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I'm late at updating my blog once again, but then, better late than never. This blog post is intended for the benefit of two categories of students – one, who've just cleared JEE and are exploring options and courses one of them being B.Des at IIT Guwahati, and the second, for those who've already joined the B.Des programme but are still unsure why they did so and what to expect out of it. This post is solely my personal opinion, based on my 3 years at the department and exploration prior to joining the course. For the reason that I'm also young both in the world of design as well as my understanding of the department, I've tried my best providing external links and generalized information from several sources for this post to look more resourceful than a personal opinion.
Lastly, i've done this in a hurry for the lack of time and urgency of freshers – please be kind enough to spare grammatical errors, spellings and other mistakes. I wrote this part by part – during my lunch hours, on the bus to work and finally, on a sunday evening.
Let's begin with some common queries about design, which students, parents and anyone in general trying to find more about the course, has.
1. It's a B.Des course, not a B.Tech. How does it affect me?
If you are chosing to pursue a career in design, a bachelors degree in design is well recognized. It's more apt for you as a designer than a B.Tech. IITG has been offering this for a long time now, and on a world scale, it is fairly recognized. More details here.
2. Can I do an MBA after this? Or do I need a B.Tech for that?
Yes, you can do an MBA after this – it has no connection with Btech / B Des. Students from our department have been and are currently pursuing management degrees from IIM's and other top notch universities.
3. What the heck is design anyways? Designing cool apps? Designing websites? Designing cool cars? Designing logos?
A really good reference to provide that would be this, which has a handful of even more references towards the end. This link does a good attempt to describe design from scratch, and talk about various fields, opportunities that it has to offer. The description is not comprehensive though – there are other well established as well as emerging fields in design which haven't been talked about here. Another link which is a good read to introduce design is this. Clearly, design has IMMENSE scope and areas for you to explore and work in. Here's a list of all the different branches I can think of at this point – (several of these are connected and have things in common) - Graphic / Visual design, Interaction Design, Design Research, Product design, Industrial design, User Experience design, User Interface design, Human factors / Ergonomics, Automobile design, Ubiquitous computing, Sound Design, Animation, Photography and Videography, Motion Graphics, Physical Computing, Tangible User Interfaces, Gestural User Interface Design.
4. Why you should / shouldn't join B.Des, and what you can expect out of your 4 years here.
"You didn't get a good rank, you desperately wanted to get in an old IIT. You've heard about the course in tits-bits, think it's decent, and you'll take it and work hard for a branch change. I'm good at sketching. I just cleared JEE. I think I was destined to join this course."
The reasons could be many – some are more common, some, well a little hillarious and some, always hidden deep inside. I think the first question that comes to everyone's mind before / after coming here is to try and understand what design is, what kind of course curriculum the institue offers, and what to expect at the end of 4 years. There's just so much more to design that what we conceive of it – good aesthetics. And because there's so much of it, bachelor's of design provides the best possible chance for you to explore all these fields and figure out what interests you the most. Assuming that you'd never ever have heard about this course before, asking things like "If you're creative and have passion for design, join this" doesn't make sense. The good part though is, this stands valid for all branches in all IIT's. Do students who pursue chemical engineering actually know at the time of joining their passion for the field? Or do students just aim for fat packages and the top colleges? The answer is in your hands. My simple suggestion is – read about it. Explore as much as you can. Talk to people, professors, students. Yes, professors – I had mailed a prof at DoD before joining here asking a few apprehensions I had. Convince yourself. Here's another thought provoking article by one of our alumni, which digs deep in trying to answer what design actually is.
Some more handy links about the course and taking this decision:-
Course structure: http://www.iitg.ac.in/acad/CourseStructure/bdes2013onwards.htm
Minor Programme: http://www.iitg.ac.in/campus/academics
Placement brochure: http://www.iitg.ernet.in/placement/brochures/Brochure_Des.pdf
Portfolio of passing out bachelors batch: http://iitg.ac.in/design/bdes14/index.html
Portfolio of passing out masters batch: http://www.iitg.ac.in/design/portfolio/ishanya14/index.html
Department website: http://www.iitg.ac.in/design/
Additional info: http://www.dsource.in/
Design programme, IIT Kanpur (Masters and Phd's only) -http://www.iitk.ac.in/design/
Design programme, IIT Bombay (Masters and Phd's only) -www.idc.iitb.ac.in
Design programme, IIT Delhi (Masters and Phd's only) - http://www.mdesiitdelhi.com/
India design report, 2011 - http://issuu.com/ciidesign/docs/cii-_india_design_report_2011/1?e=6041592%2F4071239
Design resources: https://medium.com/@de/resources-799d16952a56
5. Summer Internships & Placements
An important aspect of the design program is industrial and professional experience and research through internships in various industries, companies and universities both in India and abroad. The following is a glimpse of companies and universities where students from the department have interned in the past.
Industrial Internships
▪ Google (Mountain View), Google India
▪ Microsoft IDC
▪ Samsung R&D, Samsung SISC
▪ Xerox Parc Labs, France
▪ Deutsche Telekom
▪ Amazon
▪ Directi
▪ Juniper
▪ Godrej, Philips, ITC Ltd.
▪ Oracle, Cordys, Cognizant, Pubmatic
▪ LT Research,Clarice Technologies
▪ Maruti Suzuki, Nimbuzz, C-Dac
▪ Compassites Software Solutions
▪ Famous Animation Studios
Academic Internships
▪ MIT Media Labs
▪ University of California, Berkeley
▪ Northeastern University, Boston
▪ University of Ghent, Belgium
▪ TU Berlin, Germany
▪ TU Delft, Netherlands
▪ Carleton University, Canada
▪ Karlstad University, Sweden
▪ EPFL, Switzerland
▪ Middlesex University, UK
▪ Carnegie Mellon University, USA etc
Past recruiters:
Placement opportunities for the graduates passing out of the department have been very bright and they have been recruited by reputed organizations such as:
▪ Microsoft IDC
▪ Samsung R&D
▪ Housing.com
▪ Capillary Technologies
▪ Druva
▪ DE Shaw
▪ Flipkart
▪ Accenture
▪ Cognizant
▪ Directi
▪ Samsung SISO
▪ Clarice Technologies
▪ Infosys, Geodesic
▪ Cordys, Oracle
▪ Mindtree
▪ JDA Software
▪ AVACorp
▪ Zensar, Wipro
▪ Texity Systems
▪ Grail Research
▪ Compassites Software Solutions etc
6. What next after B.Des? Can i do a MS / PhD. after my B.Des?
The number of opportunities that open up for you as an individual after completing your bachelors are immense. While many students from the department opt to pursue a Masters programme or a Ph.D programme from reputed universities in the United States / Europe, a lot of students also prefer to directly start working in the industry for full time roles. Students needn't necessarily do a M.Des after a B.Des – many of our alumni have completed their MS (Masters in Science) in HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Interaction Design, Product Design etc from top notch universities such as Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Indiana University, University of Michigan, MIT, TU Delft, Copenhagen Institute of Design (CIID) and so on.
Last but not the least, DoD is also known for producing some of the finest entrepreneurs. There have been several cases of DoD alumni starting their own design driven Startups – some examples include Madrat, Bookpad, Gopeppers, Skopex, Perdix Global.
Common misconceptions / thoughts before / after getting admitted to B.Des, DoD
This is part two of my post, which targets a few thoughts and general conceptions or a mindset that might develop about the department. These views are my personal views – I'm aware there would be a few who might differ in opinion. Nevertheless, these issues are not talked about too much, and somehow effect one's view about the department as a whole, which subsequently affects one's performance in the department.
"I've spent my past two / three years solvinng integral calculus and mechanics problems – you now expect me to sketch? Design posters and visiting cards? I'm an IITian. I'm meant to do more scientific stuff – to be asked to design logos and posters is an insult. I didn't join a premiere technical institute to do manual software work.
Although unfortunate, I think there's a fair chunk of students even in the final year who do have such a mentality, or at least, a part of it. Graphic design as a whole is disregarded by default in DoD as not being geeky enough – there's nothing scientific or technological or engineering involved in it. It's meant for painters and artists. How often have i heard my peers say – I don't like graphic design – it's not one of my interests. To persue design without having an interest in graphic design is equivalent to pursuing CS without having an interest in coding. Graphic / Visual design is the basic, introductory and requisite course for all designers, irrespective of whether you spend your whole career as a visual designer or if you end up being a product designer. Until and unless you have a sound understanding of all concepts related to graphic design – typography, grids, colors, patterns, etc any subsequent efforts in any field would be below standard. Bad presentations, bad portfolios, bad resumes, bad products, bad user experience.
Visual design is not simple. Definitely not simple for people who come from a science and mathematics background, having spent more time doodling on the back of our classmate registers during our coaching days. Visual design can't be taught purely through lectures. Yes, there are theories, which are covered in class. But you need to practice. You need to come out of your comfort zones. What generally happens is students end up finding great free internet resources – free vectos, free icons, free color palettes. A little basic understanding of illustrator, and suddenly everyone believes to have learnt graphic design and wants to move on.
On a professional level, Interaction designers / UX people with strong visual design are always more in demand and preferred. In a majority of interviews i've had with professors as well as managers in big companies in the process of obtaining an internship, I have been persistently asked to talk about my visual design skills over my interaction design process and practices. And I know for a fact at least for positions related to User Experience, good visual skills is a MUST.
Yet, when professors ask students to sketch in class, students look up with amused faces, and walk out with disgusted looks in the end. And at the end of the semester, the professor is unhappy because of overall lack of interest, students are unhappy because they just weren't spoon fed something revolutionary and geeky enough.
The professors in my department suck. They dont take classes on time, they dont teach me anything, they dont provide me good guidance. I think i'm just wasting my time doing things I already know here. I'm not learning anything new, I deserve better. If I were to learn design through online courses on coursera, why am i wasting my time here?
I for one know design isn't the only department which has complaints like these. What's unfortunate though is, a lot of these statements and complaints are not true and difficulties faced by individuals. True, there are professors who don't teach you the way you want them to, and there are, who do. That however never stops you from learning, does it? To judge a professor by his teaching style is one of horrible mistakes a lot of students tend to make. What that results in is a poor student-professor relationship which is so crucial in the world of design. For me, a majority of my learning has come based on the feedback I've received directly from my professors, my host and my mentors. If I begin hating my professors and don't seek guidance from them, I believe i'm being just too overconfident – I should probably have directly applied for a pHD at MIT instead of learning what color theory and negative space means.
Take Design! It's the coolest branch in IITG. You dont have to study at all in design – these guys party during mid sems and end sems! You're a designer – you'll not understand.
I've read a lot of students, primarily students of IIT-G fraternity who aren't in the design department, portraying the course to be cool and chilled out. The reason for comprehension of department is that is genuine – once in the department, students do not primarily have blackboard based teaching and lectures wherein you're expected to listen to someone speak, take notes and learn design. As a consequence, there is a heavy focus on assignments and projects rather than mid semester and end semester examinations. Secondly, some of the things that as designer's you're expected to learn and do, are actually pretty cool, and thus, the common perception.
I'd conclude by saying that design isn't simple and easy as it looks at first glance, and the perception of it being 'cool' depends upon how you approach it. I find it pretty cool, for the reason that I find it powerful, impactful when it comes to real world problem solving. I also find it cool, because I enjoy doing what it teaches me to do and the fact that there's endless possibilities and things to learn and explore and develop a career upon is sufficient to keep me happy
Feel free to pester me with any queries / debates / criticism / questions that you might have, via the contact information here.


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This is the second of a two part series on a study of recycled asphalt shingles performed by the Virginia Transportation Research Council. This section looks
at the results of field tests performed in the state.
By G.W. Maupin Jr., PE
Superior Paving Corp., Stevensburg, Va.—The BM-25.0 base mix was sampled twice as it was placed on two VDOT paving projects. The first sample was taken by the contractor's personnel on April 28, 2009, for a widening paving project on Route 230. Only volumetric properties and a binder recovery/grading were obtained on this sample. The same base mix was sampled on May 14, 2009, as it was being used to pave a section on Route 15 near a shopping center north of Culpeper, Va. For both projects, the mix was produced through a double drum plant at an average production temperature of 295˚F to 300˚F. The ground shingles were added through a RAP bin. Paving took place normally with no problems.
W-L Construction & Paving Inc., Strasburg, Va.—The BM-25.0 base mix was sampled and placed on a small subdivision street on June 22, 2009. The mix was produced through a batch plant at an average temperature of 300˚F. The shingles were pre-blended in a 50:50 blend with No. 10 aggregate and stockpiled before being fed into the drum through the RAP collar in proper portions resulting in 4% shingles in the asphalt mix. Paving took place normally with no problems, although the mix did exhibit a tender zone that necessitated a delay of rolling during compaction.
Branscome Inc., Richmond, Va.—The SM-12.5 surface mix was sampled and placed on Route 460 west of Petersburg, Va., on July 30, 2009. The mix was produced with a double drum plant at an average temperature of 300˚F. The mix contained a combination of recycled materials consisting of 18% RAP and 2% shingles. The two materials were added concurrently to the RAP conveyor belt in the proper proportions and entered the plant drum through the conventional RAP collar. No problems were encountered with the paving process.
W-L Construction & Paving Inc., Clear Brook, Va.—The SM-12.5 surface mix was sampled and placed on the shoulder of Route 522 south of Winchester, Va., on October 7, 2009. The HMA and WMA were produced through the same double drum plant at average temperatures of 300˚F and 270˚F, respectively. The WMA was produced using the green plant foaming system that used a very small amount of water to cause a foaming action of the asphalt. The shingles were pre-blended in a 50:50 blend with No. 10 aggregate before being entered into the drum through the RAP collar. The target shingle content was 5%. Paving proceeded with no observed problems.
Laboratory Tests
Volumetric Properties and Ignition Furnace Results—Volumetric properties and gradation results for the field samples from each project are shown in Tables 2 and 3, respectively. The volumetric properties, air voids and VFA were all within acceptable production limits. VMA was greater or very close to the minimum design values. The property values for the samples from Superior Paving projects were very close, which indicates consistency in the product from day to day. Similarly, the asphalt contents and gradations representing fine sieve sizes that might be affected by shingles were very close for the samples from Superior Paving, further verifying consistency in the product. The asphalt contents of single samples for all projects were well within production limits, i.e., +0.3% for the average of four samples.
W-L Construction & Paving Inc. indicated that the shingles were pre-blended with the No. 10 aggregate in a 50:50 ratio. Samples of the blended material were tested for asphalt binder content with the ignition furnace method for their base mix and surface mix projects. With the ignition furnace it was determined that the blend contained shingle/No. 10 aggregate ratios of 33:67 and 37:65 for the base mix and surface mix projects, respectively. However, the contractor apparently adjusted the amount of the blended material entering the plant to yield the proper mix binder content, as evidenced by the production mix binder contents being very close to the target job mix values.
Rut Tests
The rut test results are shown in Table 4. According to VDOT's maximum allowable limits, the test results indicated that the mixes would be satisfactory for heavy traffic situations from a rutting resistance standpoint. In addition, the rut depths were comparable to those reported for conventional Virginia D surface mixes containing PG 70-22 binder that were tested in an earlier high-RAP study.
Fatigue Tests
The fatigue regression constants and endurance limits as described previously are shown in Table 5. The fatigue regression log-log plots are shown in Figure 1. A previous high-RAP study tested eight mixes containing 21% to 30% RAP that yielded endurance limits ranging from 83 to 130 microstrain.9 Those mixes contained considerable RAP and are used routinely by VDOT. The fatigue endurance limits of the mixes containing shingles were within the range of values for endurance limits of mixes currently allowed by VDOT.
Binder Recoveries and Grading
The performance gradings of the binders recovered from field samples of the projects are listed in Table 6. In reference to the virgin PG 64-22 binder, the high-temperature grade was increased one grade on three of the projects, two grades on two of the projects, and three grades on one of the projects. The low-temperature grade deteriorated one grade on five of the cases and stayed the same in the sixth case. However, in all cases, the binders were a -16 low temperature grade or better, which passed VDOT specifications. Bonaquist reported at the 4th Asphalt Shingle Recycling Forum in Chicago that the addition of 25% roofing shingle binder improves the high-temperature grade two levels and makes the low-temperature grade one grade poorer, further supporting the results of the present study. There was no apparent difference in the properties of the binder recovered from the HMA and WMA samples for the W-L Construction & Paving project on Route 522. Perhaps the temperature difference of 30˚F for the production of these mixes was not sufficient to cause stiffening of the binder.
Additional Laboratory Testing
Shingle Material Properties—Samples of shingles were subjected to binder removal by solvent extraction and by the ignition furnace, which is the generally accepted method for asphalt content determination. The solvent extraction would be considered to yield the "true" binder content, whereas the ignition furnace also burns some foreign material and possibly aggregate. The purpose was to determine an ignition furnace correction factor that should be applied when quality control/quality acceptance tests are performed.
Two samples of ground shingles were tested by solvent extraction, yielding 24.3% binder; companion samples yielded 29.2% binder by the ignition furnace test. In other words, the ignition furnace test indicated that the shingles contained about 5% more binder than they actually contained. A similar determination by South Carolina found that the difference between extraction and ignition testing was 2% for its shingles. Assuming a correction of 5% for shingles, the correction for an ignition furnace test that should be applied to the binder content of mix containing shingles would be:
[(% shingles) x (% difference between binder determined by extraction and ignition furnace)] /100
Therefore, an approximate 0.05% shingle correction factor for each 1% of shingles would need to be applied to the ignition furnace results for binder content of a mix. A mix containing 4% shingles would need to have a 0.2% correction applied in addition to the normal aggregate correction. This factor was determined only from a limited sampling and could vary somewhat for other sources of shingles.
Binder Blending for Warm Mix
An SM-9.5D surface mix containing PG 70-22 binder was tested in indirect tension. The tests were performed on specimens containing shingle contents ranging from 0to 5% that had been mixed at two temperatures: 250˚F and 300˚F. The specimens were mixed at 300˚F to simulate HMA and at 250˚F to simulate WMA. The idea was to determine how mix stiffness was affected by the mixing temperature. If the shingle binder and virgin binder combined to the same degree at both mixing temperatures, the mix stiffness should have displayed the same differential increase at both temperatures as shingle content was increased.
Table 7 lists the strengths and Figure 2 shows graphically the strength difference attributable to inadequate blending of the virgin and shingle binders. The 300˚F curve was shifted down to the 250˚F curve to eliminate the additional aging effects. The strength difference between the shifted curve and 250˚F curve can then be attributed to inadequate blending. With 5% shingles, the strength of the WMA mix increased only about 50% as much as that of the HMA mix [(190-155) / (245-183)] = 0.56. It is difficult to duplicate field conditions in the laboratory, and perhaps better binder blending would normally occur in a hot-mix plant than in a laboratory experiment because of more vigorous mixing.
The construction experience of contractors with tear-off shingles was satisfactory with no problems. The volumetric properties of mix from each project were within VDOT specifications. Rut tests indicated that the mixes containing shingles can be used in situations involving heavy traffic where rutting is a concern. Fatigue test results indicated that fatigue durability is comparable to that being provided by current mixes. Binder recoveries indicated an improvement of high-temperature grading, and the low-temperature grading was within VDOT specifications. Limited indirect tensile testing indicated that blending of the virgin and shingle binder was less for WMA than for HMA. This is an area for possible research.
MoDOT allows up to 30% of the shingle binder to be used without a change in the virgin binder grade, and it has used a considerable amount of shingles in its hot mix since 2005 with satisfactory performance. MoDOT used approximately 53,000 tons of shingles in 2009, of which about 90% was tear-off shingles. Considering Missouri's good pavement performance, the current VDOT special provision allowing a maximum of 25% aged shingle binder versus MoDOT's 30% shingle binder with no change in virgin binder grade should be conservative.
• The use of tear-off roofing shingles in asphalt mixes should produce satisfactory mixes.
• Routine mix properties during construction should be satisfactory.
• Rutting resistance complies with the requirements for VDOT mixes used in heavy traffic.
• Shingle mixes perform as well as conventional high-RAP mixes.
• The high-temperature grading of binders was improved, and the low-temperature grading was within VDOT specifications.
• The ignition furnace correction factor should be based not only on aggregate correction but also on the combustibility of non-asphalt materials contained in the shingle waste.
1. VDOT's Materials Division should develop a modified specification stating that recycled shingles must be certified to be free of asbestos-containing
material as defined by the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (i.e., a material containing less than 1% asbestos) and that the source of recycled shingles must be residential homes with no more than four units per structure. Such shingles have very little chance of containing asbestos. Such specifications would possibly minimize the amount of required asbestos testing but would necessitate certification by the recycler concerning the source of the product.
2. With the changes noted in Recommendation 1, VDOT's Materials Division should continue the use of the current special provision allowing tear-off shingle waste for general usage.
Costs and Benefit Analysis
A representative of Oldcastle Materials, Inc., of Atlanta, Ga., reported at the 4th Asphalt Shingle Recycling Forum held in 2009 that the cost savings per ton of plant mix is approximately $3 to $5 when reclaimed shingles are used. The source of the shingles used in HMA in Virginia is Asphalt Roof Recycling Co., Mt. Airy, Md. Assuming an average cost of virgin binder for VDOT's 2009 construction season of approximately $400 per ton and the FOB price of reclaimed shingles from Mt. Airy, a savings of approximately $3.40 per ton of HMA would be realized with the use of reclaimed shingles. If the transportation costs of hauling the shingles to the asphalt plants of the contractors involved in this study is also considered, the savings would be reduced by $0.40 to $1 per ton. If the process is approved by VDOT for general usage, shingle recyclers will be located near the facilities of asphalt contractors, resulting in lower shingle costs. If a savings of $3 per ton could have been realized on one-half of the 400,000 tons of HMA produced last year for VDOT, VDOT would have saved approximately $600,000. Potential cost savings is further evidenced by the fact that contractors were willing to try the process with no additional compensation from VDOT and some contractors continued to use the shingles on private work.
As already mentioned, a considerable amount of shingles in Virginia is currently being disposed of in waste facilities. The use of recycled shingles would not only provide cost savings for VDOT but would also be an environmental plus for Virginians since waste material that would otherwise go to a landfill would be used. The use of shingle waste in asphalt concrete would also create possible business opportunities in recycling and processing the shingles.
G.W. "Bill" Maupin recently retired as principal research scientist at the Virginia Research Council. He can be reached at [email protected]


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County Executive Leopold Announces Acquisition of 73 Acres in South River Greenway
Moving closer to goal of 1,100 contiguous acres
Annapolis (March 24, 2010) - County Executive John R. Leopold today announced that the County is moving closer to completing the 1,100 acre South River Greenway with the acquisition of 73 acres of forest and streams through the use of Maryland Program Open Space funds.
"This acquisition will provide additional access to the Bacon Ridge Natural Area," County Executive Leopold said. "This Administration's conservation vision is to protect the headwaters of the South River and expand recreational opportunities for our citizens."
The 62-acre Dorothy Boehm property was approved by the State Board of Public Works on March 10. An additional 11 acres was approved at today's Board meeting.
These additional acres expand the County's Bacon Ridge Natural Area in the South River Greenway to 380 acres. With the pending settlement of another 46 acres and conveyance of the 546-acre Crownsville forest planned for 2010, the County is moving closer to achieving its goal of preserving over 1,100 contiguous acres within the South River Greenway.
"The Scenic Rivers Land Trust applauds County Executive Leopold for preserving additional parkland and protecting the South River," said Alyssa Domzal, Greenways Coordinator for the Scenic Rivers Land Trust. "This is a big win for the environment and secures land for the enjoyment of current and future generations."
The headwaters of the South River are in the heart of Anne Arundel County. The South River Greenway contains the largest tract of unbroken forest in the County, providing critical habitat for forest birds and rare, threatened and endangered plants. For additional information visit the Department of Recreation and Parks website.


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Residents in Webster are being asked to refrain from using water after a water main break was reported Friday.
The break happened at about 11:30 a.m. on Rawson Road. The 20-inch main leads to one of the town's water storage tanks.
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The order that ingredients are dissolved into a propylene glycol-based concentrate is important!
I made more concentrate today, and followed my formula in this order (at about 90C):
Order 1: propGlycol=24ml, s.metaborate=6.7g, ascorbicAcid=8.5g, dimezoneS=.2g
The clear liquid turned yellow upon adding the dimezone. Then it became cloudy, with lines of chemical-scale appearing on the bottom and sides of the beaker and growing. After a few more minutes, the bottom was almost entirely covered with scale. The solution ended up being thickly cloudy with what seems to be fine particles. And highly viscous.
This is similar to what happened in Feb 2012 after creating a highly concentrated concentrate. After a few days, some cloudy streaks appeared in it, and it became completely cloudy upon heating, and ended up looking like milk. Also highly viscous. Here's my posting about it from Feb 2012:
My query is the sixth posting.
So I changed the order to this, completely dissolving each before adding the next: (still at about 90C)
Order 2: propGlycol=24ml, dimezoneS=.2g, s.metaborate=6.7g, ascorbicAcid=8.5g
I got the same behavior I mentioned a couple of days ago: The solution turned orange upon adding metaborate, and clear again upon adding ascorbic acid, and it fizzed upon adding the ascorbic acid, with visible foam.
With the clear-to-orange, and orange-to-clear, and fizzing, it's obvious that reactions are occurring in the propylene glycol solution in Order 2. Also, the yellowing and cloudiness and scale and high viscosity are different reactions occurring in Order 1.
Do the chemists here have any idea why dissolving the DimezoneS first versus last makes such a large difference?
Mark Overton
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Coach Bill Dunn spoke as if he was John Gruden on Monday Night Football.
The Saugatuck football coach described how his team's opponent Friday, Gobles, was expecting a run up the middle. Instead, the handoff in his Wing-T formation went to Alex Segovia, who turned up field near the sideline and went untouched for the touchdown.
Coach Bill Dunn spoke as if he was John Gruden on Monday Night Football.
The Saugatuck football coach described how his team's opponent Friday, Gobles, was expecting a run up the middle. Instead, the handoff in his Wing-T formation went to Alex Segovia, who turned up field near the sideline and went untouched for the touchdown.
Here are Dunn's exact words:
"We don't run that rocket-series much. I knew with rocket-motion deep, they would look for the sweep off the inside trap with Joey (Koscielski). We ran a counter-action with Alex and he's our fastest kid and we blocked it up great."
And there you have a Wing-T offense.
If you're confused just reading the play, think about how to defend against it. There aren't many different formations to expect when lining up against a Wing-T. You have your standard three running backs in the backfield with a quarterback either below center or in the shotgun. Then the melody beings. …
Through intricate footwork the quarterback – usually not the most credited player in the offense, but arguably the most important – employs a string a sweeps and dives to fluster the defense. If it all goes to plan, the running backs without the ball get hit, and the one who has it runs free.
That was the case with Segovia as he sprinted 67 yards into the end zone.
It was also the case for Zeeland West's Cole Hession.
Hession doesn't grab the spotlight as much as another running back for the Dux. Usually, Danny Bauder is the prime weapon for coach John Shillito, but Byron Center knew about Bauder.
Hession was the one who scored three touchdowns and put up 123 yards against the Bulldogs. There are three running backs in the backfield, and good teams have more than one option.
"We don't go into a game with the mentality that we're going to give Danny the ball, we go into a game thinking that, we're going to run the ball, and we're going to get yards," Hession said.
For the Dux it's Bauder/Hession. For the Indians it's Koscielski/Segovia. And both of them have dedicated offensive lines in front of them.
In the playoffs, however, look for both of these teams to utilize the passing game.
Playoff-caliber teams are there because they faced, and sometimes won, other Wing-T teams. The sweeps and dives in the backfield don't work as well, and can be rendered useless if linebackers and defensive linemen penetrate the backfield and keep their eyes on the ball.
Zeeland West and Saugatuck both have secret weapons in their lineups. They aren't really secrets, but they haven't been making much noise this season.
Page 2 of 2 - Wes Webbert snuck onto the field in Week 3 for the Indians. The noted basketball player brings his 6-foot-6 height to the gridiron, and made a couple of snags on Friday to earn confidence in Dunn.
"We use him in spot situations," he said. "Blake and Wes are still trying to figure out that chemistry but it's coming and what a great time to get that coming in to the playoffs."
At Zeeland West, many forget that Jordan VanDort is a shifty tight end who also has a basketball background.
In close games, on third down and long, or after a turnover, don't be surprised if Dunn decides not to run a rocket-motion, an inside trap.
Instead, a simple post route will do fine, and it's a little less complicated to watch.
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The CCA will host a saltwater fishing seminar at Uncle Buck's Restaurant at Bass Pro Shops in Pearl on March 2 at 4:30 p.m. and will feature professional guides Capt. Sonny Schindler of Shore Thing Charters and Capt. Ronnie Daniels of Fisher-Man Guide Service.
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The time has arrived once again to usher out the old year and ring in the New Year. Generally, the passing of the guard is little more than changing out the calendars and getting used to dating papers with a new year.
However, Im pleased that 2012 is finally at an end and I have high hopes that 2013 will be a better year. This last year was filled with too many tough times, the last being a broken leg, so I figure 2013 has to be a better year.
With a bit of luck, Im going to be able to start the year out cast and crutch free. That alone will begin the year on a good note.
Other highlights on the horizon include becoming a grandfather the end of March, something Im looking forward to. Watching my granddaughter grow, and hopefully embrace a little of grandpas love for fishing, should prove to be fun. As both Cody and Jennifer are anglers, I think the chances are good shell find a place for fishing in her life. A number of other events in the works include the possibility of a new boat and several fishing trips. Heck, just more time on the water than last year will prove to be a highlight.
Im going to try and revive what used to be a tradition for me, and that is to fish on New Years Day. Originally the excuse was you needed to break in your new fishing license if you expected it to work correctly the rest of the year. Now that we renew them the end of March, Ill have to come up with a reason to convince hung-over anglers to hit the water. In my case, no reason is needed.
While fishing is always a priority for me, occasionally an event occurs that keeps me off the water and the Fly Fishing Show Jan. 4-6 is such an event. It has been several years since Ive been able to attend the show due to it and the International Sportsmans Exposition (ISE) being scheduled the same weekend and my being committed to work the ISE.
So this year Im going to immerse myself in the show for two days, along with a couple friends. There are seminars, travel presentations, casting demonstrations, fly tying demos, and booths to visit and Im looking forward to taking in as many as I can.
After the Fly Fishing Show, it will be back to fishing at least one day a week(end) for the rest of the year, if I can swing it. I will however take some time the second and third weekends of January to visit the Denver Boat Show and then the International Sportsmans Exposition respectively. Both are being held at the Colorado Convention Center.
The boat show should prove interesting as Im planning on doing a lot of window shopping. Im looking for a fishing platform, but I need to work out whether it should be a bass or flats boat. Both have a lot of appeal, but Im not sure which has the most appeal.
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Baidoa, Somalia - At least seven people were killed on Monday when two powerful blasts rocked Somalia's parliament building in a suspected assassination attempt against the country's interim president.
Somali Foreign Minister Ismail Mohamed Hurre said the blasts, at least one of which came from a car bomb, were an apparent attempt to assassinate the president and destabilise the weak government.
President President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was unhurt by the explosions that took place as he drove away from the building in a convoy shortly after delivering a speech, officials and witnesses said.
"This was an attack aimed at assassinating the president to destabilise the government," Hurre said in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi where he is on a visit.
In Baidoa, the temporary seat of the Somali transitional government about 250km north-west of Mogadishu, medical sources said seven people had been confirmed dead and several seriously injured.
"At least seven people were killed and several others critically wounded by the explosion," said Mohamed Sharif, a nurse at Baidoa's main hospital.
He told AFP that the dead included several parliamentary security guards.
The first explosion from a car bomb sent a huge ball of flame into the sky and destroyed numerous vehicles parked in front of the parliament building, a converted warehouse, witnesses said.
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A second blast occurred about 15 minutes after the first, witnesses said.
Suleiman Olad Robleh, a member of parliament, said no one inside the building had been injured.
"Neither the president nor any lawmakers were wounded," he said by phone from inside the legislature. "The president has been taken by his bodyguards from the parliament to the presidential palace.
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The Islamists pose an increasingly strong threat to the limited authority of the government, the latest of more than a dozen international attempts to restore a functional central authority to the lawless country.
Since seizing Mogadisghu from warlords in June, Islamist militia have rapidly expanded their territory to include much of southern Somalia and begun enforcing strict Sharia law.
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Well, after she settled down today, she did allow him inside the run in with her and they hung out together all day, but at feeding time, she went beserk and squealed, kicked, and ran him off into the deep snow. She even kicked him full out with both hind feet. Gandalf is 20 years old, I don't want her breaking bones on the poor guy.
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A new online survey of 600 mobile workers commissioned by Egnyte, a file-server remote-access vendor, reveals the truth about the road warriors' use of technology.
Among the findings:
-Smartphone devotees confessed that no moment is too private to access data, with more than half (53%) admitting that they accessed data from their smartphone while in the bathroom.
-Nearly half (41%) of mobile professionals confess that they are most addicted to the Facebook app but a mere 9% truly believe that staying in touch apps like Facebook and Twitter keep them most productive when on the road.
In the "I miss the file server, the boss not so much," category: Forty eight percent of respondents reported that easily accessing files from a file server is missed most when working outside of the office but apparently professionals don't really miss their boss. Only 13% stated that they miss seeing their boss when not working in the office. 45% said they don't miss anything.
On staying productive: Document apps keep 36% of mobile users the most productive while on the road; only 1 percent cited finance and expense apps as the most productive.


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And Trigger, Too (Unfortunately)
"Trigger has been a big hit," said Catherine Elkies, an expert at Christie's who is coordinating the sale of the contents of the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum Collection.
I didn't deny that Roy's noble steed made an impression, stuffed and mounted and reared up on its hind legs in the auction house's atrium. But I noted that several summer interns I saw discussing the animal looked a bit squeamish.
Cowboy Roy Rogers' Belongings Up for Bid
"I'm a little squeamish around it as well," Ms. Elkies confessed. "But people feel connected."
I asked whether there was much buyer interest in the Palomino (estimate $100,000-$200,000). "We were having a meeting about it," Ms. Elkies said. (That's sometimes auction code for considering lowering the estimate.) "We've gotten several calls. We'd love to see it go back into some sort of institutional setting. It is something that sort of belongs to everybody."
"It should be somewhere where everybody can visit him," added Linda Kohn of High Noon, a Western Americana dealer that's running the auction Wednesday and Thursday in partnership with Christie's.
"He was Roy's best friend," Ms. Elkies went on. "He went dancing with him; he went traveling with him. They were partners."
I objected, on Dale Evans's behalf, to the characterization of Trigger as Roy's partner. Rogers died in 1998, Evans in 2001. "She was his wife," Ms. Kohn stated. "In those days there was a difference.
"Bullet was the family dog," she went on.
Bullet's mounted too, right next to Trigger, tongue hanging out of his mouth, as if he's just untied Roy or helped him and Trigger dispatch a nasty bandit, and expects a biscuit.
"He wasn't an actor," Ms. Elkies said, referring to Bullet (estimate $10,000-$15,000), not Rogers.
"He went to the ranch with Dale and Roy," Ms. Kohn reported.
"Two working parents raising a family of kids," Ms. Elkies said.
"You talk about modern," Ms. Kohn added.
It's hard to move beyond the stuffed animals—there are four in total, including Buttermilk, Evans's steed, and Trigger Jr., Trigger's body double—but once you do there are treasures galore, including all manner of modestly valued Roy Rogers/Dale Evans merchandise. They include a mint-condition Trigger rocking horse ($150-$250), lunch boxes, and kids' six shooters in their leather holsters. (No master of the universe ever felt more in command of the situation than an average '50s kid with his Roy Rogers gun belt strapped to his waist.)
There are also many examples of Nudie Cohn's high art for sale. I wasn't familiar with "Nudie the Rodeo Tailor," Rogers and Evans's Russian-born Jewish-American couturier, until I visited the exhibition. Cohn had many claims to fame, including designing Elvis Presley's $10,000 gold lame suit. But in my opinion his career pinnacled when it came to Evans's outfits, particularly a pink gabardine ensemble ($1,000-$1,500) that I wouldn't hesitate to buy for my cowgirl, if I had a cowgirl.
Nudie also pimped out cars—they were known as "Nudie Mobiles"—of which Rogers's 1964 Bonneville ($100,000-$150,000) has to rank near the top. Nudie replaced door handles, switches and controls with chrome-plated pistols and horse heads; the hand-tooled leather seats are festooned with silver dollars, and he mounted a saddle between the driver's and front passenger seat.
Why? Why not?
The car does have some "condition problems," as connoisseurs refer to them—though they use such language more often in the context of Caravaggios—notably brown splotches to its convertible roof (Ms. Elkies believes they were acquired during Rogers's hunting trips.) The canopy, by the way, has been autographed by celebrities such as Elvis, Johnny Cash and Gene Autry.
I'm thinking of bidding on something—perhaps a group of Roy Rogers belt buckles estimated at a manageable $200-$400. I do remain a bit squeamish about Trigger, however. Can't they just bury the poor beast? It's never too late.
"We have a Maltese we're connected at the hip with," Ms. Kohn said. "So I think that's why he had him mounted."


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Amaenaideyo!!Media: Anime, Manga
Creator: Toshinori Sogabe
Animation: Studio Deen
Vintage: 2004
Episodes: 13
Background: Amaenaideyo began as a manga by Toshinori Sogabe that was serialized in Comic Gum beginning in 2004. It was adapted into an anime in 2005 by Studio Deen. There are 12 episodes plus one bonus episode. A second season called Amaenaideyo!! Katsu!! was released in 2006.
Genre: Harem, Comedy, Romance, Ecchi, Exorcism
Similar Anime: Tenchi Muyo, Love Hina
Related Anime: Amaenaideyo!! Katsu!!
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Amaenaideyo anime
Amaenaideyo is a love comedy centered on the male protagonist, Ikkou Satonaka, and his love interest, Chitose Nambu. Ikkou and Chitose are both trainees at a Buddhist temple along with several other monks in training. Of course, this being a harem anime, all the other monks besides Ikkou are young girls. Chitose is only allowed to live and train with the girls because his grandmother is in charge of the temple; this seems to be a popular plot device that has been used in similar shows like Love Hina.
As a monk, Ikkou is not a very good one. He usually forgets incantations or screws up important ceremonies. As a consequence, he does most of the cooking and cleaning at the temple. Ikkou is also quite a pervert, so serving a bunch of girls is not such a bad deal. Most of the girls just accept his perverted nature, all except Chitose. While Ikkou is normally a poor monk, he has a special ability to turn into a super monk whenever he gets sexually aroused. The girls have learned that Ikkou's ability can be triggered in an emergency if he sees a naked girl, it just so happens that Chitose is almost always the one forced to strip. Chitose actually has a crush on Ikkou, but he always seems to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and catches Chitose in various states of undress. It's a classic love/hate relationship.
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MILWAUKEE - Three illegal aliens from Mexico were charged in federal court this week for locally producing and selling fake identity documents. Two face additional charges of unlawfully possessing firearms as illegal aliens. The charges resulted from an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Julio Hernandez-Navarette, 34; Daniel Santiago-Garcia, 29; and Fany Santiago-Garcia, 26; all of West Allis, Wis., were charged in the Eastern District of Wisconsin for conspiring to manufacture and sell fraudulent immigration and identity documents. Fany Santiago-Garcia and her brother Daniel Santiago-Garcia, were also charged for unlawfully possessing firearms as illegal aliens, which is a felony.
According to court documents, ICE agents initiated the investigation in April 2009 after arresting an Italian national who admitted to purchasing fake identity documents. Further investigation revealed that Hernandez-Navarette and Fany Santiago-Garcia met prospective purchasers in public locations where they took their pictures and obtained biographical details. The defendants then returned to two adjoining West Allis residences that allegedly served as the "document mill." ICE agents made under cover purchases of phony Social Security cards, Wisconsin driver's licenses, and alien registration cards, or "green cards," on three occasions in June and December 2009.
ICE agents executed federal search warrants on March 2 at the residences, located at 1403 and 1405 South 56th St., and seized alleged document-making equipment and supplies, including laptop computers, a laminate printer, blank paper stock, and fake identity documents. ICE agents also seized a loaded Rossi .38-caliber pistol and more than $22,000 in U.S. currency.
"Anyone who knowingly and indiscriminately sells phony identity cards is putting the security of our communities and even our country at risk," said Gary Hartwig, special agent in charge of the ICE Office of Investigations in Chicago. "Counterfeit documents can potentially be used by dangerous criminals and others who try to hide their identities and cover their tracks."
ICE was assisted in the investigation by the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Wisconsin Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigation.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Ingraham, Eastern District of Wisconsin, is prosecuting the case.


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Because the unimaginable does happen, and we must find our way back home through the dark shadows of grief.
I am an ordinary woman. I have no profound words of wisdom to share... only a journey. A journey that begins in raw emotion and ultimately finds hope, as God takes my hand and leads me through the deep shadows, back into His light.
An ordinary woman living an ordinary life and loving it!
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2007)
by Paul Torday
No current Talk conversations about this book.
I really didn't hate this novel or anywhere close. However, I had a few problems with it that meant I couldn't rate it any higher than I did.
1. The structure. While I love (love love LOVE) epistolary novels, a lot of the switches in medium really didn't work for me here. The excerpts from Peter Maxwell's biography, the newspapers, Hansard, and some of the police interview things are superfluous and don't work as well as the diary, email, and letter portions. I got really bored during some of the former kind of sections and found myself glazing over.
2. The way Harriet's character was portrayed with relation to Fred.
3. The ending.
having seen the movie first and now read the book I see that it is a prime example of a Hollywood "interpretation" of a novel. Both have not much in common.
Back to the book. It is a good story. English scientist is asked by a Sheik to bring salmon and salmon fishing to Yemen. Throw in a bit of love, romance, relationship problems and pepper with quite a lot of politics and you get a potentially strong story. Has it been implemented as such? I am not sure. The book is spread across too many sources in my eyes. There is the diary of our scientist, an interrogation protocol, a biography f one of the narcissist politicians. I think that hinders a flow.
It somehow left me unsatisifed.
A delightful novel about Dr Alfred Jones and his work for Sheikh Muhammad to bring salmon to the Yemen. Alfred Jones if a fishery expert and he is bought on board by Harriet, who supports Sheikh Muhammad as a land agent for his Scottish estate.
Paul Torday certainly understands fishing: a past-time I have had little understanding of previously but now have more appreciation of why someone might get satisfaction from fly fishing and the patience involved. I also understand much more about the life-cycle of a salmon as this is described in detail throughout the book.
The novel uses diary accounts, letters, emails and reports from Hansard to get the information to the reader so we hear more than one voice. This works fairly well, although it is Alfred Jones' diary entries that are the most engaging.
Dr Alfred Jones starts as a cynical man about the idea of bringing salmon to the Yemen but is taken by the faith of Sheikh Muhammad and Alfred changes and grows as a person as the novel moves on. Alfred's wife Mary has a voice through emails only and she also grows and changes as the novel comes to its amusing end.
Paul Torday makes fun of bureaucracy and the class system in Britain. He also finds fun in spin doctors. These are all easy targets but he has found an original and entertaining way of picking at these structures.
This is a wonderful little book! Both touching and humorous, a fast read and yet thoughtful, it's an amusing satire on British politics as well as attempting to look at the meaning of belief and faith. It's a little weird, definitely, but I enjoyed it very much.
I approached this book with a little trepidation as I have heard a lot of praise for it and when that happens I am often left disappointed. This book however did not disappoint.
Dr Alfred Jones is a pretty unimaginative man as a fisheries expert working for an anonymous Government and living in a loveless marriage. When he is approached by representatives of a wealthy Arab to introduce salmon to the deserts of Yemen he is initially dismissive but when he is forced by his boss to so he gradually believes that he can make it work. When the British PM's spin doctor gets wind of the project he realises that this is an opportunity for the Government, battered by bad press due to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to gain some good press within the Middle East and maybe win some extra voters back home he also encourages Fred to complete the development with devastating outcome.
The book is written in the form of a Government overview report using diary entries,letters and emails as sources and for me it would not have worked if written in any other manner.
The basic premise of this book is a little absurd but at the heart of it is the difference between the secular West and faith-based societies of the Middle East. Fred no longer goes to church on a Sunday instead he goes to Tesco whereas the sheikh believes that their plan will work only if God wills it. The book also takes a satirical dig at the materialistic West where wealth is measured in belongings whereas the Middle East inhabitants have less but are more open and generous. However, the author's most savage satire is aimed at the bureaucratic and spin doctor centred British political system. I particularly loved the spin doctor's idea of the a TV station 'The Voice of Britain' where the poor of the developing world can win dishwashers despite not having electricity.
I read most of this book with a smile on my face yet despite this was tempted to give it only 4 stars as the satire is very heavy handed at times. However, I finally plumped for 5 stars as it is one of the most original that I've read in quite a while.
The impossible title of this extraordinary book took me back to a moment nearly 20 years ago. I had walked for three days down Wadi Surdud, one of the great seasonal watercourses that cut their way towards the Red Sea through the western highlands of Yemen. The scenery was extravagant - deep chasms sculpted by floodwater, pinnacles where lightning licked at high-perched castles, the seats of South Arabian lairds. At last, the gradient decreased, and as I rounded a bend I saw in one of the occasional pools that lay in the wadi bed something I have never seen in Yemen before or since: a man fishing with rod and line. Not, of course, for salmon: this was the coarsest of coarse fishing, for minnow-sized awshaj - I think a type of barbel - with a stick for a rod and a grain of maize for bait. The incongruous scene remains in my memory, and always will. Yemen is a memorable country: "Not a day will pass in your life," wrote the Master of Belhaven, a laird from the distant north, "but you will remember some facet of that opal-land."
Here, as well as lairds and castles, we have mists and glens, kilts, dirks and the odd feud or two. But unlike in Scotland the rain is considerate, coming at known seasons and times of day. It is also somewhat sparing, and there are no natural lochs or permanent rivers, and certainly no salmon (except smoked, on HBM ambassador's canapés). So Paul Torday's debut novel is about an impossibility. It is also about belief in the impossible, and belief itself. And the remarkable thing is that a book about so deeply serious a matter can make you laugh, all the way to a last twist that's as sudden and shocking as a barbed hook.
As with all good comedy, there's a tragic underside, a story of love and loss and another of love that never was. And there is satire. Torday's aim is deadly; but then, his targets are big. Jay Vent, the British prime minister, has taken his country into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and elsewhere in the region: the story is set in the nearish future . . .) and has dug himself into the deepest of holes. So what does he do? Of course: he goes on digging. "We're pretty much committed to going down a particular road in the Middle East," says Vent, a graduate, like his real-life counterpart, of the White Queen's school of logic, "and it would be difficult to change that very much without people beginning to ask why we'd started down it in the first place." . . .
This is an odd artefact. It depicts an attempt to introduce salmon to rivers in the Yemeni Highlands via the largesse of a local sheikh and the expertise of a UK government agency.
The book - it can scarcely be described as a novel - is constructed from supposed diary entries, letters, emails, extracts from Hansard, fragments of autobiography, a TV game show script, transcripts of television and press interviews, Select Committee Report conclusions and interrogations of the various participants in this madcap scheme. All have differing viewpoints and narrators. As such the whole becomes diffuse and bitty.
While there is an overall narrative thread the disparate voices too often fail to suspend disbelief. Instead of being presented with a convincing rendering of a diary extract or interview transcript we are given novelistic embellishments. The diary extracts contain information that we as readers ought to have but a diarist would not find it necessary to include. In one of the interviews a respondent states a person spoke mildly when surely they would report only the relevant conversation's content, in another there is an (uncredited) interruption which reads, "The witness became emotional after the consumption of custard creams and was incoherent. The interview was resumed after a break of four hours." This authorial interpolation is, I suppose, intended humorously but is, instead, bathetic, if not pathetic. The Hansard extracts do not quite reflect accurately the format of Prime Minister's Questions. While it might be said that this is a comic novel and some licence is allowable, to get details such as this last example wrong detracts from the intended effect. Infelicities such as those above totally fail to create the necessary degree of verisimilitude. The name dropping of real people as interviewers - Andrew Marr, Boris Johnson - while the politicians and aides are fictional (yet recognisable) is also a mistake.
The book is obviously meant to be a satire but its approach is so scattershot that it is difficult to tell exactly what or whom is the intended target. Is it the workings of bureaucracies, office politics, communications directors/spin doctors, career women, politicians, even Islamic terrorists? All are featured, but the focus never stays in one place for long. The only character who has any semblance of solidity is the supposedly mad sheikh; and he has no viewpoint narrative.
After the novel's end we also have "Reading Group Notes" containing items "for discussion." Some may find this condescending.
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen has its moments; but they are few.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0753821788, Paperback)British businessman and dedicated angler Paul Torday has found a way to combine a novel about fishing and all that it means with a satire involving politics, bureaucrats, the Middle East, the war in Iraq, and a sheikh who is really a mystic. Torday makes it all work in a most convincing way using memos, interviews, e-mails, and letters in clever juxtaposition.
Dr. Alfred Jones is a fisheries scientist in Great Britain who is called upon to find a way to introduce salmon into the desert in Yemen. The Yemeni sheikh will spare no expense to see this happen. He says:
It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men--will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, "Let us arise, and go fishing."
Such is the sheikh's vision. He tells Alfred: "Without faith, there is no hope. Without faith, there is no love." Alfred has no religious faith and has been mired in a loveless marriage for twenty years, so these words seem fantastic to him.
Alfred and Sheikh Muhammad connect immediately through their mutual love of fishing, despite Alfred's misgivings about the viability of the project. The Prime Minister's flack man tells Alfred that he must persevere and succeed because Great Britain needs some positive connection to the Middle East, something other than a failing, flailing war. These kinds of political alliances are always shaky at best, and when things start to go sideways, allies have a way of disappearing. Alfred soldiers on, with the help of the lovely Harriet, Sheikh Muhammad's land agent, and the project is readied for opening day, when the Sheikh and the Prime Minister will have a 20-minute photo op.
All of the faith and good will in the world cannot overcome the forces ranged against them, bringing tragedy to everyone involved. Despite all, Alfred's interior life is changed immeasurably. He says in the end: "I believe in it, because it is impossible." --Valerie Ryan
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An extraordinary, beguiling tale of fly-fishing and political spinning, of unexpected heroism and late-blooming love, and of an attempt to prove the impossible, possible.
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