a bit of what I did for the original short film into a pitch for the series. It was at this stage that the characters started to become a bit more refined, with the addition of Hampton the Hamster who started out as one mean dude in a flying hamster ball.
The follow stage of development came after the show was picked up for development by Teletoon (and it's distributor E-One Family). We were commissioned to make a short demo for the series and below are the updated designs we used. *Note - Pam (the girl in the top left corner) and Hampton (the hamster) were designed by Mr. Steve Lambe while in production with Mercury Filmworks.
After that, the designs moved on to the next phase of development which was putting together the series bible, as well as marketing and promotional documents. Winston and Dudley ended up staying the same, while Hampton (the former hamster) again got an update into more of an alien creature. A few more characters were also added at this point including Sgt. Sasha Spritz (Winston's hero), and Cutty (Winston's guardian and owner of the restaurant where Winston and Dudley work).
The next round of redesign came after the show was officially green-lit for production. There was a request to age Winston up, so the following exploration was based off of that request.
And here are the final designs for the series (went with #2 from the above choices and then refined his structure a bit to feel a little more lose). You can ignore the "older version" warning on Hampton as this was based off of a few things inside his build.
Winston Premiere date
Looks like Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong will be airing in Australia on ABC ME Sept 19. Big congrats to the team.
I did some early development work on this series a few years back, and excited to see it coming to TV. Congrats to everyone at Industrial Bros.
Premiering September 6th at 8 a.m. on CBC.
I'm happy to release a little mobile game that I've been poking at on the side called Roll the Six. More info below:
Toronto's own urban cycling game for mobile devices.
You've scored tickets to tonight's game. Your goal is to bike from Parkdale to the Downtown core before tipoff. Cruise down Queen while avoiding the trash on garbage day. Dodge the local wildlife as you detour through Trinity Bellwoods Park. Use the tourists to your advantage on Bremner Blvd, where you make your final run to the stadium before the start of the game.
Roll the Six allows Torontonians to bike the city like a local, without ever learning to ride a fixed gear.
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/roll-the-six/id1137417644?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mikegeiger.rollthesix
Place I havent lived
Did this up as a house warming gift for a some pals who bought their first new home.
Bare Bear Pitch Animatic
A few years back, I created a little animated pitch for some Pre-School interstitials called Bare Bear. The idea came out after working with the character from the"On the Subway" short, and thought he'd transition well into something for a younger audience. Obviously since then, Cartoon Network produced something with a similar name, and this project never ended up gaining any traction, but thought it worth sharing here none the less. Hope you enjoy it.
Winston Steinburger travels to Spain and Portugal
Exciting news for Winston:
LONDON: Entertainment One (eOne) has secured broadcast deals in Spain and Portugal for its animated comedy series Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong.
In Spain, free-to-air broadcaster Clan TVE acquired the first season of Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong. In Portugal, pay-TV network BIGGS also picked up season one of the 2D-animated show. Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong will begin airing in Portugal this fall.
The 52×11-minute series follows the adventures of a thrill-seeking space kid named Winston Steinburger, his feline best friend, Sir Dudley, and Hampton, an uptight alien. The trio explores the galaxy together in a homemade space cruiser. The show was developed in collaboration with Sticky Pictures and co-produced with broadcasters TELETOON Canada and ABC3 Australia.
Monica Candiani, the head of international sales at eOne Family, said, "The deals with TVE and BIGGS demonstrate that the fast, funny humor of Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong translates to audiences around the world. We're delighted that the show has found a home on these channels so that kids in Spain and Portugal can join Winston on his madcap adventures through space."
Full article below:
Worldscreen - Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong.
SDSH at the San Antonio Film Festival
The Super Duper Super Hero will be making a stop at the San Antonio Film Festival this July as part of the TIFF Kids "Loot Bag Jr." touring program. What an awesome poster.
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Submitted by WBRi Tollywood News on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 21:40.
Kolkata, April 29, 2013 (Washington Bangla Radio): A party sequence with the main characters of the film 'Akorshon' was shot at Narayani Studios. The song playing in the background was "Prane bhoy, mone bhoy". Rupam Islam, Rituparna Sengupta, Samadarshi Dutta, Ferdous and Bhaskar Chatterjee were busy playing their parts until the director finally declared the shot to be a good one.
Director Debraj Sinha told this correspondent , "This is a party sequence going on. The lead characters in the film work in a company and they thought of throwing a party with a Bengali band playing the music. Hence Rupam Islam was present at the shoot of this song along with the other actors".
The story of Akarshan is about Sayak Chowdhury (Samadashi Dutta) who works in a MNC. His family consists of his beautiful wife Joyee (Rai) and his only child. Things take a turn in his life when he starts an extra-marital affair with his private secretary Tora Chatterjee (Rituparna Sengupta).
Red hot in a red halter neck gown, actress Rituparna Sengupta was all smiles on finding all the actors whom she has worked with in other films present at the set. She explained the reason behind accepting the role. "The character of Tora has multiple shades. This is what interested me in doing this role" said the actress.
The film has five songs with a repeat of one song. The music of the film has been composed by Rupam Islam. Paroma and Rupam have performed the songs.
Samadarshi Dutta in a black suit looked handsome and it was obvious Tora had every reason to fall in love with him in the plot. The actor who recently delivered an excellent performance in 'Dekha Na Dekhay' felt it was great to be working opposite an experienced actor like Rituparna. "This character is different from the character that I played in my recent films. It is quite challenging for me" added the actor. Samdarshi has played many roles opposite older female actors and almost every such performance won huge critical appreciations. He has already played an extra-marital love interest of Rituparna in the critically acclaimed film 'Charulata 2011'.
Though the director mentioned that nearly eighty percent of the shooting of the film is complete, he did not want to reveal the release month of the film. He just mentioned that the Tollywood movie will release this year.
We will all have to wait and see if Akarshan manages to enthrall and captivate us as promised.


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10 Principles of Psychology You Can Use to Improve Your when it rains it pours quotes
Rain is the greatest metaphor for the way we live our lives. We can't escape the fact that, in most instances, it rains. We don't just need to get through the day. It is the best way to get out of the rut. We can't simply complain that the situation is not a good one. The fact is, we do have to be able to function when it rains.
Rain is a great metaphor. It's also a great way to say "that will happen". Rain is a way of saying "it's not a good idea". It's a way of saying "that's going to happen". Rain is a way of saying "we'll get through it". It's a way of saying "this is not a good thing".
Its also a way of saying that things are going to get worse. Its a way of saying when things are going to get really bad, they will. It also means that it often means that things are going to get really bad.
Rain is a very useful word for a lot of reasons, but it also has a really negative connotation. The thing about it is that it means that the bad weather is coming. The bad weather is going to fall. Its a way to say get through it. Its a way of saying that things are going to get really bad in the next three weeks. Its a way of saying when things are going to get really bad, it will. It means that it can be really rough.
So when there's rain in the air, it can mean that it's going to be really bad. It can mean that it's going to be really rough. It can mean that things are going to get really bad.
It's something that everyone has to deal with when it rains. It means that the weather will be really rough in the next three weeks. It means that it will be really bad. It means that its going to go through the rain. It means that it can be really rough.It means that it can be really rough.But this is an idea that everyone has to deal with. It means that its going to be really bad, and that its going to get really bad.
A quote that is kind of relevant to the topic. If you've ever made a decision that you had to stop working because you were too tired to continue at your job, then you've probably had a lot of people tell you that its going to be really bad. (And probably a lot of them have been right. The weather is getting really rough for a lot of people.
Sure, many of us are going to be very tired when the day comes. If we dont have enough sleep we are going to wake up feeling really tired.
However, there are many things about the weather that are not so bad. And most of the time they arent all rain. For one thing, it depends on the season. Winter is a good time to be really tired, but if you live in the south where the winter is long and cold, then it could be hot.
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package org.apache.flink.table.planner.plan.nodes.exec.batch;

import org.apache.flink.api.dag.Transformation;
import org.apache.flink.configuration.ReadableConfig;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.ChainingStrategy;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.transformations.MultipleInputTransformation;
import org.apache.flink.table.data.RowData;
import org.apache.flink.table.planner.delegation.PlannerBase;
import org.apache.flink.table.planner.plan.nodes.exec.ExecEdge;
import org.apache.flink.table.planner.plan.nodes.exec.ExecNode;
import org.apache.flink.table.planner.plan.nodes.exec.ExecNodeBase;
import org.apache.flink.table.planner.plan.nodes.exec.ExecNodeConfig;
import org.apache.flink.table.planner.plan.nodes.exec.ExecNodeContext;
import org.apache.flink.table.planner.plan.nodes.exec.InputProperty;
import org.apache.flink.table.planner.plan.nodes.exec.SingleTransformationTranslator;
import org.apache.flink.table.planner.plan.nodes.exec.utils.ExecNodeUtil;
import org.apache.flink.table.runtime.operators.multipleinput.BatchMultipleInputStreamOperatorFactory;
import org.apache.flink.table.runtime.operators.multipleinput.TableOperatorWrapperGenerator;
import org.apache.flink.table.runtime.operators.multipleinput.input.InputSpec;
import org.apache.flink.table.runtime.typeutils.InternalTypeInfo;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.Pair;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

import static org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions.checkArgument;

/**
 * Batch {@link ExecNode} for multiple input which contains a sub-graph of {@link ExecNode}s. The
 * root node of the sub-graph is {@link #rootNode}, and the leaf nodes of the sub-graph are the
 * output nodes of the {@link #getInputNodes()}.
 *
 *
The following example shows a graph of {@code ExecNode}s with multiple input node:
 *
 *
{@code
 *          Sink
 *           |
 * +---------+--------+
 * |         |        |
 * |       Join       |
 * |     /     \      | BatchExecMultipleInput
 * |   Agg1    Agg2   |
 * |    |       |     |
 * +----+-------+-----+
 *      |       |
 * Exchange1 Exchange2
 *      |       |
 *    Scan1   Scan2
 * }

 *
 *
The multiple input node contains three nodes: `Join`, `Agg1` and `Agg2`. `Join` is the root
 * node ({@link #rootNode}) of the sub-graph, `Agg1` and `Agg2` are the leaf nodes of the sub-graph,
 * `Exchange1` and `Exchange2` are the input nodes of the multiple input node.
 */
public class BatchExecMultipleInput extends ExecNodeBase<RowData>
        implements BatchExecNode<RowData>, SingleTransformationTranslator<RowData> {

    private final ExecNode<?> rootNode;
    private final List<ExecEdge> originalEdges;

    public BatchExecMultipleInput(
            ReadableConfig tableConfig,
            List<InputProperty> inputProperties,
            ExecNode<?> rootNode,
            List<ExecEdge> originalEdges,
            String description) {
        super(
                ExecNodeContext.newNodeId(),
                ExecNodeContext.newContext(BatchExecMultipleInput.class),
                ExecNodeContext.newPersistedConfig(BatchExecMultipleInput.class, tableConfig),
                inputProperties,
                rootNode.getOutputType(),
                description);
        this.rootNode = rootNode;
        checkArgument(inputProperties.size() == originalEdges.size());
        this.originalEdges = originalEdges;
    }

    @Override
    protected Transformation<RowData> translateToPlanInternal(
            PlannerBase planner, ExecNodeConfig config) {
        final List<Transformation<?>> inputTransforms = new ArrayList<>();
        for (ExecEdge inputEdge : getInputEdges()) {
            inputTransforms.add(inputEdge.translateToPlan(planner));
        }
        final Transformation<?> outputTransform = rootNode.translateToPlan(planner);
        final int[] readOrders =
                getInputProperties().stream()
                        .map(InputProperty::getPriority)
                        .mapToInt(i -> i)
                        .toArray();

        final TableOperatorWrapperGenerator generator =
                new TableOperatorWrapperGenerator(inputTransforms, outputTransform, readOrders);
        generator.generate();

        final List<Pair<Transformation<?>, InputSpec>> inputTransformAndInputSpecPairs =
                generator.getInputTransformAndInputSpecPairs();

        final MultipleInputTransformation<RowData> multipleInputTransform =
                new MultipleInputTransformation<>(
                        createTransformationName(config),
                        new BatchMultipleInputStreamOperatorFactory(
                                inputTransformAndInputSpecPairs.stream()
                                        .map(Pair::getValue)
                                        .collect(Collectors.toList()),
                                generator.getHeadWrappers(),
                                generator.getTailWrapper()),
                        InternalTypeInfo.of(getOutputType()),
                        generator.getParallelism());
        multipleInputTransform.setDescription(createTransformationDescription(config));
        inputTransformAndInputSpecPairs.forEach(
                input -> multipleInputTransform.addInput(input.getKey()));

        if (generator.getMaxParallelism() > 0) {
            multipleInputTransform.setMaxParallelism(generator.getMaxParallelism());
        }
        // set resources
        multipleInputTransform.setResources(
                generator.getMinResources(), generator.getPreferredResources());
        final int memoryWeight = generator.getManagedMemoryWeight();
        final long memoryBytes = (long) memoryWeight << 20;
        ExecNodeUtil.setManagedMemoryWeight(multipleInputTransform, memoryBytes);

        // set chaining strategy for source chaining
        multipleInputTransform.setChainingStrategy(ChainingStrategy.HEAD_WITH_SOURCES);

        return multipleInputTransform;
    }

    public List<ExecEdge> getOriginalEdges() {
        return originalEdges;
    }
}


Joy De Vivre Design: My baby had an accident!
When I came home from work I noticed that Barkley had gotten himself into something and took a chunk out of his nose! Now he looks like a celebrity and no not Toto or the dog that played Air Bud, but MICHAEL JACKSON!
Get well soon pup! And please don't let me catch you dangling your stuffed dog out of the window!
Oh, poor Barkley! Hope he's feeling better.
Oh, I hope his nose heals quickly! What a cutie!
Omg! I like him better than MJ, though.


For one, the tool of choice was a bat. For the other, a stick.
Tony Gwynn and Jean Beliveau died in 2014, unparalleled craftsmen who made the supremely difficult look almost easy.
They played with elegance and grace, ambassadors for baseball and hockey. They were enduring landmarks in their cities - Gwynn in San Diego, Beliveau in Montreal. They were sports royalty, yet never lost the common touch.
Dodgers broadcasters Vin Scully called Gwynn a ''genius with the bat.'' Who could doubt that? With a left-handed swing as fluid as any in the game, Gwynn owned the real estate between shortstop and third base, unerringly slashing singles through the left side.
He won eight batting titles and finished with a .338 career average, rarely striking out. He did not hit below .309 in a full season. He played in two World Series, and hit .371 while he was there. In 1994, he neared baseball's Holy Grail of .400, only to be stopped by a players' strike and ending at .394. By the time he quit in 2001, he had 3,141 hits.
Gwynn spent all of his 20 years in San Diego, where he was ''Mr. Padre,'' his diligence and study of the game unsurpassed. He happily talked at length to rookies about the art of hitting, his laughter cackling across the seasons. He died at 54 and believed his years chewing tobacco had much to do with his oral cancer.
Beliveau, like Gwynn, played all 20 years for one team. He might have been the most revered of all the Canadiens, and in Montreal that is no small thing.
As Gwynn had great vision on the diamond, so it was with Beliveau on the ice. He combined strength and delicacy at center and for a stretch in the mid-1950s he led Montreal to five straight NHL titles, the bedrock of a dynasty.
He finished with 507 goals when he retired in 1971. A year later, the normal wait dispensed with, he entered the Hockey Hall of Fame. In all, he won 10 Stanley Cups and was twice the MVP. There were seven other titles as a Canadiens executive.
Ken Dryden, Montreal's longtime stellar goaltender, said his one-time roommate made every occasion better.
JACK RAMSAY, 89: Dr. Jack he was called, and the honorific was legit - a doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania. Jack Ramsay was the consummate student and instructor of the game. He cut his teeth in coaching at St. Joseph's and then had NBA stints in Philadelphia and Buffalo before landing in Portland. His championship season was 1976-77 - his first with the Trail Blazers - where the game was played with a crispness and intelligence as in few other places. The quality of the basketball better reflected the man than his taste in sports jackets. Bill Walton and Maurice Lucas were Ramsay's pillars. He would coach 21 seasons, never reaching the summit again. He called it ''a once-in-a-lifetime experience.'' He brought his coaching savvy to broadcasting. And all the while he kept running and swimming, even when the body began to fail, always in motion. ''He left an indelible mark on every facet of our game,'' NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said.
Contributing to this report were: AP sports writers Greg Beacham, Will Graves, Tim Reynolds, Ben Walker, John Wawrow and Bernie Wilson; AP writers Christopher Weber and Gillian Flaccus; and The Canadian Press.


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A key element of all inductions and training is the ability to assess a user's understanding of the information delivered.
Cell-media can customise the assessment process so that users are not only able to show their level of learning, but clients can document the competency of their workforce.
Cell-media engages the user with various assessment styles and activities, including the use of sound, video and interactive tasks.
The use of online assessments allows users to complete learning outside of the classroom, in their own time and at any location.
Interactive assessments also provide a reliable way of marking, with no room for human error.
Display of competency is an integral part of the learning process. Cell-media can produce a range of custom-designed interactive assessment styles to allow users to display their level of competency.
From the use of traditional multiple choice questions and drag and drops to more complex task-based questions, our assessments styles are easy to use and understand.
No two users need receive the same assessment as questions can be randomly generated or selected from a larger pool. Alternate questions can also be created for those answered incorrectly, to help the user better understand training material.
If a question is answered incorrectly, the program can automatically allow the viewer to review information before re-attempting the assessment. Minimum competency scores can be set, including the use of lock-out functionality.
The use of online interactive activities can allow users to display their understanding of complex or dangerous tasks from the safety of their computer screen.
Or maybe a fun, game-based approach is required.
Either way, Cell-media's imaginative designers can create interactive, user-friendly styles of assessment that use the full range of sight, sound and movement to better review the capabilities of your audience.
Blurring the line between the printed word and electronic learning, Cell-media have the ability to turn any document into a 3D interactive booklet. Whether you have an existing document or want to present your information in an 'easy to access' way, interactive booklets allow a user to view content at their own pace.
Users can turn the pages of a virtual booklet by simply clicking and dragging each page, or navigate directly to the required content through the use of the contents menu.
Competency assessments can be included at the end of each section or chapter, requiring the user to display their understanding before progressing to the next section. Users can be required to sign off at the end of the booklet, saying they have read, understood and agree to the conditions within the document.


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New EU Commission faces parliamentary grilling
Proposed new commissioner for transport, energy, launches one week of hearings
A week of parliamentary hearings has got underway in which the 19 candidates due to join Romano Prodi in the revamped European Commission this autumn face questions from MEPs. As already reported by ENDS Daily, Margot Wallström, a Swede, is slated to take over as environment commissioner from Ritt Bjerregaard. But the work of several other new commissioners will also have an important bearing on EU environmental policy making.
First up to be grilled by MEPs yesterday was Spain's former agriculture minister, the politically right-of-centre Loyola de Palacio. Ms de Palacio will be a powerful figure in the Commission, as one of two vice presidents and due to be put in charge of both the transport and energy dossiers, formerly managed by Neil Kinnock of the UK and Christos Papoutsis of Greece. Austria's Franz Fischler, who retains the agriculture portfolio, was also put through his paces yesterday.
Despite three hours of discussion, little emerged about Ms de Palacio's likely policies on transport and energy, if she is approved, with MEPs seemingly more interested in her professional integrity and attitude to the European parliament. She said she favoured nuclear power as a way of reducing energy imports and cutting greenhouse gases, and that renewable energy sources required state support. In the transport field, Ms de Palacio supported the use of telematics and other technologies for reducing road congestion.
The hearings continued today, with proposed budget commissioner Michaele Schreyer, who would be the first ever Green to join the college. Also appearing today was the man who would replace Martin Bangemann in charge of industry matters: Erkki Liikanen, who was until now the budget commissioner.
Prospective environment commissioner, Swedish social democrat Margot Wallström, faces questions on Thursday evening. On Friday, the candidate to replace Emma Bonino in charge of consumer protection takes the stand. David Byrne, a former Irish attorney-general could also end up overseeing EU regulations on genetically modified organisms (ENDS Daily 9 August).
The hearings continue on Monday, with the Dutch candidate Fritz Bolkestein, who is due to take over the internal market dossier - including responsibility for tax - from Mario Monti. Mr Bolkestein has already told MEPs that he supports Mr Monti's proposals for EU minima on most energy products, but accepts that there is little chance of getting this accepted by all 15 member states.
MEPs will vote on whether or not to accept the new team when they meet in Strasbourg in three weeks' time.
European Parliament, tel: +32 2 284 2111. References: The hearings can be followed live on the internet in six languages on Europe by Satellite EBS.


Pivot's ultra-versatile Mach 5.7 is now available in a carbon frame version to boost its all-rounder ability even further. A great ride and impressive weight make it an awesome bike.
Nudging towards 6in of travel (the Pivot has 145mm/5.7in) normally means a compromise between pedalling feel and acceleration response, but the Pivot drives remarkably well. In granny gear, stand up charges or churning through soft, deep gravel there was no obvious bounce or power loss, and there was just enough traction-enhancing pedal lift to claw us up the steeps or charge out of corners.
With a complete bike weight in Shimano XT based trail trim of 11.9kg (26.3lb), there's little for gravity to grab hold of either. The Kashima coated Fox shock and DW-Link suspension design work superbly together – plush enough to keep the ride communicative without ever feeling dead or dull at any point in the stroke, and the Mach 5.7 not only handled every potential suspension-shaming situation, but also created skill-flattering speed out of every challenge.
The bottom bracket looks low on paper but the consistently crisp and pert ride height makes it less of an issue than you'd think on the trail, and it's stable enough to slide the tyres sideways without worry. While the Mach 5.7 doesn't let you pop its front wheel as easily as more rider-responsive suspension designs, compact sizing means it's a great bike to move about on and use your bodyweight.
Top this blank-canvas 'ride what you want, how you want' character with an accurate, twist-free tapered front and screw-through axle rear, and the new Mach 5.7 is an absolute blast whatever you're asking it to do. The scope to make it a lightweight trail bike or a longer travel skill stretcher makes it supremely versatile too.
At 2.36kg (5.2lb) with shock, frame-only weight is 200g less than the already lightweight alloy version. The Hollow Box high internal compression construction gives significant stiffness increases, and there's minimal flex from the tapered head tube right through to the 142x12mm screw-axle rear.
The 92mm wide press-fit bottom bracket allows for better bearing support, and the dropper seatpost cable guides and post mount brakes make setup easy. Rubberised leather frame protectors on the rear stays and down tube reduce noise and chip damage, with a retrofit ISCG mount due to be available by next spring.
The Pivot Carbon will come to the UK as a frame-only deal, but there are some bits worth commenting on here. For a start, while XT works great you could definitely save some weight by spending more or choosing SRAM. The 5.7 is begging for a wider handlebar than the relatively narrow FSA SLK too.