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Yankees acquire RHP Michael Pineda in four-player trade
The New York Yankees today announced they have acquired RHP Michael Pineda and RHP Jose Campos from the Seattle Mariners in exchange for C/DH Jesus Montero and RHP Hector Noesi.
Pineda, who turned 23 on January 18, went 9-10 with a 3.74 ERA (171.0 IP, 71 ER), 55 walks and 173 strikeouts in 28 starts with the Mariners in 2011 in his first Major League action. He finished fifth in American League Rookie of the Year Award voting, leading all AL rookies in strikeouts and strikeouts/9.0 IP (9.11), ranking second in innings pitched, opponents batting average (.211) and quality starts (19), tying for second in starts and ranking fourth in wins. He also held right-handed batters to a Major League-low .184 batting average (min. 225 batters faced).
The right-hander's 173 strikeouts were the sixth-most by an AL rookie over the last 30 years and second-most all time by a Mariners rookie behind Mark Langston's mark of 204 in 1984. Both his strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.15) and strikeouts/9.0IP mark (9.11) rank as second-highest all time by a qualifying AL rookie.
Pineda opened the season in the Mariners' starting rotation and was the third-youngest AL player on a 2011 Opening Day roster at 22 years, 72 days (as of March 31), behind Kansas City LHP Tim Collins (21 years, 222 days) and Chicago-AL LHP Chris Sale (22 years, 1 day). He earned AL Rookie of the Month honors in April (4-1, 2.01 ERA), and was named to the American League All-Star team after posting an 8-6 record with a 3.03 ERA in the first half.
A native of Yaguate, D.R., Pineda was signed by Seattle as a non-drafted free agent on December 12, 2005. He was named the Mariners' Pitcher of the Year in 2010 and was a finalist for the USA Today Minor League Player of the Year. He entered the 2011 season as the Mariners' top pitching prospect (second overall), according to Baseball America, as well possessing the organization's "Best Fastball" and "Best Slider."
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the last player to pitch with the Yankees at age 23 or younger after having already pitched for another Major League team was Mike Morgan, acquired by the Yankees from Oakland in exchange for INF Fred Stanley in 1980 after pitching the 1978 and 1979 seasons with the Athletics. Morgan made his Yankees debut in 1982 at the age of 22 years, 187 days.
Campos, 19 from La Guairá, Venezuela, was signed by the Mariners as a non-drafted free agent on January 15, 2009, and has compiled a 14-10 record with a 3.26 ERA (171. IP, 62 ER) in three minor league seasons. He spent the 2011 season with short-season Single-A Everett, where he went 5-5 with a 2.32 ERA (81.1 IP, 21 ER) and a team-high 85 strikeouts, leading the Northwest League in ERA and strikeouts and ranking second in opponent's batting average (.214). He walked just 13 batters the entire 2011 season, recording a 1.44 BB/9.0IP ratio, third-lowest among Northwest League starters. Campos was named to the Northwest League All-Star team, and was tabbed as the league's top right-handed prospect (third overall) by Baseball America.
Montero, 22, hit .328 (20-for-61) with nine runs, four doubles, four home runs, 12 RBI and seven walks in 18 games (14 starts at DH, three starts at C) in his Major League debut as a September call-up with the Yankees in 2011. Originally signed by the Yankees as a non-drafted free agent on October 17, 2006, Montero spent a majority of the 2011 season with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, batting .288 (121-for-420) with 52 runs, 19 doubles, 18 home runs and 67 RBI in 109 games and leading all International League catchers with a .997 fielding percentage (two errors, 655 total chances). He ranked third among all Yankees farmhands in home runs at the minor league level en route to being named to the International League's midseason All-Star team. Following the season, the Venezuela native was tabbed by Baseball America as the Yankees' top prospect for the third straight year, as well as being named the organization's "Best Hitter for Average" and "Best Power Hitter."
Noesi, 24, saw his first Major League action in 2011, going 2-2 with a 4.47 ERA (56.1 IP, 28 ER) in 30 appearances (two starts) over four stints with the Yankees. The right-hander was 2-1 with a 4.01 ERA (51.2 IP, 23 ER) in 28 relief appearances, while going 0-1 with a 9.64 ERA (4.2 IP, 5 ER) in two starts-both against the Tampa Bay Rays. Noesi owns a career record of 30-18 at the minor league level with a 2.98 ERA (428.1IP, 142ER) and 401 strikeouts in 97 games (74 starts).


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(Pocket-lint) - The London version of pop-up restaurant The Cube by Electrolux has been a massive success since it opened at the beginning of June. Not only has it seen a steady stream of some of the country's finest Michelin-star chefs ply their trade inside for limited periods, it has also provided fine examples of what is attainable by using Electrolux Professional kitchen equipment.
Pocket-lint attended a lunch at The Cube created and presented by double Michelin-starred chef Claude Bosi, who owns the hugely popular restaurant Hibiscus in central London. We got to watch how he and his kitchen staff prepared each course on Electrolux kit, including induction cooking tops and the latest range of ovens which, unlike in many restaurants, are on show to the diners.
And that's the main appeal of The Cube, to include you in the experience, like a super-cool dinner party -albeit one where the food is cooked by one of the world's greatest chefs on some of the finest kitchen appliances money can buy.
There's only one table, a central one that can seat up to 18 guests. When you book, you and your party will be seated with other diners, as the whole point of the experience is to interact - with your fellow guests, the chef and staff.
Throughout the chef will not only explain each of his courses - of which there were eight during our lunch, not including coffee - but will answer questions on how it was created, give tips on how to emulate the culinary delights, and even give you ideas of how to use your own kitchen equipment to get the best results. You can wait until he comes to you, but he's equally at ease in answering questions while plating up or cooking at the hob, which is also on show at all times.
It's a very high-tech-oriented idea - perhaps obviously, considering the Electrolux involvement - and even the mood and ambience is set using an embedded iPad on the wall. You are also positively encouraged to take photos of your food using smartphones or cameras. While Pocket-lint was there, another Michelin-starred chef and Bosi's brother were also dining with us, and they had their iPhones in hand to capture the action.
Getting to the dining area is a tech-laden exploit in itself, as you have to travel to the top of the Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank - where The Cube is currently situated - in the famous "singing lift". Each floor announcement is sung in a rapidly higher or lower note depending on which direction you're going. It sets up the special event in the most perfect of fashions.
Naturally, the food is spectacular. As is the wine, with a different glass chosen to perfectly complement each course. Chef Bosi presented a number of inspiring dishes, with perhaps the hot terrine of hare and foie gras with leek vinaigrette and black truffle being our fave on the day - no matter how very very guilty it made us feel. But it was his openness and access that made the event.
Read: Electrolux Grand Cuisine: Appliances to create a Michelin star-quality kitchen in your home
As James Wilson, manager of The Cube by Electrolux, told us, this level of interactivity is rare in Michelin-starred chefs' own restaurants. At The Cube they cook and plate the food, tell you how it was made and, even, what equipment was used in the process.
Plus, as the pop-up venue operates on a rota basis, the menu and methods change with a new world-class chef taking the reins each week. They even bring their own cutlery and dishware, which can help create a completely different ambience. The kit they cook with, of course, stays the same, but they may have different favourites.
Bosi told Pocket-lint that was particularly fond of the Electrolux ovens used at the venue. "I like the induction plates, but I like the ovens most," he said. "They can steam, half steam, can be really precise. Yes, the ovens are fantastic."
What they are capable of creating - in the right hands - certainly is.
The Cube by Electrolux is still open for bookings until 31 December - which will culminate in an amazing New Year's Eve overlooking the Thames, Houses of Parliament and London Eye. After then, it will be taken down with a new UK venue yet to be decided. It was planned for only four months initially, but has been in operation for seven, so has had a good innings for a pop-up restaurant.
It has also had sister Cubes in Stockholm, Milan and Brussels, but they have now finished their respective runs.
Lunch starts with a champagne reception at 12pm daily and lasts around three hours for £175 per person. For that, all wine and food is included. Dinner starts at 7pm daily and costs £215 per person. Each will present a minimum of six courses.
The menu changes depending on the chef in residence that particular week. You can find out more at www.electrolux.co.uk/Cube/London.

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Lee's Ferry Fish..
Why are the fish in Lee's Ferry so much smaller now than they used to be? Is it just a different strain of fish in the tailwater now? I know they had big rainbows back in the day through the canyon.. So I just don't understand how most of the fish are smaller today.
All the changes that have happened over the years seems to result in less food in the river and slower growing fish I would say
"With the right conditions, Nature herself provides the best and cheapest way of producing trout, and will produce as many as the food in the river will support"
-Dermot Wilson
Some of the guides I talked to when asking about conditions said it is that there are soooo many more 12" fish from recent successful spawns in the river that getting flies past them to the "normal" Lee's Ferry Pigs is getting harder to pull off............. makes some sense I guess.
I'm catching bigger "big fish" over the last year than I ever did previously during the seven years or so that I have been fishing the Ferry. That said, there are lots of smaller fish in the river now as well. This is a good thing as the numbers really crashed a while back. I think there is more food in the river than recently as well--certainly there is no shortage of green stuff. Tailwaters are famous for constantly changing so who knows what the next few years will bring.
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
---Ernest Hemingway
It's been about 45 years since Glen Canyon Dam was completed. While Lake Powell was filling nutrient loads were higher as lots of organic debris was flooded. Those nutrients flowed into the Lees Ferry section and provided a good food base for trout. Now that the reservoir has matured, fewer nutrients mean less food for trout so they don't grow as big. Add to that the abundance of small fish all looking for a meal and you have fewer fish reaching large size. Logically, killing some smaller fish would lead to more larger fish but fewer total number in the system. Since guides like their clients to catch lots of fish, naturally they are reluctant to thin the population.
See the Game and Fish regulations for Lees Ferry below. They encourage anglers to take 4 smaller fish per day.
Colorado River
From Glen Canyon Dam to the beginning of the Paria riffle (Lees
Ferry). Trout over 12 inches may not be possessed. The limit is 4
trout per day and 8 trout in possession; artificial fly and lure only;
barbless hooks only. Trout taken from this portion of the Colorado
River shall be killed and retained as part of the bag limit or immediately
Do you recall if G&F planted a smaller growing strain of rainbow after the flood of '83?
I recall hearing something about that. From my limited experience, the numbers of larger trout started declining after the flood, as did the brookies.
Hey Doug...surviving the snow? Come on spring!
My recollection is foggy but I believe that Game and Fish doesn't really know what strains were planted early on. Seems record keeping was not as good then as now. And there are so many different strains of rainbows.
Remember the brookies off the mouth of the Paria? They stoped stocking anything but rainbows and the brook trout couldn't sustain themselves, so they are gone now. But wow! Football brookies; that was cool.
Personally, I don't think we'll ever see large, Bighorn River-style fish at the Ferry again. It's a cold, nutrient starved system with high canyon walls that reduce sunlight exposure to substrates. I doubt the strain of 'bows has much to do with it. But what a beautiful place to fish and the perk of bending your rod on an 18 inch trout makes it all worthwhile.
Too bad access is such a bear.
Surviving OK. Hope this moisture fills some stock tanks and gives the deserts a rejuvination for flowers and quail.
I have not fished the Ferry much in several years since selling my small boat. Christmas of '82 found Four-Mile covered with 5 pounders. Friend caught a 4 pound brookie that was beautiful, in a backwater closer to the dam. I caught a 7.5 from the dam island that trip also.
This weekend looks like it could be nice for a trip to the walk-in.
Here is the report for the walk-in from T. Gunn (http://www.leesferry.com/report/index.php):
Walk in: I have had only a few reports for this section. Word has it fishing well in the morning hours then slowing up somewhere around noon. When the flows peak fishing shuts off in this area and starts up again after 3 or 4 in the after noon. We are still counting on the zebra midge and San Juan worm to do the work, and they are.
Me on my very first day of fishing Lees Ferry. In case you are curious...it weighted 12-lbs.
Wow, this is a complicated issue, I'm not sure that I have all the answers to this question; however, here is my best effort at explaining the fish history at Lees Ferry.
Lees Ferry Fishing History
I have spent more than 60,000 hours on and mostly knee deep in this big river and I thought that it was time for me to pen a brief history of fishing at Lees Ferry from my perspective; I'm not sure that I have all the answers; however, here is my best effort at explaining the fish history at Lees Ferry as I have seen it. I have no formal training in fisheries, like most guides I got all my training on the job. Over the years I have read every available study and report I could get my hands on relating to the ecology, trout behavior, entomology, and everything published regarding the fishery on this river. In the process we built in the late 1990s what was at that time the largest fishing guide service in the world. There has been a lot water flow under my boat and I have likely touched more wild trout than any other man on earth; that is not a bold statement but one that humbles me with the privilege.
Let's start in the beginning:
1963 Rainbow trout were stocked in the Lees Ferry reach of the Colorado River as were mayflies, caddis, scuds, cladophora (algae) snails and crayfish.
For the next 10 years nobody fished this stretch of river and these fish grew to immense size unmolested by man.
By the mid-70's the Ferry was discovered, the limit was 10 fish and there were many limits that came out of this river that exceed 100-lbs. The limit was reduced in 1978 from 10 to 4 fish. Brookies and lahontan cutthroat were stocked in the late 70's and also grew really big. The largest brookie that I ever saw weighed 5-lbs after it was gutted. The largest cutthroat was near 8-lbs. I caught a 33 1/2 in rainbow in 1984 and in 85 saw a 16.5-lb fish that was caught in front of the boat dock. There are rumors that a kid from Page once caught a trout that he cleaned and gutted and after he hiked back up ropes trail with the fish it weighed 20-lbs. We did not talk in inches at the Ferry we described fish in pounds. Lees Ferry was the best trophy trout fishery in the world. What created it and what happened to it? No one really knows.
The theory of new and fertile reservoir makes perfect sense from the standpoint that the new water in Lake Powell was full of nutrients, however, there was an exception to that theory at Willow Beach, the tailwater below Hoover that produced thousands of giant rainbows (state record rainbow 21-lb 5.5 oz, Sept 1966) 30 years AFTER the construction of the Lake Meade reservoir.
Could it have been something as simple as sewage that was allowed to flow into the river from Vegas and Page that dramatically increased the nutrient load and allowed trout to attain massive size? I truly believe this to be as good a theory as any and one that I have never heard discussed.
I started guiding here in 1983, the same year of the great flood when the river flowed at 100,000-cfs. This volume of water essentially stripped the river of all of the food and big fish need lots of food to survive. After the flood there were remnant large fish but not near the numbers that existed prior to 1983. By this time Arizona anglers were spoiled; I remember when people were disappointed because the biggest fish that they would catch in a day of fishing was ONLY an 8 pounder. Stocking of brookies and cutthroats were discontinued while the annual stocking of fingerling rainbow trout continued.
From 1984 through 86 the water releases from Glen Canyon Dam averaged 35-40,000-cfs. That is a bunch of water. Fish started growing again and by the late 80's we were catching lots of large fish; I remember days where my clients would catch more than a hundred fish that were 20 to 24-in long. In those days almost everyone was using night crawlers with spinning rods (Larry Allen was fly fishing) and often the fish took the bait deep and died. In 1986 we pushed for and received a new regulation that required the use of artificial flies and lures only. Fishing got better and better. Kamloops trout were stocked but never did well.
In 1989 we had opened Lees Ferry Anglers Fly shop and Guide Service just in time for the government to begin studying the effects of Glen Canyon Dam with a program called Glen Canyon Environmental Studies (GCES) headed by David Wagner, (who later became involved in The Glen Canyon Institute, a group dedicated to the decommissioning of Glen Canyon Dam and who now works for Congress!). For 2 years, releases were radically altered on a 2 week basis then the river was held level at 5,000-cfs for 3 days while measurements were taken. This is the famous time where all the fish became "snakes" with long skinny bodies and big heads. The poor fish condition was attributed to a nematode infestation; I say that the trout were starving to death as a result of the erratic flows.
In the early 90's, following the studies and erratic flows, the fishery crashed hard; there were hardly any fish left in the river. We asked the AZ Game and Fish Department to stock fish at Lees Ferry and they responded by stocking 60,000 "catchable" trout in the river. With 20-20 hindsight, this may be the single biggest mistake that we ever made at Lees Ferry. With the "native" trout population depleted, the introduced fish (belaire strain) interbred and possibly became the dominate strain of trout at the Ferry. I remember that a year after the 6-in "catchable" fish were stocked they were all 18-inches, shiny and fat river rockets (they were very recognizable due to their hatchery origins, tails and fins were distorted). A year and two years later they were still 18-inches. I believe that their growth was not limited by food but genetics. These fish interbred with the native fish and that Lees Ferry gene still pops up once in a while and we see a fish well into the 20's but they are rare. Stocking at Lees Ferry was stopped with the exception of a few fingerlings released with nose tags to try and track their progress.
The 90's saw Interim Flows at Lees Ferry which changed the way Glen Canyon Dam was operated. The same flows were designed to protect the environment of the Grand Canyon and the Lees Ferry trout fishery (hard to believe but the fishery was once that important). The regulated river flows, a full reservoir, and high snow pack in the Rockies, all combined into perfect conditions for the Lees Ferry trout fishery to boom throughout the 90's. My business grew to where we had 14 full time guides and there were plenty of other guides working the river as independents. It was boom time not only for the fishery but the economy was hitting on all cylinders. The fish were big and there were lots of them. Anyone could catch fish at Lees Ferry and people came from all over the country to fish this river. Lees Ferry Anglers Fly Shop became one of the largest retailers of fly fishing equipment in the United States. In 1996 we saw the first experimental "flood" which had little effect on the trout fishery but brought the concept of "saving and restoring the Grand Canyon" through artificial floods, into every living room in America via every network and cable TV station in the country.
Then came the Great Western Drought. In the summer of 1999, Lake Powell was close to full with reservoir storage at 23.5 million acre-feet, or 97 percent of capacity. 2000 was a really dry year with very little runoff. The Bureau of Reclamation was being pressured by the Grand Canyon Trust and other environmental groups to study the effects of steady flows on the Colorado River, since there was no water coming in this was the perfect year for them to conduct an experiment where they could also reduce water going out of the lake. So a very hasty experiment was organized where the flows were reduced to 8,000 CFS for June, July, August, September, and October. These months are normally high water months. There we were, with a river that is chock full of big trout and the water was suddenly reduced by more than 50%. Well, guess what happened? The fish got stressed, there was not enough food, and the fish started dying. Too many fish, not enough water and food equals disaster and the fishery crashed AGAIN. The 8,000-cfs experimental flows caused much more damage to the resource than the trout population crash: Conditions were perfect for the propagation of the New Zealand Mud Snail. Prior to the experimental flow we had seen not one Mud Snail, at the conclusion of the experiment the Mud Snails were everywhere in the river, the New Zealand Mud Snail population had become established and exploded to levels that were incomprehensible. In addition to this the conditions created by the low flow experiment had allowed the explosion of growth of tamarisk trees, (an invasive, exotic specie of tree) to grow in thick carpets all along the river, right down to the edge of the 8,000-cfs level. We organized groups to pull tammies and I spent my days guiding and pulling trees and we were able to save many of our fishing areas from being overcome by these trees. There was nothing that we could do about the snails...they were here by the billions.
It was around this time that some goofball who worked for the AZ Game and Fish Department estimated that the trout population at Lees Ferry was 50,000 fish per mile. All of us locals knew that this estimate was way out of line with reality. About this same time there was a sudden idea that developed with the scientists that were researching the river (GCMRC) that if there were this many trout in the river they must be having a negative impact on the native fish, the humpback chub. Despite the fact that there was very little science to back up this supposition it gained momentum and resulted in another experimental flow regime that was enacted in 2003 and 2004, this flow was perfect for the power producers and was loved and embraced by many it was a step back to the flows that prompted all of the studies and all the environmental impact statements these flows allowed the river to drop to 5,000 cfs in the evenings and early morning hours (conserve water) then early in the day (9AM, the time that power demand starts to increase) the flows were quickly ramped up to 20,000-cfs (close to the maximum power production allowed by the current legislation), then ramped back down to 5,000 cfs. If the power producers could design the perfect flow scenario from their perspective, this would be just about it. These experimental flows had a devastating effect on the trout spawn and the recreational fishery at Lees Ferry. It was a couple years later that the trout population had declined to such a level that the guides and public asked the Arizona Game and Fish department to once again stock fish at Lees Ferry. They agreed that there were too few fish in the Lees Ferry reach and in the process of investigating the stocking of trout they received a notice from two environmental groups, Living Rivers, and The Center for Biodiversity, who both announced that they would sue the AZG&FD if the plans to stock trout continued. The AZG&FD backed down and did not stock. Luckily the trout recovered.
Most all the science that has demonstrated that Rainbow Trout harm the Humpback Chub was developed around the supposition that the trout population was 50,000 trout per mile THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE RIVER SYSTEM FROM GLEN CANYON DAM PAST THE LITTLE COLORADO RIVER. Later studies concluded that the trout population was overestimated by a factor of 7.5! However, rainbow trout were now the bad boy of the system, the alleged reason for the decline of the HBC. History will prove this wrong; I assure you that on any given day, great blue herons, ospreys, cormorants, and catfish eat more chubs than rainbow trout ever have or will. Rainbow trout are not piscivorous, they eat insects not fish.
Coincident with the Trout Suppression Flows was the great western drought; over a 5 year period from 2000 through 2004, unregulated inflow into Lake Powell was substantially below average. This resulted in Lake Powell storage decreasing during this period to 8.0 million acre-feet (the lake was 33 percent of total capacity!) which occurred on April 8, 2005. The Bureau of reclamation conducted another High Flow Experiment; the timing of this flood was very poorly timed to occur when no flood had ever previously occurred on the river. It happened in November. No one knows why (timing?) but this flood really hammered the aquatic food source. The scud population was severely depleted and it has taken several years for the scud population to recover and several years later is just now returning to pre-flood levels. This time the fishery did not bounce back like it had every other time, nobody understood what was going on, me included. The fish were growing slow, there were not many of them and we had several years of poor spawns (trout suppression flows).
It came to me suddenly in February 2006 I figured it out. In mid February, the sun climbs high into the sky which allows sunlight back into the canyon and lets us to see into the river... This particular day I looked around and saw a river that was full of Algae...it was everywhere, wall to wall, shore to shore! This was something that I have not seen in years and something that I forgot that I was not seeing. It dawned on me that the river was suddenly healthy and it had to be a result of the large water inflow into Lake Powell the previous year and the reason that our fishery had been doing so poorly for the past several years was the fact that there was hardly any water inflow into Lake Powell (compounded by the erratic and extreme experimental Trout Suppression Flows); the lake and river WAS STARVING FOR NUTRIENTS!!! Now those nutrients were back. The above normal winter snow pack and runoff into Lake Powell in 2005, stirred up a tremendous amount of nutrient laden sediment that had accumulated at the lake mouths of the Colorado River, San Juan River, and the Green River. Lake Powell elevation increased 43-ft. and the rivers flowing into the lake mixed the sediment and nutrients into the lake water. The turning point and the beginning for the recovery of the Lees Ferry fishery occurred in 2005 when Lake Powell had the first above normal snow-pack and runoff year since 1997. Since then we have had normal or above normal runoff almost every year.
The increased nutrient load in the lake and river is evident by the dramatic increase in aquatic vegetation and aquatic organisms that has occurred throughout the river since 2006. As of this writing 03/08/2010, the fish population is back to near the levels of the late 90's. The river is full of large and healthy fish. For those of you that remember what the fishing was like in 1999 and 2000 you should be as excited as I am about the current conditions and what the increased nutrient load should do for the fishing at Lees Ferry. In 2008 we got another experimental flood. This one was of short duration and happened at a more normal time, early March. We don't know if it was a direct result of the flood or what but the new Zealand Mud Snails have essentially disappeared ever since. Immediately following the experimental flood, just about every fish in the river was spawning...this is something that we have never seen before and have not seen since.
Last year, 2009, the average fish that I was putting into my net was a very fat 17-inches, and we were catching lots of larger fish. Then we had the invasion of all the fish that hatched 2 years ago from the epic spawn that followed the 2008 experimental flood. Now the river is chock full of all sizes of fish from 12 to 20-in, however, we are currently catching lots of the smaller fish because there are so many of them and they have yet to be educated (Im working on that). I do not remember a time where the river ever held so many different year classes of fish as we see today; this should bode well for several years to come.
What the future holds for this fishery is in constant dispute. A couple years ago, Living Rivers and The Center for Biodiversity threatened the Arizona Game and Fish Department with legal action if they were to stock fish at Lees Ferry. There are those that want to see Glen Canyon Dam removed so the river can once again flow free. Rainbow Trout are being blamed by many (with little or no scientific evidence to support the claim) for harming the Humped Backed Chub in the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon trust is currently suing the Bureau of Reclamation to try and force them to run steady flows from Glen Canyon Dam, they want low flows in the summer, winter, and fall, high flows in the spring. They think this is going to help the Chub. Not sure what this would do to the trout fishery but it the Grand Canyon Trust prevails in the lawsuit it would seriously reduce and almost eliminate the ability of Glen Canyon Dam to generate electricity. This would put thousands of tons of additional carbon in the atmosphere since this electricity will have to be replaced and the only feasible replacement is construction of yet another coal fired plant somewhere in the southwest. And of course there is the least predictable and most important ingredient of all...the weather. It is possible that we might not be out of the drought and that Lake Powell could once again enter a dramatic decline. On the other side there is always the chance that the flood of 1983 could once again occur and wash everything away.
I cannot waste my time worrying about what might happen to the river that has given me and many others so much. I'm just going to keep doing what I have done for most of my life...helping others to enjoy the beauty of Glen Canyon, guiding and sharing my knowledge of trout and fishing, and to continue to do everything in my power to help to protect this National Treasure, the Lees Ferry Trout fishery.
Terry Gunn
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As well as supplying motherboards, ASRock is also a vendor of desktop 'mini computers', something they have done with distinction, being named on the 2012 shortlist for Taiwanese 'Brand Award' for the very first time. It was a good period for the company, as its products became ETDC (External Trade Development Council) endorsed in 2013.
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ASRock enjoys a significant share of the global market, standing at around 38% and it attains this via retail channels in a traditional store environment and online. On a national level, the company is rated number 1 in Korea and number 2 in Japan, both of which are significant and influential markets.
What lays ahead for the Taiwanese giant? Well, for this relative newcomer to the IT hardware manufacturing world, it seems like the sky's the limit and ts long term future is assured (as much as it ever can be).
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Speaking up: Sally Thomas knows her stuff
Sally Thomas' life has a storybook quality to it. She met her husband, George, at Harvard. She lives in Ivy, in a quintessential white Virginia farmhouse that most transplants here only dream of finding, where her cats greet visitors at the door.
And she was the Cinderella write-in candidate in the 1993 Board of Supervisors race. "I didn't think I would win," she says. "Conventional wisdom is that write-ins don't."
And yet, she did win and is widely considered a leader in the fight to control rampant growth. Now as board chairman, she's become the voice of the supes. In fact, that's the part of the job that she's discovered she likes best.
"I'm a shy public speaker, and it was a surprise I like writing and giving the speeches the chairman gives," she admits.
What will come as no surprise to those who've followed Thomas' career as a lobbyist for UVA and as a supervisor is that beneath her soft-spoken, well-mannered approach, she's a policy wonk. Over the summer, the governor appointed her to the none-too-sexy sounding Virginia Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
"I enjoy government," says Thomas. "I majored in government. I enjoy participating in government."
Age: 61
What brought you here? My husband joined the UVA faculty in 1963.
What's worst about living here? The humidity. I grew up in the dry part of Oregon.
Favorite hangout? Right here on my screened-in porch.
What's overrated? Deregulation
What would people be surprised to know about you? I was born in Texas, and I used to drive a bright yellow Corvette.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? My initials SHT.
What accomplishment are you proudest of? My marriage and my children. A happy family is an accomplishment.
What do people find most annoying about you? I can't resist playing devil's advocate to whatever ideas my friends bring up. [Pause] My husband suggested that.
Whom do you admire? Burn unit nurses. People who do difficult jobs are the ones I most admire, and that's one of the hardest.
Favorite book? Alistair MacLeod's No Great Mischief
What subject causes you to rant? Adult-proof packaging
What thrills you about life in the 21st century? Email
What creeps you out about life in the 21st century? Email
What do you drive? '91 Honda
What's in your car tape player right now? A book on tape, An American Homeplace by Donald McCaig
What's your next journey? To San Francisco to meet the aforementioned happy family. My two daughters live there.
What's the most trouble you've ever gotten in? Giving birth at home unplanned.
What do you regret? All the things I haven't done, whether it's peace in the universe or that thank-you letter I didn't get written.
Favorite comfort food? Saga blue cheese
What's always in your refrigerator? Milk, eggs, fruit, wine
Must-see TV? ER
Favorite cartoon? "Zits" in the Washington Post
Describe a perfect day. I'd have a horseback ride, solve some constituent's problem, have an exquisite dinner, and have a productive meeting. Then at the end of the day, a phone call from a daughter.
Walter Mitty fantasy? I'm standing in front of the Virginia Senate Local Government Committee, and they're actually agreeing with me.
Who'd play you in the movie? Road Runner
Most embarrassing moment? Singing "Rock Around the Clock" at a high school assembly.
Best advice you ever got? Grab the opportunities that may only come around once.
Favorite bumper sticker? I drive 25 in Batesville.Read more on: sally thomas


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Dance News
Cosmic Gate New from Cosmic Gate Featuring Emma Hewitt is the song Not Enough Time. Not Enough Time is also the first single release from the forthcoming new Cosmic Gate album Sign Of The Times, which is scheduled for a release in March 2009.
Alex M.O.R.P.H. New from Alex M.O.R.P.H. is the hit single Sunshine, it's taken from his forthcoming album Purple Audio (due to be released in July 2009).
The Prodigy New from The Prodigy is the single Omen, released on February 13th. The new album Invaders Must Die will be released on February 20th. The album will be released in 2 versions: Standard & Limited Deluxe Box Set. The Limited Deluxe Box Set also includes 5 vinyls, DVD and a bonus cd.
Alice Deejay New from M25 is the release Better Of Alone a remake of Alice Deejay's hit. It's about ten years ago Alice Deejay stormed the charts with Better Off Alone, but in 2009 it is M25 who present their very own version of this infectious dance track. M25 is formed by two Polish producers named Roman Kowalski and Csaba Bernacki who named themselves after the famous club M25 where the duo first met.
David Guetta New from David Guetta is the release Everytime We Touch.
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On playing the sexual honesty needed for the role in the big-screen adaptation of the erotic novel, Johnson explained, "I don't have any problem doing anything. The secret is I have no shame."
Dakota added, "Reading the book, I found myself more interested in the ways they were breaking each other down emotionally than the sex scenes. I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down."
Johnson, daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, also talked about growing up with famous parents. "I think people, especially the press, like to pick on children of famous people, and I think that's f**king awful. Things get made up. It's so, so sad. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it as a 16-year-old. You're like… why? What did I do?"
Read more of the interview and see more pics at Elle.com!
Dakota Johnson: 'Fifty Shades' of Gorgeous
"Fifty Shades of Grey" star Dakota Johnson makes her fashion magazine debut on the March cover of Elle magazine, channeling her "Fifty Shades" alter ego Anastasia Steele.


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Bono is becoming the richest man in rock, and it has nothing to do with his record sales.
The U2 frontman's private equity firm, Elevation Partners, was an early investor in Facebook, which hit the stock market Friday at a record valuation for an internet firm, launching the millionaire singer into the billionaire club.
The payout for the firm's 2.3 percent stake in the social network site was said to be worth an estimated $1.5 billion, Benzinga reported. That's more than seven times the $195 million Bono collected from record sales and touring the last two years and enough to make the rock star, who has an estimated worth of $900 million, a billionaire.
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It will also make him the richest rocker in the world, ahead of Paul McCartney who's reigned atop the industry's wealth charts with his estimated $1 billion fortune.
Bono is the one musician among a slew of finance heavyweights (like Goldman Sachs, Russian tycoon Yuri Milner), tech hotshots (Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel) and close associates, friends and family members of Facebook founder Marc Zuckerberg, who were set to become (if they aren't already) billionaires overnight.
Excitement about a legitimate rock star's inclusion in the wonky group inspired rumors that Bono might be the one to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange Friday. He wasn't.


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Zirain, it sounds like you are getting a large amount of packet loss which causes the game to reset the connection and request a "full update" from the server. If your connection has very low bandwidth, this full update maybe too large and being dropped, so you end up stuck.
There are a few suggestions I can make that may help:
- Are you playing in wireless? Wireless can cause huge drops in packet loss based on load and interference. Try moving to a wired connection if possible.
- Enable the console in Dota 2 and try setting "rate 20000" in the console. This will tell the server to send its data at a lower rate to you which may reduce the burst traffic that is interfering. The default rate is "80000". You can probably set rate as low as 12000, but I wouldn't recommend that as the game will start choking packets to try to keep the data under the rate cap you set.
Let me know if either of those changes help you. Also, typing "net_graph 5" into the console and taking a screenshot of the graph shortly after one of these incidents may assist in seeing what is occuring.


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We met Neil Jones and Ekaterina Sokolova next day after their winning of Amateur Latin competition at the UK Open 2012. We sat together in the lobby of the Bournemouth International Centre and had a long and interesting conversation. Neil and Ekaterina represent England. See their profile page
[Ekaterina]: I started when I was six. In Russia it is very popular for kids to start all sorts of activities from the very young age. There are art schools and you learn to play piano, sing, pain, you do gymnastics or dancing. I did all these things. Then, slowly, I found myself just with piano and dancing. I lived near St Petersburg. We had good schools there. Then I dropped the piano and stayed with dancing. It was what I wanted to do. I was in St Petersburg until I started dancing with Neil.
[Ekaterina]: I had few partners there. I started going to the school in St Petersburg where my teachers, Radik and Eva Bagautdinov, worked.
[Ekaterina]: Both styles. I only stopped Ballroom four years ago when I started dancing with Neil. I am still a pretty good Ballroom dancer! (laughing). As a Junior I had good results in both styles; we danced the Blackpool Junior and mainly around the Baltic states. But we did not have really such good results in Amateur so... I felt it was a very good chance for me when I met Neil.
[Neil]: She actually paid me (laughing) I am joking of course!
[Neil]: I started dancing when I was three. I started with ballet. It was just a local school where I lived at the time, which was Bordon in Hampshire. It was an army camp. Not far from here, maybe about hour and a half drive. I only started because my sister was already dancing there. She is a year older than me. After doing this, she went into Ballroom and Latin. I was doing judo and football. But the problem was she was coming home, every weekend, with a trophy. I was doing judo... and after a while you change a belt colour, after few stripes you get to the next one, and you have a contest maybe twice a year so... I remember when I came home with a medal, my first gold medal, and she just said: oh nice, but look at all my trophies! So I thought, oh I am going to start dancing as well. So I started dancing, first with IDTA which is medallist circuit.
[Neil]: I must have been six, young Juvenile. So this is how I started. By the time I was eleven I became runners-up of the Medallist of the Year competition. The boy who won the competition decided to go out to the open circuit. So I thought to myself I am not going to stay here for another year when he is gone and have an easy win and I decided to go out to the open circuit as well. I remember my first competition when I was not out of first round. I remember coming to all these competitions when I was not out of first round and my dream was to get to the second round! I move abroad of course few times. I was living in Finland and dancing over there. It was a first trip I had...
[Ekaterina]: You were just fifteen at the time, right?
[Neil]: At the time my teacher was Johan Eftedal who had ties with his close friend there Jarmo Nuutinen. He said there was a girl in Finland and I should go and try. So I went there for a year. I was dancing there and competing for Finland. Things did not work out so I came back to England. I was seventeen. Then I move to Holland. And again, it was just a try out. I was having some try-outs then I found a partner and ended up living there for eight years.
[Neil]: Yes! I've been dancing with my former partner Nataliya. We split. I went to Russia for few try-outs then I found a partner. We were dancing together for about six months. Blackpool was our first major competition. We've done some smaller competitions before. We've mutually decided it was not, kind of, working for us. We both wanted different things. We were two different people. We've never argued or disagreed, we got on fine, but it somehow did not come together. Richard Porter said to me: I know a girl right for you, she is just as crazy as you, so you should try-out with her. He said: you don't know her, but she is good, and people either love you or hate you so you should try.
[Ekaterina]: It was like that! When I split with my partner we already had a trip booked to dance Blackpool. So I decided to go anyway. I went together with my Mum. I actually did not plan any try-outs as nobody really knew who I was, I just came to watch. But because I've been working with Karen Hardy before, and Richard Porter as well, when they found out I was coming they told me that I should have some try-out really. Karen helped me to arrange some. And Richard said to me that he knows a partner for me. He wouldn't tell me who it was! So I did not know and I was wondering all the time. He finally told me it was Neil Jones and my Mum said: oh, it is that ginger boy!
[Neil]: This is how they knew me!
[Ekaterina]: It was like everybody knew him: ginger boy! Richard said if we dance together people either are going to love us or hate us because I was just as crazy as him.
[Neil]: So, yes, it was at Blackpool. It was on the day of Professionals, we had a try-out that morning. We actually put together all the five dances at this try-out
[Ekaterina]: It was really quick!
[Neil]: And we both said to each other, I liked it, you liked it. It was on the day you were leaving...
[Ekaterina]: Yes. And Richard asked him: what did you say to her? And Neil just said: we going to speak more about it. And Richard said: call her now and say yes!
[Neil]: So I did (laughing)
[Ekaterina]: Then I came over for longer period of time. We had some routines made...
[Neil]: At one point I actually got worried when we had a try-out. It is a funny story. Katia walked up to me and Richard. We were talking between ourselves that it feels good and it could be nice and she come up and said: oh, Neil, by the way, would you be interested in having try-out with my friend?! We, kind of, looked at each other and ... you know, a bit of a shock... I said, sort of, yeah. As Katia walked away from us we looked at each other and said: maybe she actually didn't like the try-out. (laughing) We always laugh about it afterwards.
[Ekaterina]: (laughing) I wanted to be nice to my friend!
[Neil]: She always says she couldn't say "No" to her friend. She couldn't say to her: No, because I want to dance with him! We were really shocked and we still are to this day, or rather we are now joking about it still to this day!
[Neil]: Something like that! Anyway, this is how we started and the International was our first main competition.
[Ekaterina]: For me, and I am always saying that, it was a huge jump! Neil was in the top 24 there for long time. He was trying to get to the semi-finals and I was really happy to get to the second round! So there was a lot of pressure really. We ended up in the top 24 then and for me it was a huge success and Neil was happy because it was our first competition really. Later at the UK Open we danced the Rising Stars...
[Neil]: For me it was weird. I did not dance the Rising Stars for years.
[Ekaterina]: He was a star already! (laughing)
[Neil]: We did not dance them anymore. We decided not to do them anymore.
[Ekaterina]: We talked with Richard Porter and he said it was good to do that once. We did it and won it. The International was top 24, UK Open was semi – Neil was over the moon.
[Neil]: Of course then was Blackpool and we were straight into the final. It was incredible. I was fantastic. I remember, before the final, we stood there and did not pay that much attention. And then they said: from England... And I looked at Katia and said...
[Ekaterina]: he said: who is from England!?
[Neil]: We were thinking there was another couple from England in the semi-final and it's them in there. But then it clicked: oh, it is us! I remember, it was pure adrenaline, I felt I was walking on air! At this first final, we just had this big smile, it did not matter how tired we were.
[Ekaterina]: My Mum did not have the seating ticket and she later told me she could not even see us! She was trying to get near the floor to see us. And only by the time we dance the Rumba she managed to find a spot. It was so emotional for her as well.
[Ekaterina]: Of course he danced for Holland and he had a lot of fans. They still love him.
[Neil]: When I dance I love to perform. I love to react to the public. And through the time, they give that appreciation back. It is nice. When Richard said that people like me or hate me, he meant my style. Our style is so different to other couples. Some people may not agree with what we do or not like what we do. But I prefer that actually! I prefer that people either love us or hate us. I don't want that: they're OK.
[Neil]: Oh yes! Of course there are some competitions where you just... maybe it is just one of those days... not that you don't enjoy being there but it doesn't feel as good as it normally does. That's hard.
[Ekaterina]: You are trying to enjoy it...
[Neil]: But you don't always get this feeling. And you ask yourself: why now, why today! Yesterday, for me, it felt really good. Katia felt very nervous yesterday. As we got the final she was good again.
[Neil]: You always are. I so much respect every couple in that final, and all the couples in the semi.
[Ekaterina]: And we are friends with them
[Neil]: I know how good they are. I know we are all different from each other. I know that some of my weaknesses or Katia's weaknesses are their strengths. And the other way round. People come to you before the competition and say: good luck, you will surely win. But: no, you don't know until the end. I am very superstitious as well. So every time when we are hearing the results she needs to stand next to me. She can't talk then, she has to hold my hand. She tries to say something, and I am like: focus! I know anything can happen. So I know you can't expect anything. I know that from the past.
[Ekaterina]: Yes!
[Neil]: It is a mix. I have been though all the different situations before, have been in a relationship and then I haven't been in a relationship with my partner...
[Ekaterina]: You always find a way really
[Neil]: Yes. There is no right solution. In one way, when you are dancing with your girlfriend it is great because you are sharing every moment with her. You live together, you travel together, you dance together – everything is shared. On the other hand... everything is shared! So there are moments when you just want her to go away (laughing). You feel: simply leave me alone! But when your partner is not your girlfriend you have all the other problems. In one way, it is good, this is your life and this is mine, we just dance. But in the same time you've got the extra hassle with the other boyfriend or girlfriend saying: oh, why are you spending so much time together, when are you going there together? So there are pluses and minuses of both sides.
[Ekaterina]: That's exactly right. But if you really want you always find your way around the problems.
[Ekaterina]: I am a different person once I go to practice. I am in a different set of mind. Whether I love him or not wouldn't stop me from criticising him. I say to him what I want to say.
[Neil]: When we practise we don't even think about our relationship. I would never use that in the practice situation. I would never say: oh, you did not do the washing up today!
[Ekaterina]: Yes, this is our career so we always try to separate it.
[Neil]: This is business, this is dancing. Nothing to do with our relationship, it is separate.
[Ekaterina]: I think I am quite hard at the practice because this is something I care about. This is our future. This is our profession, our career.
[Neil]: When we practise it is strictly business. But we are humans and things sometimes come up, there are always going to be emotions. She may be having a bad day and she will be taking it out on me. And I don't have bad days! It is difficult. I understand this more because of the age difference I think. I've been in these situations a lot more. Sometimes she goes to bed and I actually take this one hour for myself. Katia knows a lot and does a lot. But I have been through some experiences before and she hasn't. It is good because she doesn't have to go through those problems but it is hard to persuade her!
[Ekaterina]: I often say: why?
[Neil]: I just don't want to experience it again, you know. It would have been easier if we've grown up together, dance together all our lives, experienced every moment together because the mental side would be more balanced... We actually have a mental coach and we work with her as well.
[Ekaterina]: It helps a lot with all the issues.
[Neil]: I believe everybody needs it. All sides are important, physical and mental.
[Ekaterina]: You may look at the other sports, at the runner and think, why does he need it, he just runs. But all of them have a mental coach. In dancing it is even more important because there are two people doing it together. They have to cope together and produce a good performance.
[Neil]: Our performance is about feeling as well. Mental side is important. You have a good day and a bad day. It is all up here, in your mind. You have to be very strong there.
[Neil]: She is very creative. She loves fashion, she loves design and that all goes into her dancing because she is looking at every movement she wants to produce. She asks herself: does that look creative, does that look interesting. I find it interesting to watch her. I love that about her!
[Ekaterina]: I think Neil is even more creative! When we dance, things come naturally for him. I like to follow that spirit. He often follows his natural instincts. It is always new and fresh. He always listens to music...
[Neil]: She hates that about me! She loves it and hates it!
[Ekaterina]: This is because he listens to the music and needs to feel it and then something comes out. So I never know what's going to happen! I always have to be alert. He just follows his feelings at that moment. It is great. We rehearse, of course. But on the day he just does what he feels. That's when he performs his best.
[Neil]: Her biggest problem is she doesn't believe in herself. I am very positive but I always find Katia is very negative at herself. She may win the competition but still will not believe she is good enough. She may look at somebody who did not maybe made it into the top 96 and she will be saying: oh, I wish I could dance like that girl. And you just look at her and want to say: what!? I always say to her: come on, be more positive, and believe in yourself.
[Neil]: It is good in a way because we are both very humble people. I don't like arrogant people and I don't like to be around arrogant people. Katia always says to me that I stop and talk to everybody but I think: why not! I talk to various people: dancers, people who take tickets, everybody really.
[Ekaterina]: This is what I dislike in him. You know, you feel sometimes people want to get on with their things but he stops them chatting to them!
[Neil]: I treat people like I want people to treat me! Whoever the person is, I will speak to them. I don't want them to think they are not important to me or something like that.
[Ekaterina]: He talks too much! It usually is not a problem but... oh my God, please cut his tongue!
[Neil]: Yes, she could walk away and I could speak for both of us! (laughing)
[Ekaterina]: I really sometimes wish he could just stop talking! (laughing)
[Neil]: In dancing, at this level, it is important to practice to prepare your body physically but it is equally important to be prepared mentally. So on some days I feel we need to discuss this and that and she will just be like: oh, will he shut up! But I won't leave it because I know it is important (laughing).
[Neil]: We will be off to the Asian Tour. We will dance the Amateur events. We were there last year and it was fantastic. It was a real experience to do this.
[Ekaterina]: It was great to see all these different places like Tokyo. You get used to do this: arrive, dance, leave. But it was nice to do something different.
[Neil]: Yes, you get used to all the major competitions and ones before these, and some in between, but it was nice to do something else. We've never competed in Asia before.
[Ekaterina]: We tried to plan at least half a day to go and look around.
[Neil]: The next big one is Blackpool. And after that, we will see.
[Neil]: At the moment we are just thinking about Blackpool.
[Ekaterina]: Of course, we are preparing mentally. We know we are heading towards that but we are Amateurs now.
[Neil]: Everything we do is about the performance and quality. So we are constantly thinking what else we need to do. We are not just thinking of the next Blackpool. If and when we decide to go to the Professional we know it is another level again. Everybody is good. In the Amateurs couples are really good but Professionals are another level. It is different. We need to ask ourselves what do we still need to do to be able to get any type of results in the Professional field. It is on our mind every day. When the day comes when we say to ourselves we want to take that trip then we will do it.
[Neil]: I am not sure if you could say there is a difference between the Professionals and Amateurs. They are all different within these fields. We have respect and appreciation for all of them as long as they have their own style. In the Amateurs you have very good dancers in the top 48 but they maybe haven't found yet who they are. They might be missing something or they may not have their style yet. They are going with the flow, with what everybody is doing.
[Ekaterina]: It is nice to have different styles. It is nice to watch.
[Neil]: In Professionals you can see couples who have experience and they bring their life experience to their dancing. If you look into Amateur, I am probably the oldest person in the Amateur. And I remember when I was the youngest one in there! So experience matters. Many Professionals have that. They went through their Amateur dancing, they've got life experience and they are in the Pro now. And it makes a difference.
[Neil]: This is the conversation we had with our mental coach. I always say, I am competitive. But when I compete it is not only about winning, it is also about performance or floor craft.
[Ekaterina]: It is like a game
[Neil]: Yes, it is like a game for me. I ask myself how can I play with that, how can I do this in a different way. I am not looking at things always in an artistic way. I am not thinking, when I see a performance, about the deepness of that, or what it means. For me, it is more about how can I play with the music, how can I do this and that. It is the same as for the runner – how can I break that speed record, how can I get past that. That's this game aspect in competing. When I compete I think of how can I use that music, within the boundaries what I've got to keep to, how can I stretch that, how can I play with that.
[Ekaterina]: When I go on the floor I try not to think it is competition. The thought we are being compared to other couples puts me under pressure.
[Neil]: Even if I know we are being compared this is what I want. In the end of a day they either like me or don't like me. I personally cannot do anything about that, it is done. I cannot make that judge like me, because I would have to change what I do. And I cannot do that because then I am not me! I always had that attitude, from the young age. With time, I started to realise it more and more. I am trying to help Katia to get to that set of mind. During the competition I tell her she cannot do anything now, but as soon as we get into practice straight after this competition we will be addressing these issues, we will know what we need to work on. But as soon as you get to the competition is a different kind of practice, at that moment you have to switch off and forget everything you've been taught and just dance. You have to literally just dance and if it is not in you, you cannot do anything about it. If you think of these things you cannot dance and you won't give what is really inside of you. I am a really strong believer in that. That means if you going to win, then great, but if you never win, so be it. Sometimes people take it to the extreme and it doesn't look anything like dancing, but they say: they like me or they don't. This is taking it to the extreme; you have to keep it within the boundaries of what Latin dancing is all about. So keep to the rules of Latin dancing but make your interpretation of it.
[Neil]: They are fine as long as you always go back to the past. The problem is sometimes like a "Chinese whispers" – you start with one word and as you go through that word keep changing until you get to the end. It is then completely different to what you have started with and it is wrong. When we are playing with choreography, playing with ideas, we always take it back to what it originally was, what it is about, and we go back to that. You can take a basic step, change it, make it your own interpretation but to make it right you have to keep something original within there. It can be the rhythm, the shaping or the lead, there is going to be something in there.
[Neil]: You go back to the original rules written for the Latin dance. You take the Fan and you know the timing or the basic steps and that's it. It is not to say what the Fan would actually be danced in Cuba. This was just influence. We've done a lot with Jive, we know what we like in Jive, but in the same time we do like history of Jive with other dance forms. We like to put that in, with a little bit of twist.
[Ekaterina]: But we will still keep to the rhythm
[Neil]: Yes. We will still make sure that the whole Jive is Jive. We are not going to dance another style which is no longer Jive.
[Neil]: No, we do everything with Richard Porter. Of course we do some things on our own but he is always our main coach
[Ekaterina]: He creates something and asks us about it
[Neil]: And vice versa. We always work close together.
[Ekaterina]: We keep a very clear structure. We have teachers who have their own areas of expertise.
[Neil]: Throughout my life I worked with different teachers and I wish I could work with all of them all the time. But it is not possible. It is no possible financially, and it is not possible within structure. If you have too many technique teachers it is going to confuse you. The main thing is you have to know what you believe in dancing. You have to find the teachers around you that will complement that who can bring that out of you.
[Ekaterina]: Who can make you stronger.
[Neil]: They need to be people who may go sometimes against what you actually want. But that also helps you.
[Ekaterina]: Go and try various people and then choose. This is just like shopping. Pick what you like.
[Neil]: Work on technique. There are many teachers out there who can teach that. Most of them want the same thing but get there different way and you cannot go wrong. If you take one teacher you will look good. The problem is what people go to that teacher and then to another and maybe these teachers come at different directions and that confuses them. It is not teachers who are always doing a wrong thing, it is the students taking on too many teachers, too many different ideas.
[Ekaterina]: In my life I had only few teachers and sometimes I wish I could have lessons with others as it would be interesting. But we don't as this is the direction we are going for. And there is no need. That's what we chose to do and that's what we are doing. It is easier and clearer. There is no confusion.
[Neil]: That's why we have a mental coach. We have this belief that dancing is not just about technique. It is important but one part of dancing. The physical side is one part of dancing. But there are other areas and they need to be put together. Sometimes you see someone dancing and their technique is amazing and I look at them and say: wow, they are better than me in technique. But they are missing in other areas and that's why I know they won't win. There are so many areas and you have to bring them as a whole.
[Ekaterina]: You have to make it the whole package...
[Neil]: So you have to find that team behind you
[Ekaterina]: Who can complement you and work with your ideas.
[Ekaterina]: No, we have found her... It was interesting for her as well as she has not work with the dancers before. She's worked with couples, teams and individuals in business and sport but not with dancers.
[Neil]: It is all about strength in the mind and re-training the mind
[Ekaterina]: Motivation
[Neil]: So nothing to do with dancing.
[Neil]: Yes. We found her and tried and it came together. But it is a long process, same as dancing. You can never expect answers on your first lesson. Some days we go there and we are thinking: what are we going to speak to her about, we feel good today. But as soon as she asks a right question things come out.
[Ekaterina]: She gets you think about things.
[Neil]: What is nice she has nothing to do about dancing so it is not all around dancing. It could be about life. When you are around dancers they don't talk that much about life. To her we have to explain what we do in the dancing, explain every part of the dancing so she understands it.
[Ekaterina]: I actually hate talking about dancing! There are so many other interesting things. I am interested in fashion and design. This is what I want to do now. I finished world culture studies at the University of Culture and Arts in Russia last year in July. It is hard but I really want to find the time to do fashion and design and create things with my hands. I am good at sewing and all the manual crafts. I would like to go to some college or university here maybe to do these things. I started teaching myself drawing now to help with fashion design. That's what I want to do in the future. I am constantly absorbing things, creating things, help my friends to design dresses, do lots of things with hair. I love it, I enjoy it. But when I have time, I want to go home and see my family. I have a little niece now. She is one and a half years old.
[Ekaterina]: Yes, my parents come to all the major competitions to see us. Not the UK Open for some reason! They were at the International, in Paris, in Blackpool, Dutch Open... everywhere really. This is really nice.
[Neil]: They will come to the Asian Tour as well
[Ekaterina]: They like to travel and see things so they always try to combine these together. They will go to see Tokyo and us at the competition. It is great for me. We dance with Neil for three and a half years and I miss my family. In the beginning we were here half them time and in Russia half the time. I was still studying as well. But now, it is less and less.
[Neil]: We are travelling more. It is harder for her to go and see her parents.
[Ekaterina]: My family is really close so it is hard for me. My Mum says she still cannot get used to this feeling I am here. She still thinks one day I am going to come back home and stay there (laughing).
[Neil]: My world is around dance. But this is not always our dance. I love all forms of dance. I love street dance, I love everything. You can find me on the internet watching dance videos. I love music as well.
[Ekaterina]: Neil is always searching for music for shows.
[Neil]: I like classical, I like Latin, jazz, hip hop, R&B. I hate with a passion the club music.
[Ekaterina]: It gives him headache!
[Neil]: When you are in the UK and you're driving Friday night you know what I mean. I love listening to BBC Radio One in the car in the morning going to the lessons to London. I love Chris Moyles, joking on the radio but on the Friday night, coming from Semley studio, the only thing you have on the Radio One is club music. I hate that beat. I like all the creative things. I don't always have time for this but I like to draw. I like to sketch things. When we got together for the first time I was away and I draw a picture and then I gave it to Katia when I came back. It was actually a picture of Katia with her favourite tulips.
[Ekaterina]: He is good!
[Neil]: When I was younger I wanted to get to animation but never had time because of the dancing. When I retire I want to get to creating theatre shows. Not being in them but creating different shows. Now when we create a show we want to create something different. It is always about the audience. The aim is to make them laugh or cry. I have a strong belief in that.
[Ekaterina]: Neil does, but I keep nagging him! But he is always like: I'll do it tomorrow.
[Neil]: My New Year's resolution was to get more organised. I am really happy at the moment because I planned my whole schedule until June so I know exactly where I am and what I am doing. I also sorted out Katia's schedule. We know what lessons we have with the teachers. Everything is set and I feel good with it!
[Neil]: No, no. I am really the type to keep with it. I actually like to plan things, also with practice. But Katia side-tracks if she hears it from me. If we come into practise to work on technique and she starts talking about the lead I don't want to listen. If it is not about the technique, I will not listen.
[Ekaterina]: It is the only way for him because his creative mind can be very messy
[Neil]: This is something I found I have to do for myself. If I leave everything just how it feels it won't work. By having a structure gives me more ability to play. Without a structure it just becomes a mess. When we have a structure with our practice we can see the development, we can see what we are doing. Then, on the day of the competition, I know the routine, I know my stamina level, I know what I can do.
[Ekaterina]: He can then relax and play with it. When we have a target at the practice we can both focus on that. There is no argument.
[Neil]: By knowing what area we are working on at that particular time it helps us practise that and helps us not have arguments. This helps us to build out performance. When you did not practise the quality of your movement then this is all you're thinking about when you dancing the competition. When there is slow music on and you cannot dance slow because you don't know how to fill up the music you are in trouble. So you need to have that structure first and you can play with things later.
[Neil]: During the competition we will not speak about dancing.
[Ekaterina]: It helps us. We only do the two things to think about on the day of performance.
[Neil]: So what are they?
[Ekaterina]: Connection and energy (laughing).
[Neil]: Yes, that's all this is about. I believe Katia has her own area of dance, I cannot tell her how to be a woman. She knows what she needs to do. And she can't tell me how to be a man.
[Ekaterina]: I know what I need to do and he knows what he needs to do. So on the day of performance there is no need to talk about it.
[Neil]: If we go wrong, we know what we've done wrong. If I miss a lead I know I've done that wrong. I know inside my head I've done wrong and I will not argue about it. We do not compete with each other. So she doesn't need to tell me and I don't need to tell her. The only two things we have is the energy, to make sure is that the energy of our movement is correct within the music and the connection together.
[Neil]: We are not perfect. There are off days when you just say the wrong thing at that particular time. I tend to keep to the things we say we're doing and Katia tends to side-track. If I come off the floor and say we are not connected, we need to have a better connection, she will be like: leave me alone! (laughing) But generally we are OK. We sometimes see other people, especially the worst it is when you see your friends arguing. Going wrong is not bad. Sometimes, at the competition, Katia comes off the floor and say to me: you've done that wrong. But I say: oh yeah, but it was great, wasn't it! I might actually like that piece. And it doesn't matter. If you go wrong so you go wrong. The only people who know that is us. And sometimes you may go wrong, you may slip, trip something like that. It is how you work it out in the end what matters.
[Neil]: I remember Stefano di Filippo few years ago, when he was dancing Samba at the practice he had this piece where he had to jump onto one leg with the other leg out. And I remember him dancing that step during practice so many times when he went off balance he hopped a few times. Within the next competition this was a new trend. So many couples were doing it because they thought it was a new step! It wasn't. It was a step what went wrong which everybody copied. If everybody is perfect and keeps to what they were supposed to do nothing will develop. There will be no change. Things got to go wrong sometimes to be interesting.
[Neil]: Hmmm.... Maybe I was actually lost (laughing)
[Ekaterina]: I bet he was lost!
[Neil]: Sometimes you have to joke about that. Some people tell you that they love that piece when you've done this and that. And you know this is when you went wrong. But you say: yeah, great, thanks!
[Neil]: I tease two dancers about that. I tease Troels and I tease Morten. Because they are both ginger. And I always say: how could you do it! When I was a Junior I dyed my hair once. I was dark. And it did not suit me. Everybody is always looking to be different. In the end of a day there is not many red hair dancers so this is something that's naturally different. It is a key thing to find something inside you which is naturally different. The way we think is different. People need to start listening to themselves a little bit more. It is difficult sometimes. When you get good results, you start believing in yourself. But you have to have this belief before. If you have belief in yourself so strong you will get results anyway.
[Neil]: Of course you want to get marked by the judges. I am not going to seat here and say I don't want to be marked by the judges because then I wouldn't be doing what I am doing. I wouldn't be competing. But at the same time you want the people to say: wow, you were amazing, I was inspired! So it is tough. If I could say to you: it is only the audience which matters to me, I would not be doing what I am doing. I would just go and do a theatre show or something like that. I would only do shows. But the fact I am being judged it is also important to me. You've got to find that balance and work within the rules. Most of the time, not always but most of the time, when the audience loves you, you get the marks.
[Ekaterina]: The ones which came were strong as well...
[Neil]: I really like this competition. Of course, some people were not here, like Martino Zanibellato was not here. I missed Martino. I really respect him. We are almost the same, we've gone through together. He was actually in the final before me. When we were only in the top 24 we said to each other, as we both love the music and all the creative, when we make a final together we will do a show together. But we've never done it. And I do miss him at this competition as he is not here. There is another couple that I miss: Andrei Zaitsev. When we first made a final he was also in there. Then he stopped coming and it is a shame. Other than that I believe everybody who is strong was here.
[Ekaterina]: Is there a need to change anything?
[Neil]: If I look at judging I would not change anything. Of course, when you get good results you always like the judging system, when you get bad results you say: oh, it is the judges. But I would not change it, it is the way it is. One think I love to bits is the system at the International, at the Royal Albert Hall, the interchanging between the Latin and the Ballroom. It allows you, mentally and physically, to prepare yourself for the next dance. I believe for the audience they really get to see the best you can do in that dance. But negative side to that is, we talked about it with Troels as well, you are judged on your stamina as well. Your stamina is very important at the other competitions. But if they do it that way, people will not worry about their stamina. It is easy as you have one dance break. So that changes things. But this is part of, in a way, the game. When you coming to it, I know when I am dancing the Jive, I am not going to die in my Jive, I will give 100%, I don't care how many rounds I dance but I will push it to the end. I will use this music to the end and I will not think, even at one single time, that I am getting tired.
[Ekaterina]: I know what I would want to change: no tan!
[Neil]: I wish the natural look for Latin was red hair and white skin! Not black and dark. I struggle with that because my skin just won't take the make-up. I put it on and it comes off. People say sometimes that my dancing was great but my face looked like a map of the world! But it is part of it, the whole package. When you go out there you have to look good and you have to have a good outfit.
[Ekaterina]: Some people will spend lots of money on lessons trying to make their dancing better but when they go on the floor their dress looks terrible.
[Neil]: It looks cheap like they did not put any money into it. You've got to find balance. Why did they not spend time on make-up or buy a better make-up?
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