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Our Contributors
Jane Anson
Jane Anson has lived in Bordeaux since 2003 and is an award-winning author of Wine Revolution (Quarto 2017), The Club of Nine (Katz Publishing 2016) Angélus (Editions de la Martiniere, 2016) and Bordeaux Legends, a history of the 1855 First Growth wines (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2013), as well as co-author or translator of over a dozen wine and travel books including Lynch Bages & Cie by JM Cazes (Glenat 2015) and the Michelin Guide to the Wine Regions of France (Michelin Publications 2010).
Eric Asimov
Wine Critic, The New York Times, USA
Eric Asimov is the chief wine critic of The New York Times and the author of "How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto," published by William Morrow, and "Wine With Food: Pairing Notes and Recipes From The New York Times,'' written with recipes by Florence Fabricant and published by Rizzoli. His weekly column appears in the Food section of The Times. Naturally, he is on Twitter and Instagram, too, @EricAsimov. A collection of his columns is included in "The New York Times Book of Wine,'' published by Sterling Epicure.
Mike Barrow
Owner, Costaflores; Director, OpenVino
Mike Barrow is the owner of Costaflores, a boutique organic winery in Mendoza, Argentina, and the director of the OpenVino project, launching the worlds first open-source winery and wine-backed cryptocurrency. With 30 years of experience in the IT world, focusing on datacenter, blockchain and cloud-centric services, Mike is now disrupting the wine world with "extreme transparency", vintage tokenization, and vine-wine-dine-mind traceability model, converting consumers into shareholders.
Marion Bastien
Marion graduated in 2008 from ENSAT & DNO Toulouse (with a Masters in oenology and agronomy). She has since worked in various winemaking, marketing & sales roles in France, USA, Argentina and China before joining Lallemand Œnology company in 2013 as technical specialist. Marion provides technical support for wine yeast, bacteria and yeast derivatives for various countries (France, Italy, Switzerland, Argentina and Bulgaria). She is also involved in trials with wineries and institutions around the world.
Toby Bekkers
Drawing on over 25 years' experience in the Australian wine community Toby owns and operates Bekkers Wine with his wife Emmanuelle in McLaren Vale, South Australia. Bekkers Wine was established with the purpose of creating a fine wine beacon for McLaren Vale. Toby remains convinced of the opportunities offered by Australia's land and climate to produce fine wines that can stand proud alongside the world's finest. Toby is also a Board Member of the Australian Wine Research Institute and a respected viticulture consultant.
Will Berliner
Owner/vigneron, Cloudburst
Will Berliner is the owner/vigneron of Cloudburst, Australia's cult wine.
Michel Bettane
Wine Critic, France
After several successful careers in other fields, such as music and literature, Michel turned his mind to wine, quietly rising to his current position of pre-eminence alongside his business partner Thierry Desseauve, curating the renowned Bettane+Desseauve guide.
Séverine Bonnie
Marketing Director, Chateau Malartic-Lagravière
Born in Paris, Séverine Bonnie (SB) graduated from the Troyes Business School in Marketing and Management and from a Deug of Economics from Paris Sorbonne. After commercial and marketing positions in various press groups in Paris, she arrived in Bordeaux in 2003 with her husband Jean-Jacques, called to take over the family property Malartic-Lagravière acquired in 1997 by Jean-Jacques parents.
Lori Buchanan
Senior Sales Manager, Jackson Family Vineyard, USA
Dr. Akilah Cadet
Founder, Change Cadet
Dr. Cadet is the founder of Change Cadet, an Oakland based organizational development consulting firm specializing in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Change Cadet aims to support women, people of color, and underserved communities, through coaching, strategy, innovation, and organizational change.
Felicity Carter
Editor in Chief, Meininger's Wine Business International
Felicity Carter is editor-in-chief of Meininger's Wine Business International, the world's only global, English language wine business magazine.
Mathieu Chadronnier
Managing Director, CVBG
Mathieu Chadronnier, Managing Director of CVBG, is one of Bordeaux's most influential wine negociants and one of its youngest top players. A modernist in this traditionalist world, he has pioneered new IT solutions to fine wine distribution, and is at the forefront of the recent introduction of great non-Bordeaux wines on the place de Bordeaux.
Eduardo Chadwick
President, Viňa Errazuriz, Chile
Eduardo Chadwick comes from a long line of entrepreneurs with a passion for wine and today carries on his family's legacy. He joined Viña Errázuriz in 1983 after obtaining his degree in industrial engineering from the Catholic University of Chile. He set out to learn as much as he could about wine and went to the Institute of Oenology in Bordeaux to meet Emile Peynaud, considered the father of modern oenology. He also travelled to many more of the world's wine regions to absorb the best techniques and put them to practice at home.
Guillaume Charlin
Senior Partner and Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group, France
Guillaume Charlin leads The Boston Consulting Group's Consumer practice in Western Europe.
Jason Cho
Wine Director, Blue Hill New York.
Jason joined the Blue Hill New York team in 2016 to fulfill his passion for wine and moved through the different front of house positions before becoming a Sommelier. In December 2017, Jason transitioned from Head Sommelier to Wine Director at Blue Hill New York.
Ellen Comberg
Chairwoman, Global Female Leader, Germany
Ellen Comberg is an attorney-at-law and entrepreneur. She studied in Germany, France and the US.
Dr Philip Comberg
Board Member, Nubryte, Silicon Valley, USA
Philip is a board member of Nubryte, a smart home solution start-up in Silicon Valley and of German publicly listed Joh. Friedrich Behrens AG, a manufacturer of industrial high pressure injection tools.
Julia Coney
Wine Writer, Educator, and Consultant (USA)
Julia Coney's wine writing includes stories on wine and winemakers, personal essays and the intersection of race and wine. She holds a WSET Level Two Certification in Wine and Spirits and is currently pursuing her Master Level Champagne Certification with the Wine Scholar Guild.
Guillaume Deglise
Chief Executive, Maison Albert Bichot
Guillaume Deglise is an accomplished executive with deep experience in the wine industry. In January 2019, he took up an exciting new challenge as Chief Executive for Maison Albert Bichot, one of Burgundy's leading wineries. Prior to this role, he served during five years as CEO of Vinexpo, the leading exhibition for wine and spirits. Under his leadership, the company undertook a strong growth in France and overseas. Deglise started his career in Champagne, working successively for Bollinger and Laurent-Perrier.
Laurent Delaunay
Président, Badet Clement, France
Laurent is the 5th generation of a family of Burgundy producers, originating from Nuits-St-Georges.
Minter Dial
Minter Dial is a professional speaker, storyteller, author and consultant, specialised in branding, new tech and digital transformation. Minter has given over 500 talks and seminars to audiences in six continents. He is the author of two award-winning books, Futureproof (2017) and The Last Ring Home (2016), the latter of which he turned into an award-winning documentary film shown on PBS (US) and History Channel (A/NZ).
Maureen Downey
Founder, Chai Vault, USA
With over 20 years of in depth wine industry experience, Maureen Downey stands out as an independent expert on fine and rare wine, and the foremost authority on counterfeit wine and has compiled the largest database on the subject in the world.
Steve Dutton
President, Dutton Ranch Corp, USA
Steve started working with his father when he was five years old and joined Dutton Ranch full-time in 1987. Today, along with his mother and brother, he manages the family business, which has grown from its original 35-acre home shop vineyard to over 80 separate vineyards comprising more than 1,000 acres throughout western Russian River Valley. In 1998, Steve Dutton and long-time friend Dan Goldfield recognized a shared vision between them: to craft wines that express the personalities of their cool-climate vineyards and founded the Dutton-Goldfield winery in the heart of the Sonoma Valley.
Felicity Fowler
Continually inspired by the immense richness and depth of culture, ritual and flavour that tea offers, Felicity has been working with JING tea for the past nine years. During this time, heading up the sales, distribution and marketing functions across Middle East, China and most recently in UK, Europe and the USA.
Jean-Pierre Giraud
Jean-Pierre came to the Wine industry through the spirits industry, Cognac in particular. He has been a Commercial director and deputy GM for more than 40 years and as such had the great privilege to travel around the world supplying barrels to some of the world's best wineries; and in the course of doing has met some of the world's greatest winemakers and tasted some of the world's greatest wines.
David Gluzman
CEO, Folly Enterprises; Co-Founder, Blacksquare, Inc.
David Gluzman is the CEO of Folly Enterprises and co-founder of BlackSquare, Inc. Gluzman has been a wine enthusiast since his earlier career as a competitive cyclist brought him to the wine regions of Italy. In an effort to encourage education and discourage snobbery, he founded WineCollective.ca: a wine club that started as a local project in Calgary. In a matter of years it would become the largest wine club in Canada.
Charlotte Gourraud
Director, Diversification and Synergies Group, LAFFORT®, France
Born and raised in the Champagne region, Charlotte Gourraud has a degree in agronomy and in viticulture & enology, earned in Montpellier, France...
Nigel Greening
Owner, Felton Road
An early foray as a rock and blues guitarist (failed), moved on to a career as a creative director focussing on large live events, films and special effects, which matured into marketing strategy and brand development. Just before the turn of the millennium, Nigel abandoned the marketing world and purchased land to plant vines in Bannockburn, New Zealand, then added to this in 2000 by acquiring a neighbour: Felton Road, then just 3 vintages old. Today, he splits his time between the UK and New Zealand. When not engrossed in wine he makes furniture and guitars, and cooks.
Paul Grieco
Founder, Terroir, USA
Born: Toronto, Canada in 1965.
Francis Gugen
SBM Offshore, UK
Francis Gugen has had a long and varied career in the Oil & Gaz business, including as regional CEO of Amerada Hess in North West Europe, Chairman of seismic operator Petroleum Geophysical Services ASA and founder of a number of successful companies.
Lulie Halstead
CEO, Wine Intelligence, UK
Lulie is co-founder and CEO of Wine Intelligence and regarded as a leading thinker in the world of wine business strategy.
Polly Hammond
Managing Director, 5forests
Polly Hammond is a self-described black sheep marketer who spends her days desperately trying to drag traditional wine language, communication, and branding into the digital age. Her agency, 5forests, works with wineries around the world to help them embrace the profitable way to transform to digital, from strategy to social media to online sales. She also writes The Must Read, a widely read, mildly irreverent weekly newsletter about digital wine marketing.
Reka Haros
Reka Haros is an ex FMCG & Advertising executive who inherited a small winery in Italy in 2002. Since then, Reka has been helping wine businesses worldwide grow through strategic marketing and business development coaching and consulting.
Christian Holthausen
Christian Holthausen
A dual citizen of France and the United States, Christian Holthausen graduated in 1996 from Vassar College in New York with a double concentration in feminist theory and literature.
Justin Howard-Sneyd MW
Owner, Domaines of the Bee, France
Justin is a London-based wine consultant. He works with a wide range of international clients, sourcing wine and advising them on how to optimise their wine businesses. As well as major clients like Direct Wines Ltd Justin heads up the Global Advisory Panel for the Global Wine Database, and acts as Wine Consultant to the Masala World Group. He also sits on the Council of the Institute of Masters of Wine, and chairs the Membership Committee.
Cathy Huyghe
Co-founder, Enolytics LLC
Cathy Huyghe is the co-founder of Enolytics LLC, a big data services company for the wine industry, whose clients range from the California Wine Institute and Wines of Chile to Marchesi Frescobaldi and Bollinger Champagne. She is also a columnist for Forbes.com (on wine) and Inc.com (on entrepreneurs), and she contributes bi-weekly to A Balanced Glass, a community dedicated to wellness in the wine industry.
Hugh Johnson OBE
Historian and writer, UK
Hugh Johnson has written a series of ground-breaking books on wine, from Wine in 1966 to the forthcoming 8th edition of his World Atlas of Wine (which he now shares with Jancis Robinson).
Candace Johnson
President, Johnson Paradigm Ventures, UK
Candace Johnson is a global infrastructure, network and innovation expert and entrepreneur. She is co-initiator of SES/ASTRA and architect of SES Global, one of the world's largest satellite systems. ...
Richard Jones
PhD candidate, Cambridge University, UK
Richard is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of History, and research the economic, financial, and public policy history of nineteenth-century Britain.
Robert Joseph
Editor, Meininger's Wine Business International
Robert Joseph has a broad experience of the international wine industry. He discovered the basics of wine service at a young age in his parents' hotel in the English countryside.
Guillaume Jourdan
Vitabella, France
With over 20 years of experience, from Luxury Cosmetics at Clinique (Estee Lauder Group) to the Media at Lycos (Bertelsmann + Telefonica) including the financial industry as Communication adviser for listed companies' CEOs & CFOs, Guillaume Jourdan worked both agency-side and in-house.
Christoph Kammuller
Director Communication Torres, Spain
Christoph Kammüller has been Director of International Communication at Familia Torres in Spain since 2011. Since 1998...
Vladimir Kaufmann
Editor-in-Chief, La Revue Viticole Internationale, France
Vladimir Kauffmann is editor and director of the RVI, a leading economic magazine for wine, spirits and distribution companies in France and internationally.
Bruno Kessler
International Federation of Wine and Spirit, France
Bruno is a very active figure in the unknown world of Wine politics. He is the General secretary for the FIVS, a worldwide organisation designed to serve all sectors of the alcohol beverage industry, including wine, beer and spirits...
Karissa Kruse
President, Sonoma County Winegrowers association, USA
Karissa Kruse is President of the Sonoma County Winegrowers, a marketing and educational organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of Sonoma County as one of the world's premier grape growing regions. Since taking over the top leadership role at the Sonoma County Winegrowers, Karissa has guided the strategy and implementation of Sonoma County's commitment to become America's first 100% certified sustainable wine region. Her forward thinking approach has helped Sonoma County Winegrowers gain global recognition for their efforts.
Bruno Le Breton
Founder, BLB Vignobles
11 years ago, Bruno Le Breton bought and took over the estate he worked in as a wine maker since 1995: Domaine de La Jasse near Montpellier. He created BLB Vignobles to carry his own project.
Ronan Lieugard
Président du Cabinet IN VINO VIVA&TERRA, France
Avec une expérience de 25 ans à l'international en sommellerie et en commerce/marketing des vins, renforcé par un MBA en 2013, Ronan Lieugard a acquis des compétences de terrain couplées à une vision et une compréhension stratégiques Globales.
Andrea Lonardi
Chief Operations Officer, Bertani Vineyards, Italy
Zelma Long
Recently awarded Lifetime Achievement for Innovation in Winemaking at the Innovation and Quality Conference in Napa Valley, Zelma Long has shepherded ideas, people, grapes and processes through winemaking and winegrowing, in Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, the Cape of South Africa, Germany, France (Chene Bleu), Argentina, Italy, Oregon and Washington.
Camilla Lunelli
Ferrari Trento, Italy
Camilla Lunelli is Communication & PR Director of the Lunelli Group, which includes Ferrari Trento, leader in the production of luxury sparkling wines in Italy, Surgiva Mineral Water, Segnana Distillery, Tenute Lunelli, which produces still wines in Trentino, Toscana and Umbria and Bisol Prosecco Superiore.
Anne & Antoine Malassagne
AR Lenoble, France
Sister-and-brother owners Anne and Antoine Malassagne are the great-grandchildren of Armand-Raphaël Graser who founded AR Lenoble in 1920. For nearly a century, AR Lenoble ...
Charles Marsden-Smedley BA FRSA
Founder, Charles Marsden-Smedley Ltd, UK
Charles founded his eponymous museum and exhibition design practice almost 30 years ago. The firm has been associated with world class museums and landmarks such as the British Museum, the National Gallery, Windsor Castle,...
Lisa Mattson
Jordan Vineyard & Winery, USA
Lisa Mattson possesses more than twenty years of experience in writing, event planning, public relations, marketing and digital media strategy in the wine industry. She is considered a thought leader in video storytelling, social media and content marketing for luxury wines.
Elin McCoy
Journalist, Bloomberg, USA
Elin McCoy is an award-winning journalist and author, focusing on the world of wine.
Dimitri Mesnard MS
Global Brand Ambassador, Jackson Family Wines, USA
Dimitri Mesnard MS is the international brand ambassador for Jackson Family Wines, which he joined in 2008....
Christine Mevellec
Sparflex, France
Diplômée en Management et Commerce International, Christine Mevellec est aujourd'hui en charge de clients internationaux...
Jean François Michel
Director, Communications and Public Affairs, Moët Hennessy, France
Fiona Morrison
Master of Wine
Fiona Morrison is a British Master of Wine, wine author, winemaker and wine merchant who lives in Belgium and Bordeaux. She loves that her career has spanned so many facets of the wine trade both in Europe and the United States. She is married to Jacques Thienpont of Le Pin fame and manages the Thienpont family négociant business. Winner of several awards for her writing, including the James Beard Award, her latest book, "Great Wine Families" has recently been published in English and Dutch.
Dr Cecilia Muldoon
Founder and CEO, VeriVin
Cici is a doctor in quantum physics and an entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of VeriVin, a UK based company that has developed a through-barrier spectroscopic analyser for wine, spirits and other complex liquids in sealed containers.
Wendy Narby
Senior Lecturer, Ecole du Vin de Bordeaux
As senior lecturer at the Ecole du Vin de Bordeaux, Wendy specializes in training International Bordeaux tutors for the Bordeaux Wine Council and international trade education for the Medoc Wine Council. She curates exclusive wine and travel experiences in Bordeaux and other wine and spirits destinations for her private clientele.
Erica Nonni
Managing Director, Nonni Strategic Marketing
Before opening NSM as an agency for wine communications, Erica worked for 10+ years in wine, food and consumer goods marketing in the USA, the UK and continental Europe, developing trade, press and consumer campaigns to help brands and institutional clients achieve growth. An agency of one that started with wine has become a small, dynamic group of professionals who serve wine and specialty food brands, with an emphasis on wellness marketing.
Matteo Panzavolta
Founder & CEO, ACATENA AG
Matteo is the founder & CEO of Acatena, a Swiss based technology company that focuses on redefining authenticity in the premium goods experience. Acatena creates a IoT & blockchain based platform that helps premium producers to grow their direct-to-consumer channel, while protecting their brand against counterfeiting (including bottle refilling) and product diversion. Matteo has 20 years of experience leading international marketing, operations and innovation teams in Italy, USA, France and Switzerland and he has been cultivating his passion for wine since he was 3 years old and "supervising" the harvest at his family owned boutique winery.
Tom Price
Head of Tea, JING Tea Ltd
Tom Price is an accomplished tea taster and Head of Tea for JING Tea Ltd, supplier of specialty tea to luxury hotels and Michelin-star restaurants. He has worked with tea producers at origins including China, Japan, Sri Lanka and India and has a track record of sourcing rare teas and teas of unmatched typicity. He recently inaugurated the JING Tea Excellence at Origin Awards that aims to celebrate and reward craftsmanship in making tea at origins such as, in 2019, Darjeeling, India
Daniel Protz
CEO, Flavorwiki, Switzerland
FlavorWiki is pioneering the use of digital apps and statistical algorithms to map the sensory perception (flavor, aroma, texture, mouthfeel) ...
Madeline Puckette
Cofounder, WineFolly.com
Madeline Puckette is the cofounder of WineFolly.com. Since its creation in 2011, Wine Folly has become one of the most popular wine education sites in the world due to its extensive use of insightful articles, detailed infographics, and entertaining videos. In recognition of these efforts, the International Wine & Spirits Competition awarded Puckette with Wine Blogger of the Year in 2013, and Wine Communicator of the Year in 2019.
Cedric Raynaud
Président, Linéa Design, France
Stéphane Reynaud
Editor in Chief, Le Figaro, France
Karina Robinson
CEO, Robinson Hambro LTD
Karina Robinson is the CEO of Robinson Hambro Ltd. The firm provides Chairman/CEO Advisory services and Board Search. Karina sits on the Court of Governors of the London School of Economics and is a member of the Finance Committee. She sits on the Advisory Board of the Global Female Leaders Summit.
Nicole Sierra Rolet
Chair, Areni Global
Principal, Chene Bleu Winery and La Verrière eco-luxury estate
Nicole left her career in International finance and David Rockefeller's geopolitical think tanks, to join her husband Xavier and his family in the Rhone to restore a historical vineyard, derelict but magnificently wild, and its abandoned Medieval prior-- a hidden gem in the heart of a UNESCO biosphere.
Xavier Rolet KBE
Ex-CEO, London Stock Exchange
A respected commentator on global economics, with three decades of experience at the peak of international finance, Xavier is known for his insights and focus on the "bigger picture" of international affairs.
Philippe Schaus
CEO, Moët Hennessy, France
A graduate of INSEAD with a degree in Civil Engineering, Philippe Schaus began his career in 1987 at J.P. Morgan Inc. in Brussels before joining The Boston Consulting Group in Germany in 1990.
Sophie Schÿler-Thierry
Château Kirwan
Sophie graduated from the University of Bordeaux (Bachelor of Economics, Institute of Political Studies) and Masters in Management in Paris. She trained with Moët Hennessy and the Besnier Group in the USA where she acted respectively as Product Manager and Sales Manager. Despite the distance she remained active in the family business in Bordeaux throughout her 15 years abroad.
Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Expon Capital, Luxembourg
Rodrigo is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Expon Capital. He is a digital native, former strategy consultant, serial entrepreneur, and well-known business angel.
Reva K. Singh
Owner,Sommelier India Wine Magazine, India
Reva K. Singh, a veteran of the Indian magazine industry, is the owner and publisher of Sommelier India Wine Magazine, the first and only Indian magazine dedicated to wine.
Dr Beverley Skeggs
International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics, UK
Dr Skeggs is one of the foremost feminist sociologists in the world, addressing the multi-dimensional nature of inequality....
Ambre Soubiran
CEO, Kaiko
Ambre Soubiran is the CEO of Kaiko, a technology company providing market data to the digital assets space, currently covering all traded pairs across 100+ exchanges distributed over the world. Kaiko's clients are professional investors, academic researchers and start-ups in the crypto space.
Steven Spurrier
Wine Journalist, UK
Steven Spurrier joined the wine trade in London in 1964, re-located to Provence on his wedding day in 1968, ending up in Paris where in 1971 he took over a small wine shop off the Place de la Madeleine and two years later founded L'Academie du Vin, the first private wine school in France. Under l'Academie's name he held the 1976 Tasting of California Chardonnays and Cabernets which became known as The Judgement of Paris.
Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller
Robert Bosch Senior Fellow, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution
Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller is the inaugural Robert Bosch Senior Fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Prior to Brookings, she was a senior transatlantic fellow and Berlin office director with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). Her areas of expertise include transatlantic relations; German foreign policy; NATO; the European Union's foreign, security and defense policy; international law; and human rights.
John Stimpfig
Editor-in-Chief, Decanter, UK
Dr Orsi Szentkiralyi
Consultant & Sommelier, UK
Orsi is a young, dynamic wine professional living in London.
Miguel A. Torres
President, Bodegas Torres, Spain
Miguel is the president of Bodegas Torres, one of the most recognized and successful wine brand in the world. His concern about climate change and the environment has been recognized internationally, shaping the company's firm belief in social, environmental and economic sustainability.
Sébastien Walasiak
Chef de Cave, Champagne Collet, France
Champagne possibly wasn't coursing through Sébastien Walasiak's veins at birth, but it was certainly in the air he breathed, the water he drank, and in the soil stomped on at the farm his Polish émigré parents tended near Oger.
Peter Weltman
Fmr Sommelier, 11 Madison Park, NYC, USA
Valerie Westrelin
Director of Dept., Marketing for Luxury Brands, ISEFAC Lille, France
Since 2010, Valerie teaches marketing for luxury brands in a business School. The brand DNA analysis, strategic luxe retailer positioning and the gen Y, X, Z behavior impact, are the favorite topics that Valerie studies.
Taotao Xing
Senior Vice President, Deutsche Börse Group
Taotao is the Senior Vice President at the Deutsche Börse Group covering institutional clients in the Equity and Index Derivatives space. She started her career as a trader in financial products for over 10 years at investment banks such as Société Générale and Royal Bank of Canada.
His Excellency Dr Alexander Yakovenko
Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom
Alexander Yakovenko arrived in London to assume his duties as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Court of St. James...
Akihiko Yamamoto
Founder, Wine Report
Founder of Wine Report ( www.winereport.jp ). After writing wine columns for Yomiuri Online and Yomiuri Shimbun (newspaper), Mr. Yamamoto became a freelance wine journalist. He writes frequently for wine specialized magazines such as Vinotheque and Wine Kingdom. He also writes columns on Rock music for music magazines. Mr. Yamamoto has published a number of books on wine, from wine for beginners to wine specialists.
Stephen Yiu
Blue Whale Growth Fund, UK
Stephen is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Blue Whale Capital, a London-based boutique asset management firm. The company was founded in 2016 by Peter Hargreaves and Stephen Yiu. The firm currently manages over £150m in the flagship Blue Whale Growth Fund, a global long-only equity fund, and has delivered top tier performance since inception.


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PUBLISHED: 08:00 17 May 2019
Talented dancers are set to sparkle and shine in their annual showcase.
Some 115 students from Funkifeet Studios will hit the Manor Pavilion stage this weekend.
The youngsters all aged between three and 16 have been hard at work rehearsing the routines for this year's show entitled Sparkle and Shine.
Tickets cost £9 per person, with only a handful of seats remaining.
The shows are at 7pm on Saturday, May 18, and 2.30pm on Sunday, May 19.
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HMCS Victoria (SSK 876)
HMCS Victoria arrives at the Pacific Northwest Region Bangor Complex in December 2000
|United Kingdom
|Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
|Laid down:
|12 August 1987
|14 November 1989
|20 July 1991
|Transferred to Canada
|2 December 2000[1]
|"Expect No Warning"[1]
|in active service
|Colours: Gold and Red
|General characteristics
|Class and type:
|Upholder/Victoria-class submarine
|70.26 m (230 ft 6 in)
|7.6 m (24 ft 11 in)
|5.5 m (18 ft 1 in)
|10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
|Test depth:
|200 m (660 ft)
|53 officers and crew
HMCS Victoria is a long-range hunter-killer (SSK) submarine of the Royal Canadian Navy, the lead ship of her class. She is named after the city of Victoria, British Columbia. She was purchased from the Royal Navy, and is the former HMS Unseen (S41). The class was also renamed from the Upholder class.
As built the Upholder/Victoria class was designed as a replacement for the Oberon class for use as hunter-killer and training subs. The submarines, which have a single-skinned, teardrop-shaped hull, displace 2,220 long tons (2,260 t) surfaced and 2,455 long tons (2,494 t) submerged.[2][3] They are 230 feet 7 inches (70.3 m) long overall with a beam of 25 feet 0 inches (7.6 m) and a draught of 17 feet 8 inches (5.4 m).[2]
The submarines are powered by a one shaft diesel-electric system. They are equipped with two Paxman Valenta 1600 RPS SZ diesel engines each driving a 1.4-megawatt (1,900 hp) GEC electric alternator with two 120-cell chloride batteries.[2][4] The batteries have a 90-hour endurance at 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph).[4] The ship is propelled by a 4.028-megawatt (5,402 hp) GEC dual armature electric motor turning a seven-blade fixed pitch propeller.[4] They have a 200-long-ton (200 t) diesel capacity. This gives the subs a maximum speed of 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) on the surface and 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) submerged. They have a range of 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) and 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at snorting depth.[2][5] The class has a reported dive depth of over 650 feet (200 m).[3]
The Upholder/Victoria class are armed with six 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. In British service, the submarines were equipped with 14 Tigerfish Mk 24 Mod 2 torpedoes and four UGM-84 Sub-Harpoon missiles.[2] They could also be adapted for use as a minelayer.[5] The submarines have Type 1007 radar and Type 2040, Type 2019, Type 2007 and Type 2046 sonar installed.[2] The hull is fitted with elastomeric acoustic tiles to reduce acoustic signature.[3] In British service the vessels had a complement of seven officers and 40 ratings.[2]
Refits and Canadian alterations[edit]
During the refit for Canadian service, the Sub-Harpoon and mine capabilities were removed and the submarines were equipped with the Lockheed Martin Librascope Submarine fire-control system (SFCS) to meet the operational requirements of the Canadian Navy. Components from the fire control system of the Oberon-class submarines were installed.[6] This gave the submarines the ability to fire the Gould Mk 48 Mod 4 torpedo.[3] In 2014, the Government of Canada purchased 12 upgrade kits that will allow the submarines to fire the Mk 48 Mod 7AT torpedoes.[7]
These radar and sonar systems were later upgraded with the installation of the BAE Type 2007 array and the Type 2046 towed array.[2][3] The Canadian Towed Array Sonar (CANTASS) has been integrated into the towed sonar suite.[3] The Upholder-class submarines were equipped with the CK035 electro-optical search periscope and the CH085 optronic attack periscope, originally supplied by Pilkington Optronics.[3][4] After the Canadian refit, the submarines were equipped with Canadian communication equipment and electronic support measures (ESM). This included two SSE decoy launchers and the AR 900 ESM.[3]
Construction and career[edit]
The submarine's keel was laid down as HMS Unseen at Cammell Laird's Birkenhead yard on 12 August 1987. The submarine was launched on 14 November 1989 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 20 July 1991. Unseen was decommissioned on 6 April 1994, and placed in reserve in June.[8][9]
Transfer and Canadian service[edit]
Looking to discontinue the operation of diesel-electric boats, the British government offered to sell Unseen and her sister submarines to Canada in 1993. The offer was accepted in 1998. The four boats were leased to the Canadians for US$427 million, plus US$98 million for upgrades and alteration to Canadian standards.[10]
Unseen was the first to be reactivated, and was due to enter service in May 2000.[8] However, problems were discovered with the piping welds on all four submarines, which delayed the reactivation.[8] Unseen was handed over to the Canadian Navy on 6 October 2000 and departed for Canada on 9 October. For the majority of the transit across the Atlantic, the submarine travelled submerged, arriving on 23 October.[9] The submarine was commissioned into Maritime Command as Victoria at Halifax, Nova Scotia on 2 December 2000.[8][9]
On arrival in Halifax, Victoria was placed into dockyard hands for a refit.[11] This was originally scheduled to take six months, but was not completed until 2003.[11] In April 2002, while in drydock, a dent was discovered in the hull below the waterline. This contributed to the delayed refit.[9] Victoria was then transferred to Esquimalt, British Columbia, becoming the first Canadian submarine stationed in the Pacific since the 1974 decommissioning of HMCS Rainbow.[12] The submarine was in and out of dock during 2004 and 2005, culminating in a planned two-year repair program in late 2005.[11]
Quoting a CBC News report from May 2006:
- Navy technicians caused "catastrophic damage" to one of Canada's trouble-plagued submarines two years ago, says a Halifax newspaper report that cited military documents.
- The technicians blew out the electrical system when they hooked up HMCS Victoria to a modern electrical generator, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald reported Saturday.
- "Attempts to use a DC [direct current] feed … caused catastrophic damage to certain onboard filters and power supply units," the Chronicle-Herald reported, quoting recently released military documents about the incident, which occurred in British Columbia.
- The navy is now spending about $200,000 to buy old electrical equipment that mirrors the original equipment found on the submarine.[13]
Recent events[edit]
Between 2000 and 2010, Victoria had only been at sea for 115 days;[11] and was expected to re-enter service in mid-2011, after six years in drydock.[14]
As of March 2011, repairs were still ongoing.[11] As of 23 April 2011, the submarine was reported to be out of drydock and going through trials.[15] On 5 December 2011, Victoria departed Esquimalt Harbour to conduct sea trials and crew training.[16][17] Victoria arrived at Bangor Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor for deperming (degaussing or the erasure of magnetism) on 13 December 2011,[18] returning to Esquimalt on 16 December.[16]
On 16 March 2012, Victoria fired her first exercise torpedo since beginning her refit.[19][20] While participating in RIMPAC 2012 exercises, Victoria successfully fired a Mark 48 torpedo on 17 July 2012 striking and sinking the discarded USNS Concord.[21] Victoria was declared fully operational in 2012.[22]
Victoria participated in Operation Caribbe in 2013.[23] In July 2014, Victoria sailed to Hawaii to participate in RIMPAC exercises.[24]
In late 2016, it was announced that all four submarines would reach the end of their service life before 2025 without a large-scale upgrade and refit program. The SELEX (Submarine Life Extension) program was introduced as a result. SELEX will upgrade the outer and inner hulls of the submarines, extending their service life into the early 2030s. SELEX will also upgrade and/or replace the submarines' engines, power systems, propulsion systems, sonar system, countermeasures, communications systems and warfare suite. The program is expected to cost anywhere from CAD$1.5 billion to CAD$3 billion, the latter of which is only slightly less than the estimated cost of replacing the fleet with new submarines.[25]
To deal with the ongoing battery issues aboard sister boat Chicoutimi that began in May 2017, the main battery was transferred from Victoria to Chicoutimi.[26]
- ^ a b "Volume 2: Extant Commissioned Ships – HMCS Victoria". Official Lineages. National Defence and the Canadian Forces. Archived from the original on 23 May 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Gardiner and Chumbley, p. 532
- ^ a b c d e f g h Saunders, p. 88
- ^ a b c d Perkins, p. 196
- ^ a b Cocker, p. 123
- ^ Perkins, p. 166
- ^ Pugliese, David (26 September 2014). "Canadian government to spend $41 million for torpedo upgrade kits for submarines". Ottawa Citizen. Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ a b c d Wertheim, pp. 77–78
- ^ a b c d Macpherson and Barrie, p. 298
- ^ Ferguson, p. 152
- ^ a b c d e "Military helicopter delays". The Victoria Times. 23 February 2010. Retrieved 14 May 2010.[dead link]
- ^ "HMCS Victoria Arrives Sunday". National Defence. Archived from the original on 6 July 2009.
- ^ "Navy technicians blew submarine's electrical system: report". CBC News. 14 May 2006. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
- ^ "Sub Fleet Creating Canadian Controversies". Defense Industry Daily. Archived from the original on 31 December 2010. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ "HMCS Victoria Back In the Water". Ottawa Citizen. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
- ^ a b "HMCS Victoria Returns To Sea". National Defence. Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ Turner, Migs, ed. (January 2012). "Victoria sails past Fisgard Lighthouse" (PDF). Lead and Line. Victoria: Naval Officers' Association of Vancouver Island. 27 (1): 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
- ^ Friedrich, Ed (31 December 2011). "Canadian submarine visiting Bangor base". Kitsap Sun. Archived from the original on 8 January 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ "Submarine HMCS Victoria fires its first exercise torpedo". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 17 March 2012.[dead link]
- ^ "Sub HMCS Victoria fires 1st torpedoes in test". CBC News. 16 March 2014. Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
- ^ "RIMPAC sinks second ship". KITV4 (ABC). 18 July 2012. Archived from the original on 3 January 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
- ^ "Royal Canadian Navy Submarines: Fleet Status". Archived from the original on 24 May 2013. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
- ^ Pugliese, David (22 September 2014). "Crew of HMCS Victoria to receive Operational Service Medals". Ottawa Citizen. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
- ^ Pugliese, David (2 July 2014). "HMCS Victoria arrives in Pearl Harbor to take part in RIMPAC 2014". Ottawa Citizen. Archived from the original on 12 September 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
- ^ "Submarine Life Extension: Replace Existing Systems with Newer or Different System". National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces. 26 May 2016. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ Pugliese, David (23 June 2017). "Navy transferring main battery from HMCS Victoria to HMCS Chicoutimi". Ottawa Citizen. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
- Cocker, Maurice (2008). Royal Navy Submarines: 1901 to the Present Day. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84415-733-4.
- Ferguson, Julie H. (2000). Deeply Canadian: New Submarines for a New Millennium. Port Moody, British Columbia: Beacon Publishing. ISBN 0-9689857-0-X.
- Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław, eds. (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7.
- Macpherson, Ken; Barrie, Ron (2002). The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910–2002 (Third ed.). St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing. ISBN 1-55125-072-1.
- Perkins, J. David (2000). The Canadian Submarine Service in Review. St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing Limited. ISBN 1-55125-031-4.
- Saunders, Stephen, ed. (2004). Jane's Fighting Ships 2004–2005. Alexandria, Virginia: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-2623-1.
- Wertheim, Eric, ed. (2007). The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems (15th ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-955-2. OCLC 140283156.
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Busy morning as a father and as a son (but not as a husband).
My mom's moving truck arrives today with all of her furniture and belongings, just as I leave for a business trip.
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And I had to clear a bed out of TinyE's room - no small feat. I was sweaty and tired and running late by the time that got done.
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The first trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse was recently released, this is the ninth film in the X-Men franchise and following the success of X-Men: Days of Future Past sees the prequel characters take over again.
This film is the third in the X-Men prequel franchise and the first time that we get to see James McAvoy in full Charles Xavier with the bald head. Like with most of the X-Men films there is a divide in the mutant world when the most powerful mutant Apocalypse awakens and is disillusioned with the modern world.
He sets out to recruit his horsemen, one of which is Magneto to cleanse humanity and make a new world order. Charles Xavier is tasked with leading his young team of X-Men alongside Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence).
Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark from A Game of Thrones) plays a young Jean grey in the film and Kodi Smit-McPhee brings Nightcrawler back to the big screen, having originally been portrayed by Alan Cumming in X-Men 2. Cyclops also makes his return to the franchise with Tye Sheridan taking over the role, Nicholas Hoult returns as Hank McCoy/Beast.
Following the underwhelming X-Men 3 many thought the franchise to be done however the introduction of James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender as Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto respectively in X-Men: First Class the franchise has undergone a resurgence.
This was seen in the brilliant X-Men: Days of Future Past which added Hugh Jackman's Wolverine into the mix, although he is not in this instalment of the franchise Jackman has said that he will reprise his role as Wolverine/Logan for the final time in a third Wolverine film due out in 2017.
X-Men Apocalypse is due for release on May 27th 2016 and it will be released in 2D, real 3D and IMAX 3D.


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Where is the "pro-choice" for men?
Recently, the subject of abortion has started to percolate again as evidenced by an increase articles discussing the subject. The pro-choice camp is moving to stave off attempts to have the landmark case, Roe v. Wade, overturned. Quick fingers all point to arch villain, Speaker Boehner, cast as the evil tritagonist who is determined to burden innocent and defenseless females with the saddle of unintended pregnancy.
I don't typically write about this subject because I agree with the right of a woman to choose what happens to her body. My agreement should not be understood to mean I'm in solidarity with all pro-choice talking points, in point of fact, much of them I find quite illogical and rather self-serving of it's proponents.
Let me comment on one of the pro-choice articles I recently read using this passage from it as a reference point (http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2011/02/11/procedure-with-caution/)
…as men will never experience pregnancy, think they have the moral authority to tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body. The only person with enough understanding to make decisions governing reproduction is the individual woman, because she is the foremost moral authority when it comes to her own life.
First things first, a few quick observations on the above:
- Men will never experience pregnancy – Agreed
- "Men think" they have the moral authority to tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body – Wrong, most men don't think that at all, although I'm certain a large number still do.
- The only person with enough understanding to make decisions governing reproduction is the individual woman – Wrong, it takes two to do this dance. Men get blamed (or credited) for 'making the decision' on reproduction all the time.
- She is the foremost moral authority when it comes to her own life – Agreed, emphasis should be placed on "when it comes to her own life".
It's the lack of taking responsibility for one's own actions that is mostly at issue. In this scenario, women get pregnant without intention to do so, then want someone, anyone, but usually the government, to pay to have it terminated, at least that is the common mantra for this type of thinking.
If we truly used the same logic (the "it's not my fault" kind), we'd have the government pay the child support for the man's unfortunate and unintended situation too (it may not have been his fault either!). Why does a woman get the "get out of jail free card" if she wants to terminate but a man doesn't if she chooses to have the child?
Here's the "800 pound gorilla in the room" question, what if the man WANTS the child but the woman doesn't? Interesting, don't you think? A woman would have just nine months worth of consequence if she were forced to keep the child to term so that a willing father could raise it, yet the man would be forced to have 18 years worth of consequence if SHE wanted it and he didn't.
Where is the moral fairness in that?
One final thought,
the responsibility for Roe v. Wade being overturned will always lay at the feet of the United States Supreme Court.
Thanks for reading this far.


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Oshkosh Fire Department photo
In a national trend, public safety services are being used to subsidize private businesses, the city fire chief said.
By Miles Maguire
When elderly residents fall in a care facility somewhere in the city, there a good's chance that the person who comes to help them get back up is a member of the Oshkosh Fire Department. The calls come frequently, they are expensive and they are part of a national trend in which private businesses are turning to taxpayers to cover their costs.
This is just one of a wide range of local issues that were brought to the attention of state legislators at a town hall meeting Feb. 25. City staff and members of the Common Council tried to explain to Democrat Rep. Gordon Hintz and Republican Sen. Dan Feyen how state-level policy and budget decisions can help, or hurt, the Oshkosh community. Republican Rep. Mike Schraa said he was unable to attend because of illness.
Other issues on the agenda included the unintended consequences of a recent tax law change, a request for support of a library digitization project, the "dark store" property tax controversy, the proposed short-term rental ordinance, bridge maintenance responsibilities and the possibility of replacing the current special assessment system with a transportation utility fee.
The discussion, which lasted roughly two hours, demonstrated how much of the city's decision-making is driven by state-level policies. Both Hintz and Feyen expressed a willingness to help but could offer no firm commitments. They also expressed surprise at learning that a supposedly neutral change to personal property tax rules ended up cutting into city revenues.
"You're supposed to be made whole," Feyen said. "That was the whole concern," added Hintz.
A bigger revenue issue for cities around the state has to do with chain stores reducing their assessments in a way that shifts the tax burden to homeowners and independent businesses. There have been strongly bipartisan efforts to address this so-called "dark store" issue in the legislature, and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers promised to propose relief in his new budget. But Hintz offered little hope that the law will change.
"It didn't go anywhere last time sort of because of the gatekeepers, and I don't think it will go anywhere this time because of the gatekeepers," Hintz said. "As long as Robin Vos is speaker, it'll just never pass."
Vos, a Republican who represents a part of Racine County, is speaker of the General Assembly and has opposed a change in the law on the grounds that it would be a tax increase for those businesses that have been successful in cutting their assessments.
For several weeks the Common Council has been wrestling with the issue of short-term housing rentals for events like the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual AirVenture. One of the biggest causes for concern was a perception that the city was imposing a 10-night trigger for the new ordinance to take effect, but that number actually comes out of state law.
The council voted Feb. 26 to approve a larger number of allowable nights, 16. But, as Council Member Matt Mugeraurer pointed out, this shift will cause confusion because it will conflict with state law. Finding a way to resolve this inconsistency was another topic that was raised with Hintz and Feyen.
City officials also expressed concern about possible future state actions that would either cost the city monetarily, such as making local communities pick up the cost of bridge maintenance, or undo proposed policy changes, such as the plan to replace the current system for street-related special assessments.
On the issue of the fire department having to provide "lift assists" at private, licensed care facilities, Chief Mike Stanley explained that this is an expensive service for which there is no reimbursement from Medicare unless a resident is taken to the hospital.
The department responds to a total of 1,500 to 1,700 falls a year, Stanley said, a number that includes private residences as well as nursing homes.
Feyen initially suggested that the problem was a liability matter and that state law should be amended to remove this burden from nursing home operators.
But Stanley explained that the issue comes down to money. Nursing home operators have figured out that "they can save money by having less providers and less skilled providers" on duty.
"It's an issue across the country that they're using public safety services to subsidize their lack of staff," Stanley said. "Other states have gone to looking at enacting legislation," he said, "so we aren't carrying that burden, subsidizing their staff."


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Simon Says... be part of the fun!
Join us for a weekend of Leicester's finest musical talent and more. Held in De Montfort Hall's historic auditorium and beautiful gardens and showcasing some of the best music our city has to offer, this is a weekend not to be missed. Buy tickets in advance and save.
This year the event will be headlined by indie rockers British Sea Power and electronic/rock crossover legends Alabama 3 (Unplugged).
The hall and its picturesque grounds will be transformed into a perfect place to relax with friends, listen to the sounds of good music, and enjoy great food and drink.
This year's Simon Says… line-up will also include the summery 70s sounds of Hyde & Beast, bourbon-soaked growl of The Urban Voodoo Machine, and mod / ska anthems from The Moderators.
Local Jamaican ska and reggae merchants El Pussycat will also take to the stage, as well as new Leicester band Ex Comets, roots/reggae from Tann-I Browne and the Ankh Band, and a crowd-pleasing blend of gypsy rhythms and folk storytelling from The Brandy Thieves.
Former Happy Mondays guitarist Kav Sandhu will also perform is his solo incarnation as Kav, while GoldWater will bring their unique brand of wild, energetic blues rock to the festival, and Clubs will fill the stage with their huge sound combining flavours of U2, Foals and Kings of Leon.
Once again, BBC Introducing will be presenting some of the newer, rising artists from Leicester.
As well as promising music for every taste, Simon Says… features a selection of thirst-quenching bars selling everything from cocktails to real ales and ciders, varied craft and food stalls, and a children's activity area for younger visitors.
For full line up and information go to www.simonsaysleicester.com
For the latest updates follow us on Twitter @SimonSaysLeic or Facebook.com/SimonSaysLeic
Get involved
We are now looking to recruit volunteer stewards for this year's festival. Volunteers will work alongside De Montfort Hall staff to undertake a range of duties to make Simon Says… a safe, convivial and visitor-friendly event.
For further information go to https://simonsaysleic.wordpress.com/be-involved


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I've worked in coaching and recruitment for years, surrounded by senior executives with impressive track records. These are driven, disciplined people who have studied hard, achieved their goals, and are now working for prestigious companies. But they don't stop there. They keep pushing themselves to work on their personal development so they can meet the expectations of their employers and their peers. Because that's what high-functioning executives are supposed to do.
So if these people are doing just what they're supposed to do, why are so many of them unfulfilled in their careers and their lives? It seems to me that while they can DO what is necessary to manage a crisis, they have failed to develop in a way that allows them to BE effective leaders every day.
Leadership is all about being present and mindful
I think it comes down to one simple thing: a lack of presence. When you are present in your own life, you can step back from old habits and ways of coping, and understand how your own behaviours affect you and the world around you. You move past your conditioned responses and learn to make decisions from a more authentic and truthful place.
Remember the bright idea you once got when walking in a forest? Or the feeling of grasping, even for a moment, the meaning of your life while gazing at a sunset? Or how about the epiphany you had in the shower? It was not about the forest or the sun or the shower. It was about your connection with the present moment that brought clarity. You don't need a forest or a sun or a shower, you just need to be present.
Presence is the foundation of most leadership skills: resilience, impact, creativity, vision… but for leaders to be present, they need to rethink the way they learn.
Superficial "cognitive learning" is not enough anymore. That focus on the intellect at the expense of the whole self (mind, emotions and body) creates huge obstacles: a lack of inner balance, low productivity, difficulty in making an impact. Ultimately, it can stop you reaching the level of authenticity, sincerity, adaptability and trust required to lead organisations today.
So where do we look for answers?
In recent decades, we have seen the emergence of contemplative practices that are rooted in ancient Eastern traditions. Mindfulness, meditation, yoga, Tai chi, centering, Aikido and communing with nature have all made their way into organisations that are searching for a contented workforce and a sustainable way of doing business.
Respected scientists like Tania Singer from the Mind and Life Institute and Dan Siegel from Harvard Medical School are spreading the idea that human learning cannot and should not be separated from deep presence.
I think it is time we included presence as a core competence in every human development programme, starting from early schooling and continuing through the highest executive programmes.
By cultivating presence, our leaders will learn to observe and understand their emotions. They will develop the skills to step back and avoid letting those emotions control their actions. Less guided by their fears and a need for control, they will be more inclined to embrace the interests of all their stakeholders. And this will lead to success for the organisation as a whole and greater happiness of all those involved.
The good news is that you don't need to become an Aikido master or to meditate for hours to be more present. You can start by listening to what your body is telling you. Then, you engage in pragmatic practices that will anchor new and more powerful behaviours for more presence, clarity and impact.
Transform pressure into power through self-mastery
How does it work? The so-called somatic approach to executive leadership development integrates body, emotions, mind, stories, action and relationships to increase leaders' performances and well-being in a sustainable way. This innovative and powerful method incorporates techniques inspired by neuroscientific research, social psychology, mindfulness and martial arts.
This is precisely what I will be teaching on August 30th during the workshop "Transform pressure into power through self-mastery" at the Solvay Leadership Summer Camp in Brussels. This method has worked for thousands of leaders around the world. It will work for you, if you commit to the practice.
Are you up for the challenge?
Manu Henrard
Executive Coach, Recruiter & Entrepreneur at NineDots


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Uncompromising High Spirits
Get a reason to run and a purpose to plan. The Lord choses to bless those that make known His name with no compromise. Jettison lax approach to heavenly living. Steel yourself and do what you know is right.
Psalm 5:11-12…let those who love Your name be joyful in You and be in high spirits. For You, Lord, will bless the [uncompromisingly] righteous
Snow in the Shadows
Snow gets in the shadows.
Ecclesiastes 4:11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
In Oklahoma and Texas, snow is a sometimes and someyears thing. Not often. But often enough. It can linger for a few hours or a few days and in rare occasions for a few weeks. Ice lingers longer.
The shadows keep the snow longer. The sun doesn't reach there.
Normal winter temperatures daily climb into the 40's and 50's and many times 60's and 70's. Snow doesn't last long in that warmth. Except in the shadows.
In the shadows, the warmth needs to linger a little longer.
Relationships are like that. Some cold spots tend to linger. Each relationship finds bad spots and good spots. The daily good warmth takes longer to remove the memory and the touchiness. Sometimes it is an icy block that takes weeks of warmth to remove.
You can speed up the process when the snow is in your shadow by moving whatever is blocking the sun and giving yourself adequate good time. We can't change the weather outside, but we can change the weather conditions of a relationship through investment in good moments.
You can speed up the process when you deposited snow into the shadow of a loved one by investing in warm moments with them. Leave it to linger at risk of damage that may not heal.
Think of a few easy moments of warmth you can bring to a relationship. The odd coincidence of snow in the shadows of a relationship is that neither of you may realize that it lingers. You look to the front yard and clean streets and are grateful. It is easy to leave the shadows alone, but lingering snow and ice comes up at the most inappropriate moments.
Do some good. Do some gentle. Do some soft.
The beauty of having the warm moments is you don't have to talk about the snow, it just goes away.
Meet Jesus: Lead Away …GSJ4
Matthew 6: 13 And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen
Lead Away: Temptation is everywhere. Our eyes jump to it. Billboards call our attention to it. Media permeates our senses with it. No wonder, Jesus encourages us to pray for being led away from it and the evil one that builds it. It is enough to be tempted of our own flesh. When the evil one gets alongside our impure desires and leads us into temptation, we can easily fall. Jesus never fell. He stayed tall. Surely, looking to His Father to lead Him in safe places away from tempting situations was a key. We need to do the same. There is enough power and glory in His kingdom to attract us. We don't need to spend time in tempting situations.
Jake's Hard Day: This had been a hard day for Jake. While he waited for God to move, it seemed nothing would ever happen. His job just kept getting worse and worse. His home life kept going downhill. What about the job Sally mentioned? Maybe that was a place where there was less drag to the dark side. Every Friday, Jake's co-workers tried to get him to stop at the bar on the way home. He loved a good beer. Sometimes he could not resist. He became weak. Those were the worst nights at home. He always drank too much and would come home light headed and heavy hearted. His wife was losing her patience. Jake cried to God to get him away from the influence of these friends. It just seemed too strong for him
This devotion is #4 of a bigger storyline… Watch the category GSJ Story for miniseries.
ACT! List your weakest points. Where do you fail most times when tempted? Can you change your path so you don't enter into temptation?
PRAY! Father of Love and Mercy, where is my salvation? Can You free me from myself? So often, I fall into the same traps over and over and over. I know the right thing to do. Yet, I don't get it done. You know me. You know my weak spots. Help me, Father to avoid the temptation of life. Deliver me from the influence of the evil one. Build your kingdom and power and glory in me that I might live in righteousness. Make my paths straight to walk in Your ways all the days of my life.
Meet Jesus: Transcendent …GSJ1
While His Father is in heaven, He talks to Him in familiar terms as if He were standing beside Him, and asks us to do the same.
Matthew 6: 7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 "Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. 9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. 10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Building Transcendence: Jesus is at once at home in heaven and on earth. He is transcendent. He easily moves back and forth in His thought and access. While His Father is in heaven, He talks to Him in familiar terms as if He were standing beside Him, and asks us to do the same. While there is a will of God declared in heaven, He expects it to be walked out fully here on earth. He is transcendent. He refuses to be held away from the best His Father has for Him.
Greg's Transcendent Moment: The decision for the new team member was looming. As the team succeeded, it became evident they would need an added member. Who would join? Would they fit the group? How could they find the right person? Greg moved to prayer. He needed divine wisdom. Surely God was aware this need would arise before this day. Surely God would provide. As Greg quieted himself in his office in prayer, his phone rang. Sally was calling. She had a friend looking for a position similar to what the team needed.
This devotion is #1 of a bigger storyline… Watch the category GSJ Story for miniseries.
ACT! What is it you need to transcend? To get over and above? To do it like it is done in heaven not as it is on earth? Start acting the part.
PRAY! Father, I need You to transcend my life. So often, I am tied to my earthly expectations, joys, and achievements. It is hard for me to transcend with Jesus and see what You see and do what You do and fulfill Your will spoken in heaven here on earth. Help me to transcend with Jesus and live to the fulness of Your will and presence here on earth. I commit, Father, to see Your will done on earth in my life as it is in heaven
Meet Jesus: Biblical Proportions
"God did not wait for a natural disaster to send His Son. God did not wait for a natural disaster to feed thousands with miracles. God did not wait for a natural disaster for Jesus to heal lepers."
Matthew 6: 1 "Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 3 But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly
Grace By the grace of God, we are thankful He is not motivated by the moment. God did not wait for a natural disaster to send His Son. God did not wait for a natural disaster to feed thousands with miracles. God did not wait for a natural disaster for Jesus to heal lepers. God did not wait for a natural disaster to pull His people out of Egypt. God did not wait for any disaster to respond. He waited for prayer. He waited for people to call His name. He waited for a people of love to prevail against the normal life we chose to live.
Readiness Jesus is just like His Father. He stays in a state of readiness through private prayer and giving love with substance outside the sight of man's cameras. He is attentive to the fact that we live in a world constantly in a state of separation from God's will and disaster. There is the disaster of abortion. There is the disaster of divorce. There is the disaster of fatherlessness. There is the disaster of drugs and alcohol. There is the disaster of crime. There is the disaster of violence. There is a constant state of disaster all around us. Being involved and ready is the habit of His people
Examples Hudson Taylor was such an example to me. He wrote little, but there is at least small amounts written about his example by those that were around him. By serving silently and persistently in China he was able to see a cadre of native ministers established over years. When human initiated disaster struck and missionaries were killed and banned, he had been used of God to leave a faithful church in place to continue to minister the gospel. He did not wait for the disaster. He waited in prayer and preparation and persistence. Then when disaster hit, the grace and silence and biblical proportion of God intervened in mercy.
Many in the kingdom today are such an example to me. There are men and women doing the work in hard spots drawing no attention to them. When such world noticed events as an earthquake happen, they are already on the ground upping their serve. They were already there. They were already serving. They were already giving out biblical proportions of silent, ready love and ready to give more.
ACT! Where are you quietly and persistently applying the grace of God to an ongoing disaster? Are you ready to step up in a moment of explosion in the area if it arrives?
PRAYER FOR YOU! Father, I pray today for readiness in my friend. Let peace and blessing overwhelm them in moments of strain that are hard to understand. I pray that you open their eyes to discern a place and people to touch under a pressure of an ongoing disaster. Let us be filled with the urgency of private and prayerful intervention. There is not time to wait until the attention of the world is directed to an ongoing disaster by an act of natural force or human depravity. Show us. Move us. Empower us. Grace us with strength to be involved now to be used in harder days.
Meet Jesus: Even Ground
Matthew 5: 43″You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' 44But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45: That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
The Father is consistent in His world creation. The environment, the rules, the principles, the laws, and whatever else happens is the same for good and evil, just and unjust. What goes up comes down (gravity). What goes down comes up (seed time and harvest). The wages of sin is death. When it rains, everybody gets wet. There are certain principles that affect us all. Acting like Him means being the same with those around us whether we like them and their lifestyle or not. Sin does not invalidate principles; it invokes them. Think about it.
ACT! Is there someone you are treating rudely because they have a lifestyle different than yours? Do you hold at arms length someone in a homosexual lifestyle but not a gossiper? Think about it, and make sure you are like your Father.
PRAY! Consistent Father, You treat us all the same. You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. The principles of life and death rule over me as much as anyone who hates you. Thank you for offering that to me when I was outside of Your family. Help me offer even ground to others that they might see Your goodness and enter also alongside me and Jesus.


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Resistance bands are one piece of equipment that all exercise fanatics should take home with them. They're ideal for those days you can't make it to the gym and allow you to thoroughly work out your body even if you've not got the space for weights and equipment at home.
Resistance bands allow you to carry out a wide range of exercise from chest presses to rows and tricep extensions to bicep curls. You can use them for shoulder presses and even squats without the needs for any weights at all. They work by using your own body weight to create the resistance and if you've never tried them before you'll be surprised by how effective they can be. Essentially just a reinforced rubber band, it's a simple piece of kit that can fit into any bag so you never have to miss another training session.
Below are the top benefits of carrying out resistance band exercises. By the time you've finished reading you'll definitely want to invest in one.
The most inexpensive resistance bands can be bought for as little as £3 although they are extremely basic and simply a piece of elastic. For a band with handles and increased stability you may want to pay £10 or more. For either price the wide range of exercises you can carry out with this single piece of kit makes it a valuable investment without any excessive expense. They can be bought with specialist features for much higher prices but unless you're a professional it's unlikely you'll need to spend more than £10.
Adapts with your Body
Resistance bands can be used by both beginners and experts and can be bought in a range of different resistances. If you're just starting out the a light resistance band is probably your best bet but if you're used to lifting heavier weights you may want to choose a band which offers much heavier resistance. Once you get into the swing of it you may even consider using multiple bands for an even bigger challenge.
Maintain your usual Routine
You can stick to all the moves and routines you're used to. All your favourite resistance movements can be adapted slightly to use with your resistance bands and it means there's no need to learn a complex new routine. You can get down with your usual bicep curls and even increase the intensity of your push-ups.
Exercise the Whole Body
Resistance bands give you the opportunity to enjoy a full-body workout and challenge every muscle group in your body in the way you want to challenge it. You can push your body harder than it's ever been pushed with a simple elastic band from the comfort of your own home.
Mix it up
As your body gets used to your usual routine you can use the bands to challenge and test your body in new ways. Your muscles will adapt to the movements you're used to and they'll be looking for a new challenge. Challenge your muscles in a new way with resistance bands as they offer something different to the free weights you use in the gym.
Portable and Space Saving
As mentioned resistance bands take up next to no space and can simply be folded up and put in the bottom of your bag – much easier than lugging your weights around. This also makes them a sensible accessory if you're travelling for business and can't get to the gym too easily. Simply pull out your bands, even in your hotel room, and carry out a standard workout giving all those muscles the training they need.
Solo Workout with Ease
Lifting heavy weights is not recommended if you don't have a mate to train with but this is not true with resistance bands. You can safely use them on your own without any risk and this means you can train harder when your buddy can't make it or you simply don't fancy heading down to the gym.
Effective Workout every time
There are few pieces of equipment as simple as an exercise band. This simplicity doesn't detract from their effectiveness however as they can be utilised in so many different ways. They can be instrumental in boosting your body's flexibility, stamina, range of motion and much more.
Your resistance bands don't have to replace your regular gym workout but they're a great at-home tool to keep by your side to guarantee you've always got a way of exercising if you feel the need. There will be times when visiting the gym just isn't possible and if you don't have weights at home or aren't at home at all you still don't have to interrupt your routine.
Your body likes routine and we're sure your mind feels the same so guarantee your resistance training is never interrupted with simple but effective resistance bands.