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Hello my fellow Endeavourists and welcome to my new post on the Endeavour episode, ‘Fugue’.

This post will contain SPOILERS. I hope you enjoy this post.

fugue noun
a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
a loss of awareness of one’s identity, often coupled with flight from one’s usual environment, associated with certain forms of hysteria and epilepsy.

Endeavour Series One, Episode Two; ‘Fugue’.

Chronologically this is episode 3.

First broadcast 21 April 2013.

Where’s Colin?

Colin can be seen behind the left shoulder of Phillip Madison at one hour, nineteen minutes.

Directed by Tom Vaughan.

Written by Colin Dexter (characters), Russell Lewis (written and devised by). Russell has written all the Endeavour episodes. He also directed;

Lewis (TV Series) (screenplay – 4 episodes, 2010 – 2012) (story – 1 episode, 2006)
– Fearful Symmetry (2012) … (screenplay)
– Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things (2011) … (screenplay)
– Falling Darkness (2010) … (screenplay)
– The Dead of Winter (2010) … (screenplay)
– Reputation (2006) … (story)

He also wrote the Morse episode, ‘The Way Through the Woods’.

Evelyn Balfour is found murdered inside a disused railway wagon with the words ‘Un bacio ancora’ (one kiss more) written on the back of the door. Endeavour thinks there is a connection to the Verdi opera ‘Otello’. A second murder, Grace Madison, again appears to relate to an opera, ‘Lakme’ by Delibes, in the way in which she was killed.

Soon Endeavour finds that he himself appears to be a target of the murderer and will find himself forced to re-enact the final scene from Giacomo Puccini’s opera ‘Tosca’, by being thrown off a roof.

Thursday and Endeavour are up against a murderer who is as clever as Morse but far more ruthless. The murderer also kidnaps a young girl and Endeavour and Thursday only have a few hours to find her.

Fred Thursday asks Chief Superintendent Bright to allow Endeavour to help with the case and take him off general duties. Will Endeavour regret leaving his comfortable desk job when confronted with the horrors conceived by the murderer?

(warning, this review may contain some spoilers)

The big question on Morse fans lips before this episode aired was probably, ‘can the third episode be as good as the first two episodes?’ The answer was a resounding yes and this episode is probably the best of the first three Endeavour episodes.

It is interesting that the writer Russell Lewis has titled this episode Fugue as that term denotes Endeavour’s ‘voice’ (i.e. his ideas and conclusions) in not only this episode but in many others. Let me explain. In a musical Fugue you have what is called a ‘counterpoint’. A counterpoint is where multiple melodic lines can be followed independently but together form harmony. A fugue has a main melody that is usually played over and over again that is then followed by other instruments or voices but usually in a different key. Endeavour is the the main melody. He starts with a theory or idea that is not supported by anyone else, especially Jakes and Bright. Then as the story unfolds the others, usually Thursday first, begin to harmonize with Endeavour’s theories and ideas until they may all be ‘singing’ a different note but they are all making a beautiful sound that helps solve the case.

This lone voice with no harmonies will be a part of Endeavour’s life in the police force for many years. Even the older Morse of the original series could not find harmony with either Lewis or Strange on all his cases.

The episode moves along at a cracking pace but never feels rushed or akin to many of the crime shows that feel the need for multiple quick edits to maintain the viewers interest. Many modern crime shows try to treat us like a cat watching a beam of light by moving it around quickly hoping we won’t realise it’s only a simple everyday cheap torch creating the light show.

This episode crammed in three murders, the introduction of three new characters in the shape of Thursday’s family and a kidnap but still allowed us time to inhale the atmosphere of the sixties and the interesting characterisation and story that unfolded in one hour and forty minutes.

Fred Thursday has ‘adopted’ Endeavour probably due to the fact that Fred knows his son will soon be off to join the army and he needs another male figure to bond with. It was interesting that when Endeavour falls asleep on Fred Thursday’s settee he places his own coat over Morse and not Endeavour’s own overcoat. Psychologically this could be seen as Fred needing to wrap Endeavour up in his own fatherly love. Fred is attempting to protect Morse. To be a good dad, it is critical for a father to guide his son into right actions and help him live a life centered on serving others. Morse never got this from his own father and though Fred is unaware of Morse’s family background he may instinctively feel that Morse’s childhood was not a happy one.

A performance that has I believe been under-rated by many Endeavour fans is that of DS Peter Jakes played sublimely by Jack Laskey. I do wish this character had been retained in the later series as I think he is a good opponent and counter weight to Endeavour’s character. While Morse is cerebral, Jakes is instinctive. Where Morse is a good detective Jakes is a good policeman. Jakes and Endeavour’s relationship caused conflict within the Oxford police station and that I believe is what is sadly lacking in the more recent episodes. Even Bright in the more recent episodes has become a less astringent character.

If there was a fault with the episode it was the lack of purpose and motive for the killings. I understand that most serial killers kill for the sake of killing and many of their victims are chosen at random but the reasons for killing Grace Madison and Evelyn Balfour seemed trite and unconvincing.

I am also trying to understand why the doctor rented a room to only blast out classical music but never actually live there. Yes, Cronyn was trying to create the illusion of a Mr Nimmo but it seemed unnecessary. Endeavour never returned to that room to investigate further.

The kidnapping of the child was also a little too melodramatic but thankfully it was played out well and didn’t grate too much.

My last gripe and it is a small one is the rather obvious anagram of Keith Miller being ‘I’m the killer’. Maybe only obvious to boring crossword fans like myself and also with writing this blog I am always on the lookout for such tricks.

Thankfully all the above gripes did not detract from what is a superb episode and as always kudos to all those involved.

Episode Jag Rating – out of 10.

There is a lot of classical music in this episode, which always pleases me, so let’s get started.

As in the previous episode this episode opens with Great Mass No. 18 in C Minor K427 Kyrie by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791).

At two minutes and fifteen seconds we find the character Phillip Madison at the piano playing Ludwig van Beethoven‘s (1770 – 1827) Piano Sonata No. 14 C-minor op. 27 No. 2 Moonlight Sonata.

We hear the Beethoven piece again at 19 minutes and 48 seconds again being played by the character Phillip Madison in his home. The piece is heard again though very slightly at around the 31 minute mark. The piece is also heard again when Madison plays at his recital at the one hour and 18 minute mark.

At around the four minute mark Endeavour is in his flat listening to a section of Giuseppe Verdi’s (1813 – 1901) opera Otello, Act IV: Mia madre aveva una povera ancella…Piangea cantado…Ave Maria.

At 23 minutes and 30 seconds we hear the beautiful and haunting Lakme: Sous le dôme épais, (The Flower Duet) by  the French composer Léo Delibes (1836 – 1891).

At just before 29 minutes we find Endeavour sitting on the floor in his flat listening to Verdi’s Otello again. It is still act four but this time the section is Ave Maria, piena di grazia.

At around the 33 and a half minute mark we get a short burst of Vissi d’arte, vissi d’armore (I lived for my art, I lived for love) from Tosca by the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924).

At around thirty eight minutes in the scene when Endeavour and Thursday enter Nimmo’s house. When Thursday turns on the electricity we hear the death scene from Verdi’s Aida playing somewhere inside the house.

As Endeavour drives around Oxford looking for the kidnapped girl we hear a section of act 3 from Tosca. In the video below the music used in this scene starts at around five minutes and 15 seconds.

At one hour and 13 minutes Endeavour answers the phone to hear another piece of music from Puccini’s Tosca, The Firing Squad scene from the end of act three.

In Dr. Cronin’s office on the wall behind him is what looks like an Edo period (1615- 1858) Chinese print based on Japanese paintings.

Also in Dr. Cronin’s office is this painting.

The painting is a very poor reproduction of a Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal was his actual name, 1697 – 1768) painting, ‘Grand Canal Looking North from near the Rialto Bridge’.

Literary References.

At about one hour and eight minutes during the autopsy of Dr. Cronyn, DeBryn says “Physician heal thyself“.

The phrase comes from the Bible, Luke 4:23 (King James Version):

“And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.”

This is the only literary phrase I noticed.

First location is that of Dr. Cronin’s office shown at two minutes and 39 seconds.

The above looks to be crescent road of Parktown. They have obviously taken out the parking lines etc in post production.

Next up we have the railway yard where Evelyn Balfour‘s body is found.

I can’t be sure where this is. I think it may be Horsted Keynes Railway Station. Horsted Keynes railway station is a preserved railway station on the Bluebell Railway in Sussex and has been used in many TV and film productions.

On looking at an aerial view of the area there does look to be some old rolling stock.

However, it could be Didcot Railway Centre a location used in the Morse episode ‘The Wolvercote Tongue’. One has to assume this location also has some old rolling stock.

Up next we have the pub where Strange and Morse meet up at 26 and a half minutes.

For the life of me I cannot identify this pub. I don’t think I have ever visited it and it is very distinctive. Anyone know?

The next location is that of Fred Thursday’s house.

This house is in Courthouse Road in Finchley, London.

At just over 54 minutes Endeavour makes his way to investigate who has requested the score for the Snow Maiden by Rimsky-Korsakov. He visits the Bodleian Library.

At 54 minutes Endeavour chases after the suspect through the Bodleian Library and then out to the side of the building.

The above is to the side of the Sheldonian Theatre.

At one hour and one minute Morse realises where the kidnapped girl is being held, St Michael at the North Gate a church in Cornmarket Street.

But the location used is not St Michael at the North Gate Church in Cornmarket Street. The location is in Queen’s Lane.

The church is actually St Peter-in-the-East.

After the drama of rescuing the kidnapped girl the police and Endeavour are mulling over what happened the previous night.

The above is Queen’s Lane near to where St Peters to the East Church stands. Queen’s Lane has been used many times in Endeavour, Lewis and Inspector Morse.

The final scenes, Phillip Madison’s recital and Thursday and Morse on the college roof was filmed at Trinity College.

Actors who appeared in the Endeavour Series 1, Episode 2 ‘Fugue’ and/or Morse or Lewis.

Apart from Roger Allam there was only one actor who appeared in this episode and an episode of Morse and that is Robin Soans. Robin played Ivan Straker who was the librarian in the Endeavour episode. In the original Morse series he played Alisdair McBryde in the episode The Way Through the Woods, (One off special episode and chronologically the 29th episode. Aired on the 29 November 1995)

Robin Soans as Ivan Straker in ‘Fugue’.

robin soans

Robin Soans as Alisdair McBryde in ‘The Way Through the Woods’.

An actor who connects to other Endeavour episodes is Hugh O’Brien. He appears in four episodes of Endeavour as a guest at a recital, Home, Rocket, Fugue and Girl.

hugh o brian

Hugh O’Brien.

Of course as mentioned in my previous post Greg Bennett who plays a Police Constable in this and other Endeavour episodes also appeared in three other Lewis episodes. I think this is him on the left below in the ‘Fugue’ episode.

vlcsnap-2016-02-16-09h17m39s91Greg Bennett as a PC.

In this episode we now for the first time get to meet Fred Thursday’s wife, Win. Win Thursday is played by Caroline O’Neill who appeared in the Lewis episode, ‘And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea’.

Caroline O’Neill as Win Thursday.

Caroline O’Neill as Susan Chapman sitting between the dishy Hathaway and the incomparable Lewis.

Laura Rees who played Faye Madison in the Endeavour episode also turned up in a Lewis episode, ‘The Great and the Good’.

Laura Rees as Faye Madison in the Endeavour episode, ‘Fugue’.

Laura Rees as Beatrice Donnelly in the Lewis episode, ‘The Great and the Good’.

In the ‘Fugue’ episode Endeavour says’ “There is a wickedness in this”. I think this was also said in a Morse episode either ‘Day of the Devil’ (Series 7, Episode 2) or maybe ‘Fat Chance’, (Series 5, Episode 2). I could be wrong but the phrase rang a small bell with me. If anybody can help let me know.

At four minutes Roy Adamson, the builder, pulls out a bottle of after shave from his drawer. The after shave is called Amore Propre which means ‘a sense of one’s own worth; self-respect’.

At 16 minutes and 45 seconds Endeavour looks into the teapot at the home of Grace Madison believing that she was poisoned. He says to Dr DeBryn, “If that’s the tea the chimps drink then i’m a Chinaman“. The reference to chimps and tea will be understood by British people of a certain age. Morse is referring to adverts from the 1970s. Here is one of them.

At about 17 minutes Morse and Thursday are at the police station and a funny conversation takes place;

Thursday – “One of these days i’ll send you out for a routine inquiry and it’ll turn out to be just that. But I won’t hold my breath. You would find something suspicious in a saints sock drawer”.

Endeavour – “I didn’t know you spoke Italian”.

Thursday – “More under my hat than nits”.

At around the 32 minute mark Bright brings in the psychiatrist Dr Cronyn as an expert to help the police. While discussing his thoughts he talks about other serial killers and cases: Starkweather, bodies in the swamp at Fairvale and De Salvo in Boston USA.

Charles Raymond “Charlie” Starkweather was an American teenage spree killer who murdered eleven people in the states of Nebraska and Wyoming in a two-month murder spree between December 1957 and January 1958.

The ‘bodies in the swamp at Fairvale‘ might be a reference to Alfred Hitchcock’s great movie Psycho and Norman Bates. The film was based on a novel by Robert Bloch. The novel was loosely based on the real life serial killer Ed Gein. Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also killed two women.

De Salvo refers to Albert DeSalvo the Boston Strangler.

An interesting piece of information has come to me via the comments section. John told me that “what made (the episode) all the more an entertaining jaunt was making out the oblique nod to Stephen Knight’s conspiracy theory about Jack the Ripper, the first modern serial killer, with the revelation of the true identity of the killer as Mason Gull (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper:_The_Final_Solution)

Thank you John.

Shaun Evans as DC Endeavour Morse

Abigail Thaw as Dorothea Frazil

Lavinia Bertram as Grace Madison

Laura Rees as Faye Madison

Will Featherstone as Phillip Madison

Geoffrey Streatfeild as Dr. Daniel Cronyn

Lex Shrapnel as Roy Adamson

Kelly Price as Evelyn Balfour

Iain McKee as Lionel Balfour

Roger Allam as DI Fred Thursday

Jack Laskey as DS Peter Jakes

James Bradshaw as Dr. Max DeBryn

Anton Lesser as Chief Superintendent Bright

Sara Vickers as Joan Thursday

Jack Bannon as Sam Thursday

Caroline O’Neill as Win Thursday

Robert Blythe as Farmer Oakshott

Sean Rigby as PC Jim Strange

Joanna Horton as Linda Snow

Robin Soans as Ivan Straker

Sarah Crowden as Miss Thornhill (Left) & Claire Vousden as Miss Crane (Right)

Author: Chris Sullivan

Up until a few years ago I was my mum's full time carer. She died last year of Covid. I am now about to start my third year year at Edinburgh University studying for a second degree this one being English Literature. My other degree is in Ecological Science. At the moment I am attempting to write a novel.

43 thoughts

  1. First, I love this reference series, Christopher. Thank you so much for all the time and care you take to write and research these articles. I am sure this takes weeks of work and meticulous research.

    All the references to the humanities in “Endeavour” are one of the reasons I love this series, and I love it even more when those references themselves are clues and subtexts and not just empty nods.

    “Fugue” is one of my favorite episodes of Endeavour. And it has one of my favorite lines in all of TV-dom: “find something worth defending…” This might seem sappy on the surface; however, when and if the Things Worth Defending are threatened or absent, both Thursday and Morse loose their sense of purpose and ability to deal with life. Their Things are their essentials; their work suffers, so justice and others suffer consequently. One of the qualities I admire most of British TV is how writers can discuss the importance of life’s essentials without crossing the boundary of being overly sentimental. And American TV hasn’t figured out to do this yet. It is either jaded or Hallmark greeting card in tone and presentation.

    What has to do with the post? The humanities (ie the references) not only are the life saver for Endeavour; he uses them as tools to save actual lives.

    I wonder if there’s a subtle reference to Harry Lloyd’s famous climb scene in “Safety Last” (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEcTjhUN_7U) when Endeavour climbs the roof and ledges of Trinity College towards the end ( similarity in body language, clock references, etc) although Harry is running from the police in this film where Endeavour obviously LOL is the police.

    1. Hi Amanda. It is very possible that there was a reference to the Harold Lloyd scene as the writer Russell Lewis does appear to have that quirky sense of humour. I like your comment, “The humanities (ie the references) not only are the life saver for Endeavour; he uses them as tools to save actual lives”.

  2. My most favorite episode from the entire ENDEAVOUR Series. Your ‘favourite scene from the episode’ is also my absolutely most favorite one from the Series. The pure joy I felt when I found the exact roof top location at Trinity when I visited… Thanks for the superb post!

  3. Im very pleased that you nailed the church .correctly……I still thought it was St MichaelsI , went there in May. I didnt attempt to climb the tower….I wanted to see the Boccardo Prison gate.., so bought a postcard……

  4. These reviews make rewatching the episodes almost mandatory, many thanks. @Amanda DeWeese – the frantic music being played at the recital did the scene (safety first tribute) no harm at all 🙂

  5. I have some reservations about your definition of a fugue. Strictly speaking a fugue is a form of counterpoint consisting of two or more voices, where one voice announces what is known as a subject and then, other voices enter in turn with the subject at a different level. Bach wrote many of them, most famously the 48 Preludes and Fugues, two volumes in each of the twelve minor and major keys. I also think you make too much of the meaning of the title. In psychiatry it takes on the meaning etymologically closer to its Greek meaning, “to flee”. A fugue state is a condition of the mind where the sufferer flees from reality. I think it is being used loosely in its musical sense in this episode; more strictly in its medical.

    One other thing that I would like to mention – and it is both a literary and a musical reference is Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado. We hear no music from this 1885 work which is their best known one, but we hear reference to the “List song” – “I’ve got a little list”. That song, sung by the character Ko-Ko – correctly identified in the episode – appears in the first act of the opera. HOWEVER, what we see on the screen is the opening of Ko – Ko’s second act song, “On a tree by a river.” You have to be sharp eyed and a real opera fanatic to get this.

    Is this an anomaly – a production manager nodding – or is it a subtle clue? I’m not sure. I’d be fascinated to hear other thoughts.

    Because, although we hear the third act of Tosca playing, it is plain from what the killer says on the roof of the college at the end that it is the SECOND act of Tosca that he is interested in – and that his clear target was Thursday linking the detective in the killer’s “fugue” state with Scarpia the villainous police officer in Tosca and the scene in the second Act of Tosca where she kills him.

    Until I turned on the subtitles I missed Boccardo syllogism – thinking I hear Mikado, and struggled with the connection. The only one I could make – and this is a little fugue state of my own – in Ruddigore (the next opera GIlbert and Sullivan wrote) the character Roderick Murgatroyd complains that Sir Ruthven – who is trying desperately to convince his ghostly ancestors that he has committed his daily crime (to escape the fate of a curse) punctually every day.

    Sir Roderick says, “These arguments are all very well, but when they are reduced to syllogistic form they do not hold water”.

    And unfortunately this Ruddigore link to Endeavour fugue doesn’t either.

    1. Let me clarify … Until I turned on the subtitles I missed Boccardo syllogism – thinking I hear Mikado, and struggled with the connection. The only one I could make – and this is a little fugue state of my own – in the – ha-ha – SECOND act of Ruddigore (the next opera GIlbert and Sullivan wrote) the character Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd is trying to convince his ghostly uncle Sir Roderick that he has been committing his daily crime (to escape the fate of a curse) punctually every day.

      Sir Roderick says, “These arguments are all very well, but when they are reduced to syllogistic form they do not hold water”.

      And unfortunately this Ruddigore link to Endeavour episode doesn’t either. But does my view that the Mikado visual of Ko Ko’s second act song is a director nodding hold water – or is it just another clue?

  6. This is great. All of the Oxford location photos are an added bonus. I’ve added Park Town to the list of places I want to visit on my trip to Oxford later this summer.

  7. > In the ‘Fugue’ episode Endeavour says’ “There is a wickedness in this”.

    Thursday says this after DeBryn explains that Mr. Nimmo had been immured.

    This reminded me of a quote from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: “Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,
    Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.” Which is very apt because the killer is among them disguised as Dr. Cronym.

  8. I have been a fan of the Morse series for years and recently strated watching Endeavour. Googling a few things after I watched this episode led me to discover your blog and it has been nothing short of a revelation. I have enjoyed your writing and found your analysis absolutely riveting. Looking forawrd to reading the Morse reviews when I have more time.

    As for this particular episode, I have to disagree with you and with the majority of comments. I thought this was by far the weakest of the 4 I’ve watched so far. I generally find the concept of serial killers rather lame, as it doesn’t require the writers to come up with a motive for the killings. I also find the association between being a murdering psycho and some sort of a forensic genius who can outsmart the police quite unbelievable and it seems to be based mainly on popular culture rather than reality.

    Lastly, there are so many things in this episode that made no sense to me to the point where I found myself rolling my eyes with disbelief. For example, the choice of victims seemed to follow not one, but two different patterns that just happened to coincide. And, after being so specific about who he kills, the decision to kill Thursday just because he’s a police officer whose name starts with F seems ridiculous. I also couldn’t figure out how the killer knew that Thursday would be alone on the roof? Since he was only interested in killing him by throwing him off the roof, it seemed quite the coincidence that Thursday would turn up alone on that roof.

    1. Hi Patrick. Thank you for your lovely comments regarding my website. I hope you continue to find other things of interest here. You make some good, salient points regarding this episode especially in regard to choice of victims and Fred being on the roof from where the killer wanted to throw him. Always great to read another view of an episode and another person’s opinion that is different from mine. As I have said many times in the past, my reviews are just my opinion. I never state it is the correct opinion or the only opinion. I enjoy reading people’s comments especially if they are not only diametrically different to my own but they back it up with their reasons why they believe my opinion was wrong. It always gives me pause for thought. Thank you Patrick and I look forward to your future comments.

  9. Fugue was an highly intriguing episode necessitating more than one sitting for me as I couldn’t make heads or tails of the killer’s motive. What made it all the more an entertaining jaunt was making out the oblique nod to Stephen Knight’s conspiracy theory about Jack the Ripper, the first modern serial killer, with the revelation of the true identity of the killer as Mason Gull (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper:_The_Final_Solution). However, I admit I was surprised you neglected to mention this tidbit in your review Chris. Surely I’m not the first to have noticed this am I?

    1. Hi John. I was not aware of that name being used as a possible Jack the Ripper. Thank you John I will add it to the post.

  10. Fun bit that I think would be right up your alley—a bit of trivia about this episode via IMDB:

    The inspector’s last name, translated into Morse Code, reads as ” – – / – – – / . – . / . . . / . ” Impressively, this code is precisely reflected in theme music written by Barrington Pheloung, and is easily identified at the end of S1 Episode 2 (Fugue). In the final scene, as E. Morse looks on the sunset over the quad, bells begin to chime. Next, violins can be heard beginning a loop of the musical version of letters M.O.R.S.E., playing on a frequency of 329.63 Hz (tonal E in music). Soon, a masterful orchestration is woven in, diversifying this subtle nod to cryptography. Considering the content of the episode, this thematic and compositional brilliance is perfectly placed.

  11. I wonder where the interior shots of The church (St Peter-in-the-East) were taken? Not there as it is now the library for St Edmund Hall.

  12. I am glad that there have been recent queries on this long-ago episode. I have gone back and am now watching from the beginning again. Do you have any idea whether the actor playing the piano is proficient enough as a pianist to have “mimed” the playing of the instrument?

  13. I just rewatched this brilliant episode and really enjoyed it. I realised that the college at the end is in reality a mixture of footage filmed at 2 different colleges. The octagonal lawn scenes were filmed at Jesus college, the rest at Trinity.

    1. Sorry David but Jesus College has square quad grass areas and Trinity has the octagonal quad lawns. Jesus has two large square lawns and one quad has four almost square sections divided by paths.

  14. Thank you! But, but, but…
    I was hoping you would address my question: WHO was it that Morse couldn’t save? It’s clear up there on the roof that Morse knows EXACTLY who/what the killer is talking about.
    And I don’t! Did I miss something? Since nobody else here has mentioned it, I wonder if maybe I’m the only person on earth who doesn’t get this.
    Or will we find out more in a later episode? Thanks

    1. In the final minutes of this episode, on the roof, Dr. Cronyn calls Endeavour Spoletta. Some of us might recognize Spoletta as the right-hand man to Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca. In the opera Tosca evades Spoletta and throw herself to death while the music is played tutta forze, as loudly as possible.
      Before they leave the roof Thursday tells Endeavour to go home and to put his best record on, loud as it would play, which I see as a reference to this opera’s last act. Dr. Cronyn also tells Endeavour he knows who Endeavour couldn’t save and for me that can be no other than Rosalind from the Pilot episode. Rosalind became Endeavour’s Tosca.
      Let me finish with a few thoughtful words. In respect for Chris and his family I was hoping we could wait with further comments until he’s with us again. This is his page and we´re only here as his guests and it doesn’t feel right to use it when he’s not here. Let’s wait for Chris to come back. Take care, everyone.

  15. There is a wickedness in this” spoken not be endeavor but Fred Thursday while talking to Bright in his office….

  16. We just watched Fugue tonight. Found this website when looking to check if Rosalind was the one Endeavor could not save. Looks like others thought as we did.

    Question – is Chris back yet? Will this blog continue?

  17. Thanks for your excellent exposition of this episode. I’m new to the series and enjoying it immensely. I appreciate the effort in tracking down the locations, esp. since I have not been to England. I have one item to add to your extensive analysis. In addition to the real life killers you mentioned, there is a clear reference in the show to the Zodiac Killer, active in the 1960s-1970s, here in California. Zodiac sent a letter whose final pages included the “Little List” song from the Mikado.

  18. I just watched this episode again. One of my favorites despite the unanswered “I know who you couldn’t save.” Originally I was thinking existentially, that he couldn’t save himself – from loneliness, alienation, and his lack of fitting in with society. And then I thought about Calloway, but I don’t think there was enough of a personal relationship there despite his idolization of her. But now my thought is that the person Morse couldn’t save is his mother. He was very young when she died and, as seen throughout other episodes, especially the pilot, he loved her deeply. I can only imagine how devastated he was when she died (presumably from illness) and there was nothing he could do about it. I guess anyone of those possibilities could be the answer.

    1. Kathleen, I agree that it is Endeavour’s mother that is the one he could not save – how could he, he was only 12 years old. Fred Thursday will be another, presumably dying violently at the hands of a conspiracy, with or without involvement of evil Freemasons in Oxford. Hopefully the members of Fred’s family will be spared, in particular Win and Joan, in contradiction to Todd’s threats against Endeavour’s friends and family (in “Trove”), who has only his younger half-sister (or step-sister?) Joycie as his family and who is alive in the Morse series. It seemed to me that this threat was a little too quickly dismissed by Fred and then Endeavou. But maybe this is too obvious as to how Fred will be eliminated and never mentioned by Morse, as also being someone Endeavour could not save. Hopefully it will be too long now (a year or two) until we find out how Russell Lewis concludes the Endeavour series.

  19. I found your website whilst trying to identify filming locations. Its a fascinating resource – thank you.
    Lex Shrapnel who plays the philandering builder is the son of John Shrapnel who played Dr Julian Storrs in the Morse episode “Death is Now My Neighbour” and who played Morse in Radio 4 adaptations

  20. I will now place a link from Damian Barcroft’s website, containing his interview with Endeavour writer, Russell Lewis, all about the “Fugue” episode, excellently reviewed above by Chris. The link also features another interview with Russell, on the subject of the following episode, “Rocket”. I regard “Fugue” as a great psychological thriller, while “Rocket” is much lighter in tone, but still a worthy contributor to the Morse universe.
    Here is this fascinating link:

  21. Endeavours tears welling in his eyes at the end of this episode nearly broke my heart. But I also could not understand why Thursday never thanked him for risking his life by climbing up to the roof, thereby saving his life? Also why did Bright not acknowledge his succes when he left the roof?

    1. Hi Wendy, I thought the same thing about Thursday and in the episode Fugue when the little girl is saved only because of Endeavour, no one mentions or thanks him for that, not even her parents. Thursday seemed to take the credit for it. As for Bright, he seemed to have something resentful about Endeavour from the very beginning and he never seems to get that Endeavour solves all the crimes! Thursday at least does acknowledge that and there have been episodes where Thursday, without actually saying the words, realizes how Endeavour saves the day (Coda, for example). Despite all, I love all the characters for different reasons.

  22. The credits at the end give the name of the killer as “Dr. Daniel Cronyn / Marcus Gull” (not Mason). “Mason Gull” was not the name of the man identified as Jack the Ripper. It was Sir William Gull, who was a Mason. Morse first works out the connection between the victims as EGBDF, but later announces that the killer is killing anyone with a connection to the trial that found him ‘guilty but insane’. [That appears to be the motive others have been looking for.] He could have killed them in any order, but, fortunately for Morse, he was killing them in the order of the notes on the lines of the treble clef. I say ‘fortunately’, but it turned out to be no help in finding the last victim. Faye was logically the one he should have killed; Fred had nothing to do with the trial.
    I, too, would like to know if William Featherstone is a pianist. Certainly, his impression of playing the various pieces was a lot better than most.
    Would Morse have found the ‘snow maiden’ if Cronyn/Gull had not explained the bocardo syllogism to him? I have learned that ‘bocardo’ is a mnemonic (like ‘Every Good Boy Deserves Favour’ – I was given ‘Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit’.) You can find an explanation here: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/17935/how-do-i-use-the-barbara-celarent-etc-mnemonic. It seems that it is only the vowels [O-A-O] that matter. There are 18 other words to remember, each with three vowels in the appropriate order. Sometimes it seems it would be easier to remember the three vowels in their various orders.

    1. Hi Bert, I believe Thursday was targeted because he took the place of the policeman who arrested Cronyn (or I think his real name was Miller?) since he had died and Cronyn was obsessed with getting everyone on his list. And I was taught Every Good Boy Deserves Fun!

      1. Hi, Kathleen. The real name of ‘Cronyn’ was Marcus Gull (according to the credits). Gull (as Cronyn) told the police that the name of the murderer was ‘Keith Miller’, which is an anagram of ‘I’m the killer’. Gull /Cronyn murdered the real Cronyn and then arranged for acid to drip on his face so that he could not be identified. Since he was killing people related to those who took part in his trial, I suppose any policeman would do, and Fred happened to be handy and his name began with F. But when did anybody ever classify people by their first name?

  23. Hi Chris – many thanks for your superb website / blog(?) For some time I’ve been wondering if the Dr. Daniel Cronyn character (Endeavour s1 episode 2 “Fugue”) becomes Hugo de Vries (Morse s4 episode 4 “Masonic Mysteries”) who wants to destroy Morse in revenge (for what I was never quite sure) would answer my puzzle if it were so !

    1. Hi Babs and welcome to my website. Rather coincidentally myself and others on my live Endeavour streams have discussed who we believe is Hugo DeVries. We came to the conclusion it is one of three; Daniel Cronyn otherwise known as Mason Gull, Kent Finn the writer from the episode, Game and Ludo from the eighth series. Hope that helps.

      1. Ludo from the seventh series – unless you know more than you are letting on?………

      2. Chris, I have just discovered your website… better later than never I guess… and very good it is too. In eager anticipation of the return of Endeavour to our screens I have been catching up on some favourite episodes to wet the appetite. Fugue is just perfect Morse / Endeavour despite its faults and Daniel is Hugo DeVries for me.

        Looking forward to reading your updates during season 8.

  24. The title page of the music that was left at the Oxford Mail was ‘СНЕЖНАЯ КОРОЛЕВА’ [SNEZHNAYA KOROLEVA], which means “Snow Queen”. Everywhere I’ve looked says that Rimsky-Korsakov composed a piece called Снегурочка–весенняя сказка [Snow Maiden – Spring fairy tale]. ‘Snow Queen’ appears to be a ballet, based on Hans Andersen’s fairy tale using music from Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Snow Maiden’. The earliest date that Google has found for “snow queen” and “rimsky-korsakov” is 2018. Can anyone explain the discrepancy?

  25. The document that was delivered to the Oxford Mail would have been identified as the property of the Bodleian Library. Morse had to solve two anagrams of “Bodleian Library” before he goes there to ask who had requested the score, rather than seeing that the score came from the Bodleian Library and going straight there. Morse asked the librarian if anybody had requested the score for the “Snow Maiden” (by) Rimsky-Korsakov. The librarian asks if he means the Western score. Morse mumbles “Mm-mm”. Does anybody know what is meant by “the Western score”? As opposed to what? If the Western score means one in Roman characters as opposed to one in Eastern, Cyrillic, characters, then Morse should have said “No”.

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N-fix 7: Vetch

I was rather dissatisfied when finished with the Top ten ground covers for food forests series because I didn’t include an N-fix in the lineup of dynamic mulch. Vetch would be my first choice.

Crown vetch (Securigera/ Coronilla varia) is indeed the tyrannical ruler of the genus. It’s industrial grade ground cover, produces medium levels of nitrogen, stretches 3-4 feet tall, and eats as much as 60 ft of new territory in all directions via rhizome spread every year.

I’ve only seen this number in reports. I’m guessing the ground where these measurements were taken was the most fertile sandy loam on the face of the planet, or someone dropped a bag of fertilizer. I’ve never seen it spread more than four feet a year -if it spreads at all. many readers have likely seen this plant along highways where governments have seeded it. Erosion is a thing of the past once this perennial is established, so they have encouraged its use.

Once established though, they can start new colonies via seed. As a result, many governments have removed it from their official list of recommended plants.

It’s a little late. I have some patches appearing by the road at the edge of my food forest, and one of my clients has several healthy patches around their property. I have in fact installed this plant in one client’s system, because it really is quite useful, and easily controlled, if you know its habits.

The one system where I installed this for instance was a very high production food forest with long rows of shrubs and fruit trees running along swales (not my designs. I was brought onto the scene in the later stages). The owner wanted a system that could be managed by laborers simply weed-whacking the place every month or two. With this mentality, the owner had started by laying black woven plastic mulch under the plantings -despite my disapproval. It didn’t take more than two moths before weeds found their way through. He was aghast when I showed him. Finally open to my suggestions for a dynamic mulch, crown vetch was the perfect candidate.

As a dynamic mulch, it can exclude grass. Sometimes, if the grass is well established, the two may persist together. If well established, it’s nigh inpossible for weeds to get a foothold in the crown vetch’s domain.

It grows well seeded among daylilies, and most any plant that grows more than three or four feet -a food forest cover.

The crown vetch in my food forest has to creep across the upper grain patch before it can invade any of my plantings. This is one of the most poor spots in the food forest even the crown vetch can’t stomach crossing. I simply tax it for its nitrogen rich growth about the time it comes into bloom. Because it can be pulled so easily, I simply yank up whole armfuls to feed other parts of the food forest. As you can imagine, the patch is expanding at a snail’s pace.

My clients have done the same, and find their patches stay put.

Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa) and wood vetch (Vicia sylvatica) are both annuals, but have scarcely less ability to spread. Hairy vetch is used commonly used as a ground cover in vegetable gardens to be tilled in as a green manure. It and wood vetch are also medium level n-fixers. I have seen vilossa reach about four feet tall as it meanders around, such as below with wine-raspberry. Reports say it can reach as much as eight feet. So long as it doesn’t bloom and seed, there isn’t a problem.

I actually let the thing seed in my food forest because it grows right among weeds, grass, you name it -without complaint. I love it. When it blooms, I nab as many as I can for mulch, leaving the rest to seed. I really just wish I had more.

I came hit the jackpot the other day at my step-grandmother’s garden. She has the wood vetch, and a lot of it. I gathered a bunch of the pods as pictured below, which popped, flinging seeds every which way even as they sat in the bowl.

I planted them in a problematic part of the food forest to see how well they might compete with the grass. Perhaps they’ll clear the place for me in a similar way sunchokes can. in the bed I found it growing so happily, it was hardly three feet tall. I’ll just yank them up or cut them down before they make any very much seed.

  1. I’ve not come across vetch seeds here in Britain and not sure I need it, except in so far as it would be useful to have something which is N-fixing. Nice to see the photos, anyway – I’d always wondered what vetch looked like!

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    1. I think a common name for the plant over in the UK is “tares.” Seedaholic has the common V. sativa species -which is essentially the same as the hairy and woods vetch. Plant World Seeds has some of the more rare perennial vetch-ish plants native to britain though. See here: https://www.plant-world-seeds.com/store/search_for_item?utf8=✓&query=Vetch
      Glad you found the post of interest! I’d love to hear how they work out for you if you do try them.

    2. Hi Helen, you can often find vetch growing in hedgerows or even car parks – I originally took mine from both these sources. If you would like some seeds I will be able to send you some as they are ripening their pods at the moment. Like Luke I find various vetches very useful for N fixing and they just get in amongst the other plants in a non disruptive way and look pretty too.

      1. Thank you for your kind offer, Anni. I’ve got various other seeds to use up or plants to ‘tame’ before I venture into the world of vetch, so I think it would be better not to take you up on your offer for now.

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  2. I have quite a few different vetch in the tree field here and they seem to coexist quite happily with the grass. It would be interesting to see which would win if I gave the vetch a head start. It was something I was considering as ground cover in my fruit areas where creeping buttercup usualy seems to win. I’ll have to save some seed this year and move it around.

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    1. That sounds fascinating and I would love to hear how it works for you in your situation. Around here, crown vetch will certainly take over if you let it bloom before cutting. The timing works so the vetch does indeed get a head start on the grass.

  3. Nice post – again! This particular vetch looks really nice and very useful, if as you say, handled well. I encourage as many vetch as will set seed to live amongst my other plants, they are so easy. I also have some birds food trefoil that arrived in the garden two years ago. That has grown more this year than last, probably getting itself established now. I took up lots of it and used it as a mulch round the nearby oca plants.

    1. Thanks! I’m so glad to hear you find similar experience with them. I do love birds foot trefoil. I first found it growing along the black top roads near my house. Still have not gotten it to grow in Mortal Tree, which is surprising considering where it usually loves to grow. Thanks for mentioning it though, as it is a rather vetch-ish plant. It was another ground cover I had the client I mentioned plant after we ripped up all the defunct black plastic cover.

  4. Very informative! Beautiful photos!

    Here in the Southeastern US, I put in Vicia villosa (hairy vetch) as an early spring cover for a broccoli bed, but with no plan beyond that. Well, it took over! Beautifully rampant. I didn’t want to tear it out and mess with the soil structure, so I would just come by every now and then and shear it with clippers. It went to seed, and the groundhogs got the broccoli.

    But, a fantastic idea – as a living mulch for a food forest. Bears experimentation in four months

    1. In my experience, it’s most proficient at coming back from the dropped seed. You may now have a semi-perennial planting of the stuff! Not a bad thing though if you properly manage it, as it seems you’ve already figured out. I have never tried a cover like vetch that would need to be cut back from among the annuals, and worked with short plants like mache in there. I like the idea though, for the fertility provided at least, and will have to try that in the annuals patch of Mortal Tree I’ll soon be reclaiming. Thanks.

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Recently read that Dame Judi Dench found love again. Ten years after her loved husband of 30 years died.  She met her new love, conservationist David Mills, 70 and quite good-looking. Judi Dench is 80 and beautiful.  They met “through animals.” Her partner runs a British Wildlife Center. They have no plans to live together, both leading busy and independent lives.

“But he is so lovely with a great sense of humor. Now it’s absolutely wonderful, because there’s somebody who makes me laugh.” Isn’t it lovely.”

Lovely indeed. A wonder-filled story that gives me joy for her. Now, I have a milestone birthday coming up, Age Appropriate(only)  younger  man sounds most appealing, I love animals, I would love to laugh again, more …I would not need to live with someone, I’m independent and  busy, and I  believe in Hope Springs Eternal…….but I’m  not a British  Dame and no chance of having that title bestowed upon me.  I think I could pass for a dame in this country, but that doesn’t count I guess. They met in my opinion, because they were meant to met, and they were in each others path. My dear friend Edith who just passed away at 97 always told me  ” never search for a man. If it’s meant to be it will happen” Well, it happened for Dame Judi Dench.

As my About section  on my blog states….”Old memories, New hopes. Hey, you never know!!!!!!!

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The Venturi team will run an unchanged driving line-up of Felipe Massa and edoardo Mortara for the 2019/20 FIA Formula E Championship season.

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Venturi previously had a technical partnership with Mercedes-affiliate HWA for powertrain supply last season.

The team finished eighth in the Teams Championship standings in 2018/19, with Mortara claiming victory at the Hong Kong ePrix along with a further podium finish. Teammate and Formula E newcomer Massa took a while to find his feet, peaking with his first podium finish at Venturi’s home race in Monte Carlo.

Team Principal Susie Wolff, wife of Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport Formula One Team CEO Toto Wolff, explained that an alignment with Mercedes-Benz was a logical step for the Monaco-based team in order for it to remain competitive against bigger manufacturer-backed entries.

“This development marks a significant step forward for the team and, with my longstanding relationship with Mercedes-Benz, I feel very confident that we will enjoy a strong working partnership with our new powertrain suppliers,” said Wolff.

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Great Hugo Readthrough 1959: James Blish’s A Case of Conscience

First Readthrough/ Reread: First Readthrough
Acquired: Library

Other Nominees:
Poul Anderson: We Have Fed Our Sea (or The Enemy Stars)
Algis Budrys: Who?
Robert A. Heinlein: Have Space Suit — Will Travel
Robert Sheckley: Time Killer (or Immortality, Inc.)

Hugo Nominees Announced!

Here’s the full list of nominees, and there are also Retro Hugo nominations this year. I’m planning on doing a read-through of all the novel nominations (at least for the regular ones, haven’t decided about the retro hugo nominees. Notable nominees: The ENTIRE Wheel of Time series. All of it. All 12,529 pages of it. …Luckily, I prepared for this eventuality, and have already started rereading it. I’m on book 8 of 15, though I still have to read both WoT short stories as well.

Great Hugo Reread 1951: Robert Heinlein’s Farmer in the Sky

First time/reread: Reread.
Acquired: Already owned.

Other nominees:
Isaac Asimov- Pebble in the Sky: Haven’t read.
C.S. Lewis- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: It’s Narnia, what else can I say? It’s fun.
Edward E. Smith- First Lensman: Still need to read it.
Jack Vance- The Dying Earth: Amazing author, but haven’t read this one.

Great Hugo Reread 1946: Isaac Asimov’s The Mule

I will be posting the Great Hugo Reread every Saturday from here out.

First time/Reread: Definitely a reread.
Acquired: Already owned this one, though I lost my other Foundation books.

Other Nominees:
A.E. van Vogt- The World of Null-A (Awesome)
C.S. Lewis- That Hideous Strength (Never read it, heard good things)
Fritz Lieber- Destiny Times Three (Great author, never even heard of the book before)
Edward Hamilton aka Brett Stirling- Red Sun of Danger (Huh?)

Weekly Column: The Great Hugo Reread!

So I’m adding another weekly column. I can’t currently afford to buy my comics every week, so I’ve had to put the weekly pull review on hold for now. However, another project I CAN do is a read-through of every Hugo-winning novel up to this point. (Thank you, public library system! Plus, I own somewhere between half and two-thirds of the books anyhow). The Hugo award is one of the premier SF/Fantasy awards in the world, and it’s been running since 1953, so it’d be enough to keep me going for a little bit. I’d be fitting the Retro Hugos in their appropriate year, so the reread would actually start with Asimov’s 1946 “The Mule”. In addition, I’d do the Hugo Nominees and 1939 Retro Hugo nominees (the Retro Hugos are weird, I’ll explain them later) this summer in the weeks leading up to WorldCon 72/ LonCon3.

These won’t take me too long to do. Two-three hours per book, maybe, plus half an hour tops to type up the blog post. I could probably do them at a rate of one per day, given how fast I read, but I’d get sick of that fast, and so would all of you. I haven’t picked a day to post these yet, but I’ll let you all know when I do. And hey, when we run out of books a bit over a year from now, we can always start on the Nebula Awards.

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Popular actor Atharvaa Murali, who primarily appears in South Indian films, relishes his memory of playing the emotion ‘Courage’ in the Netflix anthology “Navarasa”. Atharvaa portrays the role of a young officer named Vetri, who is nervous and inexperienced. Filmmaker Sarjun KM has helmed the Thunintha Pin episode in Navarasa. The Indian anthology ‘Navarasa’ features some of the best talents from the Tamil film industry. Navarasa will debut worldwide on Netflix on August 6, 2021.

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Speaking about the working experience with Sarjun and the role Vetri, popular actor Atharvaa Murali said “When Sarjun first told me about the script, I was eager to see which emotion he was going to discuss. My feeling was heightened when he said the film would be about courage. I was told that I would be playing a Special Task Force officer. Although my mind saw macho uniforms and a swaggering vibe, after reading the script it was a very different experience. Overall, it was a wonderful experience working with Sarjun and portraying Vetri.”

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Max (Snipes) is a commercial director in New York on business. While visiting his friend Charlie (Downey), a choreographer dying of AIDS, he meets willowy beauty Karen (Kinski). This chance meeting leads to, you guessed it, a one night stand. When Max returns home to L.A., he realizes how empty and stale his life is. One year later, he and wife Mimi (Wen) return to visit the quickly fading Charlie. They meet Charlie's brother Vernon (McLachlan) and his wife. . .Karen. Good performances (especially by Downey) and characterization make this more than a morality play about the ramifications of a sexual fling. Although paid for his original material, Joe Eszterhas didn't take any writing credit after Figgis totally rewrote the script.

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Chaz Davenport is a dashing bachelor who owns what promises to become the hottest new nightclub in town - if only the lights would stay on. Surrounded by the sumptuous blues music he adores, and with his pick of the gorgeous women who perform their sensual dance numbers onstage every night, Chaz is the envy of every man. But with the city thrown into darkness by frequent blackouts and a menacing loan shark closing in, Chaz is in danger of losing the club - and far more. At the same time, he finds himself embroiled in a love triangle with the club's alluring star singer, Crystal, and a new arrival at the club - the mysterious and seductive chanteuse Madelaine. When people close to Chaz begin turning up dead, he doesn't know where to turn or whom to trust. And the harder he tries to uncover the truth, the further he's drawn into the darkness of lies and betrayal - a darkness as black as the city's streets during yet another power outage. Welcome to the Blues.
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CPU Envy

When I first started working for SCO in 1989, Xenix was the ONLY 32 bit operating system available for the Intel 386 platform.   In fact, in 1983, when Linus Torvals was 14 years old, SCO had Xenix running on two platforms:  the Mac Lisa and the Intel 8086.   Yes,  years before Tanenbaum’s Minux was released,… Continue reading CPU Envy


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Open Rehearsal – Thursday 22 August 2019

August 22, 2019

The Melbourne Rainbow Band is holding an open rehearsal!

While new members are welcome at any time, the open rehearsal provides a great opportunity for players of woodwind, brass or percussion instruments who may be interested in becoming a member of the Melbourne Rainbow Band to sit in on rehearsal and meet the band.

Melbourne Rainbow Band in rehearsal at the Prahran RSL Hall, Prahran Victoria. - musicians of a concert band in rehearsal

Membership of the band is open to people of almost any musical skill level, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

The Band endeavors to cater to a wide variety of musical abilities and its members range in skill, from a basic ability to read music to professional musicians and educators. A scholarship is awarded annually within the band to encourage members who are developing their music skills.

The open rehearsal will be held in the Prahran RSL Memorial Hall, High Street on Thursday 22 August 2019.

For more information email

Date/Time: Thursday 22 August 2019 – 7:30pm
Venue: Prahran RSL Memorial Hall
301 High Street, Prahran

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Always call 911 if you see a pet or person in a locked hot car alone, even if you don’t think it’s hot.

A mother scolded by a police sergeant for leaving her two young children in a sweltering SUV while she shopped for groceries in Vancouver won’t face charges, but the case has been turned over to children’s services.

A video of the visibly upset officer yelling at the woman as she stood beside her Lexus in a parking lot surfaced online Thursday.

“You don’t seem to understand the danger you put your children in,” he said to the woman as she stood with her arms crossed. “The windows were up – it’s hot out. Your children could have died.”

The cop can be heard telling the woman that a fire truck, an ambulance, and two police cars were called to the scene as a result of her actions. The officer also threatened to have the woman’s kids taken into protective custody after she appeared to argue with him.

“You don’t seem to understand what you’ve done,” he said before adding later, “What kind of parent are you?”

Vancouver police Chief Adam Palmer told reporters Friday that the woman will not face charges but that the children’s ministry has been contacted. The children, a girl, 6, and a three-and-a-half-year-old boy, were left unattended for about 20 minutes while the mother shopped for groceries Monday afternoon, Palmer said.

Palmer said police received multiple 911 calls from citizens concerned about two children in distress left in a hot car. They arrived to find the car alarm going off.

The chief said the sergeant in the video is highly respected and has children of his own.

“He was trying to convey to that woman the seriousness of what she’d done with her children.”

In Edmonton, police announced a mother was charged after her baby had to be rescued from a hot car.

Police managed to get the eight-month-old girl out of the vehicle and she was sent to the hospital for treatment.

It was believed the infant was in the car for about 45 minutes on Thursday night. Her mother, 22, who told police she forgot the baby in the vehicle while meeting a friend for coffee, is charged with causing a child to be in need of intervention.

The inside of a previously air conditioned vehicle can reach up to 50 degrees Celsius in as little as 20 minutes of sitting in the summer sun, according to the Canada Safety Council. That’s well above the temperature for heat stroke.

Although there are no national statistics available in Canada, the U.S. reports that an average of 37 children die every year in hot cars, with the majority of them being under the age of three.

Vancouver police also cautioned pet owners against leaving their furry friends unattended inside parked vehicles after they were forced to break into a car to rescue a dog at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Park earlier this week.

“Our message is don’t leave your pets or your kids in your vehicle when the weather is so hot,” Const. Anne-Marie Clark told CTV Vancouver. “Children should go without saying. Please take your children with you. Don’t leave them in the car. It’s too hot for everyone, pets or people.”

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Top 10 Security Tips for Home During Holidays | Mr. Mr. Locksmith™ Blog

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Hi, I’m Terry Whin-Yates from Mr. Locksmith™. I have the Top 10 security tips to secure your home during the holiday season.

1- Rekey Your Locks & Lock Your Doors

2- Lights, leave the TV on

3- Mail

4- Newspapers/Flyers, etc.

5- Alarms

7- No Gifts seen from the street under the Christmas Tree

8- Lock your windows, doors, etc. all the time.

9- No Empty boxes outside showing off your new TV etc.

10- Facebook and Social Media

Bonus: Engrave everything, take pictures and serial numbers.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Rekey your house or upgrade your deadbolts.

One of the first things you should do is lock your doors. Lock your doors, lock your windows, lock your patio doors, lock your car. Just lock it. It’s amazing how many homes and condos are open. You can walk through the neighborhood, and this is what the crooks do, we call them doorshakers, they just shake the door, see what’s unlocked, they go in and steal your stuff.

The next tip is rekey your house. If you don’t know where every single key is, if you’ve moved in and never changed the locks, if you’ve lost keys, if you’ve lent out keys to repair people, service people, whatever, rekey your house. You gotta know where they all are. It’s amazing how many break-ins happen because somebody has a key, they walk in and just open the door with the key and steal everything you got. So rekey your locks, upgrade your deadbolts put on some good high quality deadbolts that will stop the people from picking, bumping, kicking the doors in. Let’s make that door secure. Put on a good, high quality deadbolt. I have some great high security locks, the Abloy High Security Locks, Medeco and Schlage Primus. Upgrade your deadbolts to a good high-security lock, and don’t get the SmartKey locks because the are  dumb.

Abloy High Security Deadbolt

Abloy High Security Deadbolt

Make your house look lived in. If you have lights on, but have them, you know, you could nowadays, with, you could have them on programmable, you can have them turn off and on, get your lights on, have the house look lived in. One of my favorite things to do is when I go away is I leave the TV on. I put the TV on to the news channel, leave it there, I turn up the sound, the flickering of the TV screen makes it look like people are walking around in the house. The other cool feature is outside, all they hear is the bass, they hear boom boom boom boom boom. They can’t hear, they know somebody’s talking inside and they hear the bass outside, they see the flickering lights. Leaving the TV on is a fantastic way of making your house looked in.

Mail and newspapers. You’re going away, get the mail so it’s not piled up. Get somebody picking up your mail. Don’t just let it pack up there and make it look like the home’s not lived in. Same thing with newspapers, junk mail, flyers, all that garbage that comes during the holiday season. Get, if you’re away, get somebody to move it. One of the problems I had where I lived before, I always came in the back door and one day I went out the front door and there was like piles of flyers cuz I never went to the front door. Check your front door, make sure that there’s not a bunch of old stuff there, even if you’re home, you got all this stuff that makes it looks like nobody lives there. So when you’re going away, get some, get a help, get that stuff moved out of there.

One of my favorite security tips is get a gun safe for the home. First of all, if you have firearms, you should have a gun safe anyways to lock up your firearms. Firearms, ammunition, everything. However, you don’t have to have firearms in a gun safe. Even the inexpensive gun safes are a great place to store, you know, some of your, maybe your, some of your expensive china, pictures, paper and valuable items from fire. They will not protect any valuables at all from any burglary attempt. If you seen my other videos, you know how easy it is to open fire safes. Fire safes are good for fire protection only, not for valuables. Papers, that sort of thing. Burglary safes are rated for protecting your items, they’re burglar-resistant, they are meant for your jewelry, your gold, your cash. They are meant to slow down burglars. Your fire safe and your burglary safe should be secured, anchorable to the floor or wall, very easy to do. That slows the criminals down a little bit. You can get a combination fire and burglary safes together, so they have fire protection and burglary-resistant protection, That’s my favorite for the home. They’re not inexpensive, they start at $500 up but they’re a very good investment. You got one safe, does everything. If you have firearms in the house, you need a gun safe. Inexpensive gun safe to expensive gun safe, they’re all good. Of course the more money you spend, the more highly rated they are, the better it is to protect your firearms. One of my favorite thing is you don’t have guns, firearms to protect your goods. Get a big gun safe, anchor it to the wall and floor, and put in some of the stuff that you just don’t want stolen, you know, a few of your watches, some inexpensive jewelry, I put my, I have some favorite china that was given to me by my grandmother, I put my china in the gun safe. It’s big, it’s got a lot of space, I put my cameras in there. Yes, they should go in the fire safe, but half the time, no it’s not going in, so what I do is I put the my cameras, my camera gear, some bits and pieces, some of my favorite stuff is in my gun safe. Alarm systems. The days are now gone when a sticker on your door will stop them from busting in.

Gun Safe

Gun Safe

Have a good quality alarm system but realize the limitations. Right now, everybody has alarms. Half the time they’re not turned on. You have an alarm system, turn it on. The thieves kick the door in, the alarm goes off, they run in real quick, steal what they can and get out. Alarm systems are great, but they’re not gonna stop break-ins anymore. One of the recommendations we do to a lot of people if you’re away, it’s inexpensive, but have a runner service. A runner service is a security guard company, when the alarm goes off, they get the notification, forget the police showing up, I don’t know what city you live in, the police never show up to home alarms, especially around the holiday season. It’s a low low priority if they even show up, so if you’re really concerned, have the alarm will go off, the runner service will show up, then if the runner service sees that there’s a break-in, they will call the police, and they will also, you know, you have an arrangement to secure your property if it was busted into. But again, alarm systems are great, they’re inexpensive. Monitored systems are getting less expensive and there’s even systems now that go right to your smartphone so you get a break-in, your smartphone will go off. Which takes me to the next point. I love cameras. You could put cameras inside your house now, cameras are not gonna prevent crime, but they do aide the police in identifying who went in, and if they can look at the video and see who’s been in there, then they can usually piece it together with other break-ins in the area. Burglars and criminals don’t get caught until their 27th break-in, so they’re doing break-in, break-in, break-in, and the statistics show they get caught about every 27th break-in, so they’ve had a good free for all for a long time, so when you have some video evidence, it can help. Also, it’s amazing when you have break-ins and you see it’s a relative or a neighbor, that’s always kind of amazing when you see that. So, cameras are great to have and again, you can monitor these from your smartphone.

If your Christmas tree is visible from outside, because you’re showing off the lights, whatever, don’t have gifts under the Christmas tree. A lot of people that come home after shopping, or out at a party, and every gift under the tree is stolen, you can see it from the street, you can see inside, they got the lights on, they got everything, they looks like nobody’s home, there’s all the gifts, they go in there and steal the gifts. Don’t have your Christmas gifts visible under the tree from outside. Common sense there. This helps a little bit before Christmas, but especially after Christmas or Boxing Day in Canada. Don’t put the empty boxes outside on the street. You got the new TV set, you got the new home theater system, got whatever, don’t put the boxes on the street. Flatten them, cut them, turn them inside out, don’t make it look like you’ve got that brand new super duper 4K TV set, and there’s the empty box sitting on the street. Don’t put your empty boxes showing what you got on the street.

Facebook and Social Media. Don’t post, we’re going away to Hawaii on vacation on your Facebook. You have friends and they may have shady friends and people know you’re going away, they know you’re away for a month, they got a long time to plan to get your house. Yeah I know it’s tough, we like to post things but be aware, other people will now know your house is empty.

One of the basics that nobody does anymore, and it’s a real help to the police when they recover your stolen goods is engrave your information on everything you own. Put your name, put your phone number and the one thing that the police love is you put your driver’s license number. Put your state or province, put your driver’s license number on your items that you own. Put your name on it, put it on the back of the TV, put it on everything. You can buy these little Dremel engravers and just engrave information on everything you own. I’ve gone into houses and I’ve seen where they’ve noticed the big engraving on everything and they’ve just left it behind. Social security numbers and social insurance numbers aren’t good to put on, because a lot of times the different government agencies can’t access that information. One thing in the old days they would say put that on, but police departments have a difficult time getting that information from the government. So your driver’s license information, your phone number with area code is fantastic.

I hope you enjoyed the Top 10 security tips for securing your home during the holidays. And I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope you enjoyed watching this video. Subscribe to my YouTube channel.

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It’s was absolutely beautiful, warm and sunny today in 80s. Surf was larger to West on East facing beaches, so we headed over to South Walton Beaches and caught some fun waves – see pics. Small here in PCB. Water is clear emerald blue-green in PCB and was murky down that way. Water feels great in 70s with Yellow flags and there may be some jellies present but not bad. NO Red Tide. Y’all have a blessed night. More East swell tomorrow. SHOP is Fully stocked with Surfboards and accessories if you need anything. We have ‘Meet Up at the Surf Shop’ for Fellowship, Worship and a Word on Sundays. Surfers and SK8ers Welcome. Come casual – board shorts, no shoes and tanks not a problem! Bring a friend. Starts at 8:30am

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another social taboo

The first taboo being openly discussing biraciality without adhering to the one-drop rule.  Of course I find this blog post to be interesting, or I wouldn’t put it up here.  I appreciate the bit about biracial identity as well as the outline of the overall struggle and the shame that go along with the labels of mental illness in this country.  Especially in the black community.

Coming out of an entirely different closet… the one of mental illness

by Eliza Barnett

Unfortunately as prevalent as mental health disorders are the nation (50+ million diagnosed in the US alone) and world wide, it still tops the ranks as the most difficult to admit.

Higher than revealing to be a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or molestation, harder than confessing a drinking problem or previous bankruptcy; surveys have even shown it to more difficult than admitting ones gender identity or homosexuality. Sufferers face significant social taboos. And it doesn’t affect just one type of person. Mental illness knows nothing of age, race, gender, or economic background.

You don’t have to personally admit it yourself to believe the notion the reality that people are more likely to break off, or not even start, a relationship with someone with mental issues -which I for one find particularly interesting because members of society are more likely to stay with someone with a physical disability. People with mental disorders tend to prefer to hide their illness like major depression and anxiety, because unlike people with physical illnesses, people with mental disorders must also fear being rejected by family & friends, harassed, fired or not hired, or denied child custody—just for starters.

(Please check out this personal blog discussing the Price of being Bipolar in Public)

Last week I had an entire conversation with a friend about them being practically afraid to admit their Christian faith at their workplace because of the negative assumptions his non-same faith based peers might think about his character or behavior.

Once you know someone’s religious preference it changes your whole personality to people who don’t agree with you. Sometimes it’s like every negative image or thought they have about it becomes who I am as a person- even though I haven’t changed. It’s their behavior towards me that has.

I’ve read more than a few articles of a biracial person attempting, or enjoying the ability to pass for one race over another—not because they have a problem with it necessarily themselves, but because other people do.

Sometimes it’s like every negative stereotype or prejudice they have against a race I share membership of encompasses who I am as a person. Granted racism is an ongoing issue for those of one race, but it is just as prevalent towards those of plural heritage.

Sexual orientation discrimination —don’t even get me started.

(great message board discussion here coming coming out as gay with coming out as bipolar)

Mental illness sufferers are also victims of discrimination and the issue continually needs to be recognized.

“I’m Asian, I’m gay, and I have faced discrimination – but not for the reasons most people think; it was actually when I got depression that I faced most discrimination.”

(Quote from an article in the Guardian)

Attempts to end this discrimination are being lead by strong individuals, in the public eye, and by everyday people. Changed perception comes through increased knowledge and visibility.

People need to be taught that mental disorders don’t come from places of personal weakness, and don’t make everyone violent or unpredictable. They need to be made comfortable in seeking help. (Two thirds of sufferers in need of treatment do not seek it. ) Even more importantly open, honest visibility helps others with the illnesses themselves to stand up without shame.

Negative stigma’s of this variety aren’t just external, they’re internal. Who wants to think of themselves as crazy…? When feelings of guilt, shame, or a notion that you’re somehow weakened for needing help are thrown in the mix, it only reinforces the negative feelings.

Isn’t it always the case that telling the ones you love is the hardest thing to do? This isn’t any different. And ignorance towards the idea of mental disorders can to be hard to deal with; some people may not even believe mental illnesses exist. Americans particularly have vast misconception that all mental disorders can be simply be self-corrected with enough work.

Similar to the first step in admitting you have an addiction; your own acceptance is where it all begins. Examine your own feeling first and foremost. You have control over who you tell, so it’s okay to be cautious about it.

“There is no rule for who needs to know about your mental illness diagnosis, but sharing it with someone is a great way to get support.

The silence helps maintain the ignorance about mental illness.”

That being said,

“It doesn’t mean that it is always beneficial to open up indiscriminately about mental health, to your detriment. It would be wonderful if everybody came out.

But it is a very subjective decision and consequences should be considered. Society isn’t at the place of acceptance that it needs to be. Not everyone in the world needs to know if you struggle with diabetes or hypertension or some other illness. The same is true for mental illness. Those with the disorder, are the ones in charge, and should think about what the payoff is to share information about their mental health. For example, if you need to miss work to see a psychiatrist, you might want to tell your employer about what you are going through.”

When someone does react negatively, agree to disagree or try to educate that person. Share educational materials. Share your own experience. And to those on the receiving end of the information, think before you speak.

“Try to react the same way you would if you were told about a physical health problem that you don’t know much about. Avoid trying to be the hero or savior. Being empathic and understanding is one thing, but trying rescue someone is a completely different. You shouldn’t try to fix them. This is something that is way beyond your capacity.”

Treatment and support from others goes a long way; the mental illness journey is a rough one for everyone involved. Help is required, it’s critical down the path of recovery, management of ones condition, and ability to lead constructive and healthy lives. Support can and does come from strangers as well, who share in this unity of diagnosis. As corny as it sounds, sharing is caring.

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Pope Benedict Defends His Abdication

During his last Sunday as a Pope, the Holy Father has indirectly – but clearly enough – defended his decision to abdicate. Once again, he has said he cannot do his job properly any more, and a life of prayer is now both more fitted to him and – which I am sure was the paramount consideration in his decision – more salutary for the Church and faithful.

There are around voices that say this was a mistake (sometimes, a big or catastrophical one) and the Holy Father should have done strange things, like allowing the Church to remain without an effective guide, permit that internal strife of all kind tears the shop apart (a frequent result of weak leadership, as the Vatican itself now more than eloquently shows) and in general see the detetioration of the Church in the West continue.

In the immortal novel I Promessi Sposi, Alessandro Manzoni puts in the mouth of Don Abbondio (the weak and cowardly priest who had consented not to celebrate a marriage because of pressure from a local warlord, animated by the most scandalous motives) the unforgettable words: “Il coraggio, uno non se lo puo’ dare”. It is difficult to translate into a foreign language the particular way Italians stress a point, but a fair translation might be “with courage it is so, that one can’t give it to oneself”; whereas probably the beauty and drama of the original are lost, but the basic message remains.

Don Abbondio has become in Italy the epitome of the weak, self-centred, cowardly priest interested more in living a quiet and -in those times – comfortable and privileged life than in fighting for Christ as a good priest, at the cost of his life if needs be. His words express a simple concept, well clear to us soft and understanding Italians: you can’t ask from people that they just become who they are not. Don Abbondio must choose between a defiance of power that (he thinks, being cowardly) might mean death, and a compliance allowing him to go on – or so he thinks – with his quiet life of comfort and privilege.

Now, whilst I do not want to draw too near a comparison between Pope Benedict and Don Abbondio, it is clear that neither of them is a Horseman of the Apocalypse. Old, peaceful, not cut for war, and unable – like everyone else – to completely change what he is, it simply cannot be asked of Pope Benedict that he jumps over 86 years of his life and starts to live and act according to a freely chosen new persona. It just does not work that way.

With courage – or with the will to be a strong, energetic, willful Pope, leading the Church with a firm hand and expecting to be obeyed – it is so, that one cannot give it to oneself.

Courage, the Holy Father has gathered enough – very probably more than he ever could in his life – when he has decided to abdicate, full knowing the fans of the “dying Pope circus” (so popular only a few years ago, and so beloved by the media, and so obscenely convenient for heterodox Cardinals and Bishops) would be incensed at him depriving them of another year-long media show.

Not only he had courage, but if you ask me he took what is – with Summorum Pontificum – the smartest decision of his reign.

A Pope is, in fact, there to reign, not simply to talk. His duty is to give orders, make unpleasant decisions, displease an awful lot of people and upset many more, defy secular powers whenever necessary, and defy the stupidity of the world every single day. It takes energy and courage to do so. Pope Benedict never had the second, and is rapidly losing the first. Nor could anyone expect of him that he suddenly transforms himself into a different person overnight. God can cause such tranformations, of course, but they are very rare. Normally, weak people won’t be able to give themselves the courage they lack.

Don Abbondio tries to get away with his weakness, and is in serious trouble when his behaviour comes to the ears of his superiors. Pope Benedict, far braver and more honest, realises he can’t be any good for the Church as an even weaker Pope, and draws the consequences. From a weak Pope you can really not expect more than this.

Not only, therefore, I think that His Holiness’ decision should be respected, but I think that the courage necessary for such a step should be recognised and duly appreciated.

The alternative would have been another year-long power vacuum. But as power, like nature, has horror vacui, this vacuum would have been filled by people who have never been elected Pope, and taking all decisions with very little of the (earthly) responsibility.

A Pope is a King, not an exposition item for the joy of the TV channels. We need him strong, alert, and full of energy. Weak Popes of the “harmless great-uncle”-type only benefits the local hierarchies and the Vatican power groups, particularly if they aren’t orthodox.

With courage it is so, that one cannot give it to oneself.

Vatican Leaks: Sodomites Within The Leonine Walls?

Inside the very walls?

Inside the very walls?

Fair Warning: If you think it inappropriate to discuss leaks from the Vatican, click away now…

Disturbing rumours from the Vatican in these anyway rather disturbing times.

It appears (but… I wasn’t there) that the report recently given to the Holy Father concerning the “Vatileaks” scandal contains prudently worded but clear references to what in common parlance is called a “gay mafia” operating within the very Leonine Walls. In addition, members of this group would be currently blackmailed by what in common parlance are called their lovers.

The allegations about the content of the report are now made by the biggest Italian newspaper, “Repubblica”, after already the “Corriere della Sera” had heavily hinted at the matter in the past. “Repubblica” claims sources near to those who wrote the report. I do not like “Repubblica” as a newspaper, but cannot imagine they would publish the rumours without being very sure of what they do.

The report seems to describe an environment characterised by infighting groups, of which the above mentioned homo mafia is the truly disturbing element.

Now, it is common for every organisation made of humans to have different groups thinking in different ways (say: Cardinal Bagnasco does not like Berlusconi and threw him out of the window; but Cardinal Sodano thinks he is the Church’s natural ally) and being human they can be certainly forgiven if they tend to entrench themselves a bit in their own positions; but to have a group of people acting in concert not to pursue what they think is the best policy for the Church, but to cover and aid each other in what concerns their common perversion is utterly disturbing.

We will probably never know whether this report is – as also rumoured – what moved Benedict to decide it was time to abdicate; I personally thinks the decision was taken before, and the Vatileaks scandal forced him to wait a bit longer; but certainly, the report must have definitely persuaded the Holy Father that he did not have the strength (both physical and of character, I think he is too harsh with himself when he says “spiritual”) to add this battle to the many Catholicism is now called to fight all over the West (sodomy, euthanasia, abortion, secularism and militant atheism come to mind).

It is certainly disconcerting that a Pope should leave in the moment when war must be waged. Does the report contain names, dates, facts? And if it is so, how can it be possible to go away hoping that one’s successor cleans the mess one hasn’t cleaned? On the other hand, if one partout does not have the energy to fight this fight (and Pope Benedict never had the energy to fight any meaningful fight; just think of the Wagner episode in Linz…) it is certainly better to abdicate and hope the next Pope is fit for purpose.

In a development of the latest hours, La Stampa informs us the dossier will now be made available to the Cardinals in the conclave. Whilst the Vatican (obviously) denies the rumours of sexual impropriety among high ranking officials, this move would seem the way Pope Benedict has assured that whilst he does not act, his successor will have to. This very proper cleaning of dirty laundry within the family of the Cardinals will make sure the necessity to get a strong man able to clean the mess is forcefully stressed, and remains in the mind of every Cardinal.

Let me say once again before I close that I have obviously not read the document, and it could well be in the end that this devil is not as bad as he is represented. Still, everyone who follows the affairs of the Church knows very well that homosexual infiltration is ripe at many levels of the Church, and should not be surprised to know that the filth has paved its way to the Vatican.

If you let the smoke of Satan enter the temple of God, be prepared for Satan to get to work with it.

Please Lord, please inspire the Cardinals to give us a strong Pope!

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    The formation of flowers is one of the main models for studying the regulatory mechanisms that underlie plant development and evolution. Over the past three decades, extensive genetic and molecular analyses have led to the identification of a large number of key floral regulators and to detailed insights into how they control flower morphogenesis. In recent years, genome-wide approaches have been applied to obtaining a global view of the gene regulatory networks underlying flower formation. Furthermore, mathematical models have been developed that can simulate certain aspects of this process and drive further experimentation. Here,wereview some of the main findings made in the field of Arabidopsis thaliana flower development, with an emphasis on recent advances. In particular, we discuss the activities of the floral organ identity factors, which are pivotal for the specification of the different types of floral organs, and explore the experimental avenues that may elucidate the molecular mechanisms and gene expression programs through which these master regulators of flower development act.

    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: ABC model, floral quartets, floral transition; flower development; functional genomics; gene networks; morphogenesis; transcription factors;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering > Biology
    Item ID: 7425
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    Depositing User: Emanuelle Graciet
    Date Deposited: 02 Sep 2016 08:31
    Journal or Publication Title: New Phytologist
    Publisher: Wiley
    Refereed: Yes

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