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(Africanfootball.com) AFC Ajax midfielder Hakim Ziyech may be regarded as one of the best on-field stars of the Eredivisie, but he has come in for criticism in regards to his dealings with the media.
The Moroccan playmaker has been branded dour and sullen for the way he comes across in interviews, which is a strange irony given that his playing style is so exciting.
Yet Ziyech's teammates at both international and club level have come to the defence of the 25-year-old, insisting that his media persona hides a man with a great sense of humour.
"I sometimes hear people say that he should be happier, he would laugh too little in interviews, for example, then I think he does not have to be a clown, some feel the need to hang the clown in front of the camera. Is not that right?" Morocco teammate Nordin Amrabat told ELF Football.
"In addition, Hakim laughs enough. Believe me. He has a lot of humour," added Amrabat, whose words are echoed by Ziyech's Ajax teammate and fellow Moroccan international Noussair Mazraoui.
"If you do not know what he is, Hakim will not give in," explained the 21-year-old right-back.
"If he does not like something, he says so, he does not let himself play with him, and if he is attacked, he defends himself, and not everyone dares [to do this].
"He did, [and] unfortunately people wrongfully applied the label 'arrogant'."
Ziyech is set to feature for Ajax in their Eredivisie clash away to PEC Zwolle on Saturday night.

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Alchemy's head hurt. He lay there in the soft bed looking up at a too-white ceiling wondering when the pounding would stop. Slowly sitting up, he glanced around and saw Dolce sleeping next to him. The soft sheets slipped away as he slowly sat up. Somewhere in the distance, a door closed.
He recognized the bedroom of the suite the gnome woman escorted him and Dolce to. The elf tried to remember getting into bed, but the last thing he recalled was sipping tea on the couch. He didn't remember any taste of herbs that would have caused him to sleep, but it was possible that with his scientific knowledge, Doctor Gnome could've come up with something undetectable even with the training he'd received from the Fragrance Guild.
On hooks near the door, two bundles of clothes hung. Alchemy assumed that they were the clothes he and Dolce were expected to wear for their dinner with Doctor Gnome tonight. One of Gnome's people must've delivered them while the elves slept. He pondered what the point of drugging them had been.
Dolce stirred next to him. He reached down to the rumpled violet head and soothed her locks a bit.
"What happened?" she murmured, rubbing her eyes.
"I guess they used some kind of manufactured drug on us," Alchemy replied. "It wasn't any herb I've ever tasted."
Dull purple eyes looked up in question. "But why?"
"I don't know," said Alchemy, continuing to stroke her hair. "But they also brought us some clothes to wear to dinner with the Doctor."
"Oh Alchemy, how are we suppose to eat in the presence of gnomes? They are such hideous little creatures. And how are we to trust their food? They drugged us." Dolce slid tight against the magician. Her closeness caused Alchemy's body to stir. They had no idea how long they had until they were expected for dinner. Otherwise, he would've been tempted to have another course of Dolce.
"We'll make it through," he reassured her. "I'll be right there with you the entire time." He tried to sound brave, but wished he had his wand, but it lay outside on the hill somewhere, lost. He vowed to start carrying spares, two wands on one assignment was more than he was used to losing.
Alchemy finished adjusting the sleeves on his gray tunic when there was a knock on the door. Before he could respond, the door opened and the dark-haired gnome woman strolled in.
"Ah, Mister Pond," she said without closing the door. "I see you have awoken from your little nap. I presume the female has too?"
"Dolce is nearly ready," Alchemy replied looking down at the short woman. "She had a bit more to do to make herself presentable."
"Really?" A dark eyebrow arched. "Well Doctor Gnome is ready for his dinner."
"I'm ready," said Dolce entering the room, draping her long purple hair over her right shoulder so it cascaded down the front of the shinny white dress.
Alchemy walked over to take her arm. "And looking very lovely, my dear."
She giggled as she laid a shaking hand over his arm. "Thank you."
"Very well," the gnome woman huffed. "If you are both ready, the Doctor is waiting."
The wizard gestured out the door. "Please, lead on."
As they cleared the door, a pair of trolls fell into step behind them. Alchemy didn't even glance at the two guards. The metal corridor was as bright as he remembered it. Their soft-soled shoes didn't make any noise as they walked down the hall. Several goblins, trolls and even a brownie scurried up and down the hall, careful to keep their eyes on the shiny floor as they hurried past the party.
They stopped at a lace-metal doorway at the end of the hall. The gnome woman pushed a button set in the wall. A loud screeching, sounding almost like two swords sliding against each other, came from the far side of the door, as a pair of heavy metal cables moved something between them and the wall beyond. A platform slowly rose on the other side of the metal door before them. Dolce fingers dug into Alchemy's arm. He patted her hand, hoping to alleviate some of her fears.
When the platform was level with hallway floor, it stopped moving. The gnome woman opened the lace-metal door and walked onto the platform. Dolce trembled as Alchemy led her forward. Only one troll followed them. The gnome woman pulled a cord at the back of the platform three times.
Dolce yelped as the platform began descending. Alchemy wrapped an arm around her shoulder and pulled her close in against his side. The platform moved down a small shaft, just large enough for the platform and the cables that moved alongside it. Walls of polished copper provided little light as the platform moved downward. Every so often, openings to new passageways appeared in the wall, they were about the height of a troll, the largest creatures Alchemy had seen in Doctor Gnome's lair. They passed two of them before the platform came to a stop.
This time the door opened to the opposite side of the platform. Without a word, the gnome woman led them out and down another shiny metal corridor. No people moved in this hallway. Alchemy knew they were moving toward his quarry. His heart beat faster, as they approached the massive double doors at the far end of the hallway.
The dark-haired gnome took the door handle in her dainty fingers. She turned back and looked at the elves behind her.
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Sioux Falls, SD — Ray Teeter, 79, delivers eggs from St. Peter to Morris to Marshall to Sioux Falls. The self-described delivery boy, visits health food stores and grocery stores along the way.
"They keep my 'Omega 3' eggs right down here. One, two, three - three dozen is all they have left," says Teeter as he opens the cooler.
Last week Teeter delivered 10 dozen eggs to the East Dakota Food Co-op in downtown Sioux Falls. The brown eggs named "Omega 3" eggs, are about 50 cents more a dozen than others in the co-op's cooler.
Annie Blatz is the co-op buyer. She'll order another 10 dozen eggs this week. She says most people know what Omega Three fatty acids are, and that they're beneficial. She and Ray Teeter talk as he restocks his "Omega 3" eggs.
"Some are willing to pay more, some aren't," says Blatz. "It also caused our other egg supplier to recreate his label. He already fed chickens in a similar way - not tested like you've done with yours Ray. It's competition."
Gary Lonneman belongs to the Southwestern Minnesota Poultry Co-op. He has crops and pigs and now chickens on his Rushmore farm. He and 15 other farmers started the co-op a year ago. For Lonneman, bringing chickens onto the farm revived a childhood memory.
"We had a lot of egg fights as kids," laughs Lonneman.
Lonneman has 200 chickens in his coop. The door is open and the chickens wander in and out. He gives them feed enriched with flax seed, buck wheat, oats and soybeans. The chickens are also free to eat grass and bugs. Lonneman says it didn't cost much to start the egg part of his operation. He says, it's already making money. He says more and more people want to buy their food directly from a farmer.
"It seems to be a trend with the farmer's markets - the 'buy locally' thing. That's becoming a real big issue. People want to know where their food is coming from. They can come out here and take a look at it," says Lonneman.
Lonneman gathers about 130 eggs a day and sorts and packages them himself. Ray Teeter picks them up and makes the deliveries. Gary Lonneman puts his name and address on the carton. There's also a guarantee his chickens ate flax seed and roamed free. He does not include nutrition facts on the carton. He does not guarantee that each egg has a certain amount of Omega Three fatty acid. He says there's six times more Omega Three than in a standard white egg because he uses flax seed feed.
It almost sounds too easy. Feed a chicken flax seed and there's a healthier egg with a higher amount of Omega Three fatty acid. But for some, this new development in egg nutrition, is clearly science.
Sheila Scheideler is a professor of poultry science at the University of Nebraska. In 1993 some North Dakota flax growers asked her to do some research. They wanted to know if they could create an egg with more Omega Three fatty acid by feeding a hen more flax seed. Five years later Scheideler came up with a feeding process that guaranteed the same amount of Omega Three fatty acid in each egg.
"It's a little more complex than just adding flax seed because you have to adjust the other ingredients in the diet so that the bird efficiently produces that egg so we can insure 350 mg in every egg produced," says Scheideler.
Scheideler holds the patient on the feed and a trademark on the name "Omega Eggs." She says it's becoming more common for farmers to change their chicken feed and say they have Omega Three-enhanced eggs. The problem is it's easy to confuse her "Omega Egg" with the farmer's "Omega 3" egg. But the nutritional content between the two may not be the same.
Scheideler's feeding process guarantees a minimum of 350 mg of Omega Three fatty acid in every egg. That's 110 mg more than the brown "Omega 3" eggs from Gary Lonneman's farm. Scheideler says her chickens are not free roaming. Their diet is more strictly controlled. "Omega Eggs" are white. They're sold in Hy-Vee grocery stores in seven midwestern states. They cost about 50 cents more a dozen, than a standard white egg. Scheideler says the "Omega Eggs" have been a marketing challenge. That's because consumers remember the old alarms about cholesterol.
"The American Heart Association has changed its recommendation that a person can eat an egg a day and that's okay," says Scheideler. "But that took years of research by the American Egg Board specifically with human subjects to overcome that stigma. That stigma is still out there in a lot of dietician and consumer minds that eggs are a huge source of cholesterol and I'm going to limit my intake of them," she says.
Scheideler says her research shows people can eat a dozen Omega Eggs a week and they'll actually be healthier for it.
"We did human study subjects and of those subjects 23 did not increase their cholesterol and some saw reduction in triglycerides and some saw reduction in cholesterol the bad cholesterol. We did have two hyper responders that did not have any positive responses with the eggs," says Scheideler.
Dieticians tell heart and cholesterol patients that Omega Three fatty acid will help them lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of hearth disease. Leanne Kramer is a dietician at Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls. She has never told patients to eat Omega Three enhanced eggs. She does tell patients to eat more fish like salmon and tuna which are high in the fatty acid at least three times a week. After doing research for this story, Kramer says she's convinced non-fish eaters would benefit from "Omega Eggs".
"I'm going to tell people to use Omega eggs, just be careful where you get them from," says Kramer.
Kramer says consumers have to read labels. A standard white egg has 40 mg of Omega Three fatty acid. The other omega-enhanced eggs vary in the amount of what's called "good fat". All are healthy for you.
University of Nebraska Poultry Professor Sheila Scheideler says the "Omega Egg" is just the beginning.
"I wish every egg could be a modified little source of vitamins and good fat. And I think we will eventually get to that point of where eggs are considered a good source of Omega Three fatty acid, of Vitamin E and folic acid because it's an amazing little package that we can manipulate to be a more healthful product," says Scheideler.
Scientists are also looking at ways to enhance vitamins and good fat in dairy products. Scheideler says there could be a day when frying an egg in butter might be better for you than a vitamin pill. And farmers can get in on the niche marketing, if it happens.
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For those who were confused: the Jungle Emperor Leo remake is not a full fledged TV-series of 80 episodes. It's a TV-special celebrating the 80th birthday of Osamu Tezuka. It's about one hour and 45 minutes long, and directed by the director of Code Geass of all people. Still, while this show has its flaws it still serves as a very nice family movie that perfectly captures the childish side of Osamu Tezuka, and yet isn't afraid to become dark and serious.
Jungle Emperor Leo is an environmentalist anime, and with these kinds of stories there always are plenty of obvious pitfalls. A lot of environmentalist stories lack any sort of subtlety, and often contain entire monologues on the creators' morals. Yes, we get that the earth is in danger. We get that man is evil. Now stop shoving it down our throats!
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In the lead are two young children: a young lion and a young boy. These two form the back-bone of this special, and while they're not the most interesting characters, they do their job of keeping the series going without getting boring because the creators put a lot of time in fleshing the two of them out. They're both charming, yet flawed characters that are nice to watch if you can accept the fact that they're a couple of little kids and that the boy can talk to animals for no apparent reason. The majority of the rest of the cast also has well backed-up reasons for their actions, which is always a nice thing.
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McDonald's profits rise; shares surge
[NEW YORK] McDonald's reported higher third-quarter earnings Thursday on better US sales and said the strong results were evidence the company was making progress on its turnaround.
Net income for the quarter ending September 30 was US$1.3 billion, up 22.5 per cent from the year-ago period.
Revenues fell 5.3 per cent to US$6.6 billion, dented by the strong dollar in overseas markets.
The fast-food giant reported a 0.9 per cent rise in US comparable sales, the business' first quarterly gain two years.
McDonald's attributed the better results in the US part to some new products like its buttermilk crispy chicken sandwich.
It also said it benefited from stronger results in China compared with the year-ago period, when a scandal involving expired meat from a supplier weighed on results.
"Third quarter marked an important step in the company's global turnaround," said chief executive Steve Easterbrook. "As we begin fourth quarter, comparable sales are expected to be positive in all segments. While still in the early stages, we believe our turnaround plan is starting to generate the change needed to reposition McDonald's as a modern, progressive burger company."
Easterbrook was promoted to CEO in January to address a lengthy slump. In May, he announced that the company would sell more restaurants to franchisees and would restructure its international operations.
McDonald's earnings translated into US$1.40 per share, 12 cents above analyst expectations. Revenues also topped estimates for US$6.4 billion.
Shares of Dow member McDonald's surged 6.7 per cent to US$109.40 in pre-market trade.


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Our friends moved from San Francisco (urban) south to about 10 minutes from where my husband and I live (suburban). Whenever they bemoan the fact that they are no longer urban dwellers I point out all the wonderful things about living where we do. Like having a backyard! With sun in the summer (it's fog in SF during summers)!
Walking around the yard that my husband and I enjoy year round, noticing things in bloom, I feel happiness. I would be hard pressed to give that up for city street noise and summer fog. And in the other extreme direction, would the smell of cows on the wind and sharing the road with tractors be an improvement over the suburbs? For now I'll stick with our suburban yard which means fences and a house in most shots of what's in bloom because I have a little of both worlds. Above, my grapes– fruit varietals not wine varietals — look like they are doing great on the trellis I built and moved this one to.
The asparagus has done its thing but still doesn't get very thick. I've let it go to fern so it's strong for next year. Every year it seems to produce a little more.
All the roses are starting to bloom. This remains one of my favorites but I say that about more than one of them.
My grandma has hundreds of orchids and she's sent me home with some. This is one of the only two that I can get to bloom but it blooms every year!
Another flower from my grandma, an iris. Absolutely beautiful, I'm loving this addition to my irises this year.
The irises that bloomed for the first time last year despite always being in the garden have bloomed again and I believe there might even be more of them? It's very exciting because these purple ones still smell like "fake grape" to me.
I let the front little garden get purposely overrun by California poppies which look nice around the irises. It's great spring filler and then once some of the other flowers start showing up the poppies can easily be pulled out but will still come back!
It may not be a big ol' plot of land on a farm, it's certainly not an urban garden, but I like it. I squeeze in everything I can into my garden and Spring sure does make me happy here. How about you?


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We've seen liberals like Melissa Harris-Perry come out in the media and proudly proclaim that we need to get away from this idea that children belong to their parents and realize that our kids belong to the community, and that it "takes a village" to raise a child. This is where the State comes in to "help" parents with the raising of their kids by educating them for the parents who are often both at their own respective jobs.
The State then gets to decide the curriculum and chooses which subjects are OK and which are to be avoided. They'll teach creation as a "belief system" and evolution as science. They'll teach that white people are endowed with "privilege," that they're born racist, and that blacks and other minorities are born victims. They'll indoctrinate students to believe that there's nothing at all unnatural about a child having 2 moms or 2 dads.
This has been the danger of government schools from the beginning, and over time the government's true agenda has shown through. It's now less about basic education and more about indoctrination. Brainwashing kids to be good socialists. Turning them into willing slaves who falsely believe that they are free. After all, it was Hitler who remarked that whoever owns the youth, gains the future.
This brainwashing agenda can be seen clearly in a recent example in a Jacksonville, Florida government school. A few months ago, a local attorney had come by Cedar Hills Elementary School to teach 4th-graders about the Constitution. But after the attorney had given his talk, the schoolteacher apparently instructed at least some of her students to write down a statement that glorifies Statism.
Then, last week, a student's dad found a piece of paper in his son's backpack with that statement written in crayon. It had been there since the class with the attorney months before. The blue, yellow and red-colored statement read: "I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure."
This is the antithesis of what Ben Franklin said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Not surprisingly, the student's dad Aaron Harvey was stunned to say the least. When he inquired about it with school officials, they said that he wasn't the first person to complain about it, and that there would be an "investigation."
Although they haven't completed their investigation, they're now claiming that Mr. Harvey's son wrote that statement "on his own free will." Aaron's not buying that though. He said that his son would never have written such a thing on his own that his son wasn't the only one who told him that the statement came straight from the teacher. Another student told him the same thing.
Besides, can you imagine a 4th-grader coming up with that statement himself? "I am willing to give up my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure." Yeah, I'm not buying it either.
Mr. Harvey said that he only wants his son to receive a "proper, unbiased education." Sorry, Mr. Harvey. That's not going to happen with a government school. That would defeat the purpose of government education. They're not trying to teach. They're trying to program.


text: Meeting Public Workshop on the Future of Health Care Quality When: March 14, 2018 (9:00 AM Eastern) Where: St. Mary's Hospital • Praed St., London , United Kingdom W2 1NY Topics Global Health, Health Services, Coverage, and Access Activity: Committee on Improving the Quality of Health Care Globally Board: Board on Global Health The third workshop of the Committee on Improving the Quality of Health Care Globally will be held March 14th at 9:00 AM GMT. The objectives of this workshop will be: Explore future opportunities and potential breakthroughs, which are transforming healthcare, with implications for health care quality. Discuss optimization of the patient journey in health care and enabling leadership and governance for high quality health systems in the future. Discuss the future state of quality in low-resource settings and suggest recommendations for improvement.


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On June 10, 2008, Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush.
On June 11, 2008, they were referred to the Judiciary Committee. According to NPR, the Associated Press and the like, they were sent there to die.That's too bad. Because George Bush has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors." Impeachable offenses. A lot of them.
He, and his administration, have also created a cloud of confusion and obfuscation around everything that's happened in his administration. Every investigation has ground to a halt, lost in corporate lawyers tricks - refusal to hand over documents, lost documents, redacted documents, officials who can't remember, or, at last resort, refuse to answer subpoenas.
According to the Articles of Impeachment:
• The administration consciously lied about the reasons to go to war. • Conspired to create a secret propaganda campaign to go to war. • Failed to meet the terms set out in the bill that allowed the president to go to war, thereby making the war illegal. • Failed to meet the terms set by international law for war, therefore engaging in a "war of aggression," a war crime. • Engaged in Torture • Illegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely And Without Charge Persons Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign Captives • Rendition: Kidnapping People and Taking Them Against Their Will to "Black Sites" Located in Other Nations, Including Nations Known to Practice Torture • Imprisoning Children • Failure, as the occupying power, to protect the civilian population of Iraq. • Providing immunity for criminal acts by contractors, thereby condoning murder, rape and other crimes. • Spied on Americans without warrants. • Intentionally subverting and refusing to enforce laws through signing statements. • Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, • Corruption of the Administration of Justice • Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Obstruction of the Investigation into the Attacks of September 11, 2001 • Denial of Habeas Corpus
Among other things.
Many of these are on the record as true.
If congress says the hell with it, too much trouble to bring that up, and we don't want to look vindictive, and just shrugs its shoulders, that makes them co-conspirators.
The man who will now make the decision to stash the charges on the shelf until after January, 2009, when Bush is gone, or to open up hearings, is John Conyers.
John Conyers phone number is (202) 225-5126.
Larry Beinhart is the author of Wag the Dog, The Librarian, and Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin. All available at nationbooks.org His new novel: SALVATION BOULEVARD will be published in September, 2008, by Nation Books


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And here are the results of my first attempt at paper piecing:
I l.o.v.e. it!!! And it really was easy! I decided not to put a binding on this mini quilt so instead I stitched the front and back right sides together with a piece of batting at the back (leaving a small opening) and then turned the whole thing through the opening. The pattern said to use embroidery for the eye, but I decided to use a small black button instead.
In this picture, I hadn't pressed it yet or closed the opening, but I'll do that this weekend. I'm also going to do some echo quilting around the ducky and something else on the duck itself... not quite sure yet. Any suggestions?
And what did you try this week? I'm linking up at Melissa's for TNT Thursday. Be sure to check out what else everyone is up to this week.
That's it for now. Talk to you all later.


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Max Kuhelj Bugaric '19
The 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary is an interesting case from the perspective of both diplomatic history and international relations theory.[1] I argue that defensive realism, as expounded by Stephen Van Evera in his influential work Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict, best explains broader motivations behind the invasion. In terms of Van Evera's (1999) theory, the Soviet Union, like all states, "[sought] security as a prime goal," and due to "national misperceptions of the fine-grained structure of international power" (p. 11), it saw the developments in Hungary as a threat to that security. More specifically, for the Soviet Union, the situation in 1956 was a "window of vulnerability," i.e. "a growing defensive vulnerability" (Van Evera, 1999, p. 74) where Hungarian withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact would not only have destabilized the collective security arrangement but also, given the zero-sum nature of the broader Cold War context, strengthened the West. The invasion was therefore a preventive war in the sense that the Soviets wanted to avoid facing a neutral Hungary with material or diplomatic backing by the West, potentially sympathetic Warsaw Pact member states, or possibly both. To use Van Evera's (1999) definition of preventive war, the invasion was "launch[ed] … to avoid a later war waged under worse conditions" (p.76).
However, Van Evera's theory does not provide a causal explanation for the Soviet decision to intervene; the explanation it provides necessarily relies on the operation of a number of broader patterns and motivations arising mostly from the structure of the bipolar Cold War world. Hence, I introduce the concept of the "deterrent demonstration effect" (DDE), which instead explains how the events in Hungary (and Poland) directly prompted the Soviet invasion.[2] First, the DDE elucidates why the events of the Polish October – which preceded the Hungarian Crisis by a number of days but in conceptual terms closely paralleled it – did not prompt a Soviet military response. Second, and still within the context of general Soviet concerns and motivations, the DDE illustrates how the Soviets opted for punishing Hungary for its behavior because doing so directly protected their security posture, not only in Hungary but also within the Soviet Bloc as a whole.
In the first section of the paper, I examine how Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" shook the Soviet Bloc and destabilized Poland and Hungary. In the second section, I continue by discussing why the centrality of the Warsaw Pact to Soviet security and Hungary's role in the arrangement made the Soviets feel especially threatened during the tumult of 1956. In the third section, I contrast the Polish and Hungarian situation within the framework of the DDE and explain why the Soviets intervened in the latter but not in the former case. I conclude by expanding on the implications of the DDE; namely, on how it increases the explanatory power of defensive realism and thus helps us better understand the contemporary international system.
The "Secret Speech"
The intended audience for Khrushchev's Secret Speech was, as the name suggests, rather limited, but news of it spread through the Soviet Bloc with rather destabilizing consequences. Admittedly, as Charles Gati writes, "[t]he revolution began, perhaps, in the winter of 1944-45, when the Red Army occupied Hungary, and when over a period of three years the Hungarian Communists, relying on deception, intimidation, and force, seized power" (p. 141). However, even if it was the events of those three years that set Hungary on the path of resistance, it was the Secret Speech that pushed it over the edge and prompted the 1956 Revolution.[3] Hence, a brief discussion of the speech and subsequent events is necessary.
Khrushchev's focus were, as Orlando Figes (2014) puts it, "Stalin's crimes" (p. 249), but "[f]rom attacking Stalin it was a short step to questioning the Soviet system as a whole" (p. 251). "The speech," he continues, "changed everything. It was the moment when the Party lost authority, unity and self-belief" (p. 252). The domestic consequences were extremely significant, and so was the speech's effect on other Soviet Bloc countries. Namely, in the words of Peter Kenez (2006), "[t]he consequences of Khrushchev's revelations were particularly harsh in the Soviet satellites. Here communist bosses who had committed crimes by copying Stalinist methods were still in power. On the one hand, they could not prevent the adoption of a new Soviet line coming from Moscow, but on the other, they wanted to retain their posts" (p. 193). The result was tumult in Poland and Hungary, concludes Kenez (p. 193). The overall resultant situation threatened Soviet security both directly and indirectly. Directly by giving rise to the possibility that Poland and Hungary might end up going their own way and thereby disadvantaging the Soviets geostrategically, and indirectly by countering the guiding force behind the establishment of the Warsaw Pact: the Soviet Union's determination to, as Gerard Holden (1989) articulates it, "consolidate its own bloc" (p. 9).
Understanding the events in Poland and the Soviet decision not to intervene militarily helps explain why a different path was chosen in Hungary. During the events of the Polish October, the Soviets were faced with the prospect of a reformist Poland under the leadership of Władysław Gomułka – who was set to become First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) – but they ultimately refrained from using force. There are two main reasons for this. First, and most importantly, in a speech on October 19, 1956, Gomułka made it very clear that nothing could have been further from the goals of the Polish government than undermining Soviet security: "Poland needs friendship with the Soviet Union more than the Soviet Union needs friendship with Poland. … [Granville's ellipsis] Without the Soviet Union we cannot maintain our borders with the West" (cited in Granville, 2004, p. 46). Furthermore, the events of the Polish October did not confront the Soviet leadership with anything comparable to the high degree of political instability that the Hungarian Revolution brought about. [4] In fact, since the revolutionary government in Hungary was intent on holding open elections and lifting restrictions on party formation, the situation must to the Soviets appeared to be one of not mere instability but of potential catastrophe. Second, a clash with the Polish army would have been costly; as Johanna C. Granville (2004) frames it, "the Moscow leaders were … deterred from intervening in Poland by the Polish threat of counterforce" (p. 53). While a guarantee of Poland's continuing devotion to the Warsaw Pact and of its adherence to the Soviet foreign policy line must have played the predominant role in soothing Soviet fears, the fact that Gomułka had been successful in advocating for domestic policies that were at the very least not exactly what the Soviets wished for created a disagreeable precedent. The Hungarian Crisis, beginning less than a week after Gomułka's speech, offered the Soviets a convenient outlet for demonstrating that, among other things, the Polish case was to be the exception and not the rule.
Eastern Europe, the Warsaw Pact, and Hungary
Van Evera's defensive realism shows why the Soviet Union and its primary strategic rival, the United States, perceived Eastern Europe as strategically vital. For the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact, which was a means for continued control of Eastern Europe, was thus at the very heart of security concerns. Losing Hungary would have been unacceptable for the Soviet Union; not only was the former situated in the center of the strategically crucial Eastern Europe, but also having it leave the Warsaw Pact would have undermined the security arrangement's utility as a Soviet control mechanism.
Van Evera's (1999) theory offers a good avenue for an explanation of the importance of Eastern Europe: different actors' perceptions of a situation are generally more significant than the actual characteristics of said situation (p. 6). In this context, it is thus the United States' perceptions of the role of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact in Eastern Europe that are also very important – they shaped United States policy, which in turn greatly influenced (but was, of course, also influenced by) Soviet policy. As a 1956 National Security Council report on Soviet influence in Eastern Europe opens: "The satellites … augment the political, military and economic power of the Soviet Union and extend Soviet power into the heart of Europe. The permanent consolidation of Soviet control in this area would represent a serious threat to the security of Western Europe and the United States" (p. 119). Therefore, the possibility that not all of the Eastern European satellites were objectively indispensable to Soviet security in the region did not mean that the Soviets thought there was any less need to maintain total control over them. After all, if United States policy clearly reflected the belief that Soviet control of Eastern Europe was in fact threatening to the security of Western Europe – which it did – then the Soviet Union would have perceived any setback in this area as a victory for the West and a blow to Soviet power and influence. The fact that the Soviet Union acted accordingly in the region merely confirmed the United States' thinking, reinforced both sides' policies, and thereby cemented complete control over Eastern Europe as a central element of Soviet security.[5]
For the above reasons, the importance of even minor setbacks would always be amplified, but this does not mean that Eastern Europe was strategically important merely because the two sides thought it was. The Eastern European satellites in fact "augment[ed] the political, military and economic power of the Soviet Union and extend[ed] Soviet power into the heart of Europe" (United States National Security Council, 1956, p. 119). The satellites' 1953 strength added 1,317,000 active ground troops, 266,000 security troops, and 5,046,000 "trained and partially trained" reservists to the Soviet manpower pool (United States National Security Council, 1953, 46). The satellites also boasted a combined population of 90.1 million in 1953, and supplemented Soviet industrial strength, albeit the significance of that contribution varied widely from country to country (United States National Security Council, 1953, 47-53). The United States and the Soviet Union also kept a very close eye on each other's strategic nuclear capabilities, with a 1956 Special National Intelligence Estimate thus noting that "[w]e believe the Soviet leaders estimate that the minimum military requirements for their national security include the maintenance of effective early warning capabilities on the Satellite borders" (Foreign Relations of the United States, Document 137). Finally, it was still significant that the Eastern European satellites, especially Poland and East Germany, could have served as a springboard for a Soviet conventional attack on Western Europe.[6] Therefore, for the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact was a useful means to a necessary end – exerting control over Eastern European satellites. As Holden (1989) writes, "the Warsaw Treaty … provide[d] a broad legal basis for Soviet troop-stationing in Eastern Europe" (p. 8). Although, as the above author (1989) mentions, there is an argument that the Warsaw Pact was from the outset intended to improve "military efficiency" of the Soviet Bloc as a whole (p. 7), a much more dominant motivation for creating the arrangement must have been the Soviets' wish to maintain control over the region. As Mark O'Neill (2010) writes: "For most of its existence the WTO [Warsaw Treaty Organization, or Warsaw Pact] served primarily to control any national ambitions among the member states. It also served to justify the presence of Soviet troops in East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Romania" (p. 230). In much the same manner as NATO's role was, as allegedly remarked by Secretary General Lord Ismay, "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down" (Andrews, 2005, p. 61), the Warsaw Pact was intended, and for the Soviets, necessary, to keep the Americans out, the Russians in, and the Eastern Europeans down.
The contribution of Hungary to Warsaw Pact strength and Soviet security was small but still significant, especially from a geostrategic perspective. The Hungarian contribution to the military manpower pool was modest: in 1953, the country had 185,000 active-duty ground troops (fourteen percent of the satellites' total number of active-duty forces), 35,000 security troops (thirteen percent of the satellites' total number of security forces), and 450,000 trained and partially-trained reservists (nine percent of the satellites' total number of reservists) (United States National Security Council, 1953, p. 46). However, as the 1953 NSC report observes, Hungary's "economic contribution to the USSR and its strategic situation on the Soviet lines of communication with Austria and on the approaches to Italy and the Balkans make it a key satellite from Moscow's viewpoint" (p. 49). Certainly, Soviet security did not depend on Hungarian military power, but the geographic position of Hungary was significant.
The zero-sum nature of the Cold War, especially in Europe, meant that losing Hungary would not only have reduced the favorability of the Soviet geostrategic disposition, but also possibly provided the West with a direct route to the Soviet Union. In other words, Hungary, like Poland and East Germany, albeit to a lesser extent, was a source of "strategic depth."[7] Perhaps most crucially, Hungary's border with the Soviet Union was easily traversable,[8] which must have made the possibility of the West exerting influence over the former particularly alarming. Admittedly, Hungary might not have joined NATO, but due to leaders' propensity to, as Robert Jervis puts it, "see imaginary dangers" (cited in Granville, 2004, xiv), that threat was magnified in the Soviet leadership's eyes. Indeed, the decision to invade Hungary was made in an atmosphere apparently dominated by such thinking, with Khrushchev stating that "[w]e … should not withdraw out troops from Hungary and Budapest. We should take the initiative in restoring order in Hungary. If we depart from Hungary, it will give a great boost to the Americans, English, and French: the imperialists. … To Egypt they will then add Hungary" (cited in Granville, 2004, pp. 66-67).
The nature of the Soviet military mindset in the 1954-60 period further increased the salience of the strategic depth provided by Hungary. As a Moscow Institute of Military History figure characterizes Soviet military thinking between 1954 and 1960, it prescribed a "[s]trategy of nuclear wa+r by means of massive nuclear strikes: nukes first and tanks second, breach the enemy positions" (Gavrilov, 2012, p. 125 (figure 8.1). It would appear that the Soviet military leadership thus believed in the power of the offensive, and according to Van Evera's (1999) theory, under such conditions "cumulativity" – "[a] resource [being] cumulative [when] its possession helps its possessor to protect or acquire other resources" (p. 105) – is reinforced (p. 144). This is a consequence of the fact that in a world where "conquest is easy … even a small resource advantage might be parlayed into large gains or used to forestall large gains by an opponent" (Van Evera, 1999, p. 107). In short, Soviet perceptions of the "offense-defense balance"[9] did much to amplify the need to hold onto the strategic depth – a cumulative resource[10] – provided by control over Hungarian territory.
The nature of the decision facing the Soviet leadership was by no means one-dimensional; that is, the consequences thereof would not be confined to strategic calculations – they would extend into the realm of ideology and reputation. As US government documents from 1956 show, using kinetic means against the Soviets was not feasible, but imposing reputational and ideological costs was. The Policy Planning Staff, for example, met on October 23 and outlined a range of suggested responses to Soviet actions, including that
We should ready an appeal to the UN, for use in the event of Soviet intervention, and let the Poles and the Soviets know that the appeal is at hand. We should speak to neutralist countries on whose friendship the USSR evidently sets store (e.g., Yugoslavia, India) concerning the dangerous consequences of Soviet military intervention in Poland, in the hope that they would be moved to tell the Soviets what a dim view they would take of such intervention. (FRUS, Document 96).
This would add to the costs of intervention by limiting the Soviets' maneuver space in international relations, but the US approached the events from an ideological angle as well. A telegram from the US Legation in Hungary thus called for the issuing of a statement "along [the] following lines":
[The] US considers [the] intervention [of] Soviet forces and [the] ruthless killing [of] unarmed Hungarians as yet another example of [the] continuing occupation [of] Hungary by alien and enemy forces for their own purposes and [the] employment [of] these troops to shoot down Hungarian people breaks every moral law and demonstrates that Hungary is to Soviet Russia merely a colonial possession, the demand of whose people for democratic liberty warrants the use of naked force. (FRUS, Document 103).
These are just two examples of a general effort to impose the aforementioned reputational and ideological costs; in other words, part of the imperative to, as articulated by the NSC, "exploit fully throughout the world propaganda opportunities afforded by recent events in Poland and Hungary" (FRUS, Document 151). The Soviet leadership was undoubtedly aware that an intervention would provide the West with a valuable propaganda opportunity, but the threat to security necessitated swallowing these costs.
In short, Soviet security was to a great extent dependent (and especially perceived as such by both sides) on control over Eastern Europe – hence the need to preserve the Warsaw Pact. Hungary itself was also important, both in geostrategic terms and in terms of the integrity of the Warsaw Pact.
The Deterrent Demonstration Effect and the 1956 Soviet Invasion of Hungary
The general Soviet motivations behind the need to retain control over Hungary are best explained by the operation of defensive realist mechanisms – as the previous section shows, having Hungary go its own way would have dealt a significant blow to Soviet security. However, in order to provide a causal explanation of the Soviet decision to invade Hungary, defensive realism should incorporate the deterrent demonstration effect (DDE), according to which Soviet punishment of Hungary would subsequently deter other Warsaw Pact member states from considering deviation from the Moscow line.
The "demonstration effect," as defined by Ragnar Nurkse (1957) for the purposes of economics, has actors emulating practices they perceive as better than the ones they had customarily relied on:
When people come into contact with superior goods or superior patterns of consumption, with new articles or new ways of meeting old wants, they are apt to feel after a while a certain restlessness and dissatisfaction. Their knowledge is extended, their imagination stimulated; new desires are aroused [italics mine], the propensity to consume is shifted upward. (pp. 58-59).
The DDE, on the other hand, discourages an actor from engaging in practices that in similar situations (1) were punished by other actors, and (2) ultimately proved harmful to the enacting actor's own interests or security. Furthermore, the greater the number of times similar past practices did not elicit punishment, the less intense the DDE tends to be. Thus, actors wishing to deter practices that in the past went unpunished will try to compensate for this history by attempting to punish more severely. Finally, due to the inherent difficulty of gauging how severe the punishment needs to be to prompt the DDE and the fact that states' focus predominantly on maintaining their security (Van Evera, 1999, p. 11), they will generally err on the side of harsher punishment.
The quick succession of the Polish October by the Hungarian Crisis presented a "window of opportunity"; that is, it was "a fading offensive opportunity" (Van Evera, 1999, p. 74) for the Soviets to suppress dissent within their bloc through the effects of the DDE. Framing the Soviet invasion of Hungary in terms of the DDE might appear problematic, as the question that a quick glance at the situation prompts is why the Soviets did not simply intervene in Poland and, if the theoretical assumptions relating to the effect are indeed correct, thus prevent a Hungarian Crisis-type situation from even emerging. There are two main reasons for this. First, as already mentioned, a military intervention in Poland would have been costly, and as Khrushchev himself noted, "finding a reason to start a military conflict against Poland would be easy, but finding a way to end it would be hard" (cited in Granville, 2004, p. 53). The prospect of a protracted military conflict and pacification operations was intimidating not only due to the material costs but also because such an outcome would have evidence of the Soviet Union's inability to punish swiftly and effectively. In other words, the DDE would have been rather limited or would not have operated at all. Second, Poland refrained from engaging what the Soviet Union found most threatening, the contemplation of a sharp turn away from the Soviet foreign policy line (cited in Granville, 2004, p. 46). Even if the Soviets had been able to defeat Polish forces swiftly and pacify the country effectively, the resulting DDE would not have operated in a manner optimal for Soviet security; it would have strongly discouraged other Soviet Bloc countries from attempting internal reform, but not from considering foreign policy deviations. Had there been a DDE, it would have been the "wrong" DDE. Allowing Gomułka to become First Secretary and promise internal reforms did not set an insurmountable precedent. If a different Soviet bloc country started to exhibit signs of considering foreign policy deviationism – as Hungary did – it could still be punished and a bloc-wide DDE thus achieved.
Military intervention in Hungary was a relatively good option for the Soviets because it would not only ensure the satellite remained part of the Soviet Bloc, but also because it would produce the "foreign policy compliance" DDE an intervention in Poland could not. Indeed, judged by the criteria that made Poland an unappealing target, Hungary was a very suitable candidate for military intervention. Overall, the invasion of Hungary would serve the goal of protecting Soviet security very well.
First, the Hungarian armed forces, both in absolute terms and relative to the Polish armed forces, could not have effectively resisted the Soviet military. The figures from 1953 make this quite clear: the Hungarian Army consisted of 185,000 active-duty personnel, and even though Hungary had a pool of 450,000 trained and partially trained reservists (United States National Security Council, 1953, p. 46). a swift Soviet strike against the active elements of the Hungarian Army and the resulting confusion would have preempted a full mobilization. In comparison, Poland had a 330,000-strong army in 1953, but given Khrushchev's aforementioned statement about the difficulty of achieving a swift decisive victory there (cited in Granville, 2004, p. 53), the Poles would likely have had an opportunity to mobilize a substantial portion of their reserve pool, which numbered 1,535,000 personnel in 1953 (United States National Security Council, 1953, p. 46). Unlike in the Polish scenario, the Soviets could punish Hungary severely and crush resistance so efficiently as to prompt a bloc-wide DDE.
Second, by invading and punishing Hungary, the Soviets would make it very clear what kind of behavior they found unacceptable – the fact that Hungary appeared likely to abandon the Soviet foreign policy line. Admittedly, the official Hungarian declaration of neutrality came on November 1, one day after the Soviet decision to invade (Granville, 2004, pp. 70-71). However, at what Granville (2004) calls the "grassroots level," voices had begun articulating this intention earlier: "Documents indicate that Hungarian and Soviet communist officials had been hearing hints from other Hungarians, i.e., students, local officials, and radio broadcasts, about the desire for neutrality … ever since the Twentieth Party Congress in Moscow" (p. 71). Furthermore, as Granville (2004) reports, "on October 31, Zoltán Tildy [a member of Nagy's cabinet] told [Soviet Presidium member Anastas] Mikoyan in Budapest that Hungary would leave the Warsaw Pact. … [S]ince Radio Budapest had broadcast more than one call for neutrality and Warsaw Pact withdrawal on October 31, it is [also] likely that one of the Soviet diplomats heard it and reported it to Moscow" (p. 72). Insofar as proximate security considerations are concerned, Granville (2004) thus correctly concludes that the Soviets invaded in order to "preempt … a [Hungarian] withdrawal" from the Warsaw Pact (p. 72). In terms of the DDE, however, the Hungarian crisis presented a closing window of opportunity for the Soviets because not punishing Hungary and perhaps having it go neutral would have set a precedent, and achieving a bloc-wide DDE in subsequent cases would have required the Soviets to respond much more disproportionately.
While Van Evera's defensive realism does explain Soviet motivations behind the wish to preserve the integrity of the Warsaw Pact and even to retain control over specific satellites, it cannot fully account for the why the Soviets intervened when and where they did. Van Evera's theory overpredicts Soviet intervention: following the tenets of the former, one reaches the conclusion that the Soviets should have ended up intervening in both Poland and Hungary. In fact, in Van Evera's conception, the Soviet Union would sooner have intervened in Poland than in Hungary, essentially because the potential loss of Poland represented a greater threat. This paper suggests that an important mechanism attendant upon the translation of "national misperceptions of the fine-grained structure of international power" (Van Evera, 1999, p. 11) into preventive war is the DDE. In Van Evera's (1999) conception, "[w]indows tempt declining [italics mine] states to launch an early war before the power shift is complete, either to avoid a later war waged under worse conditions or to avoid later being compelled to bargain from weakness" (p. 76). Thus, incorporating the DDE into Van Evera's model allows for the expansion of the preventive war explanation so that it encompasses conflicts where the aggressor was a state that did not truly perceive itself as being in decline. With the DDE influencing decision-making, states will still initiate preventive wars in order "to avoid a later war waged under worse conditions" (Van Evera, 1999, p. 76), but not because their own absolute or relative power would decline with time. Rather, it is the utility of the DDE that diminishes with time, with each missed opportunity to punish undesirable behavior.
For explaining the dynamics of the contemporary international system, the mechanism that caused the Soviet invasion of Hungary – the DDE – also appears to hold considerable promise. This is especially true if Nuno P. Monteiro (2014) is correct in that "[s]ince the fall of the Soviet Union … the United States has been the world's sole great power" and that we hence "[l]ive in a unipolar world" (p. 3). For Van Evera's model, this would be problematic because, as Monteiro (2014) notes, "[i]f Washington so decides, it has the capability to deny any other country access to space, airspace, and the high seas… [S]ince the end of the Cold War, no other state has the capability to engage in prolonged politico-military operations around the globe" (p. 3). If other states cannot really harm the United States – i.e. if the United States' can feel secure – why would it still be intervening militarily all around the world? Surely, individual states, especially small powers like Serbia or Somalia cannot harm the United States. The DDE can and does account for this: while individual instances of practices that the United States does not approve of might not be directly harmful to its security, the spread of these practices conceivably could. Intervening against practices that taken together could prove threatening, while they are still emergent and do not yet represent a stable pattern, generates a DDE. The DDE, in conclusion, increases defensive realism's explanatory power in general, but especially in the way it can account for the regularity of unipole military intervention in the current era.
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Document 103 ("Telegram From the Legation in Hungary to the Department of State"). (1956). In E. C. Keefer, R. D. Landa, S. Shaloff (Eds., 1990), Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Eastern Europe, Volume XXV. Washington: United States Government Printing Office. Retrieved from: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v25/d103.
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[1] By "1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary," I refer to the Soviet military's "Operation Whirlwind," which was launched on November 4, 1956. I do not consider "Operation Wave" – which commenced in the night between October 23 and October 24 – to be a bona fide invasion because it is not an instance of interstate conflict. As Johanna C. Granville (2004) explains, "as a result of [Hungarian First Secretary Ernő] Gerő's failure to quell the unrest, the first Soviet intervention in Hungary, on October 23-24, was actually an invasion by invitation [italics mine]. Although [Gerő's successor Imre] Nagy was later blamed for inviting the troops, and [András] Hegedüs (the former prime minister) actually signed the official written invitation ex post facto, it was Gerő who verbally requested them" (p. 57).
[2] The term "deterrent demonstration effect" is used by Emanuel Adler (2009) to describe an aspect of the United States' war on terrorism. He argues that "the United States went to war in Iraq partly to deter Islamic terrorism, expecting that terrorists in the Arab world would internalize the deterrent demonstration effect [italics mine]" (p. 100). However, Adler makes no effort to define the term.
[3] I would like to thank an anonymous reviewer for this point.
[4] I would like to thank an anonymous reviewer for this point.
[5] To a certain extent, this appears to be a "which came first" question, but the effect – both sides' having reached the conclusion that control over the region was crucial for Soviet security – is much more important.
[6] As the 1953 National Security Council report notes, Poland "occupies the main approach to Germany and Western Europe" (p. 47), and East Germany has "high strategic importance to Moscow in the struggle for control of all of Germany" (p. 52).
[7] Term used in Van Evera, 1999, p. 111.
[8] "[T]he Soviet-Hungarian border was on a plain" (United States National Security Council, 1953, p. 49 (note 44)).
[9] Term used in Van Evera, 1999, p. 10.
[10] According to Van Evera (1999), "Military bases and strategic depth [Van Evera's italics] are cumulative resources if they provide military strength that cannot be cheaply replaced" (p. 111). This was clearly true for Hungary.


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On Monday, March 6, the Westby High School Jazz, Symphonic
and Concert Bands will present a "Pre-Festival" Concert. The concert
will begin at 7pm in the Westby High School Gymnasium. The main focus of
this concert will be to present music to be performed at music
festivals in the coming months. The Jazz Band will open the concert with
3 selections and will feature many soloists. The Jazz Band will perform
at a music festival at Westby on Monday, March 13. The Symphonic Band
will present a varied program including Earthdance and marches by Karl
King. The Concert Band will close the program with both standards by
Holst and Sousa, as well as modern music by Mackey and Gallante. The
Symphonic and Concert Bands will perform at a music festival at Westby
on Wednesday, April 26. This concert is free and open to the public. All
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How tenkara works
In tenkara one just uses a rod, line and fly. A fixed length of line connects to the tip of the telescopic rod. Casting the fly to where you think the fish are is very quick to learn and intuitive. Landing the fish even more so. Watch the video below to find out more and read through the page to learn more.
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After years of learning tenkara directly from the masters, Daniel's much anticipated book is finally shipping! At 216 pages, this book will show you all you need to tenkara, and the stories in its pages will take you along Daniel's journey of learning tenkara.
In tenkara–the book, Tenkara USA founder Daniel Galhardo shows just how simple fly-fishing can be. This book is a complete guide to the techniques, gear, history and philosophy of tenkara, the Japanese method of fly-fishing. It is also a manifesto on fly-fishing simplicity.
An angler picking up a tenkara rod for the first time will find this book's concepts well laid out and intuitive. The experienced angler will appreciate the simpler approach to fly-fishing and the advanced techniques shared in the book.
tenkara – the book was designed to be interactive and take advantage of all the resources we have created over the years. Throughout the book, readers will find QR (quick read) codes that will give access to the videos, podcast episodes and other complementary information to the chapters at hand.
Watch a short video about tenkara – the book
Tenkara gear
You need a tenkara rod, a tenkara line and tippet, and flies. A line holder to store your line, and a set of forceps (to remove flies caught deeper in a fish's mouth) and nippers (to cut your tippet and line) are also handy to have. Read below for the gear you need to start fishing.
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How to use a tenkara rod
Opening a tenkara rod
1) Remove rod plug. Tilt rod down slightly to expose the tenkara rod tip.
2) Keeping the hard tip of the rod inside the main segment, expose the braided tip material (the lillian), attach line to rod tip. (keeping the hard tip inside will prevent a broken tenkara rod)
3) Once your line is attached, hold rod handle segment near the opening with one hand. With the other hand pull the tenkara rod tip, and each subsequent segment out, sliding them out between your fingers. Starting with the tip pull each piece out completely until next segment comes out and becomes snug. Do this in order. Pieces should feel snug, not overly tight.
Closing a tenkara rod
To collapse the tenkara rod, simply start by pushing the segments back into the handle, in order, starting with the thickest segment first and making your way to the tip of the rod. You may leave your tenkara line tied to the rod tip, and, when you have collapsed the entire rod, wind the line around a tenkara line holder and move on to the next stop. If you're ready to pack up for the rest of the day, pull the tag end of your line to remove the line from the rod and stow both away.
Should you have any problems with your tenkara rod, take a look at the rod troubleshooting page for easy solutions to common problems.
Casting and techniques
Casting with tenkara is very intuitive, you will get it after just a few casts. The basic concept is that you will move your rod tip back quickly, stop at the vertical position (12 o'clock) to throw the line back and make the rod flex. And, then move the rod tip forward, stopping at roughly 10 o'clock in front of you. making your line move forward and the fly hit the target. Having an index finger on top of the handle helps stop at the vertical position more naturally and improves accuracy. Watch the video below for more information on how to cast with tenkara.
Tenkara casting becomes very obvious when you have a rod in hand, it is a bit similar to throwing a ball at a target, your brain does most of the work after a few attempts. The videos below will show you how to cast with tenkara as well as techniques for using your tenkara fly and also how to land fish with tenkara.
How to cast with tenkara
Casting with tenkara is not difficult. In fact, we find it to be a very intuitive thing to do. Learn how to cast tenkara in this video with Daniel Galhardo. Remember to...
Techniques for tenkara
Tenkara places more emphasis on technique rather than gear. One way to simplify is to reduce the number of fly choices and try different techniques. In Japan I've...
Pause-and-drift technique and landing
Here's a good video shot at Mossy Creek, Virginia, demonstrating the effective use of the pause-and-drift technique for tenkara. It also perfectly illustrates how...
Knots for tenkara
Knots are just one of those things, no matter how experienced you are, you may have to learn and practice. But, don't worry, there are only 3 knots you really need to learn: (1) a girth hitch to connect your tapered line to rod tip, (2) the double-loop slip knot for tippet to various places (the level line to rod tip can be seen as a variation of this with one fewer loop). And, finally, (3) the blood knot to connect two lines together should you need to.
Tenkara Knot videos
Knots for Tenkara, Setting up and Rigging...
Learn the "one knot" you need for tenkara. By using the fisherman's knot in this video you can tie your tenkara line to your tenkara rod, tippet to the...
Tenkara Knot: one knot for tippet to...
Learn how to tie the "Double-Loop slip knot" for tenkara, one very simple tenkara knot that can be used to tie your tippet to tenkara line and tippet to...
How to tie tenkara flies
While you can purchase tenkara flies and we make that easy, tying tenkara flies is one of the easiest ways to get into fly-tying and can be a fun hobby too. A tenkara fly, or kebari, is often tied with the simplest of materials: a hook, sewing thread, and a feather (hackle). The tenkara fly embodies the spirit of tenkara in its simplicity and effectiveness. Learn how to tie tenkara flies.
Yuzo Sebata Tying Tenkara Flies, Streamside
Mr. Yuzo Sebata is one of the most well-known tenkara anglers in Japan. He keeps his fly-fishing simple and enjoys backpacking in the mountains of Japan catching trout...
Tenkara Fly-tying Video Series: Royal Conrad
In 3 minutes tenkara guide, and McGuckin's tenkara guru, Steve Conrad will show you how to tie a very effective tenkara fly, the Royal Conrad...
Fly-tying with Allison Marriott
Allison Marriott is a fly-fishing guide and fly-tying instructor in the Boulder, Colorado area, working for Rocky Mountain Anglers fly shop. As part of our Tenkara...
Tenkara Fly-tying Kits
Fly-tying is also pretty simple. We have put together two tenkara fly-tying kit options with all that you need to tie tenkara flies and nothing you don't. The kits have enough hooks to tie 50 flies and will pay for themselves very quickly compared to purchasing flies.
Basic Kit, $95
Great beginner vise, spring-action clamp style, requires no adjustment for hook size. Imported.
Listen to our Podcast
The Tenkara Cast is a podcast hosted by Daniel Galhardo. It covers stories, techniques, philosophy and other information that will inspire you to keep your fly-fishing simple and explore the outdoors. Sharing the tenkara story™
Tenkara in Salt? A Conversation with Henry...
Tenkara is a mountain stream method of fly-fishing, that uses a tenkara rod, line and fly. But, the tenkara rod is also a tool that people all over the world are now...
Tenkara in the Wind + Idaho TU
Fishing in windy days can be tricky, but it can be done. Today we share some tips on fishing in windy days: how to cast against the wind, how to not fight it, and how to...
Bikefishing + Central Jersey Trout Unlimited
Biking and tenkara are a perfect combination. In this episod, Daniel talks to Russ Roca of the blog PathLessPedaled.com about #bikefishing and how to combine tenkara and...


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Toronto-based world music performer gives a contemporary twist to traditional Persian love songs. Appetizers by Tandoori Grill. Part of the MY Place/Whistler Arts Councils 2004-05 Performance Series. Tickets: $17/$20. Show starts: 8 p.m. Ph: 604-935-8410.
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