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Battlefield Innovation
by COL Tay Swee Yee
6 October 1973, at 1405 hours, one thousand
Egyptian guns opened fire across the Suez Canal into Israeli
defence positions. The Yom Kippur War was underway. The seemingly
formidable sand ramparts built by the Israelis as part of
the Bar-Lev Line defences, towering some 30 to 60 feet in
height over the Canal, were ingeniously overcome by the Egyptians.
A young Egyptian Army engineer had devised a novel method
of excavation. High pressure pumps, mounted on rafts and sucking
water from the Canal, ejected jets of water through hoses
which thrust aside the sand, breaching gaps in the sand ramparts.1
Some 100 of these powerful fire-pumps were acquired from Germany.
That facilitated the crossing and landing of Egyptian troops
and equipment on the far bank using bridges and ferries. The
invincibility of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF), accrued
from past years of victories fighting the neighbouring Arabs,
was challenged. The 1973 Arab-Israeli War evinced this and
many other lessons on the need for creativity in combat.
Battlefield innovation, or creativity in
combat, can determine the outcome of a conflict. "Successful
military endeavours always rely on creative insight and action.
Generating the unexpected (the "new") or recognising
and acting on the unexpected on the battlefield is consistently
the key to victory".2 For the SAF, it is important that
we add impetus to acquiring this culture of creativity during
peacetime, so that in times of conflict, we have the mental
agility and creative leadership, at all levels of command,
to prosecute a war in our favour.
Battlefield Innovation
So what is battlefield innovation, which
is synonymous with creativity in combat? "Creativity
is the ability to look at the same thing as everyone else
but to see something different".3 Applied to the military
art, it is about finding solutions to tactical problems posed
by the opposing force; it is about finding a qualitative edge
to overcome the threat; and it is about looking at ways to
improve our military skills, arms and equipment handling as
well as work processes. We have to be creative as it can spell
the difference between a decisive victory and dismal defeat.
"If necessity is the mother of invention, she is surely
the matriarch of expediency".4 Battlefield innovation
is not solely defence-industries driven, but often initiated
in the field, although the solutions may have commercial content.
And why is there the need for battlefield
innovation? It is because militaries do not always show all
their cards prior to a conflict, hence it is difficult to
ascertain an opposing force's complete capability. In the
Yom Kippur War, the IDF was taken by surprise when the Egyptian
Army started using canvas-covered suitcases that revealed
the new Soviet Sagger ATGM which took its toll on IDF tanks.
In the midst of conflict, the IDF Armoured Corps which was
not trained to react against this weapon, had to hastily devise
what was later known as anti-Sagger drills to dodge the wire-guided
Sagger by aggressive driving - swerving and steering the targetted
vehicle in a vigourous zig-zag manner, especially at the terminal
phase when the low velocity missile was nearing the vehicle.
The drill incorporated laying machine-gun fire in the vicinity
of the suspected missile firer position as the firer had to
be in visual contact with the target to guide the missile
to the target.
All intelligence acquisition capabilities
have limitations, and often even with incomplete intelligence
reports a military force may have to commence hostilities.
It is this need to expect the unexpected that we ought to
cultivate in ourselves the ability to innovate, even in times
of crisis, so as to reduce or negate the unexpected advantage
the threat has over us be it in terms of special weapons and
equipment capability, or in terms of special tactics and doctrine.
Historical Examples
History is replete with examples of how battlefield
innovations helped in turning the tide of war. As early as
the 16th century, the plug bayonet was replaced by the ring
bayonet to allow the infantry to continue firing with the
bayonet attached. 5
For the Normandy landings, multi-ship breakwaters,
or Mulberries as they were called, sailed on 30 May 1944 as
part of the invasion force from ports in Scotland to the five
designated beaches. These artificial harbours were a tribute
to engineering ingenuity. They consisted of cylindrical floats
linked together and anchored in deep water to serve as breakwaters.
Concrete caissons (phoenixes), some as high as a six-storey
building, would be towed across the channel and sunk in place
to extend the Mulberry breakwaters. In the sheltered water,
rooms were provided for the anchoring of ocean-going as well
as coastal ships.6
At the same landing beaches, the Allied forces
were confronted with hedgerows at the egress routes, which
the American troops were not trained nor prepared to overcome.
Tanks were particularly vulnerable when climbing over such
obstacles as the lightly armoured tank bellies would be exposed
to enemy fire. At such critical moments also, the tank gun
could not be depressed sufficiently to return fire. SGT Curtis
G. Cullin Jr., an American serving in the 102nd Cavalry Recce
Squadron, devised a sort of fork made of iron which could
be attached to the front of the tank thus enabling it to cut
through a hedgerow rather than climb it. A maintenance expert
in the same unit then worked on the technical aspect of the
problem and built forks out of salvaged iron bars which the
Germans had used for beach obstacles. A frantic pace developed
to equip as many tanks as possible with the simple contraption
before the final breakout - "Operation Cobra". SGT
Cullin was later awarded the Legion of Merit for his innovativeness.7
The Americans were surprised yet again in
the initial years of their involvement in South Vietnam when
they discovered a unique battle fought inside a 200-mile labyrinth
of underground tunnels and complex chambers that the Vietcongs
dug just north of Saigon. None of the American troops sent
to Vietnam had any instruction on tunnel warfare. As death
toll climbed, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV),
recommended the creation of specialist soldiers later to evolve
as the "Tunnel Rats". Volunteers who were able to
operate in a claustrophobic environment, and who possessed
special type of temperament and courage, were sought from
the ranks. Pistols were used instead of rifles to minimise
damage to the ears when fighting in the tunnels, and soldiers
were trained to engage at short ranges in the dark. They were
also schooled in detecting booby traps that existed in the
tunnel network.8
Meanwhile, at the Limited Warfare Laboratory
(LWL) in Maryland, USA, engineers were trying to develop counter-insurgency
hardware to meet the operational needs of the combatants.
One of the developments was the "tunnel exploration kit"
which comprised three items. For the Tunnel Rats to move around
the darkened tunnels, each had a headlamp mounted on a fatigue
cap with hands-free, mouth operated switch that the wearer
bites to turn the light on and off. In lieu of a manpack signal
set, a communication system with sensitive "bone conductor
microphone" worn against the bone at the back of the
head, or strapped around the throat with reception through
the earpiece was developed. Each had a .38 calibre revolver
with four-inch barrel complete with silencer and a tiny high
intensity aiming light to gun down the Vietcongs.9 However,
rigourous field trials were done and these were found to be
not ideal and the Tunnel Rats eventually resorted to other
field expedient methods.
The mechanised forces propagated a drill,
known as the "mad-minute", in response to previous
Vietcong sneak attacks on their leaguering (harbouring) sites.
It was a minute of intense machine-guns fire in the vicinity
of the intended leaguering site to flush out any Vietcongs
that may be lying in wait to ambush or attack the leaguering
The War of Attrition (from 1967 to 1973)
between the IDF and the Egyptians also spun many battlefield
innovations. In a bid to prevent the IDF from prying into
the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal, the Egyptian combat engineers
constructed ten-metre high sand walls. IDF front-line intelligence
officers with high-powered binoculars, trying to get a height
advantage, had to climb onto anything that would help them
to peer into Egyptian territory. These included the driver's
cab top of half-tracks, hull top of armoured personnel carriers
and even on the top of bunker ventilation systems. Subsequently,
the IDF Ordnance Corps helped built, according to the Intelligence
Corps' specifications, a sixty-foot high cherry picker attached
to the turret area of a Sherman tank.10 This tower, though
rudimentary, provided the intelligence officers, and the artillery
spotter, with a surveillance platform that was nearly invisible
against the desert backdrop.
An innovative IDF intelligence officer, Shabtai
Bril, recalled an expensive toy shop that he had visited in
the United States, where a sales clerk had demonstrated a
radio-controlled model airplane. The motorized airplane was
powered by a remote-control device equipped with four transmitting
frequencies - two to power the engine, one to control the
wing flaps, and a fourth serving as a reserve. With some modifications,
Shabtai Bril thought, the reserve frequency could operate
a 35mm camera fitted with a zoom lens, which the IDF would
have no difficulty fitting to the aircraft's undercarriage.
The toys were bought from the store and a series of field
trials followed, including determining if the device could
survive anti-aircraft gun fire. The unmanned aircraft was
controlled by an intelligence officer flying in a Piper Cub,
holding the remote-control device on his lap, and monitoring
the aircraft using binoculars. Photographs taken over the
Sinai front as well as the Jordan Valley, while evading Jordanian
anti-aircraft fire and not drawing the attention of the Egyptians,
were of superb quality. "The age of the remote piloted
vehicle (RPV) had dawned".11
In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, members of the
Israeli Air Force (IAF) showed ingenuity in dealing with the
array of Soviet supplied weapons operated by the Egyptians,
after experiencing heavy losses in aircraft. While the IAF
knew how to evade the SA-2 Guideline and SA-3 Goa surface-to-air
weapons, they had greater difficulty in dealing with the newer
and mobile surface-to-air missile, SA-6 Gainful, and the portable
SA-7 Grail systems. Counter-measures were experimented with,
ranging from simple measures such as dropping of foil strips
(window or chaff); to techniques using helicopter spotters
in cooperation with attack aircraft; and the shedding of flares
to attract the missile infra-red homers.12 An effective method
of attacking SA-6 batteries was conceived, entailing almost
vertical dives from height directly above the missile vehicles
to exploit the fact that the weaponÕs initial launch trajectory,
for maximun acceleration, was low.13
In the run up to the 1982 Israeli-Syrian
conflict, which was a part of the larger IDF's "Operation
Peace of Galilee" in Lebanon, the IAF flew drones which
simulated manned aircraft to induce the Syrians to activate
their air defences. This was necessary to piece together the
Syrian air defence capabilities and to gather intelligence
on any new or unfielded weapons that the Syrians could have
recently acquired. When the drones were fired upon, accompanying
IAF RF-4E reconnaissance aircraft were monitoring electronic
emissions to map out the Syrian radar characteristics, communication
equipment and procedures, command and control structures,
weapons capabilities, and air defence tactics.14 Much thought
was given in employing this tactic. Decoy drones, the Samson,
an air-launched unpowered glider and Delilah, a ground-launched
powered drone, were used in large numbers to simulate an air
attack on Syrian positions. The Samsons, which had the radar
profile of the IAF F-4 Phantoms and carrying an electronic
counter-measure package, were particularly important. They
were released from F-4 Phantoms with the sun behind them.
This meant that the Syrians could not possibly track the drones
optically and had to resort to their radar. With the Syrian
radar now active, follow on Phantoms would then engage the
missile positions.
Lessons learnt from past wars were translated
into innovations in the design of new equipment as the IDF
has successfully shown in the design of the Merkava tank.
For example, the smoke launchers that are intended to mask
the tank in an extrication are fitted with delay fuses that
activate the smoke bombs in the air and in effect cast an
instantaneous screen. This contrasts with conventional smoke
grenade that activates the smoke screen after the grenade
lands on the ground. Beneath the first layer of cast iron
hull is a space filled with diesel fuel and then another layer
of armour. This spaced armour gives the tank protection from
HEAT projectiles and ATGWs. One would also notice the closely
spaced chains with ball ends around the lower part of the
turret bustle. These detonate HEAT projectiles before they
can hit the turret ring. The tank does not carry jerry-cans
of drinking water; the 60-litre water tank is built within
the hull above the rear hatch that conforms to the contour
of the hull to save space.
Fostering the Climate of
Creativity in the SAF
Can the climate of creativity be fostered
in the military where the buzzwords are "school solution",
"zero defect", "don't fix it if it ain't broke"
or "don't rock the boat"? Creativity has attendant
risks and in seeking improvements and experimentation, mistakes
are made. Can the organisation tolerate mistakes? Buy-in of
the senior military leaders is important to propagate the
culture of creative thinking. Without it, any creative ideas
will remain stillborn as the military, like parts of the civil
service, can be bureaucratic. Hence it is important that the
senior leadership interest themselves with this concept. The
military has to accept that the defence dollars will not be
growing any larger, and any improvement to the defence capabilities
may have to be, in part, done through innovative and creative
solutions not only in defence procurement and equipping but
also in our work practices and processes.
It is easier to accept mistakes, associated
with experimentation, in peacetime than in wars as no lives
will be lost. So long as the experimentation and the mistakes
so made are in good intent, superiors must be willing to,
not only to tolerate them, but to encourage experimenters
to learn from their mistakes. A poor leader stifles creativity.
Military leaders must not be too quick to
dismiss, demolish or ignore new military ideas and concepts.
We recall the British ArmyÕs experiment in the Salisbury Plain
prior to World War II on the innovative concept of employing
tanks. The British military leadership was slow to recognise
Òthe revolutionary potential of armoured mobile warfare and
the new tool for controlling this fluid, fast-moving battlefield:
the wireless radioÓ.15 The Germans, on the other hand, were
quick to capitalise on the pioneering works of the British
and created the panzer divisions and the doctrine of blitzkrieg,
which they used with such devastating effect against the British
in the early war years.
Does creativity contravene the culture of
an Army driven by doctrine? How often does a unit get penalised
by exercise controllers for not following published doctrine
even though the actions of the unit under assessment was approaching
a tactical problem with an innovative solution? Doctrine is
an accepted way, though not the only way, of doing things
in a particular profession. It is intended as a guide especially
for those new to the profession, and as a common form of language.
They are of course cynics who proclaim that doctrine is obsolete
as soon as it is printed! Doctrine is necessary to guide the
development of a military organisation and to get the acts
of an intricate organisation like the military with its hierarchical
structure of section, platoon, company, battalion, brigade
etc. to be coherent and effective. The application of doctrine
must be tempered with rationality and if creativity can be
featured by way of another method of achieving the same effects,
assessors must be open-minded and commend the spirit of innovativeness.
Doctrine is a living phenomenon. It is but a way, not the
only way, of doing things. Doctrine cannot address every tactical
scenario that the established doctrine are to be applied.
Certainly doctrine can be changed if a new mode of overcoming
a military solution or one that can control the chaos often
associated with combat ("controlled chaos") proved
Are We Getting It Right?
The nation in general, and the SAF in particular,
are largely on the right track in our attempt to promote and
stimulate creativity. Nationally, we have various government
bodies to handle this and the National Technology and Science
Board had done an excellent job of stewarding this effort,
including priming the Young Innovators Club. The young school
children have proved their mettle with innovative ideas evident
by the inventions featured in the annual Tan Kah Kee Young
Inventors' Award, now in its 11th year of existence. Rear-Admiral
Teo Chee Hean, our Education Minister, has also announced
the inclusion of creative thinking skills in our school curriculum.
It remains for the adult workforce to fully subscribe to this
culture in their workplace.
Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats, who is credited with
more than 2,300 patents (as compared to Thomas Edison's 1,093),
and who invented the floppy disk, lauded the Eastern way of
education in preparing children for the strong competition
in the workplace and its effect on creativity.16 The Japanese
school system, he said, stressed "memorisation"
which is necessary up to a point. "Then young people
begin free-associating, putting everything together."
It is this balance of regimentation and freedom that creativity
comes from.
The SAF has been, is still, and will continue
to be the pioneering entity in this movement with our PRIDE,
WITs and other related programmes. It is critical for the
SAF to continually seek innovations in our peacetime training
so that the same culture will prevail in times of tension.
In this regard, it is heartening to note that the emphasis
on our WITs projects continues to be centred on operation-related
projects. Although improvements in the workplace and administration
are important, it is the operational area (training methods,
doctrine and tactics, improvements to weapons and equipment
handling, as well as training safety) that we must continue
our emphasis so that we can have the qualitative edge over
an adversary. This is the key if we are to be prepared for
the expected in a conflict. It is the surest way to maintain
the mental agility to be able to overcome, and not be overwhelmed
by, something unexpectedly thrust upon us.
Creative Rule of Thumb
Charles Thompson in his book - What a Great
Idea! The Key Steps Creative People Take - introduces certain
rules of thumb which are instructive.17 Here are two examples.
His first rule is "the best way to get great ideas is
to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away". There
are many solutions to a problem and the idea is to keep all
options open and evaluated in terms of feasibility, efficacy,
cost-effectiveness etc. so that the option that best meet
the need is selected. The second rule is "create ideas
that are fifteen minutes ahead of their time ... not light-years
ahead". The thrust here is to find marginal improvement
to a problem as it is likely to be easier than to find a revolutionary
solution, which if a solution is not readily available, the
people involved may feel disillusioned. Also, ideas that are
fifteen minutes ahead of their time are more likely to be
accepted or less likely to be ignored by the management or
the military leadership who can visualise if the idea works.
In 1899, the director of the United States
Patent Office, the nation's steward of innovation, was quoted
to have said "everything that can be invented has been
invented".18 He couldn't have been more wrong.
For the SAF leadership, in our bid to continue
to promote military creativity, we have to make changes to
management mind-sets. We must temper our notion of "zero-defect".
It demands the cultivation of a whole new culture, a more
open culture - open to criticism and change, and open to experimentation
that has associated risks and mistakes. It demands that we
encourage subordinates to leverage and learn from mistakes.
That they explore new ideas without fear of retribution. As
a small military, this is our best bet for a qualitative difference.
1 Monroe, Elizabeth and
Farrar-Hockley, MAJ-GEN A.H., II. The October War, Adelphi
Papers No.111, IISS : London, 1975, pp. 20.
2 Bay, Austin, Military
Creativity, Army, Jan 95 Association of the US Army.
3 Thompson, Charles, What
a Great Idea! The Key Steps Creative People Take, Harper Collins:
NY, 1992, pp 4.
4 Bay, Austin, op cit.
5 Keegan, John, A History
of Warfare, Alfred A. Knopf : NY, 1993.
6 The following books give
excellent treatment of this subject: Charles B. Macdonald,
The Mighty Endeavor:_American Armed Forces in the European
Theater in WWII, (New York, 1969), pp.263; L.F. Ellis, Victory
in the West, I, The battle of Normandy (London, 1962), pp.
88-89, 140; Roland G. Ruppenthal, Logistical Support of the
Armies (Washington, 1953, pp. 273-282.
7 A good account of this
can be found in The Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower: The War
Years (5 vols.,Baltimore, 1970) III: No. 1794,pp 1969; Macdonald,
op cit., pp 294; and Omar N. Bradley, A Soldier's Story (New
York, 1951) pp 341-342.
8 Mangold, Tom and Penycate,
John, The Tunnels of Cu Chi - The Untold Story of Vietnam,
Random House : NY, 1985, pp 101.
9 Ibid, pp 109.
10 Katz, M. Samuel, Soldier
Spies - Israeli Military Intelligence, Presidio Press : CA,
1992, pp 216
11 Ibid, pp 217 - 218.
12 Monroe and Farrar-Hockley,
op cit., pp 26.
13 Rodwell, R. Robert, The
MidEast War: "A Damned Close-Run Thing", Air Force,
February 1974.
14 Carus, W. Seth, Military
Lessons of the 1982 Israel-Syria Conflict, from The Lessons
of Recent Wars in the Third World : Approaches and Case Studies,
Vol I, ed Robert E. Harkavy and Stephanie G. Neuman, Lexington
books, 1985, pp 264.
15 Austin Bay, op cit.
16 Dr Nakamats was interviewed
by Charles Thompson on 29 April 1990 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Among other issues discussed, Dr. NakaMats was asked about
the Japanese teaching methods and how it affects creativity.
See Charles Thompson, op cit., pp xi - xviii.
17 Ibid., pp 3 - 6.
18 Ibid., pp 1.
COL Tay Swee Yee is currently the Asisstant
Chief of General Staff (Intelligence). He attended the US
Army College Course in 1997. COL Tay's essay won a Commendation
Award in the 1997 CDF Essay Competition.
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Review: Red Lantern on Riley (Sydney, NSW)
60 Riley Street
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
+61 2 9698 4355
Marty and I love our Vietnamese food with a passion that's unrivalled by even the most ardent of Collingwood supporters. I'd even go so far to say that I like my Vietnamese food authentic to the max – no vegan organic mushroom pho for me, thankyouvery much. That said, Marty and I love TV chef Luke Nguyen and his show Luke Nguyen's Vietnam so a visit to his restaurant Red Lantern was definitely on the cards.
There are two Red Lanterns; the flagship restaurant is in Surry Hills while its younger sister is in Darlinghurst. We decided to go to the Darlinghurst restaurant as it was closer to where we were staying and slightly easier to nab a table.
Red Lantern on Riley represented the Toorak end of the Vietnamese food spectrum. Instead of $10 bowls of comforting noodle soups and pork rolls, we now have flashy French colonial décor and Vietnamese-inspired cocktails with pun-ny names in a Sydney suburb where you can buy a studio apartment for the same price as a three-bedroom house in Melbourne's east. In all honesty though, I was really impressed by the restaurant – it almost felt like I was on the set of The Quiet American.
Ignoring the fact that we were the only Asians in the whole restaurant, we admired everything else around us from the lovely wooden panels to the LN-engraved chopsticks. We were even taken in by our cool waiter who actually knew what nuoc cham was.
We loved the names given to the cocktails here at Red Lantern so we decided to order a few. First up, we have Marty's One the Hue which was fruity and fun, with a hint of herby-ness.
To make up for my lack of femme fatale, I decided to go for the Pham Fatale which had bolder flavours than Marty's cocktail. At the moment, I'm a huge fan of coconut water so I was happy when I found out that my drink contained it (it also made me wonder more bars aren't using it for their drinks).
There were three rice paper roll dishes on the starters section: masterstock Burrawong chicken, prawn terrine and vegetarian. We weren't sure whether to go with the chicken or the prawn, but the waiter kindly offered to do a half-half thing so that we can sample both.
Although I thought the chicken one tasted better, I did find the prawn terrine one a lot more innovative and therefore, more interesting to eat. What I did like about them both was that super fresh organic vegetables and herbs were used and that made a massive difference to the quality of the rolls.
After that, we decided that we wanted to try the vegetarian rice paper rolls. They contained a tofu, cabbage, wood ear mushroom and mung bean filling and a bowl of pineapple tamari dipping sauce was provided for a bit of zing.
So the rice paper rolls may have been fresh and the ingredients used may have been top quality but were they better than the ones you can get at Footscray? Nah. Compare $18 at Red Lantern to $5 at Footscray and you have a bit of a no-brainer situation, no matter how good the Red Lantern ones may be.
Our next dish was the Banh Tom Chien. I have no idea who this Aunty 5 person is but anyone who can make a rice cake dish as tasty as this deserves at least a proper name. I loved that exciting flavours of this dish paired well against a blanket of slightly crispy rice cakes and well, who doesn't like pork floss?
I'm a sucker for Bo La Lot so I was keen to see how Red Lantern's version would fare – and whether its price tag was justified.
This dish was lovely, though I would have liked to taste a bit more smokiness in the beef. I also found the dish to be a bit exxy, especially given that you can get the same quality in Box Hill at $15, max.
We were still swooning over the cocktail menu so we ordered another one each. Marty's Indochine was unfortunately a tad too sweet for me so I'm glad I didn't order it myself.
I did like my Ha Long Shake though, which was a fun and flirtatious mix of apples and pomegranate minus a god-awful internet viral sensation.
Our final savoury for the night was a chicken dish. The meat was beautifully tender and I especially liked soaking my rice with the lovely sauce that came with it – I just wished that there was more of it for me to enjoy.
All desserts at Red Lantern are $15 each and although I don't scream for desserts, I must admit that I couldn't decide which one I wanted. To make things easier, we opted for the dessert platter, which showcased three of the finest desserts on the menu. First up, we have Red Lantern's blatant attempt to toff up the quintessential Aussie-Asian dessert, the banana fritter. Here, our organic banana fritters were crumbed in coconut rice and served with palm sugar caramel, tapioca and house-made vanilla bean ice cream. I had to admit, it was a pretty creative – and well-executed – spin on the suburban Chinese favourite. Even if the ice cream was already on its way to being half-melted by the time the platter reached our table.
I thought the Xoi Chuoi Nguong (char grilled red rice and coconut cream wrapped in banana leaf) was nice too, though I admit that it probably wouldn't have been a dessert I'd order on its own. I appreciated the subtle bouts of saltiness that crept up in each spoonful and the coconut ice cream that provided a refreshingly sweet balance to an otherwise rich dessert.
Finally, we had a crème caramel infused with kaffir lime. I was expecting the crust to be hard like a crème brûlée so I was kind of disappointed to find that it wasn't. That said, the texture was beautifully smooth minus the silkiness and being a pineapple lover, I loved the pineapple salad that was provided on the side.
Finally, I don't drink coffee after dark but because I was being forced to watch Fast & Furious 6 after dinner, I needed all the caffeine I could get. Gotta love a nice cup of Vietnamese coffee!
We both went to Red Lantern, knowing full well that it was going to serve the sort of overpriced Vietnamese food that catered to gweilos. And although our food tasted fantastic, I think that deep down we both yearned for Vietnamese food in the traditional sense. You know, the kind of food that a Vietnamese mother would make.
Some people might even say that Red Lantern goes against the essential nature of Vietnamese cuisine i.e. one that is cheap and delicious. I do agree with that and plus, you'd be hard-pressed to find food like this in Vietnamese unless you're going to a fancy hotel that caters to Western tourists (and why would you, when you are surrounded by amazing street food?). Despite all that though, we did enjoy our meal – it's just the fact that we've both been spoilt for cheap and delicious Vietnamese food while growing up would have most likely clouded our opinion of what is otherwise a well-run business.
7 Comments on Review: Red Lantern on Riley (Sydney, NSW)
This is definitely a truthful review, even with Indian restaurants, it is the same thing! You want the delicious homecooked style, not the overly classy meal!
But still, would not mind trying this restaurant out
Oh my goodness you guys ordered enough food for 3 people….so why didn't you invite me? As I also enjoy traditional tastes above westernised preciseness I'm glad I haven't bust my boiler to get to RL on Riley before everyone else. I will get there soon but won't expect too much for the price and then I may be pleasantly surprised. I cant get down to Melbourne as often as I would like because I have been to some great Vietnamese places there.Reply
The Ha Long shake! Love it. Thanks to this post I now have that annoying song in my head!!Reply
Damn… $18 for rice paper rolls, and I was complaining last week that Miss Chu was steep!! I take that back. I agree, I can score Viet food for 1/4 of tha price down Alfrieda St St Albans so would definitely feel ripped off!! But I guess you're paying for the service and ambiance Love Luke Nguyen!
Ahh food that a mum makes-now that is gold! I really loved the food there and the setting but yes if you're yearning for food that a mum makes it's not exactly thatReply
I find it hard to justify paying 2-3 times the amount for Vienamese street food! I heard Luke's just opened a new place that does really good pho, but it's $18 a bowl!Reply
I'm a big fan of Luke Nguyen too, but I haven't visited any of his restaurants yet. Thanks for letting us live vicariously through you!
PS the Bo La Lot at Tien Dat in Box Hill is my favourite!!!Reply

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LOUIS (O.S.): Rob, it's your turn!
ROB: Ok, I'm feeling kind of basic today. Top five Side 1's. Track 1's. "Janie Jones," Clash. From The Clash.
Rob STANDS, AMBLES towards the counter. Barry and Louis sort through records on display.
BARRY: Eh.
ROB: "Let's Get it On," Marvin Gaye from Let's Get it On… Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" off of Nevermind.
BARRY: Oh Rob, that's not obvious enough. Not at all. How about "Point of No Return" on Point of No Return?
Barry and Louis chuckle.
ROB: Shut up. "White Light-White Heat," Velvet Underground.
LOUIS: Ok, that would be on my list.
BARRY: Though not on mine.
ROB: And Massive Attack, No Protection. The song is "Radiation Ruling the Nation."
BARRY: Oh, kind of a new record. Very-
A Customer SLINKS in.
CUSTOMER: Excuse me, do you still have-
BARRY: (to Customer) In a minute. (to Rob) Very nice, Rob. A sly declaration of new classic status slipped into a list of old safe ones. Very PUSSY!
CUSTOMER: Excuse me, do you still have-
BARRY: (to Customer) In a minute! (to Rob) Couldn't you be more obvious than that, Rob? How about uh, I don't know, The Beatles? How about fucking, fucking Beethoven? Track 1 Side 1 of the Fifth Symphony! How can someone who has no interest in music own a record store?
CUSTOMER: Hey, do you still have that Beefheart French import, "Safe as Milk"?
Barry paces towards the counter. Customer follows.
BARRY: Let's see…
Barry bends behind the counter.
BARRY: Ah, yes. Here it is.
Barry hands it over. The Customer SNATCHES it, CARESSES it, even BLOWS on it.
CUSTOMER: How much you want for it?
Barry gestures for it back. Customer abides.
BARRY: Oh, no. You know what? I don't think I'm selling it this week. Maybe next week.
CUSTOMER: Oh no, you said that last week!
BARRY: Did I? Yeah, well I just…
Barry shrugs with indifference. Customer storms away. Louis approaches.
LOUIS: Hey, I don't have that record. I'll buy it for forty.
BARRY: Rob?
ROB: Sold.
Rob passes the record from Barry to Louis.
LOUIS: Now why would you sell it to me and not to him?
BARRY: Because you're not a geek, Louis.
LOUIS: You guys are snobs.
— High Fidelity (2000), screenplay by D.V. DeVincentis & Steve Pink & John Cusack and Scott Rosenberg, based on a novel by Nick Hornby
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is fan boy/girl conversations, suggeted by plinytheelder. Today's suggestion by rgiamatteo.
Trivia: Touchstone acquired the rights to Nick Hornby's book for $500,000 with Mike Newell attached to direct.
Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by rgiamatteo: "This scene immediately follows one in which Rob accuses Laura of becoming someone who she isn't, which she admits insofar as she's undergone personal growth. Rob, on the other hand, and to use Laura's words, "hasn't changed as much of a pair of socks" since she first met him. Rob's music list perfectly demonstrates the fear behind why that is. He rattles off "obvious" classics that critics have praised for decades, strengthening the limb upon which he climbs out on to endorse newer talent. He couches his open-mindedness in age-old plaudits of bygone eras. Some might call this sly, others cowardly. Barry, in so many words, says it's both."


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Unconditional forgiveness of sins, unconditional favor, and unconditional love from God is the message that Joseph Prince preaches. Prince portrays God as one who wants to lavish men, women, and children with gifts. Gifts that have no strings attached. This merciful personality that God has, according to Prince, is attracting millions of people around the world to his ministry.
In a world where people constantly feel the pressure and grind to perform to achieve love and affection from those around them, Prince's message has a huge appeal. God just wants to love people. People do not have to do something to earn God's affection; it is free.
This is pure unadulterated unconditional love and affection. Many people throughout history have tried to block the path to God with rituals and personal sacrifice. The message of Jesus Christ is that he made a sacrifice that man could not do himself. Mankind does not have to depend on his performance, but can "rest in the finished work of Jesus Christ" Prince says.
That kind of relationship with Jesus Christ continues to attract people to Prince's New Creation Church in Singapore. New Creation is a fitting name, because those who believe that God loves them unconditionally now have the ability to love those around them unconditionally. This kind of love leads to a level of intimacy that leads to fulfilling and rewarding relationships.


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Newspapers and magazines regularly run competitions for readers to provide captions for photographs, often of politicians and celebrities in compromising situations. What these often show is the wide range of interpretations readers will give to the one image. They range from the witty and sarcastic to the perceptive and philosophical.
It's a phenomenon present on each of the pages of a new book The Bitter Sweet Philosophies. It looks very like a children's book but it isn't one. Artist Nick Fedaeff paints in the slightly surreal way of many European artists, creating figures that are a combination of doll-like and human figures.
He has created 55 separate images of childlike images, which look as though they are the pages of a child's tale but are in fact strange glimpses of the child's world seen through the eyes of an adult. A group of writers has then provided texts to accompany the images. In several cases there are a dozen "captions" to each page with the writers providing comments, description or rumination on the image. These are humorous, satirical, imaginative and philosophical comments, conjuring up notions of the fairy tale, the myth, personal stories and observations.
So one image featuring a small girl walking up a hill with a house in the background has these responses: "The next day Jill went up and down the hill by herself, being much more careful where she stepped," "For some reason she feared that that the moment her back was turned the house would fall down," "This time Mrs Bates made it to the letterbox before Norman spotted her," "Disappointingly, the Road To Nowhere had a new housing estate at the end," "Mary was shattered when she realized they had lied to her about the world being flat."
This book provides endless entertainment and enchantment. It could serve as coffee table book, an inspirational tract, a joke book or a replacement bible. The artist says of the work, "I've done my part. My pictures are obvious. But then you have different takes on each one. The writers have their own independent visions and points of view. It has been an unusual experience."
Nick Fedaeff is originally from Russia but now lives in New Zealand working as an artist musician and composer.
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ATLANTIC BEACH, (AP) -- The U.S. Coast Guard is alerting the public of a Navy exercise occurring near Port Canaveral that involves the use of bland ammunition and smoke flares.
The exercises began Thursday morning and are expected to continue through Aug. 7. They are being conducted from the Port Canaveral East Trident Basin out to 8 nautical miles southeast of the approach channel.
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The battle between hedge fund Pershing Square Capital and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP-T) over who should be running the rail operator has intensified yet again. The non-compete issues that have dogged Pershing Square CEO William Ackman's push to oust the current head of CP Rail, Fred Green, and replace him with former CN Rail CEO Hunter Harrison "have been dealt with," a source close to the matter tells BNN's Howard Green.
Harrison is "available to work" if CP wants him, "and eager to accept the challenge if presented" the source says.
Harrison is "ready to go to work and all the obstacles are out of the way" the source adds.
John O'Connell, Chairman and CEO at Davis Rea, tells BNN that appointing Harrison as Chief Executive of CP "makes sense to me and it wouldn't surprise me that Hunter is available."
But he warns that appointing a new CEO won't solve the major problems plaguing the railroad, most notably its pension deficit.
"CP has to be careful what they do because they have a big pension deficit and that has to be dealt with at some point, the company has already put $1.2 billion in and it's still underfunded and it's very sensitive to low interest rates," he says.
Ackman's hedge fund is now CP's largest shareholder, having acquired a 14.2-percent stake in the company since October. In recent weeks the hedge fund has engaged in a public battle with CP's Board of Directors about who should be lead the company.
But CP's Board, led by former Royal Bank of Canada CEO John Cleghorn, say Ackman's push to swap CEOs is not the right way to turnaround the railway.
"Having considered Pershing Square's demand, the board came to the unanimous conclusion that replacing the company's chief executive officer, and thereby jeopardizing the successful execution of the multiyear plan, is not in the best interests of CP or its shareholders," Cleghorn wrote in a recent letter to shareholders. "Pershing Square did not provide a credible, detailed plan to improve CP's operations or make any concrete suggestions -- either in the presentation or in subsequent discussions."
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The first host of television's long running and popular game show 'The Dating Game' has passed away. Jim Lange was 81. He died at his home in Mill Valley, California after suffering a heart attack.
For ten years, starting in 1965, Lange charmed the audiences on 'The Dating Game' with his infectious grin and friend demeanor. Some of the celebrities he played matchmaker for included: Michael Jackson, Steve Martin, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Farrah Fawcett.
The show's premise was that a young male or female would ask questions of three members of the opposite sex who were hidden behind a petition. After making a selection for the date, the young man or woman will meet their blind date, but not before meeting the two who were not selected. The questions asked considered funny and/or slightly risqué for that era.
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Episode 12 of Jen's Music Stash includes a visit to The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze where a Trey O'Lantern is spotted amongst the thousands of carved creations. Plus, Jen breaks down Phish's recent Atlantic City run and weighs in on the controversial Wingsu...
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The amount of toxins in a home can be staggering. Work environments can also be troubling. There are more chances for toxins to be introduced by other people. All kinds of items brought into a house can wreck havoc on your health. As careful as you might be, it is hard to always control your environment.
Plants can be a great filtration system, and also balance the humidity of a room. Plants can remove formaldehyde, alcohols, trichloroethylene, acetone, and benzene. Just a few plants can go along way. The goal can be one or two plants per room.
Let's face it though, not all of us have green thumbs. It is easy to forget to water plants. A great idea is to select a variety that grows in water, and that is low maintenance. A few suggestions are pathos and spider plants. These are also good for propagation. You can snip off a pathos vine at the node, and put it in water. It will root into a new container. Spider plants will shoot out tiny baby plants, which will also root in water. The peace lily also is a great toxin remover. They require a little more attention though. A christmas cactus is a nice plant that can also be propagated. Snip off two or three joined segments. Allow it to dry for a few hours. Then plant half of the segment in soil from the parent plant. It will root within a few weeks.
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Whitechapel has unleashed their sixth full-length, 'Mark of the Blade', today worldwide via Metal Blade Records! In conjunction with Mark of the Blade's release, Whitechapel has launched a new video for the album track 'Elitist Ones'.Read More
On July 22nd, Revocation will release 'Great Is Our Sin.' Today, the band has unleashed a third blistering track from the album - check out the lyric video for 'Crumbling Imperium' now via Loudwire.comRead More
Hammers of Misfortune
On July 22nd, Hammers of Misfortune will release their sixth full-length, 'Dead Revolution.' In anticipation of this release, the band has now launched a new track, 'Sea of Heroes', today via Stereogum.comRead More
Denner / Shermann
Denner / Shermann has released a new video for the track 'Son of Satan', taken from their upcoming album, 'Masters of Evil', out June 24th via Metal Blade Records.Read More
Necromancing the Stone
If flaccid, identikit, breakdown-laden 'metal' is the disease, Necromancing the Stone is the cure. With their upcoming debut full-length, 'Jewel of the Vile', the group plans to vanquish 'Breakdownicus Gratuitous.'Read More
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Only a few more days until Cattle Decapitation are setting foot on European soil for a full run of festival and headline club dates! Cattle Decapitation announces 'European Extinction Tour 2016' part II!Read More
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Following an appearance on Howard Stern yesterday (June 7th), Jim Breuer has launched a video for 'Old School', taken from Jim Breuer and the Loud and Rowdy's new album, 'Songs From The Garage'.Read More
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Records are old school - and great! So are trees. It's about time somebody found a way to bring the two of them together. The Barky Turntable ($1300) sits on a thin-cut round of solid ash tree, and plays your classic vinyl in high style. John Denver's Greatest Hits never sounded so good.
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New Stock Coverage: Analyst Has Hang-Ups About AT&T
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Wall Street ratings agencies set the tone for today's stock market.
Wall Street's money tree was always destined to stopped growing eventually, but what a pity it occurred just ahead of this morning's
buttonwood birthday
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On a day of slim pickings in the stock market,
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. Fellow bridge player Warren Buffett fared less well, however, as Standard & Poor's cut the rating of his holding company. Curiously enough
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Today in economics, the University of Michigan's preliminary May consumer sentiment survey and April leading indicators are each expected to improve at 9:55 a.m. Eastern and 10:00 a.m., respectively. In earnings action, look for results from
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Quality Systems
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Stage Stores
(NYSE:T): The telecom titan, a key
(^DJI) component, is assigned only a lukewarm Equal Weight by Barclays.
(CEMP): Jefferies begins Buy-rated coverage on the biotech company.
Communications Companies
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American Tower
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(BLOX): Needham begins Buy rated research on BLOX, whose price objective is $26. Catalysts include operating margins that could eventually exceed 20% amid an impressive infrastructure roll out.
McCormick & Company
(MKC): Citigroup has a new Neutral on the spice and condiment company.
(NUVA): The surgical stock is begun with a Buy rating and $27 target price at WallachBeth, which highlights its aim to become a $1 billion player in the spine market amid increased adoption of the company's technology.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
(REGN): UBS resumes Neutral-rated research on REGN.
Triumph Group
(TGI): The aerospace outfit gets set a Neutral at Cowen.
(VZ): The Dow member is a fresh Overweight at Barclays.
(WWWW): Northland Capital has a new Outperform, and $26 target, on the tech name, which it says is an impressive way to play SMB (Server Message Block) migrating to the cloud.
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On June 30, 2015, the Department of Labor announced new proposed overtime rules aimed at expanding the number of employees eligible for overtime pay and decreasing the number of employees that qualify for an exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act. It is important to note that these are merely proposed rules, and have not taken effect yet. There will be a 60 day period in which the public will submit comments to the DOL. After that comment period it will take until 2016 for the proposed rules to go into effect.
Under the current rules, in order to be exempt from minimum wage and overtime requirements, an employee must make more than $455 per week, which equates to $23,660 per year. The proposed rule seeks to increase the minimum to meet the so-called "white-collar exemptions" to $921 per week, equating to $47,892 per year. Going forward the minimum an employee may earn to remain exempt will be set at the 40th percentile of weekly earnings for all full-time salaried employees.
Additionally, the current rules allow for an exemption from minimum wage and overtime laws for employees earning $100,000 per year, which is also known as the "highly compensated employee" exemption. The proposed rule will increase the minimum amount for the exemption to $122,148 per year, which will be tied to the 90th percentile of weekly earnings for all full-time salaried employees.
Not only will the proposed rule will ensure that the minimums for both the white-collar and highly compensated employee exemptions increase, it set them to fluctuate based on the appropriate percentile of weekly earnings for all full-time salaried employees.
And if that wasn't enough, the DOL is looking for comments on whether it should change the test for determining whether an employee's "primary duty" is performing exempt job duties and responsibilities. Presently, courts use a multi-factor test that is applied (or mis-applied) on a case-by-case basis. However, the DOL is proposing a more quantifiable test, like setting a specific percentage of time an employee must spend of their day or week performing exempt duties.
So the real question is: what do you do now?
You can, if you choose, do nothing for the moment. As I said before, these are proposed rules and are not currently in effect. As a result, you won't get yourself in any hot water, as long as you are following the current overtime and minimum wage rules.
If you would like to get more proactive, you can look at your current employees and determine if any who are currently exempt would become non-exempt under the new rules. Providing raises to bring the employees above the white collar or highly compensated employee minimums would ensure they remain exempt (provided they spend an appropriate percentage of their time on exempt duties and responsibilities). Alternatively, you could cut costs by adopting a policy forbidding overtime work without permission, however, this could have detrimental effects on your productivity and should not be done lightly.
No matter what your choice, the proposed DOL rules are a great reason to conduct a self-audit. You (and/or your attorney) should review employee job descriptions, actual duties and classifications to ensure that you are currently in compliance and to see what, if any, changes will need to be made under the proposed rules.


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October 15, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Richard Flanagan has won this year's Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. "He instinctively hugged the Duchess of Cornwall as he received the award at a black tie dinner in London."
- Last night everything was peachy, but the Booker has a history of dust-ups and disorder. Also idiocy—Julian Barnes recalls an encounter after his novel Flaubert's Parrot failed to win the prize: "I was introduced after the ceremony to one of the judges, who said to me: 'I hadn't even heard of this fellow Flaubert before I read your book. But afterwards I sent out for all his novels in paperback.'"
- The guillotine at the dawn of the media age: in the Paris of 1939, the simplest way to stop executions was to film them. "Unbeknownst to Parisian prison officials, a film camera had been set up in one of the apartments overlooking the Place Louis-Barthou. The film recorded [an] execution and by the next morning photographic stills appeared on the cover of nearly every French newspaper … The public was scandalized by their own violence; the government embarrassed. In response France banned public executions."
- James Wood on the Australian novelist Elizabeth Harrower, whose work is back in print after twenty years: "[Harrower] essentially terminated her literary career. She has said that she thinks of her fiction as something abandoned long ago, buried in a cellar. She can't now be bothered with writing. 'I don't know anybody who knows I'm a writer,' she said in 2012."
- Against basic, the most modish putdown of 2014: "While what it pretends to criticize is unoriginality of thought and action, most of what basic actually seeks to dismiss is consumption patterns—what you watch, what you drink, what you wear, and what you buy—without dismissing consumption itself. The basic girl's sin isn't liking to shop, it's cluelessly lusting after the wrong brands, the ones that announce themselves loudly and have shareholders they need to satisfy. (The right brands are much more expensive and subtle and, usually, privately owned.)"
The Kids Are All Right, and Other News
September 11, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Young Americans at the library: do they even, like, get it, what with all their young-person gizmos and e-gadgets? They do, kind of. Among the findings of a new Pew survey: "Despite their embrace of technology, 62% of Americans under age thirty agree there is 'a lot of useful, important information that is not available on the Internet,' compared with 53% of older Americans who believe that … 88% of Americans under thirty read a book in the past year, compared with 79% of those ages thirty and older." But: "36% of Millennials say they know little or nothing about the local library's services, compared with 29% of those thirty and older."
- Not unrelatedly: "In 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, America's book publishers took an audacious gamble … over the next four years, publishers gave away 122,951,031 copies of their most valuable titles … By giving away the best it had to offer, the publishing industry created a vastly larger market for its wares. More importantly, it also democratized the pleasures of reading, making literature, poetry, and history available to all."
- Fact: Tolstoy was, in 1910, captured on film. (Alas, by the time the talkie was invented, he was no longer among the living.)
- The history of "Can This Marriage Be Saved?", the once-thriving advice column from Ladies' Home Journal: "For a modern reader of the column's 1950s and sixties archives, it's hard not to be horrified by the complete and utter awfulness of many of the husbands … more shocking still are the counselor's responses. No matter how bad it got, the counselor always managed to find a way to blame the woman for the couple's problems."
- Before the Man Booker Prize shortlist, with only two of its six authors hailing from the U.S., was announced, defeatist British novelists feared the list would be overrun with Americans. "Why did they assume their American counterparts were better? Or if they thought Americans were just different, why did they assume judges would prefer the game the Americans were playing? Saul Bellow is dead. John Updike is dead. David Foster Wallace is dead, and Philip Roth has made announcing his retirement a full-time job."
An Exhilarating Head Trip
June 25, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
The old girl kept writing and complaining about the police. It was enough to start Townrow on a sequence of dreams. Night after night he floated in the sunset-flushed, marine city. He could smell the salt and the jasmine. He dreamed that Mrs Khoury, Mr Khoury and he were all sailing out of the harbor in a boat that slowly filled with water. He dreamed he was in a hot, dark room with a lot of men who argued and shouted. It must have been in the Greek Sailing Club because when a door opened there were oars and polished skiffs; and opposite, high over Simon Artz's, of the other side of the Canal, was Johnnie Walker with his cane and his top hat setting off for Suez. Or was it the Med.?
So begins P. H. Newby's Something to Answer For, the 1969 novel that won the first-ever Booker Prize. "The Booker was not, as it is now, a high media event," Anthony Thwaite wrote in an obituary for Newby in 1997. "I remember the then–sales director of Faber & Faber, the book's publisher, telling me that the prize probably resulted in no more than about four hundred extra copies."
That's a shame, because Newby, who was born today in 1918, deserved, and deserves, more attention. Graham Greene called him "a fine writer who has never had the full recognition that he deserves," and that's as true now as it was in Newby's lifetime. Very few of his twenty novels are still in print; in the whole of The Paris Review's archive, his name comes up only once, in Truman Capote's 1957 Art of Fiction interview: "Well, who are some of the younger writers who seem to know that style exists? P. H. Newby, Françoise Sagan, somewhat."
In additional to his success as a novelist, Newby enjoyed a long career as a broadcast administrator—he rose through the ranks to become the managing director of BBC Radio. He lived in Cairo from 1942 until 1946: it was "like living in a human laboratory, in which there were no inhibitions," Thwaite writes, and it informed a number of his novels, Something to Answer For among them. Read More »
Vladimir Nabokov's Butterfly Drawings, and Other News
September 19, 2013 | by Justin Alvarez
- Booktryst highlights well-known lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov's butterfly drawings.
- Has the Royal Hall from Beowulf been found? Archaeologists believe they now know the location of the hall where Hrothgar's warriors once feasted.
- Cal O'Mara, Jerry Potts, Bob Lang: author D. W. Wilson lists the top ten absent fathers in literature.
- In feline book news, a cat procures the job title of "assistant librarian" at a Russian library. Perks include a raise in packs of cat food a month and "a spiffy bow tie."
- "Well, that's the end of the Booker Prize, then."
The Rescue
April 2, 2012 | by John Banville
Our Spring Revel will take place tomorrow, April 3. In anticipation of the event, the Daily is featuring a series of essays celebrating Robert Silvers, who is being honored this year with The Paris Review's Hadada Prize.
"I first met Robert Silvers in 1989 at a party that George Plimpton gave for me at his apartment on Sutton Place." It would be hard to exaggerate how gratifying it is to be able to write down such a sentence. Those were heady days. My novel, The Book of Evidence, had been shortlisted for that year's Booker Prize, and I was riding on the crest of a wave that, as it turned out, would quickly run into the sands, though the ride was fine while it lasted. I may not have been exactly the toast of New York, but an evening at George's place that included an encounter with the editor of The New York Review of Books was bubbly enough for me.
Bob that night inquired where I was staying in New York and said he would "send something round." When I got back to my hotel room there was a parcel waiting for me, containing Denis Donoghue's memoir Warrenpoint, along with a note from Bob asking if I would write on it for the NYRB. At least, that was what it seemed to be asking, for this was my first experience of Bob's handwriting and it took a good ten minutes of peering and squinting before I had deciphered enough of the message to guess at the overall import.
I have had many notes from Bob since then, most of them brief and all of them hard to read, but never less than courtly in tone. The few longer ones have tended to be typed, on what is evidently a real typewriter. This last is oddly comforting; somehow a man who continues to type is a man one can trust. Read More »
Anne Enright on 'The Forgotten Waltz'
October 25, 2011 | by Miranda Popkey
The writer Anne Enright, a native of Ireland, is perhaps best known for her 2007 Booker Prize winning novel The Gathering, a darkly beautiful novel about a family gathering in the wake of a suicide. In The Forgotten Waltz, her fifth novel and her first since winning the Booker, she takes up a seemingly more mundane plot: that of adulterous love. Gina, married to Conor, narrates her affair with Séan—himself married and father to a troubled daughter, Evie—which comes to a head as Ireland's economy collapses.
It's an affair whose outcome is known from almost the very first pages, and Enright is not interested in judging Gina or Séan—Gina believes, ultimately, that there is nothing to forgive and, if Enright does not agree with her outright, she makes Gina a sympathetic enough character that it is possible for the reader to do so. The considerable narrative pleasures of this novel lie in Enright's luminous language, as she sketches Gina's attempts to figure out what happened and how and why. The author, who has a quick wit and a hearty laugh, as well as a refreshingly no-nonsense attitude, spoke to me recently from the West Coast, where she was on book tour. Read More »


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Ah, fall... Crisp apples, colorful leaves, cozy sweaters, and BOOT TIME, BABY! We love us some boots, yessirree Bob, we do, and clearly, y'all do, too. Last fall & winter, we got so many virtually identical Personal Shopper requests for boots, though, that we started to get sick of those much-beloved shoes. Not good. So this year, we're pre-empting you with multiple boot-ylicious roundups of a wide variety: From cheap to expensive, flat to high heeled, ankle to knee-high, narrow calf to wide calf, and so on. Hopefully, this feature will not only solve your boot blues, but leave us with the energy to find a cute pair for ourselves, too.
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There a lot of function spaces and would be nice if somebody can correct me if I am wrong in comparing a few. I want to compare $C^2,L^2,W^{2,2}$ (continuous up to third derivative, Hilbert space of square integrable functions and Sobolev with second weak derivative in $L^2$) of functions defined on a compact set. I think $C^2\subset W^{2,2}\subset L^2$. Is that the right inclusion? thanks!
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Yes, this is correct. Note that a continuous function on a compact set is square integrable (because it is bounded and a compact set has finite measure), and if the classical derivative exists then the weak derivative exists and they are equal. Thus $C^2$-functions are twice weakly differentiable and the derivatives are again square integrable because they are continuous. In other words, $C^2 \subset W^{2,2}$. Functions in $W^{2,2}$ are square integrable by definition, so we have $W^{2,2} \subset L^2$.
An interesting question for you to ponder is: are the inclusion maps continuous? That is: is the map $f \mapsto f$ bounded from $C^2$ to $W^{2,2}$ and from $W^{2,2}$ to $L^2$?


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Police have made an arrest in the killing of a livery driver last week by a stab to the eye — with an umbrella as it turned out. Officers tracked down Shamel Allen, 28, who lives just two blocks from where the killing took place, after a witness identified him in a lineup. They found him "cowering in the closet of an acquaintance's home," the Daily News reports. Cops are still looking for a woman thought to be with him, who fled the scene carrying a white purse.


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Publications by HPC centers and institutes include items from past years such as an early publication written by one of the HPC founding investigators, Dr. Joe Thompson. Numerical Grid Generation was originally published by Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc. in 1985, and the copyright was transferred to Joe F. Thompson in 1997.
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Yao, H., Hruska, Z., Brown, R., Bhatnagar, D., & Cleveland, T. (2015). Hyperspectral Imaging Technology for Inspection of Plant Products. Hyperspectral Imaging Technology in Food and Agriculture, Chapter 9. Editors: Park and Lu. Springer.
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Huang, H., Reddy, K. N., Thomson, S. J., & Yao, H. (2015). Assessment of Soybean Injury from Glyphosate Using Airborne Multispectral Remote Sensing. Pest Management Science. 71, 545-552. DOI:10.1002/ps.3839.
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Yao, H., Hruska, Z., Kincaid, R., Brown, R., Bhatnagar, D., & Cleveland, T. (2015). Sorting Aflatoxin Contaminated Maize Kernels with Fluorescence Spectra. Book of abstracts from the 17th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy.. Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. 170.
Yao, H. (2015). Application of Fluorescence Hyperspectral Imaging for the Detection of Aflatoxin Contamination in Corn. ASABE Annual International Meeting, Paper No. 2210486. New Orleans, LA.
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Zhu, F., Yao, H., Hruska, Z., Kincaid, R., Brown, R., Bhatnagar, D., & Cleveland, T. (2015). Visible Near-infrared (VNIR) Reflectance Hyperspectral Imagery for Identifying Aflatoxin-contaminated Corn Kernels. ASABE Annual International Meeting, Paper No. 2189995. New Orleans, LA.
Zhu, F., Yao, H., Hruska, Z., Kincaid, R., Brown, R., Bhatnagar, D., & Cleveland, T. (2015). Classification of Corn Kernels Contaminated with Aflatoxins Using Fluorescence and Reflectance Hyperspectral Images Analysis. Proceedings of SPIE, Paper No. 9488-22. Baltimore, MD.
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Don't be deceived! Learn the ropes of the art trade and create your own museum while traveling between seven renowned cities where you'll find priceless art collections. Just like a professional art dealer, you'll buy, sell and auction off art in Art Mogul for OS X, a creative mix of simulation and hidden object game.
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G5 Entertainment—the company that brought us games such as CrossWorlds: The Flying City and Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden—now brings us the Mac version of Art Mogul.
Whether you're an art enthusiast or not, this mix of simulation, hidden object, and business strategy game will make you one heck of a virtual art dealer.
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At first, the game is quite intimidating with all the paintings and options flashing on your screen. However, the developers provided a pre-game feature that teaches you the basic mechanics. You'll meet Mr. Bridges who will become your mentor on how to become a successful art dealer.
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- Art dealer goes to the art gallery. You can trade paintings here risk- and hassle-free since all of them are guaranteed authentic.
- Buy the first painting using the virtual cash, then sell it profitably and receive bonuses.
- Any painting bought in the museum is considered sold and automatically added to your portfolio. Go the market place to find other collections.
- You can visit a coffee shop where you can buy and sell the paintings. However, it is the last place to go, since the chances of acquiring fake art paintings is very high.
Call Mr. Bridges if you need any help on dealings, but as you progress in the game, you'll be able to master it.
The secret of Art Mogul is to find the right painting and buy it at its lowest price so you can sell profitably to other market places. The more you find the fashionable objects required in each painting, the more likely the owner will sell it at its best price.
One of the most profitable ways to earn money as an art dealer is to execute requests in each museum you visit. However, this is also quite challenging because you must find the right painting where the required object was painted.
If you have a keen eyesight and good memory, you'll be able to find it faster.
Is it contagious?
Art Mogul is somewhat intimidating at first. Fortunately, Mr. Bridges helped me along the way until I unlocked the first city. In terms of the concept, it's innovative with its combination of hidden object gameplay with business simulation.
However, I was expecting more levels and strategies, and didn't like that so many of the objects and paintings repeat throughout the game.
Nonetheless, my eyes and memory were challenged.
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Resurrection Fighting Alliance (RFA) announced this morning that it has signed highly touted Duke Roufus kickboxing protégé turned undefeated bantamweight MMA fighter Sergio Pettis to a 5-fight deal. Pettis is the 18-year-old younger brother of former WEC lightweight champion and current UFC star Anthony Pettis.
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College Hockey:CC Goalie Bachman Named HCA National Rookie Of The Year
Colorado College goaltender Richard Bachman is the winner of the second annual HCA National Division I Rookie of the Year Award, the Hockey Commissioners' Association (HCA) announced Friday.
Three weeks ago, Bachman became just the second player in the 56-year history of the WCHA to earn the league's Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year accolades in the same season. (Eighteen-year NHL veteran Curtis Joseph of the Calgary Flames also captured both awards as a netminder with the Wisconsin Badgers in the 1988-89 season.)
Bachman, a 20-year old from Highlands Ranch, Colo., backstopped Colorado College to its sixth WCHA regular-season title in the last 15 years and its 11th NCAA playoff berth in the last 14, shattering school records with a 1.85 goals-against average and .931 save percentage. He earned First-Team All-WCHA honors and a spot on the league's All-Rookie Team.
The 5-foot-10, 172-pound Bachman finished with an overall record of 25-9-1 between the pipes in 2007-08 and posted four shutouts while allowing two or fewer goals in 25 of his 35 starts. He was honored as HCA Rookie of the Month twice, in October and February, as well as WCHA Rookie of the Week three times and Defensive Player of the Week twice during the course of the season.
The fourth-round NHL draft pick of the Dallas Stars in 2006, who spent the 2006-07 campaign in the USHL with Chicago and Cedar Rapids, finished with a 19-5-1 (.750) record in league play, with a 1.75 GAA and .937 sv%. He also collected three assists, including two on game-winning goals.
Nationally, Bachman sported college hockey's third-best GAA (1.85) and sv% (.931) while recording the nation's fourth-best winning percentage (.729). Overall, the Tigers boasted the sixth-best defensive numbers from among 59 teams, allowing an average of 2.15 goals-per game.
The HCA Rookie of the Year is selected in a vote by the assistant coaching staffs of all 59 NCAA Division I hockey teams. Players on the ballot receive five points for a first-place vote, three points for a second-place vote and one point for a third-place vote. Each conference's top rookie serves as its league's nominee.
Bachman is the second straight recipient of national Rookie of the Year honors to hail from the WCHA. Andreas Nodl of St. Cloud State was the inaugural winner last season.
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This gives the Dolphins the option of getting either getting Flynn without having to give up draft picks for him. If Flynn would have cost draft picks, like a 2nd round pick, then I would have been 100% certain that the Dolphins should go after Manning. However I am still undecided as to who their signal caller should be next year. Flynn is younger and could give the Dolphins a franchise QB as well as a player who knows the offense. Every time I see highlights of the game vs the Lions I want him to be our QB, however Manning is Manning so I don't really know right now. One thing I am certain about is that I don't envy Ireland job right now.
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One of the biggest questions coming from the signing of Finely was if the Packers were going to use the franchise tag on Flynn now that Finely was signed. However according to a source on ESPN Wisconsin they will not franchise him for fear of either not having a trade partner or going into trade talks for a long time and losing out on signing free agents because Flynn would take up 14 million of their cap room. Also the source says that the Packers are not a franchise that runs business that way.Like This Article ? :
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The Port of San Diego's board of port commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to move forward on negotiations to develop 20 acres of land in National City.
Port staff will now proceed to work out a deal with GB Capital Holdings LLC for commercial development in the tidelands next to Pier 32 in the National City Marina District.
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On June 18, 2012, National City and Port staff solicited plans to develop the 20 acres. After the 60-day advertisement period, only GB Capital Holdings put in a claim and a plan. GB Capital Holdings is also the owner of Pier 32 Marina and Point Loma Marina.
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Apr 19, 2012 9:15 AM
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