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Some College Memories' and the view from 17 Heriot Row
A post contributed by Richard Dury and John Macfie
'Some College Memories'
In 1886 RLS, along with other illustrious former students, was asked to contribute to an anthology, the submitted manuscripts for which were then auctioned at a 'Fancy Fair' to raise funds for a Students' Union house (Teviot Row House, opened in 1889). His contribution, 'Some College Memories', was then included in The New Amphion, being the Book of the Edinburgh Union Fancy Fair published in November 1886, and later in Memories and Portraits (1887).
In the penultimate paragraph of this essay he warns present-day students about studying too hard by means of a moral tale about a student who studied hard for an exam, revising all night, and who then, as morning approached, looked out from his high room—inexplicably, the sight of the dawn filled him with nameless terror; he ran into the street but still had the memory and fear of his past fear. He was unable to write anything for the exam, and that night he had brain fever.
Here is how he describes the night of study and the coming of dawn:
It came to the eve of the trial and he watched all night in his high chamber, reviewing what he knew, and already secure of success. His window looked eastward, and being (as I said) high up, and the house itself standing on a hill, commanded a view over dwindling suburbs to a country horizon. At last my student drew up his blind, and still in quite a jocund humour, looked abroad. Day was breaking, the cast was tinging with strange fires, the clouds breaking up for the coming of the sun; and at the sight, nameless terror seized upon his mind.
This story is one of several thinly-disguised personal anecdotes in Stevenson's essays which the reader knows must be about the writer, but which the writer continues to write in the third person, keeping a straight face all the time (the most unforgettable one is in 'A Chapter on Dreams'). (I find the word 'camp' quite useful to describe such a situation where speaker and listener both know the joke but no-one is going to admit it.)
The many details of what was went on in the students mind are enough to show this is a personal anecdote, and the reference to 'my student' may (if you're with me on this) be equivalent to a wink at the reader. But the point of the present post is not this: rather it is about the student's house and the views from it—do they actually correspond to the views from Stevenson's home at 17 Heriot Row?
The view from Stevenson's window
This house has front windows looking approximately south from which the dawn could be seen, and back windows looking downhill over 'dwindling suburbs'. Where was Stevenson's room situated and with what view? and how can we square this with the view seen by the student? At this point we have the pleasure—and honour—to include a contribution from the present resident of the house, John Macfie, whose letter on the matter I here copy into the post.
Stevenson's rooms, on the south
The front of the 17 Heriot Row faces southeast by south, the back northwest by north. Traditionally, the two rooms at the front of the second floor, the bottom two bedrooms on the plan below, were Louis's rooms.
These correspond to the top three windows in the following drawing:
As I understand it, Thomas Stevenson raised what was originally an attic-and-dormer storey on the south front to full height, so Louis could have a proper pair of rooms. It is certain that the present frontage is an alteration, as it breaks the symmetrical pattern of the original facade. There is in fact a connecting door between to two rooms not shown on the plan.
The second-floor rooms
The arrangements for the other rooms on the top floor are a little speculative, but this is what seems likely to me, reading from the top left of the plan:
- Top left bedroom: visitors or servants?
- Between the top left and top right bedrooms, not on the plan, a w.c., there by at latest 1890.
- Top right bedroom: this originally connected (the blocked door itself was there until a few years ago) to the room to the south, the present bathroom, to form a suite of sitting room and sleeping box that was quite a common pattern in houses like this until it was forbidden on safety grounds (fumes from gas lights in confined spaces being potentially lethal) on the early 1900's. My guess is that this was Cummy's room after she stopped sleeping in the same room with Louis.
- Store: this has the feel of a sleeping box as well, with light borrowed from the skylight-lit bathroom via windows high in the wall, and ventilation slots in both the windows and the door. It may originally have been associated with the bottom right bedroom.
- Bottom right bedroom: traditionally Louis's night nursery then bedroom.
- Bottom left bedroom: traditionally Louis's day nursery then study.
Views from the windows
Though dawn's early light would have been visible from the two front rooms, there would have been no dwindling suburbs or country horizons visible from here: allowing for the trees in the gardens being a century and a half smaller, the view would have been up the hill to the house-fronts of Queen Street.
The best candidate as the source of the country view described in 'Some College Memories' is the upper right bedroom, 'Cummy's room'. The photograph below was taken from that room and looks northwest by north down to Newhaven and Granton. The land falls away as described.
If you look at the 1877 Ordnance Survey 6-inch to the mile map here, from the NLS map archive, you will see that while not exactly open country, much of the intervening space was green. In the photograph, the white arcaded buildings are in the Botanical Gardens.
As for the sunrise, an early summer sunrise (exam time) would certainly have been visible from the windows at the back. According to timeanddate.com, the sun rose in Edinburgh on 21st June at about 4:25 am and roughly in the NE, definitely within your field of view from up there.
And the window in the essay?
The view of the dwindling suburbs and the country horizon corresponds to the view from one of the back rooms on the top floor of 17 Heriot Row. RLS could go into one or both of these back rooms if no-one else was there, and Cummy's old room was possibly unoccupied after she left the family in 1871. It seems, then, that during his 'all-nighter' he stared out of the back window as well as the front, and it was from these he surveyed the distant countryside and saw the sun rise. So he description in the essay is not of what he saw from his rooms at the front, but what he saw from one of the back rooms, which he possibly also used or anyway had access to.
Stockfish: a mystery
1. Stockfish
Stockfish is dried, unsalted cod.
2. A list of essay titles — with stockfish
Among the Graham Balfour papers in the National Library of Scotland is his transcription of Stevenson's outline (from late 1876 or early 1877) for a book of essays to be called 'Life at Twenty Five'. Twelve numbered chapters are followed by a shorter unnumbered list, which may be for a second part of the same volume:
At first glance, these seem to be simple pleasures that any young bohemian might enjoy. The deleted 'Religion' might be have been a provocative idea about which he had second thoughts, but what on earth can that 'Stockfish' be? It is so bizarre that I thought it could be a mistake on Balfour's part.
3. Notes — with stockfish
Then the other day, among the material made available by the Harry Ransom Center, I saw the following at the top of a page of notes, in a rebound series of leaves from a dismembered notebook, from the same 1876-77 period:
Stockfish. take posterity on our backs. Act straight for | today, and remember that your theory for posterity will be | wrong. Better a straw fire of popularity than t other thing.
Stockfish again. Something tells me Balfour didn't make a mistake.
But there was more to come. You see that pencil line at the bottom left of the image above? It goes right down to the bottom of the page (by-passing a series of quotations and translations from Montaigne) and loops around the following:
One of these vices, which have "je ne sais quoi de | genereux. || stockfish. [with uncrossed -t]
[Added 15 Nov 2015: A reader has commented that the pencil example looks like'shellfish', but looked at carefully the vertical line following the initial-s (which I take to be an uncrossed 't') is clearly followed by 'oc'; what looks like double-l, could indeed be that but in the context it must be 'k', which usually looks like 'R' and sometimes has a more-or-less vertical second part and looks like double-l, as in the word written a few lines above this fragment:
This, believe it or not, is 'kinds'. In the ink example, this second part of the 'k' has been merged with the vertical line of the 'f'. ]
The phrase 'je ne sais quoi de généreux' is another quotation from Montaigne: Book II. 2 (De Yvrongnerie, / On Drunkenness), in Cotton's translation (with a bit more context), 'Now, among the rest, drunkenness seems to me to be a gross and brutish vice. The soul has greater part in the rest, and there are some vices that have something, if a man may so say, of generous in them; there are vices wherein there is a mixture of knowledge, diligence, valor, prudence, dexterity and address; this one is totally corporeal and earthly.' It is a quote he remembered and reused in 'The Character of Dogs' (1883): 'The canine, like the human, gentleman demands in his misdemeanours Montaigne's "je ne sais quoi de genereux." '
And this too is apparently connected with stockfish.
So at the top of the page we have ethical advice that could easily go in the 'Life at Twenty Five' volume. The meaning is not clear, but it could be something like, 'you should not be conditioned by the idea of posterity: take posterity with you on your back like Æneas carrying his father out of burning Troy ; it's better to enjoy brief popularity now than to have it after your death when you can't enjoy it at all.' (Æneas seems a better fit than Horace's 'black care' which sits behind the rider (Odes III. 1).)
And at the bottom of the page, we have some more ethical advice, here not about the choice of conduct but about judging it: some vices are low and beastly, but others have 'generous' aspects (perhaps involving nobility and self respect).
And both of these have something to do with stockfish…
What has ethical advice got to do with stockfish? (By the way, don't start thinking that I'm going to find the answer to that question.) Perhaps we can get some clues from other uses of the word.
4. Stevenson and stockfish
Stevenson rarely uses the word. In 'The Wreath of Immortelles' (1870) he says the talk of fishmongers runs 'usually on stock-fish and haddocks'. Fair enough. And in Weir of Hermiston (1894), the older Kirstie gives her opinion of Gib the weaver: "He's maybe no more stockfish than his neeghbours! He rade wi' the rest o' them and had a good stomach to the work, by a' that I hear!" (ch. V 'Winter on the Moors', 1. 'At Hermiston'). Here, 'stockfish' clearly means 'a stiff, unemotional person' , by analogy with dried cod (and maybe Kirstie means to say 'stockish' and says 'stockfish' by applying a kind of folk etymology).
Not much help here.
5. Connotations of stockfish
Across the centuries, the metaphorical connotations of 'stockfish' are all negative. Falstaff uses it to berate Prince Hall :
you starveling, you eel-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bulls-pizzle, you stockfish (1 Henry IV II. 5. 249)
In particular it is used as noun or adjective for a stiff, unimaginative person:
the stockfish-souled reader (B. S. Naylor, Time and Truth Reconciling the Moral and Religious World to Shakespeare (London, 1854), ch. 12, 168.
a sort of stock-fish though earnest expression' (The Examiner 557 (30 Aug 1818), 555)
mute as a stock-fish (Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (1841) ch. 46)
dead as a stock-fish (George Meredith, Richard Feverel (1859) III. 5)
Faces seen in street and countryside came thronging up before him—red, stock-fish faces; hard, dull faces; prim, dry faces […] How could he know what men who had such faces thought and did?' (John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga Part III. 3 'Irene')
6. So, what does it mean here?
Assuming that Stevenson is using 'stockfish' in this tradition, we can imagine he might be adopting it for a common target of his social criticism in the 1870s: conventional, respectable, 'stuffed shirts', people lacking in imagination, flexibility and tolerance.
In the list apparently of essays on simple pleasures (Tobacco, Walking Tours, Wine…), 'Stockfish' must be an odd thought for an essay, perhaps one summarizing his thoughts on respectable society.
In the page of notes in the Harry Ransom Center, the annotation 'stockfish' seems to be attached to conduct contrasted with the that of respectable society. All I can suggest is that these notes made him think of negative conduct and judgments to be dealt with in the 'Stockfish' section or chapter.
Hmm, not very satisfying as explanations. But can anyone think of anything better?
Black eyes
Dunoon, April 1870
Stevenson was in Dunoon, on the outer Firth of Clyde, from 26 April to 3 May 1870 to follow harbour works. In a letter dated 29 April 1870 from the Argyll Hotel, he wrote to his mother,
I have had my fortune told: I am to be very happy and get to be much on the sea: two predictions which my queasy stomach will hardly consider as agreeable with each other.
(Bonham's Sale 17520, Los Angeles, 19 October 2009, now in the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, St. Helena)
In the same period, probably while still in Dunoon, he began but then abandoned an essay in which he described the fortune-telling in more detail:
All that I could gather may be thus summed up shortly: that I was to visit America, that I was to be very happy, and that I was to be much upon the sea, predictions, which in consideration of an uneasy stomach, I can scarcely think agreeable with one another. […] She suddenly looked at me with an eager glance, and dropped my hand saying, in what were either tones of misery or a very good affectation of them, 'Black eyes!' A moment after she was noisily at work again. It is as well to mention that I have not black eyes. ('A Retrospect', Yale, GEN MSS 664 28, 668 (B 6173), pp. 5-6)
Bournemouth, August 1887
Stevenson came across this abandoned essay while he was packing up in Bournemouth before going to the USA in August 1887, and he added a note at the bottom of the page:
written at Dunoon 1870 (?). And very strange | it is : the old pythoness was right : I have been happy, I did | go to America (am even going again—unless—) and I have | been twice and once upon the deep. Moreover I have (and had) black | eyes. R.L.S 1887.
twice and once: several times, often ('I have been merry twice and once ere now', 2 Henry IV, V. 3. 39)
Black eyes?
In April 1870, Stevenson wrote 'I have not black eyes', but in August 1887 he wrote 'I have (and had) black eyes'. How can we explain this?
Maybe his eye-colour darkened between 1870 and 1887 (and he forgot it had once been lighter). But is this likely? Can eye colour change in this way? The blue eyes of babies darken in most cases in the the first year of life and eyes grow paler in old age. But apart from this,
fluctuations in eye color do occur, but they are relatively minor. As a general rule, eye color may be thought of as a highly stable physical characteristic.
(Morgan Worthy, Eye Color: A Key to Human and Animal Behavior (San Jose : ToExcel, 1999), 81)
For me, a better explanation is that Stevenson had very dark brown eyes, and in 1870, inclined to take the prophecy as false, he classified them as 'not black'; but in 1887, inclined to see the prophecy as true, he classified them as 'black'.
And is this not a good example of how we place things in categories because we want to see the world in a particular way? In a way deceiving ourselves.
Back in London for missing Stevenson articles in London magazine
The story so far
Those who follow this blog will know of our search for possible unnoticed articles by Stevenson in London magazine—ending up with a closer analysis of 1878 payments for work on London, after which I concluded that I would need to look more closely at the four numbers of 13 July to 3 August 1878. R.-L. Abrahamson and myself had already looked through these numbers, but found nothing that we thought was even possibly by Stevenson, apart from 'A Story-teller' and a note on George Eliot (for 13 July), and notes from 'a correspondent in Paris' (for 20 July). We suspected that a poem on 13 July (from comments in a letter by Henley) might be by Stevenson, but we were interested in prose. To tell the truth, I was prepared to let it rest there: if whatever was in the 27 July and 3 August numbers had not been distinctive enough to be visible to us before, and there was no guarantee that another trip to London would be accompanied by sudden enlightenment.
A (deceptive) letter from Lang changes the picture
Then I was looking through Marysa Demoor's useful edition of letters from Andrew Lang to Stevenson and my eye was caught by an undated letter from 1877 in which he says, 'I've sent for the new book on Villon', which probably refers to Longnon's innovative biographical study, which must have been published in February 1877, as the Academy gives a report of the publication in its 'Paris Letter' in the issue of 3 March (95–6). Andrew Lang seems to be indirectly praising Stevenson in this letter when he writes,
'I wish your C. B. would get a political fellow as good in his way as the author of Balzac's correspondence and George Eliot' (Demoor, 42–3).
By 'C. B.' he meant the editor of London, Robert Glasgow Brown, who Lang thought was 'Caldwell Brown' (Demoor, 6n); by 'Balzac's Correspondence' he is referring to the review article with that title in the second issue of London on 10 February 1877, p. 44. This is an article that R.-L. Abrahamson and myself identified as probably by Stevenson on our first look into London at the old Colindale Newspaper Library back in January 2013. It hasn't previously been reported here—well, we've got to keep something for the album. When I saw Lang's letter I thought: could he be indirectly praising Stevenson for the article on 'Balzac's Correspondence'—and for another on George Eliot too? That decided it: I had to go back to London to investigate this possibility for February 1877, and combine it with a closer look at the issues of the magazine for July and early August 1878.
Return to the Newsroom
So it was that on a pleasant morning in June I crossed the British Library forecourt with RLA (who this time had to look at microfilms of Chatto records of Virginibus Puerisque—this will be the first of our essay volumes to appear, in the first half of next year). I went straight to the Newsroom, picked up the five hefty volumes of London and immediately turned to February 1877 and located the article on George Eliot in the issue of February 10, p. 43. Immediate disappointment: Stevenson could not begin an essay in this way:
The cultus of George Eliot is one of the great social facts of the age. Its adherents include nearly the whole of the reading public. For purposes of generalisation they may be classed under three headings—Conformist, Disciples, and Sceptics.
The article then continues with a humorous paragraph on the reception of Eliot by each of these three classes of reader and a final paragraph collecting some epigrams about her and her novels. Such a preliminary announcement of categories followed by a paragraph apiece is, as far as I remember, not to be found in any of Stevenson's writings. In addition, the article contains no Stevensonsonian language-play (new meaning created by use, unexpected epithets, calques from French), no intelligently concise formulations, no typical use of semicolons etc. It is true that in the fourth paragraph contains the following:
With very, very few exceptions, he [the Sceptic] knows that all of them ['the gay young fellows it has pleased her to put forward as men'] have a comb concealed among their back-hair.
This reminds us immediately of Stevenson's 'Virginibus Puerisque', published in August 1876:
Even women, who understand men so well for practical purposes, do not know them well enough for the purposes of art. Take even the very best of their male creations, take Tito Melema [in George Eliot's Romola], for instance, and you will find he has an equivocal air, and every now and again remembers he has a comb at the back of his head.
But the later passage in London must be Henley (who probably wrote the article) cheekily 'borrowing' from his friend's recent essay. With no more internal evidence than this, we cannot take the article as by Stevenson. Lang letter: red herring.
July—August 1878 again
OK—now for the 1878 volume. Henley, talking about the 13 July number says in a letter to Stevenson:
Don't tax me with 'Ce Que Se Dit'. I only brushed it up. In doing so, I've made it presentable, but I've broken the author's heart. (Atkinson, 52)
This sounds like Henley not apologising for having changed a poem by Stevenson (the person who might 'tax' him about it). Here it is: on the strict Q.T., 'confidential (quiet)' (first Advanced Google Books Search hits: 1877; 1877 song by Lydia Thompson; called 'a crude expression' in George Moore's A Mummer's Wife (1884));
rather! 'yes! I should think so!' (OED (1904) calls this 'vulgar', the online OED identifies this as 'Brit. colloq.'; first OED citation 1836);
ripping! 'great, excellent, stunning' (first OED citation 1776).
My guess is that this may have been about Fanny Osbourne with the last line a piece of American slang, that Henley changed to British slang (to make it presentable)—absolutely no proof, except that 'You feel you're tripping' doesn't fit well into the previous two lines and seems inserted to rhyme with 'ripping'. Well, it's perhaps not worth losing any sleep about, whatever the story is behind it.
6 July number
This was a week with 'an article also' opposite the payment for the 'Arabian' episode but a payment that corresponded only to that episode. I looked again, but could find nothing
27 July number
Subtracting the estimated payment for the 'Arabian' episode from the total payment, left me looking for a contribution of about half a column. The 'Whispering Gallery' section has three items of news from Paris, one in particular about the Jurors of the Exposition (and Stevenson was nominal secretary to one of them, Fleeming Jenkins). It starts 'The Exposition has developed inventions undreamt of by the carnal mind of the casual observer. For instance, amongst the Jurors hospitality reigns' (where 'carnal mind' could have a Stevensonian epithet). It goes on to mention that dishes with new names have been invented and gives a menu with items like 'Potage. Emaillé de Printanier' and 'Truits. Patinée à Génèvoise'. This could be the Stevenson contribution—nothing earth-shaking, as you can see.
3 August number
Here, again, I was looking for something of half a column or less. And, again in the 'Whispering Gallery' section there is a contribution 'from a letter' that sounds as if it might be from Stevenson, containing a nonsense rhyme: Here, the French word béquille 'crutch' and béquiller 'walk with crutches' has clearly touched the poet's funny nerve (maybe because a homophone béquiller (from bec 'beak') is a slang word for 'eat') and he creates a calque in English 'to beckle' which he repeats and varies in a crazy progression that threatens to extend to infinity.
There is a good chance this is by Stevenson: it is from a letter (the origin of other contributions from Stevenson in this period), it involves play with French, which we often find him doing, the creation through use of a new meaning of 'fulfilled' at the end of the third stanza reminds one of Stevenson's typical word-play, and Stevenson writes similar verse in other letters to Henley in this period (e.g. L2, 259). (This supposition is confirmed in a later post.)
That's it
With that, I had more-or-less accounted for the four annotations of 'an article also' on the 1878 list of payments. That list, of course, only goes up to 10 August and it is possible that Stevenson continued contributing short pieces and poems after that. But this I generously leave to another researcher.
A Little More 'Heathercat'
This post is contributed by Gillian Hughes with help from Richard Dury and Roger Swearingen
Hugh Walpole's collection of manuscripts at King's School, Canterbury
The rare book and manuscript collection of the novelist Hugh Walpole (1884-1941), now owned by the King's School, Canterbury, reflects its former owner's interest, among other things, in Scottish literature of the nineteenth century and includes items by James Hogg, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson. The scanned catalogue, accessible through the National Register of Archives website revealed an entry for a manuscript fragment of twenty lines of 'A Tale of Scottish Life' by Robert Louis Stevenson that had not been hitherto identified.
Naturally intrigued by this description, I contacted the King's School Librarian, Peter Henderson, about it.[1] The title given in the catalogue turned out to be descriptive only and the manuscript leaf was itself untitled: paginated 5 and beginning in mid-sentence it obviously once formed part of a longer manuscript, and the scenario of a Covenanting sermon from which a 'truant sentry' escapes to find a lad called 'Crozer' identifies the story concerned as 'Heathercat'.
[1] Acknowledgement is made to Mr Henderson and to the King's School, Canterbury, for supplying an image of the manuscript leaf and for granting permission to use it in the present note.
Stevenson mentioned his idea for this story about the Scottish Covenanters to S. R. Crockett in a letter of around 15 August 1893, responding to Crockett's dedication to him of The Stickit Minister (Letters 8, 153). By late March the following year, he reported to J. M. Barrie that he had about fifty pages written; then in May he learnt that Crockett was planning a novel about the same subject (the 'Killing Time', the savage suppression of the Cameronian Covenanters in the early 1680s), and wrote to him 'I'll race you!' (Letters 8, 259, 286), but the story remained unfinished at the time of his death in December 1894.
'Heathercat A Fragment' was duly published posthumously in December 1897 with an Editorial Note by Sidney Colvin in Volume XXVI of the Edinburgh Edition (pp. 87-121). The surviving Part I ('The Killing Time') of what was intended to be a full-length novel is divided into three chapters the last of which, entitled 'The Hill-end of Drumlowe', breaks off in the middle of the Covenanting minister's sermon. The text in the Edinburgh Edition ends with the words 'He's going round like a roaring rampaging lion. . . .'.
Stevenson's draft manuscript for this chapter survives in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, GEN MSS 664, Box 30, Folders 711-726 (B 6303), and consists of four pages numbered consecutively [1]-4. At the end of the final page the text actually breaks off with the words 'He's going round like a roaring ramp^ag^ing lion, bragging and basting Christs folk in the'. And there the page ends (the caret marks here showing Stevenson's insertion.)
The marginal comment seems to be: 'in dramatic | persons, with | changing interxxxxs [?] | and with a great | increase of the | broad Scots.' It must be a later idea (notice the different ink) for an insertion—commenting on the minister's dramatic delivery—after 'he could hear some of his words', perhaps with an intended addition like 'and his manner of speaking'; 'in dramatic persons' would mean 'imitating the different voices'. The sixth word, isAny ideas? (For suggested answers, see Comments)
The King's School leaf
The leaf in the Walpole Collection is clearly the continuation of the Beiencke fragment: it is paginated 5, and it covincingly continues the unfinished sentence at the bottom of page 4 ('bragging and basting Christ's folk in the') with '<wilderness> ^fields^, and riding and wading in the precious blood of the elect' (the angle brackets indicating a deletion).
Interesting features of this new fragment
The Walpole leaf continues what Stevenson has previously termed the 'poetry apart' of the sermon, a 'homely tissue' relieved by an 'occasional pathos of simple humanity, ^and^ frequent patches of big ^biblical^ words'. Perhaps with the much-criticised representation of such Covenanting rhetoric by Sir Walter Scott in Old Mortality (1816) in mind, Stevenson set himself to convey both the occasionally ludicrous familiar imagery of such sermons and their touching vulnerability, particularly in the context in which they were delivered. The preacher, 'Auld soupit ^hirplin^ Sandie', for instance, asks God to 'cast the lap of thy mantle over Sandie and his weans' or to hide them in his armpit ('oxter') from Clavers.
One is struck in both the Beinecke and the Walpole fragments at Stevenson's ability with Scots dialogue. The many deletions and insertions in this passage of the Beinecke MS show how anxious Stevenson was to get the tone he aimed at exactly right. Although the following paragraph apparently came more easily, the inveterate reviser is still evident, Stevenson weighing the precise words in which he might best convey the contrasting trivial mood of the knot of country lads engaged in a primitive gambling session when they are supposed to be on the lookout for the approach of government soldiers. The reader longs for his account of the personal combat of Heathercat and Crozer that presumably was intended to follow, and which would have caused them to fail to alert the congregation to the approach of the enemy, but alas! the remainder of the leaf remained blank.
Transcription of the Walpole leaf
Here then is a reading transcription of the Walpole leaf (deletions omitted and insertions unmarked), with its final continuation of Heathercat, never previously published:
……Meanwhile the truant sentry, with a certain pang of self-reproach at these images summoned up before him of the magnitude of that service he was neglecting, passed again out of hearing of the preacher, and came at last through a deep clump of junipers in view of his destination. Crozer was not at his post; but below in a hollow where he could neither be seen himself nor spy upon the approach of danger, he sat with three other boys of nine or ten engaged in the game of pitch and toss for one of the most infinitesimal of Scottish coins; the whole capital at stake being very likely overestimated at twopence.
The manuscript ends at the end of a sentence, but not at the end of the sheet: clearly Stevenson here abandoned the draft. For those interested in what comes next, the Beinecke Libary also has a number of earlier drafts, including two of the beginning of Chapter IV. But that is another story and for another time…
Gillian Hughes
Songs of Travel manuscript puzzle solved
This post is contributed by John F. Russell, author and editor of The Music of Robert Louis Stevenson.
List of poems for what became 'Songs of Travel'
Songs of Travel is a posthumous collection of poems first published in 1895 (in vol. XIV of the Edinburgh Edition), but already planned by Stevenson before his death. Among the draft outlines of the collection is Beinecke ms. 6895.
This ms. is divided into four sections and lists 43 poems, many of which later appeared in Songs of Travel. The section "Songs" contains 13 items and appears below.
(Note how RLS, the professional writer, is able to predict this will occupy "21 pp" in the note bottom left.)
The manuscript is transcribed by Roger C. Lewis on pp. 480-481 of his Collected Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, where he says that title number 10 is illegible. His reluctance to guess the title is understandable, as readers will discover if they interpret the title as something like "Cr… & Sev…":
However, a quick look at other RLS manscripts shows that he rarely closes the loop of a capital A, and it often looks like "C" instead. Knowing that, it is much easier to see that title number 10 in fact reads "Aubade & Serenade."
Aubade and Serenade
Of course there is no RLS poem with this title. However the preceding numbers 8 and 9 on the list are the familiar "I will make you brooches" and "In the highlands" found towards the beginning of Songs of Travel. So what was "Aubade and Serenade"?
Beinecke ms. 6896 is similar to 6895 but contains a list of 19 items under the heading "Songs", including all the titles in ms. 6895:
(An interesting puzzle for someone would be to work out what all the numerical calculations mean.)
In this longer list, "I will make you brooches" is again no. 8, and no. 9 is again "In the highlands." Number 10 is "Let beauty awake."
"Let Beauty Awake" is a two stanza poem in which the first is about the morning and the second about the evening. An aubade is a song for the morning while a serenade is for the evening.
So I conclude that item number 10 in both lists is the same and that "Aubade & Serenade" is "Let beauty awake."
John F. Russell
RLS doodles map in class
Among the possible spin-offs of the Stevenson Edition is a directory of Stevenson's notebooks with a guide to their contents. Here, for example, is a page from Notebook R (his notebooks were labelled by Graham Balfour) which is in the National Library of Scotland (MS 9904). This was used in 1867-68 for lecture notes on hydrostatics and electricity (P.G. Tait's natural philosophy course); on p. 44, there is a list of 11 plays, beginning 'Edmund Fuller Tragedy in five acts'; p. 40 ff. contains a draft of Act II, sc. iii of one of these ('The Brothers', a comedy about 'a discovered will'); and on p. 17, there is doodled map of an island with a bay and small island within it and a long promontory that has an interesting family resemblance with the map drawn in 1881 for Treasure Island


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In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle to get her voice heard. Featuring many of her close collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Irvine Welsh, Kate Hardie and Mark Cousins, this documentary is the first to examine Bird's legacy, and to place her where she belongs - among the most important British film, TV and theatre directors of her era.
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There is star power and promise for men's and women's cross country at Oregon this season, but Ducks coach Vin Lananna cautions not to get carried away.
Oregon's men are ranked No. 4 in the preseason USTFCCCA poll, despite losing All-Americans Danny Mercado, Matthew Centrowitz and A.J. Acosta. The Ducks return standout senior Luke Puskedra, who finished among the top five in last year's Pac-10s and NCAAs, and add to the roster a decorated freshman class.
Jordan Hasay, the reigning Pac-10 and NCAA West Regional champion, leads the Duck women. The Duck junior was the school's first Pac-10 cross country athlete of the year since Lisa Karnoop in 1991.
Lananna believes both squads are capable of challenging for the Pacific-12 Conference title. But the Duck coach has a bigger picture in mind, particularly since 2012 is an Olympics year and the end game for several of the school's elite track athletes.
"This cross country season is important, but I can't emphasize strongly enough that for the University of Oregon, our focus is on the outdoor season. We have a heck of a track team," Lananna said.
Oregon kicks off its 2011 cross country season Saturday with a low-key dual meet against Gonzaga in Sunriver. The Ducks take part in five regular-season meets, including the Wisconsin adidas Invitational in Madison, Wisc. on Oct. 14. The NCAA Championships are Nov. 21 in Terre Haute, Ind.
Pac-12 cross country has been strengthened this year with the addition of Colorado. In the preseason poll, the Buffaloes are No. 4 in women – best in the Pac-12 -- and No. 7 in men. Stanford is the highest-ranked Pac-12 men's team at No. 2.
Lananna said tradition has something to do with Oregon's lofty No. 4 ranking.
"In the end, the Oregon team will be a top team. Right now, objectively, it's too hard to say that," he said.
Not with the number of freshmen and sophomores Oregon will count upon in 2011. The standouts among the freshmen are Lukas Verzbicas, a record-setting high school runner from Illinois, and Chad Noelle, an accomplished prep distance runner from New York.
"We'll have to be patient, but I feel very confident," Lananna said. "They'll develop during the season, but sometimes with freshmen, they're not going to be ready on your timeline."
Lananna calls Puskedra "a critical component to our fall plan." The senior from Utah finished third in last year's NCAA cross country meet and sixth at 10,000 meters at NCAA track and field last spring. Parker Stinson is among the sophomores to watch.
Youth isn't as big an issue for the women. The Ducks have a quartet of juniors and seniors who figure to be among the team's front-runners. The leader is Hasay, who finished third in last year's NCAA cross country meet.
Others the Ducks will count on include junior Anne Kesselring, the 2011 NCAA champion at 800 meters and seniors Bronwyn Crossman and Claire Michel.
Note: The University of Portland's cross country teams also open their seasons Saturday, in the Pier Park Invitational. The men are ranked No. 10.
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21042014 – VK3/VE-031, VK3/VE-068 and VK3/VE-091
VK3/VE-031 (Mt Skene)
VK3/VE-068 (Mt Shillinglaw)
Trip up to the Alpine to pickup some summits before the roads are closed. Closure is a Mt Sunday Road.
The signs state the roads are closed but no barriers. Will call the number and enquire as to permit conditions.
There are quite a few summits in this area. Could camp at Conners Plain and pickup 6 summits in a good day. I was happy with three and back home.
VK3/VE-031 (Mt Skene)
You all but drive into the activation zone. I parked down the road in a clearing just off the road so didn't have to tie car off-road. Pleasant walk up to the clearing. Nice operating position.
After activating Mt Skene you turn off Jamieson-Licola Rd into Lazarini Spur Rd. 9.5Km of rough but accessible road.Could take a 2WD in dry conditions. No issues with access for AWD Subie. Access to the summit involves 600m of bush bashing through thick undergrowth. There is a saddle then the summit.
VK3/VE-068 (Mt Shillinglaw)
This is the point you are looking for where the Alpine Walking track crosses Jamieson-Licola Rd. There is parking for a couple of cars and a straight forward walk to the summit. Follow a track for 1.2Km then turn right to activate.
Really nice day. Normally the Apline (actually not on the Alpine NP but state forest) rains or snows on me but was well behaved this time. Will be returning to pickup other summits in the area.


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1. Re: How do I count those who bought Product A on first order and Product B on next order (and so on)Łukasz Majewski Nov 3, 2016 3:50 AM (in response to Brett Allen)
This one is difficult to achieve but I think I produced the right values although the aesthetic result is not quite good. That is because I was not able to hide redundant marks without affecting data densification which would result in wrong results. So I switched off marks stacking but depending on the number of matching combinations they are layered on one another giving this ugly look as though they were not positioned precisely well.
The columns show what the first product is and the rows hold the consecutive product purchased. The [First Product] and [Not First Product] are LoD calculations and are then used as dimensions in cross table so I hid the row & column where these yield NULL (as we are not interested in such combinations).
This is what it look like for all the customers on their 4th order:
and here is a selection of customers:
As you can see the diagonal shows consecutive orders of the same product as the first one so you probably want to ignore those and I could not hide them for the aforementioned reason. I am not entirely sure if the values are right as I only checked a very few situations.
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2. Re: How do I count those who bought Product A on first order and Product B on next order (and so on)Brett Allen Nov 7, 2016 9:03 PM (in response to Łukasz Majewski)
I think it is very close. We have decided to send this off as part of a bigger piece of work with some true data nerds. Really appreciate the effort in your response.


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Also known as / varieties
Slate schist or phyllite / ottrélite.
Extraction zone
Ardennes, province of Luxembourg.
Mineralogical composition
Combination of dominant clayey minerals, siliceous, ferruginous and alumniferous minerals.
Maximum dimensions of rough blocks
Length 3 m; width 2 m; thickness 1 m.
Minimum thickness for application
1 cm - roofing slate 0,2 cm.
Surface treatment
Untreated, split, sawn, honed, polished, even carved in the case of Ottré stone.
Common applications
Outside : rubble stone, corner, voussoir, window and door sill, sill, step, wall coping, floor tile, furniture, roofing slate and wall covering.
Inside : counter top, floor tile, interior decoration.


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Dr. Devin Brossard
My passion for health and wellness, and ultimately the choice to become a Doctor of Chiropractic, grew from personal experience. I was a passenger in a high speed, roll over car accident, in high school. Afterwards I suffered from muscle spasms, headaches and excruciating pain. I was medically mismanaged by my primary care provider and suffered for 8 months with increasing pain and spasms. The prescribed pain pills and muscle relaxers did little to relieve my suffering and left me without hope that I would ever get better. I was eventually referred to a chiropractor and received care that addressed the problem, instead of masking the symptoms. Gradually the pain was decreased and my health was regained. After that experience, I knew that there would be no better career than to make the same difference in other people's lives. I understand first hand, that there is hope for those who suffer needlessly.
My understanding and approach to health care has stemmed from my education. My wife and I spent four years in Davenport Iowa, where I earned the Doctor of Chiropractic degree from the prestigious, world renowned, Palmer College of Chiropractic. I finished the clinical requirements early and was qualified to be a clinical intern at a patient and wellness centered clinic for the remainder of my education. I am also a Certified Fitness Trainer. I owned a personal training business, and also created and directed the personal training program at Palmer College. I was very blessed to have the opportunity to work with clients one-on-one, manage other trainers, and develop school wide health challenges.
I believe that community involvement and philanthropy is the key to making a difference. Since opening our clinic in July 2012, we have raised tens of thousands of dollars for local non profits through the clinics internal fundraisers, I have served as the President of the Arlington Runners Club, which hosts several fundraiser races each year, served as a board member for Lake Goodwin Community Club, and as the Community Service Chair for the Rotary Club of Arlington. We are blessed to be part of this community with business, friendship, and partnerships, and are committed to continue in service to make it an even better place to live.
My free time is spent with my wonderful wife Chelsea, and beautiful children, Penny and Beckett. We enjoy running, hiking, fishing and anything else that gets us outside during the year. We feel very fortunate to serve in this community, and look forward to many more years of helping patients regain and keep their health in balance.


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Mounting Backup Item Failed with vPower NFS with Veeam Backup 6
Posted by habibalby in Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware vSphere on May 15, 2012
When you try to mount a backup job with Veeam Backup & Recovery you will be promoted with an error Failed on Checking if vPower NFS datastore is mounted on host.
On vSphere Client, you will get a failed task on Create NAS Datastore "An error occurred during host configuration" the error in the view details is "Operation failed, diagnostics report: Unable to resolve hostname" of veeam server.
Error after second attempt:
Since my vSphere Infrastructure sets on different subnet other that my domain and where the Veeam Machine sets, I have to edit the etc host of the ESX hosts as well as the Veeam Machine.
Ping by name and IP successful and vPower NFS successfully mounted the backup image to the ESX host and started working fine.
Note: I used Veeam 5 with ESX 4.1 and I didn't face this kind of issue. Since I have upgraded to Veeam 6 and ESXi5 U1, I started facing this issue.


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Hello Ai Fans!
What's cuter than an older couple showing their love?! I hope I always give Hubby hugs even when we are old! This couple is from the Art Impressions "Love Birds" set. This set of clear stamps one of the Ai Store exclusives that you are able to purchase online from Art Impressions.
I stamped and coloured 2 sets of these love birds. I decided to paper piece part of their outfits using paper from the Penny Black Summertime 6x6 collection. I also used the same papers to ad the layers to my cards.
The set comes with 4 images and 5 sentiments. I added different sentiments to each card. I think they look really cute set inside a Lacey Circle die cut!
Copics Used:
Skin: E00, E11, E21, R20
Hair & pants: W1, W3, W5
Apron: R81, R83, R85
Outline: B000
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April 9, 2019
President Donald Trump is clearing the decks at the Department of Homeland Security—executing a purge of the nation's immigration and security leadership, The New York Times reported on April 8.
After extracting a resignation from DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on April 7, and immediately elevating White House Adviser Stephen Miller—known to be a hard-liner—to direct the nation's immigration policy; the president now is signaling that he means to remove the next level of agency management.
Inside the Beltway, it is rumored that Nielsen got the boot because she resisted reinstating a policy that separated migrant parents from their children—infuriating the president at a time when he still is struggling to get funding for his southern wall and has not been able to stem the flow of South American immigration to the U.S. border.
Also expected to leave soon: L. Francis Cissna, the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Randolph D. Alles, the Secret Service director; and John Mitnik, the agency's general counsel.
The White House confirmed the departure of Alles in a statement but made no immediate comment on the other pending moves, the news outlet said. The White House statement said that the president has selected James M. Murray, a career Secret Service official, to take over as director in May.
Alles "has done a great job at the agency over the last two years and the president is thankful for his over 40 years of service to the country," Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said in the statement.
Nielsen confirmed her resignation on Sunday and Ron D. Vitiello, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Services, was told on Friday to step aside. Trump said on April 5 that Vitiello would be replaced with someone who would move ICE in a "tougher" direction.
All were viewed as allies of John F. Kelly, the president's former chief of staff and his President Trump.
Alles received instructions ten days ago to come up with an exit plan and was expected to leave on his own timeline, according to officials familiar with the internal discussions. The Times reported that the president had sought Alles's resignation, in part because of the recent arrest of a Chinese woman who was carrying a malware-laced device on the president's Mar-a-Lago resort property in Florida, exposing holes in the security of the private club.
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Cristiano Ronaldo had Conor McGregor's coach in headlock after gatecrashing J-Lo's party
Conor McGregor and his coach John Kavanagh turned up to the singer's party uninvited
CRISTIANO RONALDO got Conor McGregor's trainer in a headlock after the UFC star gatecrashed Jennifer Lopez's party in Las Vegas.
McGregor's coach John Kavanagh revealed him and the Irishman rocked up to the singer's birthday party after Ronaldo attended their training camp earlier that day.
Kavanagh revealed to the Irish Independant it was a "drunk party" as well as confirming the Real Madrid star had him in a headlock.
After cottoning on to Ronaldo, who mentioned he was attending J-Lo's birthday bash at his training camp, he was nervous as they unexpectedly headed to the event.
He said: "And we're all there thinking: 'How can Ronaldo invite us to this gig? Who's going to be there?'
"Even in the car as we're driving in: 'Wait! This a terrible mistake. We're going to walk in here and be thrown out by some security guard!'"
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But to Kavanagh's surprise, J-Lo was delighted to welcome McGregor and Kavanagh to her party.
He added: "We go in and J-Lo catches his [McGregor's] eye and comes running over like a schoolgirl: "Oh! Conor McGregor! Thank you for coming. Let's dance!"
It turned out, not only was J-Lo delighted to be in their company, but Ronaldo showed how intrigued he was by Kavanagh, as McGregor's trainer.
The UFC coach added: "He [Ronaldo] kept coming over, and then he would drift away, and then I'd be in another part (of the room) and he'd come over again.
"We spoke about training regimes and the psychological aspects of competition and after a while I started to realise: 'This guy is just like Conor.' Just a one-track mind, no interest in anything else.
"Civilians would call them obsessed or say there was something wrong with them, but you can't get to that level unless you have that personality."


text: Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 14:46 schrieb Craig Bradney: > On Wednesday 15 February 2006 12:18, Peter Nermander wrote: > > I think there could be an easy solution to this problem. > > > > The global settings, what do they affect? As far as I know they only > > affect a document created without a template? Even then there is the > > possibility to change the document settings while creating the document. > > It also includes a lot more than that.. colour management, shortcuts etc. > > > So, why not just take away as many of the global settings as possible? > > Make it so that documents will ALWAYS have to be created from a template. > > The only thing really needed is just to include a "default" template, > > right? > > A template for? A4 portrait? a5 landscape? non colour managed, colour > managed? Absolutely agree. Something like a standard template makes perfect sense in a word processor, at least if it is not as badly implemented as in Word (crashes due to a damaged normal.dot, arrrgh). In a DTP app this makes no sense at all, since it's quite likely that each document has very different requirements. > > Craig Cheers, Christoph


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It shows the new instancing system, the elastic fill tool and other improvements I made to the landscape rendering.
Following one man's task of building a virtual world from the comfort of his pajamas. Discusses Procedural Terrain, Vegetation and Architecture generation. Also OpenCL, Voxels and Computer Graphics in general.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Video Update for September 2013
It shows the new instancing system, the elastic fill tool and other improvements I made to the landscape rendering.
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- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2013 at 3:31 PM
is possible to add something like voxel fog? In many games fog depend on your current position and when you enter zone with dense fog its appear from nowhere, even if you could see inside zone when you was outside.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes absolutely. Voxel data helps a lot here. Some of the best looking cloud and weather simulations use Cellular Automata, which are easy to describe and run in a voxel space. Imagine there is a volcano, you could have a huge cloud of ash going out of the crater.Delete
Will you do that? =D. That sounds amazing (Especially the part about the volcano... I think you just shot yourself in the foot a bit there, now people will be expecting procedurally generated volcanoes =P.Delete
I like this format with voice over and stuff!ReplyDelete
Great work with the voxels as well! :)
I couldn't tell what was instanced stuff and what was not. But as usual, it looks beautiful. :DReplyDelete
Cellular automata for clouds makes me imagine Game of Life gliders moving across the sky.ReplyDeleteReplies
This please! Computationally lightweight cellular automata cloud formation, for the win! This is so visually awesome, must have... must have!!! :)Delete
Ok, I got that out of my system. Can this technique run on multiple layers?
I.e. the clouds above are amazing, Can this same technique simultaneously create ground effect fog .5 meters high over a local meadow within a forest, while still doing the cloud deck above?
I'd envision it would be implemented similar to the cloud formation section where the topography informed the cloud formation?
If they were claiming it was computationally lightweight at Siggraph 2000, does that mean that 13 years later this is computational childs-play, or was it lightweight -- when compared to a SGI render farm -- back then?
If this works, why do so few engines DO this? I'd think imagery/cloud fidelity like that would sell itself!
- David RedkeyOctober 2, 2013 at 5:58 PM
On my sixth viewing I think I spot 4 instanced trees at the 3:07 mark. They look like clenched fists with a curled index finger pointing to the left.
Does your instancing scheme allow you to do 90 degree rotations and reflections via axis swapping? I'm thinking that might make instances borderline undetectable.
BTW are you still running with 128x128x128 LODs and decimeter max resolution? Looks better than ever, especially with the volumetric fog.Replies
Thanks. This realtime demo runs on 64x64x64 chunks, 0.3 meter resolution.Delete
Hello, nice engine... Can you tell me where can i download trial to try it and then buy it :)ReplyDelete
Not available for download/purchase for now.Delete
- AnonymousOctober 20, 2013 at 3:02 PM
Is this a game able to be downloaded??ReplyDelete


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We Collaborate as Partners.
Experience and expertise across multiple disciplines.
EKISTICS is a multi-disciplinary design and consulting studio, specializing in sustainable planning, architecture, landscape architecture and land development.
The word 'EKISTICS' derives from the Greek word oikos meaning 'home' and is defined as, "the science of understanding and making human communities." This idea is deeply rooted in everything we do, no matter how sophisticated or complex their requirements.
Paul Rosenau founded EKISTICS in 1992, in Vancouver, Canada. He was later joined by partners; Paul Fenske, Mark Monteiro, Leah Yan (Planning), Ron Baerg and Mark Blackwood (Architecture), expanding the company's depth and growing its ability to service both local and international markets.
Now in our 27th year, our studio is currently supported by over fifty highly skilled design professionals with expertise in planning, architecture, urban design, stakeholder consultation, graphic design, resort planning, landscape architecture and integrated golf design.
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We are a diverse and skilled group of innovative individuals unified by a clear common purpose. Our studio environment fosters collaboration and creativity.
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Paul is the principal owner and founder of EKISTICS. He brings an in depth knowledge of land development, planning and urban design to EKISTICS' projects, allowing the firm to engage early and significantly in a variety of large-scale work. As President, he leads the firm's three offices in Vancouver, Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh.
Paul has an intuitive design sensibility, and has gained an international reputation for innovative, site sensitive and ecologically sustainable design in the field of urban design, site planning and resort architecture. Through his team at EKISTICS, he has undertaken the design of over 500 urban planning, residential and resort community projects in Canada, the Caribbean and Asia.
Holding undergraduate degrees in Urban Geography and Landscape Architecture and a master's degree in Urban Design, Paul moved to the forefront of urban planning in Canada in the 1990's with a vision of 'humanizing the suburbs'. Through EKISTICS, he spearheaded a rethinking of standard land development models and their underlying assumptions and was able to achieve the successful approval and construction of some of Canada's largest 'new urbanism' communities.
A published writer and adjunct professor, Paul lectures internationally on the subject of new urbanism, site planning, golf course community design, and sustainable urban design. He has received numerous awards including the PIBC Award of Merit for Outstanding Accomplishments in the Field of Planning, the Dr. John Wesley Neill Medal in Landscape Architecture and the University of British Columbia's Outstanding Young Alumnus award for outstanding achievements in urban design and planning. Paul was also named one of Business in Vancouver's 40 Under 40 award recipients for Outstanding Achievements in Business.
Paul continues to reform contemporary design and planning theory based on the need to re-establish a renewed 'sense of place' and build 'complete sustainable communities' that are unique and endearing.
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As Canadian Planning Principal, Paul leads the firm's local urban design and master planning projects. Holding professional degrees in both Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Paul's distinctive expertise lies in his ability to use design thinking to read the land, reconcile competing interests, and create design vision that captures the unique spirit of place.
Born on the east coast and raised in central Canada, Paul calls the west coast home. He approaches the disciplines of design and planning as partners in place making, seeking to foster understanding and strengthen the relationship between policy and built form, purpose and experience.
Work in Canada has increasingly required a broad spectrum of skills extending well beyond innovative design and planning to include market and financial feasibility, stakeholder engagement, infrastructure design standards, and development negotiation. Through his hands-on approach, Paul has developed a respected reputation for reconciling the competing interests underlying every project to realize change that is both sustaining and holistic.
Paul draws experience from both the private and public sectors, having worked in Community Parks on Vancouver Island and collaborated as Research Associate on the 1998 province-wide consultations and landmark report for the Provincial Review of the Agricultural Land Commission Act.
From international conference engagements to the classroom, Paul's enjoyment of design is evident. He has lectured at the University of British Columbia's School of Community + Regional Planning, as well as in Ottawa and Vancouver with Simon Fraser University's City Program in Urban Design.
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As a Principal at EKISTICS, Mark is responsible for the design and management of the firm's international urban design, master planning and landscape architecture projects. With 25 years of experience in the design of complex local and international projects, Mark has developed a unique methodology to deliver high quality results that reveal and celebrate the unique attributes of a place.
Mark travels extensively in support of EKISTICS numerous international projects whilst also managing the firm's Landscape Architecture Department. His involvement in detailed landscape architecture of the firm's large planning projects ensures that the overall vision established in the master plan is carried through to the detailed implementation of the public realm and open space.
Trained as an Architect, Mark has a particular interest and specialization in a holistic approach to design that balances Architecture, Planning and Landscape to create site and culture specific meaningful places. Integration of these disciplines forms the philosophical foundation of EKISTICS – to create memorable human habitats with a balance between built form, open space and public realm.
In addition to a wide range of private sector design and project management experience, Mark spent a number of years as the Senior Architect-Urban Design with the National Capital Commission in Ottawa, a federal crown corporation whose mandate is to plan and build the National Canadian Capital City of Ottawa. During his time he designed and managed numerous projects within the Canadian Federal National Capital Core.
PRINCIPAL – GENERAL MANAGER OF CHINA OPERATION, BArch.SCI
As the General Manager of our China Operation, Leah manages the administration; coordination and communication of EKISTICS work in China. She plays a pivotal role, ensuring critical synchronization between clients, consultants and design teams in the Vancouver studio.
Leah possesses a unique and diverse skill set, with an understanding of architecture, planning and landscape design, combined with fluency in Cantonese, Mandarin and English, that places her at the nexus of EKISTICS work in China. With a diverse background of growing up in China, and a professional Architectural education in Canada, Leah possesses a special insight in bridging the unique aspects of Western and Asian cultures, ensuring a seamless execution of EKISTICS international work.
Leah's full time presence in EKISTICS Shanghai office as a Principal ensures effective and timely coordination with Asian based clients on a daily basis. Leah lives in Shanghai and travels extensively throughout the country in support of EKISTICS international projects.
PRINCIPAL – MArch, BLArch
Ron is a principal at EKISTICS Architecture, leading a creative team of architects and designers participating in a wide range of architectural, urban design and planning projects both locally and internationally. With a primary focus on architecture, Ron integrates the disciplines of urban design, planning, landscape architecture and architecture into EKISTICS' design process and solutions.
Designing buildings in context is a driving force behind his approach, exploring innovative solutions to complex programs at a variety of scales, while consistently bringing a thoughtful consideration of form, space and material. Ron pushes the boundaries of convention bringing life and excitement to each new project.
Ron understands the realities of the many forces that shape a successful project, be it physical, financial, marketing or technical, Ron has the ability to turn constraints into opportunities for his clients.
With a professional degree in Landscape Architecture and a Masters in Architecture, his comprehensive approach to design has resulted in successful projects in Canada, China, Africa and Vietnam with a focus on resort, hotel, community center and clubhouse buildings. With an interest in wood design and technology Ron lead a team to design one of the first modern glulam buildings in China.
PRINCIPAL – ARCHITECT AIBC, MRAIC, MArch, B.TECH(ARCH)
As a principal at EKISTICS Architecture Inc. and a licensed Member of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia (AIBC), Mark manages the firm's business development and architectural projects in BC, and leads a team of talented architects, building technologists, and designers.
Mark believes in a collaborative design and construction process, working alongside clients and municipalities throughout the approvals process. His projects range from large scale mixed-use master planned communities to boutique townhome developments and custom residences.
Holding degrees in Architectural Science and a Master's degree in Architecture, Mark has received numerous academic awards including the Henry Adams Medal in Architecture and an honorary membership into the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
Mark began his career working for both architectural and structural engineering firms in Ontario and British Columbia where he gained an appreciation for the tectonics of architecture working on institutional projects for municipal governments and First Nations clients.
Mark strives for design solutions with a sustainable approach to architectural and planning issues. His work pursues 'green' strategies and technologies whenever possible to reduce the environmental impact of development and examples of his projects have been published in both wood industry journals and sustainable building magazines.
DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL DESIGN, BArch, MArch, CPNIA
Federico plays a key role in the design of hillside projects, providing innovative solutions to building in challenging terrain. Part of the EKISTICS team since its inception in 1992, he has gained a reputation for his ability to implement optimal road and building solutions in a way that is sensitive to the preservation of the unique natural attributes of a development site. Federico applies this specialized skill-set to the design and management of EKISTICS golf and resort projects, both in Canada and internationally.
With an academic background in architecture, Federico brings over 25 years of professional experience as an urban designer and site planner. His expertise lies in architectural design as it relates to urban form, addressing large-scale design issues in the context of livability at a human scale.
Federico has been instrumental in the company's international growth, bringing EKISTICS' design solutions to clients in the Americas, Asia and Africa.
DIRECTOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, BLArch
As the Director of Landscape Architecture, Steven manages a team of design professionals, providing Planning and Landscape Architecture services to a wide variety of projects throughout China. With over 25 years of experience in the field of Landscape Architecture, Steven's principal expertise lies in his ability to transform client needs into practical and beautiful solutions, creating truly spectacular places.
Steven brings a broad understanding and diverse set of skills to his work at EKISTICS. While highly skilled in technical and computer design software, Steven truly excels as an artist, creating beautiful designs by hand. Drawing since childhood, Steven is an award-winning artist, exhibiting his paintings in multiple galleries and shows.
Since joining EKISTICS, Steven has been a key designer for tourism resorts, urban mixed use projects, new communities and cities across China. He excels with conceptual design, from planning new communities to designing boutique resorts, and enjoys translating big ideas into real solutions from detailed landscape architectural design through construction.
Holding a degree in Landscape Architecture from Kansas State University, Steven began his career in Florida, becoming licensed in the state in 1999, and leading the creative direction in prestigious international design firms for luxury resorts, prominent communities and new towns. Joining EKISTICS in 2011, Steven draws upon his diverse experience to guide his design of new projects.
Steven travels extensively in support of EKISTICS numerous international projects, applying his passion for innovation and his ability to create design solutions that are both functional and aesthetically inspiring. His many travels to cities, museums and art galleries throughout Europe and Asia continually work to stimulate his interest in art and its assimilation into progressive landscape architecture.
As Creative Director, Lisa leads the creative vision of the EKISTICS brand identity and communication design and is responsible for advancing, managing and developing our brand vision, look and feel. Through her extensive experience in graphic design and branding, Lisa guides a team of designers and professionals overseeing and managing simultaneous projects and delivering effective design solutions. In addition, she ensures quality control for graphics, adhering to the studio's brand standards and reflecting our goals, values and culture.
An ideas person and hands on creative, Lisa studied Art and Design in England before focusing on Design Communications and developing her talent for graphic design. Creating and designing for over 15 years, Lisa has worked on a diverse range of brands as a graphic designer, art director and lead creative, gaining extensive experience in design and branding – something she is truly passionate about.
Lisa's expertise and skill set cover a wide range of areas within the creative industry, including; graphic design, art direction, conceptual design, brand management, social media strategy and creative direction. Developing engaging marketing concepts to beautiful vision books and presentations, Lisa approaches each project with enthusiasm and attention to detail, bringing a passionate energy to her work and delivering exceptional designs.
Involved in all aspects of the design process, managing projects from preliminary design through completion of construction, Ryan brings over 12 years of local experience with wood frame and concrete construction. A team-builder and strong leader, Ryan enjoys sharing his expertise and with his colleagues, through his role as Associate Partner.
Ryan began his career in Calgary in 2002, after graduating from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. After spending some time with a custom home builder, he moved to Vancouver where he began to develop his experience in multi-family residential design working with several well-known developers.
Through his work at EKISTICS and previous chapters in his career, Ryan has earned a reputation for delivering exceptional quality and service. His significant experience in project management, his solutions-oriented approach to design and construction, as well as his high level of technical know-how benefits EKISTICS clients, projects and makes him a great resource to others.


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Thursday, 13 September 2007
Donald Duck cell
This cell is for sale on eBay right now. But... isn't there something odd about it?
Donald is dressed like he's working as a blacksmith. But what is he doing in a winterlandscape with two penguins that looks like they've escaped from Mary Poppins?
Strange indeed...
Edit: Donald is taken from "Steel and America" from 1966. Had never heard about that one before Didier posted a sample over at his Disney History blog. See link to the right.
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- Francoisw said...
Hi Joakim
I have a bunch of very rare drawings by various Disney comics artists (Taliaferro, Gonzales, Gottfredson etc.) that I had never seen before. They come from the Disney archives.
If you wish, I could send some of those to you that you can add to your blog. (In two weeks, I could scan them).
Let me know what you think of this.
- 16 September 2007 at 07:08
- Joakim Gunnarsson said...
Is this the set of copies of promotional pieces made for newspapers etc including one black & white copy of a drawing by Gottfredson made for George while hospitalized? There's also a drawing made for NCS etc.
In that case I got that set too, from you-know-who. But I don't know if I can run them here on the blog without getting him in trouble.
Anyhow, mail me at sekvenskonst at telia . com so that we can exchange info privately. Maybe we are talking abot two entirely different sets of copies. :)
- 16 September 2007 at 10:34


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Elephant in my Handbag have the entire funky Sam & Mitzi Collection by Lewis & Irene in stock - Available as fat quarters, metres or bundles.
Fort Worth Fabric Studio is offering 30% off all items in their Haunted House with code HAUNTED30, through November 5! (This code will apply 30% off the lowest price).
Fabric Please! have a one day thank you Thursday November 5, 2015. Save 20%, 30% and 40% off selected items. Check out the Newsletter for all the details.


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Mendocino Farms
Time Out says
Mendocino Farms is a sandwich shop on culinary steroids. Along with the standard classics like meatball subs and ham and cheese, the shop has gained a solid cult following with unique offerings like their "Not so fried" chicken sandwich, an outstanding pork belly banh mi, and their vegan offerings. Mendo, as it's affectionately called, even added a smokehouse to produce in-house pastrami and other smoked delicacies. You're going to want to leave Subway behind for this one.
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This is one of my favorite sandwich spots! I recommend the Modern Tuna "Almost Melt" and the Enlightened Falafel Wrap wth a side of the couscous or shells.
No one does fast-casual, chef-driven, seasonal farm-to-table dinning like Mendocino Farms. Their menu is bursting with flavor and you can always expect their highest quality out of their sandwiches and salads. Their house-made sodas kind of suck though.
We always order Mendo for special office lunches: it's not too pricey, but it's more elevated (and more filling) than normal mid-day options. They have great seasonal options and enough veggies/vegan menu items to satisfy every palate.
More elevated than a standard deli sandwich but not overly sophisticated, Mendo is easily LA's best sandwich chain. The "not so fried" chicken sandwich and the farm club always satisfy, as do their seasonal selections. The free salad samples while you wait are just icing on the cake—er, aioli on the ciabatta?


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Journal Article
Impact of Intellectual Capital and its Components on Firm Performance Before and After Crisis pp261-272
© Jul 2014 Volume 12 Issue 4, ECIC 2014, Editor: Dagmar Caganova, pp187 - 272
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Abstract: The recent economic crisis has caused a significant discontinuity in the world of business. Companies and researchers are constantly trying to understand the key drivers that caused significant impact on companies⠒ performance and how to chall enge them in the future. One still insufficiently covered research issue is the role that intellectual capital and its different components have played in the performance of small and medium‑sized enterprises, and how this role has changed after the cris is. Intellectual capital has become a key value creation driver in the new economy. Its positive influence on firm performance has been proved by numerous empirical studies worldwide. Several of them also investigated how the economic crisis affected this paradigm. However, the body of knowledge supported by sound empirical findings in this field is still rather scarce. Therefore, the purpose of our study is to examine the relationship between intellectual capital (IC) and its different components, and firm performance before the recent economic crisis and in the period of recovery, among SMEs in different industries in Slovakia. To measure the level of IC and its respective components we applied the Value added intellectual coefficient (VAIC⌢) indi cator developed by Pulic. This measure, however being criticized by some authors, is the most frequent metric used to evaluate IC and its components using financial data. We selected ROA as our performance measure... Our analysis also accounted for firm s ize and financial leverage while investigating the effect of IC on SME performance. We based our analysis on panel data comprising of 2008 and 2011 financial statements of 1947 Slovak SMEs operating in 10 industries (sections according to SK NACE rev. 2 classifications). These data were obtained from business information portal Universal Register Plus operated by CRIF ‑ Slovak Credit Bureau. To compare the influence of IC on firm performance we constructed pre‑crisis (2008) and post‑crisis (2011) re gression models and analyzed the observed differences
Keywords: Keywords: intellectual capital, intellectual capital components, firm performance, VAICTM, HCE, SCE, CEE, SMEs, economic crisis
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Innovation Strategies as Outcomes of KM Practices and Antecedents of Firm Performance: Evidence from European Economies pp62-73
© Jun 2015 Volume 13 Issue 1, Editor: Meliha Handzic and John Dumay, pp1 - 100
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Abstract: An organisationâ s ability to successfully operate in a competitive environment hinges to a large extent on innovation performance. In the paper, knowledge management (KM) practices, including methods stimulating new ideas and creativity, are viewed as antecedents of innovation strategies, and variance in organisational performance is presented as a consequence of implementation of different innovation strategies. Which KM practices contribute to the emergence of the most and least sophistica ted innovation strategies? Which methods stimulating new ideas and creativity have the greatest potential in producing innovation? How is KM, via innovation strategies, related to firm performance? Where do the differences in innovation strategies and KM practices lie across countries? The paper is aimed at answering these questions and identifying KM practices typical of innovation strategies with varied levels of sophistication. Here, the sophistication depends on coherence (e.g. positive or negative, strong or weak) between the extent of an innovation strategy of an enterprise and the enterpriseâ s performance indicators. For the identification of innovation strategies, CIS8 database was used. It covers 60 innovation variables across 127,674 organiz ations from 12 core and 19 additional sectors and from 16 European economies. The innovation variables include different KM practices as well. Two firm performance indicators were also used in the research. For the identification of methods stimulating ne w ideas or creativity, CIS10 data were used. It covers six such methods; the sample includes enterprises from 24 European economies within innovation core sectors. The methods included exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis, hierarchical cluste r analysis and k‑means cluster analysis. At each stage, the analyses were accompanied by rigorous validity and reliability tests. The originality of the paper lies in its attempt to interrelate different KM practices with not only innovation strategies an d firm performance, but national economic‑instit
Keywords: Keywords: creativity, economic-institutional context, firm performance, innovation strategy, knowledge management practices, organisation


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Stephen Fry joins Bleak Expectations-inspired TV series
After months of speculation, a TV series based on Radio 4's hit sitcom Bleak Expectations has been confirmed.
The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff, which is "inspired by" the Dickensian adventure rather than being an adaptation of it, will start filming four programmes from Monday 3rd October.
The series, from Bleak Expectations creator and writer Mark Evans, will consist of 3 half hour episodes telling the story of a particular family in Victorian London. The show will launch on Christmas Eve with a separate 60-minute special, and is a BBC in-house production for BBC Two.
Speaking to the British Comedy Guide, Evans explained: "It is, essentially, in the same world, but with none of the characters from the radio series."
Unlike the much-loved Bleak Expectations, which is due to record its fifth and final series early in 2012, The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff will not be recorded in front of an audience, and will contain an entirely new set of characters.
Robert Webb is to star as the show's central hero figure, Jedrington, and Katherine Parkinson will play his wife, Conceptiva. The special Christmas episode will also feature Stephen Fry as villainous lawyer Malifax Skulkingworm. Sarah Hadland, a regular in Bleak Expectations and star of Miranda, will play the role of mean governess Miss Tightclench. The full line-up has yet to be confirmed, but other names set to appear include Johnny Vegas, Celia Imrie, Tim McInnerny, Webb's comedy partner David Mitchell and Kevin Eldon.
BBC Head of Comedy Mark Freeland said: "Mark Evans's already well-loved Victorian comic world is a wonderful way to celebrate the bicentenary of Dickens' birth. He probably wouldn't have agreed, but I am very excited."
Robert Webb added "I'm really looking forward to working with my all time hero David Mitchell. Apparently Stephen Fry is in it too, which is nice."
The "ridiculous Dickensian adventure" will be directed by Ben Gosling-Fuller and overseen by Bleak Expectations producer Gareth Edwards.
Our Guide to 'Bleak Expectations'


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"The sudden gust that resulted gave him a quick lift. But he soon left the wind behind, floating upward on his own power."
— Narrator, Tale of the Toa
The Kanohi Miru is the Mask of Levitation. It allows its user to float and glide on air or slow their fall. To simulate flight while using this mask, the user has to rely on wind currents to push them while they stay afloat.
Kanohi Miru are created from Teleport and Weaken Kanoka disks on Metru Nui.
Example Usage
Great: While falling from a mountain, Toa Gali used her Kanohi Miru to slow her descent, allowing her to land safely in Deep into Darkness.
- Toa Mata Tahu - Former secondary mask; exchanged for a Golden Kanohi
- Toa Mata Gali - Former secondary mask; exchanged for a Golden Kanohi
- Toa Mata Lewa - Former primary mask; exchanged for a Golden Kanohi
- Toa Mata Pohatu - Former secondary mask; exchanged for a Golden Kanohi
- Toa Mata Onua - Former secondary mask; exchanged for a Golden Kanohi
- Toa Mata Kopaka - Former secondary mask; exchanged for a Golden Kanohi
- Lewa - Former primary mask; since removed by Onua
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- Kongu - Formerly on Mata Nui; later given to Karzahni upon entrance to his realm
- Kylma
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Set Information
The Great Kanohi Miru was first released with the Toa Lewa set in 2001, colored green. The same mask was also released with the Kongu set distributed by McDonald's, but in teal instead. It was also possible to receive a Great Miru in a mask pack that year in green, red, brown, blue, white, and black variations.
A transparent neon green Great Miru (advertised as a "special edition Lewa mask") was also distributed in 2001 through promotional events and at LEGOLAND parks.
In 2002, a Krana pack was released that contained three Krana and two Kanohi of either silver or gold color. The Great Miru was one of the six masks available as such.
In early 2008, a lime green Noble Miru was released in the Tanma set.
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Shai Bronstein Regev, VP Investor Relations, brings over a decade of business development experience for startups and corporates in growth management, business and strategic relations, as well as in digital marketing and sales.
Before joining iAngels, Shai was a strategic consultant, guiding startups, founders and executives through business development and growth challenges.
Prior to that, Shai served as VP of Commercial Strategy and Business Development in one of Israel's leading global online media groups, WEB3, leading and managing the team in charge of strategic performance marketing partnerships worldwide.
Before entering into the private sector, Shai served for six years as an Operations Officer and a commander in the Israeli Air force (IAF).
Shai mentors entrepreneurs and female leadership programs, and co-founded and the IDC Women Alumni Association, a network of 11,000 graduats.
Shai holds an B.A in Business from the IDC, Herzliya.


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