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For 68 years Attic Theatre has been a crucial component of the quality of life that makes the F ox Valley such a vibrant place to work, live and play. Your investment in Attic Theatre will help ensure that our region continues to thrive.
Since our founding in 1950, Attic Theatre has partnered with individuals and businesses who recognize the value of a strong community theater and the contributions it makes to the lifestyle of the area.
Hundreds of volunteers contribute thousands of hours as actors, ushers, set builders, painters, costumers, running crew, educators, and board members each year. Attic works to develop and nurture local talent by providing opportunities for actors and theater technicians to build and hone their skills.
Partners and individual donors make up the difference between ticket sales and the additional $70,000 that must be raised annually to pay for the UW-Fox Valley theater rental; set construction, costumes, and props; stipends for artistic and technical directors; and educational expenses.
The life blood of Attic productions is sponsorship, which augments ticket sales in paying the costs of set design and building; costumes; props, and other show expenses.
They include:
- Season Sponsor $10,000
- Show Sponsor 5,000
- Season Set Sponsor 3,000
- Ticket Sponsor 2,000
- Costume Sponsor 1,500
- Set Sponsor per show 1,000
- Season Prop Sponsor 600
- Costume Sponsor per show 500
- Prop Sponsor per show 200
- Children's Day Camp Sponsor 700
- Children's Workshop Sponsor 450
For more information on sponsorship and sponsor benefits, please contact Attic by email firstname.lastname@example.com or phone 920-734-7887.
All sponsors are listed on the sponsor page in our season program and recognized on our website, Facebook page.
Attic Theatre was founded in 1950 in the attic of the Cloak family home on North Union Street in Appleton, Wisconsin. What began as an acting class has become the longest running community theatre company in the Fox Valley. In the early days, Attic performed in a variety of venues such as Jefferson School and local church basements. When Lawrence opened the Music-Drama Center, Attic began its lengthy partnership with the university, employing both theatres during the summer months. Our newest venue, the beautiful UW Fox Valley Communication Arts Center, affords the opportunity to produce a wider array of plays with greater audience appeal.
From simple beginnings, Attic has grown to produce hundreds of full-scale shows over a span of more than 60 years. In addition to a full summer season, Attic currently offers a popular children's workshop in the spring and a weeklong day camp in the summer.
Each year, thousands of people participate in Attic Theatre on stage, backstage, as volunteers, and as audience members. Ticket sales exceed 5,000 annually. Attic truly does create excellent community theatre.


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Below are some investor letters as well as company write-ups and blog posts discussing my investment approach. To get on Saber Capital's email list, please use the form in the sidebar on the right of this page. Emails will be send about once per month (at the most) and will contain Saber Capital's investor letters as well as occasional notes or presentations I've done.
I am available to set up a phone call to discuss my investment approach or answer any questions that prospective clients might have regarding the account management process.
For more details on how I think about investing, please visit my blog at BaseHitInvesting.com.
Investor Letters and Notes
- Saber Capital Investor Letter – 2017 Mid-year Update (8/15/17)
- Saber Capital Investor Letter – 2016 Review (2/10/17)
- Saber Capital Investor Note – Most Important Moat (6/13/17)
- Saber Capital Investor Note – Presidential Edition (11/11/16)
- Tencent's Wide Moat – Manual of Ideas Wide Moat Investing Summit 2017
- MicroCap Conference in Philadelphia – October 25th, 2016
Investment Philosophy
- The Most Important Moat
- What is Your Edge?
- Competitive Advantage of an Owner-Operator
- The Simple Concept of Intrinsic Value
- The Simple Concept of Intrinsic Value Part 2
- Focus on the Key Variables of an Investment
- Some Thoughts on Investment Strategies and Buffett's 1966 Disney Investment
- A Few Thoughts on Reducing Unforced Errors
- Net-Nets: A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside a Cigar Butt
- Circle of Competence, Fat Pitches, and How to Become the Best Plumber in Bemidji
- Charlie Munger Comments and the Art of Stock Picking
- Valeant, Short-Selling, and the Too-Hard Pile
- The Importance of Pricing Power
- 1987 Berkshire Letter and Buffett's Thoughts on High ROE
- Market Fluctuations of the 10 Largest Companies
Read all posts about investment philosophy here.
Stock Ideas/Company Research
- Markel: A Compounding Machine (MKL)
- Berkshire Hathaway is Safe and Cheap (BRK)
- Apple's Key Competitive Advantage (AAPL)
- Bank Stock Review (JPM, BAC)
- Associated Capital: A True $1.00 for $0.70 (AC)
- Verisign: The Toll Road of the Internet (VRSN)
- Some Thoughts on Markel's Intrinsic Value (MKL)
- Wells Fargo and the Incredible Predictability of Deposit Growth (WFC)
- Wells Fargo vs. Small Community Banks (WFC)
- A Glance at the Last 42 Years of Wells Fargo (WFC)
- 10 Years of Google and the Importance of Long Term Thinking (GOOGL)
- An Exercise on Thinking Differently and a Great Business (AMZN)
- Thoughts on Fastenal (FAST)
- Thoughts on Coal Companies and Railroads (UNP)
- Barnes & Noble: A Bargain Hiding in Plain Sight? (BKS)
- Strayer University: A Bright Spot in a Dark Industry (STRA)
- Apple vs. Exxon Mobil (AAPL)
- Notes on Credit Acceptance Corp (CACC)
- WeChat's Huge Moat in China (TCEHY)
Return on Capital Series
- Importance of ROIC Part 1: Compounders and Cheap Stocks
- Importance of ROIC Part 2: Compounders and Cheap Stocks
- Importance of ROIC Part 3: Compounding and Reinvestment
- Importance of ROIC Part 4: The Math of Compounding
- Importance of ROIC Part 5: A Glance at the Last 42 Years of Wells Fargo
- Importance of ROIC: "Reinvestment" vs. "Legacy" Moats (a guest post that also captures the way I think about this concept as well)
- Calculating the Return on Incremental Capital Investments
Case Studies
- Importance of Knowing Your Investment Boundaries (Sears Mini-Case Study)
- Star Manager's Case Study of a Great Business vs. a Net-Net
- Buffett Thoughts on GEICO in 1976
- Mohnish Pabrai: Here's Why Buffett Bought Coke in 1987
- Buffett's PetroChina Investment: Finding Large Gaps Between Price and Value
- Sears and Seven-Foot Hurdles
- Lessons Learned from A History of Oil
- Lessons From the Fall of SunEdison
Buffett and Munger Posts (and a few of their followers)
- How Buffett Made 50% Per Year? By Thinking Differently…
- A 31-Year Old Buffett Discusses the Stock Market
- Things You Didn't Know About Buffett's Strategy
- Buffett's Early Investments
- Buffett on How to Think About Stocks
- Unconventional Investments
- Thoughts on the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting
- Charlie Munger Comments and the Art of Stock Picking
- Michael Burry: Focus on Bargains, Not Stock Market Valuations (Michael Burry)
- Thoughts on Ted Weschler's Largest Holding and Excellent Long-term Results (Ted Weschler)
- The 400% Man-A Lesson for Aspiring Investors (Allan Mecham)
- More Notes on Allan Mecham, the 400% Man (Mecham)
- Think Differently to Achieve Different Results (Mohnish Pabrai)
- Lecture at Columbia (Pabrai)
- A Lesser Known Gem by Ben Graham
- Buffett's Investment in Dempster Mill – A Cigar Butt
- Other Buffett Links
Sports References (just for fun)
- Market Truisms and Quarterback Controversies
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- Best Way to Improve Investment Skills: One Case Study After Another
- Walking, Thinking, and Investing

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DHFL (Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited), India's leading housing finance company, has reported 59.24% increase in net profit to Rs. 31 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2009
DHFL (Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited), India's leading housing finance company, has reported 59.24% increase in net profit to Rs. 31 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2009 as against Rs. 20 crore in the corresponding quarter last fiscal. The Company also reported 50.48% increase in total income to Rs. 213.85 crore for the first quarter. The Board of Directors of the Company announced un-audited results for the first quarter ended on June 30, 2009, at a meeting held in Mumbai on July 28, 2009.
Performance Details:
The company recorded a robust growth of 102.25% to Rs. 1056.01 cr in Loan sanctions & 63.52% to Rs. 773.94 cr in loan disbursements during the first quarter ended June 30, 2009.
Outstanding Mortgage Portfolio as on June 30, 2009 was Rs. 6379.07 crores as against Rs. 4489.7 cr as on June 30, 2008, thus showing a growth of 42.08%.
The Company's total Income for the quarter ended June 30, 2009 was Rs. 213.85 crores as against Rs. 142.1 crores in the corresponding quarter last year, registering growth of 50.48%.
Net Profit of the Company for quarter ended June 30, 2009 was Rs.31.26 crores as against Rs. 19.63 crores in the quarter ended June 2008, a rise of 59.24%.
The Net NPAs of the Company as on 30 June 2009 stood at 1.06% as against 1.43% as on 30 June 2008.
Important Announcement:
Pursuant to clause 30 of the Listing Agreement, we would like to inform you that the following Directors of the Company have submitted their resignation from the Board due to their pre-occupation and other commitments. The Board of Directors at its meeting held today has accepted their resignations after acknowledging their respective contributions to the growth of the Company :-
Shri Rakesh Kumar Wadhawan - Non-Executive Chairman
Shri Sarang Wadhawan - Non-Executive Director
Shri Ashok Kumar Gupta - Non-Executive Independent Director
With the aforesaid changes in the constitution of the Board, now the company has two Promoter Directors and six Independent Directors, including a nominee of M/s. Caledonia Investments Plc, UK.
Consequent upon the resignation of Shri Rakesh Kumar Wadhawan as the Chairman, Shri Kapil Wadhawan has been elevated to the post of Chairman & Managing Director w.e.f from 28th July, 2009, by the Board, as recommended by Remuneration and Compensation Committee of the Board.
Other Business Highlights & New Initiatives:
DHFL upgraded its service centre at Aurangabad to a branch, this quarter.
DHFL currently has a network of 76 Branch offices, 5 Zonal offices, 6 Regional Processing Centres, 79 Service Centres and 35 Camp locations includingrepresentative offices in London, UK and Dubai, UAE and a regional processing set-up, Chandigarh.
In eastern India, DHFL has strengthened its network with a strategic tie up with the United Bank of India (UBI), a leading Public Sector Bank for joint financing of home loans in the region, in addition to its own branches.
DHFL announced the launch of its subsidiary DHFL Property Services; that acts as an advisory for project cost management, technology transfer and exclusive marketing of projects to promote affordable housing.
DHFL's NPA continues to be one of the lowest in industry.
Mr. Kapil Wadhawan, Chairman and Managing Director, DHFL, said, "DHFL has recorded a robust business growth for the first quarter including a healthy loan portfolio and net profit growth. Over the last seven years, we have been consistently growing at 33% CAGR, in terms of our home loan disbursements and we are hopeful of continuing the growth momentum in this fiscal."


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I stopped by Bogue Inlet Pier today (3/2) for a lunch surf check and there were two wetsuits just sitting there in the parking lot (looks like they fell out of someone's truck). I picked them up and am trying to find the rightful owners - please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com with the size, make, color, etc. if they are yours. Thanks
UPDATE - the suits were properly claimed this morning (3/3)
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That's cool of you to take care of fellow surfers like that. Kudos.


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As you study the steps below, you can click on the picture for a large image that you can study.
Here is the method:
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I've been trying to block a user by denying their IP addresses in an htaccess file. But I've recently noticed that this person has managed to view pages of my site via the German translation of Google. How can I completely block translations by Google or any other translation site ?
And do I have to block all languages ? Or can I choose the ones that are allowed to translate pages of my site ?
Thanks for any help !
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That's tough to control. What happens if that user accesses using
someone else's computer? What is the reason for banning? Maybe you
need to think outside the box (come up with something different).
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yeh as mlseim says, its tough to control who sees your pages if they use a different PC from their own.
I reckon you might need to password protect those pages that you want to limit viewings of. Then, only those who you authorise can see them however, I don't know how you would identify this specific individual.
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By going through a site like the Google translator, they are basically reading your page through a proxy/third party server. There are probably 10's of thousands of proxy servers on the Internet, each with their own IP address. It is also easy to obtain a new IP address if they did not want to go to the trouble of finding a different proxy server to use. So, banning IP addresses is not an effective method of limiting access to your content.
What exactly are you trying to prevent? Hot linking of images, which uses your bandwidth? Or limiting access to content on some of your web pages?
To stop hot linking, it is necessary to start a session on your web page and then dynamically output images only if the session exists. [Note: The reason I did not mention checking the HTTP_REFERER header is that every proxy script I have examined sets this to the URL being requested, so it looks like the REFERER is the site where the images are being fetched from.]
To limit access, it is necessary to use email verified registration and login. This however, will only slow someone down, as it is easy to obtain any number of free email accounts that could be used to register with.Finding out HOW to do something is called research, i.e. keep searching until you find the answer. After you attempt to do something and cannot solve a problem with it yourself, would be when you ask others for help.
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Businesses for Sale
Business for Sale
Communications service and installation. New England Region NSW
Tamworth NSW
Communications service and installation. New England Region NSW. New Listing. Major regional centre in the New England region of NSW Asking price: $215,000 +SAV
Price $215,000 + SAV
Stock Included: No
Stock Value: $15,000
Years Est: 19
Gross Revenue: —
Servicing the New England Region since 1996 with a very good reputation for quality Communication, IT and Security solutions.
Product range includes globally recognised brands like Samsung, Bosch, Rhinoco, Jabra/GNnetcom, Uniden, Alloy, HP, Billion, Netgear, Anderson and unique products to provide the highest customer satisfaction, reliability and performance.
Solid repeat client base with frequent new customers coming on board through word of mouth and advertising.
Service driven with an hourly rate less than the NECA association's recommended rate, so there is room to expand on the profits without too much concern about customer churn.
Services include, Data cabling including Copper Cat5/6 and Fibre termination equipment where a job requires Fibre optic cabling.
Additional Phone point, Service fault diagnosis and repairs, setup of ADSL routers and small to medium networks including HP managed Wifi systems.
Arrangements with various national companies to be the local service provider for the area.
Many smaller SMB customers who rely on us for a mix of Phone system support or PC support
Samsung IP PBX dealers for local area – Range of systems are both user-friendly and feature rich, yet not the high price tag of other systems that ride on their name only, like Cisco.
We have undertaken training on the Toshiba range of PBX systems and while these are great systems, we prefer to focus on Samsung with their reliability and our long track record and knowledge.
Telstra Licensed Vendors for services like PSTN, ISDN, ADSL products.
Dealers for Vonex Telecom for PSTN, ISDN, ADSL, NBN and IP Voice products that feature both up-front and trailing commissions, and better service than Telstra.
Lease arrangement for premises with off-street parking.
Show room setup with stock on display for demonstrations / sales.
Reception area with rear office space for technical staff including test bench and stock room.
2 vehicles for tech support.
Techs have full suite of tools including ladders, drills, hand tools, push-pull rods, snakes etc
Vehicles carry stock of items needed in the field including cable, conduit fittings, pipe, duct, wall plates, outlets etc
Accredited and trained staff with technical prowess and administration skills.
Healthy returns for anyone wanting to get into a dynamic and expanding market via a well known & proven established business
Major regional centre in the New England region of NSW
Asking price: $215,000 +SAV
Years Established:
Stock Included: No
Approximate Stock Value: $15,000
Number of Employees: Owner + 2 permanent + 1 casual
Property Size: 98m2
Property Title Included: No
Business Relocatable: Yes
Business Operated from Home: No
Broker/Agent ID Number: TTS
Contact: Noel Currie
Phone: 13 0072 2556
Mobile: 0418 741 814
Bsale ID: 59165
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With about a day left in the auction as we post this, the current high bid is about $57,000. UPDATE: Winning bid ended up being $71,200.
Per the seller's auction description, "I was in the comic art, and toy collectable business for 35 years, and it is my opinion, based on empirical evidence of the number of people showing up to conventions, that Todd Mcfarlane is the single most popular comic artist ever (with all due respect to Jack Kirby, God bless him)."
And Todd actually posted about this auction on his Facebook, "HOW 2 MAKE MONEY: Sold a Spidey cover I did years ago for about $700. It's now on EBAY for over $55,000! Guess I should have asked $800."


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Hyderabad, INDIA, April 21, 2009: Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE: SAY; BSE: SATYAM; NSE: SATYAMCOMP) (the "Company") announced today that on April 17, 2009 Euronext Amsterdam N.V. approved the Company's application for delisting from NYSE Euronext, the regulated market of Euronext Amsterdam ("Euronext Amsterdam"), of its American Depositary Shares ("ADSs"), subject to the following conditions:1. The mandatory cash tender offer to be made by Venturbay Consultants Private Limited, a subsidiary controlled by Tech Mahindra Limited, described in the Company's press release dated April 13, 2009, will be open for participation by investors holding their ADSs through Euroclear Nederland ("ECN holders") on such terms and conditions as are at least equal to those that apply to investors holding ADSs through DTC who participate. The terms and conditions for participation in the cash tender offer for ECN holders will be posted on the Company´s website at www.satyam.com as soon as they are available.2. In connection with the cash tender offer, an agent in the Netherlands will have been appointed who will facilitate the tender process for ECN holders.The Company expects to be able to meet these conditions.In accordance with the rules of Euronext Amsterdam, the Company published earlier today the announcement regarding Euronext Amsterdam's approval of the delisting in The Netherlands' Officiële Prijscourant (Official Price Gazette) and Het Financieele Dagblad, a daily newspaper with circulation in The Netherlands. In accordance with the rules of Euronext Amsterdam, the ADSs will be delisted from – and trading in the ADSs will no longer be possible on - Euronext Amsterdam with effect from the 20th business day from the date of this announcement, i.e. May 20, 2009. The last day of trading for the Company's ADSs on Euronext Amsterdam will be May 19, 2009.Upon delisting from Euronext Amsterdam, the Company's equity shares are expected to remain listed and traded on the Bombay Stock Exchange Limited ("BSE") and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited ("NSE"), and its ADSs are expected to remain listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange in New York ("NYSE"). The Company does not currently intend to delist from any of the BSE, NSE or NYSE.
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FN: ... smooth area on the sea, and look down there and discover the whale is still there, and once Jim Darling and Karen Miller saw that the first time -the people i was working with in hawaii -and then we could get in the water, and see about taking a camera down there to those animals. it was very, very exciting
[br: yeah]. and one of the first things you find out is that it's the sound -you know what the whale looks like. you've seen the whale when you put your head under water, there -it's like putting your head into a kettle drum [br: ok] -there is this tremendous booming sound.
br: tell me about diving in the ocean w/all of these creatures
1:15 fn: i grew up in a diving family. my father ran a diving store in san diego -still runs a diving store with my brother in san diego, and free-diving, snorkeling, was how we grew up, and primarily for spear fishing and catching abalone. so when i came into starting to work with whales, it was that my background was skin diving, not using scuba tanks, but just taking a big breath and going down. it turned out that it was good for what turned out to be my niche in photography, is to go up and try to be around those animals, and trying to be as quiet, and undisturbing as possible, so that you can get in there, and look at what is going on w/o causing a change or reaction because of the noise, and when you go underwater bubbles -for one thing they are loud going in; they are also very bright and white, and they expand as they go up. so instead of doing that, most of my work -almost all of my work has been just taking a big breath, being very quiet and trying to be around the animals w/o changing the situation. 2:15
br: humpback whales -what is it like to dive w/whales
fn: the most exciting thing about it and my start to diving w/whales was in hawaii, and to try and take an animal that lives most of its life underwater, so if you are really going to see it, and see its behavior and interactions you have to get into the water with it. the most exciting thing when i started when working with jim darling and karen miller in 1979 and working with singing humpbacks. you've got an animal that is in a world that you can't see very far, so sound is very, very important. you can't use visual signals, you use sound signals to give your message -whatever it is, whether it's to stay away or to come closer. however you want to communicate to the other animals. the other animals around you. we knew humpbacks were signing. roger payne had done his work off bermuda. jim darling was continuing that work. and one day, in 1979 in march, with a whale called frank, he looked down after the whale dived -or karen actually looked down -and through the smooth area that the tail made as it descended, they found that the whale didn't continue to swim, it was still there, and by looking through that little window in the ocean, that smooth spot, they could see the white pectoral of the male moving back and forth, and could hear the sound of the whale coming up through the hull of the boston whaler. and i happen to have been there working on a film with my father, they called us over, and this was the first time we got in w/signing whales. and it was tremendously exciting. i mean you go up, look for the smooth spot, see the whale, slip over the side, and when you slipped over the side and put your head under the water it was this booming sound -you heard some of it in the boat, but it was nothing compared to putting your head underwater and it was like being in a kettle drum. 4:29
br: and then you dove down.
4:32 fn: well, the first time i tried to get my heart out of my throat -i men it is a very exciting thing, and you want to -one of the things w/free diving down in any situation is to relax, and get caught up, and get ahead of the situation. and this was very, very exciting stuff, and it seemed impossible even to get a big breath. and the whale is laying there, in this case 30 to 40 feet below the surface. its head is facing down, its tail is sort of parallel to the surface, and it is laying there, basically stationary, just barely moving its pectorals to hold its position, and booming the sound out, and you know you got about 12 mins of it doing this before it gets through that rendition, comes up for more breaths and goes back down. so the whole idea was to take a few deep breaths, and then try to sneak down under the tail -we had a little scuba tank, not for breathing, but for coming back up with -taking a few big breaths, trying to relax, trying to figure out what we are going to do, and then trying to go down and sneak down under the tail, where they use the tail to block the whale view of you, so you line up the tail wlits eyes, sneak down right on top, and then duck under, and what jim darling wanted me to do was to go underneath, and try and shoot a picture of the genitals of -the bottom of the whale, because at this point, we didn't know who that animal was ...was it a male, was it a female, do they all sing? and the work we did finally brought out that these were male humpback whales. which starts to make sense with the whole social action going on out there. we found out that the animals that were in this classy position booming out these songs were males. 6:02
6:03 br: what was it like? how close were you to the males....
6:11 fn: well the song was a continuing thing. even when the animal was on the surface. it had been singing for a while, that's what brought us close to the whale. the animal went down,
and as quickly as we could we get on top of the smooth spot, see the whale down below, slip over the side, take a few big breaths, and it would seem like it took forever, but probably the whole dive -the point to where you left the surface, went down 50 or 60 feet, tucked under the tail, got w/in 10 feet to shoot a picture w/an underwater camera and a strobe, and then when the blink went off the whale would look at you and re-settle, move off 100 feet, and you would come back up. and that whole time until you took that picture is probably 40 seconds to a minute. it seemed like a life time, but it was -it didn't take much time at all. take a deep breath out of the tank and come up, and then take a breath, and then we would re-situate if we didn't get the picture we would try until we did, or else we would go off to another singer and try to sex it. 7:06
br: what was it like....
fn: when we tuck under the tail we were probably 5 or 6 feet away, and then coming to take the picture, less than 10 feet away, and it is a tremendous percussion sound coming from the whale. it is this booming sound, and all of your air spaces are resonating with that -your sinuses and your lungs -and you feel it as much as hear it, and it's just... sound travels 40 times as fast in water as it does in land, so it is coming from all directions, you don't feel like it is coming from the front of you or the side -it is surrounding you. and that is pounding at you the whole time, and at the same time you are wondering is my f stop correct, am i close enough, is the focus set properly. but it's ah everything is working. it was so exciting, that i wouldn't remember what i did, i wouldn't remember pictures, i wouldn't remember f stops, i remembered it was a great situation, but it was most of the time just having everything thought of before i started. because when you are down there it was just moving awfully quickly. and it was a big, big whale, and these animals were 35 or 40 feet, and you just feel so small and insignificant next to the animal. and every time it would twitch you would wonder this was new to me, whales were new to me. is it going to swim off and pound me with its tale as it goes by... it turned out to be completely unjustified fears. nothing like that ever happened, but the first time you do something like that you think about it. 8:44
br: what happens if they did hit you with a tail
8:49 fn: i think it would be real bad for you if they hit you it a tail. and you see in groups of mails that are pursuing a female they pound on each other. they do a little half breaches, they hit themselves -each other with tails underwater so this loud crashing sound, and you see them pound into each other, and blowing bubbles. if they ever aimed that at you, you would be jelly. it would be a horrible situat-i have never seen anything
like that. it is remarkable how benign the humpback whales would be. in cases where someone would make a mistake, get in the line, you would see the animals go out of their way to lift a tail, or lift a pectoral around them, and not bump the person. and there are occasional inadvertent little bumps, but nothing that was serious or harmful to anybody i ever saw. 9:37
br: no danger of being bitten or anything like that...
9:40 fn: no. humpbacks don't have teeth, they are a baleen whale and though i guess you could be brushed to harm. i can't imagine it. the animals -two minds with humpback whales. one is that
they do some very aggressive things to each other, especially in courtship situations. but as far as everything i ever saw with people it was just unbelievably gentile. and especially when you are working with cows and calves. which was always the situation you would worry about -a mother with a child. and always very cautious. there are times you did get close, and the calf would get interested and come up to you. and at that point, it would have been -certainly would have seem justified to me that the female would have felt very protective, and i never had any sign of that. 10:28
br: it seems to me that when you are next to a whale that is singing...
10:54 fn: no, definitely going under the singer, when you tuck under the tail, and get very, very close to the whale that was signing it was uncomfortable. it was so loud, and so vibrating that it was like being in some kind of percussion instrument and having your whole body vibrate. you are thinking about a lot of other things, but it was too much of a good thing when you get that close. it wasn't at the point of being harmful or, it almost was as though you weren't hearing it, but as though you were feeling it. that the pulsing was going through you more as the air space is vibrated rather than you are hearing it just with your ears.
11:34 br: how far does the sound carry....
11:39 fn: i think a signing humpback -around 5 miles. and you could be... it was always interesting. the people would dive under a wave at ganna pauli, at the beach close to shore, and go -"god there is a whale right here" and it would sound if you hadn't been close to a whale, you could be 1, 2, 3 miles away, and put your head underwater when one was singing, and think it might be quite close. we spent a lot of time trying to find whales by just listening and following them before jim and karen discovered that there was easier way to do it, but it was very hard to pin them down. 12:09
12:10 br: one way of finding whales to research is to put a trans...
12:27 fn: definitely from way back into the 70s we've been putting radio tags and different kinds of transponders on whales, trying to figure out their migratory routes, their populations stocks, where they are going for a number of different reasons.
the big jump in recent years has been using satellite technology, where the new transponders are -collect a number of not just ¬don't just tell you where the animal is but collect information on how deep its diving, how long it is staying down, even the possibility of water temperatures and currents. and when it comes back up it shoots that off in a code to a satellite, and you can be sitting half way around the world, and be getting that information. and recently we were doing a study -i was doing a story for national geographic on belugas. we were sitting on elsmere (sp?) island, and calling cambridge england, and finding out where the whales were by satellite plenotry (sp????). 13:25
br: so here you are. you are down there looking for whales ... you are relaying on space technology...
13:39 fn: well space technology. and another thing that is really exciting, especially for sound, and for the whole idea of a sound medium like radio is through the navy submarine network now. chris clark from cornell university has been using that Submarine tracking technology to follow whales by their acoustic systems by following blue whales and minke whales -their vocal traces, as much as the navy used it for trying to track submarines. 14:07
14:48 br: tell me about some of the experiences you have had swimming w/creatures....
14:55 fn: well i would say that swimming with whales has been the most exciting thing -i mean it changed the direction of -i wasn't interested in photographing whales in the beginning in the 70s when it seemed like it was so much myth and magic. but when people like jim darling and roger payne started -we could see things ........basically that over time i have been able to swim with so many different species and see that the whales are all so different. i think it becomes a pet peeve when people say that whales all do this. because diff whales do diff things at diff times of year in diff places. and to be able to go to so many places and look at so many diff species of whales has been a wonderful experience. just -and to jump in a number of times when you really didn't know what was going to happen, it has always worked out very well. but just to swim w/ narwhals, when males were fighting underwater. or to swim up to a sperm whale the first time i saw one that was holding... ah, ah i can't talk about this one i forgot ... ah to swim up with belugas when you are at the edge of an ice-edge, and then one comes up to look at you and then 5, and then 10 and the 50 and pretty soon 50 of these animals are swimming around in crystal clear water. these little white guys so focused on you. just the experience of going place to place with dolphins and whales and look at the diff societies and how diff they are as a ....16:28
br: would many people are fascinated w/traveling in space. how would that compare to your list of things you like to do...
16:43 fn: i don't know. it doesn't appeal to me at all. being underwater i think is a great thing, mainly because you can't fall down, which i see as a real big plus. going up in space -i saw apollo 13 -is terrifying. being underwater is very comfortable to me just because i grew up doing that. to make those little
jumps...for me if i can dive 70 feet, that's a deep dive for me. other people dive much deeper. whales are -sperm whales are diving 1000s of feet to just go in and just peak into that world that most people aren't seeing... i guess since i was a kid seeing new things, or seeing things that few people have the chance to see, whether it is poking your head over an ice edge in the arctic or sticking your face over the side of a boat into a bunch of whales that haven't been looked at very much, those collections of rare experiences have been super. and i don't see any end of them. i think the more we are learning, and i think we are learning so quickly about the animals that i think there is no end of things i can think of to do. 17:47
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18:04 br: so you are down there with this enormous whale...what is it like to be so close up to these critters
18:14 fn: talking about the biggest whales and right whales, southern right whales in patagonia, they are large, and on a very good day they can be very good to work with and at they are big ¬very large animal. close to 50 feet and very deep bodied, and i guess it is like in low light walking up to a wall, a big building, and you get closer and closer, and i am looking at this through a wide lens, a very wide lens, and when you take that away it is just all animal. you are just surrounded, and you feel like you are so close you are just falling into it -like you want to put your hand out, and you are still 10 feet away, and it is just that you realize how small you are in the scheme of things, and how big this animal is and .... 18:58
br: you must get that feeling to when you look them in the eye.....
19:05 fn: and you do occasionally. again in patagonia we had some sub-adults who would come up and actually present themselves so close that the eye would be w/in touching distance, and actually had one that was there, and i did put my hand out and touch it near the eye, and it turned out into an event that the animal enjoyed it so much that it ended up pounding me almost to a pulp, nothing aggressive, but just enjoying not so much being petted, but just dragging me down its side a number of times, and getting a scratch out of me like a giant puppy leaning into you when you have no ???? nothing aggressive, but it was still uncomfortable. 19:40
br: and all you were doing was just touching him...
19:44 fn: well, he was close to me, and what i was doing -i wasn't trying to touch his eye or anything...i as out of film, it was late in the day, and it was right there presenting itself, and it had done it with its chin earlier. and so i put my hand out, and it leaned into it, and then leaned...after a time or two no longer was i close to petting the animal, i guess it was like getting a very gentile massage with a volkswagen. it was just something that was too much of a good thing. 20:15
br: these animals are so big you would think they would be immune from any danger from another critter....
20:29 fn: well, i think they are threatened mainly by today. certainly they have gone through a time when hunting was a tremendous threat, and still can and could be,and the other threats of habitat destruction and threat. one of the things was that many of the large whales, the plankton eating whales, the zooplankton eaters like a bow-hit in the arctic, which is an animal that can be over 50 feet long, and eats a coppa pod that is a quarter of an inch long with nothing in between, so it is a direct top of the food chain going very close to the bottom of the food chain. if you do something that interrupts that bottom of the food chain all of those top animals disappear. so i think a loss of habitat, a loss of feed, a loss of a number of things that are a real possibilities are a very important threat to these animals. some of the river dolphins especially have habitats that are in tremendous danger right now. 21:18
br: give me an example how the bottom of the food chain might be wiped out or ...
21:28 fn: well i think there is any number of ways. some of the things with pollution, temperature changes that interfere with the reproductive rates or survival success of krill, copepods or euphasids (sp??) if those animals -it is not just the point that they disappear, but if they just loose density to give the animal enough energy to be far enough ahead that it can reproduce and do the things it needs to do to continue. it doesn't have to kill the animal or starve the animal, it can just take it to the point where it just decreases its reproduction. still you loose the animal over time.22:03
br: is overfishing a problem here?
22:05 fn: i think overfishing certainly is. mainly i think taking things from the ocean without knowing what we have to work with in the first place, and we have such a record of fishery after fishery being degraded, and then more pressure being put on another fishery, and that fishery going down hill. that we can't take from the sea just what we want somewhere there has to be a budget. we have to know what there is available, and stay wlin reasonable, very conservative limits. our history whether it is whale fishing or fishing for salmon or whatever has not been that kind of restrain. restrain is not something we do very well as human beings i don't believe. 22:42
br: how could overfishing hurt a whale?
22:45 fn: well, it depends on the kind of whale. i just moved here from the northwest. salmon fishing because of rivers that have been dammed, and because of degraded streams and reproductive areas salmon fishing has been all but disappeared off oregon and washington. a number of the killer whales in that area -the residential group -eat salmon. so if you take the salmon and they disappear then those animals that eat the salmon are going to be in trouble, and it may be because of a river -not because of the ocean at all, so it is a real complex web, and i think we dabble into and make inroads -or big sections of a habitat w/out understanding how it's really all going to fit together. 23:27
br: some of these whales depend on these tiny creatures in the sea...what would happen if the small creatures were eliminated
23:59 fn: well i think the small creatures are eliminated the whales are going to disappear. whether it is from overfishing, or from destroying the habitat from the shallows (?) of reproduction or success of those small creatures from temperature change that makes that animal no longer viable in that temperature range. any number of things that can be done could cause a change, and again it doesn't have to be a dramatic change -it can be often we are working on a success rate that is needs at least an optimal yield on a regular basis. change the temperature a couple of degrees in the arctic, ice doesn't move as fast, feeding season is shortened, access to clear water shortens and the success of animals living there can change dramatically with just one or two degrees of temperature change.
br: is hunting the biggest threat to whales?
24:43 fn: i don't think hunting is the biggest threat today. it certainly was going into the 60s, and it still could be, and with specific stock largely there is a moratorium today. i think
habitat destruction, pollution, and by-catch. the loss of whales and dolphins as an untargeted victim of fishing techniques -gill nets and fish traps is probably i tell you a much bigger threat than hunting. hunting can still be a threat, and maybe in the future. right now there are things that we are doing and often... a great example is the belugas in the coast of the st. lawrence. here animals btwn canada and the us two very enlightened countries in terms of environmental concern, and yet those animals are disappearing probably because of pollution and habitat destruction, not because of hunting. 25:37
br: what is a bigger threat to baleen whales today -a hunting boat coming up or krill fisherman?
25:50 fn: i-today hunting is not a threat to large whales. the only whale being hunted today is a minke, small baleen whale, and certainly it is a threat to those minkes but not to blue whales, or humpbacks, or any of those animals. whether it is krill destruction or small fish destruction, i think that habitat threats to all of those species other than possibly minkes are not hunting, but habitat destruction and possible loss of food.


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I am tryingto re-install Win 7 Home Premium with help of HP Recovery Kit,
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Are you running HP Factory Recovery from its partition on the HD? HP Recover Windows 7 Operating System Using HP Recovery - HP Customer Care (United States - English)
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I am using factory HP provided recovery disks to install factory image on my pc. During this process.. it formatted my Hard disk(HD) then copied the necessary files. It try's to make hte pc ready for first time use setup and during this process it throw's me the ERROR msg i have posted.
Do you have any idea of this error? if so please let me know the resolution.
Thanks for the quick reply.
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This is why it's best to first run Factory Recovery from its partition which is more stable, then have the disks as a backup method only.
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Reason to reinstall - my old HD throwed me an error #10008 when hard drive selft test.
before that my pc was getting blue screen crashes randomly when we just browse internet.
So I swapped the HD with new one (luckily had spare one).
I dont backup on a HD, is this a S/w problem or hardware issue?
Can any of you confirm that?
Also by any chance, is this issue with HP Recovery CD ? since I am out of warranty, HP doesnt throw any help until I buy phone support for 60bucks
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It would have helped if you'd told us your HD failed from the start.
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So I swapped the HD with new one (luckily had spare one).
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Last week, Tito Okediran got engaged to her best friend (who happens to be a triplet), Kola, on her 25th birthday at a surprise boat cruise dinner.
Tito said, "I fell in love with one and got two extra without even trying!#MyArmy #Lovethemsomuch #Triplets. Side note: ladies! They are up for grabs but you have to go through me, as the chairwoman of the triplet wives association #TWA. But really can't wait for us to be complete"
Gushing about her surprise engagement, Tito said:
"So the love of my life asked me to be his Mrs last night at a surprise boat cruise dinner planned by his over romantic self! To say I was totally clueless is beyond the truth, knowing the kind of girl I am (Overly calculating and analytical), he messed up with my head with this!
"So while everyone that was part of the surprise where having dinner and getting cracked up by @yd_fresh , my baby took me by the hand and led me to the boat deck, where we sat and watched the beautiful nights waters.
"Then he came over to me and asked to take a selfie…and then he asked! Can't remember the exact words but mehn I am the luckiest girl in the world. Thank you KL for letting everyone know that true selfless undying love still exists"
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- To paraphrase a blogger who is far more glamorous than me, like London needs another working mum blogging about her life. But hey, sometimes when you have a laptop on your knees in between serving oven chips and leftovers and starting bedtime you wonder how you became that woman, why you did and how you feel about it. Sometimes I even probe further - who is THAT woman, and did I ever aspire to be her? Do I like her? Could I learn to? Which is why I've started this blog...
Saturday, 28 April 2012
Technology baby: out of touch
This is why their mortality is so heartbreaking. Children are not the future, they are only the now as we are; they are just better at looking beyond it.
The holy grail of all toys in our house has always been the mobile phone. Both of my babies would have happily killed me dead to get their hands on one and I often catch the youngest copping a feel in my handbag just in case it is there.
When Spider-boy, well under a year, first actually got one to himself the first thing he did was lift it high, hold it an arms length from his face and look between the display screen and the distance. He was giving us a perfect lesson in our defunct-ness. For him, this lump of metal/plastic/glass was not a device for aural or oral communication: it was a device for capturing images of now. His experience of the world had taught him I had a special camera for him which I kept on me at all times.
I marvelled at this easy analysis of the actual uses and relevances of technology from his tiny brain. As someone old enough to remember university halls with just one payphone, I have had to get used to smart phones and learn to avoid the perils of too fat fingers and cheeks which cut off calls in between whilst harking back to a simpler time. I'm so bad I insisted on retro dial phones at home, as I so miss the safety of a heavy cupped receiver. But it is thrilling too.
They are helped, toddlers and babies especially, by many things. Their energy and lack of things to bore and worry them. Also their limited grasp of linguistic device and their developmental stages which, whilst holding them back, also allow them to see things for what they 'really' are. Take early obsessions, for example. Things little ones get mad for when they are first learning to gesticulate and speak: to say a word, or better ask 'what's that?' Their awed cheeks every time they see a cat, say, or a car, or a train, or a dolly is brilliant. Unable (or unwilling?) to group things as we do, every cat is a new individual object to them. They are able and eager to fill their brains with new images and words and experiences for comparisons. This is how they learn. No wonder it is so exciting, and on occasion terrifying for them.
What grown ups gain in simplifying the world into known things grouped together, they lose in the simple spark of wonder that comes from being conscious of something they haven't seen before. So complacent are we in the too-much-to-know-ness of our exhilarating world that we miss out or even become annoyed.
I knew I'd reached my saturation point when it came to planets. I was taught nine: NINE. I was taught that as a fundamental of the vast universe, and grounded it made me too. I even learned the nattiest bloody mnemonic to remember them and was eager to pass it on (My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets, in case you are interested). But now there are eight. EIGHT. I felt an electrical crackle and pfft as that part of my brain shut down when I heard this cataclysmic planetary reduction on the radio. I'm too old, too old for there to be eight planets. That synaptic hissy fit at least ignited a burst of empathy - for all the times I groaned inside when my parents and grandparents persisted in long dead names for countries and capitals.
We adults, inundated and drowning in new things and old things must emphasis the collective to keep the world manageable. And we must hanker after the old and recognisable even when it no longer fits - we still call our mobiles 'phones', even though for many of us they have different functionality (they are for writing, drafting, reading, emailing, recording, media centres holding music, video, radio, games, creating wireless networks, sat navs and on and on and on). 'Phones' relates to communication, which these objects allow, but they are a slither of battery life which offer something more complex: a rendering of ourselves externally (by creating our image, doctoring it with filters, defying geography, editorialising our social image and space, and making us chameleons in our multitasking).
My mobile is rarely for making and taking calls, it is for exchanging pictures, taking them, displaying them, for storing ideas and playing scrabble, condensing thoughts/instructions/itineraries/jokes into brief text messaging, sometimes in code, checking in on the million social media streams which filter a view of the world back to me dependent on what I've done in the past (who I've liked and followed, what I've bought) rather than who I could be. Ironically, given my reliance on googlemaps to get me to new places, it is also for defying time and space so I can work and 'interact' regardless of where I am. I can't work out how any of this works and at times must 'learn' to be 'intuitive' with my complex gizmos.
Newborn can. He is 3.5 years younger than his brother, but he rendered Spider-boy as archaic as me and my husband when he first fingered a phone. His mitts on my lowly BlackBerry and the first thing he did was hold it down in front of his chest, pause for a second then drag the second finger of his right hand across the screen with meaning. My little Smartie, he knows iPhones and iPads are the things to aspire to. Steve Jobs would be proud.
He then picked up my Kindle. He dragged his finger and the image didn't even flicker. He tipped the screen to see if the picture moved. Nothing. He tried again. Nada. He looked towards the window into the sun stream considered for a second and tossed aside an object 5mm thick which can hold every book we'd house in our home. To him a qwerty keyboard and a 3G enabled library in his pocket: too old and out of touch.
And what was I doing, as he made this analysis? Taking his photo of course. On my phone.
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Tell me about it - the girls would sell each other for my phone and can pick up an ipad and locate the games for them in seconds. They have even worked out the PINs for the front...ReplyDelete
I do worry about technology being too much in their lives, especially when contrasted to my own but since it isn't going away at least they will understand it (and probably eclipse me I'm sure)
I have a post coming about little ones and iPads & such, too. I love your writing!!ReplyDelete
PINS is impressive Muddling, I missed your comment before so sorry about the lack of reply!ReplyDelete
Momma Jorje, hello! I'll look forward to it, it fascinates me their links with 'the new'
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Old school winter cancels annual winter gloat column
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It is with regret the I announce the cancellation of the annual Weather Gloat column.
At this time of year it is traditional to run a column full of mock apologies for all the beautiful Vancouver cherry blossoms and budding magnolias and express bogus sympathy to the rest of snowbound Canada because they can't join in, and then cackle with evil glee when they call us a bunch of smug wimps who aren't really Canadian at all.
Due to unforeseen circumstances that column will not be appearing this year. I apologize but it's not really my fault.
In fact, I would like to hire a few lawyers and find out who is responsible.
This has been an old school winter. It's beginning to look like Vancouver golfers won't be hitting the links until the Canucks do. I realize that no one feels sorry for us, those heartless Eastern bastards. But it's not fair. The West Coast is being cheated. We are paying for something we are not getting.
Sure, March is cold in Regina. But you can find a two-bedroom apartment in Regina for less than $1,000 a month. The average Regina house price is about $316,000.
Weather is priced in—when you move to Regina, you know what you're getting. The average Edmonton house price is around $360,000, and this winter our snowfall totals are neck-and-neck with theirs.
Vancouver residents expect more because they are forking out more.
We pay a March blossom premium. And so far, very few March blossoms.
It's weather fraud. We deserve rebates.
Clearly we have the makings of a class action lawsuit here. The problem is figuring out whom to sue.
Prominent developers like Bob Rennie would be good targets because they probably have lots of money, and money is key where lawsuits are concerned. Maybe we should sue Jimmy Pattison or Bryan Adams.
We can work out the details later—that's what lawyers are for. There's no point suing Mother Nature because all her resources are squirreled away. Literally. And those damn squirrels are shifty.
Government could be our best bet. Mayor Robertson and Vancouver city council will be held responsible at the next civic election if they fail to take action against snowfall.
And there's a provincial election coming in May. Which party will propose the biggest cherry blossom rebate? If we have to resort to threats, we will: Give us our money back or we all move to Lethbridge.
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Poverty is a serious problem in Nigeria and the rural areas are the most affected ones. Recent literature emphasizes the multidimensional nature of poverty. This study analyzes multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the 2006 Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire (CWIQ) Survey data. Fuzzy set approach was used to assess the poverty profile of the rural households in Nigeria. The study decomposes multidimensional poverty across the zones, states, and the socioeconomic groups of rural households. It further decomposes the absolute and relative contributions of welfare indicators to multidimensional deprivations. The result shows that the multidimensional poverty index for rural Nigeria is 0.3796. It is also reflected that certain requirements such as health care, public transportation, supply of drinking water, food, all-season roads, and primary schools are important in solving multidimensional poverty in the rural areas. Multidimensional approach (fuzzy set) is very useful in implementing socioeconomic policies to reduce poverty diffusion. It is important that the government should look into the problems relating to housing and sanitation. The rural infrastructure should also be improved upon.
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Spaced Out was originally released in 1991 and initial copies
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Finding qualified customers is the next uphill battle in the auto industry.
The number of consumers who buy new vehicles owing more on the vehicle they are trading in has increased substantially over the past three years, according to retail transaction data from the Power Information Network operated by J.D. Power and Associates.
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Maro Itoje confirmed in Stuart Lancaster's first cull
Maro Itoje, Elliot Daly, Stephen Myler and Ed Slater are the first four players to have been cut from England's World Cup training squad.
Stuart Lancaster, the head coach, has trimmed his initial 50-man squad down to 45 for the next phase of England's tournament preparations, a two-week altitude training camp in Denver, Colorado.
Lancaster also confirmed that Nick Easter will miss the trip to the United States due to a back strain, although the Harlequins No 8 will rejoin the squad on August 2 ahead of England's three warm-up internationals.
Joe Simpson, Ben Foden and Tom Croft, who were not part of the initial training squad due to injuries, will also come into consideration ahead of the opening warm-up fixture, against France at Twickenham…