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Thou shalt commit adultery, and the arrows that did affright the air at Agincourt
All course Radio 4's Sunday had some good things too, and I want to celebrate them (for once).
One feature focused on "one of the most famous printing errors in the history of publishing" - the story of 'The Wicked Bible' of 1631, which is (for some reason) is being sold next month. Prof. Gordon Campbell of Leicester University was the guest expert (and very good he was too).
'The Wicked Bible' was a reprinting of the King James Bible. It rendered the 7th Commandment as "Thou shalt commit adultery". (Hence it's other nickname, 'The Adulterer's Bible').
What I didn't know about this story is what happened to the printer. Well, the authorities took him to court. A fine was imposed but then commuted into an order to buy some Greek typefaces for the press. ("This was a very learned time!", observed Prof. Campbell). In time, however, the printer went bankrupt and died in a debtor's prison some years later. He was never released.
Prof. Campbell believes the poor man was the victim of a conspiracy. Why? Well one of his colleagues checked the court records and found there was a second misprint in Deuteronomy 5:24 where the line "The Lord our God has showed us his glory and his greatness" became "The Lord our God has showed us his glory and his great ass".
Here, disappointingly, the professor reminded Radio 4 listeners that 'ass' meant 'donkey' back then, not 'buttocks' but, he said, "it still verges on blasphemy to talk about God's donkey".
(The unfortunate bible, as you'll see from the image above, didn't get the other 'ass'-related commandment wrong - the one about coueting thy nighboars affe).
Prof. Campbell's reasoning behind his conspiracy claims are that: "One of these misprints could be a coincidence but two of them can't be a coincidence. So if you put the two together it's quite clear that someone is torpedoing the edition".
Now, William Crawley was obviously thinking what I was thinking at that point: Surely just two mistakes in the printing of the entire Bible doesn't add up to much.
Indeed, replied the professor, there were hundreds of insignificant misprints - 'and' was spelled 'aud' on 28 occasions, for example "but nobody cares" about them and "these are two are fairly central verses."
I'm not a lifelong expert on the King James Bible (hard as you may find that to believe) but I'm still not entirely convinced about this though. Yes, "Thou shalt not commit adultery" is a certainly a central verse, but is "The Lord our God has showed us his glory and his greatness" anywhere near as central? I don't think it is.
Still, it was all very interesting - and there was more to come. Other classic Bible misprints include one from 1795 which turned "Jesus said, Let the children first be filled" (i.e. fed) into "Jesus said, Let the children first be killed" and, rather funnier, an early print of Psalm 119 which turned "Princes have persecuted me without cause" into "Printers have persecuted me without cause" - one I can believe was deliberate mischief!
There was more history later - a piece from historian Juliet Barker marking the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, where we English famously gave Francois Hollande, Marine le Pen, Gérard Depardieu, Inspector Clouseau, Johnny Hallyday, Asterix, Eric Cantona, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Jean-Paul Sartre's boys one hell of a beating.
Juliet Barker focused on the topic of Henry V as a deeply religious king, specifically his "peculiar piety".
(It appears, from what she said, that Hal really lost his sense of humour after dropping Falstaff, Shakespeare was right about that).
Her report began with the Agincourt Carol.
She said it was peculiar that both the words and music survived. (Is it really?) It might possibly have been written by chaplain at the Chapel Royal who accompanied him in daily life and also went on campaign with him. Henry took 15 chaplains and 14 monks with him to France to serve his religious needs.
He also went on regular pilgrimages to shrines and heard three masses at the beginning of every day before going about his public duties (which makes three shredded wheat for breakfast sound positively wimpish). He was also devoted to lots of saints, many of whose banners he carried with him on the Agincourt campaign.
At the gates of Harfleur, after victory there, he took off his shoes and walked barefoot to the church of St Martin's in the centre of the port where he gave thanks to God on his knees. He gave God the credit for his victory at Agincourt too. "It's proof victory doesn't depend on a multitude of people but on the power of God" was apparently one of his favourite sayings. Henry saw it as a moral victory proving him to be the true king of England as God would never have have let him win that battle otherwise. It wiped out his father's stain of usurpation.
Juliet Barker said that there are unusually large number of chronicles about the battle and many eye-witnesses. The chronicles tend to comment on how pious the English were, kneeling down and praying before the battle.
And, according to Juliet, criminal records of the time give this further credence: Some months after the battle two Welshmen were arrested for causing an affray in East Anglia. Their indictment says there they were there on pilgrimage in fulfilment of vows they'd made on the battlefield, thus proving the truth of the chronicles' claims of English piety - well, sort of (if you ignore the affray part of the story).
Oddly, I expected the BBC to be quivering with Guardianista qualms about Agincourt, accusing Henry of war crimes and UKIP-like Little Englander xenophobia. Unless I've missed it, it doesn't seem to have happened.
And odder still, the only example I've read of just that kind of denunciation of Henry V comes from a writer I associate with doughty defence of conservative takes on British culture and history - Ed West. His Catholic Herald piece is an onslaught against Henry. It's a compelling onslaught too and well worth a read - tomorrow!
Incidentally, a very beautiful service to mark the Agincourt victory followed. It came from the Chapel Royal. Well worth a listen, if you're into that sort of thing - or if you enjoy gorgeous English choral music.
All that's missing from this post (besides any mention of BBC bias) is Brian Blessed. If only he were here now to bellow out the line, Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!' As he isn't, you'll just have to imagine him doing so instead.
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Little Black Sambo 26 October 2015 at 20:06
In whose interest would it have been to torpedo that edition of the Bible? An aggrieved employee of the printer? It doesn't seem likely.
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=============
Flask-Uploads
=============
.. currentmodule:: flask_uploads

Flask-Uploads allows your application to flexibly and efficiently handle file
uploading and serving the uploaded files.
You can create different sets of uploads - one for document attachments, one
for photos, etc. - and the application can be configured to save them all in
different places and to generate different URLs for them.

.. contents::
   :local:
   :backlinks: none

Upload Sets
===========
Applications define one or more "upload sets," which have names like photos,
music, and attachments. An "upload set" is a single collection of files that are
managed independently. For each upload set you can:

* Define the list of file extensions that the upload set will allow/deny.
* Define the locations on the filesystem where uploads to each set are stored.
* Define the public URL of the files in the upload set. This is useful for using
  a Web server like Apache or Nginx to directly serve the uploaded files, which
  is much faster than serving them through Flask.

To create a new upload set, just declare it in the code::

   photos = UploadSet('photos', IMAGES)

And then you can use the `~UploadSet.save` method to save uploaded files and
`~UploadSet.path` and `~UploadSet.url` to access them. For example::

   @app.route('/upload', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
   def upload():
       if request.method == 'POST' and 'photo' in request.files:
           filename = photos.save(request.files['photo'])
           # save photo metadata to your db, for example with Flask-SQLAlchemy:
           photo = Photo(filename=filename, user=g.user.id)
           db.session.add(photo)
           db.session.commit(photo)
           flash("Photo saved.")
           return redirect(url_for('show', id=photo.id))
       return render_template('upload.html')

   @app.route('/photo/<id>')
   def show(id):
       # load photo metadata from your db, for example with Flask-SQLAlchemy:
       photo = Photo.query.get(id)
       if photo is None:
           abort(404)
       url = photos.url(photo.filename)
       return render_template('show.html', url=url, photo=photo)

If you have a "default location" for storing uploads - for example, if your
app has an "instance" directory like `Zine`_ and uploads should be saved to
the instance directory's ``uploads`` folder - you can pass a ``default_dest``
callable to the set constructor. It takes the application as its argument.
For example::

   media = UploadSet('media', default_dest=lambda app: app.instance_path)

This won't prevent a different destination from being set in the config,
though. It's just to save your users a little configuration time.

.. _Zine: http://zine.pocoo.org/

App Configuration
=================
An upload set's configuration is stored on an app. That way, you can have
upload sets being used by multiple apps at once. You use the
`configure_uploads` function to load the configuration for the upload sets.
You pass in the app and all of the upload sets you want configured. Calling
`configure_uploads` more than once is safe. ::

    configure_uploads(app, (photos, media))

If your app has a factory function, that is a good place to call this
function.

By default, Flask `doesn't put any limits on the size of the uploaded data
<http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/patterns/fileuploads/#improving-uploads>`_. To
protect your application, you should set `MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH` in your
application config to cap the maximum upload size.

Configuration
=============
You can customize the settings of different upload sets by adjusting the
application's configuration settings. Even if you're just deploying an
application that uses Flask-Uploads, you can still use these settings to
override the settings specified by the application author.

The settings below apply for a single set of uploads, replacing `FILES` with
the name of the set (i.e. `PHOTOS`, `ATTACHMENTS`):

`UPLOADED_FILES_DEST`
    This indicates the directory uploaded files will be saved to.

`UPLOADED_FILES_URL`
    If you have a server set up to serve the files in this set, this should be
    the URL they are publicly accessible from. Include the trailing slash.

`UPLOADED_FILES_ALLOW`
    This lets you allow file extensions not allowed by the upload set in the
    code.

`UPLOADED_FILES_DENY`
    This lets you deny file extensions allowed by the upload set in the code.

To save on configuration time, there are two settings you can provide
that apply as "defaults" if you don't provide the proper settings otherwise.

`UPLOADS_DEFAULT_DEST`
    If you set this, then if an upload set's destination isn't otherwise
    declared, then its uploads will be stored in a subdirectory of this
    directory. For example, if you set this to ``/var/uploads``, then a set
    named photos will store its uploads in ``/var/uploads/photos``.

`UPLOADS_DEFAULT_URL`
    If you have a server set up to serve from `UPLOADS_DEFAULT_DEST`, then
    set the server's base URL here. Continuing the example above, if
    ``/var/uploads`` is accessible from ``http://localhost:5001``, then you
    would set this to ``http://localhost:5001/`` and URLs for the photos set
    would start with ``http://localhost:5001/photos``. Include the trailing
    slash.

However, you don't have to set any of the ``_URL`` settings - if you don't,
then they will be served internally by Flask. They are just there so if you
have heavy upload traffic, you can have a faster production server like Nginx
or Lighttpd serve the uploads.

You should also set `MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH` to limit the size of uploaded files.

File Upload Forms
=================
To actually upload the files, you need to properly set up your form. A form
that uploads files needs to have its method set to POST and its enctype
set to ``multipart/form-data``. If it's set to GET, it won't work at all, and
if you don't set the enctype, only the filename will be transferred.

The field itself should be an ``<input type=file>``.

.. code-block:: html+jinja

    <form method=POST enctype=multipart/form-data action="{{ url_for('upload') }}">
        ...
        <input type=file name=photo>
        ...
    </form>

API Documentation
=================
This documentation is generated directly from the source code.

Upload Sets
-----------
.. autoclass:: UploadSet
   :members:

.. autoclass:: UploadConfiguration

Application Setup
-----------------
.. autofunction:: configure_uploads

Extension Constants
-------------------
These are some default sets of extensions you can pass to the `UploadSet`
constructor.

.. autoclass:: AllExcept

.. autodata:: DEFAULTS

.. autodata:: ALL

.. autodata:: TEXT

.. autodata:: IMAGES

.. autodata:: AUDIO

.. autodata:: DOCUMENTS

.. autodata:: DATA

.. autodata:: SCRIPTS

.. autodata:: ARCHIVES

.. autodata:: EXECUTABLES

Testing Utilities
-----------------
.. autoclass:: TestingFileStorage

Backwards Compatibility
=======================
Version 0.2.0
-------------
* The `patch_request_class` function was removed as it's unnecessary from Flask
  0.6 onward.
* Filenames without extensions are no longer lowercased by `lowercase_ext`,
  only the extension is returned in lowercase, if an extension exists.

Version 0.1.3
-------------
* The `_uploads` module/blueprint will not be registered if it is not needed
  to serve uploads.

Version 0.1.1
-------------
* `patch_request_class` now changes `max_content_length` instead of
  `max_form_memory_size`.

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New Challenges for Businesses as Pandemic Year Recedes
With a volatile year behind us, businesses will continue to see rapid change in the economy and the competitive environment.
By Lisa Walkush, national managing principal of industry at Grant Thornton LLP
With the arrival of vaccines for COVID-19, we can begin to think about what the world is going to look like as this pandemic recedes. No company was immune as the coronavirus upended the economy last year, and no business is likely to escape the uncertainty and volatility that will characterize the recovery period that follows. What's unknown is how much of the change in consumer behavior and the economy will be permanent, or the extent to which pent-up consumer demand will lift the economy as pandemic restrictions lift.
Each industry and individual company experienced the pandemic differently. Some faced deep disruptions, and others were actually boosted by the pandemic's economic impacts—provided they were prepared to pivot to meet shifting needs. The companies that have come out of the pandemic in the best position are those that had the leadership and the resources to respond to the changed landscape. The businesses that will see the greatest success in the coming year are those that can understand and anticipate future changes, and act to take advantage.
One such change is the impact of a new administration in Washington, which will have an agenda focused on the pandemic, the economy and may introduce policies and additional stimulus funds that will affect specific industries.
In this paper, we examine seven industries that span the spectrum from those significantly disrupted, such as travel and hospitality, to those riding a strong tailwind, such as technology. We identify key trends to watch to help understand how this year may unfold for individual businesses and entire sectors.
The companies that have come out of the pandemic in the best position are those that had the leadership and the resources to respond to the changed landscape. The businesses that will see the greatest success in the coming year are those that can understand and anticipate future changes, and act to take advantage.
For airlines, hotels and restaurants, everything rests on how quickly their customers return. There is clearly significant pent-up demand that will be unleashed as the pandemic recedes. People are more than ready to go places again once restrictions ease, and at the very least, dine out once restaurants are open and allowed to operate at full capacity. But will demand come all the way back?
International travel is going to lag behind domestic travel. The recent executive order from President Biden that requires a negative COVID-19 test before boarding a flight to the U.S. from abroad should serve as a reminder of how far away we remain from any return to normal. And business travel, lucrative for both airlines and hotels, may take many years to return to pre-pandemic levels. Organizations that have perfomed well for a year without having their employees on the road may hesitate to return to the old way of doing things. A loss of business customers may also hurt restaurants that used to depend on business meals and high-end corporate events.
Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals
The development of diagnostic tests, antibody screens, treatments and vaccines count as major accomplishments for the life sciences industry, enhancing their reputations and boosting their revenue. This work was done with astonishing speed: Most of the work took mere months after this novel coronavirus started its spread across the world. These achievements in the face of a global threat came about due to a combination of diligent science, new alliances, a different way of meeting problems and designing solutions—and of course a significant influx of funding from the government through its Operation Warp Speed vaccine development program.
It will be important to know how the partnerships, alliances and funding mechanisms formed in response to the pandemic evolve to bring other novel therapeutics and medical interventions to patients. This includes the question of how the industry will be impacted by the success of the messenger mRNA technology used to develop several of the leading COVID-19 vaccines. Research and development may be permanently changed. It bears watching to see whether clinical trials and drug approvals move more quickly in the future, following the playbook pioneered in the past year. Companies, governments, health authorities and health organizations may well communicate and cooperate differently moving forward.
While much of our attention has been appropriately focused on hospitals and ICUs in the past year, the health care industry as a whole has been struggling. The pandemic has created financial and logistical strains on health systems locally, regionally and nationally. Routine medical care, elective surgeries and—much too often—critical medical treatments were pushed aside as a result of either patient fears or lack of available capacity.
The question now may be whether there is lasting damage to our healthcare delivery system in the U.S. because of the pandemic. If there is, healthcare businesses will be expected to change as a result. For example, telemedicine—not widely used before the pandemic but quickly adopted as a delivery tool for clinical care—is most likely going to become a permanent fixture. Hospitals and medical centers pressed to serve all COVID patients may seek greater financial stability, and given the new administration's promises during the campaign, their calls for greater funding could receive a welcome hearing.
The pandemic roiled the energy industry, holding down demand and oil prices at historically low levels last year. Even before the pandemic, the oil and gas industry had been struggling with a range of issues, from oversupply because of shale production to rising competition from renewables. These will all persist, and they're making the current downturn more pronounced than prior cycles. And yet, markets follow human behavior in the end: If the economy continues to rebound to pre-pandemic levels, the price of oil will likely rise this year. We could see the price of crude oil in the U.S. rally to $55 or $60 a barrel. And, because of the significant reduction in capital spending in the oil and gas industry in the past year, an upward price spike can't be ruled out.
Renewable energy companies, meanwhile, came through the pandemic year well, and they stand to benefit from the new administration in Washington, which rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement on its first day. Incentives will continue to make wind, solar and other renewable energy sources more profitable—and thus more attractive to investors. Government policy is already helping renewables to be more competitive with oil and gas, and the disruption of the giant fossil fuel producers in the past year may make it a ripe moment for further changes in energy policy.
The pandemic has shined a new light on the need for supply chain and production resiliency. Manufacturers have started to reexamine where mission critical parts and products are sourced, and they are focused on meeting customer demand in new ways. In this context, two trends are starting to take shape. First, manufacturers are taking a fresh look at how best to rationalize supply chains with a focus on customer responsiveness, security and geopolitical risks, along with the demands of tax optimization. Second, there's an increased emphasis on how best to allocate capital to production capability such that it will improve operational efficiency and overall return on deployed production assets.
In the first months of the pandemic, volumes carried by large trucking companies such as Old Dominion Freight Line, Knight-Swift Transportation and U.S. Xpress dropped off, as might be expected with an economic shutdown spreading. But the negative effects for the transportation industry were mostly shallow and short-lived, aside from a few specific segments such as fuel transportation that saw more lasting downturns. Much has been said about how package delivery giants FedEx and UPS have benefited as coronavirus precautions led to a surge in online shopping, but long-haul freight carriers have also fared well. Even before last year, there was a dramatic change occurring in the logistics, distribution and warehousing businesses, and this has only been accelerated.
Indeed, as we come out of the pandemic this year and the economy appears to be strengthening, capacity is constrained in the trucking business. There is a shortage of trailers—and drivers. Changes in drug testing protocols at the start of 2020 resulted in some drivers leaving the industry, and then the expanded unemployment benefits in COVID-19 relief legislation in effect dampened interest in working in the industry. The capacity constraints mean the industry has pricing power right now, and this seems likely to persist this year.
The pandemic has erased any doubt that technology and telecommunications companies provide the backbone for business, education and government. There are so many examples: e-commerce's growing dominance; telemedicine's inroads in health care; remote learning to keep schools operating; tele-commuting that kept many businesses operating; and a shift to remote work across many organizations. These impacts are expected to endure. We're seeing rapid growth for both middle market and large tech companies. The M&A market has been very active, as corporate buyers and private equity investors both respond to increased demand for computing capacity and innovation.
But there are two sides to this coin. As much as our dependence on tech has helped boost revenues and profits and stocks in 2020, there may be backlash in 2021. Watch for increased regulatory interest in technology companies now, and further consumer upset about issues as varied as equal access, privacy, security and anticompetitive behavior.
Faced with the shock of the pandemic a year ago—as it suddenly shut down our economy and filled our emergency rooms—we could see that the operating environment for most industries was shifting in dramatic ways. Now, with the recovery from our COVID-19 crisis coming gradually, it would be easy to underplay the fundamental changes that are likely this year. There will be surprises and opportunities as we finally escape from under this virus and get back to something resembling normal. The businesses that will prosper will be those that can anticipate outcomes, plan for the recovery and react fast when there are changes no one predicted.
Lisa Walkush hosting the inaugural Grant Thornton Life Sciences conference in November 2020.
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Tachibanakan Triangle
Love To-LIE-Angle
Synonyms: Tachibanakan To Lie Angle
Japanese: 立花館To Lieあんぐる
English: Love To-LIE-Angle
German: Love To-LIE-Angle
Spanish: Love To-LIE-Angle
French: Love To-LIE-Angle
Aired: Apr 4, 2018 to Jun 20, 2018
Premiered: Spring 2018
Producers: Ichijinsha, Cloud22
Studios: Creators in Pack, Studio Lings
Genres: ComedyComedy, Girls LoveGirls Love, EcchiEcchi
Duration: 3 min. per ep.
Score: 5.591 (scored by 2154921,549 users)
Ranked: #101622
Favorites: 61
Ranked #10162Popularity #2359Members 57,851
Spring 2018TVCreators in Pack, Studio Lings
As Hanabi Natsuno returns home after six years in Tokyo, memories flood into her. As she prepares to start high school, she moves to Tachibanakan, the local dormitory for female students. Upon her arrival, Hanabi stumbles upon a bare naked beauty, and instantly falls head over heels for her. She also reencounters Konomi Fujiwara, her childhood friend who she barely remembers.
Hanabi is introduced to the other residence of the dorm and quickly becomes the center of attention. As the girls instantly take to the newcomer and begin shooting for her affection—subtly or obtrusively—Hanabi realizes that it is certainly going to be an interesting school year.
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Adaptation: Tachibanakan Triangle
Takamura, Iori
Nakada, Arisa
Fujiwara, Konomi
Sakuragi, Amisa
Natsuno, Hanabi
Tsuda, Minami
Tsukishiro, Yuu
Komatsu, Mikako
Yamaguchi, Shouhei
Mitsui, Sonoa
Kitamura, Eri
Fujiwara, Yoriko
Matsuzaki, Rei
Hirasawa, Hisayoshi
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Merryhachi
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"Motto, Nee Motto (もっと、ねぇもっと)" by Erabareshi
Tomm01p (All reviews)
Why do yuri fans have to suffer so much?
When I was stumbling upon this year's spring anime, Tachibanakan Triangle immediaetly caught my interest. Wait a minute, is this yuri? And a comedy without any nerve-racking drama *cough cough Citrus*? And potentially ecchi? Omygosh omygosh omygosh! Can such a perfect thing even exist?
Turns out, it doesn't. Well, I thought for a long time that it does, but two weeks prior to it's start a shocking message about the length of this anime arrived; Duration: 3 min. ; Internet was once again able to break my heart... Seriously? A freaking short? *sigh*
Anywayy, now let's talk about what this anime really is. A disappointment. Tachibanakan Triangle is an adaptation of a 20+ chapter long manga of the same name. I have read through the manga prior to watching the anime and it's important to say that, unlike the anime, the manga is actually good at what it does. It's light-themed, has laughs and fanservice moments. Sure, it's just a stupid yuri comedy, but if you come into it expecting that, it can't really disappoint. The characters are also very likeable as a whole, even if they follow the very basic patter of personalities diversity.
Now, does the anime has any of the things I mentioned? No, it doesn't. In a fact, the anime completely abandons everything the manga tries to accomplish. The episodes are so filled up with random content that before you're able to appreciate any single scene or moment the anime already moves on, throwing more poorly animated and non-sense making things at you. The whole fanservice part is also very disappointing. The shots are pretty much the exact same as in the manga, but they lack spirit. They lack the effort. Which is the problem of the whole anime, to be completely honest.
The manga plays with it's characters and with it's environment. Sure, the things happening in there are mostly random too, but they have their purpose. You can tell that the things characters experience are somehow related. Not in the anime however. The scene selection itself makes no sense and even when it decides to adapt somehow important things, their sole purpose is nowhere to be seen. Also, relationship growth is an imporant aspect of the manga, as there is a clear love-triangle between some of the girls later on. But once again, the anime moves so quickly and unlogically that you propably wouldn't even know which of the characters are truly in love if you haven't know beforehand. The characters themselves have absolutely no chemistry, you can't even tell apart their personalities. Their sole reason for being in the show is because they just have to be there. You wouldn't want to believe that these girls are friends, students or even real people.
Be ready for the real deal, the production values. Like I already mentioned, the pace with which the anime goes at is incredibly fast, even for a short. Sure, they tried to adapt as much as they could, but I would rather see a bit less content filled anime which would make a bit more sense than what Tachibanakan decided to go with. It's hard to follow, forgettable and all episodes blend together into a huge pile of randomness.
The animation is, kind of a big deal. I actually wonder how small of a budget this anime had. If you decide to make a short instead of full series because of small ammount of funds, I would expect that the animation quality of the short would atleast be respectable. Sadly, it isn't. The arstyle itself seems very messy, and it's kinda funny how little is actually animated. Most of the scenes are either static images or 'chibi' animations.
You know what's funny about Tachibanakan Triangle? Even though it's short, poorly animated and the yuri fanservice is also disappointing, I can't bring myself to hate it. It's a show I created a bond to and I seriously wanted it to succeed. Sadly, it didn't. And even though I'm in no position to tell you what to watch and what to not, if the only thing you're looking for is yuri fanservice, go check out Sakura Trick instead. And if you're interested in Tachibanakan Triangle in particular, go read the manga. In both cases, you're gonna end up with a much better experience than this empty shell of a real anime.
Bultra (All reviews)
Story 7/10:
Tachibanakan Love-to-Lie Triangle takes place in an alternate universe where the Hojo clan triumphed over all of the others during the Sengoku period, which in turn allowed the offspring of Hojo Soun's concubines to spread across the nation in the following years, spreading the 'yuri' gene to their daughters. The story takes place in the early 18th century, showing the effects that these lesbian genes have had on the nation in it's premature industrial revolution. The men of this world at some point in history were subjugated to a caste system where they were at the bottom, forcing them to work long, hard hours and as a result caused the technology of Japan to advance far faster than in our own world. This is an easy to miss detail, but is reinforced by the only male characters being the plumber, and people working the stands at the festival. Our story follows six young women and their coming of age as they find the true meaning of love in this world.
Art 6/10:
Love Tachibananakan Tri-Angle uses a similar style to most shorts, utilizing the usual moe-blob visuals to appeal to those of us who like 'girls-love'. I would have liked a little more effort put into the backgrounds however, but for a short anime like this, it was pretty standard.
Sound 10/10:
Nothing about the sound effects in Tabichichan Triangle-Lie-Angle used broke my immersion, the voice acting really fit the character. I was a little sad that the cicadas didn't make their usual sound, but it is what it is. The real deal is the ending, I have a feeling that song is going to be stuck in my head for a few weeks now.
Characters 7/10:
Tabatriangle Lie-Anakan love really made good use of showing a wide range of character architypes that we see in many other anime, and then shows us how they interact in such a different world than our own. It could be seen that they are generic architypes, and while this is true, it allows us to understand said characters and better understand their place in this alternate universe's setting.
Enjoyment 9/10:
Tri-Love Tachibana's Angle had me hooked right the way through it, so much that I watched the entire show in one sitting. I really enjoyed their subtle ways of uncovering the mystery of this strange world to us, the viewer by introducing plot elements gradually, yet not at such a pace for it to become a slog to get through. It especially had me glued to the screen trying to figure out the motives of each and every character as I watched episode after episode.
Overall 7/10:
For the final score I had to look at it from an outside point of view. I gave the score I did because while I enjoyed The Triangle of Tachibanakan's Lie, I can easily see why it wouldn't be for everyone, it's the sort of show that takes a few rewatches to really uncover everything this show has to offer.
Blood_Diver_A (All reviews)
[Yuri Harem: a Three Minute Short]
From the studio that brought us Netsuzou TRap and Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte kara comes their latest short: Tachibanakan Triangle. Adapted from the manga of the same name, you can expect the studio to produce a "quality" adaptation. In fact, I believe the studio has the capability to cram over 30 pages of manga content into a three minute anime and make it work. And if you believe that is a "quality" adaptation then I have a bridge to sell you.
Synopsis: expecting a normal life, Natsuno Hanabi returns to her hometown to study at a local high school, however upon entering Tachibanakan, her new dormitory, she realizes her dorm mates are anything, but normal.
There will be tons of poor/rushed development and that's because the studio is trying to cram as much content as they can into three minutes. You will see many cut scenes jumping from one scene to the next with little time for the audience to digest the previous scenes in question.
There will be lots of fanservice/ecchi content with the usual annoying censors, blocking the essential goods. The fanservice mostly involves the main character getting into absurd and perverted situations that any ecchi fan would recognize. Some classic ecchi scenes include: walking in on naked girl, falling on top of naked girl, girl getting tied up in a suggestive way, 'two people stuck in the closet' situation, etc. Still, fanservice or not, it's overdone and overused, making it predictable and boring.
And because this is a three minute anime, expect little to no world or character building. In fact, if you are expecting only fanservice and poor storytelling, then you're in luck.
The animation is really poor/lazy with some scenes sometimes feeling a bit choppy. The girl's character designs looks pretty cute, especially in their chibi forms. And since, this is a Yuri fanservice show, expects lots of bosoms, ass, and groin shots from questionable camera angles.
The voice acting is good. There is no opening song, however there is a heavy metal ending song, which is surprisingly good.
The characters are cliched and forgettable with no sense of character development and few redeeming traits. If you do watch this, you will see the girls sexually harass each other and make suggestive moves in an attempt to get into the other's pants, as if these were the only forms of communication that they know.
And in cliched fashion, we have the boring harem protagonist (but a girl this time), the childhood friend, the older sister-type with large breasts, the girl that likes to drink and make sexual advances, the mysterious stoic type who is secretly perverted, and the perverted ojou-sama. Nothing new, and nothing exciting.
ENJOYMENT:
The entire show was a huge disappointment. This should have been longer, like a regular 24 minute episode, with more focus on the story and character as opposed to focusing on fanservice and ecchi content.
EXStephen (All reviews)
This was a short and it's not even an average short. It's a Shoujo Ai with nothing going for it. The designs are cute, but everyone's personalities are boring and aren't memorable in the slightest. I'm already struggling to remember most of the episodes. There was a copious amount of fan service that didn't add anything besides eye candy. It was basically just cute girls doing ecchi things. It wasn't funny, it wasn't memorable, but since it was a short, it's not the worst thing out there. Chances are I'll forget all about this anime by the end of the week.
...But I have heard people enjoy the manga. Maybe I'll give that a shot.
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Tancredo – Why Obama Should be Impeached
Former Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) pulls no punches in his latest Washington Times OpEd – "The case for impeachment:Obama has violated his oath of office over immigration".
You don't hear politicians speak this truthfully very often.
Mr. Obama's paramount goal, as he so memorably put it during his campaign in 2008, is to "fundamentally transform America." He has not proposed improving America – he is intent on changing its most essential character. The words he has chosen to describe his goals are neither the words nor the motivation of just any liberal Democratic politician. This is the utopian, or rather dystopian, reverie of a dedicated Marxist – a dedicated Marxist who lives in the White House.
Because of the power he wields over budgets, the judiciary, national defense and even health care, his regime and his program are not just about changing public policy in the conventional sense. When one considers the combination of his stop-at-nothing attitude, his contempt for limited government, his appointment of judges who want to create law rather than interpret it – all of these make this president today's single greatest threat to the great experiment in freedom that is our republic.
Yes, Mr. Obama is a more serious threat to America than al Qaeda. We know that Osama bin Laden and followers want to kill us, but at least they are an outside force against whom we can offer our best defense. But when a dedicated enemy of the Constitution is working from the inside, we face a far more dangerous threat. Mr. Obama can accomplish with the stroke of his pen what bin Laden cannot accomplish with bombs and insurgents.
Well said Mr Tancredo.
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Elisheva Hannah Levin says:
Ononymous: Obama is a Marxist by any reasonable definition of the term. This is not surprising given his background, but should be even less surprising given what he has clearly told us he became president to do. It's about time to start calling a spade a fricking shovel.
With respect to the article, Tancredo is right. Those of you who agree with him might want to read Article 14 of The Articles of Freedom: The Works of the Continental Congress 2009 which is entitled "Illegal Immigration and the Oath of Office Clause of Article 2, Section 1, and the Faithfully Execute Clause of Article 2 Section 3 of the Constitution." You might also want to consider signing the Articles of Freedom and commit yourself to civic action that goes beyond tea parties and petitions for redress of grievances. The Articles of Freedom can be found at http://www.articlesoffreedom.us .
I do have one small bone to pick with Tancredo. It is about a mistatement where he says: "Therefore it is of the utmost importance for the administration to everything in its power to keep Americans safe."
No, Mr. Tancredo–as much as I agree with you on the gist of the article–it is not the job of the federal government to keep Americans safe. We will do that ourselves, given the Second Amendment to the Constitution. But as Tancredo implies here and says directly elsewhere, it IS the job of the federal government to keep our border secure and to protect these United States from invasion. Bravo for calling them on this!
Elisheva Hannah Levin
Delegate–New Mexico, Continental Congress 2009
hate mongering my butt! obama what are you doing posting here as ononymous. you should be ashamed of yourself.
Anyone who believes even a ftaction of this hate-mongering nonsense has lost the little bit of mind they once had!
The person to talk to about getting him out is Mitch McConnell. Mitch is in a position to get the ball rolling faster and on the right track toward getting our nation back for keeps. I don't think you will find Mitch playing any part in the new plans for NWO death to the Treaty of Westphalia either.
Cobra says:
Things are getting interesting…
obama's mother and father both were marxists. the school he went to as a kid was a marxists school.his self admitted mentor was listed by the house on unamerican activities as a communist. this website lists many communists that backed his campaigns. sorry but if it walks like a duck etc. its a duck. in short look up his background and then tell me what he is.
Tom Tancredo is a true hero of today. Everybody says they want a leader. And then when one steps up he's crucified. Tom has stepped up to the plate here in Colorado and has thrown his hat in the ring running for Governor after the chaos of the GOP candidates failures. He is being crucified by the Tea Party in this state for standing up. Truly amazing.
How can you not compare this to the Obama Zombies.
now if we can get active congressmen and senators to say the same thing our country still has chance to survive.
He is also not eligible to be president. He wasn't born here among other things. He also perjured himself when fill out the application to take the bar exam. Where it asked if he used another name, he answered NO. He used Barry Soetoro for many years. Impeach this phony bum. Where is the birth certificate and other documents that every American must show to get a job in this country. Social security card, school transcripts and more. Where are they liar?
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Q: How to configure Wildfly 8.2 to include ETag response header for static files (html, js, css, etc) I am running into to some caching problems because Wildfly 8.2 only includes the Last-Modified response header by default when serving static files from a deployed war file. I would like Wildfly to include ETag, response header, which would solve my caching problems. Does anyone know if possible to configure in the standalone.xml file?

A: I have implemented workaround with special "resource" servlet serving war resources with ETag header.
Servlet extends from FileServlet class implemented in Omnifaces library (http://showcase.omnifaces.org/servlets/FileServlet). FileServlet implementation handles all HTTP caching headers correctly, all you need is to implement resource loading method getFile() to serve war resource files.
Here is the example for correct cached serving all resources from "app" directory:
@WebServlet(value = {"/app/*"})
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Bakken Crude, Ban oil trains, Bomb Trains, CPC-1232, Crude By Rail, Derailment, Explosion, Federal Regulation (U.S.), Fire, Hazmat notification, Keep it in the ground, Rail infrastructure, Spill prevention and response, Tank car design, Tank car retirement, Tank car retrofit, Tar sands crude, Train length, Train speed, Train weight
New Oil Train Safety Regs Focus on Accident Response, Not Prevention
December 8, 2015 Roger Straw
Repost from Center for Biological Diversity
Long Phase-out of Hazardous Cars, Inadequate Speed Limits Leave Communities at Risk of Explosive Derailments
For Immediate Release, December 7, 2015
Contact: Jared Margolis, (802) 310-4054
WASHINGTON— A new transportation bill signed by President Obama includes provisions intended to improve the safety of oil trains, but leaves puncture-prone tank cars in service for years and fails to address the speed, length and weight of trains that experts point to as the leading causes of explosive derailments. The bill upgrades safety features on oil train tank cars and requires railroads to provide emergency responders with real-time information about when and where dangerous oil cargoes are being transported but doesn't do enough to prevent oil train accidents, which have risen sharply in recent years.
"While these regulations improve our ability to prepare for oil train disasters they do virtually nothing to prevent them from ever occurring in the first place," said Jared Margolis, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity who focuses on the impacts of energy development on endangered species. "Until we dramatically reduce the speed and length of these bomb trains it's only a matter of time before the next explosive derailment sends fireballs rolling through one of our communities."
The new regulations will require all oil train tank cars to include fire-resistant ceramic coatings and protections for protruding top fittings. The final rule issued by federal regulators in May only required oil trains with 35 loaded oil tank cars or 20-car blocks of oil tank cars to implement the new standards, and would not have required the ceramic blankets or top fitting protections for all retrofitted cars.
But experts say even the protective measures included in the new transportation regulations signed into law on Friday will do little to prevent a spill if a train derails at speeds faster than 18 mph, and oil trains are permitted to travel at 40 mph to 50 mph. And the new regulations do not require the phase-out of dangerous puncture-prone tank cars to begin until 2018, and allows them to remain in service until 2029.
"It's irresponsible to continue to allow these bomb trains to roll through the middle of our communities and across some our most pristine landscapes," said Margolis. "We need to quit pretending we can make these dangerous trains safe and simply ban them altogether."
Congress has directed the U.S. Department of Transportation to continue requiring notifications to states of train routes and frequencies so communities can better prepare to respond to train derailments, explosions and oil spills. However, the new regulations do nothing to remedy the track infrastructure problems, or the excessive length and weight of oil trains, cited as leading causes of derailments. Further, it remains unclear whether the public will have access to information about these hazards.
"Keeping information on oil trains from public scrutiny is outrageous, and only serves to protect the corporate interests that care little about the risk to the homes, schools and wild areas that these trains threaten," said Margolis. "We need to keep these trains off the tracks and keep these dangerous fossil fuels in the ground, rather than keeping the public in the dark."
The National Transportation Safety Board has repeatedly found that current tank cars are prone to puncture on impact, spilling oil and often triggering destructive fires and explosions. But federal regulators have ignored the safety board's official recommendation to stop shipping crude oil in the hazardous tank cars. Recent derailments and explosions have made clear that even the newer tank cars, known as CPC-1232s, are not significantly safer, often puncturing at low speeds.
The recent surge in U.S. and Canadian oil production, much of it from Bakken shale and Alberta tar sands, has led to a more than 4,000 percent increase in crude oil shipped by rail since 2005, primarily in trains with as many as 120 oil cars that are more than 1.5 miles long. The result has been oil spills, destructive fires, and explosions when oil trains have derailed. More oil spilled in train accidents just in 2013 than in the 38 years from 1975 to 2012 combined.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 900,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
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Top 10 Questions About Oil Trains: Industry Lobbies for Weak Rules While Derailment Fire Rages
Repost from The Huffington Post
By Todd Paglia, ForestEthics, 03/19/2015 1:59 pm EDT
DERAILMENT Marvin Beatty via Getty Images
On Friday, March 6, while an oil train explosion in Illinois was still sending flames and black smoke into the air, railroad agents were in Washington, DC lobbying to weaken new train safety standards. Safer brakes are "extremely costly…" they told White House officials, and explained in great detail why speed limits are impractical. Like the auto industry resisting seatbelts, the rail industry is on the wrong track when it comes to safety.
In the last month, there have been six derailments of crude oil trains in the U.S. and Canada — three of them ignited, sending flames and mushroom clouds hundreds of feet into the air. Luckily, these were in relatively remote locations and no one was killed.
These disasters are not an aberration — oil train traffic is skyrocketing, which means more derailments and more explosions. The oil and rail industries hope to increase further the amount of crude oil barreling down the tracks in the coming years. Before that happens, ForestEthics has some questions we'd like to see the Obama administration ask the army of lobbyists who are trying to push the bar on safety even lower than it already is:
When did trains start exploding?
Rail transportation of crude oil is growing rapidly and dangerously — from fewer than 10,000 carloads in 2008 to nearly half a million in 2014 — for two reasons: Bakken oil from North Dakota and Canadian tar sands. The North American boom means oil companies are trying to tails and mine more of this extreme oil, crude that is high in carbon, difficult and expensive to produce, and dangerous to transport.
Are cities and towns with rail lines safe?
With the exception of Capitol Hill (the rail industry seems to be sparing Washington, DC) most routing is done specifically throughout cities and towns. No, the oil and rail industries are probably not purposely targeting us, it's just that the rails in populated places tend to be better maintained and rated for heavier cargoes. The sane thing to do would be to stop hauling crude oil if it can't be transported safely. A far distant next best is to make these trains as safe as possible and require rerouting around cities and water supplies.
What is the government doing?
Not nearly enough. While 100-plus car trains full of an explosive crude roll through our towns, the U.S. government is barely moving, bogged down by nearly 100 of Washington's most expensive K-Street lobbyists. In fall 2014, ForestEthics, Earthjustice, and the Sierra Club sued the Department of Transportation to speed up new safety standards on oil trains. We called the trains an imminent danger to public safety. The federal government responded by once again delaying their decision on new rules that have been in the works for years.
What is the slowest speed at which an oil explosion could happen?
An oil tank car can catch fire and explode in an accident at zero miles per hour. Assuming a slightly raised rail bed, an oil car that tips over while standing still (this can and has happened on poorly maintained rails) will strike the ground going approximately 16 miles per hour — more than fast enough to breach the tank, spark, and ignite if it hits a rock, a curb, any hard protrusion.
Do firefighters know when and where oil trains are moving?
First responders do not know when, where, how much oil, and what kind is coming through their town. The US Department of Transportation ordered that railroads and oil companies make this information public. But only for trains carrying more than a million gallons of Bakken crude, and even this information is not being made public on a consistent basis.
How do you extinguish oil train fire?
You don't put out an oil train fire; nobody does. Oil fires require specialized foam, which fire departments do not have in nearly sufficient supply to fight the fire from even a single 30,000 gallon tank car. All firefighters can do is evacuate those in danger, move outside the one mile blast zone and let the fire burn out, which can take days. In Illinois, firefighters unloaded their equipment to fight an oil train fire, realized the danger and left behind $10,000 in equipment getting out of harm's way. You can prevent these fires by banning oil trains — but you can't fight these fires once they happen.
The older oil cars are definitely unsafe, what about the newer ones?
The antiquated DOT-111 tank cars make up 80 percent of the fleet in the U.S. — U.S. rail safety officials first called them "inadequate" to haul crude oil more than 20 years ago. The jury is now in on the newer CPC-1232 tank cars and they are not much safer. The derailments and explosions in West Virginia and Illinois were 1232s traveling at or below the speed limit. In fact, the former head of the federal rail safety agency said in a radio interview that the recent derailments and fires were "the last nail in the coffin" for the CPC-1232 as an alternative to DOT-111 for oil transport.
We know that Bakken crude explodes; does tar sands explode?
Ordinarily it might not, but to move tar sands by rail (or pipeline for that matter) you have to mix in highly flammable, toxic diluents (light petroleum products like propane.) So if it's on a train or in a pipeline the flashpoint for tar sands crude is lower than for Bakken oil. The oil train explosion on February 16, 2015 in Ontario, Canada occurred in -40 degrees F weather — proving that this stuff can ignite even in arctic cold. So not only is tar sands the dirtiest oil on Earth, but also it may well be the most dangerous too.
Do I live in the Blast Zone?
ForestEthics used oil rail routes from industry, Google maps, and census data to calculate that 25 million Americans live in the oil train blast zone — the dangerous evacuation zone in the case of an oil train derailment and fire. You can use the map to see if your home, office, school, or favorite natural area, landmark or sports stadium is in danger. Visit www.blast-zone.org.
The solution is to ban oil trains. If you can't do something safely, you shouldn't do it at all. This cargo is too dangerous to our families, our cities, our drinking water, our wildlife and our climate. The extreme crude carried on trains is only a tiny fraction of the oil we use each day as a nation. So while we transition our economy to clean energy and get beyond all oil, we should leave this extreme oil from Alberta and North Dakota in the ground.
See original post on ForestEthics.org and share your concern with President Obama on rail safety here.
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The old Library on 6th Ave. in the West Village. Greg Stewart photos.
Marco Maggi, Tod Lippy, Esopus
and a Basement Booked
As I entered the Jefferson Public Market Branch of the New York Public Library on 10th Street and 6th Avenue on the night of the reception for "Drawing Set", I heard a bustling vibration of voices emanating from the basement that one does not usually associate with libraries. As I descended the spiral staircase, I heard the young voices of children, alongside the din of accented English and Spanish. A small gathering of locals from the West Village congregated with the friends of those behind the event, Tod Lippy and Marco Maggi.
These two extraordinary gentlemen collaborated to form a truly exceptional showing of art. Tod, the founder and primary force behind the eclectic magazine Esopus, mingled with the friendly crowd, showing copies of the latest editions to interested eyes that were drawn to the bottom of this large tower in the historic building. Marco, an international artist originally from Uruguay who now lives in New York, slowly meandered between the groups of families and friends, expressing his deepest gratitude for their attendance at this event.
For his "Drawing Set" exhibition, Marco provided the readers of Esopus with a sheet of colored, blank paper alongside a sheet of tiny, custom decals. The readers were instructed to create their own, original art with these materials, then send it back to Tod. The results were beautiful in their range of content, branching from political to absurd, imaginative to logical. Many of the contributors to this project are practicing artists themselves, including Marilyn Minter, Kerry James Marshall, Thomas Nozkowski, Ellen Berkenbilt, Paulo Buscky, Lilliana Porter, and many more. There were nearly 80 submissions in total.
I got a chance to speak to Marco personally at the event; he claimed that Tod had become his newest friend through another Esopus event. After some discussion about that project, the two minds intertwined to create a challenge for Tod's readers. The result was this wonderful artistic explosion. Marco expressed that he was blown away by the generosity of the readers to contribute their time and efforts into such a beautiful project that is totally underground, quite literally in the basement gallery of Jefferson Market. The Uruguayan artist told me that there was no one piece that stood out amongst the rest, but that the most exceptional aspect of the project was the dialogue between all of the pieces.
It was the way that readers of Esopus put together their various perspectives to have this amalgam that is the pinnacle of such an experiment. One could glean that the readers of the magazine who participated were folk of a certain artistic caliber. Some pieces presented clear talent in technique, while others were clear social commentary. Of course, as one would expect in this day and age, there was even a showing of a certain President Trump on the wall. Many of the submissions were from New Yorkers, but there were representatives from Tennessee, Spain, New Jersey, Germany, Ohio, California, and many other places near and far. It was rather interesting to think that people from all spans of the globe were given the same materials, and all made such unique and evocative pieces of art.
In an interview with Tod I got some insight into the publisher's job of acquiring content and working with artists for his beloved brainchild. Unlike many other publications, Esopus is basically a one-man operation. That means that Tod goes out into the world of writers, photographers, artists, and craftsmen and decides which pieces will make it out into the public through his magazine. One of the aspects of the mission of Esopus is to create a dialogue and space for collaboration between reader and artist. He has six artist projects for each issue which accomplishes this goal.
Currently the circulation of Esopus is about 30,000, with readers in all 50 states and 23 countries. The very loyal base of subscribers is about 2,000. The consistent success of Esopus has been its ability to provide the readership with an eclectic mix of art, as well as the good publicity that has been following it since its early editions. It has been reviewed in The New York Times, along with many international publications which have spread it around the globe.
According to Tod, Esopus was founded on the following concept: an annual arts publication that features multidisciplinary content presented in a striking visual format with no advertising. It is an unmediated expression of various artists which align with Tod's ethos for arts. Each edition contains materials from the Museum of Modern Art archives, fiction, poetry, works on film, and visual essays. Tod's vision, which one gathers immediately upon picking up one of these rather large editions, is driven by fusion; the culmination of various forms which comment on current events, historical happenings, cultural trends, and whatever strikes Tod's fancy as artistically important to the production of Esopus.
It has been a 501(c)(3) non-profit magazine which runs primarily off of grants and donations, with only about a third of the revenue coming from actual sales of the magazines. Tod is a truly passionate individual who loves what he does. He executes almost all of the work involved in putting together the impressive collections each year. Most of his time is dedicated to this wonderful publication.
I also got the opportunity to speak with the librarian that helped to curate the event, Frank Collerius. His comments were rather robust. He told me about the moment when Tod visited Jefferson Market with the VP of Communications for all of the New York Public Library system. The librarians offered the first floor lobby as an option for the gallery space. When Marco was presented with the two options, he responded with gusto. "NEVER THE MAIN FLOOR! NEVER THE LOBBY! ALWAYS THE BASEMENT! ALWAYS UNDERGROUND! I LOVE THIS BUILDING!" This encounter with the incredibly friendly artist shows his dedication to living in the world of off-beat art. He sticks true to the ideals of an artist in the West Village, opting for something that is a little harder to find, something that lies off the beaten path, for all those who are willing to search for it.
The gallery for "Drawing Set" is on display until October 7th in the Little Gallery in the basement of Jefferson Market Library at 425 Sixth Avenue. Esopus can be found at book stores around the world and online at Esopus.org.
Submission from Charleen Liang
Copies of Esopus
The West Village community showing support for "Drawing Set"
Greg Stewart lives in Brooklyn, New York, and attends The New School for Social Research. You can read more about him in About Us.
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