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Blackwattle Bay is a public space that overlooks the bay and has a view of the Anzac Bridge. It is connected to Rozelle Bay, Jubilee Park, the Fish Markets, Glebe and White Bay. There are eateries, residency and parks that lets people enjoy the bay.
It also caters to people who enjoy to run and exercise and wish for a different view to their everyday local gym. Paths are available and the bay is very dog friendly. These pictures will show the beauty of the bay and the facilities available.
The boats and water sports such as rowing and kayaking, could be done safely as commercial boats are rarely seen inside the bay.
It also shows how a school could be located in the bayfront and the structure of the residential buildings. It also shows the layout of the bay. The bay is also used for water activities that are available to the public.


People use many devices to access the internet. For this people end up using different size screens, which is measured by the resolution. Another aspect to be mindful of is that users navigate sites on these devices using both their thumbs and a mouse. When making the window smaller, some parts of the site are fixed, others shrink to fit. Grid systems that are a fixed width vs percentage. Grid systems are evenly divided columns in pages that allow for different layouts.
A responsive web page allows users to comfortably view content with a range of screen sizes. Understandably the hype comes from improving the user experience to allow for smooth ways of navigating sites on any sized browser.
Semantic structure is a way of formatting and organising the style with HTML your page. You can code boxes with semantic tags to order the information from most to less important on the page.


 You either can press the »New« icon in the top bar of the main window, or the »Next Vintage« icon. Last one may be a good idea even if your wine isn't a »Next Vintage« of a already added wine: Sometimes it is easier to change a form than to fill it completely. At least if the winerey is already known to your database, select the according entry, choose »Next Vintage«, and change the values.
So you're now in front of the wine editor. Fill out anything you know, but on some fields there is something to know:
For example your wine is a »Cotes du Ventoux«, and all you know beside of this is that this should be a french growing area. So you open the regions help window, select France, switch to the »search« mode and type in "vent" - you will notice that the selectable list will get shorter with any chracter you're typing in. After this four chars you're able to double click on the desired line and it will be taken over to your wine editor.
Another, even nicer thing is the »choose« button, but you may need more knowledge: In the above example you've got to know, that the Cotes du Ventoux is a part of the Rhone, though geological it is a part of the Provence ... (the winemakers just thought the reputation of the Rhone is the better choice, so they decided to join the Rhone constraints). Easy select "France" - after this is done, the middle listbox will be filled with the according regions. Choose Rhone, and in the third you will find the Ventoux. Double click on it.
Only if there are known classifications of the country you can use the help button to get a list of them. Some combinations of regions and classes will set the barrel automatically to its minimum settings (f.e. a Crianza from Spain was at least 6 months in a barrel). Other program parts also can do auto completions, so it could be a good idea in general to set up the real known parts first, and wait for stuff to look after at the latter.
The list shown by the input help tool contains the by the author so far seen sorts and association related to this topic. There may be much more outside ...
The help button presents you a list of known grapes used to make wine. As this list is real hugh, you can type in characters into the »Search« box - and by each character the list will get shorter. For example to find »Cabernet Sauvignon« you may type in »s«, »a«, »u« ... and you will see the wanted in the much shorter list.
A problem is to know the propper orthography of a grape name: »Kékfrankos« you won't find by entering a »e« instead of a »é« (one thing on the TODO list), so play around with different charakter parts of the grape name if the result isn't what you expected.
You can take over additional notes, for example the better known name of a grape or the hybrid parents; This information will appear in brackets. Anything in brackets here isn't shown in the list of the main window.
The help button shows you a list of dealers which were already added to your dealer database; To add, delete or edit this database, open the dealer database from the main manu on the main window. Beside of this, a so far unknown manually entered dealer will be added to the dealer database automatically.
Can be edited; But this will be done automatically by using the »In« or »Out« button. Do not touch this until it is necessarry.
Deactivated while the actual stock is zero ;) The rest is equal the previous button.
Can be edited, too; But this will be done automatically by using the »Outgoing Bottles« button, so there is the same hint as in the last two topics.
Most are done in five steps; You can mark or unmark (second mouse click) a step and change its value, you can move a mark button like a slider, and you can update your choice by simply select another value. Moving with the mouse over them shows their meaning, which you also get with a right mose click on them as a menu. This menu is also opened by using the help buttons.
Some ratings effect the automatic points calculation, some not. Their color represent their grade.
Deactivated while the stopper isn't a kind of cork ;)
Presents you a kind of digital conversion of well known wine
aroma wheels. By selecting anything on the left, the lists on the
right from it only contains the corresponding aromas; So go from the
left to the right in it.
You can set up the first two aromas of your wine; If you need more,
use other software - or even better: A text processor.
The wine editor checks really many things before saving, so you
shouldn't be able to save a corrupt dataset. For example adding
a summary of more than 100% grapes will end up in blinking
percentages ...
Other records will be completed - so if you said the wine is to drink
up this year, the »Next Bottle« entry will be (if unset so
far) set automatically to the actual date etc.


Java lambda expressions are syntactical sugars, It is a way of reducing lines of coded. In other words, trim down the code and increase readability. In this blog, we will be discussing Java lambda and functional programming.
Lambda functions are used with functional interfaces in Java. There three important rules to write lambda.
The class/interface (1) should only one abstract method. The argument for the abstract method should match to lambda before arrow part(2). The return type(3) should match to abstract method return type.
Zero parameters is just an empty parenthesis. The function’s name and object doesn’t need to be the same, it can be different.
One parameter do not require parenthesis. There is a Java provided a standard interface for these kinds of interface, Which accepts and returns only one argument. Please check Functional<T,R> interface. With this standard interface, we don’t need to create any new interfaces anytime for any methods which accept and return only one variable.
Multiple parameters are enclosed in parenthesis. Function interface having method which accepts two parameters and returns one value are often called Two-Arity Functions. Here are the Java-defined interfaces for these kinds of methods.
ToIntBiFunction, ToDoubleBiFunction, ToIntBiFunction, and ToLongBiFunction
We add curly braces in case there are multiple lines in the body. It properly defines the starting and ending of the block.
In Javascript we have can pass callback function to a function as below.
With the functional interface and lambda expression in Java8 we can do the same.
In the below example, we have a function which takes a string parameter and returns a method(functional interface).
There is a little more to lambda functions, Double colon operator. It looks something like this.
It might look a little bit confusing but it fairly simple and easy to understand. This is it on our Java lambda and functional programming - Part 2. Please check out next blog in this series Java 8 double colon operator.


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Football: FA overturn Son's red card for tackle on Everton's Gomes
LONDON: Tottenham forward Son Heung-min won his appeal on Tuesday (Nov 5) against the red card he received for a challenge that led to the horrific injury suffered by Everton midfielder Andre Gomes.
The Football Association (FA) overturned the decision following an appeal by Spurs, meaning the South Korea international will not serve a three-match ban.
Son was sent off after a foul which left Gomes with a broken and dislocated ankle in Sunday's 1-1 draw at Goodison Park.
"Heung-min Son will be available for Tottenham Hotspur FC's next three domestic fixtures after an independent Regulatory Commission upheld a claim of wrongful dismissal," the FA said in a statement.
Son was visibly distraught after seeing the extent of Gomes' injury and was inconsolable after the match.
READ: Football: Support for tearful red-carded Son after Gomes injury
That led to some doubt over whether he would travel with Spurs for their vital Champions League clash against Red Star Belgrade, but he was part of the group that left for Serbia on Tuesday.
Gomes underwent surgery on Monday and is expected to make a full recovery.


Chromophore-binding pocket. The unique photochromicity of phytochromes results from key interactions between the bilin
and its binding pocket (1,6,22). Biliverdin slides into a crevice formed between a6 and a7 on one side and the GAF b-sheet on
the other, largely burying the extended bilin within the protein (Figs 1b, 3c and 4a). The PAS domain and upstream
sequence provide little direct contact except for residues immediately surrounding the ligating Cys 24.
Photochromism is the reversible transformation of a chemical species between two forms by the
absorption of electromagnetic radiation (photoisomerization), where the two forms have different
absorption spectra. In plain language, this can be described as a reversible change of colour upon
exposure to light. Popular reference: photochromic eyeglass lens.
Consistent with previous binding studies with bilin analogues in plant phytochromes, the propionic-acid side chains of
the B and C rings are particularly important for positioning biliverdin. These sidechains penetrate deeply within the
cleft between a7 and b-strands 9 and 10, and are fixed by highly conserved charge interactions, direct and
water-mediated hydrogen bonds, and hydrophobic interactions (Fig. 3c). In particular, the carbonyl oxygens of the B-ring
propionate form salt bridges with the amines of Arg 254 and form hydrogen bonds with the hydroxyl group of Tyr 216 and
main-chain nitrogen of Ser 257, whereas the C-ring propionate oxygens hydrogen-bond to His 260 and the hydroxyl groups
of Ser 272 and Ser 274. A water molecule (Wat 18) forms a water-mediated bridge between the C-ring propionate and His
290. There are also van der Waals interactions between Ile 29 and the aliphatic carbons of the B-ring propionate.
Other interactions contribute to biliverdin orientation in the pocket. Asp 207, Ile 208 and Pro 209 (the DIP motif)
create a kink in the polypeptide chain betweenb8 and a6, allowing these residues access to the chromophore (Fig. 3c). The
side chain of Asp 207 forms a hydrogen bond with its own main-chain nitrogen to stabilize this proline-induced kink, and
forms a bifurcated hydrogen bond to the nitrogens of the A and B rings. There are hydrophobic interactions between Ile 208
and the C ring, between Pro 209 and the C10 carbon that links the B and C rings and between Pro 209 and the B ring. His
260, which was previously shown to be critical for biliverdin conjugation to DrBphP forms hydrogen bonds with the
pyrrole nitrogens of rings B and C and its planar shape helps to fill a van der Waals sandwich between these planar rings
and Leu 264. Wat 12 mediates a remarkable hydrogen-bonding network from His 260Nd1 to the pyrrole nitrogens of biliverdin
rings A, B and C (Fig. 3c). During phototransformation from Pr to Pfr, a substantial re-orientation of ring D is
expected 22,26. A notable feature in our model of DrCBD is the relatively sparse packing of side chains around the D ring to
allow this rotation. Hydrophobic residues Met 174, Val 186and Leu 286 line the pocket but are not tightly packed against
the Dring. The main contacts to the D ring are polar on one edge (a hydrogen bond from the ring carbonyl to His 290N12)
and hydro-phobic on the other (Tyr 176, Tyr 263, Phe 198 and Phe 203) (Fig. 3b).Although Tyr 176 is buried under the
chromophore in our Pr structure, the latter three aromatic residues are partially solvent-exposed, and the phenylalanine
side chains contact the D-ring vinylgroup
Insights into the Pr to Pfr photochemistry
The crystal structure of DrCBD provides insight into the uniquered/far-red photochromicity of phytochromes. There is
general agreement, based on spectroscopic results, that phototransformationto Pfr in plant and bacterial phytochromes
involves a 15Zanti to 15Eanti isomerization of the C15¼16 double bond (Fig. 3a)20,22,27,28. Space around the D ring would
allow rotation relative to the other pyrrole rings during the Pr to Pfr phototransformation with minimal interference from
amino acids lining the pocket and only the clash of eclipsing methyl carbons from the C and D rings of the
chromophore limiting rotation angle in either direction (Fig. 3c). Pre-existing torsional strain on the Pr D ring may
serve to reduce the activation energy for rotation. The C15¼C16 isomerization would dissolve the interaction of the D
ring with its Pr bonding partner His 290 and might perturb Phe 198 and Phe 203 by removing favourable van derWaals
interactions.
In addition to rapid isomerization of the C15¼C16 bond, a subset of published experiments have predicted a
torsion angle rotation from the 15Eanti to the 15Esyn configuration at the C14–C15 bond (20,22,27,28). However, recent elegant
studies with chemically locked biliverdin analogues demonstrated that the locked 15Eanti conformer of biliverdin
covalently associates with a bacterialphytochrome and exhibits spectral properties similar to the Pfrform28.
If this further 15Eantito 15Esynmovement does occur, it would cause a steric clash between the D ring and Tyr 176 (if
the rotation is away from the solvent) or Tyr 263 (if the rotation is towards the solvent). A continued rotation to the
15Esyn position could also lead to a clash with the side chain of Asp 207 (Fig. 3c). The rotation(s) of biliverdin lead to
a partial decoupling of the pconjugation system and a red-shift in the absorption spectrum of phytochrome that is
characteristic of the Pfr conformer(29). Presumably, such movement(s) induce additional conformational changes in the
polypeptide to generate the distinctive shape of the Pfr conformer, which for many fungal and prokaryotic
phytochromes affects the activity of an appended kinase domain (1,4).
For plant phytochromes Pfr formation exposes a nuclear localization signal in a downstream PAS-related domain (30) or
uncovers interaction motifs for downstream effectors (31). It is also possible that C15¼C16 bond isomerization could
lead to perturbation of the solvent-exposed Phe side chains and that further torsion about C14–C15 could push Asp 207 and
initiate local melting of the DIP motif on the surface of the CBD. Either of these would lead to a change in the shape
and properties of the invariant surface patchat the chromophore-binding site (Fig. 4a). A final intriguing possibility
is that even slight shifts of the orientation of B and C rings within the pocket as a consequence of D-ring movement
and postulated pocket structure changes could release the propionate side chains from their electrostatic
interactions. This release could break the structural bridge connecting the GAF and PAS domains and thereby free the PAS
domain for signal transmission (Fig. 2a). Clearly, determining the structure of the Pfr form of CBD and of DrBphP with an
intact PHY domain downstream of the CBD will be essential to further understanding phototransformation and
signal transduction by phytochromes, given the importance of the PHY domain to the establishment and maintenance of Pfr.
Functional and evolutionary implications
An important feature of the DrCBD structure with respect to the rest of the phytochrome superfamily is the high degree of
conservation (4,32) of essential residues that form the PAS and GAF domains, bind thebilin, and create the trefoil knot
(Fig. 4a, Supplementary Fig. 2). Specific examples include the Asp-Ile-Pro (DIP) motif at the bilin-binding pocket, polar
residues that interact with biliverdin propionic-acid groups (Arg 254, Ser 272 and Ser 274), bulky hydrophobic residues
that line the D-ring cavity (Phe 198, Phe 203, Tyr 176 and Tyr 263), and residues that form the hydrophobic core of the
trefoil knot (Ile 35, Leu 41, Leu 241 and Leu 253). For example, recent work has highlighted the importance of Tyr 176 in
the photochemistry of Synechocystis Cph (1) by showing that a His substitution at this position destabilizes Pfr and creates
a red fluorophore (33). Consequently,we expect that our structure of this bacterial phytochrome will behighly relevant to
most, if not all, members of the phytochrome superfamily.
Conservation of residues surrounding the knot, including the invariant presence of the lasso loop within the GAF domain,
indicates that this unique topology is common to all red/far-red photochromic phytochromes. In fact, only the loosely
defined collection of bacterial phytochrome-like proteins may lack this fold, an idea based on sequence alignments that
show that this group lacks both the PAS domain and the GAF loop4. Although several members of this phytochrome-like group
bind bilinsin vitro (RcaE, CikA andTaxD1/PixJ1) (34–36) the resulting holoproteins are not red/far-red photoreversible,
suggesting that the knot is required for this spectral characteristic. Within the holoprotein, the knot may have several
functions. One may be to stabilize contacts betweenthe PAS and GAF domains. Another may be to limit the flexibility of a
photoreceptor as a mechanism to prevent undesirable energylosses due to vibration or large domain movement upon
photo-isomerization of biliverdin. Finally, by severely restricting movement of the N-terminal domain, the knot may
orient Cys 24 for efficientc onjugation to biliverdin.
How do phytochromes fold into this convoluted tertiary structure? We propose a simple co-translational mechanism in which
the PAS domain folds first, leaving the N-terminal 35 amino acids unstructured and Ile 35 solvent-exposed. As translation
continues, the first half of the GAF domain, comprising the a4–a5 helical hairpin, the b6,b7,b8 half-sheet and a6, is
translated and adopts its secondary structure.b9 is synthesized, followed by the lasso loop. The exposed hydrophobic side
chains within the lasso collapse around Ile 35 to form the compact knot core. Finally, the second half of the GAF domain
is translated. Although the internal symmetry of the GAF domain is interrupted by the lasso (Fig. 1a, c), the first and
last b-strands cannot zip together in the centre of the sheet until translation is complete.
With respect to the evolution of this photoreceptor class, our model may explain in molecular terms how phytochromes
changed from proteobacterial photoreceptors using biliverdin as the chromophore to those present today in cyanobacteria
and plants that use the more reduced bilins, PCB and PFB, respectively (Fig. 3a) (1,26). Presumably, these blue-shifted
bilins offer an adaptive advantage for sensing photosynthetic competition by closely matching the absorption spectrum of
chlorophyll (3,4). This switch required evolution of mechanisms to synthesize reduced bilins and to discriminate them
from biliverdin in the lyase active site (Fig. 3a). Cyanobacterial and plant phytochromes use a cysteine in the GAF
domain to bind theA-ring C3 ethylidene side chain of PCB/PFB (37,38), as opposed to the proteobacterial and (probably)
fungal phytochromes that use acysteine upstream of the PAS domain to bind the C3 vinyl sidechain of
biliverdin (4,11,32). Remarkably, modelling of this GAF cysteine into its comparable position (Met259) in DrCBD reveals that
it would extend towards the C3 side chain, as does Cys24 in DrCBD, but from the opposite side of the chromophore
(Fig. 4b). With no adjustment to the surrounding structure, the sulphur atom of acysteine replacement at position 259
would be 5.8 Å from the Cys 24 sulphur and only 3.2 Å from the target C31 carbon of the bilin. Consequently, evolutionary
transformation of the bilin attachment site could occur without structural changes, simply by acquiring a cysteine at the
appropriate position in the GAF domain. In support, ref. 32 recently showed that an Agrobacterium tumefaciens BphP1 (Agp1)
variant in which the distal cysteine was added (Val249!Cys) preferentially assembles with PCB versus biliverd into
generate a photochromic phytochrome with typical red/far-red absorption spectra. The structure of the bilin-binding domain
of DrBphP yields the first three-dimensional insights into the photochemistry and evolution of the phytochrome
superfamily. This structure provides molecular explanations for the known physico-chemical features of phytochromes, for
Pr to Pfr photoconversion events that initiate responses of behavioural and agricultural significance, and for
the evolution of the phytochrome family.


In less than three weeks, the Watir team will be assembling in Austin Texas to kick off our first Watir Conference and Test Automation Bazaar. This event is pulling together Watir users and other Ruby lovers to share techniques and create better tools for automating testing.
Watir team members who are confirmed to attend:
- Bret Pettichord, Austin
- Hugh McGowan, Austin
- Alister Scott, Australia
- Željko Filipin, Croatia
- Chuck van der Linden, Seattle
- Tiffany Fodor, Denver
- Charley Baker, Denver
- Jari Bakken, Norway
We also have attendees registering from all over the world, including Hong Kong, London, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, California, Ontario.
I’m still talking to lots of people about speaking at the conference. Here is a partial list of people lined up to speak and some of this still needs to be confirmed. (Put on the wiki)
Watir Team
- Migrating from Watir to Webdriver - Hugh
- Webdriver Internals - Jari
- Watir, Selenium and Capybara; and Specification by Example: a Love Story - Alister
Experience Reports
- Hugh McGowan & the Convio team - Introducing WatirMark at Convio. WatirMark is an MVC testing framework that supports Cucumber and Rspec. This is result of several years of major refactoring, recently released as open-source.
- Bob Jones, How a Ruby Framework for testing services was expanded to make use of the cloud.
- Zeljko Filipin - Using Sikuli with Watir Webdriver
- Chris McMahon - Lessons Learned from Fitnesse; a keyword and wiki based testing framework
- Bramha Ghosh and Andy Vida - Specification by Example at Grange Insurance
- Tan Le - Building an Automated Test Framework using Cucumber, Capybara and Gizmo.
Discussions
- Managing Test Automation - Opened by Rick Hower
- Sleeps are Evil - Opened by Bret Pettichord
- Ruby Automated Testing Landscape - Opened by Alister Scott
- Levels of Quality - Opened by Marek Jay
- Exploratory Testing with IRB - Opened by Dave McNulla
- Watir Book and Watir Documentation - Opened by Zeljko Filipin
Charity Workshops
In addition, workshops are being hosted separately on Thursday March 22nd. Alister Scott, Željko Filipin and Chuck van der Linden will be holding a hands-on tutorial on Watir Webdriver; and Cheezy Morgan and Jari Bakken will be holding an advanced workshop on Page Objects. I’m really looking forward to attending these workshops, as well as sending my staff. The registration for these will be separate from the Bazaar, so don’t forget to sign up for this too.
Registration
- Bazaar Registration - The deadline for the advance purchase pricing is this Friday, March 9.
- Workshop Registration - Only 25 slots each; I expect these to go fast.


Flaming arrows and catapults: Hong Kong protesters recreate medieval tech to battle police
by AFPBy Aidan Jones and Jasmine Leung
With wooden catapults to launch petrol bombs and bows and arrows pilfered from sports departments, Hong Kong’s democracy protesters are combining new tactics with medieval tech as they battle police.
Roads in the financial hub have been blockaded with bamboo lattices this week, while mini Stonehenge-like structures have been built from dug-up pavement as the southern Chinese city lurches deeper into crisis.
Universities have become the epicentre of battle, with students – joined by other black-clad ‘braves’ of the frontline protest movement – saying they have been pressed into the defence of their campuses by police threats.
As a rolling strike cripples the transport system of the famously frenetic city and fuels already intense clashes with police, hardcore protesters have bolstered their arsenal of Molotovs and bricks with an unlikely array of weapons.
Those include sports gear – javelins and bows and arrows lifted from university storerooms, as well as tennis racquets to bat away tear-gas canisters.
Chairs and mattresses have been pulled from college dorms for use as barricades or shields against increasingly heavy barrages of police rubber bullets.
This homespun approach has also taken on a medieval edge in one of Asia’s most modern cities.
Giant wooden catapults have been constructed from scratch, while caltrops – three-pronged spikes made of plastic piping and nails – have been laid to impede officers on foot alongside mazes of bricks to trip up police snatch squads.
Around a thousand protesters waited at Hong Kong Polytechnic University as Thursday afternoon wore on, anticipating a police charge in the hours ahead.
The campus faces the Cross Harbour tunnel, a key route between the Kowloon peninsula, which is connected by land to the Chinese mainland, and the financial centre of Hong Kong Island.
Protesters closed the link late Wednesday and had rolled a catapult into view of the tunnel in case police tried to breach the barricade.
“If they come later we’re going to load it with bricks, Molotov cocktails and flammable arrows,” said a 23-year-old protester, giving the pseudonym Ah Fai.
Flaming arrows
The tactic fits a pattern. AFP photographs show a flame-tipped arrow being fired by a protester on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, video clips circulating on social media show jubilant demonstrators celebrating as a practice round of material – also ablaze – hurtles through the air from a catapult.
Nearly six months on, the leaderless protest movement remains characterised by ingenuity and collective action.
But it is now also defined by increasing paranoia and violence in the face of a police force protesters accuse of brutality – and an unyielding government.
At Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Thursday students set up a “customs” barrier to search all entrants including media.
“This is to prevent any plainclothes officers from entering,” said Michael, a 23-year-old student, giving one name like most protesters.
“I don’t know the effectiveness of it but it’s better than nothing.”
Police accused protesters of turning the Chinese University of Hong Kong, one of the city’s most prestigious campuses and the scene of running battles on Tuesday night, into a “weapons factory”.
“The truth speaks for itself,” Hong Kong police spokesman John Tse told reporters on Thursday, accusing “rioters” of throwing petrol bombs off bridges, widespread arson attacks and firing arrows at a police patrol.
In return protesters face a police force armed with batons, rubber bullets, tear gas, water cannon and handguns – a protester was shot on Monday at close range by a traffic cop.
Later that day a man shouting pro-Beijing slogans at protesters on a walkway was doused in flammable liquid and set alight.
He remains in a critical condition.
Hong Kong remains littered with barricades, broken glass and bricks – collected into small castles in acts of defiance.
“Some are stacked for art,” said a 17-year-old frontline protester who identified himself as Sam.
“Others we stacked higher so that the cops might run into them while they’re running.”
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Or, add the following script into your HTML.
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Note: This should only appear in development-time code. Remove before going into production.


Stitches is an HTML5 sprite sheet generator.
Drag & drop image files onto the space below, or use the “Open” link to load images using the file browser. Then, click “Generate” to create a sprite sheet and stylesheet. This demo uses a couple of HTML5 APIs, and it is only currently compatible with WebKit and Firefox browsers.
Stitches is developed by Matthew Cobbs in concert with the lovely open-source community at Github. Thanks are owed to the developers at Twitter for Bootstrap, and Glyphicons for some cool little icons.


Before Change
// Survey jobs are on a per-organism basis.
for species in specieses:
if species["name"] == organism_name:
specieses = [species]
logger.info("Found species " + organism_name + " on Ensembl.",
survey_job=self.survey_job.id)
break
species_surveyed = 0
all_new_species = []
for species in specieses:
if number_of_organisms != -1 and species_surveyed >= number_of_organisms:
break
all_new_species.append(self._generate_files(species))
species_surveyed += 1
return all_new_species
After Change
for species in specieses:
all_new_species.append(self._generate_files(species))
if len(all_new_species) == 0:
logger.error("Unable to find any species!",
ensembl_division=ensembl_division,
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Structs and functions for mapping language symbol names to their values, including built-in function lookup.
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0.9 Release¶
Release 0.9.0¶
Release summary¶
Statsmodels is using github to store the updated documentation which is available under http://www.statsmodels.org/stable for the last release, and http://www.statsmodels.org/devel/ for the development version.
Warning
API stability is not guaranteed for new features, although even in this case changes will be made in a backwards compatible way if possible. The stability of a new feature depends on how much time it was already in statsmodels master and how much usage it has already seen. If there are specific known problems or limitations, then they are mentioned in the docstrings.
The list of pull requests for this release can be found on github https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+milestone%3A0.9 (The list does not include some pull request that were merged before the 0.8 release but not included in 0.8.)
The Highlights¶
- statespace refactoring, Markov Switching Kim smoother
- 3 Google summer of code (GSOC) projects merged - distributed estimation - VECM and enhancements to VAR (including cointegration test) - new count models: GeneralizedPoisson, zero inflated models
- Bayesian mixed GLM
- Gaussian Imputation
- new multivariate methods: factor analysis, MANOVA, repeated measures within ANOVA
- GLM var_weights in addition to freq_weights
- Holt-Winters and Exponential Smoothing
What’s new - an overview¶
The following lists the main new features of statsmodels 0.9. In addition, release 0.9 includes bug fixes, refactorings and improvements in many areas.
- base
- distributed estimation #3396 (Leland Bybee GSOC, Kerby Shedden)
- optimization option scipy minimize #3193 (Roman Ring)
- Box-Cox #3477 (Niels Wouda)
- t_test_pairwise #4365 (Josef Perktold)
- discrete
- new count models (Evgeny Zhurko GSOC, Josef Perktold)
- NegativeBinomialP #3832 merged in #3874
- GeneralizedPoisson #3727 merged in #3795
- zero-inflated count models #3755 merged in #3908
- discrete optimization improvements #3921, #3928 (Josef Perktold)
- extend discrete margin when extra params, NegativeBinomial #3811 (Josef Perktold)
- duration
- dependent censoring in survival/duration #3090 (Kerby Shedden)
- entry times for Kaplan-Meier #3126 (Kerby Shedden)
- genmod
- Bayesian GLMM #4189, #4540 (Kerby Shedden)
- GLM add var_weights #3692 (Peter Quackenbush)
- GLM: EIM in optimization #3646 (Peter Quackenbush)
- GLM correction to scale handling, loglike #3856 (Peter Quackenbush)
- graphics
- graphics HDR functional boxplot #3876 merged in #4049 (Pamphile ROY)
- graphics Bland-Altman or Tukey mean difference plot #4112 merged in #4200 (Joses W. Ho)
- bandwidth options in violinplots #4510 (Jim Correia)
- imputation
- multiple imputation via Gaussian model #4394, #4520 (Kerby Shedden)
- regularized fitting in MICE #4319 (Kerby Shedden)
- iolib
- improvements of summary_coll #3702 merged #4064 (Natasha Watkins, Kevin Sheppard)
- multivariate
- multivariate: MANOVA, CanCorr #3327 (Yichuan Liu)
- Factor Analysis #4161, #4156, #4167, #4214 (Yichuan Liu, Kerby Shedden, Josef Perktold)
- statsmodels now includes the rotation code by ….
- regression
- fit_regularized for WLS #3581 (Kerby Shedden)
- stats
- Knockoff FDR # 3204 (Kerby Shedden)
- Repeated measures ANOVA #3303 merged in #3663, #3838 (Yichuan Liu, Richard Höchenberger)
- lilliefors test for exponential distribution #3837 merged in #3936 (Jacob Kimmel, Josef Perktold)
- tools
- quasi-random, Halton sequences #4104 (Pamphile ROY)
- tsa
- VECM #3246 (Aleksandar Karakas GSOC, Josef Perktold)
- exog support in VAR, incomplete for extra results, part of VECM #3246, #4538 (Aleksandar Karakas GSOC, Josef Perktold)
- Markov switching, Kim smoother #3141 (Chad Fulton)
- Holt-Winters #3817 merged in #4176 (tvanzyl)
- seasonal_decompose: trend extrapolation and vectorized 2-D #3031 (kernc, Josef Perktold)
- add frequency domain seasonal components to UnobservedComponents #4250 (Jordan Yoder)
- refactoring of date handling in tsa #3276, #4457 (Chad Fulton)
- SARIMAX without AR, MA #3383 (Chad Fulton)
- maintenance
- switch to pytest #3804 plus several other PRs (Kevin Sheppard)
- general compatibility fixes for recent versions of numpy, scipy and pandas
bug-wrong¶
A new issue label type-bug-wrong indicates bugs that cause that incorrect numbers are returned without warnings. (Regular bugs are mostly usability bugs or bugs that raise an exception for unsupported use cases.) see https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Atype-bug-wrong+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A0.9
- scale in GLM fit_constrained, #4193 fixed in #4195 cov_params and bse were incorrect if scale is estimated as in Gaussian. (This did not affect families with scale=1 such as Poisson)
- incorrect pearson_chi2 with binomial counts, #3612 fixed as part of #3692
- null_deviance and llnull in GLMResults were wrong if exposure was used and when offset was used with Binomial counts.
- GLM Binomial in the non-binary count case used incorrect endog in recreating models which is used by fit_regularized and fit_constrained #4599.
- GLM observed hessian was incorrectly computed if non-canonical link is used, fixed in #4620 This fix improves convergence with gradient optimization and removes a usually numerically small error in cov_params.
- discrete predict with offset or exposure, #3569 fixed in #3696 If either offset or exposure are not None but exog is None, then offset and exposure arguments in predict were ignored.
- discrete margins had wrong dummy and count effect if constant is prepended, #3695 fixed in #3696
- OLS outlier test, wrong index if order is True, #3971 fixed in #4385
- tsa coint ignored the autolag keyword, #3966 fixed in #4492 This is a backwards incompatible change in default, instead of fixed maxlag it defaults now to ‘aic’ lag selection. The default autolag is now the same as the adfuller default.
- wrong confidence interval in contingency table summary, #3822 fixed in #3830 This only affected the summary and not the corresponding attribute.
- incorrect results in summary_col if regressor_order is used, #3767 fixed in #4271
Description of selected new feature¶
The following provides more information about a selected set of new features.
Vector Error Correction Model (VECM)¶
The VECM framework developed during GSOC 2016 by Aleksandar Karakas adds support for non-stationary cointegrated VAR processes to statsmodels. Currently, the following topics are implemented
- Parameter estimation for cointegrated VAR
- forecasting
- testing for Granger-causality and instantaneous causality
- testing for cointegrating rank
- lag order selection.
New methods have been added also to the existing VAR model, and VAR has now limited support for user provided explanatory variables.
New Count Models¶
New count models have been added as part of GSOC 2017 by Evgeny Zhurko. Additional models that are not yet finished will be added for the next release.
The new models are:
- NegativeBinomialP (NBP): This is a generalization of NegativeBinomial that allows the variance power parameter to be specified in the range between 1 and 2. The current NegativeBinomial support NB1 and NB2 which are two special cases of NBP.
- GeneralizedPoisson (GPP): Similar to NBP this allows a large range of dispersion specification. GPP also allow some amount of under dispersion
- ZeroInflated Models: Based on a generic base class, zeroinflated models are now available for Poisson, GeneralizedPoisson and NegativeBinomialP.
Generalized linear mixed models¶
Limited support for GLIMMIX models is now included in the genmod module. Binomial and Poisson models with independent random effects can be fit using Bayesian methods (Laplace and mean field approximations to the posterior).
Multiple imputation¶
Multiple imputation using a multivariate Gaussian model is now included in the imputation module. The model is fit via Gibbs sampling from the joint posterior of the mean vector, covariance matrix, and missing data values. A convenience function for fitting a model to the multiply imputed data sets and combining the results is provided. This is an alternative to the existing MICE (Multiple Imputation via Chained Equations) procedures.
Exponential smoothing models¶
Exponential smoothing models are now available (introduced in #4176 by Terence L van Zyl). These models are conceptually simple, decomposing a time series into level, trend, and seasonal components that are constructed from weighted averages of past observations. Nonetheless, they produce forecasts that are competitive with more advanced models and which may be easier to interpret.
Available models include:
- Simple exponential smoothing
- Holt’s method
- Holt-Winters exponential smoothing
Improved time series index support¶
Handling of indexes for time series models has been overhauled (#3272) to take advantage of recent improvements in Pandas and to shift to Pandas much of the special case handling (espcially for date indexes) that had previously been done in Statsmodels. Benefits include more consistent behavior, a reduced number of bugs from corner cases, and a reduction in the maintenance burden.
Although an effort was made to maintain backwards compatibility with this change, it is possible that some undocumented corner cases that previously worked will now raise warnings or exceptions.
State space models¶
The state space model infrastructure has been rewritten and improved (#2845). New features include:
- Kalman smoother rewritten in Cython for substantial performance improvements
- Simulation smoother (Durbin and Koopman, 2002)
- Fast simulation of time series for any state space model
- Univariate Kalman filtering and smoothing (Koopman and Durbin, 2000)
- Collapsed Kalman filtering and smoothing (Jungbacker and Koopman, 2014)
- Optional computation of the lag-one state autocovariance
- Use of the Scipy BLAS functions for Cython interface if available (scipy.linalg.cython_blas for Scipy >= 0.16)
These features yield new features and improve performance for the existing state space models (SARIMAX, UnobservedComopnents, DynamicFactor, and `VARMAX), and they also make Bayesian estimation by Gibbs-sampling possible.
Warning: this will be the last version that includes the original state space code and supports Scipy < 0.16. The next release will only include the new state space code.
Unobserved components models: frequency-domain seasonals¶
Unobserved components models now support modeling seasonal factors from a frequency-domain perspective with user-specified period and harmonics (introduced in #4250 by Jordan Yoder). This not only allows for multiple seasonal effects, but also allows the representation of seasonal components with fewer unobserved states. This can improve computational performance and, since it allows for a more parsimonious model, may also improve the out-of-sample performance of the model.
Major Bugs fixed¶
- see github issues for a list of bug fixes included in this release https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+milestone%3A0.9+label%3Atype-bug https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+milestone%3A0.9+label%3Atype-bug-wrong
- Refitting elastic net regularized models using the refit=True option now returns the unregularized parameters for the coefficients selected by the regularized fitter, as documented. #4213
- In MixedLM, a bug that produced exceptions when calling random_effects_cov on models with variance components has been fixed.
Backwards incompatible changes and deprecations¶
- DynamicVAR and DynamicPanelVAR is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. It used rolling OLS from pandas which has been removed in pandas.
- In MixedLM, names for the random effects variance and covariance parameters have changed from, e.g. G RE to G Var or G x F Cov. This impacts summary output, and also may require modifications to user code that extracted these parameters from the fitted results object by name.
- In MixedLM, the names for the random effects realizations for variance components have been changed. When using formulas, the random effect realizations are named using the column names produced by Patsy when parsing the formula.
Development summary and credits¶
Besides receiving contributions for new and improved features and for bugfixes, important contributions to general maintenance for this release came from
- Kevin Sheppard
- Peter Quackenbush
- Brock Mendel
and the general maintainer and code reviewer
- Josef Perktold
Additionally, many users contributed by participation in github issues and providing feedback.
Thanks to all of the contributors for the 0.9 release (based on git log):
- Aleksandar Karakas
- Alex Fortin
- Alexander Belopolsky
- Brock Mendel
- Chad Fulton
- ChadFulton
- Christian Lorentzen
- Dave Willmer
- Dror Atariah
- Evgeny Zhurko
- Gerard Brunick
- Greg Mosby
- Jacob Kimmel
- Jamie Morton
- Jarvis Miller
- Jasmine Mou
- Jeroen Van Goey
- Jim Correia
- Joon Ro
- Jordan Yoder
- Jorge C. Leitao
- Josef Perktold
- Joses W. Ho
- José Lopez
- Joshua Engelman
- Juan Escamilla
- Justin Bois
- Kerby Shedden
- Kernc
- Kevin Sheppard
- Leland Bybee
- Maxim Uvarov
- Michael Kaminsky
- Mosky Liu
- Natasha Watkins
- Nick DeRobertis
- Niels Wouda
- Pamphile ROY
- Peter Quackenbush
- Quentin Andre
- Richard Höchenberger
- Rob Klooster
- Roman Ring
- Scott Tsai
- Soren Fuglede Jorgensen
- Tom Augspurger
- Tommy Odland
- Tony Jiang
- Yichuan Liu
- ftemme
- hugovk
- kiwirob
- malickf
- tvanzyl
- weizhongg
- zveryansky
These lists of names are automatically generated based on git log, and may not be complete.


Structuring Motives
August 31, 2018 | Nick Mazuk
If you’ve been following up to this point, you have the following skills:
- Identify motives, phrases, and periods
- Write motives quickly from scratch
- Name motives and find variations
Now it’s time to put all these skills together and get the final piece to learn the secret to consistently building a great melody.
The Magic Structure
Quick Recap
Melodies are broken down into two phrases, each of which are broken down into two motives.
Motives can be pretty much anything you want to write. Getting used to writing motives quickly can be a great way to get the creative juices flowing.
Finally, motives are given names based on their relation to other motives and the order in which they appear. The first motive is a, the second b, the third c, etc.
How do you organize the motives?
You can organize them any way you would like, as long as you follow two simple rules:
- You must vary either a or b before you can have a c
- The exact same motive cannot be repeated 3 times in a row
For the first rule, that essentially rules out structures like a b c a′, because there is a c before either a′ or b′.

Which of the following is not an allowed structure?
And what these two rules is it gives a balance of repetition and variation. Those are the two keys for making your melody sound cohesive and memorable.
Repetition and variation is key.
Which rule enforces that you have enough repetition in your melody?
Application
Now that you know how to organize your motives, how do you use this?
It’s actually quite simple. Once you have your motives and several variations, just pick a structure (like a a a′ b) and then just input your motives into the structure.
And voila! You have a melody! Sure, it might need some refinement to make sure the ideas flow more naturally. But this way you know you can create good melodies more consistently.
Of course, practicing this over time will help you get better at understanding the process. And to help you with that, just get the free accompanying worksheet below. If you are already a subscriber, the worksheet is in your inbox.
Happy writing!


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GatewayBOT21-Oct-18 09:34 PM
[dscrd-cz] <PTYX> @everyone if you have funds in the tipbot and are not planning on tipping soon, please withdraw to your ZILLA address
[dscrd-cz] <crumb> is there a specific reason to do it now? planning to do it every couple of weeks or so anyways(edited)
[dscrd-cz] <Hollowman9000> !balance
GatewayBOT21-Oct-18 09:51 PM
[dscrd-cz] <PTYX> it's !zillatip balance
[dscrd-cz] <PTYX> in the #tipbot channel
[dscrd-cz] <PTYX> @crumb i rather the users have control of their funds. They aren't truly in your control until you withdraw them. If you are planning on tipping, you can have the zilla in the bot address but i wouldn't use it to store them for long periods of time.
[dscrd-cz] <crumb> ok, understood
[dscrd-cz] <PTYX> I spoke emailed the real lark @Instel7 please block this spammers
GatewayBOT21-Oct-18 11:08 PM
[dscrd-cz] <Hungry_BullBear> Is the Zilla wallet out ?
[dscrd-cz] <Instel7> Chameleon? Not yet
[dscrd-cz] <Instel7> We'll be doin announcements when it's released
[dscrd-cz] <PTYX> We've had some delays due to how long the graphic work took. Also we had to decide which technology to use for the backend. We decided on native script. I suspect it will be at least another 30 days at least until our development team has the beta ready.
[dscrd-cz] <PTYX> @Hungry_BullBear there are two wallets that support zilla. Agama and Pungo Wallet.
[dscrd-cz] <Hungry_BullBear> I dont like Agama - will check Pungo
[dscrd-cz] <PTYX> Yeah check it out. It's actually pretty easy to use. It's on Android and iOS
[dscrd-cz] <PTYX> Peer2group is doing a great job with Pungo Wallet. It's a whitelabel wallet so we actually have gotten clients that are interested in branded versions of the Pungo app. There is business to be made everywhere when there is good products.
[dscrd-cz] <Emmanuel> Bitcoin protocol is a shxxxxckery.(edited)
[dscrd-cz] <Emmanuel> It really makes you want to just pull a grand vitalik and start from scratch.(edited)
[dscrd-cz] <Emmanuel> That being said, Komodo Platform (and NEM? i don't know much about it), is solving the issue with this awesome brand new tech called Crypto Conditions.
[dscrd-cz] <Emmanuel> Hidden gem in the blockchain world.
[dscrd-cz] <Emmanuel> Are there plans to implement any crypto-conditions smart contract after next years hard fork on ZILLA?
GatewayBOT22-Oct-18 02:01 PM
[dscrd-cz] <PTYX> No need to hard fork actually. Just a soft fork.
[dscrd-cz] <PTYX> But yea we want to add cryptoconditions after the ico


‘Deal Or No Deal’ Model Madi Teeuws Wears A Mismatched Gray Bralette & Floral Undies
November 25, 2019
‘Deal Or No Deal’ Model Madi Teeuws Wears A Mismatched Gray Bralette & Floral Undies
Deal or No Deal model Madi Teeuws just stunned her 422,000 Instagram followers with a double-picture update where she wore a plunging, lace bralette with a simple pair of floral undies.
The bralette was a medium gray, steel color and featured a plunging neckline that exposed a generous amount of her cleavage. The straps formed a halter cut in the back, and no underwire meant that the bralette style was made for comfort in mind.
Keeping herself cozy, Madi paired the bra with a white cardigan-type sweater. It had slipped off her shoulders to rest just above her elbows, but nevertheless appeared to be keeping Madi comfortable.
With her arms crossed around her taut midriff, the blond beauty completed the look with a pair of sheer, white panties with a light blue and brown floral pattern. It appeared to be a hipster cut, and the fabric hugged her curves in the most flattering of ways.
Madi kept the rest of her look as natural as possible, with just the slightest brush of mascara and a light pink gloss for makeup. Her blond locks were styled into a messy top knot, with a few escaped tendrils expertly framing her face.
The setting for the shots was a luxurious living room, with the blurred image of wainscoting and pretty patterned wallpaper in the background. In addition, a bouquet and some gold home accessories adorned a table.
Madi posed by sitting on the floor and leaning against the lightest of pink sofas, with her left arm propped on the sofa cushion. In the first of the two pictures, she stared into the camera as she bent one knee to show off a toned thigh.
In the second, she adjusted her cardigan so that it was properly covering her shoulders. She also seemed more relaxed, leaning deeper into the couch and offering the camera a big smile.
Madi was snuggled up because she was feeling a little under the weather. In her caption, she theorized she had come down with a cold. However, in her characteristically optimistic attitude, she reflected that a hoarse throat might help her listen more and be a better friend.
Within just a couple of hours, the post already received close to 20,000 likes and more than 260 comments.
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“Such a pleasure to look at. Wildly beautiful,” raved one fan, with a heart-eye emoji.
“You are so lovable,” added a second, with a blushing smiley face.
“Wish I was there to take care of you,” added a third, along with two red hearts.
“No words needed,” concluded a fourth.
The rumored love interest of NFL star Danny Amendola also recently dropped jaws when she posed in a cropped oversized sweater with no bra or camisole underneath, as was previously covered by The Inquisitr.


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My friend A. had returned for the summer from school in portland, bearing with her 100 mg of AMT dissolved in water, for easier dosing without a digital scale. Well, the AMT sat around most of the summer waiting for us, and finally an opportunity arose in the hot middle of August. Three of us, A., myself, and K. held our noses and ingested it with cranberry juice mid-afternoon, around three o'clock, and settled in for an afternoon of gravity bong hits of low-grade bush weed compliments of a dry season.
 Shit-grown cubes taste like chocolate bonbons compared to this stuff.
None of us even began to feel anything until well over the one-hour mark, and I didn't feel anything at all until about two hours had passed. An hour and a half after ingestion, K. (who was feeling nothing but nausea) returned from the bathroom, face flushed, and said that as soon as she vomited, it started to hit her. In the evening, as the sunlight began to fade, the three of us were all in the thrall of this strange drug, and as darkness truly fell, we kept the light levels in the room we occupied very low. The sober (stoned) person who we had been with the whole time, and the other sober (stoned) friends who visited at night remarked that we were like vampires, shrinking from bright light and wearing dark grins on our faces. Well, sure, and after they said it I began to feel it.
In the beginning of the summer, when A. was telling us about this substance she had brought with her, she told us a little about its history. Apparently it was used in the 60s by as an anti-depressant in the soviet union. She nicknamed it the 'happy communist drug.'
As the stuff kicked in, her words returned to me, and the sensations I was experiencing made me think about its origins. I felt mildly euphoric, mildly speedy, had pretty good clarity of mind and I lacked any of the mild to moderate paranoia I have come to associate with other psychadelics. And everything developed a mildly pink tint. (Drugs have colors, I think- p. cubensis makes me see yellow) I also developed jaw clench, but for the most part, it was pretty manageable.
Quite an interesting trip, and extremely long at that. Most of it was very pleasant, but during the second half of the trip I developed a whopper of a headache that ruined the last third of the trip. What the headache came from I can't be sure, but I can see five possibilities: the AMT itself, the jaw clench, the really shitty pot we were smoking (I suspect this is the culprit), my dilated pupils, or dehydration.
In the wee hours of the morning, twelve-fifteen hours after our initial ingestion, we all tried to get some sleep (at which I was unsuccessful until eight or nine o'clock that morning). After I'd slept it off, I awoke with relatively few side effects; it felt like a mild acid hangover. And that was my night with AMT.
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Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


Batman in the Bulletin
Keith wrote for the Bulletin monthly magazine under the pseudonym, John Batman, to avoid detection from his employer and commercial rival The Herald and Weekly Times.
This collection of articles from the Bulletin were edited by Keith's son, David, and published in 2004. Articles have been grouped into themes as below and include introductions, to explain the historical significance of the original writing.
In 1961 Donald Horne was editing a lively fortnightly The Observer, which he started in 1958. On October 19, famed Sydney newspaper tyro, Sir Frank Packer bought the Bulletin on behalf of Australian Consolidated Press. He called Horne and said, ‘I’ve bought The Bulletin. Which will we kill off, it or The Observer.’ This was a tough choice for Donald.  He chose to be editor of The Bulletin.
The Bulletin, of course, is Australia’s most celebrated and important magazine. It began on 31 January 1880 and depended heavily on lively, pithy contributions from its readers. In its early days it was ‘the journalistic javelin’, a vehicle for all manner of radical and nationalistic views. Under its founding editor, J.F. Archibald, it published such great names as the artists, Norman and Lionel Lindsay, Will Dyson, David Low, and writers, Henry Lawson, A.B. Paterson, A.G. Stephens and Joseph Furphy. By 1961 it was like an ageing relative, operating on a walking frame. It had been on the market for some time. It was losing money and its circulation had dropped below 30,000. Its masthead still carried the amazing message: ‘Australia for the White Man.’ It had the same pink cover just as it had back in the 19th century and the quality of its newsprint had never improved. The politics were archaic and Donald Horne wondered if any of the staff had been outside their front door in 40 years.Horne had two stints as editor. The first was for a year, then he went off to be a creative director for Jackson Wain Advertising, but his ambitions extended beyond producing advertising copy for big clients. It was during this time that he wrote his famous work The Lucky Country. He returned as managing editor in 1967 and remained until 1972. The new ‘Bully’ was almost unrecognizable from the old, and the cry of pain from loyal readers was huge. Eventually this subsided and Horne gathered a remarkable range of writers such as Max Harris, Geoffrey Dutton, Desmond O’Grady, Patricia Rolfe, Peter Hastings, a marvellous cartoonist in Les Tanner and the smartest Canberra correspondent, Alan Reid.
When Horne departed in 1961 Packer appointed Peter Hastings in his place. Hastings had come up through the Daily Telegraph in Sydney. He had been editor of The Sunday Telegraph and he had worked for Packer in New York. He did become one of Australia’s greatest experts on the politics of Indonesia and the Pacific. He was proud that he sat at the desk used by J.F. Archibald and looked up at the clock that had been in the Bulletin office for the past 82 years. He was a tall angular man with a large moustache, which gave him an appropriate Henry Lawson look. Horne in his autobiography Into the Open said that Hastings with his doleful face would have made a good model for Christ in agony. However, there was nothing Christ-like about Peter. He was a man of vast enthusiasms. He loved cognac, women, tennis, arguing, Joyce, Proust, D.H. Lawrence and hunting for bargains in second hand book shops.
Circulation under Hastings rose towards 40,000 copies a week. Not enough for Sir Frank who expected every ACP publication to make a good profit. Part of the problem was the location of The Bulletin. Always it had been published in Sydney. Naturally Melbourne treated anything published across the border with suspicion. Hastings thought it would be a great idea to have a Melbourne columnist, someone who could write a weekly piece, something like the London Diary in The New Yorker.
Hastings was an old mate. We had worked together as correspondents in New York. In 1962 after writing stints in London and Brisbane, I was writing a daily column for Melbourne’s Sun News-Pictorial. He thought I would be an ideal candidate. There was one problem. I worked for the Herald & Weekly Times Ltd and my chairman and managing director was Sir John Francis Williams the archrival of Sir Frank Packer, chairman and managing director of Australian Consolidated Press. Williams received his knighthood in 1958. Packer scored his in 1959. In the 1950s and 1960s any newspaper chief, who made sure that his editorial policy followed devotedly that of the Government, automatically received a knighthood.
Sir John had a rule that no member of his staff would write for any rival publication, nor would he, or she, appear on any rival radio or television program that was not owned by or associated with the H& WT. Peter was a crafty fellow and he saw a way around this. ‘We won’t use your name,’ he said. ‘Let’s see, we could call you “Batman”. He was Melbourne wasn’t he? Batman started it, he bought it from the Abos.”
‘Abos’ was one of those words you could say in the 1960s. I thought for a moment. Not for very long. He was offering 10 pounds a week, an enormous sum in 1962. I could try a different style. Sir John when he was editor-in-chief gave us instructions on how to write for the Sun News-Pictorial. He said: “Picture someone in Moorabbin. He lives in a triple-front brick veneer. He drives a car he doesn’t own. He spends most of his time watching TV and he has a mental age of fifteen. (It was always a ‘he’ in the 1960s) Don’t use words of more than two syllables. Use only the active voice and never let a paragraph go beyond 25 words. And remember, you have usually lost half your audience after the first par.”
It was the best advice I ever received, but I could make some modifications. My mythical character could live in a Paddington terrace house and I could throw in some words of three syllables and up the mental age to at least twenty.
This worked well for five years. There were a number of people who were not pleased with the use of Batman. Very early it became clear that Melbourne historians both professional and amateur were divided between those who thought John Batman founded Melbourne and those who thought the real credit should go to John Pascoe Fawkner. Why go for Batman at all? Some correspondents pointed to an entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Here was news that John Batman was not entirely the upright character described in our school books. He died of nasal syphilis and as for his wife, Eliza, she was ‘of somewhat abandoned character’ and was murdered at Geelong on 31 March 1852. Later on matters became worse when Professor Manning Clark began writing his History of Australia. Would it be wise to choose another nom de plume.
Manning Clark wrote: “Inside Batman was a man who abandoned himself wantonly to the Dionysian frenzy and allowed no restraint to come between himself and the satisfaction of his desires…When drunk he terrified those near him so much he would gladly give away all the fleeces of New Holland rather than expose himself again to the cruelties of a drunken Batman. His appetite for women was just as huge as his thirst for drunken oblivion.”
Less erudite correspondents wanted to know why we had chosen Batman, a character out of a comic strip, this dreadful creature, who kept dashing all over buildings wearing a mask. Furthermore his closest friend was a young male, named Robin. Why didn’t we pick some character, who wasn’t ‘a poofter.’ But it was too late. The name stuck.
There was a joyous freedom in moonlighting for ‘the Bully’. There was a series of editors, including Hastings, Horne, Peter Coleman and Trevor Sykes. Peter Coleman was an academic who came to the Bulletin when he was studying for a PhD. Originally, he had no experience in journalism but he learned with amazing speed. One had the feeling he never left the office. When he had a good idea he would ring at any hour of the day or night. One time he called at 1 a.m. and I said: ‘Peter, do you realise what the time is.’ He said: ‘No.’ He was still working at the office. Apart from the writing of many books and the editing of Quadrant he had a career in politics and became the leader of the Liberal Party in New South Wales. The Sun News-Pictorial had so many rules, so many terrors. Above all, we were a family newspaper and families always behaved with decorum, no bad language and there was to be no suggestion of sex. Sir John Williams even had a horror of false teeth. Perhaps it was a fear of decay and death, but there were to be no gags about dentures. It was like coming out of jail, with the Bulletin one could write as one pleased.
One morning in 1968 word came through that Mr. Daly wanted to see me ‘at once.’ Frank Daly was editor of the Sun News-Pictorial. When I entered his office immediately I noted the problem. He had a copy of The Bulletin on his desk. “You’re Batman aren’t you?” he said in a tone that might have been used to announce a traitor, at least a Burgess or a Maclean.
“Yes,” I admitted. “I am.”
It had almost ceased to be a secret. That winter, in the company of the Sun’s Foreign Affairs writer, Douglas Wilkie, I had launched the Anti Football League, which in the passing of four or five weeks gathered a membership even greater than that of the Collingwood Football Club. It was such an important happening Batman interviewed Keith Dunstan to discover what it was all about. One could describe it perhaps as the first example of editorial incest.
Daly thundered, but I couldn’t afford to leave Batman. After pleading destitution through the incredibly low salary paid by the Herald & Weekly Times Ltd. and the fact that only the generosity of Sir Frank Packer kept my four children at public schools, only then did Frank Daly begin to relent. He said the Batman column could continue, but only if it used stories that had already appeared in the Sun. That, of course, would have been impossible, but Batman Dionysian, queer or otherwise, continued for another 15 years.
The first Batman column appeared on March 3, 1962. It dealt with a number of sensitive matters concerning public morals. The Australian Swimming Championships were taking place at Melbourne’s Olympic Pool. It was clear that some of the costumes were disgusting, showing too much. Some young men were wearing togs size 26 when they should have been 32. The Amateur Swimming Union found one way around it. All winners and place-getters had to wear towels in front of their important parts on the dais when receiving medals.
Then, you see, it was the height of Moomba. For the first time the Festival had issued a permit for a beer garden, out in the open, if you please, in the Alexandra gardens. There were protests from temperance associations, the Methodist clergy and L.T. of Broadford wrote to The Age: “It seems to me that the present interpretation of Moomba is ‘Let’s get together and get drunk.’” There were worries too about the lack of intellectual stimulus in the festival. However, Batman revealed that the Coburg Ladies’ Pipe Band would be in action and there would be a dog competition with prizes for the best-groomed dog, the dog with the saddest eyes and the most intellectual looking dog. Would the Moomba committee please consider sending the intellectual looking dog as our representative at the Adelaide Festival of
Yes, Melbourne was a different place in the 1960s, as different as London is from Istanbul today. It had gracious Victorian period buildings, none of them more than six storeys in height. We used to refer to the area near Spring Street as the Paris end of Collins Street. Barry Humphries wondered wistfully whether the French ever talked of the Melbourne end of the Champs Elysees. Collins Street was indeed charming with some delightful plane trees but there the resemblance came to an end. The Oriental Hotel had a prime spot at the Paris end, where the Hotel Sofitel stands now. The Tewksbury family owned it and they thought it would be splendidly Parisian if they had tables and chairs out on the pavement. Good Heavens, no. Neither the City Council nor the Government would allow it. It was a sin in the 1960s to drink out in the open. That would lead to all kinds of untoward behavior. Furthermore it would be absurd even to drink tea outside, the weather was not suitable.
There was a different feeling, a lacking of confidence. Melbourne, like many a rich man, had an inferiority complex. Melbourne had been so deflated by the bank crash of the 1890s and the following depression; it was taking another century to get over it. The library at the Herald & Weekly Times had a plump file titled Melbourne – Criticism of. The public relations firms knew exactly how to get the front page for any visiting entertainer. Get him or her to talk about Melbourne’s insularity, its vulgarity, its sepulchral quiet, its liquor laws or its weather. The English singer, Max Bygraves, did well in 1965. ‘I’ve always wanted to see a ghost town. You couldn’t even open a parachute here after 10 p.m.’ Clement Freud, a travelling gourmet and a descendent of the famous Sigmund, wrote that Ronald Biggs hid away in Melbourne and drove a taxi. Why? Surely he would have had more fun in Dartmoor.
Knocking Melbourne was a popular pastime. If it wasn’t the Yarra, the miserable little river that flowed upside down, then it was the weather, the frightful Melburnian climate. This was curious because Melbourne has very nearly the ideal climate. It is closer to the equator than Madrid, Athens, Lisbon, all of France, most of Italy and most of Sicily. If you popped Melbourne into an equal position in the northern hemisphere it would be in the middle of the Mediterranean and closer to the sun than most Greek islands. Nor are we as wet as some of the other Australian capitals. We receive 657 mm of rain a year compared with 1029 mm in Sydney and 1148 mm in Brisbane.
Yet it was easy to understand why many of the young found Melbourne stifling. Six o’clock closing of hotels lasted until February 1966 and diners had to endure the misery where all glasses which contained alcoholic liquor were, by law, whipped off restaurant tables at 8 p.m. Although all but three or four eating establishments in the city sold execrable food dignity had to be maintained. Anyone not wearing a tie was asked to leave and no woman entering a dining room could wear slacks. Sheila Scotter, fashion leader and editor of Vogue was asked to leave when she entered the dining room of the Southern Cross Hotel.  Her ejection was most surprising. Sheila Scotter looked very good in a gold lame pants suit.
Women had a hard time. Until the mid-1960s the Australian pub was a monastic institution. There were female lounges usually with Spartan tables and chairs. The ladies sat down to be served and paid dearly for the privilege. It was a sin, almost indicating prostitution, if a woman entered a pub without an escort. Even as late as 1969 the unescorted lady was something to be feared. When granting a licence for a new St Kilda cabaret Judge O’Driscoll warned the nominee: “The commission will not tolerate women attending without an escort.”
The public and saloon bars were all male and no female was allowed in. We didn’t even like barmaids in our hotels. Victoria did not go as far as far as the South Australians who banned them by law until 1967. In Victoria only the licensee’s wife, daughter or sister was allowed behind the bar.
It was a difficult time. Book censorship was all the go. We could not read the D.H. Lawrence classic, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Even the report of the London court case, The Trial of Lady Chatterley, was banned. We had a famous Chief Secretary, Arthur Rylah, who was a specialist in these matters. The Vice Squad seized copies of The Group by Mary McCarthy. Sir Arthur said: “If I had a teenage son or daughter, I would not like to see them reading it.” Parliament discussed The Group at length, describing all the most exotic passages. The answer was obvious. There was no need to purchase Ms McCarthy’s book. All the best parts were available in Hansard, price fourpence a copy.
If one really wanted sin then one went to New South Wales. Victoria had no gaming machines, no one-armed bandits. Thankfully there were machines by the thousand in clubs just across the border. Towns like Barham, Moama, Corowa and Albury thrived by filtering money from the pockets of wayward Victorians. In the 1960s and 1970s we thought Sydney was the capital of sin, the most depraved city in Australia. We were so intrigued by the low standard of morals, the gambling, the corruption, many of us could hardly wait to get there. For several decades Melbourne bus companies offered “Sydney Night Life Tours.” They left on Friday night then they would arrive in time to take in the full culture of Kings Cross of bare breasts and bodies, gambling legal and illegal, then return to Melbourne in time for sober work on Monday morning.
Sydney was the first city sufficiently depraved to put on the Musical Hair, which showed human bodies, male and female, totally unclad. Once again the bus services provided special Hair tours. So over 200,000 Melburnians were able to have themselves shocked before the show came to Melbourne.
The Melbourne Sunday was considered by many to be so perfect, it was a work of art. There was no sport, no movies, no theatres, no restaurants, no newspapers, no shops. How did one put in the day? There was the Zoo, there was the Botanic Gardens and one curious pastime that was extremely popular, tour out to Essendon airport and watch the aeroplanes landing and taking off. The Victorian Football League, as it then was, wanted to commit the ultimate sin and play league matches on Sunday. A series of Victorian Governments would not allow it. Relief did not come until 1979 when the VFL started playing football on the Sydney Cricket Ground. This made it possible to switch the sin to Sydney, but at the same time we could watch the game on Melbourne television, on Sunday.
And yet…and yet, it is still possible to look back upon the sixties with nostalgia. Money had not taken over sport entirely and there was a still a sprinkling of amateurs. Football was still a suburban thing. People were loyal to the teams in their own area and they actually played on their own grounds: Footscray at Footscray, North Melbourne at North Melbourne, Hawthorn at Hawthorn, Essendon at Essendon and glory be, Collingwood at Collingwood.
The public schools had their boat race on the Yarra. It was a spectacular and glamorous affair attracting crowds as if it were the Melbourne Cup. Alas, the headmasters decided it was bad for the young men. On boat race night the school crews used to appear to cheering crowds at the local theatres. They were being turned into Gods. So righteous headmasters banished the race to Geelong and even that was not far enough. Now it is at Nagambie.
That dreadful word ‘affordable’ did not exist in the 1960s, but crayfish certainly was and my mother remembered buying them at Lorne for a shilling. There was a wonderful bar just behind the Port Phillip Hotel, opposite Flinders Street Railway Station. Here you could buy oysters with bread and butter for lunch two shillings and sixpence a dozen. If one wanted to go on a pub-crawl it was an interesting exercise, in Bourke or Swanston or Flinders there was no need to walk more than 50 yards before finding a suitable well. We saw the exit of all the great ones, Menzies, Scotts, the Federal, the Oriental, the dear old Port Phillip and the Occidental. At the Occidental you could get a very good Irish Stew and easily the best counter lunch in town. According to legend Nellie Melba once slept at the Occidental, but then according to legend, Nellie slept almost everywhere. The Reserve Bank tower now occupies the space, a regrettable building that has no Irish Stew and is no use to anyone who is hungry.
One misses so many buildings. For example, on the corner of Exhibition and Bourke we had the Eastern Market and like all good markets it was a labyrinth of this and that. It dated back to when Melbourne was young. Once it housed phrenologists, fortune-tellers, magicians and the extraordinary E.W. Cole of Coles Book Arcade began there. In the sixties it still housed a wonderful second-hand bookshop and a hardware business. That’s another thing, hardware has fallen on evil times. This place had its own individual musty smell and old gentleman who would take time to sell you an individual screw or a rare type of hinge exactly suited to the front gate. One would get lost just browsing in the Eastern Market and arrive back half an hour late for work. The Eastern Market came down to make way for the very smart Southern Cross Hotel. That didn’t work and now in 2003 the site is a hole in the ground waiting for another absurd tower. Could we not arrange finance and return the Eastern Market to the site.
Melbourne Mansions was another, a charming building composed of gracious apartments, many of them owned by Western District graziers. The gentlemen graziers occupied them for the entire Spring Racing Carnival. Mr. Jonas had his famous fruit shop down below, recognised as the best fruit shop in Australia. Alas, he and Melbourne Mansions had to go to make way for the CRA building, which looked like an ice block tray pulled out of the ground. The ice block tray made way for a larger set of ice blocks, 101 Collins Street, even uglier than its predecessor. I think we could also recycle 101 to get back Mr. Jonas and Melbourne Mansions.
Whelan the Wrecker pulled down so many great buildings in the city. The proprietor was Jim Whelan, a big gruff man, and although it was his living, he had mixed feelings about what he was doing. He filled his office with relics, including splendid pieces of marble, which he took from the Colonial Mutual Building at the corner of Elizabeth and Collins. This was built in 1893 and Jim thought it the most magnificent building ever erected in Melbourne. He thought it a tragedy that it ever had to come down. I asked him what he thought about the modern buildings, for example, the CRA building. He immediately became enthusiastic.
“Oh yes,” said he. “We could fix that. Easy! You would start at the top and work your way down. Just like taking apart a piece of Meccano.” So that is exactly what happened, except it was nigh on 20 years later. If Jim were still here he would adore to pull down number 101.
There is much to look back upon with nostalgia. In the 1960s the wine boom had not started and our politicians had not discovered how easy it is to finance almost everything through gambling and drink. There was no tax on wine. It was possible to buy excellent bulk wine and bottle it for a shilling a bottle. Jimmy Watson at his establishment in Carlton sold Madeira for threepence a glass.
The automobile made extraordinary advances in efficiency, but life became less convenient for human beings. In the 1950s and 1960s almost everything was home delivered. There were still horses in Melbourne. The milk was delivered at 6 a.m. by horse and cart. The baker delivered the bread and left it on your doorstep. The butcher delivered his meat and all the great stores, Myer’s, Buckley & Nunn, Foy & Gibson, the Mutual Store, Ball & Welch, and Georges delivered and there was no charge.
The automobile had not begun to strangle our streets. The parking meter did not exist. Yes, we did have a rather timid 5 o’clock rush, but now there is the 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. strangle, which is preceded by the 3 o’clock rush where mother has to collect her child from school in the four-wheel drive. Children in the sixties walked or used public transport. Trams did much better business then and they ran every five minutes. A single section cost threepence, paid for with a small silver coin.
The suburbs were quieter, more peaceful. There were no mechanical blowers, no chain saws, no brush cutters and there was a lovely ritual in the autumn. We would sweep up the fallen leaves in the street, put them into a pile and burn.  So you stand there with your rake and chat to your neighbor who was also burning his leaves. You are not allowed to do that any more. Come to think it, we don’t talk much to our neighbors either.
Bring back the palaces
Television had one deadly and terrible effect and that was the ruin of the picture palace. Back in the depressed nineteen thirties the palaces were our saviour, our glimpse of luxury and satisfying make believe. Our palaces were huge and very nearly the finest on earth. If one was well-to-do it was done to have to have permanent seats, always there, in the dress circle at the Capitol, the Regent or maybe the Palais at St Kilda. If one was young the ultimate was to be invited in a school party to the State Theatre in Flinders Street where they had Rudolf Valentino's sword in a glass case and there were stars and scudding clouds in the ceiling. Some theatres could hold an audience of 3000 or more and part of the fun was to gaze upon celebrities who were bound to be present. Not any more. Now theatres are the size of small restaurants, boxes, and they put six in the one building.