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1Department of Management and Accounting, College of Humanities, Hamedan Science and Research Branch, Hamedan, Iran
2Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Management, Payame Noor University, Hamedan, Iran
3Faculty Member of Management and Accounting, Islamic Azad University Hamedan Branch, Hamedan, Iran
Received date February 02, 2015; Accepted dateApril 07, 2015; Published date April 17, 2015
Citation: Familmaleki M, Aghighi A, Hamidi K (2015) Analyzing the Influence of Sales Promotion on Customer Purchasing Behavior. Int J Econ Manag Sci 4:243. doi: 10.4172/2162-6359.1000243
Copyright: © 2015 Familmaleki M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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The promotion mix is a term used to describe the set of tools that a business can use to communicate effectively the benefits of its products or services to its customers. The purpose of promotion is to reach the targeted consumers and persuade them to buy. Promotion has been defined as the coordination of all seller-initiated efforts to set up channels of information and persuasion to sell goods and services or promote an idea. Sales promotion is vital element of promotional mix. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of sales promotion on buyer decision making process. In other words, the general objective of this study was to find out the effectiveness of some elements on the buying behaviors of customers. Marketing activities related to the promotion of sales increased consumer purchases and indirectly to get more profit for the company. So, the purpose of sales promotion is to reach the targeted consumers and pervade them to buy .Sales promotion has become a vital tool for marketing and its importance has been increasing significantly over the years. One of the purposes of a sales promotion is to elicit a direct impact on the purchase behavior of the firm's consumers. Firms have to rethink the relationship between attitude and behavior of their consumers. In this study, we will discuss the impact of sales promotion on consumer purchasing behavior.
Promotion mix; Sales promotion; Buyer decision making
Modern marketing is more than just producing good products, suitable pricing and easy access to them [1]. Today, attracting new customers has become so important in modern retailing in addition to loyal to them and efforts have been paying in that perspective as known, the cost of keeping consumers present is less than the cost of gaining new customers. World of today's world is a benefit-cost. Firms have to rethink the relationship between attitude and behavior of their consumers. All businesses need to communicate to the consumer what they have to offer [2]. Promotion refers to the motivational methods of getting the consumer to purchase the product. Promotion is referred to as "any communication used to inform, persuade, and/or remind people about an organization's or individual's goods, Services, image, ideas, community involvement, or impact on society" [3]. Promotion (also referred to as Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC)) mainly consists of messages and related media that are used to communicate with the market. IMC is defined as "a marketing communications strategy which requires that a company adopts strategies that coordinate different promotional elements and that these promotional activities are integrated with other marketing activities that communicate with customers" [4]. The basics of promotional strategy involve delivering the communicational message from the producer to the consumer. The object of the message is to persuade the audience to purchase the product or service. Therefore the consumer needs to be receptive to the message and to be able to interpret it in such a way the intent to purchase is established [5]. Companies must communicate with their present and potential customers, as well as internally, and therefore makes it very important in the marketing process. A modern company manages a complex marketing communication system.
The promotion mix includes the tools like Advertising, Public Relations, Sales Promotion, Direct marketing and Personal Selling [6]. These elements are included in the integrated marketing communications mix (Figure 1). Before companies can begin the communicational process towards the consumer, they need to define the promotional objectives. These are the objectives "which determine a firm's promotional strategy, for example, increasing sales of improving brand recognition may require a different promotional mix" [4].
Sales promotion consists of a variety of incentive tools, mostly short term, that are used to stimulate consumers and/or dealers to accelerate the purchasing process or to increase quantities of sales [7]. Sales promotion is certainly one of the critical elements in marketing mix and toolkit for the marketers. Statistics for packaging companies show that sales promotion comprises nearly 75% of the marketing budget [8]. Marketing research, both theoretical and empirical, focuses on how sales promotion impacts the behavior of consumers, particularly their purchasing decisions [8-10].
Shultz, et al. [11] says that sales promotion generally works on a direct behavioral basis rather than affecting awareness or attitude. One of the purposes of a sales promotion is to elicit a direct impact on the purchase behavior of the firm's consumers. It is continuously said that most types of sales promotions affect the decision-making and purchasing stages of the buying process directly that is affective in the long-run since it leads to increased sales and profit [12]. A sales promotion stimulates customer purchases and the efficiency of distributors through marketing activities excluding advertising, public relations and so on. In other words, a sales promotion provides the incentive for consumers to purchase some specific products, and this incentive is different from the incentive provided by advertising with respect to the reasons to purchase those specific products. The purpose of a sales promotion is to attract new customers, maintain existing customers who are contemplating switching brands and give incentives to customers who are about to use competing products. Sales promotions vary depending on the situation and need, and they have an immediate effect on product purchases.
According to Low and Mohr [13] manufacturers continue to spend a large amount from their communication budget on sales promotion. They allocate around 75 percent of their marketing communication budgets to sales promotion [14]. Similarly, we can see that companies spend a large portion of their budgets for sale promotion. The goal is to offer the merchandise more attractive and valuable. Buy and test consumer products direct specific goals that can be achieved through efforts to boost sales in the short term, the implementation of consumers in stores, and get to the point of retail sale displays, and encouraging stores to store products and sales support for the efforts of staff [15]. This information allows us to conclude that the institutions seek to manipulate the buying activities of consumers, and so begin a strong promotional campaigns or changes in pricing policies, with other measures. Event shows that a few consumer stand easily when they see the words of sales promotion. But price reduction, coupon or discount given by the retailer and other promotional equipment like free sample, bonus pack and "buy one get one free" were found to be encourage customer buy extra than they think [16].
The main objective of this research is to study the effect of different tools to promote sales on the buying behavior of consumers. Therefore, research on the promotional tools is actually important to understand most of the tools that affect the competition with its competitors, so they can use the most effective techniques to promote the right and attract customers. Typical tools include of free samples, price reduction, Giving advertising gifts, and Offering coupon, Offer member card, Able to pay by installments, Extend warranty period, and so on. Sampling is the process by sending the actual product or trial-sized customers. Is provided free samples of the merchandise to clients so that customers have the opportunity to try and use the products. Price promotion refers to reduction in price for a limited time, which offered to customers. The reduce in product prices play key parts in persuading customer's product test behavior and through this new customer can be paying attention [17]. Discount play an important role in today's markets and its application among retailers has been increasing during the last years and many empirical evidences confirm the use of temporary decrease of price to increase short term sales. Proper gifts are one of the best ways to transfer the message that communication is important. Oral communications are soon forgotten but gifts with company's mark on it act as a reminder and attract the customers [18]. Coupon has direct influence on increase of the sale through which consumers tendency toward the product increases [19].
Marketing defined
According to the American Marketing Association, quoted by Kotler and Keller [20], marketing can be defined as "an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders". Another simpler definition is presented as marketing "includes anticipating demand, managing demand, and satisfying demand" [3]. Marketing could also be defined in a few words with "mutually satisfying exchange relationships" [4]. The marketing mix is defined as "the specific combination of marketing elements used to achieve objectives and satisfy the target market. It encompasses decisions regarding four major variables: product, distribution, promotion, and price" [3]. The whole marketing mix is defined as "the set of controllable of controllable tactical marketing tools – product, price, place, and promotion – that the firm blends to produce the response it wants in the target market" [20].
Production and selling concept
The production concept is based on the fact that customers prefer products that are available and affordable. This means that production managers focus on the superiority of products as well as constant product development. The selling concept is based on the drive of the marketing, in other words that the customer will not buy enough of a single product unless it is constantly promoted [20]. The selling concept holds that consumers will not buy enough of the company's products unless they are stimulated through heavy selling and promotion [1].
Promotional mix
As one of the marketing mix elements, promotion includes all the activities directed to the targeted consumers, that lead to facilitate the process of contacting with them for the purpose of formatting a sense of the importance of the commodity in achieving a high degree of consumers satisfaction of their wishes and needs comparing with the competitors commodities (Mahmud I. Nour et al. [21]).
Promotion is one of the key factors in the marketing mix and has a key role in market success. Promotion is used to ensure that consumers are aware of the products that the organization is offering. The promotional mix is the combination of the different channels that can be used to communicate the promotional message to the consumers [22]. The channels to be used are; advertising, direct marketing, public relations and publicity, personal selling, sponsorship and sales promotion [23]. One of most important of channels is sales promotion.
Sales promotion
Defining the term sales promotion is rather difficult for the presence of multiple relating techniques and tactics and that sales promotion is a tool to achieve company's marketing communication objectives and an essential element in planning marketing [24]. Sales promotion is a short term strategy to derive demand and also and especial marketing offer which provides more profit than what consumers receive from the sale position of a product and also has sharper influence on sales [25].
A sales promotion consists of techniques that are aimed at increasing sales in the short run, meaning that they are mostly used for a short period of time. It offers control, and the costs can be much lower than of advertising. The main characteristics of sales promotions are that they offer better value for money and they try to cause responses immediately [26]. This tool has the ability to attract and keep loyal customers and is an excellent what to persuade them build viable link with the organization and involves all motifs applied by the producer to persuade trade with members of a channel [27]. Sales promotion has a strong ability to add value and to bring forward future sales. For sales personnel promotional tools are used primarily for motivating staff or supporting them in their selling roles. Brassington and Pettitt [28] provide a revised definition for sales promotions: "… a range of marketing techniques designed within a strategic marketing framework to add extra value to a product or service over and above the 'normal' offering in order to achieve specific sales and marketing objectives. This extra value may be a short-term tactical nature or it may be part of a longer-term franchise-building program."
Factor influencing consumer behavior
Consumer behavior is the process; thoughts, feelings and actions related to consumption process, this behavior is the dynamic interaction of the individual thoughts, feelings, actions and behavior in the environment by which the human being conducts exchange aspect of their lives. The environment refers to the external factors that influence the human being, these factors such as cultural and social forces in the society and in personal lives as well as physical and situational forces relates to the actual shopping experiences. The behavior is a dynamic interaction and communication between consumers and the marketers doing exchanges [29].
There are four main factors influencing consumer behavior each of these factors can influence a consumer action in different ways, a combination of these factors affect the decision making process differently, these factors are cultural, social and religious, personal and psychological.
Culture is an important combination of character, behavior and a self-identification of human being, these characteristics help an individual to create his or her own buying behavior, and however, isolating culture as a variable that can be studied and readily implanted is very difficult, taking into consideration that the buying behaviors of human beings consist of three phases which are the individual, societal and situational. Culture affects all these phases but the extent of the effect depends on the individual person and the circumstance [30]. Culture consists of beliefs, values and customs that serve to direct consumer behavior differently amongst the members of a particular group or society Values and beliefs are guides to behavior in such that they form and affect attitude on how to behave on certain situations, on the other hand customs are modes of behavior that constitute an acceptable way to behavior in a particular culture.
Social factors are very influential in the decision making process of the consumer, this can affect the decision making process in a positive or negative way. It may also consist of one person or few people such as spouses or someone you have never met but idealizes them, the influences of this reference or social group can be very strong in a way that a customer can change the behavior to meet the standards pushed by the reference group [31].
Gender roles have a significant effect on consumer behavior it defines what is appropriate for each gender in the form of behavior, attitude and appearance. And they are deeply integrated into the society and the people's mind, for example Male customers are interested in the café department where they meet other male friends to watch live sports or play games. And the female customers are interested in fashion, these different lifestyles help to determine consumer pattern of living which affects their purchasing behavior, if the company has an idea of the life style of its customers or a certain segments they can develop their marketing strategies to target these group of customers because consumer always chooses goods and services associated with their lifestyles. Age also plays an important role in the decision making process of a consumer for example children come and buy candy, soft drinks while adults specifically women buy fashion products, cosmetics, households keepings and food stuff [31]. Religion is a symbol which acts to establish a powerful, pervasive and long-lasting modes and motivation. It is achieved by formulating conception of a general order of existence and further, by clothing this conception with such an aural of factuality that the mood and motivation seems uniquely realistic [32].
Religion affects attitude and behaviors both directly and indirectly through religious code of conducts and value formation from birth. Religion as a culture can influence consumer's behavior by motivating them via their various interactive and related social and cultural variables. As purchasing behavior is been influenced by cognitive actions, effect and behavior, the importance of this element must be taking into consideration in explaining the differences in religious belief system [33].
Information processing is a process where a stimulus such as marketing information is received, interpreted, stored in the memory and later retrieved thus linking marketing and other external influences with the consumer's decision-making process [2,34]. It is very important to communicate as clearly as possible in order to avoid selective distortion in which the consumer misunderstands the message if it is not in accord with their beliefs and attitudes. These are important needs for sustaining the human life. Food, water, warm shelter, sleep, medicine and education are the basic physiological needs, which fall in the primary list of need satisfaction. Maslow was of the opinion that until these needs was satisfied to a degree to maintain life; no other motivating factors can work. Briefly, the first level of needs is physiologic (e.g., the need for food, air, and water). The second level encompasses safety needs. These include security, stability, protection; freedom from fear, anxiety, and chaos. The third level of need is belonging and love. These needs involve the". . . giving and receiving affection. When they are unsatisfied, a person will feel keenly the absence of friends, mate, or children."8 The fourth level is the need for esteem, which is fulfilled by mastery of the environment and the prestige that comes from societal recognition. The fifth level, the need for self-actualization, entails maximizing one's unique potential in life (Figure 2). As each of these needs substantially satisfied, the next need becomes dominant. So if you want to motivate someone, you need to understand what level of the hierarchy that person is on and focus on satisfying those needs or needs above that level [35]. Sometimes beliefs and attitude plays an important role in the decision-making process as they strongly affect the evaluation process of the alternatives. Beliefs are thoughts about the product or some of its qualities whereas attitude is overall favorable or unfavorable feeling against the purchase [2]. Attitudes are affected by three components: affect (emotional response to the product), cognition (the beliefs and knowledge of the product), the behavior (consumer's intention to purchase or use the product) Barnes et al. [31].
Buyer decision-making process
Research shows that customers go through a five-stage decisionmaking process in any purchases made. It is a process by which a consumer makes a decision on what to buy, what quantity to buy, at what price with respect to the factors affecting consumer's attitude during the procedure. The individual stages are summarized in the diagram below followed by brief explanations.
This model is very paramount for everyone who makes marketing decisions. The model shows that customers go through five essential stages in every purchase. However, in more frequent purchases, customers sometimes skip some of the stages. For example, someone who is buying a favorite drink would recognize the need for thirst and go straight to the purchase decision, skipping information search and evaluation. However, the model is very important when it comes to understanding any purchase involving some detail considerations [2].
The buying process begins with need recognition or problem awareness. At this stage, The customer, firstly, recognizes a problem or need (example, I am thirsty, I need a new Clothe, I need a house) or attracted to an advertisement (example. you seeing a billboard Showing a chilled ice cream on scorching sunny day). After the buyer has recognized the need for something or an existing problem, the customer then moves on to the next stage; searching for information. If the need or the problem is so pressing and there is a product or service close at hand that meets the need or solves the problem, then a purchase decision is made immediately. If not, then the process of searching for information begins. There are several sources that a customer can obtain information. For example: Personal sources (family, friends, neighbors), Commercial sources (advertising, salespeople, retailers, dealers, packaging, point of sale Displays), Public sources (newspapers, radio, television, consumer organizations, specialist Magazines), Experiential sources (handling, examining, using the product). The usefulness and influence of these sources of information will vary by product and by customer. Research suggests that customer's value and respect personal sources (the influence of "word of mouth") more than commercial sources.
The next stage in the model is the evaluation stage, where the customer chooses between the alternative brands, products and services. He/she then begins to consider the alternative or substitute available in the market. The important factor which influences the extent of evaluation is whether the customer feels involved in the purchasing of the product. Involvement here means the degree of perceived relevance and personal importance that goes with the choice of a particular brand. After gathering all the necessary information about a product the next step is to make a decision on whether to purchase the product. There are three sub steps in this stage, first choosing the preferred product as previously described in the evaluation of alternative stage, then the customer decides to purchase the product that is, purchase intent and finally the implementation stage to conclude the purchase which consists of the terms of transaction payment and receiving the product. Sometimes the consumer makes the purchase intent, but never actually concludes it, or takes the implementation step and sometimes substituting product is chosen based on new information in-store, preferred product is out of stock, buyer cannot afford the product or no suitable financing terms are found.
Understanding the variables that affect consumer behavior and the decision-making process is not just the work of big corporations [35], but also of professionals seeking to find the key areas of marketing studies. According to [24] Sales promotion has direct impact on the consumers buying behavior, which is an action focus-promoting occasion.
According to Ghafran Ashraf [15], their study confirmed that consumers buying behavior and sales promotion can be motivated through various kinds of elements, including promotion techniques such as free samples, price discounts, social surroundings and physical surrounding.
In addition, according to Jin-Woo Park et al. [36], their study has empirically verified the relationship between sales promotions, customer satisfaction, customer value and behavioral intention, legitimizing the growth of sales promotions within the duty-free shop sector. Their results indicate that there were significant relationships between cutting price, cents off, customer satisfaction, customer value, image and behavioral intentions. From their research, they found that Duty-free shops should realize that attractive sales promotion strategies should enhance customer repurchase intention and recommendations to other customers because they raise the level of customer satisfaction, value perception and duty-free shop image formation.
According to Giuliani Isabella et al. [37], among the variables that affect the consumer's purchase decision is the price, which has a significant influence on communication factors concerning the advantages of purchasing a product or hiring a service. Price can be accompanied by a "discount," which increases the perceived value of the product for the purchaser. The value is based on the consumer's perception of the benefits of the product. Furthermore, according to price discount is well-known tool for offering a good discount in buying price, which is openly mentioned on the merchandise or point of purchase display. Ndubisi and Chiew [27] said that merchandise test can be increased through offering great price cut. According to Ehrenberg et al. [38], the short-term rises in sales were due principally to purchases made by irregular users of a brand, though they further warned that these irregular users, after taking benefit of the price discount, would most likely go back to their beloved brands in their portfolio rather than purchase the promoted brand at full price. Moore and Carpenter [39], found that price perception affects the patronage behavior. Smith and Sinha [40] determined that price level has a considerable effect on store choice. In another study, Gilbert and Jackaria [16] found that discounts significantly affect customers' purchase behaviors.
According to Ben Amor's researches [41], during the last ten years, significance of free sample as tools of promotion in the field of cosmetics has been on the rise. According to the investigation done by Denly a marketing company, 75% the companies use free samples to improve their products, whereas 52% of the companies don't advertise their new products. Although representing this method is a powerful promotion tools, it requires high costs for the organizations.
According to [42] Sampling is the technique of presenting less numbers of goods to the customers without any cost, so that they can try it and buy the product in near future.
According to Shimp [43], free sample of product effect the clients buying behavior but Jackaria and Gilbert [16] have not agree with this declaration. According to Lammers a free sample had positive relation to immediate sales of that product. Free sample had a sizeable link with product test behaviour of customer [27].
According to Fill price discount is well-known tool for offering a good discount in buying price, which is openly mentioned on the merchandise or point of purchase display. Ndubisi and Chiew [27] said that merchandise test can be increased through offering great price cut. According to Ehrenberg et al. [38], the short-term rises in sales were due principally to purchases made by irregular users of a brand, though they further warned that these irregular users, after taking benefit of the price discount, would most likely go back to their beloved brands in their portfolio rather than purchase the promoted brand at full price.
Special discounts and promotions increase customers' interest toward the store [44]. Through these results, one of the major implications of this research is that firms can increase sales by offering the right promotional tools to attract trial customers. Therefore organizations should carefully plan their promotional strategies, and allocate promotional budget over the different promotion tools, giving preference to the more effective tools.


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The time is 8:30 this morning. The scene is the front of Greenleaf Hall at Milton Academy, as the day begins at The Saturday Course. A mom drops off her fourth-grader. We listen in on their remarks:
Mom: Have a good day at school!
Daughter: This isn't school.
Mom: What is it then?
Daughter: It's an opportunity.
That was the actual conversation. No, we didn't make it up. No, we didn't script it.
At the end of the day, I looked at the parent evaluations of the program. One mom from Dorchester (not the same as the one quoted above) wrote, "Before the program began, I didn't think it would be possible to learn much in six weeks. I was wrong. They learned a lot!" Yes, indeed. And you have to understand that "six weeks" really means a grand total of six 75-minute classes! How much can kids learn in under eight hours? Quite a lot, it seems — when they're motivated and can participate in exciting courses taught in small groups by teachers who are passionate about what they're teaching.
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Held on Sunday, May 11, 1997 in Hampstead, North Carolina
The following text was taken, with permission, from an article by Steve Mustaikis, HALO Propulsion Lead, which was published in the May-June 1997 issue of the Southeastern Space Supporter, newsletter of HAL5.
What a difference a year makes! For those of you who dont know me, I have been working in California for the last year. I was so happy to see the balloon lift into the sky after working all night on May 10. With the rocket on board sending back video and telemetry it was an impressive sight. At that point we had done more than almost every amateur group trying to do a space shot. We had a team of people who worked together to build and launch a vehicle capable of making it into space. This effort is amazing in itself.
Even more amazing is the team is still together and working on the next vehicle. None of the amateur rocketry organizations can claim this feat. When I left a year ago the propulsion system was nearly complete, and the only major thing that was lacking was the electronics package to launch the vehicle and send back video. Apparently while I was away a few electronic gurus joined the team [Clay Sawyer, Ed Myszka, and Gene Young]. Their work looked excellent, especially for the time frame they had to put the system together.
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to the King, over his lady's shoulder, a hand as broad and hard
as a wooden trencher, which the King filled with gold coins. "Buy a
handful for my friend Phoebe with some of these," said Charles, "she too
has been doing her duty to Old England."
The King then turned once more to the knight, who seemed making an
effort to speak. He took his aged hand in both his own, and stooped his
head towards him to catch his accents, while the old man, detaining him
with the other hand, said something faltering, of which Charles could
only catch the quotation--
"Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,
And welcome home again discarded faith."
Extricating himself, therefore, as gently as possible, from a scene
which began to grow painfully embarrassing, the good-natured King said,
speaking with unusual distinctness to insure the old man's comprehending
him, "This is something too public a place for all we have to say. But
if you come not soon to see King Charles at Whitehall, he will send down
Louis Kerneguy to visit you, that you may see how rational that
mischievous lad is become since his travels."
So saying, he once more pressed affectionately the old man's hand, bowed
to Alice and all around, and withdrew; Sir Henry Lee listening with a
smile, which showed he comprehended the gracious tendency of what had
been said. The old man leaned back on his seat, and muttered the _Nunc
"Excuse me for having made you wait, my lords," said the King, as he
mounted his horse; "indeed, had it not been for these good folks, you
might have waited for me long enough to little purpose.--Move on, sirs."
The array moved on accordingly; the sound of trumpets and drums again
rose amid the acclamations, which had been silent while the King
stopped; while the effect of the whole procession resuming its motion,
was so splendidly dazzling, that even Alice's anxiety about for her
father's health was for a moment suspended, while her eye followed the
long line of varied brilliancy that proceeded over the heath. When she
looked again at Sir Henry, she was startled to see that his cheek, which
had gained some colour during his conversation with the King, had
relapsed into earthly paleness; that his eyes were closed, and opened
not again; and that his features expressed, amid their quietude, a
rigidity which is not that of sleep. They ran to his assistance, but it
was too late. The light that burned so low in the socket, had leaped up,
and expired in one exhilarating flash.
The rest must be conceived. I have only to add that his faithful dog did
not survive him many days; and that the image of Bevis lies carved at
his master's feet, on the tomb which was erected to the memory of Sir
Henry Lee of Ditchley.
[Footnote: It may interest some readers to know that Bevis, the gallant
hound, one of the handsomest and active of the ancient Highland
deer-hounds, had his prototype in a dog called Maida, the gift of the
late Chief of Glengarry to the author. A beautiful sketch was made by
Edwin Landseer, and afterwards engraved. I cannot suppress the avowal of
some personal vanity when I mention that a friend, going through Munich,
picked up a common snuff-box, such as are sold for one franc, on which
was displayed the form of this veteran favourite, simply marked as Der
lieblung hund von Walter Scott. Mr. Landseer's painting is at
Blair-Adam, the property of my venerable friend, the Right Honourable
Lord Chief Commissioner Adam.]


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Guide to No Cycling zones in Kolkata- 1 to 10 #CyKol
In a previous article, the whole issue of No Cycling zones in Kolkata was explained away. There are some 30 odd streets in Kolkata listed as No Cycling zones, and every one of them can be simply circumvented on your cycle. You don't need to keep your ride at home. You can cycle on to your destination irrespective of the number of no cycling zones on the way.
Here are some maps of No Cycling zones in Kolkata, as you can see they are simple enough to circumvent through bylanes:
Ashutosh Mukherjee road
Abhinandranath Thakur Sarani
AJC Bose road between Rawdon street and Cathedral road-
Bepin Behari Ganguly Street-
Brabourne road
Chittaranjan ave-
Council house street-
Gariahat road
Jawaharlal Nehru Road
Lal Bazaar street
To encourage cycling in Kolkata, the Avon India Cyclothon Kolkata- 2012 will be held on 18 March. To register, come over to Khudiram Bose wing of the Netaji Indoor Stadium between 10 AM and 7 PM on 17 March.
Details about the Cyclothon:
- Email (General): firstname.lastname@example.com
- Email (For Corporates): firstname.lastname@example.com
- Facebook – www.facebook.com/indiacyclothon
- Twitter – www.twitter.com/indiacyclothon
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Appetite suppressants are often the most common form of diet pill and weight loss aid used by people trying to lose weight or shed unwanted inches. Hoodia is known as one of the best natural appetite suppressants known to man. Hoodia is an all-natural, plant-based compound derived from the Kalahari Desert. It was discovered that African bush men had been chewing on the leaves of the Hoodia gordonii plant before hunting expeditions in order to prevent them from being hungry throughout the day. Following this discovery, Hoodia diet capsules began being manufactured all over the world. The issue is that it is very hard to find legitimate Hoodia. In the United States, health supplements are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration in the same manner that prescription drugs are. This means that manufacturers can essentially put anything into their supplements and call it whatever they want.
It is important that consumers read the labels of so-called Hoodia products to ensure that they are getting the most for their money. The purest form of Hoodia still grows in the Kalahari Desert, but few biopharmaceutical companies can lay claim to what is available in this region. Because of this, many producers of Hoodia gordonii can now also be found in China, Mexico, and the United States—which is where much of today's Hoodia comes from. Some manufacturers will combine Hoodia with other ingredients, which diminishes the effectiveness of the product.
Hoodia that is grown in other parts of the world can still be beneficial as an appetite suppressant or tool for weight loss, but it is often not as concentrated as that which is grown in the Kalahari Desert. Also, Hoodia grown in other countries is usually much less expensive. Consumers may have to pay more for the real deal, but in the end, the benefits are worth it. Look for Hoodia capsules that are from the Kalahari Desert whenever possible.
In addition, a lot of manufacturers will claim that their Hoodia is made from "the whole plant." This is a misnomer, since not all of the plant contains beneficial properties. Hoodia that is extracted from "the whole plant" is less potent. The roots and skin of the Hoodia gordonii plant are essentially useless as appetite suppressants. It is the leaves of the plant that are the most beneficial, and the skin and spines must be peeled away from the plant in order to access the plant's beneficial properties.
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Ignoring the fact that the only way that Nintendo is able to boost sales is through massive price cuts, Sony is charging forward with its own "next generation" machine, the PlayStation Vita. The handheld will debut on Dec. 17 in Japan, while those in the U.S. and Europe will have to wait until next year.
The system will launch alongside 26 titles, compared to the eight that accompanied Nintendo's 3DS at launch. It will come in Wi-Fi and 3G flavors, with stateside service provided by AT&T
The most glaring transgression is the price tag. A $249 price point is unjustifiably high in this era of mobile gaming. Mobile gaming no longer means having a dedicated portable gaming system to lug around in addition to your smartphone and/or tablet. It means having immersive games available to play on your smartphone and/or tablet.
Fortunately, the other big player in console gaming, Microsoft
Sony and Nintendo are stuck in their old ways, leading both companies to put up lackluster numbers recently. Sony's recent quarterly revenue dropped 10% while operating income fell 59%. I'm with Rick on this one: PlayStation Vita will fail.
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Blog series: Jenna Densten's tips on renovating a small kitchen
Design and renovation duo Josh and Jenna Densten are in the process of renovating their 1870s Canning Cottage in inner-city North Melbourne. The couple are converting what was once a two-bedroom worker's cottage to a one-bedroom studio, so they're learning the ins and outs of renovating a small home. We spoke to Jenna to get her expert tips on what you need to consider if you're planning on renovating smaller spaces. Hear about the e&s appliances and fittings they've chosen for their renovation to maximise the use of space and complement their design approach.
The all-important floorplan
The most important part of your project is the planning stage. First and foremost your kitchen needs to be functional. A tiny kitchen can still be practical, but you may need to make a few compromises given you don't have the luxury of space. Consider your floor plan and think about how you can you design your kitchen to maximise the space you have without impacting proportions and the accessibility of your home. Hidden storage and a smart layout will be the key to a successful small space. If you're stuck or struggle to visualise the space, why not seek professional help from an interior designer.
Prime positioning
Once the layout has been decided, I start with the location of the appliances and fittings within the kitchen – the oven, sink, fridge, dishwasher. Although "the golden triangle" is something I would recommend, in a small space this just may not be possible. Ensure your sink and oven have a little bench space either side for practicality, and I always recommend your fridge and the dishwasher to be integrated for a seamless look – perfect for small spaces and what we have opted for in our Canning Cottage kitchen from e&s including an integrated Fisher and Paykel dishdrawer, Liebherr fridge and a concealed Ilve rangehood and VZUG Induction.
Design and aesthetics
Overall your kitchen should look consistent within your home, be practical, functional, and have a little wow factor. Use great lighting, a feature splashback or sexy appliances to achieve this. Think about using lighter colours in your kitchen that blend with the areas around to blur the lines between where the kitchen ends and a new zone begins. This will give the illusion of space. Appliance wise, with such a variety of designs and finishes available these days, you can choose ones that not only improve the functionality of your kitchen but match your aesthetic. We've chosen a beautiful metallic Gaggenau oven and white Astra Walker tapware from e&s. Benchtops wise, there are many excellent and new materials out there so it's worth exploring your options before committing. From a selling perspective, your kitchen has to be a package deal as buyers these days have a discerning eye.
Kitchen trends
Texture is key this autumn. Think about the mix of materials in your kitchen. For example, a stone bench top, handmade tile splash back, timber cabinetry and ceramic lighting can all complement each other by creating a warm and inviting space. Colour doesn't have to be the focus here; similar tones can create harmony, but the mix of textures will create interest.
Common renovation mistakes
The lack of texture in a kitchen can leave the space feeling lifeless. If you have flat gloss cabinetry, try to bring texture in by using a splash back tile. Think about scale and proportions; you want a variety of scale in your zone for interest. If you have large flat cabinets, you can add texture and scale to tiles, lighting and accessories. It's all about the finishes! I like to prepare a materials board before deciding on anything within my kitchen. Get samples of everything and place them on your board until you are happy with a combination. Remember to consider scale, texture and colour tones.
Top styling tips for a small kitchen
A small space can still pack a punch. I like to incorporate greenery or a zone for styling in each kitchen, no matter how small. It's important to add life to your kitchen so a little area for a pot plant or a couple of ceramics can warm the space up. Kitchens are filled with hard finishes, so this is an important thing to consider in the planning stage.
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IA London Launch Night
Invisible Artists London officially launched last Thursday night in our new home on Bourlet Close, Soho. A crowd of clients and suppliers help see in the new venture that now boasts 5 full-time staff.
Over the last three months the team has worked on some great projects for high profile clients including Virgin Media, Land Rover and Unilever. The work which runs across digital and broadcast platforms has been fantastically well received and has created a great base from which to launch IA London. All this was achieved despite being having no internet connection (can you imagine the horror?!) and during the always chaotic holiday season.
Dan flew in to help the team with the final stages of the setup and even helped with networking the macs together - officially adding to his Linkedin profile "one of the world's most expensive IT consultant".
Dan is now looking after the global group, returning to the UK in December permanently.
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All homes have a history, but most houses don't have the historical significance of 262 Marshall Street, which I had the pleasure of listing last spring.
In the late 1800s through the early 1900s, this Marshall Street property was the site of the Myles Standish Hotel. While a bustling and busy resort during its heyday, the hotel was eventually sold and split into two halves. One portion of the hotel was moved down the street, where it still stands today, but the other, the hotel's north wing, remained in place. This is what is known today, quite quaintly, as the home at 262 Marshall Street.
Of course, this property is anything but quaint. With gorgeous architectural details and a waterfront location beyond compare, it is truly a Duxbury gem.
If you're interested in the home's history, I highly recommend visiting the online store of the Duxbury Rural & Historical Society – and picking up a copy of Stopping Places Along Duxbury Roads by my late friend and Duxbury resident extraordinaire, Margery L. Macmillan.
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The new section on the course is shaping up nicely. We finished clearing stumps and now just need to do a little rock clearing, cut the grass and do a little fine tuning. The new loop takes advantage of a greater part of the ravine near our run-up and crosses a stream bed. The stream is dry most of the year, running only in the spring and during heavy heavy rains. We thought crossing a stream would be cool, but there will probably never be water in this one in October. In any case, it adds some fun and exciting terrain.
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More Prize $$
In addition, we've upped the A race prize money. Red Barn has always felt that people race because they love it, not because they might pocket a few bucks - although that never hurts. Thus we've upped the ante - The A race prize money now goes 5 deep at $50/40/30/20/10. As always, we still have a number of great give-a-ways and arguably the best medals around - not to mention the free hot dogs!
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Destructive capacity and coercive force are correlated positively: i.e. the greater one's ability to inflict destruction, the more one can influence a person's actions, e.g. people will attempt to appease you more if they fear injury than if they do not, and more still if they fear death.
At first, demonstrated destructive capacity has a greater coercive effect than potential destructive capacity; people react more strongly to an actual injury than to a threat of an identical injury (perhaps due to habituation to the low-level capacity for destruction shared by all humans i.e. Anybody can become violent under the correct circumstances? Further investigation needed.)
As destructive capacity increases, coercive force increases whether the capacity is demonstrated or not; however, demonstration is subject to diminishing returns, as after a certain point, resources that would be exploitable become unusable (Dead guys don't give you their stuff.) The threat of destruction is not affected in this way.
As perceived destructive capacity increases, potential destructive capacity overtakes demonstrated destructive capacity in usefulness, reaching a point where a threat is more useful than actual action taken. (Can fear be a more effective stimulus than pain? Consider 20th century Mutually Assured Destruction scenarios, Sun Tzu's Art of War, dudes talking smack in general.) Potential applications include the ability to replace current, dangerous endeavors involving demonstrations of destructive capacity with comparatively safe threats to demonstrate same.
Experimental Procedure:
Approach the subject of the experiment, That Asshole Carlo. Using the Plasma Coil, my imposing demeanor, and my previously established reputation for violence, induce a high state of perceived destructive capacity for coercive purposes (i.e. threaten him until he pays up). According to this theory, actual destruction of the subject, in whole or in part, will prove unnecessary.
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The V Foundation for Cancer Research, a top-ranked cancer research charity, is thrilled to formally announce its Not a Moment to Lose fundraising campaign. As the V Foundation's boldest initiative to date, Not a Moment to Lose will rally supporters dedicated to declaring victory over cancer. The campaign aims to raise $200 million by 2020 and strategically fund emerging, high-impact research opportunities to make the greatest advances in the shortest amount of time.
"This is not a fight any of us can win alone," said Robin Roberts, V Foundation board member and Good Morning America co-host, who first announced the campaign during ESPN's Monday Night Football coverage last night. "We need the strongest team possible to ensure victory. Please be a part of the team that never gives up on the fight against cancer."
Not a Moment to Lose will emphasize how research is transforming the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer. Cancer affects 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women in the U.S. Through participation and donations, supporters can ensure scientists are able to build on past investments, spur innovations and translate discoveries into better outcomes. The V Foundation intends to further the momentum behind today's extraordinary research, but we can only do so with the help of our supporters.
"The launch of this campaign is an exciting step in helping us achieve victory over cancer," said George Bodenheimer, retired president and executive chairman of ESPN, Inc., as well as V Foundation board member and campaign chair of Not a Moment to Lose. "The campaign is about more than raising money and driving science forward with a passion and a commitment to fund extraordinary research to ultimately save more lives."
Through a competitive awards process vetted by a world-renowned Scientific Advisory Committee, the V Foundation will continue to award 100% of direct donations to cancer research and related programs. During the Not a Moment to Lose campaign, areas of scientific interest to be funded include the study of prevention signals, clinical trials, pediatric cancer research, immunotherapy pathways, big data collaborations, convergence projects and translational research. The V Foundation will also expand its V Scholar Grant program, funding the best, most-talented young scientists as they launch their own laboratories and further their careers.
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Democratic reforms, a practicing democracy based on liberty and tolerance, an effective legislature, an independent judiciary, separation of powers, a new constitution - so many rosy items did the President of the United States set out for the Palestinians, in his long-awaited speech on the Middle East.
Somehow, throughout his speech George W. Bush managed to avoid any mention of the present situation in the same parcel of land where all these wonderful things are to materialize. No mention of the fact that all West Bank cities had been invaded by Israeli military forces; that hundreds of thousands of inhabitants are imprisoned in their homes by a strict curfew, and that civilians appearing on city streets risk having tanks shoot shells on them (while the speech was delivered in Washington, Israeli soldiers completed the takeover of Hebron, killing three Palestinian policemen in the process); that even before that conquest, the towns and villages where Bush would have a flourishing market economy set up are cut off from each other by checkpoints and closures and sieges, with inhaibitants replacing their cars with donkeys able to negotiate narrow mountain paths.
How are Palestinians to implement any kind of reforms under such circumctances? How are they to reform a Palestinian Authority which is being systematically chocked out of existence? How could elections be held "before the end of the year" without a pullout of Israeli forces, and some assurance of their non- interference? And what would President Bush do if Palestinian voters, exercising their democractic right to choose, re-elect Yasser Arafat as their leader? Would that democratic choice be set aside in yet another military invasion? And even if "new Palestinian leaders" would get elected, pass Bush's careful scrutiny, and try to "fight terrorism" as the president so vocally demands, would they be assured of the basic conditions for doing so? Would their efforts not be continually thwarted by Sharon, as are those of the existing Palestinian leadership?
In the Gaza Strip, the one parcel of land where the Palestinian Authority retains some measure of control and where it tried in the past few days to take some action against Hamas, Israeli forces yesterday committed the provocation of assassinating a major Hamas leader (together with five family members who happened to travel in a taxi with that leader, and who got killed by the same missile which killed him). The root cause of terrorism and suicide bombing (or "homicide bombing" as the president insisted upon calling it) was hardly addressed at all: the situation of young Palestinians under an increasingly tight occupation, who see themselves oppressed and dispossessed, deprived of all hope and expectation for the future, abandoned by the world, and who reach the point where they decide to blow themselves up in order to kill random Israelis. No end to terrorism can be expected without offering some tangible hope to such people, to dry up the phenomenon of suicide bombing at the source.
President Bush's speech - making strident demands upon the weaker party to the conflict, and only vague polite requests upon the stronger side - contributes little to that cause. No wonder that Sharon expressed immense satisfaction with the speech - but the two peoples, locked in this terrible struggle, pay the price for the arrogance, short-sightedness and lack of resolve of the dweller in the White House.
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Megan Gallagher's family until they died and it was passed onto her.
The hotel is where a number of events happen in the Puppet Master franchise. The first scene of the first film opens at the inn, showing the great Puppet Master Andre Toulon caring for his animated puppets. It is later revealed he is hiding there from the Nazis, who eventually find him, though not before he can kill himself to keep the secret of life from them.
- Puppet Master
- Puppet Master 2
- Puppet Master 3: Toulon's Revenge (Archive footage when Toulon dreams)
- Puppet Master 4
- Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter
- Curse of the Puppet Master (Archive footage)
- Puppet Master: The Legacy
- Puppet Master: Axis of Evil
- Puppet Master: Axis Rising (Mentioned)
- Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
- Eternity Comics
- Action Lab Comics
- Bodega Bay Inn was filmed at Castle Green, Pasadena, California.
- Bodega Bay is named after the location where Alfred Hitchcock filmed his movie The Birds.
- Although it is never stated in the films exactly why Toulon chose this particular inn, the short-lived comic series by Eternity Comics does give an answer. The inn was owned by Toulon's cousin.
- Bodega Bay Inn appears in the 2015 Action Lab Comics.
- Most of the exterior shots of the building were made using a miniature model of Castle Green that was built by David Allen.
- Among the famous people that were reported to have stayed at the hotel were: Carole Lombard, Clark Gable and Queen Elizabeth II.


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- a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
- Law.
- a person associated with another or others as a principal or a contributor of capital in a business or a joint venture, usually sharing its risks and profits.
- special partner.
- silent partner.
- a spouse; a husband or a wife.
- the person with whom one cohabits in a romantic relationship: I'd like you to meet my partner, Sarah.
- either of two people who dance together: my favorite partner in the waltz.
- a player on the same side or team as another: My tennis partner was an excellent player.
- partners, Nautical. a framework of timber round a hole in a ship's deck, to support a mast, capstan, pump, etc.
- to associate as a partner or partners with.
- to serve as the partner of.
Origin of partner
Synonyms for partnerSee more synonyms for on Thesaurus.com
Related Words for partnercolleague, spouse, participant, associate, wife, companion, friend, ally, husband, crony, cohort, comrade, chum, teammate, buddy, helper, consort, assistant, sidekick, date
Examples from the Web for partner
Contemporary Examples of partner
That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.Jeb Bush's Unseen Anti-Gay Marriage Emails
Jackie Kucinich
January 9, 2015
Social media forces us to not only be vulnerable for our partner but for the whole world.Random Hook-Ups or Dry Spells: Why Millennials Flunk College Dating
Ellie Schaack
January 1, 2015
Johnson dashed into the base and called to his partner, 23-year-old Tantania Alexander.'Please Don't Die!': The Frantic Battle to Save Murdered Cops
Michael Daly
December 22, 2014
The rate of partner violence dwarfs the number of women who experience sexual assault from a stranger (7%).The Hidden Link Between Women and War
Leith Greenslade
December 3, 2014
We should partner with them to get the message across, have them at the table, and listen rather than preach.The New Face of HIV Is Gay & Young
Adebisi Alimi
December 1, 2014
Historical Examples of partner
Easy there, partner; don't take both them hands down at once.Way of the Lawless
Max Brand
A partner has the right to draw out any, or all, of the partnership funds.Within the Law
Marvin Dana
Is Mr. Bellmer handsome—handsome enough to be Nelly's partner?The Bacillus of Beauty
Harriet Stark
But at the time--you see there was a girl, the daughter of my uncle's partner.The Trail Book
Mary Austin
It seems fairly certain also that Heidegger was none too loyal as a partner.Handel
Edward J. Dent
- an ally or companiona partner in crime
- a member of a partnership
- one of a pair of dancers or players on the same side in a gamemy bridge partner
- either member of a couple in a relationship
- to be or cause to be a partner (of)
Word Origin for partner
c.1300, altered from parcener (late 13c.), from Old French parçonier "partner, associate; joint owner, joint heir," from parçon "partition, division. portion, share, lot," from Latin partitionem (nominative partitio) "a sharing, partition, division, distribution" (see partition (n.)). Form in English influenced by part (n.). The word also may represent Old French part tenour "part holder."
1610s, transitive, "to make a partner," from partner (n.). Intransitive sense from 1961. Related: Partnered; partnering.


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PLANS to rejuvenate a butterfly house in Southsea into a modern facility will cost £100,000.
Cumberland House will get the new state-of-the-art facility thanks to a partnership between Portsmouth City Council and the Friends of Cumberland House.
We're thrilled to be embarking on this very exciting project which can help the butterfly house reach its full potentialAnita Stepnitz
The plans will allow a wider range of species and may bring in opportunities to improve other parts of the site.
Anita Stepnitz, joint-chair of Friends of Cumberland House, said: 'We're thrilled to be embarking on this very exciting project which can help the butterfly house reach its full potential.
'We're grateful to the council for supporting this.'
Cllr Linda Symes, the council's cabinet member for culture, leisure and sport, added: 'Cumberland House's butterfly house has been a popular attraction for generations of Portsmouth families and I'm delighted by the prospect of making it even better.
'We have an opportunity to enhance the butterfly house and bring it up to the modern standards you would expect of a visitor attraction and improve the gardens in which it sits.'


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Saw this yummy cocktail on my feed today and will definitely be adding it to my New Year's Eve menu. What a fun way to jazz up champagne….not that champagne needs any jazzing up!!
- 1 cup honey
- 3 cups water
- 2 whole pears, peeled, cored and diced
- 1 large chunk of ginger, peeled and diced
- 20 fresh sage leaves + additional for garnish
- 1 bottle of your favorite champagne or sparkling wine
- Serves 4
- In a saucepan combine the honey and water over medium heat and bring to a light boil. Turn the heat down to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the honey has dissolved completely. Add the pears, ginger and sage leaves. Simmer until the mixture has reduced by 1/3. About 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and let the mixture steep for an additional 10 minutes.
- Strain the syrup into a large mason jar. Discard the ginger and sage leaves.
- To assemble the drinks place a few pieces of the cooked pear into each glass followed by 1-2 Tablespoons of the simple syrup. Add the champagne and enjoy.


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As I clapped at the end of an entertaining performance of Henry IV at the Donmar Warehouse, it struck me that in my last four visits to the theatre, I had not seen one man on stage. This trend started a couple of weeks back, when I saw Martin Parr's beautifully realised "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang". Actresses Katherine Heath and Lucia Capellaro were so compelling, I was lured back the following evening. Sitting in the ruins of the Rose, I was even more swept away with the heady brew of sonnets, cello and narratives of loss.
The next women-only venture was a mistake, actually. I thought I had booked a ticket for Hamlet, so turned up at the Park Theatre, Finsbury Park ready to marvel at a finely wrought analysis of mind. Turns out, I had got there a week early, so I asked what was on that night. It turned out to be Man to Man by Manfred Karge - a solo play about an East German woman faking being a man, through her whole life. Her husband had died, leaving her with no livelihood, so, after considering her few options, she decided to go into work disguised as her dead spouse. This saga through Nazism, post-war reconstruction and German reunification sets up a harrowing tale of deception, risk, humiliation and slow and unsettling transformation into a defeated, bitter, male retiree, who has almost forgotten his sex. The play was written by Manfred Karge, who joined the Berliner Ensemble in 1961 at the behest of Helene Weigel, wife of Bertolt Brecht. The Brechtian themes are strong, and actress Tricia Kelly bravely laid bare the frustrations of sustaining male identity amidst wild lurches in German society and identity, transforming herself into an embittered, drunk, unattractive pensioner. You could almost smell him.
In the programme, special mention was made of the translator of the script, the late Antony Vivis, who produced an inventive, jarring and sometime rhyming word flow. Listening to the rhythms and juxtapositions made me realise the crucial role of the translator in art such as this.
Later on in the bar, an attractive well dressed woman breezed in and greeted friends around the table. I realised with a shock, this was Tricia Kelly, who only twenty minutes earlier had festered resentfully in stained trousers.
A week later, I got a standing ticket for Henry IV, which was set in a women's prison. Effectively, this was most of the glorious Part 1 with the main bits involving Falstaff and the rise of Hal from Part II added on. This was highly entertaining, but worth seeing for one overwhelming reason - Harriet Walter playing Henry IV. Shakespeare was cautious in his portrayal of the usurper King, and the role thus has rather limited, subdued material. Walter, however, used these lines with such world-weary authority, that she shed new light on the whole role. No longer a marginalised part; with Harriet Walter, Henry IV reclaims the play that bears his name. It was an amazing performance.
Tomorrow I'm off to see the Hamlet I had intended to see last week. Looking forward to it - though seeing men on stage will be something of a novelty.


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2nd World Air Games Completed
Contest Day 6
Another hot, clear morning with not a cloud in the sky, but a clearly defined inversion layer, more visible toward the west and barely a breeze. Off to Lillo with a stop at the bank for a bit of money exchange. At the field, the usual preparations get underway, now almost routine.
The pilot briefing begins with the results of Day 5. Sarah takes another win for the Brits with 29 of the 30 World Class ships completing the task. Francois takes 8th place with a speed of 84.7 km/h after the team became separated on course. This puts him in 21st overall. Pat comes in slower on the day after getting low and struggling to get back on track, but takes 21st at 78.16 km/h for the day, putting him at xth overall. Rick finishes in 3rd for the day at 126.68 km/h for an overall position of 5th behind another Brit - Steve Jones - in 250, who wins another day at 128.48 km/h.
The weather report is for a strong day and the tasks reflect this. 18 meters will fly 505.33 km from Cerro El Romeral - AD Santa Cruz del Mundol - Plaza Del Judio - Navahermosa - Mota Del Cuervo - Cervanta - Lillo30. The WC flys Villacanas - AD Cuevalosa - AD La Calderina - Los Yebenes - El Toboso - Cervanta - Lillo30 for a 305.78 km task.
The controversy over several pilots who flew into the Madrid controlled airspace continues with the Swiss having filed a formal protest last night to increase the assessed penalty from the 100 points to 300 or more. Alvaro De Orleans-Borbon had also filed a protest over denial of a relight after landing back at the field under power, which was denied. So, at this point, there are still no official scores beyond Day 2 - and rumors abound that Day 1 and Day 2 will also be reviewed for airspace violations.
Off to the grid for the launch! Since we all know this is a sport that one can't take too seriously, we decide to have a little fun with our WC leader, the Brit, Sarah Steinberg. As the pre-grid lines moves to take the runway after the last of the 18 meter ships roll, I attach a small star-spangled drag chute to the back of her PW-5 "HZBâ€. Everyone, well, except for the French, (our friend Cedric as crew for them, has often complained about them as being "old maidsâ€) thought our little trick quite funny. The organizers actually photographed our prank so you can see it on the local aero club web site www.aeroclubtoledo.com.
Ships launched without incident and the crew settle back to wait - another extremely hot, dry, dusty afternoon with occasional dust devils blasting through the screen porch of the team tent. The screened canopy was by far the best thing included in the equipment crate shipped from the US!
The gates are open, Rick starts with the Brits and flies aggressively. He makes it around the course in good time. Pat and Francois find the first few thermals after launch which is an important thing at a contest where there is obviously only one tow pilot who truly understands glider towing and max release altitude is 1,500 AGL. Pat comments on the team frequency about one thermal with at least two years of PW-5 production flying one gaggle! They also fly very aggressively today, but get separated soon after their start, run into trouble over the Sierras de Toledo on the second leg, but get around and home even with some additional difficulty on the final leg into the finish control point. It appears that our little prank had some affect as Sarah's time for the day is slower than previous days and the French and the Poles take the day.
A relatively early evening, by Spanish standards and previous contest days. Rick and Barb head off to entertain the owner of their tow vehicle who will collect L58 and transport it to its next destination for more flying, while the WC teams and I decide to check out Tembleque for dinner. The "home†of Don Quixote is a wonderfully picturesque village with a stunning plaza. However, we had counted on finding a place to eat that would serve immediately and all the nearby restaurants were still preparing for the dinner hour, the earliest not serving until 9pm, some 20 to 45 minutes later.
We decided to order appetizers in a charming little tapas ("little platesâ€) bistro on the corner of the plaza across from an pretty fountain across the road. Our hostess and owner of the Café Vizncru is the wife of the mayor of the city, obviously the city's most enthusiastic promoter cum laude, and is bubbling with excitement over our presence (actually, I think it was more because of the opportunity to show off her excellent tapas, her café, and the attractions of the town). She rabbitted on the entire meal, oblivious to our nearly complete lack of understanding of her machine-gun delivery of non-stop Spanish. We signed her guest book, complete with beautifully rendered gliders (1 18m and 2 PW-5s of course!) and a note of sincere thanks for her wonderful hospitality. We headed for home, our appetites fully sated.
Contest Day 7
The final contest day dawns just like the previous days - clear and cloudless. The temperature is cooler than the last two days, the haze layer in all quadrants is a bit more defined signifying the inversion layer's presence, but a light breeze is blowing, so perhaps it will be an even better day than yesterday. We expect a banquet task today, so there will likely be fewer points available to the pilots, but they are ready to fly fast.
Our last trip to the airport, gliders are readied, rolled into the pre-grid line ups, a quick snack at the airport restaurant, along with a scan of the newly posted score sheets, then off to the pilot briefing.
At the briefing, the first news is about the closing ceremonies, both the local ceremony to be held at the refurbished convent cum restaurant/bar, and the WAG ceremony to be held some 450 km away in Jerez at the race track.
Buses are to leave Lillo at 1am for the journey of some 7 hours each way!
Further news includes the denial of the Swiss protest so the 100 point penalties stand as initially applied, and results become official for days 3, 4, and 5. Said score sheets are delivered to the teams. Rick is now 4th overall based upon the official results along with the Day 6 unofficial results, while Pat is 10th and Francois is 13th. Even with a potentially devalued task today, they study the score sheets carefully to build their strategy to move up a few ranks. Tasks are called amongst heated outcry at the CD's method of handling the banquet - scheduled to begin at 10pm - an arbitrary finish line close time of 1900 is set, then extended to 1930 as a bone to the disgusted competitors. "We will have the safest, fairest competition ever held†is the quote from the first official pilot briefing that comes to mind, as well as Max Bishop's comment some days earlier to me that he felt this was the best organized comp of those in the 2001 Games!
The weather briefing indicates perhaps the strongest day of the contest, on par with the last two practice days. We expect to see some really incredible speeds today and won't be disappointed as it turns out. 18 meter will start at Cerro El Romeral, then off to Juego De Bolos - AD Pouzu El Los Declatrava - San Pablo De Los Mounts - El Pedernoso - Cervant - Lillo 30 for a weirdly neck-tie shaped 447 km task. The WC pilots have a 258 km task from Villacanas - Fuente El Fresno - San Pablo De Los Mounts - Mora - Quintanar De La Ordan - Cervanta - Lillo 30.
Off to the grid for launch and everyone heaves a huge sigh of release as the last ship rolls safely - no more launches! Back to the tent to wait for the pilots to return. We hold our breath collectively one last time as the finishers return in huge numbers simultaneously - as many as 20 ships at once! Everyone gets down safely and there are no land outs physically, but many virtual landouts as strategies of leaving late backfire on both Rick in the 18m and Sarah in the WC, dropping both of them well down into the lower tiers of the score sheet. On the other hand, Francois posts a blazingly fast 110 km/h speed for the fastest time he's ever flow the PW-5 - but the winner for the day is even faster! Who would imagine a PW could go that fast! Pat comes in just a bit slower after getting low over the hills on the second leg. Final standings are posted to the website at www.wag2001.org.
Closing Ceremonies
Ships in the box by 9, a mad dash to the hotel to freshen up and a mad dash back to Lillo for the closing ceremonies. As we should have expected, the "badges required†admonition had no basis in fact, nor did the 10 starting time. The dinner got underway at about 11 pm - Ham, pork sausage, proscutto, chorizo as appetizers (I've had my pork quota for the next 10 years on this 14 day trip!) with a rather tasty beef stroganoff as the entrée. The courtyard of the convent restaurant is a lovely plaza and makes for a nice setting for the banquent. It is separated from the sidewalk behind by a wrought iron fence which allows a group of the locals to observe the shenanigans of the French (who must create a new drinking song) in a completely out of character drinking fest. Sebastian, the leading Polish WC pilot, challenges them to a vodka drinking contest and it gets rather louder!
Finally, diplomas are awarded to the top 10, with medals to the first, second and third place finishers. A nice touch was the presentation of PW-5 models to the top three WC finishers by the new manufacturer and our friends, Bielsko 1. The flags were raised, the anthems played on a boom box with a microphone held in front of the speaker. Speeches made, and the ceremony concluded. Back to the room for a quick 2 hour nap and the WC team departs at 5am for it's drive to Jerez, while Rick and Barb leave to return home.
Arrival at Jerez is uneventful after a brief "brunch†stop on the way. Another ham sandwich - not sure I'll ever eat one again - and we see two men stop who are obviously in air sports. As the information we have about the ceremony location is sketchy at best, I accost them and meet the Portugese judge for the parachuting comp. He has only slightly more information than we and happily shares what he knows. He goes on to comment that their comps, with over 1,000 competitors, was mainly safe with only a few bruises and minor broken bones due to turbulence on landing, about 10 injuries. However, he adds that the the power parachutists with only 150 competitors had many accidents and incidents, none fatal, fortunately, so we concluded that our competition had been pretty safe and well run in comparison!
Our attempts to locate and join the US Team at the race track are prove futile and completely frustrating, so Pat and I decide to continue to Gibraltar to sight see for the remainder of the day. Francois and Dottie remain to see the event and wave the flag for the US Gliding Team. We'll see what they have to say about the event after they get home.
The challenge, in closing, that I put to the US soaring community, is to begin this year to develop better organization, training, and funding for our world championship participation. Much has been accomplished in this regard over the years, and my opinion is obviously from a limited perspective of only two world comps, but the Brits performance here (along with the Polish, French and German teams) clearly supports the conclusion that a well-defined plan, executed properly, will result in a significant increase in our ability to bring home the gold.
Hasta luego!
Respectfully submitted,
Conrad Suechting
US Team Captain, 18m & World Class, 2001.
Posted: 6/25/2001 By: General News
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