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After nine tournaments in 2018-19, including three this spring, Ashland University's women's golf team will play in the 2019 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships, Friday-Sunday (April 19-21) at Stoatin Brae Golf Course at Gull Lake View Golf Club and Resort in Augusta, Mich.
Without sophomore Hannah Lemons, who averaged 78.92 per round in the first seven tournaments but whose spring has been injury-filled, fellow sophomore Sophie Hemleben has stepped into the No. 1 spot. Hemleben's season average is 79.29.
"Losing Hannah is obviously very difficult for us," said Ashland head coach Dennis North. "Sophie has really thrived in that 1 position. She has the potential to be a really, really good player."
Ashland's two upperclassmen in the lineup are senior Monica Torda (84.65 average) and junior Logan Pottorf (88.69). The Eagles' lineup also includes two freshmen – Sophia Lowe (89.00) and Cece Dillon (91.58).
"The fact that they can get some experience right now is only going to help us for next year," North said.
The GLIAC Championships will feature a different format this year – two rounds, then on Sunday, the top four teams compete in head-to-head medal play in the semifinals in the morning, and the two semifinal winners will do head-to-head medal play in the finals in the afternoon.
Ashland placed fourth or higher at GLIACs each year from 2008-09 to 2016-17. In 2018, the Eagles finished seventh.


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It is that time again, when Mr B is away and I get the bed all to myself. The bed isn't really that big but it is huge to me because I am only 5ft 4 and he is 6ft 3. The advert with the hippo and the duck is quite apt for bed time … Continue reading
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The Folder Of Doom
It sits and stares. The spotted pattern, which I thought was 'nice' when I bought it, laughs at me from across the table. Its glossy purple circular motif burning a hole in my iris as I strive to carry on, desperately trying to ignore its contents. The sheaf's of paper contained in this mediocre receptacle … Continue reading
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I am writing a novel. I have given myself til Christmas to finish it and I am procrastinating…again. I love the way the characters merge, the imagery flows and the recognition of streets will make any fellow Edinburger and non-Edinburger for that matter, smile and want to read on. Well, that is what I hope … Continue reading
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Games up the pole. Dummy's oot the pram. I'm getting my ba' and goin' in. D-day has now passed and all of these saying sum up how I feel after I failed my task. As you may be aware, I set myself a little book challenge way back on 5th of January https://greatbigjar.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/the-15-book-challenge/. The goal … Continue reading


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The fern peony, a peony variety, is a slow-growing herbaceous plant that grows to a height of one to two feet. The plant has rhizomatous roots that prefer to be planted in the fall season. Fern peony plants grow well in USDA growing zones 3 through 8 when given winter protection in the harsh climate areas. Fern peonies attract butterflies to the garden during their spring blooming period, while resisting deer, squirrels and rabbits.
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Ant lover of racing games has wondered at on time or another just how close the game is to real racing. Imagine, taking the same car you are using in the game and putting it head-to-head with the real car on the real-life version of the track you are racing on; what a fantastic idea, right?
To date, we have never seen this test, but the folks over at Viagame did just that in order to find out which crosses the finish line first, the virtual racer or the real-life on..
To perform this crazy test, they recruited one of Sweden's best gamers and put him in a Renault Mégane Red Bull Edition with gaming system installed in it. They then took a real-life race car driver and put him in the driver's seat of the Renault and headed for the Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona to see who wins.
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The once a Raider, always a Raider vibe doesn't keep a former Raider from questioning the current Raiders.
Hall of Fame defensive back Rod Woodson, who spent two years ing for the Raiders and four seasons on the coaching staff, isn't a fan of the current direction of the team under old-new coach Jon Gruden.
Appearing in FS1's Undisputed, Woodson questioned some of the personnel decisions made by the team in 2018.
Lynch, based on his revised contract, most likely will be there. The question is whether the success will be there, especially for the investment made in Gruden.
He goes to the Super bowl and he wins with Tony Dungy's team, Woodson said. My question is how many Super Bowls do you have to win if you're Mark Davis to justify $100 million?
Actually, none. Gruden needs merely to create a plausible sense every year that the Raiders could win the Super Bowl, since that's what sell tickets and premium seats and suites and merchandise.
For 2018, it's working. They simply need to win enough games that they'll reasonably be expected to be competitive in 2019 and beyond. Given the kick in the ass that Gruden brought to the Tampa offense 16 years ago, chances are the Raiders will at least be better than they were a year ago which should be enough to get people to think they'll be even better in 2019 and good enough in 2020.
Frank Gore won't be back with the Colts in 2018, but another member of last year's backfield will remain on the roster.
The Colts announced that they have re-signed Christine Michael.
Michael's membership in the backfield last season was limited to offseason work. He suffered an injury in June's minicamp and missed the rest of the year. That undisclosed injury came just a couple of weeks after Michael signed with the team, so his next game with the Colts will be his first.
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Videos lead to investigation | News | The Press and Standard
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Last Updated: October 4, 2017 at 12:57 pm
On the morning of Oct. 2, the investigations division of the Colleton County Sheriff's Office started an investigation of Ralph G. Stair, the 84-year-old leader of Overcomer Ministry.
An incident report among the sheriff's office list of calls handled on Oct. 1 included the report of a 1:30 a.m. call to the sheriff's office from an Ohio woman, who reportedly has a relative who is a member of Stair's church in Colleton County.
The woman called to express her concern about a pair of videos that were put on the You Tube website on Sept. 30.
One video focused on a young woman who alleged she was targeted by Stair for sexual advances while she was at Stair's Augusta Highway compound.
The second video, a collection of clips of Stair's church services, allegedly showed him suggestively touching underage females during church services.
Several members of Colleton County Sheriffs Office, including Colleton County Sheriff Andy Strickland, viewed the videos shortly after they were posted.
What Strickland saw in the videos, said Lt. Tyger Benton, the public information officer for the sheriff's office, has the sheriff "very concerned."
Monday morning, Strickland met with the members of the Investigations Division concerning the video and assigned an investigator to look into the allegations suggested by the videos' content.
The Monday morning incident report listed Stair as the suspect in the investigation.
The incident report provided no narrative, instead stating that the information was contained in a supplemental report. Supplemental reports are not public record and Benton said the supplemental report will not be released and he would not be offering any insight into what specifically the investigation will examine.
The allegations against Stair based on the video are not the first time he has been accused of inappropriate contact with an underage female.
Stair appeared in Colleton County General Sessions Court in November of 2004, approximately two years after being charged with improperly touching two of his young female church members.
In that court appearance, Stair, as part of a plea agreement, pled guilty to two reduced charges — assault and battery — and was given two 30-day jail terms with credit for time already spent in custody — credit that meant he spent no more time in jail.


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2FM radio station - Still comin'atcha after 35 years
It celebrates its birthday today in the throes of an identity crisis, but in 1979 2fm was at the heart of a revolution, says John Meagher
Declan Meehan was excited when he got a job on RTE's new youth oriented station in 1979, but his enthusiasm was nothing compared to that of his parents. "They were delighted: they saw RTE as the be all and end all."
The Dubliner was still in his early 20s then, but was already something of a pirate radio veteran.
"The station was founded with the aim of killing off the pirates," he says, "and while it failed to do that, it fulfilled a need for young people's radio with really good music and an edgier feel than RTE's existing station."
Launched with the still memorable tagline of "Comin'atcha!", RTE Radio 2 – which would be rebranded 2FM in 1988 – went live this day 35 years ago and helped usher in a golden age of Irish broadcasters: Dave Fanning, Gerry Ryan, Pat Kenny and Mark Cagney were just some of the future household names that were on the very first schedule.
"The one thing I didn't like was that tagline and marketing campaign," says Pat Kenny, who moved to the new station after working for a few years as a continuity announcer on Radio 1. "We thought it was pretty naff, although today, in an era of 'The X Factor' and suchlike it would probably work quite well.
"People were crying out for a station like it at the time. You had Radio Luxembourg and Radio Caroline and then the Dublin pirate radio stations, but there was no official Irish music station that was widely available, and there was a huge appetite for it.
"I look back on those days with great fondness and made some excellent friends there. Radio 2, or 2FM as it would become, had a really good run of it before local radio came on stream and when it came to a certain type of radio, it could feel like the only show in town."
Former Irish Independent reporter and music critic Tony O'Brien says the arrival of Radio 2 was part of a perfect storm of events in Irish youth culture at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s.
"I joined the Indo in 1978 when I was 26 and there was definitely a feeling that things were different," he adds. "You had bands like the Boomtown Rats doing very well in Britain as well as the rise of U2. Hot Press magazine had just started and punk had become a significant thing in Ireland.
"You also had big open-air concerts such as Bob Marley at Dalymount and The Police at Leixlip Castle [both in the summer of 1980] as well as much-talked of events like the anti-Nuclear Carnsore Point gigs in Wexford, which were organised by Christy Moore.
"It was also a time when the Dandelion Market [where the St Stephen's Green shopping centre is now] was an important part of youth culture. If you were Dublin-based, Pat Egan's Sound Cellar was the place where you could get those hard-to-find LPs as well as concert tickets.
"Radio 2 became pretty big quickly and people like Fanning had huge influence. In an era before the internet and podcasting, such shows were a big deal. It had the market to itself for a long time and some of what it did felt innovative simply because there was so little competition. That would all change when the market was deregulated."
The success of the so-called "super-pirates"– Radio Nova and Sunshine Radio – proved that Radio 2 did not have a stranglehold on Ireland's youth audience, but such late 1980s and early 1990s initiatives as Beat on the Street and Eye in the Sky [traffic information conveyed via DJ Electric Eddie in a helicopter] would prove to be enormously popular.
Declan Meehan, who worked at the station for 18 months, says Radio 2 experienced considerable teething problems in the early stages. "You had the younger crowd who had come from the pirates and much older RTE staffers who were parachuted into the station and they didn't exactly see eye to eye," he adds.
"I had come from these cool stations where you played the music you liked and now, as presenter of the breakfast programme, I was having to play the likes of Brendan Shine's 'Do You Want Your Oul Lobby Washed Down?' and Denis Allen's 'Limerick You're A Lady'. As someone from the pirates, you'd get accused of being a sell-out when you played that sort of stuff."
Meehan was much happier when he was moved to a night slot directly before Dave Fanning's show, which was already becoming something of a cult attraction. But at the end of 1980 when the contracts were up for renewal, he would not be kept on.
"The controller, Billy Wall, asked me if I wanted to know why I wasn't being kept on," he tells me.
"He said I was a limited broadcaster who had no future in radio. I'm glad to say he was wrong." Meehan presents shows on both Today FM and East Coast Radio today.
Others, like the late Gerry Ryan, found themselves in favour with Wall although in his memoir, Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up?, which was published shortly before his death, he wrote that he was "pissed off" that the slots he was offered were not high-profile enough.
He changed his tune when he learnt that RTE were offering him £78 per week – a very significant sum in late 1970s Ireland.
Meanwhile, Pat Kenny believes the "esoteric" nature of the station in its early years helped several of today's household names find their voices that would stand them in good stead for their entire careers.
"It had an identity that was quite unique in the Ireland of the time," he says. "It tapped into a younger, more optimistic country, and could show that radio could be both engaging and great fun. They were good times."
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We're back from running our first-ever rationality workshop in Boston. (Well, actually, a rustic retreat in Harvard, MA, about 50 minutes outside of Boston).
We usually try a few new things each time we run a workshop, while keeping most of our tried-and-true features constant. This workshop was no exception. For one, we had an unprecedentedly large cohort of participants: 38 instead of our typical 25, which seemed to work pretty well even though the classes were bigger than average.
But one of the most pleasantly surprising experiments this time around was our Day of Tutoring. Basically, we've come to suspect that the way people really learn a new idea -- and the way we internalize that idea, to a degree that will shift our behavior -- is to teach it to someone else.
So we spent half of Saturday having the participants tutor each other in the material from Thursday and Friday, in a chaotic-but-fun rotating wheel of tutor-pupil pairs. Throughout the exercise I overheard people noticing things they didn't understand about the classes while trying to explain them; thinking up real life examples and applications; and putting our ideas in their own words, all in a high-bandwidth way that I haven't really seen occur within the context of a traditional "teacher lecturing students" class before. (And nearly everyone rated the tutoring process as useful, after the fact -- a higher approval rate than any of our standard classes.)
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Editor's Note: Babble is a part of The Walt Disney Company.
One of the joys of the holiday season is the excitement building up to Christmas Day. A fun way to celebrate that special time with your family is with an advent calendar — like this adorable Mickey-shaped wreath version. It's made from reusing empty coffee pods you would otherwise toss. You can even ask your friends and family to save theirs to help with the project.
This Mickey Advent Wreath can hold more than small toys and candy. It can also be customized with special messages inside to encourage your family to volunteer this holiday season. Simply add little slips of paper into the pods with suggestions like:
- Donate food to a local food drive
- Visit an animal shelter to help care for the animals
- Bring a board game and play at a local senior center
- Shovel snow for a neighbor in need
- Write a letter to a service member overseas
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- Glue your wreath forms into a Mickey shape. You can find these in the floral department of your local craft store. (You can also make your own forms by cutting out rings from cardboard boxes. Try tracing dinner plates and saucers to get the correct shape and size, then cut them out with a craft knife.)
- Carefully peel the foil tops off of your used coffee pods and remove the inner filter. Clean each pod well. Play with the position of your coffee pods to evenly space them on your wreath forms. It might be helpful to use spare coins to find the perfect spacing between each pod. Once you settle on the final positions, use hot glue to secure the pods into place. Let dry completely.
- Paint the top half of your wreath with black paint, and the bottom half with red. If you choose spray paint, cover the half of the wreath you are not painting with a plastic bag and secure with painter's tape.
- Once the paint has dried, add messages and toys inside the pods.
- Cut circles to cover each pod. Use a 2-inch paper punch, if available. Otherwise, use a coffee pod as a template and trace out 24 circles. You need 18 black circles, 4 red circles, and 2 yellow circles.
- Use chalk to write the numbers 1-24 on top of each paper circle. Attach the circles to each pod with hot glue.
- Once completely dry, have your family open up the corresponding pod each day — and help serve your community with small acts of giving.
Disney is sharing the joy this holiday season by giving back to deserving kids and families. Click here to find out ways you can volunteer with your family — to help make your community healthier, happier, and stronger.


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A Guide to the UT Affiliated School Board Records, circa 1895-1917
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The Faculty Committee on Affiliated Schools was established by the University of Texas at the turn of the nineteenth century to promote an active relationship between the University and Texas secondary schools. Professor of Education William Seneca Sutton served as the Committee's chairman. High schools seeking affiliation would submit an application with examples of student work. Applicants were subject to an inspection by the Committee's Inspector of Schools, the President, or other UT faculty members to assess the school's quality, curricula, and resources before being accepted for affiliation. The graduates of officially affiliated high schools would be entitled to admission to the University of Texas.
University of Texas Faculty Committee on Affiliated Schools. Suggestions concerning courses of study and methods of teaching in high schools. Issued by the Committee on affiliated schools, the University of Texas. Austin: The University of Texas, 1905.
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LOUD3R.com – Network of Topic-Driven Websites July 22, 2008Posted by Ced in .Subscribe, Feeds, Info, Online, Services.
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LOUD3R.com gives you a network of 25 topic-specific sites to help you filter out the noise in finding news.
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The topic-driven sites are:
- FOUND3R – venture capital
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- GLITT3R – fashion
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Each site uses a combination of human editorial input combined with semantic software to assemble all the best content, from a web-wide perspective. The idea is that if you are interested in, let's say Mixed Martial Arts, you go to FIGHT3R to see the Most Interesting, Most Popular, and Newest news about MMA, as well as share stories, ask questions, and get answers from the community. You can also change the timeframe according to Day, Week, or Month. Let's get it on!
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StockNewsGame.com (beta) is a free online game that lets you learn the fundamental financial analysis principles of stocks and trading.
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If you are interested in stock trading analysis, and would like to try it without spending real money, StockNewsGame.com is something nice to consider. And fun, too.


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Silva Gabreta addresses all scientific, social, economic, and cultural factors that influence regional condition of the low-range mountainous environment, with particular focus on the Bohemian Forest - the largest transboundary continuous woodland region in central Europe. Besides natural history and conservation biology of this broad mountainous region, Silva Gabreta particularly encourages multi- or inter-disciplinary submissions with explicit management or policy recommendations. Any comparison with other similar mountainous ecosystems of Europe is welcome.
Papers published in Silva Gabreta fall into the following categories: Research paper, Report, Review, Perspective, Opinion, or Comment. Regardless of article category, your submission should have a clear link between a broad region of the Bohemian Forest and the scope covering miscellaneous environmental issues.The broad scope of coverage extends to ecology, biodiversity, taxonomy, conservation biology, forestry, socio-ecology, socio-economy, environmental economics, geology, geochemistry, geomorphology, paleontology, archaeology, limnology, hydrology, meteorology, and physical geography.


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But don't forget that one of the main reasons for BT creating BT Sport was to gain more phone+broadband customers. This is why they offer free access for BT phone+broadband customers.
So they might lose the £12/£15 Sky subscription fee, but they will gain £30+ revenue for the new BT phone+broadband contract. Using that argument they should make the free BT Sport service available on as many platforms as possible to try and lure as many new phone+broadband customers as possible.
BT Sport isn't actually available on TalkTalk TV. Plusnet currently just do a half price BT Sport on Sky offer, but Youview from Plusnet is due to start up later this year once trials are completed.
Would love see a bt sport app for ps4, I just seen today that sky go is coming to ps4 this summer.
has this happend yet?
Wonder the same..
Come on BT. Hurry up with the console apps so we can watch BT SPort on Xbox One and PS4.


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{finally signed up for birch box – thanks for the idea kendra!}
{pre-saled the nordstrom anniversary sale!}
{aaron & i finally started watching game of thrones & now we are obsessed!}
{my sister gave us an eggplant plant last week. i am pretty sure those little purple flowers are eggplants-in-the-making.}
{this week's csa haul – anyone want some produce?}
{nordstrom anniversary sale round two!}
{sadie decided she wanted to drive this weekend instead of being a passenger.}
{a fierce game of spite & malice with my mom & grandmother on saturday night.}
{i am obsessed with blackberries & so glad i can find ones that are locally grown.}
{we got new bulbs for our kitchen pendant lights & they look SO much better! um, but LED bulbs are so expensive. seriously. #theybetterreallylastfor13years}
{one of my very best friends meg was in town this weekend & we got to catch up this evening over dinner & some chatting. meg, we have come a long way in 16 years! #bffssinceweweretwelve love you!}
we had a fun weekend with my mom & meg in town. the weather has been perfect here – not too hot & not too cold – which is a reprieve from the hot, hot we had in boise last week. time is flying so fast & i can't believe it is the end of july already, where did the time go? how was your weekend?


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Amazon is one of America's most robust job creators, its domestic workforce soaring from 30,000 in 2011 to 180,000 in 2016 — and climbing.
DONALD TRUMP'S intermittent grudge against Amazon recently flared up anew. On Aug. 16, the president lashed out at the company in an early-morning tweet, accusing it of "doing great damage to tax paying retailers" and blaming it for "many jobs being lost" in cities and states nationwide.
It wasn't clear just why the presidential bonnet was once again abuzz with that particular bee. The most popular theory was that a harsh editorial in the Washington Post — which, like Amazon, is owned by Jeff Bezos — had set Trump off.
Whatever the trigger, the president's indictment of Amazon was groundless. Whether he knows it or not, Amazon today is as much a "tax-paying retailer" as any of its competitors. And, far from being a net job-killer, Amazon is creating new jobs at a breathtaking pace.
The point about taxes is banal and straightforward. Under longstanding US law, merchants only have to collect sales taxes in states where they have a meaningful physical presence. Back when Amazon had brick-and-mortar facilities in just a few states, its customers were charged sales tax in only those states.
Despite much griping by traditional vendors, there was nothing unfair about this. No retailer is obliged to collect taxes for states it doesn't operate in. If a Connecticut jewelry store sells a silver bangle to a customer from Los Angeles, it doesn't have to remit sales tax to California. All merchants — conventional "Main Street" stores, mail-order catalogs, and Internet retailers — play by the same rule: They only collect sales taxes in the states where they're physically located.
Since Amazon now is physically located everywhere, it charges sales tax everywhere (except in the five states that don't levy one: Alaska, Delaware, Oregon, Montana, and New Hampshire). All told, Amazon remits a fortune in taxes to jurisdictions at every level: The total last year was $412 million.
Vastly more impressive, though, are the data that explode Trump's claim that Amazon is an employment killer ("many jobs being lost").
In 2011, Amazon had 30,000 full-time employees in the United States. By the end of 2016, it employed more than 180,000: a sixfold increase in just five years. In January, Amazon announced plans to expand its US payroll by another 100,000 jobs — "full-time, full-benefit," it emphasized — over the next 18 months. Worldwide, Amazon now employs more than 380,000 people, and in the first half of 2017, it hired another 41,000.
"For perspective," wrote Nat Levy at the technology news site Geekwire, "Amazon's global workforce is roughly equivalent to the population of Cleveland, and it has added approximately a Billings, Mont., worth of people in the last year."
The latest Fortune 500 rankings put Amazon among the nation's Top 10 employers, just ahead of FedEx and UPS and not far behind McDonald's. If, as planned, it hires another 100,000 employees over the next year, it may soon be the second-largest corporate employer in America. (Walmart, with 2.3 million employees, holds the No. 1 rank by a wide margin.)
Characteristically, Trump has personalized his rancor for Amazon. "Believe me," he said of Bezos and Amazon during the 2016 campaign, "if I become president, oh, do they have problems. They're gonna have such problems."
But were Trump to obstruct Amazon's astonishing revolution in commerce and logistics, it is he and his administration that would have problems. Amazon is one of the most robust generators of wealth and employment in contemporary American life. Considering Trump's repeated declarations that he would be the greatest jobs president "that God ever created," his disdain for Amazon is irrational. Doubly so, given his much-ballyhooed admiration for winners.
There is nothing theoretical about Amazon's appeal. To take a single measure: An estimated 85 million Americans subscribe to Prime, Amazon's $99-a-year membership service. That amounts to one-third of the adult population of the United States, or roughly two-thirds of all American households. It is also 22 million more than the number of Americans who voted for Trump on Election Day.
The first Amazon logo, when it was merely "Earth's Biggest Bookstore."
Of course Amazon's rise has upended old patterns of buying and selling, and driven weaker, less effective vendors to their knees. What industry hasn't been squeezed, flattened, and turned inside-out by the convulsions of the digital age? What the economist Joseph Schumpeter called "the perennial gale of creative destruction" is integral to free markets. Entrepreneurs with better ideas and innovative offerings make societies richer, safer, healthier, and more comfortable. But the price of progress and prosperity is ceaseless churn in the economy, with new goods, services, and companies displacing the old.
Amazon started out as a Bezos brainstorm: Use books as a gateway to gradually train consumers to shop online for everything. When he launched what he grandly called "Earth's Biggest Bookstore," few could have imagined what Amazon would be 25 years later: an unprecedented colossus of retail and wholesale commerce, of warehousing and distribution, of data management and storage, and of audiovisual entertainment.
And of job creation on a stunning scale.
On net, Americans are much better off because Amazon is good at what it does. The president is under no obligation to sing the company's praises. Couldn't he at least refrain, though, from the false and gratuitous tweets?
(Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe).
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Iranian F14s Carry Hawk Missiles Successfully
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian air force F14s succeeded in carrying and launching Hawk missiles during the third stage of the country's extensive war games codenamed 'Blow of Zolfaqar'.
FNA reports from the war game zone in northwestern Iran said that Iranian experts have succeeded in making some modifications to the advanced Hawk missiles so that they could be used by the air force F14s as their weapon in different air battle conditions.
The missile gifts higher maneuverability and farther engagement scope to F14s and thus, air force fighters are now capable of engaging in dogfights and destroying enemy aircrafts from farther distance and more efficiently.
Meantime, air force experts also tested their optimized F5 fighters successfully. The optimized version of the fighter uses a wider variety of weapons, enjoys higher operational power and is more difficult to pick up on the radar systems compared with the normal version due to its higher maneuverability.
The report added that the 'Blow of Zolfaqar' is also unique in its kind for many reasons, one being the number and quantity of bombs dropped by air force fighters and bombers.
During the six phases of the air force maneuvers various types of bombs, missiles, rockets, and explosives have been deployed by the Iranian troops and aircrafts the quantity of which is unprecedented compared with all previous war games.
The Hawk is a medium-range SAM. The US sold Improved Hawks to Iran in the 1970s, and more Hawks were part of what became known as Iran-Contra in the 1980s. The missile was retired in the US military in 2002.
And get a load of the picture accompanying the story:
That's either a Really Improved Hawk or a Russian Soyuz orbital launch vehicle.
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Stars of Truck and field: Truck Festival 2006 review
Fair to say that Truck is not like other festivals, or at least what we've come to know as a British festival. While the field area given over to it is bigger than you might imagine it retains the atmosphere of a friendly specialist get-together which attracts bands from right across the alternative spectrum into this magnified village fete of music. With little advertising, a friendly and not too crowded clientele and easy access to everywhere and everything it's earned its place as the cognescenti's small festival of choice at a time when The Man wants us to invest instead in the ever growing number of heavily branded soulless park get-togethers. Hardly anybody seems to have covered Truck in the wider press, and that's what keeps it special in a way.
Not to mention that you'll get to find new things and be surprised throughout the two days. Case in point: Harry Angel, one of the many local bands dotted around the schedule waiting to be discovered in some way, shape or form. They describe themselves on their Myspace as "scrawny speed-freak goth-punk", the sort of description that would put weaker men off. In fact, think Seafood doing Mission Of Burma with Matt Tong on vocals, with elements of Ikara Colt and Girls Against Boys, barely resolved tension pushing at the edges with ever vaulting guitars bolstered by thick basslines by a tiny female bassist and rapidfire drums. An immense way to kick off the weekend. After catching the last minute of Xmas Lights' set, which transpired to be the only time we managed to properly get into The Barn all weekend (you should have seen the queues on Sunday), we saw two of The Madeleines' Editors-esque New Wave stabs before the rains came and we made off for the first look at the Rotary Club-run food tent. We mention this because it was while we were queuing that the monsoon started and every stall suddenly required its staff to hold on as hard as possible lest it get blown away. In the confusion, the food tent itself required all hands to the verandah and the till got taken away before we could pay. Should we feel guilty?
Not unreasonably, Goodbooks weren't hopeful of a great turnout once they saw the heavy direction the weather was taking - in fact the audience at the Truck Stage must have been three deep when they started, which given Max Cooke expected only to see their manager watching them is something of an achievement, although the crowd definitely thickens throughout. As indeed it should have, as it occurs to us halfway through the set that here is one of the few new British guitar bands worth bothering about. The reason? They want you to think, they want you to dance, you feel compelled to go with them. Post-punk danceable drums, disco bass, DFA sequencers, properly used keyboards, vocal interplay and a lyrical approach at once personal and sociological in its own way adds up to something special and they're giving it everything to an equally appreciative hardy group of people who recognise that there's something special happening. They've just signed to Columbia. Weekly Sweep resident Passchendaele will be their next proper single. Come on, gods of music, just make it up to the likes of us once.
The side effect of such is that we've managed to get soaked through our plastic mac, so spend the next 45 minutes under cover in the Barn entrance listening to The Half Rabbits reinterpret most of the Cure's back catalogue at once. This means we miss Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly but he's got a full band with him and when most of your set is set around a laptop it's not going to work as well. However, just as the rain eases and the sun appears on the horizon, we welcome Brakes, joined for two songs by Electric Soft Parade's Matt Twaites on sterling tambouring/smoking work, and they mean business. Not that Eamon Hamilton has ever been particularly easy on his targets, but they're on raging form today, where even a solo version of Jackson makes sense, semi-legendary B-side Porcupine Or Pineapple gets a singalong and the new songs sound superb. The crowd participation builds right throughout NY Pie and an impromptu Heard About Your Band until the traditional closer Comma Comma Comma Full Stop, and it's clear we've all had A Moment.
Less of a moment is the seemingly pointless wait until the much talked about :( get underway for not much of a payoff, their 8-bit emo losing out in the former stakes somewhat. Some time to wander around, get muddy and generally recover is required before a corking double bill in the Acoustic Tent. First up is Truck regular Chris T-T, still promoting last year's politicised 9 Red Songs EP. His voice has certainly got bigger as he commands stage and respect alike with just his acoustic guitar, and not even that for M1 Song. These are songs that draw attention to themselves as much by wit as by power, and they're hugely powerful modern folk songs. Following him is Darren Hayman, who we've always regarded as a future Great Lost English Songwriter candidate. He sounds anything but lost here, mind, judging the room requires 'the rock setlist', mostly new 'solo' material - 'solo' as he has a four-piece band - but with a few older Hefner tracks for the ever lovelorn. Great to hear The Sad Witch again, for one, and there are people dancing - only a handful of them, but dancing nonetheless - to closer Twisting Mary's Arm, an old Hefner semi-obscurity. Most of them, this being Truck, are The Research.
You think you can trust a band...and then it turns out their drummer not only crowdsurfed to The Automatic but received stitches in her bass drum-working foot in doing so. Such is the handicap granted to ¡Forward, Russia! ("if only we could blame everything on The Automatic" - Whiskas), a band not averse to a little shrieking and running about themselves, and it's a testament to their full-on attitude that despite a pre-warning you can't tell. We'd never seen them live before but felt like we already knew how it'd go, namely the band thrashing around the vestiges of a tune while Tom Woodhead, spotted earlier the same day in the company of three men wearing his own band's T-shirts, wraps the mike cord around his neck. In fact it's far, far more than that, and in fact we're going to say here and now that for live intensity, tightness at top speed and the belief in putting on a rock show - no, not in the US MTV sense of A Rock Show, a show involving rock music - ¡Forward, Russia! are the British At The Drive-In. Their thrash-punk-indie-hardcore-disco-groove thang is wired to the max, Woodhead being unable to stand still for a moment so much is he lost in Whiskas' lightning quick jagged riffs and the unforgiving juggernaut of a rhythm section. Somehow he always makes it back to the synth just in time, though. There's a blonde kid on his dad's shoulders who can't be older than three in front of us wildly air guitaring to Fifteen Pt II, which Whiskas spots and dedicates a song to. As Sixteen drives towards its close Youthmovies join in, three joining Katie on drums, one on extra guitar and one to play us out on trumpet. It's a fitting end to a set that will hardly be topped for energy all weekend. Or so we think at the time.
Like the rest of the festival, we immediately adjourn to the Theatre Tent and stand eight rows back outside the area to catch the occasional punchline of Simon Amstell's - seems like a strong set - before ennui sets in. Hundred Reasons are on, but alternatively Russell The Disaster from The Research is wrestling his mate's kid halfway down the field. We instead take one of the Rotary Club's famed banana smoothies - not our last of the weekend by any means - and observe from a safe distance Peepshow Paddy's Skylarkin' Shedshow. It's a DJ in a shed, festooned with fairy lights and emitting clouds of dry ice at irregular intervals. It's fascinating. Almost as fascinating as the night's closer from the Futureheads, if only because a) despite many years of trying we've never seen them live before and b) they've chosen this moment to remind us that they were brought up on Pavement and Shellac. A blistering set follows, although it's noticeable that tracks from News And Tributes aren't approached with the same vim and vigour utilised when tearing through the likes of A To B, Man Ray and of course Hounds Of Love. The boys themselves remain appreciative of their audience and banter fully but it won't have shifted anyone's thoughts if they were disappointed by the current album. In any case, an energetic an end to day one as you'd want.
Straight on site on day 2 and into the Lounge for the Early Years, who sound a lot better live then they do on record, where their post-baggy Secret Machines Krautrock post-rock waves of chiming guitar, driving bass and robotic drumming help those not already chemically or alcoholically aided into a state of hypnotic reverie. They should be on a bigger stage, but the fact they're in a cramped marquee only helps. Very different reveries take place immediately afterwards over in the Trailer Park with 6 Nation State, a band from whom we suspect resistance will soon be futile. Coming across as a more ska and dub-crazed Zutons/Coral being transported illegally across the Mexican border, their relentless guitar jabs and melodica weaves are augmented by all-action antics, all flying hair, jolts across the stage and the odd synchronised guitar movement. Were they from somewhere more eagerly watched than Southampton they'd have the NME in paroxysms by now. Not that they need their help - judging by how much of the tent is jumping, if they get label support they're going to have their own national coachloads of fans very soon.
The compere of the Acoustic Tent seems genuinely surprised to find that the biggest attendance of the weekend to date has come this early on a Sunday, but, as, we suspect, with everyone here one listen to Emmy The Great and you're completely smitten. There's a backing band (Jeremy Warmsley on keyboard, Adam from Optimist Club and a woman from the front row to provide 'stomping' on the last song) but you barely notice. It's the whole world she draws you into, melancholic folk-pop melodies mixed with caustic, offbeat, sometimes tender storytelling, rarely less than intriguing lyricism reminiscent of a Martha Wainwright or a Bright Eyes when he's not being an arse but even then something more...we dunno, we were just taken by it, as were many others around us, and the banter between songs maintained the mood that, in quite a few senses, we needed to get to know and cherish this one. Technically unsigned, she is. How can they keep getting it so wrong?
If Emmy is the wolf pawing away at the wooden exterior of the preset female singer-songwriter door, back in the Lounge tent Shimura Curves are the electro black sheep of this apparent Girl Group Revival. Turning scrappiness into an artform in the way Girlfriendo used to do before they turned tail and became Love Is All, the four women something-akin-to-harmonise to Powerbook loops and the odd distorted guitar. It's probable they don't yet have a better song than the Mary Chain-reappropriating Just Like Friends that was much loved around here from their Myspace and the don't-say-twee charm of the live show perhaps doesn't translate in this atmosphere but there's something going on here that'll split opinion but very much be worth watching over time, for our money. It's also a much more agreeable use of female vocals over electronic methods than the touted Persil will deliver over on the Truck stage later, but we're getting ahead of ourselves.
We suspect The Rock Of Travolta have never played to an audience that is completely sat down apart from ten or so hardy souls at the front, such is the heat. Post-rock live is either mindblowing or dull as ditchwater, and despite the fact we're actually behind the soundboard for most of their set we're going with nearer the former on this one. What they do so well is pare down the reflective end of the noisy instrumental with guitars schtick so that every song blasts straight into the massive riffage, elasticated basslines, ironic poses and a cellist that actually adds something to the bottom end of the sound. On a less boiling day it would have blown more away, but their Glenn Branca does modern classical approach is back and in full working order. We wanted to see Thomas Truax and his much-vaunted bank of homemade machines after this but the acoustic tent was even more full now they'd opened the sides up, KTB's delicate folk moving many, and we just couldn't be arsed to stick around. You know how it goes at festivals sometimes.
Bloody hell, look at the size of the queue in the Barn for 65daysofstatic. We correctly adjudge that as they're tuning up we're never going to get in to see their glitch-Mogwai futurism, and in fact that turns out to be about the most accessible the Barn gets for the rest of Sunday, queuing out of the door for the apparently something special Regina Spektor. More lo-fi human-electronic thrills are luckily on offer in the Trailer Park as hardy perennials A Scholar & A Physician have ten people on stage behind laptops and cheap keyboards to replicate Hot Chip's nervous breakdown. Didn't catch this year's unlikely cover, but it seemed all were enjoying themselves, which is the least you can ask. Now, the last time we mentioned the Electric Soft Parade on STN - positively, too - we ended up seemingly upsetting Tom White. No great deal of treading carefully needed this time as it's not needed, as semi-bravely Holes In The Wall is ignored and their newest material gets the airing it on mostly first listen deserves, building on their developing harmonic subtleties and pop dynamics, never pinning itself down to one set of marked influences. With an album due on Truck itself next year, there's something afoot here.
Which is markedly not the case with The Sound Movement, very much supping at the dregs of assorted revivals of scenes from the last 25 years, and it's more than likely most are here because the stage is running horribly late and something special is about to occur. Jetplane Landing haven't played in Britain for quite some time, if you leave aside the warmup for this, and with Once Like A Spark having taken one of the British Isles' best kept secrets onto daytime MTV2 and the like the sense of anticipation is palpable. And it's rewarded in spades, as this is probably as passionately angry a performance as we've ever seen. Not that passionate anger is exactly unknown to Andrew Ferris and co, but it really was a set devoted to never letting up throughout the 'hits', probably the day's most active pit forming as Cahir threw himself across the stage and Ferris got every last word of every chorus of I Opt Out, When The Argument Has Changed, This Is Not Revolution Rock, Calculate The Risk and so on chanted back at him. Of the three new songs one involved bassist Jamie Burchell on cowbell and will probably take some getting used to, and the other two just upped the pressure gauge even more. For the full riotous special festival set atmosphere a large inflatable football appeared, eventually richocheting off every head, arm, bass drum and Jamie's forehead. You got the feeling that with tastes hardening again finally, finally, the country might be ready for something like this to catch on, even from JPL's admirably DIY stance. Then, right at the end, at what passes for a breakdown in a monumental version of Acrimony, Ferris stepped forward and thanked everyone for sticking by the band during their time off, declaring that it'd be at least eighteen months before they saw any of us again and as there were a declining number of seconds left for them we'd better make the most of it. He then commanded everyone present to step forward, letting those on the fringes of the tent come inside, before everyone absolutely ripped into the final burst (online here - we don't think you can see us). Ominous sounding, especially when everyone came forward to salute us back at the end and Jamie appeared to be welling up, but what an incredible memory to keep us going until that next time, should it arrive.
It was the Young Knives' job to follow that on the Truck stage. The odds, frankly, were stacked against them, especially with a largely oddly apathetic audience, but the celebrated camerarderie between Henry and House Of Lords was in full working order and their meeting point between post-punk - here's a word you don't get to use every day - boisterousness and tightly wound subtleties (Loughborough Suicide is really stamping its authority over the rest of the album that houses it by now) explains by itself how come it's them that's getting the attention. As we believe it'll actually be illegal next year not to come to Truck and see one set from a Schla La La we briefly dropped by Delia's Manic Cough, having been reminded of her when Emmy The Great spotted her and assorted Schlas/Coughers(?) linedancing in the middle of the field in full costume, to reggae as it turned out. Their cabaret-garage-X-Ray Spex probably needs a fuller examination then we could manage, but it's clearly more than diverting.
As, by sheer visual approach, are Truck stage headliners the Mystery Jets. You don't need reminding of their many USPs, but what impresses with their set here is how tight such a seemingly ramshackle outfit are, even if Blaine's percussion kit has been smartened up somewhat, and with bassist Kai Fish charging about the stage. It's also noticeable just how many moments are injected into their songs that are tailor made for festival-sized singalongs and harmonious air-punching, and they're a lot more forthcoming to get into than you might imagine. A brief diversion sees us joining the Trailer Park throngs for the last couple of songs in The Organ's set, looking like they're teetering on the brink between studied indifference and actual indifference. It's possible they've always been like this live, but scarily the guitarist spends the whole time staring semi-listlessly at the back of the tent. We're not sure she blinked once. Back just in time for the set closer - obviously, the closer before the encore, an all over the place On My Feet and a tumescent Zoo Time which makes up for our not being able to properly hear the chant sample by including many extra people playing percussion onstage, tiny children being given emergency maraca lessons, Kai sitting on the speakers, Will Rees having to change his guitar mid-song and an absolute flurry of synchronised drumming from Blaine and Kapil. Then, suddenly, it seems all over. Actually, this being Truck it's not all over at all, but Morrison Steam Fayre never get their indie-skank fully on in a Lounge that's horribly overrunning, so we cut our losses with the Schla La Las. We'll make sure we experience them next year, because we'll be back. We can hardly leave it be now.
10 comments:
- David Singleton said...
Nice write up :)
I saw pretty much entirely different bands on the saturday though, looking forward to the sunday write up.
- 28/07/2006, 14:10
- SixNationState said...
Thanks for teh kind review dude... we now have label backing by the wonderful Jeepster so lets hope your predictions are right :)
- 04/08/2006, 10:30
- Anonymous said...
"Now, the last time we mentioned the Electric Soft Parade on STN - positively, too - we ended up seemingly upsetting Tom White"
This might be something to do with the Brakes forum being the wrong way round (and all the posts appearing in backwards order) In a thread on there Tom was slagging off the list of bands download.com compared them to. If you read the forum the right way round it does look like he's talking about your review (but he wasn't)
I thought I should let you know (I loved your review)
Min (electricsoftparade.org.uk)
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That is some write-up....you a journo?
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Aprilia Racing boss Romano Albesiano sat down with Crash.net on the final day of pre-season testing in Qatar to discuss the factory's solid winter of development, realistic aims for the year ahead, and Ducati's 'radical interpretation' of the new aerodynamics rule...
Aleix Espargaro has posted some impressive times at each of the tests. How would you assess the preseason as a whole?
Romano Albesiano:
Well the preseason has definitely been positive. I think we had yesterday [the second day of testing in Qatar] further confirmation that the speed is there. Today we will concentrate more on a long run and race pace because the end is the most important part. But I'm happy. We really did a good job because we improved the engine. Still, we need to improve it. We have something better, but it still isn't confirmed.
The part that makes me most satisfied is the chassis development, because the new bike is definitely a step forward. Aleix said that the first time he tried it. He was very clear. Sam said it the day before yesterday and was so happy when he jumped off the bike. He really enjoyed it so this I think is the best answer the rider can give. He made good progress.
OK, you're never satisfied because you're always catching the first guys. That's a tough job but if I have to be objective, considering all the areas we improved quite a lot in the winter so we'll see.
So the chassis is the part you have improved the most for the RS-GP?
Romano Albesiano:
Yes. It's also the most difficult because if you make a new engine, you measure the power and you'll see [straight away] if it's better or not. But if you design a new chassis it takes months to make it. And then you assume it will be better but you don't know honestly until you put it on the track. It happens sometimes that you do this and it's a disaster, no? Now it worked and that's very important.
And you've improved this by changing the centre of gravity?
Romano Albesiano:
Yeah, sure. A chassis is made by geometry, mass characteristic and stiffness. So geometry was not really changed because we had no clear indication to move in one way or another. We moved the mass in the direction that we believed was better and it looks like it is. And the stiffness, we increased the stiffness and the weight in some parts so it's a refinement. The stiffness is a refinement. The mass, every time you touch it, you have to rebuild the bike from zero and change all of the parts.
Considering the RS-GP was a completely new bike at the beginning of 2016, it was impressive to see both Aprilia riders regularly finishing inside the top ten in the final quarter of the season. What is a realistic next step for this year?
Romano Albesiano:
Well, we have to be very quiet [and] realistic. The competition is crazy. It's unbelievable. I would be satisfied if in the first part of the season we can confirm the top ten [with] maybe a better performance in qualifying than last year. Last year we made some good results, especially with Alvaro coming through from the back [of the grid]. Even if at the end of the season we had also some quite good performances in practice and qualifying. But I hope that this year we can have a better performance in qualifying and to keep the top ten for the first part of the season. I would be happy. And then during the season we should grow up again.
It seems as though you have taken a very patient approach with Sam Lowes in the winter, letting him continue on the 2016 bike until the final test. Was this a joint decision on the whole, to build him up gradually?
Romano Albesiano:
We couldn't ask him to judge the project. He had no reference. Also we would put pressure on him so Aleix did this part of the job, which is not easy. Once this part was confirmed, he tested the bike as well and it's good. Sam is good in his analytical [sense] and he can judge fine things on the bike. He's OK.
Teams are clearly going to continue spending money on aerodynamics this year. One of the reasons winglets were banned was to control costs. Do you think recent developments make that ban worthwhile?
Romano Albesiano:
I don't think wings were banned for the cost. I remember the bigger point was the safety. Honestly, [they said,] 'most of the wings had dangerous shapes, dangerous edges, it was really dangerous...' OK, you could say they were dangerous. But there could have been a different approach, putting some rules about the shape of the wings. It would have been a much easier approach.
But we tried to bring this argument, but no. Nobody folds. And we end up with this 'funny' situation. OK, there's no more protruding parts potentially offending the rider or other riders. But it's going to be expensive. But anyway, it's good for you journalists. You have a lot of things to talk about! So everybody can see. Everybody can talk about the side of the valve, about the intake volume [laughs]. If we bring a new fairing we have to show it.
How close are you to homologating Aprilia's final aerodynamics package for round one?
Romano Albesiano:
We will test again the fairing that we already tested in Phillip Island. We'll probably keep this as an option for the start of the season. So we'll have the 'classic' and this one. Then we'll see according to the different track characteristics.
Has the new fairing made much difference? Has it been successful generating sufficient downforce?
Romano Albesiano:
Partially, yes. We didn't get the full downforce that we had before. But partially, with the efficiency, yeah, it's quite satisfactory.
Are there any negatives to running it? At Phillip Island Aleix said it made the bike quite heavy and difficult to change direction.
Romano Albesiano:
Sure. In some situations, like it's typical at Phillip Island, where you have to change direction at high speed. The best condition is the neutral fairing. I would say almost no fairing would be perfect for that kind of track.
So in that situation it was not better. It was worse. But Phillip Island is very strange track for this because of these things. We believe there are some other tracks, like Jerez, like maybe here, which have different requirements. We'll see.
Will this fairing development be applicable to road development? Could we see street bikes with more radical aerodynamics in the near future?
Romano Albesiano:
If you take our new fairing you can take is for the RSV-4 production [model]. If you just take off the lights, it's very similar. You see, there is the front intake and two holes. It's very similar to the RSV-4. So it's something that, yes, could be applied in production.
What are your thoughts on some of the other factories interpretation of the new aerodynamics rules?
Romano Albesiano:
Honestly, we made an interpretation of the rule that - sorry if I use the wrong word in English - was the most 'fair', the more strict to the rules, to the spirit. The spirit was to have a 'standard' fairing. Then inside this 'standard' fairing we make something to get more downforce, or some downforce.
Yamaha and Honda made partially this because they applied something on the side. Ducati made something really far from what was our understanding of the rules. It's very difficult to set the rule which is exact. The rule says that the last judge is the technical director of the championship. The point is to understand exactly his interpretation.
If we take that things like the Ducati [fairing] are acceptable, OK, now we know that we can go to this point, or maybe even more. But we tried to do something very, very, very similar to a conventional fairing and put the downforce inside. Then if you took our fairing and the Ducati fairing you can see that the Ducati fairing is a much more radical interpretation of the rule than ours, basically.
Do you foresee a lot of changes with the internal parts of the fairing during the year?
Romano Albesiano:
Yeah, it's possible. We will make some evaluations of these things. You know, you never see a race car approaching Monte Carlo or Monza with the same wings. If we start doing aerodynamics seriously, we have to set the aerodynamics for each track. Still, we have to understand what is best for each track because here the aerodynamics affects the feeling.
Fortunately the motorcycle is still depending on the rider's feeling which helps us to be less capital investment dependant.
Finally Romano, Marco Bertolatti, essentially the number two in Aprilia's project left for KTM at the end of 2016. How big a blow was that and what have you done to fill his shoes?
Romano Albesiano:
We reacted for sure. One person left the company. It's a person that we believed was an important person. But, you know, it's one person. The company is made of many people. So it's not a real problem for us. He's more an advantage for the competitor. He takes some experience that we paid a lot for during these years. This is the real problem. For sure, we had a good guy that could help them. He had the 'know-how'. The 'know-how' is there in the mind of this person. We cannot delete it... at the moment! [laughs] Although we are thinking about [how to do] this! [laughs]
Thanks Romano.
Romano Albesiano:
Thank you.


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Cardinal Bertone asks contemplative religious to pray for conclave
H.E. Card. Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B.
Beseeching prayers for the upcoming conclave, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State, has written a letter to the superiors of contemplative monasteries and convents.
"I write to you as the whole Church anxiously follows the final days of the luminous pontificate of His Holiness Benedict XVI and awaits the arrival of the successor whom the Cardinals gathered in conclave and guided by the Holy Spirit will choose, after discerning together the signs of the times of the Church and the world," Cardinal Bertone said in his letter.
"His Holiness Benedict XVI has asked all the faithful to accompany him with their prayers as he commends the Petrine ministry into the Lord's hands, and to await with trust the arrival of the new Pope," he added. "In a particularly urgent way this appeal is addressed to those chosen members of the Church who are contemplatives. The Holy Father is certain that you, in your monasteries and convents throughout the world, will provide the precious resource of that prayerful faith which down the centuries has accompanied and sustained the Church along her pilgrim path."
Cardinal Bertone continued:
The coming conclave will thus depend in a special way on the transparent purity of your prayer and worship. The most significant example of this spiritual elevation which manifests the most authentic and profound dimension of every ecclesial action, the presence of the Holy Spirit who guides the Church, is offered to us by His Holiness Benedict XVI who, after having steered the barque of Peter amid the waves of history, has chosen to devote himself above all to prayer, contemplation and reflection.
The Holy Father, with whom I shared the contents of this letter, was deeply appreciative, and asked me to thank you and to assure you of his immense love and esteem.
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Frederic Bastiat's The Law
I cannot recommend this book enough. You want the basics as simple as they come? Read this book. Its for all ages. The guy behind the book is quite an interesting person, too. The things he wrote, the people he knew, his era, his death.
Friedrich August von Hayek's The Road To Serfdom
I am actually in the middle of this one. I admit it is slow going. I bought a copy for a good friend of mine. He made short order of it, and now acts like he is the one recommending it. He does have the advantage of reading it first, I suppose.
Barry Goldwater's The Conscience Of A Conservative
Howard E. Kershner's Dividing The Wealth
This book reminded me a little of Hazlitt's book below. It was recommended by both Hazlitt and von Mises.
Henry Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson
As they say, an essential piece of economic literature for any layperson.
H.L. Richardson's Confrontational Politics
This guy founded Gun Owners of America. He is a former California State Senator. His book is another one I highly recommend. It is not primarily a libertarian book, but it leans that way. It is basically about making a difference in politics beyond just voting every two or four years. Its about grassroots. Its about leverage. Its about matching your opponents' tactics while maintaining the moral high ground. I lean voluntaryist (meaning at times I feel that the democratic process is a waste of time, unsavory, and/or morally suspect) these days, but some of the arguments in this book keep me within the voting fold.
Roger Root's Montana's Lost Cause
Another one that I am in the middle of. Basically the story of Montana's "isolationism" before and during World War Two. It is also about States and their representatives (in the US House and Senate) standing up for their citizens against Washington.
Ron Paul's
Thomas E. Woods, Jr.'s
Who Killed The Constitution? (with Kevin R. C. Gutzman)
33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed To Ask
Andrew Napolitano's It is Dangerous To Be Right When The Government Is Wrong
Thomas DiLorenzo's Lincoln Unmasked
I have lent this to two of my friends one of whom is currently reading it.
Peter D. Schiff's
How An Economy Grows And Why It Crashes (with Andrew J. Schiff)
A very simple book. Doctor Seuss meets the Schiff brothers. It is based on this book by their father, Anti-Tax Hero Irwin Schiff.
I just started this one the about a week ago. I am engrossed. It deals with the coming fiscal/monetary cliff and possible ways to avoid it or lessen its impact.