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The band's winning streak as a massively popular musical force has hit some speed bumps lately, most notably with the mixed reception received by their 2014 album Songs of Innocence, which was given to iTunes users free. But the promise of delivering the vast, sturdy, unabashedly ambitious songs from the band's most archetypal and heroic (or self-important, depending on your point of view) album means that all is forgiven, and all U2 fans are welcome home. And at the Linc on Sunday, those songs starting with the mighty trio of "Where The Streets Have No Name," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," and "With or Without You" sounded every bit as majestic as intended, from the Edge's swirling, jabbing guitar to Bono's soaring vocals. Pulling back to the main-stage, the quartet played in front of a massive video screen that displayed a wide-open tableau of the vast expanses the band uses as visual metaphors for the endless possibilities of the American dream. The dark side of that was also explored, in blistering tracks such as "Bullet the Blue Sky" and "Exit," a jagged guitar jam that plays as the weakest song on the album but truth 11, 4 'It 1 41 I 111 4 7:77" 1 1 1, 2' 1 -A 7 i 1 1 1111 4 1 tie Things That Give You Away," the one brand-new song that they have frequently been closing shows with, and instead opted for one last jolt of galvanic energy with their most recent big hit, 2004's "Vertigo." Denver pop-folk trio the Lumineers (expanded to a sextet with three additional musicians) opened with an agreeable breezy 50 minutes, providing a strummy sound track as fans filled the seats.

Singer Wesley Keith Schultz worked hard to engage the crowd in acoustic singalongs such as "The Big Parade" (with an altered lyric meant to zing 'frump), and in the end asking politely for the crowd to stand for the closing "Stubborn Love." ence of now mostly middle-aged fans from which the band draws strength in the stadium performances for which their far-reaching music is best suited. As Bono put it, justifiably proud of himself: "Here we still are, and here you still are." Post-Joshua Tree encore highlights included a "Mysterious Ways" that honored female achievers on the video screen from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Patti Smith to Ma lala Yousafzai. "Womankind, explain my mind," Bono implored. In his intro to the band's most irresistible musical call for unity, "One," Bono praised former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama's work to fight HIV AIDS and expressed dismay that Trump's proposed budget cuts could undo it.

And, for a finale, the band left out "The Lit start of the concert at Lincoln Financial Field. cated to Dennis Sheehan, the band's road manager from Philadelphia, who died in 2015. In the end, the best thing about U2 doing the The Joshua Tree is that it reconvenes the mass audi Replace Your Old, Outdated Bath NOW 1 7-1 1 ifoolle' Ill ce-- -A 11-94fro 1 A --Imo 410-- 10 A. Mark Sabaj Perez and daughter Sofia on a research trip. Go from this to THIS, In Little As Go from this, to THIS, In As Little As ddelucaphillynews.com 215-854-5628 11 delucadan go Bono and bandmates at the that, prefaced with blackand-white clips from old westerns edited to poke fun at President Trump, came to life on Sunday thanks to the Edge's five-alarm attack.

Other performances of In 2012, Sabaj had been collecting specimens along northern Brazil's Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon. 'IWo years later, it became the site of the third-largest hydroelectric dam in the world. The All Catfish Species Inventory was under pressure to gather as many fish as possible before the dam permanently altered their habitat. With the help of some local fishermen, Sabaj floated two canoes down a narrow river channel, dragging a fine mesh net between them. In one haul, he saw an inch of whiteness among the jumble of fish.

The critter was thumb-knuckle length, eyeless, and without pigment all rare traits within its genus of catfish. Sabaj realized instantly that it was new. "It felt like finding a needle in a haystack," Sabaj said. "The fish was so small and pale." Taxonomists can't simply declare a new species. They have to assume they're wrong.

After the discovery, researchers must try to disprove themselves. Sabaj and his team combed museum collections, archives, and scientific inventories, looking for a pasty, blind catfish to prove X. sofiae wasn't alone. Verification is a long, arduous process that can occasionally take decades. In one extreme case, academy ichthyologist John Lundberg waited 39 years to name his catfish.

He had collected the specimen, incidentally also eyeless and note: a robust "Red Hill Mining Town," never performed live before this tour, but justly rescued by the album-in-its-entirety format. "One 'free Hill," an infrequently heard side-two gem, which was dedi translucent (although of a different genus), in 1978. The anonymous fish finally became Micromyzon orinoco in February But by 2016, Sabaj and his colleagues had not found another catfish like theirs, and they were certain they would not. Sabaj even went back to the Amazon and tried to catch another. He could not turn up a second specimen, not because the fish are endangered, but because X.

sofiae lives deep under the murky Amazonian waters, beyond the reach of his nets. Only after returning empty-handed did the team move forward with a name. When Sabaj told Sofia about her namesake, she asked whether she was famous. "Sure," Sabaj said. "Among ichthyologists, you're a celebrity." For a girl who plays in rooms lined with jars of dead fish, that's no small feat.

According to Sabaj, Sofia has always had a taxonomist sensibility. "She has a knack for collecting things and sorting things, be it stuffed animals or Matchbox cars," he said. "She has that classification bug." Classification, the science of putting things in order, is no easy bug to catch. It is an unrelenting enterprise there is always a new thing to name. At the very least, the task outlasted the All Catfish Species Inventory's formal undertaking.

Funding for the project has long run out. Did they identify everything? "No," Sabaj said, laughing. Catfishes exist on every continent even as fossils in Antarctica. They inhabit every kind of waterway, including some running underground. But Sofia, Sabaj and his colleagues are still collecting, dissecting, and describing specimens.

"But this one is done," Sabaj said. "There's a kind of relief in naming. I'm done with that. Now we can work on the next one." THittphilly.com 11 TarpleyHitt ONE DAY! 3 1 1 i i I I 1 1 1 LI-1 rid, 441.7 Li ft1.104 1.61-1-1.61.-0 I Get up to 1 $500 i I allik Em Em 1 1 1 Fr your Catfish Continued from Cl a newly discovered catfish a species of the "banjo" family, so-called for their shape (round head, narrow tail) and the slender bones in their spines that sound like a banjo when moved. The fish is especially small, measuring just over 44 millimeters from nose to tail.

The academy has the only museum specimen in the world. Sabaj called the discovery Xyliphius sofiae: Xyliphius for its genus of South American banjo catfish and sofiae for his youngest researcher: Sofia. "Sofiae has a dual meaning," Sabaj said. "One is for my daughter, of course. The other has to do with the Greek stem of the word soph meaning wisdom." In the final paper, the etymology reads: "In honor of the daughter of first author on the specific epithet, for inspiring wisdom in her father." Last week, Sofia printed out the official museum label and taped it to her bedroom wall.

Often, people dole out names before they know what they are naming. Sabaj decided on Sofia, for example, long before he discovered his daughter also enjoyed the company of sea creatures. The reverse is true with fish. In taxonomy, titles come last. Sabaj caught, studied, and described Xyliphius sofiae years before he knew what to call it.

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