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Thursday, 8 September 2016
Hurray to End of the Road!
Jehnny Beth
I'm just back from the
End of the Road
festival and loved all the female energy and power! My absolute highlights were:
Shopping –
Wind up
Goat –
Run to your mama
Savages –
Can't wait till next year!
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Tuesday, 30 August 2016
God rhymes with…
I've just been on a weekend residential course with the fantastic '
Raised by Feminists
' project. During one of the sessions, I tried my hand at modern calligraphy – led by
Fiona Mitchell
– and really enjoyed making big swirly words with a feminist message.
I particularly liked the following quote by Emmeline Pankhurst as she deliberately plays with pronouns: 'Trust in God – she will provide'. But after a few hours of focussing on producing elaborate letters, my spelling skills slipped… So in my world, God doesn't 'provide' but 'prod'.
But maybe that's what she should be doing anyway – prod patriarchy. We could do with a little help to finally put it in its place!
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Monday, 4 July 2016
Hold your tongue
Lots of preconceptions exist about the way women and men use language. Many speakers, for example, believe that women are more polite than men, or that men speak more confidently than women. In Chapter 8 of
Women Talk More Than Men: …And Other Myths about Language Explained
, Abby Kaplan debunks these notions.
First of all, Kaplan shows that speakers' ideas about language use depend on context. In the U.S., for example, women's speech is considered 'indirect and polite' and men's 'direct and blunt', whereas in Madagascar 'it's men who … act appropriately and maintain good social relationships' and [w]omen [who] … display anger and behave in other socially inappropriate ways' (160-1). Speech is therefore linked to social norms not biology.
This is confirmed by Kaplan's analysis of related empirical research; in line with Western social expectations studies show that 'men engaged in more task-oriented behavior' and 'women engaged in more social-emotional behavior' (167). In short, women use language more cooperatively. However, in contrast to the popular belief that women talk more overall, research finds that it is men who 'took significantly longer turns than women' (171). It is bias which flags up (any) female speech and masks male monologues as 'normal'.
Kaplan provides a fascinating and accessible insight into sex/gender and speech research. I really recommend the chapter, 'Women talk more than men', as both an entry point to the field and a useful overview of related empirical studies. It also includes prompts for further reflection and an in-depth bibliography – making it a valuable resource for students and scholars. To get a copy see the ISBN etc. below!
Women Talk More Than Men: …And Other Myths about Language Explained
Author: Abby Kaplan
Publication Date: 21st April 2016
ISBN: 9781107446908 (paperback) - £15.99/US$24.99
ISBN: 9781107084926 (hardback) - £59.99/US$94.99
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Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Sex or gender? (Part 2)
After I neatly separated the two terms in my last post ('
Sex or gender?
'), I have been doing some more reading. And the more I read the less straightforward my separation seems to be!
For example, as Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet argue in
Language and Gender
, 'there is no obvious point at which sex leaves off and gender begins, partly because there is no single objective biological criterion for male or female sex' (10). The authors elaborate as follows, 'the selection among ... criteria for sex assignment is based very much on cultural beliefs about what actually makes someone male or female' (10). Consequently, our understanding of 'sex' seems to be shaped by culture as well as biology.
Eckert and McConnell-Ginet's thinking is based on Judith Butler's inquiry into sex/gender in
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
. Butler questions the understanding of 'sex' in purely biological terms, '[a]re the ostensibly natural facts of sex discursively produced by various scientific discourses in the service of other political and social interests?' (9), she asks. In fact, Butler believes that 'gender' might to some extent create 'sex'. She states, 'gender is also the discursive/cultural means by which "sexed nature" or "a natural sex" is produced and established as "prediscursive," prior to culture' (10). 'Sex' then is far from a mere biological category; culture seems to produce bodies as much as behaviours.
So should we use 'gender' inclusively, that is, to refer to both 'sex' and 'gender'?
I am not so sure. For one, the issue of confusion remains: does a speaker intend to refer to 'sex' or 'gender', or both? Does the listener understand this reference? Secondly, inclusive usage might again conflate 'culture' and 'biology' – which is exactly what thinkers have been trying to move away from through the separation of terms and concepts.
In effect, neither 'sex' nor 'gender' alone seem adequate for our purposes. So could a compound like 'sex/gender' resolve the issue? It does seem a little complicated, especially in conjunction with 'language', i.e. 'sex/gender and language'. On the other hand, it certainly highlights the terms' interrelation. What do you think?
Eckert, Penelope, and Sally McConnell-Ginet.
Language and Gender
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Butler, Judith.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
. 1990. New York: London: Routledge, 2007.
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Tuesday, 5 April 2016
Sex or gender?
This month a big plug for some fantastic feminist scholarship –
Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work
by Gillian Thomas. I have included a summary below but want to focus a bit more on the title which particularly resonates with my own research.
As you can see from my posts' most frequent tags, 'gender', 'language', 'women', I generally do not refer to 'sex'. Moreover, the wider field I am interested in is predominantly called 'gender and language'. And this use of 'gender' rather than 'sex' has troubled me more and more in recent years – which is why I love Thomas' title:
Because of Sex
Effectively it is 'sex', defined as '[e]ither of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans … are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions' (
) which is the root cause for discrimination. And while 'gender', '[t]he state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones)' (
), also results in bias, it is biology which is abused to justify favouritism and unequal treatment. Bluntly, it is male genitals which are considered the
source of strength and dominance, while women's reproductive organs are associated with the exact opposite, i.e. weakness and passivity.
So considering that sexism is based on 'sex', should linguistic sexism not be referred as such? That is, should the field of 'gender and language' not be more accurately called 'sex and language'? Some might counter that grammatical gender, in particular, has nothing to do with biology. But as empirical studies continue to show, speakers tend to think otherwise: they frequently interpret both as one and the same. (See, for example,
Alan Garnham et al.
's study 'Gender Representation in Different Languages and Grammatical Marking on Pronouns: When Beauticians, Musicians, and Mechanics Remain Men'.)
It is
Because of Sex
that women are discriminated against in the workplace, and it is also
Because of Sex
that men are favoured in language. Maybe it's time to follow Thomas' lead (myself included!) and make that clear.
The below summary of
Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work
has been copied from the
Macmillan Publishers
website. You can access an excerpt from the book here:
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'Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America's working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate "because of sex." But that simple phrase didn't mean much until ordinary women began using the law to get justice on the job—and some took their fights all the way to the Supreme Court. Among them were Ida Phillips, denied an assembly line job because she had a preschool-age child; Kim Rawlinson, who fought to become a prison guard—a "man's job"; Mechelle Vinson, who brought a lawsuit for sexual abuse before "sexual harassment" even had a name; Ann Hopkins, denied partnership at a Big Eight accounting firm because the men in charge thought she needed "a course at charm school"; and most recently, Peggy Young, UPS truck driver, forced to take an unpaid leave while pregnant because she asked for a temporary reprieve from heavy lifting.
These unsung heroines' victories, and those of the other women profiled in Gillian Thomas'
Because of Sex
, dismantled a "Mad Men" world where women could only hope to play supporting roles; where sexual harassment was "just the way things are"; and where pregnancy meant getting a pink slip.
Through first-person accounts and vivid narrative,
Because of Sex
tells the story of how one law, our highest court, and a few tenacious women changed the American workplace forever.'
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Sunday, 28 February 2016
Grow a pair?
Okay, so first of all, what use is either type of 'ball', e.g. 'football' or 'testicle', when pursuing a claim or needing legal representation? Would a judge be swayed by a quick kickabout or display of balls? You'd hope not. And while the first scenario might be fun to imagine, genitalia, for so many reasons, have no place in a court of law.
But then the wordplay is of course all about communicating the attributes associated with 'balls'. 'To have balls' is linked to '
courage', so 'representation with balls' is meant to have positive connotations.
However, 'having balls' is not always a good thing. 'To have someone by the balls', for example, means to '[h]
ave complete control over someone or something
' (
). And a 'balls-up' is '[a] bungled or badly carried out task or action; a mess' (
So maybe this whole balls-business is not such a good thing to evoke after all? And if it has to be a reference to reproductive organs, why not pick ovaries instead? Unlike balls, they can't be kicked.
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Friday, 15 January 2016
Recent studies in gender and language
Below are links to recent studies in gender and language for those of you interested in an empirical perspective on the issue. The articles are open-access and can be read online or downloaded as a PDF.
Does gender-fair language pay off? The social perception of professions from a cross-linguistic perspective
Lisa K. Horvath, Elisa F. Merkel, Anne Maass and Sabine Sczesny
Warm-hearted businessmen, competitive housewives? Effects of gender-fair language on adolescents' perceptions of occupations
Dries Vervecken, Pascal M. Gygax, Ute Gabriel, Matthias Guillod and Bettina Hannover
Capturing socially motivated linguistic change: how the use of gender-fair language affects support for social initiatives in Austria and Poland
Magdalena M. Formanowicz, Aleksandra Cisłak, Lisa K. Horvath and Sabine Sczesny
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Ronald Britton, "Between Mind and Brain: Models of the Mind and Models in the Mind"
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This book begins with an exploration of the relationship between mind and brain. It then examines various psychoanalytic models of the mind and moves to the task of the analyst to discover the unconscious models that shape his or her patients' picture of him/herself and others.
The familiar models are mainly drawn from psychoanalytic practice but are supplemented from myths, religion, and literature. Developments in adjacent scientific fields such as quantum biology and new ideas about evolution are discussed that suggest cellular genetic modification can take place as a consequence of interaction with the outside world. This gives hope perhaps to the idea that not only the mind can learn from experience but also the brain.
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The police officer accused of killing Ian Tomlinson was "making an example of him" when he struck him with a baton and pushed him to the ground, a court heard today.
Southwark Crown Court was read a statement from American businessman Christopher La Jaunie, who filmed Pc Simon Harwood hitting the 47-year-old.
Mr Tomlinson died on the fringes of the G20 protests in the City of London in April 2009.
He was facing away from a line of police officers when he was hit, and walked 70 metres before he collapsed and later died.
Prosecutor Mark Dennis QC read Mr La Jaunie's statement, which said: "Mr Tomlinson was not posing any threat to the officers prior to this, or aggravating them.
"I had the impression that the officer was making an example of him."
The businessman came forward with his footage after Mr Tomlinson's family appealed for information, the court heard.
Initially a pathologist found that he had died of natural causes, having suffered a heart attack, but later reports suggested internal injuries led to his death.
Mr La Jaunie said Mr Tomlinson was "bumping along" the line of officers, trying to get through.
He said: "I couldn't understand why he was getting so close to the police line. I thought they might see this as some kind of a threat.
"I didn't see him as a protester, I had the impression that he was just intoxicated and a bit out of sorts, just trying to get home."
Giuseppe Di-Cecio, who worked nearby, said Mr Tomlinson did not look like a threat to the police.
He told the court: "It was a bit harsh, what we commented at the time was that it was a bit harsh because this guy didn't look like a threat at all. He was not in a crowd, he was kind of isolated.
"He was not making physical contact with the officer who pushed him.
"Mr Tomlinson fell heavily on the ground, so we thought he might have injured himself."
Harwood, 45, from Carshalton in Surrey, denies manslaughter and maintains that he used reasonable force.
Protester Alan Edwards said Mr Tomlinson went "flying through the air" when he was pushed, and only just managed to take his hands from his pockets in time to try to break his fall.
Another demonstrator, Joshua Fenech, told the court police officers stood "nonchalantly" after Mr Tomlinson was knocked to the ground.
"They weren't interested really. They were just having a chat amongst themselves, they didn't offer any assistance even though he was on the floor in obvious distress."
Around 15 minutes before hitting Mr Tomlinson, Harwood had tried to arrest a protester who managed to wriggle free in front of a jeering crowd, jurors heard.
He saw the man, dressed in black, writing "all cops are bastards" on the side of a police vehicle in Cornhill.
Constable Andrew Hayes, who was driving a police carrier that day, said Harwood was "almost in a tug of war" with the man as other protesters pursued him down the street.
He said: "There was jeering going on and I felt at that point the crowd was chasing Pc Harwood down the street.
"Since he had taken hold of the person in black it had become more hostile and was directed towards Pc Harwood.
"The gentleman that he had hold of wiggled out of his jacket, and left Pc Harwood holding the jacket."
Jurors were played film footage of the man being marched past Pc Hayes' carrier, and colliding with the driver's door to jeers from the crowd.
Pc Hayes said: "I've gone to get out, opened the driver's door and something collided with the driver's door.
"I could see it was Pc Harwood and the person in the black."
Around 15 minutes later Harwood, from Carshalton in Surrey, encountered Mr Tomlinson near the Royal Exchange buildings.
In a previous statement, Pc Hayes said the crowd was aiming kicks and punches at Harwood as he attempted to make the arrest.
Today, a film clip was played showing one man apparently trying to trip him over as he struggled to keep hold of the protester.
Earlier, the court heard from witnesses who saw Mr Tomlinson as he blocked a police van in Lombard Street shortly after 7pm.
Passer-by James Stone said he looked "gaunt with glazed eyes" and was "very slow to react", looking "dazed and confused" when police officers told him to move on.
Later, Constable Andrew Brown turned Mr Tomlinson away from a cordon in King William Street that blocked his route home to Smithfield.
In a statement read to the court because Pc Brown has since died, he said: "The reality of the situation escaped him. I told him that he could not go past me. He stared at me, not in confrontation or disbelief but in incomprehension."
The trial continues tomorrow.
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The Weekly Health Quiz: Pool Parasites, Death Rattle and Food as Medicine
June 23, 2017
Atrial fibrillation or flutter is a common type of abnormal heartbeat. The heart rhythm is fast and irregular in this condition.
Auricular fibrillation; A-fib
When working well, the four chambers of the heart contract (squeeze) in an organized way.
The electrical signal that tells your heart to contract begins in an area called the sinoatrial node (also called the sinus node or SA node). These signals help your heart pump the right amount of blood for your body's needs.
In atrial fibrillation, the electrical impulse of the heart is not regular.
In atrial flutter, the ventricles (lower heart chambers) may beat very rapidly, but in a regular pattern.
These problems can affect both men and women. They become more common with increasing age.
Common causes of atrial fibrillation include:
You may not be aware that your heart is not beating in a normal pattern.
Symptoms may start or stop suddenly. This is because atrial fibrillation may stop or start on its own.
Symptoms may include:
Cardioversion treatment is used to get the heart back into a normal rhythm right away. There are two options for treatment:
These treatments may be done as an emergency, or planned ahead of time.
Daily medicines taken by mouth are used to:
Blood thinners are medicines that are used to reduce the risk of developing a blood clot traveling in the body (such as a stroke). They include heparin, warfarin (Coumadin), apixaban (Eliquis), rivaroxaban (Xarelto), and dabigatran (Pradaxa).
These drugs increase the chance of bleeding, so not everyone can use them. Antiplatelet drugs such as aspirin or clopidogrel may also be prescribed. Your doctor will consider your age and other medical problems when deciding which drug is best.
A procedure called radiofrequency ablation can be used to destroy areas in your heart where the heart rhythm problems originate. You may need a heart pacemaker after this procedure.
All people with atrial fibrillation will need to learn how to manage this condition at home.
Talk to your health care provider about steps to treat conditions that cause atrial fibrillation/flutter. Avoid binge drinking.
Dobrev D, Nattel S. New antiarrhythmic drugs for treatment of atrial fibrillation. Lancet . 2010;375:1212-1223.
Fuster V, Ryden LE, Cannom DS, Crijns HJ, Curtis AB, Ellenbogen KA, et al. 2011 ACCF/AHA/HRS focused updates incorporated into the ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines developed in partnership with the European Society of Cardiology and in collaboration with the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Rhythm Society. J Am Coll Cardiol . 2011;57:e101-198.
Morady F, Zipes DP. Atrial fibrillation: clinical featuers, mechanisms, and management. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine . 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 40.
Olgin J, Zipes DP. Specific arrhythmias: diagnosis and treatment. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine . 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 39.
Zimetbaum P. Cardiac arrhythmia with supraventricular origin. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine . 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 64.


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Labour leader Ed Miliband will not be among them but aides denied the decision not to take part directly was a U-turn despite Mr Miliband's declaration last month that he would "definitely" attend.
Mr Miliband will meet union members from his constituency to hear their concerns about the coalition's deficit reduction programme, but will not participate in the rally.
Aides insisted there had been no formal invite as the TUC is treating the event as "non political" and had not asked any politicians to attend.
They were forced to defend the move after Mr Miliband, asked at the TUC conference during the leadership campaign if he would pledge to attend, said: "I'll attend the rally, definitely."
The comment was seized on as significant, not least since his brother, and then leadership front runner, David was the only candidate not to commit to taking part.
Ed Miliband went on to narrowly win the contest, partly thanks to the votes of union members.
His spokeswoman said: "There was never any formal invitation from the TUC; it is not a political event. Two weeks ago he talked about 'playing a part'."
She said Mr Miliband's role would be to "listen to the voices of concerned union members".
The rally, held a day before Chancellor George Osborne's Comprehensive Spending Review announcement, will bring together a broad coalition of union members, community leaders, campaign groups and users of public services, and will be followed by a lobby of MPs inside Parliament.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber will tell the rally that the Government's cuts programme is a political choice, not an economic necessity, that will make Britain "a more unequal, more squalid and nastier country".
Mr Barber is expected to say: "Tomorrow, the Government will announce unprecedented cuts in public spending - deeper than any of us can remember. They will bite deep into our social fabric - and hit some of the poorest and most vulnerable members of our society.
"They want us to believe that they have no choice and that this is economic necessity. Yet economic experts across the spectrum warn us that the cuts are too deep and too rapid.
"At worst the cuts will plunge us back into recession, and at best they will condemn us to lost years of high unemployment and growth so weak that the deficit may well stay high."
Other speakers will include Alison Garnham, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, Duncan Shrubsole from Crisis, actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Joe Kloska and union leaders Dave Prentis from Unison and Tony Woodley of Unite.
Holly Dustin from the End Violence Against Women Campaign will talk about how Government plans to tackle the deficit will hurt women, and Joe Baden from the Open Book project, an access programme for ex-offenders at Goldsmiths University, will talk about social inequality and the cuts to higher education.
Unite said its aim is to persuade Government MPs that the cuts to public spending are too fast, too deep and unfair.
The union has a target list of Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs it will lobby today, with a warning that cuts have already hit vital services and cost jobs.
Spending cuts of between 25% and 40% will destroy nearly as many private sector jobs as public sector ones, according to research by Unite.
Joint general secretary Tony Woodley will tell the rally that for every four public sector jobs forced out by Government, three more will follow in the private sector.
"The coalition has no brief for the devastation it is about to unleash on this country. Cuts on this scale make no sense. Business knows it needs the public sector to fill the growth gap created by a struggling private sector, and the people of this country, who need their public services to help them during tough times, did not vote for the dismantling of their schools, hospitals and communities.
"Make no mistake, if this Government forces through its brutal programme, Britain will not become a stronger economy - it will become a bleaker and more divided country."
Unite said the cuts will take £145 billion from the economy.
The Rail Maritime and Transport union said bosses at rail companies are enjoying a pay "bonanza" while passengers face huge increases in fares.
General secretary Bob Crow said: "We are receiving clear signals that transport is being lined up as a prime target for the ConDem cuts with 25% to 40% expected to be slashed from budgets. At the same time fares are predicted to rise by up to 40% over the next four years.
"Under this ConDem Government the public will be forced to pay through the nose to travel on crowded trains and buses, on creaking and unsafe infrastructure, while the profits, dividends and top bosses' salaries of the private companies are ring-fenced. That is a scandal."Reuse content


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Every student should go on an internship giving them up to 12 weeks of work experience while they study for their degree, a top-level government inquiry recommends today.
The report acknowledges that many of the internships will be unpaid and urges universities to use their hardship funds to subsidise those from poorer families.
Otherwise, it acknowledges, the could end up by just giving those from better-off homes an advantage in the jobs market.
"Where internships are unpaid, universities should use their 'OFFA (Office for fair access, the universities access watchdog) fund' (cash to help disadvantaged students) to support eligible students rather than condone a policy that could inhibit social mobility," says the inquiry report.
The inquiry team, headed by Professor Sir Tim Wilson – former vice-chancellor of Hertfordshire University, also points out that fear of student debt is limiting the number of students who opt to take "sandwich" degrees – where students are seconded to industry for up to a year.
It suggests universities should slash their fees to £1,000 a year for the courses – with the students who undertake not counting towards the overall cap on student numbers for individual universities, At present, they can charge up to £4,500 for "sandwich" courses.
Universities Minister David Willetts, welcoming the report, said he felt it was "a legitimate use of OFFA funding" to pay for unpaid internships for students. Professor Wilson that many of the programmes could be run during the summer holidays.
However, the report adds, it would be wrong to use the same pot to pay for internships once students had graduated.
Mr Willetts said that – if they were employed as interns to do specific work – they should be paid. If not, an internship could be unpaid.
Employers are also warned against limiting themselves to recruiting from top universities and students with a 2:1 degree pass.
"A filter that limits recruitment to a particular set of universities, a 2:1 standard and a defined UCAS entry threshold (A-level point score) to the corporate sector are not uncommon requirements," it says.
Such a filter could again discriminate against students from poorer homes and would not "necessarily" be "consistent with a diversity agenda that the company may operate".
Professor Wilson's team also recommend that students who are sponsored with their fees being paid by firms should also be exempt from counting towards the cap on student numbers.
Mr Willetts said the Government would study the report's recommendations before making a response.
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There are lots of shops, caf�s, restaurants and attractions close to the hotel and Hurghada town is just a 30km taxi or bus ride away. There are plenty of attractions in the area including some great diving spots and some brilliant tours. Trips from Hurghada to Luxor are popular, including overnight tours of the Valley of Kings and the Sound and Light show at Karnak.
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How To Make A Phish Look Real
Here's an interesting — and troubling — variation on the phishing scam: Using country-specific domain name to make a phishing link look real.
The problem for phishers has always been to conceal the fact that the link victims are asked to click on takes them to a website address that looks dodgy — either the URL clearly does not belong to the company the phishing email claims to be from, or the link has to so heavily disguised in the email the victim doesn't get suspicious. Phishers have tried registering real sounding domain names (www.securepayeee.com, or somesuch) to get around this, but it's not easy to come up with names that aren't taken, and nowadays unless the name has paypal or ebay or citibank somewhere in the URL, victims are not going to be fooled. Hence this new twist:
The phishing email in question is the same as any another PayPal phish – "We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your PayPal account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party." But the link victims are expected to click on, visible as https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_fraud-check&limited_access=1086452724="/A"> resolves to www.paypal.de.com , which looks credible as a legitimate PayPal website in Germany.
De.com is actually owned by CentralNic Ltd, a private London Based domain name registry, which also own US.COM, EU.COM, UK.COM, CN.COM, RU.COM, and twelve others that "represent the worlds most populated countries." According to eNom, Inc, one of the Internet's accredited registrars which issued the country specific domains, "there are no restrictions or rules when registering these domains, unlike other domains which require you to be a citizen of the country in order to make a purchase."
In other words, easy pickings for phishers. And of course, this means that anti-phish devices such as SpoofStick, which look at the underlying domain name to gauge whether a website is fraudulent or not, are not going to be much help here because they would only show the domain to be de.com, which doesn't sound phishy enough to deter anyone but the most alert user.
My tupennies' worth: Domain registrars must take on some of the responsibility for these registrations. It's not acceptable to just let anyone register a paypal domain and say it's not your business. Secondly, anti-phishing devices must make clear they can't guard against every phishing attack.
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Chelsea have been linked with a £20million move for Ribery, who played in the French team that drew 0-0 with Romania yesterday, but the winger is not looking to quit the Bundesliga.
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Mathematics and UFOs
Professor (in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Brooklyn College) Noson S. Yanofsky in his erudite book, The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathema- tics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us [The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2013] devotes much material to the mathematical core of physics.
(I've noted, earlier here, that mathematics has become the sine qua non of the physicists' milieu, more so now than any time in the past, some physicists equating math as the language of God or God itself. Of course, the rubric God is not invoked. That designation [God] is anathema to almost all scientists but, when reading between the lines, one has to note that science and physicists, in particular, see themselves as a priesthood using the abstruse machinations of mathematics as their liturgy, and math is, for them, at least, the voice of God.)
Professor Yanofsky Quotes Paul Dirac [1902-1984]:
"It seems to be one of the fundamental features of nature that fundamental physical laws are described in terms of mathematical theory of great beauty and power, needing quite a high standard of mathematics for one to understand it. You may wonder why is nature constructed along these lines? One can only answer that our present knowledge seems to show that it is so constructed. We simply have to accept it. One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe." [Page 252-253, italics mine]
That is the view of most physicists today, even though they will play down the mention of God, inserting, euphemistically, Math as the sobriquet for the Divinity.
So, if we, like physicists, see math as the "voice of God" or the underpinning language of the Universe, doesn't it seem likely that any alien life form (or extraterrestrial beings that some UFO aficionados see as occupying flying saucers or UFOs) would also be using the universal language – math?
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Since human math is constructed from linguistic symbols of human creation and unique to Earth by virtue of the evolutionary vicissitudes of written communication for this planet, what would an alien mathematical equation look like?
That is, what would the symbolic representation of mathematics look like, if originated from a culture outside this solar system or galaxy, an extraterrestrial culture?
We've dealt with symbols allegedly spotted on UFOs from witnesses, the Socorro insignia getting much attention from us, but also the symbols indicated by witnesses of other flying saucer/UFO sightings:
Are some of those symbols, if authentic and noted by credible UFO witnesses, elements of an extraterrestrial mathematics – the language of the Universe or God?
Are UFO investigators remiss in neglecting this aspect of UFO sightings and reports?
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Friday, September 02, 2016
Only one here
There are the obvious series that really matter for both teams (NYY @ BAL, DET @ KC) but there is a couple of interesting division leader vs what amounts to division chasers series going on and the Nats are one of those (HOU @ TEX is the other)
Generally fans don't want to face a divisional opponent in the playoffs. There's a sense that facing a non-divisional opponent comes simply down to talent. A division opponent though knows you. It's hard to shake the idea that they may be able to match-up against you better and they might have more personal reasons for wanting to beat you.* Honestly all these teams want to win badly and all these teams are quality. They are all going to try hard. But still...
So if you have a chance to keep a divisional opponent out of the playoffs, as the Nats do with the Mets, it might be prudent to take advantage of it. If not for you than for the fans. They play the Mets 6 times in 12 games starting tonight. The Mets' other six are against Cincy and Atlanta so let's assume they go 4-2 there. The Nats taking 4 or more would make the Mets .500 over that 12 game span. They probably lose at least a game to whoever is in WC2. They probably get passed by the Pirates and/or the Marlins. This leaves the Mets needing to gain 3 games over 16 to end the year, while leapfrogging a team or two. They have an easy schedule but even 11-5 might not get that done. So win the series, then win the next series vs the Mets and they are likely out. However, this plan seems a lot tougher today than it did 3 weeks ago.
The Mets for the most part have finally been playing good baseball, 9-3 in the last 12, now 2 games out of the WC. This time frame pretty much aligns with the return of Cespedes. It's not as if Cespedes is actually a game-changing player. You can ask Detroit and Boston and Oakland about that. But Cespedes is a game-changer for the Mets. Last year he came in and hit like crazy and helped carry them (along with pitching and Murphy and some savvy deals) to the NL East title. He's got that cache. Now, there's something about his presence that is working in his favor. If he can simply come in and hit like he can, it boosts the team. And he's done better than that hitting .333 / .393 / .667 since being back. The team is reacting. Even in last night's loss the Mets came part of the way back.
The Mets can't catch the Nats - that's not what this series is about.** This is about the Nats turning it back on. It's about facing an opponent with some talent and some momentum and shutting them down. The schedule has given the Nats an easy ride for the dog days. That's great. But it's past time for the Nats to take it to a team that is playoff caliber. Let's start now.
*The Nats have the unenviable position of having non-talent reasons for not wanting to face a number of these teams. Along with the Cubs being awesome and the Mets being divisional opponents, the Nats have history losing to the Cardinals and Giants. Psychologically a match-up vs the Dodgers then hopefully a transcendent Pittsburgh would be best I guess?
** It's not enough that the Mets win, the Nats would have to utterly collapse to make that a possibility. Let's think of a plausible terrible stretch for the Nats - say the Mets win 5 of 6 vs them and win 5 of 6 inbetween and the Nats only go 4-3 inbetween (ATL and PHI at home - they should do better than that) That would only get the Mets to 4 out with 16 to go. We just said 3 in 16 would be tough. The Nats truly have to do something like go 2-5 vs ATL and PHI AND go 1-5 or 0-6 vs the Mets to make this a race.
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- G Cracka X said...
Last year, the Mets had two series in August and September vs. the Nats where the Mets double swept. It is highly unlikely that they do it this time, but it shouldn't be automatically ruled out, either. I saw yesterday that 538 put the Mets' chances of winning tonight's game at 57%.
Syndergaard against Cole tonight - not really surprised the Mets are favored. FanGraphs has the Mets at 59%. Pretty sure the odds will be different in the other games.
Also, unlike last year, neither Papelbon nor Storen are on the team. I think we're safe.
- Harper said...
pro-Mets guys on the FAN noted that the probables did't favor Mets in last 2 games so they needed to take first one. You can't automatically rule out double sweeps no, but it's more likely the Nats pull that off than the Mets. It's not something to worry about until maybe (maybe) sweep 1 goes down.
- Chas R said...
It IS quite around here! I think Labor Day weekend has somehow turned into a 4 day holiday.
I am interested to see how we d against Thor tonight. These are Must Win games for the Mets, the pressure is on them. We are in Citifield, so the crowd will be enormous, especially give the holiday weekend. We typically play pretty god at Citifield though.
Looking at projected pitching matchups, the Nats HAVE to take at least 3 of 6 from the Mets. Realistically it could be 4 or 5. But with Scherzer/Roark each pitching twice, I have to like the Nats chances of a double series win. Granted the other two games are project to be Cole/Giolito/Lopez/John Q Pitcher, so those games are unlikely wins, but not out of the question.
I wonder if Latos will be pitching a game against the Mets. He should be coming up now that rosters expand. That would allow rest for other pitchers... I do not like Nats chances with Latos on the mound, but I do like the long term thinking about getting rest for other pitchers...sometimes it makes more sense to lose a game now to rest players than to play to WIN every game...
- Robot said...
I like how quiet this blog gets when no one is at the office, mostly because it implies that all of the baseball talk that normally goes on here is done in lieu of working.
Off Topic: what does Ian get in the off-season 3yrs/ 35ish?
- Positively Half St. said...
We will be all over this later, I am sure, but I expect he will get more than that.
Call me crazy, but I wouldn't be surprised to see someone throw a Jayson Werth contract at him. I don't think he'll get quite that, but I really would not be surprised. I'd expect something like 5/80. That would be paying for 2 WAR per year (assuming $8 mill per win) and Ian's put up 3.4 in 2012, 3.6 in 2013, 3.9 in 2014, 2.0 in 2015, and is on pace for ~3.7 this year. He's definitely worth a contract with an AAV of $16mil, but it'll depend on the market for him and to be honest I haven't looked into what the market will be this offseason.
- Josh Higham said...
@Robot, this is what they pay us the big bucks for. I'm not working today, and nearly forgot to check for a new post.
After looking so good for much of the summer, Desmond just had an utterly atrocious month of August where he amazingly looked even worse than he did most of last year.
Keep an eye on how he does this month and in the playoffs. If he continues going as badly as he has the last few weeks, I promise you he won't be getting any Werth type megadeal.
- Harper said...
Anon - "utterly atrocious' is harsh given what we saw in June of 2015. He was particularly bad from late July though early August, and merely completely lacking in XBH and BB for most of the month. But that has changed recently .286 with a double, homer and 2 walks in his past 8 games.
Still yeah - he can totally tank - that's how he rolls.
DW - there is a BIG drop off offensively in what CF give you after the Top 6 (or 7 if you like Naquin) and two of those guys are better suited in the corner. Ian can play CF. or SS!
Still it's going to depend if the Rangers extend a QO or not. If they do (around 17 million) and he rejects it - he could easily end up in another situation wheree 2/20 might be likely. If he isn't offered it I'd guess more in the 4/60 range.
Whoa - Joe Ross to 60 day DL...
- Harper said...
JE34 - just clears up 40 man roster space. If he comes backs someone gets kicked to the curb. Latos, Martin, less likely Petit if he keeps struggling, even less likelier Keiboom or Goodwin
oh wait - he's been on the DL for almost 60 days already.
That was both my first and second reactions as well
- Zimmerman11 said...
I want to beat STL and SF on the way to the WS. REVENGE! But I'll take beating either SF/LAD and then CHC... no shame in that, either. I'm going to be so disappointed when the Nats crap out in the NLDS again. World Series or Bust, baby!
- Sammy Kent said...
Well I must say I am quite delighted with Friday night's game. No complaints, except that Zimmerman ought to be sent down to Syracuse for a week. All the pitchers were fabulous, and I really can't single any one of them out, unless it would be Ollie Perez for actually getting somebody out in a crucial, late-game situation. A clutch two-out RBI single for Ramos, and a splendid two-run rally in the ninth from the guys that you ought to be able to count on for late-game heroics: Murphy, Harper, and Rendon. We'll finish this series no worse than 8 1/2 games ahead, and ideally with an even bigger margin with Roark and Scherzer going Saturday and Sunday. If we sweep, even I may relax for a few days.
- PotomacFan said...
Any word on whether Shawn Kelly is injured? He has pitched 0.1 innings in the last 7 days. With only a few exceptions, he has been terrific this year, with a low WHIP (just over 1.00). I'm okay with Koda Glover and Scrabble (for now), but I'm wondering why Kelly would get 7 days off.
- Sammy Kent said...
Well, I must say after scoring a grand total of two runs in eighteen innings and looking like a bunch of choking dogs for two games, I am less than delighted with what I'm seeing. The Nationals have a wonderful way of destroying a single game's optimism in a jumping jack flash. The Braves are suddenly one of the hottest teams in baseball, and we didn't exactly tear the woodpile down when we last played them....either here or in Atlanta. Fortunately we have eight games left against the Phillies and Diamondbacks to help us stagger and lurch to the finish line ahead of the Mets and Marlins.
But don't be fooled if we score a bunch of runs against them or even the Braves and Marlins over the next twenty days. That's NOT the kind of pitching we'll be facing against either Los Angeles or San Francisco. Dusty better stick a match under these guys. Bob and F.P., stop with the "Boy when they get going...." jibber jabber. Right now they AREN'T going, and there's nothing but your own wishful thinking to suggest that they will. If we get Joe and Stras back it will surely help, but they all better be going eight innings. Even then, I say again, you can't win a 0-0 game no matter how many innings you play.
Agree that Nats are not playing well, but I am not as worried about the pitching as you are. Remember that in seven game series a team only needs 3 or 4 starters. Scherzer and Stras i am not worried about. Roark doesnt worry me too mich bc i *hope* his competitive spirit will help him play up. And Gio could be good or not, but he is a better 4 than most teams have. The struggling pitchers with less experience get to come out of the pen and have their stuff play up. So do not worry about Lopez, Cole, Giolito not pitching well as starters. We just need to make sure Stras is healthy and Gio pitches well (although he might not need to start bc of series win or bc Scherzer can go on short rest)
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I always watch baseball here http://livesports.one/baseball-streaming-online/
P.S. Mets the best.
Would love to Dusty get all of the young pitchers some innings and save their arms at the same time by letting them throw a "bullpen game" every fifth day. Each of Cole, Lopez, Giolito throw 2 or 3 innings and give the rest of the bullpen a day off. Would let them get innings and adapt to the bullpen bc would know when coming in an inning or two beforehand and can warm up...Thoughts?
And Joe Ross. 2 innings each would equal 8 innings.
- Anagramsci said...
Trea Turner on a pace for something like 129 Ks to 18 BBs (7:1). Discuss.
- Sammy Kent said...
The gotdang Braves are like a cockroach. You can't kill them and they won't go away. We need it to start pouring rain after the eighth inning and not stop until the umps call the game when we play them.


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A killer was jailed for at least 26 years today after he refused to reveal what he has done with the body of his victim.
George Smith, 60, "disappeared without trace" after becoming involved in a love triangle with a woman half his age, the Old Bailey heard.
Drug dealer Dwayne Cupidon, 26, was found guilty yesterday of murdering Mr Smith and the judge said he would reduce his sentence if he would give up the body.
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Mr Smith was last seen in August last year but traces of his body tissue were found in the bathroom of his flat in Barnet, north London.
Judge Giles Forrester said: "The family have not had closure. This is a horrific and tragic story."
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After killing him in the kitchen, he had dismembered him and moved the body bits away, said the judge.
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Mr Smith's former wife Judith had told the court: "Because his body has never been found, we have not been able to grieve in the normal way.
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Mr Aylett said Mr Smith had also taken a small safe containing £14,000 and used this for the trip.
Cupidon, of no fixed address, later told someone he was looking for Mr Smith because he had "nicked money worth dying for".
Mr Aylett said: "George Smith simply vanished, apparently without trace. He simply disappeared.
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Mr Aylett added: "The murder has its roots in a love triangle."
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US Dollar retreats before the Euro in spite of European fear wave
Markets witness today risk seeking trades and especially in currencies market, which led investors to the high yielding Euro pulling it upwards to advance before the US Dollar and the Japanese Yen. Fears of the slowing Japanese economy have sent the Yen to weaken the most in seven weeks versus the Euro.
The Euro targeting came before the launch of Irish Treasury Bonds auction, the auction along with the global slowed economic activities in general formulated fear in the minds of investors.
The over its head with Debt Ireland tries its best through the auction to lower it high debt level yet fears still surround the Irish economy, similar to the Greek economy. The data released on the economic calendar did contribute in shaping today's trading characteristics, such data included the falling as expected Consumer Prices in the UK and the better than expected Core PPI in the US.
The Dollar index which measures the USD's performance versus six major currencies fell from today's opening level of 82.39 to currently trade at 82.16 recording its highest level at 82.52 and its lowest at 82.01. Gold prices climbed reaching $1225.90 per ounce from the opening price of $1224.50. Oil slightly climbed reaching $76.11.
The Euro/Dollar pair climbed up to this moment in spite of the fears surrounding the Euro Zone's economy to trade above the opening level of $1.2824 at $1.2894 recording an intraday high at $1.2915 and a low at $1.2802, the pair did not succeed in braking the $1.2830 support level and resistance remains at $1.2900, as the pair is currently near resistance, should it break it, it will turn to support and resistance will shift to the $1.2950 level.
The Royal Pair Sterling/Dollar fell as the UK economy release Consumer Prices that fell yet remained above the Bank of England's alarming level of 3.0% to trade below the opening level of $1.5660 at $1.5573 recording a high at $1.5694 and a low at $1.5560. By this the pair broke the $1.5635 support levels turning it to resistance felling to the next support level at $1.5580 and following $1.5515.
Finally the Dollar/Yen pair climbed during today's trading as the Japanese economy slowed down and fell in ranking to be the third largest world economy after the US and following it China, to trade below the opening level of ¥85.29 at ¥85.52 recording a high at ¥85.67 and a low at ¥85.09, the pair moved the whole day in narrow ranges as stochastic assured that the pair was oversold. The pair is believed to continue an upward trend as long as it stays above ¥85.05 support level, while resistance remains on ¥85.70.


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Islamabad, Jan 3: Confronted with the challenge of deadly terrorism plaguing the country, Pakistan is considering shelving the high-treason trial against former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf in order to mend fences with the powerful army.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had initiated the treason case against Musharraf in December 2013 for abrogating the Constitution in 2007 when he had imposed emergency.
The Express Tribune has reported that after surviving a wave of protests last year, the government wants the issue to linger on till the functioning of a special tribunal created to try Musharraf becomes irrelevant.
Already, the official prosecution team has refused to prosecute abettors in this case, citing it as "unending process of trial".
The federal government also backed the Islamabad High Court's (IHC) decision to suspend the special court's proceedings for a few weeks.
"This is part of a new strategy in the changing circumstances after the Peshawar incident," commented an interior ministry official, adding that "it is also part of overall scheme of the federal government to improve relations with the military establishment".
During a four-month campaign of sit-ins staged by Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Tahirul Qadri's Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), the treason trial proceedings against Musharraf were delayed for a few weeks.
The trial was complicated following the November 21 judgement of a three-judge special court regarding joint trial of Musharraf with three abettors.
Legal experts believe that a fresh process is required for a joint trial, which means Musharraf would also be charge sheeted again.
It is believed that the real issue is that Sharif has realised that he needs the support of the army to rule the country and deal with the monster of militancy in the wake of last month's deadly Peshawar school attack by the Taliban that killed 150 people, mostly children.
Since the army is against the trial of its former chief, Sharif has no choice but to back off.


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3 Things to Consider Before Purchasing U.S. Visitor Health Insurance
By Chaitanya Bala
Choosing the right health insurance for visitors to the USA can be a very tricky process. After all, the United States has one of the most complex healthcare systems around, which means that not getting travel insurance isn't a wise option. Sure, when traveling to other countries (especially second world countries where having travel medical insurance is likely pricier than just getting treated at a local medical facility) it might seem that travel medical insurance is something you can easily omit. Although travel insurance is always a safe bet anywhere you go, we can agree that in some areas of the world, it's not as risky to be uninsured.
But…the United States is a different ball game.
Coming to the United States as a visitor without travel medical insurance can be pretty chancy. It can be like riding a Harley without a helmet, driving a car without a seatbelt, and well…you get the picture. The point is, U.S. visitor health insurance is a pretty smart investment to make when you come here to visit for a short, or even extended period of time. With the high costs of medical treatment in this country, a simple visit to the doctor's office without travel medical insurance can be detrimental to your finances. Now that we've covered why visitor's travel medical insurance is critical when coming to the United States, one question still remains…
What's the right visitor's travel medical insurance for you?
There are quite a few factors that visitors can take into consideration here as they select the right travel insurance plan for them. Let's go through each of these!
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A Home for Nobody's Princess / The Prince She Had to Marry(2013)
An omnibus of novels by Leanne Banks and Christine Rimmer
A Home for Nobody's Princess Discovering she was the illegitimate daughter of the prince of Chantaine took some getting used to for Coco Jordan - especially when she was working as a nanny on a Texas ranch! As much as she tried to focus on caring for baby Emma, her newfound fame kept getting in the way. Until help arrived from an unexpected - and handsome - source...The Prince She Had to Marry On a fateful morning in April, Princess Liliana, heir presumptive to the throne of Alagonia, surrendered her virginity to Alexander Bravo-Calabretti. Alex is the last person she ever should have had sex with - let alone become pregnant by. And now Alex and his family and Lili's father, King Leo, insist that she marry the father of her child...
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|Title: A Home For Nobody's Princess: A Home for Nobody's Princess / The Prince She Had to Marry (Royal Babies, Book 2) (Mills & Boon Cherish)
Author(s): Leanne Banks, Christine Rimmer
ISBN: 0-263-90078-9 / 978-0-263-90078-1 (UK edition)
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I live out here in the wild west and I must admit I never heard such a thing as hunting NOT being allowed on Sunday. Crazy. I mean crazy because it seems our government has been successful in taking religion away from every other affair in life - why not hunting? (I assume the no-hunting-on-Sunday thing has a religious origin.)
I am a deeply spiritual-religious person - and sometimes I go hunting on Sunday `to save my @$$'.
I have five active kids, a feisty wife, two golden retreivers (soon to be three), four cats, three birds, and probably some other creatures running around I forgot about, plus childrens' friends, neighbors' cats, and a lady down the street who is flat broke and I give her meat from time to time.
So, yeah, I hunt on Sundays. Actually, I hunt every day of the week - when I can pull it off and not overstrain my family and work.
I do, however, or maybe I should say, also ... believe that we need at least some time each week to decompress, contemplate, `consider our maker', fall back and regroup, personally and as a family, etc. Sometimes some of this can be accomplished hunting - and sometimes I forego hunting to accomplish it. It's up to each one of us to find that `sabbath'. And whether it's on a Sunday, Saturday, or some day in between - that's not for the gov't to decide.


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MX2 Race 2
1st Sword KTM UK
2nd Leuret MAR Honda
3rd Nicholls KTM UK
4th Simpson Red Bull KTM
MX2 Overall
1st Sword 50pts
2nd Leuret 40pts
3rd Simpson 40pts
4th Bradshaw 32pts
In the MX1 class, reigning champ Billy Mackenzie was looking to make amends after a disappointing first round, and had the tools to do it with his full factory Honda CRF 450. Unfortunately for him he had a day to forget as wildcard entry, Red Bull KTM's GP winner Max Nagl, takes a pair of wins ahead of the British Championship regulars.
In the first race Mackenzie gets no further than the first turn before being unceremoniously dumped to the ground, twisting the CRF's bars, and leaving the Scotsman in dead last while the pack head off into the dust. Nagl is in a class of his own as he checks out at the front, while UTAG Yamaha's 450 new boy Zach Osborne settles into second, with SUSO MVR-D's Carl Nunn sitting in third for the first third of the race. Mackenzie's new team mate, Cedric Melotte, is the man on the move as he makes his way past Nunn, before overhauling Osborne for second with around 5 laps to go. Under pressure from PAR Honda's Brad Anderson for the last few laps, Osborne does a great job of hanging in for third, while further back in the pack Mackenzie does his best at limiting the damage by coming from last to finish 12th.
In the second race everyone goes through the first turn clean, with Osborne grabbing his second holeshot of the day. The first few laps see a great three way battle between Nagl, Osborne and Mackenzie, before Mackenzie jumps his way into the lead on a downhill double and sets about putting himself out of harms way. Nagl has other ideas though, and after passing Osborne sets off after the fast disappearing Mackenzie. As the laps click off it becomes obvious that Nagl is closing in on Mackenzie, and, smelling blood, closes right onto the Hondas rear wheel. On the last lap Nagl makes his move in the Valley and passes Mackenzie, who in turn makes a big mistake and takes a huge trip over the bars, somersaulting onto the track and ending any hope of a decent result. In the meantime KRT Kawasaki's Gareth Swanepoel sticks a pass on Osborne, which due to Mackenzie's misfortune, gives the South African second behind Nagl, with Osborne finishing a more than respectable third in only his second trip out in the 450 class.
MX1 Race 2
1st Nagl Red Bull KTM
2nd Swanepoel KRT Kawasaki
3rd Osborne UTAG Yamaha
4th Anderson PAR Honda
MX1 Overall
1st Nagl 50pts
2nd Osbourne 40pts
3rd Anderson 36pts
4th Swanepoel 32pts