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Can a fast casual concept based on locally sourced meat and produce find the economies of scale necessary to franchise?
The owners of b.good, a Boston-based better burger company are betting it can.
And with the opening of a new store in Shrewsbury, Mass., childhood buddies Anthony Ackil and Jon Olinto have set sail on a plan to add 35 locations over the next five years. Click here to see a sideshow of photos of the concept.
Alarmed by what they saw people putting into their mouths, Ackil and Olinto set out nine years ago to create a fast casual concept that would turn a profit while not serving nutritionally spotty food.
They expressed their values in their company name — b.good — and today their nine Boston-area stores have carved out a niche by serving natural beef, locally grown vegetables and seasonal items such as ice cream made with locally sourced blueberries.
They don't quite ascribe to the "farm-to-table" description, Ackil said; they prefer the term "real food." But they are more than happy to talk to customers about the farms that produced the actual food they eat — it's part of their business plan. Their restaurants feature wallboards showing the specific farmers who've raised the beef and grown the produce served at each location.
Another part of their plan relates to their methodical approach, which is why they didn't rush the franchising aspect.
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Ackil says they wanted to take the time to closely study various facets of their business, down to measuring how many carrots a person can cut in 15 minutes or how to slice tomatoes for the best yield.
Though it may seem particularly difficult to standardize the distribution of food with a higher perish rate, Ackil said that's not the case.
"We have odd unit economics because we buy whole products," Ackil said. "When you buy whole cuts of meat or the whole potato, whole is always cheaper. The trick is to make the labor model as simple as possible."
To that point, he says, the company reduced its menu by half over the years, eliminating things such as steak and turkey dinners, and now focuses solely on burgers, chicken and turkey sandwiches and fresh salads. Stores typically have two or three local seasonal items, such as blueberry ice cream or asparagus. The main labor revolves around grinding meat and slicing potatoes.
b.good buys its beef from Pineland Farms, a co-op of 270 sustainable farms located east of the Mississippi River and as far south as the Carolinas that includes Whole Foods as a client.
As b.good's distributor, Ackil explains, U.S. Foods coordinates with Pineland to pick up the beef for delivery to the burger stores, where the meat is ground.
The same arrangement holds true for other food groups such as potatoes. The chain also has a few of its own gardens. In fact, one is on the roof of a nine-story building in which one of its restaurants resides. It grows tomatoes, cilantro and collard greens. The b.good gardens grew about 1,000 pounds of tomatoes. (Watch below as Olinto and staff garden on the roof.)
Consumers demanding transparency
David Ordway, director of sales and marketing for Pineland, thinks b.good is on the crest of a wave. With countless news stories about the hazards of over-the-counter foods, particularly beef, he saud, the public is increasingly demanding more transparency.
For example, Sodexo Inc., which services numerous universities, recently added Pineland to its vendor lists after New England parents and students asked for more food options.
Is growth limited?
Some analysts, however, worry that costs — to the consumer and franchisee — will limit the growth of a restaurant following the b.good model.
The better ingredients dictate a higher price point, noted Technomic's Darren Tristano, which might be a barrier to consumers who've traded down from sit-down dining to fast casual.
And Tristano said the cost of entry for franchisees — $400,000 to $600,000, which should generate sales of about $1.15 million — seems high compared to competitors such as Five Guys, which requires $350,000 to $550,000 per store and produces about $1.2 million in annual sales.
Ackil said b.good's cost is slightly higher because of furniture, equipment and collateral material that helps tell their story.
"It's just a very important part of what the company is about," he said.
After years of handling matters as a duo, Ackil and Olinto have enlisted help for the franchising plan. They hired a director of operations with a background in franchising and restaurants, and brought in a consulting firm to handle things like manuals.
"It's important to have systems," he said.
John Imbergamo, a Denver restaurant consultant, notes there are a handful of fast casuals following the farm-to-table model, and he says Chipotle has made a mark with its "Food With Integrity" initiative to source locally. But he believes it will be generally difficult for fast casuals to embrace farm-to-table because of the quantities of food its restaurants require.
"It's tough to get enough product to supply a large chain with local or sustainable products," he said.
Tristano doesn't doubt the b.good concept's appeal, and he doesn't doubt that it will grow to a limited extent.
"Because of the high price point and heavy fast casual growth, I don't see them having wide, universal locations. I can see 100 to 150 restaurants, but it's not likely they'll do 100 like Five Guys did in 10 years. We're seeing saturation within the better burger segment."
Ackil says the company wants to grow gradually and isn't dependent on franchising. "We aren't trying to sell 100 units in a year," he says. "We have a base of company-owned stores that provide cash flow to support our business."
In any case, Tristano says he'll watch b.good with interest because its fortunes may signify a cultural shift and make it more likely that similar brands could catch on.
"As an analyst, I'm skeptical that there's huge growth potential for this type of brand in our current economic climate and and with so few affluent consumers," he says. "As a spectator, I am cheering for them."
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Douglas McWilliams, the head of the Center for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), which put out the analysis, told the British newspaper:
"Brazil has beaten the European countries at soccer for a long time, but beating them at economics is a new phenomenon. Our world economic league table shows how the economic map is changing, with Asian countries and commodity-producing economies climbing up the league while we in Europe fall back."
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Tlatelolco Cultural Center was the hosting venue of the1st Mexican Go Congress held from November 15 to 17, 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico. This 1st Congress counted with the distinguished presence of Hajin Lee 3P and an Kim Sooyong 4P both sent by auspice of the Korean Baduk Association.
The 3 day Congress was the host for several events such as the 1st Mexican Open Tournament, a 13x13 tournament for kids, Go and Origami workshops and of course both Korean Pros shared with the Mexican Go community their skill trough reviews from the Open Tournament games, lectures and simultaneous games exhibitions.
Organized by the Mexican Go Association and sponsored by UNAM, Mexico's main public university and KABA, this Congress is pioneer in the development of Go in Mexico and Latin America. With a 45 players field for the Open Tournament and more than 300 attendants in total, the event turned out to be a huge success.
"This Congress was a multi-purpose event" reports Mexican Go Association president, Mr. Emil García, "The players not only had the chance to play in an official tournament and feel the seriousness of it, but also had the opportunity to gain insight of how pro players think of the game trough the several activities we had with them. It was also a great chance of sharing and learning for the youngest players, I'm surprised by the amount of youngsters that participated in the 13x13 Tournament and in the workshops, kids are increasingly becoming a main actor in Mexican Go.
"European and American Go are developing really fast, and they are getting a lot of support from International entities, Mexican and LatinAmerican Go shouldn't lag behind, that's why we are working really hard to be able to catch up with you guys" says Mr. García. "2015 will be a year full of surprises for Mexican Go, so stay tuned!"
For picture galleries of this Congress check the event website.
While five outstanding Korean professional go players were competing for medals at the World Mind Games in Beijing last month, 136 outstanding Korean amateurs competed in Seoul for the Amateur Guksu (or Kuksu) title, and the right to represent Korea at the next World Amateur Go Championship in Thailand. The competitors included some who are training in hopes of winning professional credentials in Korea's tough insei league, so the Guksu tournament was also viewed as a contest between this elite group and Korea's large general amateur population.
A double-elimination preliminary qualifier held on December 13 reduced the field from 136 to 64, who then competed in a six-round knockout on December 14 and 15. After four of the six rounds, three of the four survivors were insei: Kim Changhoon, Park Jaegeun (winner of the 2013 Korea Prime Minister Cup), and Song Jihoon. Song also won one of the two semifinal games, greatly improving on his performance the year before, when he had been retired in the first knockout round. But insei dominance was not complete. The winner of the other semifinal game was Hong Moojin, who ranked No. 2 in the junior (U40) tier of Korean amateurs, second only to 2013 Guksu and 2014 KPMC winner Wei Taewoong. Song, for his part, ranked No. 3 among the insei.
Could the third best insei beat the second best general amateur? The answer to that question, after a 247 move thriller in the final round, was yes -- by half a point. In a post-game interview Song Jihoon described his Guksu triumph as follows:
'I was lucky to win. All my games were tough, especially my second-round game against Song Hongsuk [who was 2009 amateur Guksu and 2010 world amateur champion] and the final game against Hong Moojin. The final game was a struggle all the way, with the lead constantly shifting back and forth, but Hong made the last mistake.'
Aged seventeen, Song Jihoon is regarded as a rising star among the insei. In October he and Kim Changhoon competed alongside pros in the Samsung Cup. His style of play is often compared to that of Lee Sedol, whom he hopes to emulate. To quote him again, 'I'm now preparing for the professional qualifying tournament by working on my opening, which is my weak point. Now that I've won the Guksu, I'm determined to win the world amateur championship and get the 40 professional qualification points that will be worth. Then I'll try to win a professional world title within five years of making pro.'
In the meantime, to further his training he has the ₩2-million Guksu first prize (roughly $1800 or €1500). Hong Moojin, who has already amassed 90 of the 100 points needed to qualify as a pro, received ₩700,000 as runner-up, and took over the No. 1 amateur rank, pushing Wei Taewoong down to No. 2. Last year Wei narrowly missed being world amateur champion. Can a different Korean do better this year? That question will be answered in Bangkok next June.
Postscript: Song Jihoon made pro in February 2015. The Korean player at the next World Amateur Go Championship will be someone else, currently undecided.
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After the first four days of go competition in the 2014 SportAccord World Mind Games, the main issues waiting to be settled were who would win the gold medal in the women's individual event, and who would win the bronze medals in the men's team event. Last year the answers had been China's Yu Zhiying and the men's team from Chinese Taipei. Could Korea's Kim Chaeyoung or the Japanese men's team provide a different answer this year?
The men's teams matches began at 12:30. The team from Chinese Taipei was in their seats early, all in their chipper blue and white uniforms. The black-suited Japanese team arrived just a minute or two before deputy chief referee Michael Redmond began reciting the daily litany: two hours of time per player with five renewable 60-second overtime periods; Chinese rules with 3-3/4 stone compensation; mobile phones off or silenced; the round starts!
An hour and a half later, the women's gold medal game began. Kim Chaeyoung, sole survivor of the losers' bracket, drew white against undefeated Yu Zhiying.
In the team event, the Chinese men clinched their gold medals at about three o'clock, when North America's Huiren Yang and Daniel Daehyuk Ko resigned against Mi Yuting and Tuo Jiaxi. Later Shi Yue defeated Mingjiu Jiang by 5-3/4 stones (11-1/2 points) to complete a shutout victory.
The Korean men clinched their silver medals in similar shutout fashion. First Fan Hui resigned to Park Younghun, then Aleksandr Dinershtein resigned to Na Hyun, and then, after fighting desperately, Ilya Shikshin resigned to Kang Dongyoon. Dead European groups were much in evidence on all three boards.
The next match to end was the women's. Yu Zhiying remained undefeated. She had attacked a weak white group on the right side of the board, starting a huge, confusing struggle that spread through most of the center. There was a point at which white had a chance to win, but she went after the wrong black group and it was the attacking white group that lost the capturing race. The position was still confused, but it was hopeless for white and Kim Chaeyoung resigned. Losing is always bitter. Nevertheless, her silver medal is the best result yet achieved by any non-Chinese go player in three years of SportAccord women's individual competition. Yu Zhiying's two consecutive gold medals would seem to establish her as top in the women's go world, and she is still only seventeen.
And what of the men's team match between Japan and Chinese Taipei? As he had the previous day, Lin Li-Hsiang got Chinese Taipei off to a good start, winning by resignation on board two, but then Seto Taiki evened the score for Japan by defeating Chang Che-Hao by resignation on board three. All now depended on the result on board one, where Japan's Yuki Satoshi was playing Chinese Taipei's Chen Shih-Iuan. Chen (black) had taken the lead by attacking in the center in the opening, but during a difficult middle game Yuki had gradually caught up, and in the endgame it appeared that he might be ahead. When the final score was counted, it turned out that he was indeed ahead. He had won by exactly a quarter of a stone, or half a point. The two players spent considerable time afterward reviewing the endgame, with assistance from Seto Taiki, who interpreted between Chinese and Japanese. Both Yuki and Seto are from the Kansai Kiin, in Osaka. After the failure of Japan's Tokyo-Nagoya based men's team in the 2013, Osaka had come to the rescue.
At the evening awards ceremony, following the presentation of medals for blitz chess and pairs bridge, Mr Park Chimoon, acting president of the International Go Federation, presented the bronze medals to the Japanese men's team, the silver medals to the Korean team, and the gold medals to the Chinese team. Bridge ambassador Fulvio Fantoni gave them their medal certificates; then their national flags were raised and the Chinese national anthem was played. Next the medals for women's individual go were awarded by chief referee Hua Yigang: bronze to Rui Naiwei, silver to Kim Chaeyoung, and gold to Yu Zhiying, who triumphantly mounted the dais as a woman transformed, attired in a long and strikingly attractive flowered skirt. This time it was Ms Wang Wenfei, the other bridge ambassador, who gave out the certificates.
Counting chess and bridge, Chinese mental athletes had had a good day. Their total haul was ten medals: five gold, including one in women's chess; two silver, both won in women's bridge; and three bronze, including two more in women's bridge. The games are not over, but China has already shown that it leads the world in go, and leads the Far East in bridge and chess as well.
- James Davies
The 4th SportAccord World Mind Games (chess, contract bridge, draughts, go, xiangqi) will be held in Beijing December 11-17. The go competition will follow the same format as last year: 18 men representing China, Chinese Taipei, Europe, Japan, Korea, and North America will vie in a three-man team round-robin; 12 women from the same areas will compete as individuals in a double knockout; and 16 of these players will also compete in a single knockout mixed pair tournament. Click here for player lists and photos.
Last year the Chinese and Korean men's teams staged a riveting fight for the gold medal, which went to the Korean team when their third player beat his Chinese opponent by a fraction of a point. China will try to even the score this year with a team of three young world title-holders. Korea will counter with a team consisting of two of its medalists from 2012 and 2013 and a young player named Na who recently won the Korean Prices Information Cup. Japan, after going home empty-handed last year, will field an all new team drawn from Nagoya and Osaka. Their first assignment will be to avenge last year's defeat at the hands of Chinese Taipei.
The fight for the women's medals will be very tough. Judging from recent international competition, the field includes the world's current top three women, or at least three of the top four, all Chinese or Korean. Players from the other areas will be trying to break the Chinese-Korean medal monopoly of previous years.
In pair competition, China, Japan, and Korea will enter five teenaged players and one (Na) who is just twenty. Chinese Taipei, whose teenaged pair took the silver medal last year, will let a new and older pair to try to match or better that feat. Europe is entering three pairs and North America one; it should be a lively three rounds.
Tuo Jiaxi from the Chinese men's team and Lee Hajin, secretary general of the International Go Federation, will also act as go ambassadors. They and the ambassadors from the other four disciplines will take part in various social and publicity events.
Ranka will once again provide daily reports and commentaries.
Chimin Oh Wins Go to Innovation Was it the lure of the thousand-euro first prize or the chance to play some serious handicap go? Whatever it was, on November 14-16, 2014 the annual Go to Innovation tournament drew fifty-five players from far and wide to Berlin. An eight-round Hahn system was used, which meant that starting scores were assigned according to the players' EGF ratings. Additional points were earned in amounts that depended not only on who won or lost each game but also on how much he or she won or lost by and whether he or she had won in the previous round. All games were played with appropriate handicaps or komi according to the players' current scores.
The highest-rated contestant was former Korean go instructor Chimin Oh, 7-dan, who currently resides in England. His starting score immediately put him in the lead. In his first game he beat German champion Lukas Krämer (6-dan), but then he lost a two-stone handicap game to Austrian champion Viktor Lin (5-dan). Next day he lost to Hungarian champion Pal Balogh (6-dan) and then to Lluis Oh (6-dan, Spain). Following these defeats, however, he rebounded with a string of victories over Nordic champion Yaqi Fu (6-dan, Sweden), Zebin Du (6-dan, China), Jan Hora (6-dan, Czechia, with a two-stone handicap), and Jan Prokop (5-dan, Czechia, with a three-stone handicap). His final Hahn score put him far ahead of Viktor Lin, whose four wins were good enough for the 500-euro second place prize. Zebin Du won six games and finished third (250 euros). The best performance by a female player was turned in by by Rita Pocsai (4-dan, Hungary), who earned a 500-euro prize from Omikron Data Quality in addition to her 100-euro tenth-place prize. Complete results are here.
There was also a jackpot prize for winning eight games, but nobody claimed it. In fact, no one managed to win even seven games. The Hahn system does not give anyone an easy time in any round, and in some sense it rewards the players according to how well they played, regardless of how many games they won. Jan Hora, for example, won only three games, but all his opponents ended among the top ten and he finished seventh. Perhaps next year more 7-dans will try this system out.
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Syrian activists reach across sectarian divide
Today on the net, Syrian activists reach across sectarian divide. Opposition to the construction of a huge dam in the Brazilian Amazon is gaining momentum online. And finally, a site is hosting all the presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to today…
Syrian activists reach across sectarian divide
US based activist Farid Ghadry does not think the Syrian conflict can be simply summed up as sectarian civil war between the Sunni majority and the ruling Alawite minority. With the opposition movement against the Damascus regime aggravating religious tensions across the country, rebels are now calling for Syria's different ethnic communities to unite in the movement against the regime.
The Nabd movement is a good example of this. Founded in Homs its Facebook page now has over 8 000 members. Activists from the network organize rallies, like we see here in the region of Damascus, to bring together protesters from different ethnic groups, aiming to bridge the sectarian divide.
Some of these rebels from religious minorities have been arrested by security forces for their involvement in the revolution, and the group of cyber activists also campaigns for their release. Activists from the Kurdish, Armenian and Druze communities have also joined the ranks of the rebels, putting up posters in the streets, or delivering medical supplies and mobile phones to areas under siege by loyalist forces.
In this online video, a young women who introduces herself as Alawite talks about her recent visit to Latakia in western Syria; she went there to support the rebels, and tries to explain to members of her community that they have nothing to fear and that she believes the opposition movement is fighting a tyrannical regime.
Indigenous opposition to Brazil's Belo Monte dam
Protests have resumed in Brazil, contesting the construction of the Belo Monte dam across the Amazon's Xingu River. Local fishermen have been occupying an island close to the site since the end of September; they are concerned for their livelihood. The construction work which began back in January 2012 has already had a negative impact on the river's fish supply.
In August, a federal court ordered the suspension of work on the huge hydroelectric dam, but the decision has since been overturned by the Brazilian Supreme Court, despite strong international mobilization. Numerous e-petitions have been started: the one on the Gota d'àgua website has near to 1.5 million signatures, and the petition started by NGO Avaaz has over 600 000.
Sany Kalapalo is one of the leading figures in the campaign against the construction of the Belo Monte dam … a reputation she built online … Sany Kalapalo began her crusade on social networks. She describes herself as an indigenous activist and ecologist and uses the web to mobilize her people and raise awareness on the impact the project will have both on the environment and her tribe. The dam is expected to flood an area of over 500 square kilometers of forest, and displace some 25 000 indigenous people living along the river.
Sany Kalapalo hopes others will follow her example. The Sao Paulo University student has started her own indigenous movement, encouraging other young indigenous people to use social networks to protect their culture and defend their rights.
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On « Livingroomcandidate.org », you can look back over all the presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to today, immerse yourself in past campaigns and see, amongst other things, how the White House hopefuls' strategies and messages have changed over the years…
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Over the past few months, the New York band, "They Might Be Giants" have been gathering photos of children via social networks, sent in by web users the world over. The pics were then used to produce the video for their song "Alphabet of nations". A project run in partnership with the Global Fund for Children, an NGO that helps disadvantaged children across the globe.
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A man recreating famous paintings by Dutch masters by adding creases to a sheet… Vermeer's "Girl with a pearl earring" or Van Gogh's self-portrait, a short lived work of art erased by an iron… Aan artistic performance? well, no, this is actually a viral campaign for a Dutch home appliance manufacturer to advertise its latest iron, which can apparently get rid of the tiniest of creases… The video is called "The Art of ironing" and is a far cry from the ads we usually see for this type of product.


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On the morning of March 16 a strong upper level storm system was moving across the northern Rockies. This storm system was pushing a Pacific air mass into the Northern Plains. At the leading edge of this air mass was a strong cold front that extended from the south of a surface low over eastern Montana. Ahead of the front a strong southwest downslope wind developed that pushed warmer air into northeast Wyoming and western South Dakota. Some of the gusts ahead of the front exceeded 60 mph over northeast Wyoming and 40 mph over western South Dakota. Temperatures rose into the lower 70s and even reached 81 at Winner for a high.
By the early afternoon an area of showers developed along the front as it passed through Billings, Montana. These showers produced rain that fell into a dry air mass behind the front and caused winds to increase dramatically. As the front rolled across southeast Montana, several stations reported gusts to 70 mph. These wind gusts prompted the forecasters in Rapid City to issue a High Wind Warning for northwest South Dakota including Rapid City with the 3:00 PM forecast issuance.
The cold front blasted into northwest South Dakota around 4 PM with winds gusting at Buffalo up to 67 mph. As it continued to roar southeastward, it passed Spearfish and then Sturgis with equal vengeance before 5 PM, and then Rapid City Between 5:05 and 5:15 PM. Its passage was noticed not only by the stiff winds up to 50 mph at the NWS office, but also a thick cloud of dust that was blown up from Pete Lien's cement plant. Street spreadings left over from the recent snows of March 5th and 10th were also blown around . The front continued a steady fast march southeastward through Faith, Wall and Pine Ridge by 6 PM and then into central parts of the South Dakota by 8 PM.
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The drafting of Matthews signals the team's belief that protecting quarterback Matt Ryan is the top priority and rightfully so, but Matthews isn't just the technically-sound pass blocker that he was billed as coming into the draft — he's not too shabby as a run blocker either.
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If I had the money, the first thing I would do upon getting to Hong Kong is buy the biggest, fattest, most ridiculously enormous SUV available and drive it up and down the city's streets--idling whenever the mood strikes, cranking the air conditioning with the windows open--just to appreciate the superb fuel economy. When it comes to fossil fuels, this ship has quite a thirst. It doesn't run on gas or diesel fuel. It burns what's known as heavy fuel oil, a petroleum product that, when cold, is hard enough to walk on. (This is the stuff Kim Jong-Il is always running out of. This and Cognac.)
The ship burns through 80 tons of the stuff per day. Eighty tons. Inconvenient, but true. The heavy fuel oil doesn't turn the ship's two propellers directly. Instead it's used to power six 12-cylinder generators, which in turn power the ship's electric engines as well as the many other electrical systems and amenities on board. Desalinating seawater is a biggie. The kitchen alone goes through 100 tons of water day.
These are some of the many fascinating facts I learned on the bridge tour.
The bridge, you will notice from the photos, is fabulously retro. As I admired the big buttons, flashing lights and brushed steel levers, I thought, This is what the control room in Goldfinger's hideout must have looked like. And yet, the ship itself is not that old. It was built in 1995, just around the time retro was coming back. Perhaps it was deliberate.
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That's not to say the ship is technologically stunted. When we visited, it was running an autopilot, though I think "auto captain" would be a more appropriate term. There was one bridge officer on duty-his name was Ivo; he is from Bulgaria--and another man standing watch, which is just like it sounds. He just stood there, looking out the window. There are worse jobs on this ship.
Navigation is done these days with the aid of a GPS. Oil tankers tend to rely on this and solely this. Here on the cruise ship, though, they take at least one manual navigation reading a day, either by using the sun or the stars, which requires a sextant. I find it difficult to comprehend how one's position on the sea can be determined solely by looking at the stars.
It didn't take long for the bridge tour to get into some serious guy talk. It started when Ivo pointed to the ship's spare propeller blades, which are sitting in plain view on the ship's foredeck. At that, one of the other passengers said he was on another cruise liner that blew an engine mid-voyage. "I remember watching them load in the crankshaft when we arrived in dock," he said.
From this, Ivo segued into an explanation of what a complicated and difficult task it is to replace a ship's engine. Unlike cars, ships don't have hoods that can be easily popped. Changing an engine on a ship requires cutting through the hull, removing the old engine, installing the new one, then sealing the hull up again and painting over so it looks like new again. The cost of replacing an engine is so dear, in fact, that it often makes more sense just to build a whole new ship altogether. And ships aren't cheap. This one cost $350 million in 1995. (I know a mechanic who dropped a brand new clutch into a Volvo two years ago--and replaced the rear main seal--for around $1,200. I'm thinking the cruise liner people should talk to him.)
The men were gripped by what Ivo had to say. They all crowded around and fired questions at him: "Do you need to be in dry dock to replace a propeller blade?" (No.) "How many cylinders does each generator have?" (12) "How deep is it right now?" (5000 meters.)
Their wives weren't quite so interested. They hived off into a separate group and moved to the back of the bridge, where there was a series of photographic portraits of each of this ship's captains in full nautical regalia. Here, the wives took turns pointing at the faces they recognized.
"I remember him and him, but not him."
"Really, because I remember him, but I don't think I ever met him."
"Oh, I'm sure we met him. That was on the Singapore cruise."
"We missed that one. We're thinking of doing it next year."
While all this took place, we burned about one and a half tons of fuel.
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May 02, 2014
Michael Kugelman writes about five Pakistani militant leaders who are worth singling out—not just because they threaten stability, but because they foreshadow Pakistani militancy's future trajectory.
President Obama's Asia Trip: Implications for China-U.S. Relations
May 01, 2014
President Obama capped a four-nation visit to Asia with the announcement of a security agreement with the Philippines. While China was not one of the President's stops, relations with the People's Republic loomed large as a back drop for his visits to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines. We spoke with former U.S. Ambassador to China, J. Stapleton Roy about the significance of the trip.
CEF Director Jennifer Turner quoted by Vice News on the new amendments to China's Environmental Law
Apr 29, 2014
In the latest article at Vice News, "China's Toxic Soil, Air Pollution, and Dead Animals Prompt Environmental Reform," Turner commented on the new amendments to 1989 China Environmental Protection Law (EPL) and Chinese pig industry.
CEF Director Jennifer Turner interviewed by Radio Free Asia on the latest China Environmental Law amendments
Apr 23, 2014
Jennifer Turner gave comments on the amendments to China's 1989 environmental protection law which was submitted to the country's parliament for deliberation.
CEF's latest dam interactive map reported by Quartz
Apr 22, 2014
CEF has recently released its new interactive map concerning the information of dams in the southwest China.
CEF Director Jennifer Turner interviewed by Living On Earth on China's hydropower overload
Apr 22, 2014
For the past 65 years, China has built nearly two dams per day, and wants to expand its hydroelectric capacity. Jennifer Turner, director of the China Environment Forum at the Washington DC's Wilson Center, tells host Steve Curwood that China plans to ramp up dam installation in Yunnan Province, which raises the risks for this biodiversity hotspot in Southwest China.
A Positive Surprise in Afghanistan
Apr 21, 2014
Senior Scholar Marvin Ott discusses the recent elections in Afghanistan.


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Bill Gates Backs Schrödinger
Gregory T. Huang4/29/10Follow @gthuang
Schrödinger, a New York and Portland, OR-based maker of chemical-simulation software for drug development and research, has received a $10 million equity investment from Bill Gates through Cascade Investment, Gates's private investment and holding company. The news was reported earlier today by the Wall Street Journal. The money will be used to support R&D projects to advance the state of the art in computer-aided drug design. Schrödinger (love the name) says its software "has been used by nearly every major pharmaceutical firm worldwide as well as hundreds of smaller firms and academic and government research laboratories." The company, founded in 1990, also has offices in San Diego, Cambridge, MA, and New York.