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1907 View over BMH & Naval Yards to Harbour
Submitted by David
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hms tamar ship
What: Lots to see, but let's start with the obvious, the long building stretching across the foreground of the photo...
... the former British Military Hospital up on Bowen Road.
It opened in 1907, and it's still here today - I hadn't realised it's passed its 100th birthday already!
In the main photo it all looks spick and span, as it had just been finished. The lack of people, plus the scaffolding on the small building to the left, makes me think it isn't open for business just yet.
That small building on the left, still in scaffolding, will be the Nursing Sisters Quarters. Next to it is the main building: North Wing on the left, Administrative Block in the middle, and South Wing to the right. The small building up the slope in the foreground is marked simply "Barrack Block". Note the bench seat on the lawn in front of it. Must have been a nice spot to sit in the evening.
Above the hospital at the right of the picture we can see the rooftops of Wanchai. The only buildings that stand out are the four gables of the Blue Buildings on the seafront. They housed the Royal Naval Canteen:
On their left you can see a distinct gap. It's the line of Arsenal Street, and marks the boundary between civilian Wanchai to the east, and the military land to the west.
Another hospital?
Below the gap is a long building on the top of a small hill. On this 1856 map it is marked as "Native Hospital":
But by the 1920s the map shows it as "East Married Quarters". I think that in this photo it would already be the East Married Quarters, but please leave a comment if you can confirm.
Arsenal Yard and its Aerial Ropeway
The first piece of land west from Arsenal Street is Arsenal Yard, hence the street name. An unusual feature of this area is the old aerial ropeway that ran across it, from the seafront up to the Navy's magazine on the hillside. Can you spot it?
Here's a close-up to help:
If you look inside the "c" of the watermark in the close-up photo you'll see one of the pylons. At its 4 o'clock is the curved path where the cable turns round and back to start heading uphill. And at 10 o'clock are the other pylons leading to the seafront.
I didn't spot this when I looked at the real photograph, only after scanning it and zooming in. A good bonus.
Wellington Barracks
Down to the left of the pylons is a group of much older buildings, the Wellington Barracks:
The Camber
That's the name of the small basin and slip above Wellington Barracks. On a 1920s map, it looks as though the buildings around the Camber belonged to the Army. So was the Camber specifically for Army use, or was it shared with the Navy?
The Navy Dockyard
Left from the Camber, and we're into the Royal Naval Dockyard. Between the U and L of the watermark are four long, low buildings. They don't appear on later maps, so they're probably just temporary structures. Remember that this piece of shoreline had only been reclaimed for a few years when this photo was taken. The reclamation is complete, and the seawalls have all been built, but you can see that the area still looks like a building site.
Across from the temporary buildings is the big Tidal Basin, with those distinctive curved cranes.
That Chimney again
On the far left of the photo is the big chimney we looked at last month. In that photo, the chimney was still under construction, and they had just started pile-driving for the foundations of the Electrical Generating Station building. Here we can see that chimney and attached Station both look complete. No sign of any smoke though, so maybe the machinery inside isn't complete yet.
Hopefully some of our nautical readers can tell us more about what was in the harbour on this day. The only ship I recognise is the white hulk, HMS Tamar. Later that would move in to the Tidal Basin:
What else should we be looking at?
Who: I'm starting to think this collection of photos belonged to someone in Hong Kong to work on the Naval Dockyard Extension. They were all taken around 1906-7, and several show the Dockyard Extension at different stages of development.
When: Early 1907. The hospital opened in mid 1907, so if I'm right that the building is finished but not open, the date should be early 1907. And if I'm wrong, please leave a comment!
Where: The photographer is somewhere up the hill above the hospital, probably on Magazine Gap Road. I walked up there this week, to the small lay-by in front of the Magazine Heights residential block. There are too many trees in the way to get a good photo, but the view looks about right. If you ever visit Magazine Heights, please could you take a photo to compare the view?
The map "Hong Kong. Cantonment of Victoria", c.1924 is very useful for identifying buildings in this area. It can be viewed at the SMO library in North Point, ref: HG7.
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Date picture taken (may be approximate):
1900s Hong Kong
1907 View over BMH & Naval Yards to Harbour shows Place Bowen Road British Military Hospital [1907- ]
1907 View over BMH & Naval Yards to Harbour shows Place Blue Buildings - Praya East [????-c.1934]
1907 View over BMH & Naval Yards to Harbour shows Place Cable-car over Queensway [1906-????]
1907 View over BMH & Naval Yards to Harbour shows Place Boat Pool / Camber, Naval Dockyard [????-c.1962]
1907 View over BMH & Naval Yards to Harbour shows Place Wellington Barracks / HMS Tamar [????-????]
1907 View over BMH & Naval Yards to Harbour shows Place Royal Naval Dockyard [????-????]
1907 View over BMH & Naval Yards to Harbour shows Place Big Chimney, Naval Dockyard [1906-1960]
Postcard of the Same View
Permalink Submitted by moddsey on Sat, 2011-03-19 00:48.
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re: Postcard of the Same View
Permalink Submitted by David on Sat, 2011-03-19 17:17.
Moddsey, well spotted. As you say, it's an exact match.
It looks as though photographers got the most from their photos, often selling them in several versions. eg you'd probably have the option to buy this image as a black & white postcard, a hand-coloured postcard (like this one), or a photographic reprint for your album.
regards, David
PS Did you have any problem inserting the picture? I just tried - it looks ok when I'm editing, but disappears when I save it.
The block on the hill
Permalink Submitted by marlowe on Sun, 2011-03-20 19:04.
In the picture, there is a 3 story building in between the admin bock of the hospital, and the small building on the hill, with a bridge from the 3rd level of the "hospital", to the 1st level of this other building.
Do you know what other building was for?
Re: Insertion of photo
Permalink Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 2011-03-20 21:24.
Yes, there was a problem inserting it as it had disappeared. Thus the URL.
A query regarding photos
Permalink Submitted by Ernest (not verified) on Mon, 2011-03-21 19:25.
I've taken a number of photographs from the roof of Island School (which is where I study at present) of the same location from a perspective largely similar to that of the 1907 photograph. It is very interesting to see how much the approach roads to the BMH have changed over the years. The question is, how do I upload them to this page?
Borrett Road
Borrett Road now begins at Kennedy Road, spans Bowen Road, and ends at the gates of Island School.
A question which I've tried to answer but to no avail was whether Borrett Road existed before 1967, when Island School was opened. I list below a number of clues for the answer
- the obvious one, which is that if Borrett Road did exist in 1907, BMH would not have been called 'Bowen Road BMH"
- the bridge that carries Borrett Road over Bowen Road does not look like a pre-war structure.
- the administrative block between the two wings stood on what is now the stretch of Borrett Road sandwiched between the new Island School and the BMH blocks. The construction of Borrett Road would have required its demolition.
- but then all that does not exlude the possibility that Borrett Road existed before 1967 connecting only Kennedy Road and Bowen Road, whilst after 67 it was extended across Bowen Road to what is now island school?
Re: Borrett Road
Permalink Submitted by moddsey on Tue, 2011-03-22 06:27.
In 1936, the road between Kennedy Road (near the eastern corner of W.D.L. No 14) and terminating at Bowen Road Military Hospital (W.D.L. No. 7) was widened and renamed as Borrett Road. Yes, this section of road was there when Island School frst opened in 1967.
The extension of Borrett Road to Borrett Mansions, I assume would have come later. Borrett Mansions was completed in 1966. I recall the Island School buses had to make a U-turn up the hill near the Mansions before coming back down again onto Bowen Road.
re: The block on the hill
Permalink Submitted by David on Mon, 2011-03-21 20:58.
Alun, looks like I labelled the buildings wrongly the first time around. Here's the correct version:
The single-storey building in the foreground, with the bench on the grass in front of it, is "W. O. Qrs", which I think means "Warrant Officers' Quarters".
The three-storey building down the slope in front of that is the "Barrack Block".
In front of that, and lower down again is the central section of the main building - we can just see its roof from this angle. It's marked the "Administrative Block".
I can't see the bridge you mentioned. Is it visible here, or in another view?
Permalink Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2011-03-21 22:10.
Seems the software objected to the "&" in the photo's filename. Changed it to a "-", and the photo shows ok now.
re: A query regarding photos
Hi Ernest,
Thankyou! I've written instructions on how to upload a photo here. Let me know if you have any problems.
The Bridge to the Barrack Block
Permalink Submitted by marlowe on Wed, 2011-03-23 18:02.
The bridge goes from the 3rd floor of the Admin block, to the 1st floor of the Barrack Block in this picture I found on the Government Library site.
To Ernest, the Barrack block is on the hillside, where they built the Island School.
There was a roadway that went past the hospital, around the Hospital Reservoir (where the sports field and swimming pool area), to the back of the buildings on the hill.
BMH from Mt Cameron
A picture showing the other buildings behind the BMH, many associated with the Hospital.
Borrett Rd
Permalink Submitted by marlowe on Thu, 2011-03-24 08:33.
A road, (now called Borrett Road), shows in maps from 1901, where it ends at Bowen road. So when was the bridge over Bowen road built?
It shows in an Aerial picture from 1945.
There were some large buildings up in the valley behind the reservior, and they would need to drive ambulances up to the Hospital, it makes sense that Borrett road was extended prewar, rather than using the zig-zag path from the gates on Bowen Road.
Ships in the harbour
Permalink Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2011-03-24 10:56.
Thanks to Stephen for the following information:
The date for this photo is going to have to be post 1903 - HMS Eden (right foreground) was a one off (and the last steam reciprocating) RN destroyer, sunk in a collision in 1916, but had returned to UK before that (not sure when). However the [latest date for this photo] is probably 1910 because there are two Redbreast class sloops off the dockyard and one of the RN ones in the China Fleet, Lapwing, was disposed of in 1910 in Bombay. The dockyard basin looks complete (pity we can't see whether the dry dock is). BMH wasn't completed until 1907. My guess is sometime around 1908/09.
Permalink Submitted by moddsey on Fri, 2011-03-25 06:35.
Marlowe - nice pic of Borrett Road 1945.
In 'Captive Surgeon' the layout of BMH is given. It notes that in pre-1941 that "there was only one approach road winding up to the hospital, Borrett Road, but there was a subsidiary road, Bowen Road running along a contour line but not strong enough to take heavy traffic."
Borrett Road, the BMH, and some modern views
Permalink Submitted by ernestlmt on Fri, 2011-03-25 23:06.
Many thanks to Marlowe for that fascinating information. I can be convinced that the bridge is a 1930s structure (there are some interesting art-deco like features on its supports) but I had always persuaded myself it was built in the 50s onwards. The railings and the design of the road surface look too modern for the 1930s, but I agree that ambulances would not have been able to negotiate the zig-zag.
I attach below a number of photographs which I recently took from the roof of Island School. They should make interesting comparison with the 1907 photo. It is interesting to see how much has survived on ground level, including the remains of the small building perpendicular to the North Block that stood on the left hand side of the photograph. Some gas lamp posts on the zig zag road have survived, and so has, of course, parts of the stairs that led to the Barracks Block, which is now the school's rear entrance.
BMH from Island School 1
The Borrett Road roundabout:
Captive Surgeon
Permalink Submitted by Ernest (not verified) on Sat, 2011-03-26 14:33.
Have been reading Captive Surgeon with great interest, Moddsey.
Very amused to read the following:
"Co-habitation with a high proportion of these girls led to venereal infection and some men sought satisfaction in their own sex. Alas, this did not safeguard them from infection."
Permalink Submitted by Chris Mansfield (not verified) on Wed, 2011-03-30 06:51.
I was about to post asking when the BMH was demolished until I saw that modern photo. In Hong Kong as we know it's a rarity to see something old still standing so I just assumed it was done. I feel entirely silly now seeing as I attended pre-school at "A Small World" in the BMH building during the late 80s and went to Island School for a brief period.
BMH 1945
A detail of the BMH in 1945, taken from Conduit Road, (looking at the Japanese Monument on top of Mt Cameron)
see the bridge over Bowen road,
It seems there is access to the house on the right from Borrett Road,
but that is a guess (or wishful thinking)
And from above,
also 1945
BMH and Borrett Road
Probably 1940
Time-ball Tower at Signal Hill
Permalink Submitted by cmshun on Tue, 2012-10-23 20:38.
This photo also reveals the "new" time-ball tower at Signal Hill which only came into operation in 1908 replacing the first time-ball tower at the Marine Police Station in TST.
re: Time-ball Tower at Signal Hill
Permalink Submitted by David on Wed, 2012-10-24 21:33.
Well spotted, I hadn't noticed that. The Observatory's report for 1908 says: "It was first dropped on the new site on January 8th."
They also note a 'bug' in the system: "[...] on August 17th the ball fell about 26 seconds too early, a contact having been made through the upper springs of the Mean Time clock by insects."
Permalink Submitted by cmshun on Fri, 2012-11-09 00:09.
Interesting! Thanks David.
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Seminary Honors Bishop Tracy S. Malone at Spring Commencement
DAYTON, OHIO, May 23, 2018 — United Theological Seminary held its Spring Commencement on May 19, 2018, at Grace United Methodist Church, Dayton, Ohio. Sixty-one masters, doctoral and Course of Study graduates earned a diploma or certificate after years of hard work, study and spiritual growth and were sent forth to serve as faithful, fruitful leaders of the Church.
Bishop Tracy Smith Malone, episcopal leader of the East Ohio Conference of The United Methodist Church (UMC), delivered the commencement address.
"Ministry matters" was Bishop Malone's challenge to graduates. Meaningful ministry and transformational leadership, she explained, is more than what you do, it's how you do it — with humility, compassion and courage. She encouraged students to continue focusing on these spiritual characteristics and a growing relationship with God long after graduation in order to lead transformation in their congregations and communities.
Bishop Malone exemplifies this type of leadership in her own career. In recognition of her outstanding ministry of evangelism and social action and her powerful leadership as a pastor, district superintendent and bishop, United awarded Bishop Malone the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree during the commencement ceremony.
In 2016, she was elected a bishop of The UMC and appointed to the East Ohio Episcopal Area, where she continues to oversee more than 700 congregations and 150,000 churches. In addition to leading the East Ohio Episcopal Area, she currently serves as President of the United Methodist General Commission on the Status and Role of Women.
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THE PRESIDENTAL SWEEPSTAKES OF 1844. Preparing to Start
The National Clay Minstrel continues with that toe-tapping tune, "Jimmy Polk of Tennessee."
By J. GREINER.
Tune — "Dandy Jim of Caroline."
O, every day brings something new,
The Loco Focos find it so;
And strange events have proved to Martin
That doubtful things are "mighty unsartin."
At Lindenwald the Fox is holed,
The Coons all laugh to hear it told—
Ha! ha! ha! such a nominee
As Jimmy Polk of Tennessee.
O, annexation was the yoke,
That fixed Van like a "pig in a poke!"
They poked it to the cunning elf,
By poking Jimmy Polk himself!
At Lindenwald, &c.
And "Cass," poor fool, his chance has flown,
Like the "lone star," he stands alone;
His "Texas letter" proves that he,
Should write his name without a C.
And Colonel Johnson too, whose zeal
Burned bright for Texas and Repeal;
The Locos thought Dick "didn't know beans,"
And so they poked up Polk for greens.
But Polk for greens won't save their bacon,
The party is to its centre shaken;
E'en Tyler and Texas now do say,
That Polk can't polk it into Clay.
And Silas Wright ('twas a good joke,
Declined,) he was not fond of Polk;
But, Silas we won't trouble you,
You're "right" without the "W."
Next George M. Dallas they persuade,
Altho' he wore the black cockade.
And tho' he went the Bank and Biddle,
To Polk he plays the second fiddle.
Now "choke" and Polk will always rhyme,
And Dallas and gallows is very sublime;
They dosed the Fox on Polk root poison,
Huzza for Clay and Frelinghuysen!
"Dandy Jim of Caroline" was a popular minstrel-show tune. Please don't look up the lyrics. Please. Don't. If you do, that will take you down the rabbit hole into blackface minstrel shows, the "Zip Coon" stock character, and much sadness.
The Loco Focos (or, more commonly, Locofocos) were a radical Democratic splinter party that took their name from a brand of self-lighting match (from an incident when Tammany Hall shut off the gas lights in the chamber where they were meeting so they had to light candles).
Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) was the Sly Fox of Kinderhook. Lindenwald (now a National Historic Site!) was his house. The "coons," or raccoons, were the Whigs, much as the elephants and the donkeys are today's Republicans and Democrats.
James Knox Polk (1795-1849) , was born in North Carolina. He moved with his family to Tennessee in 1806. He served as a Representative from Tennessee and as Governor of Tennessee.
Annexation, that is, the annexation of Texas, was the hot topic in the 1840s. Polk and Dallas favored it, Clay and Frelinghuysen didn't. And that's why there's a Dallas, Texas, today.
Brigadier General Lewis Cass (1782-1866) stood for the Democratic nomination for President in 1844. He was defeated on the 9th ballot by James K. Polk. As Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War he had been instrumental in enforcing the Indian Removal Act. His "Texas letter" written 10 May 1844 to Senator Edward A. Hannegan of Indiana, a Democrat, and published in the Washington Globe on 16 May, argued for immediate annexation. The "lone star" was the symbol of Texas.
Rumpsey Dumpsey, Rumpsey Dumpsey, Colonel Johnson killed Tecumseh. Richard M. Johnson (1780-1850) was Martin Van Buren's vice president, and the only vice president ever elected by the Senate under the 12th Amendment. He stood for nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1844, but was not selected.
"Repeal" or Irish Repeal, was a popular cause among Irish immigrants. It referred to repealing the Acts of Union of 1800 that joined the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In the USA the Repealers had torch-light parades, oratory drawing huge crowds, and the Catholic vote. Anyone who wanted the "Native American" vote, however, leery as they were of immigrants and the immigrants' weird foreign religion, would stay away from Repeal.
The "greens" would be poke sallet, common in the South, using the leaves of the (poisonous) pokeweed as a foodstuff.
John Tyler (1790-1862), a Whig, had become president after the death of William Henry Harrison. The Whigs threw Tyler out of the party for supporting the annexation of Texas.
Silas Wright, Jr. (1795-1847) favored the Tariff of 1842 and opposed the annexation of Texas. The Democrats, attempting to build a broad base, offered him the vice-presidential nomination in 1844, which he declined, running for Governor of New York instead (he won).
George M. Dallas (1792-1864) of Philadelphia, a Democrat, supported tariff reduction and territorial expansion. When James K. Polk and Silas Wright were nominated to be the presidential and vice-presidential candidates, Dallas wasn't even at the convention. He was awakened at home by a messenger who told him that Wright had declined the nomination and the party had selected him instead.
The black cockade was meant to imply that Dallas was a Federalist.
The Bank is the Second Bank of the United States, and Biddle is fellow-Philadelphian Nicholas Biddle, the bank's president. During Dallas's two years in the US Senate, the question of the recharter of the bank came up, which Dallas supported.
"The Fox" would have been Martin Van Buren, "The Sly Fox of Kinderhook." "Polk root poison" would have been a medicine made of pokeweed root, a gastrointestinal irritant. (Early 19th century medicine could be frightening. As Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. observed, "if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.")
Henry Clay (1777-1852), "The Great Compromiser," ran for president five times without being elected even once. He was the Whigs' choice in 1844.
Theodore Frelinghuysen (1787-1862), "The Christian Statesman," served as US Senator from New Jersey, Mayor of Newark, and President of Rutgers College during his long and honorable career in public service.
By the end of this project I will have a most exacting knowledge of the politics of 1844.
Tomorrow: THE MISSISSINEWA WAR SONG.
The Bravest Man Among the Brave
5 thoughts on "Jimmy Polk of Tennessee"
Walter H. Hunt says:
Jim: whatever book you wind up with out of this … I want to read it smile emoticon I know a lot about this period; ping me if I can be of any assistance.
jamesdmacdonald says:
You know my methods, Walter. I do my research in public, and this was indeed something I ran into while doing research. But the story is already written (involving a United States that never left the Articles of Confederation). Perhaps we may someday write a full novel in that same universe.
I found this songbook fascinating, and the references in it obscure, so decided to look some things up … and here we are.
Do you, by any chance, have a definitive source for the tune to "The Hurrah Song"?
It's not this, is it? https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.200199459.0?st=gallery
Alas, no, it isn't. "The Hurrah Song" has this form:
Iambic pentameter line, rhyme A
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Iambic pentameter line, rhyme B
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
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Olivia de Havilland, 94, looked radiant today as French President Nicolas Sarkozy pinned her with the Legion of Honor insignia at the presidential palace. Sarkozy told de Havilland, "You honor France for having chosen us." The American actress of British origin has lived in Paris since 1953, according to AP.
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New data from the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) add detail—and complexity—to an intriguing puzzle that scientists have been seeking to solve: how the building blocks that make up a proton contribute to its spin. Jinlong Zhang, a postdoctoral associate at Stony Brook University, was part of the team.
The results, just published as a rapid communication in the journal Physical Review D, reveal definitively for the first time that different "flavors" of antiquarks contribute differently to the proton's overall spin—and in a way that's opposite to those flavors' relative abundance.
The proton spin puzzle: Scientists want to know how different constituents of the proton contribute to its spin, a fundamental property that plays a role in how these building blocks give rise to nearly all visible matter in the universe. Pieces of the puzzle include the orbital angular momentum of quarks and gluons (top left), gluon spin (top right) and quark and antiquark spin (bottom). The latest data from RHIC reveal that the antiquarks' contribution is more complex than previously thought.
"This measurement shows that the quark piece of the proton spin puzzle is made of several pieces," said James Drachenberg, a deputy spokesperson for STAR from Abilene Christian University. "It's not a boring puzzle; it's not evenly divided. There's a more complicated picture and this result is giving us the first glimpse of what that picture looks like."
Jinlong Zhang, Ph.D.
It's not the first time that scientists' view of proton spin has changed. There was a full-blown spin "crisis" in the 1980s when an experiment at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) revealed that the sum of quark and antiquark spins within a proton could account for, at best, a quarter of the overall spin. RHIC, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, was built in part so scientists could measure the contributions of other components, including antiquarks and gluons (which "glue" together, or bind, the quarks and antiquarks to form particles such as protons and neutrons).
Antiquarks have only a fleeting existence. They form as quark-antiquark pairs when gluons split.
"We call these pairs the quark sea," Drachenberg said. "At any given instant, you have quarks, gluons, and a sea of quark-antiquark pairs that contribute in some way to the description of the proton. We understand the role these sea quarks play in some respects, but not in respect to spin."
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Episode 25 – Million Dollar Women with Julia Pimsleur
Alison Jones September 5, 2016 September 2, 2016 podcast
Julia Pimsleur was angry. The statistics on women's business success – only 4% of venture capital goes to women-run businesses, and only 3% of all women entrepreneurs ever reach $1m in revenue – appalled her and she thought someone should do something about this. It was something of a shock to realise it was going to be her.
I said to my assistant at the time, "I really want to go out and get the word out that there's this problem that needs to be addressed. Can you please research, for me, how I can do more public speaking on this important issue?" He came back looking sheepish and said, "Um, you have to write a book." I was like, "What do you mean you have to write a book?" He said, "Yeah, no one is going to have you come speak if you don't have a book." I was like, "I don't have time to write a book, I'm not writing a book."
The book, Million Dollar Women, is linked to a powerful online business model that has grown out of it almost accidentally:
When you write a book, it's almost like having a baby. You have to then be open to all the life changes that come about with it.
Julia's passion is inspiring, and anyone, particularly any woman, struggling with that common feeling of 'not enough' needs to hear about how Julia overcame this in both her business and her book.
Alison Jones: Hello and welcome to the Extraordinary Business Book Club. I'm delighted to be here today with Julia Pimsleur, who founded Little Pim, the leading system for introducing children to a second language, and who is now on a mission to help 1 million woman entrepreneurs get to 1 million in revenue by 2020, and particularly by educating them on how to raise capital and to think big. Hello, Julia, welcome to the Extraordinary Business Book Club.
Julia Pimsleur: Hello, Alison, delighted to be with you today.
Alison Jones: It's great to have you here. I love this bold, personal mission statement. Now, your book, Million Dollar Women, is very much linked to this. Can you tell us a bit more about how that 1 million women to 1 million dollars revenue idea came about?
Julia Pimsleur: Absolutely. I wrote my book because I got mad. I got mad about 2 things. It was while I was running my business, Little Pim, which was language teaching for young children. I had been running the business for several years and went out to raise venture capital to scale up my business, not realizing that this was a tremendously hard thing to do. At that time, I stumbled on the first statistic that made me mad, which was that only 4% of all venture capital, which if you're not familiar with that term it's the big bucks, this is big dollar investments. Only 4% of all venture capital goes to women-run business.
Alison Jones: It's just astonishing, isn't it? It's astonishing
Julia Pimsleur: Right, how can that be this tiny little number? That was a tough pill to swallow, especially as I was gearing up to go raise venture capital, and thought, "All right, I'm going to have to be twice as good now because only 4% of us get funded." The second statistic was that only 3% of all women entrepreneurs ever reach 1 million dollars in revenue. If you're a business owner, you know that reaching a million in revenue isn't even like you put your feet up and go home, that's just getting off go in the business world. I thought, "How is that possible that so few of us are hitting this mark?" The statistic is double for men, 6% of all entrepreneurs get to a million in revenues, but only 3% of all women.
When I first heard the stat, it was actually 1.8%. Yeah, it's grown a little bit over the last couple of years. Those 2 stats, the 4% and the 3%, to take the current one, just made me feel like, "Okay, something has to be done." It took a little while to realize I was the one to do it, but we can talk about that too.
Alison Jones: Tell me about that. How did you get that flash of, "Hey, wait a minute, this is my job?"
Julia Pimsleur: Well, I was reluctant. I have 2 little boys who are the lights of my life and I was running my business, which I had been running for some 7 years, very full-time activity, and raising venture capital. I really did keep thinking, "Well, somebody has to tackle this. This is not okay that in 2000, whatever it was at the time, 13, 14, that there are these horrible statistics for women." I've always been very driven by social justice issues, I was a documentary film-maker for a while, I was a non-profit fundraiser, entrepreneurship is actually my third career.
For a while I thought, "Well, someone really should do something about this." It did occur to me to write a book about it, especially because I said to my assistant at the time, "I really want to go out and get the word out that there's this problem that needs to be addressed. Can you please research, for me, how I can do more public speaking on this important issue?" He came back looking sheepish and said, "Um, you have to write a book." I was like, "What do you mean you have to write a book?" He said, "Yeah, no one is going to have you come speak if you don't have a book." I was like, "I don't have time to write a book, I'm not writing a book."
That stayed moot for a little while. Then, I realized, why not? Really, what did I have to lose? I think it was Brené Brown's book that really put me over the edge, it was Daring Greatly. Have you read that Alison?
Alison Jones: I have, it's so inspiring, isn't it?
Julia Pimsleur: Oh, it's fantastic. What really hit home for me was her message around how women have this particular affliction of always thinking that we're not enough. We're not skinny enough, we're not smart enough, we don't have enough of the love we want in our life, or whatever it is. It's just this whole epidemic of feeling like you don't have enough. I realized that I was in that mental state where I said, "I'm not successful enough, or famous enough, to write this book." Sort of like, "Someone else needs to write the book, who's further along than I am."
I stopped and thought about, "Wait a minute, I'm running a 7-figure business. I worked my tail off to get here. I've learned so many things." I wished that I'd had female role models along the way, and I didn't have them. I had many male mentors, heard incredible speakers on the entrepreneur circuit, but almost no women. I decided, you know what, let me write a book that's not from the top of Mount Everest. Not Arianna Huffington, and Sara Blakely, and Martha Stewart, and the people who's stories we read about all the time in the press. Let's write a book, I want to write a book about the women who are at what I call Mount Everest base camp. Which is like, you know how high up Mount Everest base camp is?
Alison Jones: It's pretty damn high, isn't it?
Julia Pimsleur: It's 18,000 feet. Not everyone gets to Mount Everest base camp. Those are the stores I wanted to tell, because I was there, running a 7-figure business and there were thousands of women around the country and around the world who've made it there but no one had yet gathered their stories to share this information with the women that are starting their climbs. Being mad, realizing I am enough, and wanting to tell the stories from Mount Everest base camp is what got me off my tuckus to write this book.
Alison Jones: Brilliant. That's 3 really powerful things coming together. I love that thing about you got angry and that's the fuel to just get up and do it. The stories are such a key part of the book and they really struck me… You've got these featured stories from a really wide variety of women. How did you go about pulling those together?
Julia Pimsleur: I knew I wanted to profile 7 to 10 women from across the country in different industries, different ethnicities, different phases of their life as women. I think some of the questions we don't get ask very often as ambitious women, it's like, "How is this all going to fit together with the rest of my life?" Now that I did write the book and I am out on the speaking circuit, I get these questions from largely millennial women who say, "I have all this ambition and drive, but I also want to have a family." The fact that they even have to say but in that sentence kind of breaks my heart.
I did want to find women who had children, women who had decided not to have children, the whole range. I spent a good part of a year researching these women because, by the way, their stories are not in the press. I couldn't just Google 'women who have 7-figure revenue businesses'. It did take a lot of digging, but I'm really excited about the women I was able to interview and present in Million Dollar Women.
Alison Jones: One of the things I often talk to my clients about is the way that a book builds your network and your relationships. You can be quite strategic about that. I'm guessing that you've made some really good friends out of this.
Julia Pimsleur: That's a great point. I keep running into, now, some of the women who I profiled, 2 or 3 of them are in New York. Then, some are on the West coast, some in the middle of the country. I'm now putting together my first Million Dollar Women's summit, which is going to be a gathering of 200 high-growth women entrepreneurs here in New York, in March 2017. I've invited all the women I profiled in my book to come speak on a panel. That was fantastic, to be able to circle back and pull them in in yet another way.
Alison Jones: Yeah, fantastic, because those relationships go on, and on, and on, don't they?
Julia Pimsleur: They do.
Alison Jones: Everybody loves being involved in a book, there's something about it, isn't there? It's really powerful.
Julia Pimsleur: Yeah, you'd love if they'd write part of it, wouldn't you? "You love it so much? Here, you take chapter 9."
Alison Jones: Well, you can do that. I've done enough edited collections in my time, they have their own problems, believe me.
Julia Pimsleur: Alison, I'm so delighted that you talk about the process of writing the book, because I found that to be a whole new uncharted territory for me, just to figure out how to get this thing done.
Alison Jones: Where did you start and how did it happen?
Julia Pimsleur: I'm a big reverse engineering type so I like to figure out, okay, what is the end game? Then, how do I get there the quickest and who has figured out how to do this in a really great way, and how do I copy them? That's my strategy in business and in life. I did ask my literary agent, I had a literary agent, I decided to go the traditional publishing route. I considered self-publishing but realized I really wanted the support, largely because of things I mentioned before of running a 7 figure business, I had 2 little boys at home. I just didn't have time to do the whole thing on my own, and because I wanted this to be the beginning of a movement and to be a platform for me, I knew having a publisher would probably help with that, and it has.
With my literary agent, she put me in touch with some ghost-editors, I didn't have a ghost-writer, but I had a ghost-editor. Again, because of the time constraints and knowing I'm a bit of a perfectionist, I had a feeling I would do better writing the book if I knew there was 1 more person who would go in and give it a nice pass.
Alison Jones: Yeah, somebody else on the team.
Julia Pimsleur: That's exactly right, for accountability, to have deadlines to send things to her, paying her a chunk of money was a big motivator too. Once you're paying someone, you get that work done.
Alison Jones: That's so true.
Julia Pimsleur: She's turned into a wonderful friend. I remember we went out for lunch and I said, "Okay, you've done this before and I haven't. How does this work?" She started with the end, she said, "How many words is the book supposed to be?" I can't remember exactly, I think it was 60,000 or 75,000. Then we just did the math, we backed into it. She was like, "You need to write this many words a day for this many weeks." I had the summer coming up, which is a time when my kids do other things, go to camp and whatnot so I knew I had a little more availability of time. We just put me on a schedule of X number of words per week, I was going to hand them in, she was going to do another pass at it, give it back to me, and we were going to get this draft in by Labor Day.
Alison Jones: Brilliant. Do you think you'd have done that on your own?
Julia Pimsleur: Oh, I like to think I would have. It doesn't mean I would have.
Alison Jones: How did you fit it into your life? Where were the writing spaces in your day?
Julia Pimsleur: As any entrepreneur knows, as soon as you make plans for things to go smoothly, that's when it all falls apart. This book was no different. I had this lovely plan of, "It's going to be the summer and I'll work from home in the mornings from 8 until noon, and then I'll go in and spend the second half of the day at Little Pim, and won't that be wonderful?" Right then, we hit a huge obstacle in Little Pim and we had a cash-flow crisis, and things were falling apart, and there was no way I could work from home even 1 morning a week. That was like, forget it, that's out.
That was tough, because I already had a contract, and an advance, and this ghost-editor lined up. The train had left the station. I was like, "All right, I've got to find this time somewhere else." Here's how I did it. I set my alarm every morning for 5:00 AM and for 37 days, because we figured out that was the amount of time I needed with the ghost-editor, I got up at 5:00 AM and I wrote from 5:00 AM to 7:00 AM, 2 full hours totally interrupted. Then, I turned off the computer and I went to yoga from about 7:30 to 8:30 AM, and then I went into work and had my usual workday. In 37 days, I was able to write the first draft to the book like that.
Alison Jones: Awesome. Did you enjoy it?
Julia Pimsleur: I did. It's interesting, in retrospect that sounds kind of miserable, right? To get up at 5:00 AM.
Alison Jones: No, I do this too, I love the morning. I love that quiet space, yeah.
Julia Pimsleur: Oh, good, I'm glad. When you're a morning person it makes sense. Although now, I'm back to 6:00 AM, 5:00 AM is a little early for me. I will say that because my why was so strong, why I was writing the book, I actually, I only remember about 1 day when the alarm went off thinking, "Really? Do I have to?" It was probably a morning after I had too many drinks with a friend. Most days I actually did spring out of bed and was super excited to have this time because I always had my reader in mind. Frankly, my reader was me. I had felt so lost and so wishing I had this kind of advice and inspiration when I was getting my business to 7 figures that I think that is really what got me through. I'm a big fan of the expression that if your why is strong enough, then you will find the how.
Alison Jones: Yeah, absolutely. What did you discover about yourself? What did you discover about Julia in that process of writing?
Julia Pimsleur: I think, for me, there was a big realization in the process of writing, that I am enough. As Brené Brown talks about, it's very hard for us somehow, as women, I won't speak for anyone else, I'll just speak for myself, to think what I have to say is valid and deserves to be written, and deserves to be read, heard. I have something to contribute. I don't think that I fully owned that until I wrote the book and realized I had gone through a lot of things that could be useful to other people and felt very motivated by the idea of sharing my story, and if that could help 1 person, 10 people, 1000 people, a million people, then, all worth it.
Alison Jones: I have a theory that there's a similarity, actually, in the way that a lot of women approach the idea of writing a book to the way they might approach the idea of asking for venture capital. Just that sense that, "You know, I'm not good enough or it's not original enough, or it'll take too much time and I'm not going to be able to have the answers. Everybody's heard it all before." Just that sense of, where a bloke would just do it, I think a lot of women …
Julia Pimsleur: We throw up 100 roadblocks and get in our own way.
Alison Jones: Right. The fact that you had A, done the work, and then B, consolidate the work by writing a book I think is a really interesting double reflection on overcoming that.
Julia Pimsleur: Thank you, Alison. Yeah, that's well put. I would also say that you mentioned the mantras in the book [when we were speaking offline] earlier and that's basically a visual representation because I worked with a very talented artist, Heather Williams, to do the artwork for the book. She drew these marvellous Wonder Woman cuffs, because I had this vision when I was talk to all the women across the country who were able to build these 7 figure businesses from scratch, and it was not easy. They had to really get through some tough, tough times. We all liked this notion of the cuff bracelets that Wonder Woman wears, it's sort of kitsch but it worked for all of us.
Alison Jones: I totally got it. I saw them and was like, "Oh they're Wonder Woman cuffs."
Julia Pimsleur: You got it?
Alison Jones: Yeah, absolutely.
Julia Pimsleur: That's so funny because when we think of Wonder Woman, we think of her lasso, and her invisible jet, and all this, but few people talk about these cuff bracelets, where when she crossed her arms in front of her, they created this force field that could repel any enemy.
Alison Jones: Of course. Yes, I hadn't thought about that. Brilliant.
Julia Pimsleur: Yeah, that was why we really took this image and brought it forward for Million Dollar Women. Where, what is written inside those cuffs is going to get you through the tough times. You just reminded me of one of my favourites, which is, "Have the fear and do it anyway."
Alison Jones: On your website you've got the opportunity for people to submit their own mantras, what they'd have on their own cuffs, which I thought was great. How did that come about?
Julia Pimsleur: Oh, thank you. Yes, women have been writing in from all over the country and all over the world. The book actually came out on 5 continents, so I have people writing in from Australia, and the UK, and the Netherlands. It's been so exciting to hear from million dollar women all over. What I did was I put these 10 sayings that we all felt were the things that got us through the tough times, as million dollar women cuff bracelets. It makes sense when you go to the website, it's JuliaPimsleur.com, just my name dot com. Then, under the book, you'll see the 10 cuffs.
It's things like, "Have the fear and do it anyway. To go big don't go solo." My personal motto in life now, which is, "Fortune favours the brave." When you're having one of those days where it's like, "Nothing is working." Or you just need a little extra boost of courage, it's nice to know that there are women around the country, and really around the world, who share these same struggles and are there with you.
Alison Jones: I think we need to … This is a product idea, you need to actually create these in gold things that you can put on and stand in your power pose and recite them.
Julia Pimsleur: Wear your big cuffs. Spoiler alert, we have been selling them.
Alison Jones: Brilliant, glad to hear it.
Julia Pimsleur: It's a little bit under wraps. I've been sending them to the million dollar women who have taken my online business school. Eventually that's another project to scale up. That'll have to be another 5:00 AM get up.
Alison Jones: This leads me on to the next question, really, which is about how the book integrates into the business that you're building now, post Little Pim? Tell me a little bit more about, you've obviously got the exercises in the book which you can download on the website, you've got the mantra cuffs, you've got that opportunity to share it. How does the online-offline, book-website business hook-up happen?
Julia Pimsleur: Sure. The subtitle of the book is The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big. My mission with Million Dollar Women is for women to read the book and then take the principles and put them into action in their own business. They can do that through the exercises in the book, that's a good place to start, or they can come to the website, find a lot of free resources about how to fund-raise, where to fund-raise, which are the women-friendly funders. That's all for free on my site. As well as a million dollar women assessment where they can assess which skills they need to work on in order to get to a million in revenues faster.
That was the beginning. After a few months of just having those resources out there, I started getting a lot of requests for one-on-one coaching. I'm all about scalable models, that's really what I'm trying to teach women, because one of the reasons so few women get to a million in revenues is that we often we don't build scalable businesses. I decided to practice what I preach, and rather than take on a number of one-on-one coaching clients, I do have a few, I built an online business school for women called, Million Dollar Women Masterclass. I've been having so much fun with that because I've had women participating in it from all over the country, and from other countries: Australia, the Netherlands. It's just been so gratifying to build this community of women who are aggressively growing their businesses and seeking this kind of community.
Alison Jones: I love the sense that actually what came out of this was this community. The women just kind of come out nowhere and here they all are engaging with it. I love that.
Julia Pimsleur: It's wonderful.
Alison Jones: Was that always part of the plan? Or is this an evolutionary strategy that once you have the book it takes you new directions?
Julia Pimsleur: No, I've been following the book as it evolves. I didn't really have a master plan. I knew I wanted to help women grow their businesses, but my mission of helping a million women get to a million in revenues by 2020, that evolved after the book came out. I have felt on a mission, or a calling, to write this book, but I didn't know where it was going to take me. As a very type-A, planned person, that's been almost the hardest part.
Alison Jones: It was almost incidental, wasn't it? Right from the start, you wanted the speaking and the book was a means to get the speaking. Then, the book has kind of taken on a life of its own.
Julia Pimsleur: It really has. I even made the decision to leave the CEO role of my company. I had been running my company for 9 years, the book came out about 8 years into that, and the response that I got from it and realizing that I really had a vital role to play in helping more women scale up their businesses, inspired me to find a new CEO. We have a wonderful new CEO, she's running the business and doing a great job. I'm still founder, I'm still on the board, but I have no day-to-day role so that I could clear the space to lead this charge along with so many other amazing men and women who are helping, I'm certainly not the only one working on this, there are a lot of great players in this space. I haven't seen very many women role models coming from base camp. That's the unique niche that I'm trying to fill.
Alison Jones: Yeah, and a really, really valuable one it is too. That's fantastic.
Julia Pimsleur: I'm having a blast, it's been great. I will say, when you write a book, it's almost like having a baby. You have to then be open to all the life changes that come about with it, or not, or you resist them. It does create an energy where you're going to have the universe send various invitations that you then can accept or not accept. When women started contacting me for one-on-one coaching I could have just said, "No, thank you very much. I'm CEO of Little Pim, that's what I'm doing." Instead I decided to follow that and I'm so glad I did. I'm having a blast.
Alison Jones: That's brilliant. I'm reminded of this Seth Godin quote, "The book that will change your life is the one you write."
Julia Pimsleur: I love that.
Alison Jones: It's a great quote, isn't it? It's so true, and you can never quite predict how it's going to happen. Love that.
Julia Pimsleur: No and I know we're both moms, so I'm sure you appreciate the reference, right? When you have your first child it's like, "Oh, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that." Then, the child comes and everything's different.
Alison Jones: They have their own ideas, yeah.
Julia Pimsleur: Indeed.
Alison Jones: Yes, so true. Listening to this, there are going to be lots of people who are in the throes of writing their first book. What's the one best piece of advice that you would give to somebody who's a first time business book author?
Julia Pimsleur: I would say stay very focused on your why, because there must be a reason you're writing this book. It's a huge pain and a huge lift, even if you enjoy writing, which I do, to get up every day and look at that blank computer, really not easy. You have talked about Gretchen Rubin's book, well she has several books, but the one called Better Than Before, about changing your habits.
Alison Jones: I love that book. Yeah.
Julia Pimsleur: It's a great book, and I know you've referenced it here before. This is where it becomes really essential to know which kind of a person you are. She talks about these 4 archetypes of the obliger, the upholder, the questioner, and the rebel. If you are, let's say, an obliger, which is someone who likes to do things to please others, I guess I must have an obliger side to me because knowing that I had that ghost-editor waiting for the drafts and that I had an editor waiting for the whole manuscript, was hugely motivating to me. If I just had to write it in a void it would've been harder. I think that's a great tool to use. Figure out which personality type you are and then make sure to build the support system that speaks to you.
Alison Jones: Yeah, absolutely, couldn't agree more. Actually, one of the reasons I started this podcast in the first place was because I discovered, rather to my disappointment, I fondly imagined I was an upholder and it turns out that I'm really an obliger. Because I have to report on how I'm doing with my book every week on this podcast, the difference is incredible.
Julia Pimsleur: Has that helped? Do you feel more motivated?
Alison Jones: Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I nearly finished the first draft at the moment, so it's getting there.
Julia Pimsleur: I can't wait to read it. What is your why, Alison? What's the why that gets you out of bed at 5:00 AM?
Alison Jones: My why is, well, interestingly, because you take the approach of sitting and writing a certain number of words and that worked for you. For me, I see people struggling to write a book as a side project, and I really want them to see it as a living, breathing part of the business. I talk people through what's the business about and how does the book fit with that, and how can you use the process of writing the book to actually build the business right from the very start? If you're sitting down to write 500 words, and you obviously can do this, you can get up at 5:00, you can write your 500 words, job done. A lot of people find that really hard.
If you're sitting down, you sketched out what your book is going to be and you can say, "Okay, today I'm going to write this part of chapter 2, which is going to be a talk I'm going to give on Tuesday." You really embed it deep into the business, then A, you're much more likely to get the thing done and B, you're getting feedback, you're seeing how the thing lands the whole time, and C the book is actually working for you. It's building the business day by day. That's my … I just think that's a really exciting way to write a book and very few people seem to have to it naturally. That's my why.
Julia Pimsleur: I love that. You feel you're filling a niche of helping to make that bridge between the writing and the book and their business, right?
Alison Jones: Right.
Julia Pimsleur: That is much more motivating than, "I'm just writing a book over here on the side."
Alison Jones: Yeah, that's my theory.
Julia Pimsleur: No, I'm sure you're right. I'm glad you raised the business piece because I will share, towards the end of all of the back and forth with the publisher and the final version, which was frankly not something I anticipated or knew about. I thought it was you hand it in and they write back a few notes, and then you're done. No. It turns out there are weeks and weeks of drafts going back and forth, and edits, and changes. That part I think I liked the least of the entire process, I must admit. I was like, "It's done, I gave it to you."
Alison Jones: "Publish it already."
Julia Pimsleur: It kept coming back. It was like a basketball that wouldn't land in the hoop, it just kept bouncing back. What was the good part of that is was it bought me a little extra time to think about the business piece of what this next iteration was going to be. I did build the JuliaPimsleur.com website and I built into it some tools that I could then refer to in the book, for instance the Million Dollar Women assessment. Had I not built that already, I couldn't have suggested women go take the assessment in the book. There is a reason to carve out time during your book reading to thinking about, how are you going to leverage this book when it comes out? What are your ways of monetizing it? Is it just going to help you get speaking gigs or is going to push people to a special landing page? Thinking that through is really important.
Alison Jones: Absolutely. I try to encourage people to do that maybe upfront, rather than when it's in production.
Julia Pimsleur: Reverse engineering, to follow my own advice, right? It should be done upfront, indeed.
Alison Jones: Brilliant. That's great advice, thank you for that. You're not the first person to have said that but you've done it very, very articulately. That focus on the why because that is what is going to get you through what is an incredibly long process.
Julia Pimsleur: It sure is.
Alison Jones: Now, I always ask people on the show to suggest someone else that they think they would be really interesting to interview. Somebody with something interesting to say about the business of business books. Who do you think would be good for me to talk to?
Julia Pimsleur: Oh, I can think of so many people. I think someone who is writing her first book and would have a lot to share with your listeners is Tiffany Dufu, who works at Levo League, which is a big mentorship organization for women in the business world and some entrepreneurs. She wrote a book called Drop the Ball, which is about highly successful professional women trying to juggle everything and how sometimes you actually have to let yourself just drop one of the balls. You can't be the perfect wife, mother, professional and that we still haven't sorted out this issue, even in 2016, for ambitious women who are trying to live full lives where they're a major actor in all of these different roles.
I'm really excited for her book. She's an incredible speaker and thought leader, and a friend here in New York. I recommend Tiffany Dufu.
Alison Jones: She sounds like somebody I need to talk to, to be honest. Yes, love that idea. Thank you.
Julia Pimsleur: Yeah, TiffanyDufu.com for your readers. She already has information up online. I think her publisher is Flat Iron, if I'm not mistaken. The book will be out in February.
Alison Jones: Awesome, thank you. That's great timing, so we can get her just before it comes out. Brilliant. Thank you so much. If people want to find out more about your, Julia, or about the book particularly and about you and the business, where can they go?
Julia Pimsleur: I'd love to hear from them. It's my great joy to hear from entrepreneurs all over the world. I'm at Julia Pimsleur.com. If you forget that for whatever reason, you can just look up Million Dollar Women, it's on Amazon, it's all over the place, and then I should come up. I'm also very active on social, so Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, mainly.
Alison Jones: Fantastic. I will put the links, obviously, on the show notes as well. I did have a bit of name envy, I always do. When somebody has an interesting, unusual name that means that they can just be themselves on Twitter, I always have a stab of envy. When you're a Jones it's not so …
Julia Pimsleur: Oh, I bet there are a lot of Alison Jones, I didn't think of that.
Alison Jones: Yeah.
Julia Pimsleur: 'The Alison Jones', you are enough, you are fabulous. Forget all those other Alison Jones. I love, love listening to your podcast, I think you have a great voice and I'm so thrilled to be able to spend this time with you and your listeners. Thank you so much for having me, Alison.
Alison Jones: It has been so much fun. Thank you much, Julia, there's so much great stuff there. I'm sure that so many people will be inspired, and encouraged, and actually really actively helped by it as well. The book is Million Dollar Women, it is superb, and thank you so much, Julia.
Julia Pimsleur: Great. Look forward to hearing from all of you out there and have a great day, Alison.
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Global Symmetry: Cyclic - C2 (3D View)
STRUCTURE OF L-2-HALOACID DEHALOGENASE FROM XANTHOBACTER AUTOTROPHICUS
DOI: 10.2210/pdb1QQ5/pdb
Classification: HYDROLASE
Organism(s): Xanthobacter autotrophicus
Deposition Author(s): Ridder, I.S., Rozeboom, H.J., Kalk, K.H., Dijkstra, B.W.
Crystal structures of intermediates in the dehalogenation of haloalkanoates by L-2-haloacid dehalogenase.
Ridder, I.S., Rozeboom, H.J., Kalk, K.H., Dijkstra, B.W.
(1999) J Biol Chem 274: 30672-30678
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.43.30672
1QQ5, 1QQ6, 1QQ7
The L-2-haloacid dehalogenase from the 1,2-dichloroethane-degrading bacterium Xanthobacter autotrophicus GJ10 catalyzes the hydrolytic dehalogenation of small L-2-haloalkanoates to their corresponding D-2-hydroxyalkanoates, with inversion of the configuration at the C(2) atom ...
The L-2-haloacid dehalogenase from the 1,2-dichloroethane-degrading bacterium Xanthobacter autotrophicus GJ10 catalyzes the hydrolytic dehalogenation of small L-2-haloalkanoates to their corresponding D-2-hydroxyalkanoates, with inversion of the configuration at the C(2) atom. The structure of the apoenzyme at pH 8 was refined at 1.5-A resolution. By lowering the pH, the catalytic activity of the enzyme was considerably reduced, allowing the crystal structure determination of the complexes with L-2-monochloropropionate and monochloroacetate at 1.7 and 2.1 A resolution, respectively. Both complexes showed unambiguous electron density extending from the nucleophile Asp(8) to the C(2) atom of the dechlorinated substrates corresponding to a covalent enzyme-ester reaction intermediate. The halide ion that is cleaved off is found in line with the Asp(8) Odelta1-C(2) bond in a halide-stabilizing cradle made up of Arg(39), Asn(115), and Phe(175). In both complexes, the Asp(8) Odelta2 carbonyl oxygen atom interacts with Thr(12), Ser(171), and Asn(173), which possibly constitute the oxyanion hole in the hydrolysis of the ester bond. The carboxyl moiety of the substrate is held in position by interactions with Ser(114), Lys(147), and main chain NH groups. The L-2-monochloropropionate CH(3) group is located in a small pocket formed by side chain atoms of Lys(147), Asn(173), Phe(175), and Asp(176). The size and position of the pocket explain the stereospecificity and the limited substrate specificity of the enzyme. These crystallographic results demonstrate that the reaction of the enzyme proceeds via the formation of a covalent enzyme-ester intermediate at the nucleophile Asp(8).
Three-Dimensional Structure of L-2-Haloacid Dehalogenase from Xanthobacter Autotrophicus Gj10 Complexed with the Substrate-Analogue Formate
Ridder, I.S.,&nbspRozeboom, H.J.,&nbspKalk, K.H.,&nbspJanssen, D.B.,&nbspDijkstra, B.W.
(1997) J Biol Chem 272: 33015
Crystallization and Preliminary X-Ray Analysis of L-2-Haloacid Dehalogenase from Xanthobacter Autotrophicus Gj10
Ridder, I.S.,&nbspRozeboom, H.J.,&nbspKingma, J.,&nbspJanssen, D.B.,&nbspDijkstra, B.W.
(1995) Protein Sci 4: 2619
Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry, BIOSON Research Institute, Department of Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
PROTEIN (L-2-HALOACID DEHALOGENASE) A, B 253 Xanthobacter autotrophicus Mutation(s): 0
Gene Names: dhlB
Find proteins for Q60099 (Xanthobacter autotrophicus)
Query on FMT
SDF format, chain D [auth B]
MOL2 format, chain D [auth B]
C [auth A], D [auth B] FORMIC ACID
C H2 O2
BDAGIHXWWSANSR-UHFFFAOYSA-N Ligand Interaction
Space Group: P 21 21 21
a = 57.05 α = 90
b = 83.928 β = 90
AMoRE phasing
DENZO data reduction
SCALEPACK data scaling


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Tower of God Episode 1: Enter the Tower
2 April 2020 5:53 am
The adventure begins in Tower of God episode 1 as Bam takes on his first test, a near-impossible ball-based task set by the conniving Headon. He'll get help along the way from Yuri and Evan, before passing on to the second floor to face his toughest challenge yet. Will he be able to survive? Will he ever be reunited with Rachel? What awaits him at the top?
In terms of adaptation, this episode covers chapters 0 through 5 of the original manhwa by SIU, ending partway through chapter 6. The anime necessarily cuts a large amount of content, as we shall see, but also seeks to add in a few extra elements of its own. Although reception to the episode has been mixed, it seems clear to me that the anime is taking all the steps in the right direction to ensure that this first season – however long it ends up being – is the best that it can possibly be.
Tower of God Episode 1: Adapting the Impossible
The beginning is always the hardest part of any anime, and Tower of God is no exception. In just 24 minutes, you need to convince the viewer that this particular show is going to be worth their time, entertain them and set up all of the necessary pieces for the continued future of the story. As a result, for some this episode just didn't work – and no amount of saying 'it gets better' can change that.
To make matters worse, the unique nature of the source material made crafting a compelling opening episode that much harder for the team over at Telecom Animation Film. It must be said that the opening chapters of the original manhwa – chapters 0 through 5 – are stuffed full with jargon and exposition that hurts the pacing and doesn't even pay off until much later. For a manhwa, that's fine, because – depending on how fast you read – you can blitz through those opening chapters in minutes and come out the other end into the good stuff, which starts around chapter 6. For an anime, though? No such luck.
One example of some unnecessary exposition. We can gather most of the information from the context, and some of the references do not come up again until much later.
In this sense, Tower of God episode 1 made all of the right decisions when it came to adaptation. Gone are the lengthy explanations – Yuri does not explain what a Pocket is, for example – and any superfluous narrative elements have been cut or skipped over – for example, Bam has almost no hesitation in taking on the White Steel Eel, jumping instead straight into Yuri's flying kick. What this means is that the episode's pacing is much quicker than the original manhwa and stays much more engaging as a result.
Nevertheless, there are some unfortunate side effects to these adaptational changes. We don't quite understand why Yuri is so fascinated with Bam (he is an Irregular), nor do we understand how she made her way to Headon's floor in the first place. More crucially, however, we get very little indication that she will be tracking Bam through the back rooms of the Tower to retrieve the Black March from now on, which may end up adversely affecting the narrative at a later date.
Furthermore, some of the texture of the world is lost by cutting so much of the exposition – no longer are we fascinated by strange words and pulled into this strange world. There's no reference to the etymology of Bam's strange name, either, which seems a little counterproductive.
What matters, though, is that Tower of God episode 1 feels like the best version of the adaptation's opening episode that there can be. All of the omissions, consequences be damned, were ultimately necessary in order to shore up the episode's pacing and get to the best parts of the story much quicker. It's not often that an adaptation does everything that you ask, so I'm pretty happy with it.
Enter the Tower
Even so, I hope I am not giving the impression that the team over at Telecom Animation Film has simply cut into the fabric of the source material to bring this adaptation to screen. There are also several elements that they, as a studio, have brought to the table – arguably the most important and effective being Kevin Penkin and his soundtrack.
It's no secret that I am a big fan of Kevin Penkin, and not just because he is an anime composer in my own backyard. His sheer musical talent and passion for all things games, movies, and anime shines through in his incredible scores for Made in Abyss, Under the Dog, and even The Rising of Shield Hero. When I heard that he would be scoring Tower of God, I was understandably stoked.
Tower of God episode 1 proves that this hope was far from misplaced. From the moment go, Penkin's musical touches are unmissable – everything from epic choruses to downbeat grooves provide this episode with an energy that most, even the series' detractors, have recognized. Alongside the anime's striking visuals, the soundtrack does so much work in making this adaptation entirely unique.
There are also some anime-original scenes that both give the episode character and paper up some of the cracks resulting from the cutthroat adaptational process. When Bam arrives on the second floor, the little detail where he eats grass, for example, makes clear his isolated upbringing, alone in an underground cavern. The scene with the activated Black March, too, has been extended to do much of the heavy lifting with regards to the protagonist's backstory. We also get an idea of how the Regulars travel between floors, which is nice.
Through magical rainbows, apparently.
Since I watched Tower of God episode 1 on Crunchyroll, there were also several things I noticed in the anime's English subtitles. For one, they call Bam 'Bam' instead of 'Yoru,' which is the Japanese translation of his Korean name that the voice actors say. (His original name contains the dual meaning of both 'evening' and 'chestnut,' but, as mentioned, the anime doesn't tell us that.) Apparently, this decision was made to better 'synchronize' the anime with the original manhwa, so it is a fair one. Check out this article from Crunchyroll for more interesting insights into the series' names and subtitles.
Even so, I wasn't very keen on the subtitles' use of 'Non-Regulars' to describe Bam, given that he is called an 'Irregular' in the manhwa. This feels like a massive oversight given the previous article's professed aim, so I can't but think that this might change in the coming weeks. Watch this space.
Speaking of voice actors, most of the parts have been relatively well cast. Taichi Ichikawa, in particular, is doing great work bringing out Bam's innocence despite his relative inexperience. Nevertheless, I can't help but feel like some of the veteran voice actors are coasting just a little bit. Mariko Honda as Yuri, for example, sounds entirely generic. And then we have Houchu Ootsuka as Headon, who seems to be overreacting to the point of exaggeration. Luckily, we don't have to see that character ever again, so it's a minor point.
Floor of Tests
It is upon reaching the second floor – the 'Floor of Tests' – that Tower of God episode 1 starts to really come into its own. In the first sense, this is because this is when the story itself starts to get a little more engaging – we finally get a proper action scene involving multiple actors, and the mechanics of the Tower really start to come into play – but it is worth noting that it would have taken much longer to get to this good content if it wasn't for the episode's earlier adaptational choices, so it's all relative.
This part of the episode also introduces us to several key characters who will become integral to the story's overall plot going forward: Khun, Rak, Anaak, Shibisu, and many others. Of course, we don't spend much time with them, nor is this the first time that they appear – the very beginning of the episode gives us glimpses of them as it explains the concept behind the Tower – but it is exciting nonetheless.
Furthermore, once the credits start to roll, Tower of God episode 1 leaves off in a very good place. As a result of the earlier adaptational choices, we get to the establishment and introduction of our main trio – Bam, Khun, and Rak – much earlier, and the way that the episode ends upon their first meeting makes clear how momentous this occasion really is. Just you wait and see what comes of it.
The gaze of a momentous meeting.
Speaking of the credits, we should talk for a second about the opening and ending sequences. In terms of the OP, it's pretty barebones at the moment with long credit titles and a sparse amount of animation, which only features Bam. Yet, I have my suspicions that this sequence may be added to over the coming weeks as more characters are introduced, so watch this space.
I would also like to comment on the ED, but the fact is that there isn't one. Seriously – it's just a credit scroll set to a song that feels quite out of place in an anime production. I'm not really that bothered, given that it hardly affects the overall story, but it certainly subverted my expectations. I guess that Telecom Animation Film and the production partners don't want that sweet, sweet anisong CD money, after all.
Tower of God Episode 1: Mixed Reception
By way of a conclusion, if you weren't impressed with Tower of God episode 1, then that's fair enough. Unlike many fans, I'm not going to sit here and tell you to stick with it because 'it gets better' – if you weren't entranced by the series' music, world-building, and premise, then you're probably not going to enjoy it. The same can be said for the original manhwa, which is quite rough at the beginning. Don't force yourself to watch something if you're not going to enjoy it!
In any case, things are looking up for this Tower of God adaptation. Here's hoping that it gets the attention it deserves to run for longer than a single cour, because the first 'season' is, in many ways, nothing but a prologue.
You can watch Tower of God episode 1 via Crunchyroll.
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The Salem Witchcraft Site
Salem Village
Social Divisions
Political Divisions
Economic Divisions
Witchcraft in Andover
Histogram of Andover Accusations 1692
Salem Village and Town accounted for 39 of the 152 formal accusations during 1692, roughly 25%. The great majority of victims lived elsewhere, most conspicuously in Andover, which lay to the north and west of Salem Village. (Users can sort the Accused Witches Data Set to reveal when and where accusations spread throughout 1692. Click here.)
Using the "Andover" column as "Input Range," a histogram of Andover's accusations shows that the timing of Andover's involvement differed from that of Salem Village and Salem Town. With one exception, an accusation against an Andover resident in May, Andover's involvement began when accusations in Salem Village and Town were essentially over. It was precipitated in July 1692, when one of its residents, Joseph Ballard, sought the help of two of Salem Village's afflicted girls to uncover the cause of his ill wife's strange pains and pressures. The Andover histogram resembles the the upward slope of accusations during the second wave of the outbreak, which began at the end of June 1692, peaked in September, and came to a stop in October.
The witch hunt struck Andover with great intensity; with forty-five victims, Andover had more accused witches than any other community, more than Salem Village and Salem Town combined. If Salem was the epicenter of the first wave of accusations, Andover was the epicenter of the second wave. But even in Andover, the witch hunt was not continuous over the course of 1692. Accusations were confined within a three month period. (The three unknown cases (-1) in Andover, likely occurred within the three-month span.)
Salem Town and Village and Andover had the greatest number of witchcraft cases. What about communities with somewhat lesser numbers? Click Next.
Chronology and Geography


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Рейнбоу () е бронепалубен крайцер от типа "Аполо", построен от Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron за британския Кралски флот. Впоследствие предаден на доминиона Канада.

История на службата

Кралски флот на Великобритания
От 1895 до 1898 г. крайцерът се води към Китайската станция и е базиран в Хонконг, От 1898 до 1899 г. носи службата си в Малта. Стойността на издръжка на кораба е счетена за прекалено висока и поради това използването му в периода 1900 – 1909 г. е ограничено и в по-голямата си част около бреговете на Англия. Корабът не е сред приоритетните за флота и в годините на принудително бездействие е незначително модернизиран. В онези времена обучението на екипажите се изчерпва със смяната на кораба им. В резултат на това от 1907 до 1909 г. той нито веднъж не излиза в морето. В началото на 1909 г. Адмиралтейството изключва крайцера от списъка на флота и го привежда в резерв.

В Кралския канадски военноморски флот
1910 г. Рейнбоу е предаден на Канада и отново влиза в експлоатация като "HMCS Rainbow" (канадски кораб на Нейно Величество). Найоби и Рейнбоу са двата първи кораба на ВМС на Канада и двата са купени от британското Адмиралтейство. На 4 май 1910 г. Рейнбоу постъпва в състава на канадския флот. Към неговите първоначални задачи са: тренировки, церемониални посещения и охрана на риболовните зони. Той е зачислен към тихоокеанското крайбрежие на Канада в Ескуаймолт, (Британска Колумбия).

1914 г. Рейнбоу е изпратен във Ванкувър за разрешаването на международен проблем. Корабът Комагата Мару, превозващ сикхски емигранти от Индия, смята да наруши емиграционния закон на Канада, който забранява емиграция от Южна Азия. На пътниците на кораба, дори и британски поданици, е забранено да слязат на брега. Рейнбоу трябва да накара кораба да се върне в Индия. В резултат на това, вече на обратния път към Бадж-Бадж (Индия), двадесет пътника, които се съпротивляват срещу насилственото им връщане в Индия, са убити.

През 1916 г. и началото на 1917 г. Рейнбоу превозва 140 000 000 $ в руско злато (по курс на канадския долар за 1917 г.) от Ескуаймолт във Ванкувър. Това са пари, които руското правителство изпраща в Британия, като гаранция на английските кредити за военните доставки за Русия.

Източници

Литература
 Macpherson, Keneth R. and Burgess, John. (1982) (Second Printing) The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910 – 1981. Collins Publishers. ISBN 0-00-216856-1

Външни препратки
 APOLLO 2 class cruisers (21, 1891 – 1894)

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This week we're revealing our sunroom. Its creation, as part of the overall cottage reversion, was critically important: having scanned the rental market, we quickly observed that most contenders benefit from a porch of some variety.
Can we be honest? The ongoing transformation at Plan B is killing us. That which we though would be an ambitious undertaking is turning into a renovation of almost biblical proportions: one that's rendered us emotionally fraught and bereft of energy at every turn.
So you've seen our lakeside project unravel in these virtual pages -- and our televisual story line is half way there -- but the monolithic reno' trajectory literally tore at our very being, physically and emotionally, at every turn. Whilst leaving our budgets in virtual chaos.
But we battled on, saving money wherever possible, and spending it where we had to. This week we're revealing our sunroom. Its creation, as part of the overall cottage reversion, was critically important: having scanned the rental market, we quickly observed that most contenders benefit from a porch of some variety. Whether a luxurious bug free garden room, a well appointed three season conservatory or a simple screened solarium, it was perfectly clear that, somehow, we needed to embellish our wee shack with an indoor outdoor space.
Our cabin, essentially, needed to magnify to properly capitalize upon its underlying potential. Without further ado we entered dialogue with Nicole Sokol and Shaun Hunter from Discovery Dream Homes without whose valuable input, it should be reported, our sunroom ambition might never have materialized.
Courtesy of their experience -- and their ability to liaise with the planning department -- our dreams started to realize as we appraised the company's 3D "walk through" renderings and exacting technical drawings. Take a tip: master draughts person qualifications and the skill set required to untangle technical specifications are beyond most people.
Whomever you choose to work with when it comes to your own project, ensure they're as technically enabled as Shaun and Nicole. Ask for references and request to see a catalogue of work to back up any claims they make as to pedigree. From the very beginning, Discovery Dream Homes were thoroughly transparent, even inviting us to view properties upon which they'd previously worked. This bred immediate confidence that didn't once slip as the project gathered momentum.
Appraising the scheme (and mindful of his unstinting efforts in other zones) it was decided that, to ease the pressure on our principal contractor Randy Blain, we should engage a third party to help with the actual build. Having worked with the team at Toronto based Mason Brothers Construction on previous GTA projects, we agreed they'd be the perfect fit, especially being that they were willing to travel.
As the wider cottage project endures, Dave Mason and his fastidious crew stay on to build our bunkie (just wait till you see that!) and, with the assistance of Randy and Discovery, the sunroom comes together without any significant glitch. That which particularly impressed us was the way MBC eased into -- and around -- our existing team, and the way they problem solved every single hurdle without missing a beat.
Framing the new porch, a 12' x 17' space with a coursing wedge shaped ceiling, was first order of service. Positioned to deliver amazing sightlines to the twinkling waters of Drag Lake, the structure is anchored to the wrap around deck, itself set stoically into the ground on concrete piers. Floored with granite the pine-framed monolith leads directly off the kitchen, making it the ideal place in which to enjoy pre or post dinner drinks, sundowners or overspill chatter space when the main cottage is busy.
To optimize vistas, we specified Weather Master Sunspace screens whose memory vinyl "glazing" remains impervious to wear and tear no matter how inclement the conditions. Hey, you can literally punch the vinyl and it slowly "corrects," undamaged. Fitted by Nortech they provide a precise, tailored aesthetic as viewed from inside or out.
What's more, stackable up and down for air circulation (aided by the softly rotating blades of an overhead Fan Shoppe fitting) the black framed panels feature "invisible" mesh to ward off entomological attack. Take it from us -- attention to detail such as this is critical if you're to properly enjoy time at the lake.
Build complete, the room comes alive with leather chairs and a Mid Mod style sofa in soft grey tones. Weighty charm is delivered in spades courtesy of an Artemano coffee table and a console that accommodates beautiful hand carved Loons, bagged in the local craft store. As always, our schemes are a mix of indulgent and affordable -- final anchoring detail comes from an Ikea rug and a selection of cushions and throws found in Marshalls and Winners.
To amplify the indoor/outdoor vibe, we added a clever annex (accessed directly from the sunroom through stackable Weather Master Plus doors, again by Sunspace) which adds a whopping 13' x 10' of additional living space. SlideClear pleated screens -- from the same supplier -- expand and contract from a low profile "cartridge," effectively creating insect proof "walls" that slide around three elevations. Further insect protection comes courtesy of microscopic mesh, discreetly installed under the deck boards -- attention to detail such as this means the little nook can be enjoyed even with bug season at its most invasive.
To furnish, we added inexpensive weatherproof loungers from Ikea and a $20 side table from the Haliburton Thrift Warehouse: complete, the space serves as terrific spill over when larger groups gather. The barometer's red arrow already rising, it's proving to be a very big hit: Scottish friends, visiting only this week, declared it their favourite space in which to soak up the holiday vibe.
If you like the images showcased here, join us Sunday at 9 p.m. when we'll be showcasing our dual space sunroom in exacting detail. And next week, in these virtual pages, we'll be revealing our recently formed basement, a wildly ambitious guest bathroom and a quirky laundry bedecked in antique style European tile. All will be revealed!
Colin and Justin's Cabin Pressure airs on Cottage Life (network is currently in free preview) at 9 p.m., Sundays.
Colin and Justin are also resident judges on W Network's Game of Homes, a competition series that will see the eventual victors win a fully furnished house, and plot of land. 10 p.m., Tuesdays.


Lucy, I know this is weird. Please don't freak out, but this is you. From the future. No, you are not in a YA time travel novel, or in Harry Potter (which you still haven't read, but I promise you it will happen!). You often hear people being asked, 'What would you change if you could talk to your past self?' and my answer is: Absolutely nothing.
Because I'm writing this to you on the day you sit down and make your blog, Read, Write, Sleep, Eat! I want to tell you to stick in there. Things will be tough – at points you'll have people be really mean to you but, in the end, it won't bother you anymore because it happens everywhere. The blogging community, however amazing, is no different. There will be points where you'll want to give it all up and will be on the verge of just stopping and quitting. Hang in there, buddy!
No matter how important you think page views and comments and followers are, one day you'll be in a position where you don't have to worry anymore, and once you get to that point you'll feel like all of your work over the two years is worth it. This blog will be like a diary to you, a diary that just happens to be read by quite a lot of people. More than you could ever have imagined.
Put the effort in, Lucy, but also don't put so much pressure on yourself. That's one of the things you really should stop doing, because it will get you nowhere!
Lucy, you are going to make some amazing friends who you would like to see all day every day. It's not possible right now as I'm writing this, but I really hope it will be one day. These friends will completely understand you and you can talk to them about anything. There are a few people you should probably just not talk to in the first place, but you will learn from your mistakes so I won't warn you off too much. Keep going, Lucy!
Starting your blog is one of the best decisions you will ever make and I really hope that never changes.
This was just lovely 🙂 and it is definitely something that Bloggers just starting out would find useful as you have hit some key things there.
Also, you are doing a great job and don't ever forget that!
Really cute post! 🙂 Very original.
What a lovely idea for a post and such a beautiful letter.
That is a good post and a great idea to write to your past self. It would be cool to meet your past self ad talk to them.