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Rewrite!March 04, 2005
mod_rewriting your way to fame, fortune… and frustration.
A new feature I've added to the Zen Garden is a far nicer URI schema. I've moved from this:
to this:
Nice, right? Except it's not quite perfect yet.
For the sake of easy, short URIs for the book, I looked into mod_rewrite at the time, but never quite got it working. So I hacked this all together manually by adding redirects for each of the designs to an
index.php file in their respective directories. Ugly, unmaintainable, and more work than necessary, but it worked.
Then Mathias Bynens asked if the new links could be applied to all designs. And since I had originally planned for this anyway, I went further into the mod_rewrite manual, which is completely incomprehensible to my puny brain, and managed to come up with something anyway. The affirmation from an anonymous helper monkey kept me at it, and finally I came up with this monstrosity:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})(/?)(/&page=([0-9]*))?$
In plain English… oh geez, I don't even want to try. There's still a query string variable in there to indicate the current page of designs; I'd love to go with post data for that, but there's no way to retrofit a form in the ZG markup at this point without really breaking things. The important thing is, the variable is passed as I'd expect, which is good.
What's not so good is that while these three possible URI scenarios are covered:
This one is not:
Note the lack of a trailing slash. Follow the link and see what happens to the URI — ugh. I'm not sure how to fix that, and so I turn to you dear reader. Tell me how.
I already tried an initial rule before the previous one to add the slash back in, but this only netted me server errors:
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})(/?)$ /$1/
So, what now? First answer that works gets a free copy of the book.
: Got it, thanks to Roger Johansson. See the comments for details.
How about this:
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})$ $1/
Roger – Nope. No server error, but no change.
try replacing the (/?) with ([/]?) that's what i use for an optional trailing slash
Hmm. Seems to work for me.
What about if you add an R flag after the first rule?
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})$ $1/ [R]
ak – nope. When applied to the big rule, no change. When applied to the smaller rule, server error.
Which highlights something – when replying, let me know if I should be applying your suggestions to the larger rule that's already working, the smaller one that I used last, or a brand new one of your devising.
i've use this and it seems to work
RewriteRule ^/([0-9]{3,})/?$ /test.php?t=$1 [R]
Its a redirect you need to use the [L] flag not the [R]
Like ph says it could be a laer rule messing things up. Removing the first (short) rule and adding an L flag to the big rule works for me:
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})(/?)(/&page=([0-9]*))?$ index.php?cssfile=/$1/$1.css&page=$4 [R,L]
Roger: got yours working with the addition of a slash:
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})$ /$1/
Without the leading slash, it tries to write the physical server path. With it, it does exactly what we'd expect.
Thanks, I'll email you about the book!
This is the final result, and the book goes to Roger:
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})$ /$1/
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})(/?)(/&page=([0-9]*))?$ index.php?cssfile=/$1/$1.css&page=$4
So, no R/L flags. Should I be using them?
> Its a redirect you need to use the [L] flag not the [R]
Use both. If you omit the R, it's not a redirect in the eyes of clients, and the two resources are cached separately. The worst case scenario (an even 50:50 split of people using the two different URIs) would more than double your bandwidth use.
In the particular case of adding slashes on for directories, it can also result in broken links/stylesheets/images/etc.
Preferably use a permanent redirect so that search engines pay attention.
I find the full names are more readable too, especially when I'm editing a config file I haven't touched in months.
…is equivalent to:
Aw man, almost had a book… You need to have problems like this more often, Dave! (Or at least offer free books from time to time.) ;^)
how about enabling MultiViews and using php explode() to get /what-ever-number? I personally don't like messing with re-write rules.
I know the problem is mostly solved, but just wanted to point out this regular expression resource:
I know, the patterns are run against the ASP.NET Regex engine, but it is quite similar to the Unix version. It makes pattern testing a snap, because I can just tweak the pattern until I get it right, then take it to the config file (or whatever).
You're really getting into the nitty gritty now Dave, sahweet!
Hmm, maybe there's still room for another. I'm having trouble with the flag thing. This:
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})$ /$1/
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})(/?)(/&page=([0-9]*))?$ index.php?cssfile=/$1/$1.css&page=$4 [R=301,L]
rewrites this:
to this:
So, what's up now? The only difference between the solution that appears to work and this one is the addition of the R/L flags.
dave, why didn't you drop me a line? mod_rewrite is one of my hobbies…ah well, glad it's fixed :)
Wow, great!
Thanks Dave. Really looking forward to receiving the book! :-)
And I see your question about the flags has already been answered.
You may need to add "RewriteBase /" to the line after "RewriteEngine on" to avoid the rules trying to use the physical path.
How about this one:
RewriteRule ([0-9]{3,}[^/]*) index.php?cssfile=/$1/$1.css&page=$4 [R=301,L]
Justin - nope. Same problem.
You want a leading slash in the destination:
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})(/?)(/&page=([0-9]*))?$ /index.php?cssfile=/$1/$1.css&page=$4 [R=301,L]
I'm going to try one more:
RewriteRule ([0-9]{3,}[^/]*).*(page=([0-9]*)){0,1} index.php?cssfile=/$1/$1.css&page=$3 [NC]
I forgot about the "&page=XX" part.
Ahh, hang on a sec, I see what the problem is. I was looking at it in the opposite direction to you. You need an extra rule before the others.
Essentially, it's:
1. Directory hack with external redirect (and stop processing).
2. Rewrite new URI to old URI with local redirect (and stop processing).
3. Rewrite old URI to new URI with external redirect.
Darn it. I was too late for the question I actually could have answered.
Something like this should work:
# Fix up missing trailing slash
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})$ /$1/ [R,L]
# Redirect old URIs to new URIs permanently as far as the rest of the world is concerned.
RewriteRule ^index.php?cssfile=/([0-9]{3,})/[0-9]{3,}.css&page=([0-9]*)$ /$1/&page=$2 [R=301,L]
# Redirect new URIs to old URIs internally.
^([0-9]{3,})(/?)(/&page=([0-9]*))?$ index.php?cssfile=/$1/$1.css&page=$4 [L]
That's what you want to do, right?
Here's where we're at. Everything's working perfectly with the R/L flags:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})$ $1/
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})(/?)(/&page=([0-9]*))?$ index.php?cssfile=/$1/$1.css&page=$4 [R=301,L]
The only catch is that, from what I understand, it's the R flag that expands the URI. So instead of the final address being a nice tidy /100/ , it ends up /index.php?cssfile=/100/100.css&page=0 at the moment.
Any way to shrink that back down, or is that where it has to stand if I don't want two separate resources being indexed/bandwidth doubled?
Did you spot my comment above? It sounds crazy to write two rules, each redirecting to each other, but what you have to remember is that only one of them will apply for any given request, and that the external redirect generates a new request. It works like this:
Browser requests old URI.
Old URI tells the client to redirect to the new URI.
Browser requests the new URI.
The server serves what was at the old URI.
Jim's looks spot on, I'd say he desrves a book if there's a second one to be given. Looks like we've got a mod_rewrite master in the premises.
As long as you request the new URI, you should be served the document transparently without any redirect. And if you're asking for the old URI, well, you are told that you should be asking for the new URI. Sounds like that's what you are after, right Dave?
Ha! I'm no master, I feel like I'm banging my head against a wall every time I touch the damn thing. It's just I've done it enough times to have a couple of tricks up my sleeve and a bumpy head :).
I may well be off on the regexp particulars though, I can never remember exactly which directories they start from.
"finally I came up with this monstrosity"
How can you say that?! Regular Expressions are beautiful ;-)
One option might be the implementation used in Movable Type dynamic publishing, which would require editing the script that shows the gardens. What you do is write everything that isn't an actual request of a file or directory to a central script (in their implementation, it's called "view.php" I think), and then use the REQUEST_URI variable available in that script to see what to display. You'll get something like "/145" if the user is coming from the book, which you can regexp and transform as you see fit. See the view.php page in the movable type installation for more hints.
A technique like this is also used in Ruby on Rails to make URLs nicer. Of course, in a rails application, there are more types of URLs to worry about, and they carry a little more information, but it's the same deal.
Here is the movable type documentation page on this: http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/docs/mtmanual_dynamic
I fight with regular expressions all the time, and the trailing-slash issue is a frequent source of frustration.
In the future, I'll be sticking to the excellent method proposed in this old ALA article: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/succeed/
Basically: Forget the regexes. Just feed the whole url into a traffic-light script in your home directory that just include()s whatever document has been requested. It's much safer, and only incurs one extra disk-read.
with regards to jim's suggested rules, a small comment: i may be wrong, but rewrite rules can't actually act on the GET variable part of a request…you can only check the actual file/path being called, not the parameters passed.
anyway, i may be missing something dave, but what is the problem at the moment? are you trying to automatically redirect the old-style urls to new short style ones? or are you worried about search engines spidering the new-style urls with and without the slash and doubling up the results? if it's the latter, i may be wrong, but i suspect that google and co treat www.foo.com/bar and www.foo.com/bar/ as exactly the same, and only index them once.
oh, and how about this really short rule? should cover your original need (and handles any additional slash or &page= or anything else for that matter)
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})/?(.*)$ /index.php?cssfile=$1/$1.css$2
if, however, your search engine concern is that of old-style versus new-style, here's an idea (again keeping in mind that mod_rewrite can't see the GET part): change your current index.php to check the request url. if it's old-style, send a permanent redirect (301) to itself in the new-style url format.
A random commnet here… for what I remember about RewriteBase, it should point at the filesystem directory that the rewrite applies to. Therefore, when I'm testing my site on this iBook, RewriteBase is set to "/www/public_html". I remember having all manner of fun if I then directly transferred this file to my server without editing it…
Of course, it might not make any difference… but it's 4am and I've just woken up (why did I choose to live so far away from my customers), and that's what jumped out at me.
That said, I'd personally rewrite all requests for /nnn(/)? to /index.php, and parse $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] to include the appropriate stylesheet… but anyways.
Good luck, Dave - mod_rewrite is a tough one to 'get', but it's well worth it :)
This is when I count my blessings of knowing a wide array of languages so well. from css to advanced OOP…even to mastering regular expressions…
I wish I would have seen this post earlier. Could have got myself a free book.
Congrats Roger.
Firstly, requests for the URL with no trailing slash should return a redirect to the same URL but including a trailing slash. This is what happens when you ask for http://example.com/directory and get http://example.com/directory/ served to you.
Secondly, the mod_rewrite rule WILL NOT MATCH QUERY PARAMETERS. You cannot use RewriteRule to match something like ?page=X in the URL. You must use a RewriteCond on the QUERY_STRING environment variable to do that, except in your case you don't need to. You do want to add a "cssfile" parameter of your own. You can do this by including a query string in the result URL, but then it will overwrite the incoming query string which might have contained a page= that you want to preserve. So use the [QSA] option which means "Query String Append".
That gives:
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})$ $1/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})/$ index.php?cssfile=$1/$1.css [QSA]
These are tested and work.
Furthermore, I suggest:
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})/([0-9]+)$ index.php?cssfile=$1/$1.css&page=$2
so that you can say http://www.csszengarden.com/145/2 to get page 2. Note the absence of trailing slash which makes sure that the browser requests relative URLs in the page relative to /145/ instead of relative to /145/2/. If that is of no consequence and you prefer the trailing slash, you can trivially paraphrase the other previous rules to achieve that.
:) Darnit indeed. And to think all those hours playing with mod_rewrite could have earned me a free book.
Anyway, I'd just be repeating other people's comments at this point (most notably Aristotle's comment on the [QSA] flag, which you certainly should be using) so I guess that's all for now.
Best wishes.
perke…hitting "next designs" and "previous designs" doesn't actually change the design that's displayed at the moment, but it does change the list of available designs in the menu (i.e. it changes the "page" GET parameter)
mod_rewrite can give serious headaches. When I get to this point in a scenario as simple as you describe, I drop it altogether and write:
ScriptAliasMatch ^/[0-9]{3,} "/<replace-with-path>/index.php"
This will make your index.php be invoked everytime an address beginning with 3 digits is accessed. I then do a little internal parsing of the REQUEST_URI environment variable in my script to fetch the parameters I need.
Keep in mind that with this "fluid" behavior you may end up with audience who doesn't know how a correct address should look like. However, with proper internal parsing, almost every address they type will fetch the page they wanted, so it's not clear if it's good or bad.
You may also write several more specific ScriptAliasMatch to restrict the address to several templates.
To get the redirect like http://www.csszengarden.com/145 is very easy.
Say if I enter url like this http://www.csszengarden.com/145
What will happen ?
Since /145 doesn't exists, it will be handled by your default 404 handler.
Now the trick is to add code to your ErrorHandler script (a simple php file).
You can extract the css number (and possible other variables) from the $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] variable, by doing some basic matching and string trimming.
Hope this helps!
P.S: This is how http://www.php.net does their URL function search. For example if you write a url like this http://www.php.net/str_replace it will take you to the manual page for that function.
Wow. Now if I could only get that kind of help by posting a simple question on my blog…. I've got a couple old 15" monitors if anyone wants to help me with my spam and redirect problems; see my last couple of posts ;-)
I was looking at garden archive couple minutes ago and hit <next design> and got the same design!
So,Dave if you were playing with it at that time OK…but if not you may messed it up. …. just for heads up
I was here:
cheers, mate
Alright, a tiny bit more progress. I hadn't seen Jim's suggestion (comment #24) when I posted the prior update, but I just plugged it in and it worked great.
Except for one little hitch. I need one or the other to be canonical. Right now, what I've come up with thanks to Roger's input is that all /###/ are redirected to /?cssfile=###/###.css, and all /?cssfile=###/###.css remain the same. So the ugly querystring version is canonical, which it turns out is very important. (the canonical bit, not the querystring bit)
Jim's suggestion allowed either /###/ or /?cssfile=###/###.css to function, without a redirect to one or the other. I believe my previous wording suggested that would be okay, but I've realized it's not.
Due to some of the current setup (style sheet importing script, next/previous design list links, and historical links to existing designs all being variables here) I have to hardwire a certain amount of the linkage to various designs. An example: on the current page, if you hit the 'Next Designs' link, does that take you to '/&page=$nextPage' or '/###/&page=$nextPage'? Depends on the URI scheme.
Actually, there ought to be an easy way to script around the discrepency now that I think about it, instead of further mod_rewrite gymnastics. I kind of like the idea of having either linking method work without a visible redirect, and I think I'm about done with mod_rewrite on this one. Maybe I should just work out the logic and make that happen. Maybe Patrick's on to something (comment 32) with the self-redirect idea. (But he's already got a book. So this one goes to Jim.)
What's wrong with "145.csszengarden.com" ?
I've never tried anything with Movable Type and dynamic subdomains, but it shouldn't be that hard to implement, and I don't see anything wrong with using that space for something useful.
Something you might want to try instead of mod_rewrite is a htaccess with Options +MultiViews.
This is what I use, and then I just rip apart(regex) the URL and use that to determine what data gets retrieved where.
Hope this helps your quest to kill the kruft.
Interestingly, ESPN has this same problem: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/ works, but http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb does not. It can be pretty frustrating, really.
"— Due to some of the current setup (style sheet importing script, next/previous design list links, and historical links to existing designs all being variables here) I have to hardwire a certain amount of the linkage to various designs. An example: on the current page, if you hit the 'Next Designs' link, does that take you to '/&page=$nextPage' or '/###/&page=$nextPage'? Depends on the URI scheme. —"
Try using the base-tag. ( http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.4) )
> If you add " [L]" to the end of your mod_rewrite rule, the URI will redirect silently
No, the URI redirects silently by default, unless you supply a flag like [R].
The [L] says that if the rule is triggered, no more processing should be done (i.e. it's the Last rule). It's to avoid processing rules that won't/shouldn't match.
I'm not quite sure if I like the new IRI-design (yes, it's an IRI, not a URI).
I think /design/number would suit better than /number, since a hierarchy-IRI design should have more than one node.
The issue with the page-number is quite tricky. I don't look at /design/number/page/number OR /design/number/number as a *good* IRI.
I have no good answer for this one, unfortunately.
By the way, a static IRI shouldn't be followed by a trailing-slash in the end.
I look at this as a good guideline:
URIs used to access HTML content for static web pages should have no .html extension and no trailing slash.
Oh, and the book looks great. :)
It's extremely cool you actually listen to me ;), and I'm sure this enhances the usability of The Garden. But why not rewrite the whole thing instead of redirecting to the old URIs? I'd rather redirect the old crufty URIs to the new ones!
Quote: "an anonymous helper monkey" *grins*. Like your terminology Dave!
If you add " [L]" to the end of your mod_rewrite rule, the URI will redirect silently, therefore still showing the URI the user typed in in the address bar while also showing the redirected page in the browser window. This method leaves the URI as the short, clean one they typed.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{3,})(/?)(/&page=([0-9]*))?$
index.php?cssfile=/$1/$1.css&page=$4 [L]
Working on a neat CMS and am also banging my head against Mod_rewrite…
We've got it working so that you can have a site in a subfolder and have it redirect to the appropriate place with the following rules:
RewriteBase /devLocation/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /devLocation/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
Our CMS grabs an alias assigned to each page to rewrite the URL nicely. However, we'd like to be able to use the site heirarchy to have the same alias in arbitrarily deep folders so that we can use the same alias without having to absolutely reference all the CSS files and whatnot. The goal would be to have the following work:
In the above example, both pages have their alias set to "new", but they reside in different locations on the document tree.
I'd like to be able to use a template header that calls the link to the CSS relatively (like "assets/site/style.css"). This would allow me to stage the site in a "non-public" directory off the back end of a site, and then simply move it up and theoretically change the rewriteBase to reflect the new location.
Is this doable at all?
regarding comment 32: you can get to the parameters-part of the request, it's just a bit tricky.
there is this pretty badly documented variable %{THE_REQUEST} which I've been using for a couple of years now to redirect all requests and parameters to one specific php-script like this:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*.html\?(.*)\ HTTP/.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ page.php?request=$1&%1 [L]
i'm sure dave can adapt this example to his needs :)
You can grab the querystring using mod-rewrite (the bit after the question mark):
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1&%1 [L]
This grabs the querystring, stuff's it into a variable (%1), falls through to the next rule, rewrites everything to index.php, and stuffs the requested link into the page variable ($1), then attaches the querystring variable at the end.
Ryan, just add a slash at the beginning of the link: /assets/site/style.css. This will effectively look for http://yourdomain/assets/site/style.css. This also causes less overhead than using full URI's.
It seems that there is a big market for custom mod_rewrite. I have even gotten emails from people that I don't know asking me to make them regular expression redirects. And I am no guru.
dave, i know this is an old entry, but…have you now reverted back to not using rewrites? the URLs from the book seem to work, but any other number brings up a "forbidden".
Wow, a definately nice article! and a lot many useful reply-posts
I too certainly like Apache for this wonderful tool that it has, But I'm unsure if mod_rewrite can cause in increase in load on extremely loaded servers ?


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VSA went through a tough US Youth Soccer National League competition in the Under-18 Girls Red Division to earn a spot in the 2013 US Youth Soccer National Championships in Overland Park, Kan., where the Virginia side will look to repeat as national champions.
This year, two additional National League qualifiers bump the total amount of teams in the Under-18 age group at Nationals from six to eight. The eight are divided into two groups of four.
VSA head coach Steve Smith said he expects the competition to be even tougher this year. He said the squad hopes lessons learned from the National League and last year's championships will translate to more triumphs in Overland Park.
"Every time we stepped on the field, we knew we were playing for something," said Smith regarding the National League. "I think that translates here to Nationals. You only get three games, and you've got to be on for all three. I think in National League, we learned the value of consistency and playing at a high level."
VSA again will need to play at a high level if it wants to repeat its success from last year, when it defeated Legends FC 94 (CA-S) in a lopsided 6-0 win in the U-17 Girls final. With Legends in the same pool as VSA in this year's championships, Smith knows his squad will have to be ready from the start.
This year's VSA team is a bit different than the one that lifted the U-17 trophy a year ago. A handful of players are off at college summer sessions getting mandatory work in with strength coaches. But Smith still has confidence in his players.
"We're not as deep as we were last year, so I think that's the biggest difference," said Smith. "But, I still think we have a good team going out there to Nationals."
Smith said this year VSA will rely on its competitiveness and defense, which has been a strong suit for the squad. At last year's National Championships, VSA did not allow a single goal during its run to the title. During the 2012-2013 National League season, VSA allowed just six goals in seven games, as it finished second in the Red Division.
Three of the goals VSA gave up in National League came in a 3-1 loss to Team Chicago Botafogo (IL), which won the Red Division with a perfect 7-0-0 record. Botafogo, which competed at Nationals last year, will look to continue that dominance and capture the crown this year in Overland Park.
Despite the larger field full of stiff competition, in addition to some of his players away at college, Smith is confident in his VSA squad. He said the players' experience in last year's National Championships gives them an advantage, as they know how to handle the day-to-day grind that comes with the competition.
Smith said the VSA players are anxious to get started on their title defense. And while they're aware of the tough road ahead, the players are looking ready to get together and take on the challenge.
"We really enjoyed our experience last year, so we're looking forward to it. Hopefully, we can finish first in our group and get back to the final, but we've got a really good group," said Smith. "We're excited to go out there and compete and see how we do."
Don't miss a moment of the Under-18 Girls National Championship with live scoring here, http://tournaments.usyouthsoccer.org/events/2013-National-Championships/Schedule/U18-Girls/Division+1/.

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Driscoll spent his final years in the New York State Soldiers' Home at Bath and then in Philadelphia at the U.S. Naval Home. On 13 June 1921, he died of heart disease at the age of 82. 3
Driscoll's interaction with Roosevelt had prompted the veteran to have his reminiscences recorded, and he narrated the following account. Too infirm to write, Driscoll dictated to a stenographer who penned it with only two paragraph breaks and introduced errors throughout the 22-page document. Effectively, this was an oral history, and for the purposes of this article the spelling and punctuation errors introduced by the recorder were corrected to make the manuscript more fluid. We pick up Driscoll's narrative as the Monitor goes to sea.
On March the 6th 1862 when the Monitor pulled out of Brooklyn Navy Yard, nothing but gloom surrounded our departure. The weather itself seemed to mock us, it being one of the most dreary mornings I had ever witnessed. Well so I remember that cold, biting rain, which together with a very doubtful send-off, made our position a most unenviable one. It was customary at that time when a craft was going on the blockade for the crew of the receiving ship North Carolina to man the netting and give the departing vessel three cheers as she passed down the bay. 4 Also, for the ferry boats and other steam craft to toot their whistles as a parting salute. Not so when the Monitor started out.
As we passed the North Carolina , not a head was seen above the rail; not a whistle sounded to cheer us as we went out. Those we passed seemed to think it would be better to have played the funeral dirge than to have given us the customary cheer, at least that is the way it appeared to us on the Monitor . As we passed into the lower bay we were taken in tow by the powerful ocean tug Seth Low and were accompanied by two schooner-rigged propellers, the Currituck and the Sachem . 5 They were no more use to us in case of an accident than two clamshells.
At this late date it is impossible for me to remember the exact hours of the day or night when certain incidents occurred, for day or night, it was all the same to us on the Monitor when at sea or when in action. With the exceptions of a few men in the turret and pilothouse we were all in absolute darkness excepting the dim rays of light we got from an oil lamp. But every incident that occurred on the Monitor , not only on the trip from New York to Hampton Roads, but for the entire nine months that I remained on her, is as clear in my mind as if it had occurred yesterday, but let us get back to the story.
We soon left Sandy Hook behind, and the New Jersey coast was lost to view. As night approached nothing unusual occurred until early in the evening of the seventh when the gale, which had been threatening all day, commenced to begin with violence. Had the weather remained moderate the Monitor would have arrived at Hampton Roads early in the morning of the eighth instead of as she did on the same night. If she had arrived on the scheduled time, the fate of the Cumberland and Congress would have been different. 6 Providence decreed otherwise for on that day the high wind increased the seas and the water gushed down the smokestacks, which were only six feet high, as well as the blower pipes, which were four feet. I was on duty in the fire room, at that time the fire and engine rooms, being both in one. At eight bells (4 p.m.), I was relieved by the next watch. . . . Realizing my need of sleep I retired to aloft under the turret where the hammocks were stowed and then I went to sleep, and that sleep saved me from a terrible fate that befell all the others; eighteen engineers and firemen who were suffocated with gas which came from the furnaces. . . . 7
I had scarcely gotten asleep when the belt on the port side blower engine flew off. Engineer R. W. Hands, who was on duty at that time, with the assistance of the crew, shortened and laced the belt. By this time the fan box was full of water. Consequently, on every attempt to start the engine, the belts would fly off. While attempting to get the port blower started, the starboard belt blew off, and since all draft was cut off, the gas soon filled the engine room, suffocating all who were in there at that time.
The other firemen on the berth deck, smelling the gas, rushed in a body to the engine room and dragged out those who were overcome. The last man to be carried out was Chief Engineer Newton. 8 The ladder leading to the turret was very close to where I was asleep, and when Newton was being carried up, the noise awakened me, so I rushed like the others to the engine room.
The only means of reaching the engine room was by a narrow passage leading from the berth deck and passing between the boilers and coal bunkers. As the pressure of gas was so strong, I was forced to retreat. But by tying a silk handkerchief over my mouth and nose and keeping as close to the floor as possible, I succeeded in reaching the engine room, and it was thick with gas. Like the others, I tried to start one of the blowers but the belt flew off. I rushed into the storeroom. I procured a hammer and chisel and knocked a hole through the sheet-iron box.
While I was working, the water from the blower was rushing over me, but it helped to expel the gas from about me. When the water was all out, there was nothing to prevent the fan from starting. Five minutes had not elapsed from the time I entered the engine room until I got the blower started. With one blower started, the gas was gradually expelled. At this time the crew were all up into the turret, while the engineer and firemen were being revived by the use of brandy administered by Doctor Logue on top of the turret. 9
I had scarcely gotten one blower started when two seamen came into the engine room. They had wet cloths over their mouths. They informed me that they had been sent by Captain [John L.] Worden with orders to find me and bring me up on the turret, supposing that like the others, I had been overcome by the gas and was overlooked. When I got on top of the turret, Captain Worden with a speaking trumpet was calling to our convoys to keep within hailing distance. I looked ahead and saw the tug Seth Low straining away at the new nine-inch manila hawser, and it was there for the first time I thought that the predictions of some of the croakers was about to come to pass. I informed Captain Worden of what I had done and the condition of things in the engine room and requested that I get some help from among the seamen. And then I received a glass of brandy, which relieved me of my troubles a great deal.
I returned to the engine room, and with the assistance of the seamen given me, I kept the engines going until some of the engineer's crew came to our relief. When I was relieved I at once laid down and went to sleep. When I awoke it was daylight and we were at the Delaware Capes and in smooth water. The Monitor was not rolling or pitching to any extent at any time. She seemed like a rock with the waves breaking over her, wetting those on "top of the turret" and coming down on the berth deck and galley, making cooking out of the question. We had not even a cup of coffee from Friday morning until Sunday morning; we had cold water and hardtack.
We then continued on our way to Hampton Roads. It was now Saturday morning, and nothing unusual occurred until the afternoon of the same day when heavy firing was heard in the distance. The glasses were leveled in the direction it seemed to come from, but nothing could be seen. At last, Quartermaster Moses M. Sterns on top of the turret turned to Captain Worden and said he thought the firing was from the Rip Raps, which statement was confirmed. 10
Later on, a little before sundown, being then in smooth water near Cape Henry, the Monitor cast off from the Seth Low , and we proceeded under our own steam. Soon after, we were boarded by a pilot. He informed us that the Merrimack had sailed out, had attacked the sailing frigates Cumberland and Congress , sunk the first, and set fire to the second and was at that time . . . no doubt preparing to destroy the balance of the fleet.
Many were the expression then made by the crew of the Monitor in the shape of a desire to meet the Merrimack the next day and take revenge. Many of the expressions were more forcible than elegant. Captain Worden tried to engage the pilot to remain for the fight the next day, but he refused to.
About 9 o'clock p.m., we came alongside the flagship Roanoke , and Worden reported that he was ready for any duty that was required of him. 11 He was ordered to go to the Minnesota and protect her if he could. Samuel Howard, sailing master of the Roanoke , volunteered to pilot her the next day. 12 After Captain Worden returned from the Roanoke , we proceeded up the bay. The burning Congress could be seen in the distance, and gloom seemed to have settled all around, and the appearance of the Monitor did not seem to inspire much hope. . . .
It was about 10 o'clock at night when we came alongside of the Minnesota , anchored, and began making preparations for the next day's work. About 12 o'clock, the Congress blew up, the fire having reached her magazine. We, whose nerves could stand it, tried to get a little sleep by lying down where we could get a chance, but sleep was not in the question. . . .
At 4 o'clock a.m. all hands were up and at work to get ready for the conflict which was to come. Patrick Hannon, William Durst, and the writer, John Driscoll, were sent on deck to screw the iron plates over the deadlights in the deck and to take down blower pipes and smokestacks, four in number. 13 (Two of each, composed of four sheet iron plates each angled at the corners and put together with small bolts.) About six o'clock, the quartermaster, on top of the turret, reported to Captain Worden that the Merrimack and her escorts were blowing off steam back of Sewell's Point. We then went down to breakfast, the first warm meal we had since Friday morning.
While sitting on the deck around the mess cloth, Captain Worden came down from the turret. He addressed his crew of thirty-eight men all told besides the officers. 14 He reminded us that we had all volunteered to go with him and that now having seen what the Merrimack had done, and from all appearances was now capable of doing, and that the fate of the Cumberland may soon be ours, that if anyone regretted the step he had taken he would put him on board of the Roanoke . He was answered by every man jumping to his feet and giving three cheers. Well do I remember what we had for breakfast that Sunday morning fifty-four years ago. 15 It was something extra. We had canned roast beef, hardtack, and coffee. After breakfast we returned to the deck and finished the work.
Meanwhile, the Merrimack escorts steamed out from the forts at Sewell's Point and proceeded towards Hampton Roads. The Monitor got under way about the same time we had finished the work we were at, excepting one smokestack, when a shell from the Merrimack passed over us alighting between the Monitor and Minnesota . It was evidently intended for the taller vessel. Captain Worden, who was on top of the turret, ordered us inside, but as we had the bolts all out, we remained and took down the plates. All hands were ordered to our stations, and the second day's Battle of Hampton Roads commenced about 8 o'clock.
I was stationed at the foot of the ladder leading to the turret and heard every word that passed between Captain Worden in the pilothouse and Lieutenant Greene in the turret for five hours and fifteen minutes that the battle lasted. 16 Paymaster Keeler and Daniel Toffey, Captain's Clerk, acted as messenger between Captain Worden and Lieutenant Greene at the commencement of the fight.
Captain Worden gave the order to Mr. Greene to fire slowly and deliberately, not to overexert his men or waste any shot. As the two vessels approached each other, the Merrimack , which was accompanied by two river steamers, the Jamestown and Yorktown , undoubtedly for the purpose of towing the Minnesota off when she surrendered (as they expected she would so as she still lay aground) . . . seemed to ignore the presence of the Monitor and sheered off to the Minnesota . 17 One of the other steamers which was keeping close to the Sewell's Point shore, came abreast of the Monitor about a mile and a half off, and Captain Worden ordered Lieutenant Greene "give that steamer a shot as you pass her." The order was promptly obeyed, the shot taking effect. 18 She at once turned and put back for Sewell's Point, followed by the other, and the Merrimack changed her course for the Monitor .
Both drew up at close range and began firing, the Monitor always managing to keep between the Merrimack and the Minnesota as Captain Worden's orders were to protect that vessel if he could. The Merrimack tried to pass the Monitor several times and get at the Minnesota , but the little cheese box always blocked her path. Captain Worden was able to do this, not because of the speed of the Monitor . . . but because [of] her light draft and shortness, which enabled her to turn in a small space and in shallow water, while the Merrimack , owing to her size, was compelled to keep in deep water and take a long range to turn in. . . .
The battle continued at short range for about one half hour when the Monitor drew off and Captain Worden came down out of the pilothouse and went up into the turret and passing out through one of the portholes onto the deck, examined every place where she had been hit. His officers protested against his exposing himself, but Captain Worden knew no fear. On his return, as he passed by where Robert Williams and I stood, he remarked we have been hit in some of the weakest parts and were all right. 19
As the fight continued at close range, Captain Worden would draw off from time to time to give his men a chance to rest and take some refreshments. This led the people on the Merrimack to believe that the Monitor was getting the worst of it. I shall never forget the appearance of the men in the turret the first time they came down, all stripped to the waist and as black as Negroes except where the perspiration had made streaks on face and body.
For two hours the fight continued without any apparent damage to either vessel, when the word came down from Captain Worden: "Well done, you made the iron fly that time. Hit her again in the same place." As the two lay nearly side-by-side, the next word that came was "Well done, that shot went through." 20 Then a cheer went up from the Monitor 's crew. At one time the order was given on the Merrimack , which was plainly heard on the Monitor , "Boarders away." Mr. Greene passed the word to Captain Worden. "They are going to board us." Worden's answer was "Very well, load with grape and canister." But no attempt was made to board us. The Monitor could depress her guns so as to sweep her own decks with them. Also, . . . in the turret of the Monitor was stored hand grenades that could be thrown over the tops [of the turret] in case any attempt was made to board her. . . .
The Monitor was hit in every convenient point, but she was proof against the enemy's heaviest fire. The Merrimack , in despair at not being able to damage the Monitor , made a desperate attempt to ram her. To do this, she drew off some distance then coming on with full force. Peter Williams, at the wheel, acting promptly without waiting for orders, put his helm hard-a-starboard, and the Monitor 's head swung off so that the blow was a glancing one, yet with such force as to jar the chimney off of every lamp below and to slightly start one of the deck plates. 21 At the same time, the blow caused the Merrimack to keel [heel] over to starboard, as both vessels were now almost side-by-side. . . .
Both vessels now maneuvered for advantage, the Merrimack still trying to get at the Minnesota still aground, the Monitor always beating her off. Captain Worden now made an attempt to damage the propeller of the Merrimack , which was exposed, by running into it. He missed by about two feet. The two vessels drew close together again almost touching.
The Merrimack now selected the pilothouse of the Monitor , which had not yet been hit, and delivering a full broadside at the pilothouse, the guns nearly touching it. The charge slightly cracked one of the 9-by-12 bars and slightly lifted the top plate. Worden was looking out through the opening and received the full force of the concussion, as well as the powder and small particles from the exploding shells [sic] in the face. His first words were "Tell Mr. Greene that I am wounded and to come and take command." When Worden was wounded, Quartermaster Peter Williams, at the wheel, put his helm to starboard and sheered off to the left. The Merrimack sheered off to the right and put for Sewell's Point where they commenced lightening her. Colonel R. G. Colston, who . . . witnessed the fight from start to finish from his barge, said both vessels seemed to separate as if by common consent. 22 That has always been my own statement.
But what compelled the course of both vessels to separate was different. When the commander of the Monitor was wounded, both ships had lost their commanders. The Monitor had one lieutenant, a boy twenty-two years of age left in command. On the other hand, the Merrimack when her commander was wounded, left his ship in care of seven lieutenants; [any] one of them was capable of taking command. 23
Mr. Greene, as soon as he received word of the wounding of Captain Worden, hastened down out of the turret, passing close to me. As he did so, he was black from powder. When he arrived at the pilothouse and observed the light coming in under the top plate, but the pilothouse was practically uninjured, he returned to the cabin to consult with Captain Worden, but the latter was unconscious. Mr. Greene then returned to the pilothouse and turned the Monitor 's head in the direction of the Merrimack and fired one shot, but the Merrimack was out of range, and the Monitor returned to the Minnesota .
As soon as we got on deck, we observed the men on the Merrimack and the crews of the other two ships unloading the Merrimack to lighten her. About 2 o'clock p.m. the Merrimack started for the navy yard. The Monitor then steamed down towards Fortress Monroe. . . . In the meantime, the Merrimack proceeded to Norfolk accompanied by the Jamestown and Yorktown and at once put into the drydock. 24 Thus ended the first battle of ironclads, the most famous naval duel between two ships in the history of the world.
1. The last documented Monitor crewman survived until 1927 but did not participate in the Battle of Hampton Roads. John V. Quarstein, The Monitor Boys: The Crew of the Union's First Ironclad . Charleston, SC: History Press, 2011, p. 271; John Driscoll File, Mariners' Museum; Irwin M. Berent, The Crewmen of the USS Monitor : A Biographical Directory . North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, [1984], p. 20; John M. White [Driscoll] to Frank H. Pierce, 6 September 1886, Frank H. Pierce Papers, New York Public Library.
2. In 1885 Driscoll wrote a series of articles for a local Connecticut newspaper. White to Pierce, ibid.; Berent, The Crewmen of the USS Monitor, p. 20; Victor M. Drake to Commandant Fort Monroe, 7 October 1965, Driscoll File, Mariners' Museum; Columbus Daily Enquirer , 2 March 1916.
3. Philadelphia Inquirer , 14 June 1921; Drake to Commandant Fort Monroe, 7 October 1865.
4. The ship-of-the-line North Carolina became a receiving ship in 1839.
5. The Currituck and Sachem were screw steamers. The Seth Low , a side-wheel steam tug, was chartered to tow the Monitor to Hampton Roads.
6. Built as a frigate, the Cumberland (24 guns) had been razed into a sloop. The Congress (60 guns) was a frigate.
7. Acting Assistant Paymaster William F. Keeler described the gas as "carbonic acid gas [carbon dioxide], mingled with the steam of the water which ran down the smoke pipes into the fires." Robert W. Daly, ed., Aboard the Monitor : 1862, The Letters of Acting Paymaster William Frederick Keeler, U.S. Navy to his Wife, Anna (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1964), p. 30.
8. Isaac Newton Jr. was a first assistant engineer.
9. Dr. Daniel C. Logue was an acting assistant surgeon.
10. The Rip Raps was a small island. Fort Wool, on the island, could provide a crossfire on the channel.
11. The Roanoke was a screw frigate.
12. Howard was an acting master and was instead attached to the bark Amanda . Goodwin to Marston, 10 March 1862, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion . 31 vols., (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894–1927), ser. 1, vol. 7, p. 31.
13. Hannon was a first class fireman, and Durst was a coal-heaver.
14. There were 46 enlisted men on board the Monitor .
15. This makes the narrative occur in 1916, just before Driscoll passed away.
16. Lieutenant Samuel Dana Greene was the executive officer. The battle lasted in reality about four hours.
17. The Confederate gunboat Patrick Henry was originally named the Yorktown .
18. Other lightly armed Confederate warships in the area were the Teaser , Beaufort , and Raleigh . The latter had to withdraw early due to a problem with a gun carriage. None of the small Confederate warships was damaged by the Monitor .
19. Robert Williams was a first-class fireman.
20. No shot from the Monitor passed through the armor of the Virginia . Other crew members also believed this happened. See Berent's The Crewmen of the USS Monitor.
21. Peter Williams was a seaman and later was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the sinking of the Monitor nine months later.
22. (Confederate) Brigadier General Raleigh E. Colston, "Watching the Merrimac in the Peninsular Campaign," Century Illustrated Magazine , vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 763–66.
23. Flag Officer Franklin Buchanan was wounded on the 8th and did not participate in the fight with the Monitor . Lieutenant Catesby ap Roger Jones commanded the Virginia on the 9th.
24. There is no evidence that the Virginia was lightened, and she did not go into drydock.
The Monitor Boys
By John V. Quarstein
First-class Fireman John Driscoll was just one of the hundred-odd sailors who served on board the Monitor during her brief life. Referring to themselves as "the Monitor Boys," the men experienced storms, battles, boredom, poor living conditions, and disaster as they participated in the transformation of naval warfare.
Once the Monitor was launched on 30 January 1862, her commander, Lieutenant John L. Worden, had to quickly secure a crew. He estimated that he would need 10 officers and 47 men to manage the ship. Besides Worden, the complement of officers when she set out for Hampton Roads consisted of four engineers, one medical officer, one paymaster, two masters, and one executive officer.
The enlisted men were all volunteers. Since the ironclad was such a revolutionary warship and different from any other vessel in the U.S. Navy, Worden did not wish to accept men just arbitrarily assigned to her. Instead, the Monitor 's commander went aboard the receiving ship North Carolina and frigate Sabine at Brooklyn Navy Yard and asked for volunteers. More men volunteered than were needed. The chosen enlisted men would be transferred to the Monitor from early February through 6 March, the day the ship departed New York.
Worden needed firemen, coal-heavers, and ordinary seamen. Many of the men lacked naval experience, listing their prewar occupations as farmer, machinist, carpenter, stonecutter, sailmaker, or none. Volunteers with previous sea service included Seaman William Bryan, who transferred from the Sabine . Petty officers were all seasoned sailors. Quartermaster Peter Truscott (Samuel Lewis) had five years of U.S. Navy service. The use of an alias was not uncommon for sailors, as it enabled them to desert with impunity if they were dissatisfied with a posting.
Each crew member was assigned a special ship's number on being transferred to the ironclad. Numbers 1 to 49 were members of the crew when the Monitor left New York, 1 being the first man transferred and 49 the last. John Stocking, the alias of William Wentz, enlisted as a boatswain's mate on 25 January 1862. He was transferred from the Sabine to the Monitor as ship's number 43.
Most of the other sailors at the Brooklyn Navy Yard thought the Monitor volunteers were foolish or suicidal. That attitude, as well as the low-lying warship's appearance—her deck virtually awash even in calm water—and the unusual living space below her waterline, prompted several men to desert. George Frederickson noted in the Monitor 's log on 4 March, "Norman McPherson and John Atkins deserted taking the ship's cutter and left for parts unknown so ends this day." Coal-heaver Thomas Feeney deserted seven days after he enlisted and the very day he arrived aboard the ironclad.
Despite these problems, many volunteered for service on board the ironclad out of a sense of duty or as an opportunity to find a place in their new nation. Acting Quartermaster Hans Anderson was originally from Sweden and Seaman Anton Basting was from Germany, while Coal-heaver William (Wilhelm) Durst was a Jew from Austria. Several of the crewmen were born in the British Isles, including Seamen James Fenwick (Scotland) and Coal-heaver David Robert Ellis (Wales). Two African-Americans were among the initial crew. One was 19-year-old William H. Nichols, born a free man in Brooklyn, who enlisted as a landsman for a three-year term. While Nichols may have been urged to enlist in an effort to end slavery, others saw service as an opportunity for advancement. George Geer enlisted as a first-class fireman to earn money ($30 per month) and to learn a steady trade.
After dueling with the CSS Virginia and participating in the Battle of Drewry's Bluff, the Monitor was protecting the Union Army of the Potomac's James River flank when several escaped slaves attempted to join the crew. On 18 May an alarm sounded on board the ironclad as a small boat approached. Captain William Jeffers, then the ship's commander, cried, "Boarders!" William Keeler "found the vast array of ' Monitors ' armed to the teeth confronting the enemy—a poor trembling contraband begging not to be shot." The escaped slave, Siah Hulett Carter, enlisted the next day as a first-class boy, ship's number 53.
During the summer of 1862, the Monitor Boys endured oppressive heat and were plagued by flies and mosquitoes. Despite occasional, brief clashes with the enemy, the crew suffered enormously from boredom. In September the Monitor received a new captain, Commander John P. Bankhead, and was ordered to the Washington Navy Yard for an overhaul. The ironclad's bottom was fouled, the ventilation system needed improvement, and her engine required repair. During the refit, the crew was given furlough, but more than a dozen sailors did not return when their leave expired. William Durst was listed as a deserter due to illness; however, he was impressed one night while drinking. His "WD" tattoo resulted in an alias of Walter Davis. Needing to replace the lost men, Bankhead called for volunteers from the unassigned seamen at the yard. Ordinary Seaman Jacob Nicklis did not wish to ship aboard the Monitor "on account of her accommodations they are very poor" but did so anyway because several of his friends from Buffalo, New York, such as Isaac Scott, volunteered.
Once her complement was filled and repairs completed, the Monitor returned to Hampton Roads. On Christmas Day 1862, Bankhead received orders to take his ship to Beaufort, North Carolina. Learning of the assignment, Lieutenant Greene warned, "I do not consider this steamer a seagoing vessel." Jacob Nicklis wrote his father, "They say we will have a pretty rough time going around Hatteras, but I hope it will not be the case."
Those fears were fulfilled when the Monitor foundered and sank off Cape Hatteras during the early hours of 31 December 1862 with the loss of 16 men, including Nicklis. The ship's surgeon, Grenville Weeks, would write Nicklis' sister that "[you] have my warm sympathies, and the assurance that your brother did his duty well, and has I believe gone to a brighter world, where storms do not come." The side-wheel steamer Rhode Island , which had been towing the ship, rescued her survivors and returned them to Hampton Roads. Many of the ironclad's former crew members would serve in other warships, including monitors, during the remainder of the conflict. But the time they and their former shipmates spent on board the U.S. Navy's first ironclad would forever define them as Monitor Boys.


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Yale University economist Robert Shiller believes housing might have seen the lowest point it will for some time, but the health of the job market will be the key factor in the future direction of home prices.
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Yale University economist Robert Shiller believes housing might have seen the lowest point it will for some time, but the health of the job market will be the key factor in the future direction of home prices.
Shiller offered his comments as a housing price measure he helped create, the Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller index, revealed that prices for homes in the U.S. rose 2% in August vs. the same month in 2011. Many economists and housing market watchers have grown more optimistic that the sector is truly turning this year, and the index also showed that home prices were higher in all but one of the 20 markets it uses to gather its reading.
"This may well be the bottom for housing for some years," Shiller said in an interview, but he's not convinced it's the end of uncertainty. Housing, and the broader economy for that matter, still have to contend with the upcoming presidential election, the looming deadline for avoiding the "fiscal cliff" and continuing questions about the steadiness of Europe's economies.
Adding to his worries, Shiller cited a Congressional Budget Office report that said cuts to government spending, paired with tax increases (in short, the fiscal cliff) would run the risk of pushing the U.S. back into a recession, dealing a new blow to the housing market. GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has promised that, if elected, his administration would strive to reduce federal spending.
Longer term, single-family home prices likely will come under downward price pressure as retiring baby boomers sell their houses to move to other locations, including cities, and as younger people choose urban dwellings over suburban living, Shiller said.
However, he also said there's good news for the home market at the moment, even if further out, housing could have a new set of problems to deal with. Data released earlier this month showed that housing starts rose 15% in September to an annual pace of 872,000, the best performance since mid-2008, while the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index this month reached 41, its best point since June 2006.
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The oil complex has been drifting lower since the middle of yesterday's trading session as supply gains along with faltering oil demand continue to weigh on the market. The API reported a build in both crude oil and distillate fuel stocks setting the stage for similar builds in the more widely followed EIA inventory report due out at 10:30 am this morning. As I have been discussing in the newsletter for weeks, oil fundamentals remain biased to the bearish side as supply is projected to continue to outstrip global demand in the second quarter (see summary of latest EIA STEO report below) resulting in global inventories moving into a building pattern. With most of the macroeconomic indicators still projecting that the global economy is sluggish at best there are no signs that oil consumption is going to enter into a growth spurt anytime soon. Rather oil demand is projected to be lower going forward as compared to the forecasts that were issued just last month. Simply put there is a shortage of oil demand and a growing oversupply of oil coming from non-OPEC countries like the U.S.
The June Brent/WTI spread went through a one day correction to the upside as I suggested but as it moved into the resistance area of $10 to $10.50/bbl it failed to breach through this level and actually reversed to the downside strongly… a bearish technical signal. In the last three trading sessions the spread has tested the lower boundaries ($8.25/bbl) of the trading range and the upper range resistance and has failed to breach either area. The spread is still trading within the boundaries of the trading range that has been in play since April but as of this writing it is now close to a test of the lower range support level.
The API reported a modest draw in Cushing inventories as well as small draw in PADD 2 crude oil stocks. The API and EIA report have been very consistent in their assessment of Cushing inventories for the last several months and as such there is likely to be a similar draw in Cushing stocks in the EIA report due out later this morning. This is a mildly bearish data point for the spread and one the market is currently focusing on at the moment.
I have been indicating that I expect the spread to continue to narrow going forward especially now that it appears that the latest short covering, widening move was very short lived. It does not mean that there will not be further attempts at widening but the trading activity since yesterday does not suggest that it will be in the very short term.
Global equity markets have continued to add value this week as shown in the EMI Global Equity Index table below. The Index is now higher by 1.7% for the week pushing the year to date gain to 2.7% or the highest level of the year for the EMI Index. Only two bourses remain in negative territory for 2013 with Japan still maintaining the top spot in the Index with the U.S. Dow a distant second place. Brazil continues to hold the bottom spot in the Index. Overall global equities have been a positive price driver for the oil complex so far this week.


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Overcoming Resistance in Implementing ITSM based on ITIL
In order for ITIL adoption to be successful, the cooperation and commitment of the stakeholders (i.e. management, users and service providers) is required.
Increasingly, more and more ITIL evangelists are finding out, almost belatedly, that despite the inherent benefits of implementing ITSM based on ITIL, it is usually not easy getting the necessary cooperation and commitment from stakeholders for its success.
Resistance to adoption is usually intense where the initiative is not from top management. This had been known to be a cause of frustration and distress to a good number of ITIL evangelists and consequently, some have had to abandon their attempt of adoption. The resistance is usually born out of several reasons some of which may be rooted in existing corporate culture or personal fears.
To secure the necessary cooperation and commitment, the Evangelist must turn to a sales man, matching the features of the product (ITIL) to the pains of the stakeholders and presenting to them in a language that they understand to secure their buy-in.
The presentation intends to explore how to go about understanding stakeholder's pain(s) and matching ITIL features to eliminate the pain.
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IT Service Management
Future of ITSM: without "IT", "S" or "TS"?
Nov 29 2018
4:00 pm
45 mins
Mark Smalley, the IT Paradigmologist and DASA Global Ambassador
With all this sexy Digital Transformation, Agile and DevOps stuff going on, good old IT Service Management is in a bit of a rut. Somewhere far from the business in the bureaucratic basement, still waging (un)civil IT wars with their archenemies, the evil developers. The IT Paradigmologist explores three escape routes: enterprise-oriented service management, broader but technology-centric IT management, and user-oriented information management. Or staying put and going digital?
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Panel Discussion: ITSM and Digital Transformation – Where Are We?
Nov 27 2018
6:00 pm
60 mins
Doug Tedder; Rich Graves; Anne Morello; Daniel Blander; Roy Atkinson
In this era of increasing digital transformation, ITSM needs to adopt a solid, modernized approach to ensure customer satisfaction, information security and operational excellence. ITSM practitioners must embrace new and innovative capabilities, practices and technologies so as to enable better customer service, flexible deployments and robust data protection. These include artificial intelligence, machine learning and process automation. In this panel, moderated by leading ITSM consultant Doug Tedder, our team of experts from Serviceaide, Cognizant, UBM and Virtual Clarity will discuss the journey ITSM is embarking on to 'see the bigger picture' in an increasingly digital world.
Our panelists include:
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The 'I' In Agile: A Personal Journey
Nov 27 2018
4:00 pm
45 mins
Hema Iyer, Author - The 'I' in Agile: A Personal Journey
The 'I' in Agile – A Personal Journey is about my battle with Agile and the challenges I faced. Why were we doing what we were doing? How did I fit in when everything around is so fluid? In an environment where everyone was an expert and an all-rounder, was my role still relevant? Would I still have a good appraisal if I failed, failed fast and often enough?
This book is about how I felt anger and frustration, about how I learnt, unlearnt and found sanity in the madness – iteratively and incrementally. It is about how I discovered ways to cross the gap from a state where I thought I knew everything to a state where I acknowledged that I did not know anything, and how that ignited the spark in me to look for answers to my problems.
About the Author:
Hema Iyer is an IT professional who has been engaged in the different aspects of software delivery, for over 20 years. She has worked in projects in India, Singapore, Malaysia and UK in various capacities.
Her life goals are simple – to learn something new every day, to stay healthy and to sleep well, every night.
She lives in South London, with her husband and two children.
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SIAM: Taking a leap into the unknown? Take a Structured Approach
Nov 21 2018
35 mins
Ian Groves, SIAM Professional, SYAMIC
The purpose of this webinar is to explore how customer service organisations and external advisors, where applicable, can adopt a structured approach to the mapping and visual analysis of existing service and sourcing environments. A key step before speculating on the potential benefits of any service transformation journey.
As organisations increasingly look towards SIAM as a solution to multi-service vendor integration, SYAMIC introduces a method to help organisations understand the complexity of their current state. Armed with a complete Service Landscape and an assessment of existing capabilities, customers are able to move forward with confidence to develop strategies to deliver a successful SIAM implementation.
It is essential that organisations must, at all costs, resist the temptation to over simplify their understanding of the "as-is" state in the belief that a new SIAM implementation will overcome all of their existing challenges. There are some things which simply cannot be ignored.
Therefore, within this webinar we will explore a simple three level framework which provides structure, a common language for customers, advisors and suppliers alike and drives true collaboration across the ecosystem.
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36 mins
Anurag Sharma, ITSM Author
The key focus area of every single organisation is to provide best-in-class customer experience, which in 2018 is delivered using technology. To remain competitive in the market, every organisation transforming digitally needs to deliver innovation. It's a fact that the world that consumers and companies operate in is changing in order to make sense of a fast-changing context.
However, Digital Transformation is also a mindset.
A faster time to market, the speed of implementation, quality, service availability and lower cost of ownership are the critical elements of Digital Transformation. In an ideal world, Digital Transformation is the thumb rule followed by each company - whether they are small or large, IT or non-IT, start-up, experienced or legacy companies
Yet, there are industries that are still using their traditional waterfall practices. Old ways of working, system complexity and pressure to survive in this new era create absolute chaos in their world. It's like an IT disease which can be cure by management practices like DevOps and Agile.
These management practices require some time to mature and not overnight successes. They require a change of culture, technologies and ways of working. In the meantime, there is a need for pain relief so that the transformation journey can start.
Enter Test Environment Management - the pain relief that alleviates the symptoms.
This webinar will provide a glimpse into this and how to add value to an organisation's Digital Transformation journey.
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Nov 15 2018
43 mins
Dolf van der Haven, Information Security and Quality Manager, Verizon Enterprise Solutions
Join Dolf van der Haven, Information Security and Quality Manager, at Verizon Enterprise Solutions This webcast as he gives an overview of the three main movements in service management that will have an impact in 2019.
This webinar will cover the new edition of ISO/IEC 20000-1, VeriSM and the new ITIL 4, and will show the merits of each movement, comparing them and demonstrating that whilst not mutually exclusive, each has their own specific merits.
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Nov 15 2018
46 mins
John F McDermott, TIL/ITSM DevOps Customer Simulations, HPE
ITIL helps you maximize the potential of your digital services and ensures you keep ahead of business demand by giving you a framework of how to adapt your processes, organisation and culture.
In this session, learn from industry leader John F McDermott of HPE how ITIL can keep you agile, adaptive, and responsive - ensuring you create value and are a pioneering and enabling facilitator of IT and its associated services.
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Nov 14 2018
43 mins
Simon Dorst, Michelle Major-Goldsmith - Kinetic IT
As Stephen Covey said "There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles"
Recent years have seen an explosion of different service management practices, leaving organizations confused about the best way forward. What is the best approach for building a service management model?
Michelle Major-Goldsmith and Simon Dorst will discuss the basic background, benefits and pitfalls of common ITSM practices like ITIL, SIAM, Agile and VeriSM. Focus will be on a clear distinction of what each of these practices brings to an organisation and provide some advice on both where to start defining a service management model and how to consider integrating the latest best and enabling practices as they evolve.
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SIAM in the Cloudy world
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47 mins
Steve Morgan - Director, SynaidIT and SIAM-ITSM coach & mentor, and Daniel Breston, Principal Consultant at Virtual Clarity
You want to benefit from cloud. You want to benefit from Agile, ITSM and DevOps. You want to save money. You create a programme and move your services and applications to some cloudy world. Whether it is hybrid or all someone else's have you considered the impacted on your overall processes, all of your internal staff, your customers, regulators and suppliers?
We find that many consider some of these but few look at the entire spectrum. Cloud is a great thing, especially when viewed from the lens of integrating your service with great management (SIAM). Please join Steve Morgan, Director SynaidIT and SIAM-ITSM coach & mentor, and Daniel Breston, Principal Consultant Virtual Clarity & DevOps ITSM blender, as we discuss (argue) the good, bad, great of SIAM in the Cloudy world.
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ITSM and SecOps: A Critical Intersection
Nov 13 2018
49 mins
Michael Dortch - DortchonIT.com; Mike Bombard - Virima Technologies; Taylor Lehmann - CISO at Wellforce & Tufts
IT service management (ITSM) is evolving rapidly as more and more enterprises pursue digital transformation. At the same time, cyber security threats are growing in number, sophistication, and impact on the operations, revenues, and reputations of victimized companies. Meanwhile, at too many companies, service and security management are still operating in separate silos, with cooperation happening only after a threat becomes a successful breach.
How best to move to a structure in which service and security management are integrated, proactive enablers and accelerators of your business?
At many companies, this is one of the goals driving an increased focus on security operations, or SecOps. But there are technological, cultural, and organizational challenges to your efforts to bring IT service management and security management closer together.
Join Industry experts Michael Dortch, Mike Bombard and Taylor Lehmann for a stimulating and informative discussion of these challenges and how companies are addressing them successfully. You'll learn things you can do now to improve both service and security management at your company.
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29 mins
Tina Dankwart
This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit Software Lifecycle Integration Special Interest Group (SIG).
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The list of issues includes:
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In this webinar, we will explore another way of achieving global reporting across different domains by well thought through synchronization.
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53 mins
Mark O'Loughlin - Managing Director, Cloud Credential Council and Daniel Breston - Principal Consultant, Virtual Clarity
In recent years the IT landscape and traditional IT model has changed significantly. The fundamental cause of this shift is cloud computing and the latest in digital technologies. New ways of working such as DevOps, Lean and Agile are now being used to achieve the scalability, flexibility and innovation provided by the cloud model and digital technologies. However, it is very evident that many organisations and IT professionals still do not know the basic fundamentals of cloud or digital.
If the IT Service Management (ITSM) community want to remain relevant in today's new IT landscape they need to fully understand what cloud is and become leaders and trusted advisors in their organisation an all matters relating to cloud and digital.
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Q&T SIG Talk Series - Combining LeanFT w/ Selenium & Leveraging LeanFT
Sep 11 2018
62 mins
Daniel Horn, Jonathon Wright
SIG Talk: Quality & Testing - LeanFT: How to Combine with Existing Selenium & How It Enables Intelligent Automation (Complete Edition)
Another exciting Quality and Testing SIG Talk focused around Micro Focus LeanFT will feature speakers from Germany and the United Kingdom. Both of these experts will share their knowledge and experience with Micro Focus LeanFT and how it can be combined with your existing Selenium test automation as well as how it can enable Intelligent Automation (IA).
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Combining Micro Focus LeanFT with your Existing Selenium Test Automation: Based on current market disruptors, we want to give an Introduction into Micro Focus LeanFT. Starting with a short Comparison of LeanFT and Selenium, the main topic will be the integration of LeanFT into existing Selenium solutions. At the end, we will give a few guidelines and ideas for using LeanFT in your projects.
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61 mins
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Mentoring is a cost efficient and trusted solution to many of the problems surrounding communication and staff development within an organization.
All new members of staff, regardless of seniority, should have an appointed mentor to assist in the induction process; the need for ongoing support with all aspects of practice is particularly important for success and happiness!
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