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R.B. (Robert Brendan) McDowell (born in Belfast in 1913) is an Irish historian. He is Fellow Emeritus and former Professor of History at Trinity College, Dublin. He is referred to colloquially as "RB" or "McDowell".
He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution
, where he discovered his love of History, here he met T. W. Moody
, later an esteemed colleague in the History department at Trinity. He was first appointed a lecturer in Trinity in 1945, and for 13 years (1956–1969) was the Junior Dean of Students, or "Dean of Discipline", a role that involved disciplining students in the tumultuous 1960s. At the age of 94 he left the campus of the college and retired to Celbridge
In 2007, The College Historical Society of which McDowell is a vice-president unveiled a portrait of McDowell, which can be seen in the Graduates' Memorial Building, alongside Douglas Hyde & Theobald Wolfe Tone, amongst others.
McDowell's published work concentrated on the era when Britain ruled all of Ireland, and aspects of the Irish-British relationship.
- British Conservatism 1832-1914 (Greenwood Press) ISBN-13: 978-0837177083
- The Correspondence of Edmund Burke (University of Chicago Press) ISBN-13: 978-0226115610
- The Irish Administration 1801-1914 (Greenwood Press) ISBN-13: 978-0837185613
- Grattan A Life (Lilliput Press, 2001) ISBN-13: 978-1901866728
- Crisis and Decline; the fate of the Southern Unionists
- Burke and Ireland essay in The United Irishmen ed. D. Dickson Dublin, 1993.
- Land and Learning; Two Irish Clubs
- Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution
- Historical Essays 1939-2001
- The Church of Ireland 1869-1969
- John Pentland Mahaffy (1971) with W.B. Stanford.
- The writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone as co-editor (Oxford 1998) ISBN-13: 978-0198223832
Books about McDowell
As well as his scholarship, McDowell became celebrated for his eccentric dress, his Ulster diction and his ability to talk knowledgeably at great length. Hundreds of anecdotes by former colleagues and students were published in 2 volumes after his retirement:
- The Junior Dean, RB McDowell - Encounters with a Legend (Lilliput 2003) to celebrate his 90th birthday;
- The Magnificent McDowell - Trinity in the Golden Era (2006). Both books are edited by Anne Leonard, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. ISBN 0-9553891-0-0 www.themagnificentmcdowell.com
Books available from Library Bookshop, Trinity College, Dublin.


It has arrived!
As part of the Bach Builders MTB race team sponsorship that I enjoy, we get access to Specialized products – so in December I ordered a 2010 Specialized Marathon 29er…last week (after putting up with much harassment from me about ‘where is my bike’) I got the call from Sports Garage in Boulder that it was ready!
The irony was that when the call came in, I was actually in Prescott, Az racing (on my 5-yr old Yeti AS-R)! So exciting!
First though, I certainly want to acknowledge Sports Garage (mainly Chris and Stacee) for putting up with my whining about it not being delivered, and then making things happen to get it when they did – I am extremely grateful and appreciative of their efforts and commitment to getting it too me as soon as they could. I also enjoyed getting the fit dialed in just right, and making it as comfortable and smooth as possible. Thanks!
The bike is fantastic – it is light and very stiff, and those big wheels roll really fast – in fact they roll faster than I am used to, so in the first couple of rides I have been going into corners hot and overshooting them, resulting in rapid braking (read, mild panic) and scrubbing off all my speed – plus, being a little bit higher up on the bike has made me feel taller and slightly more top-heavy. I am sure this will go away as I get used to it, but for now, its weird!
People who have seen the bike, though, have asked about the Sram XX setup – with the two chainrings in the front, and the 10 rings in the back. It certainly is different, and initially I was concerned about my ability to climb without a granny gear – especially on long, sustained climbs. The rings up front are 39/26 – so a little smaller than a middle ring, but larger than a granny – how would this work out in the big stuff?
So far, I have not bogged down on a big climb. Now, I have not done a really steep, sustained climb on it yet, but I have done rolling and sustained, and it was fine. What I did notice was that when you roll over the top of a climb that you just completed, that there will be a need to shift quickly, as the gears are more spread out than normal. So its odd in that I am used to being able to roll out of a hill and stay in the same gear for a little bit as the speed picks up – with XX, I have to shift more immediately. Interesting.
Getting use to the big wheels again is taking a bit of getting used to – the rolling speed of this bike is amazing, and seems effortless. Shifting is amazingly smooth and crisp, and the bike overall is silent. Its really a joy to ride – and I can’t wait to put it through its first race (FrontRange 50) this weekend!


"When you look at the mission of the military and military culture, which is about aggression and about war, it shouldn’t surprise us at all that sexual assault would surface as a huge issue that they’d [the military] need to look at," said Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore, of Wisconsin.
Where to begin here?
There are about one million active duty military personnel and the number of reported sexual assaults in 2012 was 3,374, up from 3,192 in 2011. In 2011, there were 194 rapes in Gwen Moore’s hometown of Milwaukee, a rate of 32.5 per 100,000 people.
What culture does Moore blame for that?
There are many possible explanations for sexual assault in the military (although we should be careful not be exaggerate). In no particular order: popular culture, the breakdown of sexual mores in the wider society, boredom, alcohol, lust, anger, sexual aggression, the proximity of the young men and women who are confined under conditions that can, at times, be stressful. We could certainly add the popularity of misogynist celebration of rape in some rap music.
But Moore goes to "military culture."
Let’s concede for the moment that a certain amount of aggressive machismo will inevitably be part of that culture. But does it lead to rape? Where’s the evidence?
Does a willingness to go on patrol in Iraq make one more likely to want to commit a sexual assault? Are soldiers tracking the Taliban though villages in Afghanistan more likely to return to the barracks and rape a female colleague?
And what of the rest of military culture? The sense of duty, honor, courage, sacrifice? The willingness to lay down one’s life for one’s country and for one’s fellow soldiers?
Is that all about "aggression and about war’? Or is that merely Gwen Moore cartoonish view of the culture of men and women in uniform, a lingering hangover from her 1960s-1970s notion of the returning veteran as killer and potential abuser?
As a victim herself, Moore, obviously cares about the problem, but rather than providing any new insight, she simply throws out a tired anti-military caricature.
No doubt the issue is a serious one, but is it really the case that women in the military are more likely to be assaulted than those in civilian life? It’s hard to say for sure because statistics in this area are suspect, but isn’t it possible—even likely—that the military is simply better about tracking the problem than is civilian society?
And a Marine Corps advocate general, is challenging the validity of the survey that is being hyped by the media/critics to argue that there is an epidemic: Lindsay Rodman notes that the latest numbers are derived from a survey of doubtful scientific validity:
The term "sexual assault" was not used in the WGRA survey. Instead, the survey refers to "unwanted sexual contact," which includes touching the buttocks and attempted touching. All of that behavior is wrongful, but it doesn't comport with the conventional definition of sexual assault or with the legal definition of sexual assault in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, as enacted by Congress.
We’re likely to find out a lot more about the problem in coming weeks, but for any real insight, you’re probably best off not looking to Gwen Moore.


William E. “Sonny” Dennis of Honesdale, PA, died Friday, February 10, 2012 at home. He was 73.
He is survived by his wife of nearly 49 years, the former Ellen B. Yakaboski. They were married on March 30, 1963.
Born on January 28, 1939 in Smith Hill, he was the son of the late Asa N. Dennis and Geraldine Gilbert Dennis. After high school in Damascus, PA, Sonny served in the U.S. Navy. He owned and operated the family dairy farm. Devoted to agriculture, Sonny was fond of John Deere tractors and the rural farm lifestyle in which he and his wife raised their family. In the late 1960s, Sonny was acknowledged as the Wayne County Outstanding Young Farmer of the Year. He will be remembered as a kind, hard working, and good hearted man, willing to help anyone in need, whose family was very dear to him.
He is also survived by children Timothy E. Dennis of Jeffersonville, NY and companion Lisa Edwards, Ted W. Dennis and wife Lisa of Coudersport, PA and Julie Ludwig and husband Bill of Bethany, PA; granddaughter Maddie Ludwig; and brother Charles A. Dennis.
He is preceded in death by a sister, Shirley Krol.
Funeral Services with Military Honors were held on February 15 in the Arthur A. Bryant Funeral Home, Honesdale, with Rev. William Rushik officiating.
Memorials may be made to Wayne Memorial Hospice, 601 Park Street, Honesdale, PA 18431; or the Damascus Volunteer Ambulance, PO Box 63, Damascus, PA 18415.


Congress moved no closer to ending a partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday, with frustrations boiling over from the White House to the Capitol and the majority of lawmakers away on August recess.
The finger-pointing — by Senate Democrats, House Republicans and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood — played out like a bizarre epilogue to a months-long, sometimes vitriolic debate over extending the nation’s debt ceiling. At a news conference Wednesday, Senate Democrats bemoaned being “held hostage” by House Republicans in the standoff over extending the FAA’s authorization, which expired July 22.
The Democrats accused House Republicans of promoting special interests over nearly 4,000 furloughed FAA employees, and the media availability ended awkwardly after a television reporter asked a series of pointed questions as to why the Senate wouldn’t simply pass a bill that has already made its way through the House.
“It’s as if someone puts a gun to your head and says, ‘Give me your money,’ and then you say, ‘Why won’t you give them their money?’ You leave out the whole context that there’s a gun being held to your head, and that is not fair and that is not right. And yet ... we keep getting that situation,” Senate Democratic Conference Vice Chairman Charles Schumer (N.Y.) said shortly before all but one lawmaker stormed off stage.
The impasse has resulted in a nearly two-week partial shutdown that has also halted about 70,000 construction jobs across the country. It centers on a House-passed, multiyear reauthorization that would make it harder for airline and railroad workers to unionize, a nonstarter for Senate Democrats. Just two days before the current authorization's expiration, the House passed another extension that would last only through Sept. 16. It left out the union language, but included $16.5 million in cuts to a rural air service program that would fall heavily on Nevada, the home state of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D).
Republicans say that they've sent a reasonable bill to the Senate and that Democrats, who are seeking a "clean" extension, are the ones perpetuating the shutdown.
If no extension is passed until Congress returns in September, the government could lose up to $1 billion in uncollected airline ticket taxes, according to the Transportation Department.
From the White House briefing room Wednesday, LaHood called on Congress to return to work and pass a clean extension. Both the House and Senate will have multiple pro forma sessions during the August recess, meaning they could approve the extension by unanimous consent during the recess, send it to President Barack Obama’s desk and end the standoff.
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Democrats used to love Steve Schmidt: he was a Republican operative who had seen the light. Schmidt helped choose Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate in 2008 and then, after sustained exposure to the former Alaska governor, set about publicly torching Palin as “manifestly unprepared” and “filled with anger.” Recently, Schmidt has been a frequent MSNBC presence, podcasting star, and a passionate and eloquent anti-Trumpist. He has renounced his membership in the “corrupt” and “immoral” G.O.P. and called President Donald Trump a “useful idiot” for Russia.
Suddenly, Schmidt is back to being a villain. He is now the chief strategist for the possible independent presidential bid by Howard Schultz, the billionaire former Starbucks C.E.O.—a campaign that could help deliver the very thing Schmidt claims to abhor, a second term for Trump. Schultz, if he runs, could spend tens of millions of dollars attacking the developing Democratic presidential agenda. In addition to Schmidt, he has hired Bill Burton, a former aide to President Barack Obama, as a communications adviser. “It’s a massive headache for Democrats,” says Jen Psaki, another top veteran of the Obama White House. “There is a valid concern out there that Schultz would take away not just independents, but Republicans who are disgusted by Donald Trump—hence re-electing Donald Trump. This has been inaccurately portrayed as a ‘Washington is angry about Howard Schultz’ story, but actually the outrage is coming from Democrats in many states, people who have been grassroots organizers, people who have been door-knocking and raising money and who helped turn the tide of the House in November. And it’s a reflection of the fear of re-electing Donald Trump.”
Reducing the anxiety somewhat is the fact that Schultz’s rollout has thus far been pretty awful, inspiring only to Trump-friendly outlets like the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, the small cadre of both-sides-do-it journalists, and Simpson-Bowles nostalgists. The prospective candidate has looked wooden and oddly bitter, defensive about his billionaire status. In fact, Schmidt, and his anti-Trump bona fides, has so far been the best thing about Schultz’s exploratory tour. The consultant seems to have a more fully developed policy vision than his prospective candidate. It’s possible that he has a more realistic political game in mind, too, in addition to a generous paycheck: if the pre-Trump Republican Party can’t be resurrected, maybe the threat of Schultz can push the Democrats to nominate a more middle-of-the-road candidate. An adviser to one top Democrat, who believes Schmidt’s involvement is driven mostly by self-promotion, foresees exactly the opposite effect in the primary: “Schultz actually makes things more polarizing—he’s a Mr. Burns foil. Elizabeth Warren couldn’t have dreamed him up any better.”
Mark Salter, a longtime close aide to McCain, touches on what his former colleague Schmidt may be up to. “Given my own contempt for Trump, I understand the negative reaction [to Schultz],” Salter says. “That said, and not that I have a say in the matter as a disaffected Republican, I would prefer a Democratic nominee who appeals to centrists like me and not to the fringes of his or her party.” Schmidt comes close to confirming that gambit—and to confirming Democratic worries about Schultz splitting the general election vote to Trump’s benefit. “[Roughly] 35 percent of Republicans want another choice,” he says. “The natural harbor for those people is not Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris, should they be the nominee. The idea that Howard doesn’t draw from the Republican Party is just wrong on its face.”
Schmidt shrugs off Schultz’s early stumbles and defends him as a benevolent boss. He views all the attention and criticism as vindicating his belief that the electorate is open to a centrist outsider, and that the entrenched parties are scared of Schultz breaking their hold on the system. “If you imagine a period in time in 2020 where Howard Schultz is ahead in a three-way race, with multiple paths to 270 electoral votes, and all the commentariat saying, ‘How did you know that would happen?,’ well, the indication was probably at the beginning with the hysterical, overwrought, panicked reaction by vested interests within the political duopoly and in the media class,” Schmidt says. “There’s an enormous constituency in this country that’s just completely unrepresented. There has never been a larger population of moderate voters who generally agree on some of the country’s biggest problems.”
It’s certainly a good thing for the Democratic contenders to be challenged on the cost and effectiveness of proposals that are rapidly becoming orthodoxy, like universal health care and free college. But Schultz, to this point, hardly seems the guy to inspire the elusive, possibly chimerical moderate majority. He’s billing himself as a centrist independent, but Schultz’s policy ideas sound more like warmed-over corporate Republicanism. He’s talked up “comprehensive tax reform,” cutting spending on entitlements, and reducing the national debt, while dodging questions about whether his plan would include raising rates on the wealthy. And he has—risibly—apportioned equal political blame on Republicans and Democrats for the failure to pass rational immigration laws.
Schmidt says the coffee mogul will spend the next several months traveling and polling and will then make a decision. “What Howard Schultz has said definitively—and what I will say definitively—is that President Trump is a menace,” Schmidt says. “It’s a lawless presidency that has debased and degraded the institutions of this country and divided the country. And he has to be removed from office. Howard Schultz will not entertain a campaign as a spoiler. He’s not going to get into the race unless there’s a real popular demand.”
Which is easy to say, but harder to calibrate and control, especially when sizable egos are involved. “Steve left the Republican Party. That did not mean that he also became a liberal,” says John Weaver, a former top McCain strategist. “He’s with a guy who may break down a duopoly. Partisans on both sides are having a real difficult time with that. But we are far from the end of the day. We’re at the beginning. So everybody needs to calm the fuck down and go run your campaign.”
That group could soon include Weaver, who is working with John Kasich, the former Republican governor of Ohio. Weaver says that Kasich is “clearly leaning into it but isn’t close to a final decision.” And given what has been going on in Washington lately, Weaver and Kasich are in no rush. “There’s a rule in politics: if somebody is in the middle of hurting themselves, don’t get in his way,” Weaver says. “Trump is like a coyote on crack running through a minefield. We need to just sit back and watch a little bit of this. But you get encouraged when you see national polls like the one today where already a third of Republicans would vote for someone else in a primary. I’m pretty confident that we could beat Trump in New Hampshire. The question is, then what?”
Schmidt doesn’t claim to know what’s next for Schultz. He does claim that the two of them are patriotically “disrupting” a process that deserves an overhaul. “The brokenness of the political system is something that should be debated,” he says, “because the brokenness of the system is what produced Donald Trump.” The irony would be if a new, Schultz-induced fracture ends up duplicating 2016’s result.
“Count me in the small group of potential 2020 contenders who could not care less as to whether Howard Schultz runs,” says Eric Swalwell, a California Democratic congressman who spoke as he was traveling to New Hampshire Thursday morning. “I’m not scared one bit by one independent billionaire. We’re going to win based on our candidates and our ideas. And we’re going to have a Democratic president in 2021.”
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1967 Triumph T120 TT VIN: T120 TT DU 54178 The TT was a tremendous race-spec bike that was only offered in the United States. They were produced by Triumph from 1963 through 1967. At the end of the 1967 model year Johnson Motors, one of the largest importers of Triumphs in US at the time, ordered 200 specially made TT for 1968. They were to have a few modifications from stock, most importantly was the specification of the headstock having the steeper 65-degree rake angle from the 1965 model. Of course the 1968 model year never happened, and these 200 special bikes represent the last of the T120 TTs. These very rare bikes are documented in the book Triumph Motorcycles in America by Lindsay Brooke. This example was always a race bike, and was never road registered. It was original and complete, making it an excellent candidate for restoration. The result of over a year of work, this TT is 100% correct down to its 1-year only bolt stampings, and unobtanium, original NOS tires.
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It was hard to remember, to keep track of why, to not just let go and be with their surroundings. Even something so simple as a name was just out of reach, no matter how hard they tried to grasp. An image of a face, a reason to sacrifice them self to this pain, for yes, the darkness hurt, was the only thing still burning brightly in their mind; even if the image was beginning to blur.
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In her recent book “Dreamers”, which features poignant stories about some of our country’s youth, Snigdha Poonam narrates the story of Sachin Ahuja. Sachin has a typical 9-6 job selling insurance. From 7 pm to 8 pm, he lifts weights - so far, so good. It’s his life post 9 pm that’s unexpected – for then Sachin is a ‘gau rakshak’ (cow protector), and they, as Snigdha says, “are the most feared men in India today.”
Is Sachin’s story an aberration or the new norm? The book narrates many such stories of people like Sachin, who are a part of our country’s youth, aged 15-35 years. A group that comprises about one third of our population today. A group that often gets glowingly mentioned as our “demographic dividend”. As if they are committed to give us yearly returns until eternity. A group that needs the best education and the most jobs. And a group that is in desperate need for a better future.
Are they resigned to be “dreamers” or can the future really be theirs?
Let’s start with a few statistics.
In 2008, we saw the initiation of the Right to Education programme to ensure every child got access to education. A generation of children got free education till Class 8. In 2016, these children completed Class 8. What happens after that? Did we get them ready for their future?
A surprising answer comes from Pratham’s ASER report 2016, “Beyond Basics”. This year, Pratham studied the 14-18-year-olds of our country. Their insights show that,
In 2016, a quarter of all children in Standard VIII in rural India were unable to read a Standard II level text and a third were unable to solve a 3-digit by 1-digit division sum. Not surprisingly, dropout rates in secondary grades are very high, especially for girls.
So, what did we really solve then? Where is the road to higher education for the ones who need that, and the path to job readiness for all? Formal Higher Education today addresses just 15 percent of the youth. Of course, one can argue that in the world enabled by technology, anyone can learn. There are online courses and certifications that are filling in the lacunae formal education has left.
But fact is, the demographic dividend that is our youth is getting squeezed by an invisible rope that ties the uncertainty of future jobs together with a lack of understanding of self-competencies and choices in a knot which seems impossible to remove. In fact, the Pratham report states that many youngsters from rural India and smaller towns still aspire for government jobs rather than generating employment.
As if these were not enough problems choking the already gasping demographic dividend, two other issues are lurking around the corner.
Women comprise about 49 percent of our population of one billion people, but, in the usage of internet, women are still far behind men. Just about 29 percent of India’s internet users are women. Sahil Kini, Principal, Aspada Investments, in his column “Bharat Rough Book” in the Mint newspaper, says India accounts for nearly half the digital gender gap worldwide, even though we account for 12 percent of the total internet population. This, along with the high rate of secondary drop-out of girls, places us at the danger of increasing the gender gap in employability. No wonder then, that the World Economic Forum report on Gender Gap (November 2017) placed us at 108 out of 144 countries.
For all the talk about womens’ empowerment, maybe ensuring that they get educated and digitally literate is a way to think through their own empowerment.
For a second, let’s forget the youth and consider an average 40-year-old in an information technology job in India. He is part of the generation of engineers whose careers got engineered to meet the rising demand from the Indian information technology industry. His job is no more secure than the future of the youth of India if he has not re-skilled himself. According to McKinsey, that figure stands at 600 million expected job transitions in India due to automation and as Artificial Intelligence reshape jobs.
It is easy to say we need a nation of job-creators not seekers. Easier to say the data on job growth itself is wrong. There are many more informal jobs being created.
The real question is how we can remove the shackles from our demographic dividend? Let’s move from the problems to the solutions. There are brilliant minds who are trying to tackle this challenge. We need more of them, and we need more from them.
Instead of a singular focus on learning outcomes, there are companies that are trying to focus on a multi-modal way of linking skills to the jobs of the future. While automation will shift the nature of jobs, it will also create new jobs, and intrinsic skills will find many people suitable for such jobs if they have the right information and training.
One simple solution is to help people align their innate competencies to the skills required for mass-scale jobs, rather than pushing everyone towards Board Exams and mathematics and English learning outcomes, which for many, will remain tough.
Manish Sabharwal, Chairman, Team Lease Services, Bengaluru, puts the solution succinctly in his interviews. It’s not a question of job growth according to him. It’s a question of productivity growth and wage growth and labour laws which help us sustain that.
Solving for skilling starts right from education. Our current curriculum is still stuck in an era that might require our youth to time travel to the past. All measures on “Quality of Education” quote mathematics and English learning outcomes in standardised tests.
Preparing our children for the future might involve rethinking how we help our children to become problem solvers and thinkers so that they can design their own careers rather than waiting to join the latest career bandwagon. And that change can start in individual schools, through simple interventions on job-readiness skills.
It will also involve us bringing an element of life-long learning at every step of our careers. Not just to get to a job which may become extinct in a few years. A “growth-mindset” every company and every individual needs to incorporate in their lives. The rising number of “Life-Coaches” in India stands testimony to the life-long confusion lack of life-long learning can bring.
Beyond the narrow confines of the way we define education today, as job benefits become more uncertain, we need to get smarter with how we manage our savings. And financial literacy is a subject that is strangely out of syllabus in schools. Even when we grow up, savings are considered “taxing” for most of us who are not financially inclined. Maybe it’s time to change that.
To simplify the idea of savings and bring financial education as a core part of learning, for each one of us.
With a problem as complex and vast as skilling and jobs, we will need a host of solutions and collaborations that can work together to make a difference.
As for demographic dividend, maybe it’s time to let it breathe. And live. Without the burden of unreasonable expectations.


So, last August I said I couldn’t put out any Jesse stories (or any other GQ books) because the book wouldn’t pay for itself. And that is definitely still true. But frankly nothing I do is likely to pay for itself. I just don’t manage to write mainstream stories, even when that’s exactly what I set out to do.
But I’ve recently been working on Jesse anyway, and I want to eventually tell all of Henry & Martin’s life together. At this point it’s very unlikely that there will suddenly be a huge swell of new readers/fans of the series putting money into my coffers. It’s a niche series for a select few :D So how do I put the books out for those few?
It is quite different from the GQ stories, so I thought I should use a different name, but now I’m thinking it wasn’t necessary.
This was a little idea I had that was just supposed to be smut. I wrote it in about two days, spent way more time than that looking for the right buff torso photo, and immediately wrote 2/3 of a sequel, should there ever be a need for such a thing.
It’s about a full-size human man who finds an injured doll-size fairy. Eventually, there are M/M/F fairies and of course a human M and they all mix it up in various ways. It’s kinky, but it sort of has to be with little bitty fairies involved.
It was just supposed to be kinky smut, like I said, but I ended up caring for all the characters too much to leave it at that, so it’s more of a real story than I had originally planned.
Since it’s been months since I’ve posted anything, I just wanted to resurface to verify that I am not dead, not at all.
I’m working on the Jesse stories, and I did think I’d have them done months ago, but I’ve been prioritizing a lot of other projects instead. See, I had this idea I’d write something a bit more commercially viable than the GQ books, but I’m beginning to think that’s just not something I can do. Everything I touch turns to weird.
I’ve written at least 500K of various projects since putting out ACAT/AFC, so I’ve kept busy. Whether it’ll amount to anything is unclear, but at least I’m working.
Anyway, if you’ve been waiting for Jesse stories, I won’t promise anything, but springtime doesn’t seem like an unreasonable goal.
A Master’s Fidelity (GQ 2.5), A Vital Chemistry (GQ 3.5), and A Free Choice (GQ 4.5) are now $0.99 from ebook retailers. A Superior Slave (GQ 0.5) is still free from those same retailers. All four stories are still available to read/download for free on AO3.
What that $0.99 buys a reader is a pretty cover, pretty chapter headings, and everything formatted the way I want it to look.
Have a safe and wonderful New Year. I hope those of you who opted in on the Charles/Simon story enjoyed it, and I look forward to offering you more of Henry, Martin and their friends in coming years. I have a lot of new characters in new universes coming, as well, and I sincerely hope you’ll give them a chance too.
I had a very pleasant exchange with a reader awhile back about whether the characters’ names had any particular meaning for me, and I thought other readers might be interested in knowing this too. If you’re not into vague authorial introspection, you can skip this post :D
The newsletter, as such, with a link to A Rich Man’s Privilege, went out to the mailing list on 12/24. If you got it, I hope you enjoyed it.
I believe I’ve got things set up now so new subscribers get sent a link to the story upon confirming their subscription. If this isn’t the case, please let me know.
If you subscribed but didn’t get my “Happy Holidays” email, please check your spam folder. If it’s not there, let me know and I’ll get the story to you. In retrospect, I probably should have titled the email something more like “Here’s That Story You Wanted” so it would be less spam-like. I’ll keep that in mind for next time I send something out :D
I decided awhile back I should do a newsletter, but I didn’t have anything specific in mind because I am TOTAL SHIT at marketing, and I didn’t realize I was supposed to have special stuff waiting for my subscribers the minute they got on board. I really did just think people would sign up whenever, and eventually I’d send them something, and we’d all be okay with that. Which is in fact how it’s going down, but I just want you to know that I realize now that my methods are artless and utterly without added value.
However, since it’s almost Xmas, I’m thinking I’ll send newsletter people a present: a preliminary version of the Charles/Simon story I’ve mentioned in the past. This story will eventually go into a book I’ll be asking people to pay for, possibly in altered form, but I’m pretty happy with it as it is, so I doubt it will change terribly much. It’s about 12K words and depicts an auction day completely different than Henry and Martin’s.
So this is me giving you advance warning that a thing you might want could be yours if you add yourself to my mailing list in the next few days. Since I have had a theoretical newsletter for months now without sending out a single missive, rest assured I won’t be spamming you with DG news.
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IMDB rate: 5,6
Genre: Comedic, Monster, Mad Scientist
Starring: Justin Long, Michael Parks, Johnny Depp, Haley Joel Smith
My rate: 3,5/10
My rate: 3,5/10
Kevin Smith, also known as Silent Bob, just made a step further into the horror genre. I am a huge fan of his movies Clerks and Dogma. I even thought Red State was a fairly good movie, although it's not comedic in any way, which isn't much like Kevin Smith's usual work. With the Tusk trailer being released I must say that I was somewhat excited to see it, mainly because it seemed pretty ridiculous and kinda fun as well, plus it was made by Kevin Smith. I must say that it was a pretty ridiculous movie indeed, but unfortunately it was not funny at any point. There are movies that are 'so bad, it's good', I expected Tusk to be one of them but unfortunately this wasn't the case at all. I don't necessarily think every Kevin Smith movie is good, some I didn't enjoy very much such as as Chasing Amy. But with Tusk I must say that it definitely Kevin Smith's worst movie. The worst part? It's being made into a trilogy.
Unfortunately the movie is not funny at any point. Okay, maybe once or twice I had a little chuckle, but really that's about it. It's filled with Canadian jokes, which weren't very original or funny at any moment. The big attraction to this movie is of course big star Johnny Depp who plays a weird Canadian detective, his character is pretty much constructed from every Canadian-stereotype you can think of, which is pretty tiresome after awhile. I must admit that in the first few minutes of Guy Lapointe's appearance I didn't recognize Johnny Depp, but after awhile his usual acting habits appeared and it became pretty obvious that the guy was Johnny Depp.
I must say that for a long while I claimed that my favorite actor of all time was Johnny Depp, but the last few years his movies have been rubbish. The last fun movie I've seen of him are the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' ones and that's already quite some time ago (I don't count the fourth one, didn't like that one very much). I do like his older work a lot though, movies as Edward Scissorhands, Chocolat, Finding Neverland and Sleepy Hollow. The reason why I think I don't like him a whole lot anymore is because of the characters he plays. He always plays the weird ones, which was fun for awhile but now it's just becoming normal. Johnny Depp in another weird character, whoop'difuckingdoo.
The Tusk cast is pretty nice, the crazy Walrus man is being played by Michael Parks (Kill Bill, Red State, Django Unchained), not a bad actor at all and he has a magnificent voice. The problem with his voice however is that Kevin Smith seems to enjoy it as well, meaning that the dialogues spoken by Michael Parks are pretty much never-ending, which was also the case with Red State. Other roles are played by Justin Long (Accepted, Jeepers Creepers) who plays the ultimate douchebag, I don't hate him as an actor though. A surprising face to see was Haley Joel Osment, the cute little kid from Sixth Sense. However, he's not very cute anymore, still a good actor though.
Kevin Smith was always a writer that added a lot of dialogue into his movies, but the last few movies have contained more of a background story as well. I think he's trying to reach Quentin Tarantino's level with this kind of movie-making. The problem is that Kevin Smith just does not seem to be very good in creating the background story. Tusk almost seems like a parody to the Human Centipede, which isn't necessarily a bad concept, but it just didn't work out at all. When the transformation is complete is looks somewhat unsettling, but is in no way as disturbing as the Human Centipede.
I already mentioned this but Tusk will be followed by two sequels, which will be part of the 'True North' collection. The next installment is 'Yoga Hosers' with the main characters being played by Depp's and Smith's daughters. These two were also briefly in Tusk, and as far I could tell they weren't good actresses at all. They seemed very awkward and I just can't imagine the two being main characters. The third installment is 'Moose Jaws', which doesn't sound very promising either.
I heard rumors that this trilogy is only being made because Kevin Smith needed some money to be able to make Clerks 3, and I truly hope that this is the case. I am a big fan of Clerks and a third movie would be awesome. Even though I'm looking forward to Clerks 3, Tusk was definitely not a success for Kevin Smith and I doubt the next two part will be better. The movie has a good cast which solid acting skills, the dialogue is perhaps a bit long but not bad or anything. Unfortunately the whole concept of Tusk is horrible, the walrus is weird looking, the movie isn't funny and the characters are highly irritating.


You know what happens after finding out the truth about something you thought was already true? A disorienting disillusionment.
I have a small green box of unsent letters right here in my room, sitting on top of a Murakami, Palahniuk, Gaiman, and a couple of Kunderas, to be specific. You’d see it in the photo I used for this post, although my books are kinda rearranged now. It was the box of a Longchamp coin purse I still use – the one I got as a birthday gift back in 2013, when I was on exchange in France.
I used to write a lot of letters then. I wrote letters everywhere I went. I only ever sent three all in one go, along with a bulky map of the Louvre. But stupid 19-year old me thought of including a 20 peso bill, just to be completely random. There’s no use for it in Europe anyway, I thought.
It never arrived. Perhaps because of the 20 peso bill. I don’t know.
And so from then on, I kept the letters I wrote. I wrote from the most beautiful McDonald’s I ever seen (it was in Budapest,) from an apartment in Prague, from my dorm room in Lille, from a friend’s apartment in Paris. If I wasn’t writing letters, I was writing e-mails. Or sending long text messages through magtxt.com – para libre.
Man did I pour myself out back then.
I thought it was true, what we had.
I’m not even sure why I’m writing this. It doesn’t even matter anymore because it was all lies, but I got the feels from listening to John Mayer’s new song. It’s so b e a u t i f u l. (In a Rolling Stone feature, he said that what’s on the song is the original take. It’s probably unaltered that’s why it sounds so raw and God okay just give it a listen.)
Anyway I guess I’m writing this because disillusionment is very strange. I’m confused with how I feel whenever something reminds me of anything from 2013. I’d feel nostalgic but then I’ll remember how they’re all lies and… yeah I’d be confused. It’s like I’ve lost a reference point. Like a part of me is invalid. I trace it back and find nothing. It lost its meaning. It’s all nothing.
I feel like I just found out that Santa Claus isn’t real. And that’s disorienting as fuck if you really truly believed he existed. Heck, he was even sending you presents and eating your cookies, drinking your milk. And then you find out he isn’t real. Disorienting as fuck. And now I still kind of don’t know what to do about it. About the truth.
Nothing, probably. Just carry on.
But this I can assure you: I was true. True as I can ever be. Perhaps in a way I would never be again, especially after this.
To my past self: it’s all different now, I’m all different now, but you’re gonna live forever in me.


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That is class. Does it pack down small? Best of luck with thr trip. I will be following yere progress with interest. All the best Alan. I still have the pouch for the Exc 450 you bought off me a few years back.
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Bags Outside the Door is the title of a 5-track EP by a remarkable talent – Blair Dunlop.
A guitarist of outstanding ability, a singer with an attractive and emotional voice, and an actor who has, among other things, starred as Young Willy Wonka to Johnny Depp’s grown-up Willy in the blockbuster movie “Charlie and the chocolate factory”.
Blair’s new release is, in effect, full of live studio performances. He effortlessly replicates onstage performances, singing and playing some of his compositions. And what maturity he shows in his songwriting. There’s also a finger-busting instrumental and a beautiful, moving version of an rare English folk-song.
Allied to young film-star good looks and an infectious, engaging personality, no wonder some top musicians and singers have dubbed him “A star in the making”!


Are driverless cars the way of the future? Volvo sure hopes so. The Swedish automaker is hoping to have automated cars on the roads by 2017.
Volvo plans to accomplish this through a project called Drive Me, which has a $76.2 million budget and is set to kick off next year. The Drive Me experiment will have 100 driverless cars take to the roads of Gothenburg, Sweden to test their ability navigate a variety of traffic scenarios and evaluate their safety and feasibility as an option for the average consumer.
The cars will use GPS, cameras, and motion sensors to navigate, and will have their speed capped at 43.5 miles per hour.
“Our aim is for the car to be able to handle all possible traffic scenarios by itself, including leaving the traffic flow and finding a safe ‘harbor’ if the driver for any reason is unable to regain control,” Volvo technical specialist Erik Coeling said in a press release.
(via Digital Trends)


Hey, in 40 years of growing I have never seen or had this problem. I ordered a batch of seeds from someplace in the Netherlands. The package came from Bulgaria. I notified the company of this and they are sending a new batch. So no issue with them. Starting the new seeds like I always do in a wet paper towel. All the seeds popped. Not one grew, even after up to 3 weeks in that state. Never dried out, this is what I always do. It was 20 seeds, and looking for a male, so I did 3 different groups, different times. I am questioning if some kind of radiation could have caused this? I really find it hard to believe that 20 seeds would not start. Sure, we have failures, but this is quite different. My goal here is to get a male to fertilize an original white widow that got powdery mildew. Will do different thread on that... Appreciate hearing your thoughts.


This could mean Brexit being delayed, a change of government or a second referendum, he said.
Appearing in the House of Commons just minutes later, a confident-sounding May defended her Brexit plan.
But the Stone MP said he was encouraged that the release of the Government's Brexit white paper had been deferred for more than a week.
Johnson had been due to host a summit about the western Balkans on Monday afternoon but was instead holed up in his official residence with close advisers, considering his position.
Johnson may be warming up his vocal chords to sing a new Brexit song that does not stick in his throat. "The trouble is that I have practised the words over the weekend and find that they stick in the throat".
Brexit negotiations with Brussels are also expected to resume next Monday.
As May attempts to unify her party behind her proposals, commentators said Trump meeting Johnson would suggest backing for his view that May's plans would inhibit Britain's ability to forge new free trade deals.
May says the plan will deliver frictionless trade with Europe and avoid a hard border between the UK's Northern Ireland and European Union member Ireland.
He wrote in The Sun that the British people "don't want some bog roll Brexit, soft, yielding and seemingly indefinitely long".
Pro-Brexit politicians commended the two ministers for their decision not to support the latest blueprint, with eurosceptic backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg calling Mr Davis and Mr Johnons "courageous" for standing up for British voters.
If a further 47 Conservative MPs send in letters it will trigger a vote of confidence in the leader.
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But others argued May had adopted the most realistic plan after she was weakened in an ill-judged election previous year when she lost her parliamentary majority, meaning she has to rely on a small Northern Irish party to govern.
Lord Hague said the proposals agreed at Chequers were "the most that can be achieved within the inevitable and inescapable constraints".
Brussels has repeatedly warned it will not accept "cherry-picking" of elements of its single market. "I'm not sure. That's not on the schedule, but the president makes his own schedule".
In a letter, May told Johnson she was a "little surprised" to receive his resignation letter following productive Brexit talks on Friday. "But. who knows?", he added, wondering if Britain might reject the divorce.
Boris's resignation letter is scathing.
"It's really kind of irrelevant to what we're trying to do, and it certainly doesn't express the opinion of the British people that I've met", Ambassador Johnson said of the balloon.
Davis said his job required "an enthusiastic believer in your approach, and not merely a reluctant conscript".
'And maybe we'll speak to him when I get over there.
"It's regrettable it hasn't been resolved yet, I think there should be less hype and over spinning and let's focus on detailed negotiations".
Brexit hardliners welcomed his move, with Conservative MP Peter Bone saying: "The PM's proposals for a Brexit in name only are not acceptable".
After a dramatic day of twists and turns in Westminster, the prime minister addressed Conservative MPs for an hour, issuing a stark warning that divided parties lose elections and telling her party that "to lead is to decide".


Underneath, The Life and Art of Gregory Gillespie
“A character in a Bruce Springsteen song sings, “Maybe you got a kid, maybe you got a pretty wife, the only thing that I got been bothering me my whole life.” The painter Gregory Gillespie was not that guy. He had a lot in his life including worldly success, loyal friends, a family, and an absolute genius for art. But I do think he also had something that bothered him his whole life.
I met him once when I was a drunken art student and he came to an opening of an important group show of realists that he was in at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. I was in the men’s room, and looked over as I was urinating and there he was standing next to me. I yelled his name, stuck out my hand, and he shook it. He was the nicest famous artist I have ever met.
Life and career
“Gregory Gillespie was born in Roselle Park, New Jersey. After graduating from high school, he became a nondegree student at Cooper Union in New York. In 1959 he married Frances Cohen (1939–1998), who was also an artist, and the following year they moved to San Francisco where Gillespie studied at the San Francisco Art Institute.
In 1962 he received the first of two Fulbright-Hays grants, for travel to Italy to study the work of Masaccio. He lived and worked in Florence for two years, and in Rome for six years, studying the works of such Renaissance masters as Carpaccio, Mantegna, and Carlo Crivelli, who was a particular favorite of Gillespie. During this time he was awarded three Chester Dale Fellowships and a Louis Comfort Tiffany grant. In 1971 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1994.
He had his first solo show in 1966, at the Forum Gallery in New York. In 1970 he returned to the United States, where he settled in Williamsburg, Massachusetts. He exhibited in several Whitney Biennials, and in 1977 the Hirshhorn Museum organized a touring retrospective of his work.
Gregory Gillespie became known for meticulously painted figurative paintings, landscapes, and self portraits, often with a fantastical element. Many of his early works were made by painting over photographs cut from newspapers or magazines, transforming the scenes through photographic collage and by adding imaginary elements. In his later work he abandoned his early fascination with creating hyper-realized realistic imagery, instead focusing on a looser and more expressive style. He often combined media in an unorthodox way to create shrine-like assemblages.
He was found dead in his studio in Belchertown, Massachusetts, apparently a suicide by hanging, on April 26, 2000.” – Wikipedia
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What’s in the water in Galway? Jokingly one could link the emergence of Galway brewing to the fact that beer could be safer to drink than the water. This would of course be doing a disservice to the breweries themselves. First, with Cork and now with Galway, Ireland has its second significant cluster of breweries. Buoyed by the success of Galway Bay and Galway Hooker (yes it’s brewed in Roscommon but it’s very much Galway in all it’s maroon and white). Now there’s Independent Brewing and N17 on the scene, both joining the ranks in 2014.
Galway City is renowned for good times and they’ve a thriving craft beer scene to boot. Of course you can pay one’s respects by having a pint of Guinness in Freeney’s but you can move along High Street and have a pint of Bonaparte’s Stout in Tigh Neachtain’s by Galway Hooker. Then of course you can do the trail of the four, I repeat FOUR, Cottage Group (aka Galway Bay) pubs, two of which are out in Salthill along with Chris’ brewing laboratory (I deem it a lab because of the brilliant concoctions that have betwixed Ireland’s beer drinking fraternity). Just wait until he gets an even bigger facility!
Before I set off down the M6, I spent the previous evening in the newest member of the Cottage Group family, Alfie Byrne’s under the Conrad Hotel. This allowed me to try two new beers, along with the 2014 Beoir Beer of the Year “Of Foam and Fury” in all its tropical fruit glory and pith. Their new American Amber had a glorious auburn body topped with a good head. There was plenty of fruit and pine on the nose, with slight sweetness detectable as well. Full-on bitter citrus was flavour profile for this brew, which pushed on into the aftertaste.
The second beer was also product of their pilot facility and was a Cascadian Dark ale at 6.8% and it was available on cask, happy days! The Cascadian Dark Ale versus the Black IPA dispute aroused so much animosity that it was the beer equivalent of the east coast/west coast rap wars of the early 1990s, both in querying it’s very origins and the name itself. While I agree the BIPA moniker doesn’t really fit, I will declare my hand now by saying that I believe its roots are back in Burlington, Vermont. Galway Bay’s version of a black IPA had an aroma of tropical fruits and a hint of pine, which poured rich chocolate brown in colour topped by a creamy head. When tasted your were immediately punched by ripe pithy fruit. It was slightly cloying but gave way to a creamy finish. What was remarkable was almost the complete absence of dark malt flavours, which is a skill of only good brewers of this style.
Cousins Aidan Murphy and Ronan Brennan started a Galway Hooker back in 2006 and the name came from a competition. Rumour has it that their glasses rank amongst the most stolen and smuggled back to the US with a titter. The iconic pale ale at 4.3% is settling in nicely as one of the best session beers out there. Their draught pumps are becoming an increasingly familiar sight in non-traditional craft beer pubs. I must admit that I’m quite partial to this and have used it in several beer & food tastings. The use of cascade backed up by Irish malts give it a pleasant tanginess on a biscuit base. It’s a beer that’s fantastic in batter as well. Hard to come by their other offering (i.e. the Stout; they did have a dark wheat at one stage too) outside select locations and festivals.
Carraroe in the Gaeltacht is home to Independent Brewing Company, under the stewardship of Kevin O’Hara. Given the all clear by the revenue commissioners around the third week of January the beers starting appearing in off-licences and bars the following week. Indeed I hosted a tasting of their Gold Ale and Pale Ale that week, the Red Ale was released a couple of weeks later. I tried it during the week and it has a wonderful aroma of caramel and dry-roasted peanuts, with the classic red appearance and a head of thick foam. It was dry and bitter on the initial taste that gradually became more refreshing, although it finished a little thin. The Pale Ale and Gold Ale proved very popular during January’s tasting, both under the influence of C-hops (although a fair bit more in the Pale Ale).
Back across the county where there’s “stonewalls and the grass is green”, we come across N17, the brainchild of Tuam-native Sarah Roarty. Launched at the Alltech Brews & Food Fair, N17 has two beers currently lined up for distribution (brewed at the moment down in Kinsale), a rye ale and an oatmeal stout. Both are fantastic according to the brewery’s self-proclaimed biggest champion in the shape of Tim O’Rourke. They were both It’s certainly going to be interesting to see how this brewery develops over the years and the inevitable tweets that will no doubt take place to the recipes, along with new additions of course. The brewery’s also attracting a lot of attenton due to Sarah’s determination to sustainably re-use a lot of the waste from brewing process. So far she has found potential in developing a mushroom business, in fish farming and production of dog biscuits. This is not only a way of promoting sustainable production but also a mechanism for realising additional revenue streams (I know of one brewery in the US who is also in the soap business). So look out of N17 winning awards for its sustainable consciousness in addition to brewing (won a bronze medal for the Oatmeal Stout in the Dublin Cup). Forgive me for a second reference to some other well-known natives of Tuam, the Saw Doctors but these beers could have someone no longer wishing they were on that N17 but rather can they have a pint of something from N17.
There are a number of other breweries surrounding Galway (e.g. couple in Mayo and one in Clare) which clearly shows that the West is clearly fast becoming a major brewing cluster in its own right. It will be interesting to see how the region develops along with Cork and of course a nod to Waterford (with Dungarvan and Metalman) over the years. Such information can provide useful lessons for how Ireland can inculcate not only small producers but also start-up businesses general. Each of the regions have the added benefit of having vibrant local food producers, presence of specialist pubs and restaurants. Hopefully Dublin will be next with the opening of new brewing facilities byRascals and Stone Barrel alongside those already brewing.
But for now it’s into the west with you!


Genus: Athyma Westwood, 1850
Species: nefte Cramer, 1779
Subspecies: subrata Moore, 1858
Wingspan of Adult Butterfly: 60mm
Caterpillar Host Plants: Glochidion brunneum (Euphorbiaceae), G. superbum (Euphorbiaceae) and one un-identified plant in the nature reserve.
The upper- and underside of a female -f neftina Colour Sergeant.
The upper- and underside of a female -f subrata Colour Sergeant.
The upper- and underside of a male Colour Sergeant.
Physical Description of Adult Butterfly:
The adult has a closed cell in the forewing. The upperside of the forewing has contiguous/conjoined white cell post-discal spots from the dorsum to spaces 2 and 3. and confluent post-discal spots in spaces 4, 5 and 6 with their inner edge in line. The sexes are dissimilar. The male is a rich velvety black, with white markings tinged with bluish. The male in Singapore typically has an orange sub-apical spot in space 6 on the forewing upperside. This spot is usually white for males found in the Malay Peninsula. The female occurs in two distinct forms. In the -form neftina (Fruhstorfer) the wings are marked with broad orange-brown stripes arranged in the usual manner. The -form subrata (Moore) is a dark dull chocolate brown, with narrow and rather diffuse tawny brown markings. Both female forms are less abundant than the male, with -f neftina appears to be more common among the two female forms.
A female -f neftina Colour Sergeant.
A female -f subrata Colour Sergeant perching on a leaf in a western wasteland.
Field Observations of Butterfly Behaviour: This species is relatively common in Singapore. Sightings of the fast flying adults are rather frequent and widely distributed, both in nature reserves and urban parks. In sunny weather, both sexes can be found flying in the vicinity of flowering shrubs and taking nectar.
A female -f neftina Colour Sergeant visiting a ripened fruit of the Singapore Rhododendron.
Another female -f neftina Colour Sergeant perching on a leaf of the Singapore Rhododendron.
Host plant: Glochidion brunneum.
Host plant: Glochidion superbum.
Host plan: an unidentified plant in the nature reserve with leaves playing host to a number of Colour Sergeant caterpillars.
Thus far, two species of Glochidion and one un-identified plant (likely to be a Glochidion sp. too) have been identified as the local host plants. Caterpillars of the Colour Sergeant adopt the same feeding and frass-management routines as described for the Commander and other Athyma species in earlier blog articles.
Two views of an egg of the Colour Sergeant.
The eggs of the Colour Sergeant are laid singly at the tip of a leaf on the host plant. The dark yellowish eggs are somewhat globular in shape, with its surface marked with hexagonal pits and bearing short spines at pit corners, giving them the appearance of minute sea-urchins. Each egg has a diameter of about 1mm.
Two views of a mature egg of the Colour Sergeant. The head and mandibles are visible in the right view.
The egg takes about 2-3 days to hatch. The young caterpillar emerges by eating away part of the egg shell. The rest of the egg shell becomes the first meal for the newly hatched, which has a cylindrical pale yellowish green body covered with many small tubercles and short setae. The head capsule is pale to dark brown in color.
A newly hatched caterpillar of the Colour Sergeant, length: 1.8mm.
Similar to the feeding habit of the other Athyma spp., the 1st instar caterpillar of the Colour Sergeant also feeds from the leaf tip and leaves the midrib intact and protruding. A frass chain is also constructed laboriously by the young caterpillar at the tip of the exposed midrib. Between feeds, the caterpillar rests on either the exposed midrib or the frass chain. In later instars, the caterpillar tends to rest near where the protruding midrib joins the remaining lamina. At this site, it also attempts to camouflage itself with a collection of frass pellets secured with silk threads to the lamina.
Two views of a 1st instar caterpillar of the Colour Sergeant. Length: 5mm.
One 1st instar caterpillar resting on the exposed midrib/frass-chain structure.
After reaching about 4.5-5.0mm in about 3 days, the caterpillar moults to the 2nd instar. The body color of the 2nd instar caterpillar is dark brown with a green undertone. There are a number of small and dark dorsal and lateral patches. Besides tiny tubercles covering most of its body surface, the 2nd instar caterpillar also features short and branched spines dorso-laterally and spiracularly. The head capsule is dark brown and dotted with a number of conical tubercles. This instar lasts about 2-3 days with the body length reaching 6.5-7.0mm.
Two views of a newly moulted 2nd instar caterpillar, length: 4.8mm
2nd instar caterpillar, late in this stage, length: 6.8mm
The 3rd instar caterpillar has slightly longer dorsolateral spines, with pairs on thoracic segments longer than the rest. Its head capsule is dark brown to black irorated with pale brown tubercles. Broad pale brown markings on abdominal segments 3 and 5 with a diamond-shape outline become increasing prominent during this stage. This instar takes about 3 days to complete with body length reaching about 10-11mm.
Two views of a 3rd instar caterpillar, length: 8.5mm
Two views of 3rd instar caterpillar, late in this stage. .Length: 11mm.
The 4th instar caterpillar has much longer dorso-lateral spines which are heavily branched. The body is brown to black in color. Besides conical tubercles, the head capsule also carries some short spines. Broad pale green markings appear on the dorsum of the 1st and 3rd abdominal segments. Also, pale brown to pinkish brown marking appears on the 5th abdominal segment. This instar lasts 3-4 days with body length reaching about 18mm-19mm.
Two views of a newly moulted 4th instar caterpillar, length: 11mm.
Two views of 4th instar caterpillar, late in this stage. Lengths: 14.5mm.
In the 5th (final) instar, the branched dorso-lateral spines very well developed on all body segments with those on the meso- and metathorax being the longest. Newly moulted caterpillar has yellowish brown body colour with broad dorsal markings on the 1st and 3rd abdominal segments and a broad black dorsal marking on the 5th abdominal segment. The body base color soon changes to a uniform green color as growth proceeds in this instar, leaving only the saddle marking on the 5th abdominal segment in contrasting reddish/pinkish brown. The dark brown head capsule has much longer and pointed spines.
Two views of 5th instar caterpillar, early in this stage. Lengths: 20.5mm.
Two views of a 5th instar caterpillar, later in this stage, length: 30mm.
As with other members of the Limenities subgroup, when disturbed, the caterpillar adopts a characteristic posture with the anterior body arched and the head tucked beneath the thorax.
Two views of a 5th instar caterpillar adopting an on-guard stance.
The 5th instar lasts for 4-5 days, and the body length reaches up to 35mm. On the last day, the base body colour changes to yellowish green and then to yellow. Rather large dark markings, roughly circle in shape, also appear laterally.
Two views of a 5th instar caterpillar, late in this stage, length: 35mm.
Additional dark patches have appeared dorsally and laterally.
Two views of a 5th instar caterpillar, late in this stage, with base color changed to yellow.
Soon, the caterpillar ceases feeding and wanders around. Eventually it chooses a spot on the underside of branch/stem/leaf and spins a silk pad from which it hangs vertically to take on the pre-pupatory pose.
Pupation takes place a day later. The pupa suspends itself from the silk pad with no supporting silk girdle. It is almost entirely pale brown in color with segments and parts outlined in a darker shade of brown. A few gold patches also adorn the pupal surface. The abdominal segments are slender, and the thoracic portion being larger and expanded laterally. Dorsally, there are two prominent processes curved towards each other. When disturbed, the abdominal segments flex laterally, and could stay in that position for a period of time. Length of pupae: 23-25mm.
The pupation event of a Colour Sergeant caterpillar.
Three views of a pupa of the Colour Sergeant.
A pupa of the Colour Sergeant sighted on the underside of a leaf in the nature reserve.
After about 5-6 days of development, the pupal skin turns translucent as the development within the pupal case comes to an end. The spots and streak on the forewing upperside also become discernible. The next day, the adult butterfly emerges from the pupal case, typically during the morning hours.
Three views of a mature pupa of the Colour Sergeant.
The eclosion event of a male Colour Sergeant at 2x speed.
The eclosion event of a male Colour Sergeant at 2x speed.
- The Butterflies of The Malay Peninsula, A.S. Corbet and H.M. Pendlebury, 4th Edition, The Malayan Nature Society.
- Butterflies of Thailand, Pisuth Ek-Amnuay, 1st Edition, 2006
Text by Horace Tan, Photos by Sunny Chir, Federick Ho, Khew SK and Horace Tan.


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Anish Giri is the best in the Netherlands
Today, the final round of the Dutch Championships fred take place. The tournament is held in Bokstel.
We would like to remind that this is a round robin tournament, with ten players. However, the sport intrigue died already: four wins in a row in 5-8 rounds (three of them won playing with White) of Anish Giri secured an early win of the title. Currently 17 years old native of St. Petesburg has 6.5 points out of 8. Ivan Sokolov, Ernst and Spulman are one and a half points behind.
It is worth noting the failures of the two players, whose rating is above 2600: Ian Smeets currently has 3 points, Erwin L'Ami — 2.5 points.