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"This isn't Olympus. You're not God. A or The. The most you've got in common is your names both start with a capital letter. This-" he gestured around him with a slightly wild sweep of his arms - "is a business. That's all it is, just a business. Constantly thinking as big as you are is just going to give you a headache."
A large gantry overhung an impossibly large space in which floated, rather cheekily, a haphazard collection of thick iron booms. They connected, crossed and twisted but if there was a plan to this seeming disorder it was not evident at this stage.
There was a plan.
The gantry was suspended from one of a series of much larger, interconnected structures. Others were visible on the limits of vision, many more were far beyond it. A huge three-dimensional web of steel, clung to by various boxlike constructions, loading docks and storage areas, separated vast work complexes. They were as teeming with activity as the space they occupied was filled, which is to say they weren't. It was breaktime.
Snuggled on an elbow of the nearest frame was what looked like a metal hamburger. Two silver patters framed a hollow rectangular slice of glass which surrounded an employee canteen. The room and the gantry it attached to appeared to be suspended in space, such was the distance to the enclosing walls - a wall really, since it had no corners.
Inside the room, this animated speaker was standing in a bright room of well-used tables and chairs. A few snack machines with most of the red 'no stock' lights illuminated sat along one wall and a couple of the overhead lights were flickering. A uniformed employee worked with inexplicable cheerfulness behind the food counter. Outside, the expanse of the factory floor and the visible mass of its suspended contents effortlessly overwhelmed the room and the thousands of others like it.
Barely-visible shadows jumped around the speaker as he padded lightly around the room, completely ignoring the view outside. His uniform had a plastic badge pinned to the breast which said 'Kurt' on it. For some reason he, and all of the others sitting around the room were human.
"There's nothing special about what we're doing, it's our job. I don't know where you get the idea of 'God' from anyway, the universe is far too insane for someone to have just thought it up one afternoon."
"What, you don't think-"
"No, that's your problem, see. We come into work, clock in and do our jobs. You run sculpting cranes, I work the core welders. Those guys -" he motioned across the room to a table around which several men were sitting - "work the matter congregators after that and you'll get some form to that mess." He waved his hand at the twisted disorder floating hundreds of miles away. A couple of the men chewed nonchalantly on unbranded mush as they looked out at the huge construction that was only just gaining some hope of taking shape. The others watched this mild diversion with little attentiveness.
Outside, nothing continued to happen.
"But the scale of what we're doing, doesn't that mean anything?"
"God makes the universe, makes it work. That's-"
Kurt inhaled sharply. "Yeah, yeah, but you're missing the point." He gestured enthusiastically as he continued. "Our work has some scale and...impact, to be sure. But at the end of the day we're no different to a bunch of guys who go to work on a skyscraper. What happens in that building after we've finished it has nothing to do with us, much less the city we built it in. To think that we've got any influence on the universe because we threw some rocks into it is the worst kind of delusion."
The tangle of steel outside continued to drift peacefully, occasionally nudged by vernier jets keeping it within the invisible borders of its construction complex. Some worker buses swept past, ice particles from their motors softly pattering the canteen window. Mist was beginning to fizz around the giant cranes and rock movers, gently tugging at their tethers on the mooring grids.
"But you've got to admit that we have some effect on how life evolves. Things happen that wouldn't happen without the things we make."
"You're getting ahead of yourself. You're right but us completing and placing a planet, allowing life to evolve on it or whatever the customer has planned for it has a microscopic impact on a cosmic scale. You're talking about the effect of constructing a single building on an entire planet, reduced by several orders of magnitude. You're talking like we built all the planets in the universe.
"We get specs, design the thing, fill it and ice it." He snorted. "Takes a bit longer than a skyscraper but it's no miracle; we just decided to do it one day and then fucked it up lots of times, like always. Eventually we got here. You've seen the gouts of ash and chaos at Tanhaw; there's whole rings of mis-constituted junk dumped around Canis Majoris. You think they just accreted by themselves? You think that's the behaviour of gods? You don't just take credit for what works, you own up to the mistakes as well. If there's one thing religions don't do it's admit their gods get things wrong. So either religions are hugely deluded, or we're not gods."
The worker, whose name was Theodore, looked back at his Kurt, eyes narrowed and eyebrows arched in a curious combination of mild contempt and uncertainty. "I still think there's more to it. This. I mean, how much bigger is this operation going to get? We're making planets now -- how long before we're supplying star systems to order? Nebulae? Galaxies?"
"Oh, for goodness' sake. What? How did you get this job? When you were in the interview and they asked you were you would be in five years did you say 'I'll be a deity'? I mean-"
Kurt sighed again and turned, looking perfunctorily at the planet foundation suspended before him. Small puffs of light came from its threads of steel as its corrective jets fired. It seemed motionless.
"It doesn't matter. All this is, is human construction scaled up again! What we're doing now is just the next step up from the Jovian orbital complexes and the planetary prime movers. You're probably right, eventually we will get onto stellar construction. But it's all as dead as any new building without creatures to breathe life into it and we've only ever been able to introduce them, not engineer them. Look around, look at what we're doing."
He motioned to the giant yellow-painted mooring grid that stretched out before the far window to the canteen. Thick steel cables tethered huge vehicles to sharply-angled metallic docking arms.
Horns faintly hooted as breaks ended. Workers were starting to return; fog surrounding silent machinery gently stretched and gave way as operators sat down at their controls and powered them up. Buses flitted around the construction site, dropping workers at marshalling points. Lines of them split off to their work areas and spots of light flickered across the emptiness as work began again.
"Look down there. Our ancestors would most certainly look upon us as gods seeing what we're doing, but we know better. They're cave-dwellers looking at the designers of the Lloyds building. It's practically a non sequitur. Still, there's no miracle to what's happening down there - (he pointed to no particular spot of light) a guy has a welder, a rivet gun, a socket set. He's not conjuring this planet into existence, nor is he doing it by himself."
"But he's creating a whole!" Theodore interrupted. "Something greater than him and something great! Something of great impact!"
"Am I talking to myself? I'm telling you that all we're doing is what we've always done. We've always built, and we've always tried to build bigger. We're still just building. I weld, you work machinery, so do this lot, it does create a whole and somewhere...(he thumbed upwards)...someone's designing all of it BUT, that design isn't part of a larger design. We're employees following blueprints. We're just a company, quite a small one I might add, that serves a business need as limited as it is horrendously expensive. It doesn't mean we're worthless.
"Besides, if you're some kind of god, don't you think you'd be in a better position than Plant Operator? Yeah, that comes with capital letters too. The guy playing with his food over there earns more than you."
Kurt exhaled with humour as Theodore looked at his cup of tea in sullen silence.
"Don't start down that road." Kurt made held up his left hand, the other picking up the mug on the table in front of him. "Don't make the mistake of so many despots; you're not better or more powerful than others. You're standing on their shoulders. You can only do what you can do and in the meantime, get over yourself and let me finish my coffee." He grunted and sat down.
Outside, machines were grumbling back to work. In the distance, gigantic creations hung in the impossibility of generations past. He turned to his paper to see if there was any news.
The title of this node quotes Bill Drummond, a phrase from his book 45 which struck me for some reason. The inspiration for the setting should be obvious to many. The last sentence is the last sentence of The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul.
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Slartibartfast delusion A Smoke Break with a God dimetrodon
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Small plane makes emergency landing on Edisto Island after experiencing engine problems
by: Tim Renaud, Katie Augustine
EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (WCBD) – A small plane made an emergency landing near Edisto Island on Tuesday afternoon after it began to experience engine problems.
Chief Larry Garvin with the St. Paul Fire District told News 2 oil from the plane's engine started to blow out of the engine compartment shortly after takeoff. The plane was en route to Florida.
The pilot, George Voishnis, was the only person onboard and was not injured. The plane sustained minor damages.
He landed the plane in a field behind King's Farm Market off Highway 174 near Edisto Island.
The plane landed upright, but the wing hit a post during the landing, officials said.
Voishnis says he is grateful for the help and hospitality of first responders. Charleston County deputies took him to a hotel where he said he will then rent a car and continue down to Florida.
Voishnis tells News 2 that he is awaiting a call from insurance adjusters to find out the status of his plane.


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So, Bill, what would you describe as your biggest weakness?
Well, Bob, I'm exceedingly honest and forthright.
Bill, I don't think that's really a "weakness."
Well, Bob, I don't give a **** what you think.
Why is Chuck calling the boss, Bill? And why is the boss calling Chuck, Bob? And how many apples could a woodchuck bob if a woodchuck could bob, Chuck?


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Prospect Housing gets Big Lottery award!
Well done to Prospect Housing who are getting an award of £115,830 from the Big Lottery Fund.
Prospect Community Housing will now be able to run their Switched On Wester Hailes project offering welfare and budgeting advice, as well as a drop in centre for people facing hardship.
Carol Cawood, Director of Prospect Community Housing, said:-"The Big Lottery Fund's generous support will mean that people affected by hardship living in Wester Hailes are better equipped to deal with the current issues they face and better prepared to withstand future changes. We identified the reduction of fuel poverty, the provision of welfare benefits advice and the promotion of digital inclusion as areas where support could still make a significant difference to people's income levels.
"This grant will enable us to offer local residents practical energy efficiency advice within their homes, welfare benefits advice in familiar community venues, and to deliver increased access to IT resources and training through local computer suites. Switched On In Wester Hailes will also create a stronger, more connected network of organisations and volunteers across the area so that local residents receive effective and ongoing support."
This year the Big Lottery Fund, Scotland has pledged over £19 million to support communities in Scotland deal with increasing hardship. And today, just in time for Christmas, 64 projects across the country are sharing £9,200,690 through the Support and Connect programme. The funding means a range of activities providing essential lifelines including local food banks, money advice services, community clothing and starter pack projects can now take place.
Maureen McGinn, Big Lottery Fund Scotland Committee Chair, said: "When we opened Support & Connect to applications, our research showed a need for projects specifically to support families and communities across Scotland which are struggling to cope with immediate financial, emotional and physical pressures.
"Enabling people to find a way through these challenges is at the heart of our work at the Big Lottery Fund. Today's funding, in addition to that previously announced in July, will support organisations across Scotland which are providing essential support. It is a measure of the absolute need for these services that we have almost doubled our original budget for this from £10 million up to £19 million since March this year."
Projects funded through Support and Connect will for run two years and are aimed specifically at improving local support for people experiencing hardship. The fund will also help organisations, who work with people experiencing hardship, become much better connected so that individuals dealing with complex problems get the right blend of support they need.
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Be part of the taping of Movies 101 and view this incredible music documentary. There will also be a display of 60's music memorabilia by 4000 Holes.
SPR volunteers, underwriters, and challenge grantors from the last year can arrange a pair of complimentary tickets by calling the station at 800.328.5729. The deadline is May 29.
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This series started four years ago when I was thinking of my early formative days in Rome with the beauty of old frescos, slightly damaged but still showing bits of gold and former beauty. Venice's faded glory enhanced this memory of hidden treasures under layers of paint.
These paintings have an immense energy pulsating through the vivid colour almost coming to life.
Layers of oil paint, hidden shadows and lustrous colour all pull together in this series of paintings appropriately named from different buildings or locations in the area of EUR Rome or Esposizione Universale Roma, where we lived.
The red was chosen for passion and drama, the gold for beauty, the many layers seemed to have energy and life.
The collection was dramatic and loud, making a huge impact on a wall, it radiates heat so that I can only work with red paintings in winter, this series took several years to put together.
Excitement happens with red paintings, energy, only for the brave. It definitely shows the difference of my winter work to my summer work which is gentle and reflective.


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How Agencies Can Achieve 3.0 Status
Simplicity and the 'Four Ts' will help them evolve
RFPs today solicit competencies that reach beyond the traditional agency mandate. Getty Images
By Lesley Klein
The advertising industry has never been hit as hard as it's being hit today. It's facing economic, technological and even geopolitical disruption across the board. Add the complicating factors and steep learning curves around new tech-driven touch points—artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, voice command, chatbots—and you can see why marketers are scrambling for footing and pushing their agencies to prove their value. The unprecedented volume of advertising budgets—more than $30 billion—that has recently changed hands during what many referred to as "Mediapalooza" is a clear indicator of this disruption.
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The first paperless, instantly financed and fully door-to-door tracked container has made its way from Koria to the warehouse of Samsung SDS in Tilburg via the Port of Rotterdam on blockchain-based platform Deliver.
The Proof of Concept (POC) has shown that Deliver is able to support cross-supply chain end-to-end visibility for multi-modal transport via ocean carrier, truck and inland barge shipping as well as streamline access to finance.
Robert van der Waal, deputy president of Samsung SDS EU/CIS, said: "The first shipments to use [Deliver] gave us a good insight into the possibilities of large-scale implementation.
"As cargo recipient, we benefitted from real time information and advance availability of digitised cargo documentation. We can re-design our processes more efficiently, enabling us to act based on real-time events and trusted data."
The interoperability between physical and blockchain platforms enables an international trade ecosystem that is designed to allow safe sharing of commercial, sensitive and confidential information as well as transfer of ownership between supply chain participants.
Bareg Terminal Tilburg organised and executed the haulage of the sea container from the Port of Rotterdam to the warehouse at Tilburg.
Terminal manager Iwan Maessen said: "The platform enables our company to use a uniform communications strategy to receive and share accurate information among supply chain members and use this to make better demand forecast decisions and identify the most suitable transport mode for delivery."
Partners ABN AMRO, Port of Rotterdam and Samsung SDS have signed an extended collaboration agreement for the next phase of the Deliver Project.
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Ultimately, the objective is to reach an open, independent and global cargo shipping platform that will enhance supply chain transparency and efficiency and potentially unlocking millions of euros in cost savings in the long term.
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COVID-19, Food + Drink Festivals
Greek Fest 2021 will be taking orders both in person and online in advance. FACEBOOK
Bring Greek Fest home this weekend
Halifax's festival of Greek food, culture and more food is take-out only due to COVID.
For the second year in a row, Halifax's Greek Fest is take-out only. Instead of a lively celebration of Greek culture, community and cuisine, COVID-19 gathering limits mean the festival will be selling food for locals to enjoy on their own this weekend, Friday, June 25 through Sunday, June 27.
"Alas. No in-person events. With COVID restrictions, it's nearly impossible," says a Greek Fest organizer. In the current Phase 2 of Nova Scotia's reopening plan, a festival can host up to 75 people outdoors; that may be a lot compared to the lockdown, when events couldn't happen at all, but it's not enough to hold a proper Greek Fest. In pre-pandemic years, the fest has seen hundreds of cars parked along Purcells Cove Road near festival HQ, the Greek Community Centre.
The Dish: My big Greek feast: Blue Olive delivers the spirit of a family meal with none of the prep.
Athens Restaurant closing after nearly 40 years: In December, the owner said it was "business as usual," but that's changing this summer.
Greek Fest moves to take-out model: Your August weekend dinner plans are solved.
Greek Fest 2021 will be taking orders both in person and in advance by heading to greekfesttogo.com. Just like past years, the meals include options like chicken or pork souvlaki and sides of spanakopita and lemon roasted potatoes, as well as a delicious range of Greek desserts like baklava and galaktoboureko.
There will be COVID measures on-site for pickup at 1146 Purcells Cove Road, and orders are available from 4-8pm Friday, and 12-8pm both Saturday and Sunday.
As for the next time you'll be able to enjoy a more complete Greek Fest experience, with any luck you won't have to wait until 2020. Festival organizers told The Coast they are hoping to plan "something special" for August. Opa!
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A fountain pen is useless without a nib. Nice to look at, but useless. After all, the nib is responsible for turning the ink within the pen into lines of predictable width on the page. What's the nib, you ask? It's the metal implement at the end of a pen, the delicately shaped point that gives a fountain pen its air of sophistication. There are many types of nibs—in different shapes, sizes, and materials, with varying degrees of flexibility—that serve a wide variety of purposes. Which one you use will depend entirely upon your personal preference.
Breather hole: Also known as a vent hole, this aptly named element of a nib allows air to be drawn into the pen, which in turn allows the nib to draw more ink. Dip pens do not have a breather hole, because there's no ink within the pen to be drawn.
Slit: Extending from the breather hole toward the tip of the nib is the slit. It's this extremely narrow channel that allows the ink to flow onto the page. A fine-tip nib will have a narrower slit than a broad-tip nib.
Tines: The tines are the two pieces of metal on either side of the slit. The tines on flexible nibs (more on those in a minute) will spread farther apart than the tines on a nib that isn't so flexible.
Tip: This is where it all goes down, the tiny point of contact between pen and paper. There are extra-fine tips, fine tips, medium tips, broad tips—and several others. The lines a pen produces are largely dependent on the size, shape, and material of the tip.
The first thing to consider is the shape of a nib. Most nibs have round tips, which are great for writing, as they produce even lines. Then there are italic nibs, which are most often used in calligraphy. They're composed of a flat tip that produces wide lines when applied perpendicularly to the paper, but thin lines when applied parallel to the paper.
As noted above, extra-fine, fine, medium, and broad nibs are the basic classifications of tip size. As you might expect, a fine nib produces narrow lines (great for everyday writing), while a broad nib produces wide lines (better for drawing and graphic writing). Note that there are two different ways of measuring extra-fine, fine, medium, and broad nibs: Japanese and Western. The former are slightly finer than the latter, as Japanese writing tends to be more intricate than Western lettering.
Nibs are most commonly made of stainless steel or gold, though it's not uncommon to see nibs made of palladium or titanium. A gold nib is almost always more expensive than a stainless steel nib—it's gold, after all. Gold offers better resistance to corrosion, ostensibly meaning it'll last longer than any other material, and many enthusiasts describe gold nibs as being springier or more flexible than stainless steel nibs. That's not to say that stainless steel won't write well! What really matters is how the experience of writing feels to you.
The flexibility of a nib determines the pen's ability to produce line variation—that is, the range of line width. And line variation is determined by how far the tines will spread when pressure is applied to the nib: The more flexible the nib, the wider the tines will spread. Flexible nibs are great for calligraphy and graphic writing, but most nibs today fall on the firm side of the spectrum, as flowery script is less fashionable than it was in the past.
What kind of writing are you doing? Note-taking? Wedding invitations? Your task and personal preferences will determine the type of nib you'll want to use. For quotidian purposes, a stainless steel nib with a fine, round tip will suffice. But if you're signing the Declaration of Independence, you might want a signature that'll stand out. For that, consider using a 14-karat gold italic nib. Even better: Try a variety of nibs and decide which one you prefer—which one delivers the smoothest, most satisfying writing experience for you.
There you have it: Nibs 101. But that's only the beginning. Stay tuned for posts and tutorials that dig deeper into these topics. And be sure to hit the "Follow" button to be notified about future posts from this account. In the meantime, if you have questions or comments about this post, or about nibs in general, leave 'em below. Or, if you have personal recommendations or nib tips to share, we'd love to hear them—and see pictures, too!
Please stop posting this garbage article. There are several people here--myself included--who have repeatedly pointed out its weaknesses and who are capable of writing a fact-based piece. Or, you could just pull it down and have nothing, which frankly is better than offering an article burdened by so much misinformation.
Massdrop, PLEASE take this misleading piece of crap down, and either commission a decent article or link to a credible source.
Beyond being poorly written, this piece is shot through half truths and misinformation. If you want serious, FACTUAL information about the complex subject of nibs, spend time digging around Richard Binder's site, watch credible YouTube videos, and follow some nibmeisters on social media. I sure hope this piece was produced gratis.
Love the discussion and all the information. Thank you, all! What about stubs - what are they, what do they do?
I'd suggest clarifying this part about nib shape and italic nibs: " wide lines when applied perpendicularly to the paper, but thin lines when applied parallel to the paper" I think you mean parallel to the *lines* on lined paper, and perpendicular to the lines on the paper. If the pen was parallel to the paper, it'd be lying flat on it and not writing :) Otherwise, great work!
we might as well chuckle at ourselves in addition.
Actually, a key point with a flexible nib is not only its ability to spread, but also how quickly it returns. That's what is required to create the smooth, flowing lines.
But this level of control takes, quite literally, years to develop, and even signing in this manner will take considerable time to execute.
John Mottishaw is generally acknowledged as the top nibmaster in the US today. His site, nibs.com, has a wealth of information.
There's two separate points there...using a flex nib, and actually doing full-out Spencerian. :) I've seen Rob Morrison doing it, but that was a LONG time ago at the LA Pen show. (We're talking 20-odd years ago.) I think the hand/wrist position is more open than one commonly sees with regular nibs.
And he may have also been using the index-middle finger grip, which is more neutral. I played with that but never got it down pat.
You may well be right about unbalanced stress...and stress in general *is* a fundamental issue with flex. The more flex, the more susceptible to ongoing metal fatigue, ultimately leading to a sprung nib or a cracked tine. Or sometimes a crack at the base of the nib.
The hairlines are very fine; the emphatic downstrokes are, what, 5-6 times wider. If you wanted to try this.....and this is a lot closer to 'typical' use of flex, with consistent heavy downstrokes and lighter cross-strokes...is the sheer ink flow you need. The J and the C...the feed has to keep up. Narrow-shouldered cartridges (the vast majority) very rarely can keep up. Note that this holds for very broad nibs too, sometimes...3x broad or some big, fat stubs.
I wouldn't recommend a flex nib for a newbie, or as one's only FP. A soft nib or a semi-flex nib....no, they're not quite the same...is easier to handle while still allowing expressiveness to enter into your strokes. If you want a flex nib, great, but be prepared to practice with it.
Agreed. John is known as Mr. Nib for good reason. Also agreed that flexibility means flex in BOTH directions. Having been around pens for more than 50 years it is my belief that the most flexible nibs are lost on the majority of users, but a necessity for calligraphers and other artists. To find the best nib you must simply experiment. Every person's grip, pressure, writing style is unique. Keep in mind too that nibs can adapt to your use with time.
Any guidance on the best nib to use for a left hander would be greatly appreciated!
A properly tuned fountain pen requires literally no pressure to put down a line. While some older nibs--I'm thinking of some Esterbrooks--were designed for pressure to allow the user to use carbons, this was not the and is not now the case with most FPs.
Dinner now, but reducing smear is more a donation of your ink and paper. Using a drier ink on more absorbent (usually cheaper) paper will help you more than anything else.
*On modern nibs, the breather holes aren't really necessary, they are more for a traditional aesthetic. *Most nibs are tipped with "iridium" - which isn't really iridium any more - but a similar hard metal alloy. *What separates a quality nib from cheaper is often how this tipping is applied and how precisely the slit is cut *When using micro-mesh or similar, we recommend not going below 12000 grit unless you are looking to reshape the nib. 12K is plenty for smoothing. *When smoothing, be careful with side to side motion as this can take material from the inside of the tip, causing baby bottom which will cause a nib to false start. *Gold can be softer (not necessarily more flexible) than steel - and gold absorbs vibrations better than steel - however the higher quality steel now used in better brands absorbs vibrations better and so are closer than ever in performance vs. gold.
If you prefer that nib after having compared them at length, then that's great. You found something that you like.
I was simply pointing out that some of the claims that FC made above were, IMO, a bit fishy.
Sorry to sound a bit fishy guys. ;-) This is what was passed to me from the Sailor tradition, through Mr. Nagahara (and his late father) and Mr. Masuyama. But maybe it is steel "produces more vibrations" than absorbs less vibrations. The point being that the tips are of the same material, so often scratchiness is what you are feeling transmitted up through the hand, and it not always just the smoothness of the tip - though of course the nature of the tipping is a fundamental key to whether vibrations are caused, as is paper. Obviously gold is softer than steel. Either can be springy based on the formulation. For my personal handwriting, I cannot tell a lot of difference with modern nibs, and that's the majority report we get from our clients. But some very much can feel a difference and the gold is worth it to them. Some have both gold and steel in our pens, used for different purposes. 20 years ago when selling fountain pens, the difference was more marked and clear, but then gold nibs dominated on most fine pens as the price of gold was less. From our perspective, we are objective and provide both options on all pens, to suit individual preference. We just try to make folks aware that it's not a given that gold will be better for them.
Sharbait, by performance, I mean all the other aspects of a nib that are important. Ink flow, smoothness of tip, dry out times, and so on. Many factors are equal, feed, housing, section, barrel, air chamber in the cap.
On the breather hole issue - there is a lot of debate and always has been, but most believe the holes were initially put in for air purposes. This was confirmed by an old Koh-I-Noor engineer we spoke with recently who was involved in the production of a lot of brands decades ago. He felt strongly about it, but that's still just one perspective. I personally think it was serendipitous perhaps that it also mitigates pressure on that point. Modern nib makers will offer them to us either way, and in our music nib, with two slits, we omitted the breather hole, and have never seen one split. Same with Lamy Safaris, etc etc. Granted - perhaps stronger materials are used now, and perhaps there isn't a fully definitive answer on that point in history. That all said, the original point remains that they are there today mostly for tradition of style as they aren't necessary for anything really functional.
Appreciate the conversation and debate. Cheers - Scott F.
Enjoyable as always. Still using my Pilot ( med) fountain pen...the same color as in your photo!!
You can find a LOT of info on the internet. CAUTION: There are a lot of so called experts out there that don't know what they are doing. Find other instruction that backs up anything you read/see.
BUT, the only way to learn is to actually do the adjusting yourself on a pen. CAUTION. Whenever you tinker with a nib, there is a chance that you can damage/destroy it.
There is a saying "the tuition of learning, is destroyed pens."
This is why the recommendation above, to first learn how to do the adjusting on a CHEAP pen, where if you damage the nib, the $$ lost is minimal. IOW, do NOT learn on your EXPENSIVE pen.
CAUTION: Smoothening a nib. In my experience, 90+ % of the time a scratchy nib is a nib that is out of alignment, and does NOT need smoothening, just aligning. Smoothening is a dangerous task, and should not be done without a lot of thought. When you smoothen/polish the nib, you are REMOVING metal from the nib. This is a "one way street." Once you remove the metal, you cannot put it back. If you ruin the nib, an expert nib tech might be able to salvage the nib (if you did not damage it too much), if not, you have to pay $$$ to replace the nib.
You will NEED a 10x loupe to see the details of the nib. You CANNOT see if the tip is aligned without the magnification of a loupe. 10x is adequate and is used by most people for most of their work. 20x is used when there is a problem and you really have to look at the details of the nib. I use my 10x 99+% of the time, the 20x gets used less than 1% of the time. A good 10x loupe is a Belomo (about $33 on Amazon). But it does not have a light, so you need a good desk lamp or open window. I use a cheaper Chinese loupe, only because it has a light, as I usually am where I don't have good lighting.
Another great post! I'm learning a lot. I personally prefer extra fine, fine or italic nibs.
Thanks for another useful article. This is a great series for those of us who love fountain pens and those who are learning to do so.
I'd love to see another with more details on the different kinds of nibs (fine, medium, broad, flex, calligraphy, oblique, etc.) with pictures of the lines they produce.
Hi Ruth @RFeiertag! I'd love to go into more detail over some of the specialized nibs. I've put this subject in my pipeline, and hopefully I can work on it soon. :) Thanks for the idea!
AWESOME! I look forward to learning even more!
It would be great if Massdrop came out with a good article on adjusting/tuning nibs (or if someone could provide one). I have found some good information in various places on the internet, but a single strong introductory article would be nice.
It would actually be horrible if Massdrop did this, because it would be a shite article. There is a wealth of information available on nib running, and if you can't find it through searches and aren't willing to take the time to do research, you shouldn't be tuning nibs.
One note, unless the nib is designed to be flexible, flexing the nib is referred to as "abuse." You will damage the pen.
Also, don't give up on a pen just because the nib isn't quite perfect out of the box. Most will need at least slight adjustment new out of the box to make them perfect.
The first, and only time I did this mod, the feed wasn't quite flush enough to the nib for continuous ink flow, so it was really patchy. Then three days later the nib got all rusty and super stuck, so I just threw the whole thing out.
Any one that is CHEAP. All you are interested is the nib, not the pen. And not limited to Jinhao, but any of the Chinese pens. Also look at the "Dollar, 717," when purchased in quantity, is pretty cheap.


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A -equivariant analog of Mahowald's Thom spectrum theorem
Authors: Mark Behrens and Dylan Wilson
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 146 (2018), 5003-5012
MSC (2010): Primary 55P91, 55S91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/14175
Published electronically: August 14, 2018
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Abstract: We prove that the -equivariant Eilenberg-MacLane spectrum associated with the constant Mackey functor is equivalent to a Thom spectrum over .
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Email: dwilson@math.uchicago.edu
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Foreign capital starts flowing back to the United States, said Bank of Thailand governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul, following the improvement in the US economy.
He said on Tuesday that Thailand has witnessed some outflows as well. He urged all businesses dealing with foreign income to stay fully alert for volatility.
Thanks to the outflows, US dollar has gained against major currencies. The Thai baht has fallen to a new 1-year low, near 31 per dollar. At 8am today, the baht was at 30.78 per dollar, against the end-2012 closing at 30.60.
More foreign capital is expected to return to the US, if the US Federal Reserve Board decides to end the quantitative easing before 2014. The Stock Exchange of Thailand has tumbled today, losing 66.97 points at 2.35pm to 1,461.58 points.
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services yesterday also revised the ratings outlook of the US from "negative" to "stable" on receding fiscal risks. The US's ratings "'AA+/A-1+" were affirmed.
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House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier is waging a furious re-election battle after he was targeted by a Los Angeles radio talk show as a "political human sacrifice" for his record on illegal immigration.
In the past month, Mr. Dreier and Republicans have spent an estimated $1 million to blanket his district with fliers and radio ads aimed at countering the massive "Fire Dreier" campaign led by "The John and Ken Show" on KFI-AM in Los Angeles.
Last week, Mr. Dreier, California Republican, and the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) filed a Federal Elections Commission complaint against Clear Channel Inc., which owns KFI-AM.
"He's basically complaining that we're picking on him and supporting his opponent," said John Kobylt, who hosts the show with Ken Champiou.
Mr. Dreier, who received a D+ from the Americans for Better Immigration, was targeted for defeat by listeners of the show in August. By taking down a Republican congressman, Mr. Kobylt and Mr. Champiou say they hope to jolt the party into cracking down on the flood of illegal aliens crossing the border from Mexico.
Since then, the show has devoted hours of airtime urging listeners to vote for Mr. Dreier's challenger, Democrat Cynthia Matthews. A first-time candidate, Ms. Matthews has defied her party by adopting a tough stance on illegal immigration and thus becoming the only Democrat to win the endorsement of Americans for Legal Immigration.
"What you have is a U.S. representative who's taking his salary from the taxpayers and legal immigrants and then representing people who are here illegally," Ms. Matthews said.
Most of her volunteers are Republicans, drawn to her campaign by the radio show. Her campaign also has benefited from two spin-off blogs, FireDreier and Disciples of John and Ken, which are promoting her candidacy.
Ms. Matthews plans to join Mr. Kobylt and Mr. Champiou for a live broadcast tomorrow outside Mr. Dreier's Glendora, Calif., office. A September rally drew hundreds of listeners waving anti-Dreier signs and chanting, "Fire Dreier!"
A 24-year House veteran who hasn't faced a formidable foe in two decades, Mr. Dreier appeared to be ignoring the hoopla until he received the results of an internal poll Oct. 6, said his opponents.
"I'm guessing he got some ugly numbers," Mr. Kobylt said. "Since then, he's probably spent $1 million in advertising. He's even running ads during our show."
The Dreier campaign did not respond to messages. Last week, however, he defended his record on illegal immigration to a local newspaper.
"I've never gone through anything like this. It's the most blatant mischaracterization of the work I've done," Mr. Dreier told the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. "I take a back seat to no one on the issue of illegal immigration, yet I'm being painted as a coyote."
The Dreier camp also has swung back with a phone message from Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Dreier pal, who says, "Don't let anybody fool you: David Dreier is tough as nails on illegal immigration. No driver's licenses, no amnesty."
Three weeks ago, Mr. Dreier introduced legislation to hire 700 new border enforcement agents and protect Social Security cards from fraud, a move his opponents blasted as a shameless ploy to bolster his record.
"All of a sudden, he's active, introducing legislation, filing complaints, putting out hit pieces," Ms. Matthews said. "But people are tired of it. It's too little, too late."
The FEC complaint, filed Oct. 14, accuses Clear Channel of engaging in "illegal corporate coordination by promoting Cynthia Matthews' congressional campaign." Mr. Kobylt said that the station's lawyers described the complaint as "frivolous."
"I suspect he [Mr. Dreier] thought that the Clear Channel lawyers would tell us to shut up and give him a few days' peace," Mr. Kobylt said.
Instead, the hosts spent two days lambasting Mr. Dreier and the NRCC for trying to infringe on their free-speech rights. They noted that no Republicans complained when the show rallied for the recall of former Democratic Gov. Gray Davis last year. Mr. Drier was the co-chairman of Mr. Schwarzenegger's campaign.
"We've been doing this for 14 years, and we've never had a reaction like this from a politician," Mr. Kobylt said. "It's really massive hypocrisy. Republicans have gotten a good ride with talk radio; then one show goes after one Republican, and suddenly they want to shut us up?"


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QURANICA - International Journal of Quranic Research
Vol 11 No 1 (2019): QURANICA - International Journal of Quranic Research
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Innovative Teaching Aids of Digital Game-Based Learning as Da'wah Alternative from the Perspective of the Holy Qur'an
Nur Nazihah Rahim Anuar Mohd Yusof Nik Zulkarnaen Khidzir Tengku Fauzan Tengku Anuar Muhd Khalid El-Muhammady Muhd Uthman El-Muhammady
Technology had shown that can give greatest influence and significant impact for human daily lives. It is also gives the potential for improving the education system in the 21st century. Technologies can make learning sessions more fun besides able in increasing understanding among the students. One of the approaches that can be applied to provide an understanding to the students is through the medium of digital games. However, Teaching Aids (TA) on Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) for da'wah purposes is still less exposure. Hence, there are need a pedagogy or Teaching Aids (TA) in assisting the students to understand a particular topic. Thus, DGBL was looking at one of the best and innovative platforms that can be applied in the classroom as a component in Teaching and Learning (T&L) in school. Thus, this research will be conducting a concept paper on Teaching Aids of DGBL as a medium for da'wah alternative. DGBL is seen able to provide an understanding and entertaining in every phase of learning. The DGBL is seen able in solving problems for students who have difficulty to understand in relation to certain topics. DGBL for da'wah is not just for mere entertainment, but to disseminate da'wah alternative as well.
RAHIM, Nur Nazihah et al. Innovative Teaching Aids of Digital Game-Based Learning as Da'wah Alternative from the Perspective of the Holy Qur'an. QURANICA - International Journal of Quranic Research, [S.l.], v. 11, n. 1, p. 53-70, june 2019. ISSN 2590-4167. Available at: <https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/quranica/article/view/18629>. Date accessed: 22 jan. 2020.
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Rudy Giuliani Says Clinton Is Unqualified In Overlooked Speech
in Conservative Headlines, Election 2016
by Thomas Robertson July 20, 2016, 12:48 pm
Rudy Giuliani never got the head-to-head match-up he'd wanted with Hillary Clinton in the 2000 New York Senate race.
But on Monday night, he unleashed a stinging barrage against her character in the most energetic speech of the Republican National Convention's opening night.
Sixteen years after he'd been forced to pass on his Senate campaign amid a divorce and a bout with cancer, Giuliani pounded Clinton with everything he had.
In a speech introducing Donald and Melania Trump, Giuliani stuck to the day's themes: attacking Clinton over Benghazi and immigration.
"Who would trust Hillary Clinton to protect them? I wouldn't. Would you?" he said.
"Hillary Clinton's experience is the basis for her campaign," Giuliani said. "Hillary Clinton's experience is exactly the reason she should not be president of the United States. There's no next election — this is it. No more time to repeat our mistakes of the Clinton-Obama years. Washington needs a complete turnaround."
Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, and Clinton, once New York's senator, have traveled in similar political circles for years — first in the 2000 Senate race, and then in the 2008 presidential primary, when both lost their parties' contests — without ever facing off.
Giuliani gestured vigorously — at one point referring to Trump helping people "from the top to the bottom" while pointing just the opposite directions, low and then high — while the crowd roared.
Most of the delegates were on their feet, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who was at the back of his state's delegation.
Giuliani also offered a strong testimonial for Trump's personal qualities, telling the crowd he'd known Trump for 30 years and had watched him anonymously contribute to help police and firefighters in need.
"He has created and accomplished great things in my city and all over the world, but beyond that this is a man with a big heart," Giuliani said. "Every time New York suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help."
Playing to the day's law-and-order theme, Giuliani also sought to rally support for police officers.
"We know the risk you're taking and we say thank you to every police officer and law enforcement officer out tonight," he said. "When they come to save your life, they don't ask if you're black or white — they just come to save you."
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As a father with a boy, it was hard for me to deal with that fact at some point too.
But SOMEBODY is going to FUKK ur sister or daughter one day and she's gonna enjoy it.
Let it go my ni99az.
she super corny. you only bad because you were shaking booty in a clip.
I'm talking about I can't look at her s*xually because of watching on My wife and Kids. I look at her as a little sister.
She appreciated that I called her a honey dip goddess on IG one time ago.
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Oh man, she responded to you on IG?!?!?!??!
Damn, only you out of the thousands of her IG followers?!?!
Damn bro she wants the pipe for sure.
Good thing I never watched that show. Would feel creepy lusting like I am.
Gotta nut on this girls face. It'll be a sin not too.
We back up in this bish once again. Low-key she told the truth: She's annoying. There's no need for anybody like that to develop a sense of humor, charisma, or dope conversation skills. She basically said she's been trapping simps since the age of 10.
Smfh. If this isn't the fu*kin truth man. She sounds super shallow. She sounds completely void of a personality. IF she wasn't doing this, I couldn't picture her doing much of anything else. So can't be mad at her for using her one and only a*set. Her looks. fu*k it.


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Q: Scanning barcodes one at a time in SwiftUI I've used this guide to create my scanner:
I first run QRCodeScan() from content view with an overlay:
import SwiftUI

struct ContentView: View {
    var body: some View {
        ZStack {
            QRCodeScan()
            ScannerOverlayView()
        }
    }
}

QRCodeScan:
 import SwiftUI

struct QRCodeScan: UIViewControllerRepresentable {

    func makeCoordinator() -> Coordinator {
        Coordinator(self)
    }

    func makeUIViewController(context: Context) -> ScannerViewController {
        let vc = ScannerViewController()
        vc.delegate = context.coordinator
        return vc
    }

    func updateUIViewController(_ vc: ScannerViewController, context: Context) {
    }

    class Coordinator: NSObject, QRCodeScannerDelegate {
        @State var barcode = ""
        func codeDidFind(_ code: String) {
            barcode = code
            FoundItemSheet(barcode: self.$barcode) //This creates a sheet at the bottom of the screen, saying if a product was found with the barcode
        }
        var parent: QRCodeScan

        init(_ parent: QRCodeScan) {
            self.parent = parent
        }
    }
}

ScannerViewController:
protocol QRCodeScannerDelegate {
    func codeDidFind(_ code: String)
}

import AVFoundation
import UIKit

class ScannerViewController: UIViewController, AVCaptureMetadataOutputObjectsDelegate {
    var captureSession: AVCaptureSession!
    var previewLayer: AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer!
    var delegate: QRCodeScannerDelegate?

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        view.backgroundColor = UIColor.black
        captureSession = AVCaptureSession()

        guard let videoCaptureDevice = AVCaptureDevice.default(for: .video) else { return }
        let videoInput: AVCaptureDeviceInput

        do {
            videoInput = try AVCaptureDeviceInput(device: videoCaptureDevice)
        } catch {
            return
        }

        if (captureSession.canAddInput(videoInput)) {
            captureSession.addInput(videoInput)
        } else {
            failed()
            return
        }

        let metadataOutput = AVCaptureMetadataOutput()

        if (captureSession.canAddOutput(metadataOutput)) {
            captureSession.addOutput(metadataOutput)

            metadataOutput.setMetadataObjectsDelegate(self, queue: DispatchQueue.main)
            metadataOutput.metadataObjectTypes = [.ean13, .ean8, .qr]
        } else {
            failed()
            return
        }

        previewLayer = AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer(session: captureSession)
        previewLayer.frame = view.layer.bounds
        previewLayer.videoGravity = .resizeAspectFill
        view.layer.addSublayer(previewLayer)

        captureSession.startRunning()
    }

    func failed() {
        let ac = UIAlertController(title: "Scanning not supported", message: "Your device does not support scanning a code from an item. Please use a device with a camera.", preferredStyle: .alert)
        ac.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .default))
        present(ac, animated: true)
        captureSession = nil
    }

    override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
        super.viewWillAppear(animated)

        if (captureSession?.isRunning == false) {
            captureSession.startRunning()
        }
    }

    override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
        super.viewWillDisappear(animated)

        if (captureSession?.isRunning == true) {
            captureSession.stopRunning()
        }
    }

    func metadataOutput(_ output: AVCaptureMetadataOutput, didOutput metadataObjects: [AVMetadataObject], from connection: AVCaptureConnection) {
        captureSession.stopRunning()

        if let metadataObject = metadataObjects.first {
            guard let readableObject = metadataObject as? AVMetadataMachineReadableCodeObject else { return }
            guard let stringValue = readableObject.stringValue else { return }
            AudioServicesPlaySystemSound(SystemSoundID(kSystemSoundID_Vibrate))
            found(code: stringValue)
        }

        dismiss(animated: true)
    }

    func found(code: String) {
        self.delegate?.codeDidFind(code)
    }

    override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
        return true
    }

    override var supportedInterfaceOrientations: UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
        return .portrait
    }
}

It scans a barcode successfully, but that picture remains on the screen. I want a barcode to be scanned; the code be passed do FoundItemSheet(), then open the scanner again.
I've tried running QRCodeScan() inside of codeDidFind() and calling the ScannerViewController again.

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Plaza Las Fuentes
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Plaza Las Fuentes, a six-acre mixed-use development in the heart of Pasadena's historic district, includes new office space, retail space, hotel and conference facilities, and public gardens, designed and scaled carefully to reinforce the adjacent City Hall as a civic landmark and a focus of urban activity. The configuration of the project seeks to fulfill the original city master plan, which set the City Hall as a civic jewel in the center of a grand public garden. View corridors are carefully maintained, linking parts of the projects, especially its public gardens, to the City Hall. Major uses address City Hall and its civic neighbors, and buildings respect the existing street grid. A series of courts tie the life of this street pattern to the attractions of a new retail promenade and related gardens. This promenade, a pedestrian street, stretches through the project, linking a series of courts. The heart of this sequence is a generous civic court located on axis with City Hall. It is a central stage for the life of the project and a major public gathering place for Pasadena, suitable for outdoor performance. At the north end of the paseo is a court giving access to a 360-room hotel and conference center. The south end is anchored by office and restaurant uses. Between them, along the paseo, shops, fountains, restaurants and gardens will enliven the courts and arcades. The entire project encourages urban activity and invokes a spirit of celebration and variety. The City required a connection to its tradition of Mediterranean architecture. The scale and design of the project take their cue from the adjacent City Hall. Arched arcades, deeply inset openings, stucco walls and tile roofs evoke the spirit of the region's architectural heritage in a fresh way, responding specifically to this particular site, context and time.
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Perhaps the Earliest Psychological Report on Adolf Hitler, 1942
I wanted to take a moment and post something from the bookselling section of this blog, something that's pretty interesting and scarce in its own right. It is a work produced at the Harvard University Department of Psychology by Henry A. Murray (1893-1988), the Worksheets on Morale. Seminar in Psychological Problems of Morale which was published in 1942 and contains a section which turns out to be the first psychological profile of Adolf Hitler--this copy was formerly in the library of the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor and incubator of the CIA.
Murray, Henry A. and Gordon Allport. Worksheets on Morale. Seminar in Psychological Problems of Morale. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University, 1941/2 (?). 1st edition. 150 leaves 4to. Original printed wrappers. Very good condition. Published by Harvard University, Department of Psychology. 152 leaves, complete in 15 sections, ca. 90,000 words. (Two copies of this work are located via WorldCat: Harvard and Illinois State University).
Provenance: OSS (Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA) Library via the Library of Congress (with their surplus/duplicate rubber stamp on the manila folder/cover of the report). $2900.00
This work by Gordon Allport and Henry A. Murray contains several sections on what has been recently hailed as the earliest psychological profile of Adolf Hitler, preceding the work done at the request of the OSS of William C. Langer which was released in 1942 or 1943 and called A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend (the report being published in 1972 as The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report ). The second report in 1943 was another by Henry A. Murray, and was titled Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler and which in its original incantation weighed in at over 200pp, which is much expanded over the earlier work that he and Allport had done in the Worksheets.
The sections include: (1) Aim of Seminar, 2 lvs; (2) Selected Bibliography, 1941, 3 lvs; (3) Notes on the Definition of Morale, 3+3lvs; (4) Determinants of Good and Bad Morale, 18 lvs; (5) Historical Trends of National Socialist Ideology, 14 lvs; (6) Hitler the Man, Notes for a Case Study, 22 lvs; (7) Education in Nazi Germany, 8 lvs; (9) Strategy and Tactics for anti-Nazi propaganda, 10 lvs; (10) Democratic vs. Totalitarian Morale in Groups, 5 lvs; (11) Standards of Democratic Morale-Building in the U.S., 6 lvs; (12) Civilian Morale Building Techniques, 7pp; (13) Psychology of Influence (Education Persuasion) Applied to Morale Building in America, 16 lvs; (14) Long-term Aspects of Democratic Morale-Building, 7 lvs; (15) Analysis and Execution of Propaganda Campaigns, 18 lvs.
The portions of this publication concerning the psychological profile of Hitler seem to pre-date the very recent re-publication of Murray's very obscure 1943 work mentioned above (again done for the OSS) on the psychological composition of Hitler. The date of publication of these sheets is somewhat uncertain, although there are no references dated after 1941.
These sheets were obviously not intended for a wide distribution. It is interesting to note the circulation card in the pocket at the rear of this work as it bears the signature of David N. Yerkes. I spoke with Mr. Yerkes back in the late 1990's and inquired after his interest in this work (taken out on 7 June 1944 and returned 14 June 1944), and he told the story that Henry Murray was a pupil of his father's, who was Robert Yerkes, former president of the American Psychological Association, Professor of Psychology at Harvard and innovator in the use of psychological testing and training of American servicemen during WWI. Beyond that he couldn't recall exactly why he had borrowed the report.
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