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British chamber ensemble makes waves abroad
By Andrew Anderson on	 February 20, 2013 &nbspAnalysis	Music
A small UK chamber orchestra is channelling the fame of its hometown to cultivate its international profile.
Based in Stratford-upon-Avon – Shakespeare's birthplace – the Orchestra of the Swan is bucking the trend of downsized budgets and slashed programming with an award-winning season, multiple recordings and plans to use the famous bard to its advantage.
Despite its size – up to 35 musicians and just four administrative staff – the freelance chamber orchestra is weathering the financial storm remarkably well, having recently signed a sponsorship deal with Turkish Airlines.
It received accolades for its 2012 recording Spring Sounds, Spring Seas and was awarded a certificate of achievement from the Delius Society in recognition of its performances of the composer's work last season. The orchestra also won the Pride of Stratford Arts Organisation of the Year award in 2012.
But with the 450th and 400th anniversaries of Shakespeare's birth and death coming up in 2014 and 2016, artistic director David Curtis now has his sights set on audiences farther afield.
'We've got a unique opportunity to capitalise on these anniversaries,' he told IAM. 'We see this as a fantastic opportunity to get the orchestra [abroad], particularly to the US and China, where Shakespeare is incredibly well known and very highly revered.'
Turkish Airlines provided Curtis with flights to China last Autumn where he met with promoters, potential sponsors, and was broadcast to an audience of 10m on Chongqing Music Radio.
'We are working closely with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in developing educational projects around those anniversaries,' said Curtis, 'and we're commissioning a lot of new music and large-scale works, particularly for 2016.'
One of those projects will see the ensemble commission British-Bulgarian composer Dobrinka Tabakova to write a work for chamber choir and orchestra based around pencil sketches that the painter JW Turner made of Shakespeare's home town in the mid-1800s.
'It seems as though we are bucking the trend at the moment,' said Curtis, 'but you're always walking on very thin ice and we've been working very hard. I do think supporters want to support successful organisations. Swan is quite a good analogy actually; hopefully it looks beautiful and serene and calm on the top whereas underneath we're paddling like heck to keep things going!'
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Twitter user @pixelatedboat, who's known for parodying political figures and posting satire, posted an image on the social media site Thursday that purported to be an excerpt from author Michael Wolff's hotly anticipated book on the Trump administration, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House."
The parody imagined Trump being upset over a lack of a "gorilla channel" on White House televisions.
The parody, written as if it came from Wolff's book, described White House staff using a "hastily-constructed transmission tower" to create a "gorilla channel" for Trump that featured footage of gorillas fighting.
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Several major and verified accounts on Twitter shared the parody as if it were an actual excerpt from the book, while others speculated whether it was real. Some fell for the parody and believed Trump had demanded another "gorilla channel." Other Twitter users said they thought the the fake "gorilla channel" excerpt actually was in Wolff's book, but was untrue.
At press time on Friday, "Gorilla Channel" was trending on Twitter, with more than 16,000 tweets.
FYI: Cable programmers, I WOULD watch a 24/7 Gorilla channel. Just a bit of focus group for you, for free.
Thank you to everyone who's pointing out that the gorilla channel story is not true—it's from a parody site, not Michael Wolff's book.
Is the gorilla channel thing real or fake?
I thought it was clearly fake but people are talking as if it's real and I don't know who's mistaken.
If you don't know what I'm talking about don't look it up because it might be fake.
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Romain Grosjean is treading on "thin ice" after he edged closer to a Formula 1 race ban for accumulated penalty points, according to Haas team principal Gunther Steiner.
The Frenchman was handed a five-second time penalty and two penalty points for failing to adhere to repeated blue flag warnings in the Singapore Grand Prix, meaning he is just three penalty points away from receiving a race ban.
With nine penalty points to his name, Grosjean will be keen to avoid further incidents in upcoming races in Russia, Japan and Austin before a point will be wiped off his tally following the Mexican Grand Prix on October 28.
When asked if he feels Grosjean needs to be a bit careful, Steiner replied: "I think more than a little bit! I think he should be very careful, but I think he knows that.
"He's getting close, we're getting close, we are on thin ice at the moment with that one, and for a few races as well. I think the first one going away is Mexico.
"Fair or not fair, I think sometimes the rules, I wouldn't say they don't help. The rule was applied correctly, that is the rule, if the blue flag comes out.
"It's like you want everything, we want the cake and we want to eat it. In the end he got the penalty, and he has to be careful.
Grosjean continued his scrap with Williams driver Sergey Sirotkin as race leaders Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen approached the backmarkers in the closing stages in Singapore, resulting in Hamilton being forced to defend from Verstappen after losing a chunk of time trying to pass the pair.
The Frenchman insisted he sees no reason to change his approach as he is "not here to do anything silly".
"I'll make sure that I don't do anything silly but I will still be pushing and racing and doing my job," he added. "When you look at the points I got, some you can really explain them, some others are more questionable but here they are.
"We just need to make sure we go through the end of the season, we got six before the start of the next one and then we just forget that. I'm not here to crash, I'm not here to do anything silly."
Steiner says he would like to see the blue flag rule scrapped and believes such a move would help create more excitement and unpredictability in races.
"It's part of racing," Steiner insisted. "As much as you say 'oh I'm the leader, I have the right to do everything' but you always complain we have no racing but if there had been no blue flags Max would have caught up with Hamilton and we would have had a fight.
"Fair or not fair it was a circumstance that there was a car in the way because he was racing as well. We could have given ourselves more action by taking away a rule which always advantages the guy who is always first all the time anyway.
"We keep saying we need to get the field closer but what we are doing, we make sure that if somebody has an advantage he gets even more of an advantage. It's all for the rich.
Grosjean feels the problem would be eradicated if the field was much closer in terms of performance.
"Looking at the bigger picture and the problem is not the blue flags, the problem is that the six cars are so much faster than the rest of the field that half way through the race they need blue flags," he explained.
"If you look at a Formula 2 race, there's no blue flag - maybe once - if you had a crash in lap one and there's one car that has a blue flag but it's not like half way through the race you need a blue flag.
"I finished fourth in Austria, one lap down. That's why they need blue flags. If the pace was more together, the field was more together then there wouldn't be any problem with blue flags."


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Q: How to prove $\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac1{n!}=e\ $? How to prove $\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac1{n!}=e\ $?
I thought about it but I could not find a proof. Please give me some hints?

A: First look at the derivative of $2^x$.
$$\begin{align}
\frac{d}{dx} 2^x & = \lim_{\delta \rightarrow 0} \frac{2^{x+\delta} - 2^x}{\delta}
\\ & = 2^x \lim_{\delta \rightarrow 0} \frac {2^\delta - 1}{\delta}
\end{align}
$$
Let $f(x) = \lim_{\delta \rightarrow 0} \frac{x^\delta - 1}{\delta}$, which can be evaluated numerically.  $\frac{d}{dx} 2^x = 2^x f(2)$ and $f(2) \approx 0.693$.  Likewise $\frac{d}{dx} 3^x = 3^x f(3)$ and $f(3) \approx 1.08$.  What's the derivative of $f$?
$$\begin{align}
\frac{d}{dx} f(x) & = \lim_{\gamma \rightarrow 0} \frac{f(x+\gamma) - f(x)}{\gamma}
\\ &= \lim_{\gamma \rightarrow 0} \dfrac{ \lim_{\delta \rightarrow 0} \dfrac{(x + \gamma)^\delta - 1}{\delta} - \lim_{\delta \rightarrow 0} \dfrac{x^\delta -1}{\delta}}
{\gamma}
\\ &= \lim_{\gamma \rightarrow 0} \dfrac{ \lim_{\delta \rightarrow 0} \dfrac{(x + \gamma)^\delta - x^\delta}{\delta}}{\gamma}
\\ &= \lim_{\delta \rightarrow 0} \dfrac{ \lim_{\gamma \rightarrow 0} \dfrac{(x + \gamma)^\delta - x^\delta}{\gamma}}{\delta}
\\ &= \lim_{\delta \rightarrow 0} \dfrac{ \frac{d}{dx} x^\delta}{\delta} = \lim_{\delta \rightarrow 0} \dfrac{ \delta x^{\delta - 1}}{\delta} = \dfrac{1}{x}
\end{align}$$
This tells us that $f$ is mononically increasing between 2 and 3, so there must be a unique value of $x$ for which $f(x) = 1$.
$e$ is defined as the number for which $f(e) = 1$ and $\frac{d}{dx} e^x = e^x$.  Think about the Taylor series for $e^x = a_0 + a_1 x + a_2 x^2 + a_3 x^3 ... = \sum_{i=0}^{\infty} a_i x^i$.
It has a value of 1 at $x = 0$, so $a_0 = 1$.  Since it is equal to its derivative, the derivatives of all the individual terms must be equal, i.e. $\forall i \ge 0: a_i x^i = (i+1) a_{i+1} x^i$.  $a_0 = 1$ and $a_i = (i+1)a_{i+1}$ and $\frac{a_i}{i+1} = a_{i+1}$.  This means $a_i = \frac1{i!}$ and $e^x = \sum_{i=0}^{\infty}\frac{x^i}{i!}$.
Evaluate the polynomial at x=1 and you get your expression for $e$.

A: There are many ways to define $e,$ but somewhere along the line you have to define it before you can hope to prove it equal to some other quantity. If you define the function $e^{x}$ by the power series $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{n}}{n!},$ which converges for all real $x,$ then you just need to substitute $x =1$ to obtain what you want. I don't imagine this was the intention when the question was set.
There are two other fairly common rigorous ways to define $e,$ but one is really covered by what is said already- that is, if we define the $\log$ function by $\log(x) = \int^{x}_{1} \frac{1}{t}dt$ for $x >0,$ then by the fundamental theorem of calculus, $\log$ is differentiable on $(0,\infty),$ and $\log^{\prime}(x) = \frac{1}{x}$ for all positive $x.$ Hence $\log$ is strictly increasing on $(0,\infty),$ and, in particular, is one-to-one. We define $\exp$ to be the inverse function of $\log,$ and we find easily that
$\exp^{\prime} = \exp,$ from which it easily follows that the Maclaurin series for $\exp(x)$ is $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{n}}{n!},$ which we have dealt with.
The method defining $e$ which makes this problem most challenging is as $e = \lim_{n \to \infty} (1 + \frac{1}{n})^{n}.$ However, note that for every $n >0,$ we have
$$(1 + \frac{1}{n})^{n} = \sum_{k=0}^{n} \frac{n!}{n^{k}k!(n-k)!} $$
which may be rewritten as
$$\sum_{k=0}^{n} \frac{1}{k!}  \prod_{j=1}^{k-1} ( 1 - \frac{j}{n}).$$
This is always less than
$$\sum_{k=0}^{\infty} \frac{1}{k!}$$
and greater than
$$\sum_{k=0}^{n} \frac{1}{k!}  ( 1 - \frac{k}{n})^{k-1}.$$
Now fix a large integer $M.$ Then when $n >M,$ the last sum is greater than $$\sum_{k=0}^{M} \frac{1}{k!}  ( 1 - \frac{M}{n})^{M-1}.$$
As $n \to \infty,$ the last expression tends to $\sum_{k=0}^{M} \frac{1}{k!}.$
We have proved that
$$(1+\frac{1}{n})^{n} \leq \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{k!}$$
for all $n,$ and that for any fixed integer $M,$ we have
$$\lim_{n \to \infty}(1+ \frac{1}{n})^{n} \geq \sum_{k=0}^{M} \frac{1}{k!}.$$
Hence
$$\lim_{n \to \infty} (1 + \frac{1}{n})^{n} = \sum_{k=0}^{\infty} \frac{1}{k!}.$$

A: Use the taylor formula, assuming that for you $e = \exp(1)$ and $\exp' = \exp$.
$$
e - \sum_{k=1}^n \frac{1}{k!} =  \int_0^1 \frac{(1-t)^n}{n!} \exp(t) dt
$$
Now use $0\le \exp(t) \le \exp(1) =C $ on $(0,1)$ to get
$$
0\le e - \sum_{k=1}^n \frac{1}{k!} \le C\int_0^1 \frac{(1-t)^n}{n!}  dt
= \frac C{n+1}\to 0
$$

A: Another way to prove it is using differential equations. It's fairly straightforward to show that there exists a unique function $f(x)$ such that $f'(x) = f(x)$ and $f(0) = 1$, which can be proven by noting that $\frac{d}{dx}f^{-1}(x) = \frac1x$ and $f^{-1}(1) = 0$, which implies $f^{-1}(x) = \int_1^x\frac1t dt$.
The next step is to show that there exists a constant $e$ such that $f(x) = e^x$. Let $e = f(1)$. Notice that $\frac{f(x + y)}{f(y)}$, seen as a function of $x$, solves the same initial value problem $f'(x) = f(x)$ and $f(0) = 1$. Uniqueness therefore implies $$
\frac{f(x+y)}{f(y)} = f(x)
$$
and hence $f(x+1) = f(1) f(x)$, and therefore $f(x) = f(1)^x = e^x$. Next, observe that the series $\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}$ converges absolutely for all $x$ which can be seen by the root test. Differentiating term by term we can see that this sum is its own derivative, and of course at $x= 0 $ it converges to $1$. Hence $e^x = f(x) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}$. The conclusion is $$
e = f(1) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac1{n!}
$$

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Abaco Systems announced a new solution with the EIU1000. The product is an I/O aggregator and data concentrator that combines high-density Ethernet, Avionics databus, serial, and discrete I/O connections in a compact, rugged system powered by a high-performance System-on-Chip (SoC) to reducing wiring, overall system weight, and complexity.
Army Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program selects team
Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, has announced agreements with nine premier aerospace industry leaders to form Team Invictus. The companies are producing the Bell 360 Invictus prototype submission as part of the U.S. Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program.
Twinning Digital Twins Show Their Power by Louise Bonnar
The potential of digital twins for aerospace is coming to light. Digital twins, virtual simulations of physical assets, are finding their way into aerospace. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can design new engines, airframes or complex components or test how assets will mature throughout lifecycles. These virtual models allow OEMs to refine maintenance contracts and aftercare processes; it can make the twin undergo stress tests that may not be logistically possible inside a laboratory; or it can test out new designs or re-designs to establish whether to begin manufacture for physical tests. Today, entire, complex digital twins of engines are in use by OEMs.
Solving Big Data Challenges Through Signal Processing and AI Technology
Sponsored by: ADLINK, Aitech, Mercury Systems
Date: June 16, 11:00 a.m. ET


The Neptune is conceptually abstracted from a lineage of basketball hightops. The upper is constructed of tumbled and buffed calf nubuck. The design features a trapunto-quilted heel counter and a lowered rear collar for a clean drop on the pant bottom. The silhouette is set on an elevated rubber Margom outsole as an ode to the high foxing detail found on vintage vulcanized sneakers. Full grain calf leather lining and insole can be found in the interior.


Light is the fastest thing we currently know about. It travels at 6.7 times 10 to the 8 miles per hour. That's fast. Wicked fast. Researchers at MIT have come up with a hardware and software camera that can record at 1 trillion frames per second. By firing a laser for less than a trillionth of a second, they are able to watch the light travel over time and illuminate objects.
The still life photograph was nice, but I really like the coke bottle one. One of the interesting side effects of this is because of the hyper speed of the camera, the distance the photons of light have to travel relative to the camera sensor is important. You see this towards the end with the colorized wave image of the coke bottle. That's where the software comes in. They have to modify the resulting image so that the waves are in the right order chronologically.
Pretty neat. One of the few TED talks I've been able to make it through all the way (partly because it's only 10 minutes) and understand everything they said in. You should watch it.


So, something at NGV (which I've been waiting for) has finally arrived.
I was looking around the web one day and stumbled across a few of his artworks, only to discover that he'd be showing his face (or at least his paintings) later on this year in Victoria!
I certainly intend to go and visit. The exhibition is on until October 15. Anyone interested?


I am a chemical engineering student at the University of Tennessee. Math and science are my forte. I am also a very patient and kind person. I love interacting with people, and I always do my best to help others in any way possible! I have experience with tutoring, and I am excellent at explaining concepts in a different way that enables the student to understand.
I was a math tutor for four years. I taught algebra, algebra 2, pre-calculus, and geometry to multiple students throughout high school.


Act respecting the acquisition of farm land by non-residents.
1. Duties of $303 shall be paid by any person submitting an application to the Commission de protection du territoire agricole du Québec for the costs of opening a record under section 12 of the Act.
O.C. 89-91, s. 1; O.C. 454-97, s. 1.
2. Costs of $79 shall be paid by any person submitting an application to the commission for a certificate under section 16.1 of the Act.
2.1. The duties and costs prescribed by this Regulation shall be indexed on 1 January of each year on the basis of the rate of increase in the general Consumer Price Index for Canada for the 12-month period ending on 30 September of the preceding year, as determined by Statistics Canada.
Duties and costs indexed in the prescribed manner shall be reduced to the nearest dollar where they contain a fraction of a dollar less than $0.50; they shall be increased to the nearest dollar where they contain a fraction of a dollar equal to or greater than $0.50.
The president of the Commission de protection du territoire agricole du Québec shall inform the public, through Part 1 of the Gazette officielle du Québec and, where he considers it appropriate, by any other means, of the indexation calculated under this section.
3. This Regulation replaces the Tariff of duties, fees and costs payable for applications to the Commission de protection du territoire agricole du Québec (R.R.Q., 1981, c. A-4.1, r. 3).


Conrad von Hötzendorf, Chief of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff, Vienna, 1914. By the end of that year he had lost as many as one million men, much of his country's rolling stock, and the northeastern region of Galicia. His forces had also been defeated by Serbia three times.
The general staffs of the major powers made and elaborated on their war plans, with greater or lesser degrees of political involvement, coordinating plans with their allies or assuming coordination would be forthcoming when needed.
Germany's war plan, its only plan, assumed the country would fight a two-front war against both France and its ally Russia. By achieving a quick German victory over France while Russia was slowly mobilizing its massive army, military planners aimed to turn a two-front war into two sequential single-front wars.
The focus of the German plan developed at the turn of the century by General Alfred von Schlieffen, Chief of the German General Staff, was the rapid defeat of France. Von Schlieffen was correct in his assumption about the French plan, that France would attack Germany in Alsace and Lorraine, the provinces France lost to Germany in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. Here, on its left wing, Germany would fight a defensive war, giving ground if necessary to keep the right wing, the offensive, strong. On the offensive, German forces would pivot at Luxembourg, at the northern end of the Franco/German border. Schlieffen's plan called for the transit of German forces through Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands, with the outer edge of the assault, the right wing, moving rapidly across the countries as far west as the North Sea and Channel coast before turning south and continuing into France, and then east, enveloping Paris and the bulk of the French army coming to the city's defense. Von Schlieffen continued developing and modifying his plan, as did General Helmuth von Moltke, who succeeded him in 1906.
The war against France was to be over in ??? weeks??? [HOW MANY?] at which time Germany would transport troops by rail to face, and defeat, a Russia that had finally mobilized. Under the plan, von Schlieffen was willing to accept temporary losses of German territory both in Alsace-Lorraine and in east Prussia, secure in the knowledge that both would be regained with German victories against both invaders.
Within the German military, there was some skepticism of the Schlieffen Plan [Herwig]. It ignored the effect of any British land forces opposing the German advance, it overestimated the capabilities of the reserve forces that significantly enhanced the size of the German forces, and it was vague about the siege and seizure of Paris, which would require 7 or 8 army corps. Some doubted that a war between major European powers would be a short one. The plan also required the invasion of three neutral countries. When war did come, the high command could not tolerate the loss of national territory, even if it was assumed to be temporary.
Moltke modified Schlieffen's plan to avoid an invasion of the Netherlands, in hopes it would remain neutral and available as a trading partner with access to the North Sea and international trade. Avoiding violating the neutrality of the Netherlands narrowed the route of the German forces that would strike France along its northern border.
Germany positioned seven armies along the along its western border, from the First Army in the north sequentially to the Seventh north of the Swiss border. The First Army faced the Netherlands, and would need to move south to advance into Belgium. It was the outermost army of von Schlieffen's arc, with the most ground to cover and required to move most quickly. The German Eighth Army was in the salient of East Prussia, facing Russia and Polish Russia to the east and south.
Other than the Schlieffen plan, as modified by von Moltke, there was no other German plan. It assumed that Belgium would not offer resistance that would delay or otherwise affect the execution of the plan.
??? Neutral Belgium had gained its independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the 1830 [Putnam's Historical Atlas, p. 71] Revolution [Baedeker, page xxiii]. The 1831 treaty that established Belgian independence and neutrality was reaffirmed by the 1839 and 1867 Treaties of London. The signatories (including Austria, Great Britain, France, Russia, and predecessors to the German Empire: the German Confederation (1839) and the Kingdom of Prussia (1867)) guaranteed Belgian independence and neutrality. Belgium guarded its neutrality so zealously that it made no advance plans with a potential ally in the event of an invasion. The Belgian Army, which was being reorganized in 1914, was solely for the defense of the country. The reorganization was not scheduled for completion until 1917.
Besides its army, Belgium was defended by forts and fortresses including those at Dinant and Namur and the fortress cities of Liège and Antwerp. On the Meuse River, Liège lay in the narrow passage between the Netherlands and Luxembourg, close to the German border to the east, and encircled by twelve forts. Namur and Dinant, west of Liège, were also on the Meuse, Namur where it joined the Sambre River and flowed south towards France, and Dinant a short distance from the French border.
The 1839 and 1867 Treaties also guaranteed Luxembourg's neutrality.
France's primary plan in 1914 was Plan XVII, under which France would invade her "lost territories," of Alsace and Lorraine, now German territory, and the only part of the German Empire bordering France. French military planners valued the attack, and believed their vigorous offense would overcome their opponents defense. The French and colonial soldiers would advance on foot, building to a run, rifle at the ready, and bayonet mounted. When this mass of troops reached their objected, and collided with another, the bayonet would be put to use, and, in hand-to-hand combat, the French would prevail.
The French Army consisted of five Armies. The First, Second, and Third faced Germany to the east and were positioned between the fortress cities of Belfort, Epinal, Nancy, and Verdun. The Fifth Army was on the Belgian border at Sedan, site of France's defeat in 1871. The Fourth Army was held in reserve southwest of Verdun. If Germany were to invade Belgium, the Fifth Army was to move north into Belgium, and the Fourth Army to fall into position between the Third and Fifth Armies.
The French Army was significantly smaller ??? than the German Army. It assumed and was dependent on timely action by its ally Russia to draw German forces from an attack on France to the Russian front. The French and British military had also made plans in the event of a war against Germany.
Russian war plans were based on an assumption of simultaneous war against both Germany and Austria-Hungary, requiring mobilizing forces from the Baltic Sea to the Romanian border, facing both empires. Russian railways had been extended in Russian Poland, and could move more quickly, to the north or west against Germany, or south against Austria-Hungary.
Russia had several versions of its plans. Variant G was to be executed if Germany struck Russia from East Prussia, in which case Russia would deploy the greater part of its forces against Germany. Variant A was focused on Austria-Hungary. It called for two armies totaling 29 divisions facing Germany, four armies totaling 45 divisions deployed to invade Austria-Hungary, and two reserve armies. On July 30, 1914, Russia executed Variant A with over 1,300,000 men mobilized.
The Russian First and Second Armies were stationed east of Prussia facing Germany. The Fifth, Third, and Eight Armies faced Austria-Hungary. Under Variant A, the Fourth Army would be take its position in Polish Russia on the Russian right wing facing Austria-Hungary. Under Variant G and against a German attack, it would take its place north of the First and Second Armies, defending the Baltic provinces, and thwarting any German drive toward St. Petersburg.
In Austria-Hungary, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf , Commander-in-Chief??? of the Imperial and Royal Army had multiple plans, for two fronts and two or three opponents[?]: against Russia, Serbia, and one of their allies, Romania? Italy? [Herwig? p. 53].
The Austro-Hungarian First, Third, and Fourth Armies were positioned in Galicia facing north into Polish Russia, between the border and the fortress cities of Lemberg and Przemyśl. The Fifth and Sixth Armies were stationed in Bosnia to the south facing Serbia's northwestern border. The Second Army could be positioned for action against Serbia (Plan A) or Russia (Plan R). Under Plan A, it would strike at Serbia's capital of Belgrade across the Danube River. It would support an offensive against Russia by moving to the right wing of the First, Fourth, and Third Armies in Galicia.
Austria-Hungary prepared badly: It declared war on Serbia on July 28 even though its forces could not be mobilized until August 12, and despite evidence – diplomatic and other - that Russia would respond to the declaration by mobilizing. Conrad assumed German cooperation (as Germany did of Austria-Hungary), but did not coordinate his plans with Germany, which mobilized on July 31. Conrad sent troops to Serbia, then ???? responding to Russia's mobilization and Germany's request for support, routed them in the opposite direction to Russia. He expected to have five times as many trains to shuttle them back and forth as he had available. It required forced marches of almost 20 miles a day from August 19 to 26 for his army to reach Lemberg and the Russian border.
Great Britain's army was not structured for a European land war, but the French and British military developed plans to counteract a German assault on France. As the world's greatest sea power, Britain would take responsibility for controlling the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean, and for protecting French ports on the Atlantic. The French fleet would withdraw to the Mediterranean, and protect not only French territory, but also England's vital sea routes through Gibralter and the Suez Canal. When war came, many British politicians would be surprised at the extent of the joint military plans. The French would be dismayed by the failure of Britain to execute them immediately.
On August 3, 1914, while emphasizing that Britain had made no commitments to France or Russia, Foreign Secretary Grey told the House of Commons of the pre-war coordination of French and British navies, that the French Navy had already sailed for the Mediterranean, and that he had committed the Royal Navy to protect France's Atlantic coast from German attack. Tuchman, p. 140.
The French and British staffs had also made plans for the landing of a British Expeditionary Force in France, and its positioning on the left wing of the French Army, thereby protecting the French if Germany should attack through Belgium.
Mobilizing troops of the major powers, putting them on a war footing ?????, required complex schedules and operations: from the announcement, to the start of mobilization, the calling up of reserves, the cancelling of leaves for active service, the military command of the trains????, collection points????, predicated on train schedules. Put in motion, these machines of millions of men were hard to stop. Nor were they designed to: the plans of France, Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary put their forces on the offensive, not the defensive.
General histories of the war or the beginning of the war will have information on Germany's Schlieffen Plan. Among the resources are some with more information on war plans of other nations and coordination of allied plans.


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How Hawaiʻi Recognizes Its Best and Brightest … Trees
The state has some strict standards to be named an exceptional tree, and competition is pretty stiff.
by Sabrina Imbler June 7, 2019
An exceptional Indian banyan growing in Lahaina Courthouse Square in Maui. Samantha Levang/CC by 2.0
According to the state of Hawaiʻi, all trees are important. But some are more than that. Some are exceptional. There are certain requirements to attain this designation, according to the state's Exceptional Tree Act. Is a tree big, old, or—better yet—rare? Is it located somewhere unusual? Does it have a particular, unique aesthetic quality not seen in other trees? Is it endemic to the state? If it meets enough of these standards, it just might be exceptional.
For Hawaiʻi's trees, this is no empty title. The state legislature passed the Exceptional Tree Act in 1975, responding to community calls to save the islands' trees from deliberate damage or destruction. Local environmental groups, including the Mokihana Club of Kauai and The Outdoor Circle, lobbied hard in favor of the act. The program was likely the first of its kind in the nation, according to Myles Ritchie, programs director for The Outdoor Circle. Now the state of Washington has a similar program.
Before a tree can be named exceptional, it must pass a stringent vetting process. Though the act lists seven possible criteria—age, rarity, location, size, aesthetic quality, endemic status, and historical or cultural significance—a tree need only fulfill one for a chance to be named exceptional. But most trees don't stand a chance. "In order to maintain the high standards set for the program and prevent diluting its reputation, only truly exceptional trees will be added," Ritchie writes in an email. "The nomination and approval process can last several months."
An Indian banyan spills out across the courtyard of the Moana Surfrider resort. Wendy Cutler/CC by 2.0
You can check out every exceptional tree in the state on The Outdoor Circle's interactive map and database.
The first exceptional tree in Hawaiʻi became exceptional in 1975, after the Mokihana Club rallied to protect a large banyan tree on Kauai. The Indian banyan planted by the Moana Surfrider resort in Waikiki Beach was another early entrant. Planted as a mere seven-foot sapling in 1904, the banyan's canopy has grown into a green-crested chandelier that towers over the hotel's courtyard. Now 75 feet tall and 150 feet wide, its multiple trunks ripple out among the guests.
Trees can be added or removed from the list only once a year, during the annual ordinance change. As expected, new trees regularly join this exclusive club. By the same token, some trees inevitably lose their exalted status if they no longer have the qualities that made them exceptional in the first place, or if they've become a significant threat to public safety, Ritchie says. Take the banyans that line Banyan Drive in Hilo, which were planted by celebrities such as Franklin Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, and Amelia Earhart. They're gone from the list. No one, not even Ritchie, is clear on why these trees lost their status, according to a story in the Honolulu Civil Beat. But Ritchie says they're currently undergoing another evaluation.
The Hitachi monkeypod shades Moanaloa Gardens. John McMahon/CC by 2.0
Some trees are celebrities in their own right, beyond the bureaucratic designation. Take the world's most famous monkeypod, which grows in Moanalua Gardens. It even has a nickname, the Hitachi Tree, because its image and silhouette became corporate symbols of the Japanese electronics titan. The monkeypod's distinctive umbrella shape shades an enormous swath of the park and sees thousands of visitors a day, including many visitors from Japan, who grew up with Hitachi commercials and their signature jingle.
Some of Hawaiʻi's exceptional trees earned their designation because they are the largest examples of their respective species in the United States, including the mammee apple, baobab, queen flower tree, cannonball tree, doum palm, nawa, narra, and Queensland kauri, according to the Exceptional Trees of Hawaiʻi site. A Mindanao gum, or Eucalytpus delgupta, growing in the Wahiawa Botanical Garden, holds the title of tallest exceptional tree, towering over 200 feet. And several banyans growing by the International Marketplace in downtown Honolulu likely vie for the title of largest overall.
The exceptionally colored bark of Wahiawa Botanical Garden's exceptionally tall Mindanao gum. Wendy Cutler/CC by 2.0
Hawaiʻi's oldest exceptional tree is a 227-year-old orange tree that grows in South Kona, planted in 1792 after British captain George Vancouver visited the islands on HMS Discovery, according to the site. The ship's surgeon and naturalist, Archibald Menzies, distributed citrus seedlings to local chiefs, left over from the ones he kept on board to keep scurvy at bay.
Other trees earned their status due to mystical significance, such as the sacred fig, Ficus religiosa, known as the Bodhi tree. Found in Honolulu's Foster Botanical Garden, it's said to be a direct descendant of the tree under which Prince Siddhartha Gautama sat in the sixth century B.C. to reach enlightenment and become the world's first Buddha, according to Honolulu Magazine. The tree arrived on the island in 1913 after Sri Lankan monk Anagarika Dharmapala befriended Mary Mikahala Foster, a theosophist and royal descendant. Another exceptional tree—in this instance, an entire sacred grove—grows at Pu'u o Hoku Ranch on the island of Molokaʻi. The circular kukui grove spans five acres and is believed to be the burial site of Kahuna Lanikaula, a renowned Hawaiian priest, according to a 1955 story in The Honolulu Advertiser.
Honolulu's sacred fig is said to be descended from a sixth-century tree that made a Buddha. Drew Avery/CC by 2.0
And some are much more humble, such as the lychee tree growing in the corner of a parking lot by a strip mall on the corner of Nu'uanu Avenue and School Street. It was the first of its kind in the state, according to The Honolulu Advertiser.
Exceptional trees pepper all the islands except for lightly populated Niʻihau and unpopulated Kahoʻolawe, but Oahu leads the list in terms of sheer quantity—more than 1,000 in total. While Oahu is not inherently more arboreally exceptional than the other islands, Ritchie says, more residents there know about the program than on other islands. On the Big Island, for example, the Arborist Advisory Committee long languished in inactivity, but has just begun to re-form, Ritchie told the Honolulu Civil Beat.
Ritchie's favorite exceptional tree is a kapok that grows on the corner of Young and Keeaumoku Streets in Honolulu. The Outdoor Circle
Citizens also have quite an incentive to identify any exceptional trees on their own property—a $3,000 tax credit every three years, intended to subsidize proper arboreal maintenance. If you live in Hawaiʻi and know a tree you think deserves recognition, contact your County Arborist Advisory Committee and fill out an application. A committee will later decide the fate of your tree and, if you're lucky, adorn its trunk with a small plaque that tells the world—or at least anyone who comes close enough to read it—just how special it is.
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Could a Gene Bank Save Endangered Plants From Extinction?
A "plant studbook" might help botanic gardens bring rare breeds back from the brink.
Lorraine Boissoneault November 1, 2019
In Little Cayman, Things Are Looking Up for the Enormous, Friendly Nassau Grouper
Signs of recovery for the so-called "puppies of the sea."
Sabrina Imbler January 10, 2020
The Whack-a-Mole Survival of Galapagos Land Iguanas
Moving them from island to island is one way to conserve them.
Isaac Schultz November 7, 2019
The Gaelic World's Last Great Bird Hunt
Just 10 men are permitted to hunt and pickle 2,000 young seabirds on a desolate island each year.
Luke Fater September 27, 2019
10 Unique Beaches From Around the World
From bright red grass to stranded shipwrecks, these beaches are anything but ordinary.
Video • Object of Intrigue
The Value of the Largest Egg in the World
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The Spectacular Beauty of China's Red Beach
There's an Abandoned Futuristic Fort in Portland, Maine
Step Inside the Geometrically Stunning Fingal's Cave
How Four Madagascar Villages Battled a Blaze to Save Their Trees
Two hundred men and women fought to protect the last wild sohisika trees.


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package net._5tingr4y.test.logger;

import net._5tingr4y.logger.DefaultLoggerWindow;
import net._5tingr4y.logger.Logger;

public class LoggerTest1 {

	private final int WAITTIME = 1000;

	@SuppressWarnings("null")
	private LoggerTest1() throws InterruptedException {
		Logger.catchUncaughtExceptions(true);
		Logger.catchSysOut(true);
		Logger.catchSysErr(true);
		Logger.setLoggerWindow(new DefaultLoggerWindow("Logger: Test"));
		Logger.setLogFile("test/testLog1.log");
		Logger.startLogging();

		Logger.log(this, Logger.DEBUG, "test debug");
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		Logger.log(this, Logger.INFO, "test information");
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		Logger.log(this, Logger.WARN, "test warning");
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		Logger.log(this, Logger.ERROR, "test error");
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		System.out.println("test sysout 1");
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		System.err.println("test syserr 1");
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		Logger.catchSysOut(false);
		Logger.catchSysErr(false);
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		System.out.println("test sysout 2");
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		System.err.println("test syserr 2");
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		Logger.log(Logger.SYSOUT, "test sysout 3");
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		Logger.log(Logger.SYSERR, "test syserr 3");
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		Logger.catchSysOut(true);
		Logger.catchSysErr(true);
		Logger.stopLogging();
		System.out.println("test sysout 4");
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		System.err.println("test syserr 4");
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		Logger.startLogging();
		Logger.mute(Logger.DEBUG);
		Logger.log(this, Logger.DEBUG, "test mute 1");
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		Logger.log(this, Logger.INFO, "test mute 2");
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		try {
			throw new Exception("test exception");
		} catch (Exception e) {
			Logger.log(e);
		}
		String test = null;
		Thread.sleep(WAITTIME);
		test.length();
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		try {
			new LoggerTest1();
		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

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Supreme Court Lets Parts of Trump Travel Ban Take Effect
CP Current Page: U.S. | Monday, June 26, 2017
By Reuters | Monday, June 26, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, U.S., June 9, 2017. | (Photo: REUTERS/Yuri Gripas)
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by narrowing the scope of lower court rulings that blocked his travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries and agreeing to hear his appeals in the cases.
The court said it would hear arguments on the legality of one of Trump's signature policies in his first months as president in the court's next term, which starts in October.
The justices granted parts of his administration's emergency request to put the March 6 executive order into effect immediately while the legal battle continues.
The court said that the travel ban is in effect "with respect to foreign nationals who lack any bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States."
The court also said it would allow a 120-day ban on all refugees entering the United States to go into effect on the same grounds.
Three of the court's conservatives said they would have granted Trump's request in full, including Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch.
Trump's first immigration order, signed in late January, was struck down in federal court. In March, he signed a revised version that removed Iraq from the list of Muslim-majority countries from which immigrants would be temporarily banned, suspended refugee resettlement and limited the number of refugees in fiscal year 2017 to 50,000.
The revised order was also blocked by lower courts that found it discriminatory. The Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court in June.
While many Christian groups and evangelicals have spoken out against the travel ban, a Pew Research Center survey earlier this year found that 76 percent of respondents who identified as white evangelicals supported the ban.
Trump's New Travel Ban Doesn't Give Priority to Persecuted Religious Minorities
Trump's Travel Ban: Protecting Americans From Jihad or Discarding Jesus' Call to Help the Stranger?
76 Percent of White Evangelicals Support Trump's Travel Ban: Pew


How I manifested a photograph opportunity with Dr. Wayne Dyer and created a special memory that my heart will treasure forever.
This photo of Dr Wayne Dyer and myself was taken in June 2015 in Maui, Hawaii and represents exhilaration, joy and love.
I'm a co-author with Dr Wayne Dyer in the book 'The Path to Success' and had travelled to Maui, Hawaii to attend the Hay House Writer's Workshop which he was presenting with Reid Tracy and Doreen Virtue.
During Days 1 and 2 of the Writer's Workshop I hadn't had a chance to meet with Wayne for a photograph because he was such a popular and wise man, everyone was clambering for his attention. At the lunch break on Day 3, I went out and bought a take away salad to eat inside the venue as I wanted to be first in line when Wayne held his meet and greet at 1.30pm.
I was sitting enjoying my lunch when I was joined by a lovely lady who I 'clicked' with immediately and we became so engaged in an enjoyable conversation about health and nutrition that I forgot to go and line up for Wayne. Half an hour later I looked up and the line of people was more than 30 metres long. It was so long that it extended out the doors of the conference room!
I quickly excused myself from my conversation explaining that I had to go and get my photograph taken with Wayne Dyer.
As I made my way to the back of the line my logical mind knew there was no way Wayne Dyer was going to be able to make his way through all these people in the 30 minutes we had left before the afternoon session resumed. Despite the "reality" of my situation (which didn't look promising at all) I kept my faith and belief intact and took my place at the end of the line, with my intention of having a photograph with Wayne Dyer clearly defined and sitting firmly where it belonged – at the forefront of my mind.
Despite the disheartening "reality" of my situation, I kept my faith and belief intact and my intention clearly defined at the forefront of my mind.
One of the fellow Writer's Workshop attendees came up and asked what we were all lining up for. We explained that we were waiting in line to get our photo taken with Wayne Dyer. A look of confusion crossed her face as she said, "Wayne's not in there, he's out in the lobby, near the elevators." It's as if that messenger was sent to speak directly to me because no-one else 'got' her message except me. That was my cue and I seized the chance … and I was the only person who left the long line and made my way to the elevators.
When I arrived at the lobby Wayne was nowhere in sight but I decided to wait there anyway as I knew he would have to come past me to re-enter the conference room. I didn't have to wait long, a few minutes later Wayne rounded the corner and I introduced myself and asked if we could have a photograph taken together.
My face shows the pure joy I felt when Wayne took my camera from me and snuggled in close to take this fabulous selfie – a picture that displays his face full of love and mine thrilled that we were experiencing this moment together.
Wayne Dyer, you were an extraordinary man.
Thank you for sharing so much wisdom during your time on Earth.
Thank you for being so gracious and generous, for giving time to your adoring audience and taking time out for your fans.
Thank you for leaving the world a better place for the time you spent in it.
You hold a special place in my heart and I will treasure our photograph forever.


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'Friends and Rivals' by Brenda Niall
2020, 288 p.
In her most recent book Friends and Rivals, Brenda Niall has gone almost full circle. One of her early books was Seven Little Billabongs: The World of Ethel Turner and Mary Grant Bruce, published in 1979 and here she is, some forty years later with another group biography, this time linking "four great Australian writers": Ethel Turner, Barbara Baynton, Henry Handel Richardson and Nettie Palmer. This book is more a quartet of essays rather than one integrated study. Indeed, it might be more appropriate to speak of two twinned biographies, as she was able to pinpoint a documented link between Turner and Baynton, and likewise between Richardson and Palmer in a literary quest of degrees-of-separation.
I have come across three of these writers over my lifetime. We did not have a lot of books in our house, but my mother did give me three books from her childhood. One of them was the 1935 Children's Treasure House, a book of 768 pages on very thin paper, full of English stories and full-length fairy stories, with beautiful Art Deco black-and-white illustrations and colour plates. In Australia, the rights were reserved by the Australian Women's Weekly and it cost 5/- plus 1/- postage to buy a copy. I still have the one my mother owned.
Source: Brotherhood Stores https://stores.bsl.org.au/blog/how-much-is-a-good-book-worth-to-you/
The other books she gave me were her copies of Family at Misrule and Flower O' the Pine– long since gone (unfortunately, because they were first editions I see, although of no great value). These were both written by Ethel Turner, and I loved them. I borrowed Seven Little Australians from the library as well, and I can remember being heartbroken when Judy died. I was never a Billabong girl- only ever Ethel Turner.
In contrast, I only encountered Barbara Baynton's Bush Studies three years ago (my review here) and the stories are still etched in my mind, so different were they from the Bulletin/Lawson/Paterson nationalist bush stories of the turn of the twentieth century. Elizabeth Webby's introduction to the 1999 edition really piqued my interest in this shape-shifting woman, whose final presentation of self was more fictional than her work was.
I read The Getting of Wisdom as a teenager, but was deterred from ever embarking on The Fortunes of Richard Mahony by a friend at the time who was made to read it at school (interestingly, she went to PLC – perhaps the school had forgiven HHR by then). She warned me that it was the most boring book ever written and to be avoided like the plague. I took her at her word, and did not read it until the summer of 2008, down at the beach. I just loved it, and it's right up there on my list of favourite Australian novels.
Nettie Palmer I have only ever encountered as part of the two-for-one partnership of "Vance-and-Nettie-Palmer", public intellectuals and champions of Australian literature. But I have encountered her often, through my interest in her uncle Henry Bourne Higgins, whose biography she was commissioned to write, and I've wanted to know more about her. In fact, it was Niall's study of her that led me to read this book.
The book starts with an introduction 'Women's Work', which I found a little lacklustre. The introduction didn't explain why she chose these four women in particular (rather than others), because, as she points out, they did not make up a group, as such.
The lives of Turner and Baynton, Richardson and Palmer criss-crossed one another from the 1890s through the Federation period to the late 1920s. Their writing careers differ widely, as does the quality of their work. The writer of children's books, the short story writer and the novelist, all were doing something new, as was Nettie Palmer, literary journalist and public intellectual. Their achievements, against the odds, were substantial and surprising. They didn't make up a group; there were no groups for them to join. How did they do it?Each life story illuminates the others. (p. 10)
However, there were themes that arose her analysis of all four women. One such theme was that of reinvention. Ethel Turner was evasive about her childhood and parentage. There has never been documentary evidence of the man who was named as her father on her birth certificate, and she took the name of her stepfather, Henry Turner, a 39 year old widower with four sons and two daughters. Her mother had falsified both her own age, and the ages of her children. When Turner died her mother remarried quickly to Charles Cope, a bachelor ten years younger than her mother, and he was to take an unhealthy interest in his step-daughters. Niall observed that "Turner was strangely tolerant; it is as if she was blinkered to the sexual desire that he so plainly felt for her" (p. 35)
Barbara Baynton was even more evasive about her own history, giving her own family a completely fictional account of a Captain Robert Kilpatrick, who seduced Penelope Ewart away from her husband, and finally married her just before Barbara's birth, thus rescuing her from illegitimacy. No trace of this Captain Kilpatrick has been found. Instead, her father was a bush carpenter, and Barbara and her six siblings were all illegitimate, although her parents married later. She became a governess to the Frater family, close to Scone in NSW, and married her employer's eldest son – shades here of My Brilliant Career. Her husband, however was a "shiftless, neglectful and unfaithful husband" (p.86) and she initiated divorce proceedings against her husband. She found security with her second marriage, to the elderly, wealthy Dr Thomas Baynton. Educated by her husband into the appreciation of furniture and porcelain, she took her place within Sydney social circles. When he died in 1904, just after the publication of Bush Studies, he left her a substantial estate which she had a free hand in administering. She moved to London, and after WWI married Baron Headley, an eccentric peer but this was an unhappy marriage. When they divorced, she retained her title, and still had her money, and returned to Australia.
Henry Handel Richardson did not try to hide her background- indeed, she mined it heavily for The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, but she did manipulate her name. Ethel Richardson adopted the name 'Henry Handel Richardson' with the publication of her first novel, Maurice Guest as a sort of game – would anyone detect it as a woman's work? Although married to the scholar J. G. Robertson, no one was allowed to call her Mrs Robertson, going by 'HHR' and 'Henry' amongst family and friends.
Nettie Palmer was probably the most straight-forward of them all, with an open and uncomplicated liberal Melbourne upbringing. She happily took her husband's name, and was happy to be known in tandem with him.
When it came to publication, the three writers turned their eyes to British publishing houses, as was common at that time. Ethel Turner was probably the most put-upon amongst the three, with her publishers demanding a Christmas book each year, setting her up in competition with Mary Grant Bruce, and changing the endings and pruning the plots so as not to alienate a Sunday School prize market.
Baynton was already in England when she started looking to publish the short stories she had written back in Sydney, but even with her husband's position in society, she could not find a publisher. Then, in keeping with her already fantastical life, she had the fairy-tale luck to be rescued from the slush pile at Duckworth's publishing company through Edward Garnett (husband of the famous translator Constant Garnett), who had also discovered Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy and D. H. Lawrence. However, after this start, she struggled with her novel Human Toll, which received a few respectful reviews among mainly lukewarm ones.
Henry Handel Richardson began her first novel Maurice Guest while living in Strasbourg, and The Getting of Wisdom was also written and published overseas. Her husband took charge of most of the business side of publication, and was willing to pay for the publication of the third part of the Richard Mahony trilogy himself, when Heinemann rejected it. That volume, ended up Ultima Thume being received with acclaim.
Most of Nettie's work in reviewing books appeared in Australian newspapers and her survey of Australian writing in Modern Australian Literature 1900-1923 was published in Melbourne. She did, however, have a London publisher for her first book of poems The South Wind, followed by a second book of poetry in Shadowy Paths also published in London.
Another theme that comes through the essays is that of patronage and support. Both Barbara Baynton and Henry Handel Richardson had husbands whose interest and connections (and in Baynton's case, money) supported their writing. Niall suggests that J.G. Robertson sacrificed his academic career for HHR's writing success, and the incorporation of a young woman Olga Roncoronis into their household further left space for HHR's own writing – (Niall leaves open the question of a sexual attraction between the two women). With Nettie Palmer, the tables were turned, with her assiduous promotion of her husband Vance's work within literacy circles – a devotion which Niall feels to have detracted from her own career as critic.
A biography, if it is to be more than a chronology of facts and actions, is an argument or judgment, based on a reading of documents, conversations and actions. These are not necessarily accepted on their face value: sometimes they are 'read against' or set up in opposition to one another. Especially when dealing with writers, there are not only the writer's own works, and sometimes an autobiography written with varying degrees of deprecation or self-regard, but often there is also a body of correspondence with other writers, who in turn write to other writers. The retention of such correspondence is sometimes a matter of chance, at other times the target of ruthless culling or assiduous gate-keeping either by the author herself or her literary executors. For good or ill, these remaining letters are mined by biographers, giving them a life and significance far beyond the original intent.
The crafting of a biography as an argument is particularly apparent in a multi-essay volume like this one, where the same author deals with multiple and interlinked characters. Niall's reading of Henry Handel Richardson is censorious, while she clearly admires Nettie Palmer and feels that she has not been sufficiently recognized as part of the Vance-and-Nettie-Palmer partnership. In dealing with Ethel Turner, she also examines the British-dominated publication culture of the day, and with Barbara Baynton she finds a paradox, interlaced with reinvention. New material is always being uncovered, additional links discovered, and historical 'turns' invite historians and biographers to stand in a different place to re-evaluate their subjects. That is why there are no definitive biographies.
I admire Brenda Niall as a biographer. She is deft and efficient, and attuned to the nuances of relationships. She paints a broad canvas for her subjects, but also hones in on details that give definition to her subjects, helping you understand why this particular person was distinctive. That said, I was somewhat startled by the abrupt ending of this volume. In fact, I felt a little short-changed by both the introduction and the absence of a conclusion. While I know that her focus is on her four subjects, I found myself wishing that Brenda Niall herself had come back on stage to draw out further the contrasts and commonalities in these four lives.
I have included this as part of the Australian Womens Writers Challenge 2020
3 responses to "'Friends and Rivals' by Brenda Niall"
Lisa Hill | June 30, 2020 at 8:35 am | Reply
I was quite startled by Niall's censorious attitude to HHR…particularly over her remarks about HHR's husband's career being compromised by her demands. So often we come across women writers whose work is compromised by lack of support, and here we have one whose husband clearly recognised her genius and wanted to support her, but Niall seems to suggest that HHR should have denied herself that support. It's bizarre.
residentjudge | June 30, 2020 at 8:45 am | Reply
Yes, there are so many examples of the converse, and it almost goes unremarked. Although it seems that she is conceptually linking HHR and Palmer as examples where one partner made sacrifices for the other.
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In November each year, on the first Saturday of November, the famous Bridgwater Carnival takes place – a procession of up to 120 or more illuminated floats through the town centre streets by night. Held to commemorate Guy Fawkes' Night, the tradition extends back over 100 years.
Once, a boat was burnt on the Cornhill every year, but this practice was discontinued for two reasons: a shortage of old boats had led over-enthusiastic carnivalites to drag perfectly good boats out of the river and set them on fire (without the owners' agreement), and secondly, tarmacking of the streets meant that fires of that magnitude could set the tar alight.
Carnival "gangs" – often based around a particular workplace or pub – compete to produce extravagant – and often over illuminated – floats based around a particular idea or theme. Some are motionless "tableaux", where the participants must remain stationary, but the vast majority of floats feature loud music and a lot of either dancing or movement. Costumes, floats, trailers and tractors (which tow the floats) are all decorated and painted as colourfully as possible. All costumes and decorations must be made by the gangs themselves and must not be professionally made or bought in. Also, gangs are not allowed to re-use items from previous years' floats.
It takes up to three hours for these "carts" to complete their route through the town; at one time carts were just that – carts lit by candlelight, pulled by shire horses. Now the "carts" have grown to juggernaut proportions and lighting is electric – the thousands of light bulbs are powered by the cart's own generator, and the cart itself is towed by a tractor. The heat generated by all the light bulbs is sometimes very welcome on a frosty November night!
The carts take about a year to design and build, and as soon as one year's carnival season is over, it's time to begin work on the next year's cart.
Bridgwater is the first and biggest of the Somerset winter carnival circuit; a series of carnivals follow Bridgwater, but none of them has quite the same atmosphere or the number of carts as Bridgwater.
The procession is followed by a squibbing display in the High Street. These "squibs" are giant fireworks, made to order, held aloft all along the street by carnival gang members, in a synchronized (and very spectacular) display, as sparks shower down all along the High Street. Due to the expense, the display had been in danger of dying out, but sponsorship from Nuclear Electric has enabled it to continue.
The Carnival annually draws a crowd of between 100,000 and 150,000. It is probably the largest illuminated carnival in Western Europe, and special coach trips are organised to see it.
In addition to the Carnival, another annual event which swells the town's population (albeit briefly), is Bridgwater Fair. Held at the end of September in St. Matthew's Field on the western side of town, it lasts 4 days – from Wednesday until Saturday.
County fairs were once commonplace, giving rural folk the opportunity of trading their livestock and produce for other goods not made locally, as well as meeting friends and relatives they might not otherwise see from one year to the next. Both these aspects of fairs tend to have largely disappeared elsewhere, but at Bridgwater Fair, not only is there a large fairground, but it also includes a street of stalls and market traders, leading away from the fairground. And here, although it is by no means as common as it once was, it is not unheard of to hear people saying to each other "See you next year at the Fair".
The Fair is comparable with some of the larger fairs in the country, such as Nottingham, and is usually estimated to be the third or fourth biggest in the country.


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Don't know if any of you saw this but Mike Watkins opened up about dealing with depression and mental health while also accepting responsibility for his transgressions.
Women's basketball just lost to Stony Brook.
With that said, didn't the men's team also lose to them in the not to distant past?
Beat #13 Virginia Tech last night 64-63. Getting the big guy back will help immensely on the defensive side moving forward.
PSU notched their first B1? win of the season and break a 10 game conference losing streak - and this also breaks an over two month streak of none of us giving an Emmert about the hoops team.
If they can win one or two of remaining nine games I figure Chambers is due for an extension.
But at least they aren't in decline like the Women's program which was top 10.
I'd be shocked if Chambers isn't fired after this year. It's one thing to lose consistently year after year, but add in the pushing altercation he had with one of his players, and his still incredibly poor game management and you have to make a change...even if it means mass transfers and starting all over again.
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Q: Polymer 1.0 paper-card displays {{ }} binding variables as it is inside Angularjs ng-repeat - [Issue only in Chrome] I am very new to angularjs, i have done some experimental projects in Polymer 0.5, so new to Polymer 1.0 as well.
I am facing an issue like inside ng-repeat i want to display some paper-card.

This issue is only on Chrome browser, In Firefox and IE-edge it is coming fine.

<paper-card heading="{{ team.name }}">

Some content

    <paper-button>Some action</paper-button>

</paper-card>

//--------------------------- HTML ----------

Teams

        <paper-card heading="{{ team.name }}">

Some content

              <paper-button>Some action</paper-button>

        </paper-card>

//--------------------------- HTML -------------
I am using ng-polymer-element module,
I have the below code in my application app.js
    angular.module('ng-polymer-elements').constant('$ngPolymerMappings', {
      paperCard: {
            ngModel: function property(element) {
              return element.hasAttribute('multi') ? 'selectedValues' : 'selected';
            },
            ngHeading: '=heading'
        }
    });

window.addEventListener('WebComponentsReady ', function() {
  angular.bootstrap(wrap(document), ['myApp']);
});

The Card header is coming fine but the binding variable is also displaying inside the card.

I inspect the HTML in the browser, i could see the paper-material is added twice and the second one is showing the brackets as it is.

Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks.

A: Most likely that Angular is not loaded properly; therefore, it hasn't kicked in to evaluate the expressions in the braces. Please post your entire HTML page.