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New DS8700 and other disk announcements
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Well, it's Tuesday again, but this time, today we had our third big storage launch of 2009! A lot got announced today as part of IBM's big "Dynamic Infrastructure" marketing campaign. I will just focus on the disk-related announcements today:
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IBM Announces Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition
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Well, it's Tuesday, and you all know what that means... IBM announcements!
This week, IBM announced the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition, affectionately referred to as "MRE". This is basically TPC for Disk but with two key differences:
This includes the [new DS3500 model] that was announced last month. This was part of the set of solutions to [help midsized businesses].
A fresh new blogger on the scene, Anthony Vandewerdt (IBM), covers [10 things I like about the IBM DS3500], saving me the trouble.
For more information on Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition, see the IBM [Announcement Letter].
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IBM Events in April 2010
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Now that the US Recession has been declared over, companies are looking to invest in IT again. To help you plan your upcoming investments, here are some upcoming events in April.
It's looking to be a busy month!
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October 2011 Announcements - Part 3
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IBM had over a dozen storage-related announcements this week. This is my third and final part in my series to provide a quick overview of the announcements.
Whew! I have already heard from some of my readers to slow down, that this is too much information to deal with all at once. IBM has tried everything from having just a few announcements nearly every Tuesday, to having huge launches every two to three years, and settled in the middle with announcements about four to five times per year.
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#ibmtechu Day 4 IBM Storage University - Storage Free-for-All
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Continuing my coverage of the [IBM System Storage Technical University 2011], I participated in the storage free-for-all, which is a long-time tradition, started at SHARE User Group conference, and carried forward to other IT conferences. The free-for-all is a Q&A Panel of experts to allow anyone to ask any question. These are sometimes called "Birds of a Feather" (BOF). Last year, we had two: one focused on Tivoli Storage software, and the second to cover storage hardware. This year, we had two, one for System x called "Ask the eXperts", and one for System Storage called "Storage Free-for-All". This post covers the latter.
(Disclaimer: Do not shoot the messenger! We had a dozen or more experts on the panel, representing System Storage hardware, Tivoli Storage software, and Storage services. I took notes, trying to capture the essence of the questions, and the answers given by the various IBM experts. I have spelled out acronyms and provided links to relevant materials. The answers from individual IBMers may not reflect the official position of IBM management. Where appropriate, my own commentary will be in italics.)Are there any plans to improve the use of BRMS [Backup Recovery and Media Services for IBM i] with [Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)]?
It should be against the law to connect these two together. IBM has no plans to make any further improvements.When will [IBM BladeCenter S] support 2.5-inch drives?
You are in the wrong session! Go to "Ask the eXperts" session next door!The TSM GUI sucks! Are there any plans to improve it?
Yes, we are aware that products like IBM XIV have raised the bar for what people expect from graphical user interfaces. We have plans to improve the TSM GUI. IBM's new GUI for the SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000 has been well-received, and will be used as a template for the GUIs of other storage hardware and software products. The GUI uses the latest HTML5, Dojo widgets and AJAX technologies, eliminating Java dependencies on the client browser.Can we run the TSM Admin GUI from a non-Windows host?
IBM has plans to offer this. Most likely, this will be browser-based, so that any OS with a modern browser can be used.As hard disk drives grow larger in capacity, RAID-5 becomes less viable. What is IBM doing to address this?
IBM is aware of this problem. IBM offers RAID-DP on the IBM N series, RAID-X on the IBM XIV, and RAID-6 on its other disk systems.TPC licensing is outrageous! What is IBM going to do about it?
IBM introduced the [Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition (MRE)] to help address the cost when Small and Medium-sized Businesses managing SVC, Storwize V7000, DS5000 and DS3000 disk systems.What is the adoption rate of IBM Easy Tier?
About 25 percent of DS8000 disk systems have SSD installed. Now that IBM DS8000 Easy Tier supports "any two" tiers, roughly 50 percent of DS8000 now have Easy Tier activated. No idea on how Easy Tier has been adopted on SVC or Storwize V7000.We have an 8-node SVC cluster, should we put 8 SSD drives into a single node-pair, or spread them out?
We recommend putting a separate Solid-State Drive in each SVC node, with RAID-1 between nodes of a node-pair. By separating the SSD across I/O groups, you can reduce node-to-node traffic.How well has SVC 6.2 been adopted?
The inventory call-home data is not yet available. The only SVC hardware model that does not support this level of software was the 2145-4F2 introduced in 2003. Every other model since then can be updated to this level.Will IBM offer 600GB FDE drives for the IBM DS8700?
Currently, IBM offers 300GB and 450GB 15K RPM drives with the Full-Disk Encryption (FDE) capability for the DS8700, and 450GB and 600GB 10K RPM drives with FDE for the IBM DS8800. IBM is working with its disk suppliers to offer FDE on other disk capacities, and on SSD and NL-SAS drives as well, so that all can be used with IBM Easy Tier.Is there a reason for the feature lag between the Easy Tier capabilities of the DS8000, and that of the SVC/Storwize V7000?
We have one team for Easy Tier, so they implement it first on DS8000, then port it over to SVC/Storwize V7000.Does it even make sense to have separate storage tiers, especially when you factor in the cost of SVC and TPC to make it manageable?
It depends! We understand this is a trade-off between cost and complexity. Most data centers have three or more storage tiers already, so products like SVC can help simplify interoperability.Are there best practices for combining SVC with DS8000? Can we share one DS8000 system across two or more SVC clusters?
Yes, you can share one DS8000 across multiple SVC clusters. DS8000 has auto-restripe, so consider having two big extent pools. The queue depth is 3 to 60, so aim to have up to 60 managed disks on your DS8000 assigned to SVC. The more managed disks the better.The IBM System Storage Interopability Center (SSIC) site does not seem to be designed well for SAN Volume Controller.
Yes, we are aware of that. It was designed based on traditional Hardware Compatability Lists (HCL), but storage virtualization presents unique challenges.How does the 24-hour learning period work for IBM Easy Tier? We have batch processing that runs from 2am to 8am on Sundays.
You can have Easy Tier monitor across this batch job window, and turn Easy Tier management between tiers on and off as needed.Now that NetApp has acquired LSI, is the DS3000 still viable?
Yes, IBM has a strong OEM relationship with both NetApp and LSI, and this continues after the acquisition.If have managed disks from a DS8000 multi-rank extent pool assigned to multiple SVC clusters, won't this affect performance?
Yes, possibly. Keep managed disks on seperate extent pools if this is a big concern. A PERL script is available to re-balance SVC striped volumes as needed after these changes.Is the IBM [TPC Reporter] a replacement for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center?
No, it is software, available at no additional charge, that provides additional reporting to those who have already licensed Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1 and above. It will be updated as needed when new versions of Productivity Center are released.We are experiencing lots of stability issues with SDD, SDD-PCM and SDD-DSM multipathing drivers. Are these getting the development attention they deserve?
IBM's direction is to shift toward native OS-based multipathing drivers.Is anyone actually thinking of deploying public cloud storage in the near-term?
A few hands in the audience were raised.None of the IBM storage devices seem to have [REST API]. Cloud storage providers are demanding this. What are IBM plans?
IBM plans to offer REST on SONAS. IBM uses SONAS internally for its own cloud storage offerings.If you ask a DB2 specialist, an AIX specialist, and a System Storage specialist, on how to configure System p and System Storage for optimal performance, you get three different answers. Are there any IBMers who are cross-functional that can help?
Yes, for example, Earl Jew is an IBM Field Technical Support Specialist (FTSS) for both System p and Storage, and can help you with that.Both Oracle and Microsoft recommend RAID-10 for their applications.
Don't listen to them. Feel free to use RAID-5, RAID-6 or RAID-X instead.Resizing SVC source volumes forces ongoing FlashCopy or Metro Mirror relatiohships to be stopped. Does IBM plan to address this?
Currently, you have to stop, resize both source and target, then start the relationship again. Consider getting IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication (TPC-R).What ever happened to IBM [Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS)]?
IBM continues to support this for exising clients. For new deployments, IBM offers SONAS and the Information Archive (IA).When will I be able to move SVC volumes between I/O groups?
You can today, but it is disruptive to the operating system. IBM is investigating making this less disruptive.Will XIV ever support the mainframe?
It does already, with support for both Linux and z/VM today. For VSE support, use SVC with XIV. For those with the new zBX extension, XIV storage can be used with all of the POWER and x86-based operating systems supported. IBM has no plans to offer direct FICON attachment for z/OS or z/TPF.Not a question - Kudos to the TSM and ProtecTIER team in supporting native IP-based replication!
Thanks!When will IBM offer POWER-based models of the XIV, SVC and other storage devices?
IBM's decision to use industry-standard x86 technology has proven quite successful. However, IBM re-looks at this decision every so many years. Once again, the last iteration determined that it was not worth doing. A POWER-based model might not beat the price/performance of current x86 models, and maintaining two separate code bases would hinder development of new innovations.We have both System i and System z, what is IBM doing to address the fact that PowerHA and GDPS are different?
IBM TPC-R has a service offering extension to support "IBM i" environments. GDPS plans to support multi-platform environments as well.
This was a great interactive session. I am glad everyone stayed late Thursday evening to participate in this discussion.
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On Sunday February 10 at the John Gano Memorial Chapel on the campus of William Jewell College in Liberty, MO, St. Vladimir's Seminary Assistant Professor of Liturgical Music Dr. Nicholas Reeves attended the premier performance of his multimedia musical reflection, "The Light of the World." The William Jewell College Concert Choir under the direction of Conductor Anthony Maglione presented the performance, which was considered the showcase event for William Jewell's annual Justice Summit hosted each year by the school's Center for Justice and Sustainability.
"The Light of the World" featured images, interviews, and historical footage juxtaposed with the choral performance of Dr. Reeves' composition based on the Sermon on the Mount. The pre–recorded video focused on the notorious 20th–century Romanian Communist prison, Pitesti. This artistic vehicle allowed for a creative "analysis of moral principles in light of the practice of torture," explained Dr. Andy Pratt, executive director of the Center for Justice and Sustainability.
Prior to the conference, Dr. Reeves offered a talk for concertgoers at 3 p.m. in Gano Chapel, and afterwards he attended a post–concert reception. "I was honored to have been a participant in the Center for Justice and Sustainability's event," noted Dr. Reeves. "What I found particularly rewarding was the audience's reception to the work's unfamiliar subject matter (the Pitesti Re–education Prison). I was pleasantly surprised by how much these themes resonated with them."
Fusing classical, sacred and popular idioms in his original compositions, Composer Reeves has produced concerts both privately and in conjunction with St. Vladimir's on themes ranging from the oppression of Orthodox Christian composers during the years of Soviet Communism, to the St. Matthew Passion of Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev). In addition to his responsibilities as an assistant professor at St. Vladimir's, Dr. Reeves was also appointed as the Project Manager for the Arvo Part Project at St. Vladimir's Seminary in 2012.
The videographer for "The Light of the World," Dmitry Trakovsky, grew up in suburban Los Angeles, holds a degree in the History of Art and Visual Culture from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the founder of a small production company, Trakovsky Film LLC.
Adapted from an article by Ms. Cara Dahlor, associate director of College Relations and New Media, William Jewell College.


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In an exclusive interview, I just finished speaking with key Boston Marathon eyewitness and running participant Alastair Stevenson, who has confirmed to me that drills were taking place the morning of the Boston Marathon complete with bomb squads and rooftop snipers.
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Elk were extirpated (made locally extinct) in Kentucky before 1850. In 1987, Kentucky's Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources began reintroducing elk in 16 counties of southeastern Kentucky. The repopulation project has been (pardon the pun) wildly successful.
The elk were released into the most mountainous part of the state. Mining is a major industry there. Many large strip-mine sites were made fit for wildlife when abandoned, as required by state law. Most of the reclaimed sites are now open, grassy fields -- an abundant source of food for the elk.
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Population projections have been exceeded.
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife predicted the population would reach 10,000 in 2013. Kristina Brunjes, Kentucky Fish and Wildlife big game coordinator, said they are starting to get some research data that indicates they may hit that number in 2009
Source: "The Elk's Return to Kentucky", by Carol L. Spence, published Spring, 2009, in a University of Kentucky College of Agriculture magazine
Black bears and cougars are being sighted more often in eastern KY, but there aren't enough of them to control the growing elk population. In the absence of other predators, Kentucky is depending on hunters. In 2009, Kentucky issued 250 bull tags and 750 cow tags. A total of 765 elk were harvested, if I am reading the figures correctly.
With so many elk in the mountains, it was inevitable that drivers would encounter elk on the roads. Collisions of cars and elk have been a big problem. In Bell County, KY, county officials recently arranged a public meeting with state wildlife officials so local residents could complain in person.
Fish and Wildlife Resources Commissioner Taylor Orr and Wildlife Division Director Karen Wahlberg said they are working on solutions, such as setting traps in problem areas and allowing more... locals to participate in elk hunts.
Bell County Judge-Executive Albey Brock, who hosted the forum as a way to make sure state wildlife officials understood the magnitude of the problem, said another meeting would be held.
"Instead of saying 'if we have a problem', let's agree we do have a problem," Brock said.
Source: "Residents in southeastern KY. angry about elk", Associated Press article published in the Lexington Herald-Leader, January 25, 2010
I hit a deer with my car a few years ago, and I know how dangerous, unsettling, and expensive that was. I shudder to think of an animal several times larger than a deer plunging into the path of my car. On the other hand, I do like to think of wild elk roaming the mountains.
Image credit: Cervus elaphus.(Robert Karges II / USFWS)


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Kai Wurm from the University of Freiburg (Germany) recently visited Willow Garage. During his stay, he worked on integrating the 3D mapping library OctoMap into the ROS and PCL frameworks. To provide real-time 3D maps of the workspace of the PR2 robot, the runtime and memory requirements of OctoMap were substantially reduced. To make OctoMap more attractive for mobile manipulation, he also investigated the use of collections of multi-resolution maps to model movable objects at millimeter resolution.
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With bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the third, senior center fielder TJ Ehrsam (Vienna, VA) hit a double to right center which put Hofstra ahead 2-0. In their next at-bat, an RBI sac fly to center by senior first baseman Brian MacDonald (Boonton Twp., N.J.) increased the lead to 3-0.
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A Sailor's Life – 79. Doctor aboard (1913)
Much of what we know about the dying days of sail was recorded after the First World War, when most of Britain's last old sailers had been sunk or 'sold foreign'.
Eric Newby's The Last Grain Race and Elis Karlsson's excellent Pully-haul were published as late as the 1950s and '60s, both about what were by then Finnish-owned vessels – the Moshulu, now a restaurant (!) in Philadelphia, and the Herzogin Cecilie, a wreck off Salcombe, Devon.
But in the summer of 1913, when the Liverpool-registered square rigger Monkbarns arrived off Australia from South America with a state-of-the-art Cinematograph movie camera provided by the Kineto film company of Wardour Street, London, "Everything that could be filmed about life aboard had been filmed," the resident amateur cameraman noted.
Dr Dudley Stone was a keen yachtsman and junior doctor at St Bart's hospital London who had joined Monkbarns in Gravesend that February determined to chronicle what was even then obviously the end of an era, from "swinging the ship" for correcting the compass before they sailed to the shanties round the capstan as they weighed anchor. His commission was to "obtain pictures of the ocean in its angry moods". It was Kineto's second attempt, after the chap it sent out the previous year had found himself vilely incapacitated by seasickness.
Over the months that followed, as Monkbarns crossed the Atlantic to Buenos Aires with a cargo of cement and then headed back eastwards in ballast round the Cape of Good Hope to Sydney, he shot 9,000 feet of film: of the men hauling and chipping, of the view from the yards, of big seas and the master in his oilskins. He developed it in his cabin and dried it all in strips festooned around a lazarette under the fo'c'sle head.
"I have cinematographed with no gloves and with oilskins and top boots on from aloft from almost everywhere." Dating and developing it all had taken up to five hours a day, he wrote from Newcastle NSW.
Sadly, this nearly two miles of film seems to have disappeared. It is mentioned in the Australian newspapers of the time and was picked up years later by Captain "Algie" Course during the fireside yarns with fellow Cape Horners that formed the basis of his account of Monkbarns in The Wheel's Kick and The Wind's Song, but of the actual film there is no trace, not in the National Maritime Museum collection, nor the British Film Institute, nor the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney. Shot from a heaving deck over 100 years ago, washed in saltwater, dried in a dusty locker and exposed to sulphur fumes when the ship was fumigated in Newcastle, it is unlikely any of it has survived.
Dr Stone's unfinished diary, however, did survive – in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich – and even without moving images it provides a rare glimpse of working life aboard one of the last British full-rigged ships a full 16 years before Alan Villiers and his ill-fated colleague Ronald Walker immortalised Grace Harwar, the last full rigger in the Australian trade.
Stone and his friend and patient, the Honourable John Gilbert Eveleigh-de Moleyns, aged 34, fifth son of the 4th Baron Ventry, were an odd couple aboard a working ship; de M's condition is not identified but he lay down every afternoon, and usually played Euchre with the Mate for matches in the evenings or made quoits, which he played on deck when the weather permitted. Meanwhile, Stone was out along the yards or down the holds in all weathers with his Cinematograph, filming, or learning to take a noon sight and wrestling with calculations of the ship's position and progress.
Neither did any actual work aboard, apart from "tailing on" occasionally.
But they roamed at will armed with a Videx Reflex and a Brownie, and Stone's eye was keen. He noted the pilfering of stores by the ever-hungry apprentices, rough justice for a suspected thief who was given a hiding by his shipmates and booted ashore in Buenos Aires, and the stowaway "discovered" drinking tea in the fo'c'sle after they sailed. The Mate hadn't known he was aboard, but the master did. Desertions had left him shorthanded. Two "stowaways" appeared after the ship had sailed, and both were entered on the articles at £1 per month.
Patrick Haggerty was an Irishman from Queenstown, Cork, red haired, blue eyed and popular. A fine shantyman, said Stone. He claimed to be off an Italian barque that had gone ashore near Buenos Aires and had only the dungarees, socks, cap and shoes he stood up in. After he was found half frozen at the wheel one night, the ship had a whip-round for him: the Mate gave him a shirt and an old oilskin, de M donated pants and socks, Stone rooted out an ancient spare jersey.
Stone's surviving diary begins as they leave Buenos Aires.
A doctor was a familiar sight on passenger steamers, schmoozing the saloon crowd and keeping at bay any unpleasantness from steerage. Naval vessels too usually had a surgeon, to patch up battle injuries. But merchant ships knocking about the world with cargoes of nitrate or guano rarely enjoyed the luxury of trained medical assistance.
In the days of sail, physicking the crew was the responsibility of the "Old Man", supported by a dog-eared copy of the Ship Captain's Medical Guide and a case of pre-mixed bottles and papers labelled Solution No. 5 and Powder No. 3. Far from land, way off the steamer tracks and with no wireless to call for help or seek advice, the master had to rely on common sense and caution. Any ailment that didn't involve actual blood loss was potentially malingering, and logs show intervention was rarely rushed. It is hardly surprising then that the presence of a bona fide doctor aboard Monkbarns was greeted with enthusiasm by her crew.
They set off from BA with all seven apprentices and three of the fo'c'sle down with diarrhoea, due to "the change of water", the master diagnosed, and throughout what was to prove a very rough passage Dr Stone was kept busy.
Within a week storms were raking the ship. It was hard to sleep, wrote Stone. The main royal broke loose and tore both sheets out. The foresail ripped the starboard reefing jackstay clean off the yard, and the fore topmast staysail chafed most of the way through its bolt rope. In the store room all the pickles and a case of kerosene were lost. The following morning Stone watched the steward and two of the apprentices leaping about among the stores trying to catch tumbling tins. "Some had burst (I only hope they are the 'blown' ones I saw and that we will be saved from Ptomaine poisoning)".
The fore hold was a jumble. There was rope everywhere, hanging over the edge of the 'tween decks and tumbled below. The ship had acquired a list to starboard, and was rolling badly. The skipper had told him the squalls had been hurricane force 11 to 12, and that they might not have survived the night if the ship had been loaded. The boys' half-deck had flooded.
Stone, who did not have to get up in the night to clamber aloft replacing blown-out sails, or sleep on a wet bunk in wet clothes, was amused to note that all the master's drawers had shot out and his rug had spontaneously rolled itself up, but he was less pleased that the loss of the oil meant lights out at 9pm. There were only four candles aboard (his and de M.'s) and the ship was "badly found for matches".
As paying passengers Stone and de M. occupied separate cabins in the saloon aft, with a porthole and two bunks each for all their gear. This left Leslie Beaver, the out-of-time apprentice acting 3rd mate, relegated to the lower bunk in the 2nd mate's cabin.
"The Mate's and 2nd mate's cabins were like store rooms for nick-nacks and old rubbish. Their doors being opposite each other the contents of both cabins were well mixed. I just missed being hit by a camp stool paying a flying visit from 1st to 2nd's quarters. Beaver had the much used water in their basin, the contents of a water jug and a tin of Swizo milk spilt into his bunk. He borrowed rug etc from de M. for night "
More seriously, one of the ABs was injured. "Whole gale, hurricane squalls. Tremendous big NW Sea," recorded the mate. "W Chapman knocked down and hurt."
On June 7, Stone saw six "patients", including Chapman, whose leg was skinned from knee to ankle. My own grandfather, then an apprentice of 18, sidled into the narrative with a tap at the doctor's cabin door that evening. Stone noted an inflamed ligament, painful to the touch and prescribed iodine.
Captain James Donaldson was not pleased, though whether it was the molly-coddling or the lèse majesté is unclear. On June 11, Stone noted: "9.30 Went the rounds of the fo'c'sle at skipper's invitation – a gentle hint that he does not like my going there on my own."
Chapman's raw leg was much better, a swollen knee was down and young Sivell was back at work again, against medical advice – (fed up with doing nothing, noted Stone.) Meanwhile, there was a strained shoulder to inspect ("nil to be seen. I'm safe…"), and the 3rd Mate had been shot into the scuppers on his stomach during a particularly heavy roll, resulting in appalling bruises but fortunately no internal injuries.
And still the glass continued to fall, down to 28.58. The fore lower topsail carried away.
At 3.30am, on a page labelled Hurricane, Stone recorded: "Broached to on port tack – my top row of bookshelf showered its contents on my head and then continued across cabin. Got up and collected them. 4 Very heavy squall carried away fore topmast staysails and new No 1 canvas sail. 7 de M came over to me and I produced LGCL book on meteorology and we tried to make out what position we were in with not much success. 7.30 Hot coffee went the rounds. 8 Broached to on port – more things going to leeward – thank goodness the ballast remains a fixture. This is as heavy a blow as any of ship's officers have been in. I certainly cannot imagine more wind or a bigger sea. I heard that at 3.30am the 2nd mate and a hand went aloft to see to upper fore topsail and that on coming down he stepped into lee scuppers, which were full up with water. He is a short fellow and was up to his neck. That I think gives me some idea of the sea shipped on broaching to, and we in ballast."
The Old Man – who was 64 and had been up all night – was laid up with cramp in the chart house, and the foremast staysail was a rag.
The hurricane squalls and strong gales continued for three weeks, almost without let up. Stone and de M. would tell the newspaper reporters waiting in Newcastle that they were both "ardent lovers of the sea" but neither of them ever wished to undergo such an experience again.
Monkbarns was one of five sailing vessels that arrived at Newcastle on the weekend of 5th July 1913, including the full-rigged Ben Lee, which had sailed from Buenos Aires two weeks before her. All had suffered. Ben Lee's lower topsail had carried away and the foresail was blown to pieces. Kilmallie, from Santos, lost a lifeboat and her ballast shifted. The barque Lysglimt, from Natal, was knocked onto her beam ends when her ballast shifted, and the crew spent three death-defying days in the hold trying to right her, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Despite or possibly thanks to the hurricane, Monkbarns had made the passage in 52 days, to Ben Lee's 67. Our man on the docks reported that two of Monkbarns' crew had been injured and had been "attended by Dr M Stone, a passenger".
Up in Newcastle, (where they went because there was smallpox in Sydney and the city was about to be quarantined), the Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate produced a much juicier report, headlined "An interesting visitor".
Dr Stone, it said, had been imprisoned by Germany for spying the previous year (shades of Erskine Childers' The Riddle of the Sands). Dr Stone did not deny it. He had been one of a party of five well-to-do British yachtsmen – including the marine artist Gregory Robinson and the engineer William Richard Macdonald, who happened to have patented a nifty bit of submarine technology. They had attracted unwelcome attention from the German military authorities by happily photographing naval installations along the Kiel canal. It had taken them five days to talk themselves out of jail.
During the war that broke out less than a year after Monkbarns' arrival in Newcastle, Stone would serve in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He became an eminent radiographer, with an obituary in the British Medical Journal in 1941.
The Kineto company, however, folded in 1923 and de M died in New Zealand in 1928, the year after Monkbarns was hulked off Corcubion, in northern Spain.
Stone carried on yachting all this life. Perhaps he even shot more films. But what became of his footage of working life aboard a British ship in the last days of sail remains a mystery.
An edited version of this article appeared first in The Cape Horner magazine, the journal of the International Association of Cape Horners. August 2015.
Photographs by Eugene Bainbridge, who was Monkbarns' last apprentice during her final voyage, 1924-26. He joined her in Newcastle NSW, having steamed out from the UK third class aboard the P&O passenger ship Barrabool. He was then 19, the privately educated only son of a maritime insurance broker from Surrey. He had a Leica camera and for two years he kept a diary and took pictures of life aboard. Neither the diary nor the photographs were ever published and Eugene never went back to sea. These previously unseen views are made available by kind permission of his family.
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These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating.
Your child develops their number sense as they help Curious George give dogs their fair share of treats.
Your child develops early math skills as they count and add objects to bring things to the party.
Your child develops logic/reasoning and number recognition skills by identifying the correct placement of missing numbers in a number line.
Your child learns how to graph data based on observations while helping Curious George grab hats.
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Oktoberfest, Unexpected
It wasn't until about 10 A.M. that I saw my first corpse, but then again, it was only Monday. I was pretty certain the bodies would grow more plentiful closer to the week's end.
Not that earnestly imbibing revellers were in any form of short supply, of course, including numbers of the overly enthusiastic kind well be on their way to becoming what Münchners jokingly call "Bierleichen," or "beer corpses." Yet even with almost every seat in almost every tent taken by merrymakers excitedly waving about their one liter Mass steins, even with the bands blaring full-throttle versions of "Ein Prosit," the "Chicken Dance" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads," and even with the party already dialed up to 11, if not beyond, the whole scene struck me as, well, almost subdued.
This was, after all, Germany's famed Oktoberfest, the event to which thousands, no, hundreds of thousands of visitors flock each and every year, in search of fun, frivolity, and of course, beer. This was it, the big one, the beer blast to end all beer blasts!
So why did it feel less like the stereotypical frat house party on Teutonic steroids and more like a merely boisterous Bavarian cultural fair? The answer to that ponderous query would come, but not for many hours and numerous liters of beer. In the meantime, I had a carousel to catch.
Truth be told, it was by sheer happenstance that I even found myself on the great field known as the Theresienwiese, home to Oktoberfest and known to locals as simply die wiesn. (That's "vee-sn," meaning meadow, as opposed to the confusingly similar beer terms weisse―"vice"―and weizen―"vite-zen"―meaning white and wheat respectively.) I had not previously even thought to attend, mainly because the fest always put me in mind of a massively oversized beer hall, and I had visited and much preferred the smaller ones operating year-round across Munich and Bavaria. Or, at least, that's what I believed.
Then I was invited to speak at the Stockholm Beer and Whisky Festival and, employing the patently illogical reasoning of the compulsive traveler, decided that since I was going to be in Sweden anyway, I had might as well pop down to Munich, a mere 1,200 miles away. Which is exactly what I booked, discovering quite to my delight that the three-way flight wouldn't even cost me that much more than if I had purchased a straight Toronto-Stockholm return ticket.
Pity, then, about the lack of hotel rooms.
Show Me the Money
One of the great truisms about Oktoberfest is that it is a cash cow for the city's tourism industry, with some visitors booking their accommodations for the following year's edition even as they depart the current year's festivities. Affordable rooms are snatched up fast―such as they are! A one-star hostelry in the city center can go for 150 euro a night, and by the time I was ready to make my reservation late in the summer, pretty much everything in the city was gone.
Fortunately, I had an ace up my sleeve in the form of Augsburg, a charming, mid-sized city less than an hour by train from Munich's Hauptbahnhof, or central station, and more importantly, somewhere with available hotel rooms. It might not have been the most convenient of lodgings, but it was still a bed and a roof and a place to store my stuff.
Which is how I wound up on die wiesn on the night of the first Monday of Oktoberfest, alone and, despite the Konig Ludwig Weissbier I enjoyed on the train―civilized travel indeed!―very thirsty. There were beer tents to explore, of course, but also an interesting-looking merry-go-round near the St. Paul's Church end of the grounds. I had found the Karussellbar.
Accommodating mere dozens of drinkers, as opposed to the thousands who cram the massive beer tents, the Karussellbar is a sort of oasis of calm amid the noise and confusion of Oktoberfest, and one serving Franziskaner Weissbier, to boot! I boarded at the first opportunity, grabbed a glass of fresh, spicy wheat beer and in short order found myself engaged in conversation with a pair of lederhosen-clad Münchners.
As we spun in a lazy circle, I expressed my surprise at seeing young men in their twenties wearing such traditional attire, especially on what would appear to be a simple night out drinking. They admitted that it was hardly their ordinary apparel, but added that during Oktoberfest it is common for Bavarians to sport their lederhosen and, for women, dirndls. And when else would they trot out the leather britches, I asked, although not exactly in so many words? "Pretty much only during Oktoberfest," they replied in near harmony.
Finished my half-liter of weisse, I excused myself from the carousel to explore the 70 acres of Therese's Meadow, so named for the Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen, whose marriage to Prince Ludwig I of Bavaria triggered the start of Oktoberfest exactly two hundred years ago this fall. It was on these exact grounds that a horse racing course was built to mark the wedding ceremony, and where the original celebration principally took place. It was also here that Münchners decided to repeat the bash a year later, and for every year since, save the two dozen or so occasions on which Oktoberfest has been canceled due to war or pestilence.
Let the Games Begin
Not that the Prince or Princess would recognize much of the grounds today. Rather than a horse track and seating, the modern wiesn resembles more a low-key Six Flags amusement park, complete with roller coasters and Ferris wheels and rides that fling people around in circles for no apparent reason, all complemented by various games of chance and skill, most quite familiar to anyone who has ever set foot on a midway.
And in fact, despite the enormity of the beer tents and their pre-eminence in virtually every story about Oktoberfest ever written, it is the amusement park side of the show that visually dominates the grounds. Even at night, the park buzzes with scores of extended families joyfully wandering from place to place, indulging the kids in everything from sweet and savory treats to rides evidentially designed to extract said foods from their stomachs.
Not being a person much interested in amusement park rides, however, my attention span for such things was sorely limited. It was high time to hit the beer tents!
As I entered my first tent, the Hacker-Pschorr-fueled Bräurosl, I was, as I often find myself in Germany, longing to get a full Mass into my hands. Not so much for the liquid contained therein―although naturally I was interested in that, too―but for the feel of the thing, the weight and density of the glass and the sense of "Bavarian-ness" it always seems to convey. Like the traditional British pint and the stange of Köln, I have always been of the mind that the Mass is more than almost anything else emblematic of the German south, and somehow don't feel I have truly arrived until I again experience its familiar, weighty pull on my forearm.
Bräurosl was not to be the point of my symbolic arrival, however, as there appeared to be not a single empty seat among the 6,220 gathered within its confines, and the tenet of "no seat, no service" is as close to gospel as it gets at Oktoberfest. It was apparent that I would have to venture elsewhere for my introductory festbier.
Deciding to be methodical in my meandering, I wandered from the Bräurosl only as far as next door, which conveniently enough put me at the entry of Augustiner-Festhalle, which not only features the beer of one of the last two independent breweries operating in Munich―the other is Hofbräu München―but is also reputed to be the friendliest tent on the grounds.
And sure enough, everyone was quite friendly when they were telling me I couldn't sit there! Two tents down and still no Mass, still no beer, still no sense of belonging. I was becoming rapidly discouraged, not to mention parched.
Sure enough, though, the third time did prove to be the charm and I found myself a seat in the Ochsenbraterei, also known as the Spatenbräu-Festhalle, having been drawn to its door by the large-as-life papier-mâché ox slowly rotating slowly above the entry. (And yes, the depiction is more than symbolic; the Ochsenbraterei's main claim to fame is its spit-roasted oxen meat.) I was seated among more visitors than Bavarians, but to trot out another tired cliché, I felt that as very much the beggar, I was in no position to be a chooser. Beer in hand, smile on my face and crazy Japanese doing their best imitations of Bavarians to my right, I felt I had finally arrived.
I was also, by the middle of my second liter, beginning to get tired, and with a good amount of travel already under my belt that day, decided to put my Oktoberfest experience on hold for the time being and catch the next train for Augsburg.
Another Round
Returning the next morning, I found a not surprisingly much less crowded wiesn, in part owing to the earliness of the hour, of course, but also because of the low clouds and steady rain that had settled in over Munich. Lucky for me, though, since low attendance translated into ample opportunity to try the various beers on offer, even if my "tasting samples" arrived in one liter portions at the cost of about 8 euros apiece.
Only six breweries participate in Oktoberfest, the previously mentioned Augustiner and Hofbräu, plus Hacker-Pschorr and Paulaner, both owned by Heineken, and Spaten (including Franziskaner) and Löwenbräu, each owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev. Which for many begs the question of why others in the area, including the excellent Andechs and the brewery owned by Prince Ludwig's descendent, Kaltenberg, are barred from participation.
While the true answer to that query is anyone's guess, it is likely that politics and finance are involved in equal parts. Oktoberfest is big business, with millions of liters of beer dispensed and tens of millions of euros spent and recouped, so the pressure on all parties to maintain the status quo must certainly be immense. It may not be fair, but this "closed family" of Oktoberfest seems unlikely to change any time soon, regardless of how much foreign ownership is involved.
As for the beers, they are what might be recognized as märzen in only the broadest of possible senses. Michael Jackson, in his New World Guide to Beer, depicts the traditional Oktoberfest beer as "medium-strong, malty, amber-red, translucent," only two of which adjectives could reasonably be used to describe what I was drinking. With alcohol contents approaching 6 percent, they were indeed medium-strong, and certainly translucent, but only the most color-blind would call them amber-anything, and while maltiness is certainly more a subjective element, it wasn't the first descriptive that sprang to mind as I sat supping in the oddly quiet and only moderately busy tent.
Still, not one person I spoke with, local or international, complained at all about the beer, and truth be told, I was not at all disappointed myself. Knowing what a theoretical märzen should taste like is one thing, while drinking Mass after Mass of the stuff while in the full throws of Oktoberfest is quite another, and no matter what evaluations one might put forth after a more cautious sampling, if ever there was a situation in which context makes the beer, this is it.
And so, fortified by half a chicken and some ox meat, I tent-hopped and drank and socialized, ultimately hooking up with a group of Californians even as the rapidly multiplying table reservation signs threatened to squeeze us out the front door. Which is when it finally dawned on me what was missing from my preconception of Oktoberfest the day before. In envisioning the festival as a tourist trap populated by travelers in varying states of intoxication, I had, I realized with a start, gotten it utterly wrong.
Reviewing my experiences, it all seemed so clear. The special occasion lederhosen, the families with strollers touring the midway, the reserved tables marked with the names of eminent corporations, the be-suited businessmen: These were the things that marked Oktoberfest as the folk festival it really is! The reason it had felt on my first night like a Bavarian cultural fair is because that's exactly what it is and has always been.
Sure enough, back in my Augsburg hotel room the next morning, following a late night train ride with a wide variety of corpses, a quick Google of Oktoberfest statistics revealed that almost three-quarters of visitors each year are Bavarian, with only about 15 percent comprised of international visitors. Oom-pah-pah'ed versions of John Denver tunes and changing beer styles notwithstanding, Oktoberfest is simply a Bavarian bash to which they have generously invited the rest of the world, and we should consider ourselves astoundingly fortunate that they have.
Stephen Beaumont
Stephen Beaumont is the author of five books and countless articles on beer, spirits, food, travel and how it all goes together.


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Conduct; behavior; something done; a series of acts.
A case or lawsuit; a legal and formal demand for enforcement of one's rights against another party asserted in a court of justice.
The term action includes all the proceedings attendant upon a legal demand, its adjudication, and its denial or its enforcement by a court. Specifically, it is the legal proceedings, while a Cause of Action is the underlying right that gives rise to them. In casual conversation, action and cause of action may be used interchangeably, but they are more properly distinguished. At one time, it was more correct to speak of actions at law and of proceedings or suits in Equity. The distinction is rather technical, however, and not significant since the merger of law and equity. The term action is used more often for civil lawsuits than for criminal proceedings.
Parties in an Action
A person must have some sort of legal right before starting an action. That legal right implies a duty owed to one person by another, whether it is a duty to do something or a duty not to do something. When the other person acts wrongfully or fails to act as the law requires, such behavior is a breach, or violation, of that person's legal duty. If that breach causes harm, it is the basis for a cause of action. The injured person may seek redress by starting an action in court.
The person who starts the action is the plaintiff, and the person sued is the defendant. They are the parties in the action. Frequently, there are multiple parties on a side. The defendant may assert a defense which, if true, will defeat the plaintiff's claim. A counterclaim may be made by the defendant against the plaintiff or a cross-claim against another party on the same side of the lawsuit. The law may permit Joinder of two or more claims, such as an action for property damage and an action for personal injuries, after one auto accident; or it may require consolidation of actions by an order of the court. Where prejudice or injustice is likely to result, the court may order a severance of actions into different lawsuits for different parties.
Commencement of an Action
The time when an action may begin depends on the kind of action involved. A plaintiff cannot start a lawsuit until the cause of action has accrued. For example, a man who wants to use a parcel of land for a store where only houses are allowed must begin by applying for a variance from the local Zoning board. He cannot bypass the board and start an action in court. His right to sue does not Accrue until the board turns down his request.
Neither can a person begin an action after the time allowed by law. Most causes of action are covered by a Statute of Limitations, which specifically limits the time within which to begin the action. If the law in a particular state says that an action for libel cannot be brought more than one year after publication of a defamatory statement, then those actions must be initiated within that statutory period. Where there is no statute that limits the time to commence a particular action, a court may nevertheless dismiss the case if the claim is stale and if litigation at that point would not be fair.
A plaintiff must first select the right court, then an action can be commenced by delivery of the formal legal papers to the appropriate person. Statutes that regulate proper procedure for this must be strictly observed. A typical statute specifies that an action may be begun by delivery of a summons, or a writ on the defendant. At one time, common-law actions had to be pleaded according to highly technical Forms of Action, but now it is generally sufficient simply to serve papers that state facts describing a recognized cause of action. If this Service of Process is done properly, the defendant has fair notice of the claim made against him or her and the court acquires jurisdiction over him or her. In some cases, the law requires delivery of the summons or writ to a specified public officer such as a U.S. marshal, who becomes responsible for serving it on the defendant.
Termination of an Action
After an action is commenced, it is said to be pending until termination. While the action is pending, neither party has the right to start another action in a different court over the same dispute or to do any act that would make the court's decision futile.
A lawsuit may be terminated because of dismissal before both sides have fully argued the merits of their cases at trial. It can also be ended because of Compromise and Settlement, after which the plaintiff withdraws his or her action from the court.
Actions are terminated by the entry of final judgments by the courts. A judgment may be based on a jury verdict or it may be a Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict. Where there has been no jury, judgment is based on the judge's decision. Unless one party is given leave—or permission from the court—to do something that might revive the lawsuit, such as amending an insufficient complaint, the action is at an end when judgment is formally entered on the records of the court.
n. a lawsuit in which one party (or parties) sues another. (See: cause of action, lawsuit)
action(Performance), noun accomplishment, achievement, administration, carrying out, concrete results, consummation, course of conduct, discharge, doing, effectuation, enforcement, execution, factum, implementation, line of action
Foreign phrases: Non quod dictum est, sed quod factum est inspicitur.Not what is said, but what is done, is to be regarded. Factum cuique suum, non adversario, nocere debet. A man's own acts should prejudice himself, not his adversary. Factum infectum fieri nequit. A thing which has been done cannot be undone. Les lois ne se chargent de punir que les actions exterieures. Laws do not assume to punish other than overt acts.
action(Proceeding), noun actio, action at law, case, cause, cause in court, court proceeding, formal prosecution, hearing, hearing on the merits, judicial contest, judicial prooeeding, lawsuit, legal action, legal contest, legal proceeddng, lis, litigation, litigation of the charges, prosecution, suit, suit at law, suit in law, trial, trial of a case, trial of the issues
Associated concepts: abatement, action arising under the laws of the United States, action at law, action brought, accion by one party against another, action ex delicto, action ex parte, action for a declaratory judgment, action for boddly injury, action for breach of a contract, action for dammges, action for deceit, action for disparagement, action for dissolution, action for divorce, action for fraud, action for innury to property, action for liquidated damages, action for misrepresentation, action for money damages, action for recovery of chattel, action for rescission and restitution, accion in assumpsit, action in conversion, action in detinue, action in ejectment, action in equity, action in interpleader, action in personam, action in quantum meruit, action in rem, action in replevin, action in tort, action in trespass, accion in trover, action of foreclosure, action of garnishment, action on a contract, action on a debt, action on account rendered, action on contract, action quasi in rem, action to quiet title, action to remove a cloud, affirmative action, cause of action, chose in action, civil action, class action, commence an action, consolidation, continuance of action on submitted facts, criminal action, cross action, derivative action, independent actions, joinder of actions, joint action, legal action, local actions, main action, multiplicity of accions, pending action, right of action, severance of actions, stockholders' action, third-party action
Foreign phrases: Ex nudo pacto non oritus nascitur actio.No action arises on a contract without a consideration. Cum actio fuerit mere criminalis, institui poterit ab initio criminaliter vel civiliter. When an action is merely criminal, it can be instituted either criminally or civilly at the outset. In rem actio est per quam rem nostram quae ab alio possidetur petimus, et semper adversus eum est qui rem possidet. An action in rem is one by means of which we seek our property which is owned by another, and is allays against him who possesses the property. Actio quaeeibet it sua via. Every action proceeds in its own course. Secta est pugna civilis; sicut actores armantur actionnbus, et, quasi, gladiis accinguntur, ita rei muniuntur exxeptionibus, et defenduntur, quasi, clypeis. A suit is a civil battle; for as the plaintif fs are armed with actions, and as it were, girded with swords, so the defendants are fortiiied with pleas, and defended, as it were, by shields. Remoto impedimento, emergit actio. The impediment being removed, the action emerges. Omnis quereia et omnis actio injuriarum limita est infra certa tempora. Every complaint and every action for injuries is limited within certain times. Omnes actiones in mundo infra certa tempora habent limitationem. All actions in the world arelimited within certain periods of time. In haeredes non sooent transire actiones quae poenales ex maleficio sunt. Penal actions arising from anything of a criminal nature do not pass to heirs. Actio personalis moritur cum persona. A personal action dies with the person. Ex tupi causa non oritur actio. No cause of action arises out of an immoral or illegal consideration.
See also: act, award, battle, campaign, case, cause, cause of action, contest, controversy, course, day in court, dispute, fight, happening, hearing, holding, lawsuit, legal proceeding, matter, operation, overt act, performance, ploy, procedure, proceeding, process, prosecution, step, suit, transaction, trial, undertaking
actiona legal proceeding brought by one party against another, seeking redress of a wrong or recovery of what is due; a lawsuit.
ACTION. Conduct, behaviour, something done. Nomen actionis latissime patere
vulgo notum est ac comprehenders omnem omnino viventis operationem quae
passioni opponitur. Vinnius, Com. lib. 4, tit. 6. De actionibus.
2. Human actions have been divided into necessary actions, or those over which man has no control; and into free actions, or such as he can control at his pleasure. As man is responsible only when he exerts his will, it is clear lie can be punished only for the latter.
3. Actions are also divided into positives and negative the former is called an act of commission the latter is the omission of something which ought to be done, and is called an act of omission. A man may be responsible as well for acts of omission, as for acts of commission.
4. Actions are voluntary and involuntary. The former are performed freely and without constraint - the latter are performed not by choice, against one's will or in a manner independent of the will. In general a man is not responsible for his involuntary actions. Yet it has been ruled that if a lunatic hurt a man, he shall be answerable in trespass, although, if he kill a man, it is not felony. See Hob. Rep. 134; Popham, 162; Pam. N. P. 68. See also Duress; Will.
ACTION, French com. law. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation.
ACTION, in practice. Actio nihil aliud est, quam jus persequendi in judicio
quod sibi debetur. Just. Inst. Lib. 4, tit. 6; Vinnius, Com. Actions are
divided into criminal and civil. Bac. Abr. Actions, A.
2.-1. A criminal action is a prosecution in a court of justice in the name of the government, against one or more individuals accused of a crime. See 1 Chitly's Cr. Law.
3.-2. A civil action is a legal demand of one's right, or it is the form given by law for the recovery of that which is due. Co. Litt. 285; 3 Bl. Com. 116; 9 Bouv. Inst. n. 2639; Domat. Supp. des Lois Civiles, liv. 4, tit. 1, No. 1; Poth. Introd. generale aux Coutumes, 109; 1 Sell. Pr. Introd. s. 4, p. 73. Ersk. Princ. of Scot. Law, B. 41 t. 1. Sec. 1. Till judgment the writ is properly called an action, but not after, and therefore, a release of all actions is regularly no bar of all execution. Co. Litt. 289 a; Roll. Ab. 291. They are real, personal and mixed. An action is real or personal, according as realty or personalty is recovered; not according to the nature of the defence. Willes' Rep. 134.
4.-1. Real actions are those brought for the specific recovery of lands, tenements, or hereditaments. Steph. Pl. 3. They are either procedural, when the demandant seeks to recover the property; or possessory when he endeavors to obtain the possession. Finch's Law, 257, 8. See Bac. Abr. Actions, A, contra. Real Actions are, 1st. Writs of right; 2dly, Writs of entry, which lie in the per, the per et cui, or the post, upon disseisin, intrusion, or alienation. 3dly. Writs ancestral possessory, as Mort d' ancester, aid, vbesaiel[?], cosinage, or Nuper obiit. Com. Dig. Actions, D 2. By these actions formerly all disputes concerning real estate, were decided; but now they are pretty generally laid aside in practice, upon account of the great nicety required in their management, and the inconvenient length of their process; a much more expeditious, method of trying titles being since introduced by other actions, personal and mixed. 3 Bl. Com. 118. See Booth on Real Actions.
5.-2. Personal actions are those brought for the specific recovery of goods and chattels; or for damages or other redress for breach of contract, or other injuries, of whatever description; the specific recovery of lands, tenements, and hereditaments only excepted. Steph. Pl. 3; Com. Dig. Actions, D 3; 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 2641. Personal actions arise either upon contracts, or for wrongs independently of contracts. The former are account, assumpsit, covenant, debt, and detinue; see these words. In Connecticut and Vermont there is, an action used which is peculiar to those states, called the action of book debt. 2 Swift's Syst. Ch. 15. The actions for wrongs, injuries, or torts, are trespass on the case, replevin, trespass, trover. See these words, and see Actio personalis moritur cum persona.
6.-3. Mixed actions are such as appertain, in some degree, to both the former classes, and, therefore, are properly reducible to neither of them, being brought for the specific recovery of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, and for damages for injury sustained in respect of such property. Steph. Pl. 3; Co. Litt. 284, b; Com. Dig. Actions, D 4. Every mixed action, properly so called, is also a real action. The action of ejectment is a personal action, and formerly, a count for an assault and battery might be joined with a count for the recovery of a term of Years in land.
7. Actions are also divided into those which are local and such as are transitory.
1. A local action is one in which the venue must still be laid in the county, in which the cause of action actually arose. The locality of actions is founded in some cases, on common law principles, in others on the statute law.
8. Of those which continue local, by the common law, are, 1st, all actions in which the subject or thing to be recovered is in its nature local. Of this class are real actions, actions of waste, when brought on the statute of Gloucester, (6 Edw. I.) to recover with the damages, the locus in quo or place wasted; and actions of ejectment. Bac. Abr. Actions Local, &c. A, a; Com. Dig. Actions, N 1; 7 Co. 2 b; 2 Bl. Rep. 1070. All these are local, because they are brought to recover the seisin or possession of lands or tenements, which are local subjects.
9.-2dly. Various actions which do not seek the direct recovery of lands or tenements, are also local, by the common law; because they arise out of some local subject, or the violation of some local right or interest.
ACTION, PROHIBITORY, civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale on account of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice. Civ. Code of Louis. art. 2496.


text: I have been watch fat man bee videos on you tube for the past few weeks, and am left wondering: how does he do it? How does he go without even wearing a veil, and not get the first sting? And he is not the only one, video after video of people going through hives wearing no gear. I just watched a video of a guy and girl wearing shorts and t shirts checking a top bar (nothing against top bars, I've got four myself), anyway, they walked up to the hive, put their hands on it and said, I kid you not, "hello bees, how are you today?" Then they checked the hive bees flying everywhere, and never got the first sting. So today, I thought I would try it, walked up and said hello to the bees, after taking off the cover, got two stings on the hand. Maybe I did it wrong. Are some people really just born with a gift for handling bees?