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English Style Guide
This guide is directed towards transcribers and translators who work in English. It contains guidelines about English spelling and punctuation conventions, line-breaking issues and common mistakes, as well as tips on how to make your English subtitles in the TED Translators program a better source text for translations into other languages.
- 1 Avoiding character display errors: simple quotes, apostrophes and dashes and rich formatting
- 2 American or British English
- 3 Numbers
- 4 Line breaking and subtitle ending
- 5 How to make your subtitles a good source for translations
- 6 Common mistakes
- 6.1 Capitalize "Black" and Other Racial Identifiers
- 6.2 Converting units of length and weight
- 6.3 "Gonna," "wanna," "kinda," "sorta," "gotta," "'cause"
- 6.4 "I got" vs "I've got"
- 6.5 Literal translation of idioms
- 6.6 Overusing dashes and ellipses / dots
- 6.7 Removing multiple connectors ("and," "so," etc.)
- 6.8 Translating proper names
- 7 References
Avoiding character display errors: simple quotes, apostrophes and dashes and rich formatting
Using smart/curly double quotes ("") in subtitles is precarious, because some players will have trouble displaying them correctly. Use the simple, straight ASCII double quote (") or the straight apostrophe (') for single quotes. The rule is similar for apostrophes: use the straight apostrophe (') instead of the typographic/curly apostrophe ('). Instead of an en/em dash (–/—), use a hyphen (-). Note: It's OK to use conventional punctuation (e.g. full en dashes) in video titles and descriptions (as opposed to subtitles).
Similarly, you should not use HTML tags or any other formatting tags in English subtitles.
American or British English
You can use either American and British spelling and punctuation rules, but please select one of the conventions and use it consistently in your subtitles. You may consider making the first note in the Amara editor one that states if you've used American or British English in order to better inform the reviewer. As a reviewer, don't change the spelling and punctuation rules to your preferred variety of English if the subtitles use US or British English consistently (for the most part).
Spelling conventions
Some of the American and British differences in spelling are largely regular (e.g. -our in BrE and -or in AmE, e.g. colour vs. color), but there are other differences that are more difficult to predict. You can learn more in this Wikipedia article.
In American English, separate dots / ellipses from other words with a space, before and after the dots (do not send subtitles back if there's no space before and after ellipses, as this should be considered a minor punctuation issue).
In British English, please use single quotation marks ('...') on the outside of the quote and double quotation marks ("...") for quotes within quotes. American usage is the opposite – double quotation marks on the outside and single quotation marks for quotes within quotes.
In British English, periods and commas at the end of a quote are placed after the closing quotation mark. Note that in British English, periods and commas that are part of the person's speech are placed inside the quotation marks[1]. Consider these examples:
- Comma not originally part of the quoted text:
- American English: "In fact, Friday," she said, "is the best day of the week."
- British English: 'In fact, Friday', she said, 'is the best day of the week.'
- Comma originally part of the quoted text:
- American English: "In fact," she said, "Friday is the best day of the week."
- British English: 'In fact,' she said, 'Friday is the best day of the week.'
Spell out numbers from 1 to 9, and use digits for numbers 10 and above. It is OK to occasionally use digits for numbers 1–9 if that is necessary to help fix reading speed issues. Also, for numbers higher than 999,999, it is OK to use a word like "million," "billion" etc. with a numerical modifier, e.g. "1.6 million" instead of "1,600,000." Use your best judgment – sometimes, it may be easier to use digits, especially when trying to maintain a good reading speed, e.g. "1,000,012" instead of "one million and twelve." See also the section on converting units of length and weight below.
Names of large numbers (billion vs trillion)
When translating into English, make sure to use the short-scale number terms. Be careful when dealing with "false friends," which are terms that sound similar across languages but mean something different depending on the large number naming convention. For example, the French billion translates to trillion in English, while the English billion is the equivalent of the French milliard. To find the right equivalent, figure out what the number means in the source language and then look through this Wikipedia article to find the English short-scale term.
Line breaking and subtitle ending
Every subtitle whose length exceeds 42 characters must be broken into two lines. No subtitle can go beyond the total length of 84 characters. Generally, each line should be broken only after a linguistic "whole" or "unit," no matter if it's the only line in the subtitle, or the first or second line in a longer subtitle. This means that sometimes it's necessary to rephrase the subtitle in order to make it possible to break lines without breaking apart any linguistic units, e.g. splitting apart an adjective and the noun that it refers to. For important and useful rules regarding line breaking in any language, see this guide. Below, you will find additional English-specific line breaking advice:
- Keep forms of the verb "to be" with the predicate (Jack/is a girl not Jack is/a girl) and with the subject pronoun (we are/here not we/are here)
- Keep complex grammatical forms together (Jack has been working/in Spain not Jack has/been working in Spain)
- Don't break lines or end subtitles after contracted forms of verbs (Remember that book?/It's here not Remember that book? It's/here)
- Keep the "to" infinitive together (It's not difficult/to eat slowly not It's not difficult to/eat slowly)
- Keep articles and nouns together (Paris is/a city in France not Paris is a/city in France)
- Keep there + to be (there is, there was, there has been... etc.) together (I heard/there is fruit not I heard there/is fruit)
- Keep relative pronouns (that, which, whose etc.) together with the clause they introduce (I didn't know/that the dog was blue not I didn't know that/the dog was blue)
- Don't separate a pronoun used as the subject of a clause from the verb/component (e.g. I call her up;/she responds not I call her up; she/responds)
- If at all possible, don't break the line or subtitle after determiners: adjectives, numerals, demonstratives (like this or those), possessives (like his or the dog's) or quantifiers (like some, any, every, a lot of, etc.)
- Prepositions (in, on, under, etc.) should not be followed by a line break if the break would separate them from the noun they refer to. Note: A preposition usually precedes a noun (or a "noun phrase," like the big dog), and cannot be followed by a line break. However, in English, a preposition that is part of a phrasal verb (put up, figure out, take in, etc.) may sometimes not be followed by a noun (I figured it out yesterday). Prepositions that are part of phrasal verbs can often be followed by a line break.
Examples of correct line breaking
The examples below show places in a sentence where lines can be broken. The ideal places to break are marked by the green slashes, while the orange slashes indicate places where it would be OK to break the line if breaking at the green slashes were not possible. Note that you don't normally break lines that do not exceed 42 characters; the examples below are simply used to show various grammatical contexts where a sentence can be broken, not to suggest that you should break subtitles into very short lines.
- "This is a very long,/verbose piece/of prose/that no one knows/and no one/will remember."
Notes: Breaking lines at clause boundaries is usually a good strategy, and commas and conjunctions (like "and") often indicate clause boundaries. The first orange slash breaks up a clause but keeps together a noun+verb combination; "of" is a preposition and the line break should not follow it. The second orange line break separates a subject from the predicate. This is not ideal, but it's better than breaking the line after "will," since if possible, auxiliary verbs should not be separated from other verbs in grammatical constructions.
- "Mary wants/to go/to the store,/but as far as I know,/all the stores/are closed/on Translation Day."
Notes: The green slashes are again placed at clause boundaries. The first orange slash is there to make sure that the word "to" is not separated from the infinitive, and the second is placed so as not to separate "to" from the noun phrase that the preposition refers to ("the store"). Remember that the orange slashes are various imperfect line-breaking options, and would never be used at the same time to create short lines; the point is, if you have to, you can break the clause after "wants" or after "to go." The third orange slash separates a subject from the predicate, but avoids separating the auxiliary verb ("are") from the participle ("closed"). In other words, line breaks should be placed in ways that don't split up complex grammatical constructions. The last orange slash splits off an adverbial, an expression that tells us something about a sentence or a verb, and thus, can often be put into the next line, as something "extra" that describes the sentence.
- "I woke up,/jet-lagged,/at 4 in the morning,/in my new bed,/and right away I called/Annie Jayaraman,/to tell her/about my interview."
Notes: The example below contains some commas that are arguably redundant, but sometimes, you can "cheat" a little and add commas in places where part of the sentence can be considered a parenthesis, meaning a word or phrase that is interjected into a sentence to add some context or description, but could be left out without changing the "core" meaning of the sentence. For example, the word "jet-lagged" can be seen as an additional comment about the way the speaker awoke. You can easily break lines at the boundaries of such parentheses or interjections (usually set apart by commas), which is where the green slashes are placed. The orange slash after "called" indicates a line break that splits a verb from its complement or object, which should be used only if other breaks are not available. The second orange slash also separates a verb from its complement, but keeps intact the whole phrase that begins with the preposition "about."
How to make your subtitles a good source for translations
English transcripts, as well as translations from other languages into English, will often serve as the starting point for further translations. This is why it is advisable to think about the future translations while creating English subtitles, and to find ways to make it easier to spread the ideas in the English subtitles in other target languages.
Keeping sentences unsplit
Since the sentence structure in the target language may be very different than in English, the translator won't always be able to divide the subtitles to reflect the way in which the English sentence was split into subtitles. Keeping as much of one sentence together may help to make it easier, or possible, for the English subtitle to be translated into another language without merging or splitting subtitles in the process. You should always adhere to the 84 character per subtitle / 21 characters per second limit, but it may often be possible to create subtitles that contain complete clauses or sentences while still not going beyond those numbers.
Examples of convenient splitting
Separating parts of different sentences
While transcribing, don't put the end of one sentence and the beginning of another into a single subtitle. Even if the transcript keeps parts of two sentences together, you can fix that in your translation. Examples:
- Two clauses from different sentences in one subtitle:
which is how I solved this. And what I also noticed is that the blue light went on.
which is how I solved this. And what I also noticed is that the blue light went on.
- A small section of the next sentence in the second line:
Somehow, this worked really well in her garage. When you work on something big, you need to accept failure.
Somehow, this worked really well in her garage. When you work on something big, you need to accept failure.
Keeping relative clauses together
Here, we have sentences with relative clauses. If possible without breaking the reading speed and subtitle length limits (and if the subtitles don't have to be synchronized with important action in the video), try to keep the clauses together in one subtitle. Even if the transcript splits the sentence apart, you can fix it in your translation. Examples:
It's that very interesting book which I forgot about.
Optimized for translation
It's that very interesting book which I forgot about.
Keeping clauses unsplit
Sometimes, it's not possible to put one whole sentence into a subtitle (e.g. because of reading speed issues), but it may possible to keep a clause (part of the sentence) in a single subtitle, which is always easier for translation than when it is split. If the transcript splits up a clause, you can create one subtitle with a longer duration in your translation, and merge the little bits of the clause together. Examples:
This is the solution that I talked about at lunch yesterday, right after Ann joined us.
Optimized for translation
This is the solution that I talked about at lunch yesterday, right after Ann joined us.
Good reading speed
You should maintain the reading speed of every subtitle below 22 characters per second. In addition to the usual reasons (allowing every viewer to follow the subtitles while they are on the screen), the translation may be much longer than the English original, so the reading speed may easily grow in the target language. In order to maintain a good reading speed, you can rethink your subtitle splitting (perhaps the last few words can go into the next subtitle?) or modify the timing (be careful to keep the subtitles synchronized with the talk!), but in most cases, reducing the amount of text while keeping the meaning intact, also known as "compressing," is the default solution. To learn more about compressing subtitles, see this guide.
Common mistakes
Below, you will find a list of common mistakes found in English transcripts and translations.
Capitalize "Black" and Other Racial Identifiers
Capitalize Black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense, conveying an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa. When transcribing or translating into English, capitalize a person's race or ethnic identity: e.g., Black, Caucasian, Indigenous. Lowercase the term "white."
Converting units of length and weight
When translating into English, do not convert units into a different system than the one used in the original, e.g. from miles to kilometers or from meters to yards. English is used in various countries, each of which may use the metric system or a non-metric system. Because of this, it is safest to stick with what was used in the original talk.
"Gonna," "wanna," "kinda," "sorta," "gotta," "'cause"
Gonna, wanna, kinda, sorta, gotta and 'cause are ways of pronouncing going to, want to, kind of, sort of, have got to (usually with a contraction, i.e. "I've got to" etc.) and because, respectively. Do not use them in English subtitles. Instead, use the full form (e.g. going to where you hear gonna). The only exception is when the speaker uses these forms purposefully, to affect a certain kind of dialect or idiosyncrasy of speech.
"I got" vs "I've got"
Do not use "got" to mean "have," as in "You got a dog" (to mean "You have a dog"). To express the possessive meaning, use "have got," with "have" always abbreviated (e.g. "You've got a dog"). Without "have," the word "got" is the past of "get," meaning "obtain" ("You got a dog" means "You obtained a dog" or "You were given a dog").
While transcribing, when you hear a speaker use "got" as the equivalent of the possessive "have," add the abbreviated auxiliary verb "have" in your transcription (transcribe "You got a dog" as "You've got a dog").
Literal translation of idioms
Idioms are commonly known and used multi-word phrases with a metaphorical meaning. English examples of idioms would be to put the cart before the horse or to get to the point. When you come across an idiom while translating a talk into English, please do not translate it literally. Instead, try to focus on the actual meaning of the whole phrase, and then express the meaning in natural-sounding English. Idioms do not need to be translated as idioms; instead of trying to find an idiomatic phrase in English, which may sound outdated or forced, you can usually translate only the meaning of the idiom, which is like translating get to the point as don't digress instead of "please reach the goal." Do not try to translate the idiom literally, word for word, hoping that the viewer will understand the metaphor behind it. The meaning of the idiom in the original language may seem transparent to you, but many viewers with a different cultural background may not be able to understand it.
Overusing dashes and ellipses / dots
Please avoid overusing the dash (–). Because the consecutive parts of the sentence "disappear" when the subtitles change, the meaning and use of the dash in the sentence is less clear and more difficult to follow to the reader of subtitles than it is in "regular" text. In most cases, the dash can be changed into a comma or a period (creating a new sentence). If you do wish to use a dash, in subtitles, please use the hyphen ("minus sign") instead of the full dash (–), since in many players, the real dash character may not be visible. The full dash character may be used in titles and descriptions.
Separate the dash (or rather its hyphen equivalent) from words in the subtitle with a space. Place dashes at the end of a subtitle line, or inside it, never at the beginning of a line.
If you wish to indicate an accidental break in the sentence (the speaker's voice trails off), or an embedded thought or clause, use hyphens. However, indicate the speaker's intentional pauses (for emphasis, effect etc.) by using an ellipsis / dots.
Removing multiple connectors ("and," "so," etc.)
This item relates mostly to English transcripts. Subtitles are meant to represent natural (though relatively correct) speech, so the style should not be cleaned up too much, in order to prevent the subtitles from sounding unnecessarily formal and more like written language than speech. One common example is removing too many sentence-initial "and" and "so." While in written English, starting consecutive sentences with such connectors is often seen as a fault in style ("And it was complete. And I called my friend. And my friend was so surprised!"), in spoken English, such connectors often produce an unbroken stream of related clauses in the lack of formal connectors typical of written English (such as "accordingly," "what is more," etc.). Removing too many may make the subtitles sound disjointed, so leave as many as possible. Connectors may be removed to improve reading-speed issues, of course, and once you have gained a strong sense of how to slightly edit subtitles for clarity, it will be OK for you to remove a few initial and's. When in doubt, leave it in.
Translating proper names
Generally, proper names should not be translated. When you encounter a proper name, try to think about what the intended use of that proper name is in the given subtitle. In most cases, the speaker uses it to refer to something in the real world, so that people may either recall it if they have heard of it before, or look it up later. It is very rarely that speakers use the proper name just to share something about the name itself with the audience (e.g. a funny mistake in an established proper name, or a double entendre).
In some cases, there will be established, well-known English versions of proper names (e.g. the French Riviera for Côte d'Azur). If you can find an established English equivalent, you should use it in your translation. However, if there is no such established English translation, and the speaker is using a proper name to allow the audience to recall or look up something in the real world, coming up with your own translation of the proper name would make it impossible for the viewer to actually look that thing up (since Google hits for the equivalent you created would yield no result). In such cases, you should leave the original name. Do not add a translation in parentheses. Parentheses should only be used for sound representation (like "(Applause)"). If you feel that it is necessary to give the viewer a little information on what the proper name refers to in order to allow them to follow the rest of the talk, you can modify the proper name to give the viewer a hint about what kind of thing it refers to, e.g. if it's the name of a well-known research laboratory, you could paraphrase it as "the famous [proper name] research lab."
- ↑ Quotation Mark: Typographical considerations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Punctuation. Retrieved 2013-12-16.


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Four years ago I started the Monthly Mingle. 2006 and Germany was hosting the World Soccer Championship, making me choose my first theme for the Monthly Mingle in the heat of the nations craze - Football's Coming Home. It was a small mingle but I was happy for the turn out. Four years later and all eyes are turned towards South Africa and things with the Mingle seem to come full circle.
This World Soccer Championship promises to be one filled with a lot of emotion, culture and excitement. South Africa is a country that has always intrigued me and is definitely one of my dream destinations. Just like the country the cuisine of this gorgeous country is a kaleidoscope of flavors and aromas and truly worth the homage.
The pre-colonial South Africa was largely characterized by a variety of fruits, nuts, wild plants and game. Later the European colonists brought their cooking styles with them. Although the cuisine of South Africa is known as Cape Dutch, it was the slaves, imported from Bengal, Java and Malaysia, who influenced the food of South Africa more than anyone else.
With so many exceptional influences, South African dishes portray a wide array of ingredients, spices, herbs and flavors - a foodies dream!
For this Monthly Mingle I would like us to spread the buffet with colorful dishes from incredible South Africa. Whether it's a braai, bobotie or a briyani - anything goes. Do not be intimidated by South African cuisine - it's so full of wonderful variety that with a little bit of research you will be surprised at just how versatile it is. A great read on the cuisine of South Africa can be found here.
Here's how it works:
- Create a dish that fits the South Africa theme as described above.
- Post about it on your blog from now till 10 May 2010 (entries must be in English, please).
- Your creation should be prepared for the current Monthly Mingle theme and only shared with a maximum of 2 other blog events. Let's try and keep the creations as fresh as the ingredients you use.
- You must provide a link to this post and/or the official Monthly Mingle page.
- Once you've posted your dish, please fill the Monthly Mingle form to send me your entries.
You can easily access the form via the submission button on the sidebar under the Monthly Mingle "Come Mingle With Me" section or via the official Monthly Mingle page.
If you have any questions, queries or issues drop me an email at:
Never miss a mingle! Keep tabs as the Monthly Mingle travels around the world via the MM Calendar.
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The Kulluk, the Shell oil-drilling rig that washed aground last weekend, is afloat and being towed to shelter on Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska. The craft began its 30-mile trip late Sunday night. Examinations of the vessel have not found any signs of a leak.
Tow lines were secured to the Kulluk prior to its being refloated late Sunday. This morning, the Unified Command — a group that includes the Coast Guard, Shell Oil, and government officials — provided this update on the Kulluk's whereabouts:
"As of 7:30 a.m. Alaska Time [11:30 ET], the Kulluk remains in tow by the Aiviq traveling at approximately 3.5 knots (4 mph) in a northerly direction. The location of the Kulluk is approximately 9.6 nautical miles away from the planned anchored location in Kiliuda Bay."
Its escort ships are using infrared sensors to examine the water for any sign of a discharge from the vessel; so far, there have been none reported. The Coast Guard says it plans to send aircraft over the Kulluk at first light, "to look for any signs of sheen, weather permitting."
The effort to get the craft to safety now includes more than 730 people, according to the Unified Command. As it travels from its grounded position in Ocean Bay east and then north to Kiliuda Bay, the rig is being crewed by 10 members of a salvage team, along with a representative from Shell. It is also being escorted by the Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley, along with several tows from Seattle, Wash.
The craft's grounding has led to calls for an inquiry from members of Congress. As the AP reported last week, "The House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition called on the Interior Department and the Coast Guard to jointly investigate the New Year's Eve grounding of the Shell drilling vessel Kulluk on a remote Gulf of Alaska island, and a previous incident connected to Arctic offshore drilling operations in 2012."
"This is the latest in a series of alarming blunders, including the near-grounding of another of Shell's Arctic drilling rigs, the 47-year-old Noble Discoverer, in Dutch Harbor and the failure of its blowout containment dome, the Arctic Challenger, in lake-like conditions," wrote the coalition of 45 legislators, all of them House Democrats, in a statement.
A spokesman for Shell Alaska tells the AP that the company supports a public investigation of the grounding of the Kulluk.
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Thursday, April 3, 2008
Ratner's of 2nd Ave
In my post, I mentioned that Ratner's used to occupy the spot. A commenter wondered if there was, indeed, a Ratner's at 111 2nd Ave and if it was connected to the 97-year-old restaurant on Delancey. I began wondering about it myself and decided to do a little research--discovering a New York family mystery in the process.
Ratner's 2nd Ave was next to the Fillmore East (now a bank) and as such became a nighttime hangout for rock-n-roll legends like Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and The Grateful Dead. The "R" is still embedded in Met Foods' floor.
It's hard to find images of this long-lost Ratner's, but if you search for the better-memorialized "Fillmore East" you will see its neon sign shining next door. In this photo, you can see Ratner's awning--and that's Block Drugs on the far left.
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My search led me to street photographer Tony Marciante's amazing flickr page featuring many photos of New York in the 1960s and 70s, including a set from 1969 of a fire across the street from Ratner's. The fire is in a place called Hoagie's and So Forth, which is now the defunct Bamboo House (also check out the pet shop, Fish and Cheep's!).
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The Met Foods/Ratner's site is located in the Saul Birns Building, seen in the photo below as the big, white building with many windows, bookended by Fillmore East and little Moishe's Bakery. Saul Birns, also known as Saul Birnzweig, ran the Atlantic Talking Machine Company where he sold record players, many in the shape of baby grand pianos.
He was indicted in 1915 as a "phonograph swindler" for running a fraudulent mail order scheme that, according to the Times, "promised foreigners an opportunity of hearing their native songs produced on a talking machine, which would be sent them on free trial." But after Mr. Birns got his deposit money, he would pull a switcheroo, sending a cheap phonograph to the foreigners instead of the quality machine he'd promised. The Saul Birns Building is now part of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
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But back to Ratner's of 2nd Ave and the question of why it's been mostly forgotten and was it connected to the Delancey place.
It was owned by Abraham Harmatz, who died on May 29, 1974, the very day after his landmark dairy restaurant closed. In the Times article it says that "Ratner's had been a Second Avenue fixture for more than 50 years, a gastronomic diadem in the crown of what years ago was called the Jewish Rialto." It also states that "it is not connected" with the one on Delancey, "although they share common ancestors and have been run by different branches of the same family."
The first Ratner's opened on Pitt Street in 1908 under brothers Jacob and Harry Harmatz and brother-in-law Alex Ratner. Ratner left the shop and "The brothers went their separate ways as the business expanded" -- Jacob opened the Delancey Ratner's in 1918 (yes, this year would have been its 100th birthday, had it survived hipsterification) and Harry went to 2nd Ave around the same time. Harry begat Abraham, cousin to Jacob's son Harold who continued to run the Delancey location and who considered reopening the 2nd Ave site after Abraham's death, but this did not come to fruition.
Ratner's Delancey, similar neon typeface
In the extensive 2004 obit for Harold Harmatz, there is no mention of uncle Harry, after whom Harold was clearly named. It says only that father Jacob opened the Delancey place with brother-in-law Alex Ratner. Even in a correction at the end, the Times says they omitted other co-owners, some Zankel brothers, but again where's uncle Harry? This Wikipedia article also omits him.
So there is a mystery within this mystery. What does it mean that Jacob and Harry went their separate ways? Why has Harry and Abraham's 2nd Ave Ratner's been, in some weird way, stricken from history? I have to wonder, did they have a rift much like the Manganaros? If it was a family feud, the Delancey branch definitely won the claim to Ratner's fame.
Other than photographs, the only concrete evidence we have of Harry and Abraham's 2nd Ave restaurant is that R embedded in the floor of Met Foods.
69 comments:
Excellent job here. I love the Tony Marciante photos. Especially the last one in the fire series with the woman comforting a distraught parrot.
- April 3, 2008 at 9:54 AM
Bravo, Jeremiah. Excellent stuff.
I'm curious about the brothers now too. - April 3, 2008 at 10:02 AM
- JamesChanceOfficial said...
Fantastic post Jeremiah. I sent it to a friend whose father worked at Ratners although I'm not sure which location.
- Tim (Stupefaction) - April 3, 2008 at 10:04 AM
On the next block was Rappoports, also dairy and my grandfather's favorite. A victim of the 60's...sigh.
- April 3, 2008 at 10:07 AM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
thanks everybody--i am rather in love with this story, too--if you do know anyone who can shed light on the Harmatz brothers and their story, please do let me know.
- April 3, 2008 at 11:22 AM
This was fascinating! But do you think that in the future, people will write and readers will be fascinated by the stories of Trump et al who managed to destroy NYC? Will the short fingered vulgarians and their starchitectural combovers leave histories to merit any interest by the golden children of the future?
- April 3, 2008 at 12:44 PM
I myself have always thought that the period we're living in now (roughly 1999-to ?) will be of great histoical and sociological interest to future generations. Whether this interest will take the form of fawning admiration (as I'm sure the yunnie and his parents imagine it will) is somewhat more up in the air. ;)
In regards to the photos of Ratner's, isn't it a shame that locating photos of a decades-old neighborhood fixture is so difficult? To me, this really says a lot about the importance of photographic documentation. I'd recommend that everyone who can ought to take photos of the ordinary things they like in this city, especially now that personal cameras are so widespread, as the yunnie's flip-flopped footprint can come down hard on a neighborhood without very much advanced notice. - April 3, 2008 at 1:23 PM
I wonder if this 1969 fire was the same one which saw a plainsclothes cop take the stage at the Fillmore to clear the place out while the Who were premiering "Tommy" to American audiences. Seeing an interloper onstage, Pete Townshend reacted with his usual sang froid by kicking him in the balls (this was the same year he pounded Abbie Hoffman into the crowd at Woodstock with his guitar), and was arrested. He later pleaded to a lesser charge.
- April 3, 2008 at 2:04 PM
The fact of the matter is that the 2nd Ave Ratner's was not a step child of the "survivor" on Delancey Street. When my father was night manager from the late
50's until closing, the 2nd Avenue Ratner's did much better business than Delancey Street! And my father stocked the Fillmore's mezzanine food concession with Ratner's baked delicacies. (Ratner's free standing bakery was located a few doors north on 2nd Avenue). I became a "gansa macher" in the music industry and Bill Graham always referred to me as "Sam Jaffe's son," as if I never had a first name, no matter how many times we came in contact. - April 3, 2008 at 2:51 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
hey "sam jaffe's son," thanks for the insider info! feel free to share more. and what do you think, why the weird omission of harry and abraham in ratner's history?
- April 3, 2008 at 3:17 PM
I'm glad, Jeremiah, that we were both right!
- April 3, 2008 at 3:43 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
thank you baha--i wouldn't have done that research without your query!
- April 3, 2008 at 3:56 PM
I don't know anything about the Harmatz family history other than the two branches of the family which separately owned both Ratner's did not speak to each other- right up to the very end.
Let me refer you to the photo book "Live at The Fillmore East" by Amalie R. Rothschild (c) 1999)Page 133 for a picture of the Fillmore Crew having breakfast at Ratner's 2nd Avenue at 5AM (Date unknown). My father is standing in the center nearest the bus boy. Page 125 also features a great elongated photo of 2nd avenue between 6th & 7th Streets showing The Fillmore, Ratner's, and The Dry Dock Savings Bank.
-Sam Jaffe's Son - April 3, 2008 at 4:04 PM
I wonder if the 2nd Avenue Ratner's was a deli, as opposed to the dairy restaurant on Delancey. Any idea?
- April 3, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Wow this is one of the best posts so far! I love the depth of the research and the conjectures - it's great to follow your mind down this path. And it seems like others are digging it too:
Thanks also to the more eloquent "Anonymous" for the first person insights and clarifications. - April 3, 2008 at 9:08 PM
My father proposed to my mother in the Ratner's on Delancey--back in 1952.
So without Ratner's...where would I be? Thank you for writing this! - April 3, 2008 at 9:59 PM
I could've saved everyone a lot of trouble if I had knocked off John Sexton when he was the debate coach at my high school...
- April 4, 2008 at 9:12 AM
Moishes bakery next door
- April 4, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Moshies bakery used to be called Ratners bakery when I was a kid.
- April 4, 2008 at 12:48 PM
Absolutely phenomenal research. You should write a book. (But don't sell it at Barnes & Noble...gotta keep them in the suburbs!)
- April 4, 2008 at 9:03 PM
I used to live in the EV in the late 60s and to us hippies, who, in those days, never went as far as Delancey, and hardly south of Houston, Ratners on 2nd was THE Ratners.
I never even knew there was a Delancey Ratner's until I passed it in the 70s.
Ratner's on Second was, I believe, a dairy restaurant, as was Rappaport's, and, indeed, there as a Ratner's bakery next door.
Ratners on Second used to stay open quite late, say, midnight, maybe even beyond on weekends. - April 5, 2008 at 8:16 PM
What is now Moishe's Bakery next door to the 2nd Ave Ratner's was indeed still Ratner's Bakery when I moved to the area in 77. It was Ratner's for 10-15 more years, I think. As Moishe's it has changed little from its Ratners days.
- April 13, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Hi..nice post.
Abraham Harmatz, owner of the 2nd Avenue Ratner's (yes it did exist! heheh) was my grandfather. I was about 3 yrs old when he died, but I do have vague memories of him and the restaurant and have some pictures of he and I together. His wife Mildred (my grandmother) was a very good artist. Many of her paintings adorn my home.
Anyway, I'm not sure of the story regarding Ratner's and the two branches of the family...I always had the inclination to visit the Delancey street location to meet my cousins, but never did.
I will ask my mother about this...maybe she or my aunt can shed some light on things. I'll try to post here soon when I find out. - June 26, 2008 at 6:44 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
jeff, wow--thanks for writing in. the internet is both good and bad, but this is its major good point, connecting strangers in surprising ways. we'd love to hear from you about this "story of two ratners."
maybe best to email me offline at jeremoss(at)yahoo(dot)(com) so we can put together a follow up story. - June 26, 2008 at 8:45 PM
- marylea said...
Your blog is full of interesting stuff. I'm late commenting on this but wanted to tell you I made a link to this entry on my flickr pic of the Saul Birns Building. Yours was the best and easiest info I could find about it.
- September 3, 2008 at 7:39 AM
Hi Jerimiah,
I am looking for a Carol Ratner. Anyone know if there was any connection? Born in early 1940's. Alex Ratner could have been her brother maybe?
Julie - October 28, 2008 at 1:45 PM
- Tom Panelas said...
Wonderful post, great research, great storytelling.
I wonder the same thing as kingofnycabbies. I was there at the Fillmore the night of that fire that cut short the Who concert and caused Roger Daltrey & Pete Townshend to get arrested. It was in May 1969, that much I remember. I can't imagine there were two fires that same year around the Fillmore.
The scene on the stage that night was chaotic to those of us in the audience. Only when I read the paper the next day did I learn that the suit that the Who frontmen had unceremoniously yanked from the stage was a plainclothes NYC cop who had not IDed himself and was barking orders into the mike for people to leave. Fearing a panic, the guys pulled him out of there. Bill Graham then came onstage and calmly announced the evacuation. It was orderly, and I credit him for keeping things under control.
I didn't realize that the two Ratner's were separate -- or maybe I did and just forgot. I do remember the one on Delancey closing about 1974. The one on 2nd Ave. was still open, I think, when I left New York in 1976.
That's everything I know. - March 17, 2009 at 5:38 PM
- Lynn said...
Wow, what nostalgia. Ratners, both the dairy restaurant and bakery (both on Second Ave.) were part of my childhood. Just thinking about the luscious onion rolls makes my mouth water. And the dairy restaurant was Yiddish creative gourmet.Lynn
- August 30, 2009 at 1:26 PM
I am very pleased by this rare Second Avenue Ratner's citing. I'm a nephew of Irving Harmatz, Abe Harmatz's brother.
First of all there were three Second Avenue Ratner's properties. The Dairy Restaurant at 111 Second Avenue, a Cafeteria down the block and a Bakery were my aunt Eva Harmatz (who was married to Irving Harmatz) slaved for the tyrannical Abe Harmatz. Abe was a lawyer and not the sole owner of Ratner's Second Avenue. Ownership was equally shared by his brother, my uncle Irving Harmatz, and their four sisters, Ceil, Sadie, Esther and Rose. After the death of my Uncle Irving in 1965, Abe slowly took control of the business. When Abe passed away in '74 he made certain that not one of his sister's would be able to carry on the family's Second Avenue venues.
Ironically, '74 was the exact time that the much smaller Delancey Street Ratner's started to toot it's horn. First with a Ratner's cook book, which was published only a view months after Abe's death. In the preface of this book there is no mentioned of the Second Avenue Ratner's. Surprise of all surprises! The Delancey Street also licensed the Ratner's name to several frozen foods items, including the Blintzes and Mushroom Barley Soup which I believe are still available in most supermarkets.
Seeing the "R" in the floor of the Met's Supermarket has brought back so many fond memories of years past. Thank's to the author of this Blog for correcting a bit of NYC's lost history.
And Jeff, if you're reading this I would love to have a discussion with you about our mutual family history. - August 30, 2009 at 2:08 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
thanks Ratners, for writing in. it's great to hear about the history of this classic spot. i hope you guys can re-connect.
- August 30, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Julie, my mother (2nd Ave. Ratner's - Abe's daughter) is named Carol, she was born in 1943. But her last name was Harmatz, not Ratner...not sure if this is who you mean? If so I can help you get in touch if you want.
Nephew of Irving: If you are reading this, one thing I am curious about, is you described my grandfather Abe as "tryannical"...I'm surprised by that as I only heard how kind and generous a man he was (to a fault some might say). Regardless, I'd be happy to hear from you to further explore our family history!
Jeremiah, I know we emailed back and forth before...I apologize for not following up...but I now have posession of some related pictures/articles and other stuff that might be of interest to you and others. Contact me and I'll see what we migth be able to do for a new story or update etc.
FYI - I created a new email under my grandfather's name so anyone who wishes to do so can email me here: firstname.lastname@example.com
-Jeff - November 13, 2009 at 6:12 PM
- Patricia Kennealy Morrison said...
That Who concert at the Fillmore East was not the premiere of "Tommy", but juat a Who concert. And the fire was next door in the Lion supermarket, which was the corner storefront on 6th and 2nd, subsequently infested a series of unsuccessful restaurants.
Ah, Ratner's...my husband and I were particularly partial to the strawberry shortcake and mile-high chocolate cream pie. We'd go there for dessert after dinner at the Second Avenue Deli. Though he only played the Fillmore East one weekend...he had this band called the Doors. - January 26, 2010 at 11:33 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
patricia, thanks for writing. i'd love to talk with you about your memories of Ratner's. can't find your email--would you write me at jeremoss (at) yahoo (dot com)?
- January 27, 2010 at 11:53 AM
- caryn said...
...and this is why you win awards. This is simply outstanding work.
- January 27, 2010 at 1:02 PM
I can vouch that Ratner's on 2nd was a dairy restaurant, as I have a 1970 menu (dated; a new one was run off every morning, looks like) -- all the expected delights listed, cold schav, "bowl of [sour]cream, protose steak [which was a mixture made of nuts etc.],nesselrode pie...and prices are considerably less than today, needless to say.
- January 27, 2010 at 2:49 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
jack, any chance you can scan that classic menu and send it my way?
- January 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM
- BabyDave said...
Jeremiah, this truly is a fine post, still drawing comments nearly a year and a half later! Bravo, indeed.
- January 27, 2010 at 5:54 PM
- Unknown said...
Any ideas where the original Ratner's was on Pitt Street?
- March 4, 2010 at 12:16 PM
I am relative of Louis Zankel and I must say there is much to be said about the Zankel involvement and maybe a little bit more research needs to be done! I also must say that almost all articles have omitted their involvement and it is very sad. - March 19, 2010 at 11:36 PM
Hi there,
I am trying to find a Yemeni (Yemenite?) jeweler who used to have a small shop on 2nd avenue during the 1980's. He was known as Ruzi. My brother and his then fiance had matching rings made by Ruzi. He was really special to them both. Now 30 years later her ring was stolen from their Seattle home during a robbery. Wondering if anyone knows about Ruzi's whereabouts or what happened to his shop.
Laurie K. - July 10, 2010 at 10:37 PM
- Richard L said...
Wow, What a great series of posts. I just moved back to New York after being gone for 38 years. I googled Ratners to see if it still existed and this blog is what I found. As sad as I am to find out that Ratners is long gone I smiled as I read these posts. So much familiarity in the scenes, the memories, and the people.
My father had a fruit and vegetable store on the lower east side. Smilin' Jacks on Ave. C and 10th Street. Anyone remember it? What a crazy neighborhood. Alan Ginsburg lived around the corner and I have a newspaper picture of him and my grandfather outside the store. The Fugs all lived on that same block and Tuli used to give me signed copies of their albums.
I too was at that Who concert shortened by the fire. Now I hate to cause some disagreement but it was in fact the Tommy premier. It was the day the album was released. And what a concert it was.
The neighborhood, the Fillmore and Ratners included, was such a part of my growing up. Coming back here feels a little lonely. Not only because I know so few people but because so much of what I remember is gone. Reading these memories sure helped brighten my Sunday. Thank you all who contributed. And I hope the families got back into communication. - February 6, 2011 at 1:46 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
thanks Richard, and welcome back. it must be a total shock to see it after 38 years.
- February 6, 2011 at 11:02 PM
I'm the great granddaughter of the owner of the 2nd Avenue Ratner's.
- May 8, 2011 at 10:30 PM
So I'm posting a comment to a three year old post about RATNER's Restaurant....if I write this will it be read? Who knows. I'm betting that some day someone will. I'm actually searching for the last remaining Harmatz family members - Fred and Robert - to determine whether they have a photograph that was in the upstairs office of the Delancey Street restaurant. It was taken early in the 20th century, maybe 1920 or thereabouts, and includes my grandfather, who worked for many years as the Head Counterman, developing recipes and preparing the food. Sometime in the late 1990s, my mother & I ate at the restaurant and the then owner - perhaps Harry Harmatz (?) acknowledged the photo was upstairs but the place was too packed for him to check. I know it's now 2011 - time flies - but you never know!
- August 7, 2011 at 1:28 PM
i lived across the street from "ratners". great food. but i preferred "B&H dairy". its ironic but i lived there from august 1968 to july 1970, during art school. i never went to into the "filmore east'. except once, when someone gave me free tickets to see the "kinks". and thats the "filmore" photo you featured!
- August 7, 2011 at 5:08 PM
Due to TV having taken over every playhouse, hotel, warehouse and loft anywhere around the theatre district, on October 9th, 1957, rehearsals began for the original Broadway production of The Music Man with Robert Preston in the third floor studio of 111 2nd Avenue and the whole family of cast and crew members ate daily in Ratner's downstairs whose unique waiters were comforting – understanding of what actors went through in the formative phase of a Broadway show. (from the book "But He Doesn't Know The Territory" by Meredith Willson, writer and composer of "The Music Man") With all the rich multi-genred theatrical history of this building, if only these walls could speak…
- June 28, 2012 at 3:40 AM
- mgrenadier said...
What a great story. I used to work at the St Marks Cinema in the early 70's while an NYU film student and would often land up at the Second Avenue Ratners after closing the theater at 1 in the morning or so. Loved the bananas and sour cream and the onion rolls with sweet butter. Not to mention the scene.
- December 7, 2012 at 1:19 AM
- rsnk said...
My grandmother worked at one of the Ratner's delis as a cashier in the 1930's. I found a picture of her with other restaurant employees from that time, so I suspect it could have been taken in Ratner's. I would like to share the picture with anyone interested especially if they can identify whether it is Ratner's or not. Please email me at rsnkrupp (at) gmail dot com, and I will send you the picture. Thanks.
Rebecca - February 20, 2013 at 6:57 PM
In the early 70s used to take regular 2 AM walks with my friends from Avenue B to 2nd Avenue Ratners (or Gem's Spa; if we were out we might end up in Chinatown at Lin's Garden or Wo Hop) in the early 1970s. Especially remember the sang froid of what I recall as long time Jewish waiters in the face of a clientele of drag queens and others who I suspect must have seemed to be quite different from that of the older days. Strikes me that in a nightlife oriented city like NY these days I've at times had to struggle to find someplace to get a bite at mid-night (though there are late night halal trucks in my neighborhood).
- February 21, 2013 at 9:16 AM
You can briefly see the exterior of the 2nd Ave. Ratners in an episode of the "Naked City" television series called "The Face Of The Enemy" at the 19 min, 53 sec. mark. At the time (the early 1960s), the theatre that became the Fillmore was called the Central Plaza. The episode is available on DVD as part of a "Best of Naked City" set. Every episode in the series has some great exterior shots of New York City.
- April 16, 2013 at 9:09 PM
FROM cbr1047:
I see mostly older postings related to RATNER's, but want to update my previous post. I'd be very interested in communicating with any relatives of the original owners - Harmatz or Ratner - and especially seeing any old (old) photos of employees. As I noted earlier, my maternal grandfather was a Head Counterman at Ratner's Restaurant early in the 21st century, developing recipes and cooking. Ironically, his daughter (my mother) eventually met and married a Ratner (my father) who I believe is unrelated to the original owners. My dad would occasionally work at the restaurant as a 2nd job. (cbr1047) - July 29, 2013 at 7:28 PM
I was happy to find this blog on Ratner's Bakery. I grew up on St. Marks Place as a youngster in the early 1950s (I'm now living in the Chicago area). I have very fond memories of Ratners. I used to be an altar boy at St. Stanilaus Church on 7th St. when I was about 9 years old. I had to stop at Ratner's after 7AM mass & buy Kaiser rolls for the nuns & jelly rolls for me & my parents. I also remember the delicious crusty rye & Italian bread at Ratners. Over the years, I've never found anything that compared with the tasty baked goods at Ratners & I've lived in 6 states since leaving NYC - nothing comes close!
- October 1, 2013 at 9:46 PM
Believe it or not, I am the great, great granddaughter of the mysterious Harry Harmatz you write about in this post - quite an interesting article!
- December 8, 2013 at 4:40 PM
Laurie K,
The jewelry shop you speak of was owned by my cousin -- Joe Ruzi. Unfortunately he has been gone for quite awhile and I never had the chance to meet him but his wife still lives above the former shop location.
Nice to hear he made such an impression on you and the family. - September 6, 2014 at 5:51 PM
- Bill Reed said...
Before the Fillmore was there, the Central Plaza was NOT. Instead, it was the Loew's East. I seem to recall that there was SOME business immediately to the north of the Fillmore and then there was Ratner's. Since both the address of Ratner's and Central Plaza are listed as being at 111 2nd Avenue, my guess is that Central Plaza was upstairs from Ratner's. Address of Fillmore was 105 2nd Ave, so it makes some numerical sense that there was a building twixt Ratner's and the Fillmore. One thing is for certain. If you went for a job interview as a waiter at Ratner's and if you could smile, you weren't hired. The wait crew seemed to be in a competition to see who could the grouchiest (what is the Yiddish word for cranky?). It was actually worth the price of admission is was soooo hilarious. A running gag. And the food was out of this world. Then north of Ratner's was Gems Spa (mags, egg creams). Might still be there. Then at 2nd and 12th (?) there was a neighborhood mov
ie theater that we used to go to so often that we called it "the projection room." And then. . .. - September 7, 2014 at 10:15 PM
I wound up on this site by
accident and was fascinated by it!I was born and grew up across the street from Ratner's Second Avenue. Firstly, until the mid 50's, Ratner's was located in the (smaller) corner peoperty at E. 6th and 2nd, next to the Loew's Commodore movie theater (which became the Fillmore East). At that time they relocated to 111 which, along with the store next door (1 door north)-- the Dry Dock Savings Bank-- had been the old Saul Birns appliance store. Central Plaza was upstairs-- it was an old catering venue and later became used for rehearsals for Broadway and TV shows. We ate in Ratner's a lot and often took out food to eat in our kitchen. I remember that the restaurant used to get their fish fresh from Fanny Miller's fish market on First Avenue between 5th and 6th Streets. Ratner's Bake Shop, a few doors up the block-- next to Auster's candy store/luncheonette (the inventors of the egg cream)-- was the best. Their cakes, pastries and rolls were baked there; but their breads were brought in from Pechter's ( a fact not everyone knew). My father had business dealings with both Ratner restaurants/ both branches of the Harmatz family. He knew them all very well. The fare in both the Second Avenue and Delancey St. restaurants was virtually identical-- though most people had their personal favorite. Since they closed-- Second Avenue first and Delancey St. years later-- there has been a void which can never be filled. East Side Len - December 8, 2014 at 12:20 AM
My wedding cake, a Ratner's strawberry short cake, came from 2nd Ave. in 1963. I also miss Star Butter & Eggs on 2nd.
- December 10, 2014 at 8:58 PM
- Jack Schimmelman said...
i was there the last night of ratner's. i don't think anyone knew it would close the next day. we certainly didn't. i was there with two women from paris. i was a kid in my 20's. we brought in ice cream. the waiters wanted to call the cops on us. really! we kidded them but they were not in a kidding mood. i didn't realize it at the time (idiot that I was (am?)) that they were probably much more upset about bringing dairy into the store than bringing food in. i wish i had acted differently. but the waiters were a true treasure as they were on delancey street. until i read your post i always assumed they were connected. and what about yonah shimmel's being busted as a bookmaking operation!
- January 6, 2015 at 12:29 AM
I used to live in the neighborhood in the 60's. I was a fixture on 2nd Ave. I used Ratner's bathroom all the time. They were good that way. It was a beautiful place. My speed back then was "2nd Ave. Deli" who are now on E.33rd and 3rd, take-out chinese eating it outside from the carton or a slice from the pizza place on 2nd Ave. and St. Marks Pl or Cuban-Chinese on 14th and 3rd. I Loved their lobster salad. My guy at the time who I eventually married was Cochise and I was Cochisas. Nobody knew our real names back then.
- February 1, 2015 at 3:16 PM
- ObamaMamaSez said...
My father Robert Dominick- african american- was a baker at Ratner's from the early 1950' through about the 1970s. I still have his bulk recipes for cheese cake and many other bakery items. He worked nights and never missed a day. The Jewish owners showed how to invest and use his GI bill privileges. They helped him buy a house for us - his family in Queens.
When I heard about the fire today, I remembered the address. The telephone number of the bakery back in the 60s was GR5-9525. All my friends came to my house because they knew my dad had fresh baked cakes, pies and bread/rolls.Barbara D. Edwin -email@example.com - March 26, 2015 at 11:42 PM
- Mark said...
It was the Loew's Commodore that morphed into the Fillmore East.
In the early 70's Ratner's on Second was open very late. I know this because I live in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn in 1973 and we couldn't walk from the train station to our apartment at night (too dangerous). We'd go hang out at Ratner's until it was late enough and the sun was on the horizon. - April 15, 2015 at 6:07 PM
- Joe O said...
I'm sorry I found this blog so late.
I just turned 86 yrs old and lived around the corner at 232 E 6th St. I was married from there in1956.
On 2nd Ave. between 6th and 7th street were (going north) The original 2nd Ave Ratner's- turned-supermarket, then the Lowes Commodore which became Filmore East. After that was the new Ratner's shown in the pictures above. There was a bank (which name I can't remember) and finally Ratner's (very excellent) Bakery. The last store on the corner of 7th Street was Auster's Ice Cream Parlor. They were truly the original makers of the oft-copied but never equaled EGG CREAM. I once watched Mr. Auster cook gallons of chocolate syrup with many, many eggs in a cauldron. The concoction was poured into the dispensing fountain as needed. The drink was finally prepared by pumping syrup into a glass, milk added, and finally seltzer and stirred.
This Ratner's, IMHO, served the most delicious vegetarian chopped liver sandwich. Better than Ratner's of Delancey Street and better than Rapaports Restaurant between 5th and 6th.
With very fond memories:....Joe O
- December 5, 2015 at 12:35 AM
- Frosty said...
I lived on Second Avenue as a kid in the 60s and was looking to find the name of a coffee house located on the n.e. corner of 7th street and Second Avenue. Floored to find Tony Marciante's pics of a fire in our building--i was pretty much a latchkey kid and home alone and one of our neighbor's made sure to get me out of the building. Odd experience to find bits of one's past floating around "out there." :) Thank you Jeremiah
- March 16, 2016 at 1:25 AM
- Unknown said...
I stumbled upon this page a bit late it seems; though this comment isn't aimed at the topic of Ratner's. I was looking for any and all information on the shop that Joe Ruzi used to own on the same street (as mentioned above). The jeweler that I work with seems to have come into a gorgeous coral brooch made by Mr. Ruzi's hand (very comparable in design to another piece, a bracelet, that I found online, sold through heritage auction. It is also hallmarked 'Ruzi')
I was looking to get in contact with his existing family to not only verify, but I think it'd be nice for them to get a look at some of his work. If anybody has ANY information at all, please email me at email@example.com. Thank you. - August 12, 2017 at 1:22 PM
- arkansawyer said...
Someone inquired about Ruzi, the jewelry designer-maker. He relocated to East 11th Street, on the north side, a couple of doors from 2nd Avenue, occupying what had been a Chinese laundry. He was having health problems and had a hard time getting around. I had a neighborhood handyman who did cooking and cleaning for Ruzi; I think he had taken an apartment upstairs at 299 East 11th (yes, that was in the "300" block, but the building at 11th and 2nd was renovated and the entrance relocated to 11th Street, thus the peculiar number.) I don't remember when he closed the store. As for Mrs. Ruzi, she stayed behind at their old apartment.
- January 30, 2018 at 12:50 PM
- Kabilyo said...
Regarding the Ruzi jewelery store:
Joeb (Yoav) Ruzi was my uncle. I worked for him at the shop for many years, as did my mom Shirley and my other uncle Avie. My uncle passed away a few years ago, and did my mom. His surviving brother Avie lives on Arizona now.
Growing up working at his shop and being around the East Village were some of the happiest times of my life. He is sorely missed. - April 29, 2018 at 1:37 PM
- Kabilyo said...
Hi Laurie, Joeb Ruzi was my uncle. He was an amazing man and us terribly missed. His wife Arlene lived on the next block, not above the shop. She passed away a few months ago.
- February 24, 2019 at 11:38 PM
- Eyton Shalom said...
Oy, i had such wonderful meals at Ratner's in 1970-72...and i had little money, so would get the split pea soup and the thing of bread they would serve up, rye, challah, pumpkernickel maybe, was enough to make a meal. The old waiters were not too happy and perhaps disliked the long hair... I never like Kasha till i had their Kasha with onions and mushroom, maybe a little tomato. thanks! And that vegeterian chopped liver was a wonder...
- June 30, 2019 at 9:04 PM
- Unknown said...
My grandfather, Max Zankel, was a partner of Harmatz and Together they owned and ran Ratner's on Delancey from the start! Why do you not mention Max Zankel?
- October 5, 2019 at 6:37 PM


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Better Than Pasties
Last year, there was this.
This year, there is this.
Any questions?
(PS - Am not drunk in those pictures. Okay, maybe a little. But really, that's not drunkage that you see there, preserved for all of internet eternity there on Liz's site. That's TIRED. WAS SO FUCKING TIRED.)
(PPS - I love those evil bitches even though they commited a gross violation of my person. Actually, I love them BECAUSE they commited a gross violation of my person. It's complicated.)
(PPPS - No, I'm not putting the pictures up here. I have my dignity. *cough.*)


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Tax-free Internet shopping jeopardized by bill
Vote shows strong support in Senate to allow states to collect taxes from Internet sales
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tax-free shopping on the Internet could be in jeopardy under a bill making its way through the Senate.
The bill would empower states to require online retailers to collect state and local sales taxes for purchases made over the Internet. The sales taxes would be sent to the states where a shopper lives.
Under current law, states can only require stores to collect sales taxes if the store has a physical presence in the state. As a result, many online sales are essentially tax-free, giving Internet retailers a big advantage over brick-and-mortar stores.
The Senate voted 74 to 20 Monday to take up the bill. If that level of support continues, the Senate could pass the bill as early as this week.
Supporters say the bill is about fairness for businesses and lost revenue for states. Opponents say it would impose complicated regulations on retailers and doesn't have enough protections for small businesses. Businesses with less than $1 million a year in online sales would be exempt.
"While local, community-based stores and shops compete for customers on many levels, including service and selection, they cannot compete on sales tax," said Matthew Shay, president and CEO of the National Retail Federation. "Congress needs to address this disparity."
And, he added, "Despite what the opponents say this is not a new tax."
In many states, shoppers are required to pay unpaid sales tax when they file their state income tax returns. However, states complain that few people comply.
"I do know about three people that comply with that," said Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., the bill's main sponsor.
President Barack Obama supports the bill. His administration says it would help restore needed funding for education, police and firefighters, roads and bridges and health care.
But the bill's fate is uncertain in the House, where some Republicans regard it as a tax increase. Heritage Action for America, the activist arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, opposes the bill and will count the vote in its legislative scorecard.
"It is going to make online businesses the tax collectors for the nation," said Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. "It really tramples on the decision New Hampshire has made not to have a sales tax."
Many of the nation's governors — Republicans and Democrats — have been lobbying the federal government for years for the authority to collect sales taxes from online sales, said Dan Crippen, executive director of the National Governors Association. Those efforts intensified when state tax revenues took a hit from the recession and the slow economic recovery.
"It's a matter of equity for businesses," Crippen said. "It's a matter of revenue for states."
The issue is getting bigger for states as more people make purchases online. Last year, Internet sales in the U.S. totaled $226 billion, up nearly 16 percent from the previous year, according to Commerce Department estimates.
The bill pits brick-and-mortar stores like Wal-Mart against online services such as eBay. Amazon.com, which initially fought efforts in some states to make it collect sales taxes, supports it too. Amazon and Best Buy have joined a group of retailers called the Marketplace Fairness Coalition to lobby on behalf of the bill.
"Amazon.com has long supported a simplified nationwide approach that is evenhandedly applied and applicable to all but the smallest-volume sellers," Paul Misener, Amazon's vice president of global public policy, said in a recent letter to senators.
On the other side, eBay has been rallying customers to oppose the bill.
"I hope you agree that imposing unnecessary tax burdens on small online businesses is a bad idea," eBay President and CEO John Donahoe said in a letter to customers. "Join us in letting your members of Congress know they should protect small online businesses, not potentially put them out of business."
The bill is also opposed by senators from states that have no sales tax, including Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
Baucus said the bill would require relatively small Internet retailers to comply with sales tax laws in thousands of jurisdictions.
"This legislation doesn't help businesses expand and grow and hire more employees," Baucus said. "Instead, it forces small businesses to hire expensive lawyers and accountants to deal with the burdensome paperwork and added complexity of tax rules and filings across multiple states."
But Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said the bill requires participating states to make it relatively easy for Internet retailers to comply. States must provide free computer software to help retailers calculate sales taxes, based on where shoppers live. States must also establish a single entity to receive Internet sales tax revenue, so retailers don't have to send them to individual counties or cities.
"We're way beyond the quill pen and ledger days," Durbin said. "Thanks to computers and thanks to software it is not that complex."
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Beginning in 1960 the annual meeting became known as the General Assembly, ultimately being held in a different city each year. Three new Centres started, bringing the total to 16. The RASC was federally incorporated in 1968, the centennial of the founding of the Toronto Astronomical Club.
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- The 1963 Jul 20 solar eclipse (Wivenhoe, Manitoba)
- Photos from the 1964 General Assembly (Ottawa)
- Photos from the 1966 General Assembly (Winnipeg)
- Observer's Handbook back issues
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In Which I Break My Promises Yet Again (or, Hey! It's My Blog and I'll Write What I Want To!)
I said that I would do my round-up of the call-to-action posts this weekend. Well, I can't. I've gotten completely distracted by other issues and cannot summon the emotional energy to plug my own cause (supporting the organization that's looking for a way to save my nephew's life) or to plug-by-link the wonderful posts about all the other ways and means of acting to make the world a better place (because those posts get me all teary. Which is why I've been so bad about commenting on them. I get all overwhelmed and can't think of what to say. Because I am a SUCK.)
And, because of these other issues, I don't feel that I can make one more reference to Gloria Steinem without a) apologizing for maybe sounding like I'm brandishing my supah-dupah exciting adventures as the Blogger Who Met Gloria Steinem and Shared a Sofa-Bed With Mom-101's Dog, and b) making some statement about why I keep talking about Gloria Steinem.
So, what of these other issues?
There's been some skirmishing 'round the momosphere about blog politics. Yes, AGAIN. Whatever. It's an old topic and one that, frankly, frustrates me or bores me, depending upon how bad a day I'm having. I'm not going to revisit it here; I've said enough about it in the past, and in any case, I vented at urbanmoms.ca (and received a comment smack, and then vented some more), if you're interested.
So "these other issues" don't really have much to do with that debate. The thing is, in some of the discussion swirling around that debate, there has been occasional reference to Greenstone Media and the possibility that there has been some 'selling out' by those involved with Greenstone projects. Some of this has to do with sour grapes about some bloggers getting more attention than others. Others, however, have raised it as a matter of debate (which is always good): is the fact that Greenstone Media is using advertising and thereby selling women as a market as a means of supporting itself undermine, or entirely destroy, its bona fides as a 'feminist' project?
(The related question that has been popping up: do bloggers who host advertisers - or profit in any way from blogging - undermine or destroy their blogger bona fides? Does even the merest hint of commercial enterprise undermine the openness and honesty of a blog? I'll address this later, which is to say, in another post, which is to say, when I feel like it, which I hope will be soon.)
TOMama wrote a provocative piece about the possibility of there being a dark underbelly to Greenstone's enterprise over at Literary Mama, in which she stated that the fact that Greenstone was treating women, in part, like a market, made her very uncomfortable. Uncomfortable enough to make her doubt that the emergence of Greenstone could really be viewed as a victory for women and/or feminists. Her discomfort was heartily seconded by one commenter, who noted that Gloria Steinem isn't an appropriate spokesperson for feminism or women's interests anyways, because she is white and privileged and so it really isn't surprising, is it, that she'd front a project that is only relevant to privileged white consumers. Right?
Wrong. This is what I said in response:
I think that it's a stretch to claim that the main purpose of Greenstone is to deliver women to advertisers. As you yourself say, advertising is more or less key to ensuring survival in 21st century media. Women simply won't have a place to be heard as women (what Greenstone is trying to offer) if we cling to antiquated Marxist notions of what constitutes a 'pure' revolution. Media is what it is: it's largely driven by economic interest, sustained by advertising and/or sales. We might prefer that cultural discourse weren't so circumscribed by that fact, but that's the way it is.
And I, for one, don't see much wrong with it. I live in a capitalist, consumer society, and I accept, even embrace, the terms of that society. If we have a problem with being 'sold' to advertisers and/or used as pawns by the capitalist system, that's another revolution altogether (one that, I should note, has been attempted, and not altogether successfully.) I don't expect the feminist movement, or any corner of that movement, to take on capitalism full-stop as a condition of its feminism (nor, as a liberal capitalist, would I want it to.)
(After-the-fact edit: Economic inequality, yes. Capitalism as a system, no.)
I simply don't take it as read that commitment to the feminist movement or efforts toward gender equality require a commitment to anti-capitalist ideals. Capitalism and commerce don't preclude the free exchange of ideas and promotion of change any more than does the established intelligentsia of a socialist movement (quite the contrary, I'd say). How, exactly, does the presence of advertisers or market researchers in the background of cultural or political discourse fatally impair that discourse? That's our world, people - all of the messages we receive are mediated (even in personal conversation; we're products of what social scientists call a knowledge system, and we can never entirely escape that system.) So long as we're aware of that - and, better, constructively critical of it - what's the problem?
One of the biggest obstacles to the success of the feminist movement in its many and varied forms is the incidence of in-fighting and unproductive criticism from the very women who claim to support it. So Gloria Steinem is white and able-bodied and privileged and interested in working with advertisers. So what? Does calling her - or her projects - down help the broader feminist cause? To my mind, anything that gets women heard is a good thing. Anything that mainstreams women's voices is a good thing. Anything that makes women's voices a discernible part of the din of our culture is a good thing. If we sit around waiting for the perfect utopian solution or for the perfect spokespeople (only disabled lesbian women of colour need apply?) before supporting efforts that promote women, our cause is doomed.
I'm not saying that we must refrain from critical analysis of our actions, but to make any suggestion that some projects might not be worthy because they don't fit a perfect vision of a transformative movement is, to this feminist, foolhardy. It's really not all that different from Hirshman saying that only women who remain in the workforce can call themselves feminists, or Flanagan saying that only women who stay at home can call themselves good mothers. Only certain kinds of feminists and feminist projects - those that reject quote-unquote privilege and capitalism and what have you - are good feminists and good feminist projects? Bullshit. This only hurts us, and our cause.
For the sake of full disclosure, I'm one of the those 'privileged' bloggers who has been invited to participate in Greenstone. About which I'll say this: any suggestion (I'm not saying that you've done so here; this is emerging elsewhere in the blogosphere) that I've sold out for supporting a project that promotes the voices of women offends me deeply as a feminist, and strikes me as evidence of what I've said above. We're calling down women for supporting Gloria fucking Steinem? We're doomed.
Thus spake Her Bad Mother.
I know, it's kind of lame to make an entire post out of a comment that you've left somewhere else, but the recurring beat of what the fuck what the fuck pounding in my brain is hurting my head and I needed to vent.
And it's my blog, even if I am some shameless Gloria Steinem-promoting whore. So I'll write what I want to.
Shocked, shocked to discover that her mother shamelessly whores herself out to aging feminists. Shocked.
As I said, I'll have more to say about how I think this pertains to the so-called commercialization of blogging later, although you've probably guessed how I feel about that. And I'll be flogging this particular dead feminist horse as a Guest Bytch over at SheBytches on Monday. If the screeching of my ranty voice doesn't put you off entirely, you might check it out.
Or you could just head to the Basement for a drink or some tea and a chat...


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OS2::REXX - access to DLLs with REXX calling convention and REXX runtime.
By default, the REXX variable pool is not available, neither to Perl, nor to external REXX functions. To enable it, you need to put your code inside REXX_call
function. REXX functions which do not use variables may be usable even without REXX_call
use OS2::REXX;
$ydb = load OS2::REXX "ydbautil" or die "Cannot load: $!";
@pid = $ydb->RxProcId();
REXX_call {
tie $s, OS2::REXX, "TEST";
$s = 1;
Load REXX DLL
$dll = load OS2::REXX NAME [, WHERE];
NAME is DLL name, without path and extension.
Directories are searched WHERE first (list of dirs), then environment paths PERL5REXX, PERLREXX, PATH or, as last resort, OS/2-ish search is performed in default DLL path (without adding paths and extensions).
The DLL is not unloaded when the variable dies.
Returns DLL object reference, or undef on failure.
Define function prefix:
Define the prefix of external functions, prepended to the function names used within your program, when looking for the entries in the DLL.
$dll = load OS2::REXX "RexxBase";
is the same as
$dll = load OS2::REXX "RexxBase";
Define queue:
Define the name of the REXX queue passed to all external functions of this module. Defaults to "SESSION".
Check for functions (optional):
BOOL = $dll->find(NAME [, NAME [, ...]]);
Returns true if all functions are available.
Call external REXX function:
Returns the return string if the return code is 0, else undef. Dies with error message if the function is not available.
Accessing REXX-runtime
While calling functions with REXX signature does not require the presence of the system REXX DLL, there are some actions which require REXX-runtime present. Among them is the access to REXX variables by name.
One enables REXX runtime by bracketing your code by
REXX_call BLOCK;
(trailing semicolon required!) or
REXX_call \&subroutine_name;
Inside such a call one has access to REXX variables (see below).
An alternative way to execute code inside a REXX compartment is
REXX_eval EXPR;
REXX_eval_with EXPR,
subroutine_name_in_REXX => \&Perl_subroutine
Here EXPR
is a REXX code to run; to execute Perl code one needs to put it inside Perl_subroutine(), and call this subroutine from REXX, as in
REXX_eval_with <<EOE, foo => sub { 123 * shift };
say foo(2)
If one needs more Perl subroutines available, one can "import" them into REXX from inside Perl_subroutine(); since REXX is not case-sensitive, the names should be uppercased.
use OS2::REXX 'register';
sub BAR { 123 + shift}
sub BAZ { 789 }
sub importer { register qw(BAR BAZ) }
REXX_eval_with <<'EOE', importer => \&importer;
call importer
say bar(34)
say baz()
Bind scalar variable to REXX variable:
tie $var, OS2::REXX, "NAME";
Bind array variable to REXX stem variable:
tie @var, OS2::REXX, "NAME.";
Only scalar operations work so far. No array assignments, no array operations, ... FORGET IT.
Bind hash array variable to REXX stem variable:
tie %var, OS2::REXX, "NAME.";
To access all visible REXX variables via hash array, bind to "";
No array assignments. No array operations, other than hash array operations. Just like the *dbm based implementations.
For the usual REXX stem variables, append a "." to the name, as shown above. If the hash key is part of the stem name, for example if you bind to "", you cannot use lower case in the stem part of the key and it is subject to character set restrictions.
Erase individual REXX variables (bound or not):
OS2::REXX::drop("NAME" [, "NAME" [, ...]]);
Erase REXX variables with given stem (bound or not):
OS2::REXX::dropall("STEM" [, "STEM" [, ...]]);
Make Perl functions available in REXX:
OS2::REXX::register("NAME" [, "NAME" [, ...]]);
Since REXX is not case-sensitive, the names should be uppercase.
Subcommand handlers
By default, the executed REXX code runs without any default subcommand handler present. A subcommand handler named PERLEVAL
is defined, but not made a default. Use ADDRESS PERLEVAL
REXX command to make it a default handler; alternatively, use ADDRESS Handler WhatToDo
to direct a command to the handler you like.
Experiments show that the handler CMD
is also available; probably it is provided by the REXX runtime.
Interfacing from REXX to Perl
This module provides an interface from Perl to REXX, and from REXX-inside-Perl back to Perl. There is an alternative scenario which allows usage of Perl from inside REXX.
A DLL PerlRexx provides an API to Perl as REXX functions
A subcommand handler PERLEVALSUBCOMMAND
can also be registered. Calling the function PERLEXPORTALL() exports all these functions, as well as exports this subcommand handler under the name EVALPERL
. PERLDROPALL() inverts this action (and unloads PERLEXPORTALL() as well). In particular
rc = RxFuncAdd("PerlExportAll", 'PerlRexx', "PERLEXPORTALL")
rc = PerlExportAll()
res = PERLEVAL(perlarg)
ADDRESS EVALPERL perlarg1
rc = PerlDropAllExit()
loads all the functions above, evals the Perl code in the REXX variable perlarg
, putting the result into the REXX variable res
, then evals the Perl code in the REXX variable perlarg1
, and, finally, drops the loaded functions and the subcommand handler, deinitializes the Perl interpreter, and exits the Perl's C runtime library.
PERLEXIT() or PERLDROPALLEXIT() should be called as the last command of the REXX program. (This is considered as a bug.) Their purpose is to flush all the output buffers of the Perl's C runtime library.
gives the reason for the failure of the last PERLEVAL(). It is useful inside signal on syntax
handler. PERLINIT() and PERLTERM() initialize and deinitialize the Perl interpreter.
initializes the Perl interpreter (if needed), and evaluates string
as Perl code. The result is returned to REXX stringified, undefined result is considered as failure.
does the same as PERLEVAL(string)
wrapped by calls to PERLINIT() and PERLEXIT().
Note that while function and variable names are case insensitive in the REXX language, function names exported by a DLL and the REXX variables (as seen by Perl through the chosen API) are all case sensitive!
Most REXX DLLs export function names all upper case, but there are a few which export mixed case names (such as RxExtras). When trying to find the entry point, both exact case and all upper case are searched. If the DLL exports "RxNap", you have to specify the exact case, if it exports "RXOPEN", you can use any case.
To avoid interfering with subroutine names defined by Perl (DESTROY) or used within the REXX module (prefix, find), it is best to use mixed case and to avoid lowercase only or uppercase only names when calling REXX functions. Be consistent. The same function written in different ways results in different Perl stubs.
There is no REXX interpolation on variable names, so the REXX variable name TEST.ONE is not affected by some other REXX variable ONE. And it is not the same variable as TEST.one!
You cannot call REXX functions which are not exported by the DLL. While most DLLs export all their functions, some, like RxFTP, export only "...LoadFuncs", which registers the functions within REXX only.
You cannot call 16-bit DLLs. The few interesting ones I found (FTP,NETB,APPC) do not export their functions.
I do not know whether the REXX API is reentrant with respect to exceptions (signals) when the REXX top-level exception handler is overridden. So unless you know better than I do, do not access REXX variables (probably tied to Perl variables) or call REXX functions which access REXX queues or REXX variables in signal handlers.
See t/rx*.t and the next section for examples.
use OS2::REXX;
sub Ender::DESTROY { $vrexx->VExit; print "Exiting...\n" }
$vrexx = OS2::REXX->load('VREXX');
REXX_call { # VOpenWindow takes a stem
local $SIG{TERM} = sub {die}; # enable Ender::DESTROY
local $SIG{INT} = sub {die}; # enable Ender::DESTROY
$code = $vrexx->VInit;
print "Init code = `$code'\n";
die "error initializing VREXX" if $code eq 'ERROR';
my $ender = bless [], 'Ender'; # Call Ender::DESTROY on exit
print "VREXX Version ", $vrexx->VGetVersion, "\n";
tie %pos, 'OS2::REXX', 'POS.' or die;
%pos = ( LEFT => 0, RIGHT => 7, TOP => 5, BOTTOM => 0 );
$id = $vrexx->VOpenWindow('To disconnect:', 'WHITE', 'POS');
$vrexx->VForeColor($id, 'BLACK');
$vrexx->VSetFont($id, 'TIME', '30');
$tlim = time + 60;
while ( ($r = $tlim - time) >= 0 ) {
$vrexx->VSay($id, 100, 50, (sprintf "%02i:%02i", int($r/60),
$r % 60));
sleep 1;
print "Close code = `$res'\n" if $res = $vrexx->VCloseWindow($id);
If PERL_REXX_DEBUG
is set, prints trace info on calls to REXX runtime environment.
Andreas Kaiser firstname.lastname@example.com, with additions by Ilya Zakharevich email@example.com.


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JOHANNESBURG – When do you not listen to the African wildlife expert? When he tells you to stand closer to the rhino.
That suggestion by a South African game park owner resulted in serious injuries to a 24-year-old woman from Johannesburg.
The Beeld newspaper reported Tuesday that Chantal Beyer said the game park owner snapped pictures and suggested that she "stand just a little bit closer" seconds before the attack. Photos show Beyer and her husband only feet away from two rhinos.
The paper said that just after the photo was snapped, the rhino attacked, and its horn penetrated Beyers' chest from behind, resulting in a collapsed lung and broken ribs, the paper said. The Aloe Ridge Hotel and Nature Reserve, where the incident took place, declined to comment Tuesday.


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- The Tinker Tote pattern forms part of Tara Rebman's Quilt-As-You-Go: Patchwork Bags online class.
- the fabrics used are Flea Market Fancy and Katie Jump Rope by Denyse Schmidt. Feature fabric is Echino Decoro by Etsuko Furuya - Buck in Black
- I used a 14mm Magnetic Snap (the only size available at my local store). A larger snap - 18mm diameter - is probably a better size for this tote.
- There seems to be no equivalent of Utility Cloth in Australia. Utility Cloth is used as an additional bag lining which I have substituted with a handkerchief linen. If I were to make this bag again I would probably substitute the Utility Cloth with a light weight canvas fabric for a firmer finish - a personal preference only.
Tara Rebman's - Quilt-As-You-Go: Patchwork Bags
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Before then, there was the minor blogstorm (at least in some quarters) surrounding Nic Lewis' criticism of the IPCC's stubborn adherence to their old estimate of climate sensitivity. This, of course, being despite the additional evidence which I've just mentioned above.
When I looked at the IPCC drafts, I didn't actually notice the substantial change in estimated aerosol uncertainty that Nic focussed on. With limited time and energy to wade through several hundred pages of draft material, I mostly looked for how and where they had (or had not, but perhaps should have) referred to my work, to make sure it was fairly and accurately represented. I was pretty unimpressed with some parts of first draft, actually, and made a number suggestions. Of course in line with the IPCC conditions, I'm not going to say what was or was not in any draft. According to IPCC policy, my comments will all be available in the fullness of time, but I have also criticised this delayed release so in the spirit of openness here is one comment I made about their discussion of sensitivity in Chapter 12 (p55 in the first order draft):
It seems very odd to portray our work as an outlier here. Sokolov et al 2009, Urban and Keller 2010, Olson et al (in press JGR) have also recently presented similar results (and there may be more as yet unpublished, eg Aldrin at the INI meeting back in 2010). Such "observationally constrained pdfs" were all the rage a few years ago and featured heavily in the last IPCC report, there is no clear explanation for your sudden dismissal of them in favour of what seems to be a small private opinion poll. A more balanced presentation could be: "Annan and Hargreaves (2011a) criticize the use of uniform priors and argue that sensitivities above 4.5°C are extremely unlikely (less than 5%). Similar results have been obtained by a number of other researchers [add citations from the above]."
Note for the avoidance of any doubt I am not quoting directly from the unquotable IPCC draft, but only repeating my own comment on it. However, those who have read the second draft of Chapter 12 will realise why I previously said I thought the report was improved :-) Of course there is no guarantee as to what will remain in the final report, which for all the talk of extensive reviews, is not even seen by the proletariat, let alone opened to their comments, prior to its final publication. The paper I refer to as a "small private opinion poll" is of course the Zickfeld et al PNAS paper. The list of pollees in the Zickfeld paper are largely the self-same people responsible for the largely bogus analyses that I've criticised over recent years, and which even if they were valid then, are certainly outdated now. Interestingly, one of them stated quite openly in a meeting I attended a few years ago that he deliberately lied in these sort of elicitation exercises (i.e. exaggerating the probability of high sensitivity) in order to help motivate political action. Of course, there may be others who lie in the other direction, which is why it seems bizarre that the IPCC appeared to rely so heavily on this paper to justify their choice, rather than relying on published quantitative analyses of observational data. Since the IPCC can no longer defend their old analyses in any meaningful manner, it seems they have to resort to an unsupported "this is what we think, because we asked our pals". It's essentially the Lindzen strategy in reverse: having firmly wedded themselves to their politically convenient long tail of high values, their response to new evidence is little more than sticking their fingers in their ears and singing "la la la I can't hear you".
Of course, this still leaves open the question of what the new evidence actually does mean for climate sensitivity. I have mentioned above several analyses that are fairly up to date. I have some doubts about Nic Lewis' analysis, as I think some of his choices are dubious and will have acted to underestimate the true sensitivity somewhat. For example, his choice of ocean heat uptake is based on taking a short term trend over a period in which the observed warming is markedly lower than the longer-term multidecadal value. I don't think this is necessarily a deliberate cherry-pick, any more than previous analyses running up to the year 2000 were (the last decade is a natural enough choice to have made) but it does have unfortunate consequences. Irrespective of what one thinks about aerosol forcing, it would be hard to argue that the rate of net forcing increase and/or over-all radiative imbalance has actually dropped markedly in recent years, so any change in net heat uptake can only be reasonably attributed to a bit of natural variability or observational uncertainty. Lewis has also adjusted the aerosol forcing according to his opinion of which values are preferred - concidentally, he comes down on the side of an answer that gives a lower sensitivity. His results might be more reasonable if he had at least explored the sensitivity of his result to the assumptions made. Using the last 30y of ocean heat data and simply adopting the official IPCC forcing values rather than his modified versions (since after all, his main point is to criticise the lack of coherence in the IPCC report itself) would add credibility to his analysis. A still better approach would be to use a model capable of representing the transient change, and fitting it to the entire time series of the various relevant observations. Which is what people like Aldrin et al have done, of course, and which is why I think their results are superior.
But the point stands, that the IPCC's sensitivity estimate cannot readily be reconciled with forcing estimates and observational data. All the recent literature that approaches the question from this angle comes up with similar answers, including the papers I mentioned above. By failing to meet this problem head-on, the IPCC authors now find themselves in a bit of a pickle. I expect them to brazen it out, on the grounds that they are the experts and are quite capable of squaring the circle before breakfast if need be. But in doing so, they risk being seen as not so much summarising scientific progress, but obstructing it.
There's a nice example of this in Reto Knutti's comment featured by Revkin. While he starts out be agreeing that estimates based on the energy balance have to be coming down, he then goes on to argue that now (after a decade or more of generating and using them) he doesn't trust the calculations because these Bayesian estimates are all too sensitive to the prior choices. That seems to me to be precisely contradicted by all the available literature, which demonstrates that so long as absurd priors are avoided, the results are actually remarkably robust. Our own Climatic Change paper, Salvador Pueyo, Aldrin and the other papers above all use a wide range of different priors based on a range of different arguments but still arrive at very similar answers (at least, similar enough in the context of the hypothetical "long tail" for the pdf of climate sensitivity)! It looks rather like the IPCC authors have invented this meme as some sort of talismanic mantra to defend themselves against having to actually deal with the recent literature.