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Anchor & Hope
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Once there was just St John, then former St John chefs started to create their own restaurants using the same template of head-to-tail cooking. Open for more than a decade, the Anchor & Hope is still a leading exponent of using offal and unusual cuts of meat in simple but artful combinations, served in a relaxed setting.
Handy for both the Young and Old Vic Theatres, it consists of a straightforward pub divided by a heavy central curtain from a dining room. Bookings aren't taken, so most evenings you join the waiting list for a table (45 minutes midweek is typical) and hover at the crammed bar enjoying a glass of wine or a pint.
Unlike some gussied-up gastros, the dining area retains the atmosphere of a pub, in a low-lit, art-festooned room, and the food is terrific. textured venison kofte served on perkily dressed little gem lettuce, for example, or rabbit served savagely red with salty jus, fat chips and a big pot of béarnaise sauce.
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|Tube: Southwark tube or Waterloo tube/rail
|Main courses (Mon-Sat) £12-£20. Set lunch (Sun) £30-£35 min 3 courses
|Opening hours:
|Open 5-11pm Mon; 11am-11pm Tue-Sat; 12.30-5pm Sun. Lunch served noon-2.30pm Tue-Sat; 2pm sitting Sun. Dinner served 6-10.30pm Mon-Sat
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- 5 star:10
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- 3 star:1
- 2 star:3
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Absolutely amazing food! The only downfall is that you can't book a table, so basically once you get there you have to wait for a free table to come up....and it can take some time! But the food is definitely one of the best restaurant/pub food I have had in the past. Well done, guys!
Friday lunch for belated Father's Day. A handful of tables so not busy, but staff rushed off their feet. Watched waiter dashing around half finishing cleaning jobs even though there were lots of empty tables, and no one else was arriving as it was end of service. Waited 10 minutes for any service at all. Not offered drinks. When a waitress finally came to our table she was humourless, blunt, fed up. Ordered lamb chump with cous cous and tzatziki, slow cooked beef Provencal and semolina, and an artichoke. The food was exceptional. Perfectly cooked lamb, fluffy cous cous, loads of tzatziki. The Provencal sauce was deliciously sweet, packed with flavour. The artichoke was enormous, really well prepared and came with a thick, tangy mustardy sauce for dipping. Portions on the small side (apart from the artichoke - think mini-football) but all left feeling full. Dessert menu was outstanding - really interesting with none of the usual stodge you often find on pub dessert menus - the grilled peach with mascarpone was so good I could have eaten three. Half way through the meal dour waitress was replaced by a younger version - bright, full of humour and knowledge of the menu and ingredients. If she'd been there from the start it was 5*.
Went last Sunday for lunch and they only do a single 2pm seating with a fixed menu. Read the mixed reviews below so was unsure what to expect. The service staff were friendly and polite, and every time I requested for tap water, it arrived on my table quite quickly. Food was really delicious. The beetroot/blood orange with goats cheese salad sounded weird but the different tastes and textures blended really well and this refreshing starter greatly opened up our appetite. The main course- slow baked lamb was so tender, the meat just fell of the skin with the touch of a fork. The side cabbages and potatoes were simple but so yummy that I could not stop snacking on them while sipping on my wine even though I was done with my lamb and tummy was so bloated by then. The pistachio meringue was a good end to a very satisfying meal! Definitely will go back again!
Food was amazing, such a cute pub, service couldn't be faulted. The ink squid risotto- omg. And I'm from Sydney, so I have high standards! A cut above the rest.
The food was good, if a bit overpriced... But the standout experience of this place is the horrendous service! I'm kinda relieved to read fellow bad experiencees as I thought it might've been even a race thing! Why did my waitresses hate me sooo much? I'm not sure I can even guess. Was TOLD I couldn't move from a busy communal table (with a roaming dog underneath it) to a table for two and every interaction with the staff was laced with antipathy. Not for me guys!
I think the bad reviews here are ridiculous.... how can you fault the food, it is second to none, I think I could have eaten anything off the menu. AND the service I received last night was perfectly polite and understated. The atmosphere is great, I wish more places in london did such good food in an unpretentious atmosphere.
Tried this place last week after reading the reviews here and I must say I was impressed. The food is first-class and cheaper than a restaurant would be for comparable quality. I'd take friends and family here without hesitation.
Imaginative food well cooked. Did my usual "What's your favourite thing on the menu" tactic and the front of house staff talked knowledgeably, and had clearly tasted the dishes. Halibut carpaccio was well balanced and a hell of a lot of fish for a starter. Duck two ways was perfectly cooked (both roast and confit), reasonably priced for two to share and the chef made polenta taste good, which is a miracle. Massive hit and slight miss on deserts. Reasonable lunch bill given the quality of the food.
Met my 4 mates in the bar, had a couple of beers to chat and catch up whilst waiting for a table, before being seated. The food here was absolutely superb. 7 hour shoulder of lamb and rabbit with bearnaise sauce, followed by some outstanding puds - I had the Queen of Lemon Puddings. A great venue, always busy, in a good way and a good buzz. Highly recommended.
It's reputation precedes it. And more than a decade on since its blazed the trail for the gastraopub craze, it's a pity that it's gone to its head and its waiting staff believe they can live on reputation alone. If waiting staff are right, an establishment can get a way with a lot. I would forgive a restaurant for multiple mistakes and mishaps if it's served with a smile and a genuine apology. Unfortunately, at the A&H, the waiting staff seem to have the attitude that we should be honoured to have a seat at their table. This detracts from the obviously tenderly cooked food (i'm told the meat is fantastic), the few vegetable dishes are delicious enough, but like the rest of london, an after-thought. Unfortunately the waiting staff in front let down the skills of those that are handling the food behind. ANd this has now been the experience in the restaurant on multiple occasions. The kitchen runs out of dishes frequently, presumably to keep stocks low and food fresh - no problem with that at all .But a t a recent visit, we were only told of that they'd run out once the rest of the group had been brought their food. So one of the party re-ordered, while we sat there with our dishes....ten minutes later, we'r e told they've run out of that dish too. The guest was offered an alternative that wasn't on the menu, and she accepted that. Another ten minutes , and someone returned to say it was going to take a while longer to cook. A medium-rare steak. 30 minutes later, our dishes were wiped clean and removed and hers still hadn't arrived. Aparently it tasted good when it did arrive, but we were all a little sour about it. Not an apology or a smile in sight. None of us were going for pudding but we were offered a dessert 'on the house' to compensate for the wait (still with a very sour-faced waitress). We appreciated that, and quickly gobbled down the shot-glass of chocolate pudding between us. And then came the bill - we sent back immediately assuming they'd just made a mistake. We'd not only been charged for the main dish, that was not only the guest's third choice, but arrived after everyone else's plates had been cleared, but the replacement dish happened to be £7 more expensive than the dish originally ordered, more expensive than any of the dishes on the menu, and she had not even been told it's price when she was 'offered' it. No they could not remove the dish from the bill, nor would they reduce the price down to her original choice - company policy and the duty manager said the same, so we were told. They offered us (a previously unwanted) dessert as compensation. No smile, no apology. By that point, our only way of protest was not to pay the service charge/tip. So sadly, experiencing the relaxed setting, the decent food, pales into insignificance due to appallingly rude staff. That was the worst of three unfavourable experiences. One doesn't need to be made to feel like a third class citizen while out dining. A bit of decent staff training might rectify the snooty, unpleasant staff and make the A&H somewhere one wants to visit again.
Up and down this road so many times and yet I was only introduced to this place by a friend just last week.... shame on me! All very good. I chose the calf's heart, bearnaise sauce, chups (my sic) and some curly kale on the side, followed by 1 scoop of Seville orange icecream and a shot of espresso. All in all, a jolly good feed before heading off to see 'Kiss me Kate'. My only negative would be the nasty waft escaping from the lavvies..... perhaps it depends on which way the wind is blowing, or the tide, but it is nothing an industrial strength extractor fan wouldn't fix. Still, I will definitely be heading back.
Walked into the pub after the theatre for a glass of wine at 10.45. Told that the bar was shut. Shame. It seems that it has the same problem as the eagle, great food, great wine, rude management. Pity.
This is one of the Restaurant that epitomizes London. Honest, well-prepared, seasonal food. No pretense, honest floor staff. Excellent Bar tenders. Ate here recently and picked through the awesome menu. Wine is served in tumblers and they have an excellent choice by the glass. No reservations policy, so arrive early or just wait in the bart with drinks. Worth the wait. To be honest, Im quite surprised they have some negative comments, maybe some people don't get the concept. Long Live The Anchor & Hope, one of my Favourites!
I can only echo the negative comments below and be somewhat suspicious of the very few scripted positives. This establishment has ideas above its station, which is a shame, as the food isn't bad, just overpriced and let down by rude, snooty serving staff.
I like a laid back vibe and yet amongst it, here at the Anchor & Hope, were signs of absolute focus and real passion. The service was informal yet flawless and the food delivered in nine out of ten dishes. I didn't mind waiting for a table (around 40 minutes enjoying two great pints of Youngs), it was worth it. And I don't often say that. If you don't want to wait, book a different restaurant. Simples.
The food here is just delicious, and sometimes quite unusual. Lunchtime razor clams with soda bread to soak up the juice is the best, followed closely by black ink squid risotto.
I'm honestly stunned by some of the poor reviews on here, and feel sorry for those who have had sub-standard service or food, something I haven't experienced in three years' of almost weekly lunchtime (and occasional evening) visits. The food is invariably excellent, the service prompt and friendly, and the setting, although sometimes a little rowdy, is comfortable and buzzing. Must have been over 100 times, and in that time had only one meal where, although still good, the food wasn't up to expectations. Reliably excellent, in my experience.
I went to the Anchor and Hope on a friend's recommendation that it was one of the best gastropubs in London. After a brief moment of tension over whether we could have asparagus instead of potato with the starter course, all was well. Very well, actually. I thought the ingredients were all very fresh, the dishes themselves were well-prepared and very tasty. I think we had the waitress who has been described here as being rude, etc, and I have to say that she was extremely nice and helpful throughout the meal...perhaps she had an off day before as we all do sometimes. I would definitley recommend it and will be going again.
The Anchor and Hope is surely trading on longevity and a memory of past glories. On a Friday night, the service was patchy and the food was terrible. The famed leg of lamb looked great, but had been slow cooked into a tasteless mush of indistinguishable garnish / stew. The vegetarian lentils with spinach and goats curd were truly shocking - luke warm in termperature, bland in seasoning, lacking in bulk - and £14.40! The Anchor and Hope is an ok pub near the theatre and Waterloo, but it pretends to be a good food place. It isn't; and the prices are a disgrace.
Really great food at the anchor and hope. Are reasonably priced. However like all restaurants, it isn't just about the food and the price. Service was shoddy. Two waitresses were intent on enjoying their chat at the rear if the restaurant for extended periods leaving my table and others that I noticed wondering when we might be able to get some of their valuable time. The senior waiter was possibly an eastern European gentleman who was clearly not in a good mood either and his approach was basil fawltyesque. Shame as the food was so good to be let down by a very capable kitchen. Get the service sorted by chatting less amongst yoursrlves and cheering up a lot. It really was like they didn't want to be there and that was how I felt towards the end of my lunch
Nice pub with great-sounding menu but very poor restaurant service. Waited ages for a table (fair enough it was busy) but then no apologies when we were finally seated. Asked for bread, but didn't get any side dishes (hope the tables were clean!). They wouldn't serve chips as a side order with a particular dish even though they served chips as a side order with another dish. Also they refused to cook beef medium or well done giving an excuse that the cut of beef could only be cooked rare. Absolute twoddle. Won't be bothering to go back.
I've been here twice over the last few years. Both times pretty disappointing. My meal yesterday evening was really quite awful. The main, for £17, was the most scrawny, poorly butchered veal chop, with rubbery, unrendered connective tissue around the outside. For these prices, there is so much better cooking in London.
This is one of my favorite places to eat in London. If you are looking for super-posh dining, this isn't it. Anchor & Hope does what it does best -- loud and rowdy with lots of people noshing on great food -- and you should know that going in the door. I'm an early eater, so I arrive around 5:30 to get my name on the list for seating at six and enjoy a cocktail. I recommend the Moscow Mule. For my birthday, a friend and I shared the rib of beef and chips with bernaise sauce (for two) and a salad. We could have fed three on the amount of food that arrived. The beef was perfectly medium rare, and I dream about their bernaise. And don't forget dessert! The range is great, so if you aren't a chocoholic, you can find something light, like their little lemon pot with cassis. You can't go wrong with booze on dessert.
Worst pub that i have ever visited. The way the beer was served, the way they handled my complaint was disgraceful. I will never ever visit this place again.
Had a great meal, fantastic eatery. Even though non meat eaters they provided more than enough choice. Recommend lentils and homemade butterscotch ice cream! All veg very fresh cooked to perfection. Friendly, helpful staff... will defiantly visit again and again
Had heard that this place did a great Sunday Roast, including veggie option, but they seem to have gone too posh/french with their food style. The lamb my friends had did look great but still not exactly a 'roast' and the veggie option was essentially just a potato and cheese pastie served with lettuce and a pickled walnut...nice enough but plain and not really exciting and not the veggie roast lunch I had hoped for. Maybe good for meat-eaters if you go for their specials, but not recommended for veggies really.
I had dinner with 2 friends at the Anchor and Hope this week and I don't think I have been treated more rudely in a restaurant before. We arrived at 6.30pm at the pub and asked if we could have a table for 3 people at the restaurant explaining that one of us was on his way. We were told that we couldn't have the table unless all 3 diners were present. We reassured that our friend was in his way and got the table. My friend got stuck in the tube and arrived 30 minutes late. In the meantime we ordered our dinner, started to eat and were pestered by the waitress every 10minutes asking where our friend was and whether we wanted to order dinner for her. We were put under an enormous pressure while we were eating even if there were other free tables around us which the restaurant could use for newcomers. When my friend arrived and sat at the table an extremely rude waitress told her that she could only order one course as we had occupied the table for far too long (30min in total!!!!!). My friend was put under pressure to eat his meal as quickly as possible and we had to find a different place to have our desert and coffe as we had to free the table. Food was not impressive: badly copied Italian recepies with loads of mayonnaise which Italians would never use as dressing. I Will NEVER GO BACK TO THE ANCHOR AND HOPE AND I ADVISE YOU NOT TO GO THERE. SHAME ON YOU ANCHOR AND HOPE!!!!
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2. Do you have any experience with The Wizard of Oz world? How are you expecting this setting to affect the book?
Wicked PreReading Q#2: Experience with Oz.
I've read most of Frank L Baum's Oz books. The movie version is one of my favorite movies. Wicked, which I have also read, wasn't what I expected but that was a good thing
I grew up in KS, so it's pretty much required reading
I also downloaded all of L.Frank Baum's books from project Gutenberg for my e-reader years ago.
I can't say I've read all of his Oz series, but I've read the majority.
There isn't much continuity in the books, so having this one be set in the same place but from a different author shouldn't be too much of a change. I'm also not expecting to see Dorothy much!
I saw MGM's Wizard of Oz many times as a child of course but did not read any of the books until I started university, in fact I was surprised to learn that there was a book (well 14 I think?) and I was shocked to discover how much richer Baum's world is than the one we see on the screen. I have only read a few and I re-read the first one or two with my son when he was young.
I've seen Wicked on the stage - a very good performance - but for me it lacked the level of fantasy and charm seen in the original books. I shall be very interested to see how the novel compares.
I haven't read any of the original books. I've seen the old Wizard of Oz movie, and I also saw the recent one that just came out, about the wizard. It's definitely made me curious about the original books, and perhaps reading this will push me over the edge into actually reading some of them.
I haven't read the original ones either. Didn't like the old movie with Judy Garland, but I think I had more of a problem with her than the actual story line.
Sadly, I haven't read any of the books but I have seen the original Wizard of Oz and attempted to watch the newest one that just came out...but I couldn't wrap my head around it and shut it off after like 40 minutes. I'm very excited to read this book and it's been on my list for a few years so I'm looking forward to comparing the book to the original Oz movie.
Well, as you probably don´t know, when I was a late-teen, I used to work as a reading mediator in an after school program (one of the pioneers here in Brazil - we don´t have school clubs like in US and Japan) called Reading Circles. I read the first book in The Wizard of Oz series (it´s called "the wizard of oz" in Portuguese) for this program, and re-read with different groups of students at least 4 or 5 times. The first thing that drew my attention to the book was the introduction:
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.
Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.
L. Frank Baum
Chicago, April, 1900.
On the one hand, thinking by the perspective of the works of Joseph Campbell, the need to create new fairy tales is very interesting (remember when he talks about myths for modern age); on the other hand, this thing about "bloodless" and "politically correct" things for children was an important trend for 1900´s children and YA literature, specially from 60s on (and I think now it´s starting to end, but I may be mistaken).
Then, I enjoyed reading The Wizard of Oz, and became very surprised when I read that there were more books about Oz. However, I could only find the second one in my local library (I read it too - it´s good, but I prefer the first), and was willing to find the others - only with Brandi´s post I realised they´re mostly public domain - I´m feeling sooooo dumb now... Also, sometimes I forget that, if I don´t find what I want to read in Portuguese, I can look for it in English, lol.
I first knew about Wicked because a friend went to US, happened to see the Brodway musical and went back soooooo excited about it - she couldn´t stop talk about wicked, but didn´t want to spoil us, so it was fun to see... also, she is a friend who usually likes the villains, and seemed it put her in a new perspective - since then, I was willing to read the book.
I expect something very different from L.Frank Baum books, however; first, I expect it to be more adult. I also think the story ressemblance will be only because it uses the same scenery - I don´t expect the story to be the same. Maybe wicked mention some events, but they´re probably only some mentions to please the oz affictionados.
That's an interesting quote about writing new stories for children. It would be interesting to see how the morals and themes of children's literature has changed over time.
I love the musical and my cat is named Elphaba. My husband is a big L Frank Baum fan and we have seen the Wizard of Oz many many many times.
Wicked is definitely a very adult version of what happens with the Wicked Witch. I read it about 8 years ago so I need to go back and read it again. The musical is the family friendly version. I have read McGuires other books and there's a lot of adult themes. The musical and the book are very different.
I've seen the movie, but that's about it.
I'd love to read the books of the Wizard of Oz, but here where I live in a city near São Paulo is impossible to find the books I've read some reviews and summaries and am very eager to read but.
Read only two books in the series and I'm dying to read the other but it is a bit difficult to find them here in Brazil even harder in Portuguese
I read the original Wizard of Oz and watched the movie of course, but this book I did not like. The themes were very close to modern day. It had a dictator, and oppressed group of people, minority groups and how others dealt with them, scandal, corruption, etc. It felt very political and not fantasy at all. I wanted more of the feel of the original book. I really wanted to love this book, but just couldn't. Was I missing something?
No idea Dana - if you look at the comments in the different question sections, you'll see that most people that took part did not much like this book. So if you're missing it ... we all were too

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It's a hard life sometimes, as I've been spending the past afternoon playing Duke Nukem 3D on the Xbox Live Arcade. The good news is that the game is fast, smooth, and fun on the Xbox 360. It was a great time remembering where all the secrets are, paying off the girls, and blowing away all the pigs. Both literal and figurative.
It's true that the game hasn't been updated in terms of graphics, and the lack of widescreen support is somewhat annoying, but the fun and sometimes devious design of the levels is still worth playing through. Plus, the weapons are great: pipe bombs, freeze rays, rocket launchers... oh man, it's a cavalcade of blood and explosions. A game this unabashedly violent and sexist would never be made today; I'm almost ashamed of how much fun all the naughty bits still feel.
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CHICAGO — National Library Workers Day (NLWD), is Tuesday, April 15, 2014. It is a day for library staff, users, administrators and Friends groups to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers. The ALA-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA) established the special day in 2003. NLWD is now celebrated each year on the Tuesday of National Library Week (April 13-19 in 2014).
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Chris Kunitz ($3.725m) / Sidney Crosby ($8.700m) / Pascal Dupuis ($3.750m)
Beau Bennett ($0.900m) / Brandon Sutter ($2.067m) / Chuck Kobasew ($0.550m)
Harry Zolnierczyk ($0.550m) / Joe Vitale ($0.550m) / Craig Adams ($0.700m)
Paul Martin ($5.000m) / Brooks Orpik ($3.750m)
Kris Letang ($3.500m) / Rob Scuderi ($3.375m)
Matt Niskanen ($2.300m) / Simon Despres ($0.840m)
Robert Bortuzzo ($0.600m) /
Marc-Andre Fleury ($5.000m)
Tomas Vokoun ($2.000m)
Buried: Tanner Glass ($0.175m)
CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(these totals are compiled with the bonus cushion)
CAP SPACE (21-man roster): $468,333
meecrofilm wrote:It would actually be more beneficial to both Despres and the team for him to play with Bortuzzo on the 3rd pairing, but I mean, there's a better chance of Grizzly Adams having a beard than that happening.
no name wrote:Jim wrote:no name wrote:Miller is a quality goalie but also a cancer in the locker room.
He only has 1 year left so if he does turn out to be bad for the room/team you can cut ties rather quickly.
Yes but if he doesn't pan out we have no franchise goalie.
Jim wrote:5 teams need to become cap compliant today. The highest is only $2.1M over the cap (per Capgeek). Is it going to be as simply as LTIR or will moves need to be made by all 5, especially the Pens? Putting Vokoun on LTIR frankly gets then into Cap compliance without sending anyone down: -$2M + $540K for Zatkoff = -$1.46 M, $364K in the black. But that does not solve long term considerations.
If they waive someone right now, does that cap hit get removed right now, or only after he clears waivers tomorrow?
Jim wrote:Complete side question...
When you waive someone is it actually 24 hours from when you notify the league or it is "24 hours" meaning something like "close of business tomorrow" type thing...?
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PORTLAND, Maine — The Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) celebrates Mozart's 256th birthday with a special one-time concert: Happy Birthday Mozart! on Sunday, Jan. 27 at 2:30 p.m. at Portland's Merrill Auditorium.
The Mozart birthday celebration, led by conductor Robert Moody, will feature Serge Prokofiev's lighthearted homage to the Classical era and PSO concertmaster and violinist Charles Dimmick in the soloist spotlight. The Happy Birthday Mozart! concert highlights the consummate craftsmanship of one of Mozart's final symphonies. Featured selections include Prokofiev Symphony No. 1, "Classical," Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 and Mozart Symphony No. 39.
Guests are invited to join artists for the Concert Conversation an hour and 15 minutes before the concert and a post concert Q&A directly following the performance. To preview concert extras, visit www.portlandsymphony.org.
In anticipation for the show, PSO is hosting a Music Lovers' Luncheon on Friday, Jan. 25 at 12 p.m. PSO Concertmaster Charles Dimmick and Flautist Rachel Braude will discuss the upcoming "Happy Birthday Mozart!" concert and talk about their lives as PSO musicians. To register please contact Lindsay Stanley at (207) 773 6128 ext. 318 or email@example.com
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For a Brownstone Brooklyn populist, likely New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has some surprising supporters in the skyscrapers of Manhattan.
It's true that many investing types are supporting Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota over pro-tax de Blasio in the general election Tuesday. Christine Quinn—the more moderate heir to current mayor Mike Bloomberg's pro-finance policies—was Wall Street's Democrat of choice in the September primary with supporters like Dan Loeb of Third Point, Richard Perry of Perry Partners and Robert Ziff of Och-Ziff Capital Management.
But with de Blasio leading Lhota by 45 points in a recent New York Times poll, it's becoming increasingly clear that de Blasio is the candidate who really matters. Perhaps as a result, some surprising supporters from the financial community have emerged in his corner.
In total, about three times more money has flowed to de Blasio than to Lhota. He's outraised his GOP rival $9.45 million to $3.37 million so far, according to public campaign records.


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Brown-Forman has been producing the distillery's annual Old Forester Birthday Bourbon (OFBB) release since 2002. Named after the distillery's founder, George Garvin Brown, the release celebrates Mr. Brown's September 2nd birthday. I personally have a love-hate relationship with the OFBB release. The 2010 I rated a whopping 9.3 – superb stuff. Other annual releases have ranged from underwhelming to very good. The question is did Brown-Forman bring out the good stuff for 2013…….
Old Forester Birthday Bourbon (2013), 49% abv (98 Proof), $54.95/bottle
Color: Medium Amber/Copper
Nose: Vanilla custard, caramelized banana, chocolate, dried dark fruits, and bright orange oil. Gentle oak character, but overall rich, sweet, and fruit forward.
Palate: Vanilla, butterscotch, pecan, and dried fruit livened with bitters, ginger, nutmeg, and hints of toast.
Finish: Lingering caramel sweetness, barrel spices (clove, nutmeg), and humming warmth.
Overall: The 2013 Old Forester Birthday Bourbon (OFBB) is as epic a nose as you will find in the whiskey world – absolutely jaw dropping. The palate is perfectly proofed, harmonious, and on the sweeter side. I can easily say you'd have to look at the 2010 release to find an OFBB release as strong as this years. Even at $55 I consider the 2013 release a must try for bourbon lovers. Send me your opened bottles if you don't enjoy the hell out of it – my birthday is right around the corner.
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Santa Cruz launch three new bikes for 2012
Highball Carbon 29er hardtail, Tallboy Aluminum and 5in-travel Blur TRc
Santa Cruz Bicycles today unveiled three all-new models for 2012 — the Highball Carbon 29er hardtail, Tallboy Aluminium and 5in-travel Blur Trail Carbon (TRc). They're also set to launch yet another new bike at next month's Sea Otter Classic.
Two of the new models — the Highball and Tallboy 29ers — have been built due to customer demand. The third bike, however, like many of the machines in the Santa Cruz line, was built more because it was a type of bike that the designers and engineers wanted to ride.
This all-new 5in-travel (127mm) model splits the difference between the Blur XC Carbon and Blur LT Carbon, with the slack angles of the 5.5in-travel LT and Nickel (the 5in APP bike launched last year) yet a weight that's barely more than that of the 4in-travel XC. Its official name is the Blur Trail Carbon or Blur TRc, but Santa Cruz staff affectionately refer to it as the TRc.
Santa Cruz will start taking orders for the new models in April, with the first shipment due to arrive at the end of May. The bikes will initially be available with 2011 components, but they'll make a running change into 2012 dress in June.
Highball Carbon 29er
Keeping in line with the nomenclature that spurred the name of their original 29er — a Tallboy is an oversize 24oz can of beer — Santa Cruz's new all-business hardtail cross-country race bike is called the Highball. The name is decidedly more refined and debonair — think Madmen's Don Draper drinking an Old Fashioned out of a highball tumbler — and so is the bike. If the Tallboy is about fun with your buddies, the Highball has a much more cut-throat agenda.
Highball's tumbler and good clearance for a 2.1in tire
Earlier this year, Santa Cruz leaked the majority of the specifications of the new bike on their 104 Bronson blog, leaving little but the name for us to impart today. We're hoping to get a bike into review soon, as this model seems poised to make a wave on the cross-country race circuit, especially with privateers.
A medium Highball frame — with all of its peripheral items: seat clamp, bottle cage bolts and derailleur hanger — has a claimed weight of just 2.4lb, which translates to just under 1,100g. That puts the bike in the realm of a stockier, yet still respectably weighted, road frame. Despite this feathery weight, Santa Cruz claim that, like all of their carbon bikes, it sets new benchmarks in terms of stiffness and strength.
The Highball uses the same molding technology shared by all of Santa Cruz's carbon bikes, which is said to be a style of tooled monocoque molding that allows extreme precision in regards to tube wall thickness. The frame is molded in three sections (front triangle and rear stays), then bonded together. "It takes two people working together two hours to get a bike into a mold," said Michael Ferrentino, Santa Cruz's marketing manager. "It's a very laborious, very carefully monitored process that requires a lot of precision."
The new Santa Cruz Highball in matte carbon grey
Santa Cruz have eschewed in-molded carbon headset bearing races – instead fitting the tapered head tube with an inset upper and external lower type headset – saying that the weight to be saved is less than most would expect. They've also specced the bike with a standard threaded alloy bottom bracket shell. The latter, it might be noted, is considered by just about every other player in the super-light carbon 29er hardtail game as a dinosaur that needed to be left behind for weight savings.
Nick Anderson, Santa Cruz's design engineer, said they could have dropped another 75g or more by using a press-fit design, but it was decided by internal committee that riders would prefer the more convenient compatibility the standard offers. "We do a lot of frame-only sales and we feel like our customers like having a bike with a threaded bottom bracket because it makes it a little more versatile," said Anderson. "We spent some time talking about whether or not we wanted to make it singlespeed compatible with either an eccentric [bottom bracket] or adjustable dropouts, but you just pay too big of a weight penalty to do that and so we decided just to keep it as a geared race bike."
"It wasn't important for us to be the absolute lightest," he continued. " But we wanted to be lighter than mostly everything. At a certain point there's a weight/durability trade-off and if you make a bike 10 percent lighter, it's not 10 percent weaker, it's like half as strong. So we tried to find a balance where we were as light or lighter than the competition, but not to the point that it's a road bike."
Still, Santa Cruz claim that, equipped with an XTR drivetrain, a Fox F29RLC tapered steerer fork and a 32-spoke wheelset (with tubes), a medium Highball weighs just 21.93lb (9.95kg). That's light, considering that plenty of room is left for weight weenies to shave grams. Of note, the Highball is compatible with SRAM's narrowest XX crank Q-factor of 156mm. The frame comes in two colors — matte carbon grey or gloss carbon red — and costs US$1,899. Complete bikes start at $3,099.
Tallboy Aluminum
We needn't say much about the new aluminum Tallboy; it's simply a replica of the carbon version that's welded from Santa Cruz's custom drawn and butted aluminum. "The Tallboy is continually blowing away our expectations in terms of how it's selling," said Ferrentino. "The market, right now, is screaming for 29in-wheel bikes.
"With the exception of the Blur XC, we've generally paired carbon and aluminum — we come out with an aluminum bike and then we come out with the carbon bike. Now we're at the point where there's enough demand for the Tallboy and enough people who'd like to have a similar but less expensive option that it was pretty much a no-brainer."
The Tallboy has been so popular in the 29er segment that Santa Cruz has now molded it from aluminum as to further broaden its reach
The aluminum Tallboy features the same 4in-travel VPP suspension design complete with angular contact bearings, oversized axles and grease ports as the carbon version, the same geometry and tapered head tube. "The only real difference is that we didn't make a double extra large, which we do make in carbon," said Josh Kissner, Santa Cruz's product manager.
While the difference, on paper, between the two bikes simply comes to material and weight, the actual difference to the discerning or punishing rider is said to be greater. "By going to carbon, it weighs less, it's stiffer and it's stronger," said Ferrentino. "Any time with aluminum, you're going to have a heavy frame that probably isn't going to be as strong.
The aluminum Tallboy features the same 4in (100mm) travel VPP system as the original
"[However] we still have desired ride and handling characteristics that we have to hit, minimums of strength… and our previous experience with aluminum gives us a pretty good idea of where we want to aim things." Trading aluminum for carbon adds a bit of weight, which brings a medium frame up to 6.6lb (2,993g), but reduces the price to $1,850.
Complete bike prices start at just $2,299 with Shimano's 10-speed Deore drivetrain and a RockShox Recon fork, while the mostly Shimano XT 'SPX XC' build kit with Fox F29 120 RLC fork costs $4,199, with a claimed weight of 27lb (12.2kg). The aluminum Tallboy is offered in Santa Cruz's complete range of powder coated colors.
Blur TRc
"The TRc is a VPP 5in trail bike that fills a hole in our line-up and at the same time is another twist on what a trail bike is," said Ferrentino. "[The Blur] LT is a little bit more bike than some people might want. This thing is a 5lb frame, 5in-travel bike, but it has this kicked out 68-degree head angle, very similar to what the Nickel is in geometry."
The swoopy frame packages cross-country weight with slack all-mountain angles
"It's a bike we wanted to make," he continued. "I'm not sure where the race market is going, but it's light enough and it pedals well enough that it would be fine as a race bike for marathoners and such. But I don't know if they're still stuck wanting steep twitchy bikes; the head angle on this bike, being as relaxed as it is, might trip some people out."
Equipped with a 130mm-travel fork, the TRc sports a 68-degree head tube. Its bottom bracket keeps in line with the gravity-bred nature of the bike at 13.1in, while many of the other angles skew toward the cross-country side of the spectrum, including a 72.5-degree seat angle and 23in top tube. The TRc is reminiscent of the late model Blur 4X, a bike which some at Santa Cruz say was ahead of its time.
That discontinued model, with 115mm of travel, was stiff — it shared a down tube with the VP Free — and slack, as is the new bike, but was missing one key feature that Santa Cruz's carbon manufacturing now allows: a super-light weight. Like all of Santa Cruz's carbon models the TRc features carbon dropouts, as well as molded carbon upper swing link, disc brake and shock mounts. Finishing details include a secondary carbon chainstay protector (for both top and bottom sides) and stainless steel chainstay chain-suck plate.
The Blur TRc's frame is built to be stronger and stiffer than that of the XC model, but has a claimed weight of just 5lb (2,267g) with shock. We weighed our medium demo model after our first ride on it and – with Shimano XTR, Formula the One brakes, a DT Swiss 240 level wheelset, Fox RP23 shock and F130RLC fork, RockShox Reverb dropper post, Shimano XT pedals and some Utah mud – it weighed 25.33lb. Santa Cruz claims 24lb even, without the Reverb or pedals.
Like all of Santa Cruz's carbon VPP bikes, all of the shock and linkage anchor points are molded from carbon
It's a unique bike that's primed to find place in a gravity rider's stable as a cross-country bike or as a progressive trail rider's all-rounder. It's at home anywhere speeds are high and terrain is too tame for the travel of an LT or Nomad. "My personal bike is a Nomad," said Anderson. "If I were to pick two bikes, I'd pick a Nomad and an XC, which are kind of at the two extremes of the kind of riding I like to do, but if you can only afford one bike, something like the TRc starts to make more sense."
"It's all about finding the perfect bike for your conditions," said Kissner. "I'd argue it's the perfect bike for Santa Cruz (California), the trails that we ride. They're steep but they're fairly smooth, with jumps and tons of corners, and the thing rips. The Nickel does fill that niche, but you get pretty spoiled riding the carbon stuff and you want that."
Santa Cruz have two schools of fit within their line; the TRc has a longer top tube that falls in line with their endurance oriented models (basically anything with less than 140mm of travel), while bikes like the Blur LTc and Nomad, along with the Butcher and the even bigger bikes in the line, have substantially shorter top tubes.
Essentially, the TRc fills the same space at the Nickel trail bike, but in carbon and with VPP rather than APP suspension. It's considerably more expensive, however, at $2,699 for a frame with Fox RP23 rear shock; complete bikes start at $3,799. The Blur TRc will be available in matte carbon with green details or gloss carbon with orange details.


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Palestinians set to win indirect UN statehood; China considers attending US military drill in the Pacific; South Korea's top nuclear envoy in China to discuss North Korea's missile launch plans; Kosovo's former leader cleared of war crimes; Chavez in Cuba for cancer treatment; and more
Top of the Agenda: Palestinians Set to Win UN Enhanced Status
Palestine is likely to secure indirect UN statehood recognition in a vote on Thursday that would change its UN observer status from an "entity" to a "non-member state," implicitly recognizing (Reuters) the sovereign state of Palestine. The vote could possibly result in Palestinian membership to the International Criminal Court, as well as other UN agencies. The vote is expected to pass easily in the 193-nation General Assembly, although Israel and the United States, which have consistently opposed the resolution, are expected to vote against it. Thousands of Palestinians gathered (AlJazeera) across the West Bank and Gaza to demonstrate support for the fresh attempt after a bid for full UN membership failed last fall when the United States announced it would veto the effort until there was a negotiated peace deal with Israel.
"Some are questioning what Palestine's oft-termed 'UN bid' represents. The enhancement of Palestine's status at the UN is our sovereign right, anchored in the spirit and letter of international law. Self-determination is an inalienable right, enshrined in the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," writes Nabil Shaath for Haaretz
"After the United Nations vote, Abbas will presumably return to his West Bank headquarters where the realities will be exactly as he left them: Israel occupies all of Jerusalem and the majority of the West Bank. Nothing that happens in New York will have changed that. The Palestinians will have forfeited their 65-year long moral claim as that of a stateless people. Now, they will have a virtual state, but not one where it counts–on the ground," writes Robert Danin for CFR.
"Regardless of what the Palestinian president achieves on paper at the UN, when the celebrations are over he will have to revise a political strategy that has so far failed to translate the Palestinian dream of statehood into a reality on the ground," writes Barbara Plett for the BBC.
China to Consider Attending U.S. Military Drill
China's Defense Ministry said on Thursday it was considering a U.S. invitation to attend military drills (Reuters) in the Pacific following a visit from the U.S. navy secretary to Beijing. The invitation comes after U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urged China in September to expand military relations with the United States.
SOUTH KOREA: South Korea's top nuclear envoy left for China Thursday for a two-day trip (Yonhap) to discuss North Korea's recent preparation for the launch of a long-range missile.
CFR's Scott Snyder discusses South Korea's launch and North Korea's satellite envy in this blog post.
Kosovo's former leader cleared of war crimes
Chavez in Cuba for cancer treatment
This is an excerpt of the CFR.org Daily News Brief. The full version is available on CFR.org.


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USA coach Hugh McCutcheon: "Our team was quite good defensively tonight. We got some transition opportunities and that turned things our way. This win was important on lots of levels after the loss to Italy (on Sunday). It puts us in a good position going into tomorrow's game against Brazil."
USA captain Jennifer Tamas: "This was a better match for us. We did a good job on our passing and receiving. We have a big game tomorrow and have to be ready."
Netherlands coach Avital Selinger: "The US deserved to win. They dominated at the net and in defence. We were not able to play our game. We had trouble with the rhythm of our attack and were on the defensive most of the time."
Netherlands captain Manon Flier: "They did a good job. We didn't play our own game. Our outside hitters played well, but not the rest of our team. I am kind of disappointed by the result."


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With MAGNETOM Spectra we are closing the gap between brilliant 3T imaging and cost sensitivity. MAGNETOM Spectra combines outstanding 3T image quality and typical Siemens product quality.
"MAGNETOM Spectra was an excellent choice. It has given us 3T capability. It produces high-resolution images and it fulfilled all of our expectations – from head to toe. (...)
Of course economics is one of the major important issues. Funding for any MRI is a big issue. To make any project successful the total cost of ownership should be less. Siemens has brought in a 3 Tesla with the latest technology. If 3T MAGNETOM Spectra would not have been offered to us, we would not have gone into the 3T segment at all." 1
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Chennai, India
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Improper Grooming
Grooms-to-be, we need to talk.
Your future wife has probably been planning her dream wedding since puberty. So your job is to pick a groom's cake that shows you gave this one small decision more than 5 minutes' thought with a Magic 8 Ball while you waited for Halo to load.
So. A few tips:
- Don't give your infantile friends the chance to make "Big Melon" jokes:
Because you know they will, and probably to your future mother-in-law.
- While we're at it, don't give your friends any openings for "limp hose" jokes, either.
They'll probably save those for their toasts.
("Good luck in China!")
- Also avoid any implication that you're having a shotgun wedding...
(...and that multiple shots were required)
...or that you were a sitting duck.
(That is a cake, right? The masterful camouflage is making it so hard to see!)
- And finally, never, EVER, give your friends and family a reason to think your marriage might go down the crapper:
Thanks to Todd Kim, Anon M., Katie L., Allison, Anna C., Anon., and Solli S. for joining me in a rousing rendition of "Here Comes the Snide."


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Book of Mazarbul
The record of Balin's return to Moria with a group of Longbeard Dwarves in T.A. 2989.
Mazarbul means "records" in Khuzdul. This name was used in connection with the Chamber of Records of Khazad-dûm and the Book of Records found in that chamber.
The Books
History & Contents
The Book of Mazarbul was begun in T.A. 2989, upon Balin's return to Moria. The book recounted a battle with the Orcs that inhabited the old halls of Khazad-dûm, in which Balin's Dwarves were victorious. They settled in the Twenty-first Hall, above the East-gate, and Balin himself ruled his new domain from the old Chamber of Records, also called the Chamber of Mazarbul. Over the next five years, the Dwarves seem to have settled quite successfully into their new home, exploring under the Mountains as far as the West-gate of Moria, and recovering Durin's Axe and apparently other priceless items made of mithril.
The Lordship of Balin was short-lived. Ori, who was with him in Moria, recorded in the last pages of the Book how an army of Orcs came unexpectedly out of the east, slaying Balin outside the East-gate. The Dwarves defended themselves, but they were beleaguered from the the east by the Orcs, and from the west by the mysterious Watcher in the Water. Their last stand was in the Chamber of Mazarbul, where the Orcs eventually overcame and destroyed them.
The victorious Orcs seem not to have understood the significance of the Book, so that rather than carrying it off or destroying it, they left it to rot in the Chamber. There it was found twenty-four years later by the Company of the Ring, burned, slashed and blood-stained, and missing a number of pages, but still readable in some parts. Gandalf passed it to Gimli to return to King Dáin, after which nothing more is heard about it. If Gimli was able to keep it through the battles that followed, and didn't discard it with his gear at Parth Galen, it is possible that he carried it throughout his travels in Middle-earth, returning it at last to Dáin's heir Thorin III in Erebor.
Composition Details
The Book of Mazarbul was written by many different authors, using the runes of both Moria and Dale, as well as Elvish letters. The pages of the book were marked with numbers referring to the years after Balin's arrival in Moria. Tolkien created three sample pages from the book (the three read aloud by Gandalf in the Chamber of Mazarbul). In the actual Book of Mazarbul, these pages were separated by numerous other leaves.
First Page
The first page Tolkien created was the first page read aloud by Gandalf in the Book of Mazarbul. It was written using Angerthas Erebor. Tolkien justifies its use as likely in a diary, written quickly without attempt at calligraphy or meticulous consistency of spelling, by Dwarves from Dale. In writing the Common Speech, the Dwarves tended to blend its usual spelling with certain idiosyncratic phonetic usages. The Dwarves did not like to use any letter or rune in more than one value, nor to express a simple sound by combinations of letters. For a fuller discussion of the Book of Mazarbul runes and sample pages, see Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason of Isengard and J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator. This page is numbered at the top with the runic numeral "three".
Following is a translation of what is readable on this page, as transcribed by Christopher Tolkien:
- "We drove out the orcs from the Great Gate and guardroom and took the First Hall. We slew many in the bright sun in the dale. Flói was killed by an arrow. He slew the great chieftain…Floi under grass near Mirrormere…came…ken we repaired…We have taken the Twenty-first Hall of North End to dwell in. There is good air…that can easily be watched…the shaft is clear…Balin has set up his seat in the Chamber of Mazarbul…gathered…gold…wonderful lay Durin's Axe…silver helm. Balin has taken them for his own. Balin is now lord of Moria:…today we found truesilver…well-forged helm…n…coat made all of purest mithril…Óin to seek for the upper armories of the Third Deep…go westwards to s…to Hollin gate."
Gandalf was able to make out a little less of the page in the dim light of the Chamber of Mazarbul than what is presented above, but he noted that "the top page is marked one-three, so at least two [pages] are missing from the beginning". Following is what Gandalf read:
- "We drove out orcs from the Great Gate and guardroom. We slew many in the bright sun in the dale. Flói was killed by an arrow. He slew the great….Flói under grass near Mirrormere…We have taken the Twenty-first Hall of North End to dwell in. There is…shaft…Balin has set up his seat in the Chamber of Mazarbul…gold…Durin's Axe…helm…Balin is now lord of Moria. [Gandalf assumes this is the end of a chapter]…we found truesilver…well-forged…mithril….Óin to seek for the upper armories of the Third Deep…go westwards…to Hollin gate."
Second Page
This second page created by Tolkien was written using Tengwar of the later Westron convention. Gandalf described the text as written by "a large bold hand using an Elvish script", which Gimli describes as Ori's hand. The runic figure at the bottom of the page is the numeral "five".
Following is Christopher Tolkien's transcription of the page:
- "r…(ye)ars since…ready sorrow…yesterday being the tenth of November Balin, lord of Moria, fell in Dimrill Dale. He went alone to look in Mirrormere. An orc shot him from behind a stone. We slew the orc, but many more ca(me)…(u)p from east up the Silverlode…we rescued Balin's body…re a sharp battle…we have barred the gates but doubt if…can hold them long. If there is…no escape it will be a horrible fate to suffer, but I shall hold."
Gandalf notes that the pages begin to be numbered "five", meaning the fifth year of the colony. Following is what Gandalf was able to make out:
- "…sorrow…yesterday being the tenth of November Balin, lord of Moria, fell in Dimrill Dale. He went alone to look in Mirrormere. An Orc shot him from behind a stone. We slew the orc, but many more…up from east up the Silverlode…we have barred the gates…can hold them long if…horrible…suffer…"
Third Page
Tolkien's third and final sample page was the last page of the Book of Mazarbul read aloud by Gandalf. It is written in Angerthas Erebor, similar to that of the first page, but with a different hand and different details in the runes, except for the last line ("a trailing scrawl of elf-letters"), written in Tengwar. The page seems to be numbered at the top.
Christopher Tolkien's transcription of the page follows:
- "We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the bridge and Second Hall. Frár and Lóni and Náli fell there bravely while the rest retr…Mazarbul. We still ho…g...but hope u…n…Óin's party went five days ago but today only four returned. The pool is up to the wall at West-gate. The Watcher in the Water took Óin--we cannot get out. The end comes soon. We hear drums, drums in the deep. They are coming."
Gandalf makes out this much:
- "We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the bridge and Second Hall. Frár and Lóni and Náli fell there…went five days…the pool is up to the wall at West-gate. The Watcher in the Water took Óin. We cannot get out. The end comes...drums, drums in the deep. They are coming."
Tolkien's Comments
The use of English to represent the Common Speech in primary sources such as the pages of the Book of Mazarbul was a result of Tolkien's vision of completely translating all Westron into modern English, even in authentic documentation, although upon reflection Tolkien said that this translation was "an erroneous extension of the general linguistic treatment" (The Peoples of Middle-Earth, pp. 298-9: "Of Dwarves and Men").
Tolkien comments on his general treatment of the Book of Mazarbul pages: "...the text was cast into English spelt as at present, but modified as it might be by writers in haste whose familiarity with the written form was imperfect, and who were also (on the first and third pages) transliterating the English into a different alphabet."; "...since documents of this kind nearly always show uses of letters or shapes that are peculiar and rarely or never found elsewhere, a few such features are also introduced..." (same reference as above, pp. 298-9). Thus, the Book of Mazarbul showcases some slightly different distributions of certain English sounds.
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Book II: Chapter 5: The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
- The Lord of the Rings: Appendix E
- Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien: "Leaves from the Book of Mazarbul"
- The Treason of Isengard: Appendix on Runes
- J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator
- The Peoples of Middle-earth: "Of Dwarves and Men"
The Films
The Book of Mazarbul appears on screen nearly identical to its description in the book. The outer cover decoration is of typical Dwarven design and the inside pages are written in a variety of different styles, using Angerthas Erebor (and, presumably, Angerthas Moria), as well as Tengwar.
Cover and Interior Runes
The outside cover of the Book of Mazarbul in the films reads:
- "Records (of the) Longbeards of Khazad-dûm".
The first page of the book read by Gandalf in the movie is written using Cirth (Angerthas Erebor) and Tengwar (full mode), perhaps written by Ori. A number of leaves before this page fall out when Gandalf opens the book. This apparently is the second to the last page. The translation is as follows:
- Cirth: "And so we come to our final hope. Óin is going to the West-gate to see if we can escape that way."
- Tengwar: "The orcs have taken all the lower levels and the upper halls to the fifth level. Our stores of food are running low and we have no water to drink. Unless Oin can find a way out at the West-gate, we are doomed whether the orcs get us or not."
The last page of the book is written using Cirth (Angerthas Erebor) and Tengwar (full-vowel mode). The translation is as follows:
- Cirth: "We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the bridge and Second Hall. Frár and Lóni and Náli fell there bravely whil the rest retreated to Mazarbul. We still hold the chamber but hope is fading now. Óin's party went five days ago but today only four returned. The pool is up to the wall at West-gate. The Watcher in the Water took Óin----we cannot get out. The end comes soon. We hear drums, drums in the deep."
- Tengwar: "They are coming."
What Gandalf Reads
In Scene 35 (Balin's Tomb) of Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf reads a portion of the Book of Mazarbul. The results of his translation of the runes are as follows (with lines not found on the last two pages in italics):
- While looking at the second to last page: "They have taken the bridge and the second hall. (last page) We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes, drums...drums in the deep. (last page)"
- While looking at the last page: "We cannot get out. (last page) A shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out.... (last page) They are coming. (last page)"
What Gandalf is reading seemingly does not always correspond with the page he is viewing when doing so. He also "reads" a few lines not seen in the viewable pages. It has been suggested that Gandalf was glancing simultaneously at three pages of text, reading and translating them in his mind and then uttering the results of his thought process all the while to the Fellowship. In other words, he was composing a translation quickly from three separate pages, perhaps including one of the pages that fell out of the book when he opened it. "We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long" is a phrase from Tolkien's second sample page of the Book of Mazarbul, so this is likely from one the pages that initially fell out of the book.
Behind the Scenes
The outside cover of the Book of Mazarbul was probably designed by Alan Lee in typical Dwarven fashion. The interior pages were penned by Daniel Reeve. Tolkien's third sample page was copied almost exactly to create the last page of the book, with a few additions to fill in the missing pieces. The page before this was written in as close a manner as possible to Tolkien's original samples.
- Fellowship of the Word-smiths: Other Movie Inscriptions - A web page discussing many inscriptions from the movies, including those found within the Book of Mazarbul.
- Alan Lee's The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook: "Moria"
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Original Location: Khazad-dûm | North End | Seventh Level | Twenty-first Hall | Chamber of Mazarbul


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Friday, April 16, 2010
Welcome FredDotLew to the T-Dot-O
Lewis is a guy who struggled to find a full time spot in a big league lineup, and when things went well for him, he managed a little bit of power, a bit more speed and a pretty-good-but-not-otherworldly OPS. And on defense, don't even ask us because we have no idea how to parse through the factors that allow a man to have both a +29.3 and a -59.9 UZR/150, as though some days he's Willie Mays and some days he's Pete Incaviglia.
Maybe this is overly glib, but given the description above, there's a part of us that keeps thinking of Fred Lewis as the Black Reed Johnson. (Although without Johnson's JV girls field hockey running style, which is a big plus.)
Still, this is a pretty snazzy deal for the Jays, who give up pretty much nothing and get a decent player who profiles well as a leadoff guy (.355 career OBP) and who can step into any of the outfield positions in a pinch. His presence immediately send Jeremy Reed back to Vegas, and gives the Jays some additional strength off the bench.
Of course, that's as things stand today. Where this acquisition gets really interesting is in a week or so, when Aaron Hill comes back from the DL. When the music stops at that point, who is left scrambling to find themselves one of the 25 seats? Is it Randy Ruiz, who is getting no love from The Manager anyhow? Does Travis Snider return to Sin City? Does Jo-Bau slide to third, leaving EE without a spot? Does Lyle Overbay get paid to sit at home and explore further adventures in facial hair?
And maybe the most important question that this trade raises: Is Ghostrunner on First's Lloyd the Barber a Savant, a Soothsayer, a Witch or a Double-Agent, sent by Alex Anthopoulos to infiltrate the Jays blogosphere.
FredDotLew is a social media monster
Love the story, as recounted by Big League Stew, of how Lewis broke the news of his trade via his Facebook page. That's so 2007! Lewis is all over the interwebs, so he may end up wresting the mantle of Most Beloved Jay on the Internet from the rehabbing Dirk Hayhurst. The Pinch Runner's Gospels, anyone?
Travis Snider is a lovable dude
Speaking of the Rosy-Cheeked Phenom, his bat flip on his first homer of the year gave us a little jolt of happiness in the depth of our cockles. Pair that up with a beauty of a diving catch, and our belief in Snider grew exponentially last night.
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Snider looked good last night! Looks like the night off may have helped him, is there any chance that Clarence would consider giving the same treatment to Overbay?
That diving catch was a little scary, however it was also AWESOME. I'm not certain I have ever seen someone dive for the ball and still have to make the catch over their shoulder, almost behind his head. Will Snider's defensive critics please take a long walk off a short pier now?!
- April 16, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- dave57 said...
Good post, Must say I'm excited for the Fred Lewis era to begin in TO. I am thinking that this may end up being a precursor to an E5 trip to the DL. Hopefully playing everyday agrees with Lewis I am sure Cito will find a place for a toolsy black guy pretty quick.
Love the Cracker post as well. Brought me right back to the angst-filled days of my youth.
- April 16, 2010 at 11:10 AM
- The Ack said...
I don't think Mike McCoy is long for the bigs when Hill returns, though I wonder if Cito would be concerned about infield depth if they do farm him out. They can't send Snider down.....
And, I bought Kerosene Hat....twice (goddamned jackal roommates). I wasn't all that angry of a young man, though.
- April 16, 2010 at 11:12 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I just think that McCoy is too versatile to get sent down. Can play 2nd, short in a pinch, and anywhere in the outfield.
But I guess the more that I think about it, Fred covers off a good chunk of what McCoy did, so yeah, maybe.
I'm actually listening to Kerosene Hat at work. "Girl, you're a beautiful animal...I'll put a tag on your ear."
- April 16, 2010 at 11:20 AM
- QJays said...
If Drew is the means by which the Jays run a pseudo-democratic enterprise, I'm all for it ... so long as they aren't fiddling with the graphics to misinform us.
Hmmm ... so why is Clarence still here?
- April 16, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- The Ack said...
I played the shit outta those discs. Low, Let's go for a ride, Get off this, etc.
Ya know, I think there might be something to your Ruiz musings here. In the preseason, the Manager always made a point to say "this guy could hit 20 HR if he could just get the at-bats....".
Well, he aint getting the at-bats. Perhaps they dump him to someone looking for a platoon DH bat, though I can't imagine who's looking so early in the season.
And it's not like he's the future 1B in waiting. When is the arb date for Wallace and his fucking awesome reverse platoon splits?
- April 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM
- dave57 said...
In the end I can't see them sending Ruiz down simply because they don't even have a spot to play him in LV. Though he does have a bobblehead night coming up down there.
McCoy could be the odd man out but you have to love his versatility.
I would like to see Overbay shipped anywhere to get rid of the logjam but hes definitely not helping his trade value right now.
- April 16, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- eyebleaf said...
Great post, Tao. Love a good Incaviglia reference. And "Black Reed Johnson" is certainly going to take off, I can feel it.
I believe I read last night that McCoy's got options, so it might be him.
AA really needs to get rid of Overbay. Blimey.
- April 16, 2010 at 12:08 PM
Am I stupid to think it wouldn't be hard to trade EE? It's not like he makes that much and he can be a potent bat.
- April 16, 2010 at 12:12 PM
- torbuf1 said...
I really hope DandyRandy is in the line up 2nite. Maybe if he showed more hustle rounding 3rd the other nite, Cito would play him more. His poor showing last year and dismal spring dont help things....F*****g PLAY RUIZ.
- April 16, 2010 at 12:33 PM
- Leaker19 said...
I miss Lyle's good ol' days, like April 10, 2010, when he was hitting a robust .105. Is Lyle in the middle of some sort of trade protest? He appears to be mailing it in. Overbay's continued stinky presence feels like a failure of the AA administration. But Teixeira is only hitting .091 in NY and nobody is running him out of Gotham, so what do I know?
- April 16, 2010 at 12:42 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Overbay is on a much shorter leash from the Jays fans than anyone else could be - including Teixeira. (Yanks also won the World Series, so there's a afterglow effect to that I suppose.)
Also, Tex is at the beginning of his stay in NY...Overbay is at the end. And some want him gone sooner rather than later.
Feel bad for Lylo.
- April 16, 2010 at 12:50 PM
- mathesond said...
Don't forget, Cracker's opening for the Rev. Horton Heat in a few weeks.
- April 16, 2010 at 12:52 PM
Cracker! David Lowery rocks!
Was Eurotrash girl on Kerosene Hat?
First and maybe only time I won tickets on CFNY was to see a free show by Cracker in an alley way in Toronto. I also saw what Allan Cross looked like, back in the old days before the interweb when you had no idea what radio people looked like.
Fred Lewis or Snider in RF?
- April 16, 2010 at 1:06 PM
Let the Freddy Lewis era begin! And that catch last night was pure Sniderman!
- April 16, 2010 at 1:44 PM
- Leaker19 said...
I don't feel too bad for Lyle. His contract for the last three plus seasons could be considered robbery. He's got 8 million friends to keep his mind off things at the office. I know, I know, he didn't hold a gun to J.P.'s head to get the money, but a little return on investment would be nice. I'm sorry people, witnessing his succession of pitiful plate appearances is making me crazy.
- April 16, 2010 at 3:02 PM
- SP said...
I want to believe that Snider was just mocking Quentin with that exaggerated bat flip
- April 16, 2010 at 4:41 PM
- tao said...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey and one of the most experienced and successful coaches in the United States, has been named the head coach of the 2011 U.S. National Junior Team. The appointment marks Allain's third stint as head coach of a U.S. National Junior Team, having taken on the role in 2001 and 2002.
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A former starting goaltender for Yale, Allain began his coaching career following a two-year (1980-82) stint playing professional hockey in Sweden. He served as an assistant coach for Yale from 1982-85 before returning to Sweden to coach and serve as a scout for the National Hockey League's Washington Capitals. Allain served as an assistant coach for the Capitals from 1993-97, and helped Jim Carey win the 1996 Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top goaltender. He went on to be the goalie coach for the NHL's St. Louis Blues from 1998-2006 before arriving at Yale.