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World E-Reading Congress: Legacy, bookshops and the futurePosted: May 18, 2012 Filed under: Bookshops, General retail, Online retailing | Tags: Amazon, Apple, Archie Norman, Argos, Barnes & Noble, Booksellers Association, Bookselling, Clinton's, DRM, Egremont, Espresso Book Machine, Foyle's, French Connection, Game Group, Gardners, Harvard Bookstore, Independent bookselling, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Kobo, Macmillan, Microsoft, Mothercare, Nielsen, Nokia, Nook, Online retail, Pearson, Publishing, Samsung, Sarah Wilson, Sony, Supermarkets, The Bookseller, The Hive, Thornton's, US Department of Justice, Waterstones, Woolworths, World E-Reading Congress, Yahoo! 1 Comment
The Bookseller has run a piece on the speech I gave to the World E-Reading Congress earlier this week, so I'm reproducing the text in this blog entry.
Whilst I've edited out some of the more obvious "lecture" elements (eg "Good afternoon, my name's Philip Downer"), this is still a talk, so in places you may find it (even) more rhetorical than some of my usual writing; similarly, the grammar and syntax will be a little sketchy or forced in places!
My audience consisted of publishers, and those who provide publishing services – distribution, analysis, technical support, media coverage, plus a smattering of creatives (writers, illustrators, designers) and some online sellers of books and/or content. There were no bricks and mortar retailers present.
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My theme for this afternoon is Bookselling: The past is another country, but the future is another planet.
This is a bit clunky, but on an agenda full of brave new worlders, keenly identifying opportunities and breakthroughs for the future of eReading, I am the lucky person who has elected to talk about shops.
I've given a few talks over recent months, and as I approach each one, the news for specialist booksellers appears to have got a little bit more challenging. At Frankfurt last year, I observed that "We are entering a world where a handful of corporations own proprietary formats through which all the books, and a great proportion of all other creative content, are channelled. New technology can do great things, but it can also damage supplier diversity and consumer choice."
I stand by these words. The bigger and more powerful the mega-corporations become, the more entrenched they'll be. They operate out of highly protected walled gardens, and their goal is to tie you, very tightly, into their specific eco-system. It isn't in their interests to allow this situation to change – even though I would argue, it is clearly not in the best interests of every author, publisher and reader, for a handful of tech-driven organisations to own books and reading.
I'm talking to you today about retailing, rather than the broader outlook for publishing. However, the old author/agent/publisher/bookseller/reader model is significantly fractured and everyone in this industry needs to decide whether monopolies or diverse markets are more appropriate for its future.
As this is an eReading Congress, I think a show of hands would be appropriate.
Who uses an electronic device in their leisure reading – an eReader, a tablet, a smartphone? [Practically everybody in the room.]
Put your hand down if your principle device is a Kindle. [Around half of those present.]
OK. Now, lower your hand if your principle device is an iPad or iPhone. [The other half of the room.]
Sony? Kobo? Nook? AN Other? Samsung phone? PC? [No, no, no. Everybody used Amazon or Apple devices.]
Although they play very different roles, there are of course two, big dominant players in our new world, a retailer and a consumer electronics company. But Amazon and Apple are an odd couple
Amazon: is setting a course to becoming the world's biggest retailer, and en route laying waste to the established author/publisher/bookseller ecosystem.
Take a look at its performance for the first quarter of this year:
Revenue: $13,180,000,000
Profit: $ 130,000,000
Margin: 1.0%
Amazon sells ebooks and pbooks at low margin, break-even or a loss. This (we are assured) benefits the customer.
Amazon has very patient investors, who support a high P/E ratio, currently running at over 90x. I assume they work on the principle that, once world domination is assured, the profits tap will be turned on. Otherwise, where's the value?
How many sectors and countries does Amazon have to dominate before this happens?
Apple: is producing the products that everybody wants, selling phones, tablets and other hardware and content at a spectacular profit.
Notwithstanding Samsung, it pretty much leaves all its competitors in the dust. It also, by-the-bye, runs a highly successful and much-respected retail chain.
Looking at its quarter one performance:
Revenue: $39,200,000,000
Profit: $11,600,000,000
Margin: 29.6%
This extraordinary margin, we understand, also benefits the customer; so Amazon's 1% is a good thing, and Apple's 29.6% is also a good thing.
Naturally, Apple's investors are as happy as can be, and they're even being promised dividend payments in the future. Oh, and Apple's P/E ratio is a rather more rational 10.5.
Jeff and Steve have made this world for us in which consumers are happy to pay top dollar for the best hardware, and the lowest conceivable prices for content.
In the past month, of course, a new alliance has been formed – something of a 1990s supergroup. Is the Microsoft/Barnes & Noble alliance strategically brilliant, or a last throw of the dice? Microsoft has a track record of alliances with previous cycle winners, like Yahoo! and Nokia.
However, publishers and many readers are looking for alternatives to Amazon's hegemony. The deal enables B&N's Nook and College divisions to separate themselves from the old superstore business, and provides the firepower for the Nook to be launched worldwide, with a solid retailer base in the US.
Are Barnes & Noble the future, or is this just a coming together of legacy businesses? And what is a legacy business, anyway?
Ten years ago, if I'd said "legacy" to you, you'd have understood it in the old sense – "Something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past". A legacy was a good thing – real value created by previous generations, and a solid foundation for the present and the future.
Today, the word "legacy" is used as an unthinking term of abuse – essentially, any business that has a history longer than a few years is a "legacy" business, and thus unfit for purpose, and ripe to be taken down. Established publishing houses are described as "legacy businesses" by teenage entrepreneurs seeking to discredit them. Perhaps they fail to distinguish between a business that has a valuable inheritance, and has the capacity and the drive to embrace the new world, with one that isn't in control of events. Or perhaps they confuse all established businesses with the fireworks of the tech sector, the Netscapes and MySpaces that crashed and burned; the Yahoos and Research In Motions whose innovation has been eclipsed by other, newer stars.
It's inevitable that what appears to be change-making today will become – necessarily – protective and fixed tomorrow. Perhaps, in this sense, "legacy" simply means "grown-up and responsible". Well, there are worse things to be, and, companies that once behaved radically will start to behave protectively instead, in order to maintain their primary income streams.
But let's talk about retailing, because this is where a physical legacy can become really toxic. In the 1930s, Woolworths opened nearly 400 brand new stores across the UK. When I say "opened", I don't mean "rented a tin shed and screwed their name to the front". I mean, they acquired freeholds, and built big, brand-new stores. This was a massive investment of cash and confidence in the market. The crowning glory was the Blackpool store, which opened in Spring 1938. Five storeys over 75,000 square feet, including two vast restaurants. Woolworths was one of the biggest and most powerful consumer brands in the world.
Building all those stores guaranteed Woolworth a strong presence in every town in the country. This was the legacy of its period of supergrowth, but as time passed, the retail offer lost its focus; the freeholds were sold, and the legacy of great stores was no longer a valuable inheritance, it was a millstone of failing retail premises.
Historically, this is what retailers have done – opened stores, and carried on opening them until sometime after the market cries "enough"! Clintons Cards and Game are two of the most recent examples in the UK – and then, of course, there are the challenges facing the remaining booksellers.
Right, here's a scary prospect for you.
Imagine you're running a chain of bookshops. We may be talking about hundreds or a handful; we may be talking about any country in the developed world. Two or three years ago, the era of the superstore came to an end. Now, I would argue, the era of the chain bookshop is going to follow, unless the model is radically reinvented.
So, if you're running a chain of bookshops today, you have to do two impossible things.
The first is to deal with your straggling real estate, because, as I've discussed, the single biggest challenge for any bricks and mortar retailer is their legacy of old stores. However carefully that estate has been built, however appropriate it was five years ago, it is now shot through with toxicity. All of those shops are tied to long leases, with upward-only rent reviews. Landlords are operating in a shrinking market, so are in no position to give concessions to any business that wants to close a shop while the lease still has years to run. This leads to pre-packs and CVAs (company voluntary arrangement), but these acts of desperation are usually the prelude to administration.
All retail businesses have an unproductive tail, and any location that's bad at the moment has the scope to get worse.
Archie Norman, Asda's former CEO, has observed that retailers should close 5% of their estate every year, and he's absolutely right – but I can think of no retail business that has heeded that advice until it's much too late.
As a bookseller, your bricks and mortar shops have to be super-viable. You must close today's loss-makers, and tomorrow's loss-makers too.
Plenty of retailers are facing this problem right now – Argos, French Connection, Mothercare and Thorntons have all been in the news in recent weeks. However, although they're vulnerable to online sellers, it's still difficult to digitise a romper suit or a box of chocolates.
So, close your under-performing stores. Then define your customers and their interests, and close any further stores that don't match that profile.
Your second impossible challenge, and one that is at the heart of this conference's purpose, is that you have to compete in an omni-channel marketplace, and you have to do so against some of the richest corporations the world has ever seen. Logically, this is impossible, because it requires huge resources, and your chain of bookshops can't do this alone.
This is where the book trade needs to pull together. This industry is at a crossroads where it either allows the global corporations to progress from being walled gardens to becoming super-fortresses; or it fights to ensure plurality. I salute unreservedly the stand that Macmillan and Pearson are taking, alongside Apple, in the Department of Justice case regarding agency pricing. A couple of weeks ago, Amazon decided to give away the Hunger Games eBook free of charge. Now, maybe I'm just losing it as I get older, but can anyone explain to me how giving away the best-selling book in the world helps to secure current income, or to create a future value proposition, for anyone other than Amazon? It may be that the publisher and thus the author still got paid, but at the long-term cost of proclaiming their work to be without value.
Booksellers today need the freedom to participate in the omnichannel world, and it is in everyone's interests to lower those barriers. That means removing DRM, so that content becomes device-agnostic; customers can buy the hardware that suits them, and the content, at an appropriate price, from the retailer who can do the best job for them.
I would love to see thinking of this sort emerging from Microsoft and Barnes & Noble's NewCo. If B&N thinks it now has the firepower to challenge Amazon without also changing the ground rules, then they will find that Amazon can always out-gun them. Anybody else with a stake in ebookselling needs to do likewise. You won't beat Amazon by being a pale imitation of Amazon, pleading with consumers to do what's best for the long-term health of the book trade. Consumers have enough to worry about. They will respond, though, to a different, better offer.
Your retail goal – because you're running a chain of bookshops, remember? – has to be an integrated ebook and pbook offer, with full online visibility of stock by branch for your customers. You'll need a financial model that supports "showrooming", because it's a fact of life. You'll offer Click and Collect, targeted social marketing and all the rest of it – everything a sophisticated pure-play online retailer does, with a shop attached. You'll need to understand more about your individual customers than ever before.
Your online and ebook offer can of course cover all categories. Your pbook offer must be reshaped to reflect the new reality. That means fewer fiction paperbacks, and fewer reference books, because the day of the "general bookshop" is over. You need to be known for doing a few things extremely well, not everything tolerably competently.
All of this sounds scary, and you will all be aware that the number of specialist bookshops in the UK has declined by over 20% since the credit crunch kicked off.
Booksellers – and, by extension, our suppliers and our customers – invested far too much energy in worrying about supermarkets, and not enough in recognising that Amazon wasn't just another specialist competitor in a healthy eco-system, with a novel twist. Today, if we take all the UK's true specialists, the Waterstones, the Foyles, the academic chains, all the independents, and add them together, I don't suppose their unit sales are as great as Amazon's are now.
There's a school of thought that says, well, you pesky booksellers, you should have done more. Should have done it sooner. More fool you. I think this is a little like acknowledging that a fine historical building has caught fire, and saying "they should have installed a better sprinkler system. I'm not calling the fire brigade" – when there is still plenty of merit worth saving, and plenty that you'd miss if that magnificent building was gone.
Specialist booksellers – including independents – are now barely competing with each other at all any more. They're competing with Amazon and Apple; they're competing for time as well as spending.
However, here's the interesting thing. At the risk of sounding like Clement Freud on Just A Minute, I'm going to run through a diverse list of retailers. Here goes:
Anthropologie • Argos • Asda • B&Q • Bentalls • Blacks • Comet • Conran Shop • Cotswold Outdoor • Dobbies • Eden Project • English Heritage • The Entertainer • Fortnum & Mason • Habitat • Halfords • Hamleys • Harrods • Harvey Nicholls • HMV • Historic Royal Palaces • Hobbycraft • Homebase • John Lewis • Lakeland • Morrisons • Mothercare • National Gallery • National Trust • 99p Stores • Oliver Bonas • PC World • Pets At Home • Poundland • Royal Horticultural Society Wisley • Ryman • Sainsbury's • Selfridges • Tate • Tesco • Toys 'R' Us • Urban Outfitters • Wyevale Garden Centres
Most of these businesses are thriving, successful enterprises. Some are struggling – but all of these chains are also booksellers.
Some, like the supermarkets, are big, important players. Others offer books as a value proposition, or as part of the lifestyle offer they're promoting, or as a souvenir of a day out.
But they all believe that there's a place in their shops for physical books. Most of these retailers have a much clearer understanding of their brand, and of their customer, than general bookshops have.
The physical bookshop struggles, but the physical book can thrive.
We tend to look at the problem from a "growing online, declining physical" standpoint. But if the solution is to ensure that all physical stores have multichannel capability, surely the same applies to pureplay online retailers?
As Sarah Wilson of the Egremont Group has argued persuasively, without a high street presence, without the ability to see and touch the goods you want to buy, online sales will plateau. After all, if we all really wanted to, we could stop using bricks and mortar shops tomorrow, and just buy everything online – it's all there, after all. But we don't. Consumers of the future will be looking for an "integrated experience… as they choose to shop across channels and increasingly look on pure plays as employing yesterday's model".
OK, this is where it gets interesting. You're running a chain of bookshops, remember? But chains are inevitably bland. Chains are corporate. Chains are bound by process; necessarily managed to lowest common denominator standards.
I'd posit that more good managers leave book chains and open their own bookshops than happens in most other sectors. They do it because they love what they do.
So, at this stage in the development of the bookshop, I think it's time to acknowledge this. You could create a partnership model, like John Lewis's.
Or you could be bolder, and create a franchise model. The centre would provide the technology, the systems back-up, the buying power. The managers acquire ownership of the stores, buying an interest in them or purchasing them outright, customising their shops as appropriate for their markets.
You cease to have a chain of stores. Instead, you have a network of individual specialists. They may go down the children's route, open cafes, build non-book sales. Or they may, like the Harvard Bookstore, invest in Espresso Book machines; providing a real specialist service, with same-day delivery to local addresses, and next-day around the world.
That network of stores doesn't have to be restricted to your core business. You can sell your chain's expertise to other independent bookstores, and reinvent yourself as a bookshop service organisation.
We have a number of good businesses supporting UK booksellers. Gardners' networked Hive website, offering pBooks and eBooks online; the Bookseller and Nielsen, providing news and reliable data; and of course the support of the Booksellers Association. I'd like to see all of these organisations – and others – committed to supporting everyone who is a bookselling specialist, whether they're primarily selling eBooks or pBooks, online or instore. If anyone could pull this together it would be the BA, but the organisation would have to repurpose itself appropriately.
There's a way forward for individually managed and owned shops that have full access to ebooks, and yet can localise their offer to suit each physical location, each local residential, business and academic population, in a way that chains inevitably struggle to deliver.
And funnily enough, your carefully tailored local offer could be exactly what individual customers around the world are looking for. And today, you can reach out to any potential customers. You can identify where there are similar populations, elsewhere in the country, elsewhere in the world, and serve them too.
Of course, this means that you and your shop need to have to have an opinion. A point of view. A personality. All of these things rolled up into a specific and saleable competence. Please some of the people most of the time, because you can't be all things to all people.
Supermarkets have done their damage, and will reduce their book ranges as the mass-market transitions away from paper books. This is an opportunity for our industry's specialists, who need to improve in quality and consistency. Some of our best bookshops are among the smallest and most independent, in every sense of the word.
Customers will still seek out good, well-run shops, and I suggest that the distinction between "independent" and "specialist chain" is a whole lot less important to everyone's future, than the distinction between "specialist" and "non-specialist".
A healthy bookselling sector is in the best interests of everyone in the trade – authors, agents, publishers, readers. Bookselling needs to remodel itself for the future, and do so in partnership with all the other key players in the publishing business.
But books and bookshops still matter, and there are still people who want to sell books. If those specialist bookshops focus on competing with each other for ever diminishing returns, they might disappear altogether. The more effectively they can work together, the more robust our retail offer in the future.
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World e-Reading Congress, London: 15th-16th May 2012Posted: April 29, 2012 Filed under: Digital life, Ebooks | Tags: Amazon, Apple, Bookselling, Ebooks, Frankfurt, Macmillan, Online retail, Pearson, US Department of Justice, World E-Reading Congress Comments Off on World e-Reading Congress, London: 15th-16th May 2012
Front of Store has been a little quiet through April – a pleasant week in the Brecon Beacons (and a trawl of Hay bookshops), combined with a variety of other activities has kept me away from the keyboard.
One area of focus has been the presentation I shall be giving at the World e-Reading Congress, which takes place in London at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower on 15th-16th May. I'm on at 1:30pm on Weds 16th (the popular "pay attention after lunch" spot), and my theme is: "The future of retail is another planet".
This isn't the most grammatically correct presentation title anyone has ever had, but I only have myself to blame, as it quotes my Frankfurt punchline: "the past is another country, but the future is another planet".
It is startling to go back to Frankfurt (October last year) and reflect on the number of changes that have taken place across publishing and bookselling in that short time. The most interesting is, of course, the DOJ case which Apple, Pearson and Macmillan are defending. Tens of thousands of words have been written on the subject, but this recent piece from the Guardian is a pretty good account of the impact that Amazon and other tech giants are having on the consumer's best interests.
In my presentation next month, I shall be reflecting on where Amazon's domination leaves everybody else who is trying to sell books and content, and putting up one or two pointers for the future. Let me know if you're going to be there – I promise to provide some energising food for thought for everyone.


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Road Test: 2013 Toyota Camry Hybrid
Last year, Toyota introduced the redesigned midsize Camry Hybrid sedan, which came as part of the makeover of the entire Camry line. The hybrid got a revised Synergy Drive system, with a new 2.5-liter four-cylinder gasoline engine and improved fuel economy.
Hybrid prices this year range from $26,140 for the base LE to $27,670 for the top-of-the-line XLE.
In its first year, the new Camry Hybrid was named the best sedan in the midsize segment by Consumer Reports, based in part on its great fuel economy, but also on its price, which is not much more than you would pay for a gasoline-only Camry with similar content.
The newest hybrid model is lighter, with improved aerodynamics, helping it to achieve more than a 30 percent improvement in fuel economy over the previous generation. EPA ratings are 43 mpg on the highway, 39 in the city for the LE model.
With its combination of a gasoline engine and electric motor, the Camry Hybrid is certified as an Advanced Technology-Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle. This is not a plug-in hybrid, so it never has to connect to an outside power source. The onboard nickel-metal hydride battery is recharged while the vehicle is running on gasoline power or slowing down.
Other features also aid fuel efficiency, including a new water-cooled system that recirculates exhaust gas to lower emissions; an EV Drive mode, which allows the vehicle to operate on battery power alone for up to 1.6 miles at speeds below 25 mph; and ECO mode, which optimizes air-conditioning output and throttle response to save gasoline.
This is a very pleasant car to drive, with plenty of power. There is a continuously variable automatic transmission, and front-wheel drive is standard. The drive system has a combined total of 200 horsepower.
My tester came with an audio/navigation/Entune package with a 6.1-inch touch screen. The audio/navigation system included voice activation for navigation and Bluetooth, real-time traffic information, satellite radio, iPod and USB connections, MP3/WMA player, six speakers, and the Toyota Entune system, which includes apps such as Bing, Pandora, iHeartRadio, MovieTickets.com, sports and stocks.
With the redesign, the interior is nicer, with a padded and stitched dash and two-tone textured-cloth seats. The driver's area felt very roomy and wide open. Rear passengers weren't slighted on space, either.
EPA FUEL ECONOMY: 43 mpg highway, 39 mpg city
ENGINE: 2.5 liter, 4-cylinder gas engine, with electric motor
POWER: 156 horsepower
HEIGHT: 57.9 inches
WIDTH: 71.7 inches
LENGTH: 189.2 inches
CARGO CAPACITY: 15.4 cubic-feet
BOTTOM LINE: Fuel-efficient and fun to drive.

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Previously, Vol. I was available. We now have all but the last 5 issues of Vol. ready (and somehow the very important II:4 get left out for the moment) - these remaining six issues will be released in this format in the near future.
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Courgette bhaji with a spiced pea, ricotta and dill puree in a wrap
I took the 7.12 train into Euston today wearing tights and a business suit. I thought I would feel like the old me, but I didn't.
I felt hot, but seasoned with plenty of protective products. My face didn't sting in the heat in the way it used to because maybe I am less sensitive, but I did feel the pangs because I had left whilst my tot was asleep. This was a first for us. I fully anticipated that when I settled into that train, I would make no eye contact with my fellow passengers and as I looked around I wondered how proud, fulfilled, happy or self-assured these folk were. The pretty lady with gorgeous nail colour; did she look happy? That loud, on-an-important-call banker, every line he spoke sounded like a routine verse etched into my memory from my own experience. 'Let's touch base, see where we are at, I mean it is what it is, look I'm going to be honest… great to engage with you Kate'. Was Kate rolling her eyes as I was? My mind whizzed with upbeat and self-coaching quotes about success and failure both being fleeting sensations. My emailed pinged with disappointment and polite bluntness. My physiology didn't react, today.
Do you know what though? I spoke (not on any social media, I looked up long enough to really talk) to a friend (and ex-colleague) who told reminded me that even though it has been a few years, I would surprise myself today. I listened, but didn't really accept it. She kept telling me that what I have learned is ingrained, inbuilt, unspoken, invaluable, and great. It hasn't left me; it is just that I left myself. I now had to summon the confidence to do myself justice.
So, in my business suit, hairspray and make-up I made mildly inappropriate jokes, learned about people; their interests, direction, loves and losses. I read, I ate plentifully and I talked and gesticulated whilst doing so, in a natural accent and walking up and down, bouncing on a heel at times. I saw two men in the audience smile and raise eyes at each other approvingly and I knew. Do you know what? My friend was right. It was all there, it is all there. After three years there has been a turnaround in my own thinking. Three years. Three years of doubt, three whole years of submerged confidence. My friend was right, I am better than.
Here is what I ate afterwards. Crisp courgette bhaji (Indian spiced, gram flour coated courgette fritters) give way to juiciness and they are enveloped in a dill and ricotta soaked pea puree. fresh pea shoots add crisp freshness. I have used red oxtail as I was lucky enough to be given some from the London produce show. I felt comforted, cajoled, soothed and utterly satieted. Perfect for National vegetarian week, for picnics, for eating in the garden or eating out and about, on-the-go.
Makes approximately 6-8 wraps
Oil for deep frying
100g watercress or pea shoots
6-8 plain flour tortilla
For the batter
140g gram flour
200ml water
One large courgette, thinly sliced into 1-2cm rounds
1 tsp. minced ginger
1 tsp. amchur powder (dried mango powder) or the juice of half a lemon
Salt to taste
½ tsp. chilli powder
For the pea, ricotta and dill puree
1 tbsp. vegetable oil
3 spring onions, finely chopped
1 tsp. cumin seeds
3 tbsp. freshly chopped dill
125g ricotta cheese
350g frozen peas, defrosted
Salt to taste
1 tsp. coriander powder
- Heat the oil for deep frying.
- Prepare the batter by combining all of the ingredients and beat it to a smooth (not lumpy) consistency.
- Dip the courgette slices into the batter and quickly lay them into the oil to fry. Allow them to catch a golden colour before removing them onto kitchen paper.
- Heat the cooking oil in a pan and add the cumin seeds, allowing them to sizzle before stirring in the spring onions. Sauté with the salt and then add the peas, ricotta cheese, chilli and coriander powder and then once it has simmered for 4-5 minutes on a low flame, blitz It to a chunky puree.
- Simply assemble the wraps with a couple of tablespoons of pea puree, watercress and courgette bhaji.


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Tiburon, CA: A Good Patty and a Great View at Sam's Anchor Cafe
Sam's Anchor Cafe
27 Main Street, Tiburon CA 94920 (map); 415-435-4527, samscafe.com
Cooking Method: Chargrilled
Short Order: A solid patty of well-seasoned Niman Ranch beef makes up for a lackluster bun. The views don't hurt, either.
Want Fries with That? They come with and are perfectly serviceable burger accompaniments, especially when generously hot sauced.
Price: Sam's Burger, $15; w/cheese, +$1.50; +w/egg, +$2
It feels a little weird to talk about the gorgeous weather we've been having over the past couple weeks in San Francisco, considering the havoc that &!%*# Sandy has be wreaking on people I love back East. But, as Novembers go, this one's been pretty gorgeous in the Bay (New York friends! Come visit! I have ample couch space!).
We all have our warm-weather spots so that when the sun does make its appearance (in November but not July...whatever, Bay Area), we have surefire plans of attack. Sam's Anchor Cafe in Tiburon is one such spot—featuring a sizable deck jutting into the Bay, it's a 30-ish minute ferry ride from San Francisco, and a 30-second walk from the ferry dock.
I've spent warm late-mornings at Sam's before, indulging in an overpriced and okay plate of brunch and more than a few drinks while soaking up some vitamin D. But until this last weekend, fresh off a camping trip on Angel Island, I'd never tried their burger ($15).
The half-pound Niman Ranch patty is 18 to 20 percent fat. They receive the meat pre-ground and handform the patties, which are simply seasoned with salt, pepper, and granulated garlic. I added cheddar cheese ($1.50) and an egg ($2) to mine—it was brunch-time, after all.
The burger is cooked on a charbroil grill, and has some serious marks to show for it. Served on a sourdough bun from Boudin and with a side of fries, it's not an inexpensive burger, but it's a sizable plate of food for $18.50, including my extras.
What's more, this patty is good. Really good. Juicy and pink-centered (a shade past my requested medium rare) and with a decently loose grind considering the patty's wide, flat construction, the meat is nicely salty and has a great, smoky flavor that enhances the quality of the beef—think backyard barbecue burger. The cheddar felt a little greasy to me, but the egg was a great add. Runny and rich, it similarly worked to accentuate the beef while adding a little punch of extra depth.
The only losing factor here was that Boudin bun. Glossy-topped and chewy, it's a whole lot of not great sourdough—fortunately, they pull out the innards of the upper bun, but it certainly doesn't make this a valuable addition to the burger. A swipe of butter and a little bit of time on the grill would do wonders for both flavor and texture; as is, it's serviceable for holding the burger elements together, but that's about it.
The burger comes with fries that are perfectly fine—nothing revolutionary but have a nicely fried crisp exterior and creamy interior. Dipped in a pile of hot sauce-laced ketchup, and they were an excellent accompaniment to a bloody mary.
As food at Sam's goes, this burger definitely surpasses the Benedicts I've tried in the past—I'd certainly order it again. And really, a tasty burger with a side of Bay-view is a not-too-shabby way to spend a Sunday.
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Krupp goes out strong for Blue in losing effort
RENO — Carson High's Logan Krupp said he wanted to end his high school football career on a high note.
Krupp registered 10 tackles and a hurry from his outside linebacker position, and was one of the few bright spots in an otherwise dismal performance by the Blue team in Friday night's 32nd annual Sertoma Football Classic at Damonte Ranch High School.
The Silver squad, led by Reed's Devin Gray (5 catches, 85 yards) and Truckee quarterback Erik Holmer (317 yards passing), rolled to a 28-0 halftime lead en route to a 49-6 victory.
Eight of Krupp's stops came in the first half. Despite the loss, he was all smiles after a short post-game meeting with the Damonte coaching staff.
"I just wanted to go out with a bang," Krupp said. "I loved playing outside linebacker. Getting a chance to fly around out there, drop into pass coverage sometimes and go after the quarterback."
Krupp was joined in the game by Carson offensive lineman Levi Carter, linebacker Sage Smith, quarterback Matt Nolan and punter Casey Wolfe. Joe Zinda was selected, but didn't play.
Nolan, who started at quarterback, completed 7 of 9 passes for 89 yards and the Blue team's only score, a 26-yard toss to Reno High's Justin Crow. Nolan also carried the ball five times for 10 yards. Wolfe had two touchbacks on kickoffs and averaged 38.2 yards on five punts.
Nolan didn't get off to a good start. The Blue team ran a flea flicker, and Nolan underthrew his intended receiver, and Reed's Dom Montenegro picked the ball off at the Silver 48.
"It was a little underthrown," said Blue coach Shawn Dupris. "There was another receiver that we should have gone to. It was a gamble."
The gamble didn't hurt the Blue. The Silver squad ran off 14 plays all the way down to the Blue 9, but Holmer threw incomplete passes on third and fourth down. Krupp pressured him on the third-down pass.
The Blue failed to move the ball, and Ryder Lowry of Spanish Springs returned Wolfe's punt 33 yards to the Blue 14.
That's when the Holmer-Gray combo started to inflict damage. On the first play after the return, the duo combined on a 14-yard scoring toss. Tyler Griffin's PAT made it 7-0 with 7:01 left in the opening quarter.
That started the Silver barrage. The winners scored on five of their next six possessions, and even had a defensive score when Fallon's Dalton Johnson intercepted South Tahoe's John Cefalu and returned it 75 yards for a score.
What was interesting is that Truckee coach Bob Shaffer, the Silver head coach, is known for his ground game. The Silver squad threw 32 times and ran 32 times, and the passing game was more effective. The Silver squad was especially effective with the screen pass. It was a different Shaffer offense to be sure.
"Well since I didn't have spring practice, I had a lot of extra time on my hands," Shaffer said. "I worked up a no-huddle offense. After the first couple of days, I was thinking about scrapping it. Thursday it looked a lot better."
Shaffer was hoping for the element of surprise, and the Blue defense was no match for. Shaffer admitted that he had the weapons to do this, and do it well. Holmer completed 22 of 32 for 317 yards. After Douglas' Michael Nolting opted not to play, Holmer was the only QB on the roster, and he was able to stay upright most of the night and injury free the entire night.
Gray caught TD passes of 19 and 23 yards to make it 21-0 with 3:35 left in the half. The 19-yard grab came despite the fact that he was well defended by Sparks' Marco Guadro. Gray just went up and grabbed it over the defender in the left corner of the end zone.
That set the stage for the defensive score, as Johnson stepped into the left flat, picked off the pass and rumbled 75 yards for the score. Griffin's PAT made it 28-0 with 1:37 left in the half.
Gray caught his fourth scoring pass of the game on the opening drive of the second half, a deflected 23 yarder. The PAT made it 35-0.
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If You Have A Tween, You Must Read This Shocking Report: Eating Disorders Are On The Rise With Kids Under 10!
New research reveals that more than half of all anorexia and bulimia sufferers developed the eating disorder by their 10th birthday. It's no longer just an issue affecting teenagers — how horrifying is that, HollyMoms?
Listen up, parents of tweens. We have some news that you must read. As if raising a child, protecting them from bullies at school and keeping them away from dangerous influences wasn't stressful enough, a new study has revealed that most eating disorders begin before the age of 10. Yes, you read that correctly. According to a story in The Sun newspaper in the UK, anorexia and bulimia are no longer just serious issues for high school students. Going for days without eating as well as binging and purging are now problems for the junior high crowd.
Former child star Mary-Kate Olsen opens up about her eating disorder
The British branch of Overeaters Anonymous surveyed 250 people affected with anorexia. They discovered that eating disorders are prevalent in children as young as 7! Fifty-three percent of those studied admit that they developed an issue with food by the age of 10.
"Some might find the results of the survey shocking," says a spokesperson for Overeaters Anonymous GB. "But, as our members have underlined, it is not uncommon for us to see people who developed an eating disorder before they reached their teens."
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What on earth would lead your preteen to stop eating? Experts say that peer pressure, trouble at home and even super-skinny celebrities are fueling the rise in eating disorders among impressionable tweens.
"By the age of 10, some of my little girl clients are already finding fault with their bodies. They say they're fat already!" psychotherapist Dr. Gilda Carle Ph.D. tells HollyBaby.com. She points out that parents are often at the root of their child's disorder, usually without even realizing it. "I had one mother remove a pillow from her living room that said, 'You can never be too rich or too thin.' That mom didn't even realize she had the pillow in her house, but her child did and she internalized the message."
So what's a parent to do if you suspect your child is developing an eating disorder? Pay attention to who they admire and what body type their role models have. Dr. Carle stresses the importance of parents staying involved in every aspect of their kids lives, right down to what they're putting (or not putting) in their mouths.
"Parents, please wake up! Sometimes the people closest to you are the ones you don't really see," she says. "Parents must pay close attention to what their child is eating. Is she excusing herself after a meal and running to the bathroom? Is her vocabulary peppered with the word 'diet'? Is she on a seesaw of losing and gaining weight? These are all signs of a possible problem."
Several celebrities have been opening up about their struggles with eating disorders. American Idol alum Katharine McPhee battled bulimia. A skeletal Mary-Kate Olsen checked herself into rehab in 2004 because of her issues with eating. And Jaime Pressly ate nothing but one English muffin a day when she was a young model.
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Structural Model of Bacterial and Eukaryotic Microtubules [1]
Reference: Pilhofer M, Ladinsky MS, McDowall AW, Petroni G, Jensen GJ (2011) Microtubules in Bacteria: Ancient Tubulins Build a Five-Protofilament Homolog of the Eukaryotic Cytoskeleton. PLoS Biol 9(12): e1001213. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001213
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Identify a recent research article (not review) that uses either confocal microscopy or super-resolution microscopy as one of the study's techniques. Explain briefly (1 paragraph) how the microscopy technique specifically contributed to the article's findings.
This study examined the chemotherapeutic drug doxorubicin (DOX) with the novel sixth-generation cationic poly-l-lysine dendrimer (DM) and determined enhanced therapeutic efficacy of DOX when complexed to DM in tumour-bearing mice. Confocal microscopy allowed evaluation of the depth of distribution of both drugs (DOX and DOX-DM) into the Multicellular Tumour Spheroids (MTS)bu the following method. For each image, intensity from background fluorescence was obtained from untreated MTS and subtracted from total intensity. The total fluoresence intensity was then calculated in each region of interest and plotted as a function of the distance from the spheroid rim. [2]
--Mark Hill (talk) 11:20, 11 April 2013 (EST)This paper does employ confocal analysis of tumor growth in vivo. You could have explained why this technique has an advantage/application over other methods. FYI - Live animal fluorescence optical imaging was used to monitor DOX retention in vivo of the fluorescent DOX using the IVIS Lumia II imaging system.
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Type of adhesion junction: human zona occludens 1, specifically ZO-1 alpha-minus found both in endothelial cells and the highly specialized epithelial junctions of renal glomeruli and Sertoli cells of the seminiferous tubules.
Type of antibody: Polyclonal
Species raised in: Guinea Pig
Species reactivity: Human, Mouse, Rat, and Canine
Types of application uses: Immunohistology, immunofluorescence and Western blotting
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Directed by Soopum Sohn (손수범)
Screenplay by Margaret Monaghan (마가렛 모나그핸), Soopum Sohn (손수범)90min | Release date in South Korea : 2010/11/25
"Fetish" is a co-production between South Korea and the USA
Also known as "Make Yourself at Home" (시집)
"Fetish" is feature debut of the director Soopum Sohn, who was invited to PIFF and Cannes with his short [Fish in the Sea Is Not Thirsty] in 2000. The film has been noted since its early production stage starring the celebrated Korean actress Song Hye-kyo. In the upper class suburbs of New Jersey, Korean-American Peter is starting a new life with his mysterious bride, Sookhy, whom he met through a marriage broker in Korea. She chose this foreign country to avoid the power of shamanism, but her fate doesnt let her run way from it. The film portraits church-based Korean communities in states, where the traditional values are rather ignored by American pragmatism and conflict arises between two different cultures-orient and occident. The two cultures get close and wrecked, just as Sookhy tries to be American woman imitating her neighbor Julie. "Fetish" surprises and confuses the audience with its complexities of cultural context and religious madness.
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Beginning from today, HTC has also started rolling out the Ice Cream Sandwich update for another handset from the Sensation series, the Sensation XL. Unlike all other handsets in the Sensation series, the Sensation XL is powered by a single core but packs in a mammoth 4.7-inch display with a disappointingly low WVGA (480*800) resolution.
The ICS update for the Sensation XL will bring with it Android 4.0.3 on-board with all of its new features like data usage tracking, face unlock, GPU rendered UI and more. HTC's Sense skin will also get updated to v3.6 post this update, which does not bring much visual changes.
Keep in mind that since the Sensation XL packs in a single core processor, Ice Cream Sandwich will not run as smooth on it as on the other Sensation branded dual-core phones. The performance will still remain pretty smooth except when the phone is under heavy load, thanks to the higher clock speed (1.5GHz) of the single core SoC.
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He created a series of ten recordings on the fundamentals of what the Buddha taught. Those audio lessons are linked below.
The series, "The Buddha's Teaching: As It Is," can also be streamed online HERE (free).
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Think it's too early to talk 2011? Think again. MLSsoccer.com Editor-in-Chief Greg Lalas takes a look at the home openers slated for next season, with an eye on some heavyweight matchups, the birth of the league's first all-Canadian rivalry and all the storylines that should make these matches worth the wait.
Seattle Sounders FC vs. LA Galaxy
Thursday, March 15, 9:30 pm ET
Go Northwest, young men. Again, the first kick of MLS' First Kick will take place in front of the throngs at Qwest Field. The Sounders and their fans don't care who they play—they've won both home openers of their MLS existence.
Then again, every club cares about playing the Galaxy, especially when LA swagger in with the previous year's Supporters' Shield on their backs and a roster of bold-faced names like Landon Donovan, David Beckham and possibly Juan Pablo Angel. I'm predicting a game as good as the atmosphere. Maybe better (gasp!).
Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs. Toronto FC
Saturday, March 19, 7 pm ET
Oh boy. Batten down the hatches and damn the torpedoes. This one is going to be a doozy. Not only is it opening day for the Whitecaps' MLS franchise, but if you ask me, the Vancouver-Toronto rivalry could wind up being the most intense in MLS. After all, they are battling for Canada. (Does this rivalry have a name yet, by the way?)
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Saturday, March 19, 7:30 pm ET
Two teams that are undergoing massive renovations will square off at RFK Stadium. Will Ben Olsen's new-look United—early indications are they will reflect Olsen himself pretty well—be able to handle Robert Warzycha's revamped Crew side? And, if he comes to an agreement with Columbus, will Jeff Cunningham explode for a brace to pass Jaime Moreno on the latter's longtime home field?
New York Red Bulls vs. Seattle Sounders FC
Saturday, March 19, 7:30 pm ET
It's a short week and a long flight for the Sounders, but Sigi Schmid's side seems to like the taste of the Big Apple: They've posted a draw (2009) and a win (2010) in their only two trips to Gotham. But neither of those games featured the likes of Thierry Henry and Rafa Márquez, both of whom will have a full offseason to rest and really gel with their teammates.
FC Dallas vs. Chicago Fire
Saturday, March 19, 8:30 pm ET
[inline_node:325287]Will we actually see Brek Shea line up at center back? He was a defensive sensation during the recent Generation adidas tour in Spain and his coach seems to think he has the makings of a world-class central defender (as do a few technical directors in Madrid). The Fire better hope he isn't as good as the hype, because they will presumably be working in a few new strikers after the departure of Brian McBride and Collins John.
Houston Dynamo vs. Philadelphia Union
Saturday, March 19, 8:30 pm ET
Two clubs on opposite sides of the hill. The Dynamo are on the backside of one of the greatest runs of success in MLS history and now must rebuild. (Hunter Freeman is a good start.) FC Peter Nowak, er, the Union sure seem primed to be a juggernaut … in 2014! Danny Mwanga, Jack McInerney, Roger Torres and Amobi Okugo are a murderer's row of the future. Or could it come to fruition a little early?
Colorado Rapids vs. Portland Timbers
Saturday, March 19, 9 pm ET
Talk about a baptism by fire: The Timbers will make their MLS debut against the MLS Cup holders. In the late winter chill of the Rocky Mountains. At altitude. Good luck with that. Then again, John Spencer is building a team that will work hard and compete. Obviously, the Rapids have to be overwhelming favorites, but they'll have a game on their hands.
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Saturday, March 19, 10:30 pm ET
Fate is more twisted here than a cactus in the Mexican desert. Omar Bravo, Sporting's new DP, begins his sojourn north of the Rio Grande against the sister team of his beloved Guadalajara. Meanwhile, the old face of KC's franchise, Jimmy Conrad, could square off against the new-look club (if he comes to terms with Chivas USA).
San Jose Earthquakes vs. Real Salt Lake
Saturday, March 19, 10:30 pm ET
[inline_node:325288]Both clubs obviously remember that this same fixture opened the 2010 season for these teams—but for different reasons. RSL cruised to a 3-0 win at Buck Shaw back then, catapulting them to a fine 2010 that saw them play some scintillating soccer and reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League. San Jose, on the other hand, had to lick their wounds for a few months before Chris Wondolowski finally took the club on his shoulders and drove their magical (if geographically quizzical) run to the Eastern Conference Championship.
LA Galaxy vs. New England Revolution
Sunday, March 20, 8 pm ET
These two have tended to meet at the HDC on July 4. Not in 2011. They're going to get it on early, and even though on paper the last game of First Kick week doesn't seem all that entrancing, I'd actually circle this one. The Galaxy will be coming off a short week, and the Revolution will be champing at the bit after missing the playoffs for the first time in nine years.
Steve Nicol & Co. don't take to losing very kindly. The Revs will be all new, which could make it very interesting against Bruce Arena's star-studded squad.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The Man
Cool. President Elect Barack Obama.
Listen, I have nothing against the white male - I married one, folks - but I don't have words to describe the excitement I feel about having as our future President, finally, someone other than a white male. Though for me this election was in no way about race, I cannot help but feel pride that this qualified leader has also given birth to a poignant, historical moment in our country. No matter where our political beliefs reside, can we not embrace and share the long overdue grace of just that moment?
"I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal." - Abraham Lincoln, 1858
"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
26 comments:
- NV said...
AMEN! I saw things last night that I never imagined I would. They were beautiful!
- November 5, 2008 at 11:28 AM
Bravo! I really like those quotes. I had tears in my eyes last night; it was truly touching.
- November 5, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Couldn't agree more.
- November 5, 2008 at 11:36 AM
I am a white man and I am absolutely thrilled to see someone with a skin color different than mine in the White House! But more important than skin color, he's an inspirational speaker and a man with a vision for a greater America, not one bogged down in negativity and fear! Bravo Obama, Bravo!
- November 5, 2008 at 11:37 AM
As a woman, I couldn't agree more that it is thrilling to see a minority as President (and someday, it will be a woman!). A historical moment for our country and one that many thought never possible. Like you said, he is a qualified leader, but it is also a thrill we should all share for a collective moment in time.
- November 5, 2008 at 12:07 PM
I have a friend who was actually at Grant park and she said it was incredible, just incredible. Go Obama!
- November 5, 2008 at 1:05 PM
I never, ever believed this could happen in my life. We finally did it! We finally proved to ourselves that everyone, regardless of color or creed, can achieve the ultimate seat of power and lead the greatest country in the world.
God Bless America.
- November 5, 2008 at 1:32 PM
No matter where you sit politically, you should take note of this moment in our history.
Congrats to the President-Elect.
- November 5, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Completely overwhelmed last night. Humbled and happy and proud.
- November 5, 2008 at 3:59 PM
- Clumbsy Cookie said...
I could not agree more! This is a great moment!
- November 5, 2008 at 4:06 PM
- JackeeG4glamorous said...
The whole country seems to share in the sentiment, this proud day! It's amazing, WE are all that amazing and we've got the proof.
You said it all in this post!
- November 5, 2008 at 5:27 PM
- TNelson said...
Does anyone care that we are going to have to PAY for all these welfare programs, food stamps, etc. etc.? You all must have tons of money... I'm so happy for you. Just let me know how you think all these wonderful programs are going to be funded?
Looking forward to some great ways to spice up cat food...
- November 5, 2008 at 6:41 PM
- Unknown said...
Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. I have actually been feeling hope for my country and I haven't felt that for awhile.
It was simply historic!
- November 5, 2008 at 10:16 PM
- RazorFamilyFarms.com said...
To quote my friend, Katy, who knocked on countless doors and registered voters for Mister Obama: "Every time the man speack my ovaries sing. I want to have caramel-colored babies with him. I want my children to frolic with his children. Why not? A girl can dream."
LOL! You'd love Katy.
- November 6, 2008 at 6:45 AM
- Real Live Lesbian said...
Love those quotes! Here's to a new time in our history!
- November 6, 2008 at 8:18 AM
- dharmamama said...
I *know*. I know. It's amazing to me. I have a friend whose grandfather worked 2 jobs to be able to pay the *poll tax* so he could vote - a poll tax which, conveniently, men whose father or grandfather had voted in previous elections didn't have to pay! So - a tax for black people, basically. That was just abolished 40 years ago! Now look!! I was boo-hooing, watching Barack's speech. Tears. of. joy.
- November 6, 2008 at 10:32 AM
- Adam said...
I'm totally with you, Ann. I think this is a great step forward in the way Americans see politics and relations with culture. No matter what side or political party someone is on, they have to agree that this is remarkable.
- November 6, 2008 at 1:21 PM
- John D. said...
Amen Sistah. Nail. Head. : )
- November 6, 2008 at 2:22 PM
- MonkeyGirl said...
This was the first election where I didn't feel like I was picking the lesser of two evils. I am truly excited about where we can take our country now!
- November 6, 2008 at 7:45 PM
- Katie said...
This election has been really powerful. I am exciting to see how our country will improve.
- November 7, 2008 at 5:19 PM
- John D. said...
There is more hope in America than any time in my lifetime, including JFK's election in 1960 (BEFORE my lifetime, actually ; ) Let's hope Barack can lead America back to pride and prosperiy. : )
- November 7, 2008 at 7:02 PM
Oh, happy, happy day! I'm so proud of my country at this moment in history. Ann, thanks for sharing your thoughts publicly in this forum. "HOPE is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence." (Lin Yutang) The road of "Yes, we can," has come into existence, because many hopeful Americans walked together. Inspiring a nation, as Obama has done, is no small task. He empowers all of us.
- November 8, 2008 at 8:43 AM
- RazorFamilyFarms.com said...
I just reread my comment in which I had an ugly typo -- which I'd like to correct:
To quote my friend, Katy, who knocked on countless doors and registered voters for Mister Obama: "Every time the man speaks my ovaries sing. I want to have caramel-colored babies with him. I want my children to frolic with his children. Why not? A girl can dream."
- November 10, 2008 at 6:06 AM
- RazorFamilyFarms.com said...
Thank you for your sweet comments. Have I mentioned that I love that eggplant dip recipe of yours and have served it countless times?
It's wonderful!
- November 12, 2008 at 8:17 AM
yay, bless Obama!! anyway, you've been tagged! :) x
- November 12, 2008 at 12:33 PM
- Sixpence and A Blue Moon said...
Amen!!!! Love him!
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British Go Journal No. 66. [1] November 1985 Page 3.
Midlands MurderBradford's recently formed Community Go Club challenged the Sheffield Club to a match at the end of July. According to our reporter, Graham Telfer, an exciting evening was had by all, no doubt helped along by plenty of sake. The official reason for the match was to check Bradford's grading, which seemed to be pretty accurate, since the result of the match was a 6-5 victory for the fledgling club, with most of the games being closely fought.
NorthernThirty-six players contested the Northern Go Tournament on September 7th and 8th. Winner of the top section and the Red Rose Shield was Richard Granville, with a perfect score of 6/6. Second were John Smith and Eddie Shaw (3 dan). Winners of lower sections were Gerry Mills (1 kyu), 0 Gilder (3 kyu), G Telfer (4 kyu), J Hall (6 kyu) and J Taylor (8 kyu), all with 4/6. Qualifiers for next year's Candidates tournament were Alistair Thompson (1 dan) and Paul Smith ( kyu).
WansteadAttendance at this year's tournament was encouragingly up by 12 to 48. Prize winners with 3/3 were: M. Macfadyen (beat T Stacey in round 3), S. Draper (2k), C. Scammon (5k); P. Collins (6k), P. Voisey (10k); and H. Sykes (12k);
Qualifiers for the Candidates were Jay Rastall (ld) and S. Draper. My correspondent tells me that the wooden spoon went to Tim Hazelden, who was the strongest player with 0/3. The tournament was ably directed by Ian Carson.
WarsawEurope's first National Team Championship was held in Warsaw at the beginning of September. Our team was Matthew Macfadyen, Jim Barty, Richard Granville and John Rickard. Apart from the Poles, Yugoslavia was the only country to field its very best squad, which meant that several of the top teams were pretty much the same strength.
In the event the West Germans came out on top with 18 points, largely by virtue of winning all their games on Boards 3 and 4. Both the Yugoslavs and the UK had 15, but they had the better SOS. The Netherlands finished fourth by a narrow margin.
Apart from the main tournament many of the East European players had their first chance to meet Japanese professionals, and many of the Western players added a few more entries to their hundred best things to do with vodka. The event is planned to be repeated again in 1987, although no venue has been fixed.
JapanTakemiya continues to kill a lot of groups, and has won the Honinbo title against Rin Kaiho. Since then Kobayashi Koichi has been busier that most, he is playing Cho Chikun for the Meijin title, which stands at 2-1 to Kobayashi at present; and he lost the first game of the Oza title to Kato Masao. As if this weren't enough, he is in the final of the tournament to decide who challenges for lshida's Tengen title. Otake Hideo has retained his Gosei title by beating Kudo Norio 3-1. He has now held it for six years in a row
Cabinet ReshuffleLike the Conservative Party the BGA has been playing musical chairs, and we've got a new book distributor, publicity officer and membership secretary.
Brian Timmins takes over as the person responsible for getting you to pay your subscriptions (are you sure you have). The venerable Francis Roads moves from his efficient editing of the Newsletter to take over the publicity post, while a new face, Clive Wright will be selling books and sets. Adresses of all concerned are on the inside cover.
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Membership subsA reminder to club secretaries - have you checked that all your members have renewed their subscriptions for 1986? If not, then waste no time in showing them the instruments of torture.
Also, remember to tell your members about the full range of BGA services - eg bookshop (see BGJ 64 for list), analysis service, kyu dilomas, etc.
Susan Barnes Trust
Susan Barnes TrustAfter over a year of its existence, there still seems to be many players who do not fully understand the function of the Susan Barnes Trust, or are even aware of its existence.
Susan Barnes was the kind of player we all like: always eager for a game, a regular tournament attender, and good company at all times. After her tragic death in a road accident in Zimbabwe, her friends decided that a trust fund would be an appropriate memorial.
The trust is independent of the BGA, but cooperates closely with it. The trustees are David Barnes, Susan's brother who is a solicitor but not yet a Go player; myself; and Nick Webber; Susan's former partner. The administration of the trust is mainly my responsibility.
The purpose of the trust is to make payments to Go players under the age of 18, to be spent on Go books, equipment, or assistance with travel expenses. Awards are made to players who return good results at major tournaments.
The money cannot be spent retrospectively - eg a player who did well in the Under-18 Championship could use his award to cover future expenses, but not the U-18 itself. A typical award mught be 10 for such an event. Players can receive more than one award.
To young players without an income such small amounts can have a significance much greater than is the case for an older player. The difference, for example, between attending another event or not being able to.
As administrator of the trust I should be delighted to hear from anybody who would like to nominate a young player to receive an award, who would like to make a donation to the trust fund, or who has any further enquiries. My address and phone number are on the inside front cover.
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