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Sir Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart Kt

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (1883-1920)

Professor of Anatomy and Physiology (until 1890)

Professor of Physiology (until 1920)

MD ChM HonLLD (Edin) HonDSc (Durham) MD (Melb)

Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart was born in Dumfries, Scotland, on 20 June 1856. He was the only child in a middle-class and financially comfortable family. His father was engaged in business and his mother divided her time between her family and various charities. She appears to have been a woman of strong personality who exerted great influence over her son and was responsible for much of the foundation of his character. In later life Anderson Stuart often acknowledged both his debt and his strong attachment to her.

Like many children without siblings, he had a lonely childhood which may have contributed to the development of his rather premature stolidity and sombreness of character. He spent most of his time in the company of adults and thus always seemed rather old for his years. His early education was at a private school, and then at the Dumfries Academy, which he left aged fourteen, to become a chemist's apprentice. He passed his registration examinations at sixteen but, by law, could not work as a chemist until the age of twenty-one. During this hiatus he decided to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

Even at this early stage in his life and career, Anderson Stuart showed the foresight and receptivity to information that were to be characteristic throughout his life. Among the subjects permitted for the University entrance examination he chose Greek, German and French; Greek because it would be necessary if he were to proceed to an MD, French and German because a doctor whose opinions he valued said they were necessary to keep abreast of what was happening on the continent. After passing his examinations he went to Wolfenbüttel in Germany to improve his knowledge of modern languages.

He entered the University of Edinburgh in 1875 and devoted almost all of his time to study. From Dr Robert Scot Skirving's memoirs we learn that he was rather unpopular with his fellow students who considered him conceited and 'a swot'. Scot Skirving wrote that 'he took many medals and many prizes, and took the Ettles Scholarship, but he took himself most seriously of all'. He claimed that 'Coracoid' was Anderson Stuart's nickname, from a fancied resemblance of his prominent nose to a coracoid process. [1] Nevertheless Scot Skirving was 'not unfriendly' with him and, some years later, owed his appointment as Superintendent of Prince Alfred Hospital to Anderson Stuart's efforts. Anderson Stuart appears to have had few outside interests and had an aversion for sport. He did brilliantly in all his examinations, coming first in his final year in 1880 with First Class Honours and was awarded a gold medal. As he was attracted to teaching and had been told by his professors that he would make a good teacher, he chose this as his career and was soon appointed Chief Demonstrator to Professor William Rutherford, the Professor of Physiology who was a distinguished histologist. Spending a year in Strassburg (then part of Germany) before taking up the post in 1881, he made a special study of the properties of nickel and cobalt. At this time he worked particularly with Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler and Oswald Schmiedeberg, two great names in chemical physiology. His training in Edinburgh and Strassburg thus gave him a good knowledge of both Histology and Pharmacology. The material he collected in Strassburg formed the basis of his MD thesis for which he received a gold medal in 1882. In the same year he applied for and was offered the Professorship of Anatomy and Physiology at Sydney University. He was twenty-six years old at the time.

Between the time of his appointment, towards the end of 1882, and his arrival in Sydney in March 1883, he made extensive enquiries about Sydney in general and the University in particular so that he was quite well prepared for colonial conditions when he arrived in Australia. He married Elizabeth Ainslie (Lizzie) in 1882, shortly before setting out for Australia on 'The Parramatta'.[1] After his arrival in Sydney, he began immediately the huge task of starting and building up the new Medical School. The Sydney University Medical School began in 1883 with one member of staff, the Professor, and six male students. Anderson Stuart began with high expectations, and each of the students in this first intake were failed.[1] The Temporary Medical School building was not completed at the time of Anderson Stuart's arrival, and he started teaching before either doors or windows had been installed, so as to begin 'according to my timetable'. On completion, the building was a small four-roomed brick cottage which Anderson Stuart had initially to share with the newly appointed Challis Professor of Natural Philosophy, William John Stephens. In a short time, the Professor of Natural Philosophy moved out so that the whole building was taken over by the Medical School. To the four rooms were later added a lecture room, an injection room and a dissecting room, and these seven rooms comprised the Medical School until the completion of Barnet's Medical School building in 1889.

In the first six years of his appointment, Anderson Stuart not only put the Medical School on a firm basis within the University itself, but also established its connections with, and standing in the world outside the University.

With the drive and foresight that he displayed throughout the whole of his professional life, Anderson Stuart not only began agitating for more staff from almost the very start of his appointment as Professor at the Medical School, but he also very quickly began pressing the University and the Government for funds for a new building. As early as 1885, Anderson Stuart managed to persuade Senate to approach the Government for funds for a new Medical School building. This money was granted, apparently on the understanding that the entire structure would be built out of the funds provided. Anderson Stuart had different ideas, however. He used the allocated funds to lay the foundations of a much larger and grander building than the one Senate and the Government had envisaged. By this clever, if not altogether honest reallocation of Government money, Anderson Stuart forced both the University and the Government to allow him to build a School of a size that he wanted and was confident he could fill. His confidence was not shared by his contemporaries and the Medical School building became known as 'Andy's Folly'.

Whatever views Anderson Stuart's contemporaries may have had of him — especially those whose opinions he had either disregarded or overruled — there can really be no question that his commitment to medicine in general was very great. His determination to secure and maintain a high reputation for colonial practitioners led to his involvement, not only with the Medical School and Prince Alfred Hospital, but also with the Board of Public Health, for a short time with the Sydney Hospital for Sick Children, with Veterinary Science and with Dentistry. His association with the Children's Hospital was not a happy one and the clash of wills between him and Frances Holden, the Lady Superintendent of the Hospital, provided rich material for the 'Bulletin' cartoonist of the time. Even this, however, was grist to his mill. It kept Anderson Stuart before the public eye and in the very process of lampooning him, it served to emphasize his integrity as well as his rigidity. He was nicknamed 'Andy' by the undergraduate students, who were aided by his carefully constructed blackboard diagrams and inspiring lectures. Soon after his arrival in Sydney he established the Sydney University Medical Society for students.[1]

During his lifetime, Anderson Stuart succeeded in creating one of the largest and most important medical institutions in the Empire outside Britain. This he succeeded in doing because the establishment of the Medical School was for him a major aspect of his existence, even to the point of intruding upon and detracting from other aspects of his life. From about 1890 Anderson Stuart began expanding his interests into the wider sphere of University and community activities. He published nothing further of note other than public addresses and general reviews. Of the extraordinary range of the activities he now undertook, only a few need to be mentioned here, sufficient only to indicate the toll they must have taken of his time and energy. From 1893 until 1896 he held the dual appointments of Medical Adviser to the Government and President of the Board of Health. He resigned the Presidency only when the Public Service Board ruled that the appointment should be full-time, but he continued as a member of the Board for the remainder of his life. From 1883 Anderson Stuart had been a member of the Board of Directors of the Prince Alfred Hospital and in 1901, he became the Chairman of the Board, a position he held until his death in 1920. Within the University he was largely responsible for the establishment of the Department of Dentistry in 1901, and in 1905 he became the first President of the United Dental Hospital. He also played a prominent part in the establishment of the Department of Veterinary Science in 1909. In addition, he was President of innumerable community organizations: the Highland Society of NSW, the NSW Zoological Society (which controlled the zoo), the British Seamen's Guild, the British Immigration League of Australia, the Civil Ambulance and Transport Brigade, and numerous others. He was also Deputy Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of NSW and even Patron of the Double Bay Pastime Cricket Club. He became an obsessive, even a compulsive, organizer.

It is commonly assumed that those who are highly successful as organizers would be equally successful had their energies been directed towards research. Be that as it may, Anderson Stuart gave relatively little of his time to the Department and, by not actively participating in research, failed to give the Department the intellectual leadership it needed. His research was limited to studies of the workings of the larynx and epiglottis, and the eye.[1] On the other hand it was undoubtedly the breadth of his activities that gave him access to, and influence over, people in positions of power in University, Government and community circles. Without these activities he would probably not have been able to establish the Medical School as swiftly and effectively as he did.

His marriage to Elizabeth Ainslie was not a happy one and ended tragically with her early death in 1886.[1] His second marriage was in 1894 to Dorothy Primrose, a relation of Lord Rosebery.[1] This presented more of the external trappings of success though it was typically Victorian in its pattern. They had four sons: Archibald, Bouverie, Alexander and Anson. Two of his sons, Archibald Primrose Anderson Stuart (MB BS 1921) and Bouverie Primrose Anderson Stuart (MB BS 1923), followed him into medicine. Bouverie recollects Anderson Stuart as a strict and rather distant figure whose communications with his children were largely through his wife as intermediary.

According to Scot Skirving, Anderson Stuart discovered a lump in the abdomen while in the bath early in 1919. Although his life-long relationships with doctors Robert Scot Skirving and Alexander MacCormick had not always been amicable, they were still his friends, perhaps his truest friends, and they did what they could for him in his last days. After laparotomy, MacCormick and Scot Skirving realized that the tumour was inoperable and all they could do was close him up and drain his frequently recurring ascites. Scot Skirving wrote that Anderson Stuart accepted his fate with resignation and dignity and traversed his 'via dolorosa', which lasted eleven months, with fortitude and consideration for others. 'No act of his life,' wrote Scot Skirving, 'became him so well as the manner of his leaving it. I remember seeing him just before the finish, and he spoke to me in the vernacular of many things, mostly of a consciousness of having failed in life…He, in the scientific life and future of medicine and its ancillary sciences in New South Wales, played the part of Moses on Pisgah, while many Joshuas, mostly lesser folk, in and out of laboratories, entered into a promised land of new learning which he had visualised from afar, but alas, failed to find himself.'[1] Anderson Stuart requested that all his personal papers be destroyed upon his death. As he was dying, he dictated his memoirs to William Epps, who in 1922 published his biography.[1]

Anderson Stuart's death on 29 February 1920 cut short a life of high public achievement. His last lecture in 1919 was attended by his son, Bouverie, then a third-year medical student, who used to act as his father's chauffeur for their trip home. On this occasion the students, having sung and stamped through the lecture period, attached ropes and pulled the family Buick from the University down as far as Broadway. It was a very human tribute to a man who, even in his own lifetime, had taken on the somewhat cold and aloof stature of founder and prominent public figure. He was survived by his wife and four sons.

His name is extensively commemorated in the University. The Barnet-Vernon-Wilkinson Old Medical School building is now called the Anderson Stuart Building (since 1960), particularly appropriate since his Arms and the initials AS (on a stone boss) are carved on the façade above the main (eastern) entrance; a carved raven, perched on a broken string course surmounting the gable window may also be intended to recall the Dean. In addition, his escutcheon is to be seen in stained glass decorating the south entrance and the crest from his Arms, a single-masted galleon with furled sails and four sets of oars, together with his motto, En Avant, is carved in stone, high up on the western end of the north range of the building. A medical research Fellowship awarded by the Faculty also bears his name as does a splendid portrait of him by Sir John Longstaff. In Prince Alfred Hospital a marble bust of him, side by side with Sir Alfred Roberts, stands in the entrance hall of the main administration building. During his lifetime he had received many honours including an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Edinburgh (1898), an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Durham (1912) and a Doctorate of Medicine ad eundem gradum from the University of Melbourne (1912). He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1914 in recognition of his distinguished service to medicine.

Webb, N. and Young, J. A. "Anderson Stuart and the Medical School" in Young, J., Sefton, A., Webb, N. (1984), Centenary Book of the University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 171-198.

Citation: Mellor, Lise (2008) Stuart, Thomas Peter Anderson. Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive, University of Sydney.

An alternate version appears in: Young, J A, Sefton, A J, Webb, N. Centenary Book of the University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine, (1984) Sydney University Press for The University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine.


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Last week, students from one of Compass partner schools, Athelstane Public School, had a rare opportunity: they 'met' students from one of the most northern schools in Australia, Mer Eruer Uter, the Murray Island campus of the Torres Strait's Tagai College. The meeting was virtual, taking place over Skype, but Macleay Museum curator Jude Philp facilitated a very real conversation about languages, school gardens, and the best weekend activities.

The conversation was part of the Macleay Museum exhibition Coral: Art Science Life, which includes nine paintings made by school children at Mer in 2011 especially for the show. Philp said the aim of the exhibition was to provoke thought and discussion about the different ways that people interact with one of Australia's greatest assets, the Great Barrier Reef. While here in Sydney we may be concerned with the health of the Great Barrier Reef, and spend enormous resources working on climate and pollution problems, in the Torres Strait the reefs have a more integral presence, sustaining the cultural and physical life of the 18 inhabited islands across the region.

The two schools quickly established commonalities and differences. Students from the Mer Island were very surprised when they discovered the number of students studying at Athelstane PS, which has 350 students in comparison to their 90. They were also curious about the hijab, or headscarf, that some of the girls wore. Students from Athelstane PS were very interested with find out on how foods are transported to the Mer Island and learned a few Torres Strait creole words. They also listened very carefully to a heroic story of a student who saved his brother from a shark attack just a few weeks ago. Athelstane students particularly enjoyed the cultural exchange, as well as the exposure to the University campus:

  • "It was a fun and memorable experience. It was great to see the different life that people live in the Torres Strait." Zeinab - Year 5
  • "I learnt about the life of a different community on Murray Island." Hussein - Year 4
  • "It was great opportunity to see what wonderful things were available at the university." Zeinab - Year 4

At the end of the session, teachers from both schools exchanged contacts and decided to keep in touch in the future for another connection.

Compass is very privileged to be part of the initiative and would like to thank Macleay Museum and Athelstane PS for their participation.

Coral: Art Science Life closes on 12 September.

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As you can see on the above screenshot I had 2 unsuccessful attempts (I forgot to uncheck deleting temporary JUnit files). If you want to know what went wrong you can always click on a red circle.

I recommend you to play around with Jekins settings and features. You should also look into the configuration files and tweak them according to your needs:

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The last challenge is to update code and run build on every commit but I will leave that with you. I hope this article gave you a smooth start with Jenkins and you will try continues integration with one of your projects.

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    Thank you for a nice post!

    Got a slight trouble on Debian with your setup. Problem came in with last command

    sudo vendor/bin/phing install

    In the job specified (target=”install”) inside build.xml, when changin owner there was “jenkins.jenkins” I have changed it to just “jenkins” and build suceeded

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Fundamental issues with how IT is approaching cloud deployments is causing them to fail, and that's keeping adoption levels down, he said. According to Forrester market research, only 13 percent of enterprises have a private cloud in place. Many more have tried to put one in place but gave up—often before the project was completed, according to ASG.

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The big thing that's sticking in the collective craws of many progressives is moving the top rate from $200k/$250k to $400k/$450k for individuals/joint filers. I said on Twitter earlier this morning that that sounded to me like a mistake too. Most other sweeteners are temporary. But rates are permanent, if not quite forever. And you're never going to get a better chance to pick your price point, for lack of a better word, than now when they're defaulting back to the Clinton-era rates. So permanent concessions that will be quite difficult to reclaim in exchange for temporary gains.

That said, the difference between putting the top rate at those two different points amounts to something on the order of $90 billion dollars over ten years. So this presumed deal gets you just over $600 billion in new revenue and keeping the rates at $200k/$250k would have gotten just under $700 billion over 10 years.

The White House believes it was more important to keep the top rate at 39.6% for the mega rich than to worry about exactly which income level they kicked in at. They also make the more practical point that there was always significant resistance among Senate Democrats to going back to the $200k/$250k threshold. And it's worth noting that Sen. Schumer and others routinely bumped this number up to $500k or even $1 million during earlier debates.

Make of it what you will. I think it represents a significant concession but the actual amount of lost revenues is a bit less than I had assumed.

Then there's a substantial loss of potential revenue in a fairly lopsided compromise on the estate tax, which is described pretty well here. Folks at the White House only make a passing effort at spinning this. This comes down to a few red state Dem senators, though it's worth noting that the estate tax, unlike higher income tax rates for high income earners, is simply not popular.

On top of this, the presumed plan includes a lot of what I call RPS, 'Real People Stuff'. There's an extension of Unemployment Insurance and a five year extension of various Stimulus Bill-era refundable tax credits and pay-outs focused on low and middle income people or businesses that employ them These are tangible in terms of the lives of a lot of people and they also have a stimulative effect in what remains and will continue to be a bruised economy.

All of this goes to say that on its own terms, this isn't a bad deal at all, if you accept that some give and take was necessary.

My take goes back to something I've been thinking about for the last month. The President says he will under no circumstances negotiate with congressional Republicans over a new debt limit extension. Not under any circumstances. I believe he means it, even feels passionately about it. But this is considerably more difficult to do in practice than to pledge. And while I believe the White House is committed to this refusal to negotiate -- basically no negotiating with hostage takers -- I've never been clear on just what the game plan is or just how they see a hostage taking scenario playing out.

There's no escape valve. They don't think the so-called '14th amendment solution' is either constitutional or viable in practice. So you have to assume that either congressional Republicans simply don't try it, cave after trying it or that you tumble into some mix of massive government shutdown and/or default.

Why does this matter? Because the snap-back of the Clinton-era tax rates was the big cudgel the White House held over the Congressional GOP. And this basically closes the books on the tax rates issue. So, on its own terms, this deal looks relatively decent. But if it means the President has to concede to massive cuts to Medicare and Social Security or other critical spending in a month or two because he now lacks critical leverage then it would be a pretty bad deal indeed.

So, decent deal but with a massive asterisk. And we may not know what that asterisk means until February.


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"Towards personalized medicine in Breast Cancer"

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  • UserProf. Dr. Sabine C. Linn, medical oncologist Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Currently, approximately 50% of all breast cancer patients are cured by loco regional therapy. Without adjuvant systemic therapy, 50% of patients will develop metastatic disease and ultimately die of the disease. Adjuvant chemotherapy cures around 10% of breast cancer patients, while adjuvant hormonal therapy cures about 15% of patients. This means that still roughly 25% of breast cancer patients will die of the disease, despite optimal breast cancer treatment.

Since it is very difficult to identify those patients that are already cured by loco regional treatment, and since under treatment is considered worse than overtreatment, about 90% of all breast cancer patients do receive some form of adjuvant systemic therapy. Clearly, this means that roughly 40% of patients receive adjuvant systemic therapy unnecessarily, with all its toxicities. In order to reduce overtreatment, prognostic factors are needed, to identify those patients who should be spared unnecessary adjuvant systemic therapy. One promising prognostic test is the 70-gene prognosis signature (MammaPrint®), which will be discussed in the seminar.

For the patients who do need adjuvant systemic therapy in order to be cured, it is crucial to choose the right systemic therapy. The only established predictive markers that can guide breast cancer therapy today are the oestrogen receptor status and the HER2 status. If used only in patients who would die without adjuvant systemic therapy, the number needed to treat to save one life is two to three. This means that of the patients who would die without adjuvant systemic therapy, still around 50% of these patients will die of the disease, despite systemic therapy. Additional predictive factors are needed to choose the drug that targets the Achilles heel of the tumour cells. In this seminar promising predictive factors for identifying patients who will benefit from intensified carboplatin-based chemotherapy and for identifying patients who are tamoxifen-resistant will be discussed.

Ultimately, the use of additional prognostic and predictive factors in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment will reduce overtreatment and improve survival.

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Beelen K, Zwart W, Linn SC. Can predictive biomarkers in breast cancer guide adjuvant endocrine therapy? Nat Rev Clin Oncol, in press. doi: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2012.121

Vollebergh MA, Jonkers J, Linn SC. Genomic instability in breast and ovarian cancers: translation into clinical predictive biomarkers. Cell Mol Life Sci, 69:223-45, 2012. doi: 10.1007/s00018-011-0809-0.

Bueno-de-Mesquita JM, van Harten WH, Retel VP, et al. Use of 70-gene signature to predict prognosis of patients with node-negative breast cancer: a prospective community-based feasibility study (RASTER). Lancet Oncol, 8: 1079-1087, 2007.

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havehavenotsI am not a Tyler Perry fan. I will just leave it at that. However, I do loves me some Oprah and I want to support OWN.  So I am going to watch the new series The Haves and The Have Nots. I shall be live blogging as of now. Well, I am alive and it is on my blog but I will be watching on DVR. Whatevs.

Apparently my invite to the preview party at Bar One got lost in the mail. On Tuesday Bar One hosted a preview party for The Haves and Have Nots.  It appears that cast members  Tika Sumpter , John Schneider, Crystal Fox and Renee Lawless may have attended. Really? I find this odd. (Goes to @atlien’s  timeline on twitter Update no word back from the Atlien so until such occurs I will not believe it happened).

As soon as the first scene opens, and it is set in Savannah, I am hooked. Apparently Jim Cryer is a rich Savannah dude with both a wife and a mistress. So far, so good. Jim is a 50-year-old white guy who is a judge. It’s his 50th birthday and he is spending it with a black call girl. It’s starting off sort of “Scandalish” I guess I am just saying that because of the interracial sex with a politician aspect. The acting is bad. This is all before the title sequence begins. Not surprisingly, the commercials for other OWN shows are many plus Oprah and Tyler apparently live tweeted during the show. The wife’s acting is medocre but so far NO ONE has a southern accent. Including, the Cryers. the mistress, or the woman seeking to work for them, although the maid’s accent comes out later in her personal scenes. And really Tyler, Cryer? It’s not just that the acting is bad. It’s that …it has this weird spoofy feel. I may not make it to episode 2. The prostitute gives Jim her personal phone number on a notepad by the bed. What would more likely be on the bed stand in a hotel? A pencil and notepad or oh I dunno, their cellphones? I am becoming increasingly disenchanted.

havehavenots2A new character appears. A wealthy black woman with a poor sense of style, Veronica? The only good actress in this show is the newly hired black maid.  She calls Veronica (, “The Black Betty Ford.” Look, I am not a reviewer, I just play one on the Internet, but there is something off about this series. It’s more than stilted acting, it feels like I am watching a bootleg copy of an off-Broadway play that someone taped covertly from the front row. It’s just… odd. I can’t stand the lack of southern accents. WHY???? Wyatt is the Cryer’s son. At least he is hot and nekkid. He is fresh out of rehab and the black Betty Ford’s son, Jeffrey must spend every moment with him, including bathroom breaks as he transitions back to the real world.  They also have a daughter, who is friends with Candace, who happens to be the prostitute, soon to be mistress of Jim.  Who holds up three dress one on top of the other to ask their friend which is prettiest? The hooker/mistress’s mother is the new maid.  I just tried to find the name of the woman playing the maid. I am sure she must be famous. But I’m having trouble. I imagine I will be embarrassed when y’all tell me who she is. She’s the kernel of corn in this pile of dung. At least for now. Ah… her name is Crystal R. Fox. I hope someone sees her on this show and makes her a star.

One of the only believable moments is Veronica asking about Candace’s parentage. This is a southern thing. According to this commercial, the show moves to Tuesdays at 9. This gives them a much better shot than the already over crowded Sunday nights.

Crystal R. Fox, The One Redeeming Factor of This Show

Crystal R. Fox, The One Redeeming Factor of This Show

Episode 2, the “Savannah Estate” is a McMansion in Dunwoody by my best guess. And all rich people have a cutesy sign in their laundry room that says “laundry.” I promise, I really wanted to like this show. I’m ever so disappointed. DID I MENTION THE ACTING? Ah… The first racist comment.  The writing is AWFUL too.  Also, you know how on Scandal, they talk so fast that it is hard to keep up? This is the opposite. It’s like everyone is stoned.

It’s too hysterical to me that Perry wants to make one of the three black male actors gay on the down low. Just saying. Hysterical but not surprising. Perry makes his millions off black audiences who don’t seem to get he is using coonery and buffoonery to mock them. I almost never agree with Spike Lee. But even a broke clock is right twice a day.

Look, I told y’all up front, I’m not Tyler Perry fan. I didn’t so much go into why. But as you saw, the further in to this I got, the more my distaste for him bubbled to the top and seeped into my review. Episode 2 ends with the hooker sexually overtaking the wealthy white judge against his will. These sorts of delusions exist only inside the head of Tyler Perry. His portrayal of black women is convoluted and …dare I say racist on a site where commenters cannot?

Recently, on some post about some non-important show I said something like all gays are wonderful except the ones who aren’t.  I didn’t go into detail but what I meant was the misogynistic gays. The ones who can’t go four sentences without making appallingly offense comments about vaginas. Tyler Perry is in my opinion, that kind of gay. I also find him to be racist against his own race. And homophobic, while seemingly in the closet. I will give him this though. He’s made a gajillion dollars attacking who he really is. He’s  managed to hoodwink OPRAH FUCKING WINFREY, another not so small feat. I’m concerned for OWN. I want OWN to succeed. But all during the two shows, there was a count down until today’s Tyler Perry show. I fear she has way too many of her eggs in Tyler Perry’s frilly pink Easter basket.

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77 responses to “The Haves and Have Nots Review of Episodes 1 and 2 (Spoilers)

  1. Joan

    I’m not a Tyler fan as well. I think for the same reasons. At any rate, I thought about watching this. Yet I just can’t get past the title and bad writing – and why do we even want to go ‘there’ . I can’t put my finger on when Tyler’s projects went south (uh, even further south than ATL?) but it was sometime after the 2nd “Married” movies. I’ll be lurking in here every once in a while to see what you wind up commenting. I’ll put my time into something more important like, um…uh, pedicures?

  2. I have only seen the television ads for this show, and I cringe every single time I see them. What is Oprah’s fascination with Tyler Perry?? Is he Steadman’s boyfriend? I love me some Oprah too, but honestly, everything she’s done since her final show (which wasn’t great either, but that’s another post) has SUCKED.
    By the way-coonery and buffoonery..? BRILLIANT!

    • Sadly, I stole coonery and buffoonery in describing Tyler Perry from Spike Lee, who I may hate even more. :)

      I will only watch further if this post gets lots of comments. #TTRatings lol.

      • I don’t like Spike Lee either, but I can never put into words why-so I’d love to hear why you do too! Maybe I’ll start watching the show just to read your posts about it…I’m off any and everything on Bravo, so I was dreading the fact that pretty soon there will be no show that I am watching with my blog buddies. This might be just the ticket. Two good reasons right there for me to watch lol.
        My one reservation to encouraging you to watch is because I think it could bring the same kind of discussion here that the Trayvon Martin case might, and I think you wanted to avoid that.

      • Im coming up with an option for my trial buddies. Stay tuned. :)

      • Im not much of a Spike Lee fan myself, he always seems so angry and militant to me, some consider him to be a brilliant storyteller, but try as I may…I just can’t bring myself to warm up to him, meh.
        TT, thanks for giving me the heads up to steer clear of this clunker, I had hopes for it being in the same vein as Upstairs/Downstairs but set in a more updated era. Oh well, I’ll just have to keep looking.

        Oh..and I hate Tyler Perry too, I find myself wanting to scream, “for the love of god, come out of the fking closet already…you aren’t fooling no one but yourself, dam it”

      • Spike Lee has talent. A misogynist? Well, maybe. That movie where Denzel Washington plays the d*ck-head horn player who needs his wife to save him? I still want to throw a brick in the TV when that comes on. Having said that, Perry is a hack; Lee is an artist.

      • beejcee

        Mo Better Blues. My son’s name is Miles.

      • chassieD

        NORMAN-i like Spike, but what he needs to do is to pull out another blockbuster bio flick. i’m still waiting on a movie about Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke. any one of those legends would be awsome on screen

      • sasha

        I can’t get with the coonery description. Umm, it falls into the N-work category. That’s kind of a sore spot for me. Buffoonery, definitely. Tyler can has has done better. Big build up, humongous let down.

  3. Ms Urethra Franklin

    Visually the show is very unsettling. The lighting is terrible. Everything seems so dark in the background. Oprah used to say on her talk show that she had to have special “black people lighting” to make her look so good on tv. I wonder why the same consideration wasn’t made for this show. I’m on the fence about this. I will watch a couple of more episodes.

    • GOOD POINT about Oprah’s lighting! I remember her saying it all the time…hmmm, Ms Urethra you’re not going to shake my faith in Oprah…are you??

    • chassieD

      MsUretha-you know, i noticed the same thing when i saw it. but what really tripped me out was when the wife told the Judge he could not sleep in her bed and told him to go sleep on the sofa, (the very small loveseat) it came to me, “waitaminute…i thought this was a large mansion in savannah….what about the guest rooms? uh, as big as that place was i know they had to have guest rooms. bad writing, TP bad writing!

      • Neutral

        I am on the fence on the show too. But, she asked him to sleep on the sofa because they are putting up a front for everyone including their kids, who happened to be home that night.

  4. karen

    I am a Tyler Perry fan and an Oprah fan and I will be watching to support both of them. If anyone can watch that trash that Bravo puts out – and I am one of those women – i do not see the problem with Tyler Perry. As far as spike lee I can’t stand him he is one jealous,hateful little man.

  5. LM

    Crystal Fox played an officer on the In the Heat of the Night series. I didn’t recognize the name but I watch enough reruns to recognize the face.

  6. sandy

    I missed it. Since we usually have similar points of view, I will probably miss it altogether. Bummer. I loved reading you write about it though and laughed my ass off!! So please. You go ahead and watch and I will just come and read your review of the show afterwards! Sounds like it is a hell of a lot more entertaining. It is too bad. I love shows with great strong black women who in the end prevail. OPRAH loves Perry blindly. If I say why I will end up sounding racist so I will just shut up and let you say it. Thank you for the warning on this new show. I will be giving it a wide berth.

  7. Cami

    When it comes to this show I feel like the mother who has high hopes for her child but deep down she knows better. I felt that the show would be ok coming from Mother O’s network but its not. I really would like to know what where the ratings.

  8. Not a fan of Tyler Perry at all. He is a misogynist. His moralistic, poorly written, tales tend to punish “bad” women. I admire Oprah to no end, but she is choosing dollars over quality with her association with this man.

  9. KAM

    Thank you for confirming my suspicions on this one. I don’t need to watch.

  10. eg

    I like Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey. I did watch the the 2 episodes of this first show, and found it interesting even if it did come off as a little “soap opera-ish”. I like Crystal Fox as an actress especially in “The Old Settler” (PBS) Not familiar with the young lady who plays the escort/evil daughter. I’m ok with most of the stuff Tyler comes out with, don’t know about his personal life. I also like Spike Lees’ works (most not all) but don’t agree with some of his views. I will continue watching these shows to see how things go.

    • Shond

      That’s Tika Sumpter, who was in One Life To Live.

    • chassieD

      to be honest, what this show really needs is more “meat” to the plot. the judge can hire a hitman for the chick, give the black maid a nice love interest at church, the white machriarch can have a lesbian affair with the mother of the guy who is helping her son with this addiction. the judge’s daughter can get some backbone and decides to handle her life and move to NYC and persue her career in fashion design……just some ideas to throw out there.

  11. Daphne

    Glad you gave us the heads up, T. I was aboard the Madea train for a while, and LOVED Mr. Brown …. but, then it just got old and tired. I watched a couple of his tv episodes and it was too silly for my taste. So, when I saw the ads for this soap opera and his other upcoming program on Oprah, I knew I was steering clear of it. You confirmed that I made the right decision. Is Oprah trying to give him a break, or representing a community, or trying to save her network?

  12. sasha

    Though I value your opinions I’ll give Tyler a chance. He’s giving a lot of people a chance who otherwise wouldn’t have work. Hopefully, the show isn’t won’t be too degrading.

    • Joan

      Sorry Sasha – you don’t reward poor work. The production was cheap, acting bad and an all around mess. Why do they get to continue to get ‘a paycheck’ when they’re not doing a good job? Just saying… disrespect intended.

      • sasha

        After watching the show, I have to agree with you. The acting was so poor, putting this show on a resume would most likely harm the actors rather than help. They may get additional roles but I’m sure they’ll be typecast ed as “G” list actors.

  13. I burst out laughing when I saw this post! LOL! You really watched it?! It looked like a low budget telenovela when I saw the commercials promoting it.

    • well fuck.

      That is exactly what I was trying to say and did so in a gallion words.

      It’s a low budget telenova only it was on an OPRAH budget. How is this possible?

      • Damn if I know, lol! I noticed that she didn’t tweet through it like she does when other shows are airing. She did thank people for watching. I guess she felt like she owed them.

      • Sharnee

        What Tyler need to do is stop recycling his scripts thats why it seems like ur seeing the same acts over and over again if he can’t muster up an idea in that one track mind of women being so trashy and needy then hire some writers u can afford it because i’m sick of seeing his woman characters suffer in some kind of way we try to support u hoping it will get better as time goes on but do u have ANY! fresh ideas we would love to see them and stop adding laugh tracks to ur shows the shit is not funny u keep passing the same jokes that we have already heard hire a writing team

  14. Heather

    I watched this and really wanted to like it too. I was shocked at how cheap the setting seemed and the plot was so slow & dull. Also, My husband walked in during the first show and watched for about 10 minutes and said “oh, we saw this movie”. I said this is a TV show and he reminded me of Tyler Perry’s movie “The Family that Preys”. VERY similar!

  15. victori0us

    Tyler Perry…I’m just not into that recloseted gay man. I like my gays out and proud. His characters have no depth and most are just over the top. He plays on stereotypes and u can tell he hates everything about himself. Oprah messed up giving him free reign over the shows. She just wrote him a blank check and said do what you want. This crap is poorly written and thrown together. I’ll pass.

  16. We watch Andy and his Bravo mess, and put down Tyler…..give me a break. My people can’t do anything, without someone putting them down. Tyler is giving out pay checks. By the way, I’ve enjoyed the program. Lets all walk in other shoes, before we judge.

  17. eg

    Dvr’d Love Thy Neighbor…….wont be able to get thru this one. NOT funny at all. The Mama Hattie character is too over the top (as in not funny) Now this one is Really bad acting. A lot of his plays were better than this and so was The House of Payne. I agree that he (Tyler) is providing employment for a lot of folks, but this one I don’t think will be a hit. I like the the other one though.

    • sasha

      It turned my stomach. The mama’s voice turned me off to the entire show. I just couldn’t get pass her. I wanted to give Tyler a chance on this one …but all paychecks are not good paychecks.

      Thumbs down!

    • chassieD

      eg-i think TP thinks he can throw anything together and show it to his black fanbase because they supported him through the years with the Madea plays, but he has to realize that black people like to see good performances and produtions that are well made and written. if it’s crap, it’s crap! and black folks arn’t going to pay their hard earned money to look at it.

  18. I watched.. it was OK. Gonna give it another week or two. Seriously though, love Miss Hattie. Wonderful in the plays.

    HOWEVZ…. the only show I TRULY LOVE on OWN is that fabulous woman who owns that St. Louis southern food 2 restaurant chain with the new one that has the banquet hall (totally brain farting here…) and her son with the baby mama he’ll never marry (btdubz… that kid of theirs is soooo gorgeous!)… I love that reality show. Love her. Wish she were my mama!

    Can I please have some Chicken, macaroni and some greens delivered to Campo, CA?

    • Ms Urethra Franklin

      Sweetie Pies owned by Ms. Robbie who was a back up singer for Ike & Tina Turner. I love her too….

    • Joan

      LOVE Sweetie Pies as well. I love Ms. Robbie – she reminds me of my Aunts when I was a child – loved you, tried to help you – but if you didn’t help yourself, she threw in the towel. I hope she has a very long life – and that her show thrives. I also love her boldness in declaring her faith and praying with her staff. You certainly don’t see that on network TV.

  19. Jarenov

    I watched the first 30 minutes of this before turning off the TV. Overall it was a bad, low budget production with horrible acting. I can’t believe this is actually being aired!

  20. Because it’s a TP (sorry couldn’t refuse :D) production, I didn’t watch. I too want OWN to succeed but can’t stand Tyler Perry. He just rubs me the wrong way.

  21. Anastasia Beaverhausen

    I am in the minority here, but I’m actually not an Oprah fan at all an don’t watch anything on her network. I’ve never seen anything by Tyler Perry, so cannot comment. I actually like Spike Lee’s movies.

    • sasha

      The jury is still out on the H&HN show. It does seem a bit low-budget, repetitive and and dry. I’ve only seen one episode. Maybe the second one will be better.

    • kym

      I watched and like the program so far, but they seem to be “acting” and waiting for something. They need to speak faster, it almost seems they are waiting for the audience or something. I will give it a chance. I don’t like TP comedies much so I didn’t watch that. However, there is an audience for it.

  22. RealityTVJunkie

    I Totally agree with your post. The show was lacking good acting and TRUE old southern Savannahian ways. I myself used to live in Savannah and the upper society is so different from what he is portraying. Its kind of a “Mystic World” in Savannah. I think the best example came from the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. He didn’t (or hasn’t) captured that yet. But I digress, this is just another show that is a bad knock off of his plays. Which by the way are getting to be more repetitive and thrown together. Its like Tyler Perry is getting tired of making plays so he just throws something out there to keep his fan base happy. Like you, I hate that Oprah got caught up in this.

  23. Eboni Ellis

    @Tamara Tattles Crystal R. Fox starred as the tough black police woman in the sitcom “In The Heat of the Night.” As I was watching her, I noticed familiarility and recognition clicked in towards the end of the first episode.In The Heat of the Night is one of mhy fav shows and she my fav actress. I must say, she was the reason why I continued to watch in boredom.

  24. Lodak

    I was entertained by this show. A few things.

    Regarding this ludicrous assumption that “southerners must have strong southern accents,” that’s just false. Walk in BofA, SunTrust, Georgia Pacific, or any other major company in large Southern cities, and I’d challenge you to find one. This holds true for Savannah. Outside of old folks and around Bay Street I never hear one–and I don’t have one.

    Regarding the “hoodwinking of Oprah,” um, wasn’t TBS/Movies/Live Theater first? Is that not relevant? This man’s work is wildly successful, so why wouldn’t Oprah get in on the action? It’s not for you, we get it.

    Regarding your disdain for Tyler Perry, well, that ship has sailed. It’s not for you, we get it. Don’t watch.

    Sure, the show has issues, but I accepted that before I set my DVR. Complaining about it after the fact would be like buying a Kia and complaining about the crappy ride–every day!

    Use your platform to criticize constructively. Otherwise, hate-watching TV shows [and then blogging about it] just seems like an awful waste of time.

  25. InterestingBeauty

    It’s basically a new “soap opera” for the masses.

  26. Valley Girl

    While I admire Oprah’s accomplishments and philathropic effortsI am not a fan of hers AT ALL.

    I admire Tyler Perry’s success and the fact that he keeps people employed, but he has slowly but surely lost me over the years. I was with him for awhile, but I became weary when I saw the preview of Meet the Browns – when I wasted my money on Why Did I Get Married Too I was completely done with him. His characters are not complex IMO – nobody’s all good and nobody is all bad, yet the majority of his characters fit that mold.

    Aaron MaGruder did a Boondocks episode on Tyler Perry that was brilliant. Check it out if you’ve never seen it.

    I said all of that to say I saw the previews, wasn’t impressed, didn’t plan to watch, and based on what I’ve heard here and from other people my decision was wise.

  27. Really!!!

    “It’s starting off sort of “Scandalish” I guess I am just saying that because of the interracial sex with a politician aspect”……..that’s the exact same thing I thought when I watched this scene. NO ONE can top Kerry and Fitz when it comes to swirl passion on TV.. I have to turn the fan on after watching them. Anyway, back to this.

    For some reason this show has more of a “play” feel than a sitcom.

    I kept looking at the maid and thinking “where do I know her from”. I could not remember but thought she was a good actress. As I’m commenting it hits me……she was the black cop on “In The Heat Of The Night”. That’s where I know her from.

    I thought the prostitute has a lot of power over the judge seeing as though they only met. “You gonna leave my house”…..”I’m not going anywhere”……later on they’re screwing in his office where anyone can walk in. LOL.

    I’m going to give this show a few more tries mainly because I like this type of crap but they need to tighten it up a lot.

    • Really!!!

      I forgot to add this to my prior comment.

      The scene were Hannah(Crystal Fox) was off duty and at home lying on the couch talking to her son with her wig off. I saw nothing wrong with that but how they portrayed the condition of her natural hair was terrible.

      It was not combed and was sticking up all over her head like Buckwheat.. Why would Tyler Perry allow this character to look like this.. On the show she portrays a strong woman with pride who cares which is why I cannot see her character’s natural hair looking that bad.

  28. KB

    I agree with the person who said they couldn’t get past the title so I never watched. Here is a list of shows with a black cast That were successful while not focusing COMPLETELY on so-called “black life”: Girlfriends; Fresh Prince…; Sister Sister; the Parker’s; there are many more. These shows accomplished what they set out to do and that was to entertain all people without leaving a bad taste in people’s mouths. I think that is where T Perry falls short. He has got to go back to the drawing board and come up with shows that are entertaining and that all people can relate to and stay away from shows that come across like plays. It is too low budget.

  29. I am starting to rethink my bad acting blanket statements. It could just be the god awful playlike directing that is the problem. Its hard to believe that none of those people can act. It’s just very, very playlike and weird.

    • Yes yes yes- it is like a TV play- bad scenes with a whole whole lotta background music. The actors should be able to carry the scenes without music to cue audience emotion- smh

  30. I am not a fan of Oprah at all. I’m an occasionally fan of TP, but he’s really starting to try my nerves. I honestly checked out the show because of its potential. Its potential to be a telenovella. That’s the look and feel to me: campy, bad acting, stupid dialogue, plots you can see from a mile away. And because I knew that going in, I rather enjoyed it. Don’t you guys remember the CW tried it with two shows a few years back? Loved me some Fashion House :)
    However I will admit the fact Oprah’s too cheap to broadcast in HD is one reason it “looks” funny to me and a lot of folks.

  31. Oh my goodness is this the worst show ever put on tv or WHAT??????
    NOTHING WORKS!! The acting, the sets, the writing, the dialogue. Holy cow I’m beyond astounded!!!

  32. Rhizo

    The show has great potential, but the set & lighting is horrible. The lighting is dull. dark & depressing. It looks like a soap opera set from from 1990. No matter what scene their doing.
    Every scene looks like it’s midnight.

    This is so annoying & could b a deal breaker because it takes so much aura from the story line.

  33. Nikki

    I love this show. When I first saw previews I only saw the ones for the comedy TP is doing and it didn’t look funny. When I saw these previews it sparked my interest so I thought why not watch one episode.

    Well now I am hooked. I love soap operas and although I am 29 I have been watching them for 20 years with my grandma then on my own. This is just like a soap opera only once a week.

    I love all the characters and how they all have their secrets.

  34. Liz

    I have been watching this show since the beginning and we are now in August. It is awful…but I just can not stop watching because I just can not believe how bad it is. During the commercials by friends and I call each other to talk about the poor acting, poor lighting and poor everything. The only person who can really act is Hannah (the maid). So sad……

    • Fine. I confess. I too have watched every episode…

      • Liz

        It is my guilty pleasure…almost like love and hip hop in atlanta!!! We know it is a mess…butwe watch anyway. I am in the process of putting together a list of inconsistencies and “what???!!” moments of The Haves and Have Nots. Let me give you an example….in one of the most recent episodes the hispanic maid…I don’t know her name…is wearing HEELS! What maid wears heels to work???!!!

  35. When do the new episodes start

  36. Tammy H

    The very first show was a weak, but has improved. Now I love the show, sometimes I can wait until the next show comes on. Way to go Tyler!!!
    If you don’t like the show then don’t watch. He has a lot of viewers that love the show.

  37. Tammy H

    The very first show was a little weak, but has improved since. Now I love the show and sometimes I can’t wait until the next show comes on. Way to go Tyler!!!

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‘American Idol’ introduced Carrie Underwood to music listeners, but the fresh-faced Oklahoma native’s debut album, ‘Some Hearts,’ cemented her status as a country superstar. ‘Before He Cheats,’ our No. 33 entry on the Top 100 Country Songs list, gave Underwood her second No. 1 country single in 2006 and fueled the album to sell more than seven million copies.

Written by Josh Kear and Chris Tompkins, ‘Before He Cheats’ spent five weeks at No. 1 and became the fourth most-purchased country song in iTunes history with more than three million downloads. The hit earned Underwood nine major music awards, including Country Song of the Year at the 2008 Grammys.

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Actor James Gandolfini has died. The ‘Sopranos’ star was vacationing with family in Italy on Wednesday when he reportedly suffered a heart attack at about 10PM local time. In addition to his longtime fans, several country music stars took to Twitter to express sorrow for the loss of Tony Soprano.

New reports indicate that Gandolfini’s 13-year-old son Michael was the first to alert hotel staff to the medical emergency. Wife Deborah Lin, nine-month-old daughter Liliana and several other family members were also on the trip, according to US Weekly. Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts, Thompson Square and Jo Dee Messina were amongst the first to share their thoughts on the shocking death of a man so well-known and loved in movie circles.

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Christmas Day is almost here … but it’s not too late for some fun decor, neighbor gifts and more — all with these 18 last-minute Christmas printables!

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Christmas Stocking Printables @ The 36th Avenue

Printable Root Deer Float Kit @ 30 Days

Printable Christmas Gift Tags @ Classy Clutter

Chalkboard Christmas Printables @ 24 Cottonwood Lane

Reindeer Food Printable @ Lulu & Linen

Printable Gift Tags @ The Casual Craftlete

Hot Chocolate Bar Printable @ Upcycled Treasures

Burlap Holiday Printables @ I Should Be Mopping the Floor

Colorful Gift Tags @ I Gotta Create

Peppermint Hot Cocoa Printables @ Classy Clutter

Reindeer Food + Printables @ The OCD Life

Treasure Gift Printables @ 30 Days

Merry & Bright Printables @ The Golden Sycamore

Sweet Storybook Printables @ One Creative Mommy

Printable Gift Card Envelope @ Yellow Bliss Road

Merry Christmas Tags @ The Casual Craftlete

Printable Christmas Gift Tags @ My Love for Words

Subway Art Printables @ While He Was Napping

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  17. Thanks so much for featuring my free printable, Jen! Have a great weekend! 😀
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  18. Thank you so much, Jen, for including my Reindeer Food post. I am pretty excited, especially because the picture I shared in the link party wasn’t the best one on the post. I just wanted to share my daughter’s cute hand. :)

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  19. Hey girlie! Thanks for posting much reindeer food recipe and printable tag. I adore your site and creative ideas. Merry Christmas!

  20. Thank you so much for including my 12 Merry & Bright Christmas Gift Tags printable, Jen! Lots of great printables in this lineup. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you & your family.

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This week our weekly lab discussion group shifts gears from the empiricism/realism debate to actual, and mostly still “manual” (as if hands could think), character matrix assembly, Wagner tree construction, and upward-/downward-pass parsimony-based character state optimization. Consistency and retention indices. And WinClada and NONA. Let’s see how far the first session will take us towards understanding the interaction between characters, parsimony, optimizations, and trees.

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The story of music search engine SeeqPod may be finally nearing an end. It appears the remaining assets of the troubled startup have been purchased by Bloson, a recently launched social network to raise money for charitable causes. Bloson has specifically acquired SeeqPod’s domain and the contact information of its user base, which equals around 4 million users. Specific terms of the transaction have not been disclosed and the sale is still pending with the bankruptcy court in San Jose, Calif.

Update: we’ve received information that suggests this was a hoax of some kind, and that Seeqpod was not in fact acquired by Bloson but rather by Intertrust, a joint venture that includes involvement from Sony and Philips.

Seeqpod has had a tumultuous history over the past year. In February SeeqPod was slapped by lawsuits from EMI and Warner Music, as the record companies looked for billions of dollars in damages. In March, Seeqpod filed for bankruptcy protection and put itself up for sale. Last June, we wrote that the company was looking to sell off its domain name, with reports that it would be acquired by Microsoft (which didn’t happen). Last December, we heard that the technology assets of SeeqPod, which are owned by Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, were being sold to a “large Japanese media company” and the founders of the startup were building another company: the Mikojo music search engine. allows users to raise money for causes by engaging in social activities on the site. Users receive point from sharing music and other content, making purchases and more. Music is all free to play and licensed; the site currently has 12 million songs. Whenever they share music or videos with their friends, or buy products at partner retailers they receive points. The points are then put towards a particular cause or philanthropic organization and Bloson makes a donation to these causes based on the number of points a user accumulates. Bloson makes money through display advertising and through affiliate fees from retail partners.

Bloson will be directing any traffic from SeeqPod to its site and Bloson will be inviting all 4 millions of SeeqPod’s former users via email to start using Bloson’s site. And with that, the sad story of SeeqPod draws to an end.

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Apparently information capturing and management startup Evernote is seeing quite some early success in Japan only three months after the release of its Japanese-language version.

Already, Japan is its second largest market after the United States, Evernote says, representing nearly 15 percent of the service’s daily traffic. Furthermore, over 50,000 books about Evernote in Japanese have already gone over the counter.

This popularity is in part due to a number of partnerships with leading Japanese tech companies like Sony, Canon, Fujitsu and more, the company says. And Evernote is keen on capitalizing on the current momentum it is enjoying in Japan.

Much like Twitter did early on, Evernote is going to focus a considerable amount of resources on growing its business in Japan. The company is today announcing that it has formed a wholly-owned Japanese subsidiary, Evernote Japan, and opening an office in Tokyo. In addition, Evernote is also announcing that its image recognition technology now supports Japanese characters.

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Evernote Japan has also appointed Hitoshi Hokamura, a veteran of the Japanese IT industry, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and former marketing director of Apple Japan, as chairman of the Japan subsidiary.

Coinciding with the launch of the new company, Evernote is also announcing that its image recognition technology now supports Japanese characters. As from today, new images added to Evernote containing printed Japanese characters will be indexed and made searchable for those with Japanese set as their recognition language. Evernote Premium subscribers can have all of their old notes re-indexed.

Evernote is backed by over $25 million in venture capital. Recently, Evernote CEO Phil Libin gave a presentation discussing some of the startup’s key revenue numbers and strategy – you can watch the video of his talk below.

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There’s no way to begin this next story without breaking out this movie quote: “If I were creating the world I wouldn’t mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o’clock, Day One!” With that out of the way, for the first time in human history a laser was used to shoot down an aircraft in flight. Well done to the fine folks at the US Navy.

The incident (I guess you would call this an “incident,” but I don’t mean anything negative by that) actually took place last May around 100 miles west of Los Angeles, but it wasn’t revealed till a few hours ago. It was part of a joint training session between the Navy and Raythen, the defense technology company.

Imagine this: an aircraft flies overhead at around 300 mph, then a laser beam is shot from a ship. You can’t even see the laser until it hits the target. Then the target goes bye-bye.

The system, called Laser Close-In Weapons System, produces a 50kW (!) laser, one that can be used on its own (as in this example) or with a more conventional missile system. It’s being called “the real Star Wars” or “better than Star Wars.”

Even though this test was a success, it won’t be till 2016 that it’ll actually be ready for battlefield use.

I wonder who I’d have to call to get a review unit?

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