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The Rescue of 'Green Dragon' off Mexico, Part 2
Readers — On Friday, Jessica Lockfeld began recounting the rescue of the crew of Green Dragon 2. At the beginning of January, Jessica and her husband Jim were transiting from La Paz to Mazatlan aboard their Tartan 38 Hajime when they got a mayday call, and were told the Mexican Navy was on the way. "Jim and I exchanged worried glances," Jessica wrote. "How in creation were we going to find a dark boat in the middle of this stormy night?"
The wind turned to the north, so we were fighting eight-foot seas with a five- to eight-second period, and everything inside the boat was shaken, not stirred. Nothing stayed put. However, we've been in worse seas, and we know our boat is tough. We were 'walking' the boat, standing behind the wheel and moving from foot to foot as the waves threw the boat from side to side, and holding on to whatever handholds we could use as we motored on, through lightning storms on either side of us, and looked anxiously for a boat. Any boat. Where the hell was the navy?
Very close to midnight on the 1st of the year, we approached our target. We could finally see her, still blessedly lit up with her running lights and masthead. We had been in intermittent radio contact with Green Dragon 2, who reported water still rising. They could not figure out where the water was coming in, and they were prepared to abandon ship.
The scene became surreal. We approached the boat and turned on our deck lights, to give us some idea of what was going on. We had been asking ourselves how we intended to do this, and we knew that in these seas we could not come alongside. There was too much movement, and if we banged into them we could both need rescue. We circled once, assessing the scene, the seas, the situation. The boat itself was low in the water, down at the nose, like a dejected donkey. They had the liferaft deployed behind the boat, and it was a terrifying thing. It is essentially an igloo, inflated rubber in the bottom and a fabric tent roof over it, and it made me want to puke just looking at it moving in the water. It was an orange and black bubble of hope and horror.
They weren't in the liferaft yet. We circled again. We had agreed, by radio, that they would get into the liferaft and stay tethered to Green Dragon while moving away from the mother ship and hopefully toward us. This is more easily said than done. The waves and water were moving, foam-flecked; the wind was howling at 20 knots; and the lightning was occasionally illuminating everything like a flashbulb. Water birds were strafing something just beyond the reach of our brilliant deck lights, looking like restless and relentless ghosts as they flickered into shadow.
Jim was piloting the boat, while I was scampering around on deck trying to get good visuals and ready to catch a throw line. I was clipped onto the jacklines, in my lifevest, and swearing at how restrictive the bloody tether was. Somewhere around the fifth pass, they were in the liferaft and heading our way. I cannot imagine what courage it took to actually step into that thing. I'm not sure I could do it.
The first toss of the throw line fell short. We were moving past them, as we had to keep the engine moving to keep some way on in order to have a hope of piloting rather than drifting. We circled back around and tried again. I tried to catch the next toss, and damn near went overboard. Jim's voice came from the cockpit. "Jessica! Don't go off the boat!" We are not all very smart about coaching when stressed. I believe I swore a lot while ignoring him and getting the boat hook and trying to get the line. A third throw of the line went across the foredeck, and then we had some control.
Ever tried to winch someone from the water, with a multi-ton vessel on one side and your bare hands on the other? Cleating them off, pulling, swearing, cajoling the gods, till Gary Green, one of the owners of Green Dragon 2, got a hand up, couldn't get around, got pulled off, pulled back on, and finally heaved himself heavily up the ladder, "Welcome aboard," I said formally. He moved aside and his wife Rosalie handed up a bag, and then tried to get onto the ladder. Both hands made the grip, then slipped, and she fell back into the liferaft, and started to drift away.
"We'll come for you!" yelled Jim, and we did, and he grabbed something, some sort of handle on the liferaft tent roof, which ripped away. Losing her. Losing the raft. It was a moment of quivering fear. "Line, throw a line," he told me. There was one he had prepared at hand, the heavy nylon rode of our spare anchor.
I don't have good aim. I tossed the line left-handed because of the lay and the situation, and because I don't aim well on either side. It somehow landed where it needed to go, and she grabbed it. We started pulling it in. "I can't hang on," she said breathlessly. "Just hold on a moment," I said, and she did. We got her alongside, and she reached, one-handed. I had elbowed her husband aside for space, for my agility, and I'd be damned if I'd see her slip again. I caught her wrist. Reached down, other hand grabbed a handful of jacket and life vest and hauled up. "I'm caught, my ankle is caught!" she cried. I decided that whatever in the life raft was holding onto her could just come with her.
I changed grip down to her trousers at the base of the spine and hauled. Thank heaven she had on foulies that wouldn't rip. Jim abandoned his post to grab something, and we rolled her aboard, with some part of the sleeve of her jacket snared on the ladder pin. A fuss for a knife. A screech of metal as Hajime's bow hit the aft end of the sinking vessel. Jim says he saw their dinghy engine, which had been clipped to the aft rail, flip up through the air as we pried it off with our prow like someone popping the cap off a bottle. He backed us off and took control of Hajime, I cut the sleeve to free her, and we spent a moment or two collecting ourselves back into the cockpit.
That was when the engine overheated. We turned it off and let the boat drift. It was almost peaceful, the wind pushing us away from catastrophe, nothing of urgency for the moment. Two dripping castaways on our deck.
We'll bring you the final installment of the Rescue of the Green Dragon on Wednesday.
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Good writing!
Whoa… what an intense time! Thanks for sharing.
Wow!!!! What a situation… your narrative is fantastic… I felt I was right with you.. keep writing . you are very talented.
Wow, every sailors nightmare (the sinking) and hope (that a vessel is nearby to assist). Good on both crews for handling the worst of situations as well as possible!
I was holding my breath with every descriptive image. It was made even more dramatic 'cause I have raced aboard Green Dragon 2, many times, with Gray & Rosalie in Southern California. Reading this happening to anyone is harrowing. More so when they're fellow sailors. So grateful this has a fortunate ending.
Nicely written.
Wow, harrowing, gripping entry in your log! Can't wait to read the next!
Oh no! Sorry to hear of the loss of the Greens second yacht. I recall them losing a previous boat to a fire, a Catalina 38, Green Dragon, some years ago, off Palos Verdes. They are lucky to be alive. Maybe we are all lucky to be alive, whether we know it or not. I thought this sailing stuff was supposed to be a lot safer than hang gliding, right?
So both the Mexican navy and the us coat guard were useless. Huh.
RE: The Garmin inReach Satellite Communicator (mentioned in Part One of this article), the dedicated "SOS" button on the device will put the user in DIRECT contact with the GEOS International Emergency Coordination Center.


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I'm starting a new category, which I'm going to call "BMMT Capital Partners: the Economics of New Media Investing."
1) My New Year's resolution is to spend more time thinking about great investments than great investors. I feel like I'm running out of things to say about what makes a great investor in terms of psychology and how he sets up his fund and the incentives he faces, etc. I'm now at the point where I simply think "a great investor is someone who makes great investments." Therefore I think my job is really to find and study great investments and then work backwards to the people who make them.
2) Part of knowing what makes a great investment is knowing what the market tends to misprice. It's not enough simply to understand what makes a great business, because often what makes a great business great is well-known to the market and therefore not mispriced. To get from a great business to a great investment you have to figure out what about it is mispriced.
3) I believe what the market tends to misprice is the long-term earnings power of a company two to five years out from the time of investment, especially for younger companies, companies in changing industries, and/or companies entering new business lines. The market was pretty good at pricing Coca-Cola's Q3 2009 earnings back June 2009. It was less good at pricing its 1991-2000 earnings back in 1988, when Buffett made his big bet (see future post) after correctly forecasting a fundamental change in the economics of Coke's business.
4) Those investors (whether they are stockpickers, PE investors, venture capital investors, or operating within businesses) who develop an edge in this area can make a lot of money. You could have made a little money correctly predicting Coke's Q3 09 earnings a few months in advance, but you would have made a lot of money correctly predicting Coke's 1991-2000 earnings power back in the fall of 1988.
5) What most determines the long-term earnings power of a company two to five years out AND is undervalued by the market is the quality and durability of its moat. When Buffett bought Coke in 1988 he did not have any unique insights about the general growth of the soft drink industry in the coming two decades--his estimate was probably as good as the market's. Where he did have an insight was in forecasting correctly the percentage of the future growth of the soft drink industry that would be captured by Coke rather than its competitors, which was a function of its moat. He also had an insight in correctly forecasting the percentage of that future growth that would be captured by Coke's shareholders rather than its employees, suppliers, construction contractors, distribution partners, etc. That too was a function of its moat.
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Malone, John
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Thomson Family.
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But there is no such thing as "society's rights" – a collectivist idea premised in Marxism. America is not a "democracy." And constitutionally, "the People" only means the Individuals. America is a Constitutional Republic of limited government to protect Individuals' rights. The founding principle is that Individuals are endowed by their Creator with inalienable God-given rights. Accordingly, Individual Rights are neither "granted" nor overturnable by government – precisely because they are God-given.
Gun control infringes the God-given right of the Individuals. The issue is not about the guns, hunting, or sports. It is about the Individuals' God-given right to protect themselves – from psychotic murderers to even a tyrannical government gone amok (as was necessary in America's Revolutionary War for Independence).
Marriage control equally infringes the God-given right of the Individuals. Marriage pre-dates the invention of government. Ironically, marriage controllers cite Adam and Eve from the Biblical book of Genesis. Yet that very story never involved government. In fact, no one in the Bible was ever married "by government." Plus, the author of that Genesis story married two wives himself. Yes, polygamy – Moses was a polygamist. Therefore, even the Adam and Eve account proves that marriage is an inalienable God-given right of the Individuals. This is true even if the godless choose it or otherwise personally invent foolish re-definitions for their own imaginations.
Gun controllers believe that "society has a right" as a "democracy" to protect "the (collective) People" from the supposed dangers of law-abiding citizens choosing responsible firearm ownership. And marriage controllers believe that "society has a right" as a "democracy" to protect "the (collective) People" from the supposed dangers of law-abiding citizens choosing real or imaginary marriage.
In both debates, it comes down to big government control versus Individual Rights.Because gun controllers argue Individuals Rights during the marriage control debates, and because marriage controllers argue Individual Rights during the gun control debates, the solution is to mutually embrace the Constitutionalism of Individual Rights.
Constitutionalists have always known this answer. But will gun controllers and marriage controllers honor the Virginia Tech victims and now apply this solution together?


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The Sex-Filled Netflix Trash '365 Days' Is Almost Certainly Getting a Sequel
The Polish film is raunchy, problematic, and probably getting a follow-up to its messed-up story.
The number one piece of content on Netflix, at least based on the streaming service's internal top 10 list, is not Spike Lee's brilliant Da 5 Bloods or even the final season of 13 Reasons Why. It's 365 Days, a Polish erotic romance that's corny as hell, objectionably sexist, and extremely explicit. It's also already getting a sequel, thanks to a cliffhanger ending that attempts to leave the audience guessing as to whether the heroine survives. (Spoiler: She almost definitely does.)
365 Days, a.k.a. 365 dni, is based on the first of a series of Polish romance novels by Blanka Lipińska. The movie plays like Fifty Shades of Grey meets Beauty and the Beast meets The Room meets softcore pornography. The whiff of a plot -- which is mostly just there to get to the sex scenes -- finds a Silician mobster named Massimo (Michele Morrone) taking a young Polish woman Laura (Anna-Maria Sieklucka) prisoner while she's on vacation and giving her 365 days to fall in love with him. This isn't a random act of kidnapping: Massimo was spying on Laura five years earlier, on the day his father was murdered, and has been obsessed with her ever since.
Laura develops Stockholm Syndrome pretty quickly, thanks to Massimo's desire to reform his dominant ways and his rock hard abs. Anyway, Massimo ties her up, makes her watch another woman give him a blow job, she's almost raped by another random gangster, and then she and Massimo have a bunch of sex on a boat. He calls her "baby girl" a lot with Tommy Wiseau-esque flourish. Eventually she gets pregnant and agrees to marry him, but before she can tell him about the baby there's an attack on her life. Her car drives into a tunnel. The next thing we know that tunnel is surrounded by cop cars.
The movie does not do a great job of making it clear who the "enemies" are in this situation. There's a jealous ex-lover of Massimo's and some other mobsters, but other than that, the antagonists remain vague. What's not vague is how 365 Days promotes the deeply fucked-up idea that if a man abuses a woman (both physically and mentally) enough, he can make her love him.
Still, chances are: You're getting more of this. According to a Polish report, a sequel is in the works but filming has been put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. As for what's to come? Well, if it's anything like the second novel in Lipińska's series, the title of which translates to This Day, it will involve a wedding, Massimo's twin brother, and Laura getting kidnapped again by a different mobster.
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This afternoon we received an email from AMD explaining their new Driver Support model for older hardware:
AMD will be moving the AMD Radeon™ HD 2000, AMD Radeon HD 3000, and AMD Radeon HD 4000 Series of products to a new driver support model. We will continue to support the mentioned products in our Catalyst releases, but we're moving their updates to a quarterly basis, whereas our AMD Radeon HD 5000 and later products will continue to see monthly updates. The Quarterly Catalyst releases will focus on resolving application specific issues and critical updates.
The reason for the shift in support policy is largely due to the fact that the AMD Radeon HD 2000, AMD Radeon HD 3000, and AMD Radeon HD 4000 Series have been optimized to their maximum potential from a performance and feature perspective.
The 8.97 based driver, released in May 2012 will be the first driver for the AMD Radeon HD 2000, AMD Radeon HD 3000, and AMD Radeon HD 4000 Series under the new support model; it is an extremely stable and robust driver branch for these products and will be the baseline for our quarterly updates.
Our main development and testing efforts will now be focused on the AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 and later products. This is the best use of our resources, as the AMD Radeon HD 5000, AMD Radeon HD 6000, AMD Radeon HD 7000, and future products have the greatest potential for further performance and feature enhancements.
Also with regards to Windows 8 support for the AMD Radeon™ HD 2000, 3000, 4000 Series of products; the In-the-box AMD Graphics driver that ships with Windows 8 will include support for the AMD Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 Series, and it will support the WDDM 1.1 driver level features. The AMD Catalyst driver for Windows 8 will only include support for WDDM 1.2 support products (AMD Radeon HD 5000 and later).


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Mucoadhesive Drug Delivery Systems: An Always Promising Approach
A special issue of Scientia Pharmaceutica (ISSN 2218-0532).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (13 December 2019) | Viewed by 412
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pharmaceutical formulation development and evaluation, ocular drug delivery, mucosal drug delivery, mucoadhesive formulations
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mucoadhesive formulations have been developed for buccal, nasal, ocular, vaginal, rectal, and gastro-intestinal applications to overcome bioavailability problems due to the overly short residence time of the dosage form. In fact, mucoadhesion is a means of promoting residence time as well as improving the contact intimacy of the dosage form with epithelial membranes.
In the decades between the end of the 1900s and the new millennium, mucoadhesive polymeric formulations have received constant attention for their relevance as delivery systems, and many aspects of this phenomenon have been extensively studied. However, much remains to be said about pharmaceutical mucoadhesion, from its biological interactions to its practical applications, as well as its investigational methods and mucoadhesive polymers.
This Special Issue will focus on recent advances in mucoadhesive drug delivery systems by publishing papers covering the current developments in this field of research.
Prof. Dr. Susi Burgalassi
Guest Editor
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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Scientia Pharmaceutica is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.
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- mucoadhesion
- mucosal absorption
- permeation
- mucoadhesive materials
- polymers
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Browntail-Moth Caterpillar (
Euproctis chrysorrhoea
In the summer of 1896 I first noticed the brown-tail moth on my premises. The caterpillars did not do any particular damage that year, though the millers came out thick. In 1897 the caterpillars came out in such numbers they destroyed everything. I did not take any special pains to get rid of them until after they had eaten up everything. We had no fruit that year, and we have had none in 1898. While feeding, the caterpillars would devour leaves, fruit, buds and all. In 1896 only one small tree was attacked the next year they attacked the cherry, elm, pear and apple trees. They came into the house; the walks and fences were also covered with them. For three or four days I went out every morning and swept them off the planks. Last winter I cut off all the tents, so that we did not have any this year. Generally speaking, my neighbors took care of their trees, though there were a few who did not.
Accidental Introduction to New England
The brown-tail caterpillar was accidentally imported to Somerville, Massachusetts, most likely on roses, in the late 1800s. The insect came to the attention of the public when it achieved outbreak proportions in 1897. To quote a local resident:
A laboratory colony of young caterpillars of the brown-tail moth showing the silk nest, the egg mass (arrow), and the larvae skeletonizing the leaves of apple.
Adult Emergence and Oviposition
Communal Feeding and Nest Building
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History of the NGO Bouge
After 32 years of successful working life in marketing and communication, Irmgard MEIR was led by an altruistic vision to Benin. Her only one slogan was to take part in a better way into the socio-educational care of orphans and vulnerable children, into the development of young people skills and above all those left out from the classical education system so as to make their integration into the work environment easy.
Irmgard MEIER, president and founder of the NGO Bouge came in Benin in July 2006. After some experiments in several NGOs involved in the fight against unhappy childhood, she decided to create the NGO Bouge. The latter will be officially registered in the Department of the Interior and published in the Republic of Benin's Official Gazette respectively on September 11th and November 1st 2007.
The name Bouge means a dynamic to induce positive changes in the lives of vulnerable strata of the population including orphans and vulnerable children, young people taken out of the school system and agricultural producers.
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I'm gonna be honest with you guys: I'm really upset.
— Gene Ross (@Gene_Ross23) August 11, 2020
On Tuesday, the Big Ten announced they would be cancelling their 2020 fall football season, marking the end of Ohio State's chances to take the field this year. The writing was on the wall since rumors began swirling this past weekend, and while the timing of the decision was a bit surprising given the nearly universal backlash from players, coaches, parents and fans, it is a move that was not entirely shocking.
"The mental and physical health and welfare of our student-athletes has been at the center of every decision we have made regarding the ability to proceed forward," said Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren in a press release. "As time progressed and after hours of discussion with our Big Ten Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Big Ten Sports Medicine Committee, it became abundantly clear that there was too much uncertainty regarding potential medical risks to allow our student-athletes to compete this fall.
Now, I'm not here to debate whether or not the Big Ten made the right decision today, as I ultimately believe that we were likely headed down this road at one point or another. However, what I am here to do is question the timing of this decision, and complain — something I'm one to do — about the optics and execution of the decision making within the conference, but also way beyond.
My first gripe begins with the conference's decision to release a 2020 football schedule on Aug. 5 — just six days ago. Upon its release, the B1G acknowledged that there was still work to be done in terms of controlling the COVID-19 virus, but that this new schedule was designed with maximized flexibility in mind. Included in these plans were universal bye weeks that would allow games to be moved around if needed, the ability to move the Big Ten Championship game to as late as Dec. 19, and even the flexibility to easily delay the beginning the of season until Sept. 26.
Even with all these added precautions in mind should things go south in terms of outbreaks — which to my knowledge, did not occur over the weekend — the Big Ten still decided to cancel the season on Tuesday. Why go through the added trouble of designing a schedule with all of these machinations and contingency plans if you never intended to give it a shot? If you were so confident in playing this year that you released a schedule a few days ago, what changed to lead you to cancel less than a full week later?
Can you imagine telling people it was "abundantly clear" a season needed to be postponed 6 days after releasing a schedule?
— Josh Pate (@LateKickJosh) August 11, 2020
Now, let me say this. The leadership issue in college football does not seem to be the case at Ohio State. Throughout this whole process, all of the important parties in charge — be it Ryan Day, athletic director Gene Smith or university president-elect Kristina Johnson — were unified in their fight to try and save the 2020 season. When Day appeared on ESPN on Monday night to discuss everything going on, he made it clear that there had been dialogue from top to bottom throughout everything going on.
According to Smith, Ohio State was in favor of postponing the season to late September rather than a full cancellation of the fall season. Even Johnson, who isn't technically even the president of Ohio State until the end of August, tried to fight for her athletes — likely ones she hasn't even yet been able to meet — and has continued advocating for their health and safety as well as making sure their scholarships are honored. In terms of what we know from the outside of these discussions, it is by no means the fault of anyone in charge in Columbus that they will not be playing college football this season.
I want to thank OUR LEADERS -
— Mark Pantoni (@markpantoni) August 11, 2020
President Johnson, @OSU_AD, @ryandaytime
They did EVERYTHING they could to FIGHT for these players!!
If you want to blame them for not standing on top of the virtual Zoom table and demanding football be played, that is another story. Did Ohio State throw its weight around as the most important member of the conference? Probably not to its fullest extent. But at the very least, you can't say they weren't on the side of trying to move forward with a season. All in all, they got overruled.
Gene Smith on Ohio State's position: "President-elect Johnson and I were totally aligned in our efforts to delay the start of the season rather than postpone. I am so grateful to her for all her efforts in support of our student-athletes and a traditional fall season." pic.twitter.com/2nt4ilTII4
— Colin Hass-Hill (@chasshill) August 11, 2020
Where we do run into this blatant issue of poor leadership and zero clarity is with the Big Ten and the NCAA as a whole. Even in the wake of a decision with tremendous ramifications for both the conference and the landscape of college football as a whole, newly appointed commissioner Kevin Warren has no answers for some of the most important remaining questions.
Talked to one staff member about the guidance Ohio State got from the Big Ten on what happens next: "None."
— Austin Ward (@AWardSports) August 11, 2020
What happens now to all the players on campus? Why did you let the kids continue to practice if this was a decision you seemed ready to make since Sunday? What about scholarship numbers moving forward? What about transfer eligibility? If this decision is really in the interest of player safety, how can you justify making unpaid college kids play two seasons in 2021 if you intend to play in the spring?
These are all questions the Big Ten seems woefully unprepared to answer. The conference has had months to come up with a plan for how the fall would look, and it appeared they had done just that when they cancelled the non-conference scheduled and instituted this new flexible 10-game plan. Instead, now we have a decision that appears rushed through in a matter of hours with no actual thoughts or guidelines as to what happens next.
You would figure the overseeing organization of collegiate athletics would have something to say on the matter — but you would be wrong. NCAA President Mark Emmert makes nearly $4 million to sit on his ass and not do a damn thing outside of making sure the athletes that are producing a billion-dollar product don't see a dime in compensation. If it isn't about protecting the NCAA's precious 'amateurism' racket, Emmert wants nothing to do with it. He has been radio silent throughout this whole ordeal, and has shown us time and time again that the association is worthless and lacks any real basis for existing at all.
As much as I hate to agree with Paul Finebaum, he is absolutely right:
Paul Finebaum says Mark Emmert is a "complete, abject failure at leadership," compares him to a groundhog.https://t.co/oPkJKlWFIY
— Jack Pilgrim (@JackPilgrimKSR) July 19, 2020
As we travel to the very top of the chain of command, we bring us to our biggest culprit in terms of weak leadership: the United States government. Now, I'm not going to bog you down with any rash political statements here, but the whole reason we are even talking about cancelling college football in the first place is because of this country's complete lack of unified effort to control this pandemic.
A vast majority of developed nations around the world either have or are well on their way to nipping this thing in the bud. We could have taken shut downs more seriously. We could have listened to the scientists when they warned us what would happen if we didn't take steps to prevent further outbreaks. But no, instead we chose to turn a virus into a partisan entity and made wearing masks — the easiest possible thing literally anyone could do to improve the lives of their fellow Americans — into a culture war.
Those upset at the Big Ten, direct your outrage at the leaders who have refused to do what's needed to get COVID under control. We had the time and we squandered it.
— Nancy Armour (@nrarmour) August 11, 2020
As a result of all of these failures of leadership from top to bottom, we now sit here mourning the loss of Ohio State's 2020 football season. It is sad to think about how all of the athletes within the Big Ten must feel after working their asses off all offseason, just to have the rug ripped out from under them a mere few weeks before they were supposed to compete. This is no more true than at Ohio State, where they lose more from this cancellation than any other program in the country.
Justin Fields — the Heisman frontrunner and one of the greatest players the Buckeyes have ever seen — is not coming back. Football probably isn't going to be played in the spring, and even if it is, he has an NFL Draft to prepare for. Shaun Wade — who chose to return to OSU to try and win a national title — is gone too. With them leaves fellow incredibly talented NFL prospects in Baron Browning, Wyatt Davis, Josh Myers, Thayer Munford, and possibly Chris Olave, among others. The Buckeyes would have been one of the best teams in college football in 2020 and likely the favorite to win the National Championship, and now that opportunity is no longer.
Sure, Clemson will be losing guys like Trevor Lawrence and Travis Etienne, but it doesn't nearly amount to the talent exodus that will be coming out of Columbus. Plus, those guys already got to win a few in recent years. Ohio State has been one of the top dogs in college football for quite some time, but they haven't won a title since 2014. This year was likely their greatest opportunity to do so, and now all of the guys who were ready to lead that charge this season will be moving on.
Plus, we don't even really know the status moving forward of guys like Jonathon Cooper, Justin Hilliard or Trey Sermon, who came into this season with one final year of eligibility — another massive question the Big Ten will have to answer very soon.
Sitting here on Aug. 11, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. Maybe not us specifically, as I'm sure all of our lovely readers here at LGHL have been strictly adhering to mask-wearing and social distancing guidelines, but as a general population. Agree with the Big Ten's decision or not, there were clear steps we could have taken as a country to avoid getting to this point. Our leaders at all levels could have and should have done more to plan ahead and to prevent this, and now we all must suffer the consequences.
It's honestly too bad because this is the best Ohio State team I've seen in my career.
— Matt Miller (@nfldraftscout) August 11, 2020
RIP to your 2020 National Champions: The Ohio State Buckeyes.
To our student-athletes:
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) August 11, 2020
We respect you.
We will always fight for you.
We will be back.#GoBuckeyes pic.twitter.com/0EEyI2eDM2


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It is less than three years since Liverpool published an open letter on its official website, written by John W Henry.
It was September 2012. The Reds had just ended the summer transfer window in disappointing fashion, failing to add a striker despite a clear and stated need to.
Deals for Clint Dempsey and Daniel Sturridge had not materialised; Dempsey joined Tottenham from Fulham during the final minutes of deadline day, while Sturridge would be left to kick his heels at Chelsea for the next four months.
It caused meltdown among Kopites. Social media – never the best source of nuanced, reasoned discussion, granted – was awash with angry Reds, aghast at the idea of going into a long, gruelling campaign with just Luis Suarez and Fabio Borini as senior striking options. Justified concerns, in all fairness.
And so Henry acted. His letter defended the work of his recruitment team, it highlighted the work done in retaining key personnel (such as Suarez) and it reiterated the club's faith in Brendan Rodgers, its new manager.
It also gave an insight into Fenway Sports Group's long-term strategy, and in particular, its approach to the transfer market.
"Spending is not merely about buying talent," Henry wrote. "Our ambitions do not lie in cementing a mid-table place with expensive, short-term quick fixes that will only contribute for a couple of years.
"It will not be easy, it will not be perfect, but there is a clear vision at work.
"We will build and grow from within, buy prudently and cleverly and never again waste resources on inflated transfer fees and unrealistic wages. We have no fear of spending and competing with the very best, but we will not overpay for players."
If the strategy is not working, this summer may be the time to revise it
It looks, in hindsight, a bold move by FSG, to effectively pen an apology for not signing Clint Dempsey. But it was also a shrewd move; by outlining their strategy, they were able to buy a bit of time and goodwill from fans – 'stick with us, kids, we've got a plan.'
Their words from three years ago, though, are worth revisiting now. After all, if the "strategy" is not working, then this may be the summer to revise it.
Doubts may still exist as to Rodgers' future as manager, with significant meetings taking place with chairman Tom Werner this week, but that hasn't stopped Liverpool pressing on with plans to strengthen their squad.
James Milner, the England midfielder, looks set to become the first signing of the summer. And it is that pursuit, above others, which suggests FSG are preparing to relax their stance when it comes to "expensive, short-term quick fixes."
Milner's age (29) and wages (believed to be well in excess of £100,000 a week) would both appear to go against FSG's previous dealings, but there appears to be an acceptance that Liverpool need more than just young footballers with potential and re-sale value, if they are to compete at the level they are expected to.
The right move? Plenty would argue 'yes' – even if Milner would not necessarily be the player they would choose to change their approach for.
Mistakes have been made too frequently, for too long by Liverpool in the transfer market. It is time that the errors stopped.
And if a little more pragmatism – and maybe, whisper it, even a little more short-termism – helps reduce those errors, then no Red should argue.


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"Translations into several languages allow infusions from the original language so that the stories resonate with the sounds of different languages…" In the aftermath of the Excellence in Literary Translation Initiative award at the London Book Fair, some thoughts – May 2020
As the Crow Flies
Interview with Radhika Menon, Publishing Director, Tulika Publishers
by Radhika Holmström for the ITI Bulletin of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, UK, May-June 2020
RH: Tulika has been running for 24 years now, and you've seen considerable acclaim since then, including the Literary Translation Initiative Award at last year's London Book Fair. Could you tell us a little about the languages you publish in, and the kinds of books you produce?
RM: We cover a range of genres, but we focus on multilingual picture books for children – in English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali. Around 15% of these are in two languages. Translations into several languages allow infusions from the original language so that the stories resonate with the sounds of different languages. And the books are richly visual too, with a very wide range of images and pictures, from the traditional to the contemporary.
When we started in 1996 we wanted to publish books that reflected a contemporary Indian sensibility and a whole range of children's experiences in India today, bringing into focus different childhoods, different social milieus, and different cultures. The first books we published were bilingual books because the way we saw it was that most children in India grow up hearing different languages all around them, all the time. This was a way of giving equal primacy to the children's own languages in an environment in which English was fast assuming superiority, given our colonial legacy.
RH: And English is also a language which many middle-class people (including my own Indian family) speak at home.
RM: Yes. Many children go to English medium schools, and indeed many speak English at home. My grandchildren are spoken to and speak in English because all of us adults grew up with English as our first language! English is now seen and accepted as an Indian language, and it's amazing how many English words are used in different Indian languages and is accepted as the part of its vocabulary. So it is part of the reality and experience of a large section of children.
As editors, we are primarily English-speaking, and we realise the implications of this too. But we believe that multilingual books reflect the connectedness of regions, languages and cultures while retaining distinctive voices.
RH: For people living outside India, it's always striking just how multilingual almost every Indian person is. There's also an increasingly wide range of literature in different languages. Does children's literature vary depending on the language it's written in?
RM: The kind of content, the tone and style does vary. Very often books in regional languages lack a contemporary sensibility. In some cultures, writing for children always has a very didactic tone even in stories that deal with contemporary themes and issues. In fact, we have realised that the concept of a picture book which is profusely illustrated and has short, simple text is not natural to many languages.
Of course there are great exceptions, and we are always looking for them. We have translated writers like Mahasweta Devi from Bangla, Paul Zacharia from Malayalam, Asokamitran and Ambai from Tamil, Kamla Bhasin from Hindi, and P. Anuradha from Telugu.
RH: Does that have implications for translation?
RM: Children's writers in the different languages play around a lot with language but it is kind of frowned upon while translating, Hindi being an exception. It is a second language for a lot of people across the country as it was adopted as the national language post independence, and the huge popularity of Hindi cinema and Hindi songs mean many people are familiar with the language even if they're not fluent. As a result there has always been more open-mindedness about translating into Hindi, and less resistance to the creative use of the language while translating.
Some languages do throw up specific issues on top of that. In Tamil, for instance, spoken language is very different from the written, so when translators use the formal written form of the language it can be particularly difficult for young readers.
RH: One thing that has also struck me is that interpreting and translation in India is a continual, dynamic process. It's something people do without thinking, often every day, as they move between different languages. Does that have any knock-on effect on how people think about translation for children, which is considered quite a specialist area in, say, the UK?
RM: At the moment there certainly is a general feeling that all you need to translate children's books is some competence in the source language. Many people overlook the creativity needed to retain the tone and style of the original while at the same time making it sound natural in the translated language. However, I think perceptions are changing and translating children's books is being taken more seriously largely because of publishers like Tulika and some of the NGOs which publish in several languages.
The other problem is that many translators don't have the exposure to or experience of picture books that many English readers take for granted. We often tell our translators to read it aloud and see if it sounds natural in their language. It surprises us how even the experienced translators don't see the need to do this. Sometimes when they run into problems, we give them another language version as it is closer to the language they are working in rather than the English. That's when you realise the cultural distance between English and Indian languages and why the translations sound literal.
Then there is the whole issue of the 'purity' or the correctness of the language, notions of which are often far more rigid with the Indian languages. There is often resistance to use colloquialisms, because they're seen as incorrect and a corruption of the language; and the same with using English terms that are widespread in every language. There is a view that we should use the correct translation even if it is hardly ever used in everyday language. This is mainly because of the Indian perception that children read books to learn a language and for knowledge! I feel it is important that when children read less and less in their own languages they should feel comfortable reading in it and not feel distanced by formal language.
RH: You've also said elsewhere that 'Translation has its own problems. There is always the politics of a language, with issues of caste and class and gender all intertwined. We are constantly grappling with these problems'. Could you explain this a little more?
RM: In India, language reflects hierarchical issues like gender, caste and class biases. For instance, many languages don't have a term for 'human being': it is either man or woman (and not surpisingly, it is usually man!). And 'farmer' is always male even though so many women do farming. Names of professions are also caste related. So using the term for professions like washerman/washerwoman or barber immediately signals the caste that person comes from too. The problem is that many Indian translators, those for children especially, do not see a problem with doing this, whereas writers and editors working in English are much more aware of the politics of language.
RH: Do you decide which languages to translate each book into, or that some books won't work in specific languages?
RM: If a text can be translated into one Indian language, it usually works in all the languages. When we decide that certain texts won't work in translation, we don't translate them at all. When we select manuscripts, translatability is a criterion we look for. It is not just about the language but also the story itself, and how relatable children will find it.
For instance, we did a book in English called What makes me 'me', about a little boy thinking about his nuclear family, the things he likes, food he doesn't like to eat, his favourite things, and so on. Many of the concepts were very urban and class related. In translation some of these would seem almost alien to the readers the books would go to. Our books in the Indian languages by and large go to children from lower socio-economic backgrounds, whose experiences of the world are very different. This is something we are always sensitive to.
Sometimes we really like a book but realise it will not work in translation, as the language itself is so rooted in the regional cultural context that something very intrinsic to the stories gets lost when translated into English. I don't think this would be such a problem with writing for adults, but in children's books the challenge is to make children enjoy the story for what it is – story, language, pictures – and feel comfortable reading them.
RH: Are there areas you'd like to develop – and where do you see yourselves going from here?
We've also done books in just one Indian language, like an alphabet book or a poem. It opened up so many possibilities – using word play, fun use of typography and so on in a way we can't when there multiple translations. It was liberating! The play with words and typography also works subliminally, as a way of giving a language status. We try and do this as much as possible but at the moment the software and design industry is largely geared to English, and the romanised languages.
Ideally a multilingual publishing house like ours should have different editorial and design departments for different languages, but we don't have the wherewithal for this. What we do have is a deep interest, passion and commitment to multilingual children's books which means we work twice as hard in every area – editing, designing, production, marketing and distribution!
Staying with our convictions and continuing to publish in nine languages against all the odds has been an enriching experience. We hope to discover and publish more books from different languages into English, as these are the books that best reflect cultural and linguistic diversities of the India that our children grow up in.
The challenge is always to translate a book in a style of language that children hear and speak. This is more accepted now: we have come a long way since the early years! I am sure that the day will come when we translate more and more from other Indian languages and we have translators who understand and respond to the demands of translating for children.


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Today's EU competition inquiry into Google seeks to protect companies against Google. Consumers, not companies, should be the real beneficiary of such inquiries. The mantra of, 'Do no evil', and Google's reputation for providing unbiased search results have brainwashed the population into believing that it is a source of absolute truth. They don't know better and need to be protected.
It is very common for companies to complain about Google and their power over search queries. In the UK, about 90% of Internet searches are over Google and many of those searches are made by people looking to buy things. If a company moves from the first result for a search to a lower ranking, or even worse, off the first page of results it can have very significant implications for revenue and profit of the business affected. Google meanwhile goes to great lengths to obscure the exact algorithms that are used to decide the ranking of results as companies game the results.
This is an ongoing problem for both Google and the companies that wish to get found and will only get worse as more business is conducted online. Today, the European Commission announced it is looking into complaints about anti-competitive practice from Google after complaints by Foundem, ejustice.fr, Ciao. Obviously Google deny any wrong doing.
"Though each case raises slightly different issues, the question they ultimately pose is whether Google is doing anything to choke off competition or hurt our users and partners, this is not the case." Julia Holtz, Google Senior Competition Lawyer.
From the consumer's perspective however, not too many people will worry too much about whether, for example, MoneySupermarket or Confused.com provide the route to home insurance. These businesses are little more than search engine optimised websites that make money by providing leads for the same insurance companies that offer end users the same deal.
The bigger issue for me is that very few people know that Google's search results are highly dependent on whether Google gets paid for a result. (And here I mean 'normal people', not geeks).
The mantra of, 'Do no evil', and Google's reputation for providing unbiased search results have brainwashed the population into believing that it is a source of absolute truth.
If you do a search in Google because I want information on a consumer product, 'Toshiba TG01' for example, you are offered 10,200,000 results. Frankly however, only the first few count as if you can find what you want on page one, why go further?
There are 19 links from Google for 'Toshiba TG01' shown on my first screen of results, at least 15 are links that are there because they are sponsored, (top and right), or make money for Google directly (anything under the Shopping results for toshiba tg01 link).
I don't have any problem with people making money but I do think the results system should be more transparent. I have just asked 6 people in Starbucks to show me the 'paid results' on this screen.
- One stated confidently that Google doesn't charge to show results.
- Three identified the sponsored links on the right hand side as paid for.
- One identified the sponsored links at the top as paid for.
- Only one thought that most of them were making money for Google in one way or another.
Interestingly, the most sophisticated of these respondents was happy for Google to make some money along the way and understood the rules of the game. The individual who didn't think Google makes money from search said, 'If that was true, I wouldn't trust them'.
I recognise that this is not a proper survey, but it has made me think about how search could evolve.
I believe that if there was more transparency in the results – simple icons showing how the search engine is remunerated for results, consumers would be more trusting of the results. At the moment, it seems like Google is trading on its past reputation for honesty and openness that is just not deliverable in today's far more sophisticated and complex web.


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Screw flying cars, I want cars that own and maintain themselves
Autonomous agents in a Bitcoin world
In the future, you will not own a car. You will summon a car using your mobile device, the car will drive itself, and the ride will be free. The car will also own and maintain itself!
Whoa… what? OK. I might have lost you at the end. But the future is closer than you think.
Let's break it down.
…you will not own a car. You will summon a car using your mobile device…
This shouldn't surprise most people, but there are a variety of services that allow you to summon a vehicle from your mobile device. If you're reading this, you've probably used this type of service already.
…the car will drive itself…
Self driving cars have been developed with over 300k autonomous miles. Watch this video. This is real. The "driver" is blind.
…the ride will be free.
Patents have been approved on sponsored transportation. This means the passengers will see advertising during the commute. "50% off pizza 2 blocks ahead". Better than a daily email?
The car will also own and maintain itself!
Now this is where things get interesting. You may say the concept of a car owning itself is far-fetched. However, the technology that allows this has already been invented and discussed publicly.
How is this possible? Bitcoin.
What is Bitcoin?
Unfortunately in recent press, it's most often described as just a currency, but the most fascinating aspects of Bitcoin are the building blocks on top of which the currency was designed.
Bitcoin is "the world's first system of digital cash, which allows peer-to-peer value transfer over the internet with no reliance on third parties. It is built on a new invention, the decentralized global asset register. This global asset register is the world's first decentralized consensus system."
The concepts of Contracts and Agents on top of the consensus system is what made be relive my childhood of reading sci-fi novels and dreaming about robots. It is finally possible for a truly Autonomous Intelligent Agent, that is a piece of software which offer services and support its own costs, to co-exist in our economic society.
This is now possible, because in the Bitcoin ecosystem:
- The barrier to participate economically, aka exchange currency for goods/services, was once limited to people able to open a bank account. Now, a piece of software can send and/or receive currency on its own.
- A decentralized consensus system is required so that money, goods and/or services cannot be double spent. The participants who work together to "validate" transactions in this global asset register are economically incentivized to participate. Because of bitcoin's dramatic increase in value over the past 12 months, the largest pool of compute power ever assembled is now focused on this task. Without explaining complex cryptography, the important concept to remember is that the sheer compute power of the community keeps everyone honest. That compute power is now ~800X more powerful than the top 500 supercomputers in the world combined.
- Each transaction is defined via an evolving scripting language, allowing for concepts such as payments, multiple party transactions, contracts, loans, escrow, third party transaction verification, and more.
So how would autonomous vehicles work?
A funding source invests in a vehicle entity via a blockchain based contract. One technique is an dominant assurance contract, in which the vehicle is funded for the public good. In today's terms think Kickstarter. Another technique is a loan, in which the vehicle entity is given access to the physical good, the vehicle, but repays it over a set # of installments.
The vehicle entity then purchases a self-driving vehicle from a manufacturer and adds itself to the driving pool, from which a consumer can summon the vehicle for transportation. It will receive revenue from consumers and/or a vehicle advertising platform. If the vehicle's detects malfunction or needs new tires, it will hire a technician for repairs. The mechanic will be paid in bitcoin.
When the vehicle needs power, it will plug itself into a SuperCharger station, that is free or charges a fee in bitcoin. Good thing cars will be 100% electric by then, which will lower operating costs, and pass on those savings to the consumers. If the vehicle can't make sufficient revenue to support its costs, it may sell itself to a salvage/recycling company or lookup demand in a nearby city and drive there instead.
What company is closest to making this a reality?
Google Ventures recently led an investment round in Uber. Since there is precedence that Google has purchased Google Venture backed companies, lets assume this acquisition occurs. Google will control consumer demand for transportation.
Google is also furthest along on self driving car technology. They also are the company who received the patent on ad-sponsored transportation.
Most recently, they also acquired an advanced AI company, DeepMind, whose technology is so advanced, it's founders required Google to establish a ethics board prior to acquisition. Advanced artificial intelligence is a prerequisite in building these autonomous software agents.
Finally, much of these ideas have been discussed publicly by a Google employee, Mike Hearn.
Let's just say, I'm long on Google.


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Thompson to compete in USA Cycling Cross-Country Nationals
Published 6:07 pm Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Ethan Thompson is comfortable on bicycles, especially those on which the 16-year-old Green Creek resident is training for the USA Cycling Cross-Country Mountain Bike National Championships, July 18-21.
That he's finished second and third while competing in the 19-29 year-old age class events, and has recently placed first in several regional competitions has been a confidence builder. In fact he noted softly, "I'm leading the (Southern Classic) series in the 15-18 age class." This series holds races in the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia.
His entry into the 19-29 age bracket was a product of confidence and a "why not?" desire to see how he would fare against older and more experienced riders.
Cross-country bicycle racing typically involves trails with a lot of hill climbing, but with less severe grades than some forms of off-road cycling competition. The race in which Thompson will compete is about seven or eight miles long (His most recent race was 12 miles) with lots of climbing. "We'll probably hit the course several times (before the race, to get accustomed)," he said. The event is part of the schedule at Bear Creek Mountain Resort near Allentown, Pa. Ethan will compete in the Junior (age 15-18) Cat. 3 bracket.
Advancing from being a recreational rider, to a focused competitor has occurred quickly. "I went from an hour a day of riding, to lifting (weights), running and riding," Thompson stated. He now trains four hours per day, Mondays through Fridays. Each day involves an hour and a half of weight lifting, thirty minutes of running, and two hours of cycling. The switch was not easy, even for the already active young man.
"I was tired for a while," he said. "Now, I feel good."
Weekend riding is reserved for sharing time with friends who ride for fun.
Thompson's passion for cross-country bicycle racing began quietly. About one and one-half years ago," he recalled, "I rode with my dad (Cory Thompson, who formerly raced motorcycles)." Shortly after, when visiting a bicycle shop he spotted a mountain bike.
"I had to have one," he remembers. Soon, he entered short track racing in the winter. As his experience broadened, so did his bikes improve, to better handle the punishment dished out by rough terrain, and to be more responsive on the trails.
Ethan currently trains on two mountain bikes and two road bikes. He'll be riding a Specialized (brand) Hard Rock bike during the Pennsylvania event.
Thompson trains heavily on his road bikes, especially since he can find challenging ascents on paved roads in this region.


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Costly Hartford Development Plans Falter
October 15, 2008
Five thousand people.
That's how many residents developer Larry Gottesdiener said downtown Hartford needs to have to reach the same density for a city its size as New York City. That was the goal.
But here's the reality downtown has roughly 2,000 or so residents and that number won't be growing significantly any time soon. Thanks to the flagging credit market, money for new, big building projects is nearly impossible to get. For now, at least, the building boom is done.
Gottesdiener's plans to knock down the old YMCA building on Bushnell Park and build high-end condos? No money.
The Front Street residential plan? Long ago shelved.
Plans to take an old city building at 101 Pearl St. and put retail and office space, and 36 apartments inside? No development agreement with the city.
Look slightly beyond downtown, at the Capewell Horse Nail Co. factory, the Plaza Mayor project at the intersection of Park and Main streets, and the still-unfinished conversion of the historic Colt firearms factory, and the story is the same.
No money, no money, and no money.
Except for a couple projects under construction now, like the one at 410 Asylum, that means no more new residents.
"This will absolutely slam the brakes on new development throughout the country," Gottesdiener said. "Yes, it will slow down Hartford's recovery, slow down Hartford's goal of reaching critical mass."
Bringing residents to downtown Hartford and its immediate surroundings has been a goal fueled by public vision, private ambition and a lot of taxpayer money. New apartment and condominium projects that were tough to put together in good times are harder and costlier now.
For retail landlords, the downturn will likely mean more of a bad thing Gottesdiener's goal for 2008 was to open a grocery store at his flagship Hartford 21 luxury apartment tower. He's spent $2 million to build it, but still hasn't found anyone to run it.
But for downtown apartment landlords, the slowdown may not be that bad less supply could drive up demand, which could drive up rents, which, long term, could make future projects easier.
It's all in how you think about what drives demand, said Bill McCue, chairman of the quasi-public Capital City Economic Development Authority. Demand, he said, isn't about the ability to build new housing projects. It's about jobs.
"If there are jobs in downtown Hartford, then there will be people that want to live there," McCue said.
Demand for downtown apartments, though, hasn't been ideal. One-bedroom units downtown have moved quickly, but larger units haven't a sign that young professionals are moving in, but others aren't. While existing buildings are reaching their capacity, it's taking them longer to do so than originally hoped, said R. Nelson "Oz" Griebel, the head of the MetroHartford Alliance.
"I think we'd already hit a little bit of a hiatus," Griebel said, adding that the short-term future is bleak. "Everything slows down. I don't know how else you can say it."
Developer Phil Schonberger, who built The Lofts at Main and Temple at the old Sage-Allen site, said that this downturn, too, shall pass. When it does, projects will begin anew for the city dweller the recent building boom forgot.
"I think there's a huge market for the thing we missed we didn't build a product for the empty nesters," Schonberger said. "That will be the next wave. Ideally, we'd be getting ready to start construction on that stuff next year. It probably will get held up for a couple of years, unfortunately."
Developer Marty Kenny, who owns the Trumbull on the Park apartment complex, said the economy is only part of the problem with some of the suffering projects. If anything, the first building wave has shown that young people want to live downtown and projects that lay just outside of downtown won't bring them in, he said.
"Some of these properties that are flat on their backs have to do with where they're located," he said.
At the Capewell building just south of downtown, the hope was to turn the old factory into condominiums. Money was hard enough to come by before the financial crisis and the project's developer, John Reveruzzi, was seeking a new developer to take over. That job has become even harder now, his company says.
Not far away, plans to turn the intersection of Park and Main streets into a "gateway" to the city's Park Street life have been in the hands of New York developers who've been quiet. Local partners say they're out of the loop, but that the project isn't financed.
The unfinished Colt Gateway project has been stalled for more than a year. Its developer last month asked Gov. M. Jodi Rell for more money and was rebuffed. Even with a guarantee of a state tenant, banks won't lend more money to the project.
"Everybody," said Colt official Rebekah MacFarlane, "is pitifully afraid."
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