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Tucker West
Height / Weight: 6'1", 175lbs
Hometown: Ridgefield, CT
Resides in Ridgefield, CT
- Finished 22nd at the 2014 XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia
- Silver medal in team relay at Junior World Championships in Igls, Austria
- Silver medal in team relay in Oberhof, Germany Junior World Cup
- Bronze medal in Oberhof, Germany Junior World Cup
- Qualified for 2014 Olympic Winter Games
- Part of World Cup silver medal relay team in Winterberg, Germany
- Fall 2012 Norton National Champion (tied with Chris Mazdzer)
- 2012 National Start Champion
- 2011 National Start Champion (Youngest Ever)
- Gold in 2012 Norton Youth A National Championship, Park City, Utah
- Bronze Medal in Junior World Cup team relay, Winterberg, Germany
- Bronze Medalist in team relay, Junior World Cup, Winterberg, Germany
- Gold medal in team relay, 2012 Youth Olympic Games
- Silver Medalist 2011 Norton Jr National Championships
- Tucker is a Freshman at Union College
- Spent entire 2012-2013 season racing up in age class with Juniors
- Finished 22nd at the 2014 XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia
- Gold medal at Lake Placid World Cup
- Bronze medal at Team Relay in Lake Placid World Cup
- Silver medal in Calgary, Canada FIL-Sprint World Cup
- 7th in Calgary, Canada World Cup
- 10th in Koenigssee, Germany World Cup
- Bronze medal at Winterberg, Germany World Cup
- 6th place in Team Relay at Winterberg, Germany World Cup
- 5th place in Lillehammer, Norway World Cup
- Silver medal at Jr. World Championship in Lillehammer, Norway
- 4th place in Team Relay Jr. World Championships in Lillehammer, Norway
- 21st in Altenberg, Germany World Cup
- 16th in Sochi, Russia World Cup
- Finished 22nd at the 2014 XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia
- Silver medal in team relay at Junior World Championships in Igls, Austria
- 9th place at Junior World Championships in Igls, Austria
- Silver medal in team relay in Oberhof, Germany Junior World Cup
- Bronze medal in Oberhof, Germany Junior World Cup
- 19th place in Oberhof, Germany World Cup
- 23rd in Koenigssee, Germany World Cup
- 16th place in Park City, Utah World Cup
- 11th place in Whistler World Cup
- Part of silver medal relay team in Winterberg, Germany
- Tie 11th place in Winterberg, Germany World Cup
- Gold medal in Igls, Austria Nations Cup
- 26th place in Igls, Austria World Cup
- 28th place in Lillehammer World Cup
- 2013 Silver medalist in Norton Nat'l Championships
- 2013 Norton Junior National Championship silver medalist
- 10th in Junior World Championships in Park City, Utah
- 22nd in Igls, Austria Junior World Cup
- 15th in Winterberg, Germany Junior World Cup
- 3rd in Team Relay at Park City, Utah Junior World Championship
- 13th in Lillehammer, Norway Junior World Cup
- 17th in Koenigssee, Germany Junior World Cup
- Tied for Norton Nat'l Championship (with Chris Mazdzer)
- 20th in Winterberg, Germany Junior World Cup
- 12th in 2012 Youth Olympic games
- 6th in Team Relay Koenigssee, Germany Junior World Championship
- 12th in Koenigssee, Germany Junior World Championship
- Silver Medalist at Junior World Cup in Igls, Austria
- Bronze Medalist in Youth A Junior World Cup, Calgary, Canada
- 8th in Norton National Championships
- Silver medal in 2011 Norton Youth A National Championships
- Silver medal in 2011 Norton Youth A National Seeding Race
- Silver Medalist Norton Youth National Championships
- Silver Medalist Norton Jr National Championships
- 14th in Igls, Austria Junior World Cup
- 12th in Koenigssee, Germany Junior World Cup
- 24th in Altenberg, Germany Junior World Cup
USA ends World Cup season third in relay and 2 men in top 6
March 01, 2015
Season ends with team relay 3rd overall, men 5th and 6th, women 5th and 9th
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia – On the last day of the World Cup luge season, the United States finished fourth in the team relay on the 201Olympic track, and ended the campaign in third place overall behind Germany and Russia.
In men's singles, the finale saw Chris Mazdzer of Saranac Lake, N.Y. continue his improvement with a sixth place effort and fifth ranked in the overall World Cup standings for the second straight season.
"It was a really good day for me," said the two-time Olympian. "Unfortunately I messed up the first run right at the very start. It was something weird I've never done here. I drifted to the right, settled (into the sled) and nicked the wall. I was bummed right away because I knew it killed all of my time. But I was lucky with the weather in that it slowed (the track) for some of the better guys and kept me in the mix.
"I had a great second run. I was extremely competitive. If I hadn't messed up the first run at the start, I could have definitely been on the podium again."
Mazdzer, who medaled in four straight races in mid-season, had a hand in six of the team's 12 World Cup medals.
Tucker West of Ridgefield, Conn. placed 16th in his return to the Sanki Sliding Center, and wound up sixth overall on the strength of gold, silver and bronze medals earlier in the year.
Neither racer competed in all 12 singles and Sprint World Cup events. For Mazdzer it became a matter of consistency.
"This year I made some huge gains," he remarked. "But I still have to work on consistency. I can be fast at times, but I'm struggling a little bit in the racing. I'm really close.
"I'm really bummed with how the very end of the season turned out with the crash in Altenberg (last week) and then missing the Sprint Cup. Otherwise I would have been fighting for second place overall in the world today. Instead I settled for fifth."
Aidan Kelly of West Islip, N.Y. finished 33rd in just five World Cups starts before hand and foot injuries ended his season.
The final day of World Cup competition saw Russia, which skipped last week's races in Altenberg to get even more extra time at Sanki, finish 1-2 in men's singles.
All this occurred against the backdrop of the Russian Riviera that, similar to last year's Winter Games, brought temperatures comfortable enough to dine outside and a village full of tourists, thus dispelling the notion that no one would find this region near the Black Sea once the Games ended.
One could make the case that this ambiance and a memorable World Cup opening ceremony invigorated the Russian luge team with four weekend medals.
After winning the World Championship two weeks ago for his first-ever victory, Semen Pavlichenko captured his first career World Cup race in 1 minute, 44.020 seconds for his two runs down the long Olympic track. He finished ahead of teammate Alexandr Peretjagin, who posted 1:44.252. Peretjagin had nursed a dislocated shoulder since the Lake Placid World Cup three months ago and will forego the Russian Championships in favor of surgery.
Two-time Olympic champion Felix Loch of Germany, seventh after one heat, grabbed the bronze medal with a second run rally. Loch, who clinched this season's overall World Cup title last month, totaled 1:44.339.
Mazdzer sat in fifth place at the mid-point of the race before settling for sixth at the end in 1:44.430, about 0.09 of a second from the podium.
"The fight is there. The ability to go fast is there," continued Mazdzer. "I just have to execute two perfect runs. I was close to doing that a lot of times (this season) and today was one of those times I was really close."
West recorded a time of 1:45.012 on the track that features three uphill sections.
Loch concluded the season with 975 total World Cup points with fellow German Andi Langenhan second at 645. Rising Austrian Wolfgang Kindl took third with 605 points. Mazdzer had 547 and West 445 points.
The sixth and final team relay, which made its Olympic debut on this course last February, saw Germany complete the season sweep. Dajana Eitberger, the women's winner on Saturday, joined Loch and the doubles team of Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, who also won 24 hours earlier, at the top of the podium. The winners totaled 2:45.468.
Russia was second in the race and second overall on the season. The home team put down a team relay time of 2:45.528 and in the process, pushed the U.S. foursome down to third place in the final World Cup standings. Latvia was third in 2:45.775.
The American unit was comprised of Erin Hamlin, Mazdzer, whose reaction times have topped the charts all season, and the doubles team of Matt Mortensen and Jayson Terdiman. Their fourth place time was 2:46.120.
After the U.S. occupied second place all season on the strength of a bronze and two silver medals in the first three races, Russia came from third place Sunday and claimed the runner-up position on the winter.
Germany finished with a perfect 600 World Cup points. Russia had 420 and the U.S. 405.
USA Luge athletes, after being in Europe since late December, are now looking forward to some rest and relaxation.
In conjunction with team sponsor Norton Saint-Gobain, the athletes will return to the ice in Lake Placid in three weeks to test evolving sled technology and components.
Preparation for next season starts that soon.
Mazdzer crashes in Altenberg World Cup en route to the podium
Feb. 21, 2015
6th after one heat, 2-time Olympian flying down the track in second run crashes before the finish
USA 5th in relay and Mazdzer 6th at World Championships
Feb. 15, 2015
Final medal count: Germany 5, Russia 3, Austria 2, Italy and Canada 1 each
USA Luge conference call pre World Championships
Feb. 12, 2015
Luge world championships take place Feb. 14-15 in Latvia. Here are comments from USA Luge athletes.
USA Luge led by Mazdzer 4th and West 5th in Lillehammer World Cup
Feb. 01, 2015
Mazdzer 3rd in overall World Cup standings and West 6th as tour pauses for World Championships
Summer Britcher slides to career best 4th place in Winterberg
Jan. 25, 2015
USA Luge extends medal winning streak to five consecutive weekends
Tucker West slides to World Cup bronze and brings USA Luge within 1 medal of single season high
Jan. 24, 2015
USA Luge now has 12 World Cup medals this season and is just one medal from equaling its single season high of 13 set in 1996-1997
USA finishes 4th in team relay at World Junior Championships
Jan. 17, 2015
USA finishes 4th in team relay at World Junior Championships just 0.2 of a second from podium
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Jan. 17, 2015
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Searing "Red Dog Howls" Tells Story of Armenian Genocide
Bruce Chadwick lectures on history and film at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He also teaches writing at New Jersey City University. He holds his PhD from Rutgers and was a former editor for the New York Daily News. Mr. Chadwick can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Back in the 1970s, a reporter of Armenian descent who worked with me at the New York Daily News sat me down in a corner of the newsroom early one quiet summer afternoon and, in great detail, told me the story of the Turkish genocide against the people of Armenia during World War I, resulting in the deaths of nearly 1.5 million people. It was a tale of unrelenting horror. I had never heard it before and told him so.
"That's the problem," he said, scornfully. "This is one of the nightmares of world history and most people never heard of it."
Much has changed in the past forty years, and the Armenian genocide, if eclipsed by the Holocaust in the popular imagination, is increasingly recognized. Red Dog Howls, a stirring new drama with a power-packed conclusion by Alexander Dinelaris, continues this trend.
In the play, Michael Kiriakos, a man in his mid-thirties, discovers letters sent by his late father to a mystery woman in New York. Michael, whose child is due any day, goes to see the old lady, who turns out to be his grandmother. She supports him through his wife Gabriella's pregnancy and he spends most afternoons at her home. We know that he is of Armenian descent and guess that she lived there for years, based on her broken English.
As the story unfolds, the mystery begins to build. What was in the letters?
Finally, in the last twenty minutes of the play, we learn the secret the grandmother has been hiding all of these years and its revelation brings the play to an astounding, shocking, gut-wrenching conclusion.
The problem with the play, though, is that it moves interminably. Needless to say, this is all a set up for the grand finale, but playwright Dinelaris has to make the play a little more fast-paced. He could have trimmed fifteen minutes and made the play so much crisper.
Actor Alfredo Narcisco does a creditable job as Michael and he has a number of monologues to help carry the story along ,but veteran actress Kathleen Chalfant steals the show as ninety-one-year old grandmother Rose. She has a wonderful stage presence, and her persistence and quiet charm make Rose a very believable character and, in the finale, she just breaks your heart.
You learn much about the genocide against the Armenians in this play, a fine history lesson for those interested in how and why one people can not only brutally exterminate 1.5 million people but, for the most part, get away with it. The Turks shot hundreds of thousands of Armenian men, but, it has been charged, they also drowned thousands of children in lakes, sent hundreds of thousands on long death marches into the Syrian desert, and simply poisoned others.
It is a slow-moving and frustrating play, but it is one that teaches a strong, and sick, lesson.
PRODUCTION: Produced by the New York Theatre Workshop. Sets: Marsha Ginsberg; Costume: David Woolard; Lighting: Tyler Micoleau; Sound: Jane Shaw. The play is directed by Ken Rus Schmoll.
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Batting for Jesus
Most sports fans are used to praying for a win but one of baseball's rags-to-riches teams have more reason than most to believe a higher power is answering
Saturday 06 October 2007
When one of the poorest, least fancied teams in professional baseball suddenly races out of nowhere and qualifies for the World Series playoffs, you might call it, well, a miracle.
As it turns out, that's exactly how the Colorado Rockies – a team who previously seemed to be little more than a punching bag for the bigger, better, more lavishly funded organisations who play America's favourite sport – view their nail-biting, against-the-odds, come-back-from-way-behind progress into this autumn's post-season.
The team's chief executive is a born-again Christian. So is the general manager and the team coach. Their two star players, along with many other members of their regular line-up, are not only believers but attend team-organised Bible studies.
The team doesn't like to talk about it much – mainly because the overlords of Major League Baseball don't think it's good for business – but they have an explicit policy to recruit as many Christian ball players as they can.
In other words, the Rockies – uniquely, even in a country as religion-obsessed as America – play faith-based baseball. And, in their view, God just rewarded them – big time.
"You look at some of the moves we made and didn't make," general manager Dan O'Dowd said in the only interview he has given on the subject, long before the Rockies' remarkable ascension over the past few weeks. "You look at some of the games we're winning. Those aren't just a coincidence. God has definitely had a hand in this."
Anyone who fancies the Almighty has better things to do than determine the outcome of baseball games might want to consider just what the Rockies have achieved. At the beginning of September, they were fourth out of five in the National League Western division and seemingly headed to yet another cold Colorado winter chewing over another disappointing season. Then they started winning, and didn't stop. They won 13 of their last 14 regular-season games – a freak occurrence in a sport that has always been more about failure than success, where even the strongest teams usually win no more than six games of every 10.
The Rockies' record brought them even with the San Diego Padres for the fourth National League play-off berth, and forced a tie-breaker game which they won by the skin of their teeth. This week, they've been playing the Philadelphia Phillies in the first round of the race towards the World Series, and they have pounded them twice. One more victory, and they will progress to the league championship – one step below the fabled World Series itself.
That line of Dan O'Dowd's about God having a hand in it may have been more prescient than he realised. Anyone familiar with that other, more widely known sporting "hand of God" couldn't help notice the manner in which the Rockies clinched their tie-breaker against San Diego last Monday night.
The game was a thriller, the score see-sawing until the two sides were tied at six runs apiece after the regulation nine innings. San Diego eventually broke the game open with two runs in the top half of the 13th inning, only to see the Rockies bounce back with two runs of their own, leaving their star hitter, Matt Holliday, just 90ft away from victory at third base.
On the first pitch faced by the next batter, Holliday came tearing towards home plate and collided with the Padres' catcher, who had the ball in time to intercept him and get him out. But the ball flopped out of the catcher's hand, and the umpire quickly ruled Holliday safe. The run was in, the Rockies were up 9-8, and the game was over.
Except that the umpire appeared to have made the wrong call. Close inspection of the replay suggested Holliday never actually touched home plate, as the rules require, because the catcher's foot was in the way.
Asked about it afterwards, Holliday pleaded ignorance – not least because he threw himself head first to the ground, and bloodied his chin as he thumped into the dirt. But, like a certain Argentinian football player, he also ascribed the moment to a higher power. In his first post-game interview – the blood still on his chin – he thanked God for the victory, and for all the blessings of the baseball season.
The line was never replayed and when the interview later appeared on the Major League Baseball website the reference to God was absent.
Until O'Dowd and other club officials talked about their faith, in an article that apppeared in USA Today, the Rockies' faith-based approach was kept so secret it came as news even to other ball players and managers who face the Rockies 15 or 20 times a year. After the USA Today piece came out, the team managers clearly felt embarrassed at the revelation and have never mentioned it again.
But Christianity guides their clubhouse like nothing else. Players are not allowed pictures of naked women on their lockers. They don't listen to loud, obscenity-laden rap music like other clubs. Players are strongly encouraged to attend chapel every Sunday, and Bible studies on Tuesday nights.
For some people, the God-squad approach is too much. "They have a great group of guys over there but I've never been in a clubhouse where Christianity is the main purpose," one former Rockies player, Mark Sweeney, told USA Today. "You wonder if some people are going along with it just to keep their jobs."
The Rockies' come-to-Jesus moment came three years ago, when a pitcher called Denny Neagle was charged with soliciting a prostitute. The club decided to swallow the $16m (£8m) remaining on his contract – a huge sum, for a club with a total budget less than three times that – and let him go for the sake of moral purity.
Chief executive Charlie Monfort had recently converted to Christianity after getting into legal trouble for driving while "impaired". Clint Hurdle, the team coach, converted at much the same time.
The Neagle episode convinced them that Christian values and clean living were the best ways to build a winning team spirit. It didn't hurt that Colorado is home to several high-profile evangelical organisations. The beer-producing Coors family, whose name adorns the Rockies' home stadium, have a long history of involvement in conservative Christian groups. Colorado Springs, the town where the Rockies nurture their up-and-coming talent, is home to Focus on the Family, the powerful right-wing political lobbying group, as well as evangelical publishers and several mega-churches.
One side-effect of the policy – one never discussed in American sports circles – is that the Rockies are one of the whitest teams in baseball. The game is dominated by players from the Caribbean and Latin America, but somehow the Rockies have a roster with one fresh-scrubbed all-American farm boy after another. Their catcher is Venezuelan, their second baseman is Japanese, but otherwise they are whiter than white.
This may be the first professional sports team to put Christianity at the centre of its mission, but it is hardly the first instance of Americans combining their passion for team games with religious zeal. It's not uncommon to see American football players, especially in heartland states like Texas and Oklahoma, praying together before a big match. Even in baseball, it's no secret some players turn to Christianity for their inspiration.
And its not just the players. Fans have long been known to invoke higher powers.
When the Boston Red Sox broke what many fans believed to be a long-standing curse and won the World Series in 2004, their star pitcher Curt Schilling explicitly ascribed his performance to a higher power – not least because he played through the pain of an ankle injury that caused his foot to bleed all over one of his socks. His "bloody sock" has since gone down in Red Sox lore as an object of veneration just as sacred as the medieval holy relics paraded by the Catholic Church. That said, the Major League Baseball organisation – the monopoly which runs all aspects of the professional sport in the US – frowns on any open expression of a particular religious viewpoint. Not everyone, after all, is a Christian. (The commissioner, Bud Selig, happens to be Jewish.)
Last year, the Washington Nationals team was forced to issue an apology after one of its outfielders, Ryan Church, suggested in a newspaper interview that Jews were "doomed" because they "don't believe in Jesus".
Church also issued a statement, presumably under the guidance of his superiors, in which he insisted: "I am not the type of person who would call into question the religious beliefs of others."
It's understandable, then, if the Rockies prefer not to talk too much about their convictions. That said, they don't always hold them in. After the Padres game, the pitcher who closed out the game, Ramon Ortiz, said he thanked God "a hundred times".
When Charlie Monfort, the chief executive, talked to USA Today, he was even more explicit about what it means to be blessed with divine favour. "I don't want to offend anyone," he said, "but I think character-wise we're stronger than anyone in baseball. Christians, and what they've endured, are some of the strongest people in baseball. I believe God sends signs, and we're seeing those."
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While Lower Manhattan slowly came to from Sandy's monstrous coup des ports last week, the Military Veteran Forum for Human Resources and Veterans Program Executives carried on at The New York Stock Exchange. The slow restoration of power to the Financial District and limited public transit to the tip of the island could not prevent a strong turnout of vets and execs from eagerly forging ahead with an ambitious agenda of "Integrating Veteran Talent Into Human Capital Strategy," aimed at effectively recruiting, retaining, and engaging military veterans. (see Bell ceremony)
The initiative is a call to action, and an imperative in a still languishing job market with veteran unemployment numbers hovering at 9%. For those who were not able to attend the program in person, a video archive of the program can be accessed via the Veterans page of our website to learn more about "Connecting with Military Talent – a Win-Win Proposition," "Building an Effective Veterans Program," and "What to Consider When You Hire a Vet."
Speakers and panelists included Admiral James Winnefeld, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs; Col. Jack Jacobs, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient; Tom Wolzien, Lead Independent Director, TiVo; Mike Abrams, Co-Founder, Four Block and Author, "Networking for Veterans"; Marshall Carter, Deputy Chairman, NYSE Euronext; and Duncan Niederauer, NYSE Euronext Chief Executive Officer. Senior Correspondent for FOX Business Charles Gasparino moderated a panel on connecting with veterans. Also in attendance were Rene Bardorf, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Community and Public Outreach, Department of Defense; Derek Blumke, Director, VITAL Initiative, Department of Veterans Affairs and Co-Founder, Student Veterans Association; Lisa Rosser, Founder and CEO, The Value of a Veteran; as well as well as HR and Veterans Program Executives from GE Capital – Energy Financial Services (NYSE: GE), JPMorgan Chase and Co. (NYSE: JPM), Goldman Sachs and Company (NYSE: GS), Honeywell (NYSE: HON), Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C), and AT&T (NYSE: T)


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The vote, scheduled for Tuesday, is needed to fully enact the ban, which will go into effect 30 days later.
Earlier this week, the Board of Supervisors voted to ban the sale of guns and ammunition on county-owned or leased property, despite protests by organizers who have gun shows scheduled at county facilities this year.
The measure, introduced by Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, was approved on a narrow 3-2 vote. Joining Yaroslavsky in support of the ban were Supervisors Yvonne Brathwaite Burke and Gloria Molina. Opposing votes were cast by Supervisors Mike Antonovich and Don Knabe.
Yaroslavsky said the measure was drafted at his request last week after a recent report by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms described gun shows as "essentially a shopping mall for illegal weapons' distribution."
According to the report, at least three weapons acquired or possessed by bank robbers during the deadly 1997 North Hollywood shootout were purchased by the robbers at a gun show on county property.
Yaroslavsky said the vote was a "great victory" for public safety, but Antonovich criticized the measure as an "excuse to usurp the rights of those who don't break the law."
"Gun violence has ravaged this country," Yaroslavsky added. "To sit back and do nothing . . . is to be complicit with what is going on."
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As London contemplates what looks disturbingly like a sustained suicide bombing campaign by Islamic terrorists, the question of morale in the city takes on profound significance. Yet over the past fortnight, most of the media appears to have decided that Londoners are capable of only one emotion in the face of those who would brutally murder them. And that emotion is "defiance". We have been inundated with headlines and news stories replete with references to "defiant Londoners", "stoical commuters" and "the Blitz spirit". Any suggestion that Londoners might be experiencing a substantial amount of "fear" as well - as The Independent did on its "City of Fear" front page yesterday - is deemed at best slightly bad taste, and, at worst, treason. A glance at today's letters page is enough to confirm the strength of feeling on this.
The vehemence with which different interpretations of the mood of Londoners are criticised is troubling. The demand that all should respond in precisely the same manner is almost totalitarian in nature.
The truth is that talk of "defiance" is largely meaningless in this particular context. Both Tony Blair and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, have requested that we carry on with our lives as usual. This is reasonable advice. But it is bizarre to "celebrate" when people do so. Those Londoners who are still making their morning Underground journeys to work, or taking the train to go shopping, are not, on the whole, performing a conscious act of "defiance" to the terrorists. They are doing what they feel they have to do. Most do not think they have a choice. The idea that Londoners should be congratulated for getting on with their daily lives despite the new threat is also somewhat patronising. What exactly was expected of them? Mass hysteria?
There seems to be a state of denial about the pervasive sense of fear that exists in London at the moment. The London Evening Standard's claim that "London Stands United" is all very well, and if it makes people feel better it is to be welcomed. But the common assertion that "London is not afraid" is simply untrue. The attacks on 7 July had a profound effect on the city's psyche. And the attempted second wave of bombings two days ago have cranked up the tension even further.
It has dawned on people that the first assault was not a one-off. The fact that the second batches of explosives were not properly detonated meant the bombers escaped. Londoners went to bed on Thursday night knowing that there were four desperate killers loose in the city. We still do not know if there was a link between the two attacks, but it is apparent that the aim of both groups was to kill and maim.
Londoners making their way to work yesterday were faced with sirens, helicopters and roads closed by the police. Then came the news that a suspected suicide bomber had been shot by armed police on a Tube train in south London. A raid on a house on the other side of the city followed; then a dramatic news conference in which the police revealed CCTV footage of those believed to be responsible for the latest attack. All this served to create a palpable perception of London being under siege. And the uncertainty over when the next attack will come is genuinely terrifying.
Comparisons with the Blitz and the IRA bombing campaign in the 1980s are easy to make, but misleading. Today Londoners do not have air raid sirens to warn them to take cover as they did when pounded by Hitler's Luftwaffe. Nor are they given telephone warnings, as in the period of Northern Ireland's Troubles. It also matters that Britain is not now faced with a foreign enemy - but a home-grown one. This creates a wholly different sense of insecurity. In truth, the nearest London has experienced to this sensation - the feeling that death could be about to strike without warning - was when V2 rockets began landing on the capital in towards the end of the Second World War.
It has been suggested that by showing fear we are somehow "playing into the hands" of terrorists, or "letting them win". This is a superficially convincing argument. The goal of terrorists is to create fear. And by refusing to show it, we could be said to be thwarting them. But this does not stand up to close scrutiny. Fear is a perfectly natural reaction. There is no shame in it. And the far more important question is how we are to respond to that fear. The real danger to our society is not fear but panic.
We would, obviously, urge individuals not to give way to panic. But they are perfectly entitled to make their own mind up about the risks facing them and alter their behaviour accordingly. Londoners should not be made to feel like cowards if they decide not to take the Tube for a while.
The Government must resist panic too. We do not require any immediate emergency legislation to counter the threat of extremist Islam. The most important task for the Government at present is to support the police and intelligence operation. The fact that these terror cells have broken cover means the police should find it easier to roll them up and arrest their leaders. We should never lose sight of the fact that this is - first and foremost - a criminal conspiracy to murder. Those implicated in these plots must be put on trial. However, the Government should immediately look into ways of toughening up security on London's transport system, since this is a glaringly vulnerable spot for the capital. At the very least this should mean CCTV cameras on Tube trains.
This is a serious and long-term problem for London. Life in the capital will be profoundly affected. One of the consequences will be a likely falling off in tourism - particularly long-term bookings from nations such as America and Japan. The Tourism Industry Emergency Response Group yesterday released research indicating that spending by overseas visitors in Britain may be 2 per cent below expectations for 2005. Since half of all foreign travellers come to London, this would represent a loss of £150m for the capital. It is also likely that fewer people will decide to shop in the centre of London, which will harm the retail trade. It is estimated that the second wave of bomb attacks has already reduced the number of shoppers in central London by more than a quarter compared with this time last year. If the bombs go on, we can expect this trend to continue. It is also distinctly possible that more people will demand to work from home, to avoid commuting into the city. All of these things could have profound implications for London's economy.
What the city needs now is sober reflection on the nature of the threat that is faced and how best to counter it. What London does not need is macho posturing and more meaningless talk of "defiance" in the face of the bombers. The city is perfectly capable of weathering this threat. But let us not pretend that the prospect of suicide bombers on our trains and buses is not intensely frightening. At this time we should recall the words of Mark Twain: "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
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I lead a generally active lifestyle and am sometimes only home briefly. If our paths cross, I'd love to hear what brought you to Santa Barbara and would be more than happy to provide recommendations. In some cases, due to my work and social schedule, we may not get a chance to meet in person at all.
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Never actually met Ryan! But communication was great, able to enter the home via passcode and come and go as we pleased. Room is comfy but quite small. Bathroom was clean. Location is great with easy parking.
Just as described! Ryan's place is the ultimate spot for a lovely weekend in Santa Barbara. Ryan was away for the two days I spent there but he left everything that could have been needed in plain sight (i.e. iron/ironing board and blow dryer). From the amazing porch swings to the great bathroom, the place itself is paradise. Add to that the location--a stones trow to State street, just a few blocks more to the funk zone and right down to the beach--you really cannot beat Ryan's place.
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We had such a good experience that we requested to stay again. We appreciated Ryan's attention to detail to make our stay as comfortable and pleasant as possible. Great home. Great location. Ten stars!
The perfect location if you plan to walk Santa Barbara and wish to be within walking distance of the wharf and funk zone. A charming, clean home with the loveliest verandah in a safe neighbourhood. We slept well as quiet at night. Ryan was so helpful and the directions for entering the property were clear and everything was just so easy. We enjoyed our stay so much we wouldn't hesitate to book again.
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Ryan was an excellent host and thought of everything a guest could possibly need while staying over.
Really nice to meet you Ryan. Hope to stay at your place again sometime in the future.
Ryan was very responsive to email and texts. It was simple to find the place, park and get situated. I really loved the location as it was close to down town and the home was very nice and comfortable. Ryan was also kind of to provide some advice to make my trip even better. This was my first AirBnB experience and Ryan made it awesome. His home and its ammenities was a really good value and he was a great host
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If youÆre between 7 and 13 years old, Empow April Vacation Camp is a place to explore video production, video game design, animation, LEGO robotics, architecture, and digital music. Focus on one technology of particular interest, complete mini-projects with each new technology, or combine several disciplines into one epic presentation! Experienced staff instructors guide students in making their own, creative projects.
This is a nut free program. Students should bring their own packed snack, lunch and water.
For kids in grades 1-8. Half day $350; Full day $625. 4/20/2015 - 4/24/2015, 9:00am - 4:00pm
Laptime is for children 2 years old and under. Children learn finger plays and songs. This is a drop-in program every first Saturday of the month. Location: Hudson Library
Cesar Garcia, Founding Director and Chief Curator of The Mistake Room in Los Angeles
Co-presented by WCMA and the Graduate Program
Located in a converted garment factory, The Mistake Room serves as a platform for under-represented and emerging artists, hosting a program of international and interdisciplinary exhibitions and projects that spark global dialogue. GarciaÆs talk will survey of experimental models of artistic and cultural productionŚartist-run spaces, publishing houses, and alternative academiesŚstemming from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia over the last decade and consider how they might inform institution-making in the United States.
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