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GPL'd Quanta Plus 2.0 is Out
Eric Laffoon reports that the stories of the demise of GPL'd Quanta have been greatly exaggerated, and to prove it, the Quanta Plus developers have released Quanta Plus 2.0. For those of you who don't know yet, Quanta Plus is a popular and rapid web development tool for KDE.
Some of you will also know that Quanta development has split into 2 branches, one of which is the Open Source KDE project known as Quanta Plus, licensed freely under the GPL, and the other is a commercial Qt product known as Quanta Gold supported by theKompany and made available under a commercial license. Thankfully, both projects are well and alive, and have their place in this world. Hey, and both look great, too (Quanta Plus, Quanta Gold).
awesome, thanks eric! I've spent a LOT of time writing pages in Quanta Plus over the last year and I'm thankful the free version's not dead.
By not the holy them at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
ummm i dont get it...
i dont mean to troll, but I am sure some will think it is?
it looks identical to the old version, am i missing something? I dug arround for a meaningful changelog and found none.
at least the other one looks like an updated UI...
i think the KDE cvs version builds under KDE 3.0 now, is that the update?
atleat it is still in KDE cvs and not in KDE nonbeta :)
-ian reinhart geiser
By Ian Reinhart Geiser at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: ummm i dont get it...
Changes doesn't mean only "surface" changes. If you look at the code, you can see what has chaged. And yes, there are also some new features...
By Andras Mantia at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: ummm i dont get it...
What where these changes?
-ian reinhart geiser
By Ian Reinhart Geiser at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: ummm i dont get it...
Taken from the Changelog file:
- yes,bugfixes (these are just as important as new features)
Some of these can be seen from the UI point of view.
By Andras Mantia at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: ummm i dont get it...
The other is an updated UI only in the sense that it is not a KDE UI any longer.
By ac at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: ummm i dont get it...
No actually they cleaned up a few UI problems, and updated the editor. As far as I am concerned the editor is the biggest part of a development enviroment. I could be wrong though, I have always programmed all my life and never done HTML before other than to play.
It irritateing to have some of the KDE features not there, but they did a good job of makeing up for that in the editor changes.
-ian reinhart geiser
By Ian Reinhart Geiser at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: ummm i dont get it...
There is significantly more to Quanta Gold than the UI changes, the ftp enhancements, new editor, CSS stuff and lots of other things. Feel free to try out a demo at ftp.rygannon.com/pub/QuantaGoldDemo.
We will be posting a message about the history of QuantaGold soon as there are some inaccuracies in Erics statements that the original authors would like to clear up.
By Shawn Gordon at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: ummm i dont get it...
> There is significantly more to Quanta Gold than the UI changes, the ftp enhancements, new editor, CSS stuff and lots of other things.
But in the process many of the changes, good or bad, were required due to no longer being able to include a fair amount of GPL code Quanta Plus depends on. I mean I got new ftp features when I built kio_fish because I can now upload secure. kio is one of the cool things about KDE and because Quanta Plus depends on it a cross platform build would have to replace ftp functionality. Anyway this was about the GPL'd version.
> We will be posting a message about the history of QuantaGold soon as there are some inaccuracies in Erics statements that the original authors would like to clear up.
As I told them all they have to do is let me know and if I have made an error I will be happy to change it, I posted only the briefest mention here that they chose to develop the commerical project instead. I also took great care to find a way to word it all to avoid offending anyone. As someone who already has to walk the tightrope producing commerical products in the open souce community you know how easily people can blow small things out of proportion.
I have always said honesty is the best policy. Thus when my firends decided to produce the commercial product and I read on line posts that I felt were speculations that were unfavorable towards theKompany I often would make the correction for what I felt was an obvious reason. If anyone should be expected not to defend theKompany in this it would be me, so therefore my defense of them in stating that Shawn had correctly said what he did (in those cases) should clear up the speculation. I did this for one reason and one reason only... that I value honesty and integrity.
Since one could wonder I want to say publicly what I said privately, regardless of how one may version a story... if there is anything I need to correct due to innacuracies I will do so.
As for my part I intend to focus on developing a superior program and have only reluctantly entered into the arena of talking about it to stem the tide of email I have been getting. One would think that would be all the more important if you had to sell the program too.
By Eric Laffoon at Tue, 2001/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: ummm i dont get it...
> The other is an updated UI only in the sense that it is not a KDE UI any longer.
Doncha love the confusion? Are you talking Quanta Plus or Quanta Gold? Quanta plus is still linked to the KDE libraries. Maybe you can point to some style elements? Or maybe there is some confusion. Quanta Plus is a KDE app if I have anything to say about it.
By Eric Laffoon at Tue, 2001/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: ummm i dont get it...
Sorry for the confusion, and let me just thank you for reviving GPL Quanta despite all the adversity in the project's history!
By ac at Thu, 2001/12/13 - 6:00am
The CVS version?
The linked project seems to have a CVS archive at Sourceforge. What is up with the Quanta in the KDE CVS tree? Is it being actively maintained?
By Otter at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: The CVS version?
>What is up with the Quanta in the KDE CVS tree?
It's bogus :-).
Note that for me at least, the current quanta (on the KDE3/"HEAD" branch) compiles but doesn't quite run on KDE3 (well, as of a few days ago). The Quanta 2.0 release source has (or had) a minor configure/compile issue that had to be worked around to get the compile to finish, but it seems to run beautifully (under KDE 2.2.2).
Thanks, incidentally, to Mr's Laffoon and Mantia and any other developers (and thanks, even, to the developers who went proprietary, for the work they did up to that point) who've joined the GPL fork, for keeping this alive! $50US just seems a bit much for my budget to get a proprietary version that promises to add a bunch of bells-and-whistles that I likely won't really need...(P.S. Get the price under $30US and make sure it runs under KDE3, and I'd still consider getting the commercial version as well, anyway!)
By DrDubious DDQ at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: The CVS version?
well the electronic version is under $40, and it will work just fine under KDE3, and I imagine the features we are adding to the base product will be very useful to you overall, things like CVS and enhanced FTP and a flexible syntax highlighting text editor so that we can add Python and Perl highlighting and some other features that Zope developers are looking for.
By Shawn Gordon at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: The CVS version?
The KDE 3 versionis already under development. As for all of it I have to actually update cvs as Andras has not had consistent access due to firewall constraints for the time being. I hope to have this up as well as the branch within a day. I have had a bunch of other things going on too.
WRT features in the KDE 3 version if you read the release it mentions a lot. One thing mentioned here is cvs. I have really enjoyed Cervisia for a long time. Becasue it is a kpart now, thanks to Rich Moore, it will be pluggable in Quanta as a part and we will make it integrate nicely.
There are also some nice things being done with DCOP scripting enhancements and we are looking into what we can do with integrating code being developed now for Gideon for PHP. That's the great thing about GPL'd code... you can mix and match from a wide pallette and greatly leverage your work. ;-)
By Eric Laffoon at Tue, 2001/12/11 - 6:00am
soft wrapping?
anybody know if this version supports soft line wrapping? I love pretty much everything else about Quanta, but the lack of soft wrapping drives me nuts.
guess if nothing else I'll just have to grab it and see... :)
By Ryan... at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: soft wrapping?
No, it doesn't support (yet).
By Andras Mantia at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: soft wrapping?
Is the script dialogs still broken or is it me who is still unable to use it??
By hm at Wed, 2001/12/12 - 6:00am
gpl ?
i'am pretty new in linux/kde world but does a company can take an open source project and sell it ?
the gpl is not here for protect this ?
ok they must give the code of the old open source project but they can i guess do inovation in plugin for not give back to the comunoty the new sources.
what do you think ?
By blue at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: gpl ?
The source "owner/author" decides the licence. For Quanta the authors decided to have a fork and licence the Quanta Gold tree commercial (through theKompany) and the Quanta Plus GPL.
It's totally legal and done with some other apps from theKompany too afaik
By maxwest at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: gpl ?
Whether one can sell a copy of a program depends on that program's license. The GNU GPL does not prevent distributing copies of GNU GPL-covered software for a fee. In fact the Free Software Foundation (who wrote the GNU GPL) encourages people to distribute the software at whatever price you can get for it (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html). The summary of the news item is confusing because it fails to use the term "commercial" clearly. GNU GPL-covered software is commercial software if you paid to receive a copy of the software. The GNU GPL prohibits proprietary derivatives, not commercialization.
It's also odd to see people discussing the GNU GPL in the context of the Open Source movement. The Open Source movement had no role in writing the GNU GPL. The GNU GPL was in use well before the Open Source movement existed. The Open Source movement does not share the same philosophy as that expressed in the GNU GPL. To properly understand why the GNU GPL says what it does you need to look to the Free Software movement which is over a decade older than the Open Source movement.
For more information on both movements, please read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html which directly addresses the difference between the two movements without insulting the reader or reducing either movement to a triviality. Check out http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ for more information on the concept of Free Software.
By J.B. Nicholson-Owens at Fri, 2003/01/10 - 6:00am
Strict HTML?
Does anyone know, will Quanta's pages pass W3C's validation?
I think that we don't need any more proprietary HTML-variants.
BTW, thank you developers for great work!
By Juha Tuomala at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Strict HTML?
Well it will comply if you write W3C code! :-)
BUt in a word -- yeah it does....
By Matt Bottrell at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Strict HTML?
So it does not do any syntax checking by itself? Only color highlighting?
Sorry, perhaps I should take time and read it's manual.
By Juha Tuomala at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Strict HTML?
It does. Right click->Syntax check. Uses weblint for this.
By Andras Mantia at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Strict HTML?
You need nsgmls and a HTML 4.x DTD for any real checking. weblint just gives you hints and points out uglynesses (which nsgmls does not).
By HolgerSchurig at Tue, 2001/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: Strict HTML?
By Jos at Tue, 2001/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: Strict HTML?
Quanta is not a Front Page or something like that. With Quanta you edit
By Eeli Kaikkonen at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Strict HTML?
It has a nice tag editor, but really with little effort one could write a Kate plugin to edit HTML tags, and to view the DOM tree and we would have something just as cool.
Quanta has a few other features, but only useful to those who do not have access to KDE.
HTML Preview, and network transparency.
-ian reinhart geiser
By ian reinhart geiser at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Strict HTML?
By Daniel Naber at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Strict HTML? (Don't forget PHP!)
>Quanta has a few other features, but only useful to those who do not have access to KDE.
Not necessarily true. Quanta+ is also the most 'comfortable' PHP(/HTML/Javascript) editor that I've run into so far. Even when I write PHP classes (without HTML) or even PHP 'standalone' scripts, I find Quanta more comfortable to use than Kate. Quanta's PHP/Javascript/HTML syntax highlighting seems much better than Kate's as well, at least last time I took a look at it.
(Not to denigrate Kate, which is a rather nice text editor in its own right...)
By DrDubious DDQ at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Pre-compiled binaries..?
At the Sourceforge download page there was only a tar.bz2 package. Does anyone know if there will be some binaries available, for example RPM's for Red Hat...?
By scb at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
I am looking forward to this. I make extensive use of dreamweaver on the win platforms, and have been longing for something similar for Linux. Yes, it's very good to be able to get at the code and make changes, but as a designer, it is much faster to be able to resize tables with a click and a drag, and other similar WYSIWYG features.
By porter235 at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
Perhaps you should contact Macromedia and talk them into
Having an Ultradev for Linux would make sense, since many of
I have urged them, to do so several times, but they can't see
But naturally, it would be nice with some WYSIWYG in quanta
By Uno Engborg at Mon, 2001/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
I know what you mean. The best thing we have is "Netscape Composer." Which isn't bad for Personal Home Pages...but that's about it.
Do you hear that Shawn Gordon! I know you're reading this. If you want to make a LOT of money(I think), make Quanta more like Dream Weaver. That's what we need. I would pay for that. I won't pay for the current Quanta. I won't even use the free one :-)
Although, for now I think I'm gonna see what'll work under WineX.
By HotPot at Tue, 2001/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
why don't you send me a private email for what features specifically you are looking for. I don't want to offend anyone with this statement, but I've found most professional web developers despise WYSIWYG tools for web development, they generate crap HTML typically and are often slower to work with if you really know what you're doing.
When i started doing web programming about 7 years ago, it was all notepad and HTML 1.0 if I recall correctly. Back then I wrote a really cool little preprocessor that allowed you to put variables in HTML and do parameter substitution and execute segments of web pages like sub-routines, i suppose I should have stuck with it.
In any case I had tried a number of WYSIWYG tools, but the best thing I found for being productive was HotDog from Sausage Software, and Quanta really reminds me of that tool.
So let me know what features you are looking for (I never used Dreamweaver myself) and we'll see what can be done. The component architecture of Quanta Gold makes future plug ins quite simple to implement, this was one of the limitations with the Quanta+ that we solved in the rewrite.
By Shawn Gordon at Tue, 2001/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
WYSIWYG is a myth in the Web world. What you see in Dreamweaver or any other such editors is KIND OF what you get. Dreamweaver is NOT the only solution forWeb design/development, but I have to admit... it is one of the best. I guess what Dreamweaver excels at that Quanta does not have is the fact that it lets you format things visually and interactively. It lets you see KIND OF what you get with tables... adding and deleting COLUMNS of tables is HELLISH by hand if you would pardon my strong language here.
What I AM going to do for Quanta is to list out some specific things about Dreamweaver that shines:
BTW... Does Quanta HAVE to affiliate with KDE? I mean, if it only depends on QT, can't we port it to the other OS's as well??
Just a thought... email/reply to this as you have comments/suggestions!!
By Kenneth Chau at Tue, 2001/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
Quanta has a CSS editor, but I know what you mean about tables. God, nested tables within tables to align data is just a nightmare with HTML. I've run your ideas by the engineers.
Quanta Gold runs on Linux and Windows today, and has since the day it was released. We are working on the Mac version now and should have it available by the end of the month.
By Shawn Gordon at Tue, 2001/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
Shawn, you are awesome. 12 minute response time. I'll note that about Quanta :) Who knows how long before folks at Macromedia would take before replying to ANYTHING I write. Once again, thank you.
By Kenneth Chau at Tue, 2001/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
> Table formatting - albeit inaccurate sometimes, but that's the BEST way
Argh... NO! That is not the *best* way - it's an extremely ugly hack that is only necessary to support the layout in browsers that don't support standards (standards that are fairly old now).
Please, if you add the capability to lay out pages with tables, don't make it the default, whatever you do. It's about time people just bit the bullet and accepted the fact that it is OK to have old-fashioned layout for text browsers and five year old browsers.
By Jim at Thu, 2001/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
That was many years ago... I've since moved on from using tables for laying out all of my sites. With advances like CSS/XHTML/JS/Ajax and what have you, you can really ditch the WYSIWYG world completely! Just mod your code and hit a refresh on your browser to see your results...
By Kenneth Chau at Sat, 2006/04/01 - 6:00am
Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
Just thought I'd toss my 2 cents in here on this. I too would happily toss down cash on a reasonably decent WYSIWIG editor for web pages. I've been using Dreamweaver quite a bit since back to version 2.0 of their product. Presently I own a copy of 3.0 and haven't upgraded yet due to way too much focus on wiz bangy features that I don't want or need.
As a web developer I generally start my design work in Dreamweaver to get my layout put together. DW's HTML isn't perfect, but it's close enough. I would then take that code from that and bring it into an app like HomeSite to clean up the code a bit to my liking, and add my PHP into it. After the initial design work I rarely bring code back into DW to work on it, unless the page remained static.
Main features that I personally require out of DW are:
What I don't use or need:
Even without the layout options, there are a number of goodies in the file management that could be worked into something like Quanta. Namely, the mapping of a remote FTP site to the local directory structure. It is pretty cool to be able to click on a file and simply say "put". This is far more than just cool when you've got a client on the phone requesting a stack of little changes in various parts of the site.
Maybe a little later I'll bug ya with a full rant on what this developer would consider a full suite of web tools would consist of. Quanta is a damn fine start down that path, but it's not the whole picture.
By Michael Collette at Wed, 2001/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
HTML tables are hellish in Dreamweaver! DW adds an incredible amount of garbage to the code; I have no idea why. Often what you see in DW design view looks nothing like in IE. DW always seems to add extra space that you don't want, and then when you try to delete it, it throws the entire table out of whack. I try to fix it in the code, but DW has such a strange way of doing things, this is very difficult. I saw your site and wrote this after many hours of unsuccessfully attempting to place additional table cells alongside a prewritten table that I imported into DW. Anyone who sings the praises of DW probably has not used it much, but what is a better alternative?
By gringoloco at Thu, 2003/05/29 - 5:00am
Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
I've been using Quanta for around a year and love it. When testing pages in Windows I use UltraEdit. I think people asking for WYSIWYG features in Quanta are making a category mistake.
I see Dreamweaver as the kind of tool a graphic designer might use but not something a person interested in keeping up with W3C standards, studying browser quirks &etc. might feel the need of.
I see Quanta as a tool that suits the latter kind of developer - it adds convenience to code writing for the person who enjoys both mastering it and increasing their technical vocabulary. If a person views HTML and related languages as an unenjoyable burden Dreaweaver would be more likely be their tool of choice. For instance; IMHO it's well worth the time learning Javascript than have Dreaweaver spit out dozens of lines of convoluted code to perform a simple image swap that is best performed with three lines or so of code.
WYSIWYG features would just get in the way if introduced into Quanta.
Thanks to all who developed Quanta - something I've used nearly daily of late. I really appreciate it.
By Stognoster at Thu, 2001/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
I like the fact that Quanta is kind of paired down in comparison to DW, however having said that there is stuff in DW that I feel make life much easier.
1) Visual handling of tables.
To be fair DW allows you to edit code directly just most designers don't. I never generally have to leave the DW environment when building.
Also could this run in the Gnome interface pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!
By Symo at Wed, 2003/02/12 - 6:00am
Installation fails... Still !
I am tired of the KDE bz2 install, it always failed !
When you look at the readme file all is easy, you unzip then you do ./configure then make then make install (as root). Yes, easy, but it NEVER works !
Surely - perhaps - it is not the fault of KDE, it is Mandrake (8.1) or my install !...
NEVER on Windows I have failed an install. On Linux/KDE all the bz2 install failed, It is tiring and frustrating... And there is no easy message to help, only :
checking for libz... configure: error: not found. Check your installation and look into config.log
With such things, Linux is still an OS for hackers, not for end users...
Well, I see that the Readme file of Quanta Plus is better than others, it is said :
Should you have trouble during ./configure or the make process, try the
But where is my KDEDIR, how I find it ? And the QTDIR ? Why there is not an automatic search of this path ?
Now for non hackers user, it is impossible to run the non packaged KDE apps. There is something to do...
By Alain at Wed, 2001/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: Installation fails... Still !
You are right, installation from sources on some systems/configurations can be painful. You can try to:
In your case what you can do is:
> checking for libz... configure: error: not found. Check your installation and look into config.log
As it says, look at the end of the "config.log" file to see what's the problem. 99% it will complain about a missing header file (zlib.h). In this case you should install the libz-devel (or something similar) package. As a general rule, when compiling from sources, you need also the devel package for your libraries (KDE, Qt, libz, ImageMagick, etc.)
KDEDIR and QTDIR should be set by the distro, but if it fails, they should point to your KDE (and QT) installation. Eg. KDE is in /opt/kde and QT in /usr/lib/qt2, than set these variables to these paths.
I will try to make a better Readme, but I don't think that in one Readme file I can describe every solution why configuring (compiling, linking) fails. But I will try...
By Andras Mantia at Wed, 2001/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: Installation fails... Still !
> As a general rule, when compiling from sources, you need also the devel package for your libraries (KDE, Qt, libz, ImageMagick, etc.)
Thank you... I think it is the cause. I am not a developper, so I did not install the development packages in the Mandrake installation. There are many ones... Pfff... it is not obvious...
By Alain at Wed, 2001/12/12 - 6:00am
Plus vs Gold
i just want to know the difference between thoose two version ?
is there any advantage of buying the Gold version ?
By Mathieu Jobin at Thu, 2001/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: Plus vs Gold
try out the demo and see for yourself. QG has fixed a number of inherit design flaws that caused performance problems on large projects, it is very actively developed, we have updates every 1 to 2 weeks since it was released. Support is typically rapid. You get all available platforms for a single price. There is a pretty comprehensive manual, integrated CVS support, advanced FTP integration, etc.
By Shawn Gordon at Mon, 2001/12/17 - 6:00am


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| 13.3°C Dublin
Argentine rock star Gustavo Cerati has died, four years after a stroke put him in a coma and ended the career of one of Latin America's most influential musicians.
The 55-year old was the former lead singer of the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo, who were among the most popular groups in the Spanish-speaking world in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Cerati won several accolades, including several Latin Grammys and MTV music awards.
Thousands of people gathered at the Buenos Aires parliament to pay homage to Cerati. Some fans sang his songs, others brought flowers, while most waited in silence in a queue that stretched for 15 city blocks to pay their respects.
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I'm sure that the editor at the other end of this charade is not going to be happy.
- 9/16/2006
There was a scene in Six Feet Under where Billy's mother invited Claire out to dinner and then attempted to convince her to take her son him back. Out came Billy to seal the deal. Claire, of course, was sickened by the lameness of it all. As would this Tor editor be.
- 9/16/2006
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If the snarklings don't spot the nitwitery in the first thirty seconds, they need the cluegun too.
- 9/16/2006
1) Pissing off an agent by encouraging her to be spammed is not the way to impress her.
2) If the book isn't exactly what the agent is looking for, then how can it be perfect?
Can't image why Miss Snark doesn't give her real name and email. ;)
- 9/16/2006
I'll bet when this author isn't writing she's selling Amway.
- 9/16/2006
My bad, Ms. Genoese is an editor, not an agent. But a writer shouldn't want to piss off either an agent or editor.
- 9/16/2006
- Susan Helene Gottfried said...
*slams head on desk*
First Sobol, now THIS???
Sheesh. These people are making it harder for a talent author -- BY THE MINUTE.
Thanks, folks. Thanks, so very fucking much.
- 9/16/2006
If a writer's friends started commenting on my blog saying "buy my friend's book! buy it! buy it!"--and they weren't Holly Black or J.K. Rowling or, perhaps in your case, George Clooney, that's a big mark against the book. Unless the book were so outstanding and the author so easy to work with (and I'm imagining the answer to that 2nd question is no, if they ask their friends to spam a blog). Overall, it shows just plain unprofessional behavior.
- 9/16/2006
Because now everyone knows just who this writer is and what a stupid thing she did and is suggesting. Anyone with that name is going to be on do-not-deal-with lists for a long time.
- 9/16/2006
Here is your Jewish-Inspirational-Paranormal Romance even though the short synopsis doesn't stress the romantic part much.
- 9/16/2006
- Jenny Rae Rappaport said...
Because Anna will have a fit, that's why it's a bad idea... plus the fact that it's rude and is a genuine way to get yourself an instant rejection, fast.
- 9/16/2006
A local DJ got convicted (and fired) over a proposal much like this one. It boils down to "Hey, gang! Have a few yucks and help me bully this unsuspecting victim! Your mission is to spam her! Wouldn't that more fun than you've had since you outgrew prank phone calls?"
Recovering Editor
- 9/16/2006
Sounds like a great way to piss off an editor to me, asking folks to bomb the comment box...
- 9/16/2006
Reasons this is a bad idea:
1) Editors ain't stupid.
2) No one wants to feel like they're being railroaded into a decision.
3) It's never a good idea to upset someone about to make a business decision (hopefully) in your favor.
4) Editors have long memories.
5) You posted this on the internet where anyone can see it.
Did I miss something?
- 9/16/2006
- domynoe said...
*smacks forehead*
Why on earth does she think this will do any more than irritate said agents? Lawd.
- 9/16/2006
Did I get this right? An author, by way of her blog, is asking her BLOG READERS to convince a TOR editor to buy her manuscript?
Miss Snark, you asked your Snarklings to post on why this is a bad idea, but alas, words fail me.
- 9/16/2006
- Alison Coupland said...
Could it possibly be because NOBODY wants to be hastled to buy something? Not only is it unprofessional, but it is meerly a desperate ploy to get attention. The only attention THIS ploy will get is a form reject while Ms. G--which is considerably more polite than the response spammers get from me. Which is no response.
- 9/16/2006
- LA Burton said...
Is that a joke!!! Never happen!
- 9/16/2006
- anna louise said...
hahahaha. thanks for the pointer, miss s.
- 9/16/2006
- otto said...
I'm speechless. Absolutely speechless.
- 9/16/2006
- Stacie Penney said...
And the funniest part is she reads the blog and STILL doesn't get it.
I'll buy the damn clue gun and mail it to her, if it would help.
- 9/16/2006
Okay, right off the bat, what she thinks is clever will very likely turn out to be annoying to the editor she wants to "entice" into buying her ms.
What makes her think the editor will judge her ms by the opinions of people who post comments on her blog? They aren't necessarily (and most likely aren't) the ones who would actually buy the book. They aren't bound to buy the book in the end just because they posted.
Also, is the editor even still looking for that kind of romance, not to mention her story doesn't seem to fit exactly what the editor was looking for?
LOL, any other editors/agents and godlike publishing gurus she ever queries could see this and think "I'm not even going near this, near her, ever".
Not only can this royally backfire, it can blacklist her with agents and editors... because as you remind us often, Miss Snark, you guys talk to each other.
- 9/16/2006
I can get my f_list to spam someone who may just be considering my work? And it'll get me published? F'n Sweet!
- 9/16/2006
Hmm...maybe because trying to browbeat editors into an aquisition doesn't work out for anyone?
Also, I can't say that her favorite quotes from her own book (a concept that strikes me as conceited) make any sense to me, a person who has never read the book.
- 9/16/2006
- Kim said...
that dull thud was the sound of me hitting the floor...
Eeekk.... I sure hope this is a joke.
Is it just me, or does anyone sense that there will be one pissed off editor at Tor if anyone actually has the stones to do this??
- 9/16/2006
This was the reason I gave her:
"While this is a unique way to get promotion for your book, I don't think spamming the blog of an editor who's been kind enough to open her life up to the world at large and demystify publishing is the type of "paying it forward" agent and editor bloggers talk about so much.
Even if 500 of us read your stuff and like it enough to post, publishing isn't a ballot. She's not going to buy it if she doesn't like it, and if she liked it, she'd buy it even if no one said anything.
Please, don't pursue this, don't freak Anna out and scare away a valuable writer resource and entertaining blog for the sake of getting published.
Just don't."
- 9/16/2006
Well, I suppose it's one way to get your manuscript rejected more quickly ...
- 9/16/2006
OMG! That's all I can say. Wait! Maybe I can say more. Does WTF describe this?
I'm in shock. Um, let me leave and take my meds--
Miss Snark, this HAS to be a joke. Please tell me it is.
A Snarkling
- 9/16/2006
I don't know where to begin. It's a joke, right? Nobody is that stupid.
- 9/16/2006
- Jim Winter said...
Well, that nails it.
I'm going to auction the rights to my book off on eBay.
- 9/16/2006
- Bloggin' Grammy said...
Oh my, snarky...send KY!
- 9/16/2006
I am last one who can chime in find fault with the zany, outside of the box, ideas on self-promotion.
- 9/16/2006
Uh... Why ISN'T this a bad idea?
- 9/16/2006
It's a joke. It's gotta be. That can't possibly be real. It's a wacko publicity thing.
Or a desperate plea to be blacklisted.
and so long first rights.
No. It has to be a really dumb joke.
- 9/16/2006
That's hilarious. In the "OMG, who would do something that inane" way?
Why it's a bad idea?
1) Because people don't like random strangers telling them how to do their job.
2) 'Cause it's seriously gauche.
3) Because if the author is trying to organize web campaigns before the book is even sold, it makes you wonder what kind of crazy stuff she going to get into if Anna actually bought the book.
"Hey everybody, my editor wants me to change X in my book. But she oh so wrong. Leave comments on her blog telling her so.
4) People don't like people who encourage their readers to troll their blog.
- 9/17/2006
- Sue said...
It'a bad because the way to an editor's heart is through good writing and not through spam.
It's bad because Editor Anna does not strike me as the sort of person who would be impressed by the kudos of anonymous others*. (By anonymous I mean those she doesn't know in person or by reputation. A name is just a name.)
It's bad because the author is showing her ignorance of the publishing process. (Though, to her credit, she is aware of what Editor Anna is looking for -- in part.)
*I know her only through her blog, but it is part of my regular reading as she is entertaining and offers interesting insights into the world of Tor.
- 9/17/2006
- Sherryl said...
Because it marks you down as the kind of loony who harrasses editors and agents and makes them crazy.
No one ever talks about blacklisting loony authors, but I know several editors who have their own secret list. And from what Miss Snark has said about how editors and agents alike do actually talk to each other, this person has probably put herself on other loony lists as well.
(Please don't get PC with me about the word loony - it is a frequently-used term where I live for writers who make editors' lives a misery.)
- 9/17/2006
Well, here's some thinking why an author might not want to do this.
No one wants someone else to tell them what to do. Some, most people have a knee-jerk reaction to do the opposite. If hordes of readers descend on Miss Genoese telling her to buy the mss, perhaps she'll feel that knee-jerk.
And if no one or only a few rise to the call, perhaps she'll feel there is no one really interested in this mss after all.
In either case, the author has taken a bad risk.
Now, as for why it's a bad idea from Miss Genoese's standpoint, perhaps you and others could provide that perspective.
- 9/17/2006
Tell you this is a bad idea? Someone please tell her! It's like watching a train wreck.
- 9/17/2006
- KEZ said...
...She's asking to have her butt handed to her, and her book blacklisted. Just...not smart. And quite annoying. Well, that's my guess at least.
- 9/17/2006
Yikes! Where to begin with what's wrong with that!? Aside from the obvious don't-harass-an-agent-about-the-slush-pile, this unsolicited ms is not going to the appropriate person at TOR as per their submission guidelines!
- 9/17/2006
Bad? Yes. Horrible even? Yes. Funny? YES. And she thinks harassing an editor anonymously is the bad part. I am in awe.
- 9/17/2006
- Christine said...
Wow -- that is a bad idea. I'm almost impressed.
I don't think that I'd wanna work with someone who agitated online to get the hoi polloi to harass me on my personal blog. Not the greatest selling strategy ever.
- 9/17/2006
- Dave Fragments said...
Oh My Stars? It's Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
Lots of editors say
I'm looking for a blank novel about blank. And I see nothing wrong with writing a novel and sending a query letter trying to fill that desire.
But don't sic your friends on the editor. He or she will just remove you from any consideration of anything (other than the blocked list or the idiots I never want to hear from list) ...
This is TOR, also. TOR! one of the largest in the business... Did this person read her blog where she talks about the number of manuscripts she rejects and why?
Now how else is this wrong?
a)I know from my dealings with editors on technical journals that you never lobby, bug, or spam an editor. That creates an enemy and those editors talk to each other. I Can't tell you how many picky, silly and just plain dumb changes I made to suit editors.
b) How many times has Miss Snark lectured about not bugging agents and editors? 5, 6 thousand?
c) How many times has Miss Snark discussed how web publishing and a web following are not good writing credits? (hint, it'sa big number)
- 9/17/2006
I blame Stephen Colbert for this. He's asked people to spam websites for months (infamously attacking Wiki entries and stuffing the ballot box to get a bridge named after him).
The only problem is that Stephen Colbert can get away with it; this lame-ass writer cannot.
Yes, it's wrong when Colbert does it but at least it's funny. This twit has no clue.
- 9/17/2006
Um... who is this person? It seems she already expects everyone to know.
- 9/17/2006
I once overheard an editor say, "God, I hate authors."
Now I know why.
- 9/17/2006
- Bernita said...
Oh Nurse! Nurse!
- 9/17/2006
Is it just me or does she seem a bit obsessed with poor Anna Louise? :/ (Or is she just majorly sucking up to her?)
I read her other posts. Crazy person alert!
- 9/17/2006
Of course it's a terrible idea. But I can understand why the author can't see that. You hear so many stories of people building up a massive audience for their book/music/film through the web (I'm thinking Belle de Jour/Arctic Monkeys/Snakes on a Plane) that I can see why someone with a slightly lower clue quotient than the rest of us might think this idea was a stroke of genius. And perhaps, handled slightly differently - or if the novel was actually, y'know, any good - it might have been.
- 9/17/2006
- Ray said...
Human pathos is a great literary element, but on a blog it's just pathetic.
I'm reminded of the early bloggers who attracted readers through the reality flow of consciousness about employers. Oh yes, so entertaining and obviously self-destructive.
Sometimes I'm sorry we live in the Too-Much-Information Age.
I hope it's a joke too. But it isn't.
- 9/17/2006
The thing that cracks me up about this is that she recognizes that comments from "Anonymous" are a bad idea, but somehow if you leave your actual name that makes it okay.
- 9/17/2006
- Aries said...
It strikes me as a bad idea simply because there aren't any shortcuts to getting published by a big name, prestigious publisher and that writer is looking for one. I think she should be pitied rather than mocked.
- 9/17/2006
- The Unpretentious Writer said...
Oi, bad idea.
Although, I wasn't aware that Jewish-Paranormal-Romance was a genre. I'll have to remember that the next time we do staff rec's at the store.
(Also, not the biggest fan of her first sentence, but that's got nothing to do with her judgement.)
- 9/17/2006
Sarah is obviously ignorant of the huge difference between assertive and aggressive.
- 9/17/2006
- DeepWater Music said...
Poor dear.
Both of them.
- 9/17/2006
- Natasha Fondren said...
*cringe* Did she win nitwit of the week??
I feel sorry for her, at this point.
- 9/17/2006
- Stacia said...
Miss Genoese showed up and left a rather pointed comment on the girl's blog. Ouch.
Just goes to show, there are no shortcuts, and thinking you have a special way to get around one of the sharpest and most open editors in the biz is Not Smart.
- 9/17/2006
This seems to fall under the category of:
"My mom says I'm pretty so you should date me."
- 9/17/2006
- jnr said...
well, the behavior demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of what an editor does: evaluate material using his or her own judgement.
worst thing is, she still (as of friday, anyway) hadn't seem to realize that it was a genuinely bad idea...not a good idea misinterpreted by an insensitive world. she hasn't called off the campaign.
i was thinking that some of your commentors might be judging her a little harshly until i read that. oh well.
- 9/17/2006
- redcap said...
Oh the horror! The horror!
- 9/17/2006
Oh, my goodness.
The cyber version times 500 of "My mom and friends really liked this!"
- 9/17/2006
What really strikes me as strange is that now she's got a post saying how she hates spam and she never meant for the editor to be spammed. It's like she doesn't get that it's not really about spam. What if she'd asked her readers to all write letters to the editor. That wouldn't be spam, but there'd still be the same issue of it being a REALLY INSANE AND STUPID THING TO DO. Either suck it up and apologize, or don't, but like Miss Snark said, don't rationalize it (I'm sorry, but I never thought of it as spam...). Blah, blah, blah...I think she's gonna need that pen name after all.
- 9/17/2006
My advice before it happened would be to avoid coming across as difficult and demanding.
Alas, no one asked.
Reminds me of my brief career as a riding instructor, seeing a train wreck on horseback and thinking "Don't you just KNOW not to do that?" It's surprising what people don't know or what they think is perfectly logical.
- 9/17/2006
- Catja (green_knight) said...
In case she still needs to be told why it's a bad idea - because it shows a fundamental lack of understanding the publishing process.
Editors don't buy manuscripts because the author's friends like it. Editors - particularly at large publishing houses - buy books because they think they will make a profit.
On that topic, I can recommend - which is no coincidence - http://alg.livejournal.com/84032.html
and http://alg.livejournal.com/89781.html
which deal with the dreaded Profit and Loss calculations and is one of the best explanations I've seen. *That* is what she'll consider for every manuscript that comes over her desk. And the chances of something that is well written are much better than those for a book that is ok; even if the ok one comes with a platform of people who say 'I wanna read more'. Anyone in business will be only too aware what percentage of 'I am interested in theory' is willing to put money on the table when the time comes...
- 9/17/2006
- David said...
Well, it's cluelessness rather than malice, but the effect is going to be the same.
The proposal might be brilliant, but the editor won't be able to look at it without associating it with the flood of spam.
On the bright side, time passes, people forget, and this act of stupidity will eventually cease to hamper the author's career. In twenty years, or so.
- 9/17/2006
- Sha'el, Princess of Pixies said...
Dear Anon:
What's a random stranger?
- 9/17/2006
- Sha'el, Princess of Pixies said...
One simply cannot take their approach to social interaction into the way they submit their work.
We may rally our friends, we may lobby our relatives, but we may not plague editors and see print.
And ... royal commands do not seem to work on agents and publishers either. I'd offer TOR a royal license if I thought it would work. They could put "Publisher to Her Highness, Sha'el, Princess of Pixies" somewhere in each volume they print. And Anna could sign all her correspondence with, "Editor Royal to the House of Sha." I just don't see it working. But I did offer her an Oreo. She never answered. Oreos work with my children though; so I still have hopes.
I don't understand those two rejections from TOR year before last. It's probably that I like turnovers more than pistachio muffins. It couldn't be my writing. ... Could it?
- 9/17/2006
Her faux-apology is just ridiculous - making out as if Tor will just chuck the MS on the reject pile now. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. Behaviour can be as important as the writing once it gets to that level of rudeness/foolishness.
It was stupid. But all she has to do is say sorry - instead of coming up with excuses.
- 9/17/2006
- Dee said...
Darn, I'm always late...they took the post off the blog...don't know if it was the "author" or the Blogger people did.
It must've been a real BAD thing...too bad I don't know what it is...
anyone willing to give me a general idea???
- 9/17/2006
- Kim said...
It wasn't bad in the sense of evil-bad. Basically, an aspiring author had submitted a partial to TOR and then, on her blog wrote a post about it. Sounds ok, right? Well, what she posted was that people should read the first chapter on HER website (or blog. I don't really remember, since it was late last night when I read it). Then, when a body finished reading it, said author suggested that a body then go to certain TOR editor's blog and post a comment on how much that body loved the first chapter and how they wanted to read the rest. That way, the editor would see how many people loved it, and would buy it from our intrepid author.
In a nutshell, everyone was supposed to crash this editor's blog to get her to buy a manuscript. Needless to say, NOT a good idea. A lot of people pointed it out - on her blog as well as this one.
The author did apologize, but it was a backhanded (lefthanded??) apology. A lot of people pointed out just how backhanded (lefthanded??)it was. Yikes.
Now, original post, apology post, and all comments regarding said post have been removed. Whew... now you're caught up :)
At least, I think that's it. Anyone out there - if I've got it wrong, please correct me! I promise I won't blame you for my eff up :)
- 9/17/2006
- Beth said...
What I'm wondering is why none of her blog readers seem to think it a bad idea...until after it backfired.
- 9/18/2006
Posts be gone now.
- 9/18/2006
Salon had ?a good article on how to apologize.
I've been online 20 years, myself, and know folks who've been on longer. Usenet, gopher, and relay predate the web by quite a bit. If you worked for or attended a university during the 80s, you could be online. (If you worked for the right government or university department, you could be online longer than that.) The larger world discovered the 'net in the mid-90s, but it's been around since the late-60s.
- 9/18/2006
Well one thing is for sure... this author won't have trouble in the marketing dept. when she is asked to help promote her work. She seems quite capable of getting the word out :)
- 9/18/2006
Beth, that's because those of us who are not off the deep end don't read Sarah R. Yoffa's blog. I've run into her far too many times on the internet, and each time her egomania drove me away. Sadly, I feel I have to post this anonymously, as I don't want to have to interact with her at any point in the future.
- 9/18/2006
- Wonderwood said...
This is a belated comment, but it needs to be made. The reasons why this was a bad idea are self-evident. It boggles the mind that someone with enough clarity to complete a novel could be so in the fog on a professional/social level. Regardless of the degree of badness the idea possesses, don't we - as writers - have to probe deeper? What is her motivation? What's her inspiration? What makes her tick? Is she stubbornly, selfishly, sluggishly slogging along, mired in a foggy bog devoid of sufficient illumination for self-examination? Or is it such a nouveau - pardon my French - experience, the birthing of an idea, that she is enchanted by it, and uses it foolishly and with childlike enthusiasm? One wonders. Either way, a fascinating study of the darkness in which the soul can live.
- 9/19/2006


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In the past I have frequently mined my own family photograph collection for both inspiration and subjects for articles on Photo-Sleuth. Hunting for appropriate images or interesting topics often involves looking at the photographs in greater detail, or perhaps from a different point of view. Occasionally this results in the unearthing of new clues regarding the people in the photo or the events depicted, part of the process that Alan Burnett has referred to as "photographic archaeology."
The Sepia Saturday prompt this week invites us to share "unknowns" from our collections. My contribution is the result of an investigation into a series of three amateur photographs from my family collection from geographical, genealogical and photohistorical perspectives.
Charles Hallam and Sarah Payne promenading at Blackpool, c.1900-1904
Cabinet card by H. Pawson, Promenade Studio, Blackpool
Image © and collection of Barbara Ellison
My great-great-uncle Charles Hallam Payne (1870-1960) and his wife Sarah Emma Payne nee Parker (1870-1946) retired from running the Payne family grocery in June 1914, when they were in their mid-forties, moving from Normanton to Dale Cottage near Ingleby. Retiring at such a young age was probably facilitated by a substantial inheritance from Hallam's father, and perhaps precipitated by the death of his mother earlier that year.
The lease on Dale Cottage was signed four days before Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, and when war was declared against Germany six weeks later, Hallam and Sarah must have wondered if they'd made a mistake. No doubt the privations and hardships brought on by the Great War impacted on far more than just their tradition of having regular summer holidays at the seaside, such as that captured by Harold Pawson at the Promenade Studio portrait above, taken shortly after the turn of the century.
Charles Hallam Payne (far right) and friends, Swanage
Postcard print by unidentified photographer, 10 June 1929
Image © and collection of Barbara Ellison
They resumed their outings some time after the war had ended and, according to inscriptions on the backs, these three amateur prints were all taken in the summer of 1929 at Swanage on the southern coast of Dorset, England. This was after one of the most severe winters of the last three decades and a notably dry spring, but in typical English fashion they are dressed for inclement weather, quite a contrast to the German family holidaying in Sorrento which I featured on Photo-Sleuth six weeks ago.
It was also less than a fortnight after the General Election, the first in the United Kingdom in which women under 30 were allowed to vote, and therefore often referred to as the "Flapper Election." Did the young women perched not far from the edge of a cliff in this photograph vote? I like to think so, although perhaps they were a little young.
Reverse of K Ltd postcard, probably taken with a No. 3A Folding Pocket Kodak or similar, using 122 roll film and processed by Kodak Ltd.
The backs of two of the postcard-sized photographs in this series display a generic "K Ltd" format which Ron Playle lists as in use from 1918 until 1936. Although he doesn't state the name of the firm who printed them, I believe these very commonly used postcards are very likely to have been produced by Kodak Ltd., like the similar "K" design from the late 1930s and early 1940s which was from Kodak, and which I wrote about last week.
This excerpt from an article by Merril Distad provides more background to Kodak's early involvement in the postcard industry:
Kodak's greatest boost to the postcard craze really began in 1903 with the introduction of the Kodak Folding Pocket Model 3A camera. Produced until 1941, it was a small, folding bellows camera, priced from as low as $12, that yielded postcard-size negatives (3.25 x 5.5 inches / 83 x 139 mm). Kodak distributed its photo print papers, both the "Velox" and (after 1904) the cheaper "Aso" brand, precut to the same size, with the standard postcard grid format printed on the backs. Despite competition from other companies' photo papers in postcard format, such as Ansco's "Cyko," Artura's "Artura," Burke & James' "Rexo," Defender's "Argo," and Kilburn's "Kruxo," Kodak papers accounted for 70 percent of such sales prior to 1914, while it sold an annual average of 45,000 Model 3A cameras during the same period.Many of Derbyshire's commercial photographers used "K Ltd." postcard papers for their own photos in the 1920s. Some firms, such Boots Cash Chemists, which had four branches in Derby and a further 11 throughout Derbyshire, would also have provided a service which developed and printed roll film from cameras such as the No. 3A Folding Pocket Kodak.
Sarah (2nd from left) & Charles Hallam Payne (far right) et al, Swanage
Postcard print by unidentified photographer, 10 June 1929
Image © and collection of Barbara Ellison
Buoyed by the recent successful identification of the Sorrento coastline, I wondered whether it might be possible to pinpoint the spots where these photographs had been taken, even though I am as unfamiliar with England's southern shoreline as I am with the Italian coast.
Although not the best in terms of clarity, the first shot shows Uncle Hallam with a young man and two young women - one with a hat, one without - posing on what appears to be the edge of a cliff, overlooking a body of water with some rocks just visible at centre left.
The second has the same group, with the addition of Aunt Sarah, standing at the edge of a road bordered by an untrimmed hedge. The chimneyed roof of a cottage is visible at centre right, and a view of the sea at centre left, with a possible "notched" headland in the distance.
Sarah (2nd from right) & Charles Hallam Payne (far right) et al, Swanage
Amateur paper print by unidentified photographer, June 1929
Image © and collection of Barbara Ellison
The third shot appears to have been taken at a similar location to the first, although Aunt Sarah and Uncle Hallam, his hat now carefully placed on the ground, are now standing with two young men and one young lady. It seems likely that the young woman without a hat who appears to be wearing a man's dark jacket in the first cliff-top shot was the photographer in this third photograph.
Amateur print (60x88mm) on Velox paper by unidentified photographer
Probably taken with Folding Pocket Kodak or No. 2 Brownie, June 1929
Image © and collection of Barbara Ellison
The quality of this paper print, clearly marked with Kodak's VELOX brand, is somewhat inferior to the other two and it is a smaller format. It measures roughly 2¼" x 3¼", which equates to Kodak's 105 or 120 formats, and therefore probably taken with either a Folding Pocket Kodak or a No. 2 Brownie.
Swanage and Peveril Point
Image © and courtesy of Google Earth
Next ... the location, which I investigated, as usual, using the imagery provided by Google Earth. To the east of Swanage's town centre, at the southern end of a large bay, is a peninsular called Peveril Point, which seemed to me the most obvious place to go looking for cliff tops that tourists might visit.
View of Broken Shell Limestone Reef, Durlstone Bay from Swanage Coastguard Hut, Peveril Point
Image © Al Dunn and courtesy of 360 Cities
Close to the tip of Peveril Point, not far from the Coastguard hut, and right on the cliff edge, Google Earth shows a small red icon which represents a 360 degrees panoramic view. Double-clicking on the icon takes one into the panorama, and provides the image above, apparently taken from precisely the same spot as the first cliff-edge photograph.
The rocky outcrop known in geological circles as the Broken Shell Limestone Reef is clearly visible, even at high tide, as are the the white shells or pebbles which litter the ground at the cliff top. This forms part of the geological type-section of the Purbeck Group of the Upper Jurassic, visited frequently by geologists and geological students since its first description by Thomas Webster in 1816, and well known for its reptile and early mammal fossils (West, 2012).
Coastguard cottages overlooking Swanage Bay
Image © Andy Jamieson, courtesy of Geograph.co.uk and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
Despite the loss of two of the building's chimneys in the intervening eight decades, it is easily identifiable as the Coastguard Cottages which are situated immediately above the RNLI Swanage Lifeboat Station.
The Coastguard Cottages on Peveril Point, Swanage
Image © Bressons_Puddle and courtesy of Panoramio
Peveril Point Road, Swanage
Image © and courtesy of Google Streetview
Unfortunately Google's StreetView camera didn't quite make it that far along Peveril Point Road, but the cottages and their chimneys are just visible poking out to the left of the small tree in the centre of this view above (click on the image to be taken to StreetView). Very close to the blue gate set into the stone wall in front of the tree is where the group of five were standing on that summer evening.
Swanage and Peveril Point, with the two camera positions marked
Image © and courtesy of Google Earth
I write "evening" because the photographer is facing towards the north-east. The characteristic profile of the cliffs at Ballard Point and Old Harry's Wife, on the other side of Swanage Bay, are just visible - the "notched" headland to which I referred earlier. The shadows are long and pointing towards the east, and since in Dorset the sun sets around 9:20 pm in mid-June, I estimate this was perhaps between 5 and 7 pm.
The Promenade, Swanage, Postcard postmarked 1931
Although other visitors aren't visible in any of these photographs, Swanage was a popular destination between the wars, as evidenced by the number of postcards from that era boasting of its amenities, such as the view of The Promenade above, posted on 1931.
Mary and Ella Chadwick, 1927
Postcard print by H.A. Aylward of Alton, Hampshire
Image © and courtesy of Una Palmer
Lastly to the identification of Hallam and Sarah's fellow sojourners on Swanage. Hallam and Sarah didn't have any children of their own. So whose kids did they have, then (you might ask, if you're a Spike Milligan devotee)? Well, they were very fond of their nephews and nieces, grand-nephews and grand-nieces, including my grandfather and father.
One of the two young women was, I think, Mary (born in 1912, shown above left), a daughter of Hallam's sister Lucy Mary (aka "Maggie") Chadwick (1876-1953), probably the one wearing the sensible hat. Maggie's younger daughter Ella (aka "Bay" and born in 1916, above right) was only twelve years old at that time, so I think the other young woman - the one I suggest may have wielded a camera - is probably a friend. The Chadwicks were living at Headley Down in Hampshire at this time, which would have been two or three hours' drive from Swanage in Hallam's Citroën purchased in July 1921 (either a Type A, the first motor car mass-produced in Europe, or a Type B).
Harry and Clarence Benfield Payne, c.1919-1921
Postcard print by unidentified photographer
Image © and courtesy of Una Palmer
As for the two young men, I feel sure they are the sons of Hallam's younger brother Fred Payne (1879-1946) and drove down with them from Derby. Henry (aka Harry and born in 1906) and Clarence Benfield (born 1907) both lived in Derby, where their parents had been running the grocer's shop/offlicence in St James' Road, Normanton ever since Hallam and Sarah's retirement. Their sister Christine was captured walking with her uncle and aunt twice by street photographers in Bournemouth four years later.
Gustavson, Todd (2009) Camera, A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital, New York: Sterling, 360 pp.
Distad, Merrill (nd) The postcard – a brief history, on Peel's Prairie Provinces, from University of Alberta Libraries.
Milligan, Spike (1961) Word Power, on Milligan Preserved, LP publ. EMI (NTS 114), courtesy of YouTube.
West, Ian M. (2012) Durlston Bay - Peveril Point, Durlston Formation, including Upper Purbeck Group: Geology of the Wessex Coast (Jurassic Coast, UNESCO World Heritage Site), Internet geological field guide, by Ian West, Romsey and School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Southampton University.
Sunrise and Sunset in Bournemouth
Historical Weather Events
Excerpt from Kelly's Directory of Hampshire 1931, courtesy of John Owen Smith
The AA Road Book of England and Wales, publ. c.1936 London: The Automobile Association, by kind courtesy of Nigel Aspdin,


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I have a (large) application that works perfectly under XP. When I run it under Windows 7 the "File Edit View..." menu in my application flickers when everything is otherwise idle.
I have traced this down to SetTimer and its associated OnTimer function. OnTimer usually does nothing, so I have commented out everything leaving this:
I have also changed the SetTimer call to give one tick every five seconds.Code:void MyView::OnTimer(UINT nIDEvent) { }
I now see the same behaviour: the File menu is very briefly greyed-out every five seconds, leading to the flicker. Nothing else in the window is exhibiting this flicker.
So, I have a call to a null function every five seconds that manages to affect a menu.
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It's deja vu all over again.
The stock of a humongous American bank, Bank of America (BAC), is collapsing.
This is stoking fears that Bank of America will go bust, taking the whole economy down with it.
Why is Bank of America's stock tanking?
Because the market thinks Bank of America is worth much less than Bank of America's management says it is.
In fact, in what is fast becoming a formal law of bank-stock thermo-dynamics, the more the bank insists that everything's fine, the more investors take this as a signal to run for the hills.
Meanwhile, the more the bank's stock drops, the more expensive and painful it will be for it to raise cash if and when it finally admits that the market was right all along (the next formal law of bank stock thermo-dynamics being that the market is generally right.)
And given that Bank of America has now persuasively broken the $7 barrier and now has a mere $65 billion of equity value left, this death spiral can't continue much longer. (The good news, we suppose, is that the stock can't fall below zero).
Let's leave aside for a moment the question of what will happen if Bank of America's stock keeps tanking. After observing the government's behavior during the financial crisis, the obvious bet would be that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is even now cooking up some new bailout scheme that, per usual, will save the bank and hose taxpayers. But Americans certainly have gotten sick to death of bailouts, so maybe that isn't such a foregone conclusion this time.
(A year or so ago, if memory serves, the Treasury was trumpeting "financial reform" that allows it to go in and seize any huge institution whose failure threatens the economy, so maybe that's also a possibility. But the government had that power last time, too--at least with respect to the banks--and it refused to use it. So we're not sure why it would use it this time.)
The question for today is why is Bank of America's stock collapsing? What does the market see that Bank of America's management and auditors don't?
Thanks to the efforts of a few tireless Bank of America observers, including Zero Hedge and Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism, we have our answers.
Bank of America has about $222 billion of "book value"--the amount that's supposedly left over when you subtract Bank of America's stated liabilities from its stated assets.
The trouble is that the market doesn't believe Bank of America's assets are worth anything close to what Bank of America says they are worth. The market also doesn't believe that Bank of America has reserved anywhere near enough to pay the costs of litigation surrounding its mortgage behavior during the housing boom.
And when you put a more reasonable value on Bank of America's assets, the market thinks, the difference between that reasonable value and today's current value will have to be subtracted from the company's "book value." And that subtraction, the market thinks, will so demolish Bank of America's book value that the company is basically insolvent. (And, therefore, will need to raise more capital or go bust).
Here are some of the things that the Bank of America observers think should or will be subtracted from the bank's $222 billion of book value:
- $15-$20 billion in Increased mortgage-litigation reserves. Zero Hedge thinks BOFA is understating the liability for mortgage litigation costs by this amount. See explanation here.
- Some percentage of $80 billion of "second mortgages." Yves Smith thinks these should probably be written down by 60%, or $48 billion. You can pick your own number.
- Some percentage of $47 billion in commercial real estate loans.* The "extend and pretend" game in commercial real-estate is even more pronounced than in residential real estate. So as Yves Smith observes, there's almost no chance those loans are actually worth $47 billion. (UPDATE: Our original post said BOFA's CRE exposure was $182 billion, which was a number cited by Yves Smith. BOFA said this number was off "by a factor of 4." Yves has since rechecked the filings and realized that she made a mistake. I apologize for relaying it.)
- A healthy percentage of $78 billion of "goodwill." Bank of America built itself by acquisition. "Goodwill" is what's left over when management overpays for something. As Yves Smith observes, Bank of America's former CEO Ken Lewis loved overpaying for things. He overpaid for Countrywide, for example, which has since been written off to zero, and Merrill Lynch, which he could have had for free by waiting a couple more days.
- Untold amounts of exposure to collapsing European banks and sovereign debt.* Yves Smith says Bank of America says its European exposure is $17 billion. (UPDATE: Bank of America issued a statement clarifying that its "sovereign" exposure--to the debt of PIIGS countries--is $1.7 billion. The overall European exposure is $17 billion. But the big concern here is not just sovereign exposure--debt of countries--but bank exposure. Along with the associated derivatives.) Really? Has the firm not written any credit default swaps protecting customers in the event that European banks or countries go belly up? Might the firm have to post some cash "collateral" to satisfy these contracts? That's what Lehman had to do, after all. And that's what made Lehman go from "having plenty of capital" to being broke overnight.
So, taking some back of the envelope numbers, it looks as though we could easily come up with, say, $100-$200 billion in write-offs and exposures to "clean up" Bank of America's balance sheet.
A $100-$200 billion hit to Bank of America's $222 billion of equity capital, needless to say, would do some serious damage. Specifically, it would force the company to raise about the same amount to restore its capital ratios.
That's why Bank of America's stock is tanking. The owners of that stock will be the first folks to get hit if Bank of America has to raise more capital. And the lower Bank of America's stock is when it raises more capital, the more they'll get hit.
And, for obvious reasons, they're not excited about that.
*UPDATE: In an extraordinary move, Bank of America has issued a statement addressing some of the "claims" in this post. In addition to taking a shot at me personally, the bank challenged two of the numbers I relayed from Yves above. One of them did turn out to be wrong, and I apologize for the error (it has now been corrected). The central point of the post still stands, however: The reason the stock is tanking is because the market does not believe Bank of America's assets are worth what they say they are worth.
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Registration is now open for the IUCN World Parks Congress (WPC), the landmark global forum on protected areas held every 10 years. The event takes place in Sydney, Australia 12-19 November 2014, with the theme 'Parks, people, planet: inspiring solutions' designed to help deliver IUCN's three priority areas of IUCN's work programme.
The WPC 2014 will articulate the vital role of protected areas in conserving nature while delivering essential ecosystem services, position protected areas within the goals of economic and community well-being in the post-2015 development agenda, and show how this can be achieved in practice.
The event is being organized by IUCN and the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), and hosted on behalf of the Australian Government by Parks Australia and the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, in the Office of Environment and Heritage.
For protected areas, the congress will catalyze the achievement of conservation targets whilst engaging the full spectrum of actors across government and civil society; for people, it will engage with development sectors and inspire citizens to connect with nature; and for the planet, it will demonstrate nature-based solutions to global challenges such as climate change, health, and support for human life.
The Congress will address eight streams: 1) Reaching conservation goals; 2) Responding to climate change; 3) Improving health and well-being; 4) Supporting human life (water, food and disaster risk reduction); 5) Reconciling development challenges; 6) Enhancing diversity and quality of governance; 7) Respecting indigenous and traditional knowledge and culture; and 8) Inspiring a new generation.
Together with cross-cutting streams focused on marine, World Heritage, capacity development and a new social compact, the congress will inspire and motivate action to achieve the ambitious goals of sustainable development.


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Ernest Ansermet is Decca's direct link to the cauldron of creativity at the beginning of 20th century music. Friend of Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky, Ansermet championed their music throughout his long career.
His Decca recordings with the Orchestre de la Suiss Romande have assumed legendary and benchmark status for much of the French repertoire. His good fortune was also to be at the peak of his powers in the mid-1950's when stereo was introduced, thus giving him the opportunity to remake much of his key repertoire.


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The capacity transformation and control software company recently released CiRBA Version 7.2 for virtual and cloud infrastructures. This software is capable of analyzing infrastructures ahead of cloud app migrations to visualize the impact of both hardware and software related changes on running environments, both now and in the future.
Users drag-and-drop existing VMs and hosts onto new target platforms or environments to assess the suitability and impact of a change — transformation analytics are also available through a management console.
CiRBA CTO and cofounder Andrew Hillier says that as the push toward cloud operational models is intensifying, developers are starting to recognize the importance of self-service capacity planning tools.
"Self service is important, but perhaps even more important is the standardization that cloud models bring, both from a capacity perspective and a configuration perspective. But this benefit is also one of the biggest challenges, and migrating existing physical and virtual workloads into clouds can be complex and time-consuming without the right analytics. CiRBA's Dynamic Transformation Planning is an intuitive mechanism to perform comprehensive analysis of the technical, business, and operational factors that govern if, when, and how workloads can be moved to the cloud," said Hillier.
So CiRBA's Control Console works for cloud development teams looking to manage and control capacity in virtual and cloud environments. It provides "current and predicted views" of infrastructure requirements according to both policy and utilization requirements.
The console enables users to take action and automate its recommendations for optimal VM placements, allocations, and capacity decisions in order to reduce infrastructure requirements by 40-70%.
Developer requirements planning and provisioning also gets additional tools here as CiRBA Version 7.2 enhances its capacity control capabilities with the introduction of a new Storage Sensor that when activated provides visibility into used and provisioned datastore capacity status for VMware environments.
Users can see which VMs and hosts rely on a particular datastore to understand the impact of shortfalls and can also reserve capacity within the datastores for new VMs coming online through its Bookings capability, giving visibility into future demand for storage.


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Brenner Children's pediatric emergency department has moved back to its original location. Learn more
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Many parents are unsure about when to start toilet teaching or "potty training." Not all kids are ready at the same age, so it's important to watch your child for signs of readiness, such as stopping an activity for a few seconds or clutching his or her diaper.
Most children begin to show these signs between 18 and 24 months, although some may be ready earlier or later than that. And boys often start later and take longer to learn to use the potty than girls.
Instead of using age as a readiness indicator, look for other signs that your child may be ready to start heading for the potty, such as the ability to:
There are some stressful or difficult times when you may want to put off starting the toilet-teaching process — when traveling, around the birth of a sibling, changing from the crib to the bed, moving to a new house, or when your child is sick (especially if diarrhea is a factor). It may be better to postpone it until your child's environment is stable and secure.
Also, while some experts recommend starting the process during summer because kids wear less clothing, but it is not a good idea to wait if your child is ready.
Of course, teaching a toddler to use the potty isn't an overnight experience. The process often takes between 3 and 6 months, although it may take more or less time for some children.
And although some little ones can learn to both make it through the night without wetting or soiling themselves (or the bed) and use the potty around the same time, it may take an additional month to even years to master staying dry at night.
The two basic potty options are:
If you choose the modified toilet seat, consider getting a stepping stool so that your child can reach the seat comfortably and feel stable and supported while having a bowel movement.
It's usually best for boys to first learn to use the toilet sitting down before learning to pee standing up. For boys who feel awkward — or scared — about standing on a stool to pee in the toilet, a potty chair may be a better option.
Buy a training potty or seat for every bathroom in your house. You may even want to keep a potty in the trunk of your car for emergencies. When traveling long distances, be sure to take a potty seat with you and stop every 1 to 2 hours. Otherwise, it can take more time than your child may have to find a discreet location or restroom.
Experts sometimes disagree about whether to use disposable training pants. Some think that they're just bigger diapers and might make kids think it's OK to use them like diapers, thus slowing the toilet-teaching process.
Others feel that training pants are a helpful step between diapers and underwear. Because kids' nighttime bladder and bowel control often lags behind their daytime control, some parents like using training pants at night. Others prefer that their child use training pants when they're out and about. Once the training pants remain dry for a few days, kids can make the switch to wearing underwear.
Ask your doctor if your child would benefit from using disposable training pants as a transitional step.
It's common for a previously toilet-taught child to have some trouble using the potty during times of stress. For example, a 2- or 3-year-old dealing with a new sibling may regress (return to a previous level of development).
But if your child was previously potty trained and is having problems, talk with your doctor just to be on the safe side and to rule out things like an infection.
If your child is 3 years or older and is not yet potty trained, talk to the doctor, who can help determine the problem and offer advice to make the process easier.
Even before your child is ready to try the potty, you can prepare your little one by teaching about the process:
If you've decided that your child is ready to start learning how to use the potty, these tips may help:
Above all, be sure to praise all attempts to use the toilet, even if nothing happens. And remember that accidents will happen. It's important not to punish potty-training children or show disappointment when they wet or soil themselves or the bed. Instead, tell your child that it was an accident and offer your support. Reassure your child that he or she is well on the way to using the potty like a big kid.
And if you're torn about when to start the toilet-teaching process altogether, let your child be your guide. Don't feel pressured by others (your parents, in-laws, friends, siblings, coworkers, etc.) to begin. Many parents of past generations started potty training much sooner than many parents do today. And it all depends on the child. Kids will let parents know when they're ready.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) LaMichael James has transformed himself from a rookie spectator forced to watch the first three months of the season to a key contributor to a Super Bowl team in a matter of weeks for the San Francisco 49ers.
After being inactive the first 12 games of the season, James has become an impact player for the 49ers in their run to the Super Bowl next week against Baltimore.
His long kickoff return set up the go-ahead score in a late-season win in New England. His experience running the zone read helped Colin Kaepernick rush for 181 yards in a win to open the playoffs against Green Bay. Then James got into the scoring act himself last week, starting San Francisco's comeback in a 28-24 win over Atlanta in the NFC championship.
``I had a lot to learn,'' James said. ``I'm still learning. I'm very blessed to be in the situation I'm in.''
Fresh off scoring his first professional touchdown in last week's win over the Falcons, James is finally fulfilling the expectations the Niners had for him after drafting him in the second round last April following a stellar college career at Oregon.
``From the first time he stepped on the field, he's been dynamic,'' coach Jim Harbaugh said.
Getting on the field was the hard part. James was inactive the first 12 games as he had to adjust to playing from a huddle after being part of Oregon's fast-paced offense for three years and to learn a much more extensive playbook than he was used to with the Ducks.
James dutifully worked at learning his craft, making his contributions as a scout team running back and receiver and soaking in whatever tips he could get from starter Frank Gore and running backs coach Tom Rathman.
``It was very different,'' James said. ``I'd never really been in a huddle until I was in high school. Actually, sitting in a huddle and then having to remember it - and not just run it - that was a little bit different for me, but it all works out.''
James got his chance after Kendall Hunter went down with a season-ending Achilles' injury in New Orleans on Nov. 25. The Niners needed a change-of-pace back to team with Gore and James proved to be a perfect fit.
James was helped by the fact that the Niners offense had changed a bit with the switch at quarterback to Kaepernick from Alex Smith, with the team using more of the read-option plays James was so proficient at in college.
``Once he started getting comfortable, we saw a dynamic football player,'' safety Donte Whitner said. ``It's a testament to him to be able to sit on the sideline and be on the developmental squad, as we like to call it, here for so long and actually knowing that you can play football. Actually coming from a big university, playing in a lot of big games, playing a lot of big games and being a big-time player, and having to sit out and be humbled like that, that's a testament to him and the character he has.''
James rushed for 5,082 yards and scored 58 touchdowns in three seasons for the Ducks, including 471 yards of offense and four touchdowns in two games against Stanford when Harbaugh ran the Cardinal.
Playing for a perennial title contender at Oregon has prepared James for the big stage of the NFL playoffs. He played in three BCS bowl games, including the national championship game against Auburn at the end of his second year in January 2011. He capped his college career by rushing for 159 yards and one touchdown in a 45-38 Rose Bowl win over Wisconsin last January.
``I don't think there's too much difference from playing a BCS game at Oregon,'' James said of the NFL playoffs. ``I think it's really helped me out playing big games like these. It's second nature to me. I really don't think it's too big a deal.''
He has shown that so far, playing his best on the biggest stage. After making his debut against Miami on Dec. 9 with eight carries for 30 yards, James delivered his most important play of the regular season the following week in a prime-time game at New England.
He returned a kick 62 yards after New England rallied back from 31-3 down to tie the game in the fourth quarter. Kaepernick threw a touchdown pass to Michael Crabtree on the next play as the Niners went on to the win that proved to be the difference in the NFC West race with Seattle.
The big plays have kept coming in the playoffs. He was the decoy on Kaepernick's 56-yard option keeper that gave San Francisco the lead for good two weeks ago in the 49ers' playoff opener against Green Bay.
He then had five carries for 34 yards, including a 15-yard touchdown run that started the Niners comeback in Atlanta that has them preparing for the Super Bowl.
``He always has been a smart player,'' Gore said. ``First, coming in the offense was kind of different. Now the offense is similar to what he did in college. That helps him a lot.''
NOTES: LB Ahmad Brooks (shoulder) practiced for the first time this week. ... TE Garrett Celek (foot) is still sidelined.
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The Coverity Development Testing Platform 7.0 arrives this week with claims of being the industry's first enterprise-scale solution which combines code analysis, change-aware unit test analysis, and policy management across C/C++, Java, and C#.
The firm is now offering 21 new (or enhanced) C# analysis algorithms further for defect detection in C# codebases, providing developers (in theory) with the information they need to fix quality defects, such as resource leaks, concurrency issues, and null references.
There is also expanded Java web application security coverage in the form of expanded coverage for the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 and Common Weakness Enumerations (CWE) security vulnerabilities in Java applications.
Along with 17 new analysis algorithms for Java and C/C++ codebases, the firm highlights options to import critical defects into SonarQube, a popular open source quality management platform used in Java development, to view and manage a broader range of defects in Java applications within a single workflow.
CEO Anthony Bettencourt also points out new security audit and compliance views and reports within Coverity Connect and Coverity Policy Manager, which zoom into critical security issues identified, fixed, and outstanding, as well as report on compliance with regulations and standards such as the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard and the OWASP Top 10.
"New Coverity Test Advisor integrations with the Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio IDEs provide developers with intelligence into which unit tests they need to write and run based on the impact of a code change, right from the developer's desktop. In addition, Coverity Test Advisor has expanded support for unit test analysis on devices that run on the Android and Wind River platforms," said the company.
The Coverity platform now supports the Clang compiler, which is rapidly growing in popularity for mobile and web application development, and is commonly used in Objective-C and C/C++ software development.


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Business application content management platform company Nuxeo has released the 5.8 version of its platform for developers and product managers who build content-centric applications to manage business information.
This Long Term Support version of the open source content management platform features advances in workflow, content synchronization, and REST APIs.
Nuxeo Platform 5.8 includes a new set of resource-oriented endpoints for the REST API, adaptive capabilities for the integrated workflow engine, improved processing and navigation of digital assets, and Nuxeo Drive, a desktop synchronization client for the Nuxeo content repository.
The company also points out that in addition, this version "benefits from the initial groundwork" for nuxeo.io, the upcoming PaaS offering, with expanded REST API endpoints and increased flexibility for quickly building web applications.
"This new version of the Nuxeo Platform offers the increased flexibility and easy access that developers and product managers need for building business applications to manage structured content," said Eric Barroca, Nuxeo CEO. "We believe that providing a complete application-building environment enables those closest to a particular business problem to provide the right solution, faster."


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This contingency plan for lengthy tarmac delays is applicable to flights operated by Turkish Airlines and has been adopted pursuant to the requirements of section 259.4 of the regulations of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
For all flights, which depart from or arrive at U.S. airports, we will not allow the aircraft to remain on the tarmac for more than 4 hours without an opportunity for passengers to deplane unless the pilot-in-command (PIC) determines there are safety or security reasons that the aircraft cannot leave its position on the tarmac to deplane passengers or Air Traffic Control (ATC) advises the PIC that returning to the gate or another disembarkation point would significantly disrupt airport operations.
We will make reasonable efforts to provide convenient and comfortable service to all customers in the event that a flight is delayed.
In particular, in the event of a tarmac delay, we will,
1) Provide adequate food and potable water no later than two hours following gate departure or flight touch-down if the aircraft remains on the tarmac, unless the PIC determines that safety or security considerations preclude such service.
2) Ensure that lavatory facilities are operable and that adequate medical assistance is available if needed.
3) Notify passengers on the aircraft every 30 minutes regarding the status of the delay, including the reasons for the delay, if known.
4) Provide passengers on the aircraft notification every 30 minutes that they have the opportunity to deplane, if that opportunity exists.
We have committed sufficient resources to implement this plan and we have coordinated this plan with airport authorities (including terminal facility operators, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Transportation Security Administration) at all U.S. airports that we serve including regular civilian diversion airports that are defined by DOT to be a "non-hub" or larger airport.
We will make reasonable efforts to comply with this plan in the event of a diversion to any other U.S. airport.
Pursuant to Turkish Airlines's Conditions of Carriage, for flights operated on our behalf by other carriers, the applicable contingency plan will be that of the operating carrier.