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I have problems with some book titles, maybe because I can't remember them or they seem bizarre to me. Here are a few that drive me a bit nuts: What book titles have tripped you? Or fooled you? Or just won't stay in your memory? I bet you players of the 'book title game that will never end' can come up with some doozies! :-) |
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Hmm. Well, in this super slow season I may be posting for my own exercise, but I'm not ready to let go of this topic. So I'll muse some more in hopes that a reader might like to comment on book titles that annoy, bewilder, tantalize, or in some way don't live up to promise. Or maybe you have the opposite experience and a title that meant next to nothing to you, suddenly becomes significant. Or maybe you just like a title because it triggers an association, is clever wordplay, or is so distinctive you can't forget it even if you try. I often wonder how much a title makes or breaks a book. A decade or so ago, I ran across Recipes from the Dump by Abigail Stone. My first thought was good grief! Who would want to read something with such a title? I was relieved that it wasn't an actual cookbook; it's a novel with recipes interspersed in the narrative. In spite of the unfortunate (to my mind) title, the story itself is quite readable, although a bit hokey -- intentionally so, I think. I wasn't nearly as offended as I expected to be. So I looked up reviews of Stone's Recipes... and found out that many readers couldn't get past the title and even when they did, they felt compelled to dock their estimation of the story and writing just because of the title! That's kind of sad, in a way...for Ms. Stone especially. I'm interested whether participants in the Book Title thread post mostly from 'the top of the head'. Perhaps that's why I'm not good at the game because my mental retrieval system doesn't cross reference well. I might pick up an allusion but I'm just as likely to be oblivious. It's a form of mental wordplay for which I obviously have little talent. I am often amazed at how many titles are in some readers' heads, whether they've read the books themselves or not. Any thoughts from you? |
Frieda, I would have posted sooner but several hours of unusually loud and long-lasting thunder storms meant that it was better not to have the computer 'plugged in'. Plus so-called telephone engineers have spent the last few days digging holes in the road to replace ancient cables leaving us with intermittent broadband connections. With reference to 'The Game'. I can't speak for anyone else but haven't read all/most/any of the titles I chose. My method is to look at the last title given and, in my mind, think of a follow-on . . .usually not connected with any known book and then check on Amazon to see if such a title or something similar actually exists. Sometimes it does, occasionally I find something 'better'. It is just a little brain exercise first thing in the morning. Occasionally it takes a few moments to 'get' the eg's from other 'players'. Titles that I don't enjoy are the clever ones. Chronicles of Hernia and Look Back in Hunger both 'memoirs' by popular UK comedians. |
I used to pick books for my mother when I went to the children's library. She loved mysteries and I was so pleased to find "Murder in the Cathedral" for her! Not like our dear Agatha's style at all! Vee, we have had massive storms and even tornadoes ripping off roofs but luckily not mine so far! |
Vee, thanks for describing your game technique. I've wondered how you do it! I don't think it would help me, though, because my brain doesn't seem to be wired for it. I've known people who can complete a Times crossword, but I never have. As much as I love words, I contradictorily don't care much for crosswords at all. I prefer math puzzles and logic problems, e.g. cross sums (Kakuro) and number place (Sudoku) and good old plug-into-a-grid logic games. I can do those quickly before I lose interest, but I find crosswords tedious -- too much back and forth between the clues and where to fill in the letters. Oh lord! Chronicles of Hernia is real! Groan, groan, groan. But I'm actually pleased that I 'get' the allusion because I don't know a blooming thing about Narnia. I read Ethan Frome when I was a teenager but I had not heard the title voiced so I pronounced Ethan the German way with the /th/ sounding like a /t/ -- essentially the same as English 'Eton'. As for Frome, I pronounce it /frohm/ - long O sound -- rhymes with home and roam, but I have no idea if that's correct. I always thought Wharton's book should have been titled Misery in a Cold Climate or some such. I mostly don't like names as titles because they have to be very peculiar for me to remember them. Which reminds me: Vee, a couple of years ago you mentioned a book about two girls (I think) growing up in South Africa during apartheid and the title was a name, if I remember correctly. I searched for South African authors and books with that theme, but it seems every S.A. book has something to do with apartheid. Do you recall the book from my meager clues? Annpan, I have more troubles with titles of mysteries than any other genre -- they seem to all look and sound alike. That's funny about Murder in the Cathedral. When I was a kid I thought Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington's Baa Baa Black Sheep was a children's book. |
Frieda, the book set in SA is Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido. The title might put you off but I heard it recommended on a book discussion on Radio 4 (where would I be without the BBC?) and enjoyed it. I can't do 'cryptic' crosswords either and occasionally check the answers in the following day's Telegraph and still don't get the connection. I can just about manage the 'quick' one and enjoy the 'General Knowledge' version at the w/end. Not only do mystery titles appear very similar to me but so also do the plots. Ann, your storms must have been much worse than ours . . .although this was the first time I had seen blue lightning. More are forecast for later today. All the result of a phenomena called an 'Iberian Plume' ie very hot moist weather blown up to the SE of England from Spain. |
I'm not sure how I do the title game. Working in a bookshop certainly means I know a lot of titles of books I have never read and don't intend to, so that might help. I just look at the previous title and think of a way to link (eg bird names, weather, colour etc.) then go from there. Vee, Wolf Hall is the name of the property belonging to Jane Seymour's family, and it is mentioned in passing in both the first two books. |
One book in my local library that I avoided was "Edwin of the Iron Shoes" by Marcia Muller as I thought it sounded like a medieval mystery, which I avoided at the time. It was in fact the first Sharon McCone mystery and I got into the series later, then had to chase up the book. |
Frankie and Stankie, that's it, Vee. Thank you. I don't know why I couldn't remember it because the 'Stankie' part is certainly unusual to me. I think of 'Stinky' when I see it, but is it a name, a nickname, or have anything to do with 'odor'? It reminds me of an adolescent phase my friends and I went through of giving each other 'gross' nicknames (affectionately). One friend was 'Grotty' Jody; another was 'Joqueerdo', her name was actually Jacquetta; and I was 'Leonardo Retardo'. Lovely, weren't we? Only one friend did not take to the silliness in sporting fashion: she was called 'Moo Moo', which was an unkind reference to her ample endowment already at age fourteen. I'm not sure now why I related the above to you except it seemed pertinent for an elusive moment. I guess I'll have to read Frankie and Stankie to find out the significance of the title, but I would like to know, Vee, if my preconceived notion is either way off base or not. You can just say 'yea' or 'nay'. ;-) Astrokath, I can only imagine the number of titles you have stored in your mind, working in a bookshop and all! Surely you have a few candidates for most obnoxious titles, ones you get tired of hearing customers request. It's probably cyclical, isn't it? For a while, everyone who comes in wants such-and-such book title and then just as abruptly you don't hear it as much or hardly at all. I think it was you, Kath, who related that alternative titles can exasperate you, such as the penchant of American publishers for retitling books for the American market. I can recall a few: Annpan, I probably would avoid Edwin of the Iron Shoes, too. It sounds more like a horror tale to me. Did it turn out to be a good book? |
Frieda, I honestly can't remember but I have read so many since then! |
Frieda, the word 'stanky' doesn't mean anything to me so I looked it up and it seems to be a black US word, one eg is smelly as you implied and the other . . . is too rude to repeat here. Below I've added an over-long review from the Independent paper which might be of help. It finds a huge amount of deep meaning in the book, most of which I must have missed when I read it . . . and had I come across this article first I would never have bothered to read it at all. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Too much about 'Frankie and Stankie'
Frieda, the most annoying thing regarding customers and book titles, is the number of people who are adamant about a title and after much research you discover it is only very tenuously related to the real book title. Many of them won't admit to any seed of doubt. And you are right, the duplicate titles infuriate me, especially since there rarely seems to be a good reason for it. |
Vee, you might mean "skanky" rather than "stanky" ... I've heard the first term quite often, but not the second. Your definition is accurate, though. Frieda, I play the title game the same way Vee does. I'll think about something that might work as a follow on, and amazingly there is usually a book with a similar title somewhere in the depths of Amazon's book list. I've been trying to think of book titles that have been exceptionally odd or that have put me off, but haven't be able to come up with one. Titles that make me crazy are the ones that are either too bland to remember or the ones in a series that use titles that are infuriatingly similar. J.D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts) writes a series with each title being [BLANK] in Death (Concealed in Death, Rapture in Death, Naked in Death, etc., and there are dozens of them), which makes them all interchangable in my mind. I've read everything else she's written, but these titles put me off so much I've never read these. |
Ha! Vee, some readers apparently see symbolism and 'deep meaning' in every book. Thanks for the link, which is amusing, in a way; but I like what you said about Frankie and Stankie better than what that reviewer wrote. Speaking of changed titles: My copy of the Nevil Shute book about the couple who endured WWII to settle afterwards in Alice Springs is titled A Town Like Alice but below that is: (Formerly The Legacy). I have another copy that doesn't mention the original title. Which title is used in Australia? I agree that title tweaking usually isn't necessary. But I guess the publishing-types see some sort of advantage in doing it; an example that I remember is Joe David Brown's book Addie Pray that was made into the Bogdanovich-directed movie Paper Moon. The book was then retitled. I think Paper Moon is the better of the two, probably because, as I mentioned upthread, I'm not fond of character names as titles. But then there's Jane Eyre and Emma...so I'm contradicting myself again. Also, titles that are just one word often stymie me. At least with multi-word titles you have more of a chance of remembering at least part of it, but when it's one word it has to be damn specific. I am currently searching for a book that Janalyn recommended to me about ten years ago that I read and found the story memorable enough but the title has completely eluded me for months now. I was hoping that Janalyn would show up again eventually, so that I could ask her, but in the meantime I'll throw it out here: A young woman was abandoned on an island somewhere in Canada with the intention of her abandoners that she would die there. She didn't and was rescued about a year later in quite good condition. This happened before 1900 and possibly 1800. I think this book is fiction but is possibly based on a real incident. Sheri, I feel as if I've received 'secret' info about playing the game. I appreciate the help! Here's a title that I've always liked but I still haven't got around to reading the book: The Jukebox Queen of Malta. Sheri, I believe you were the one who mentioned it. I can't really imagine what it's about, though. |
Frieda, I read it so long ago I'm shaky on even the broadest details, but it's set during WWII and I liked it, as I recall. The author was one of my English professors way back when, and he has a few other books to his credit. The link is below. |
Here is a link that might be useful: The Jukebox Queen of Malta
Frieda, It is "A Town Like Alice" in Australia where the title makes sense. I can see why it was re-titled. When I returned for a trip to Australia after an absence of some 12 years, I was pleased to find that my eldest grandchild was a fan of the book and had torn hers to shreds reading it so many times. She asked if I could send her a copy from the UK if I could find one and was thrilled when I went on the hunt in the second hand bookshops in a nearby town and found her one before I left. |
Sheri, I just ordered The Jukebox Queen..., as well as Frankie and Stankie, to be delivered to my son's house in Arizona where I will be going next week. I don't go outside during summer in AZ so I need to stock up on plenty to read during my stay. Neither my son nor daughter-in-law is an avid reader and they have very few adult books, so otherwise I would be stuck reading my granddaughter's picture books or my D-I-L's Nancy Drew mysteries. I adore Valletta and want to shake my fist at those who damaged it during WWII. The whole of Malta (along with Gozo) is an archaeological and geological dream site and all the more interesting because it's such a puzzle. I think I'll be able to relate to your former professor's historical novel. I'll post something about it here and let you know what I think. Annpan, that's great about your granddaughter loving A Town Like Alice so much that she read a copy 'to shreds'. I understand the title change, too. Do Australian publishers, with any frequency, retitle American books? Or do you get most of them straight from the U.S.? I've been collecting Arthur W. Upfield's books and have wound up with several duplicates -- same books with different titles. I remember his first Bony book, The Barrakee Mystery, was changed to The Lure of the Bush for the U.S. market and Mr Jelly's Business (set at Burracoppin and Merredin) to Murder Down Under. Both changes actually make sense for American readers unfamiliar with the environs, I think, but probably seem a bit ridiculous to Australians. |
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Frieda, I don't think that US titles get changed here as they are usually published and printed in the US. Kath would know more than I do about that. i am currently reading "Murder at Honeychurch Hall" by Hannah Dennison, set in Devon and written by a British author but the book has been printed in the US and has US spelling! Sometimes I read a lot of US mysteries and then when I get back to a British or Australian book, I notice with a start that the "u" is missing in a lot of words and it looks odd! |
Frieda, these days there seem to be fewer title changes, and generally it is only the covers which vary (not sure why that is either). There is an Australian book by Kate Morton called The Shifting Fog here and The House at Riverton in the US - I can't see any reason for this. And my biggest complaint is for one of Bill Bryson's books. |
Frieda, I'll be very interested to hear what you think of The Jukebox Queen of Malta. I don't know if I still have my copy, but if I find it, I may give it a re-read. |
Annpan, as I type this, I have the cover of a book by Ellis Peters at eye level with the insolent title, Black Is the Color of My True-Love's Heart. I checked and sure enough it was printed in the U.S. But inside the British spelling is intact: centre, theatre, colour, ardour, etc. are a few I noticed. The changed spelling is one of my pet peeves that I've fulminated about often. I read Kate Morton's book in a U.S. edition as The House at Riverton. Neither do I see why it was changed from The Shifting Fog, except the original might seem generically vague to Americans. You're right, Kath, that most Americans would not make the connection between the title and the line in the poem. But Americans do associate Australia with its 'burning sun' so the Sunburned part doesn't seem inappropriate to me for Americans. Is the word 'sunburned' in the poem, Kath? I would have expected 'sunburnt'. Breakfast with Kangaroos is absurd, but I remember another title, Kangaroo in my Kitchen about an American woman who followed her business executive husband to Australia and spent several years living there (in 1960s or 70s). I don't know why she wrote the book. She did nothing but kvetch about Australia's shortcomings in her eyes. I wanted to slap her cross-eyed. |
I remember thinking that the title The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was just too cute - not at all indicative of the type of book I normally seek out. Little did I know what a gem it was. Luckily it was a selection of my book club. Otherwise, I might not have read it. |
Kathy, my thoughts were similar to yours about the Guernsey Potato Peel book. I read the title and remarked to a friend that it was so silly-sounding that I would give it a pass. She retorted: "The title is brilliant! It's a grabber. Just you wait; people will want to read this book because of the title." I was doubtful, but I was wrong. I would never make it in book marketing, obviously. I admit to grudgingly reading it only to be pleasantly surprised. I probably don't admire it as much as many do, but I like that it has been a safe book for me to recommend to those who ask me if I can suggest something. I usually shy away from making recommendations. |
re Guernsey . .. Pie I think 'cute' summed it up very well. Many many people, especially in the US, absolutely loved it but the real people of the Channel Islands strongly felt otherwise. The only 'truth' contained in the book seemed, to them, to be that the Germans invaded the islands. They objected to the idea of fraternization with the enemy, the lack of information about starvation and forced labour of the population, the peculiar names the author gave the characters plus their 'bumpkin-like' attitudes. They also strongly objected to the fact that the author hadn't even been to Guernsey to carry out any research. They all recommend reading 'The Book of Ebenezer le Page' for a real look at life there at that time. Frieda I know you read Ebenezer and wonder if you felt you 'knew' the islands/islanders better afterwards. I know this isn't easy as one book is little more than a light romance with slight overtones of nastiness and the other is in the form of a diary . . .probably over-long at that. |
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I remember thinking how peculiar both titles are re Alexandra Fuller's memoirs about Africa: "Don't Let's Do to the Dogs Tonight" and "Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness." Both turned out to be fascinating reads, however. I still do not quite get the "dog connection" in the first one. |
Vee, to me there's no contest between The Book of Ebenezer Le Page and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: Ebenezer is, by far, the better and the more authentic book -- Edwards, after all, was a native and actually lived through the times. However, Ebenezer is not the easier of the two to recommend. I have been blistered a couple of times for even suggesting it. It seems that it takes a particular kind of reader to appreciate 1) very dry humor, 2) a geezer as a narrator, and 3) anything written with too much dialect. See, just by mentioning those three things, a good portion of potential readers will be automatically turned off. And the title doesn't exactly jump out and grab readers, either, the way a potato peel pie evidently does. However, I don't think it's contradictory to like both books, for different reasons. TGLaPPPS is a cream puff; Ebenezer is boudin. Mary, those titles of Fuller's books are very odd to me, too. I haven't read them but I think I will now. A book title that I got tired of hearing and seeing a few years ago is Running with Scissors, but according to many readers it's 'stellar writing'. The imagery makes me cringe! |
Frieda, the poem is indeed 'sunburnt', but the book isn't. I include a link to the poem. |
Here is a link that might be useful: My Country
Kath, I recognize Mackellar's poem after reading it at your link. Thank you for the memory refresher! I wonder now if the bungled American title was intentional -- the title makers thinking we Americans would prefer 'sunburned' to 'sunburnt'. Sigh. Such patronization is irksome. I understand your exasperation, Kath! Bryson's book was titled stupidly for every market, it seems. |
Kath, I wasn't familiar with Mackellar's poem, thanks for posting it. UK book titles are the same as the Australian ones. Downunder is still a a recognised term for Australia here though I don't suppose they call England 'Upover' anymore than they used to refer to us as home. BTW I felt that Downunder was rather thin on substance. I don't think BB had spent long enough there. I never realised that A Town Like Alice had an American title. I remember when I first heard the book mentioned, as a child, it sounded 'unusual' but can't see why US readers seem not to be expected (by editors/movie folk) to be capable of dealing with the occasional oddity. Whatever the title I think it is still a cracking read. On the Beach is another one with a most unusual 'plot' that works surprisingly well . . . for a story dealing with nuclear fall-out. re Fuller's book. I think the title is Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight which has been well-recommended over here. I haven't read it but usually the expression 'going to the dogs' or if you are from London 'going down the dogs' means spending the evening at the local 'dog track' ie greyhound racing. |
Vee, A Town Like Alice is the American title. The original UK title was The Legacy, but apparently was changed there, as well, to A Town.... I think nearly everyone thinks that's a much better, more memorable title. |
Well, I stand corrected. According to Wikipedia, if it can be trusted, The Legacy was briefly first used in the U.S. but was changed soon after. My Penguin edition -- which is the one that stated (formerly The Legacy) -- misled me. My U.S. edition from 1951 says A Town Like Alice without mention of The Legacy. Argh! |
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A few months back a friend of my Sister asked if I would build a bed for her 10 year old daughter. I was excited to do it! So I finished up the projects I had already started and then went to work. I had never built bookshelves before. I wanted it clean and "hole-less" on the outside, so we found a Kreg Jig and I started learning. SUPER easy!! I believe it has been painted white. I can't wait to go see it!!
I followed Ana's plans except I used 2*2s for slats and used 16" wide boards for one of the bookshelves and the desk top. I want them to be able to use this for years to come and not out-grow it too quickly.
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Loft bed with 16" deep desk and small book cases.
Where did you get 16" wide boards? We're thinking of making the same loft with the 16" desk and 16" small book cases. I was planning on using plywood.
My apologies, I just saw
My apologies, I just saw this.
I got them from Home Depot down the shelving isle.
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Looks great!
This turned out fantastic! You did a wonderful job.
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hello just a quick question
hello just a quick question about the railing. Is it screwed on or is it just sitting over the wood? Very nice bed.
My apologies, I just saw this
My apologies, I just saw this now. It is screwed on, but from the inside.
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How many 2x2s did you use? I
How many 2x2s did you use? I think I am going to do the same to make sure that I do not outgrow the bed. Also did you have to change the size of the little bookshelves when you changed the desk to 16" instead of 12" ? I'm trying to build the whole set on my own (im 14)
I think I used around 20
I think I used around 20 2x2's, and did use a center beam to add strength. I only changed the one bookshelf to a 16" (the one under the desk). The other one I left as a 12". Good luck building your bed!
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Thank you sooo much. I have left questions in the comments sections and you are the only one who has answered. I greatly appreciate it.
Thank you so much for your pics!
Hook fam, Thanks so much for your work and for the pictures. I really like how you left the lower back side of the big book shelf off and still included the desk behind. Love the 16" too and I think I will go with that for the desktop but leave the 12" for the shelves. Thanks again! This is now my next project!!!


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- Tom and Jerry Theatrical Cartoon Series
- Traditional Animation
- Rembrandt Films
- Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cartoon Characters: Tom, Jerry, Man.
- Voice Actors: Allen Swift.
- Directed By Gene Deitch.
- Produced By William L. Snyder.
- Animated By Vaclav Bedrich.
- Written By Larz Bourne.
- Originally Released in Jan of 1962 (Estimate).
- Originally Released Theatrically.
- Running Time: 6:31 minutes.
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- Czechoslovakia / U.S.A.
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Backyard barbecue fun as Tom and his master grill steaks near the pool. But when Jerry arrives, it's a free-for-all as he scorches Tom's tail, engages him in a... (more)
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Experiences in Hosting Big Chemistry Data Collections for the Community
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This is a presentation I gave at the National Institute of Standards and Technology on July 30th 2014
Experiences in Hosting Big Chemistry Data Collections for the Community
Access to scientific information has changed dramatically as a result of the web and its underpinning technologies. The quantities of data, the array of tools available to search and analyze, the devices and the shift in community participation continues to expand while the pace of change does not appear to be slowing. RSC hosts a number of chemistry data resources for the community including ChemSpider, one of the community's primary online public compound databases. Containing tens of millions of chemical compounds and its associated data ChemSpider serves data tens of thousands of chemists every day. The platform offers the ability for crowdsourcing enabling the community to deposit and curate data. This presentation will provide an overview of the expanding reach of this cheminformatics platform and the nature of the solutions that it helps to enable including structure validation and text mining and semantic markup. ChemSpider is limited in scope as a chemical compound database and we are presently architecting the RSC Data Repository, a platform that will enable us to extend our reach to include chemical reactions, analytical data, and diverse data depositions from chemists across various domains. We will also discuss the possibilities it offers in terms of supporting data modeling and sharing. The future of scientific information and communication will be underpinned by these efforts, influenced by increasing participation from the scientific community.
Data Mining Dissertations and Adventures and Experiences in the World of Chemistry
Posted by tony in AltMetrics, ChemSpider Chemistry, Community Building, InChI, Publications and Presentations, Quality and Content, RSC Publishing on July 29, 2014
Data Mining Dissertations and Adventures and Experiences in the World of Chemistry
This presentation was given at the CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellowship Summer Seminar at Bryn Mawr college in Pennsylvania on July 29th 2014. The intention was to communicate what we are doing in the fields of text and data mining in the domain of chemistry and specifically around mining the RSC archive publication and chemistry dissertations and theses. How would these experiences map over to the humanities?
Being ignored during the review process and how I would address issues in a paper today
Posted by tony in AltMetrics, Kudos, Nuclear magnetic resonance, Quality and Content on July 7, 2014
MOST people who are reading this blog post have likely performed peer review over the years. I have reviewed a lot of manuscripts over the years. It has changed a lot over the past decade in many ways. A couple of examples of how things have changed for me
1) More requests to review papers – and I increasingly turn down requests because they are from journals I have never heard of (some may call them "predatory publishers"), some are in areas for which I have no expertise (e.g. electrical engineering), and sometimes because I simply don't have time.
2) I have seen papers I have reviewed show up essentially untouched in other journals (no edits and simply reformatted) and commonly these "refused papers" are accepted into what I deem to be "lower quality" publications.
Of course over the past ten years I've also had a lot of papers go through peer review for myself and my co-authors. This experience has also been very interesting, if not entertaining. Some examples:
1) I have experienced the third reviewer where an editor has held up a manuscript or demanded changes to match some of their own expectations while other reviewers were publish as is.
2) I have had the request to shorten excellent manuscripts to help with "page limits"….in the electronic age???
3) I have been on the receiving end of non-scientific reviews that have blocked a paper. My personal favorite "Mobile apps are a fad of the youth."
My best story of peer review, and an example where modern technologies would have been so enabling at the time, is as follows.
I was asked to review a paper regarding the performance of Carbon-13 NMR prediction for this paper. A slice of the abstract says
"Further we compare the neural network predictions to those of a wide variety of other 13C chemical shift prediction tools including incremental methods (CHEMDRAW, SPECTOOL), quantum chemical calculation (GAUSSIAN, COSMOS), and HOSE code fragment-based prediction (SPECINFO, ACD/CNMR, PREDICTIT NMR) for the 47 13C-NMR shifts of Taxol, a natural product including many structural features of organic substances. The smallest standard deviations were achieved here with the neural network (1.3 ppm) and SPECINFO (1.0 ppm)."
This was an important time for me as this paper was comparing various NMR predictors and comparing the performance based on ONE chemical structure. And while any one point of comparison is up for discussion there were 47 shifts so you could argue it is a bigger data set. One of the programs under review was a PRODUCT that I managed at ACD/Labs, CNMR Predictor. Therefore I clearly had a concern as, essentially, the success of this product was partly responsible for my income. Any comparison that made the software look poor in performance was an issue. Was this a conflict of interest…maybe…but I judge myself to still be objective.
Table 3 listed the experimental shifts as well as the predicted shifts from the different algorithms and the size of the accompanying circle/ellipse was a visual indicator of a large difference between experimental and predicted. We will assume that all experimental assignments are correct and that there are no transcription errors between the predicted values from each algorithm and input into the table. A piece of Table 3 is shown below.
I kind of pride myself on being a little bit of a stickler for detail when it comes to reviewing data quality. Those of you who read this blog will know that. As I reviewed the data I was a little puzzled by the magnitude of the errors for certain Carbon nuclei, specifically for Carbons 23 and 27.
What was interesting to me was that the experimental shifts for 23 and 27 were 142.0, 133.2 ppm respectively yet the predicted shifts were 132.8, 142.7 ppm respectively. It struck me that they looked like they were switched. This was what drew my attention to reviewing the data in more detail. I will cut a long story short but I redrew the molecule of Taxol as input into the same version of software that was used for the publication and got a DIFFERENT answer than that reported. I was able to distinguish WHY it was different…it was down to the orientation of a bond in the input molecule that was input by the reporting authors and this made the CNMR prediction worse.
I reported this detail to the editors in a detailed letter and recommended the manuscript for publication with the caveat that the numbers for the column representing CNMR 6.0 be edited to accurately reflect the performance of the algorithm and provide the details. I was shocked to see the manuscript published later WITHOUT any of the edits made for the numbers and inaccurately representing the performance of the algorithm. I contacted the editors and after a couple of exchanges received quite a dressing down that the editor overseeing the manuscript refused to get between a commercial concern and reported science.
What does this mean? That software companies don't do science and only academics do? I have similar experience of my colleagues in industry being treated with bias relative to my colleagues in academia. I believe my friends in industry, commercial concerns and academia can all be objective scientists….and after all, doesn't academia teach the chemists that come out to industry and the commercial software world? These are my experiences…I welcome any comments you may have about the bias. BUT, back to the story…
The manuscript was published in June 2002 and as product manager I had to deal with questions around algorithmic performance for many months because "the peer-review literature said…". This was NOT the only instance of a situation like this as a couple of years later it was reported that ACD/CNMR could not handle stereochemistry only to determine with the scientist who wrote the paper that he had thrown a software switch that affected his results. Software can be tricky and unfortunately the best performance can often come through the hands of those that write the software. Sad but true in many cases.
In August 2004 we published an addendum with one of the original authors regarding the work describing the entire situation in detail. It was over two years from the original publication to the final addendum. I do not believe there was any malicious intent on behalf of the authors of the original manuscript but that was in the days where the only place to issue a rebuttal was in the journal and we could not get editorial support to do it. How would it happen today if a paper came out that was suspicious. There are a myriad number of tools available now….
Yes, I would blog the story here, as I am doing now. Yes I would express concern at the situation on Twitter with the hope of gaining redress. I would likely tell the story in a Slideshare presentation and make a narrated movie and make it available via an embed in the Slideshare presentation on my account. I would hope that the publisher nowadays would at least allow me to add a comment to the article but I do understand that this comment would likely be monitored and mediated and they may choose not to expose it to the readers. I like the implementation on PLoS and have used it on one of our articles previously.
Could I maybe make use of a technology like Kudos that I have started using. I have reported it on this blog already here. I certainly could not claim the ORIGINAL article and start associating information with it regarding the performance of the algorithms…and that is a shame. But MAYBE in the future Kudos would consider letting OTHER people make comments and associate information/data with an article on Kudos. Risky? Maybe. However, I can claim the rebuttal that I was a co-author on and start associating information with that….certainly the original paper and ultimately linking to this blog. In fact, in the future is a rebuttal going to be a manuscript that I publish out on something like Figshare, grab a DOI there and maybe ask Kudos to treat that as a published rebuttal? Peer review of that rebuttal could then happen as comments on Figshare and Kudos directly and maybe in the future Kudos Views and Altmetric measures of that becomes a measure of the importance. We live in very interesting times as these technologies expand, mesh and integrate.
The Importance of the InChI Identifier as a Foundation Technology for eScience Platforms at the Royal Society of Chemistry
Posted by tony in How ChemSpider Runs, InChI, InChI, Open Science..all its forms, Publications and Presentations, Quality and Content on April 29, 2014
This is a presentation I gave today at Bio-IT 2014 here in Boston. I was in the company of a number of my favorite people to be o the agenda with… Steve Heller, Steve Boyer, Evan Bolton and Chris Southan.
The Importance of the InChI Identifier as a Foundation Technology for eScience Platforms at the Royal Society of Chemistry
The Royal Society of Chemistry hosts one of the largest online chemistry databases containing almost 30 million unique chemical structures. The database, ChemSpider, provides the underpinning for a series of eScience projects allowing for the integration of chemical compounds with our archive of scientific publications, the delivery of a reaction database containing millions of reactions as well as a chemical validation and standardization platform developed to help improve the quality of structural representations on the internet. The InChI has been a fundamental part of each of our projects and has been pivotal in our support of international projects such as the Open PHACTS semantic web project integrating chemistry and biology data and the PharmaSea project focused on identifying novel chemical components from the ocean with the intention of identifying new antibiotics. This presentation will provide an overview of the importance of InChI in the development of many of our eScience platforms and how we have used it specifically in the ChemSpider project to provide integration across hundreds of websites and chemistry databases across the web. We will discuss how we are now expanding our efforts to develop a Global Chemistry Network encompassing efforts in Open Source Drug Discovery and the support of data management for neglected diseases.
Accessing chemical health and safety data online using Royal Society of Chemistry resources
Posted by tony in ACS Meetings, Chemicals and our Health, ChemSpider Chemistry, CINF, Community Building, Data Quality, Division of Chemical Information, Mobile Chemistry, Presentations, Publications and Presentations, Quality and Content on September 9, 2013
This is the second presentation I gave at the ACS Meeting in Indianapolis
Accessing chemical health and safety data online using Royal Society of Chemistry resources
The internet has opened up access to large amounts of chemistry related data that can be harvested and assembled into rich resources of value to chemists. The Royal Society of Chemistry's ChemSpider database has assembled an electronic collection of over 28 million chemicals from over 400 data sources and some of the assembled data is certainly of value to those searching for chemical health and safety information. Since ChemSpider is a text and structure searchable database chemists are able to find relevant information using both of their general search approaches. This presentation will provide an overview of the types of chemical health and safety data and information made available via ChemSpider and discuss how the data are sourced, aggregated and validated. We will examine how the data can be made available via mobile devices and examine the issue of data quality and its potential impacts on such a database.
Will the correct structure of Fluvastatin please stand up
Posted by tony in Data Quality, Quality and Content on July 29, 2012
Eventually there will be simple answers to the question commonly asked by chemists. "What is the chemical structure of INSERT NAME?" This is going to be true for drugs as the various online databases work together to clean up, curate, qualify and declare what a chemical structure is for a particular drug. While we can have the purists argument about structure drawings not representing reality, for example that compounds are atoms bonded together by shared clouds of electrons that at any point in time may be changing, reorganizing, tautomerizing etc the reality is also that we need a common language for information exchange and in the world of visual depictions for chemistry the layout in a 2D structure diagram is it. As we come together as a community to agree on preferred ways to standardize chemicals to assist in representations in databases for example, this situation will improve. The efforts of the FDA to define structure representation standards, with the support of pharma, will contribute. For now we are left with the challenges of different representations in different databases as well as simply the quality of data being fed into these databases. These are some of the issues we are trying to resolve as we build Open PHACTS. We are trying to link data from various resurces, noting and resolving conflicts when we can, and curating as necessary with the ultimate intention that this information will flow out into the community and be picked up by the database hosts and addressed, fixed, challenged as appropriate.
I've been looking for a new example showing the challenges of data integration considering that in Open PHACTS at present we are integrating chemistry from three primary data sets (for now)… DrugBank, ChEBI, ChEMBL. So, let's consider Fluvastatin. The usual challenges of trying to determine what the "correct" chemical structure representation is for the compound is an iterative loop but let's see what we can find in our datasets as we iterate. I KNOW from 4 years of looking at chemistry on Wikipedia that the data quality for chemical compound representations is very good. So, starting there we find the Wikipedia record here. The DrugBox links to a number of records in other databases.
One of these is ChemSpider and it has the SAME representation. On ChEBI the representation is inconsistent with no defined stereochemistry (except the E- double bond). Since ChEBI is manually curated and the compound carries 3 stars this should be correct. There are two records LINKED from this ChEBI record.
rel-(3R,5R)-fluvastatin (CHEBI:38566)
rel-(3R,5S)-fluvastatin (CHEBI:38561)
On Drugbank the compound has INVERTED stereochemistry from that on ChemSPider and Wikipedia… WP and ChemSpider has 3R,5S while DrugBank has 3S,5R but it DOES say in the pharmacodynamics sectionb "It is prepared as a racemate of two erythro enantiomers of which the 3R,5S enantiomer exerts the pharmacologic effect. " confirming that the 3R,5S form is the ACTIVE form.
ChEMBL matches Wikipedia and ChemSpider here.
So, to summarize what we get when we search for Fluvastatin
Stereo 3R,5S for Wikipedia, ChemSPider, ChEMBL
Stereo 3S,5R for DrugBank
No stereo for ChEBI
Welcome to the complexities of name-structure relationships. These are some of the challenges we need to deal with on Open PHACTS. Dailymed defines the sodium fluvastatin as "Fluvastatin sodium is sodium (±)-(3R*, 5S*, 6E)-7-[3-(p-fluorophenyl)-1-isopropylindol-2-yl]-3,5-dihydroxy-6-heptanoate" so the relative form….
Presentation at NFAIS 2012 on Five Years of Experience of Crowdsourcing Chemistry for the Community
Posted by tony in ChemSpider Chemistry, Publications and Presentations, Quality and Content on February 28, 2012
I just gave a presentation at the NFAIS conference in Philadelphia with the conference focus being "Born of Disruption: An Emerging New Normal for the Information Landscape". I was on a panel with Lee Dirks from Microsoft Research and Kristen Fisher-Ratan from PLoS. Both gave very interesting talks and it was a pleasure to be on the panel with them.
My talk was entited "Crowdsourcing Chemistry for the Community – 5 Years of Experiences" with the abstract below.
"ChemSpider is one of the internet's primary resources for chemists. ChemSpider is a structure-centric platform and hosts over 26 million unique chemical entities sourced from over 400 different data sources and delivers information including commercial availability, associated publications, patents, analytical data, experimental and predicted properties. ChemSpider serves a rather unique role to the community in that any chemist has the ability to deposit, curate and annotate data. In this manner they can contribute their skills, and data, to any chemist using the system. A number of parallel projects have been developed from the initial platform including ChemSpider SyntheticPages, a community generated database of reaction syntheses, and the Learn Chemistry wiki, an educational wiki for secondary school students.
This presentation will provide an overview of the project in terms of our success in engaging scientists to contribute to crowdsouring chemistry. We will also discuss some of our plans to encourage future participation and engagement in this and related projects."
The talk is embedded below. I thank the organizers for the ability to ask questions during the talk and get responses using a clicker feedback system (I didn't realise ahead of time that the questions would consume a few seconds and ran over on my talk..agh). I will get the answers to the questions and post them in a separate post. Interesting answers…
Improving Online Chemistry One Structure at a Time
Posted by tony in ChemSpider Chemistry, Publications and Presentations, Quality and Content on February 13, 2012
Last week I was in the United Kingdom for numerous meetings and at the end of the week struggled to drive north to Macclesfield to the AstraZeneca site there to give a presentation on ChemSpider for an old colleague of mine from the Eastman Kodak company. I had not seen Tony Bristow in well over a decade but we reminisced about the good old days at Kodak (Tony worked in Harrow, UK and I worked in Rochester, NY. Tony is a Mass Spectrometrist and I am an NMR Spectroscopist by training). We also discussed how scientists are increasingly tapping into the ChemSpider resource to aid in the identification of chemical compounds using, especially, Mass Spectrometry. We have numerous examples now of when people are solving their structure ID issues directly by searching ChemSpider and are building up a portfolio of success stories.
The presentation I gave is below and loaded on SlideShare in case you want to download it.
Copy Editors Redefine Standard Units During the Proofing Process
Posted by tony in Quality and Content on November 3, 2011
I write a lot of publications, averaging about one peer-reviewed publication or book chapter per month. I have published with a number of publishers including my employer (Royal Society of Chemistry), with Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, ACS and many others. The experience with each publisher is different but, generally, pleasant, and high quality. However, once in awhile the experience is "interesting". I especially have had some very interesting peer-review "experiences". But that is not the point ot this post. This post is about the other end of the process…paper reviewed, paper accepted and into proofing stage.
Last month Sean Ekins and I had a paper accepted and we listed in the paper some physicochemical parameters. These included logP, pKa, Lipinski parameters and Polar Surface Area, commonly known as PSA. When we got the paper back for proofing PSA had been replaced by "Prostate Specific Antigen". It was a good catch on Sean's part as first proofreader to spot it! How would that happen? One has to imagine a set of scripts that are searching for abbreviations and doing a find and replace. For PSA clearly context matters. For most biology papers the prostate specific antigen conversion for PSA might make sense. It doesn't really make sense for chemistry and QSAR modeling. So, it's all about context.
We recently submitted an article in relation to our work on Computer Assisted Structure Elucidation. This is at a time when our book on CASE is about to go to the printers! This is one of our most interesting applications of ACD/Structure Elucidator and will be discussed in more detail when the paper is published. The paper is going to be published with Wiley's Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry. MRC is my favorite NMR journal by far and I am always happy to publish there! After all these years I was shocked when the feedback from the copy-editors for our paper said…
The copy-editor was suggesting that we changing all instances of PPM for chemical shift to mg/g. Excuse me, but reout usually? Are you serious. First of all PPM is THE defined unit for chemical shift. Did IUPAC change it without us knowing? PPM is a dimensionless unit, based on Hz/MHz, thus the 1oE-6 dependence. Even if it was in terms of Gauss (another interpretation of the mg/G) it should be microGauss/Gauss, so mcg/G.
Anyway, it makes no sense right? Surely it is just an oversight, just a one off? Unfortunately no…this entire paper HAS been published with every PPM reference to chemical shift changed into mg/g. How did that happen? We have to imagine a search and replace replacement, acceptance of the "house style" by the author and no oversight by the editor post-proofing. The result, chemical shifts are now quoted in milligrams/gram. Terrific! Surely a context issue of some type…but truth be told, I am not sure for what!
Is this a side effect of non-skilled copy-editors? A result of off-shoring? Whatever the reason it is wrong..unless IUPAC truly decided on a new standard????! NOT….
Terminal Dimethyl means Death by Methane twice
Posted by tony in Data Quality, Humor, Quality and Content on October 31, 2011
When writing talks I try to find interesting (and where possible fun) examples of how challenging the world of managing chemistry data is for all of us that work in the world of managing 10s of thousands, or in our cases millions of compound pages for the community to use. I have told many stories over the past few years of the challenges we collectively have in regards to data quality and how it flows between our databases unabated. My latest example used at the recent talk at the EBI (ChemSpider – An Online Database and Registration System Linking the Web) was the structure known as Terminal Dimethyl presently on PubChem, DrugBank, Wolfram Alpha and PDBe. It was originally inherited into ChemSpider also but has been deprecated. I left a comment on DrugBank a couple of weeks ago but it hasn't been published yet…generally such errors are removed VERY quickly by the DrugBank hosts. I added a comment to Wolfram Alpha and received a canned response and no changes to the record as yet.
There ARE ways to communally resolve these issues and I will blog about that shortly.


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Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley (1894-1963), English novelist and critic, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World (1931). Besides novels he published travel books, histories, poems, plays, and essays on philosophy, arts, sociology, religion and morals. Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey on July 26, 1894, into a well-to-do upper-middle-class family. His father, Leonard Huxley, was a biographer, editor, and poet. He first studied at Eton College, Berkshire (1908-13). When Huxley was fourteen his mother died. At the age of 16 Huxley suffered an attack of keratitis punctata and became for a period of about 18 months totally blind. By using special glasses and one eye recovered sufficiently he was able to read and he also learned Braille. Despite a condition of near-blindness, Huxley continued his studies at Balliol College, Oxford (1913-15), receiving his B.A. in English in 1916. Unable to pursue his chosen career as a scientist - or fight in World War on the front - Huxley turned to writing. His first collection of poetry appeared in 1916 and two more volumes followed by 1920. Huxley's first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), a witty criticism of society, appeared in 1921. Huxley's style, a combination of brilliant dialogue, cynicism, and social criticism, made him one of the most fashionable literary figures of the decade. In eight years he published a dozen books, among them Point Counter Point (1928) and Do What You Will (1929). During the 1920s Huxley formed a close friendship with D.H. Lawrence with whom he traveled in Italy and France. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy. In the 1930s he moved to Sanary, near Toulon, where he wrote Brave New World, a dark vision of a highly technological society of the future. In the1930s Huxley was deeply concerned with the Peace Pledge Union. He moved in 1937 with the guru-figure Gerald Heard to the United States, believing that the Californian climate would help his eyesight, a constant burden. After this turning point in his life, Huxley abandoned pure fictional writing and chose the essay as the vehicle for expressing his ideas. Brave New World Revisited appeared in 1958. Huxley's other later works include The Devils Of Loudon (1952), depicting mass-hysteria and exorcism in the 17th-century France. Island (1962) was an utopian novel and a return to the territory of Brave New World, in which a journalist shipwrecks on Pala, the fabled island, and discovers there a kind and happy people. But the earthly paradise is not immune to the harsh realities of oil policy. In 1963 appeared Literature And Science, a collection of essays. In 1954 Huxley published an influential study of consciousness expansion through mescaline, The Doors Of Perception and became later a guru among Californian hippies. 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I read Brave New World and I can truly understand how he see's that as the future. Here especially in America we are willingly giving up our freedom for comfort. I also read Brave New World Revisited and it is striking how he talks of the world in 1956, and the future as he predicts it if we do... Two views of human nature Huxley and Orwell present? I need this ASAP.Social hm help!Who says you cant correctly predict the future? Aldous Huxley and George Orwell did. Hear Neil Postman: What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance... What books/articles/journals ...What books, journals, or articles discuss Aldous' Huxley's writing. 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A thing many of us forgot still existed here fell from the sky, particularly in the south East Valley, on Thursday. It was cool and wet and dropped from the clouds gathered overhead. Was it rain? Well, yes. But not officially.
The Valley continues its record-shattering streak of consecutively dry days today because, according to the National Weather Service, those sprinkles Thursday don't add up to actual wet weather.
"The airport is what counts, not what Aunt Vivian sees in her backyard," said Bill Estle, meteorologist with the weather service in Phoenix.
If a measurable amount of rain had fallen at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, then the streak would have been over.
Instead, the airport remained dry Thursday for the 114th straight day.
That streak will likely continue as forecasters predict the next week will be clear and sunny with no rain in sight.
Zero rain means nothing is washing away the dust and pollution in the air. Because of that, the state and Maricopa County warned that air quality in the Valley could reach unhealthy levels again today.
Burning wood, including manufactured logs, has been banned through midnight, and residents are being asked to travel less and car pool.
The previous record of 101 consecutively dry days in the Valley was broken last month.


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Pay Rate for CNA/Medication Aide
0Oct 9, '06 by nlw59bbaHello everyone, I live in Charlotte, North Carolina. I passed the certification test for Medication Aide, January, 2006. Most of the nursing homes, I have talked to said, I need to be a CNA. I will complete the CNA course next month. Does anybody know the starting payrate for CNA/Medication Aide. Any information would be helpful trying to get a high payrate to cover my mortgage while in school. Thank you.
0Oct 9, '06 by lovingtheunlovedI don't know specifically about NC, but in general, a CNA will make CRAP. Good luck with that mortgage.
0Oct 17, '06 by TheCommuter, ASN, RN Senior ModeratorI'm in Fort Worth, Texas. CNAs earn between $8.50 and $11 per hour. The average medication aide earns about $12 hourly. Hopefully this has helped.
0Oct 18, '06 by TBird81In Kansas it is anywhere between $8-$15 an hour depending on where you go. Home Health pays more, but most do not offer benefits & they usually want experience. I make over $12 but I work weekends 2nd shift which I get differential pay for both the day of the week and the hour of day. Considering to get licensed as a CNA is not very difficult in most states the pay is understandable. I don't agree that we get paid "well" for the work we do but I think it is a great paying job if your investing in your future in the medical field...which really is priceless. BUT there are bills to pay! LOL. Good luck.


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I want to plant a bunch of garlic this fall. We easily eat 20 pounds+ a year between fresh and dried, and buying it fresh and drying it is cheaper than buying dried, but still too expensive to keep up with our garlic consumption. Problem is I want to try a variety of garlic, and all the garlic sellers seem to sell by the half pound and up, though a couple places seem to offer variety packs. Is there anyone that just sells a few cloves of this or that? Or only one head of this or that? I'd like to try several kinds and 3-6 of each type, to see what I like or not, but that can get rather expensive even using variety packs. And I have had zero luck sourcing in person garlic sellers in SE WI or SW MI. I only have seed to trade, so I feel kind of lame asking for garlic in trade for seeds. And I didn't see any newbie adoption for garlic, so I don't think any garlic growers here are willing to send a few cloves to a newbie? I have an 8x12 bed set up for fall planting, and I will fill it with grocery store garlic if that's what I have to do, but I would really rather try out a bunch of other garlics if I can. |
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I have an 8x12 bed set up for fall planting, and I will fill it with grocery store garlic if that's what I have to do, but I would really rather try out a bunch of other garlics if I can. ************************************************** 8 x 12= 96 sq-ft. If you plant 4 garlics per sq-ft , it will be close to 400 garlics.(That should yield over 50 lbs of garlic) Since you should only use just the outer big clove for planting(say 8 per bulb) , you will need to have about 50 garlics. If 6 garlic weigh ONE pound, you will need roughly 8 ponds of seed garlic. If you plant 4 varieties, you will need TWO ponds of each. BTW: i have planted Sore-Boughts 3 seasons. I like the hardnecks better, Nothing wrong with that. |
I did check around with local growers.. Problem is, there are NO local growers of garlic. I apparently live in fruit and squash land. I have 30-45 growers around me, and not a one of them does garlic.. I was fairly surprised by that. And thanks oober much for the planting advice! I was just going to try rows, hadn't even thought about square foot growing. But that really gives me a good idea on just how much I can plant in that space! Thanks folks :) |
Most supermarket garlic, like 75+%, comes from China, and much of it is treated to prevent sprouting. I have planted it successfully in the past, but also had it die over the winter one year. Best to plant a hardneck garlic grown locally, or from an Internet site. Most large hardnecks have fewer, fatter cloves than the supermarket artichoke types. I assume six plantable cloves per bulb and eat the smaller ones. For the largest bulbs, spacing should be 6" within a row, and 12" between rows, and cover with a thick loose mulch. Plant in full sun for best results and give them a high nitrogen fertilizer at planting, and again in early March, April, and May to promote healthy top growth - then stop to allow bulb development. Plenty of more detailed growing instructions are available on the Internet. TomVA |
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I've always grown my garlic at 6"x6" spacing with good results. As an experiment this year I increased the amount of space between plants and when harvested there was no noticeable increase in bulb size. In fact, my yield was lower due to the increased spacing. However, this is just my experience from a one year experiment. As for garlic being from China, just look at the roots. Chinese garlic, by law, has it's roots scooped out whereas garlic grown in the U.S. has it's roots still attached. Below is a link showing the difference, just scroll down the page to the pics. Rodney |
Here is a link that might be useful: How To Recognize Chinese Garlic
theforgottenone explained a good point about chinese garlic. They are mostly softnecks. I like hardnecks better. If you are concerned about sprouting , due to chemical treatment, get some organic ones from Whole Foods . They are a bit more expensive but then carry some insurance policy. |
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Skanska to Develop Havneholmen in Copenhagen - Investing about SEK 325 M in a First Office Project.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Skanska (STO:SKAB) is starting development of Havneholmen in central Copenhagen. The first office project, Atrium, comprises 12,500 square meters in seven stories. Skanska's investment during the development phase amounts to about DKK 260 M, approximately SEK 325 M.Lease negotiations are under way with a number of prospective tenants.
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The construction work will be carried out by Skanska Denmark and the property is expected to be ready for occupancy during the second quarter of 2007.
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This new paperback edition of McNamara's controversial memoir includes a new Preface by McNamara and a new Appendix containing examples of the intense debate that erupted upon the book's original publication in 1995. Among the contributions to the Appendix are the New York Times editorial "Mr. McNamara's War," and sixteen other editorials, articles, commentaries, and responses, including the writings of Theodore Draper, Richard Rusk, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Molly Ivins in publications ranging from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, to The Boston Globe, Newsweek, and The New York Review of Books.
McNamara answers in In Retrospect the lingering questions that surround the disastrous episode in American history that was the Vietnam War. "We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions of Vietnam acted accordingly to what we thought were the principles and traditions of this nation," McNamara writes. "Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why." His work is both a profoundly revealing history of the fatal assumptions behind the American involvement in the war and a unique insider's account of policy-making at the highest levels of the United States government.
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1. My Journey to Washington: June 9, 1916-January 20, 1961
2. Early Years: January 19, 1961-August 23, 1963
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4. A Time of Transition: November 23, 1963-July 29, 1964
5. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution: July 30-August 7, 1964
6. The 1964 Election and Its Aftermath: August 8, 1964-January 27, 1965
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Painted, animated and directed by Spanish director Alberto Mielgo, "Gentrification" is a short 2D animated movie made thanks to black ink, pencils, watercolors and After Effects. We can see a birds' flight through a city, its neons and the sky, on a music by Franz Schubert – "String Quintet in C Major, D. 956: ll. Adagio".
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"Postcards for Ants" is a miniature illustrations' project leaded by Lorraine Loot, happening all year long. Each day since 1st January 2013, this Cape Town-based artist draws a little detailed illustration with paint and pencils. A long artwork full of finesse, making each day a postcard and an image.
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It is between reality and imagination that the photographer and illustrator Hossein Zare takes us on this fabulous series. Human silhouettes in empty and white landscapes, in which the artist intervened using his pencil to complete the picture with a childish drawing style. A minimalist series to discover the gallery.
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Designers from London Michael & George had the extravagant idea to imagine a lamp in the form of a giant pencil. A project where the light flashed from a light bulb placed at the gum called HB Pencil Lamp for sure that will change your interior.
Realistic Pencil Portraits Drawings
Malaysian artist Monica Lee has decided to become an illustrator after 12 years of work in the digital art. With a pencil, she draws amazing detailed and realistic illustrations of freckled girls, bearded men and animals. She is inspired by the work of Marteline Nystad, Dirk Dzimirsky and Paul Cadden.
Sprout A Pencil That Grows
Sprout is a pencil containing a seed capsule which, when activated by water, and then seed gives rise to an aromatic plant. Different varieties of herbs are available through different pencils, including vegetables, flowers such as rosemary, tomato, marigold, and much more.
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For 20 €, you can get these original earphones designed byt Megawing and called Magic Pencil Earphones. Available in three colors, these earphones are compatible with smartphones and proposes a design for the least original, giving the impression of a pencil stuck in your ears.
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L'application pour iPad Fifty Three has recently developed a pencil specially for lovers of designs on tablets. Sold in two versions for the price of $ 59, this item offers a high quality experience to push design further. Discover below with images.
The Blue Carpet with Bic Pencils
Jonathan Bréchignac, after his work Carpet With Bic Pencils nominated for Fubiz Awards , imagined this beautiful creation "The Blue Carpet", a creation of 73×115 cm made with pen and exhibited at the Boghossian Foundation at Villa Empain from September 27th. To discover in the following pictures .
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The designer Duncan Shotton has launched a new project on Kickstarter : pencils papers whose core is rainbow sky. Another particularity, they are made not of wood but of recycled paper and will be developed in black and white according to the creator. A playful and aesthetic experience in pictures project.
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Inspired by Grigory Perelman, the mathematician who solved the Poincaré conjecture, The Bold Studio has designed a box of crayons in colorful design with a highly successful illustration signed Jules Julien . More in the future.
Rotring Pen
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The designer Timothy Goodman transformed the blank white walls of the Ace Hotel in New York with illustrations with paint markers and black paint. Paying homage to the city, this wonderful "99 Picture Frame Illustrations" is to discover in images in the article.
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Lindell Brumley celebrated her 90th birthday recently with some 60 relatives and friends attending a surprise party in her honor. With entertainment provided by "The Roaring '50s" group. Mrs. Brumley, a former member of the group, danced the night away with several of the guests. Among those attending were her two sons, three grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. The nonagenarian was asked if she enjoyed the evening. Well known for her beauty and grace, she answered, "Oh yes, but if I had known I was coming to a party, I would have worn an evening gown."