Menu 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 Home Updates list Contents list Site search About Beginning Schubert Schubert collection 2018 Scrapbook for December Spot the human dot | What's in a name? | Aspen year Posted on UTC 2018-12-01 02:01 Words: 388; reading time: 1 minute Thoughts for the coming year But no tidings of comfort and joy. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-12-14 14:38 Words: 1,700; reading time: 7 minutes 13 December: Saint Lucy's Day 220 years ago, William Wordsworth sent his 'Lucy' poems to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-12-09 08:04 Words: 4,916; reading time: 22 minutes Updated on 2018-12-17 Alinde D 904: Rochlitz and Schubert A lesson in metrical magic from the master. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-12-03 13:12 Words: 5,364; reading time: 24 minutes Quotes and images of the month for December Quotes: George Eliot Journals, Friedrich Hebbel, Diaries. Images: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Virgin and Child. Posted on UTC 2018-12-01 07:32 Words: 2,485; reading time: 11 minutes Scrapbook for November More Envy of the World™ | InSight lands on Mars | Something for the flag experts | Three-bar flags | Good idea, Angela! | Our aspen | More means less Posted on UTC 2018-11-01 02:01 Words: 578; reading time: 2 minutes Brexit: where there's life, there's hope Parliament 1 : People 0. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-11-24 14:11 Words: 526; reading time: 2 minutes Hunting down immigrants in Chemnitz At last some facts, three months after they were really needed. Better late than never. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-11-19 13:16 Words: 1,285; reading time: 5 minutes 19 November 1828: the death of Franz Schubert 190 years ago – time to be rational. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-11-18 14:46 Words: 8,774; reading time: 39 minutes Thinking in tongues A coda to Albrecht von Haller's Bernese dialect upbringing: some excerpts from Martin Walser's speech 'Remarks on our dialect'. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-11-12 09:56 Words: 1,187; reading time: 5 minutes Quote and image of the month for November Quote: Karl Friedrich von Kübeck: the viva voce examination, 1801. Image: Follower of Caravaggio, Saint Matthew and the Angel. Posted on UTC 2018-11-10 10:19 Words: 642; reading time: 2 minutes Empty gestures make most noise The fake pieties of Armistice Day keep coming. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-11-08 15:30 Words: 1,281; reading time: 5 minutes Protecting the German constitution Enough empirical truth for the moment, Maaßen. Get out now, before you cause any more trouble for the Dear Leader. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-11-07 17:17 Words: 1,292; reading time: 5 minutes Blasphemy redux The unpleasant face of secular piety. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-11-06 16:23 Words: 1,407; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on 2019-04-15 Lottery wins Coping with divine rejection – a sufferer writes. Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2018-11-04 10:47 Words: 1,290; reading time: 5 minutes Richard North, the angry Sage of Bradford Up a fjord without a paddle. 'My beautiful Flexcit! Wrecked, I tell you, all wrecked.' Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-11-02 16:53 Words: 988; reading time: 4 minutes A well-known opera – but which? Guess. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-11-02 09:32 Words: 447; reading time: 2 minutes Three early November anniversaries Tristram Shandy's birth, the death of Byron's 'Boatswain' and Arthur Rimbaud's crossing of the Gotthard Pass. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-11-01 15:28 Words: 2,046; reading time: 9 minutes Scrapbook for October Kubitschek: down but not out | Aspen calm | The Great British Winter Festival | Gottfried Keller's 'Dreambook' Posted on UTC 2018-10-01 02:01 Words: 1,722; reading time: 7 minutes That German right-wing landslide German politics through the looking glass. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-10-30 07:18 Words: 725; reading time: 3 minutes Updated on 2018-10-31 Albrecht von Haller's love poem Doris 16 October 2018: 310 years since Haller's birth. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-10-29 08:30 Words: 212; reading time: 1 minute Pepper, the dim robot Compliant Members of Parliament outclassed by a laptop. It didn't take much. Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2018-10-18 11:31 Words: 555; reading time: 2 minutes Ballet Zürich's Winterreise Great despair – and that's only the audience. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-10-15 17:55 Words: 210; reading time: 1 minute The Bavarian earthquake — Did the earth move for you, Marie? — Not that I noticed. Perhaps next time. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-10-15 10:05 Words: 507; reading time: 2 minutes Digital servitude From digital deathbed to bridal-bed bliss in one hectic weekend. Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2018-10-10 17:25 Words: 1,145; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2018-10-16 Phoenix rising A review of Werner Vogt's new book SWISS – Die Airline der Schweiz Posted by George Meredith on UTC 2018-10-04 07:24 Words: 1,233; reading time: 5 minutes Scrapbook for September Lunacy of the Year award | Of moles and men | Late summer Tennyson Posted on UTC 2018-09-01 02:01 Words: 683; reading time: 3 minutes Gay days in Old Vienna? Oh no, not that again! Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-09-30 22:30 Words: 1,484; reading time: 6 minutes Is Theresa May the bottom of the U-bend? Probably not: it appears to be one long pipe going straight down. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-09-21 18:54 Words: 746; reading time: 3 minutes How to write a big book in two days Professor Julian Horton shows us how. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-09-19 17:02 Words: 1,045; reading time: 4 minutes Schubert's downward spiral, 1827 Driven to despair by a fourteen-year-old girl, apparently. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-09-17 11:18 Words: 9,062; reading time: 41 minutes Updated on 2018-09-18 The pig got up and slowly walked away 7 September: 75 years since the death of Frank Crumit. Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2018-09-04 13:23 Words: 340; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for August Rattling the begging bowl | Coexistance | Ten to three | The noise of apples falling from trees | Tommy Robinson free | The obituary from Hell Posted on UTC 2018-08-01 02:01 Words: 2,056; reading time: 9 minutes Franz Schubert in search of lost time Does happiness linger in places? No. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-09-01 16:37 Words: 10,829; reading time: 49 minutes Updated on 2018-09-07 Rolling the bacterial dice in Old Vienna Ah, Treponema pallidum pallidum! — and who's your pretty friend? Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-08-23 15:17 Words: 10,540; reading time: 47 minutes Google, facebook, Switzerland – peas in a pod Internet user tracking the official Swiss way. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-08-13 11:25 Words: 1,497; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on 2019-07-28 Language, Truth and Logic We're right, you're wrong. Go away and shut up. Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2018-08-06 14:41 Words: 2,813; reading time: 12 minutes Scrapbook for July Two lettuce leaves short of a salad | Tommy Robinson | For your diary | Our aspen in summer | Here we go again | Don't do it, Vernon! | The free market | That Brexit shambles | Novichok: the story so far Posted on UTC 2018-07-01 02:01 Words: 1,434; reading time: 6 minutes Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock: Der Zürchersee Love Island 30 July 1750, with a Seefahrt that is not to be sniffed at. A meditation for the Swiss National Day, 1 August. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-07-30 17:26 Words: 11,893; reading time: 54 minutes Updated on 2020-10-22 The Poetry Bookshop 1913-1935 Just what was needed on the eve of the Great War. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-07-17 07:43 Words: 3,678; reading time: 16 minutes Updated on 2019-01-06 Brexit: statements to remember Just make sure you remember them correctly. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-07-14 10:02 Words: 1,002; reading time: 4 minutes Jean-Jacques Rousseau's herbarium 1772 2 July 1778: 240th anniversary of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's death. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-07-13 10:53 Words: 487; reading time: 2 minutes Germany: where are we? Where are we going? Nowhere. Fast. Does it matter? No. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-07-10 09:57 Words: 1,152; reading time: 5 minutes Franz Schubert below stairs July-November 1818: 200 years ago in Hungary. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-07-08 16:22 Words: 18,696; reading time: 1 hour 24 minutes Updated on 2019-05-08 Scrapbook for June Solar sucks | Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) | The Art of the Deal | Yet more site changes | More site changes | Site changes | Trump meets Rump Posted on UTC 2018-06-01 02:01 Words: 1,123; reading time: 5 minutes The Kaiserbrunnen in Konstanz 25 years ago the 'Fountain of the Emperors' caught up with the modern world. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-06-28 09:44 Words: 4,287; reading time: 19 minutes 5 July 1948: 70 years of the NHS soup kitchen It could have been worse. No, it couldn't. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-06-25 07:44 Words: 4,242; reading time: 19 minutes Updated on 2018-10-13 Folk Devils and Moral Panics Just don't mention the war – even if you manage to remember it. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-06-22 11:22 Words: 1,503; reading time: 6 minutes All at sea with Seehofer Sink or swim time for Germany's flexible Interior Minister and his aggrieved party. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-06-20 13:23 Words: 1,892; reading time: 8 minutes 20 June 1914: blasting and blessing Whipping up an artistic storm as the thunderclouds gather. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-06-18 17:33 Words: 5,086; reading time: 23 minutes Hitler: demon, dummy or smooth operator? Oh no, not him again… Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-06-12 09:14 Words: 1,147; reading time: 5 minutes The Swiss, bless 'em! Sense and senselessness, all in one weekend. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-06-11 13:03 Words: 512; reading time: 2 minutes Image of the month for June Henriette Browne, A Girl Writing. Posted on UTC 2018-06-10 11:07 Words: 959; reading time: 4 minutes 3 June 1828: Fugue at midnight Franz Schubert once again working for nothing, 190 years ago. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-06-03 11:22 Words: 5,324; reading time: 24 minutes Updated on 2018-06-27 Leftist bias at Google? Surely not! Seek and ye shall find… Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-06-02 09:12 Words: 116; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for May Site changes | Yulia Skripal | Yet more on the GDPR | The GDPR(?) | UK trade post-Brexit | Playing the Windsors | Comment of the day | That time of year when… | 999 blue balloons | Site changes Posted on UTC 2018-05-01 02:01 Words: 1,416; reading time: 6 minutes 23 May 1618: the Second Defenestration of Prague 400 years ago, the brutal start of the brutal Thirty Years' War. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-05-30 08:12 Words: 2,975; reading time: 13 minutes Tommy Robinson: jailbird That'll learn him. We certainly hope so. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-05-28 10:14 Words: 5,048; reading time: 22 minutes Updated on 2018-06-14 Richard North: still bouncing off the walls A quick glimpse through the peephole of his padded cell. No change – best not open the door. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-05-27 10:12 Words: 910; reading time: 4 minutes German transgender gender No laughing matter. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-05-26 16:03 Words: 4,777; reading time: 21 minutes Updated on 2018-06-11 Serious advice for all men Scouting for Girls or Boys. Some words for the innocent: Be prepared. Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2018-05-23 08:23 Words: 1,406; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on 2018-06-06 Peter Winkler reports from Planet Zog At last, the Swiss get to hear the truth about that Trump chap. It's worse than they thought. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-05-22 10:49 Words: 1,322; reading time: 6 minutes British Republic Day 20 May 2018 was the start; the end will come sooner than anyone thinks. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-05-21 11:12 Words: 1,194; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2018-07-18 Staring into the cultural abyss A wedding that will be remembered – but for all the wrong reasons. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-05-20 08:14 Words: 1,388; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on 2018-05-21 Brexit and Ireland Let the UK have a fresh start with Ireland. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-05-18 16:46 Words: 759; reading time: 3 minutes Updated on 2018-07-13 Suicide by cop in Gaza David picks up a rock and lobs it in Goliath's direction. We know how this will end. Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2018-05-17 11:09 Words: 601; reading time: 2 minutes Updated on 2018-05-17 Diana's revenge The fall of the House of Windsor: coming along nicely. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-05-16 16:20 Words: 617; reading time: 2 minutes Winston Churchill: animal lover Horses, dogs, cats, geese, goldfish – even the odd ladybird. Posted by Werner Vogt on UTC 2018-05-16 16:13 Words: 1,801; reading time: 8 minutes Behind the copyright ramparts Doing dead artists no favours at all. Posted by George Meredith on UTC 2018-05-11 09:03 Words: 1,193; reading time: 5 minutes Our battery-powered Smart Grid Dumb as a rock – but at least it really is dumb now. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-05-09 15:03 Words: 912; reading time: 4 minutes The New Hambacher Fest 2018 Those right-wing thugs winding us up again. Good job so few people heard about it. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-05-08 14:35 Words: 2,810; reading time: 12 minutes Updated on 2018-05-10 5 May 1818: Marxmas The 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. Still crazy after all these years. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-05-02 06:03 Words: 5,175; reading time: 23 minutes Updated on 2018-05-05 3 May 1810: Lord Byron and Lt. Ekenhead swim across the Hellespont Not as simple as it sounds. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-05-01 06:34 Words: 5,348; reading time: 24 minutes Scrapbook for April King Louis | Pallywood | The art of wellbeing tour | Sun Queen nuts | Germany: Toddlers mixing paint | Patience Posted on UTC 2018-04-01 02:01 Words: 675; reading time: 3 minutes The case of Alfie Evans Awful. In every respect. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-04-29 13:02 Words: 1,090; reading time: 4 minutes The hydrogen fuel cell takes flight Bye bye, kerosene. You have served us well but it's time to go. Posted by George Meredith on UTC 2018-04-27 13:03 Words: 2,202; reading time: 10 minutes Updated on 2018-04-28 20 April 1945: Hitler's last birthday The Klemperers' refugee flight during the last months of the Nazi regime. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-04-20 06:32 Words: 13,387; reading time: 60 minutes The poisoning of the Skripals An opera buffa of Wagnerian length, lacking all humour. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-04-06 13:03 Words: 660; reading time: 3 minutes On the French road to nowhere And currently getting nowhere fast, too. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-04-05 14:16 Words: 973; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2019-07-30 Balsamico, Swiss style Cheap and cheerful – a good Helvetian compromise. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-04-05 07:12 Words: 344; reading time: 1 minute 3 April 2018: Happy birthday, Balsamico! Twenty years and still going strong. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-04-03 09:12 Words: 1,897; reading time: 8 minutes Dr Groddeck will see you now Our Easter special: a psychoanalyst's view of Jan Davidszoon de Heem's Still life with bird's nest. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-04-01 07:22 Words: 2,249; reading time: 10 minutes Scrapbook for March The cloud of unknowing | Nerve gas: you ask, we answer. | The cheque's in the post | Amelia Earhart | Persil Man | Dog-bites-man Posted on UTC 2018-03-01 02:01 Words: 1,139; reading time: 5 minutes State of the Climate 2017 The ten points you need to know. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-03-28 10:23 Words: 629; reading time: 2 minutes Figures of Speech discussion group closed Silence is golden, it seems. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-03-23 19:05 Words: 76; reading time: 1 minute 26 March 1828: Schubert's only concert A breakthrough for Franz 190 years ago that came just too late. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-03-22 09:54 Words: 3,969; reading time: 18 minutes 21 March 1918: Operation Michael The beginning of the end of the First World War, one hundred years ago. Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2018-03-20 07:22 Words: 1,714; reading time: 7 minutes The key question in abstract art What on earth does it mean? Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-03-19 07:21 Words: 1,000; reading time: 4 minutes Going to the dogs The decline and fall of Andermatt, Switzerland. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-03-11 14:32 Words: 2,343; reading time: 10 minutes Updated on 2019-09-28 The Sound of Martial Music Seven days in March eighty years ago: the Austrian Anschluss. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-03-06 07:03 Words: 10,056; reading time: 45 minutes Updated on 2018-03-24 Judgement of Solomon required Never mind. Let's all sit down and have a chat about it. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-03-01 10:18 Words: 1,139; reading time: 5 minutes To Charlotte While Shaving A remarkably prescient verse portrait of the childhood of Theresa May. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-03-01 07:24 Words: 440; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for February Dementia and alcohol | A new dawn breaks | Deplorable fake news | Not so grand Coalition | Germany: Grand Coalition defined | Cuprinol Man Posted on UTC 2018-02-01 02:01 Words: 1,699; reading time: 7 minutes 'Now WE ask the questions' The wind of change in Germany? Götz Kubitschek's speech to the Zukunft Heimat demonstration in Cottbus on 24 February. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-02-27 10:43 Words: 1,966; reading time: 8 minutes 22 February 1943: the White Rose Hans and Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst: guillotined on this day 75 years ago. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-02-24 15:33 Words: 950; reading time: 4 minutes The PostAuto car crash The unpleasant whiff of subsidy corruption in Switzerland. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-02-24 10:12 Words: 1,275; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2019-07-28 Mass shootings in the USA No quick fix, no easy solution. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-02-23 10:49 Words: 861; reading time: 3 minutes Kippered Kirsty: a lesson to us all In defence of the unreasonable, the bloody-minded and the pig-headed amongst us. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-02-21 10:12 Words: 1,077; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2018-02-24 Midnight, 21 February 1818 On this day 200 years ago, Franz Schubert was drunk in charge of an inkpot. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-02-21 00:01 Words: 6,383; reading time: 29 minutes Martin… er… who? The German Foreign Minister for 36 hours. Gone and soon to be completely forgotten. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-02-10 10:14 Words: 515; reading time: 2 minutes Updated on 2018-02-10 It's a hard life at the FBI Maybe get a blister on your little finger. Maybe get a blister on your thumb. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-02-08 13:01 Words: 580; reading time: 2 minutes Updated on 2018-02-25 Watergate through the looking glass No smoking gun but a lot of mirrors. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-02-05 10:07 Words: 840; reading time: 3 minutes Desperately hating Donald The German-speaking media opines on President Trump's SOTUS speech. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-02-02 22:19 Words: 4,993; reading time: 22 minutes Updated on 2018-02-07 Pulling the plug on the Swiss broadcaster An interesting referendum coming up on 4 March in Switzerland. Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2018-02-01 07:23 Words: 751; reading time: 3 minutes Updated on 2018-03-04 The real Elizabeth Layton Wartime clouds of smoke in 10 Downing Street. Posted by Werner Vogt on UTC 2018-02-01 08:14 Words: 1,876; reading time: 8 minutes The Peter Principle – May extension Every day more and more people ask themselves: How did someone as dim and incompetent as Theresa May get to be Prime Minister of Britain? Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-02-01 07:34 Words: 3,658; reading time: 16 minutes Updated on 2018-02-24 Quote and image of the month for January Quote: Gérard de Nerval, Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie. Image: Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night. Posted on UTC 2018-01-01 01:02 Words: 454; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for January Germany: no change – as usual | The End of the Rainbow | A word to the wise | Ordinary Passengers | Our solitary aspen cluster | NHS excuse of the week | Envy-of-the-World™ – no change | Warpaint | Eight dummies and a funeral Posted on UTC 2018-01-01 02:01 Words: 1,438; reading time: 6 minutes Franz Schubert's 31st birthday 31 January 1828. Celebrating his last birthday with a big hit. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-01-30 08:32 Words: 1,216; reading time: 5 minutes January 1818: Franz Schubert dodges the draft Saved for musical posterity by three quarters of an inch. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-01-24 17:15 Words: 1,087; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2018-02-14 21 January: Saint Meinrad's Day Clubbing in the Dark Forest. Even the ravens were upset. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-01-21 08:12 Words: 1,127; reading time: 5 minutes Hotting things up in the USA A guide to making measurements fit the theory. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-01-19 15:20 Words: 797; reading time: 3 minutes Swiss Government-sponsored CAGW alarmism Does the Swiss Federal Metereological Office actually believe the stuff they write? We hope not. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-01-18 10:22 Words: 4,922; reading time: 22 minutes Updated on 2018-01-30 Gary Oldman shines in Darkest Hour An actor with Winston Churchill's DNA – A review of Joe Wright's film Darkest Hour. Posted by Werner Vogt on UTC 2018-01-16 07:19 Words: 915; reading time: 4 minutes The Base and the Superstructure Why you can never control social media. It is what it is. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-01-14 14:37 Words: 5,557; reading time: 25 minutes Updated on 2018-01-14 W.H. Auden's poem The Witnesses Poetry for the social media age. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-01-10 14:56 Words: 967; reading time: 4 minutes What Theresa did next Our puzzled readers write. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-01-09 10:14 Words: 134; reading time: 1 minute Hole in the wall The one in the north wall of the Eiger. Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2018-01-06 15:55 Words: 546; reading time: 2 minutes Mistrust of strangers Too late for Mia Valentin. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-01-05 08:23 Words: 2,757; reading time: 12 minutes Updated on 2018-09-18 New Year's greetings from the fuzz The police in Cologne spreading happiness around. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-01-02 16:40 Words: 612; reading time: 2 minutes Two Swiss railway station waiting-room murals Witnessing the collapse of civilisation. Perhaps. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-01-02 10:17 Words: 2,469; reading time: 11 minutes Were the Nazis left-wing extremists? Yes. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-01-01 07:03 Words: 1,680; reading time: 7 minutes New Year's Greetings from the Oxford Sausage, 1772 Student humour 245 years ago. No safe spaces here. Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-01-01 07:12 Words: 63; reading time: 1 minute