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After a tight first day, England have it all to play for in the first Test against South Africa. The tourists did well to take four wickets but were frustrated by a century from South Africa's Jacques Kallis, which left the hosts on top and on 262-4.
England will hope to get Kallis out early this morning, but may be more concerned by the fitness of their bowlers. The decision by the captain Andrew Strauss to go with a four-man attack appears to have backfired after Graeme Onions suffered a calf strain.
But instead of worrying about what might happen, why not relive what has? Here's Mike Selvey's first day report, yesterday's over-by-over report by Andy Bull and Barney Ronay, the best pictures from the day's play, and on the blog, Vic Marks' verdict on England's performance.
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Morning everyone. It's not getting any warmer out there is it? I can barely move my fingers to type. In South Africa though, I'm told, it could hardly be hotter. By lunch it will be roasting. And if Jacques Kallis is still in, England could be cooked alive in the afternoon. England were just a little rusty yesterday, which is forgiveable given the disruptions, injuries and wash-outs they have put up with over the last five weeks. Today though, they need to sharpen up. England didn;t lose the game yesterday, but they can sure as hell lose it today if they don't bowl South Africa out, particularly given the speed with which Morne Morkel, Mark Boucher and JP Duminy can score when they start playing freely.
Over in Perth I'm pleased to see that the West Indies are fighting back well against Australia, who declared on 520-7 - another innings without a century, the top score being Simon Katich's 99. Thew Windies, brilliantly, are currently 125 without loss. Travis Dowling has faced 74 balls, and scored 31. Crystal Gayle has faced 66 balls, and scored 95. He's only hit five sixes so far. As Tony Cozier, doyen of the press box, pointed out not so long ago the Aussies had it coming.
The question on everybody's lips though is, as Pete Gay so succinctly puts it: "I'm not interested in the cricket much - I just want to know if Toby Ebbs got lucky last night." Toby, if you're reading this right now then we can probably guess the answer. Either way, I think I speak for us all here on the OBO when I say I'd love to hear how you and your piercing blue eyes got on the Christmas party, and whether the advice you got on here yesterday improved your fortunes...
C Gayle 102 c Watson b Bollinger. Out of a West Indian total of 138-1.
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91st over: South Africa 267-4 (Kallis 112, Duminy 42) Anderson opens the bowling for the day, and his first ball has England crowing, roaring and jeering at Duminy. His second ball shuts them all up: Duminy walks down the pitch and creams four through long-off. Sigh. A leg bye puts Kallis on strike, and Anderson ends the over with a sharp off-cutter that jags back and hits Kallis' pads. England go up in a hopeful appeal, but the umpire was unconvinced.
92nd over: South Africa 267-4 (Kallis 112, Duminy 43) Having learned the lessons of yesterday, Strauss decides to give the new ball to Graham Onions rather than Stuart Broad. Here's Keith Flett: "I want to take issue with Gary Naylor's complaint of yesterday about drinks breaks" - I must have missed that, was I in charge at the time? - "The way things are going England need more frequent and longer drinks breaks and the drinks provided need to be of the alcoholic variety. The wider point though that Mr Naylor fails to understand is that breaks are the point of modern sport. They allow myriad men with bags to rush on to grounds, they allow TV to have ad breaks and they provide time to sell things in the ground." Mmmhmm, it's a lesson learned from US Sport, where the strength of the beer, the time it takes to microwave the nachos, and the frequency and length of the breaks in the sport are all carefully calibrated to ensure maximum pleasure and convenience for the TV viewer, who has ample time to make the necessary trips to the kitchen and toilet. A good first over from Onions, by the way, costing only a single.
93rd over: South Africa 273-4 (Kallis 116, Duminy 45) England have three slips and a gully in place. Anderson is holding to his line on, or just outside off stump. Duminy blocks a couple, and then eases a single away square. Oh my. Anderson delivers his one mandatory short-and-wide delivery for the over, and Kallis, who had looked a little uncertain in his strokeplay so far, absolutely lashes the ball up and over point to the boundary. If a shot ever said 'you guys are in for a very long session', that was it.
94th over: South Africa 274-4 (Kallis 116, Duminy 45) "I hate to say this," says Gary Naylor, in a manner that suggests he really doesn't hate to say this at all, "but shouldn't Crystal Gayle have got his head down and pushed a few singles and then started again tomorrow? Is his ability to rein in his aggression the reason that the cannier Sehwag gets so many more big scores?" Asking Chris Gayle to take the singles and play for the close would be like asking a duck not to quack. Onions beats Kallis with a sharp short ball, that cuts away towards the slip. Kallis shapes to play at it, and then sways away and drops his hands at the last minute.
95th over: South Africa 274-4 (Kallis 116, Duminy 45) I really, really want to be able to tell you about a wicket. But I can't. At the moment it feels like this game is still rubbing the sleep out of its eyes. Anderson fires down a loopy-looking bouncer, which fades away down the leg side. "I've been watching the Windies series on TV," says Andrew Terrell, "and Crystal has been fantastic, he actually looks like he wants to be there. He was playing keepy uppy with the ball yesterday. If someone can find it on youtube, there's some serious skills. He may just be a test match convert after all."
96th over: South Africa 278-4 (Kallis 120, Duminy 45) I've looked on youtube Andrew, couldn't find it. But I did find this, James Anderson says booze is bad m'kay? Onions tries delivering one from two feet wider on the crease, jagging the ball back into Kallis's chest. He's trying too hard - the next delivery is an attempted leg-cutter, which Kallis cracks to the cover boundary with a dashing square drive. A blast of Del Amitri's Just Can't Get Enough blasts out over the ground PA in celebration. An apt choice.
97th over: South Africa 282-4 (Kallis 120, Duminy 50) Wow. Duminy threads four through extra cover off the back foot, a beautiful shot to raise his fifty. "On your point about asking a duck not to quack," says Robert Wright, "only one gender of ducks - I think it's the females - quacks, as far as I know. So a big proportion of the duck population could quite easily be asked not to quack." Never mind that...
WICKET! Kallis 120 c Collingwood b Anderson (South Africa 283-5) He's gone. He's actually gone. And in such a straight forward manner too, edging the ball to second slip, as though his score was 20 rather than 120.
98th over: South Africa 283-5 (Duminy 51, Boucher 0) Well, speaking for myself I feel a whole lot better about this now. It was a good ball from Anderson, but not a great one. Kallis was just a little late with his forward defensive, and the ball flew low off the edge to Collingwood. Boucher is in now. Shaun Pollock thinks the pitch has got a touch quicker overnight, and he expects that trend to carry on as the match goes on, which does not bode well for England. At least Dale Steyn isn't playing. A maiden over from Onions, Duminy leaving everything alone easily enough.
99th over: South Africa 287-5 (Duminy 51, Boucher 4) Boucher fetches his first runs of the day with a firm cut for four past point. "I think Robin is quackers," says Chris Purcell, "Both duck genders quack, but like a lot of things in life the females are much louder. Was there a Prince record about that?" Can we please get this issue resolved by an expert, or at the very least Wikipedia, rather than indulging in all this groping pseudo-science.
100th over: South Africa 288-5 (Duminy 52, Boucher 4) And here comes Stuart Broad. Seems asking for more science was a mistake. Here's Niall Taylor: "I can't let mention of duck gender pass without adding this link. Seems there was some one-sided quacking there, too." Duminy sneaks a single, and then Broad pins Boucher down with a string of length balls that pitch ten inches or so outside off.
101st over: South Africa 293-5 (Duminy 53, Boucher 8) Duminy pushes a single away square, and Anderson then pushes up a yorker, which Boucher blocks in the nick of time. "Kallis is out, and we can clean up the tail," says Guy Hornsby, "Sorry, I mean watch at Duminy and Boucher flay our big four to all corners" - speaking of which, Boucher has just pushed a drive away for four through extra cover - "You see, it's barely 9am and pessimism has set in. Blame the man flu. This does of course all pale into insignificance compared to the world's media (or possibly his HR department) waiting for the latest on the Tony Ebbs situation, but to pass the time I can say the Wikipedia handily states that "despite widespread misconceptions, only the females of most dabbling ducks "quack". Though many males make other sounds. Well, crisis averted."
102nd over: South Africa 293-5 (Duminy 53, Boucher 8) Broad has Duminy tripping over his own feet as he tries to evade a nasty bouncer. He turned his head and crouched underneath it at the last minute, but he didn't look too comfortable as he did it. "I don't know if a male duck quacks but if it does, contrary to popular belief, I can guarantee it will echo." How, exactly, Matthew Turland, can you guarantee it? Anyway, Bumble is wittering away to Pollock on the commentary, and it seems he is one of the mnay people who would have picked Luke Wright for this match.
103rd over: South Africa 297-5 (Duminy 54, Boucher 12) Onions is back into the attack now, from the other end. Boucher drops the ball out to leg and hustles a single. Duminy punches another through cover, two more to leg and a single to mid-off.
104th over: South Africa 299-5 (Duminy 54, Boucher 13) This sounds too good to be true - can anyone else confirm it? "This isn't cricket related but is something to warm the heart on a cold morning," says Steve Betteley, "I was just listening to 5Live (I know, I know) and somebody had the bright idea of getting Rage Against The Machine on to talk about the internet campaign to get them to number one ahead of the X Factor. Then, somebody had the even brighter idea of asking them to perform 'Killing in the Name' LIVE!? And expected them NOT to sing the naughty bits. Well, I don't need to tell you what happened next...the triumph of hope over all obvious logic, much like the selection of Darren Pattinson." Surely even 5Live aren't that stupid?
105th over: South Africa 300-5 (Duminy 54, Boucher 13) "Am I missing something?" asks Andy Bradshaw, "Luke Wright? A Test allrounder? Seriously? He's an iffy ODI bowler, so how does that transfer to the Test arena? And more importantly, if you do want another bowler, why not Bresnan, he proved he can bowl and he's no worse with the bat than Wright is." Ah, but Bresnan couldn't really bat at no7 could he?, but yes, picking him would mean England had three no8s, which used to work for South Africa, and he is certainly a better bowler than Wright. Duminy ducks underneath another bouncer. Sooner or later England will realise that just because he looks ungainly when he ducks underneath a bouncer, that doesn't mean he is about to get out to one. He's just not going to hook.
106th over: South Africa 308-5 (Duminy 54, Boucher 22) Boucher, on thew other hand, is going to hook, and does, whacking Broad away for four through long leg. And that's even sweeter: Broad over-pitches and Boucher strides out and thumps four through long-off. Confirmation of the hilarious truth comes from Robert Taylor: "I just listened to Rage Against the Machine on 5live and the best thing was it took four repetitions of "F$%k you's" until they decided that it wasn't for a 9am audience."
107th over: South Africa 313-5 (Duminy 54, Boucher 22) Apparently "Nicky Campbell is still apologising" for the Rage incident, or so John Donnelly tells me. Insisting that "swearing isn't big or clever." Couldn't have happened to a nicer man, could it? Four leg byes disappear down the leg side. D'oh.
108th over: South Africa 314-5 (Duminy 56, Boucher 23) Broad is coming around the wicket now, spearing the ball in at off stump. Duminy flicks a single out to square leg, and Boucher pushes another away to the off.
109th over: South Africa 314-5 (Duminy 56, Boucher 23) Swann is on now, as England try to force a breakthrough. And there it is! Swann has another in his firs over of the day!
WICKET! Duminy 56 c Collingwood b Swann (South Africa 316-6) It was a very similar dismissal to Prince's yesterday, the ball turning enough to take the inside edge and pop up to Colly at slip. What a hero Swann is.
110th over: South Africa 317-6 (Boucher 24, Morkel 0) Boucher flicks a run away square to leg. I'm afraid I've stopped listening to the cricket because Alex Latter, brilliantly, has pointed out that somebody has already posted the clip of Nicky Campbell's interview with Rage Against The Machine on youtube. Barely 30 minutes after it happened. Damn I love the internet. Go on. Have a listen. Treat yourself. Half a laugh at Nicky Campbell's expense. As Alex says, quoting the inimitable Campbell, "Let's get Christmassy!" (WARNING: GUESS WHAT, THIS LINK CONTAINS BAD LANGUAGE).
111th over: South Africa 318-6 (Boucher 25, Morkel 0) "Superb bowling from Swann," says Matthew Turland, neatly filling space while I finihs rubbing my aching sides at that 5live link, I especially love the producer fading them out at the end with the words "Sorry about that, we asked them not to do it. Yes, a sensible idea, asking Rage Against the Machine not to swear. Here's some more Turland, I'm still chuckling: "Everything you want in a spinner: Cunning, guile, variety and the ability to make shades look like the coolest thing ever (see Chris Gayle for more). A certain M. Panesar could learn a lot from this feather-haired tease machine."
112th over: South Africa 322-6 (Boucher 29, Morkel 0)
Or it should have been. Broad drops short, and Boucher hooks him to deep backward square. Onions is underneath it, but he can't quite hold on. He takes the catch, but loses his balance and the ball spills out of his hands onto the turf over the rope. It's a four.
113th over: South Africa 323-6 (Boucher 29, Morkel 1) "My favourite bit of the Rage/5Live clip is hearing the woman producing the show shout 'GET RID OF IT!' just as the song cuts." Umm. Here's a photo gallery of the Test for you to peruse. Desk lackey Tom Lutz, who put it together assures me it's "incredibly erotic", but he has strange tastes so don't take him at his word.
114th over: South Africa 323-6 (Boucher 29, Morkel 1) Morkel does no favours to his own reputation as a man who likes to go out and try and whack the leather off the ball by blocking or leaving all six deliveries from Anderson, who has returned to the attack. That's Jimmy's eighth maiden of the innings.
115th over: South Africa 323-6 (Boucher 29, Morkel 1) This computer has the most extraordinary habit of crashing at the worst possible moments. I had just written a long entry on this over, which has just been wiped out. That caused me to swear loudly, which I think rather startled TV's James Richardson, currently sat at the desk alongside. Anyway, Boucher dropped into a slog sweep, but inside-edged the ball onto his own boot. It ricocheted up to slip where Paul Collingwood took a superb catch. England roared in celebration, but the umpires decided to refer it: four or five video reviews showed that the ball had hit the ground at the same time as it hit Boiucher's boot, and the eventual decision was 'not out.'
116th over: South Africa 327-6 (Boucher 29, Morkel 5) Anderson pushes five balls across the face of Morkel's bat, and watches in frustration as Morkel leaves each of them well alone. The sixth though is fuller and straighter, and Morkel thumps it through long-off for four. A glorious shot, especially after he had showed such self-restraint earlier in the over.
117th over: South Africa 327-6 (Boucher 29, Morkel 5) By the way, the West Indies closed on 214-2, still 306 runs behind. "After his batting with Durham last season Plunkett should be the man England turn to if they want an all rounder" insists Colin Noble, who I suspect may be a Durham fan, "he averaged 39 if I remember rightly (and they weren't flukey tail ender runs either for the most part) plus he's a better bowler than Bresnan and Luke Wright put together." Well, there's something in that. England seemed to have called him up from nowhere to the Test squad - given that he was not really in anyone's thinking for the winter tour, only to relegate him back to nowhere once they got on tour. They've done the same thing to Adil Rashid.
118th over: South Africa 327-6 (Boucher 29, Morkel 5)
Seems tempers have been running hot in Perth. As Guy Hornsby says: "Sulieman Benn is a giant. Seeing him tower over Haddin is like having a ruck with the annoying kid at school then seeing him bring his big brother round your house after tea. I wouldn't like standing toe to toe with him. Mind you, an Aussie batsman could pick a fight in a phonebox."
119th over: South Africa 330-6 (Boucher 29, Morkel 8) The last over before lunch. It's been an entertaining session. Cook almost puts a cherry on top with an attempt at a diving catch at short leg and...
REFERRAL! Morkel 5 LBW Swann On the stroke of the break, Morkel is given out LBW. The decision is given, but Morkel asks for a review. Repeats show it's not a no ball, it's flat, straight, pitched in line and hit in line. It looks plumb. But Hawk Eye shows that the ball was going over the top so it's DECISION REVERSED.
Well, what a busy little session that was. Swann was furious with that referral at the end there, but England have to be satisfied with their morning. Certainly more so than Nicky Campbell will be with his. They have removed the two key batsmen, and could have had two more had the decisions gone their way. Now they need to cut off the tail before they can clobber too many more runs. See you back here in 30 minutes or so.
Right, I've made the brave decision to skip elevenses and try and make it through to lunch on the strength of my morning porridge alone. Don't worry readers, I still have reserves of
strength to draw on from yesterdays's canteen Christmas lunch.
120th over: South Africa 331-6 (Boucher 29, Morkel 8) Onions opens the attack after lunch. "Having a confidently given decision overturned by Hawkeye is a disgrace," thunders Pete Gay, "If the umpires weren't sure then fine, they should be able to call for a review as in rugby, but not the players. Harrumph!" I'd have to say I'm inclined to agree, though 'disgrace' is a little strong. Pete continues: "I assume someone must have invited Toby to get his coat - we'd have had tales of rejection and dejection by now if he hadn't scored." Boucher taps the first ball of the session away to leg for a single. Sky are flashing up a good stat - or a worrying one if you happen to be English - only once has a team passed 400 in the first innings of a Test at Centurion, which suggests this total might be quite handy. Ouch! Onions has clattered Morkel with a bouncer. He's collapsed to the ground, obviously in agony. The ball seemed to hit him under his chin. England looked worried, and run to him. Yes, the replays show the ball hit him on the corner of his cheek bone. He's in a lot of pain, but he has got to his feet again and has decided to bat on. Well played sir. Onions serves him another shorter ball to follow-up, and Morkel swings and misses.
121st over: South Africa 335-6 (Boucher 33, Morkel 8) "Elevenses?" scoffs Eamonn Maloney, "This isn't Winnie the Pooh, you know. Also, one doubts an afternoon at the keyboard will trim any of yesterday's trimmings. I don't recall 'the YouTube stretch' being part of the latest Aerobics Oz style episode." Swann is on again. The first runs of the session come as Boucher steps out to push a wider ball through cover for two runs. He flicks the next delivery away in the other direction, and fetches two more.
WICKET! Morkel 13 c Prior b Onions (122nd over: South Africa 341-7) Morkel slogs four through long-on, and that's his last hurrah. He tries to steer the next ball through third man, but instead snicks it through behind. Prior takes a good catch, diving forward, and Harris is in.
123rd over: South Africa 345-7 (Boucher 36, Harris 1) "Yesterday someone asked if he was a bad person for following the OBO when he was supposed to be at his kids' nativity play," recollects Robin Hazlehurst, "and I've got a similar issue today. I'm sitting listening to oral exams in a university and paying as much attention to what you're writing as to what the students are saying. Is it reasonable if I base their exam grade on whether or not England have a good over while they were speaking, or is that not really in the spirit of the game?" I'd tell you to look in your heart Robin, but I suspect you're probably a little scared of what you'll find. So perhaps you'd prefer to let the OBOers act as your moral compass. Another LBW appeal goes up from Swann, but again the umpire is unconvinced.
124th over: South Africa 345-7 (Boucher 37, Harris 2) Harris looks every inch the tailender as he tries to fend off a string of short balls from Onions. He manages to get off strike by patting the ball out to cover. "On the other hand," writes John Starbuck, "Toby might well have scored but only on the condition that it wasn't publicised. Such is the fame of the OBO that a young lovely wouldn't want to be exposed to the derision of her colleagues, especially as she wouldn't have known how well the evening was going to go. What does Toby look like first thing in the morning, anyway? Piercing blue eyes heavy with booze and lack of sleep aren't all that attractive."
125th over: South Africa 347-7 (Boucher 37, Harris 2) Harris looks a whole lot happier against the spinner, and paddle-sweeps a single away square. "My main problem with the referral system is that it's ruining my enjoyment of the OBO" gripes Neil Withers, "one of the main joys is swiftly raising my finger to signal a wicket so my colleague on the facing desk is kept up to date. Twice already this morning I've had to improvise a gesture that conveys 'No, that wasn't a wicket – they've referred it and it's been judged not out.' Which, let me tell you, is no easy matter." Mmm, I quite like a suggestion that came in earlier from Richard Readshaw, which suggested that we replace REFERRAL! with HOWZAT? What do you think readers?
126th over: South Africa 349-7 (Boucher 37, Harris 6) Onions has really bowled well today. This last delivery was a gem, zipping past Harris' outside edge. "Robin Hazlehurst shouldn't feel guilty at all," writes David Wall, who I suspect may have an alterior motive, "Likelihood is that most of his students were also listening to the cricket commentary (or worse, playing with some iphone application) when they were revising for and taking their exams if they're typical undergraduates. Doing likewise when marking them is a bit of natural justice. I'm doing the same while marking essays - it's the only way to get through it, and if i'm distracted it will probably work to their benefit." Yes, I knew it. David, I would say you're trying to reassure yourself as much Mr Hazlehurst, but from your tone I sense that, like Rhett Butler, you really don't give a damn.
127th over: South Africa 350-7 (Boucher 38, Harris 6) "Far be it to talk about the cricket but why is Alistair Cook fielding at short leg?" asks Phil Roades, "Ian Bell is superb at short leg and it is in that position, above any batting order spot, he is of most use to an England cricket team." Cook has been excellent there too - maybe it's a question of seniority. I don't think Ian Bell has actually touched the ball yet in this match. I'm not even sure that England have really selected him. It's an elaborate bluff of some sort. That said, my old friend, and self-styled betting guru, Richard Clarke has backed Bell "for top England run scorer in the series," adding, "Short Pietersen series runs at 330."
128th over: South Africa 355-7 (Boucher 41, Harris 6) Broad is on now. I'm really beginning to regret the elevenses decision. Very poor call on my part.
129th over: South Africa 359-7 (Boucher 45, Harris 6) Boucher forces five out to cow corner with a firm push. David Horn, yesterday's nativity-skiving father would like to claim the moral high ground: "Yesterday, I went to my son's nativity play and thoroughly enjoyed it (just in case he's reading. He's 6, so it's unlikely). 'Born in a Barn' was a powerhouse/triumph/tour de force for the young playwright (Miss McMorris) and erstwhile music teacher (Mrs. Something - she's part time). All I missed was one wicket. It's on again tonight if anyone's interested."
130th over: South Africa 363-7 (Boucher 45, Harris 12) "Alistair Cook fields at short leg because he throws like a girl," suggests Alex Pick, succinctly. The question is, which girl? Kelly Sotherton or Fatima Whitbread? (You're really only going to get that if you're a keen fan of javelin throwing, and anyway I suspect we all know the answer, I'm just being anal). Harris belts four through cover off the back foot, and then gets thumped on the forearm by bouncer by way of rebuke.
131st over: South Africa 370-7 (Boucher 47, Harris 17) Prize for pedant of the day goes to John Sanger, who points out: "Technically it should read "don't give a dam" – a dam being a low-value Indian coin of the time." John at least has the good grace to add: "My shame at taking the time to point this out to you is matched only by my self-satisfied pride at taking the time to point this out to you." Back in the middle, Harris has latched on to a fuller ball fromm Swann and whacked it over long-on for four.
132nd over: South Africa 375-7 (Boucher 47, Harris 21) Broad comes around the wicket. What an irritating little tail-end stand this is turning into. I'm really hoping to see a little of England's innings before the redoubtable John Ashdown comes on to the OBO for the final session, but at this rate I'm going to see another 60 minutes of tail-end batting. Here's Harris again, chopping four through third man. And again Broad cracks him on the thigh with a short ball which didn't quite climb as high as Harris was expecting.
133rd over: South Africa 375-7 (Boucher 47, Harris 21) "Just got back from a 13 hour night shift at the hospital and am too tired to parse the finer points of the day thus far," writes Rebecca Heller, "Brief summary please, and is it worth me staying up and listening?" Your word, my command. Kallis - out early. England - frustrated. Bull - hungry. Nicky Campbell - red in the face. 'Come back later in the afternoon when England are batting' would be my advice.
134th over: South Africa 377-7 (Boucher 49, Harris 22)
STOP PRESS: an email from that man Toby Ebbs has just landed in my inbox: "Hello everyone. Things were going really well for me last night - blue-ocity factor 10 - but I think the problem was I had too many options. I went home sucking my thumb. The baron is on my my back and I need to get rid of him by the end of this decade." Good grief.
WICKET! Boucher 49 c Cook b Swann (South Africa 385-8) Swann has got another one, his fourth of the innings. And it is Cook at short leg who has taken the catch, which popped straight to him off the inside edge. The debutant Friedel de Wet is in. He has only one first class fifty, so hopefully he won't be here long. As Andrew Stiff says: This bloke is 29? He looks about 12. Well, either way, he's just creamed his second ball in Test cricket through cover for four. "Give him the cheese ball Swanny!" shouts Prior. What could that possibly mean? Maybe he was asking for a delivery that stinks, because Swann ended the over with a half-volley which de Wet carted through extra cover for another four.
136th over: South Africa 386-8 (Harris 22, de Wet 8) "I feel no pity for any man who has "too many options", says Tom v d Gucht. Indeed. But you would be entitled to feel many other things. Broad is still trudging away. He looks pretty angry with the world, probably because it has been 31.3 overs since his last wicket.
137th over: South Africa 390-8 (Harris 26, de Wet 9) "So Rolf "Paul" Harris has already got to twenty-odd, is annoying me intensely and he hasn't even bowled yet," grumbles Gary Naylor, "Has there ever been a more effective cricketer so apparently devoid of cricketing talent?" Astonishingly, he's currently ranked ninth in the ICC Test bowling rankings. Even though he hasn't played a Test since March. And that's dropped, though it was a ferociously difficult chance. The edge flew off Harris' bat and snuck between Prior and Collingwood at first slip. Colly got his hand out to it, but couldn't cling on. For a lesser fielder that wouldn't have even been a chance.
138th over: South Africa 390-8 (Harris 26, de Wet 9) I had an entry here, but the computer deleted it. So I'm moving on.
139th over: South Africa 391-8 (Harris 26, de Wet 9) Swann switches around the wicket, to no avail.
140th over: South Africa 395-8 (Harris 30, de Wet 9) I'm starting to get a bad feeling about all this. This tail end stand has been going on far too long, and I just had a premonition of the game taking an entirely different hue when England come out to bat, a rash of loose shots, some bad luck and quick wickets. Best to banish that thought for the time being. Harris slashes four through third man, and Anderson turns away in disgust and frustration.
141st over: South Africa 395-8 (Harris 30, de Wet 9) Somerthing very fishy is going on here, as Matt Ellis has pointed out: "is this the same Toby Ebbs who as recently as the third ODI was telling us all he was packing in the job and cycling to Mexico? What happened?" I can only assume it is, and, unless Mr Ebbs can prove otherwise I'm afraid we're going to have to conclude he's some kind of serial BS artist. Particularly as, in that OBO from the third ODI he told us this: "It's a bit awkward with my boss because I think she's in love with me - but she's married and well past her sell-by date."
142nd over: South Africa 396-8 (Harris 31, de Wet 9) Harris clumps a single away behind leg, ending a soporific run of ten dot balls. Anderson almost has de Wet with a yorker, but doesn't quite.
143rd over: South Africa 398-8 (Harris 32, de Wet 9) The fear is spreading, though, let's face it, it never takes much for the panic to catch with England fans, does it? "Don't forget the disintegrating pitch!" frets Scott W, "I think we'll end up relying on Trott and Bell; Trott will make a ton and Bell will just fall short. Unless the pitch slows down, neither Cook, Collingwood nor Broad have the footwork to do anything but flap at it. Pietersen will fall prey to Harris. Strauss will get hit. A lot. By Ntini."
144th over: South Africa 399-8 (Harris 33, de Wet 10) Another top stat from Sky's numbers man, Benedict, who reveals that the last time a Test was drawn in South Africa was two-and-a-half years, or 17 games, ago. "So Gary Naylor finds Paul Harris "annoying" does he?" asks Morgan Mahoney, "A finger spinner of limited ability, who does a job for his captain and can hang around with the bat and get up the nose of the opposition – now who does that remind me of?" Regular Naylor-watchers will know that Mr Mahoney is referring back to certain comments made about Graeme Swann.
145th over: South Africa 400-8 (Harris 33, de Wet 10) Now it's Onions' turn to try and winkle one of these two out. Preposterously, Swann has got through 42 overs now, and he appears to have gone off to have a little treatement on what is probably a very sore arm. We've been treated to all of four runs in the last five overs. The 400 eventually comes up with a leg bye, which follows a string of five dot balls. South Africa's last 100 runs have been their slowest by far, taking all of 244 balls.
146th over: South Africa 401-8 (Harris 33, de Wet 12) These two have put on 27 from 63 balls. I just hope that England don't take a wicket in the next five minutes, or this rather painful session will be extended until South Africa are all out. At this rate, that could be at about 3pm this afternoon. De Wet finally plays a shot in anger, pulling a single to fine leg. Credit to the man, he's certainly applying himself in his first Test, but watching stuff like this does kind of make you pine for the old days of tail-enders having a quick slog and then getting out.
147th over: South Africa 401-8 (Harris 33, de Wet 12) The last over of the session, bowled by Onions. So are you now willing to withdraw your accusation that Graeme Smith was lying when he said he would of batted first?" asks Jonathan James, "Or are you just going to go all Tony Ebbs on us and just attempt to ignore the truth or hide behind some insecurity-masking falsely confident bravado?" Well, presented with thiose choices, I've little option but to say 'yes, yes I am'. You can decide for yourselves which part of the email I'm saying yes to. Six dot balls, painstakingly played by de Wet, and the session is over.
Well that's it from me today. Dull as it has been to watch, the South African tail has done an excellent job there. England were well on top through the morning and early afternoon, but they've been slowly deflated by the resolute blocking of this pair. I'm off to find some belated lunch, but I'll be back tomorrow. John Ashdown will be here in ten minutes or so to talk you through the final session.
Afternoon all. First, an email. "John, you usually make some comment about Andy Bull's sandals in your pre-session preambles," writes Matt Reade. "Surely he's not going open-toed today?" Nope, even Bull's gnarled leathery pinkies can't cope with the December chill here in north London. He's gone for Ug boots today.
Second, a confession. I've stolen Barry Glendenning's chair. I can hear him chuntering about it and he's not happy. Even worse I lied about it. He was clearly logged in to this computer, even though I told him I didn't know. I just assumed he'd gone for the day. All I can say is sorry and hope that in time he can find it in his heart to forgive me.
Thirdly, a bit about the cricket. Twice today I've had one of those quintessentially England cricket moments: leaving the house to pop to the shops just after Morkel fell at 341-7, returning 45 minutes or so later to hear Aggers saying on TMS "... and South Africa move on to 376 for ..." [Come on Aggers, say nine, say nine] "... seven." Oh England! Ands then setting off to work with a spring in the step just as Swann did for Boucher to make it 377-8 only to arrive at work half an hour later with the scoreboard reading 399-8. Oh England! Just as they seem to have their collective foot on the South African throat, the home side battle back into it. Still, we're sure to see England bat in this session. Definitely. No doubt about it. Yeah.
Here we go then. The players are heading back out.
148th over: South Africa 405-8 (Harris 36, de Wet 13) Swann starts things off after tea, and Harris botches an almighty swipe at the second ball, picking up just a single for his trouble. And it must be catching - De Wet has a bit of a dart with a slog-sweep and fails to make contact. A couple of clever little dabs provide a couple more singles. "This feels like a 90s Australian innings," writes Sean Clayton, "The sort where England would think they'd done the hard work getting the first 7 wickets... and then Ian Healy and Craig McDermott would grind it out for hours more..."
149th over: South Africa 406-8 (Harris 36, de Wet 14) Onions continues after the break, but De Wet doesn't show any inclination to maintain the higher tempo of the last over. A hint, a soupçon, a whisper, of variable bounce, with a couple keeping a little low and one rearing up to smite the maker's name on the bat. Bodes well it does not.
150th over: South Africa 409-8 (Harris 38, de Wet 15) Swann, collar turned up high, beats the edge first up, but the rest is played away by De Wet with little fuss. "If we, say, deliberately (that's right, deliberately) try to NOT bowl out the South Africans, and just let Harris, de Wet and Ntini wreck a rather dour havoc for the rest of the day, the onus will be shifted on to the Saffers to turn the draw into a win," writes the
slightly unhinged
positive-thinking Scott W. "Because the way things are at the moment, it looks like a doughy innings from Trott and/or Collingwood (on a pitch that will hopefully slow down) is going to be our best bet for preventing defeat."
WICKET! Harris b Onions 38 (151st over: South Africa 414-9 (de Wet 20, Ntini 0) Shot! De Wet clubs Onions on the up to the wide mid-off boundary for four. This is turning into a innings of some quality from the debutant. Harris has cramp in his thumb, so the players take drinks. Second ball after the delay he inside-edges onto his stumps. Thank goodness for that. It brings Makhaya Ntini out to the middle for his 100th Test, and the reception is pretty rapturous.
152nd over: South Africa 414-9 (de Wet 20, Ntini 0) "Does Scott W mean a doughy innings (where the batsmen stuff their pockets with rolls, etc), or a doughty innings?" wonders Richard Mansell. I'm not entirely sure. Presumably the latter - it's to see how wearing a couple of day-old French sticks instead of pads and a hollowed-out crusty bloomer instead of a helmet would help the situation. Big lbw appeal from Swann as De Wet props forward. Nothing doing. Six dots.
153rd over: South Africa 418-9 (de Wet 20, Ntini 4) Oh Lord. "A doughy innings is just what we knead. The flour of England must rise up; let's hope that they're bready for the challenge or we're toast." Tom Adam hang or head in shame. Ntini looks his usual self in the middle - comfortable as a northerner in a bar that doesn't serve ale. Nevertheless, he opens the face to run the ball away for four from Onions' final ball.
WICKET! De Wet lbw b Swann 20 De Wet trapped back on the crease and the review can't save him.
END OF INNINGS: South Africa 418 all out
While the England batsmen go and get padded up for a vital little session why not head over the the blog, where Paul Weaver at Centurion has seen something he likes about Graham Onions
We;ve got 10 minutes before the action starts again, so here's Ian Copestake: "The relationship with hope that following England brands one with is not unlike the struggle Jonathan Edwards (not the religious triple jumper, the 18th century American Calvinist) underwent as he tried to tell whether, for instance, nature seemed glorious because he felt god's grace or because he was convincing himself that he felt god's grace and so found nature glorious. Basically, if Edwards felt hope watching England play he would be right to think it was the devil at work."
More dough 'fun' dept. "Maybe Scott W was making obscure references to the Collingwood branch of Aroma Bakery, in Victoria, and the last line of the Jack and the Beanstalk pantomime script?" writes James Boon.
So 24 overs left today and England would surely take 50-0 at the close.
1st over: England 3-0 (Strauss 1, Cook 2) Apparently if Ntini takes a wicket with the first ball of the innings, everyone over 18 at SuperSport Park gets a free beer from the sponsors ... ooh, it's not a bad 'un, jagging back at Strauss and grazing his midriff, but everyone is going to have to keep forking out for their booze. Strauss gets off the mark with a clip to leg. Brings Cook on strike ... and he's dropped! AB de Villiers puts him down at head height in the slips after a horrible airy poke from the opener. Not a dolly by any means, but he really should have held it. Plenty of fire from Ntini, as you'd expect.
2nd over: England 5-0 (Strauss 1, Cook 2) "Whilst England would take 50-0 at the close, wouldn't it be great to see Strauss do what his West Indian counterpart did this morning and seize the initiative with a ton?" writes Gary Naylor. "OK – it's only the first Test, so maybe not, but there will come a time to be brave with the bat if this attritional series is to be won." This session surely just has to be about survival, though. Friedel de Wet ('Brad' to his friends?) is to open at the other end, and he wangs one horrendously down the leg side - no ball. Perhaps just a tad nervy. Next one is on the money, slanting across Strauss and just evading the outside edge, and the rest is more of a similar ilk. Skiddy and zippy stuff from the debutant.
3rd over: England 6-0 (Strauss 2, Cook 2) "Don't know about a doughy innings being required," writes David Lowe. "I think we should come out all buns glazing." I think we better nip this in the bud early. Ntini strays down the leg and Cook knocks him away for a couple, but he's not looking at all comfortable in the face of some hostile bowling.
4th over: England 13-0 (Strauss 5, Cook 6) De Wet, peddling a slightly unconvincing line in batsman-eyeballing, back in again, Strauss squirts a couple away through the point region and clips a single to midwicket. And at last he bowls a boundary ball - half-volley, leg stump - that Cook purs happily away. "In response to Gary Naylor, the way the England team are set up, it's not really Strauss or Cook's job to be brave with the bat," ripostes James Boon. "There's great potential for bravery in the middle order, with Pietersen, Collingwood, Prior, Broad and Swann all capable of attacking or counter-attacking when required, but it's Strauss and Cook who need to bat sensibly to enable a platform for these guys to explode. Especially in South Africa where the new ball is particularly important."
5th over: England 17-0 (Strauss 8, Cook 7) Morkel stiffly chases to the midwicket boundary and just about prevents four more as Ntini strays a little too straight to Strauss. "Did you see the ovation Ntini got from the crowd, coming down with his son? South Africa has had a lot of bad press in the run up to the World Cup, but that was a great moment," writes Ranil Dissanayake. "As an aside, I played cricket here in Zanzibar a few months ago and was made to look rather silly by a lanky streak of %&£$ bowling swing for the other team. Turns out he was a Ranji Trophy regular a few years back and now finds work as a cook in a hotel here." Ah, the hidden dangers of mysterious strangers.
WICKET! Cook 15 c Boucher b De Wet (6th over: England 25-1 (Strauss 8, Trott 0) "'Friedel de Wet ('Brad' to his friends?)'" wonders Kevin Gwift. "In this age of corporate sponsorship surely 'Just' de Wet?" The man himself offers Cook a full toss which is dispatched to the boundary, and a classy little straight push brings up four more. And then he's gone. A faint edge from a ball that just did enough moving across the left-hander. Not a very convinving innings from Cook there. Englands New Saviour™ strides out and just about digs out the last of the over.
7th over: England 26-1 (Strauss 9, Trott 0) "Nip these puns in the bud, John?" writes Mac Millings. "Crust what else do you think most of us OBOers have in life? Focaccia's sake, ciabatta let us keep punning. Do you think any of us are going to baguette a life any time soon? I find it improbagel." Ntini zips one millimetres past the off stump with Strauss leaving. Wry grins all round. The England captain takes an almost-gleeful single of the penultimate ball. And then its Trott's turn for a wry smile, Ntini sending down a howitzer that's still rising as it smacks into Boucher's gloves.
8th over: England 29-1 (Strauss 12, Trott 0) De Wet overpitches and Strauss punches through the covers for three. Trott is almost cut in half by the next, and happy to get an inside edge into his groin (I'm assuming there that he considers his wicket more important than his groin region. Which, as far as I'm concerned, it is). Four dots, and Trott is still to get off the mark.
9th over: England 37-1 (Strauss 20, Trott 0) Ntini continues to thunder in, but Strauss is beginning to look a little more settled, first pulling him away for four, then carting a cut away for another boundary. "Right I have a new enemy... Cook," fumes Daniel Chisnall. "Yet another Englishman ear marked for greatness and somewhat struggling after a good start. Yes he's young but he does suffer from the Ian Bell 'caught in the headlights' look. He looks flappable (not even going to mention his captaincy debut). Lets give him another six years to prove he's not really up to it (interspersed with a bit of captaincy when Struass is unfit/fed up with playing for England). Then we can replace him with Delany and start all over again. Hmmmm."
10th over: England 49-1 (Strauss 21, Trott 5) Athers reports that De Wet has hit 93.7mph today, which is pretty swift, though it's no good if it's not directed properly. Five wides go down against the bowler - Boucher wouldn't have caught that bouncer from De Wet if he'd been standing on his own shoulders. Trott gets off the mark from his 11th ball with a glorious drive through the covers and a couple more singles take us to drinks.
11th over: England 58-1 (Strauss 22, Trott 12) Despite having to battle to survive, England have gone along at a fair lick here. Morkel comes into the attack and Strauss immediately brings up the 50, before Trott tucks away four more as the bowler strays to leg. A no ball means England keep the run rate over a healthy five an over, and only an excellent chase and dive from Amla prevents Trott picking up four more. "If Boucher was standing on his own shoulders, he would be a very good yogi," points out Nick Ahad. "And a very bad, or at least absent minded, wicketkeeper."
12th over: England 58-1 (Strauss 22, Trott 12) As Bull and his warm shoes depart for a well-earned early-afternoon pint at the Travelodge (don't ask) Paul Harris gets the ball in his hand. And a huge appeal! Strauss rapped on the pad by a slider, umpire Davis says no. Appeal or not to appeal, that is the question. And the answer, on this occasion, is appeal. Which, in its own way, is also a question. Hawkeye shows it was going to go on and feather the outside of off, meaning that the umpire's decision stands. A maiden first up from the spinner.
13th over: England 59-1 (Strauss 23, Trott 12) Strauss digs out an attempted Morkel yorker for a single, but generally it's wide stuff from the big man and Trott makes like a tree and
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14th over: England 59-1 (Strauss 23, Trott 12) "Here's a theory on Paul Harris," writes A McGuigan. "It's the throw of the hands after every ball, as if he's just thrown an unplayable handgrenade down the track and the batsman is a lucky man to survive. It reminds me of Peter Such, and it makes him look a bit of a pleb." He's testing the batsmen here though, pleb or no pleb. Strauss sweeps air then prods away to play out another maiden.
15th over: England 60-1 (Strauss 23, Trott 12) "TMS are whittering on about the referrals system, as have many of us in our time," writes John Starbuck. "But this is Test cricket: it needs time to bed down properly and the slow ways of usage learned by painstaking application of making mistakes and correcting them. How did we come to expect instant success so readily?" I have to say, everyone on the field looked perfectly happy with how the last one played out (though obviously the South Africans didn't see the Hawkeye). Morkel is yet to find his rhythm here - Trott barely has to play until the penultimate delivery, which is whipped away off his pads for a single.
16th over: England 66-1 (Strauss 28, Trott 13) Harris's 13th ball finally cedes a run, and his 14th has Strauss dancing down the pitch and carting him - rather unconvincingly - over midwicket for four.
17th over: England 67-1 (Strauss 28, Trott 14) Eight overs left - England need to dig in now. Morkel has thus far been making it far too easy for them to do just that. A no ball will hardly help his mood. But he finally gets one right, jagging the ball back towards Strauss and smashing the captain on the pad via the inside edge. It loops up ... but drops just short of the slips.
18th over: England 68-1 (Strauss 28, Trott 15) Harris continues, and it's certainly turning out there. Trott calmly escapes to the non striker's end, and Strauss, slightly sketchily, plays out the over.
19th over: England 76-1 (Strauss 32, Trott 18) "Over 11, you says that 'England have gone along at a fair lick here.'" writes an irked Emma S. "In the next four overs, England score two runs. There is only one possible suggestion - keep your optimism to yourself!" Message received and understood, although I should really point out that South Africa look like they've got their minds on the showers and frothy one. De Wet, the solitary wicket taker, returns to the attack at the River End. Trott cuts confidently for a couple, and a fine stop from Amla denies him four more off the back foot. Then Strauss is brought to his knees after a full one cracks him on the pad. The umpire says not out, and it's a good call - big inside edge. Strauss rewards himself by tucking into a short ball and pulling for four.
20th over: England 76-1 (Strauss 32, Trott 18) Ntini charges back in, a final burst presumably before the close, but Trott confidently plays out a maiden. Jonathan James has gone off on one: "The referral system is just another part of the sanitisation of sport caused by commercialisation which in turn created an atmosphere encouraging apathetic and insecure individuals the opportunity to be linked vicariously with a winning team in the mistaken belief that this will make them look successful. I can't even bring myself to talk about it yet. Apart from now obviously." So now you know.
21st over: England 83-1 (Strauss 39, Trott 18) What sounds like about seven slightly half-cut England fans have a decent stab at 'Jerusalem'. The near-empty Supersport Park stares silently back at them. De Wet overpitches and Strauss whips straightish into the leg side for four.
22nd over: England 84-1 (Strauss 40, Trott 18) This could be the last over of the day, and Ntini is the willing bowler. Strauss plops a single into the leg, and Trott is watchful, as he has been throughout this innings. It's another little feather in his cap - he's looked very composed. And just as I write that he plays his first false shot, Ntini beating him outside off. Still time for one more it seems ...
23rd over: England 88-1 (Strauss 44, Trott 18) Harris to bowl it, drops short on the second ball and Strauss carves him away for four. The England captain seems the only one out there who doesn't want the close. The last ball of the day ... is blocked, and England can be very satisfied with that session.
That's all for today. Thanks for all your emails. Be sure to join Andy Bull for tomorrow's coverage. Cheerio.


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The mother of a 6-year-old boy who died after falling down a flight of stairs at a historic San Diego mansion is suing the county to release photos and documents related to the boy's autopsy and death investigation.
U-T San Diego ( http://bit.ly/HSh5B6 ) says Dina Shacknai's lawsuit, filed March 22, says the county initially denied her access to the information and told her to obtain a court order to authorize its release. She is not seeking monetary damages.
The Spreckels mansion was owned at the time by the boy's father, pharmaceutical tycoon Jonah Shacknai. His girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau, was in the home when the boy fell. Her nude body was found hanging from a balcony at the mansion two days later. Authorities determined Zahau's death was a suicide.
Information from: U-T San Diego, http://www.utsandiego.com

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Amanda Clark, NNP has been a nurse at Riverside Methodist Hospital's NICU since 2005. She obtained her Master's degree at The Ohio State University in 2008 as a NNP and has continued to work in the NICU at Riverside in her new role. Ms. Clark focuses on the care and management of the sick term and preterm infants in the NICU. As a delivery hospital NNP, she is also responsible to attend the delivery of many infants. Those include: meconium stained fluid, vacuum/forcep assisted, preterm, fetal heart tone concerns, and all infant's born via c-section. Her quality improvement initiatives have been focused on improving the care of infants born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (drug withdrawal).


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Reducing the start-up transients of an induction motorMotors and Generators with MagNet
The steady-state characteristics of devices with periodic excitations – such as motors and generators – are often of interest. Unfortunately, the large time constants can have start-up transients that take a considerable amount of time to die out. One example is voltage-driven coils with large inductances.
The start-up response cannot be skipped by simply starting the simulation at a later time. However, there is no need to wait through the slow start-up response either.
There are a number of techniques to significantly reduce the duration of start-up transients using the right initial conditions with MagNet. These powerful features are applied to the simulation of an induction machine. These methods can all be automated by scripting as well.
METHODS and RESULTS
This induction motor displays quite lengthy start-up transients that takes approximately 740ms to die out, i.e. for the DC component of the stator currents to return to zero as expected. The goal is to reduce the time is takes to reach 0 DC.
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If the instantaneous value of the steady-state current waveform is known at t = 0, then it is possible to enter directly into steady state since MagNet makes it easy to specify the current to impose in a coil at t = 0. The Time-Harmonic solver can be very useful in finding the appropriate initial current. In this case, scale the conductivity of the rotor bars based on the machine's slip before proceeding with the time-harmonic solution. MagNet's unique capabilities facilitate this temporary change in conductivity in a few specific parts of the machine. Using this approach, the current waveform is the same, right from the beginning of the simulation, as that obtained after 740 ms in the previous model.
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It is possible to apply a constant voltage for the first time step of the simulation, before switching on the intended sinusoidal waveform, such that the flux linkage produced after this time step is that expected at steady state. If the voltage is properly calculated, it can significantly reduce the start-up transients that last here only two cycles. In order to specify a sinusoidal voltage waveform with a transition plateau for the first time step, one can use the piecewise linear (PWL) waveform type which allows entering any arbitrary waveform.
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Adding a progressive start-up envelop to a sinusoidal voltage waveform allows the system to achieve steady state within a few cycles as illustrated here. This approach once again makes use of MagNet's PWL waveform type.
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John Sweeney About
I was Born in Boston, MA Jan 3, 1956 and then moved across the bay to Squantum in Quincy. I had no formal training in the arts other than a drawing and painting class or 2 in High School. My Dad gave me my first camera, a manual shutter Konica rangefinder with no light meter, when I was 16. It was one he got during the Korean War and though it was 20 years old when he gave it to me I cherish it to this day. At 21 I bought darkroom equipment including a Besler 23C enlarger.
Over the years I also painted in watercolors but it was more off than on until 2006. After an extended session of unemployment I decided I wanted to get better artistically and worked harder at it. I also knew I needed to take some lessons and am fortunate that Elaine Farmer in Londonderry, NH had a spot open for me. I'm now doing both watercolors and oils and I try and use my own photography work as a reference. In May 2007 I participated in my first Art Exhibit 'Art in Action', in Londonderry, NH.
Participated in the following Art Shows:
Moonlight Meadery Feb 2012
Minor Threat Pop Up Gallery Concord NH August 2011
Londonderry Art in Action May 2007, 08, 09, 10, 11
Londonderry Art in Action Oct 2009
Sunview Art Show June 2008, Oct 2009
Londonderry Art on the Common Sept. 2008
Derry Public Library Oct. 2008
Hampstead Public Library Jan. 2009
Artist of the Month Manchester Artist Association
May, Nov 2009, March 2010
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- Artist: Gustavo Lovato
- Format: CD
- Release Date: 3/19/2002
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If 'progressive pop' existed as a genre this record would probably be best described in that way. The songs are easy to digest on a first listen basis but reveal themselves better as they are given time. Recorded in single day sessions mostly in Chicago's Gravity Studios by Doug McBride starting in 1995, the album has a freshness that comes from one-take performances and spur of the moment arrangement ideas. Drummer Bill Swartz (Caviar, Fig Dish, Nectarine, The Girls, Ultraswiss) throughout and cellist Eric Remschneider (Smashing Pumpkins, Hole) on 'minus me' are highlights musically. About the Artist argentine songwriter Gustavo Lovato's 'love and gravity' CD is his first solo project. A previous CD 'spill of hope' was released in 1994 with long-time friend Bill Swartz under the band heading of Perfect Mismatch. Gustavo Lovato also played in Chicago based Fig Dish prior to their debut release 'that's what love songs often do' in 1995.


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| Teacher Review (Based on classroom experience)
Reviewer: ipina, Jul 1 2007 10:57:41:177PM
Classroom use in Courses and Topics:
Math 7: Number sense, Measurement
Algebra: Exponents
Duration of classroom use:
One Class
What did students learn?
Respect for big numbers: those in the video are not so big, yet look at how far!
What did students do with the resource?
Watched as video and answered a few guiding questions
How hard was it for students to use?
Other classroom comments:
Adults remember this video for years after. It really creates quite an impression.
Appropriate for:
introduction to a concept
What math does one need to know to use the resource?
Depends on your purpose. My purpose has been an appreciation for exponents and stimulating a better number sense.
What hardware expertise does one need to learn to use the resource?
How hard was it for you to learn?
Very Easy
It was a video I had seen often, and as an online tool, is even easier than a video.
Ability to meet my goals:
Recommended for:
Math 7: Number sense, Measurement
Algebra: Exponents
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Eamonn Mallie's two-part interview with Dr Ian Paisley was fascinating and insightful on a number of levels, not least because it gave us a glimpse inside what's arguably the most powerful force in his life – his marriage.
I'm not a woman who professes to know reams about politics, but I do know a staunchly loyal, devoted, clued-in, sharp and fearless wife when I see one.
Baroness Eileen Paisley reveals herself, in my opinion, to be the Big Man's most steadfast supporter — possibly even his sole true, trusted confidante.
Her hurt at the way his DUP colleagues allegedly treated him is palpable; she refuses to hold back in her damning criticism of Nigel Dodds, Timothy Johnston, and even Peter Robinson. And rightly so if, as she believes, her husband was shabbily treated.
But there's something behind the twinkle in Dr Paisley's eye at the start of the interview when he jokes that when he met Eileen she was 'a bully'. I'd hazard a guess that this formidable lady would never be above giving her husband a right ticking off when she thinks he needs one.
A little book of that Baroness's daily Bible devotionals which she gives to some of those who cross her path reveals her belief that both partners in any marriage must be on an equal footing.
She says that "Christian wives ought indeed to give honour to their husbands, but Christian men ought also to honour their wives".
She adds that "mutual respect" is crucial because such conduct will have a great impact on their children. Whether the former DUP leader has the respect of the members of the party he created, or the audience who tuned in to watch him, is open to question.
As far as I can observe, the significance of that pales in comparison with that he definitely does have – a woman by his side who will never let him down, and will love him regardless of his imperfections, which have been picked over in public throughout the entire course of his career. The fact that she is so principled and passionate makes him all the more blessed.


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But Pilates still feels inaccessible to many, so to get more insight into how and why you should incorporate the practice into your fitness routine, we picked the brain of Pilates pro Brooke Siler, owner of re:AB Pilates Studio and author of The Women's Health Big Book of Pilates.
You have personally trained celebrities like Madonna, Liv Tyler, Zooey Deschanel, and Kirsten Dunst, and it seems like celebrities really flock to Pilates. Why do you think it's so popular in the celeb circle?
Whether they're modeling, acting, or performing, celebrities are often involved in a physical art, and that necessitates a lot of control over your body. Pilates is something that combines the best of your gym workout, your yoga workout, and your cardio workout. It's such a one-stop shop, and since celebs really value their time, a methodology that gets everything done at once is often the best fit. The aesthetic of Pilates is also very desirable. It doesn't build bulky muscle, and it creates very streamlined silhouettes.
So for the layperson—how many times per week would you recommend doing Pilates to really start to see results? How often to get, say, Jennifer Aniston's legs?
The more you do it, the faster you're going to see results. What I often say is that it's kind of like learning a new language. If you were looking to learn French, you'd have to ask yourself—if I go one hour a week, how much French am I going to learn, and how quickly am I going to learn it? Whereas if I go every day and I spend an hour, and then I'm practicing each day on my own as well, how fast will I learn it then? The reason I compare it to a language is that once you learn it, you don't need to go that often. You can go down from 4-5 times per week to 2 times per week and still maintain your physique.
Will Pilates alone help me lose weight?
Pilates was not meant originally as a weight loss technique, so people who are looking to lose a substantial amount of weight might want to combine it with an additional bout of some kind of aerobic activity and a good nutritional program. Pilates is cardiovascular, but it's anaerobic, so it's much more akin to interval training—which most top trainers recommend for peak athletic performance—because your heart rate goes up and down throughout a session. So while Pilates is a great cardio workout, it's not aerobic in that your heart rate isn't peaked for a steady 45 minutes like it would be on a run.
Speaking of cardio: Say I'm a runner, a biker, or I play a sport. Is Pilates a good compliment to other activities?
Absolutely! That's what's great about Pilates—it will help you do whatever else you do that much better. I often recommend doing it with other forms of exercise. With Pilates, you're stretching and strengthening at the same time. Many people who like to do cardio, be it running or whatever, don't stretch, but they'll often strength train. But if you do Pilates, you get the strength element by using your own body's resistance, or the resistance of the equipment, and you're getting that important element of stretching with it as well.
Are those mat classes at my gym actually beneficial? Is that "real" Pilates?
I think people think that the mat is easy and that the equipment is the hard bit, but it's kind of the opposite. Joseph Pilates designed the equipment so that you could get strong enough to do the mat, and I don't think most people know that. And that's why the mat classes are watered down a lot, because they have to cater to a mixed level of students who may not be ready to manage their own bodies without any support.
And as for the benefits of mat classes, it totally depends on the teacher. A mat class at your gym with the right teacher could be phenomenal, but you may or may not be doing what Joseph Pilates actually prescribed. But if you're doing his method with an authentic teacher who knows how to push you, then absolutely you are in the right place, and you may not need the studio.
How can I verify that my instructor—whether for Mat or Reformer classes—is the real deal?
There are a few ways to gauge your teacher's pedigree. You can go to ClassicalPilates.net, a directory of authentically trained teachers trained within three generations of Joe Pilates himself. For example, I'm second generation because Joe trained my teacher Romana Kryzanowska. My apprentices, then, become third generation upon graduating. Second, you can ask the gym or the instructor what program he or she was certified under. No program worth its salt certifies people in under 600+ hours—my training program is 720+ hours—and the ideal is someone who's certified in the entire system of Pilates and not just one facet. And third, you can go right to the source and leaf through Joe Pilates' book, Return to Life Through Contrology, and see if the exercises you're doing in class are the same as in his book—or mine! Pilates is an athletic workout so you should be sweating and your body should start to change within ten classes. If not, find a better teacher!
If I can't afford studio sessions, and my gym doesn't offer classes that are up to snuff, can I do Pilates at home? (I don't have a Reformer, by the way.)
Yes! In my book, I've added resistance with bands. While it's not exactly the same as the studio equipment, the bands offer a nice addition to your "pure," just-your-body, standalone workouts. But it's still limited in terms of how many exercises you can do with the bands versus how much you can do in a fully equipped studio. We have hundreds of exercises at the studio, and the equipment is really fun, and each piece offers a different way of getting at your muscles. It was designed to be a full system, so when you're doing the mat, you're really only getting one-tenth of what's available to you. But, that said, if that's all you've got—one-tenth—that's better than nothing! And you can absolutely, 100-percent change your body with mat work alone.
We've all heard of the Hundred, but what's your favorite all-around toning move that you can do at home, no equipment required?
I love the Pilates Pushup. It has a nice combination of movements in it, and because it's one of the few standing moves—it goes from standing to planking to push-upping and back to standing again—it ups the cardio component. When you go from up to down to back up again, your heart has to pump more, so it's nice as both a warmup and as an ender. It's great for you to work on your balance and your stability, which really fires up your feet and ankles, which are so critical to your pelvis and how you hold your upper-body posture. People don't recognize how much their feet and ankles affect everything—their knees, their hips, their shoulders, even. It really is the best all-around move.
Here's how to do it:
1. Start standing with your arms in the air.
2. Round down with control. As you're rounding, one of the principles of Pilates is to try to articulate your spine, trying to segmentally roll down your spine like you're rolling up a tube of toothpaste, one little joint at a time. Place your palms on the floor, bending your knees if need be.
3. Walk out into your pushup position and do three pushups. [Not pictured] Fold back up by pushing off your arms and coming into an upside-down triangle. Stretch out through the back of your legs by pushing your heels down to the mat, and then with very strong abdominal control, push off your hands and walk your hands back up towards your feet. Stretch the whole backline of your body by drawing the forehead to your knees. With soft knees, use your Powerhouse—tummy, tush, and inner thighs—to roll yourself back up to standing one joint at a time and lift your arms up. Repeat the entire sequence three times.
MAKE IT HARDER: While you're down in your pushup position, you can also add any number of pushup variations, and there are a bunch in my book. I like turning into a side plank and doing each side and then folding back up and walking up.
Ready to get a Pilates body? The Women's Health Big Book of Pilates will transform your form into a long, lean, fat-burning machine.


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1. Summer field in Tidmarsh where I walk the dog everyday | 2. Mousehole in Cornwall where we had a great holiday | 3. The nature reserve by my house | 4. Misty morning in the hills | 5. Port Isaac, Cornwall, on a glorious hot day | 6. One of the many beautiful skies we had this summer | 7. Brighton day trip | 8. The coolest car I saw all year | 9. Lady Godiva from a weekend back at home to see family and friends
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Northern Ireland birthday honours
Northern Ireland people, from all walks of life, have been honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
They include John Laughlin Semple, head of the civil service, who has received a knighthood.
The former sports star, Mary Peters, becomes a Dame for services to sport and to the community as does Geraldine Keegan for services to secondary education.
The former Liberal Democrats leader, Paddy Ashdown, becomes a Knight of the British Empire.
The Governor of Maghaberry Prison, Martin Mogg, becomes a Commander of the British Empire as does the chairman of the Omagh Fund, Sean O'Dwyer.
Knight, Order of the Bath
John Semple, who retires as the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service in August, is the only person in the province to be awarded a Knighthood.
Since devolution, Mr Semple has also been Secretary to the power-sharing Executive Cabinet and is responsible for the Office of the First and Deputy First Ministers David Trimble and Seamus Mallon.
He joined the civil service in 1962. Married with two sons and a daughter, Mr Semple was educated at Campbell College in Belfast and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he graduated in History.
He was appointed to the top job in 1997, and had been a permanent secretary in the Department of Finance and Personnel since 1988.
Dame of the British Empire
In 1972, Mary Peters won her Olympic gold medal with a world record in the pentathlon.
She was awarded the CBE in 1990 and now she becomes a Dame.
Dame Mary said she was delighted but "shocked" to receive the award for her work with charities.
"I feel almost embarrassed about it, because it has been a pleasure for me to serve so many charities and so many sports organisations over the years," she said.
"I was quite shocked when I opened the letter, in fact I thought it was a bill because it had a little window in the envelope."
She is currently the driving force behind plans for a museum to immortalise Northern Ireland's greatest sporting idols.
She has promised that the first exhibit will be her own gold medal.
Although born in Halewood, Lancashire, Dame Mary has lived in the province since her schooldays.
Geraldine Keegan is the head teacher of St Mary's College in the Creggan area of Londonderry, which is one of Northern Ireland's most successful schools.
It was the first school in the UK to receive three charter marks for excellence, the government's gold medal of public service.
Miss Keegan was appointed the school's first lay principal in 1987. She is already an OBE and now becomes a Dame.
Knight of the British Empire
Paddy Ashdown is honoured with a KBE under his full name of the Rt Hon Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, MP.
He resigned last year as leader of the Liberal Democrats after 11 years.
The party was revitalised in his charge, though with his reputation as the "action man" of British politics, Mr Ashdown was arguably more popular personally than was his party.
His father was an Irish-born British Army colonel in India.
When he retired, he moved the family to a pig farm in Comber, County Down.
The nickname "Paddy" came after Ashdown junior enrolled at a private school near London.
Later, Mr Ashdown served with the Royal Marines as a commando, then a foreign service officer before spending the last years of his military career in Northern Ireland. He is married with a daughter and a son.
Commander of the British Empire
Martin Mogg was governor of the Maze Prison when the Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright was shot dead in the jail.
He survived repeated calls for his resignation by politicians, and is currently Governor of Maghaberry Prison.
He is awarded the CBE. Between October 1997 and September 1998, Mr Mogg added the role of Maze Governor to his more senior position as head of operational management of the Northern Ireland Prison Service.
It was one of the most difficult times for the service. The IRA prisoner Liam Averill managed to escape by disguising himself as a woman just days before the Billy Wright murder.
In the aftermath of the Omagh bomb in 1998, Sean O'Dwyer was appointed as chairman of the five trustees of the Omagh Fund, which has raised millions for the victims of the tragedy and their relatives.
He is awarded the CBE. At the official launch of the fund he predicted the demands on the fund would be "far greater in human scale than any other disaster in these islands since 1945".
He is a former deputy chairman of the clothing firm Desmond and Sons and a former pro chancellor of the University of Ulster. He is already an OBE and a JP.
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Argan Oil
Argan oil is an oil which is extracted from the seeds of the fruit from the Argan trees. Argan oil is widely used in beauty products to alleviate certain skin conditions, by softening skin, reducing dry and brittleness and helping the skin repair more readily from scarring. It is used medicinally to improve circulation and boost the immune system, and as an anti-inflammatory which may alleviate common muscle and joint conditions. When prepared for cosmetic purposes, Argan oil is also referred to as Moroccan oil.
What is Argan oil?
The tree from which argan oil is produced in called scientifically Argania spinosa. Fruits, the size of nuts, grow on these trees. The seed from which the oil is extracted is housed inside this fruit which is almost round or oval in shape. On the outer layer of the fruit is a peel and the inner layer is a bulking pulp, which forms the greater part of the fruit. Beneath this layer is the nut, in which the seed is housed. The seed is reached by cracking the outside shell. An Argan nut typically contains between two and three seeds inside.
The argania spinosa is actually a shrub and not a tree. It is found more commonly in the Sous valley area of Morocco. In fact, the oil extracted from the trees is also widely referred to as Moroccan oil, in homage to the native land in which the tree is found. The argania spinosa may also be found in other areas such as the Tindouf region of Algeria.
The oil extracted from the seeds of the fruit from the Argania spinosa shrub is full of fatty acids, phenols and tocopherols (vitamin E). Some of the fatty acids present in Argan oil are alpha-linolenic, linoleic, myristic, oleic, palmitic and stearidonic acids. Argan oil is also one of the richest sources of vitamin E.
Argan oil, as well as the corresponding cosmetic variation, Moroccan oil, is produced by Moroccan women working in cooperatives in the rural areas, using labour-intensive methods.
Other names
Both Argan oil and Moroccan oil are names used interchangeably to refer to the oil extracted from the Aragania Spinosa shrub native to Morocco. Usually the term Argan oil is used in reference to the oil made for consumption while Moroccan oil is given to the oil intended for use in cosmetic products such as skin or facial creams. Because of its importance to the rural Moroccan economy, the oil is also called liquid gold or Moroccan gold.
Most of the extraction of Argan oil takes place in the southwestern regions of Morocco. Natives in this area hold an almost reverent attitude towards the plant. The fruits are usually allowed to ripe independently. Goats climb the steep hills on which these trees are scattered and eat the fruit from the tree, often swallowing the seeds whole. The traditional method of collecting the seeds for extraction involved searching throw the droppings from these goats who would pass out the seeds in tact after consuming the fruit. Some of these practices have changed. The women, who are the ones primarily involved in this industry, have now formed themselves into cooperatives. These cooperatives protect the interest of the Berbers, the term used for the Moroccan natives in this region, as well as negotiate markets for the products.
Production of Argan oil is labor intensive. The women first gather the ripened fruit from the Argan tree. The ripened fruit is laid out in the sun and allowed to dry. Where available, ovens are used to speed up this drying process. This makes the external pulp and skin easier to remove. Afterwards the seed is then extracted. This is perhaps the most difficult and lengthy step as each nut has to be hand-cracked. The Berber women usually crack the nuts between two stones.
To produce Argan oil the seeds are first roasted. With Moroccan oil, the variant that is geared towards cosmetic products, the seeds are not roasted as this results in a nutty undesirable odor. Roasting makes it easier to extract the oil. After roasting the Berbers grind the seeds in a rotating stone grinder. This grind is manually operated. The paste which results is kneaded and pressed repeatedly for a few hours then as much oil as possible squeezed out. The oil is left to settle so that unwanted impurities can be filtered out as they sink to the bottom of the container. The oil is then bottled and exported.
Benefits of Argan Oil
Argan oil, when consumed, offers several health and nutritional advantages. It has antioxidant properties, important in warding off cancer. It is an anti-inflammatory and has been shown to help with joint and muscle pains related to arthritis and rheumatism. Argan oil is felt to help enhance digestion and is therefore recommended for some stomach problems. It has been links with improvements in blood circulation, reductions of bad cholesterols and boosting the immune system. It may also boost energy levels.
Vitamin E is great for skin and hair issues. The presence of this vitamin in Argan oil helps the skin to heal more readily from scars, especially those brought on by chicken pox, acne, eczema, burn abrasions and psoriasis. It contributes to younger looking skin by decreasing evidences of aging skin by making wrinkles and fine lines less pronounced. It helps to retain moisture in the skin while protecting against the dangerous rays of the sun, contributing to overall healthier skin and hair.


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The other day, Karol Gajda sent me an email saying that I ought to sell Life Nomadic for $2.99, and that if I did, the volume would make up for the lower sale price. Worth a try, right?
So, for a while at least, the Kindle version of Life Nomadic is $2.99 on Amazon. If you take at least one trip a year, the money-saving tips alone will pay for the book many times over. Of course, there's a lot more to the book than that, evidenced by the emails I get all the time from people saying the book changed their lives.
Speaking of which, if you have read Life Nomadic, PLEASE leave a review on Amazon. This helps Amazon circulate it in its recommendations engine, which helps me get sales.
The link for reviewing or purchasing is here.
If you've bought any of my products: thank you. Most of my income comes from those sales.
Some time next week I'm going to open up TaskSmash up until another 100 people sign up. To make sure you know when it's open, make sure you're subscribed to the blog or twitter.
Could you bring http://tynan.net/currentgear back online? It seems to have gone missing, but is still in the book.
Hey Tynan, I posted on your "how to write a book in 48 hours thread" a long time ago, and thought I'd share this. I'm an audiobook junkie, so I naturally thought it would be cool to have an audiobook done of my own someday. Although I still don't have the proper book written for that format, I found this link through amazon ...http://www.acx.com/help/audiobook-publishers/200679720
... it helps find a narrator/producer and has a revenue sharing model for all concerned, low minimum sale pricing for smaller books, and it's an amazon company too. I'd love to HEAR Life Nomadic onaudible.com
someday; just something more to consider :) -- Webb M.
I bought this and read it over the weekend. It's an excellent read for someone considering packing up and hitting the road for a new travelling lifestyle. I can't say that I agreed with everything he suggested (but that's OK of course!) - but I found it very motivating and the kick in the butt that I needed to start seriously planning my upcoming lifestyle change.
I had hardly read the first sentences of this article when I typed over to Amazon and bought this gem! Yeah!!!
Hey Tynan. I bought Life Nomadic back in 2009 I think... it's been a while. Has any of the information changed or is it the same?
Kndle Price: $5.74 includes VAT
But I'm from Poland, so maybe that's the problem. Nevertheless, gonna buy it this week :].
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Long version: Todd and I used to send each other an email every day with a list of two or three tasks that we absolutely had to get done that day. Then, at the end of the day, we'd check in to see if the tasks actually got done.
The problem with that was that sometimes we'd forget what we said we'd do, so we'd have to dig through the sent box on our phones, and there was no real historical tracking.
I've spend stupid amounts of money on books in my life. When I wanted to learn about a topic, I'd go to Amazon and order the top 5 to 10 books in its category. If I saw a book referenced in a few papers on science I read, I'd add it to the cart, and buy it the next time I ordered a stack of 10-20 books.
I figured it was better to have books lying around unread than to miss the opportunity to read on a topic when I was inspired. Books piled up on history, governance, economics, investing, finance, marketing, business, psychology, biographies, time management, habits, willpower, discipline, creativity, writing, selling, publishing, technology, innovation, philosophy, and, umm, lots more. Fiction too, though I didn't read fiction for a while because I thought it was a waste of time. (I was mistaken on that point.)
At least half of those books never got opened up. But it didn't matter. Books were so ridiculously underpriced compared to what they're potentially worth, that I thought it was worth it to have a copies on hand that I could break open to look something up, or check a controversial study's results. I had books on health and nutrition and biochemistry, and man, those were a nightmare contradicting each other.
I was never good at predicting what I'd want to read, so I'd keep a mix of things onhand in case I got inspired, or hit a roadblock and needed to learn more.
There were auxilliary benefits too. I must have bought Michael Gerber's "The E-Myth Revisited" at least a dozen times, because I kept giving a copy away to people who hadn't read it. Everyone who runs a small business should read that book.


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The North West was among the top three regions in the UK for generating employment via foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2010, a new report has revealed.
According to a study by accountancy firm Ernst & Young, some 1,226 roles were created: 683 in business services, 293 in machinery and equipment and 250 in the financial services sector.
Scotland was the number one region for producing employment opportunities, followed by London.
The research indicated that the UK was the most attractive destination in Europe for FDI, with some 728 projects in total, up seven per cent compared with 2009.
Lord Green, minister of state for Trade and Investment, said, "The sustained impact of FDI on the UK has been transformational, supporting the growth of a globally attractive and truly international economy.
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DAYS before the curtain is due to drop on one of the most profligate fiscal years of our history, the newly inducted government is ready to utilise a jaw-dropping Rs326bn to retire a large chunk of the circular debt. The amount will add another percentage and a half to the country's fiscal deficit, expressed as a proportion of GDP. Once completed, this will be the largest single retirement of the circular debt ever attempted, with at least two other examples from the past of similar efforts to douse the problem in a single move. In both cases, the circular debt resurfaced within six months.
Debate has continued over the structural reasons behind why the debt is proving so stubbornly resilient to eradicate. One view says the tariff itself is flawed, where the cost of generation averages out to Rs14 per unit (due mainly to our reliance on pricey oil imports) but the cost at which the unit is sold averages to Rs9. Another view puts emphasis on efficiencies, pointing out that transmission and distribution losses are the root cause. In the past proposals have been considered to pass the cost of the circular debt — such as the penal interest rates the power producers charge to the government for late payments — onto consumers as a special 'surcharge' on their power bills. Other proposals have sought a raise in the tariff, even though an almost 75pc hike in power tariffs since 2008 did little to eliminate the debt, since the cost of generation keeps climbing with every tariff increase.
This is the first time we are hearing of large-scale structural changes to be brought about in the aftermath of a massive payout by the government. Given the amount being disbursed, it is only fair for the government to seek a relaxation in the terms of the power producers. But it's difficult to escape the impression that more needs to be done by the private sector in return. Capacity charges should be scrutinised again and technical audits conducted to ensure the power producers are properly stating their efficiencies. New legislation should be drafted immediately for a revamped and strengthened regulator empowered to play the role of referee and not act like a timid tariff-setting body. The first steps are encouraging, but if they are not followed up by equally strong measures to provide oversight to the power sector — public and private — it is reasonably feared that like before, the circular debt will resurface all over again.


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