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The best world-class modern furniture has the same effect as a supermodel at a party — everyone stops in their tracks to look. The designs are so exceptional, unusual and individual that they dominate as well as amaze, and can hold a room.
Two linked sales at Christie's offer a range from museum-quality art nouveau furniture designed in 1900, right through to an unusual small glass vase from 2012.
The evening sale on November 4 has the very best international items from famous designers, split into national groups with some prices estimated to soar over £100,000.
French architect and decorator André Arbus's exquisite 1958 tête-à-tête sofa in red leather is estimated at £40,000-£60,000. The same year, Arbus designed the French Pavilion at the International World Fair. There's a matching pair of chairs, lot 202, for £70,000-£100,000. Elsewhere in the sale are a few pieces by Pierre Jeanneret, later known as Le Corbusier. The Brazilian contingent is represented by a very rare, fish-shaped 1989 cut and welded steel bench by the Campana Brothers. Part of their Uncomfortable range, it still has a real beauty and is great fun. Yours for £80,000-£100,000, lot 234.
There are more seats than anything else, including Italian Gaetano Pesce's weird, black Golgotha chair, from an experimental set of 10 made in 1972 from Dacron-filled, resin-soaked cloth. As much sculpture as chair, it is estimated at £20,000-£30,000. A 1978 Poltrona di Proust chair, one of only five hand-painted in Pointillism-style blobs, is priced £40,000-£60,000.
The companion sale, on October 28, offers less-costly items in the same field. Early-century gems include a fair bit of René Lalique glassware. Particularly striking are a 1919 Perruche vase in electric blue, decorated with little budgies, lot 135 for £25,000-£35,000, and a 1924 amber Serpent vase, lot 137, for £20,000-£30,000. Lot 83, a 1900 suite of art nouveau furniture by Louis Majorelle, is £5,000-£8,000, while an Emile Gallé two-tier table in walnut with marquetry is on at £3,000-£8,000, lot 88. Last, for a bit of fun, among a sparkling few lots of Fornasetti furniture, you could snap up a wastepaper basket with a cute cat on it for £400-£600.
Christie's 20/21 Design auction, South Kensington, October 28, and at Christie's King Street on November 4, in an inaugural evening sale. See www.christies.com.
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The Rt Revd Peter Hancock was formally installed as Bishop of Bath and Wells at Wells Cathedral on 7th June 2014. He lives at the Bishop's Palace and works there alongside the Bishop of Taunton.
Bishop of Taunton, Ruth Worsley
The Rt Revd Ruth Worsley was formally installed as Bishop of Taunton at Wells Cathedral on 3rd October 2015. She works alongside the Bishop of Bath and Wells in Wells.
Our Bishops and their office staff are based in the Bishop's Palace, Wells.
The Bishops are assisted in their work by three Archdeacons based in Bath, Wells and Taunton. Together with other senior colleagues who collectively meet as the Bishops Staff, they are responsible for the life of the church in the diocese.
Each of our three Archdeacons is responsible for a particular geographical areas of the diocese, known as their archdeaconry. They have day-to-day oversight of practical church life, as well as pastoral care for the clergy, and they play an important role in appointing clergy to parish posts. In addition, the Archdeacons share in the central services of the diocese by active involvement in various specific areas such as chairing committees and working groups.
- The Venerable Andy Piggott, Archdeacon of Bath
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- The duties of Archdeacon of Wells are currently being undertaken by Ven Kevin Roberts until the 31 March 2017, or until a new archdeacon is appointed to the role. The former Archdeacon of Wells, Nicola Sullivan, is now Dean of Southwell in the Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham.


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Mercure Paris Gare du Nord La Fayette HotelMid-scale hotel for business trips or leisure
From its location in the 10th arrondissement, the Mercure Paris Gare du Nord Lafayette hotel is ideally situated for journeys with Thalys, Eurostar and TGV to northern Europe. With its comfortable and well-equipped modern rooms, it provides all the services you need for a family or business trip. After a busy day in meetings or hitting the shops, come and unwind with a cocktail in our cosy hotel bar.
Just 15 minutes on foot from the department stores, the Opéra district and the theatres and restaurants of Montmartre, you will be immediately immersed in the heart of Paris, whether travelling for business or leisure.
2 meeting rooms, video facilities for business conferences, open public parking and WiFi make this an ideally equipped hotel for conferences, business meetings and other events.
This hotel participates to Planet 21 and is acting in favour of Positive Hospitality.
Services in the hotel and nearby
Online check-in
Online check-in: Your arrival will be carefully prepared by our team
Fast check-out: Simply return your key
WIFI/Internet Access
- WIFI at the hotel
- High-speed Internet
- WIFI in the communal areas
- WIFI in your room
- WIFI access
- Public indoor parking
- Reduced mobility rooms
- Air Conditioning
- Reception open 24 hours a day
Services and practical information
Online check-in
Online check-in: Your arrival will be carefully prepared by our team
Fast check-out: Simply return your key
WIFI/Internet Access
- WIFI at the hotel
- High-speed Internet
- WIFI in the communal areas
- WIFI in your room
- WIFI access
- Public indoor parking
- Reduced mobility rooms
- Air Conditioning
- Reception open 24 hours a day
- Dry cleaning / Ironing (Paying)
- Shoe shine machine
- 1 bar(s)
Business services
- 2 meeting room(s)
- Copy/print service available
Hotel location
175 rue la Fayette
Tel: (+33)1/44898910
Fax: (+33)1/40360030
- ORLY At 24.6km / 15.29 miles
- ROISSY CDG At 23.1km / 14.35 miles
- GARE DE LEST At 0.8km / 0.5 miles
- PARIS GARE DU NORD At 0.45km / 0.28 miles
Currently, close to our hotel
Our rooms
Whatever your desires, choose the room category that you wish. Opt for the comfort of our Standard Rooms or offer yourself the experience of our enhanced comfort Privilege Rooms with Mercure details.
Standard Room with one double bed
Air-conditioned Standard Room with 1 double bed with duvet, flat-screen television with international channels, free WIFI, safe, mini fridge and tea and coffee making facilities. Bathroom with shower.
Standard Room with one single bed
Air-conditioned Standard Room with 1 single bed with duvet, flat-screen television with international channels, free WIFI, safe, mini fridge and tea and coffee making facilities. Bathroom with shower.
Standard Room with 2 single beds
Air-conditioned Standard Room featuring twin beds with duvet, flat-screen television with international channels, free WIFI, individual safe, mini fridge, tea and coffee making facilities, and bathroom with shower.
Privilege Room with 1 double bed
Experience the indulgence of our luxury room and enjoy the finest bed linen exclusive to Mercure, iPhone/iPad docking station, Nespresso machine and many other subtle touches designed to ensure the perfect stay, whether it's for business or leisure.
Privilege Suite with 1 double bed and 1 sofa, with terrace
Experience the indulgence of our luxury room and enjoy the finest bed linen exclusive to Mercure, iPhone/iPad docking station, Nespresso machine and many other subtle touches designed to ensure the perfect stay, whether it's for business or leisure.
Multi-room offer: 2 rooms close together
Together is better! When travelling with friends or family, get a preferential rate when you book 2 rooms: with the multi-room offer enjoy up to 50% off the second room. Connecting rooms or rooms opposite one another subject to availability at the hotel.
- 48 rooms
- 40 non-smoking rooms
- 2 rooms for people with reduced mobility
- Crib on request
- Air conditioning
- Safe deposit box in room
- Bouquet with TV Canal+ and Canalsat
- Telephone
- Opening windows
- WIFI in your room
- Manual temperature control
- Crib on request
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea making facilities
- Shower
- Hair dryer in bathroom
- Hair dryer at reception
- Keycard-operated door locks
- Audible smoke alarms in rooms
- Deadbolts and/or locks in rooms
- Emergency info in rooms
- Alarm clock
- Operator wake up call
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Our meeting rooms
- Number of meeting rooms: 2
- Maximum size: 60 m²
- Maximum capacity: 60
- Maximum banquet capacity: 45
Our customer reviews for Mercure Paris Gare du Nord La Fayette Hotel
Reviews collected from customers who booked on AccorHotels.com
We were returning from a Brussels weekend trip. Great location and even though the neighborhood is not pretty as always around train stations, it was safe enough. The only detail was that the fist night el when we arrive the room smelled a lot like cigarette, and there was no more rooms in the same category, so they gave me some deodorizer till the next day cleaning service. The room is well stocked, bathrobes, toiletries items and a mini mini bar good enough for storing some stuff around two six packs size o r a little bit more. The staff really goes the extra mile for a good stays worth. Like I asked around 11:30 pm the reception guy that if the Boulangery in front of Gare du Nord was opened and he told me better not go that hour that he could stack me up with some croissants and Pain du Chocolate and gave me like 5 pieces each since he saw my 2 year old baby. So I think it really is upto anybody's expectations.
Bonjour Tabari, Thank you for taking the time to write this nice comment. We are eager to provide each of our customers complete satisfaction. I hope to welcome you again, Regards, Marie PELLERIN - Front Office Manager
Stayed at this hotel recently for 5 nights in our trip across Europe. The hotel is located less than a 10 minute walk from the main train station - Gare Du Nord. This is convenient for arrivals via Eurostar from London or the CDG (Paris' main airport) is only one train ride away on the RER line B. However being near the main train station, the area can get a bit rough especially at night. Just ignore the beggars on the street asking you for change. We checked in at about 7 pm and the lady at reception was quite rude and short. Not sure if she was having a bad day but the first impression that a guest gets is upon checking in. I believe we got a double room and it was extremely small. There wasn't even enough space to open 2 suitcases and when opened on the floor, there was no space to walk around anymore. The bathroom was not terribly clean either. The tiles looked like they have never been scrubbed and there was grime all over them. The balcony was full of cigarette butts. The breakfast selection was not great. The only hot food provided was sausages, hot cakes and scrambled eggs. It was also not replenished after 9 AM despite breakfast being advertised as being available until 10 AM. When enquired, the response was 'It has ran out'. One morning we even discovered that the glasses were not cleaned properly and there was bits of leftover food floating inside. I personally would not pay for breakfast at this hotel unless it is thrown in as part of a deal. You will be better off getting some crepes at a cafe down the street. I have just stayed at Mercure in Manchester (and many other Mercure hotels) and this hotel is definitely not up to standard as a Mercure hotel.
Cher Voyageur, Thank you for taking the time to share your opinion on your stay. I am sincerely sorry that your stay has not gone as you expected. The satisfaction of our customers is our priority. That's why I'm going to share your impressions in my teams to improve and it will happen again! Feel free to contact me (firstname.lastname@example.com) so we can discuss it further. Regards,
The hotel is stylish and pleasant, plus I had a room on a high floor with a balcony and an amazing view of Paris. The free coffee in the lobby is highly appreciated. Conveniently located for those coming in by train from London, the Benelux, the East of France or Germany, and the CDG airport. There are only two negative points: (1) the room is fairly small and there's not enough space to open a suitcase properly, (2) the door makes too much noise when it closes (and it's impossible to avoid it even when one closes it carefully).
Small (on this side of tiny) but fully formed room, ideal for a short business trip. I only wish that the air con was more customisable. it ran on humming all night. will be returning for over night trips. when more than 1 night is required i'll prefer the Mercure terminus Nord.
Cher Voyageur, Thank you for your post following your stay in our hotel Mercure Paris Gare du Nord Lafayette. Be assured, I consider your remarks and we will try to fix evrything. We hope to see you very soon. Best regards Mickael, Directeur
Very small room. Hotel breakfast was not replenished. Staff surly. Could not provide an iron when needed. Not up to the usual mecure standard.on the plus side clean and the location to the eurostar was ok.
Dear Traveler, Please accept our apologies about your insatisfaction about your stay in our hotel. Be assured that this is not our practice and I am very sorry for the problems you have encountered. We hope to catch up at the next visit. Best regards Mickael, Directeur
Thank you to the front-of-house staff at the Mercure, who found the big bunch of keys I left behind and kept them safely for me! A nice clean hotel, well-equipped and super-convenient if your travels require you to be near the Gare du Nord.
Dear Traveler, Thank you so much for your comment concerning your stay in our hotel Mercure Paris Gare du Nord Lafayette. I am happy to see our staff is helpfull and I will share your satisfaction with them. We hope to see you very soon. Best regards. Mickael - General Manager
Very close to Gare du Nord. Perfect location for metro and sightseeing of the city. Avarage service tough, small rooms for a mercure, other than the tea-coffee facilities and the nice breakfast it is more like an ibis.
Cher Client, Je vous remercie de votre commentaire suite à votre séjour à l'hôtel Mercure Paris Gare du Nord Lafayette. Je suis désolé que notre petit-déjeuner n'ait pas été à la hauteur de vos attentes malgré le respect des normes des hôtels Mercure. En espérant vous revoir malgré tout parmi nous. Cordialement Mickael Directeur
This hotel has been recently refurbished. It is very peaceful and relaxing only a 10 minutes or less walk from the Gare du Nord. Good peaceful night's sleep and very relaxing. Reasonably priced for the standard
Stayed here for one night in September on our way back from a trip to Rome. The hotel appears small from the outside, and has a similarly small reception and sitting area. However, the rooms are spacious, (although we were upgraded to a superior room, so cannot comment on others), and very clean and the breakfast excellent. The hotel is also situated within easy walking distance of Eurostar services in the Gard du Nord. Staff were very friendly and the hotel was good value for money given its good location. We shall certainly book here again when next using Eurostar. Highly recommended
If you need an overnight to connect to services to the Gard du Nord, this is very good. It is clean, cheerful and very convenient, maximum 5 minutes walking. The rooms are small but nicely appointed with good facilities. We slept well and were very well looked after by pleasant professional staff. Our one dissatisfaction which might prevent us returning was the level of staffing on reception. We dealt with three reception staff, who could not have been more helpful but the fact that they had other duties that took them all over the hotel meant that we were kept waiting outside the hotel for unacceptable periods of time. If this were rectified, I would have no hesitation in rebooking this hotel for a similar journey.
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College in the High School Policies
College in the High School students have the same expectation of behavior as any other student attending EvCC. It is the responsibility of the student to be familiar with these policies and procedures.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
FERPA affords students certain rights with respect to their education records. For full rights visit the Confidentialitry/FERPA page. These rights, as they pertain to the College in the High School program, do not permit college staff to disclose or discuss students' records with anyone other than the student; this includes non-disclosure to parents or legal guardians. When inquiring about student records the student must make the inquiry.
Student Policies and Student Rights, Responsibilities & Policies
Everett Community College follows a number of guidelines that support a civil and respectful environment and provide procedures to assure fair treatment. EvCC Student LIFE provides the Student Rights & Responsibilities annually, which outlines many of the policies and procedures that support student conduct and institutional responsibilities.
The College in the High School Student Handbook has specific program policies.
Grades awarded for the college credit can be different from the grade the student is awarded by the high school. If you are on a 504 or IEP plan please note that a Pass or Fail grade is NOT an option for this program. View the EvCC CHS grading policy.
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(Austin, January 13, 2005) ? Against the backdrop of a funding debate on public schools in Texas, Representatives Garnet Coleman (D-Houston), Jessica Farrar (D-Houston), and Rafael Anchia (D-Dallas) filed a bill on Wednesday that could reform Texas schools in another way. The Dignity for All Students Act, HB 376, would protect students in Texas public schools from discrimination based on such things as race, religion, and sexual orientation.
(Albany, N.Y., Wednesday, January 12, 2005) — A New York State appeals court will hear oral argument from Lambda Legal this afternoon on whether the surviving domestic partner of a gay man is entitled to workers' compensation benefits given to people whose spouses die on the job.
(Des Moines, January 11, 2005) – In oral argument set for Friday, January 14, at 9 a.m. at the Iowa Supreme Court, Lambda Legal and local organizations will fend off an attack by antigay groups who seek to overturn a local court order granting two Sioux City women's request to terminate their civil union.
(Washington, January 10, 2005) — Lambda Legal issued the following statement today on the U.S. Supreme Court declining to hear a case challenging Florida's ban on gay people adopting children. The case challenging the Florida law was filed by the ACLU; Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case at the federal appeals court. The statement is from Patricia Logue, Senior Counsel at Lambda Legal.
(San Francisco, December 28, 2004) - In response to the ruling issued today in the 9th Circuit, Lambda Legal issued the following statement:
(Columbia, SC, December 16, 2004) —Today, Lambda Legal announced an agreement with Foot Locker, settling its antigay discrimination lawsuit against the company. Under the agreement, Foot Locker will train its managers and employees more aggressively about antigay harassment, including emphasizing to its employees access to support and services to handle such harassment and provide an undisclosed monetary settlement to Lambda Legal's client.
(New York, December 13, 2004) — Lambda Legal today announced that Jon W. Davidson is the organization's new Legal Director, following a nationwide search over the last few months. Davidson is currently serving as Senior Counsel for Lambda Legal in its Western Regional Office and has worked for Lambda Legal for nine years. Davidson will relocate to New York to work from Lambda Legal's national headquarters starting in January.
(New York, December 9, 2004) - Concerned that gay youth are increasingly being denied their legal rights at school in the aftermath of last month's election, Lambda Legal said today that it is expanding its ongoing campaign on youth rights to communities where students have faced antigay hostility in recent weeks.
(Oklahoma City, December 8, 2004) – In an order made public late yesterday, a federal judge gave the green light to Lambda Legal's lawsuit that seeks to strike down Oklahoma's antigay adoption law.
U. S. District Judge Robin Cauthron found that the lawsuit filed against Oklahoma's Governor Brad Henry and Attorney General Drew Edmondson can go forward. The state had asked the court to dismiss the case.
(Trenton, December 7, 2004) – This morning, a state appeals court heard arguments in Lambda Legal's case seeking marriage for same-sex couples in New Jersey. It's not clear when the appeals court will issue its ruling in the case, which can then be appealed to the New Jersey Supreme Court.
David Buckel, Lambda Legal's Marriage Project Director and the lead attorney on the case, argued on behalf of the plaintiffs today. Following is a brief statement from Buckel, issued immediately after this morning's oral arguments:
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I choose Haplocanthosaurus
November 18, 2016
Oh man, 2016, you are really working on my nerves.
Sometimes it's a positive balm to hold a piece of an animal dead and gone for 145 million years, or stare at a thousand vertical feet of sandstone, and know that we are all ants.
These lovelies here intrigue me deeply. They're the three caudal vertebrae recovered from the Snowmass Haplocanthosaurus that John Foster and I described a couple of years ago. Pretty sure I'll have more to say about them in the future. For now it's enough that they've come across such a vast gulf of time and given this stressed-out primate a little perspective.
Foster, J.R., and Wedel, M.J. 2014. Haplocanthosaurus (Saurischia: Sauropoda) from the lower Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) near Snowmass, Colorado. Volumina Jurassica 12(2): 197–210. DOI: 10.5604/17313708 .1130144
The freakily consistent colour palette of Wedel and Taylor (2013) on caudal pneumaticity
November 20, 2014
Back in 2013, when we were in the last stages of preparing our paper Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus (Wedel and Taylor 2013b), I noticed that, purely by chance, all ten of the illustrations shared much the same limited colour palette: pale brows and blues (and of course black and white). I've always found this strangely appealing. Here's a composite:
I'm really happy with this coincidence. In fact I think I might get it printed up as a poster for my office.
(Thought: if I did, would anyone else be interested in buying it?)
Update (a couple of hours later)
At Matt's suggestion, I switched the order of figures 7 and 8 (the last two on the third row) to get the following version of the image. It breaks the canonical order of the figures, but it's visually more pleasing.
Now we should write an updated version of the paper that reverses the order in which we refer to figures 7 and 8 :-)
- Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor. 2013. Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus. PLOS ONE 8(10):e78213. 14 pages. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078213
The bizarre caudal neural spines of Tambatitanis amicitiae
August 13, 2014
Today for the first time I saw Saegusa and Ikeda's (2014) new monograph describing the Japanese titanosauriform Tambatitanis amicitiae. I've not yet had a chance to read the paper — well, it's 65 pages long — but it certainly looks like they've done a nice, comprehensive job on a convincing new taxon represented by good material: teeth, braincase, dentary, atlas, and as-yet unprepared fragmentary cervical, fragmentary dorsals, sacral spines, some nice caudals, some ribs and chevrons, and pubis and ilium.
What catches the eye immediately is the bizarre forward-curved neural spines of the anterior caudals:
Here's the third caudal in detail. (The first is fragmentary, and the second has some minor reconstruction near the tip of the spine which sceptical readers might think is covering up a misconstruction):
And here is the right-lateral view in close-up:
A phylogenetic analysis based on that of D'Emic (2012) recovers the new taxon in a polytomy with the Euhelopus clade
that's going to need a new name pretty soon, since it keeps growing and can't be called Euhelopodidae for historical reasons: [that should probably be called Euhelopodidae: see discussion in comments]:
Nice to see that new sauropods just keep on rolling out of the ground faster than we can blog about them!
- D'Emic, Michael D. 2012. The early evolution of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166:624-671.
- Saegusa, Haruo, and Tadahiro Ikeda. 2014. A new titanosauriform sauropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Hyogo, Japan. Zootaxa 3848(1):1-66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3848.1.1
Photography and illustration talk, Part 12: Stereo and 3D
March 24, 2014
Here's a working version of that link.
Working links:
- Falkingham (2012) on photogrammetry for free
- Mallison photogrammetry tutorial 1
- Mallison photogrammetry tutorial 2
- Mallison photogrammetry tutorial 3
- Mallison photogrammetry tutorial 4
- Powell, Jaime E. 2003. Revision of South American Titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 111: 1-94.
Photography and illustration talk, Part 5: Use color
February 17, 2014
This whole section, including the title, is mostly swiped from Mike's Tutorial 17.
Other posts in this series are here.
Papers referenced in these slides:
- Farke, Andrew A., and Sertich, Joseph J.W. 2013. An abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Turonian of Madagascar. PLoS ONE 8(4): e62047. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062047 [PDF]
- Taylor, Michael P., Mathew J. Wedel and Richard L. Cifelli. 2011. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56(1):75-98. doi: 10.4202/app.2010.0073
- Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor. 2013. Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus. PLOS ONE 8(10):e78213. 14 pages. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078213 [PDF]
"Look at all the things you've done for me
Opened up my eyes,
Taught me how to see,
Notice every tree."
So sings Dot in Move On, the climactic number of Stephen Sondheim's Pulitzer Prize-winning music Sunday in the Park with George, which on the surface is about the post-impressionist painter Georges Seurat, but turns out to be a study of obsession and creativity."Taught me how to see"? What kind of talk is that? One the surface, it seems silly — we all know how to see. We do it constantly, without thinking. Yet it's something that artists talk about all the time. And anyone who's sat down and seriously tried to paint or draw something will have some understanding of what the phrase means. We have such strong implicit ideas of what things look like that we tend to reproduce what we "know" is there rather than what's actually there. Like I said, we see without thinking.
In fact, the psychology of perception is complicated and sophisticated, and the brain does an extraordinary amount of filtering of the visual signals we get, to save us the bother of having to consciously process way too much data. This is a whole scientific field of its own, and I'm going to avoid saying very much about it for fear of making a fool of myself — as scientists so often do when wandering outside their own field. But I think it's fair to say that we all have a tendency to see what we expect to see.
In the case of sauropods, this tendency has meant that we've all been startlingly bad at seeing pneumaticity in the caudal vertebrae of sauropods. Because the literature has trained us to assume it's not there. For example, in the two competing sauropod phylogenies that dominated the 2000s, both Wilson (2002) and Upchurch et al. (2004) scored caudal pneumaticity as very rare: Wilson's character 119, "Anterior caudal centra, pneumatopores (pleurocoels)", was scored 1 only for Diplodocus and Barosaurus; and Upchurch et al. (2004:286) wrote that "A few taxa (Barosaurus, Diplodocus, and Neuquensaurus) have pleurocoel-like openings in the lateral surfaces of the cranial [caudal] centra that lead into complex internal chambers". That's all.
And that's part of the reason that every year since World War II, a million people have walked right past the awesome mounted brachiosaur in the Museum Für Naturkunde Berlin without noticing that it has pneumatic caudals. After all, we all knew that brachiosaur caudals were apneumatic.
But in my 2005 Progressive Palaeontology talk about upper limits on the mass of land animals estimated through the articular area of limb-bone cartilage, I included this slide that shows how much bigger the acetabulum of Giraffatitan is than the femoral head that it houses:
And looking at that picture made me wonder: those dark areas on the sides of the first few caudals (other than the first, which is a very obvious plaster model) certainly look pneumatic.
Then a few years later, I was invited to give a talk at the Museum Für Naturkunde Berlin itself, on the subject "Brachiosaurus brancai is not Brachiosaurus". (This of course was drawn from the work that became my subsequent paper on that subject, Taylor 2009) And as I was going through my photos to prepare the slides of that talk, I thought to myself: darn it, yes, it does have pneumatic caudals!
So I threw this slide into the talk, just in passing:
Those photos were pretty persuasive; and a closer examination of the specimen on that same trip was to prove conclusive.
Meanwhile …
Earlier in 2009, I'd been in Providence, Rhode Island, with my Index Data colleagues. I'd managed to carve a day out of the schedule to hope along the coast to the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut. My main goal was to examine the cervicals of the mounted Apatosaurus (= "Brontosaurus") excelsus holotype (although it was also on that same trip that I first saw the Barosaurus holotype material that we've subsequently published a preprint on).
The Brontosaurus cervicals turned out to be useless, being completely encased in plaster "improvements" so that you can't tell what's real and what's not. hopefully one day they'll get the funding they want to take that baby down off its scaffold and re-prep the material.
But since I had the privilege of spending quality time with such an iconic specimen, it would have been churlish not to look at the rest of it. And lo and behold, what did I see when I looked at the tail but more pneumaticity that we thought we knew wasn't there!
What does this mean? Do other Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus specimens have pneumatic tails? How pervasive is the pneumaticity? What are the palaeobiological implications?
Stay tuned! All will be revealed in Matt's next post (or, if you can't wait, in our recent PLOS ONE paper, Wedel and Taylor 2013b)!
- Taylor, Michael P. 2009. A re-evaluation of Brachiosaurus altithorax Riggs 1903 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) and its generic separation from Giraffatitan brancai (Janensch 1914). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):787-806.
- Upchurch, Paul, Paul M. Barrett and Peter Dodson. 2004. Sauropoda. pp. 259-322 in D. B. Weishampel, P. Dodson and H. Osmólska (eds.), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. 861 pp.
- Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor. 2013. Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus. PLOS ONE 8(10):e78213. 14 pages. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078213
- Wilson, J.A. 2002. Sauropod dinosaur phylogeny: critique and cladistic analysis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136:217-276.
Caudal pneumaticity paper in Huffington Post –and– get your PLOS Collection USB drives
October 31, 2013
A few bits and pieces about the PLOS Collection on sauropod gigantism that launched yesterday.
First, there's a nice write-up of one of our papers (Wedel and Taylor 2013b on pneumaticity in sauropod tails) in the Huffington Post today. It's the work of PLOS blogger Brad Balukjian, a former student of Matt's from Berkeley days. The introduction added by the PLOS blogs manager is one of those where you keep wanting to interrupt, "Well, actually it's not quite like that …" but the post itself, once it kicks in, is good. Go read it.
Brad also has a guest-post on Discover magazine's Crux blog: How Brachiosaurus (and Brethren) Became So Gigantic. He gives an overview of the sauropod gigantism collection as a whole. Well worth a read to get your bearings on the issue of sauropod gigantism in general, and the new collection in particular.
PLOS's own community blog EveryONE also has its own brief introduction to the collection.
And PLOS and PeerJ editor Andy Farke, recently in these pages because of his sensational juvenile Parasaurolophus paper, contributes his own overview of the collection, How Big? How Tall? And…How Did It Happen?
Finally, if you're at SVP, go and pick up your free copy of the collection. Matt was somehow under the impression that the PLOS USB drives with the sauropod gigantism collection would be distributed with the conference packet when people registered. In fact, people have to go by the PLOS table in the exhibitor area (booth 4 in the San Diego ballroom) to pick them up. There are plenty of them, but apparently a lot of people don't know that they can get them.
- Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor. 2013. Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus. PLOS ONE 8(10):e78213. 14 pages. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078213 [PDF]


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Trophy awarded annually to the migrant hostel in Victoria with the best dining room Christmas decorations. This award was created by Commonwealth Hostels Ltd and was judged by General Manager. In 1975 it was awarded to the Enterprise Migrant Hostel.
The Enterprise Migrant Hostel, in Springvale, operated from December 1969 until it was closed on 22 December 1992. Enterprise was managed by Commonwealth Hostels Limited (renamed Commonwealth Accommodation and Catering Services in 1978). Enterprise and other hostels were the first home for many new assisted migrants and refugees, upon arrival in Australia. Migrants were charged for their accommodation and meals according to their income or had their tariffs deducted from their social security benefit until they were able to secure employment. The hostels were designed to assist migrants in establishing a new life in Australia by providing a period of subsidised accommodation, while they secured work and found housing.
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Metal two-handled cup with stem and round end. Brown plastic hollow base.
Statement of Significance/ Technical significance:
The stories of migrants and the organizations that assisted them comprise a significant part of Australian post-war history. Since World War II, thousands of government-assisted migrants and refugees have experienced arrival and accommodation at the migrant hostels. Yet migrant hostels are an under-documented area of Australia's immigration history - with the exception of Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre, which was managed by the Department of Immigration. This collection is significant as it contributes to filling the gap in knowledge about the Commonwealth migrant hostels, which were a function of the Department of Labour and National Service. This collection and the accompanying archival documents are a rare find. Items from the migrant hostels were often sold or disposed of by the government soon after they were closed-down. Many migrants have kept photos taken during their stay at the hostels but day-to-day items belonged to the Company and were returned to the hostel upon departure. This collection has the potential enhance collections in cultural institutions such the NSW Powerhouse Museum and Migration Heritage Centre (Villawood [Westbridge] and Cabramatta hostels).
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Donation from Victor Sikich, July 2009
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Commonwealth Hostels Ltd., Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1960-1976
Awarded To
Enterprise Hostel, Springvale, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1975
Inscriptions (front): "A.W. Penna Trophy for Best Decorated Dining Room/ Nunawading hostel 1960/ Nunawading 1961/ Preston 1962/ Maribyrnong 1963" (Back): "Preston Hostel 1964/ Preston Hostel 1965/ Preston Hostel 1966/ Preston Hostel 1967/ Preston Hostel 1968/ Preston Hostel 1969, Preston Hostel 1970/ Eastbridge Hostel 1971, Eastbridge Hostel 1972, Eastbridge Hostel 1973/ Midway 1974/ Enterprise 1975/ Eastbridge 1976"
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160 mm (Width), 161 mm (Depth), 340 mm (Height)
This collection is also accompanied by a small archive consisting of company magazines, financial documents, and material relating to personnel and residents. 'A worthwhile Enterprise: the migrant hostel in Springvale', Exhibition Catalogue, Museum Victoria (2009); Powerhouse Museum website: [Link 1] Migration Heritage Centre website: [Link 2] ; Agency Notes for CA 1649 "Commonwealth Hostels Limited, Central Office", National Archives Australia: [Link 3]
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Forty Chances
Forty Chances
Finding Hope in a Hungry World
By Howard G. Buffett; Howard W. Buffett; Warren Buffett (Foreword by)
Simon & Schuster, Hardcover, 9781451687866, 443pp.
Publication Date: October 22, 2013
If someone granted you $3 billion to accomplish something great in the world, what would you do? In 2006, legendary investor Warren Buffett posed this challenge to his son Howard G. Buffett. Howard set out to help the most vulnerable people on earth--nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security. And Howard gave himself a deadline: forty years to put the resources to work on this challenge.
40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World captures Howard's journey. Beginning with his love for farming, we join him around the world as he seeks out new approaches to ease the suffering of so many. Each of the forty stories here provides a compelling look at the lessons Howard learned, ranging from his own backyard to some of the most difficult and dangerous places on Earth. But this message goes beyond the pages of this book, it's also a mindset: a way of thinking that speaks to every person wanting to make a difference. It's about reasons to hope and actions we can take. 40 Chances "recounts Howard's personal and professional experiences in surprisingly candid and colorful fashion...successfully blending personal stories with a tough look at the struggle to fight domestic food scarcity and world hunger...A satisfying read" (Publishers Weekly) that provides inspiration to transform each of our limited chances into opportunities to change the world.
"The Jewish Talmud teaches that if you save one life you save the entire world. Howard Buffett has lived this prescription, and in the process has saved the world many times over. 40 Chances illustrates that his commitment and passion to help folks out of poverty, at home and especially in the developing world, has had a remarkable and measurable impact on the lives of farmers and rural citizens worldwide. 40 Chances should be a primer for all our citizens on how one man has the passion to save the world, and how we can all follow his lead in our own way."
-Secretary Dan Glickman
"Whether we are driving his combine in Illinois, meeting with farmers in Guatemala, walking across the border from Mexico to the US, or indulging in our shared loved for Dairy Queen, a day spent with Howard Buffett is one spent learning and laughing. Howard's intellect is only surpassed by the size of his heart. This book will give readers a chance to learn from him in the way that I have and form their own plan for making the most of the 40 Chances we all have."
-Eva Longoria, Actress and Philanthropist
"This book is like Howard himself: inspiring, positive, and full of great stories. If you ever find yourself doubting that we can change the world for the better, read this and your optimism will return."
-Tony Blair
"Howard has three passions: his devotion to the fight against hunger and misery; his love for farming; and his ability as a photographer and writer to share his amazing journey. Through the stories in 40 Chances, Howard invites all of us to join his efforts to fight poverty."
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Strike the Gold
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|Calumet Farm
|BCC Stable
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|Strike The Gold is a thoroughbred racehorse out of Majestic Gold by Alydar. He was born around 1988 in the United States, and was bred by Calumet Farm.
|Major wins
Kentucky Derby (1991)
Blue Grass Stakes (1991)
Nassau County Handicap (1992)
Pimlico Special (1992)
|Horse (Equus ferus caballus)
|Last updated on January 8, 2007
Strike the Gold (foaled 1988) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1991 Kentucky Derby. Upon the death of 1987 Derby winner Alysheba in March 2009, Strike the Gold became the oldest living Kentucky Derby winner.
A son of U.S. Racing Hall of Famer, Alydar, Strike the Gold was purchased in 1990 for $500,000 from breeder Calumet Farm by B. Giles Brophy, William J. Condren, and Joseph M. Cornacchia who raced him under the name BCC Stable. Competing at age three in the Florida Derby, their promising colt finished second behind the 1990 U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt Fly So Free but ahead of third-place Hansel. Two weeks later in mid April, Strike the Gold won the Blue Grass Stakes. However, for the first leg of the U.S. Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby, Hansel was the betting favorite with Fly So Free the second choice. Both horses disappointed; Fly So Free finishing fifth and Hansel tenth to winner Strike the Gold. Second place went to the still lightly regarded, but future great, Best Pal. Mane Minister finished third as he would in all three of the Triple Crown races.
Strike the Gold wound up sixth in the Preakness Stakes in a race won by Hansel. In the Belmont Stakes, Strike the Gold drew the outside post and at one point in the race was twenty lengths back of the frontrunner. He fought back to battle Hansel in the homestretch ending up a head behind in second place. Later that year, Strike the Gold finished third in both the Jim Dandy Stakes and the Jockey Club Gold Cup. In all, after his Kentucky Derby win, Strike the Gold lost twelve straight starts which resulted in a bitter dispute between his three owners over his handling by trainer Nick Zito. In May 1992, the four-year-old horse was sold at auction for $2.9 million, bought by William J. Condren and Joseph M. Cornacchia, two of the original three partners. Just five days after the sale, with Zito still as their trainer of choice, Strike the Gold rebounded to win the Pimlico Special over Fly So Free and five other top horses. A few weeks later he scored another victory in the Nassau County Handicap over Pleasant Tap then the two horses reversed their positions in the Jockey Club Gold Cup.
Raced at age five in 1993, Strike the Gold's best showing was a third in the Nassau County Handicap that he had won the previous year. In mid season he was retired to breeding duty at Ben P. Walden Jr.'s Vinery near Midway, Kentucky but his progeny never met with much racing success. By 1997 his stud fee stood at only $15,000 and in 1999 he was sold to the Jockey Club of Turkey to serve as a stallion at the Turkish National Stud. There his mating with Free Trade, a daughter of Shareef Dancer, produced the 2001 colt Sabirli who set records in Turkish sprint and mile races and earned more than US$ 5,5 million.
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I'm not sure what's weirder about this story: the fact that a member of KISS is appearing on Scooby-Doo, or the weird photo of Paul Stanley that accompanies it. "I think I've earned the right to enjoy myself, and it seemed like fun to be part of this Scooby-Doo Halloween special," Stanley says in the story.
I know it's so wrong, but it feels so right: I watched Viva La Bam on MTV last night and laughed until I cried. Bam Margera's parents are even more laid-back than Tom Green's parents.
"On a bad day, I look in the mirror and see my ten-pound-heavier alter ego. Her name is Bertha. On a really bad day, Bertha sees her two-hundred-pound-heavier alter ego. Her name is Brian Dennehy."
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I'd never heard of LowCulture.com until I read their funny take off on VH1's I Love the '80s, I Love 6 Months Ago. Read what the gang has to say about trucker hats, Ashton and Demi and more.
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I Don't Hate The Man Who Called Me A Chink, I Pity Him
I grew up in Whitby, Ont., a predominantly white city.
Asians in my high school were few and far between, and anyone who was black sat in an area dubbed "Cafrica" in the cafeteria (for the most part, voluntarily). The town is even nicknamed "White-by" because of the high population of Caucasians.
Growing up, I didn't experience too much racism, aside from the occasional chant of "ching, chong, chang" and the pulling of eyes from ignorant classmates.
But over the weekend, for the first time in 27 years, a random man called me a chink at the local grocery store.
The word chink, for those who don't know, is an ethnic slur targeted towards Asians, particularly those of Chinese descent.
He said it in passing, muttering it under his breath as if he was disgusted or annoyed. I was in the middle of texting a friend when it happened. Rage and shock filled inside of me. Who the hell was this racist man and how dare he use this slur towards me?
I contemplated throwing back a retort, but he had already walked away. So I followed him. I followed him, while furiously texting my friend what had just happened, and I Snapchatted a video of him before looking him straight in the eye while walking by him.
Seeing everyone put him down didn't make me feel better. In fact, it made me feel worse.
My body was shaking from anger, but also in fear from the negativity that shot from his eyes. That fear quickly turned to more rage, and I hit "Add to Story" on Snapchat, writing, "This man called me a chink. Fuck you." I then posted an image of him on Facebook, explaining the story. The post was flooded with messages of support from friends of all races, something that was greatly appreciated.
But most of the messages were quick to attack the man (just like I did), saying he was old, sad, lonely, disgusting, looked drunk, probably had mental illness, etc.
Seeing everyone put him down didn't make me feel better. In fact, it made me feel worse. Something felt wrong fighting negativity with more negativity. Verbally attacking him did not make the situation better, and encouraging those attacks made me just as bad as him.
I promptly deleted my Snapchat video and hid my Facebook post.
I am in no way saying his behaviour is acceptable, but what I've learned through the years is that hatred and discrimination is taught and learned, and it is very difficult to break out of it if that's all you know. And I am fairly certain that is all that man knows.
I am lucky enough to have been raised by a mother who taught me to accept everyone, and to never discriminate a person based on race, skin colour, sexual orientation or size. Coming from a Chinese family, this is usually quite rare.
This man and many others, however, probably didn't have the same luxury, therefore living a life of ignorance. For this reason, I genuinely feel sad for him and for those who are in similar positions. Because even though he is very obviously racist, it's unfortunate he is unable to see and appreciate the diverse country we live in.
In the end, sending positivity his way was the only thing that made me cool down and let go of the incident. Staying angry and sending hate his way wasn't going to help me or change him. And at the end of the day, the world needs more love and acceptance, not more hatred and discrimination.
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Even teens with the same identity -- be it racial or gender -- can be guilty of bullying and discrimination. Ontario's Ministry of Education defines bullying as "a form of repeated, persistent, and aggressive behaviour directed at an individual or individuals that is intended to cause (or should be known to cause) fear and distress and/or harm to another person's body, feelings, self-esteem, or reputation."
Social media can be a platform for bullying to continue even after school is out. Cyber bullying occurs when young people take malicious actions online. through chat rooms, email, social sites and instant messaging.
"You don't need to go into full confessional mode, but have fun with it, if that helps. Or be perfectly honest," Author Jonathan R. Miller said. Miller pens e-books with multi-ethnic characters and themes. You don't have to talk about all the nuances of your family tree every time you're asked about your background, He said. That can be exhausting. Find something that works for you personally.
"I like the word 'mixed' because it's a messy word, and in my experience growing-up mixed is exactly that," Miller said. He suggests that it's important to allow yourself to truly wrestle with questions of identity in environments you consider safe.
If you are struggling with your identity, you don't have to tell the whole world, but confide in a friend that you trust. Having someone to confide in is important. "If you can, find someone who you can talk to about your most honest, ever-evolving, often-messy answer to the question, "What am I?" Miller said.
"Maybe you don't have anyone trustworthy to talk to honestly about your experiences. Write about them. It helped me, sometimes, to get those out," Miller said. It may not make a lot of sense initially and it might feel uncomfortably personal, but write. Keep a journal, write short stories and rename the characters, try your hand at poetry -- whatever feels best.
"You are likely being told at different times, more or less, to hurry up and get off the fence, pick a side and get on with it," Miller said. It's not necessarily a bad thing to be unsure of who you are, even if your peers seem to have their acts together, he said. Teenage years are discovery years. Miller also quoted author Rainer Maria Rilke: " 'Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.' That's good advice. Difficult to follow, but good."
When it comes to mixed heritage, "you don't have to be 'both' or 'other' or 'all of the above' all of the time. Sometimes the only way to figure out what you are is to choose one thing and be it for a while," Miller said. Explore how it feels to fully embrace a single aspect of your identity, for short period of time. See "what stick and what slides off." It's simply learning, Miller said.
"I can't tell you how many multi-racial people I've met who have chosen a single race or ignored race entirely and been perfectly content with the decision. A biracial friend of mine used to tell me, 'I'm black and white, yes, but I'm black. Period,' " Miller said. He said he knows many people have chosen to identify with only one aspect of their multi-background, while others have embraced the blend.
Find creative ways to occupy your time, Miller said. Join a group or do an activity (with others) where you are empowered to be who you are, instead of having to act how others think you need to be in order to fit in.
Take pride in your ethnic (culture, colour or religion) heritage. You have no control over your heritage, and you can't change that fact that this is who you are. So embrace it and learn as much as you can. "You may feel like it would be an insult to your heritage to embrace one aspect of yourself above the others, but trust me, it wouldn't be. This is important: it is not your job to uphold, with perfect equity and grace, all of the elements that went into your making," Miller said.
"Often they're the 'gatekeepers' that decide whether you're 'in' or 'out.' But what you can do is have a ready answer for the 'charges' they level against you. Whether you use humour, earnestness, or self-righteous anger, it helps to have your defense lined up and ready," Miller said. Sometimes people think all the "members" of their cultural or ethnic community must behave, dress and think a certain way. But as an individual, you can do whatever you want and find your own identity.
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The 34th lap of the German Grand Prix on Sunday was the exact midpoint of the season – and it perfectly summarised the racing thus far.
Mercedes' Nico Rosberg was waltzing comfortably towards his fourth victory of the season with barely a moment of worry, while team-mate Lewis Hamilton was driving the wheels off his car playing yet another game of catch-up in the face of adversity.
On his home ground, Rosberg topped off a period in which everything had gone right for him since the disappointment of retirement in the British Grand Prix a fortnight ago. He had married his longtime girlfriend, Vivian Sibold, in Monaco. He had signed a new multi-year contract with Mercedes. And he delighted in Germany's victory in the World Cup even if football's governing body Fifa refused to let him use a picture of the trophy on his new helmet. After 67 laps of racing yesterday, he had extended his points lead in the championship again.
They say that sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you; well, F1's ursine brethren seem to prefer the flavour of Hamilton to that of Rosberg.
In the end, the Briton finished 22.5 seconds adrift of the German and 0.7sec behind second-placed Valtteri Bottas in a Williams. Rosberg and Bottas both finished where they had started – first and second on the grid – but only made two stops.
F1 German Grand Prix - In pictures
F1 German Grand Prix - In pictures
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Nico Rosberg celebrates his home win
2/17 Grand Prix
Rosberg drives to victory
3/17 Grand Prix
Fernando Alonso takes powers forward
4/17 Grand Prix
Felipe Massa crashes out early on
5/17 Grand Prix
People in historic dresses perform prior to the race in Hockenheim
6/17 Qualifying
Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes is taken away on the back of a lorry after crashing out of Q1
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7/17 Qualifying
Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes is dragged out of the barrier at the Sachs hairpin
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8/17 Qualifying
Lewis Hamilton crashes out of Q1 for the Germand Grand Prix
9/17 Qualifying
Lewis Hamilton hits the barrier at the Sachs hairpin in Hockenheim
10/17 Third practice
A Red Bull mechanic awaits Daniel Ricciardo to come to pit lane
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11/17 Third practice
Sebastian Vettel has his car wheeled into the garage by his Red Bull mechanics
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12/17 Second practice
Nico Rosberg topped the timesheets once again at the end of second practice
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13/17 Second practice
Williams test driver Susie Wolff was in action on Friday for the second Grand Prix weekend running
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14/17 Second practice
Actor and Le Mans driver Patrick Dempsey is a guest driver in the supporting Porsche Supercup race at Hockenheim this weekend
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15/17 First practice
Daniel Ricciardo against the Hockenheim forest backdrop
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16/17 First practice
Fernando Alonso sweeps through turns two and three at Hockenheim
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17/17 First practice
Nico Rosberg topped the timesheets after first practice
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Hamilton, meanwhile, had made one more, which would roughly account for the 22.5sec deficit to Rosberg by the finish, but in achieving that he had climbed from 20th place on the grid to third.
As Rosberg made a perfect start and Bottas kept hold of second, there was drama when fourth fastest qualifier Kevin Magnussen inadvertently tipped Bottas's partner Felipe Massa upside down in the first corner.
The Brazilian was unharmed and unhappy, but like everything else dramatic in this tremendous race, it happened behind Rosberg and Bottas, who cleared off quickly and made it home with just those two pit stops.
But it was a fist fight for the final podium position as all of their rivals were forced to stop three times.
Always out of kilter with the others because he started on the soft rubber where they had to start on the supersofts on which they had qualified, Hamilton's afternoon was all about catching up and damage limitation. Which meant being forceful, yet also canny.
You might not have thought of the latter when a brilliantly opportunistic bit of overtaking saw him rub Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari as he dived past both the red car and Daniel Ricciardo's Red Bull going into the Spitzkehre hairpin on the 13th lap. Or at the same place on the 30th when a clash with Jenson Button's McLaren left him with a damaged front wing endplate which severely compromised his car's downforce.
He waved an apology to his old team-mate when he did finally overtake moments later.
At that stage Hamilton seemed unlikely to make the podium, as his second set of the more durable soft tyres had only lasted 16 laps, and when he made the mandatory switch to a set of supersofts on the 42nd lap he faced a Herculean task to make them last 23. But then Adrian Sutil spun and stalled his Sauber exiting the final corner on the 50th lap.
If ever there was a need for the safety car that seemed to be it, but the deployment never happened and it was an unacceptable three minutes before marshals finally moved it to heave the stricken vehicle out of the way.
Mercedes called Hamilton into the pits for the third time to switch to a second set of supersofts that now only had to make 16 laps.
That was a crucial call that dropped him from third to fourth behind Fernando Alonso's Ferrari, but the Spaniard's attempt to make it on two stops was similarly doomed, and once Hamilton had disposed of him he set fastest laps clawing his way up to Bottas. But by the time he caught the Finn those tyres were finished and he could not muster the speed going on to the straights to challenge the Williams.
"I had great fun," Hamilton said, though he did not look as if he really had. "It was very hard to get through the pack safely. I had a little bit of a collision with Jenson. I honestly thought he was opening the door to let me past, so my bad on judgement there.
"But it was very hard to overtake at the end; Valtteri was just so fast on the straights," he added. "But I'm very happy I got some points today."
Not as happy as Rosberg, of course, who was beaming afterwards. "Getting married was definitely the best thing that's happened for me recently, the best feeling," he said. "But of course everything has been special.
"I've been really fortunate, so many positive things happening in the last week and a half. It's been really enjoyable, and also this weekend with pole and the win. Just awesome. It's been a very, very special day today."
And not as happy as the spectators, who were treated to some more fabulous wheel-to-wheel place-swapping between Alonso and Sebastian Vettel, and later between Alonso and Ricciardo. Real mano a mano stuff that was clean and represented everything that is grand about grand prix racing.
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The foundation trust model: death by a thousand cuts
For more than a decade, staff across the NHS toiled in the pursuit of foundation trust status. Monitor's tests were unforgiving, but the prize was worth fighting for: freedom from the grasp of government and a brand that stood for quality and professionalism.
Those days seem long behind us. The foundation trust pipeline dried up as NHS funding was hit by the economic downturn. This, along with a series of changes to government policy, has eroded the freedoms that foundation trusts fought so hard for.
It is now increasingly difficult to describe a clear distinction between foundation trusts and NHS trusts, with foundation trusts subject to greater central control than at any time in their history. The new NHS planning guidance published in December 2015 and recent letters from national bodies to trust chief executives hammer the final nails into the coffin.
If this is a memorial, let us pause to reflect on the concept of foundation trusts and their initial promise. Alan Milburn's White Paper of 2002, Delivering the NHS Plan, pledged to liberate foundation trusts from central control so that they could innovate and improve patient care. They would be free to determine their own pay, to retain surpluses and to decide how to use their assets. Rather than looking to the Department of Health for guidance, they would be accountable to their communities in a more patient-centred NHS.
Foundation trusts may have been an initiative of Labour under Tony Blair, but they were enthusiastically adopted by the coalition government in 2010. Andrew Lansley's White Paper, Liberating the NHS, promised again to release NHS providers from central government micro-management and to increase foundation trusts' freedoms to create the largest social enterprise sector in the world.
But in practice the model was under threat from its conception. Foundation trusts inhabited a precarious halfway house between the public and private sectors: independent corporations on paper yet entirely dependent on the state in reality – for funding, capital investment and bailouts when things went wrong (the original plan to create an independent NHS bank was discreetly abandoned).
It was never going to be easy for a single payer and monopoly providers to maintain an arm's length, contractual relationship. In the private sector, such close mutual dependency often ends in merger (see Klein's famous case study on General Motors' acquisition of Fisher Body). For its part, the Office for National Statistics was never convinced that foundation trusts were really autonomous companies and actually kept them on the public balance sheet.
Those tensions were apparent from the start. In theory, foundation trusts were supposed to be subject to powerful local governance by their members. In practice, the Department of Health and regulators played the main role in determining their priorities and overseeing their performance. Monitor could end a chief executive's career; foundation trust governors could not. So the leaders of many foundation trusts continued to look upwards to Whitehall for direction, rather than inwards and outwards to their staff and their communities as had been envisaged.
Nevertheless, some successful foundation trusts retained a meaningful degree of autonomy throughout the 2000s. Organisations such as Salford Royal or the Royal Marsden – who hit key targets and balanced the books – rarely felt the regulators' stick. Conversely, those who breached Monitor's terms of authorisation could expect a ratchet of increasingly invasive intervention, from requirements to develop sustainability plans to the replacement of board members.
That compact crumbled as the financial situation deteriorated. Government pushed prices below any reasonable level. Cash-strapped commissioners withheld funding. And large swathes of the foundation trust sector found themselves in breach of Monitor's financial rules and subject to intervention, not through any fault of their own in many cases, but because of the gap between funding and the real cost of services.
The planning guidance and associated communications from the national bodies dispel any remaining illusions that foundation trusts, even the handful who are still in good financial health, are autonomous organisations. The planning guidance officially re-establishes a planned economy (as was always the case for the trust sector) where money is moved around local NHS organisations to ensure their sustainability.
It is now clear that all foundation trusts, even those with good finances, must accept control totals for capital expenditure. So that last remaining freedom, the right to decide what to do with their surpluses, has been lost. Meanwhile, the national bodies are micro-managing the details of how foundation trusts deliver services more than ever before, to the extent of directing them on staffing cover and annual leave planning.
The NHS veers between centralisation and decentralisation with alarming speed but dull predictability. Fundamental features of our tax-funded system pull government and providers into a hierarchical relationship. But dissatisfaction with public sector hierarchies – their unresponsiveness and inability to innovate – is never far from the surface. Hence the stream of policy papers promising, and failing, to set providers free.
Command and control from Whitehall may appear to some the only realistic course in the current crisis. But what are the chances that it creates the next Salford Royal, Frimley Park, Southcentral or Jönköping?
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FT's were on a path to privatisation/charitiblisation/MBO's of large hospitals including mental health. It is a National Health Service and we all should benefit from both national and regional planning so it never made any sense to deliberately exempt some of the better hospital from these processes. Sorry Mr Milburn not even Jeremy Hunt was ready for creeping privatisation.
"Monitor could end a chief executive's career; foundation trust governors could not" - this is Key. As long as you do not cut the umbilical cord there is no way they will find how to swim. No way! I am researching exactly this area. Would you be interested in knowing more? Please contact me in my email
This analysis is depressingly accurate and a similar account could have been given for why NHS Trusts didn't achieve their greater freedoms when they were created in the early 1990s.
The current situation is compounded by at least two interrelated factors alluded to in the blog. First, the failure of the majority of FTs to realise the benefits from their greater freedoms in the early days of the FT movement. And second, the lack of a coherent approach to the development of corporate management within FTs, particularly at board level.
Although Monitor did more than any other national body to develop boards, this was - with hindsight - not followed through with a robust programme of corporate development within each organisation. One of the consequences of that we are likely to see develop in the current climate is the differential impact of boards across the NHS and the development of stronger, direct executive links between CEOs and national regulators. In summary, the develop of a corporate management approach will rapidly emerge as an increasingly significant challenge for the NHS.
I agree, this is a depressing turn of events. General Motors aside, many countries successfully blend public and private provision without needing to dominate or nationalise; the benefit for patients and outcomes is evident in superior clinical outcomes.
I agree with N Goodwin that the trusts may have planted the seeds of their destruction through timidity. But Milburn's original Spainish insight was transformed into a pale model of independence. Elsewhere, Canada's hospitals, while creatures of provincial legislature, broadly enjoy high levels of independence despite a monopsony payer; Germany has successful hospitals as does France and the Netherlands; Malaysia is the home to IHH, the world's second largest hospital chain; do we need to mention the US? And so it goes. All operate within both public and private healthcare systems. If I were looking around for world-class hospitals, there are higher performing models in other countries, what lessons would I gather from the NHS?
Having in the past taught hospital management, and conducted hospital performance reviews, I would say there is still a lack in the UK high level hospital / healthcare management degrees and suitable career paths for high performing individuals to move into executive roles. It sometimes seems amateurish.
The current state of affairs may be more a pecularity to how the NHS mandarins worry about their own response to crises. Fear drives actions such as we're seeing and the consequence is to constrain managerial freedoms to innovate, which in the end provides the evidence that state intervention was needed in the first place.
Even the most ambitious organisations eventually learn to stop struggling when the regulatory and bureaucratic chains become too heavy.
All I can reflect back is that if freedoms are good for prison or school governors, what is the problem with hospitals. Such policy incoherence is breathtaking.
I worked in a Trust determined to get Foundation status and it was all about balancing the books; quality of service was low on their agenda and some services suffered to the extent that they have never recovered. Trusts nationally told the DOH that they needed fewer nurses (cost saving again), training numbers were decreased and they are now having to fill gaps with expensive agency staff.
Yet another example of how top-down reforms have had a malign effect and wasted billions of pounds. See Lale & Temple J. Roy. Soc. Med. 2016 109(1), 18-26.
At last, somebody has mentioned that magic word 'Governor' - thanks Stella.
If ever there was a need to place a large magnifying glass over their powers, duties and delivery it is now.
To have their Chair the same person as the Chair of the Trust is beyond belief ...'independence', 'holding them to account' ...really, doesn't LOOK good.
No one is saying that there is malpractice but what a recipe for potential disaster. Openness, fairness etc etc - how do you convince anyone that this is going on?
Little is heard of their demands, desires or otherwise to expose when problems are finally aired nationwide. How many sit there hood winked through presentations by Trusts and nod pleasantly in the Trusts direction having first put on their rose coloured specs?
Well meaning people I have no doubt but they are our direct representatives.... what of reality?
I will bring it back to 'basics'. The Monitor is accountable to the Jeremy Hunt MP Secretary of State for Health, if any individuals is unhappy with their 'performance' you may take your complaint to the Minister.
The 'Monitor' is failing in one of his responsibilities? he is failing to have any mechanism in place in engaging the Public in the debate of 'Health & Social Care' why is he NOT aware patients 'Health & Social Care' needs are NOT improving, brought about to some extent to NHS Trusts having to sign up to 'efficiency' savings, while experiencing a 'deficit'.
The 'MONITOR' is NOT truly independent.
The role of Governors? for the most is status, my colleague is a Governor, thirty years experience, however others within this TRUST have absolutely no idea what the CEO is talking about, the same goes for elected Councillors in LA positions.
My final comment is this, why are standards falling for the Mentally ill? many are 'invisible' to the system, while at the same time the 'MONITOR' will write another report on his 'personal' views regarding 'integration'. it's getting better!
'Vanguards' who are they? they are supposed to be an elite group of individuals acting as a 'steering' group' for others. Hampshire have such a group, however a Carer sought my help for her son, the Health & Social Care was practically 'non existent' this individuals was previously on a CTO, where does the 'MONITOR' 'fit into this' and how would he know about the ' practically non existent 'Health and Social Care' shown to this individual and many others,
The 'MONITOR' must raise his profile to the General Public, then his Report may contain the 'TRUTH'.
The 'MONITOR' is 'not fit for purpose' his only interest is money, and nothing else, because that is his MAIN 'JOB'
I agree there should be an executive line between CEOs and monitor in reality there is no relationship they are a regulator - and have the mechanistic levers of regulation operated by individuals with little or no service exposure. The TDA do seem to recognise the importance of relationships which in any sector and particularly in healthcare are the key ingredient to constructive working.
N. Goodwin, your conclusion brings an element that could be part of the article. Thank you for the addition.
Thanks Ben for your blog, you draw attention to an important issue and summarise recent announcements well. But it shouldn't be forgotten that a foundation trust is a just a legal form of body corporate that is required to have a board of directors responsible, a council of governors drawn mostly from the membership and a compliant constitution. The legal form allows for the possibility of good governance because it requires a unitary board that is answerable for what the organisation does and a council of governors to represent the interests of the public and to hold the board to account. Like any other organisation it depends on the skills of its leadership and staff to succeed and like any other legal form of organisation it is not guaranteed to succeed. The model has the advantage that all powers of the organisation rest with the board which allows proper corporate governance as practiced in the private sector rather than the watered down, often second guessed version that would seem to be finding favour at present. The strong link from boards through governors to the membership and the broader community facilitates strong local accountability promotes both vigilance in stewardship of vital public services and responsiveness to needs of those who use those services.


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The founding family of a business that started out as a Leicester market stall selling curtains pocketed £103m yesterday when the firm floated on the London Stock Exchange with a value of £340m.
Jean Adderley, who founded the company with her husband Bill in 1979 and retired six years ago, floated a 30 per cent stake, or 60.3 million Dunelm shares, with institutional investors at 170p a share. The rest of the business, which sells curtains, kitchenware and towels, remains in the ownership of the Adderley family. The stock rose on its debut to close at 185p.
The £103m windfall comes on top of a £50m dividend the Adderleys paid themselves recently. Ms Adderley is left with a 7.5 per cent stake in the 82-strong chain, branded Dunelm Mill, while her husband, a non-executive director, retains a 50 per cent holding and their son Will, who runs the business, has 12.5 per cent.
The 34-year-old chief executive said "Dunelm has been rapidly growing, and the IPO will significantly raise the company's profile and will help support the business in the next stage of its growth. We are committed to the further roll-out of our successful superstore format and believe we have the systems, team and culture in place to enable us to achieve this."
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The initial public offering was priced towards the top end of the anticipated 150p to 175p range. A spokes-woman said the family decided against pricing the float at the top of the range because it wanted committed long-term investors rather than short-term investors like hedge funds.
The float,three times oversubscribed, brought relief to the market, after the recent cut-price flotation of the travel firm Hogg Robinson which listed its shares at half the planned price.
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