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I've gotten really annoyed with the recent spate of movie remakes. Do we really need to see Channing Tatum in a reboot of "21 Jump Street"? Probably not. But then I watch previews for actually new original movies — like the trailer for this new flick called "ATM" — and it makes me long for another overblown "Charlie's Angels" sequel. At first, I thought, there's no way this could be real, but then I remembered that in 2002 Colin Farrell made a similarly ridiculous movie called "Phone Booth," in which he was stuck inside a phone booth for the length of the film. [IMDB]

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By Julie Sabatier
Portlanders lined up to see What the Bleep Do We Know: A Quantum Fable for over six weeks after its debut in McMenamins theaters in late February. The documentary-science-fiction hybrid was filmed locally and includes interviews with scholars, scientists and mystics on big questions such as Why are we here? and What is God?
Its a different style of movie altogether, said Peter Boicourt, film buyer for the McMenamins theaters. After he saw the numbers from Yelm, Washington, where What the Bleep first opened, Boicourt said he knew the film was something extraordinary. It seemed worth taking a risk on an unknown group of filmmakers, he said, especially since some of the scenes take place in the historic Bagdad Theater.
The fictional portion of the film stars Marlee Matlin who plays Amanda, a deaf woman going through an Alice-in-Wonderland-style mid-life crisis. Footage of Amandas unraveling life blends with scientific and mystical theories from a variety of perspectives on how our thoughts affect the world around and within us. Among the theorizing voices are renowned quantum physicists including University of Oregon professor Amit Goswami and mystics such as JZ Knight, who claims to be channeling the 35,000-year-old spirit of an Atlantean god called Ramtha.
Science has been saying the mind affects reality for quite some time, said writer and director William Arntz. This is the first non-fantasy film that not only says this, but shows mind/matter interaction and does it in a thoroughly entertaining way.
William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, and Mark Vicente, who wrote, produced and directed the film together, are all followers of Ramthas self-actualizing ideology. The mystical being is never mentioned in the film and Knights name and credentials, along with those of the other interviewees, are deliberately withheld until the end. For the most part, the film avoids a didactic tone, encouraging viewers to seek answers for themselves.
During the making of the film it was decided that what was important was the message, not the messenger, writes Arntz on the films official website (www.whatthebleep.biz). He has a point; knowing whos who in the chorus of voices has an impact on how we perceive what they have to say. I dont know about you, but when Im being asked to question everything from love to molecular structure, I like to know who is asking the questions. This is one reason I got more out of the movie upon a second viewing.
What the Bleep asks a lot of its audience and I certainly dont recommend going into it on an empty stomach. Each time I went to see it, I saw a few people walk out of the theater in the first half-hour, presumably because they were not ready to absorb 108 minutes of The Matrix meets Waking Life.
Putting into film what authors such as Stephen Hawking have used to fill books is a difficult task. In addition to documentary-style interviews and the fictional narrative, the film employs animation and computer graphics to break down complex scientific concepts, sometimes going so far as to oversimplify them. The fictional wedding scene, which attempts to show how people are addicted to their emotions, serves as a welcome comic interlude. The interviewees ability to laugh at themselves also helps to lighten the tone.
There is no out there out there, says Fred Alan Wolf, psychiatrist, writer and lecturer. The movie is peppered with such remarks, indicating the films awareness of its own limitations. The filmmakers chose to touch on various topics related to the nature of time, space and energy rather than plunging into one area of the discussion. Specialists in any of the fields the movie highlights will no doubt feel it fails to do justice to their métier. The scientists and pseudo-scientists from the fields of psychology, biology, physics, anesthesiology and healing essentially agree on one point: the world is filled with infinite possibilities and we dont know what all of it means, but we know it means something. The film serves as a tool for reexamining reality, leaving viewers both bewildered and enlightened. Just dont forget to question the film itself.
Julie Sabatier is a freelance writer and editor.
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Traffic signals make the most sense for intersection
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Re: �Traffic lights are only one solution to problem,� Feb. 6
Dear Editor,
As a civil engineer with almost 20 years experience of infrastructure works I feel obliged to comment, something I rarely do. I too live in Bayside, having recently moved from the UK.
The most cost-effective solution is to add a left-turn arrow to the existing lights, whilst Kimberly Border has a point and roundabouts are something I am very used to, it is likely to cost a vast amount more than adapting the existing lights.
My concern though was the engineer�s response that this will go out to tender. How can this possibly be good value for either the City or the taxpayer? There cannot be many contractors that are able to complete the work.
The amount �wasted� on preparing a specification, issuing tender documents, assessing the returned proposals and then issuing a contract for such a small project simply beggars belief.
A better method would be to offer a fixed-term contract for all traffic signal projects under $50,000 for two or five years.
That would represent better value for the City, less work for the City and less work for the contractor in qualifying for a bid, ultimately reducing all parties� costs.
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BRITISH MEDAL STOCK UPDATED 22nd OCTOBER
FIRST WORLD WAR MEDALS UPDATED 23rd OCTOBER
FOREIGN MEDAL STOCK UPDATED 28th OCTOBER
Overseas buyers: I can now accept payment through the Paypal system (plus 4% fee) - please contact me for further details. US Dollar checks are also accepted (see terms & conditions)
Books for sale: These are listed at the bottom of the References page (click on References button above)
About Charles Riley
I have been a professional numismatist since 1990. Until 2005 I was a cataloguer and auctioneer for two of
London's principal numismatic auctioneers, which included the cataloguing and sale preparation of the six thousand silver coins of the fifteenth century Reigate Hoard, sold at auction in 1992, and taking numismatic auctions in Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai as well as London. In 2005 I launched my independent coin and medal dealing business and consultancy, Charles Riley Coins & Medals. Independent successes have included placing a million pound collection of quality British coins on the London auction market, including of one of the finest examples of the famous New South Wales 'Holey Dollar' of 1813.
As an enthusiastic collector of coins since the 1970s, my initial collecting interests were in British and French medieval coinage. Latterly I developed a particular interest in Commemorative Medals both British and foreign.
Medalau yn yr iaith cymraeg
I am currently researching commemorative medals which feature the Welsh language,
with a view to publishing a catalogue. If you have any such medals please contact me.
I am a member of the British Numismatic Society, the British Art Medal Society, the British Numismatic Trade Association
Numismatic Services
of Coins and Medals: My stock is sold mainly through this website, and through having a table at various fairs (see below, under News). However not everything is listed on the website, so if you are looking for a coin or commemorative medal and don't see it here, please contact me. Currently I do not issue a printed retail list. Sale
Purchase of Coins and Medals: I am always keen to purchase coins and medals, be they individual items or collections. I live in Buckinghamshire, which is geographically well suited for visiting clients in the south and midlands of
England, as well as . I also travel the country widely. London
Valuation for Probate: This can be arranged for a fee dependent on the amount of work involved.
Auction cataloguing: As an auction cataloguer and auctioneer between 1990-2005, I am well placed to catalogue numismatic collections for auction, and can offer advice on all matters relating to the auction process.
Please note my new email address is firstname.lastname@example.com
BBC TV appearance: I had a small part in BBC TV's Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is on 18th May. It is now only available via a snippet on my Facebook page (see below)
Website stock listings: I am currently working on a massive stock update for this website. To make sure you receive notification of the update, please email me of your interest. The update will be sometime in July.
2015 - career anniversaries: 2015 marked a couple of milestones in my numismatic journey for which I issued this commemorative medal. It is available for purchase at just £5 plus registered postage, or will be free with any item ordered from this website. For further details click on the medal image or this link here.
There is a small selection of numismatic books for sale. These are offered on the References page, after the numismatic bibliography: do have a look - although small in number, it is quite an interesting selection - and excellent value!
Facebook: There is now a Facebook page called..."Charles Riley Coins & Medals". It has some photos not on this website and may have alerts as to website listings or events in my numismatic life. You can access it here.
"eBay": Whilst I have reservations about this online auction site, I still use it as a seller from time to time under the nom de guerre "Rodgarden".
My photograph: Apparently some people like to know what the person they are dealing with actually looks like, so now you can find out by scrolling down to the bottom of the References page, below the "Books for Sale" section, or simply clicking here. Additionally, recently I unearthed the photograph here of my early days in the coin auction business at Glendining and Company in central London which I'm putting on this website for a bit of fun.
Anything else?: An online valuation company I work for has published a profile of me which gives the interested reader more background detail than is available on my own website. See here.
Coin Fairs
2017 – dates for the diary
22 & 23 September Coinex The Millennium Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London W1K 2HP
4 November London Coin Fair Holiday Inn, Coram Street, London WC1N 1HT
Oxford Numismatic Society
The Society meets about 8 times a year usually very informally over lunch at The King's Arms, The Moors, Kidlington OX5 2AJ (north of Oxford) at 12pm. The next meeting is on 17th June. Additional information is available here. New members are welcome - please contact me for further details. A photograph of a typical meeting is available here.
Numismatically departed: brief farewells to selected numismatists can be found here.
Occasionally I scribble a few thoughts and sometimes they see the light of day in print. Here are a couple:
"Welsh Wizardry" (Coin News April 1997), here
"Notes on a Chance Find" (Coin News June 2014), here
The full notice advising of my thoughts on general requests for information, or 'discounted' prices has been moved to the foot of the Orders & Enquiries page, but briefly:
Please DON'T ask for general information, and certainly please DON'T ask for reduced prices. Thank you.
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I'm Female 24 Yrs Old. I had ABDOMINAL Lipo 1yr ago, since my surgery I have not gained or lost weight. Before Lipo. my stomach was even. My skin is a bit loose now but NOT AS BAD AS my Belly button. Since surgery my belly button Pop's out, I wear any tight shirt N U R able to C my belly button popping out! I spoke to a doctor he wanted to Cut around belly button and leave a BIG scar around it 2 fix the problem! Is there any OTHER OPTIONS to tighten up my stomach/belly button?
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Umbilical hernia and liposuction of the abdomen
It is possible that there is an umbilical hernia that became noticeable after liposuction of the abdomen. Repair may be accomplished via an incision at the umbilicus, and may result in a small scar at that location.
Hernia needs repair
It appears that you have an umbilical hernia the should be repaired. Currently it pops in and out without causing you trouble such as pain and nausea/vomiting. It should be repaired before those things occur. I would be helpful to sustain a stable weight so that your repair hold up over time.
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Umbilical hernia and abdominal liposuction
Either this is localized fat that was not removed or it is an umbilical hernia that requires repair. Given the recommendation of your current surgeon, it is my impression that is more likely the latter.
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Fat around belly button before liposuction may have hid protrusion.
Cannot tell from the one picture exactly what's wrong. Probably not caused by liposuction. I think it can be corrected with small scar.
Belly button protrudes after liposuction
There could be a chance that there is a coincidental umbilical hernia that may not have been caused by the liposuction. You should see a general surgeon who does laporscopic surgery to determine after an examination if this is the case and they can discuss with you how they can create smaller scars.
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Contract negotioations between the Utah Jazz and center Kyrylo Fesenko are ongoing. A deal could be reached this week, but nothing is imminent.
A mixture of NBA and European teams have shown recent interest in the third-year center from Ukraine. However, the Jazz remain the most likely option for Fesenko next season.
Utah has made a one-year, $1 million qualifying offer to Fesenko that has been on the table since July. The possibility also remains that Fesenko and the Jazz could soon agree to a multiyear deal.
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Indiana Football: Kevin Wilson Is the 2012 Big Ten Coach of the Year Thus Far
Urban Meyer is 58.3 percent of the way toward leading Ohio State to an undefeated season. Bill O'Brien is rushing headlong into the impossible task of keeping Penn State's head above water and doing it well. Brady Hoke has Michigan in stellar position to take the 2012 Legends Division title in a wildly contested race thus far.
Forget all of them. The real sideline star of the 2012 season continues to be Kevin Wilson at Indiana.
Who's your Big Ten coach of the year after Week 7?
But if that's all you're paying attention to, you're not really paying attention.
Indiana's four losses have come at a total of 24 points—and 15 of those points have come at the hands of bowl-eligible Northwestern, who saw a 27-point lead dwindle to eight points in that game before pulling away at the end. Similarly, Indiana erased a 13-point deficit against Ball State, and an Ohio State 18-point lead was cut to three with a minute to play.
The Hoosiers fight hard for 60 minutes—especially at points when bad teams begin to give up. And on a team that had 13 total wins and no bowl berths to its name in the four years prior, the temptation to give in to defeat must be even stronger than usual.
But no, thanks to a resilient offense—one that's throwing the ball better than anyone else in the Big Ten this year by a margin of over 60 yards per game—Indiana is staying in games and giving everyone it faces hell.
So, sure the Hoosiers are 0-2 in the Big Ten thus far. Lots of teams would be against Michigan State and Ohio State. Moreover, a lot of them would have a total margin of defeat of more than seven points.
And most of all, all of those teams would have a greater base of talent to start with than what Indiana has.
The close losses are terrific for recruiting. What better pitch can a coach of a traditionally sub-.500 program have than to take Ohio State to the limit, then turn to a top-level recruit and say, "We would have beaten the best team in the Big Ten if we had more guys like you around. Want to build something great?"
And that's not just idle speculation and imagination at work, either—a 4-star commit to Iowa just so happened to be in the house for Indiana's loss to Ohio State, and wouldn't you know it...
Indianapolis Pike DE David Kenney talks about his decommitment from Iowa and his visit to Indiana. bit.ly/TrszzM #IU #Hoosiers— Steve Wiltfong (@SWiltfong247) October 14, 2012
For the record, Kenney's father was hired by the Indiana coaching staff earlier in the year. 247Sports.com now lists Indiana as Kenney's favorite.
So the turnaround is coming. Kevin Wilson is leading it. And unlike Urban Meyer, who's got the Big Ten's best offensive player (Braxton Miller), best defensive player (John Simon) and best overall base of talent, Wilson's engineering his turnaround through coaching, coaching and more coaching.
Now, Wilson's going to need wins or this Coach of the Year talk is a non-starter. That's fine. Road games with Navy and Illinois are coming up next, both of which should be winnable (Navy is favored, but only by three points, while Illinois is horrifically bad). Then there's a home tilt with a physical but vulnerable Iowa squad.
3-0 in that stretch should lock up Coach of the Year honors for Wilson. 2-1 should keep him in the top tier. 1-2 or 0-3? Well, we'll always have mid-October. But for now, make no mistake: The best improvement and the best coaching in the Big Ten are happening in Bloomington, Indiana, thanks to one Kevin Wilson.
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Methane hydrates are fragile. At the sea floor the ice-like solid fuel composed of water and methane is only stable at high pressure and low temperature. In some areas, for instance in the North Atlantic off the coast of Svalbard, scientists have detected gas flares regularly.
The reasons for their occurrence were still unclear but one hypothesis was that global warming might cause the dissolution of gas hydrates.
Over the past years, comprehensive investigations by an international team of researchers led by scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have now shown that it is very likely that the gas flares are caused by natural processes.
"In 2008, when we observed the outgassing of methane for the first time, we were alarmed", reports Professor Christian Berndt, lead author of the study from GEOMAR.
"The gas originates from depths where the hydrates should normally be stable. But we knew that a relatively small warming might melt the hydrates", Berndt explains.
Thus, the key question was to find out what causes the outgassing. Step by step, several expeditions that took place in the following years helped to solve the mystery.
One of the most obvious assumptions was that the increasing global warming has already extended into these regions of the North Atlantic. However, the investigations partly carried out with the German research submersible JAGO, pointed clearly to natural causes.
"On one hand, we have found that the seasonal variations in temperature in this region are sufficient to push the stability zone of gas hydrates more than a kilometre up and down the slope," Professor Berndt explains.
"Additionally, we discovered carbonate structures in the vicinity of methane seeps at the seafloor", Dr. Tom Feseker from MARUM adds.
"These are clear indicators that the outgassing likely takes place over very long time periods, presumably for several thousand years", Feseker continues.
Does this mean that global warming has no impact on potential methane release from the seafloor off Svalbard? Certainly not, because over long periods of time the deep ocean will also warm up and in particular the polar regions are affected. Here, enormous amounts of methane hydrate are stored in the ocean floor.
"As a powerful greenhouse gas methane represents a particular risk for our climate. A release of large amounts of the gas would further accelerate global warming," says Prof.
Berndt. "Therefore, it is necessary to continue long-term monitoring, particularly in such critical regions as off Svalbard", the Geophysicist concludes.
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Actor Jason Alexander can't take back what he said, so he's apologizing.
Last Friday, Alexander was on The Late Late Show on CBS and told host Craig Ferguson that cricket was a "gay sport."
"You know how I know it's really kind of a gay game? It's the pitch. It looks like nothing — if you slow it slow motion ... It's the weirdest … It's not like a manly baseball pitch; it's a queer British gay pitch."
He has now apologized through his Twitter account.
"... I should know better. My daily life is filled with gay men and women, both socially and professionally. I am profoundly aware of the challenges these friends of mine face and I have openly advocated on their behalf. Plus, in my own small way, I have lived some of their experience. Growing up in the '70's in a town that revered it's school sports and athletes, I was quite the outsider listening to my musical theater albums, studying voice and dance and spending all my free time on the stage. Many of the same taunts and jeers and attitudes leveled at young gay men and women were thrown at me and on occasion I too was met with violence or the threat of violence.
So one might think that all these years later I might be able to intuit that my little cricket routine could make some person who has already been made to feel alien and outcast feel even worse or add to the conditions that create their alienation. But in this instance, I did not make the connection. I didn't get it ...
... So, I can only apologize and I do. In comedy, timing is everything. And when a group of people are still fighting so hard for understanding, acceptance, dignity and essential rights – the time for some kinds of laughs has not yet come. I hope my realization brings some comfort."
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
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A new boatbuilding universe evolvingPosted on Written by Reagan Haynes
In this depressed marine sales environment, manufacturers are making systemic overhauls to the way they build boats. The changes are affecting everything from where boats and engines are built to how they are built and sold. Some of the changes will be permanent, while others will linger long after the economy recovers, many believe.
Dealers could see significant changes in the way they do business, such as greater use of catalogs and Web sites, a trend toward smaller showrooms, and boats with fewer options and pushed-back model years.
"There's a huge benefit to a new production model, and it's all about the depths of the decline and the steepness of the rise," says Stephen Wolpert, vice president of global boat operations for Brunswick Corp., the world's largest boatbuilder. "When retail demand changes, the more inventory you have in the system, the more drastic the changes."
When demand drops by one boat, manufacturers should respond by building two fewer boats, says Wolpert. Such a business model bases manufacturing volume on consumer orders rather than dealer orders, and enables the industry to respond more quickly to sharp increases or decreases in demand.
"Once we get the excess inventory out of the system, we're never going to put it back, or not to the level that it's at," Wolpert says.
While manufacturers are dealing in entirely different ways with the sharp falloff in demand, there is one constant: Production is down just about everywhere. Retail sales are off around 50 percent, and a backlog of inventory is forcing dealers to scramble to unload model-year 2008, 2007 and even 2006 boats. Factories have furloughed workers and, in some cases, halted production for the foreseeable future – among them such established brands as Hatteras and Sea Ray.
Increasingly, manufacturers are pushing back rollout dates for 2010 models and trying to build more to order, in a way the boating industry hasn't seen in decades. The new model might benefit the industry in some ways, such as curtailing the excess inventory dealers have to slough off in tough times. But it also presents challenges to manufacturers who find themselves building more sporadically, at the risk of losing skilled workers and operating at a fraction of capacity during part of the year.
A 'blank sheet'
The end result could be a totally different approach to manufacturing, according to Thom Dammrich, president of the National Marine Manufacturers Association. "If you could start all over with a blank white sheet of paper, I don't think there's a person alive who would design the boating industry the way it was," says Dammrich. "This recession, or depression in the boating industry, is almost presenting people with a blank white sheet of paper."
Radical ideas are being explored, says Dammrich, including ditching model years altogether and building other products to fill in the gaps, such as windmill blades and bathtubs. And across the board, people are downsizing.
"Small is powerful at this point," says Peter Van Lancker, president of Hunt Yachts, a semicustom builder based in Portsmouth, R.I. "People can't get small fast enough in this industry right now."
Building to order
Volvo Penta began changing its domestic production system for engine manufacturing from a "make to stock" model to a "make to order" model about five years ago, says Clint Moore, president and CEO of Volvo Penta of the Americas. The changeover was completed about two years ago, spearheaded by "quarterbacks" Bob Apple and Randy Phelps, Moore says. The two have crafted a more efficient model, and Volvo has already seen three major benefits, he says.
First, quality has improved. When manufacturers are making to stock, errors that occur are more likely to get repeated, and faulty products are sometimes pushed into warehouses before they are caught, says Moore. When builders make to order, the errors are more likely to be corrected before the engine gets pushed into inventory.
Second, Volvo Penta used to have millions of dollars tied up in inventory, Moore says. The company used to turn inventory about 14 times a year, and now that has risen to about 200 turns a year. Before the switch, Volvo was inventorying about 2,000 gasoline engines, with an average value of about $4,500. Now the company has much better use of capital, since that inventory has been eliminated, Moore says.
Third, it is far more efficient to make to order, Moore says, because the company now carries only enough raw materials to build what it needs. With the fewest materials possible on hand, productivity "explodes," he says.
The strategy worked so well in Volvo's U.S. plants that the company implemented the same model about two years ago in Europe for its diesel engines. That changeover only took about a year because Volvo had learned so much from its domestic conversion.
"The good news was we went through the economic collapse with a very lean make-to-order environment," Moore says. "I'd hate to have made the change in the midst of the market collapse. For us, the key is that while we're glad that we did much of what we did when we did it, it's not enough for the future. Now we need to look at long-term structural changes to the business, and those require us to take new steps in the manufacturing environment."
Daily updates
Brunswick is making that changeover from dealer order to consumer order by monitoring engine registrations daily, and with monthly snapshots of dealer sales, Wolpert says. "We're pretty directly connected to the velocity of retail and, of course, the smaller that pipeline, the more connected we will get," he says.
Brunswick would also like to see more inventory-sharing by dealers, based on customer needs.
"In this industry, market contractions probably go deeper than most, and that's probably in part because there is so much field inventory," says Wolpert. "The challenges are maintaining employee morale, maintaining deliveries, maintaining quality, and that's all about keeping the employees involved and empowered and also measuring that beat of the customer and making sure everyone understands this is not a temporary thing; this is a new way of life."
Fewer options
One major change builders are looking at is offering fewer options or bundling them differently to reduce building costs and room for error.
Brunswick has been taking excess capacity off its lines, both permanently and temporarily, and consolidating some brands at one plant, Wolpert says. In addition, the company is trying to offer fewer option packages. "I do think that this industry does need to rationalize model options … [and] we need to change the way we present models and options to consumers," Wolpert says. With the range of options the industry has been offering, it's hard to have the right materials in the right plant at the right time, he says.
The option limitations probably won't apply to all segments. Larger yachts, for example, are a likely exception because customers are willing to wait the year or more that it takes to build a custom vessel.
Volvo Penta offered 141 variants on its five different displacements of gasoline engines in the first half of 2009, says Moore. "It was a bad habit that we found ourselves gradually getting into, and it's got to stop," he says.
"Over the years … customers got way too spoiled by us offering way too many variants on those displacements," Moore says. "We believe variants are going to be the enemy in this new world, and we have got to get much more into standardization."
In July, Volvo began offering only about 65 variants, and it is cutting that to 14 in the next two years.
Benefits of standardizing
Even the yacht world will see more standardization in coming years, Moore predicts.
Volvo's IPS pod drive system has allowed boatbuilders to streamline ordering and construction. With traditional inboards, builders have to order everything separately – from transmissions to struts to steering systems, Moore says. IPS allows them to fill all those requirements with one invoice. And in the old system, if something goes wrong, there is always finger-pointing. For example, transmission people might say it was the fault of the folks who built the shaft or rudder, and vice versa, Moore says. With IPS, that doesn't happen.
"It's been an enormous benefit to boatbuilders, including yacht builders," Moore says. "So it's not just in the high-volume market segments where standardization is coming; it's coming in custom boats as well, and it's a good thing."
IPS has certainly caught on in the five years since it was introduced. Volvo Penta just sold its 10,000th unit. "We never dreamt it would ramp up at that kind of pace," Moore says. "It's replacing traditional inboards very rapidly."
Standardization is not a bad word, Moore says. "It's not like the consumer is going to come in and has to choose between things which he or she might not have otherwise chosen," he explains. "What we can do is, we can bundle in a standard package that will please 99 percent of boaters. We know what's going to make the consumer happy; we've been doing it for 75 or 100 years. And the quality improves because the builder installs this every day, not every once in a while."
The model-year issue
Maine-based Sabre Yachts is working on two new models that are variations on existing models, says Bentley Collins, marketing vice president. But next year, there will be two new models released – a Back Cove 30 and a new boat in the mid-40s that Collins didn't want to elaborate on.
"We don't see this as a price issue; we think it's a confidence issue," says Collins. "In our opinion, bringing out new models is the fastest way to get where we need to be."
Several brands, including Everglades and Sea Ray, are waiting until September to push out 2010 models. Brunswick would like to permanently implement a fall release for all its brands, Wolpert says. That will help dealers clear inventory through the selling season before putting new models in showrooms.
Many Brunswick brands will offer minimal changes on 2010 models, Wolpert says. Builders that already had products in the works couldn't make that happen in 2010, but Wolpert thinks they will make less dramatic changes for 2011. But he also believes that trend will be temporary.
"With the amount of inventory out in the pipeline, you don't want to make drastic changes on the 2010 because that discourages people from buying a 2009," Wolpert says.
With many pushing back production or shelving major product overhauls until times improve, Dammrich and his dealer counterpart, Marine Retailers Association of America president Phil Keeter, also predict there will be fewer dealer meetings. There will be less in the way of new-product offerings, and the meetings will likely last one day instead of several.
Nordic Tugs' just-released 2010 model features only minor changes, says Bob Shamek, dealer sales manager for the Washington-based builder. "We're looking at ways to hold the style of the boat and the quality of the boat, but asking 'How can we do it in a more cost-effective way so we don't have to raise prices?' " says Shamek. "Other builders I talk to, both nationally and internationally, have a bit of the same philosophy now: 'We don't want to take away from the boat, but we've added and added and added for years, and not removed.' The cost was going up faster than the retail market could accept."
For example, when Nordic Tugs recently brought back its 26-footer, which had been discontinued, it decided to use African mahogany – a durable, stylish wood that is cheaper than traditional teak, says Shamek. The company is also going with a new brand of sanitary system, which is comparable to what had been used, but comes with a more competitive price tag.
"Our model has always been only to build boats when we get an order from the dealer," Shamek says. "[Production] is no easier to deal with whether you're building 5,000 boats a year or 50 boats a year. When the market stops buying and production drops from 90 percent to 3 percent or 10 percent or whatever it happens to be, it's still the same kind of hurt. You still don't have the same kind of volume to hit your break-even point. I don't care if you're Brunswick or Sabre or Chaparral or Nordic Tugs, you keep cutting it back to where the demand is, or you close your doors."
"There's almost no manufacturer today that is building boats that they don't have an order for," Dammrich says. "I think three to five years ago there were many manufacturers who only built to dealer orders, [but] today I think they're building to customer orders."
A year ago, manufacturers experienced increased demand during summer months, but kept production steady from month to month, Dammrich says. During off months, dealers essentially stored the boats for manufacturers until they sold inventory from the previous model year.
"I think it's going to be several years before we see sales and production levels get back to anything resembling what they were … and I think people today are trying to figure out how they're going to operate over the next five years," Dammrich says.
Do we need model years?
In European car dealerships, salesmen take customers back to a table and show them a catalog, Dammrich says, and the customer designs a car to pick up in eight weeks. Some think the boating industry will move in this direction.
One European boat dealer kept inventory low by using his customers' boats to show prospective buyers.
"The question has even been raised: 'Do we need model years?' " Dammrich says. "One of the big issues today is that there are new 2006s, '07s and '08s as well as 2009s in showrooms. If there were no model years, those would be equal in value because it's all new. It's pretty radical. Will it happen? I don't know. I think it's pretty remote, but it just exemplifies the types of questions people are asking. They're questioning everything."
This recession should teach the industry to differentiate between actual and perceived demand, Collins says. "What we [as an industry] have done is, we've overestimated demand and put too much inventory in our dealers' hands too quickly, and made it advantageous to them to buy more inventory," he says. "But at the end of the day, sell-through has to match production."
Dammrich says building more on demand might help keep inventory levels lower for dealers, but stopping and starting manufacturing definitely increases costs. "You've got an investment in this plant and, if you're not using it, you're not earning anything on that investment," he says.
Work force flexibility
One future challenge might be determining how to remove more workers from the building equation. "The less labor you need, the less that becomes a problem," Dammrich says.
The challenge now becomes asking skilled workers to come in sporadically to build and hoping they don't find steady work elsewhere. In an economy that is troubled from the bottom up, that challenge is less prevalent, but if other areas bounce back before boating, it could be increasingly difficult.
"Hopefully the boating industry will recover quickly enough that we can take back those people," Collins says. In late spring, about 95 percent of Sabre's crew was still available for work if needed.
Nordic Tugs now has all part-time employees, Shamek says. He says the company is fortunate that Washington State has a Shared Work for Employees program that allows people working at least 20 hours to collect unemployment without job-hunting.
Cutting employees is never easy, even when it's a question of survival, Dammrich says. "It's very painful when you have to let somebody go," he says. "Most of these manufacturers are in small towns, so these are the guys you see at grocery stores and at Little League. It's very hard to let somebody go because you know it impacts real people."
Morale boosters
Brunswick is developing ways to keep employees happy with the new production model.
With a later model-year release, workers will have more free time during the summer, which should boost morale, Wolpert says. "Changing that model release [timeline], in my opinion, is a key to allowing us to shift production while still maintaining good morale in the work force, and it makes sense for the dealer," Wolpert says. "I think this is something that we have to face and deal with for the health of the industry going forward."
Brunswick is also trying to keep an employee's annual earnings steady, Wolpert says. While the company would have to pay based on hours worked – different from a teacher model – Wolpert hopes to maintain about the same income for workers, if possible.
"We're not there yet, so I'm giving you a bit of an aspirational vision," Wolpert says. "We don't have this all worked out, but we do understand we have to concentrate our production in a six- or seven-month window, and we're committed to working that out for everyone. It benefits the consumer because the dealer has got incentive to clear his inventory during the selling season, and it benefits the employee because that's quality time with the family during the summer."
Volvo Penta contended with those employment challenges in several ways, Moore says. First, everybody in each plant was put on an incentive plan, so when the plant achieved its goals, everybody won. "It's amazing how those plans motivate people," Moore says.
In the last couple months, Volvo has cross-trained engine builders at its Lexington, Tenn., plant to be sterndrive builders and vice versa, and given them the title "master builder." They are the highest-paid workers in the plant, and their cross-training gives the company flexibility by enabling it to assign them where they are most needed.
When the company switched from the make-to-stock to the new make-to-order model, Volvo was increasing its market share and didn't have to let any employees go, despite a different building schedule. "One of the benefits of having a make-to-order model is that in good times … we did about as much production in the offseason as the in-season, so there was much more stability in those days," Moore says. "That's what we think will change in the future – we think we'll build less offseason, and that's the big challenge now, to be prepared to ramp up and ramp down in more clever ways than before."
One strategy for doing that is having a group of temporary workers that would be used to adjust manpower requirements. In this market collapse, Volvo Penta has had to lay off all the temps and some permanent staff, but when things bounce back, Moore hopes to maintain flexibility with temps and keep core workers.
Floorplan challenges
"Floorplan money is tough to get right now," says Keeter. "It's not available to that many people, and it's only available at a higher cost. The dealer can't buy more product because he can't get financing. And if he can, he can't always afford the rates, so he might have to scale back."
None of Nordic Tugs' dealers are working with GE now "because they are so expensive," Shamek says. Instead, they're either funding themselves, working with local banks or using private investors with capital to loan.
Hunt Yachts relies on both in-house sales and a modest dealer network, so floorplanning isn't typically an issue, since the company has little field inventory, says Van Lancker, who had just delivered a $2 million 52 in Maryland in early June. "We have our own sales force that supports the dealer network, and everyone gets compensated no matter where the sale comes from, instead of pitting one dealer against another by working for the cash register with commissions," Van Lancker says. "If you put the cash register in the right place, everyone gets along."
The floorplan situation could improve somewhat with the Small Business Administration pilot program that gives loan guarantees for credit lines up to $2 million to qualifying dealers. Dealers could borrow against retail inventory, would repay the debt as boats were sold, and could borrow against the line of credit to add new inventory.
The government-guaranteed rates should be more competitive than others, says Don Parkhurst, vice president of marine lending for SunTrust Bank. "This may help other banks get in because the government is backing up 75 percent of those loans," he says. "It may force GE to price down a little bit, or they may lose some of their balances, so it adds some competition to the playing field that maybe hasn't been there" since KeyBank and Textron pulled out of marine floorplan lending last year.
Wolpert speculates that it might just prolong the inevitable for some dealers. "The issue becomes as the inventory that you've borrowed against gets older, how long are they willing to finance [it] for, and what are the rates once they've aged?" Wolpert asks.
GE's decision to raise rates has been driven by concern that dealers are in trouble if they have too much aged inventory, so the whole floorplan credit crisis, in that sense, is actually just a symptom of having too much inventory in the field.
"Having lenders that perpetuate this aged inventory is just a Band-Aid, I think," says Wolpert. "We've decided not to moan about the lack of wholesale credit; we're going to deal with the facts because it's healthier for everybody."
Taking other work
Some manufacturers are getting innovative in their efforts to keep factories going – for example, contemplating making windmill blades or bathtubs or other composite products to offset low boat demand and maintain operating capacity, say Keeter and Dammrich.
Everglades Boats is asking other manufacturers to consider having their boats built at Everglades if their own overhead is too high. In the meantime, the company is exploring any option to take advantage of its 110,000-square-foot facility and labor force, says Stephen Dougherty, who co-founded the company with his father, Bob. Everglades has 35 to 40 dealers throughout the country, as well as some abroad, and builds 13 models from 21 to 35 feet.
Roxanne and Kenny Willmer have been operating Strike Yachts, a small custom operation in Florida, for 17 years. "For the little guy who's used to building 10 boats a year instead of four boats a year, the overhead was killing us," says Roxanne Willmer.
So the couple sold their Broward County facility and bought 10 acres of land in Perry, Fla., just south of Tallahassee, that includes a 23,000-square-foot former aluminum fabrication facility.
They decided that with all their space, they would offer to store molds for other builders at a low cost – unheard-of in Florida, she says – and custom-build some or all of the boat as orders come in. That way, companies could theoretically stay in business through the tough time, but reduce their overhead, while giving Strike a boost in revenue, she says. So far, she says, several builders have expressed an interest, and one has already shipped its mold to Perry.
"We build high-end custom boats, so they wouldn't be sending the mold to ABC company who doesn't know how to build custom boats," she says. "There would be a fixed contract price, and it could be customized to any level. We could do fiberglass only and send the boat back to them so they can do their own custom rigging, or we could do the rigging and no motors, or whatever."
Should you build in-house or outsource? The answer to that depends on whom you ask.
Nordic Tugs, a relatively small-volume manufacturer, builds about 95 percent of the boat in-house, outsourcing only doors, windows and metal work. The fiberglass and cabinetry is all done on the premises, Shamek says.
"There are pros and cons to both," he says. "If you're not building a lot, if you've got limited production and you're not custom, a lot of times it's easier to outsource. We've continued to keep most things inside, and that makes it easier for us in lot of ways because we can react faster if we get some change on orders."
Some manufacturers maintain that keeping production in-house can help ease costs for just that reason – because there is more control over the process. Van Lancker, who has also run engineering for such builders as Boston Whaler and Chris-Craft, says Hunt largely outsources the building of its semicustom boats.
Because he has built boats in-house with others in the past, Van Lancker says he has the experience to outsource successfully, maintaining quality, control and flexibility. "I'm doing a really customized 36 right now that's a twin jet, teak transom … one like I've never built before," he says. "It's all custom. You have to have the people and the process in place to do that. It involves change orders and capability."
Done right, outsourcing keeps costs low and steady, Van Lancker says, as long as you go with a good vendor.
"A lot of it is knowing who to pick, and a lot of people don't know that because they don't build the boats themselves," Van Lancker says. "I build them myself."
It also helps that Van Lancker directly employs only about half the people involved in building Hunt yachts. "If we built in-house, we would have 50 more people to be responsible for, pay for, get tools for, have regulations for, have lights for," Van Lancker says. "And I don't have to worry if Harry was sick today and can't get the job done, so it's simplified. Will more production go that way? I don't know."
Brunswick has been doing global sourcing for a long time and focusing on cost reduction, and the economy isn't changing that, says Wolpert. "The amount of outsourcing does vary from brand to brand, and outsourcing doesn't necessarily give us the flexibility we need," Wolpert says. "The more links in the supply chain, the less flexibility you tend to have. We tend to outsource item by item, with an eye on cost and quality and delivery."
Sometimes Brunswick will end up using in-house labor forces to keep people employed, but those are temporary situations, Wolpert says. "The whole sourcing thing needs to be integrating strategy, not a knee-jerk reaction to the economic environment," Wolpert says. "The way we tend to evaluate at Brunswick is we ask 'What are core competencies in manufacturing?' And that's what we insource."
Many agree that however production shakes out, most builders will have a different look on the far side of the recession. "I have no doubt that good will come out of this," Dammrich says. "[That's] easy to say to the survivors, but for those who didn't survive, that's a tough pill to swallow. But I think that the manufacturers are not only looking at, What will be the model for producing boats in the future? But also, What should be the model for distribution in the future?"
This article originally appeared in the August 2009 issue.


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The Ercall, Shropshire
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KS4 Homework answer sheet
It is only possible to get an absolute age in millions of years, for a geological event if it is possible to use radiometric dating techniques. The most usual form of dating for geological events is to establish a relative age: i.e. which order the events in a sequence occurred. Thus geologists use two concepts of time, an absolute time scale, and a relative time scale. Research is constantly attempting to improve accuracy of the absolute timescale, and the match between the two.
The fundamental geological principle is The Principle of Uniformitarianism: which states that the biological, physical and chemical processes we see today, operated in much the same way in the past, i.e. "The present is the key to the past". In establishing the relative time scale the following six laws and principles are used:
At The Ercall the sequence is worked out in the following way:
Intrusive igneous rocks, by definition, must have been intruded into other rocks (called "country rocks") even if these country rocks are not visible at an exposure. Therefore the igneous rocks are younger than the country rocks (Law of Cross Cutting relationships). Also, since the conglomerates lie on top of the granophyre, and contain rare weathered pebbles of granophyre, the conglomerates must also be younger than the granophyre which supplied the pebbles. (Principles of Superposition and Principle of Included Fragments), with weathering and depositional events between the two. So F, then A then D.
After deposition the sands and pebbles must have been cemented, so C is next.
Later the rocks were uplifted, faulted, tilted and eroded, (Law of Cross-cutting Relationships) thereby exposing them for quarrying. Afterwards the quarries were protected. So G then E then B
The correct order with oldest first is:
This is an example of awful doggerel that could be used to motivate students.
Ercall Pome.
Answer for Pupil Worksheet for Locality "B"
Pupil Work sheet for Localities "C" & "E"
Reading the clues in the sedimentary rocks
The completed table will give you a summary of some of the things you have found out about the sandstone and conglomerate and how they may have formed.
Answers for Pupil Worksheet for locality "D"
On diagram 3 draw in an arrow to show the current direction that may have produced these ripple marks:
Answer for Pupil Worksheet for Locality "E", Activity 2
Note: This gives a clue to the answer. The pupils may produce a slightly different final drawing showing where the unconformity lies, but they may be right!
(The key point is that they identify an uneven/irregular boundary between the two rock types).
Answer for Pupil Worksheet for Locality "F"
Answer for Pupil Worksheet for Locality "G"
Answer for Pupil Worksheet for Locality "H"
Use the evidence from your observations around the quarries to work out the relative age of these rhyolites and fill in the table below.
(Relative age means "Is it older, or is it younger than the rhyolites?")


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Joe Francis Might Make Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick the Godparents of his Twin Daughters
SURPRISE! Creator of Girls Gone Wild Joe Francis and his longtime girlfriend Abbey Wilson are expecting!
And guess what? They're having twin daughters! Let's just hope they don't get into daddy's business…
The couple divulged the news to Us Weekly, and Francis explained how he hopes this will change the public's view of him. "We chose to have girls," he said. "I believe people will finally understand my love, respect and admiration for women. I love girls."
He also revealed the Kardashians were the first to know. "Kourtney [Kardashian] and Scott [Disick] were the first in the Kardashian family we told, and they have already given us so much amazing advice," Francis told the magazine.
In fact, Kourtney and Scott are so close to the expecting couple (Remember, Kourtney used to date Joe!), they're quite possibly already in the running to be godparents.
"Perhaps someone we all may know… perhaps not?" Francis teased.
Other potential candidates include Mario and Courtney Lopez who took Joe and Abbey baby shopping at Bel Bambini. "Mario is now coaching Joe on fatherhood," Wilson added!
Joe could probably use all the help he can get! An ex-convict and womanizer raising two daughters is leaving me a bit concerned… But, hey! Everyone can change, right?!


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