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When I turned thirty five years back… I mean six years back, I was stumped. I just couldn't take it. For me, being thirty meant that I have to grow up, being responsible for all of my actions and with that being said, it was going to be utterly troublesome. The prospect of being in the three series was not as exciting as being in the German-made three series at all. Some might say that it's just a number but I seriously have to refute that completely. There are a whole lot of other things and numbers are not just numbers. Especially, when it comes to tinkering with cars.
For those who have been head over heels to achieve more ponies under the hoodies, the amount of extravagant numbers spent to actually achieve the sought-after numbers in horsepower and torque might get most of 'em standard car owners shaking their heads in utter disbelief. Nowadays, the power of money plays a more important role in gettin' 'em numbers.
Having an A31 Cefiro might not be that impressive for some, but still it's one of the best car deemed affordable to have if you wanna be driving sideways once in a while. After all, having a Nissan platform means a whole lot of possibilities in terms of modifications… as with some of the models bodyparts can be swapped, plugged and played without any hassle at all. You can even do it yourself without being charged and arm and a leg to achieve the looks you have always wanted.
Sadly, the same can't be said with engine swaps. For most of us, it's either we don't have the tools and the precious time to spend or we don't have the brains to get to the right mechanics right in the first place. Hence, the mushrooming amount of workshops, garages and specialists all over the country. This happens to be a good thing actually, as now we modders have more places to send our rides to for modding purposes.
When I first heard of the RB30, I was flabbergasted to say the least. I never heard of it before I went for a photo shoot back in 2009. The mechanic at Turbinemasters in Shah Alam showed me the block and told me at that time, there were only two cars in Malaysia with this engine. It came as stock in the Holden Commodore manufactured and used in Australia before the model had a change of heart to a V8.
However the RB30 is not a complete engine as it consists of a short block mated with the head of another RB series. There is also an 'RB30DETT' kit manufactured by OS Giken of Japan, which bolts an extension on top of the RB26 engine block, and fits liners, to give an 86 mm bore x 86 mm stroke. It is available as an assembled short block, containing billet chrome-molybdenum crank, billet chrome-molybdenum H-beam connecting rods, forged pistons, and costs both arms and legs along with your bottom in the process.
The amount of torque that can be squeezed out of this set-up is extremely high and with proper fully balanced engine and blue-printing, it's been proven that the engine can rev up to 11,000rpm. Just imagine the kind of horsepower and torque you can achieve. No wonder, Bad, the owner of this particular A31 who is also one out of three DC Shoes' drifters went all out for the RB30, pairing it with a huge Garrett AR70 and a bit of play with Tomei cams.
As for the looks, he kept the A31 true to its form without getting it mashed with other Nissan makes. I'd say it's more than enough to keep other cars scurrying for cover every when the A31 makes an appearance. Keeping it all black would make it boring according to him and since he's a big fan of Ken Block, liveries of Block's Fiesta further enhances the menacing stance of his A31. Since sticker-bombing trend first hit the shores of Malaysia, he's one of the first who got it done onto his car. The play of sticker bombin' at the dash gave the interior a joyous feel whilst entering the pod without compromising the menacing stance of his A31.
To complete the looks, he went all crazy and got two sets of wheels instead of one… both ain't cheap and not easy to source out, Work Equip and Kei's Office rolling stock of 17 inches in size. I'd go for bigger wheels if I was him going all out 20″ like Mad Mike's FD3S but then to each its own numbers aye? Now who say's 30 is just a number?
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RB30DET block, RB25 head, Tomei cams, Garrett AR70 turbine, Tial wastegate, APEX'i airfilter, M-Con M7 management, Splitfire sparkplugs, Cusco 2-way LSD, 430 horsepower
Sparco seats, MOMO steering, NISMO gearknob, custom hydraulic handbrake, NRG meters, Bee-R rev limiter, sticker-bombed dashboard
custom fibre GTR bonnet, Fiber Wonder front bumper, rear bumper and sideskirting, Black paintjob with Ken Block's Fiesta liveries
Rolling Stock: Work Equip & Kei's Office 17″ wheels, GT Radial 235/40/17 tyres, ISC suspensions, R32 calipers and discs, Ultra Racing struts

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Dana White says Darren Till vs Stephen Thompson set for Feb. 24 in England
UFC President Dana White has announced that Darren Till will take on Stephen 'Wonderboy' Thompson Feb. 24 in England.
The news was reported by Lance Pugmire of the LA Times during a Q&A. White said he would be moving his UFC Orlando card to England but did not confirm if that would be in Till's hometown of Liverpool.
Dana White says he's moving his UFC card from Orlando, moving it to England so popular Darren Till can fight @WonderboyMMA
— Lance Pugmire (@latimespugmire) November 8, 2017
The date is Feb. 24 for Till-Wonderboy.
— Lance Pugmire (@latimespugmire) November 8, 2017
The UFC have already confirmed a date in London, England scheduled for March 17. However Darren Till had been calling for the UFC to come to his hometown of Liverpool after his win over Donald Cerrone this past October in Poland.
Till (16-0-1) is still undefeated with one draw on his record. He made a big impression last October when he defeated top ten ranked Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone by first round TKO in the main event in Poland. Darren Till has had five fights in the UFC and has shot up the Welterweight rankings calling for a fight with 'Wonderboy' next.
Wonderboy, let's get it on! Your good, your respectful… but I am a fucking animal
— Darren Till (@darrentill2) November 5, 2017
Stephen 'Wonderboy' Thompson (14-2-1) is ranked No. 2 in the UFC Welterweight division. He is coming off a unanimous decision win over Jorge Masvidal at UFC 217 this past November. Previously to that, 'Wonderboy' had drew and then lost to the current Champion Tyron Woodley in two bouts that went the distance.
Darren Till and Stephen Thompson will now go at it this February with the location still to be announced.


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Development of a total dissolved solids (TDS) chronic effects benchmark for a northern Canadian lake
Laboratory chronic toxicity tests with plankton, benthos, and fish early life stages were conducted with total dissolved solids (TDS) at an ionic composition specific to Snap Lake (NWT, Canada), which receives treated effluent from the Snap Lake Diamond Mine. Snap Lake TDS composition has remained consistent from 2007 to 2014 and is expected to remain unchanged through life of mine: chloride (45‐47%), calcium (20‐21%), sodium (10‐11%), sulfate (9%); carbonate (5‐7%), nitrate (4%), magnesium (2‐3%), and minor contributions from potassium and fluoride. TDS concentrations that resulted in negligible effects (i.e., 10 or 20% effect concentrations) to taxa representative of resident biota ranged from >1,100 to >2,200 mg/L with the exception of a 21% effect concentration of 990 mg/L for one of two early life stage fish dry fertilization tests (wet fertilization results were >1,480 mg/L). A conservative, site‐specific, chronic effects benchmark for Snap Lake TDS of 1,000 mg/L was derived, below the lowest negligible effect concentration for the most sensitive resident taxon tested, the cladoceran, D. magna (>1,100 mg/L). Cladocerans typically only comprise a few percent of the zooplankton community and biomass in Snap Lake; other plankton effect concentrations ranged from >1,330 to >1,510 mg/L. Chironomids, representative of the lake benthos, were not affected by >1,380 mg/L TDS. Early life stage tests with three fish species resulted in 10 to 20% effect concentrations ranging from >1,410 to >2,200 mg/L. The testing undertaken is generally applicable to northern freshwaters and the concept can readily be adapted to other freshwaters either for TDS where ionic composition does not change or for major ionic components where TDS composition does change. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved
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Constructing Waste: Week 7
The 7th week's session of Constructing Waste was opened with a presentation 'Waste and Want' by Marta Wisniewska.
The talk raises the everlasting question of aesthetic perception on the example of waste. Questions of necessity and luxury were raised, as waste in architecture evokes very extreme and contradictory reactions in both developing territories and developed countries. Cultural and aesthetic goals as well as differences were discussed on the example of MULU, a container housing project developed by Marta Wisniewska and Felix Heisel in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
Marta Wisniewska is a researcher at the Future Cities Laboratory at the Assistant Professorship Dirk E. Hebel. Prior to that, she was working as a lecturer and architectural program coordinator at the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development in Addis Ababa.
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Literally 3 days ago, all of my Mexican friends were chanting this over and over again as we cruised around on the Trajinera boats of Xochimilco listening to music. Never one to back down from dance-floor shenanigans & really corny moves, I gave them what they wanted!
Now, despite the word pinche actually being kind of crude in itself (I'll let you define it), and the fact that it was my friends who were singing, the word gringo is not a derogatory or disrespectful word. There is a lot of confusion around the word gringo – and I want to clear that up so it is not misinterpreted.
What does Gringo mean?
I actually used to think the word gringo was a word used to refer to latinos. However, it's just the opposite. In short, the word GRINGO is a word used by latinos to refer to white/caucasian people, more specifically people from the United States.
The definition of the word can change depending on where you are in Latin America. For example, in Mexico & most areas of Central America, gringo almost certainly means someone from the United States. But in some areas of South America, people will use the word to refer to ANYONE who is of caucasian descent, including Canadians, Europeans, Australians, etc. In Brazil, they use the word to refer to anyone who is not from Brazil, thus it can be synonymous with foreigner.
Wikipedia defines Gringo as "a term, mainly used in Spanish-speaking countries and in Portuguese-speaking, to refer to an English-speaking foreigner, especially a North-America person…"
Where does the word gringo come from?
There is actually some debate over this. As obviously the language of Spanish came from the country of Spain, some say the origin of gringo has Spanish roots. More commonly, you will hear the term came from Mexicans, and was invented sometime during the Mexican-American War. Some theories say that U.S. troops had green uniforms, and as they entered into Mexican territory, the locals would scream "GREEN GO! GREEN, GO!" because they wanted the U.S. troops to leave, and couldn't speak English very well. Other theories say the term was born from Mexicans' interpretation of the popular songs "Green Grow the Grass/Lilacs" that U.S. army battalions would sing as they marched, or that the term actually came from Puerto Rico. Okay – that's enough history.
Is the word "gringo" bad?
The point is, is that today, the term is not offensive. However, like many words in many languages, it can be taken out of context depending on how it is said.
Personally speaking, I believe Spanish can be a very direct, "take it or leave it" language. At times, Spanish isn't direct in terms of concisely summarizing things or getting the point across. But at other times, it's very direct in describing the appearance of things or people. Get ready to use the word negro again. Don't be surprised to hear people calling someone who is overweight as gordo to their face! For English speakers in the age of political correctness, it can feel excitingly raw and comically blunt.
So gringo means nothing more than that – you aren't Latino, you don't speak Spanish. Don't view it as negative stereotype – OWN it. Use it to your advantage. I know I do. Actually you really have no choice but to embrace it if you want to travel in this part of the world, as EVERYONE says it. It's also important not to take yourself too seriously and make fun of yourself sometimes. You should hear how many laughs I get every time I make a joke about gringos (aka myself) in front of other latinos.
Gringo is good. Gringo is funny. Gringo is you (well, if you meet the "requirements" listed above haha). I hope you have a better understand of what the word means. Maybe you already knew what the word meant and this entire post has been a waste of time. Either way, it's kind of my "identity" now so I figured it was worth an explanation.
What do you think? Do you like the word gringo? Do you find it offensive? If you have any questions, doubts, or gringo stories I'd like to hear about them. Leave a comment below – thanks!


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Winners Pick Themselves
Almost a decade ago, I wrote a cover story in Metro about about Redevelopment and the state of downtown San Jose. I want to revisit the questions I asked back then, because I think that now we have some answers to at least some of them.
The first question I asked was
Would San Jose have been better off to have let its downtown grow organically, rather than through some master civic plan devised by urban planners in the Redevelopment Department using diverted taxpayer money?
Yes. I'm convinced that we would have been better off rebuilding this city from a million small decisions made by tens of thousands of individual citizens and business owners than by a gang of bureaucrats with no stake in our success beyond their own r–sum– padding.
We may have gained a couple of extra high rises and a few more public buildings going down the path we did, but the cost was far too great. We sucked the soul and culture out of old downtown San Jose and replaced it with a comparatively sterile and empty metropolitan center that constantly has to dangle expensive bait to lure in young people and wealthy suburbanites.
It will take at least another generation to bring back the random juxtapositions of shops and businesses, the welcome and well-worn seediness and the population of hungry young urbanites that make up a healthy city center—and that were so thoughtlessly torn down or driven away back in the '80s and '90s.
The second question I asked was ...
Where was all of that Redevelopment money coming from?
The typical answer I got at the time was either a shrug or that it was a kind of magical "free" money that would have absolutely no effect upon the overall finances of the city.
Well, we now know that was utter bullshit. A city is an ecosystem. You can't segment off one corner of it, rewrite its financial underpinnings and expect it to operate in a vacuum. No matter how you try to firewall it off, inevitably everyone is affected. And now we can see what that means—a shiny and empty downtown, the loss of numerous small downtown businesses (many of them a century old) that gave San Jose its character and culture—an aging infrastructure in the other, outlying districts, public buildings that have become financial sinkholes, a city budget too strained to pursue major new initiatives, a rising crime rate and a declining quality of life.
I hope we won't make the same mistake the next time some fiscal snake-oil salesman comes around selling his wares.
The third question was ...
Why, despite being one of the largest cities in the United States, and even as it was staking its claim to be the "Capital City" of Silicon Valley, did San Jose insist on behaving like a provincial small town?
My case in point at the time was the naming of public buildings after living people. Then it was the McEnery Convention Center, now we can add the Mineta International Airport and the Diridon Transit Center.
I've known all of these men and have tremendous respect for them, but dammit, you give civic honors to people when they are dead, not when they are still alive and still capable of bringing enormous embarrassment to the community.
How would you like to be entering Ron Gonzales City Hall every day?
The naming of buildings may seem a minor matter, but it is emblematic of the larger problem of San Jose's endless, "second city" mentality. San Jose claims to be the capital of the most influential and prosperous community on Earth, and yet it behaves like some prairie metropolis, boostering itself to the natives but ducking its head and scuffing its shoes in the company of its big-city cousins.
I've spent my entire life listening to how San Francisco is "more sophisticated" and filled with "old money" that's more willing to give the big bucks to support the arts, the zoo, the symphony and all of the other trappings of a great city.
I heard it when I was a cub reporter at the Mercury-News, and 30 years later, I'm still hearing the same old story about how the valley is New Money and can't be expected to step up and share its fortunes with its home community, like the Fleishhackers and Sterns and Davies did in San Francisco.
I believed it then; I don't believe it now—especially when I see the billions those new-money valleyites have happily given to Stanford University, their personal foundations and social enterprises around the world.
I think I first saw the situation clearly when I was producing and hosting TV shows at our local PBS station, KTEH. You know, the one now called San Francisco's KQED-Plus? In one of my series, Betting It All, I brought into the studio, one after another, Silicon Valley's greatest CEOs, with a total estimated net worth of $100 billion. The station manager never even left his office to meet them—at a time when the station itself was in financial peril.
I think that experience captures a larger picture. Year after year, the nonprofits go back to the same family names, the same collection of downtown philanthropists to once again beg them for operating funds.
God bless those donors for all that they have done. But man, they must be getting tired of being hit up by every charity with a San Jose zip code on its letterhead. Meanwhile, they must be wondering why all of those millionaires and billionaires in the Golden Triangle and across the rest of Silicon Valley aren't stepping up to the plate.
Well, the answer is that they aren't being asked. And if they are being asked, it's a drive-by request from some organization they know nothing about and have never heard from before.
I'm now convinced that, for all of its bluster, the real truth is that San Jose fears Silicon Valley. It doesn't understand it and doesn't want to understand it. It wants its money but doesn't want to raise a finger to support it—indeed, San Jose has gone out of its way to assert its control over Silicon Valley with regulations, "living-wage laws," zoning, etc. It wants to keep the valley out of the downtown and its politics, even while betting the city's future health on the valley's long-term success. In other words, San Jose wants to hold Silicon Valley at arm's length, with one hand around the valley's throat, while using the other one to empty the valley's pockets.
Ignorance may be bliss, but it is also an insult to San Jose's constituents. There hasn't been a San Jose mayor in memory—even the one who worked at Hewlett-Packard—who could explain how a microprocessor works, or watched a start-up team pitch a venture capitalist. And there isn't a congressperson in Silicon Valley who can give a quick explanation of packet switching—even though its inventor lived and died here, and it underpins both the cell phone and the Internet. Some of those Representatives have been in office for 30 years. Wouldn't you think they'd have taken a weekend along the way and boned up on a topic so central to the lives of the people they represent?
And there is one more thing I would expect our elected leaders to know something about: Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship built Silicon Valley; entrepreneurship is the source of this valley's economic power; entrepreneurship is this valley's only hope of a prosperous future. San Jose claims to be the capital of Silicon Valley—and Silicon Valley is the world's capital of entrepreneurship . . . so why is it that the leaders of this city appear to have no real understanding of entrepreneurship?: Who does it. How it happens. And what it needs to survive.
I know they don't understand because their actions tell me so. Here are three truths about Silicon Valley entrepreneurs:
1. The big fancy buildings and famous company names don't matter. The future is in the hands of men and women working on business plans in Denny's and Starbucks.
2. Entrepreneurs don't need support. They need benign neglect.
3. You can't pick winners in advance. There are too many variables. Winners pick themselves.
Venture capitalists are some of the smartest people I know, but even they are lucky to pick a successful start-up in one out of every 10 investments. It's a game of numbers and ratios.
In other words, if you are going to build a prosperous future, a city that will come roaring out of this recession into a new era of prosperity, then you don't try to pick winners—especially some in industry like clean tech—and you don't help mature, and likely doomed, tech companies build nice high-rise headquarters, and you don't burden struggling start-ups with endless regulations, taxes and fees, and the latest social engineering boondoggle.
And most of all, you don't leave it up to a committee of bureaucrats to guess which companies will succeed and which won't.
Instead, you give the start-ups cheap office or warehouse space, tax breaks and the fastest broadband you can deliver. Then you get the hell out of the way and trust them to do the rest. Ninety percent of them will fail, but that last 10 percent will change the world—and the fortunes of the city of San Jose.
As for the big companies: in tech, it is the new little firms that lead, and the big, mature ones that follow. Make San Jose inviting to entrepreneurs, and you'll get all of the corporate headquarters you've ever dreamed of.
See the problem? Has anybody wondered why Palo Alto got Facebook, Mountain View got Google, San Francisco got Twitter . . . and downtown San Jose has . . . Adobe? Anybody still curious why most of the thousand-plus new valley start-ups of the last few years have been founded almost everywhere but San Jose?
In the end, it comes down to trust. And to leadership. And lately in Silicon Valley, we've been dangerously short of both.
By trust, I mean that for politicians and community leaders, entrepreneurship is a character test. Political leaders like to guarantee solutions; they like to determine success stories in advance; they like to control. But for a community like Silicon Valley, the only successful way to lead is to recognize that your economic future is out of your hands, and most of all to surrender control—and trust in the native genius of your constituents to invent a prosperous future. And those loose reins have to be matched with a huge vision, and a very high national, even international, profile.
In San Jose, we have not had that kind of leadership in decades. In Silicon Valley, we have not had that kind of leadership in a generation—not since the untimely death of Intel's Robert Noyce.
Don't get me wrong: we owe a great debt of gratitude to Mayor Reed. With all of the scandals, and then the economic crash, the valley and San Jose desperately needed a return to normalcy, a competent hand at the controls and, most of all, a nice heavy dose of integrity.
But I also did an informal poll over the last couple months. I asked San Joseans, most of them strangers, in meetings, in elevators and even on the street, to tell me the name of their mayor. About a third of them knew. "I don't know" came in second place.
Silicon Valley, by comparison, has just the opposite problem. Twenty-five years ago, this valley had a wealth of brilliant figures who could speak for the region and represent it in Washington and around the world. But since Noyce's death we have had no one. As I've already noted, our elected representatives haven't a clue, and two generations of world-class valley executives, from Ellison to Jobs to Zuckerberg, have been simply too dysfunctional to take on the job.
That kind of low-key leadership will not work when this city and this valley find themselves a couple years from now in the next great growth boom. If we are to achieve the kind of success we deserve, the global influence we have worked for, and the opportunity we need to maintain our position as the Capital of the Digital World, we need men and women who have the ambition, the ability, the vision and most of all, the trust, that it will take to be the Leader of Silicon Valley and the Mayor of San Jose. And it sure wouldn't hurt if they had experience as high-tech entrepreneurs.
We will need world-class figures at the helm of both this City and this valley, men and women comfortable playing on the national and international scene—not just the next person whose 'turn' it is to hold the title. We are already running out of time. Who will answer that call? Who will usher in a new Era of Trust, of Entrepreneurship in San Jose, and of overarching purpose and vision in Silicon Valley? Who will step forward and lead us toward our true destiny? Let's hope they make their appearance soon.


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If you're in the market for a student loan, you may be pleasantly surprised to learn how much federal funding is available.
There are two types of loans available to students: federal loans and private loans. Federal loans, such as the commonly used Stafford loan, are safer because they're backed by the U.S. government and generally have lower interest rates than private loans, which often have higher rates that increase over time and unlike most federal loans, require a credit check.
Industry wide,federal loans -- which make up the majority of student loans -- have been the least impacted by issues in the credit market.
"I have yet to hear of any student in the country who hasn't been able to get a federal student loan because of the credit crunch," said Michael Dannenberg, director of education policy at the New American Foundation.
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Gwyneth Paltrow gives good interview.
The good-natured Goop goddess grabbed dinner in New York with the hosts of Australia's The Kyle and Jackie O Show and animatedly dished on all sorts of things—including who holds her down during bikini waxes!
"I'm drunk already. I am," she laughed with her hosts. "A martini went straight to my head, and now wine. With no food. So just watch out."
Paltrow then reiterated her feelings about how this year's punk-themed Met Gala—to which she wore hot-pink Valentino—wasn't all that (or that "It sucked.").


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Snake Davis calls his beloved bronze coloured saxophone the golden beastie, writes Tony Dewhurst.
"I'm one of those lucky people who found their dream through music," said Snake who returns to Clitheroe's Grand Theatre by public demand on Saturday week (August 20th).
"Up until my late teens music was a hobby, just a bit of fun with my pals," said Snake.
"I played guitar, piano and I sang a bit.
"I learnt some James Taylor and Joni Mitchell songs, played in folk clubs and then went off to university.
"I was 19 when I discovered the sax, and within a couple of months of having the golden beastie my life changed and I knew that was what I wanted to do."
Davis' exceptional talent has propelled him from Clitheroe's Rolling Thunder Club, a quarter of a century ago, through to a burgeoning CV that reads like a Who's Who of 20th century pop music: M People, George Michael, Paul Young, Soul to Soul, Paul McCartney, Tina Turner, The Pet Shop Boys and Ray Charles.
He also fronted New York Band Zoot and the Roots.
"Clitheroe has a special place in my heart, having played there as a young man and I've such great memories of the town.
"I was lucky enough be part of the Ribble Valley Jazz Festival a few years ago and that was fantastic."
He added: "The most exciting and meaningful thing I do in my musical life is to play to audiences.
"It's all very well performing in front of 50,000 in Japan, but I'd rather be playing my own music to 250 people in Clitheroe."
Snake is back on the road again, this time promoting the Snake Davis Band album, Classic Sax Solos.
The new performance will see him showcase pop classic tunes on the sax – from Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street to George Michael's Careless Whisper.
"In between I'll be talking about the song's history, with plenty of anecdotes about the artists and the history behind the song.
"For example, what is their individual ingredient, and how the players produce that magic and what makes them a classic?
"It is my own project and it is a very demanding show musically, but also a great challenge to put my own spin on those great tunes."
So where did the stage name Snake come from?
He explained: "I was doing a show at Leeds College of Music and one of the girls, who was my best mate, said: 'You know, you look just like a snake – the way you sort of weave on stage and slither around a melody.'
She added: 'It would be a great stage name,' and I thought, "Yeah. I'll have that."
These days, Snake remains in demand from the biggest names on the British popular music scene.
He was resident saxophonist on Tonight With Jonathan Ross, and has also worked with James Brown, Smokey Robinson, Chaka Khan and The Spice Girls.
"I look back to those very special days, playing saxophone for M People as they hit the big time with anthems Moving on Up and Search for the Hero - and the career door swung open for me.
"My first love was northern and sixties soul, music flows through me."
Snake Davis Band, Classic Sax Solos, The Grand, Clitheroe, August 20. £12.
01200 421599. Support from Grace Davies.


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Holiday Cleaning Guide
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #WipeAwayHolidayMess #CollectiveBias
Hello & Happy Monday!!
I don't know about you, but when the holidays hit, my normal routine of keeping things clean goes out the window. I don't know if it's because I'm cooking in a larger capacity or entertaining guests as I cook, but whatever the case..
My usual clean kitchen looks as if a bomb went off in it (true story)
However, over the years I've developed a black belt in mitigating cleaning time, dish water used, and unpleasant smells.. As a full time recipe developer and MS nutritionist I cook 7 days/wk. Needless to say, what I use to clean my kitchen effectively is most imperative especially around the holidays. I've compiled a list below to help you bring your A game with cleaning this holiday!
Holiday Cleaning Tips
The holidays are fast approaching. To aim for a stress free holiday it's time to start home prepping long before Christmas Eve when you've been cooking for 10 hours and have headache along with cranberry sauce in your hair. The biggest challenge can simply be decluttering to make room for your guests. So when the times comes to even pick up your family Christmas tree, that's your cue for the decluttering party to commence.
Declutter and Clean:
Now's the time to start cleaning and decluttering your home. Once you've done the major, heavy-duty work, you'll maintain it throughout the holiday season. Hopefully, you did your fall cleaning, but if not, you'll do the heavy cleaning now before the holiday rush. In all honesty, most homes have too much stuff, and the homes I enjoy being in the most typically have less. (true story). Decluttering has been found to make way to shift focus from material things to other things that are intangible, putting more money in your pockets and allowing you to have a better perspective on what's important.
Here's a few things you can toss today to make way for the holidays. I recommended tossing items that have no use or value in the trash, set aside others to donate, and another box for selling:
- Junk mail
- Knick knacks you don't like or hate to dust
- Coffee mugs you never use
- Plastic containers that are missing the covers
- Expired medication
- Expired food that isn't opened
- Magazines
- Newspapers
- Clothes that haven't been worn in 18 months
- Old makeup and toiletries you no longer use or don't like
- Broken kitchen equipment
- Anything that's broken for the matter
- Old shoes
- Old manuals
- Books you've already read
- Old Greeting cards that have no sentimental value
- Cables and wires you don't use
Deep Clean:
following the removal of unwanted items set time aside to get down to the dirty work of taking care of your home such as cleaning behind and under furniture, washing windows, cleaning out the oven, scheduling your upholstery, blinds and window treatments for cleaning and much more.
The biggest mistake people make is that following a deep clean they don't maintain. Keeping a home clean is a 7day/wk job. I make a point to return items to where they should be and wipe down the counters on a nightly basis.
Christmas Day Tips:
I've tried every cleaning product under the sun from those with harsh chemicals to those that are too organic that just don't do the job, abrasive brushes, to sponges that just spread bacteria, and I've yet to come across something that not only works, but is reusable, thus a much more sustainable choice. While I do use dish towels in my kitchen they typically are utilized just to dry my hands and resolve light messes. They are not useful with scrubbing or cleaning up anymore than just a mild spill.
As I reached an impasse with cleaning cloths I figured I'd have to stick to my traditional brushes to clean dishes. However, I discovered the new premium Scotch-Brite® Scrubbing Dish Cloth that features scrubbing dots technology on one side, which allow you to take on tough messes in the sink and across a variety of surfaces and mitigate cleaning time. If you're looking to cut dish washing time, save your kitchen from lingering bacteria, decrease waste, you need to try these dish cloths!
More ways to improve your dish washing routine with the holidays? Fill a sink with large soapy water. You can rinse plates for a faster clean and set your dish washer to a quick rinse versus a full cycle to decrease your water usage and protect your dish washer. I can't tell you how many times dishes were thrown in with food still stuck to them, which is damaging to your dishwasher and means more washers, and more water to get them clean.
Most importantly, the New Scotch-Brite Scrubbing Dish Cloth is fully washable, reusable sturdy and a bargain! They take cleaning to a whole new level so you can do even more, including tackling stuck on messes. Thanks to Scotch-Brite®, gone are the days of scrubbing dishes with your nails or a knife for certain messes. You need to try the new Scotch-Brite® Scrubbing Dish Cloth. It truly is the Dish Cloth. Reinvented.
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Create an aroma to go with your clean home:
Another epic fail when it comes to preparing for the holidays is having a home that doesn't smell like Christmas. With a handful of ingredients that are typically found in your kitchen during this season, you can turn an everyday home in to a holiday haven. Simply toss some oranges, cranberries, cinnamon sticks and cloves into some water, boil, and enjoy! Another way to rid your home of food smells? Follow this recipe again post holidays!
- 1 cup fresh cranberries
- 1 orange (sliced)
- 2 cinnamon sticks (broken in half)
- 1 TB cloves
- 2-3 cups water
- Combine ingredients in a small pot and simmer over low heat for as long as desired. Add more water if it gets low. Enjoy the holiday scent!


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IBM is building an industry-first insurance platform on the IBM Cloud that aims to improve the processes and economics for new product development, underwriting, and benefits delivery.
Built in collaboration with MetLife and Majesco, the IBM Insurance Platform will feature cognitive computing, data analytics and integration and security capabilities designed to help insurers expand access to their products and capture new customers.
"Our Industry Platforms are designed in collaboration with our clients and partners and intended to dramatically improve traditional business models using deep industry expertise and advanced technologies such as AI, cloud and blockchain," says Bridget van Kralingen, senior vice-president at IBM Industry Platforms. "In the case of insurance, carriers will be able to inject greater innovation and speed into their operating models, and consumers will experience a broader range of products tailored to their individual needs."
IBM works with 95% of the world's top insurers. By combining insights from those engagements, and with deep industry expertise contributed by MetLife, the IBM Insurance Platform will help carriers better harness their expansive data sets to improve product mix and customer experience. Delivered as a service, the platform will also help insurers sense and respond to the market faster while reducing IT infrastructure and maintenance costs.
"This new direction provides us with the opportunity to introduce to the market a unique business model unlike any other. The strategy represents innovation in our approach to growth and is a testament to the reality that every company needs to become a technology company in order to survive," says Marty Lippert, MetLife executive vice-president and head of global technology and operations. "It brings together the best of MetLife's insurance expertise and capabilities with leading IBM technology into a single, highly scalable, low cost insurance industry solution."
MetLife will pioneer the use of this industry-first, end-to-end digital solution, beginning with its small business customers. MetLife will have the ability to tailor and scale its benefit offerings from quote to claim. Through a new digital experience, customers and brokers will have access to a broader selection of affordable group benefits, including: life, dental, vision, disability, voluntary and other products.
"Small business is an attractive growth segment for MetLife. We know from speaking to many business owners and brokers that they believe employee benefits are important in attracting, retaining and engaging talent. We're excited this platform will give our customers greater access to the benefits they need through a simpler, affordable experience," says Michel Khalaf, MetLife's president of US business and EMEA.
According to an analysis of A.M. Best Data, the US group benefits market was approximately $140-billion in 2016. Increased customer expectations and new market entrants highlight the need for insurance carriers to bring new offerings to market that attract customers while cost-effectively servicing existing ones.
Majesco, a multinational provider of insurance technology software and an established IBM partner, is contributing to the platform with components to enhance underwriting, policy administration, billing and claims.
As IBM advances the platform, new capabilities will be added including the ability to integrate with blockchain networks to provide trusted, highly secure, permissioned transactions, and the option to incorporate regulatory compliance data and third-party software.
IBM is building an industry-first insurance platform on the IBM Cloud that aims to improve the processes and economics for new product development, underwriting, and benefits delivery.


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As 2015 fades into memory, WineQuant presents some thoughts on value and risk in the fine wine market, which may prove useful in 2016.
Value & Risk in Fine Wine, Post 1: The call for new tools
In the fixed income, equity and commodity markets, practitioners use a range of standard visualization tools to think about financial quantities. In fixed income markets, the shape of yield curves indicates the time value of money. In equity markets, implied volatility surfaces provide snapshots of future price expectations and in commodity markets, forward curves indicate the relationship between cost of carry and current / future demand for an asset.
Patterns of thinking develop around the standard tools used. Discussions about relative value, risk and uncertainty inevitably reference the common tool-set of the professional market participant. An advantage of a commonly held tool-set is that the salient characteristics of complex financial dynamics can be understood and communicated at a high level. A disadvantage of a common tool-set is that (unsophisticated) participants may rely on the received wisdom without a good understanding of its limits (examples abound!). Key risks may be masked by a tool's layer of abstraction.
In alternative asset markets, should we re-purpose standard tools that exist in developed markets or start afresh and build new tools and standards?
Practitioners in alternative asset markets are often familiar with the "standard" markets and their tool-sets. Many fine wine market participants have graduated from (or are well-acquainted with) equity and fixed income markets. So our first instinct might be to try and re-purpose some of the standard issue thinking gear for the wine world.
My view is that we should resist the temptation and start from scratch. The shape of a curve of wine values against a time dimension may look like a "normal" yield curve, but this does not mean intuition from bond markets transfers sensibly.
Let's work from the ground up. If parallels to existing markets and their tools appear, it will be an interesting side-show.
A taste of tools to come
Over the next few posts in this series, we will look into three tools WineQuant has developed for fine wine market analysis. The first, which we call the Channel Spread, indicates secondary market demand and is useful to chart the fine wine market cycle. Second, Relative Price Lines, provide a snapshot of price levels over time and relative prices across vintages. Third we look at Age Curves, which we have used to look into the relative effects of i.) overall market cycles and ii.) the investment grades of wines.
MK @ WineQuant
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In October of 2011, I was sitting at the kitchen table doing my devotions and God told me to let go of triathlon. I asked Him to repeat that and of course He did. He wasn't speaking out loud, but He was telling me," Daughter, in your workout room, there are pictures, medals and trophies from triathlon and athletes you admire hanging on the walls – this sport I gave you to learn about me through is becoming an idol (replacement god, something I am loving just a bit too much) and I need you to go back and take all that stuff down for awhile and put it away. I know you are injured right now and I can't tell you whether you will return or not to this sport. But, remember what I did for you through this sport- I helped you learn to swim, brought you a coach ( who turned out to be like the brother you never had), I helped you understand that if you swam in cooperation with the water it would be much easier. I showed you that in life, when you cooperate with me it will be much easier. I gave you a great job as a triathlon coach and blessed you with many wonderful athletes. I gave you the discipline and talent to go from never being an athlete to competing rather competently in your age group. I provided you the funds and blessings to have all the first rate equipment you needed and to travel to great places to race. I placed in your heart the audacious goal to qualify for the World Championship race in Florida. You believed in Me enough to go for it and I brought you there didn't I? That dear daughter, was the last race I brought you to. I brought you to the top race in your sport. That is how I roll dear daughter! Only the best for you. So, now, I'm doing a new thing. I'm taking you new places and I need you to let go of triathlon to go with me on this new journey. I need to be number 1 in your life. Remember this triathlon journey we have been on? I promise you, the next one will be just as exciting and challenging as everything I blessed and challenged you with in your triathlon life."
I cried. Both in sadness and in joy. I looked back at all God had done and wondered how could I not let go of triathlon to go into this "new thing"? I decided God was making me an offer I couldn't refuse. I got up in that moment of commitment and packed up everything as He had told me to and determined to go forward into this "new thing".
Yes, I drift back into desiring to train and compete. But as time passes, I drift back less and less and less. And as time has passed He is showing me, leading me, preparing me for the "new thing".
Over the years, I can tell you God has asked me to let go of many things that were hard to let go of, but each time I have let go, I have never ever regretted it. In fact, a few times I have wondered why I hung on so long!
About a year after I put all my triathlon stuff away, God permitted me to put it back up. Why? It serves as a visual reminder of all that He has done so I can remain hopeful, patient and confident in Him as He leads me into the new thing! Now, instead of an idol it is an altar that confirms who He is and how He rolls!
I believe that whatever it is we are hanging on to isn't nearly as good as what He wants to give us!
Let's make a commitment today to release what we are hanging on to. He is a loving and trustworthy God. Let's agree to take a step forward with Him into the "new thing"!
Ephesians 2:10
10 For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
Philippians 3:12-14
12 I don't mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. 13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.


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There are lots of myths about EMDR that are simply not based on fact. Disturbingly, even professionals, some famous for their research in other therapeutic modalities are spreading rumours within the psychology community, as well as, downright myths about what exactly EMDR is and how it works. Here are some untruths I have heard:
EMDR is paternalistic often used on the client in ways that are unsafe and could harm the client.
First off, any trauma modality including Narrative, Neurofeedback, Somatic Experiencing, CBT, and Talk therapy can harm the client. A Trauma therapist has a duty to provide informed consent with any modality they recommend. This means that they have told you about the risks and benefits of the modality they are using.
Second, an EMDR Therapist does EMDR with a client once they have consented and understand the risks of the modality. While some therapists without trauma theory or a good understanding of how to treat trauma might use EMDR, it is assumed that a registered professional has this understanding before practising EMDR.
Always check with your therapist about their level of training, as well as the risks of what you are consenting to before proceeding.
"It's superstitious mumbo-jumbo."
EMDR has over 21 outcomes studies that prove the efficacy of its treatment for PTSD
The world health authority has deemed CBT and EMDR as the two best practice modalities for treating PTSD. World Health Authority
The Eye Movement is unnecessary and therefore useless.
A study that came out in 2008 discounting the Eye Movement as being a necessary part of EMDR, has since been disputed. Read this Research Article for more info. Some research has also been completed using other forms of bilateral stimulation such as tapping, holding tappers and binaural stimulation. These types of bilateral stimulation seem to work well and are offered as another type of bilateral stimulation.
EMDR does not work for complex trauma.
EMDR does work for complex trauma, however, because complex trauma is complex, it takes longer to treat than simple trauma. EMDR is an eight-phase protocol, with phase two ( preparation stage) sometimes taking up to a year or longer, in order to ensure that a client is well prepared for the desensitization (phase four). Unfortunately there is little to no research that actually proves that one treatment modality can effectively treat complex trauma, however, EMDR combined with other modalities has shown to be very helpful over time. Thanks to the EMDR research community, we know that EMDR surpasses other modalities in terms of research available on how to effectively treat complex trauma. Such research has shown how EMDR combined with other protocols like ego state, early trauma, hypnotherapy, DeTUR Urge, Feeling State protocol for addictions, and dissociative protocols work well in treating complex trauma.
EMDR is a technique that you can use whenever you want to but it's not therapy.
EMDR is therapy and not a technique. It is an eight-phase protocol designed to factor in safety and preparation strategies to prepare clients for desensitizing disturbing memories. Using EMDR as a technique causes harm to clients because the counsellor assumes that phase four can be used on its own without taking the rest of the phases of EMDR into account. When used correctly, the entire eight-phase protocol can take months to years of treatment.
I can get EMDR for a few sessions and my life will be totally different.
EMDR can change your life in extraordinary ways and it's not a quick fix. While EMDR does help with eliminating triggers connected to traumatic events, it does not change things that are fact. In other words, if you have asthma, EMDR is not going to cure it. While some people do benefit from EMDR very quickly, others will need to learn skills on how to cope with distress, as well as, understand how to deal with activation (nervous system) without turning to dissociative behaviours such as substance use, cutting, any addiction, or eating disorders. This, of course, takes time and commitment on the part of the client.
EMDR is a quick technique that I should be able to benefit from after a couple of sessions.
This is simply not true. EMDR is a comprehensive treatment protocol that asks the clinician to look at past, present and future targets for reprocessing. Treatment that works then would require a minimum of two to four months work and this is only in the case of a person who does not have coping strategies on board, such as addictive behaviours, alcohol, substances, or eating disorders. EMDR is a therapy. It is not a technique. Often EMDR works best in combination with skills training, some exposure work, and in many cases education about historical and developmental trauma.
We don't understand how EMDR works therefore, it must be bunk.
If there was no research to prove the efficacy of this modality then, of course, we could conclude, " its bunk." We also thought the world was flat until it was discovered that in fact, the world is round. There are many aspects of the brain that we never understood that we now understand and I think it's a fair assumption to conclude that there is still so much more about the brain that we have yet to discover. So far EMDR is improving the quality of peoples lives, so for now ….. let's go with that


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One of University of Virginia's most illustrious fraternities is now under investigation amid reports seven members gang-raped a female student in the house two years ago. The horrifying account was detailed in a recently published Rolling Stone article, in which a current junior identified as 'Jackie' says she was assaulted by a group of Phi Kappa Psi brothers after accepting an invitation to a 'date night' function at the house.
The article goes on to indict the southern school for hushing up victims like Jackie, steering them towards dealing with these cases within the school, in order to protect their reputation. The Charlottesville, Virginia school was also attended by Hannah Graham, the 18-year-old student who was kidnapped on campus last September and found murdered weeks later.
While Jackie decided not to press charges when the incident first happened, she has now decided to go public with her story after hearing from two other women who were gang raped at the fraternity, which counts President Woodrow Wilson as one of their distinguished alumni. Still, breaking her silence was hard, and has in some cases been met with opposition by her friends at UVA.
'One of my roommates said, "Do you want to be responsible for something that's gonna paint UVA in a bad light?"'' Jackie told the magazine.
'But I said, "UVA has flown under the radar for so long, someone has to say something about it, or else it's gonna be this system that keeps perpetuating!'
'My friend just said, "You have to remember where your loyalty lies."'
Jackie was just a few weeks into her freshman year at UVA when she met a a junior boy named Drew, through their shifts working as lifeguards at the university pool.
When Drew asked her out to dinner and a 'date night' function at his fraternity, Jackie gladly accepted and spent three hours getting ready for the night out on September 28, 2012.
Back at the fraternity house after dinner, the two spent some time at the party before Drew asked Jackie if she wanted to go upstairs where it was quieter.
But when Drew led her into his bedroom and shut the door, the room was pitch black and she could hear others moving around. That's when the nightmare started.
A man tackled her down and onto a glass table which shattered and tore up her back.
Others held her down and for the next three hours, she lay helpless as seven men raped her while two others, including her date Drew, watched and gave direction.
It was the worst night of Jackie's life, but for the men in the room it was like a sports game. They swigged beers and called each other nicknames like 'Armpit' and 'Blanket'.
Jackie identified the last man who assaulted her from her anthropology discussion group, and his friends started taunting him because he couldn't get an erection, asking 'What, she's not hot enough for you?' and 'Don't you want to be a brother?'
When Jackie came to at 3am, the room was deserted but the party was still going on downstairs. She fled the house in her bloodied dress, barefoot because she was too afraid to look around for her shoes.
She called her three best friends at the time, two guys and a girl, who found her beaten and in shock.
While her friends were distraught at her condition, they debated calling the police fearing the impact it would have on Jackie's and their reputation (the two boys wanted to rush a fraternity).
'Is that such a good idea. Her reputation will be shot for the next four years,' the girl friend, identified as Cindy, said. 'She's gonna be the girl who cried "rape," and we'll never be allowed into any frat party again.'
Jackie didn't get the courage to speak about the rape until the next semester, when she finally opened up to Dean Nicole Eramo, the head of UVA's Sexual Misconduct Board.
Dean Eramo told Jackie she could go to the police with her story, or treat the incident in house by either filing a complaint with the school's Sexual Misconduct Board, or sit down for an informal resolution' with her attackers in a meeting mediated by Eramo.
Jackie decided on neither option, and despite hearing the terrifying story, Dean Eramo did not open an investigation into the fraternity.
Jackie is now coming forward two years later, because she recently discovered that two other women experienced similar assaults at Phi Kappa Psi.
The first account came from a woman who graduated in 2013 who said she was raped by a group of men at the house when she was a freshman. The other was a first-year whose friends called Jackie one night when she came back to her apartment wearing no pants, and said she'd been attacked by four men in the Phi Kappa Psi bathroom while another watched.
Perhaps most startling about the allegations is what Dean Eramo said in a meeting with Jackie last May.
Jackie and her friend Alex went to speak with Eramo in her office, and Eramo said that she heard it 'through the grapevine' that 'all the boys involved [in the gang rape] had graduated'. Jackie believes that was false since she saw one of her attackers on a campus riding a bike recently.
Alex pointed out: 'Doesn't that mean they're admitting something happened?'
After hearing that Rolling Stone was publishing an article on the gang rape, the school has finally opened an investigation on the fraternity.
In a statement posted to the school's website on Wednesday, UVA President Teresa A Sullivan says that the school has asked the Charlottesville police to investigate a fraternity based on new details from the article.
Phi Kappa Psi is not identified as the fraternity in question in her statement.
'The University takes seriously the issue of sexual misconduct, a significant problem that colleges and universities are grappling with across the nation. Our goal is to provide an environment that is as safe as possible for our students and the entire University community,' President Sullivan writes.
A day after the article came out, the fraternity house was graffitied with the words 'Suspend us!' and 'UVA Center for RAPE Studies'.
Read more: Page 7 of A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA | Rolling Stone
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This month marks three decades since Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands, and by all accounts, the Argentines still want them back.
Protesters burned a Union Jack and an effigy of Prince William outside the British Embassy in Buenos Aires Monday.
The United Kingdom, as we've seen, is still committed to defending them. It's deploying its newest Type 45 destroyer, the HMS Daring, to the South Atlantic in an unsubtle reminder of that fact.
What will come of all this posturing? Nothing.
Although the prospect of a second Falklands War is a perennial topic in the defense world, the odds seem impossibly remote. As the AP's Brian Hendrie reports, there is almost no appetite for war among Argentines, and it's hard to imagine a British public deeply disenchanted with Iraq and Afghanistan would go along with an actual shooting war to defend the Falklands again.
More practically, neither country's armed forces seem up to the task. Both sides today field such smaller fleets of ships and aircraft that it's hard to imagine commanders risking them in a stand-up fight. The Royal Navy escaped by the skin of its teeth in the Falklands – "six better fuses and we'd have lost," as the quip held – and neither it nor the Argentines could absorb the same losses today.
The conflict is worth remembering, however, because it teaches some unpleasant but important lessons about technological war:
• The fight you plan for may not be the fight you get: The Royal Navy of the early 1980s was shaped with an eye to protecting transatlantic convoys in World War III against the Soviets, not expeditionary amphibious campaigns. Among other things, this meant its air defenses were not ideal – commanders had to pair frigates and destroyers in miniature pickets to compensate for the gaps in the other ships' sensors. That also meant Argentine pilots could fly in low and score hits on the British fleet in San Carlos Water, although, luckily for the British, several of their bombs did not explode.
We've heard so many DoD and service officials cite this principle in their calls for "balance" in the coming build-down, given that there's no way to know exactly what kind of conflict may come next.
• You've got to fight with what you have: The Royal Navy got rid of its last traditional aircraft carrier in 1978, leaving it only with the "Harrier carriers" HMS Hermes and HMS Invincible when the Falklands erupted. The Hermes was very old and the Invincible was originally designed for anti-submarine warfare – and neither could field the vital airborne early warning aircraft the navy once had. So commanders had to make do with repurposed ships flying a handful of repurposed aircraft to defend the task group with very limited domain awareness. It worked, but only just.
• Your losses are going to be worse than you think: The British lost six major ships, including two destroyers and two frigates; ten were badly damaged. The Royal Navy and British Army's losses could have been much worse if more Argentine weapons had detonated and Argentine pilots attacked more of the British troop carriers, as opposed to their warship escorts.
The war cost more than 100 Argentine aircraft, according to John Roberts' history of the Royal Navy, "Safeguarding the Nation," as well as its cruiser General Belgrano, a submarine and other vessels. And a single loss can have disproportionate consequences, as with the sinking of the cargo ship Atlantic Conveyor, which carried the helicopters British troops were counting on to carry them across the Falklands. Without them, they had to walk.
• The units or capabilities you think will change the game may not: The Argentine fleet, including its carrier, stayed mostly in port after the sinking of the General Belgrano, removing a threat from the British task force and a potentially potent Argentine weapon. The Royal Air Force, which attempted a long-distance attack with Vulcan bombers on Argentine positions on the Falklands, had little effect on the war.
• Troops on the ground are what win the war: The Royal Navy standing offshore could not have fought and beaten the Argentine troops that occupied the Falklands. It had to deliver the forces that actually ejected the invaders.
• Your battle fleet is not the full measure of your combat power: The Royal Navy's task force depended on support from merchant ships taken up from trade, as well as its own auxiliaries. The ability to marshal this kind of logistics support is as important as fielding warships.
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'Passion of Flight' even has a Persian Goose
It's an action thriller about an F-14 fighter pilot and volleyball ace who gets tapped for special training with the best of his peers. Soon he's tangling with bad guys over the Middle East in the 1980s.
Top Gun? Not quite. It's Passion of Flight, Iran's awesomely-bad, ahistorical 2012 miniseries about the life of Iranian military hero and martyr Abbas Babaei.
For those unfamiliar with the nationalist fighter pilot propaganda convention, they're starting to become the new hotness. In 2011 China churned out Sky Fighters. South Korea followed with Return 2 Base a year later.
Maybe it's that the 1986 Tony Scott film showed how a little bit of government cooperation in the prop department—the U.S. Navy rented out F-14s and allowed shots of the USS Enterprise for Top Gun—can make for friendly military PR and hefty box office returns.
Or maybe it's just that dashing fighter pilots jet through a special place in the public imagination.
Both Top Gun and Passion of Flight are devotionals to their countries' flying aces. But each approaches the genre differently, largely because of varying historical contexts.
Top Gun came out after "Morning in America" had dawned but while unease over the Vietnam war and the military still lingered. Maverick's attempt to make it through the Top Gun fighter school and be the best pilot he can be isn't just a quest to rehabilitate his father's legacy.
It's also an allegory for the military's attempt to rehabilitate itself in the eyes of everyday Americans.
The 1980s resonate differently for Iranians. Passion of Flight is set against the backdrop of the Iran-Iraq war. To Iranians, it's known as "the imposed war"—imposed, that is, by Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein.
The war stretched on for seven awful years, claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and inflicted untold suffering among civilians on both sides.
The biopic series tells the story—at least the official version of it—of "Martyr" Abbas Babaei's role in the war and his rise from fighter pilot for the Shah to major general for the revolutionary Ayatollah.
Babaei, who died in the air over Iraq during the conflict, is a legend in Iranian media, with adoring fans and a burial place of honor at a shrine in his hometown of Qazvin.
We witness Babaei's life through the prism of two unlikely modern-day biographers, the husband-and-wife team of Massoud and Leili. The two start out as the picture of lackluster patriotism, unmoored from Iran's revolutionary ideals. Massoud lands a job in Canada and plans to bring his wife, still working on a book about Western sociology in Iran, along with him.
During their separation, Leili develops a curiosity about Babaei that turns into compulsion as she abandons her book project and begins work on a biography of the martyr. When she falls into a coma, Massoud retraces her steps and is inspired to finish her project.
Where Top Gun looked to reform a country's attitudes about war, Passion of Flight tries to rekindle them. It's a call for Iranians to rededicate themselves to their country, put aside their own interests and sacrifice for the greater good of the regime just as the marble men of yesteryear had before them.
If this comes off as thickly layered jingoism and propaganda, it should. The Foundation of Martyrs and Veteran Affairs, a nominally non-governmental organization which provides services to veterans of the Iran-Iraq war and has strong ties to the hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, paid for the series.
The show thanks the Iranian military for its assistance—in the opening credits. It's a sign of the military's support for the project and an official endorsement of its message.
And it shows. The series' emphasis on sacrifice and grace under hardship sounds propaganda notes that should be familiar to anyone who consumes Iranian state media. The pilots decry the perfidy of the West for arming Iraqi forces, with France sending Super Etendard jets and Exocet missiles to Hussein's air force.
Meanwhile, the ever-important talking point that Iran's ingenuity trumps its isolation is always apparent. "Innovation is born out of limitations," Babaei reminds his officers after they struggle with the lack of replacement parts for their fighter jets.
Anyone expecting an historical drama will come away disappointed. Passion of Flight is an uncomfortable blend of soap opera and state-sponsored morality play.
Abbas is the hero in two dimensions, a caricature like the young George Washington of myth who simply could not tell a lie. He is endlessly kind, selfless and religiously devout, adored by all who knew him and possessed of superhuman martial skills—in short, utterly lacking in believability as a character or even historical representation.
In the show Abbas the leader eschews the privileges of rank as he moves up the ladder of Iran's revolutionary military, giving up more comfortable officer housing and handing off his children's beloved new color TV to their friends, newly fatherless as a result of the war.
He leads by example, astounding a gardener with forgiveness and religious counseling after the man gets caught drunk on base during the revolution.
Okay—the historical record paints a somewhat different picture of Babaei. While there's little independent source material about his life, many accounts of his life attest that he was far from the gentle, forgiving and universally beloved commanding officer as he's portrayed in Passion.
When aviation reporters Farzad Bishop and Tom Cooper wrote a history of Iranian F-14s in the combat, they found Babaei had a reputation for being "merciless" towards underlings who displayed anything less than total fidelity to the new clerical regime.
Many Iranian officers the two interviewed still view Babaei with contempt, some claiming that he never actually qualified to fly the powerful, twin-seat F-14.
The show's action scenes are a mix of computer-generated footage and carefully-edited shots of Iranian fighter jets in flight. They show the Iranian air force surprising Iraqi jets at a secret refueling location and knocking invading aircraft out of the sky.
Passion depicts Abbas flying missions as both a pilot and a backseat radar intercept officer. But some believe he never made it out of the back seat of an F-5. Official details about Babaei's missions are murky and incomplete Iranian media often cite a figure of roughly 60 missions in his career.
Of course, no Top Gun knockoff would be complete without an ill-fated buddy for its protagonist to play off and in this respect Passion doesn't disappoint. Saeed Khojastefeh steps in as the series' Goose to Babaei's Maverick, right down to his blonde, Meg Ryan-esque American wife.
Abbas and Saeed meet in training before the revolution and bond during their training from the U.S. Air Force in Texas, where Saeed links up with his future wife.
In true Goose fashion, Saeed ultimately drowns after ejecting from his plane. Babaei watches in horror from a nearby jet as the tanker escort mission over the Persian Gulf goes south, Iraqi jets strafing Saeed's plane into oblivion.
With mournful, Harold Faltermeyer-like synth music, the air force fishes Saeed out of the Gulf next to shots of a pensive Babaei against an ocean sunset. You'd be forgiven for half-expecting to see Abbas ride off from the scene with a motorcycle and bomber jacket.
But it's Babaei's martyrdom that forms the emotional core of the series. The final episode shows Babaei taking on a dangerous mission to take out an Iraqi radar base on the Eid holiday.
This parallels historical accounts, sparse as they are, that Babaei reportedly died over Iraq in the backseat of an F-5 in 1987. According to the memoirs of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, then the chairman of Iran's parliament, he was hit in the head by anti-aircraft fire and died instantly.
If 16 hours of TV that's long on plodding melodrama and short on action scenes and special effects isn't quite your thing, don't worry. Iran still has you covered. Fortunately, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is a generous, ahem, patron of the arts—subsidizing lots of propaganda thrillers besides Passion of Flight.


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National Review Online media editor Eliana Johnson on the IRS chief counsel's Congressional testimony on tea-party targeting. Photo: Illinois Institute of Technology
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Zeller, who recently graduated from the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill from Kenan-Flagler Business School, was drafted in the 2012 NBA draft first round as a 17th pick to play for the Dallas Mavericks. He was then traded to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Gatland names Henson in Six Nations squad
ESPNscrum Staff
January 18, 2012
Gavin Henson is back in the Wales set-up after he missed the 2011 World Cup with a wrist injury © Getty Images
Gavin Henson was the high profile inclusion in Warren Gatland's 35-man training squad for the 2012 Six Nations.
The 29-year-old Cardiff Blues back has not featured for his country since dislocating a bone in his wrist in the pre-World Cup friendly victory over England, and has played just three games for his region since joining in October. Despite his lack of action, Henson is rated highly by the Wales coaching team and his ability to cover at fly-half, centre and full-back makes him a valuable commodity.
World Cup skipper Sam Warburton retains the captaincy despite the recall of Matthew Rees - who took the armband during the 2011 Six Nations.
There were six uncapped players in the group, the most surprising selection was 18-year-old Blues winger Harry Robinson. The others were in-form Ospreys centre Ashley Beck and scrum-half Rhys Webb and the Scarlets trio of prop Rhodri Jones, lock Lou Reed and full-back Liam Williams.
Gatland has also included six men plying their trade outside Wales - France-based trio James Hook, Mike Phillips and Lee Byrne were all selected, as were Exeter prop Craig Mitchell, Saracens prop Rhys Gill and Sale back-rower Andy Powell.
That sextet of players will not attend all of Wales' pre-tournament training camp in Spala, Poland, but will be present for three days - the maximum stipulated by International Rugby Board regulations as they are not obliged to be released by their clubs for the full seven-day camp.
Gatland has been robbed of his first-choice second-row pairing through injury with Alun Wyn Jones and Luke Charteris missing out while Scarlets back-rowers Josh Turnbull and Rob McCusker are also ruled out along with Newport Gwent Dragons hooker Lloyd Burns.
There was no place, meanwhile, for Scarlets fly-half Stephen Jones. The 34-year-old has won a record 104 caps for his country but his latest non-selection following his omission from the squad to face Australia in December suggests his Test career may be at an end.
Gatland said: "We have had to strike a balance with this squad. The majority are those players who excelled for Wales during the Rugby World Cup, but we are also taking the opportunity to look at one or two youngsters before probably cutting our numbers even further before the start of the Six Nations.
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Forwards - Craig Mitchell (Exeter Chiefs), Adam Jones (Ospreys), Ryan Bevington (Ospreys), Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues), Paul James (Ospreys), Rhys Gill (Saracens), Rhodri Jones (Scarlets), Matthew Rees (Scarlets), Huw Bennett (Ospreys), Ken Owens (Scarlets), Bradley Davies (Cardiff Blues), Ian Evans (Ospreys), Lou Reed (Scarlets), Ryan Jones (Ospreys), Dan Lydiate (Newport Gwent Dragons), Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues, capt), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), Toby Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons), Andy Powell (Sale Sharks)
Backs - Mike Phillips (Bayonne), Lloyd Williams (Cardiff Blues), Rhys Webb (Ospreys), Rhys Priestland (Scarlets), James Hook (Perpignan), Jamie Roberts (Cardiff Blues), Jonathan Davies (Scarlets), Scott Williams (Scarlets), Gavin Henson (Cardiff Blues), Ashley Beck (Ospreys), George North (Scarlets), Leigh Halfpenny (Cardiff Blues), Alex Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues), Harry Robinson (Cardiff Blues), Liam Williams (Scarlets), Lee Byrne (Clermont Auvergne)
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