that hit close to home, Donna plays the caretaker.

So what if she was watching the BBC run of Jane Eyre for the hundredth time? The five empty cartons of Ben 'n Jerry's didn't mean anything either. She wasn't wallowing – she wasn't! Really. Not one bit.

"Dammit Jim, if that man's a Doctor, then I might as well start calling myself a dentist!" Somewhere a few systems away from nowhere, the crew of the Enterprise encounters a blue box piloted by a madman . . . who called himself the Doctor.

It had started as an away mission that went south; an adverse situation that they made due with in the most unforeseeable of ways. In the end, though, him seeing the world through her eyes was nothing short ofThe present invention relates to a ferrite core and a bobbin corresponding the ferrite core used in a coiled component for various electronic equipments, and to a transformer including the ferrite core and the bobbin.
Used in a coiled component mounted in office machinery and appliances, a ferrite core is known in the related art, which includes an end face portion, a pair of outer legs protruding from both sides of the end face portion, and a center leg protruding from the end face portion between the outer legs. The conventional ferrite core's center leg has a circular, polygonal, elliptical, or oval cross section, and an inductor, such as a choke coil, or a transformer is configured by inserting the center leg into a wound body with wire wound


a distance G7 at the first winding wire terminal block 45 is the same as a distance G8 at the second winding wire terminal block 46 between the left and right outer legs (G7=G8).
In recent years, as electronic equipment, such as appliances, has had multiple functions, second winding wires involved increases and ports for the second winding wires led to the second winding wire terminal block 46 in the terminal 50 connected with the second winding wires increases. In FIG. 13, the ports of the second winding wire 52 are led to the left and right end portions of the second winding wire terminal block 46, as a result, an insulating distance d between the second port and the outer leg 42 of the core 40 is not[Prenatal diagnosis of upper limb malformations].
Three children with thrombopenia and radial aplasia were examined at the Centre de Génétique Médicale of Marsielles from 1974 to 1976. In each case the genetic basis of the anomaly was discussed with the family at genetic counseling underlining the high risk of recurrence related to the autosomal recessive transmission. Each proband was the only child of the couple. In the first case the father and mother, each having one child from a previous marriage, decided to have no more children. In the second case, the use of fetoscopy and its limitations were discussed as another pregnancy was desired. However, the parents finally refused the procedure during pregnancy which yielded a second child with phocomelia who did not survive. In the third and


Best late-late-night place to have breakfast after a long night on Rush Street:

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Susan Wojcicki, chief executive officer of YouTube Inc., introduces the company's new television subscription service at the YouTube Space LA venue in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki on Friday said "We takes kids' safety incredibly seriously" in her first public remarks since the company was embroiled in a scandal involving a network of pedophiles on the video service.

"I'm a mom," Wojcicki said at the Lesbians Who Tech + Allies Summit in San Francisco. "I understand kids. As a parent, I understand it and really want to do the right thing."

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John Cooper Works - The
Embodiment Of Ultimate Driving Fun In The MINI

Mike Cooper and the winning
MINI Cooper from the John Cooper Challenge 2002

Munich - Premium quality, racing
know-how and MINI feeling are now even more closely united: John
Cooper Works continues success story with extended product range
and new brand identity.

The roots shared by the names MINI
and John Cooper Works reach back almost 50 years. Now a new
chapter of their success story has been opened. Under the roof
of MINI the entire product range designed for the driver with a
specifically sporting ambition will bear the John Cooper Works
label. Consequently, John Cooper Works will in future become an
integral part of the MINI brand and represent more than ever
before the epitome of ultimate driving fun for all MINI
enthusiasts.

Timo Mäkinen and Paul Easter in
the MiniCooper at the Monte Carlo Rallye, 1965

A visible sign of this
repositioning is the newly devised brand logo which will be seen
on all future John Cooper Works products. It is the guarantee
for exceptional racing know-how, for an avid aspiration to
achieve peak efficiency as well as for a deep understanding of
the unconventional character and the outstanding quality demands
expected of MINI. All John Cooper Works performance components
are perfectly adapted to suit the MINI and are developed and
manufactured at the highest premium level. They fulfill the high
BMW Group standards with regard to reliability, workmanship and
authenticity and are therefore also subject to the warranty
conditions applicable to MINI.

MINI and John Cooper Works – an alliance
with tradition

„Repeater: Mini Cooper S winning the
Rallye Monte Carlo the second time
– in 1965 with cockpit Mäkinen/Easter“

The new constellation strengthens


the
alliance between MINI brand values and racing tradition even further. It
is based on the revised 2007 version of the trademark agreements between
MINI and John Cooper Garages, which have been intensively involved in
the tuning of MINI models since the re-launch of the MINI brand. Chief
executive Mike Cooper will continue to operate as the connecting link
between the two companies in order to guarantee the mutual transfer of
racing passion and MINI feeling on a long term basis.

In doing this he is following in his
father’s footsteps. The legendary Formula 1 design engineer John Cooper
already introduced his first refined version of the Mini as early as
1961.The Mini Cooper had been born. Only two years previously a mini car
created by Alec Issigonis had revolutionised everyday transportation.
Now John Cooper had provided racing fans with avehicle that was setting
new standards in agility and driving fun. In the following decades the
name Cooper became synonymous worldwide with the ultimate driving fun
experienced in a Mini. The fact that it was this new kind of compact car
that had inspired the two-time Formula 1 world champion to build
outstanding sports cars was convincing proof of the Mini’s qualities.
The unique driving experience that was associated with the Mini
fascinated Cooper so much that he was prompted to refine it to
perfection, a fact that excites every sports car fan to this day.

Performance at premium level: John Cooper
Works accessories

Today the brand John Cooper Works stands
for optional equipment and accessories, vehicle concepts and small-lot
production, providing MINI enthusiasts with the opportunity to live out
their passion for motor sports. Fitted with the John Cooper Works Tuning
Kit,


not only with the extreme
conditions prevailing on the racetrack, but also fulfil the extensive
requirements of everyday traffic in terms of functionality, design,
reliability and durability. The work of experienced engineers as well as
the countless test kilometres on the racetrack and on the road ensures
that these requirements are fulfilled. Consequently, the brands MINI and
John Cooper Works stand for the promise of quality, the significance of
which is unique in the MINI’s competitive environment.

John Cooper: Synonymous with success in
motor sports

Paddy Hopkirk and Henry Liddon at the
Monte Carlo Rallye, 1964

No other name is so closely associated
with the racing legend behind the MINI as the name John Cooper. Along
with the designer of the classic Mini, Sir Alec Issigonis, he has made a
decisive contribution in creating this unique vehicle’s character that
still remains alive to thisday. The basis of this stems from a close
friendship between the two men. Long before Alec Issigonis created the
classic Mini, he fostered a close relationship with the ex racing driver
and well-known British automobile designer. Cooper was regarded as being
equally talented, ambitious and zestful. At the early age of twelve,
John Cooper, who was born in 1923 in Surrey, England, showed the public
what he was made of when he drove a racing car built by his father, with
whom he founded the Cooper Car Company in 1946. The two began building
racing cars, at first for Formula 3 racing. The Cooper Car Company soon
advanced to become the most successful supplier of professional racing
cars, taking English teams and drivers to the top of Formula 1 racing.

The mid-engine concept: A vision changes
Formula 1 racing

With


their concept of a mid-engine sports
car Charles and John Cooper set a ground-breaking trend in 1955 for the
entire industry. During the years 1959 and 1960 racing cars built by
Cooper won both the constructors’ and the drivers’ title in the Formula
1 world championship featuring mid-engine vehicles. The concept was a
success, with other manufacturers following the example in the years to
come. Soon all Formula 1 series cars were built according to this
principle. Nevertheless, Cooper was still able to maintain the status of
having the most successful brand in Formula 1 racing during the fifties
and sixties. During the course of time almost every motor sports legend
had driven a Cooper, whether Jack Brabham, Bruce McLaren or Jochen Rindt.

Contact with Alec Issigonis had already
been established when John Cooper was having engines built at the
BritishMotor Corporation (BMC) which he employed in his Formula Junior
racing cars. For this reason Cooper was familiar with the history of the
development of the Mini that Issigonis was to design for BMC. This
company had been established through the merger of British car
manufacturers, its brands including Austin, Morris, MG and Wolseley.

Early recognition of the Mini’s potential

John Cooper was completely fascinated by
the emergence of the Mini. He was convinced that the innovative vehicle
concept featuring the “wheel on each corner” principle, the short
overhangs and the overall flat appearance was exactly what he had been
searching for over many years – the basis for a superior racing machine.
As early as 1959, the year in which the Mini debuted, he sent his driver
Roy Salvadori with the first Mini Cooper, a one-off, to Monza to


servo-assisted.

1964 to 1967: Golden years at the Monte
Carlo Rallye

The foundation for sensational successes
in motor sports had been laid. It was 1962 when the Mini Cooper S caused
a stir in Monte Carlo for the first time. With Rauno Aaltonen from
Finland at the wheel the agile little car in its role as David banished
a Goliath Phalanx to the position behind him in his slipstream. Just 3
kilometres from the finish Aaltonen, who was in the lead, misjudged a
bend and finished the race with a rollover. However, he already made up
for his misfortune the following year. Aaltonen drove his Mini Cooper S
across the finishing line to become class winner and third in the
overall ranking.

And things were to get even better. In the
rally winter of 1963/1964 the Mini Cooper S was literally burstingwith
power compared to its predecessor. In a spectacular race at the Monte,
Paddy Hopkirk seized first place in the overall ranking driving a Mini
with the newly designed racing engine, beating far stronger competition.
With a spectacular bang the little sprinter had become a motor sports
legend. The following year Timo Mäkinen from Finland together with his
co-pilot Paul Easter repeated the triumph at the Monte. He was the only
driver competing to master thousands of kilometres without conceiving
one single penalty point, even although up against the most adverse
conditions in the snow and ice of the French Alps. Only 35 of 237 cars
that had been on the starting field actually made it over the finishing
line at this rally, three of them bore the logo Mini Cooper S.

The following year saw the hat-trick. The
four competing


Cooper teams went well ahead of the field, with drivers
Timo Mäkinen, Rauno Aaltonen and Paddy Hopkirk achieving an incredible
result. They crossed the finishing line as first, second and third.
However, this feat was followed by bitter disappointment. The three
winners were deprived of their success, as the rally commissioners
agreed that the four additional headlamps mounted in front of the
radiator grille did not comply exactly with French registration
conditions. Indeed, this decision had little effect on the spectators’
enthusiasm for the three Mini drivers. Hopkirk, Aaltonen and Mäkinen
went down in the annals of the Monte Carlo Rally as “the three
musketeers”. And just a year later Rauno Aaltonen was able to enjoy an
even more enthusiastic celebration to mark his third Monte Carlo victory
in a Mini Cooper S. This time there was nothing wrong withhis vehicle.

However, the Mini was not only put on a
brilliant performance at rallies. In the sixties it was able to seize
victory many times on the road. With its overall sporting record it
became the outstanding racing car of the whole decade. In addition to
its career in racing sport, the John Cooper version of the Mini Cooper
was exceptionally successful from 1961 to 1971 in terms of sales. Even
in those days the names Mini and Cooper were internationally associated
with unmatched driving fun. Moreover, tuning kits developed by Cooper
for Mini series production vehicles were in great demand. Right from the
start no other car offered more sporting features for less money and
more driving fun within a confined space.

With the Mini Mike Cooper continued his
father’s work

The traditional alliance between Mini and
John Cooper also became


a crucial factor for the new version of the
small car. In 1999 Mike Cooper was invited by the BMW Group to
incorporate the know-how of the family business enterprise, which now
operates as John Cooper Garages, into the project MINI. Mike Cooper
continued his father’s work with the same fervidness. Like John Cooper
had once done, he pondered on a performance-enhanced version long before
the launching of the MINI in the year 2001. And even then it was his
dream to get MINI back on the racetrack. He started by organising the
John Cooper Challenge for performance-enhanced series production
vehicles in England – with the starting field fully booked within a very
short time.

John Cooper was not able to witness the
market launch of the modern MINI. He died in the year 2000 at the age of
77. Thehuge improvements, and we look static.”

Outcomes: a different story

Though financing higher education is fraught with peril both in government and at the kitchen table, the U has managed to achieve what Ken Keller set out to do. Eighty percent of its undergrad students live on or near campus and its four-year graduation rate is north of 60 percent, besting most of the Big 10, including neighbor Wisconsin.

It was one of only 10 public universities to place in the top tier of the Center for Measuring University Performance’s quality rankings. First-year student retention is 92.5 percent, regarded as superb, and “we’re winning battles with the Ivy League for students and faculty,” says Bruininks.

If you’re a skeptical Midwesterner, though, and wonder whether creating an increasingly elite undergraduate program has paid


buildings. “When I was at the U in the 1980s,” recalls the U’s director of institutional analysis, Lincoln Kallsen, “there were still World War II barracks on campus.”

A residential atmosphere: The U studied the most popular Big 10 undergraduate experiences (Wisconsin, Michigan) and found a college community atmosphere missing on the East Bank, where thousands of students left campus each afternoon on express buses to the suburbs. “Creating a sense of community is critical to student perceptions of satisfaction with their college experience,” says Lisa Lewis, CEO of the U Alumni Association. Though the U has built few dormitories in this period, the private sector has expanded housing around campus by thousands of units, and more are coming online. Eighty percent of undergrads now live within walking distanceThere are calls for an Auckland men's refuge to be shut down after an undercover investigation by 1 NEWS.

The Salvation Army is calling for the Auckland men's retreat WISE Guys to be closed amid allegations of stabbings and drug use.

Set up four years ago on the grounds of the former Kingseat psychiatric hospital, the large boarding house can accommodate up to 50 people.

Describing itself as an educational and therapeutic men's retreat, WISE Guys provides shelter to many who would otherwise be homeless.

However, a former WISE Guys resident has joined the Salvation Army in speaking out against how the place is run and calling for it to be closed down.

"Twice there's been stabbings there," the former resident said, who 1 NEWS has chosen to identify only as Tim.

"Everything's been


from Government coffers, to the business run by Mr Milesi and his partner.

Mr Milesi says services provided to residents include counselling, social activities and transport to both medical appoints and visits to Work and Income New Zealand.

Salvation Army director Ian Hutson said refuge facilities like WISE Guys are desperately needed to help the homeless and needy.

However, he believes such facilities must be well run and that WISE Guys should be shut down.

"The standard can't be lifted up, it needs to be closed down," Mr Huston said.

Tim also called on the facility to be closed.

"If I were Government, I would shut it down," he said.

The Ministry of Social Development says it shares many of the Salvation Army's concerns.

As a result of that, Auckland Council and the Ministry of Business,ACLU of Georgia (PDF):

To the Members of the Randolph County Board of Elections and Registration,

The ACLU of Georgia writes to express grave concern about your discriminatory

proposal to eliminate over 75% of polling places (7 out of 9) on the eve of the November

elections. These polling place closures will virtually guarantee lower voter turnout in a Black

Belt county that is predominantly African-American (60%), and will completely prevent rural

voters without transportation (again, disproportionately African-American) from voting in person on Election Day.

The timing of your proposal is also suspicious and calls to question your true motives

behind this proposal. These are the exact same polling places used in the primary and primary run-off earlier this year. It makes no sense to suddenly reduce the number of polling places for this November’s election,


standing in front of the mirror. I admired her friendly face, blonde hair, her hourglass figure, her tight sides and trim waist, and of course her juicy round bouncy jiggling ass. It was almost mesmerizing watching it move back and forth in her thong panties. I continued to watch her as she walked, ass literally bouncing with each step, into the closet. She came out in her normal work outfit, a professional looking skirt, top, and jacket. That despite it's intention of being modest was betrayed that by the fact it struggled to do anything but cling to her fantastic rear. She looked over as she walked back in and saw I was awake.

"Hey there killer," she said smiling and purring as she walked over and gave merevealing than even in the picture. The skirt was shorter on her than the girl in the picture, it covered everything but the sides went so high it washing showing most of her thighs. She had a suggestive look as she walked out, then slowly spun around. My jaw hit the floor as the back instead of being a solid piece of material were individual pieces of material that were suppose to cover her ass. I say suppose because due to her large rear the bottom of the material barely came to the bottom of her round cheeks, just showing a hint of the crease between her thighs and buns. She then playfully lifted the skirt to show a pair of panties that weren't exactly a thong, but


the conference my eyes were always near her seeing what was happening. As we walked around the first few hours I saw just about every guy do a double take as she walked past. A few guys pointed at her when she couldn't see and whispered to their buddies a few things. I watched as she bent over to read something at one of the stations exposing the bottom of her ass and a group of guys watching from a far clearly watching her, the one making a slapping motion with his hand to his buddy. I walked over to her, "you have some admirers over there." I said smiling, she casually glanced back.

"Think they like what they see?" she winked at me.

"Excuse me," we both turned around,it was the group of guys we had just seen, "can we get a picture?" he said addressing her.

"Oh sure, excuse me sir can you take our picture?" she asked me acting like we didn't know each other.

"Oh, uh sure" I said taking the guy's camera.

There were three to one side of her and two to the other. I could see the two guys beside her put their arms around her waist. They did various poses laughing and having a good time, their hands definitely got low on her back a few times and the one may barely at the top of her ass but nothing very inappropriate. After they left she walked close to me.

"Maybe I'm not as irresistible as we thought" she said giving a little


pouty face.

"Nah, they're just nervous, trust me if they knew it was okay they'd cop a feel." I said giving her a wink.

We continued to explore, during the day a dozen or so people, guys and girls asked to get a picture with her. All didn't do anything very inappropriate, one guy dressed as Thor had his hand on her hip more than her waist, and she said one little chubby guy brushed his hand across her butt after they took a photo. I could tell she was a little disappointed, maybe not feeling as attractive as this morning.

As it turned to late afternoon people had started drinking, and becoming a little looser. Kay got a few wolf whistles when she passed and she decided to flirt alittle heavier, giving a Hulk's arms generous squeezes when they were chatting. As she was chatting with the hulk 6 other guys came over and joined the convo. I wasn't involved but stood close. They were all dressed as various characters, one dressed as Superman stood particularly close to her, sometimes putting his hand on her back as they chatted, with her grabbing his arm every now and then. One of them took out a camera and asked someone to take a few pictures. They all lined up in two rows, the first kneeling in front, Kay in the center of the second row with two guys on each side putting their arms around each other. When she put her arm around Super man Kay purposefully gave his


butt a little squeeze. He shot her a coy look, as they took pictures he moved his hand so it rested on the top of her ass over her skirt. They kept having different people in the group ask for pictures with their camera, as they did Superman's hand lowered to the center of Kay's round rump, gently rubbing her ass as they took pictures. Her skirt would raise and lower as his hand did exposing a little of her right cheek. After the pictures were taken Superman gestured toward a bar area they had setup nearby. She nodded smiling and gesturing toward me, with Superman's hand still planted on the center of her firm backside. She turned to walk toward me, all 6 guys promptly turned toto run my transaction I saw her standing with them waiting in line to enter the bar. As they stood there I noticed someone in a full Batman costume walk behind them. My dick harded a little as I saw him reach under and give her tush a little pinch right where the bottom of her cheek was hanging out, then he kept walking. She jumped pretty high and whirled her head around seeing the guy walking away. He just kept walking away. Superman than grabbed her hand and pulled her into the bar.

I walked over and found them standing at a table, it was pretty crowded, there was a spot directly across from Kay so I stood there. She introduced me around the group as her friend


from college. The guys seemed nice enough, I chatted with the other 5 while Superman continued to flirt with Kay. He was saying something to her to make her laugh but was keeping his hands to himself. Suddenly I saw her stiffen and her eyes darted to me. I looked behind her and the Batman guy had just walked behind her again. Superman asked if anything was wrong, to which she responded no.

They went back to talking, I saw Batman coming back from the bar where he just was, he again tried to squeeze past our table, walking behind Kay, he seemed to pause of a second behind her and her eyes got big again, darting to me again. Then he continued on. A few minutes passed andhere. He keeps pressing his crotch into my ass and running his hands over it every time he passes. He keeps getting more overt too." Just as she said this he came around the corner and went to squeeze behind her. She saw out of the corner of her eye, and bit her lip at me in anticipation. She stiffened some when he was behind her, then jerked forward a little and let out a little moan. Her mouth dropped in shock and she looked toward him as he passed. He just smirked and kept walking.

"Babe, he just like, thrust his crotch into my ass when he passed"

That feeling of getting turned on but jealous at the same time returned to me.

"Oh...he must like you," I said trying


not to show my anxiousness

We stood there and talked for a few minutes, with her complaining about how pissed the Superman guy was for awhile. When I saw him coming out of the corner of my eye toward the bar. I whispered to her he was coming. She looked back as he was walking up, she bent over the table slightly toward me and stuck her butt out some. Then looked at me and winked. I couldn't see everything because the table was a little high but I clearly saw him run his hand over her bum then put a hand on each hip and position himself behind her. She jerked again probably from another thrust, she gasped a little and stood up straight as he still heldher hips. He whispered something in her ear to which she smiled and responded, "sure."

She then gulped down her drink and told me, "I'll see ya in a bit." As he still held her, then turned to walk toward the bar. I watched after them, his arm moving around her waist, hand on her hip, still whispering something in her ear. He then brought his hand down just under the bottom of her skirt and clearly squeezed her bare ass cheek as they walked. I was in full jealous and turned on mode now as he felt up her bare booty. When she didn't protest he started rubbing her left ass cheek under her skirt causing it to raise up so I could clearly watch him dig his


fingers into her meaty ass flesh. Her hips were swinging exaggerated egging him on, he stopped groping her ass when they got to the bar only to give her a playful swat on the rear and position himself behind her as she bent over a tad to order something from the bartender.

I saw him stand behind her holding her around her waist after he raised her skirt so her bare ass was pressing against his spandex Batman costume. Her ass cheeks spread at the sides as he pressed his crotch into her. They stood there like that and did two shots each before walking toward the dance floor.

They danced for almost a half hour straight, starting off they were separated some dancing to the fast pace music. Thenas time went on they got closer and closer, soon she was straddling his thigh as he pulled her into him by palming her ass. Then a slow song would come on, her skirt would be bunched up at her waist as he cupped her bum playing with it the whole time while he whispered and kissed her neck. As they danced she'd look over at me and smile seeing me watching, then she turned and stuck her ass into his groin and began grinding into him. They danced like that forever with his hands around her pulling her in, he was so hard you could see his erection through the spandex as his fairly large dock was nestled between her ass which massaged it as they grinded


to the beat.

Finally they began to walk off the dance floor but instead of coming back they walked over to a series of chairs near a dark corner. I watched from afar getting nervous as he sat down first and then she sat on his lap instead of on the chair beside him. She seemed to be shaking her head no and they were talking a lot. Then he seemed to suggest something different, she glanced my way looking nervous but then nodded yes. He smiled, he settled in and then lifted her skirt from behind, she sat square on his lap arching her back so her ass on full display then she began moving back and forth as he pushed on either side of her large globesyou?" she said looking at me as she tried fending him off.

"Um, yeah yeah we probably should" I barely was able to get out as I watched him kiss her neck and shoulders as he felt her body

"Ohhhh...that's too bad, here I'll walk you to the elevators." Batman said sliding his arm around her and lead her away.

I followed them out of the bar as he had his arm around her still chatting away as his hand took a firm grip on her asscheek as it jumped and jiggled with each step.

At the elevator she turned and gave him a long hug kissing his cheek and giggling as he tried to turn his head to kiss her on the lips.

"My boyfriend wouldn't like it if I kissed you!"


not explained in the literature available to you on the clown bus that drove you to the airport, our pilot Theresa has had to alter our destination. She thinks we're headed for the Great Famine of 1845, but her co-pilot Philip thinks it's more likely to be the 1931 financial dustbowl.

Meanwhile Jacob, who some of you may remember from when he used to sit at the back of the plane, has somehow got into the cockpit and having assumed the role of navigator is quoting the Book of Proverbs, and trying to get us all on the right heading for the Glorious Revolution of 1688, by taking us first to the Black Death of 1348 which he believes we would all appreciate a glimpse of.

I am aware thatNext steps for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.
As the authors complete the 2017 publication cycle of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal and their term as editors draws to a close, they take the opportunity to welcome the new leadership of PRJ, to thank the many people who have contributed to its success, and to reflect on the importance of the journal's focus and scope to the field. They are pleased to welcome Dr. Sandra ("Sandy") Resnick as the new editor of PRJ, who will begin her incoming term by accepting new manuscripts starting January 1, 2018. In her role as Editor, Dr. Resnick hopes to further increase PRJ's accessibility to both practitioners and policymakers, while maintaining the high-quality of original research submissions that have led to widely cited articles in the field.


Wear Plaid," with Steve Martin.

Music was an essential component of all the classic Warner Brothers cartoons. Several of them were mini-musicals in parody form. Charlie's Girl mentioned one, the send-up of Wagnerian opera, "What's Opera, Doc." Another Operatic send-up, "The Rabbit of Seville," poked fun at the Italian Opera of Rossini, "The Barber of Seville." So much of my early education in classical music and opera came from these cartoons, that when I hear the music (almost fifty years later) I still think of Bugs and the gang.

It appears that the use of "air" in Astaire was intentional. Fred's mother, Johanna Austerlitz, was concerned about finding a suitable stage name for Fred and Adele. She wanted a name that had "star quality." She was concerned about both thelength of the family name and its foreign sound, neither of which would look good on a theater marquee. The process of finding an appropriate name began around 1907, when Fred and Adele (approximate ages 7 and 10) were students at the Alviene Master School of the Theatre and Academy of Cultural Arts, in New York. Although some have theorized that the name came from a distant maternal uncle with the surname L'Astaire, the evidence suggests that that the origin was not that specific. Various stage billings at the Alviene School show that the name evolved over time. Fred and Adele were variously listed as "The Austers," "The Astiers," "The Astares," and "The Astairs," before finally becoming "The Astaires." The final version had a continental and sophisticated "air"


about it, without all the foreign and historical baggage of "Austerlitz." In solidarity with her children, stage mother Johanna Austerlitz adjusted her name to conform with theirs - she became "Ann Astaire." She gave them the name, but it was their responsibility to make it mean something. By 1930, they had made it world famous; by 1960, he had made it immortal.*
*Riley, Kathleen. The Astaires: Fred and Adele (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). pp. 21-25.

I never saw this in a theater, but I do have fond memories of this movie on TV within a couple years of its release. Although they thought it was ridiculous, my parents made sure we saw it. Things had changed so much by this time (ca. 1966), that the early Beatles lookedpretty tame. I've always felt that the revolutionary nature of their early music has been understandably overstated. They broke out first and get the lions share of the credit, but they did not operate in a vacuum. In general, early Beatles songs were more wholesome and commercial (and therefore, less revolutionary) than a lot of their competition. At the same time that the Beatles hit it big, other important British bands, like the Rolling Stones and the Animals, were embracing more controversial subject matter.
And it was The Dave Clark Five that was the most popular challenger to the Beatles and topped them on the charts in 1964. By 1965, the LA scene changed American music and challenged the British with revolutionary bands, like The Byrds, Love, and later,


The Doors. Meanwhile among the British Invaders, The Rolling Stones became the primary competitor to the Beatles. Then by 1967, the San Francisco scene asserted itself with their answer, in the form of Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. And later Invaders, like Cream and Traffic, joined the Stones in competing with the Beatles. While the Beatles led a lot of this in the beginning, they followed much of it in the end. While it is important to acknowledge their impact, it is equally important that we not overstate it.
Statements about the sizes of their crowds also need to be put into context. The crowds were larger than before, but so were the venues where they performed. Additionally, The record crowds could have been proportionally similar to earliershe walked out on Zanuck & Co. in 1945, and returned to her roots in radio. She got her start in radio as a singer with Rudy Vallee's band and was introduced to a national audience on his radio show in the early thirties. Before radio, she was in small-time vaudeville. Then, she got her break on Broadway, in the "George White's Scandals of 1931," After Vallee introduced her on radio, she started in movies in 1934 and made 32 movies between then and 1945. After her 1945 walkout, she starred in only one more movie, "State Fair" in 1962, though she had occasional cameos in later films. In 1974, she returned to Broadway for a revival of "Good News," with John Payne (and later, Gene Nelson).
In 1946,


she and her second husband*, Phil Harris, became the stars of the long-running "Fitch Bandwagon," when it changed its format from variety to situation comedy. After two years with Fitch, the couple changed sponsors to Rexall Drugs and changed the show's name to "The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show." Through several sponsors, the show remained on radio until 1954. On these wonderfully hilarious shows about their married life, she sang and butted heads with Phil, then he sang and did something stupid with his guitar player, Frankie Remley (played by Elliot Lewis). They had running gags about Phil's drinking and illiteracy, and her wealth, movie career, and singing talent . She proved herself to be a skilled comedienne. She and Harris married in 1941 and had twochildren. They remained together until his death in 1995. Though Zanuck fed rumors of a fierce rivalry between her and Betty Grable, Faye held no grudge against her. They were close friends at the time and remained friends until Grable's death in 1973. Alice Faye was a great star and a class act.
*Her first husband was singer, Tony Martin. Band leader Phil Harris was a long-time cast member of "The Jack Benny Show," from 1936 to 1952.

I think Astaire wins on both counts. His long apprenticeship was served as a partner with his older sister, Adele, and involved dramatic acting, singing, dancing, and light comedy. By the time he made his movie debut, in MGM's "Dancing Lady" (1933), he had been a professional performer for more than 25


to correct but didn't. I was looking for a second recognizable name for stylistic reasons and meant to change it to Jerome Kern, who did the score for the 1922 flop, "The Bunch and Judy Show."

Just finished a great book on Fred Astaire's early life and his pre-movie career as a dance partner with his older sister, Adele Astaire. It was written by Kathleen Riley under the title, "The Astaires: Fred and Adele" and was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. While they started out as a small-time child act, they came into their own in the late teens through the twenties and were world famous. Fred's first collaborations with the Gershwins and Cole Porter occurred in this era and were written for this pairing. They hadseveral long running shows on Broadway and the London stage. After years of being enthralled by Fred and Ginger, I came across recordings of the London shows, "Lady, Be Good!" (1926) and "Funny Face" (1928). With these, I first learned about Adele and their pairing. Throughout most of their years together, she was considered the standout talent of the pair, while Fred was viewed as a supporting player. He was always considered to be in her shadow but harbored no resentment towards her. They remained close until her death in 1981. When she retired from the stage in 1932, the pundits all felt that Fred would fade away in obscurity. None of them sensed the greatness that he would achieve on film. The book was a great read


of a holdover from stage productions, where programs allowed the audience to acquaint themselves with the cast before the program began. While beginning credits were more common in the Golden Age, end credits were occasionally used. And Universal used both frequently in the 1930's. The cast listing at the beginning was followed by a repeat listing at the end, under the heading "A Good Cast is Worth Repeating." With "Frankenstein" (1931), the beginning credit listed a question mark for the role of the Monster, while the end credit listed Boris Karloff. In the mid to late sixties (when I was a kid), I remember most movies I went to had end credits that were quite long. There were two ways to avoid the crowd exiting: one was tobanana). He is an amazing talent in his own right, but his piano talent doesn't compete directly with the singing and/or dancing of the lead. And he adds greatly to the humor in the film. Donald O'Conner and Danny Kaye filled these kinds of roles many times, but did so in ways that tended to compete with the lead - think of O'Conner dancing with Kelly in the Moses Supposes clip from "Singin' in the Rain" (1952).
Another good pair of foils were Victor Moore and Helen Broderick playing second fiddle to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in "Swing Time" (1936). They were the humorous counter-point to the standard romance of Fred and Ginger in the movie. They provided comic relief to the story without interfering in the courtship


ritual, and they do so without competing artistically with the leads. After Fred and Ginger do the classic "Pick Yourself Up" routine, Victor and Helen perform a hilarious and clumsy lampoon of it. This was a very different pairing than the one that played opposite Fred and Ginger in "Follow the Fleet" (1936). The pairing of Randolph Scott and Harriet Hilliard in this film serves as a romantic sub-plot that competes with the romance of Fred and Ginger; they are co-stars, not second fiddles. This was a repeat of the formula that was used in the earlier Astaire & Rogers movie, "Roberta" (1935), where Randolph Scott and Irene Dunne co-starred with Fred and Ginger. The secondary love interests in these movies distracted from the primary one between Fredand Ginger and resulted in them being considered among the weaker entries in the series of films they did.

In the early and mid 1970s (before VCRs), I watched all those Paramount classics on Channel 5. As a young film buff, it was my primary resource for viewing films. I saw so many great classics for the first time on the overnight programming called "Movies until Dawn." W C Fields, Bob Hope, The Marx Brothers, and so many others. Channel 5 also had weeknight 8PM movies, and often had theme weeks, like a Road Movie week or Abbott & Costello week. Good Times! Other great movie sources in LA in the seventies were "The Million Dollar Movie" on KHJ Channel 9, and "The Late Show" and "The Late, Late


The English equivalent of Annir-Choille
would be the Wood-nymph. The word Annir is an ancient compound Gaelic word for a
maiden.

Washer of the
Ford, by Fiona Macleod,1896 Geddes edition

THE ANNIR-CHOILLE

WHEN Cathal mac Art, that was called Cathal
Gille-Muire, Cathal the Servant of Mary, walked by the sea, one night of the nights in a
green May, there was trouble in his heart.

It was not long since he had left Iona. The good St Colum, in
sending the youth to the Isle of Ā-rinn, as it was then called, gave him a writing for St
Molios, the holy man who lived in the sea-cave of the small Isle of the Peak, that is in
the eastward hollow at the south end of Arran. A sorrow it was to him to leave the fair
isle in the west. Hehad known glad years there---since, in one of the remote isles to the
north, he had seen his father slain by a mand of Lochlin, and his mother carried away in a
galley oared by fierce yellow-haired men. No kith or kin had he but the old priest, that
was the brother of his father, Cathal Gille-Chriosd, Cathal the Servant of Christ.

On Iona he had learned the way of Christ. He had a white
robe; and could, with a shaven stick and a thin tuft of seal-fur, or with the
feather-quill of a wild swan or a solander, write the holy words upon strained lambskin or
parchment, and fill the big letters, that were here and there, with earth-brown and
sky-blue and shining green, with scarlet of blood and gold of sun-warm sands. He could
sing


the long holy hymns, too, that Colum loved to hear, and it was his voice that had the
sweetest clear-call of any on the island. He was in the nineteenth year of his years when
a Frankish prince, who had come to Iona for the blessing of the Saint, wanted him to go
back with him to the Southlands. He promised many things because of that voice. Cathal
dreamed often, in the hot drowsy afternoons of the month that followed, of the long white
sword that would slay so well; and of the white money that might be his to buy fair
apparel with, and a great black stallion accoutred with trappings wrought with gold, and a
bed of down; and of white hands, and white breasts, and the white song of youth.

He had notgone with the Frankish prince, nor wished to go.
But he dreamed often. It was on a day of dream that he lay on his back in the hot grass
upon a dune, near where the cells of the Monks were. The sunglow bathed the isle in a
golden haze. The strait was a shimmering dazzle, and the blue wavelets that made curves in
the soft white sand seemed to spill gold flakes and change them straightway into little
jets of foam or bubbles of rainbow-spray. Cathal had made a song for his delight His pain
was less when he had made it. Now, lying there, and dreaming at times of the words of the
Frankish prince, and remembering at times the stranger words of the old pagan helot, Neis,
who had come' with him out


of the north, he felt fire burn in his veins; and he sang:

Owhere in the north, or where in the south, or where in the
east or westIs she who hath the flower-white hands and
the swandown breast ?
O, if she be west, or east she be, or in the north or south,
A sword will leap, a horse will prance, ere I win to Honey-Mouth.
She has great eyes, like the doe on the hill, and warm and sweet she is,
O, come to me, Honey-Mouth, bend to me, Honey-Mouth, give me thy kiss!

White Hands her name is, where she reigns amid the
princes fair:
White hands she moves like swimming swans athrough her dusk-wave hair:
White hands she puts about my heart, white hands fan up my breath :
White hands take out the heartand call you
Cathal Gille-Mhoire, Cathal the Servant of Mary."

A bitter, sad waiting it was for him who had
fire in his young blood and was told to weave
frost there, and to put silence upon the welling
song in his heart. But at the end of the week Cathal was a holy monk and sang the hymns
that Colum had taught him.

It was on the eve of the day when Colum blessed him before
the brethren, and called him Gille-Muire, that he walked alone, brooding upon the evil of
women and the curse they brought, and praying to Mary to save him from the sins of which
he scarce knew the meaning. On his way back to his cell he passed old Neis, the helot, who
said to him mockingly:

"It is a good thing that sorrow,


sole isle, then, where the Pictish folk would let
the white robes of the Culdees go scatheless. To the holy Molios he was to go, him that
dwelled in the sea-cave of the Isle of the Peak, that men already called the Holy Isle
because of the preaching and the miracles of Molios.

"He is a wise man," said Colum to himself, and he
was a pagan Cruithne once, and a prince at that, and he knows the sweetness of sin, and
will keep Cathal away from the snares that are set. With fasting, and much peril by day
and weariness by night, the blood of the youth will forget the songs the Evil One has put
into his mind and it will sing holy hymns. Great will be the glory Cathal Gille-Muire will
be a holyman while he has yet his youth upon him; and he will be a martyr to the flesh by
day and by night and by night and by day, till the heathen put him to death because of the
faith that is his."

Thus it was that Cathal was blessed by Colum, and sent east
among the wild Picts.

It was with joy that he served Molios. For four months he
gave him all he had to give. The old saint passed word to Colum that Cathal was a saint
and was assured of the crown of martyrdom, and lovingly he urged that the youth should be
sent to the Isle of Mist in the north, the great isle that was ruled by Scathach the
Queen. There, at the last Summer-sailing, the pagans had flayed a monk


alive. A fair happy
end: and Cathal was now worthy---and withal might triumph, and might even convert the
heathen queen. "She is wondrous fair to see," he added, "and Cathal is a
comely youth."

But Colum had answered that the young monk was to bide where
he was, and to seek to win souls in the pagan Isle of Arran, where the Cross was still
feared.

But with the coming of May and golden weather, the blood of
Cathal grew warm. At times, even, he dreamed of the Frankish prince and the evil sweet
words he had said.

Then a day of the days came. Molios and Cathal went to a
hill-dUn where the Pict chieftain lived, and converted him and all the people in the dUn
and all in the rath that was beyond the dUn. That eve thedaughter of the warrior came
upon Cathal walking in a solitary place, among the green pines beyond the rath. She was
most sweet to look upon: tall and fair, with eyes like the sea in a cloudless noon, and
hair like westward wheat turned back upon itself.

"What is the name men call you by, young Druid?"
she said. I am Ardanna, the daughter of Ecta."

"Your beauty is sweet to look upon, Ardanna. I am Cathal
the son of Art the son of Aodh of the race of Alpein, from the isles of the sea. But I am
not a Druid. I am a priest of Christ, a servant of Mary the Mother of God, and a son of
God."

Ardanna looked at him. A flush came into his face. In his
eyes the same light flamed that


was troubled. He looked again and again at Ardanna.
The sunset light was in her yellow hair, which was about her as a glory. He had seen the
moon as wondrous pale as her beautiful face. Like lilies her white hands were. He had
dreamed of that flamelight in the eyes.

"I care," he said.

She drew nearer, and leaned a little forward, and looked at
him.

"You are good to look upon, Cathal---the comeliest youth
I have ever seen."

The monk flushed. This was the devil-tongue of which Colum
had warned him. But how sweet the words were: like a harp that low voice. Sure, sweeter is
a waking dream than a dream in sleep.

"I care," he repeated dully.

"Look, Cathal."

Slowly he raised his eyes. As his gaze moved upward it rested
on the white breast which was like sea-foamin a dream. Then suddenly all the
foolish madness that had been put upon him by Colum fell away. What did these old men,
Colum and Molios, know? It is only the young who know what life is. They were old, and
their blood was gelid.

He put up his arms, as though in prayer. Then he smiled.
Ardanna saw a light in his eyes that sprang into her heart and sang a song there that
whirled in her ears and dazzled her eyes and made her feel as though she had fallen over a
great height and were still falling.

Cathal was no longer pale. A red flame burned in either
cheek. The sunset-light behind him filled his hair with fire. His eyes were beacons.

"Cathal, Cathal!"

"Come, Ardanna!"

That was all. What need to say more. She was


in his arms, and
her heart throbbing against his that leapt in his body like a wolf fallen in a snare.

He stooped and kissed her. She lifted her eyes, and his brain
swung. She kissed him, and he kissed her till she gave a low cry and gently thrust him
back. He laughed.

"Why do you laugh, Cathal?"

"I? It is I who laugh now. The old men put a spell upon
me. I am no more Cathal Gille-Muire, but Cathal mac Art. Nay, I am Cathal
Gille-Ardanna."

With that he plucked the branch of a rowan that grew near. He
stripped it of its leaves, and threw them from him north, south, east, and west.

"Why do you that, Cathal-aluinn?" Ardanna asked
looking at him with eyes of love, and she like a summer morning there, because ofthe
sunshine in her hair, and the wild roses on her face, and the hill-tarn blue of her eyes.

"These are all the hymns that Colum taught me. I give
them back. I am knowing them no more. They are idle, foolish songs."

Then the monk took the branch and broke it, and threw the
pieces upon the ground and trampled upon them.

"Why do you that, Cathal-aluinn?" asked Ardanna,
wondering at him with her home-call eyes.

That is the branch of all the wisdom Colum taught me. Old
Neis, the helot, was wise. It is a madness, all that. See, it is gone; it is beneath my
feet. I am a man now."

"But O Cathal, Cathal ! this very day of the days, Ecta,
my father, has become a man of the Christ-faith, him and his; and he


would do what Molios
asked now. And Molios would ask your death."

"Death is a dream."

With that Cathal leaned forward and kissed Ardanna upon the
lips twice. "A kiss for life that," he said ; "and that a kiss for
death."

Ardanna laughed a low laugh. "The monk can kiss,"
she whispered; "can the monk love?"

He put his arm about her, and they went into the dim dark
greenness.

The moon rose slowly, a globe of pale golden fire which
spilled unceasingly a yellow flame upon the suspended billows of the forest. Star after
star emerged. Deep silence was in the woods, save for the strange, passionate churring of
a night-jar, where he leaned low from a pine branch and called to his mate, whose heart
throbbed a flight-away amid the dewy shadows.

The wind was still. The white rays ofthe stars wandered over
the moveless, over the shadowless and breathless green lawns of the tree-tops.

"What is that sound?" said Ardanna, a dim shape in
the darkness, where she lay in the arms of Cathat.

" I know not," said the youth; for the fevered
blood in his veins sang a song against his ears.

" Listen!"

Cathat listened. He heard nothing. His eyes dreamed again
into the silence.

"What is that sound?" she whispered against his
heart once again. "It is not from the sea, nor is it of the woods."

" It is the moan of Heaven," answered Cathal
wearily; "an acain Pharais."

II

They found them there in the twilight of the dawn. For long
Ecta looked at them and pondered. Then he glanced at Molios. There were tears in the heart
of the holy man, but in his eyes


a deep anger.

"Bind him," said Ecta.

Cathal woke with the thongs. His gaze fell upon Molios. He
made no sign, and spake never a word; but he smiled.

"What now, O Molios?" asked Ecta.

"Take the woman away. Do with her as you will---spare or
slay. It matters not. She is but a woman, and she hath wrought evil upon this man. To slay
were well."

"She is my daughter."

"Spare, then, if you will; but take her away. Give her
to a man. She shall never see this renegade again."

With that, two men led Ardanna away. She gave a glance at
Cathal, who smiled. No tears were in her eyes; but a proud fire was there, and she brooked
no man's hand upon her, and walked free.

When she was gone, Molios spake.

"Cathal, that was called Cathal Gille-Muire, whydone, Molios bade all near kneel in a circle
round the oak. Then he prayed for the soul of the doomed man. As he ended this prayer, a
laugh flew up among the high wind-swayed leaves. It was as though an invisible bird were
there, mocking like a jay.

One by one, with bowed heads, Molios and Ecta and those with
him withdrew, all save two young men who were bidden to stay, Upon these was bond laid,
that they would not stir from that place for three days. They were to let none draw nigh:
and no food was to be given to the victim : and if he cried to them, they were to take no
heed, nay, not though he called upon God or the Mother of God or upon the White Christ.

All


that day there was no sound from the hollow tree. At the
setting of the sun a blackbird lit upon a small branch that drooped over the aperture, and
sang a brave lilt. Then the dark came, and the moon rose, and the stars glimmered through
the dew.

At midnight the moon was overhead. A flood of pale gold rays
lit up the branches of the oak, and turned the leaves into a lustrous bronze. The watchers
heard a voice singing in the silence of the night---a voice muffled and obscure, as from
one in a pit, or as that of a shepherd straying in a narrow corrie. Words they caught,
though not all; and this was what they heard:*

O yellow
lamp of Ioua that is having a cold pale flame there,Put thy honey-sheen upon me whoburn him in heart of flame, and may he wane as wax at the furnace,
And his soul drown in tears, and his body be a nothingness upon the sands!

The watchers looked at each other, but
said no word. On the pale face of each was fear and awe. What if this new god-teaching
were false, and if Cathal was right, and the old gods were the lords of life and death?
The moonlight fell upon them, and they saw doubt in the eyes of each other. Neither looked
at the white fire. Out of the radiance, cold eyes might stare upon them: when at that,
sure they would leap to the woods, laughing wild, and be as the beasts of the forest.

While it was still dark, an hour before the dawn, one of


the
twain awoke from a brief slumber. His gaze wandered from vague tree to tree. Thrice he
thought he saw dim shapes glide from bole to bole or from thicket to thicket. Suddenly he
discerned a tall figure, silent as a shadow, standing at the verge of the glade.

His low cry aroused his companion. "What is it, Mūrta?
" the young man asked in a whisper.

" A woman."

When they looked again she was gone.

"It was one of the Hidden People," said

Mūrta, with
restless eyes roaming from dusk to dusk.

"How are you for knowing that,

Mūrta?"

"She was all in green, just like a green shadow she was,
and I saw the green fire in her eyes."

"Have you not thought of one that it might be?"

"Who? "

"Ardanna."

With that the young man rose and ran swiftly to theplace
where he had seen the figure. But he could see no one. Looking at the ground he was
troubled: for in the moonshine-dew he descried the imprint of small feet.

Thereafter they saw or heard nought, save the sights and
sounds of the woodland.

At sunrise the two youths rose.

Mūrta lifted
up his arms, then sank upon his knees with bowed head.

"Why do you do that forbidden thing?" said Diarmid,
that was his companion. "Have you forgotten Cathal the monk that is up there alone
with death? If Molios the holy one saw you worshipping the Light he would do unto you as
he has done unto Cathal."

But before

Mūrta answered they heard the voice of Cathal once
more---hoarse and dry it was, but scarce weaker than when it thrilled them at the rising
of the moon.

This was what


the gods of our fathers?"

Silence. Three oaks away a woodpecker thrust its beak into
the soft bark, tap-tapping, tap-tapping.

Cathal, is it death you are having, there in the dark and the
silence?

Mūrta strained his ears, but he could hear no sound. Over the woodlands a
voice floated, drowsy-warm and breast-white---the voice of a cuckoo calling a love-note
from cool green shadow to shadow across a league of windless blaze.

Then

Mūrta that was a singer, went to where the bulrushes grew by
a little tarn that was in the moss an arrow-flight away. He plucked a last-year reed,
straight and brown, and with his knife cut seven holes in it. With a thinner reed he
scooped the hollow clean.

Thereupon he returned to the oak. Diarmid, who had begun to
eat of the food that had been left withthem, sat still, with his eyes upon him.

Mūrta put his hollow reed to his lips, and he played. It was a forlorn,
sweet air that he had heard from a shepherding woman upon the hills. Then he played a
burying-song of the islanders, wherein the wash of the sea and the rippling of the waves
upon the shore was heard. Then he played the song of love, and the beating of hearts was
heard, and sighs, and a voice like a distant bird-song rose and fell.

When he ceased, a voice came out of the hollow oak---

"Play me a death-song,

Mūrta mac Mūrta mac Neisa."

Mūrta smiled, and he played again the song of love.

After that there was silence for a brief while. Then

Mūrta played
upon his reed for the time it takes a heron to


Grave, and the song that she sings I know:---0 where
is Cathal mac Art, he has warmth for the chill that I have?

Out of the hot greenness of the wood I am
hearing, OCathal,I am hearing a rustling step, as of one
stumbling blind.
Whose is that rustling step? I know it well: the rustling walk of the Blind One---She that is called Silence, and the song that
she sings Iknow:---0 where is Cathal mac.Art, that has tears to water my
stillness?

After that there was silence.

Mūrta moved
away. When he sat by Diarmid and ate, there was no word spoken. Diarmid did not look at
him, for he had sung a song of death, and the shadow was upon him. He kept his gaze upon
the moss: if he raised his eyes might he not see theSlayer, or the Shadow, or the Blind
One?

Noon came. None drew nigh: not a face was seen shadowily afar
off. Sometimes the hoofs of the deer rustled among the bracken. The snarling of young
foxes in an oak-root hollow was like a red pulse in the heat. At times, in the sheer abyss
of blue sky to the north, a hawk suspended: in the white-blaze southerly a blotch like
swirled foam appeared for a moment at long intervals, as a gannet swung from invisible
pinnacles of air to the invisible sea.

The afternoon drowsed through the sun-flood. The green leaves
grew golden, saturated with light. At sundown a flight of wild doves rose out of the
pines, wheeled against the shine of the west and flashed out of sight, flames of purple
and rose, of foamwhite and pink.

The


gloaming came, silverly. The dew glistened on the fronds
of the ferns, in the cups of the moss. From glade to glade the cuckoos called. The stars
emerged delicately, as the eyes of fawns shining through the greengloom of the forest.
Once more the moon snowed the caster frondage of the pines and oaks.

No one came nigh. Not a sound had sighed from the oak since

Mūrta had sung at the goldening of the day. At sunset Mūrta had risen, to lean, intent, against the vast bole. His
keen ears caught the jar of a beetle burrowing beneath the bark. There was no other sound.

At the fall of dark the watchers heard the confused far noise
of a festival. It waned as a lost wind. Dim veils of cloud obscured the moon; a lowrainy
darkness suspended over the earth.

Thus went the second day and the second night.

When, after the weary vigil of the hours, dawn came at last,
Marta rose and struck the oak with a stone.

"Cathal!" he cried, "Cathal!"

There was no sound: not a stir, not a sigh.

"Cathal! Cathal!"

Mūrta looked at Diarmid. Then, seeing his own thought in the eyes of his
friend he returned to his side.

"The Blind One has been here," said Diarmid in a
low voice.

At noon there was thunder, and great heat.

The noise of rustling wings filled the under-wood.

Diarmid fell into a deep sleep. When the thunder had
travelled into the hills, and a soft rain fell,

Mūrta climbed into the branches
of the oak. He stared down into the hollow, but could see nothing save a green dusk that
became brown shadow, and


brown shadow that grew into a blackness.

"Cathal!" he whispered.

Not a breath of sound ascended like smoke.

"Cathal! Cathal!"

The slow drip of the rain slipped and pattered among the
leaves. The cry of a sea-bird flying inland came mournfully across the woods. A distant
clang, as of a stricken anvil, iterated from the barren mountain beyond the forest.

"Cathal! Cathal! "

Mūrta broke a straight branch, stripped it of the leaves, and, forcing the
thicker end downward, let it fall sheer.

It struck with a dull, soft thud. He listened: there was not
a sound.

"A quiet sleep to you, monk," he whispered, and
slipped down through the boughs, and was beside Diarmid again.

At dusk the rain ceased. A cool green freshness came into the
air. The stars were as wind-whirled fruit blown upward from the tree-tops. The moon,
full-orbed andwith a pulse of flame, led a tide of soft light across the brown shores of
the world,

The vigils of the watchers were over. Morta and Diarmid rose.
Without a word they moved across the glade : the faint rustle of their feet stirred the
bracken : then they left the undergrowth, and were among the pines. Their shadows lapsed
into the obscure wilderness, a doe, heavy with fawn, lay down among the dewy fern, and was
at peace there.


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Arrest Made in Washington Bomb Plot
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Published: October 27, 2010

WASHINGTON — A Virginia man of Pakistani origin was arrested on Wednesday on accusations that he tried to help men he believed were militants to plot bombings at Washington area subway stations, the Justice Department announced.

The man, Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., a naturalized American citizen, has been charged with collecting information to assist in planning a terrorist attack on a transit facility, and with attempting to provide material support “to help carry out multiple bombings to cause mass casualties at Metrorail stations,” the Justice Department said in a statement.

Peter Carr, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, provided no details on whether the men


the public in danger during this investigation,” language that has been code for an investigation in which federal agents posing as militants infiltrate a group of young men.

According to the indictment, which was handed down yesterday by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., Mr. Ahmed took part in scouting of a Metrorail station in Arlington, and recorded images of the stations on video four times. In July, he gave a memory stick “to an individual whom Ahmed believed to be affiliated with al-Qaeda,” in a hotel room in Sterling, Va. Authorities said he agreed to assess two other Metrorail stations in Arlington as potential attack locations as well.

Mr. Ahmed’s case was similar to other investigations involving undercover federal agents, which were conducted in, among other places, Dallas,article not only because it's newsworthy, but mainly because I'm beginning to get the feeling that one of these days one of these Islamic nut cases will be successful.

Detroit last Christmas, Times Square, synagogues in the Bronx. It's only a matter of time before our luck runs out (again - 9/11). Then what do we do?

Arrest Made in Washington Bomb Plot
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Published: October 27, 2010

WASHINGTON — A Virginia man of Pakistani origin was arrested on Wednesday on accusations that he tried to help men he believed were militants to plot bombings at Washington area subway stations, the Justice Department announced.

The man, Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., a naturalized American citizen, has been charged with collecting information to assist in planning a terrorist attack on a transit


monitor him.

The official, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not allowed to comment publicly on the matter, said authorities believe Mr. Ahmed was working alone, and that he was not part of a terrorist cell.

The Justice Department, in its statement, emphasized that “at no time was the public in danger during this investigation,” language that has been code for an investigation in which federal agents posing as militants infiltrate a group of young men.

According to the indictment, which was handed down yesterday by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., Mr. Ahmed took part in scouting of a Metrorail station in Arlington, and recorded images of the stations on video four times. In July, he gave a memory stick “to an individual whom Ahmed believed toTaxing Transparency Hamburg Authority Deals Blow to WikiLeaks

The tax authority in the city-state of Hamburg is suddenly playing an important role in determining the future of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. By revoking the tax-exempt status of the site's main financial supporter in Germany for the 2010 calendar year, the authority could place a further strain on the organization's future.


Get a First Listen to 2 (More) Tracks From the Hadestown Broadway Cast Recording

Tony nominees Eva Noblezada and Patrick Page croon in "Hey Little Songbird" and the Fates boast tight harmonies in "When the Chips Are Down."

As enticing as a deal with the King of the Underworld might be, it's not necessary to get an advanced listen of his seductive (if intimidating) bass. Ahead of Hadestown's second release of tracks from its upcoming Original Broadway Cast Recording, Playbill has a first listen to two numbers: "Hey Little Songbird" and "When the Chips Are Down."

As previously announced, the musical will roll out the 40 tracks comprising the album over a series of drops. These two songs are included on the second (available June 7); three subsequent releases (June 28,July 12, and July 26) will correspond with pairs or groups of characters in Anaïs Mitchell's mythological musical.

The album (later to be released as a physical double album) hails from David Lai and Todd Sicakfoose, who previously produced the 2017 live recording from the show’s premiere at New York Theatre Workshop.

LISTEN: First 4 Tracks from Hadestown Broadway Cast Album Now Available

Hadestown is currently up for 14 Tony Awards—the most of any nominated show this season—including Best Musical and nods for Mitchell, director Rachel Chavkin, and stars Eva Noblezada, Patrick Page, André De Shields, and Amber Gray.

In "Hey Little Songbird," Hades (Page) offers Eurydice (Noblezada) an ominous sense of safety via his domain below. Immediately after, three Fates (Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzales-Naces, and Kay Trinidad), in tight harmony, coax


@Eric Tucker - In addition to salesmen giving clocks to power stations, there was a more formal version: the Warren Telechron Master Clock: A very accurate clock movement driving one hand on a clock dial, while a synchronous motor drove an additional hand, so they just had to adjust the generator frequency to keep the one hand on top of the other.

Hi Rob. Actually the "machine" is a telephone. The Naval Observatory (USNO) in Washington at the time had 27 atomic clocks of various types that were located around in closets, rooms, etc (to account for room temp variations). The time from each clock was averaged and fed to a rack mounted thing called a Nano Clock (I forget who made those) the output of the Nano Clockwas one of the smartest people I've ever known, and one of the best friends I ever had. He knew (as far as I could tell) just about everything about everything. The DAY AFTER the space shuttle disaster, he told me that the problem was the O-ring seals on the engine. He studied and read just about everything technical he could get his hands.

He would some times look at something I had designed and ask "If this was an airplane would you fly on it?" at which point I would usually make some changes.

The station I worked for had Western Union clocks in the studios. They reset to the correct time once an hour and you could see the second hand either speeding up or holding at the


period as well. I hit the net fairly well while I worked the board but sometimes... the post brings back memories.

A friend of mine got a Rolex for his birthday from his wife one year. After wearing itfor a few days he noticed it was running a few second slow. He returned it to the store to complain and the gentleman explained that he must have been mistaken and that every Rolex they sold was checked against the time standards at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington. My friend then explained to the man behind the counter that he BUILT the machine that the store was using to test the watches.

The areas of Japan generally southwest of Kyoto are 60Hz, while the rest of the country is 50Hz.each won the title in 2015. Williams opened with a straight-set victory against Daria Gavrilova.

After a first-round bye, Federer extended his Cincinnati winning streak to 11 matches since losing to Rafael Nadal in the 2013 quarterfinals.

“It doesn’t feel like I have been away for so long here from Cincinnati,” Federer said. “I guess the wheel keeps turning. It’s not like I missed two years of tennis. It was a great pleasure to be back.”

The second-seeded Federer, refreshed from a month off after losing in the Wimbledon quarterfinals, became the tournament favorite when Nadal withdrew on Sunday night.

Williams was knocked out in the first round in her last tournament at San Jose two weeks ago after reaching the Wimbledon final. Cincinnati was her fifth tournament since she had a


Remember the lawyer who threatened to call ICE because some women were talking in Spanish in a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan?

Well, an activist is raising money in a GoFundMe campaign to send a mariachi band and taco truck to his New York office.

On Wednesday, Schlossberg went viral after aggressively accosting customers and staff at Fresh Kitchen on Madison Avenue near East 39th Street because they were speaking Spanish.

Edward Suazo, the husband of one of the women targetted by the abuse, posted a video of the altercation to Facebook where it has now had 5.6 million views.

In the almost minute long clip, Schlossberg is filmed shouting:

Your staff and clients are speaking Spanish when they should be speaking English. Every person in here is speaking it... It's America!

He then threatensEx-SAF man on mission to help the homeless

Singaporean Julian Tan personally journeyed to the Philippines to deliver the relief supplies to the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan last week.

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines- Former army commando Julian Tan is no stranger to places like Tacloban city, where homes were wiped out and thousands of people displaced overnight, becoming refugees in their own country.

As a member of the Special Operations Force (SOF) - an ultra-secret unit within the Singapore Armed Forces - he was sent to many disaster and conflict zones around the world.

But nothing quite prepared him for what he saw in Leyte province, the first in the Philippines to be hit by Typhoon Haiyan on Nov 8.

"I feel pain seeing the people suffering," said the 40-year-old. "When you walk the


tougher on AIG shareholders than those imposed on the major banks that also were bailed out, though none of them were on the cusp of bankruptcy as AIG found itself in September 2008.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit made a presentation to the AIG board Wednesday morning, followed by attorneys for the New York Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, which are the defendants.

In November, a federal judge ruled against the shareholder suit, saying that the only alternative to the bailout was bankruptcy, which would have left the shareholders with virtually nothing. But the plaintiffs are appealing that decision and had asked AIG to join them.

AIG said that in addition to not joining the suit, it also will not permit the shareholders to pursue the claims againstthe government in AIG's name.

David Boies, the attorney for the shareholders, said the plaintiffs regret the decision of AIG board, but will continue to pursue the case. He said that despite the ruling of district court in the case, another judge considering the lawsuit has already upheld their legal theory of the case.

"The facts on which the case relies are set forth in the government's own documents and admissions, and in the reports of Congressional committees and inspector generals," he said.

The New York Fed, the lead defendant in the case, had no comment on AIG's decision.

But some outside legal experts said they believe AIG had little choice but to not join the suit. Brian Fraser, a New York attorney specializing in corporate and shareholder litigation, said that even


if it was proper for AIG to consider joining the suit "the company does not have a fiduciary duty to bring a frivolous claim." Other experts agree AIG would not have won even if it had joined with shareholders.

"The current board of directors at AIG has absolutely no business joining in a lawsuit that claims that the settlement terms have been unfair,' said John Alan James, professor at Pace University's business school in New York. "The government's case is clear: the AIG board in 2009 approved the details of the deal. AIG received the bailout funds that saved the company and have allowed it to regain a sound financial structure and pay back the government."

Wednesday AIG repeated its earlier statements that it had a legal obligation to considerThe investigation into a fatal collision on Mount Royal is ongoing, Montreal police say, and it is still unclear whether charges will be laid.

Tuesday morning, Montreal police had said an American man would be charged in the death of 18-year-old Clément Ouimet.

However, hours later the force reneged on that information, citing a communication issue between the official spokespeople and the investigators.

On Oct. 4, Ouimet was riding his bike southbound on Camillien-Houde Way, near the lookout on Mount Royal, when a driver made an illegal U-turn, police say.

He didn't have time to get out of the way and hit the vehicle, an SUV. He was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police initially said Tuesday that a summons had been sent to the driver, but he hadn't been


served as yet.

A prosecutor must sign off on a summons before it is sent. Quebec's Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions confirmed it has not received the file from Montreal police regarding its investigation into the fatal collision.

Ouimet's death prompted calls for the City of Montreal to better protect cyclists travelling on the popular route over the mountain.

On Saturday, the city officially unveiled a series of new provisional safety measures, including the installment of a digital speed indicator and more signs warning that U-turns are forbidden.

Denis Coderre, who is seeking a second term as mayor, said he's putting together a working group to analyze the road's use and see if anything can be done to make Camillien-Houde Way safer.prevailed with respect to amount in controversy. The issue presented before me is whether the position of the United States in the instant case was unreasonable or not "substantially justified." Rickel v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 900 F.2d 655, 665 (3d Cir.1990). Plaintiff has the burden of establishing that the position of the United States was not substantially justified.
Plaintiff was hired in 1979 as a fiscal clerk for the Corporation. The Corporation was involved in the insulating and weather-stripping of various homes of the poor in North Philadelphia through a grant which Milton Street, then a state senator, obtained from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This program lasted about 15 months. Plaintiff was assessed the penalty tax in 1986 in connection with her employment at the Corporation during the


program period. Her responsibilities as a fiscal clerk included keeping track of workers' time and materials used and filing out reports to the supervising state agencies. She was paid $4.29 per hour. Plaintiff maintains that she was not responsible for the filing of corporate tax returns nor did she know anything about them. Plaintiff claims she never signed any checks for the Corporation and did not profit from anything the Corporation did. A. Yvonne Street was the executive director of the Corporation until her resignation in December of 1981. Plaintiff then obtained the title of "executive director" on December 12, 1981. As executive director, Plaintiff received no new responsibilities, no pay increase and no authority. She continued doing her clerical job. Plaintiff was executive director of the Corporationfor a period of only two weeks before the Corporation's demise due to the program's expiration on December 31, 1981.
The United States argues that its position was substantially justified since: (1) Plaintiff was the executive director of the Corporation; (2) Plaintiff had check signing authority because her signature appeared on the Bank's signature cards; and (3) Plaintiff had close loyalty ties to Mr. Street. The primary basis for the assessment against Plaintiff was a newspaper article which named her as executive director of the Corporation. The report of the Revenue Officer who recommended that Plaintiff be assessed the penalty tax stated "[s]ee newspaper article, which clearly defines the authority that this person had in the corporation." However, *179 Plaintiff was only executive director of the Corporation for two


weeks. Moreover, all Plaintiff acquired was the mere title of "executive director" since none of her responsibilities changed and she did not even receive a pay increase. As a result of Plaintiff's deposition which was taken as late as February of 1991, the United States conceded its case based upon lack of evidence. At this deposition, Plaintiff disclosed the same information that she had been telling the government during the administrative proceedings. It was unreasonable that the government continued this case against a woman who had no real authority in the organization. Plaintiff was a low-level clerk for the Corporation who earned $4.29 an hour. If the government had been diligent in their investigation of Plaintiff or had not lost Plaintiff's administrative file, this case would not haveSánchez is in line to become comfortably the biggest earner at United

José Mourinho is pushing Manchester United to sign Alexis Sánchez in time for him to make his debut against Burnley on Saturday in a deal in which the Arsenal attacker would earn up to £450,000 a week.

United and the Chilean are in talks over a contract that would make him the best-paid player in English football, and one of the highest-earning anywhere in the world.

It would exceed the salary that United pay Paul Pogba, the midfielder who earns about £300,000 a week, and joined the club for what at the time was a world record fee. Sánchez stands to make £50 million after tax over a four-and-a-half-year contract.

Sánchez will be paid more than Pogba, who earns £300,000


over estimate the ability of the average driver. The primary cause of accidents being the people, not road or mechanical failure.

The photograph used to illustrate the post shows Bayswater Road just in front of its intersection with Kensington Park Road in Notting Hill Gate and it’s notorious for its marginalising of pedestrians. The worst possible time to use it is on Fridays and during the weekend when it’s crammed with tourists (like, I suspect, Mr Levy) emerging from the tube station (which lies under Bayswater Road) wending their way down Kensington Park Road toward the markets at Portobello Road. Oddly enough, Bayswater Road parallels Kensington High Street (on the other side of Kensington Gardens) where the same council (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) have, relatively recently, removedFriday, February 22, 2008

I am Robot

I am having a conversation with nawinkler as I write this. He is sitting a couple of rows down in a virtually empty and quiet student lounge. But we choose to communicate basically in binary through a complex series of routers and servers hundreds or even thousands of miles away. He says it is like "the time-honored tradition of passing notes." I never passed notes, except to Jill Moeller in 5th grade a couple of times. I preferred to talk in class. My teachers did not prefer that. He did bring up the funny prank of "ghost-writing" notes in hopes they would get picked up and read aloud to the class. He is a funny guy. And so are you. Don't let anyone


is also a vegan one: We need to eat plants to survive, but we don't need to eat animals. For the wisest member of the family, berry-eating turns into an epic, life-affirming quest, as if to underscore that literal fruit was not forbidden, and what was "forbidden" was not, in fact, a fruit.

The violence inherent in the opening hand-on-heart image is followed immediately by that of Cain slaying Abel - connecting man's violence vs. animals to his violence vs. himself - and Aronofsky "adapts" the somewhat contrary element of Cain, the killer, being a vegetarian by completely omitting it. (He also conveniently omits God's explicit allowance of non-veganism after the flood, a passage that would be dissonant if included, but which does show that through this portion ofincreasingly beholden to the interests of these major publishers, which tend to favor large industries like pharmaceuticals and vaccines.Much of the independence that was once cherished within the scientific community, in other words, has gone by the wayside as these major publishers have taken control and now dictate what types of content get published. The result is a publishing oligopoly in which scientists are muzzled by and overarching trend toward politically correct, and industry-favoring, "science.""Overall, the major publishers control more than half of the market of scientific papers both in the natural and medical sciences and in the social sciences and humanities," said Professor Vincent Lariviere, lead author of the study from the University of Montreal's School of Library and Information Science."Furthermore, these large commercial publishers have huge


sales, with profit margins of nearly 40%. While it is true that publishers have historically played a vital role in the dissemination of scientific knowledge in the print era, it is questionable whether they are still necessary in today's digital era."The followinginfographic illustrates the disturbing reach of this academic oligarchy The fields most controlled by this academic oligarchy include those dealing with chemistry, psychology, social sciences and the professional fields. On the flip side, biomedical research, physics, and the arts and humanities are influenced to a much lesser degree by these six corporate publishers, according to the study.What this suggests is that, over time, certain disciplines have become more corrupted than others as they've been absorbed into the corporate publishing fold. Such content, though often skewed, is highlyAlghero is one
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Ricky Sbragia has expressed his personal disappointment at the sacking of Craig Levein earlier this week but insists life must go on.

The former Sunderland boss credits Levein for having a key role to play in his own involvement with the youth sides, having worked with the Under-17s before progressing to the Under-19s.

Levein was axed by the Scottish Football Association on Monday following a poor start to the World Cup qualifying campaign, with the Scots sitting bottom of their group without a win from their opening four games.

Sbragia - who has been placed in temporary charge of the Under-21s while Billy Stark takes over as interim boss of the senior side - said: "I think it has been really disappointing.

"It's disappointing when anybody loses their job in football. I'veseen it many times.

"Craig was instrumental in bringing me in when he spoke to me about the job so I'm a bit saddened about it.

"Football goes on, it carries on. There will be many in football who will lose their jobs this year. It's not a nice feeling.

"Being a little bit more hands-on, he deserves a lot of credit."

Asked whether he was surprised by Levein's departure, he added: "I always see football as day to day. You can never tell in football.

"The board have made a decision and there is nothing we can do about that.

"From my point of view, he was excellent to me. I had a great rapport with him, he's a lovely man and a great coach.

"I'm disappointed but we have to move on and


get on with life."

Sbragia takes over Stark's duties for the Under-21s' game in Portugal next week, while Stark takes charge of team affairs for Scotland's friendly in Luxembourg.

Sbragia said: "It's a progression from the Under-21s up to the national team for Billy.

"Billy has got great experience at international level. It's the next step up for him.News: Iran human rights

Press release by the Friends of a Free Iran inter-group at the European Parliament- Brussels- 6 December 2017

On Wednesday, 6 December 2017, on the initiative of the Friends of a Free Iran inter-group at the European Parliament, which enjoys the support of several hundred MEPs from various political groups, a conference on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day was held at the European Parliament in Brussels. The key note speaker was Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). Dozens of MEPs and a large number of parliamentary assistants, diplomats and journalists were present. The Scottish veteran politician Struan Stevenson was also one of the guest speakers.

Gérard Deprez, Belgian MEP (ALDE) who chaired the conference said: “We call


and its affiliated companies must be halted, and it must be blacklisted. It is vital to expel the IRGC and its mercenary militias from the region.

The MEPs called on the EU High Representative to base any relations with Iran on an improvement of the human rights situation, halt to executions and an end to its meddling in neighbouring countries and its ballistic missile program; otherwise such relations would run counter to Europe’s values and to peace and stability in the region and the world.Klaas-Jan Huntelaar scored a 78th minute winner for Ajax after starting on the bench before being sent off just six minutes later.

These exceptional few minutes on the field saw Huntelaar break another record in his long career, becoming the first Ajax substitute in Eredivisie history to score and be sent off.

The 35-year-old has had a fantastic career for both club and country, but would certainly have never expected to break a record like this.

Huntelaar’s goal in a 1-0 away win at Groningen saw his side maintain top spot in the Eredivisie, sitting ahead of PSV on goal difference.

Ajax are still in the running for all three competitions they entered, with Champions League semi-final on the horizon as well as the KNVB Cup final.

If the Amsterdam side can win


Valley Forge

George Washington and the Crucible of Victory

In the winter of 1777, Washington and his demoralized army retreat from Philadelphia, arriving at Valley Forge where they discover that their repeated requests for a stockpile of food, winter clothing, and building tools have been ignored by Congress. In spite of the suffering and deceit, Washington endures all, joined at last by a volunteer from Germany who begins the hard task of recasting the army as a professional fighting force capable of facing the British head-on and changing the course of history.

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I was pleasantly surprised with this book. I had never read anything by Mr. Gingrich and am now looking forward to his other fiction. It should be required reading to kids; it has a bit of mild cursing, butDarwin after the Origin --
Orchids, Plants, Worms, and Man

Charles Darwin,On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing.
London: J. Murray, 1862. Original plum-colored cloth.

Although the debate over his Origin of Species had moved rapidly to debating the origin of man, Darwin himself did not immediately participate. He spent the next decade producing a series of books detailing his evidence for various aspects of the theory. He wished, he wrote to his publisher in 1861, to "show that I have worked hard at details." Much of this material was based on research or drafts for the much bigger book on the theory of species that he had to set aside in June 1858. His orchid book was


a kind of Bridgewater Treatise demonstrating the functional origins of apparently useless beauty, but explaining it through natural selection rather than design.

Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature.[Vol. 1]
London: Robert Hardwicke, 1866.

The two brief Darwin items shown here, from May 1865, represent an aspect of Darwin's involvement in Victorian science that is often neglected--his frequent brief letters, notes or editorial mentions in popular weeklies such as the Gardener's Chronicle or, as here, the aptly named Science Gossip, run by the publisher of Huxley's lectures for working men.

Charles Darwin, The movements and habits of climbing plants.
London: John Murray, 1875.

In 1858, when Asa Gray of Harvard sent some seeds to Darwin, he became so fascinated with the "revolving movements of thetendrils and stems" that he started a whole sub-study on climbing plants. This essay had first appeared in the Journal of the Linnean Society in 1865, with the same 188-page typesetting issued successively as offprint, pamphlet, and cased book. Shown here is the first Murray edition, issued in 1875.

Charles Darwin,The variation of animals and plants under domestication.2 vols. London: John Murray, 1868. First edition, first issue.

These two substantial volumes represent only the first two chapters from the larger study of species Darwin had been drafting before he wrote the Origin. It includes, along with his study of variation in pigeons and plants his provisional theory of "pangenesis," an attempt to explore the causes of variant forms, not merely their survival or selection.

Charles Darwin, The descent of man, and


selection in relation to sex. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, first issue.

It was more than a decade after the Origin that Darwin at last took up the application of natural selection to the emergence of the human species. While some sections simply deal with parallels between man and animals (as in the illustrations of embryos shown here), Darwin also had the benefit of the debates that already under way, and he included discussions of how his theory of natural selection would deal with such marks of humanity as mankind's linguistic, mental, aesthetic and moral capacities.

Charles Darwin,The expression of the emotions in man and animals.
London: John Murray, 1872. First edition, second issue.

Many years before, in the Plinian Society in Edinburgh, Darwin had heard his radical friendBrowne attack Charles Bell's pious study, The anatomy and physiology of expression, which claimed that humans had were unique in their capacity for expressing their feelings through facial muscles. This sledgehammer of a book refutes the old natural-theological position, not only through argument, but by its inclusion of expensive foldout heliotype illustrations. It led to a new field of study, ethology, and was also influential with psychologists.

The four books grouped here show Darwin's continuing activity in his later years, in both writing and research, and the continuing interest of the public in what he wrote. By the 1870s, his research program had developed its own momentum as he sought to fill out his original sketch of species differentiation.

Charles Darwin, Insectivorous plants.
London: John Murray, 1875.

The effects of cross and