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Richard Hadlee, born July 3, 1951, was one of the greatest fast bowlers the world has ever seen, one of the best all-rounders of his era and the cricketer who single-handedly converted New Zealand from a bunch of faceless amateurs to a world class fighting unit. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the career of this immortal legend who was the first to take 400 wickets in Test cricket.
Indian Winter
It had been a difficult decision. Richard Hadlee might not have travelled to India for the 1988-89 series if he had not strained his calf muscle in January. It had been during the first Test against England at Christchurch. He had taken no further part in the series and had remained tantalisingly at par with Ian Botham at the top of the all-time bowling charts with 373 Test wickets.
Hadlee was not too keen on playing in the sub-continent. He had been there 12 years earlier, when his speed was sharp but the edges rough, when his run-up was longer and so were his locks. The young Hadlee had toiled hard, with limited success and limitless heart. There was plenty of fire in the belly, and also a bug that tormented his stomach. The age-old Delhi-belly had been a harrowing experience. Now, with every corner of the world providing spectacular harvests of wickets, Hadlee had originally made up his mind not to go to India again. But, then he was held up at the very brink of the world record by his injury. So, when John Wright led his band of men to India, the motley group of useful cricketers were lent the glitter of greatness by the presence of this supreme fast bowling all-rounder.
The tour was awaited with immense interest. Apart from the world record in the offing, there were enticing little battles inside the bigger war.
It was a showdown between two great pace bowling all-rounders: Richard Hadlee and Kapil Dev. Brilliant as Hadlee was, could he succeed in the flat, heart-breaking wickets of India? The press, public and players of the home side had their doubts. The pitches would be tailor made for spin. On these tracks, the great Kapil Dev had managed just 38 wickets in the last 19 Tests across four years at an average of over 40. Was it possible for the New Zealander to excel where the local hero had not really enjoyed the best of times?
Besides Richard Hadlee was 37, an age when most fast bowlers hang up their boots, put up their feet and add miles to how fast they bowled with each retelling. And Kapil Dev was in his prime at 29.
What followed in the three Tests had the Indian eyes popping out in disbelief. Hadlee ran in, not a step of the 15 paces wasted. The ball darted around in ways that had never been witnessed in India as far as memory and fancy stretched. It veered away deceptively, jagged back with menace, sometimes mischievously held its line. The batsmen were never certain, the edge connected far more frequently than the middle. On occasions it moved early, often it curled late. Once in a while a sudden short one reared at the body. And some broke back off the pitch, right into the batsman.
The wickets were indeed prepared for the spinners. In Bombay, whatever grass remained on the eve of the Test were hacked away under the watchful eyes of Indian captain Dilip Vengsarkar. Kapil did not bowl too badly either, capturing 10 wickets at 23.20, but only two of these were top-order scalps.
Hadlee, however, was beyond comparison. He started the series by dismissing 5 of the top 6 Indian batsmen in the first innings at Bangalore. He followed it up with a 10-wicket haul on that very Wankhede pitch so carefully shorn of grass — bowling New Zealand to a memorable win. He ended the series with 18 wickets at 14. To put the difference between the pacemen in perspective, we also need to remember that Kapil bowled in six completed innings, Hadlee in just four.
Yet, faced with the twin spin menace of Arshad Ayub and Narendra Hirwani, New Zealand lost the series 2-1. It was more or less the story of Hadlee's career. Lifting mediocrity to levels of distinction on his august shoulders, lending a shade of success to a nondescript outfit.
At home, New Zealand with Hadlee were undefeated since 1979. Overseas, their success was limited, and almost always achieved through the lethal deliveries of this brooding, saturnine speedster.
The battle of the numero unos
There was another interesting battle waged during the 1988-89 series — between the best batsman and the best bowler according to the computer. The Deloitte Ratings had been released the previous season, and Hadlee had topped the list of bowlers. At the head of the batting charts stood the Indian captain Dilip Vengsarkar. The Bombay batsman had scored at over 100 runs per innings in the past couple of seasons, with 8 hundreds in 16 matches.
Hadlee had spent the intervening months after his injury plotting the dismissal of Indian opener Krishnamachari Srikkanth. However, it was his partner Arun Lal who gave him the world record on the first morning at Bangalore, edging to third slip. Srikkanth followed soon, bowled without offering a shot. The long-awaited duel commenced with Vengsarkar walking out at No. 4.
Hadlee probed away, induced an edge and the catch went down in the slips. After the first few uncertain moments, Vengsarkar drove him for four. Hadlee made way for the lesser bowlers and the Indian captain settled down to continue his spate of run-making. When he remained unbeaten on 71 at tea, it seemed that the Bombay man had won the first round. A painful elbow caused him to retire hurt at the break, and the contest was postponed to the following day.
Hadlee ran in on the next morning, with the shine still on the second new ball, moving one away to get the outside edge of Mohammad Azharuddin's bat. WV Raman had no clue about one that broke past his defence and flattened his stumps. Vengsarkar returned to the wicket, under a floppy hat and to a thunderous ovation.
Hadlee started by cutting one away, beating the swish outside the off-stump. The next ball jagged back, striking Vengsarkar painfully on the chest. The captain gestured to the pavilion and 12th man Sanjeev Sharma came in with the white helmet and ran back with the hat.
It did not help. Two overs later, Hadlee pitched up on the middle stump and moved it away late. Vengsarkar was committed into his favourite on-drive. The ball whistled past the bat and crashed into the off-stump. Hadlee and Vengsarkar did not wage a similar battle again in the series, but the best bowler of the computer world had scored a point over the best batsman. One cannot say for sure whether this dented the confidence of the Indian captain. But, in retrospect, the 71 runs on the first day was probably the last time one saw a commanding Vengsarkar in a Test.
Hadlee went on to play nine more Tests after the series, and capture 40 more wickets with the same metronomic brilliance. A younger Indian side visited New Zealand two years later, in early 1990. They were plagued by the perennial problems posed by Hadlee to every visiting team over a decade and a half.
During that series Hadlee breached the defence of Sanjay Manjrekar to become the first bowler in the history of Test cricket to capture 400 wickets. New Zealand celebrated in rare style. No one grudged them. Such success was scant in the history of cricket of that small nation. The quality of Hadlee was even scarcer across the length and breadth of cricket or geography.
The brooding champion
Hadlee was introspective, calculating and intense. The word calculating is not used lightly here. His cricket was based on the most solid base of scientific technique, laced with meticulous logic. It was almost perfect mathematical analysis that led him to his double of 100 wickets and 1000 runs in the 1984 season for Nottinghamshire. The last person to do that had been Fred Titmus in 1967, when three-day games had been much more frequent and one-day distractions significantly less.
Hadlee prepared a dossier of the target number of runs and wickets he needed at every stage, weighed with the strengths and weaknesses of the opponents. He worked on increasing his strength and stamina, and as a corollary decreased and optimised his run up. As a result he scored 1,179 runs at 51.26 and took 117 wickets at 14.05.
The ambidexterous Richard Hadlee was as dangerous with the bat as he was with the ball © Getty Images
His appearance was almost melancholy. Frank Tyson likened him to Hamlet at the wicket. His build was not that of a fast bowler, and hence he had to exaggerate the side on position of his delivery stride and extract the maximum amount of whip from the lean frame and long arms. He still managed a pace marginally inferior to Malcolm Marshall and Michael Holding.
One may consider this an exaggeration, but according to the analysis of the inimitable Charles Davis, Hadlee forced more batsmen to retire hurt during his Test career than any other bowler, apart from Courtney Walsh. If we consider in terms of number of hors de combat per Test match, Hadlee is next only to Wes Hall and Colin Croft. Hence, along with all the splendid ability to swing and cut prodigiously and at will, Hadlee could be hostile as well. And yet like Hamlet, he was forever plagued by doubts — To Play or Not To Play. Could his body take the toil? Could his mind stand up to the strain?
Some adjustments had to be made to allow his lean frame go through two decades at the peak of the fast bowling world. He started bowling at 23 paces, boring towards his target throughout his run. With time and Nottinghamshire experience, this was reduced to 15, the speed maintained through acceleration.
He delivered almost after brushing the stumps with his right hand. Indeed, often the bail at the non-striker's end was knocked off. His reason was simple. When the ball shot through along a line drawn from middle stump to middle stump, even minimal movements through the air and off the pitch could produce devastating effect.
Initially, he moved more away than in. But, like his idol Dennis Lillee, Hadlee added the in-swing and the off-cutter. With time the leg-cutter was sharpened as well, a slower delivery added into the arsenal and a bouncer rose viciously from time to time. In the early eighties, his county captain Clive Rice proclaimed that he was one of the 'top five fast bowlers of the world'. By the late eighties, the splendours of experience had perhaps elevated him to the very best.
While his bowling was a sophisticated science, his batting was the picture of simplicity. His idea was to hit it as hard as possible, and to choose the ball to whack after careful consideration. In the early days of his career, he seldom scored heavily. But a rather limited batting side soon offered opportunities, and he matured into a solid lower order batsman in the latter half of his career. Scores improved once he started donning a helmet, and then burgeoned further when he wrote his coaching manual Hadlee on Cricket. By the late seventies he was an all-rounder in the making. Within a few years a part of the supreme quartet along with Kapil Dev, Ian Botham and Imran Khan.
Runs in the family
Hadlee had the privilege of cricketing birth, and it was counterbalanced by the limitations of feeble cricketing feats of his country. His father Walter Hadlee was a lanky, bespectacled opening batsman for Canterbury who toured England and Australia after the Second World War, and led his country in eight Tests. He also became the president of the New Zealand Cricket Council. For all his commendable work, his greatest contribution to New Zealand cricket is generally considered to be siring five sons of cricketing talent, three of whom played for the national team and one who rose above all other cricketers ever produced by the tiny nation.
In the 1975 World Cup, Barry Hadlee played as a batsman, Dayle Hadlee as an opening bowler and Richard Hadlee as a tearaway pacer. The family association did not end there. Richard Hadlee's ex-wife Karen was a cricketer who played for the New Zealand women's team.
After school Hadlee was expected to join Canterbury like his elder brothers. However, since the club was already well stocked with opening bowlers, he opted for Lancaster Park. By early 1972, he had opened the bowling for Canterbury and had taken a hat-trick against Central Districts in his third week as a First-Class cricketer.
Test cricket was not too far away. February 1972 saw Sadiq Mohammad hit a boundary off the first ball he bowled on his debut; 2 for 112 was not a very spectacular first outing, though he redeemed himself somewhat with a quick 46 with the bat. The selectors opted for brother Dayle for the next two Tests of the series.
In 1973 he toured England, and played just one Test. However, in the latter half of the summer he did enough in the tour games to make Wisden sagely remark: "His best bowling came late in the tour but he has considerable prospects ahead."
The prospects would come to fruition, transforming him to one of the greatest of all time and New Zealand into a formidable side because of the one man who made all the difference.
The first taste of success
Before Richard Hadlee played Test cricket New Zealand had not won a single Test against the Big Three of the time — Australia, England and West Indies. In fact, after their triumph at Lahore 1969, the side had not won a single Test match against any opponent.
In 1973-74, Hadlee was hardly the supreme force that he would soon become, but the Kiwi fortune was already turning. At Sydney, Ian Chappell's Australians were brought to the brink of defeat by Hadlee's 4 for 33 and 2 for 16, but rain was a faithful ally of the home team and washed away chances of a result. But, in March 1974, the Australians came over and Hadlee produced 3 for 59 and 4 for 71 at Christchurch to ensure the first taste of victory over the trans-Tasman neighbours. It was also the first New Zealand victory in five years.
Between 1974 to 1980, a country with the population less than that of London would go on to beat all England and West Indies as well — and Hadlee's fingerprints would be all over the triumphant scorecards.
However, for the first few years Hadlee's performance remained erratic. He did bowl New Zealand to a series squaring victory against Bishan Bedi's Indians of 1975-76, picking up his first five-for at Wellington. In the match, he had been included at the last moment as the fourth seamer.
But, at the same time, there were periods of failure. When Greg Chappell brought the Australians over in 1977, he took only 6 wickets at very high price. And it would be the last time he would average over 30 in a series for another 12 years. In the rest of his career, he would do so only once.
Richard Hadlee bowled very close to the stumps and bowled with robotic accuracy © Getty Images
The ascent of the champion
The defining moment arrived during the Wellington Test against England in 1978. From this series onwards till the end of the Indian tour of 1988-89, Hadlee took 330 wickets in 60 Tests at 19.57, the leading light in the blinding splendour of fast bowling of the 1980s.
Hadlee had taken 4 for 74 in the first innings, but a Kiwi capitulation in the second innings had left Geoff Boycott's Englishmen just 137 runs to win. And out walked Hadlee, melancholy and taciturn, and ran in to capture 6 for 26 as the Englishmen were skittled out for 64. An impromptu choir formed in front of the Wellington pavilion, singing: "For They are Jolly Good fellows."
This success prompted Hadlee to sacrifice a promising job as a sales manager and travel to England to take part in a double wicket tournament. Also, with Clive Rice having fallen foul of the Nottinghamshire management after playing in Kerry Packer's World Series, the New Zealand youngster was offered a contract with the county.
Of course, soon the Trent Bridge committee realised their error in dismissing Rice and brought him back. The South African all-rounder became Hadlee's captain, close friend and mentor. Hadlee flourished for the Notts and New Zealand, and whenever his self-doubts raised their ugly heads, Rice was there to help weed away the reservations.
On return to his country after the 1978 summer, Hadlee was courted by Kerry Packer's men to turn out for the World XI against Australia. It pitted him not only in front of a brilliant Aussies, but also face to face with father Wally Hadlee, the president of the New Zealand Cricket Council and the sworn enemy of the Packer circus. However, Hadlee's individuality triumphed, and he played. In 1979, the chasm created by the two years of parallel cricket was healed and peace returned in the Hadlee household as well.
Unprecedented triumphs
Wickets in Test cricket continued to be captured by the bushel. And in 1979-80, Hadlee was instrumental in earning that famous win at Dunedin, which led to the only series defeat of the great West Indian team during their two decade dominance.
The series has been remembered for kicked stumps and shoulder charges made on umpires. However, in the Dunedin triumph Hadlee captured 11 for 102, made a quick 51 in the first innings. When New Zealand fell away to 44 for 6 while chasing 104 to win, he came in at No. 8 and made a crucial 17. The Kiwis squeezed home by a wicket.
In the second Test of the series, he scored his maiden Test century against the four-pronged pace attack. Although the acrimony of the series had led the West Indies players to gift runs for some part of the innings, Hadlee's effort ensured that the lead remained intact and ultimately resulted in the series win. He was still just starting out on the dream phase of his career, but had done enough to be made an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1980.
The success continued. In Australia in 1980-81, he captured 19 more wickets in three Tests. But, by this time such sparks of brilliance had become mundane, a normal day at the office for this great athlete. To summarise his feats one needs to focus on the extraordinary. And plenty of such events did follow one after the other.
In the summer of 1981, Hadlee used a short run for the first time, picked up 105 wickets at 14.89 in the county championships and scored 745 runs to boot. Nottinghamshire won their first trophy since 1929, the days of Harold Larwood and Bill Voce.
As many as 21 wickets came in the four Tests when New Zealand visited England in 1983 and a 75 in the country's first win in the Mother Country at Leeds. And when England visited in 1983-84, there was another epochal win. In just 12 hours across three dark, gloomy, rain soaked days of Christchurch, New Zealand triumphed over David Gower, Allan Lamb, Mike Gatting, Derek Randall, Ian Botham and Bob Willis. The margin was an innings and 132 runs. Hadlee scored 99 from 81 balls before taking 8 for 44 in the match, bowling England out twice for less than 100.
The six spellbinding Tests
The best was however yet to come. Between November 1985 and March 1986, 6 Tests were played between the trans-Tasman neighbours, 3 in each country. The Kiwis won 2-1 in Australia, with Hadlee picking up 33 of the 56 wickets to fall: 15 of them were taken in Brisbane, 7 in Sydney and 11 in Perth.
The first innings at Brisbane contained 9 for 52. The other was scalped by Vaughan Brown, his first Test wicket, and the man who held the excellent catch was again Hadlee. Frank Keating looked at the selflessness rather than the athleticism of the deed to call it the catch of the century.
Appetites whetted by the first ever series win in Australia, New Zealand won the following series at home 1-0. Hadlee captured another 16 wickets. Among them, Border at Wellington was his 300th. In the two series he had accounted for 49 Australian wickets, while at the same time scoring 216 runs at 36.
However, it is what happened between the two series that lends further insights into the personality of the amazing cricketer.
In the wake of the 33 wickets in the 3 Tests in Australia, the decision making pundits awarded him the 'outstanding athlete of the summer' award. Along with it came a shiny Alfa Romeo 90. Hadlee, who had happily shared all prize money now courted controversy by refusing to surrender his Italian vehicle and split the proceeds. He responded to the critics with a fusillade of well-targeted verbal bouncers in a press conference held after the series in New Zealand. Most of the unwanted voices were silenced.
It was revealed during the session that Hadlee had considered withdrawing from the Christchurch Test because of the mental strain caused by the criticism. Indeed, this was not the first time that Hadlee had been subject to psychological stress. In 1983, the constant cricket, his responsibilities in the team, and the commitments of public appearances had affected him strongly. He had been forced to go on a prolonged vacation in Rarotonga. There he had run into Dennis Lillee and they had spoken at length about the pressures of cricket and its peripheral world.
Hadlee was a complex personality during his playing days. He was a perfectionist who could not accept failure, and took every commitment with extreme seriousness. Even when he wrote articles or prepared speeches, he would deal with every little detail with the same degree of attention with which he approached his cricket. There was never any ghost writer allowed to share his burden. Such degrees of commitment implied that criticism cut him to the quick, but most often he dealt with it silently.. With time, his stress would often make mountains of proverbial molehills.
Peter Roebuck once said, "(Hadlee is) one of the most dour cricketers I've ever bleeding seen." He was an individualist in a team game, as is perhaps required to be if one has to carry the team forward with one's own brilliance. He once even admitted that plagued by dilemmas 'at one stage I questioned living'. Cricket was never 'just a game' for him. The simmering feelings were mostly kept under the façade of equanimity, being launched on to the world only through his diabolical deliveries and often through the squatting, almost Buddha like, posture for appeal with the two index fingers theatrically raised. However, once the deed was done and the important finger of the umpire had gone up, he would merely acknowledge the crowd with a waft of the hand. For the most part, his visage would not betray feelings.
Ending on a high
As usual, by the time the England tour of 1986 came along, all the troubles caused by the Alpha Romeo were behind. He took six first innings wickets at Lord's and 10 at Nottingham in the victory that sealed a series win. It was the first time New Zealand had triumphed in England.
The wickets continued to come — 9 against West Indies at Christchurch and 10 against Australia at Melbourne in the Boxing Day match of 1987. The Melbourne Test was heart-wrenching. Having done everything possible to secure a win, Hadlee was thwarted by a defiant Mike Whitney who hung on with Craig McDermott to deny New Zealand the opportunity of squaring the series. When Whitney dug out the last lethal ball from the New Zealand great, Hadlee walked down the pitch and enfolded the batsman in an embrace. An emotionally exhausted crowd cheered lustily when Hadlee was declared the Man of the Match and Series for the umpteenth time.
The elusive wicket would not only have got New Zealand the victory, but would also have taken Hadlee past Botham's 373. And in the first Test against England, he injured himself — necessitating the travel to India and the duels with Vengsarkar and Kapil Dev.
When Australia toured to play a one-off Test in 1990, Hadlee as usual bowled New Zealand to a win with five in the first innings. It was his 100th five-wicket haul in First-Class cricket. Now, at the brink of 39, Hadlee announced that he would retire at the end of the England tour of 1990.
The last series was as eventful as the rest of his career. Hadlee started with 4 wickets in Trent Bridge. Four days after the end of the Test it was announced that he would be knighted for his services to cricket later that year.
The champion all-rounder celebrated the happy tiding by scoring an 84-ball 86 at Lord's, which earned him the Man of the Match award for the final time in his career. He bid adieu with 3 for 97 and 5 for 51 in his last Test at Edgbaston, knocking over Devon Malcolm's stumps with his last delivery in Test cricket. He was named the joint Man of the Series with Michael Atherton.
Staggering figures
Richard Hadlee ended his career with 431 wickets from 86 Tests at an average of 22.29, with 36 five-wicket hauls and 9 ten-fors. With bat, he scored 3,124 runs at 27.16 with 2 hundreds and 15 fifties.
Hadlee confessed that he was not that serious about ODIs. However, his collection of 158 wickets at 21.56 from 115 matches puts him at fourth position in terms of average among bowlers with more than 100 wickets.
From 1978 to 1988, only Imran Khan with 272 wickets at 19.38 boasted a better average in Tests than Hadlee's 330 wickets at 19.57.
In the Kiwi wins, Hadlee's contribution was spellbinding. In 22 won Tests, he captured 173 wickets at 13.06, better than any bowler with 100 or more wickets in victories. He did not perform as well in defeats, but even then captured 94 wickets at 21.71 from those 28 losses. He accounted for 36% of the opposition wickets to fall in all Tests, and almost 41% in the victories.
The 22 wins and 28 losses from Hadlee's 86 Tests need to be put into perspective. Before he had emerged into the Test arena, New Zealand had played 102 Tests, winning just 7 and losing 46. It can be said without semblance of doubt that he took a group of faceless amateur cricketers and transformed them into a world class outfit.
In case one is led to be look askance at his record because of the damp grassy Kiwi pitches encountered today, let me also underline that Hadlee played 43 matches in New Zealand and an equal number elsewhere. On the New Zealand tracks, he picked up 201 at 22.96. In away venues he reaped richer rewards, with 230 scalps at 21.72. On the lifeless wickets of the subcontinent, he captured 68 at 21.58 in 13 Tests.
Hadlee was a phenomenon — one of a kind, and will perhaps never be repeated.
After retirement Hadlee went on to become a member of the cricket media, and later assumed the role the chairman of New Zealand's selectors. Happily, the new cricketing responsibilities do not seem to carry with them the pressures that plagued him during his playing days. The smile touches his face more often and the pensive demeanour is seldom witnessed. It seems that he now looks back at his immense feats with the unfettered satisfaction that he so richly deserves.
Hadlee was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame in 2009.


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20 Striker Lille Switzerland
2014 has been...
A year spoiled. At the end of the summer striker Michael Frey returned to action with BSC Young Boys and quickly found his goalscoring groove in the Swiss Super League, bagging three goals by the middle of August and looking likely to add more whenever the service sent his way carried the vaguest whiff of a threat. By the end of that month he was a Lille player and his introduction to French football has been a disappointing spell.
Frey was born in Münsingen in central Switzerland two days after Roberto Baggio's crucial penalty had sailed over the crossbar in the 1994 World Cup final. He rose through the ranks at Young Boys and made his senior debut in 2012, racking up over 70 league appearances before his departure in the last transfer window.
In terms of potential and physique, Frey is a tempting prospect for Swiss football supporters. He's a tall and robust figure whose stance bears a passing resemblance to Marco Streller, the player to whom Frey might be seen as the heir at national team level, just as an heir is needed. But Switzerland have gone another way and Frey hasn't been able to make the step up from Under-21 level, where he's picked up six caps and scored twice since making his debut last year.
The transfer that took him to France cost LOSC a relatively modest €3m and he seemed a worthwhile gamble as a player to come in and cover the absence of Salomon Kalou and eventually replace Divock Origi, the fellow youngster who's been loaned back to the club after securing a move to Liverpool in the Premier League. Lille are yet to see much of the quality that made Frey worth taking a punt on.
At the start of the season he looked in fine fettle in Switzerland. He was ambitious, trying acrobatic efforts at goal, working the channels breathlessly and looking ever so slightly like the Streller comparison might be relevant in regards to style as well as girth. As a lone striker he shouldered responsibility well, offered a physical presence and gobbled up the dirty work like so much holey cheese.
Just months later, he's struggling to get a foothold at Lille and he's struggling on merit. He's plainly not ready for such a step up, even with Lille out of form and in a problematic spot of their own. A club playing in European competition might even be a stretch for him once he matures, such is the clarity of his forlorn battle against the tide in Ligue 1 action so far.
On paper he's got a lot going for him when things are chugging along well, and, in Switzerland, even when they weren't. The workrate isn't just an attribute, it's an attitude. He shirks nothing and offers a hulking target at all times. Frey can really motor when he gets his speed up, is fairly assured on the ball and links play nicely. At Young Boys he even showed he has a little trick in his locker, the kind that can get him out of trouble when holding the ball up in a tight space. His movement, technique and reactions in the penalty area are good, but none have been displayed with anything approaching regularity in Ligue 1.
At times he's become quiet. He lets other players take the spotlight while he fades out and takes his tidy link game with him. It's a sign of youthfulness and Lille supporters would do well to respect the fact that he is only 20 years of age. Nevertheless, there's no denying he isn't doing the business for them. He's started five league matches, coming on as a substitute six times and scoring just once.
That goal came in his last start on November 1st. Since then Origi and Nolan Roux have taken over striking duties, leaving Frey to feed off a few minutes from the bench most weeks, as well as a place in the starting line-up in Europa League matches. Even in a poorly performing attack, and with Lille 15th in the table and winless in eight Ligue 1 games, he can't pin down a place. Some time out of the firing line this winter will hopefully do him some good.
And so to the elephant dans la chambre. Frey might have had a poor start to life in France but Lille ain't all that without him either. They can't blame Frey for their terrible season to date, nor can they claim to have developed a fertile playing situation in which to nurture his abilities. So, it's worth considering that there are mitigating circumstances beyond the obvious uncertainties of youth and inexperience.
Regardless, Frey's a fighter. He has lumps kicked out of him during physical wars of attrition of his own making. He loves to mix it up, to dish it out, to beat defenders for power and sheer strength of will. Can he apply the same mindset to his own development and role for his club? Over to you, kid.
What's next?
Every year we look ahead to the following one for the players in this list and their challenges are usually quite obvious. Get into the World Cup squad. Make yourself indispensable. Add some goals, some creative impact, some physical strength. Oust the national team incumbent in your position.
For Frey things are a little different. A few players this year have been disastrous and a handful have really shone, but Frey's one change of circumstances seems to have knocked the stuffing out of his game somehow. So, for him, the early part of 2015 needs to be about finding a rhythm, calming the nerves, doing the simple things well and taking his chances. Forget caps, forget everything that's not squarely focused on stitching together some form. Find that Bernese summer groove once more.
Talk will inevitably circulate in January about a loan move and it might be just the thing for him. Perhaps some time in Switzerland would help him find his centre, to settle things down and get Frey ticking over again. Whether he takes some months away from Lille or not, there will come a time in six months when René Girard – assuming he's still there – will need to discuss Lille's Origi-shaped hole with his higher-ups at the Métropole. One way or another that's going to present Frey with his biggest challenge ever, and his response to either being or not being trusted to deliver could define his career.
"Signed at Lille to replace Kalou. He looks broad and strong, but has pace along the ground. Touch and movement needs work if he to make this step up successfully." - Andrew Gibney
"Michael Frey's only league goal so far for Lille came in November's 1-1 draw with St Etienne." - OptaJoe
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My husband and I were sitting in a hotel ballroom at the Sexual Health Expo in Los Angeles, attending a talk by a woman named Jaiya. She was in a flowy dress and was sharing her theory on her "Five Erotic Blueprints" with the audience. We were there because we'd been married forever and were trying to take a fresh look at our sex life, to forget what we thought we knew about ourselves and each other, and to see what new ideas seemed worth exploring.
As Jaiya began to talk about her blueprints, I felt like I could hear a little bit about myself in each one. For instance, there was the "sensual" who needs to feel relaxed before they can feel sexy, and the "kinky" who is turned on by taboo. I thought to myself, sure, I find it helpful to be relaxed and fun to be naughty.
But then she started to talk about the "energetic" and asked for a volunteer from the audience who would like to be kissed. As you can imagine, about half the room (men and women) raised their hands, and one lucky person was selected. What happened next hit me like a ton of bricks.
She brought her volunteer to the front of the room and slowly looked them up and down. She then proceeded to very very slowly move in towards them. She flirted with her eyes and her smile, and breathed more deeply and heavily the closer she got. The tension in the air was absolutely palpable. She got within millimeters of the volunteer's mouth and I'm not entirely sure, but it seemed like they might have had a mini-orgasm. Then she stopped, turned and faced the audience and said "That is what it looks like to be turned on if you are an energetic."
Holy moly. There was no doubt in my mind that right then and there, I had found my erotic blueprint. According to her, the energetic is highly turned on by "the space in between", by anticipation, by tension, by eye-gazing, by stillness, by tease. If things move too fast, they can't keep track of it all and the erotic energy goes "poof".
My mind was suddenly racing, reviewing all of my fantasies. Guy across the bar? Eye-gazing… check. Sexting? Anticipation… check. Making out before dinner but not finishing until after? Tease… check. It made so much sense, that I suddenly felt like I had found the map to a buried treasure I hadn't even realized was there all along.
It's been a couple years since that workshop and I'm ridiculously happy to confess that I'm a sexual tension junkie. It's counter to every cultural message I received growing up that I shouldn't be a tease, that sex should be more about my partner's pleasure than mine, that I shouldn't want to be objectified. But you know what? I like being a tease, I love pleasure and I want to be objectified.
So what does that mean concretely for our sex life? Well, sex for us used to look like heading to the bedroom after putting our kid to bed, taking off our clothes, getting under the covers and getting straight to it. I mean, come on, we were married, we knew the drill. And it worked. It was good. But it wasn't as hot as it could be.
Thanks to learning about things like my erotic blueprint, sex looks different now. My husband knows that if he sexts me during the day about what he'd like to do together that night, he'll light my pilot light. And I know, if I give him a look across the dinner table, I'll turn up the flame on that pilot light. And when we get to the bedroom, we don't take off our clothes. Because making out with our clothes on builds tension which turns me on like crazy. And edging. Omg edging.
So if you are reading this and getting overly aroused, or wondering if your partner might be an "energetic"… think about your next kiss. What if instead of leaning in quickly, you took a moment to look at your partner with eyes that say "I want you"? What if you slowly approached them and wrapped your hand around the small of their back, but kept your face a few inches away from theirs? What if you ever so slowly approached their lips… but then paused… right at that moment… when there was barely any space left… between your mouth and theirs? Sigh. Melt.
New to this blog and want to start at the beginning? Check out this post about why I started a blog about sex.
This blog reflects my real-life experiences. I'd love to hear about your experiences, so let's continue the conversation in the comments section below.
You can also check out these resources or email me at email@example.com if you are interested in classes or coaching to explore your own sexuality. I am a sex and relationship coach and if I can't personally help you, I'd be very happy to connect you with other wonderful sex educators, coaches and therapists.
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England Troutmasters reports for week-ending April 29th, 2016
Blackdyke Trout Fishery, Norfolk
Buzzer and dry fly fishing has been at its best this week. Even on the colder rougher days fish were still eager to take a dry off the top. Degreasing the tippet did help on brighter days. Several anglers caught into double figures this week and several larger fish were returned and entered into the Troutmasters competition.
Chatton Trout Fishery, Northumberland
It has been another very busy week with lots of good catches, despite the cold weather conditions. Buzzers, nymphs, Diawl Bachs, Bloodworms, black and green lures and white lures have been working well. Two double-figure fish were caught this week. Matty Divine from Hadston caught a 12lb 14oz brown trout from Chatton Lake which he commented "was the best quality brown trout he had ever caught". Matty returned a further 17 fish which he said had been in the lakes a long time and were like bars of silver with lots of fish over 5lb. The second double, a 10lb rainbow, was caught by Billy Harland from Blyth on Dunnydeeer Lake. His successful fly was a Yellow Dancer. Ian Gillie from North Shields caught a 7lb 6oz rainbow from Chatton Lake on a Yellow Dancer. Tanfield School, Stanley pupil Reece Dixon caught a 3lb 8oz rainbow and Josh Finley a 2lb rainbow. All the pupils had a fun and informative day, with thanks to GAIA instructor Barry Mitchell for all his help. The fishery is closing at 8.30pm this week and 9pm on Friday and Saturday evening (10pm when the evenings are lighter).
Elinor Trout Fishery, Northamptonshire
For the week April 18 – 24 the 183 anglers caught 818 fish of which 585 were returned. Best fish was 13lb 4oz by Ken Grigg, from Kettering, on a Black Buzzer. Other good weights were 8lb 6oz for Andy Burgess, Cambridge, on a Black Buzzer from the boat; 8lb 1oz for Mike Bownes, Wilsthorpe, on a GRHE; 7lb 9oz to Chris Redhead, Whittlesy, on a Black Buzzer from the boat; 7lb 8oz for Mike Bownes, Wilsthorpe, on a Damsel; 7lb to John Stokes, Nottingham, on a Red-head Damsel; 6lb 8oz for Mike Creamer, Oakley; 6lb 2oz to Dennis Shannon, Wellingborough, on a Yellow Dancer; 6lb for Andy Hake, Leighton Buzzard, on a Black Buzzer from the boat; and 6lb for Paul Mortimer, Thrapston, on a Black Buzzer. All bank areas are producing fish while the top boat areas at the west arm, east arm, and gravel bar. Best patterns are Black or Olive Buzzer, Damsel, Cruncher, white/green lures, FABs and Blobs. Despite the cold northerly winds there was a good buzzer hatch with plenty of birds working the water. The fish continue to feed three to six foot down on mainly small, black or olive midge pupae. Best method has been a Blob or FAB on the point with size 12 Buzzers on the dropper fished static or very slowly.
The Tommy Wood Memorial Buzzer Match will take place on Sunday May 15, a roving bank competition open to everyone. Floating line and buzzer imitations only may be used. Fishing is 9am - 4pm, free entry, and all proceeds from the raffle go to Sue Ryder, Peterborough.
Eyebrook Trout Fishery, Leicestershire
Representing the English Disabled Fly Fishers Association, Trevor Ashby of Wing and Richard Spicer of Botcheston enjoyed a day afloat recently and caught and released 30 rainbows mostly taken on Black Buzzers. Mike McHugh and Eric Glaister of Carlisle spent three days at the fishery during the past week and both enjoyed fabulous sport to the Buzzer. Arthur Cullingworth of Sandy, Gordon Price and Andy Gallacher of Leicester all enjoyed some terrific sport while boat-fishing using Buzzer patterns. Dennis Dickens of Bestwood and Norman Blake of Ilkeston boat-fished in Sam's Dyke and caught many hard-fighting rainbows on a combination of GRHE nymphs and Black Buzzers. Tim Miller of Burgh le Marsh was taken right down to his backing line by a superb 3lb 12oz rainbow caught on a Black Buzzer. Gordon Wood of Coalville enjoyed his day boat fishing at anchor in Sam's Dyke and caught many hard-fighting rainbows on a floating line with Diawl Bachs and Black Buzzers. Gerry and Richard Horner of Sidcup spent the entire week at Eyebrook and encountered many hard-fighting rainbows, the majority taken on Black Buzzers, Richard caught the heaviest fish of the visit, a brown trout of 4lb 8oz which was carefully returned. Colwick Fly Fishers enjoyed their visit and on his debut new club member Bill Richardson caught a bag limit on Buzzers and Diawl Bachs. Members of Foremark Fly Fishers also enjoyed their club outing to Eyebrook with several anglers taking their limit bags.
Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire
The North shore continues to make a great contribution to some excellent fishing at Grafham Water with both boat and bank anglers enjoying considerable success in this area. The rod average for the week is 7.15. Bank anglers have had the most consistent results along North shore areas such as Hill Farm, Pig Bay, Deep Water Point, G Buoy, Marlow Stones and the north end of the dam. The best method for bank anglers has been to fish floating lines with Black or Olive Buzzers, GRHE, Damsel Nymphs and large black and green lures. Boat anglers have also had a great week's sport in the north shore area. The most productive boat areas have been Sanctuary Bay, Stumps, Hill Farm, Pig Bay, Deep Water Point, G Buoy, Willows, north dam and the Seat on the south shore. Floating lines with Buzzers, Crunchers and Diawl Bachs or fast sink lines with Tequila Blobs, Pitsford Pea, Black and Green Boobies, Damsel Nymphs and Snakes are the best methods.
The Bob Church Open on April 17 saw 24 anglers catch 257 trout for an excellent rod average of 10.7. Tim Joyce was top rod with 12 trout for a combined time bonus and weight of 36lb 11oz. He also caught the biggest fish of the competition, a cracking overwintered rainbow of 4lb 15oz. Tim used Black Buzzers on a floating line at Hill Farm. Second was Mark Rooney with 12 fish for 34lb 14oz and third Mr Bayliss with 12 fish for 34lb.
Eight anglers took part in GWFFA's first bank match of the season, catching 55 trout for an excellent rod average of 6.87. Martin Brocklebank was top rod on the day catching seven trout for 17lb 3oz. David Spall took the best fish, a 3lb 4oz brown, and also second spot with eight fish for 16lb 13oz.
As part of the forthcoming Grafham Water 50th anniversary events there will be a boat pairs match on Sunday July 3. This friendly competition is to be fished to relaxed international rules (no anchoring or back drifting, any size fly is acceptable) with an eight fish limit plus time bonus (2lb per hour).
Packington Trout Fishery, Warwickshire
Last week 101 rods caught 408 fish for an average of 4.04. Another good week despite the lower than average temperatures and cool winds. There are still lots of fish moving all day on Cocks Close and in the evenings on Park Meadow with buzzers and olives hatching. The biggest fish was a 10lb rainbow caught and released by Mark Smith of Rowley Regis. He was fishing from a boat on Cocks Close and caught four fish on Buzzer and CdC Emergers. Harold Pritchett of Atherstone caught a 9lb rainbow from a boat on Cocks Close using a Diawl Bach on a floating line. Jonathan Preston of Solihull fished the bank on Cocks Close and caught eight fish to 8lb using GRHE and CdC Emergers on a floating line. John Riley of Atherstone fished catch and release from a boat on Cocks Close and caught seven fish to 4lb using tiny CdC Emergers fished on the top. Brian Clark of Nuneaton fished from a boat on Park Meadow and caught a fish estimated between 7 and 8lb. This was safely returned along with seven other fish which were tempted by a Black Buzzer fished on a floating line. A lot of fish are falling to small imitative patterns on a floating line with Diawl Bach, Black or Olive Buzzer, CdC Emergers, Shipman's Buzzer and GRHE the successful flies at the moment. The fish are well spread around the pools but the road bank and high bank are the hotspots on Cocks Close. Double-figure browns were stocked this week along with rainbows to 10lb.
Pitsford Water, Northamptonshire
A variable week with seemingly no end to the changeable weather. On Saturday three-year-old Haiden Stuart made his first ever fishing trip with his father James and played and landed two lovely browns and a rainbow. Last Tuesday during bright, sunny conditions the fish were moving all along Duffers and around G Buoy. Boat angler Brian Coleman took three good 2lb-plus trout to the boat including a nice brownie. Terry Mitchell and Mick Foster took to the rudder and reported catching well in the morning, but the afternoon got quiet as the wind got up. On Wednesday Bob Aves and John Castledine had great sport on an afternoon boat, fishing in the Small Half. On Friday bank anglers were catching well from Duffers to the Gorse Bank on Black Buzzers about a foot down or used lures on sinking lines. Stuart Pittendrigh had nine fish, Doug Whibley had six, Terry Pancoust had three and David Anderson took 15. On Sunday Trevor Hall had a cracking morning despite the cold, northerly wind and had nine fish to the boat. Gavin Layton also bagged up.
The England Fly Fishers kicked off their season with their Spring match with 26 members and guests recording a rod average of 6.7. Most of the boats drifted on a gentle northerly breeze through the small half. The fishing is usually good, but this year it was exceptional. The preferred method was midge-tip and Buzzers fished very slowly just off the bottom. After a break for lunch, the fish seemed higher in the water and floating lines were successful. Several fish weighed 3lb plus with the best weighing 3lb 8oz falling to John Gamon. Club chairman Peter Hartley won the match with eight fish for 17lb 8oz, John Gamon took second with eight fish for 17lb 4oz and third was Stephen Otteridge with eight fish for 16lb 14oz.
Press Manor Fishing Lakes, Derbyshire
A few anglers braved the cold and northerly wind with intermittent snow. Fish are still caught mainly on a sinking line with Damsel Nymphs being the best flies. Given milder weather is on its way Black and Green Buzzers twitched back, with dries in the evening will be the best tactics. Local angler Steve Marbles caught his bag while fishing late on, twitching a Shipman's Buzzer under the surface. Rainbows were hitting the Buzzer almost every cast. Mark Poole from Cresswell won the pegged Troutmasters fish-off match on the North Bank and Dam. He caught 12 fish mainly on Buzzers on a mixture of tactics, fishing Buzzers under an indicator, and three Buzzers straight-lined. Second was Brian Simmonds with 10 fish, seven of them coming in the morning session using an indicator with Buzzers underneath. Third was Mark Seery from Hucknall with six fish on a mixture of dries and lures.
Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Northamptonshire
A busy week with fantastic sport on the Buzzer from both boat and bank. This week's rod average is 8.5.
Fish are being taken in the lower levels of the water on floating lines, long leader or sink-tip lines and intermediates. Nymph patterns proving best. Best boat areas are Coton End and Domes, best bank areas the dam and most platforms. The best fish of the week was a 12lb rainbow taken on a Buzzer by Mr Kyte. Some boat anglers are reporting catch figures of 30 or more fish. Charlie Watts took 30 to the boat. David Brady took 19 fish all with straight-line Buzzer tactics. The Lockie Party, a group of six anglers on a holiday package, had a fantastic day on Friday fishing buzzer and lures. The group took 213 fish between them for a rod average of 35.5 per anglers. The Troutmasters fish-off on Saturday April 23 was won by Anthony Lorrimer. The East Midlands Trout Fishers Association Pairs match fished on April 24 saw 21 anglers record a rod average of 7.5. First were Dave Davis and John Sears with 23 fish, second Bob and Roger with 22 fish and third Chris McCloud and Bob Aves with 21 fish.
Rutland Water, Rutland
Rutland has again been in fantastic form with many limits and fish recorded from various areas of the reservoir. The best methods have been floating or midge-tip lines with teams of Black and Olive Buzzers. Fly hatches have been tremendous throughout the week, though weather conditions have been far from ideal with cold winds bringing in frosts on some mornings. Adam Thomas, Simon Burton and Scott Barnard from Essex had a great four days' sport with 66 fish caught, along with 30 more released. A good majority of fish were rainbows between 2lb 4oz and 4lb with six browns also taken. John Latimer enjoyed three days of excellent fishing and returned a brown estimated at around 7lb, while boat fishing off the Old Hall. French anglers Patrick Fonchaot and Jean-Louis Resioveiy enjoyed some excellent sport with around 40 quality fish, including nine rainbows over 3lb, six over 4lb and six browns, three of which were over 3lb.
The best boat areas have been Old Hall Bay and Yellowstones, for mainly stock fish. Elsewhere individual boats found grown-on and overwintered fish further down the South Arm, Barnsdale and Dickensons Bay and Cardiac Hill. Bank fishing eased off in the Main Basin, Normanton and Sykes Lane. But Whitwell Creek and certain parts of the Peninsula saw anglers coming across numbers of fish including many overwintered ones with rainbows and browns to 4lb-plus.
The Tuesday Night Boat League starts on May 10, registration from 5pm for a 6pm start. For more information please contact the fishing lodge.
Last Thursday the English Police Fly Fishing Association held their match and the 44 anglers caught 362 fish with a rod average of 8.22 based on a four-fish limit and an eight fish catch and release competition.
The Association of Major Clubs, Groups 1,2 and 3, fished on Saturday with a very cold start to the day. However, many stock fish were recorded. Group 1 winners were Rutland Water Fly Fishers; Group 2 Invicta A and Group 3 Soldier Palmers. The three matches accounted for 323 fish. The biggest fish was a 4lb 11oz brown taken by Ian Whiteside of the Greylags.
Thornwood Springs Trout Fishery, Essex
A very changeable week as regards the weather with four seasons in a day most days! On lake one lures, Buzzers, nymphs and dries have all had their moments with fish to 5lb, both rainbows and browns, reported. The end of the week saw the browns feeding harder than the rainbows. On lake two Snakes deep down still scoring with fish to 9lb recorded, but most sport on here is to Black or Brown Buzzers and emergers with fish rising as soon as the sun is covered by the next cloud. Lake three saw black nymphs tempt fish to over 10lb with a few bigger fish seen and lost.
Toft Newton Trout Fishery, Lincolnshire
For the week-ending April 23 the 93 rods caught 279 trout for a rod average of exactly three. A mixed bag this week with changeable weather from temperatures in the mid teens and warm days through to much cooler north-easterly winds and a distinct chill in the air. The result is that anglers have just had to work a little harder for their fish this week. Toft is still producing plenty of good quality overwintered fish, especially to those prepared to fish nymphs and dries. A little olive emerger pattern has been doing well. Best rainbow this week at 10lb was taken by Lawrence Chapman, while Martin Rowson had a fish of at least 7lb from a boat during a day out with Pete Cowan. There now seems to be a better spread of fish and both boat and bank anglers are enjoying success. This week should see the usual methods scoring, with size 12 Diawl Bachs, dries and Orange or Cat's Whisker-type lures all worth a try.
West House Trout Lakes, Cleveland
The better weather has certainly improved the fishing. There has been lots of surface activity in the warmer weather with anglers catching on dry patterns or Buzzers fished in the top 12 inches. Some very good hatches of pond olives with dry flies such as Greenwell's Glory imitating the hatches and producing good results. Local angler Guy Robertshaw landed 10 fish during a morning session, most of his fish falling to Olive Buzzers and dries. Peter Wilson of Bishop Auckland landed 14 fish, his best 6lb, using a selection of Buzzers. Michael Landy of Thirsk used the Apps' Bloodworm fished in the margins to take a total of 18 fish including a brown of 4lb. The lakes are now open from 8am until 7pm every day. Come and fish on Saturday mornings – free bacon rolls for every angler.
Witton Castle Lakes, Co Durham
The drop in temperatures certainly made the going hard this week. The 63 visiting anglers returned a rod average of just over three fish. In a tricky week no one managed the limit but three anglers did take bags of 13 fish, they were N. Horner, R. Hopper and C. Curry. Other double-figure bags were returned by A. Edwards and J. Campbell who both had 10 fish each. A. Edwards caught and returned the best fish of the week with a hard-fighting 8lb rainbow. With the fish going down due to the cold temperatures, Buzzers were by far the most successful of the flies this week. Some anglers also had limited success with CdCs and Zonkers. On Saturday Witton Castle Lakes held this year's Troutmasters fish-off with Blythe Palmer taking the win, weighing in with a three-fish bag of 6lb 12oz and an early weigh-in bonus of 5lb.


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Yet another opportunity for you to test your mad garment ID skillz has presented itself. I was intending, a few weeks ago, to photograph a page from one of my mother's magazines. I forgot to do this before leaving MN, but I found a replacement. Without further ado:
1. What is wrong with this?
2. Is the concept alluded to above really that difficult to understand?
Answers in the comments!
11 February 2008
2 comments:
- bdraeger said...
1. NOT A VEST. I understand this time around, you aren't actually instructed to make sleeves. Just really wide, droopy armbands. But look at the way it hangs. IT'S NOT A VEST.
2. No.
0 correct = Um, wow. (Turns head and grimaces.)
1 correct = If you answered #1 correctly, then perhaps we have a difference of opinion. If you answered only #2 correctly, enroll in remedial courses immediately.
2 correct = Congratulations! You've attained a completely reasonable and to-be-expected level of common sense. Thank God.
- 11 February, 2008 13:56
- Ondrea said...
Huzzah! I have common sense (at least I do tonight).
- 13 February, 2008 20:05
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Eric Jaffe
Eric Jaffe is the former New York bureau chief for CityLab. He is the author of A Curious Madness and The King's Best Highway.
Over the past couple years the Capital Region Transportation Planning Board has hosted a series of public forums in metro Washington, D.C. (two in Virginia, two in Maryland, one in the District) to gauge local support for congestion strategies. A couple weeks ago, the board released its general conclusions [PDF]. As you might expect, pretty much everyone in the Beltway area considers traffic a major problem. When it comes to potential solutions, however, they're far less unified or convinced.
At each forum, attendees learned the extent of the region's congestion trouble and got a primer on three options for reducing it. The first idea was highway pricing: interstate toll lanes whose revenue would go toward better bus service in the corridor. The second was mileage pricing: a per-mile fee that could reduce traffic by charging more on the most congested roads. The third was standard congestion pricing: paying a fee to enter a high-traffic zone.
Option 1, highway pricing, got the most support. People liked that it was optional — you could still drive in non-toll lanes if you wanted — though they had some equity concerns. Option 2, a mileage system, got the least support, on account of seeming invasive and complicated. ("The phrase 'big brother' was repeated frequently," according to the board.) Option 3, congestion pricing, got considerable support, but many people remained doubtful it would actually work.
With or without knowing it, metro D.C. residents more or less echoed the standard reactions to these various proposals. The impact of H.O.T. lanes on low-income workers has long been a concern. Privacy issues are holding back V.M.T. programs in a general sense. Meanwhile congestion pricing has never made it in the United States — despite being the best hope for reducing traffic in the eyes of many experts — in part because people aren't convinced it makes a difference.
The funny thing about opposition to pricing programs is how quickly it dissolves in the face of success. In Stockholm, home to the world's most successful pricing zone, public opinion shifted from 70 percent opposed to 70 percent in favor in just a few years. Not only did people begin to love the program, they forget they were the same people who used to hate it.
What the Washington forums showed was that some of this initial doubt can be addressed through public education. When forum participants were asked how receptive they were to congestion programs, before the start of each session, only 39 percent thought they were reasonable ways to resolve the traffic problem. By the end of the session, however, that figure had jumped to nearly half. (Having said that, opposition also rose a bit from beginning to end.)
Transportation scholars are beginning to understand just how important public awareness is when it comes to congestion programs. A recent analysis of successful and unsuccessful pricing referenda around the world underscores this point. Uncertainty about the effectiveness of congestion pricing and a lack of information on the strategy were the two main reasons the public rejected losing ballots.
For that reason, the researchers who conducted this analysis (published in an upcoming issue of Transport Policy) recommend a two-step approach to gaining public support. First, present traffic forecasting models that explain the impact of congestion charges, and make them widely known. Second, implement a trial before the decision and give the public regular reports on its progress — especially signs of improved travel time.
Telling people traffic can decrease is one thing. Showing them is much, much better.
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Blanchette: Skole just happy to be playing ball
Thu., Aug. 23, 2012
Baseball's transaction wire has sent the Spokane Indians a familiar face, reassigned from the Blessing-in-Disguise League.
And it looks as if Jake Skole is ready to make the most of his restart.
In his first appearance after a 50-game suspension for use of a banned substance, the one-time No. 1 draft pick of the Texas Rangers was back in the Spokane uniform he wore in 2010 – and after some reflection, conceded it's probably just where he needs to be.
"Just to get the opportunity to come back and play is the biggest thing," said Skole. "I'm just trying to make a positive out of what was a bad mistake."
The positives were obvious Wednesday night, when Skole reached base all four times he came to the plate, including three hits. But that was exactly half of Spokane's offensive output in a 3-0 blanking at the hands of Salem-Keizer that spoiled a marvelous start from Indians righthander C.J. Edwards.
Skole, the 15th overall pick in the 2010 draft, was Spokane's regular center fielder on the team that reached the 2010 championship series. He put together a solid sophomore season at Class A Hickory last year, but struggled mightily this spring one step up the ladder at Myrtle Beach – then tested positive for a performance-enhancing amphetamine to run afoul of baseball's drug policy.
So he retreated to the Rangers' complex in the Dominican Republic to work with the organization's instructors, and later to the Winning Inning academy in Florida. If there was rust, it hardly showed against the Volcanoes.
"What a great night to get three hits right off the bat and steal a base," said manager Tim Hulett. "That's not easy to do, believe me."
Skole was grateful for success, but also just for the chance.
"It's eye-opening to get something taken away from you that you love," said the 20-year-old Georgian. "It's hard to take at first, but then you realize you can't change it and try and move forward and learn from what happened."
Skole continued to play at Myrtle Beach while he appealed the results of his initial positive test, and there was speculation that the process exacerbated his problems at the plate. When the suspension was invoked on June 29, he was hitting just .185, with a single hit in his last 37 at bats.
"You feel sometimes that the only thing that can help a struggling season is home runs and doubles," he said, "and the result of trying to hit those is usually not very good. I was in my own head a lot.
"In that respect, I think the suspension was good for me to get away from the game a little bit and work with our coordinators to straighten some things out."
But for all Skole's success Wednesday night, it didn't generate any momentum against S-K starter Joe Biagini, whose ability to pitch to the corners kept the Indians off-balance all night. Only three Spokane runners reached scoring position.
And still Edwards (1-3) was the game's most impressive hurler. Just a 48th-round draft choice a year ago and a professional rookie, the 20-year-old righthander struck out the side to open the game, fanned nine in six innings and allowed just two hits.
The first was an infield single. The second, a quick shot off the bat of Chuckie Jones, went for a double down the third-base line and scored Rafael Rodriguez, who had reached on an error and moved around on a stolen base and another error. Hulett gave home plate umpire Louis Williams an earful about calling the ball fair.
A two-run homer by Mac Williamson in the ninth off reliever Joe Burns accounted for S-K's other runs.
Nonetheless, it was a glittering outing in a sensational season for Edwards. Between Spokane and the Rangers' Arizona League team, he has 1.60 earned run average in 62 innings, and batters are hitting just .151 against him.
"I'm happy with what I've accomplished," he said, "but I have a lot more to do."
Skole understands the feeling, with a short time to make up for a lost season.
"I was disappointed at first – I wanted to be sent back with my guys in Myrtle Beach that I'd been playing with," he said. "But thinking about it, it's a great atmosphere and a good situation with Tim and our staff. I'm very pleased, really, and very happy to be back."
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Well I did it! just posted day 31 - athough I have to say I don't think I could carry on for another month. The days just after Christmas were the greatest challenge as I could only upload via my iPhone which I found very frustrating.
The weather has been pretty rubbish here heavy rain and gales so it was a bit tempting to keep photographing the Christmas decorations and lights!
though I did come across this little tableaux in the garden which I think of as 'essence of oak'
This stick on the dots calendar seems to embody a combination of simplicity and style
Just as this Michelin Man I spotted on a vintage truck at the Christmas Market embodies a simpler bygone age.
Back to the Christmas tree lights, before going outside again to see the leaves under the rose bush
This Buddha was the only picture where I "arranged a set"
The following day I was struck by the light on this hand blown glass ball hanging up in the window and I took a series of photos during the day with the different light and looking in slightly different directions, I chose the simplest to post in the Flickr group
But thought you might be interested in seeing some of the others
This one I prepared earlier and sent to my phone so that I could post it on Christmas Day
And this was our Boxing Day walk in the woods
I thought our Norwegian Christmas Cake met the criteria because of its simple shape and simple ingredients; almonds, egg white and icing sugar.
Almost there now, next up was some brollies in Brighton although I don't seem to be able to access the picture I actually posted so this is a similar one
An almost abstract steamy window - followed by party dresses on a street stall
And finally this is it! Todays post for 31st December 2013 (with a few added words) huge thanks to Kim Manley Ort for setting this challenge and a very happy 2014 to you all - take care and see you next year.