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Do you ever wish you could make a lead vocal sound "urgent" and heavily compressed in the mix, without all the nasty pumping artifacts? We've all hyper-spanked a vocal to create a glorious larger-than-life character because it sounds uber cool to do so, only to find that the sparkle disappears and the breaths become almost louder than the words.
Despair not, for I have a technique for you to try!
Instead of driving a single compressor/limiter into super heavy gain reduction, try using two separate compressors in series. Keep the gain reduction small, and the ratios low.
A classic sound is Teletronix LA-2 or Urei LA-3A into a Urei 1176. Opto into FET. I guess the theory is that the opto compressor smoothes the dynamics and shapes the tone, then the FET further limits the dynamic range and adds groovy harmonic distortion.
Generally (but not always) I prefer going the opposite direction. I use the 1176LN to precondition the signal before it gets to the the opto. This is a cool sound. Preconditioning the signal ensures that rogue peaks do not cause the opto to go so deeply into GR (gain reduction) that the recovery (release) becomes too slow for the rhythmic cadence of the melody. We don't want the recovery so slow that it steps on the beginning of the next vocal phrase.
By putting the fast FET limiter first, and setting it to get in and out quickly, we can keep the opto in its sweet spot. If you're not sure where to begin with your 1176LN settings, start here: input 10 o'clock; output 2 o'clock; attack 10 o'clock; release 2 o'clock; ratio 4:1. These input and output settings, of course, are based on the assumption that the source signal was recorded at a proper level for a "+4" analog world, where pro audio equipment is designed to work in its sweet spot.
If your taste is anything like mine, you will quickly find that the 10 o'clock attack setting is too fast and the 2 o'clock release is too slow for modern rock and pop vocals. More often than not, I crank the attack all the way counterclockwise (the slowest setting) to allow sparkly transients to pass through, and I slam the release fully clockwise (fastest) before carefully twisting the knob back the other way to make it incrementally slower until the pumping disappears.
Faster release times make the signal seem to be louder, more urgent, and more aggressive, but not as smooth and polished. Experiment with this by closing your eyes and listening to what happens as you turn the release knob. Superfast release times will sound almost brittle if they are too fast. It's an artistic choice, not a matter of right or wrong.
Circling back to the input and output settings, in this series configuration I like the sound of the 1176 when the VU meter is bouncing around from zero dB to minus 3-4 dB GR. The occasional -7 on a rogue peak might sound OK, but you better use your ears to confirm this. Adjust the input knob to get in this zone. Then set the output control so that the output meter reads approximately zero dB. You will definitely hear a strong "1176 character" if you set it up this way. It may be too much for your taste, or not enough, depending on what sonic texture you're going for.
The next item in the signal path, the LA-3A opto compressor, is easier to set up. With only two knobs, you'd think that everybody would get it right, but this is not always the case. As stated earlier, you have to be careful about driving it too far into gain reduction because the recovery becomes slower—too slow for this series application if the VU meter shows more than one and a half dB of GR.
On a tangential note, an LA-3A can sound mind-blowingly cool if you slam it with 10 to 20 dB of GR! Of course you will need to crank up the output to make up for lost volume. You've heard this sound on hundreds of beloved classic records. It sounds like the guitars on Bryan Adams' song "Cuts Like a Knife" may have been recorded or mixed with this technique. I may be totally wrong about this being the case, but at least the example gives you an idea of how an LA-3A can sound larger than life when pushed.
That, however, is not the way that we are using it in this particular application, in series with an 1176 on a lead vocal. By keeping the LA-3A's gain reduction at about 1 to 2 dB, we ensure a more organic—yet highly energetic—vocal tone that is the undisputed ruler of the mix. The vocal will still have the illusion of being dynamic, and it won't require much EQ to make up for the darkness that compression can add.
After experimenting with this technique and tweaking it to your taste, try a variation of it: route LA-3A in parallel instead of series. You can get away with more than twice the amount of gain reduction because you will be blending it to taste (on a separate fader) with the 1176 sound. That means that you can create an aggressive and urgent sound with the 1176, and supplement it with the added sustain and warmth of the LA-3A. Because it's not in series, you don't need to worry about it swallowing transients or recovering too slowly. Just blend it in until you dig the sound, and you're good to go!
Another variation on this multi compressor theme is to put an opto compressor first, then an 1176 in series and a second opto in parallel. I've had a lot of success with this technique when feeding a Manley ELOP into an 1176 to get a compelling punchy sound, and then blending in a "pushed" LA-3A in parallel to harmonically fatten up the tone.
Try these techniques and become inspired to create some new ones of your own. Make sure that you experiment with different routings and settings. Remember that my suggested starting settings are just that: suggested, not required. They will be dependent on the program that you intend to process and the mood you want to create, so adjust accordingly and appropriately.
If I were to add just one philosophical thought about compression and limiting in general, it would be that my personal taste is to see the gain reduction meters always "dancing" near zero on the VU meter rather than constantly being driven into deep compression. If you haven't already done so, experiment with this concept and let me know what you think.
Whatever you do, in life or in the studio, make sure that you follow your own muse, not somebody else's.


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No luck with blunt and sticky ligations, need hlep - Prepare for a thorough read (Aug/24/2010 )
Ok so I now have a protocol that at least yields more colonies than normal. I'd like to share this:
Blunt fragments that have 1 or 2 side 3' ends with T4 polymerase.
Blunt fragments that have 2 side 5'with Klenow LG
After digestion and Klenow, column purify the vector fragments. Sap 1h @ 37C with AP. Then bead-purify the blunted, DP vectors. Bead purify the insert too. Wait until the pellet of beads looks like power sugar. Solve pellet in 25ul 10mM TRIS (pH 8.5) 10'@50C. Spin down, collect sup. Add 25ul to the pellet and solve again. Combine sups and spin down 2x @ 13000 each time transferring the sup to a fresh tube.
Ligate 50ng vector, F:V = 10:1 (mol:mol), total volume of ligation 25ul, 100U T4 ligase, 10% PEG. Incubate O/N @ 16C
We have lousy bacterias so I transform 16 (sixteen) ul of my ligation mix to 50ul of these bacteria and it gives 4-10 times more colonies than 2ul.
The j/i change works almost as well as PEG. 1mM HCC I couldn't get to work.
But now I have this other problem:
I can't seem to get any clones with my blunted ClaI digested vector?
Why must this be? ClaI only has 2bp 5' overhangs. Could 15' @ 25C with Klenow LG be too much? Could it be that when it's finished after two nucleotides it gets bored and adds more bp's so it produces a 3' overhang (and can't chew that away because its 3' exonuclease activity is low)?

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While who will compete in the NBA finals is pretty much a foregone — and boring — conclusion, there was just enough drama for the also-rans at the NBA Draft Lottery Tuesday night.
The Boston Celtics, via a trade with the Brooklyn Nets in 2013 involving Paul Pierce, retained their hold on the no. 1 pick as they had the highest odds (25 percent) heading in.
Pierce, now retired, had the perfect Twitter reaction to Tuesday night's news.
And look what I leave behind for the Celts on my way out #1 pick
— Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) May 17, 2017
However, the Phoenix Suns, with the second highest odds (19.9) fell two spots to no. 4, even though they also had a 55.8 percent chance of getting a top 3 selection.
Otherwise, the rest of the movement was incremental and the teams with the worst odds, Charlotte (0.8), Detroit (0.7), Denver (0.6) and Miami (0.5) stayed right where they were, from picks 11 to 14.
It was a fairly interesting evening all around and with that, there are a few winners and even more losers. Here they are starting with winners.
12. Boston Celtics – Winner
That trade on draft day in 2013 just keeps on giving. Brooklyn sent Boston first round picks in 2014, 2016 and 2018 as well as the right to swap first round picks in 2017, along with Gerald Wallace, Kris Humphries, MarShon Brooks, Kris Joseph and Keith Bogans for Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Jason Terry and D.J. White. With Garnett, Pierce and Terry leading the way, the Nets were good, but not great for a bit, making it to the Eastern Conference semi-finals in 2014, but quickly went bust after that. As for the Celtics, they have improved greatly and used the 2014 pick to take SG James Young (17th overall) and the 2016 selection on SF Jaylen Brown (third overall). This year, the Eastern Conference's no. 1 seed opted to swap the pick and with the no. 1 — estimated to be PG Markelle Fultz of Washington — the Celtics have options. They can retain the pick, even though they have a superstar PG in Isaiah Thomas, or deal it to get a starting line-up ready player to plug a hole. A definite winner Tuesday.
11. Los Angeles Lakers – Winner
The Lakers won Tuesday precisely because they stayed in the top 3. They avoided the doomsday scenario of losing their first round pick to Philadelphia — had they fallen out of the top 3 — despite the fact the odds were stacked against them. With the Lakers moving up to no. 2, the lottery scenario also helped them avoid surrendering their 2019 first rounder to Orlando in a separate deal. So, today president of basketball operations Magic Johnson can breathe easy knowing his team can not only add a future impact player — consensus says hometown boy Lonzo Ball — but also doesn't lose out on another potential future star. They also win with the knowledge they won't have to face down all that "best player available" talk and be able to take Ball freely at no. 2, since Markelle Fultz is the top player available.
10. Sacramento Kings – Winner
The Kings are a marginal winner here, in that they have two first round picks, but the first one could have been better. Due to a 2015 trade that GM Vlade Divac swung with Philadelphia in 2015 — ostensibly a salary dump — the Kings had to swap selections this season with the Sixers, even though they earned the right to pick third. Thus, Philly owns the no. 3 and the Kings no. 5 (and it could have been much worse, had they won the lottery). But, Sacramento also has the 10th overall pick, thanks to the fact that they did fall out of the top 3, which triggered the deal that they would get New Orleans first rounder (from the DeMarcus Cousins trade before the deadline this season). Sacramento has holes throughout their line-up and sitting at five on many draft prospect ranking's is Kentucky PG De'Aaron Fox. And, according to the folks at CBS Sports, North Carolina SF Justin Jackson is the 10th rated prospect.
9. Lonzo Ball – Winner
We wanted to include stage managing pop LaVar to the "winners" side, but we sincerely hope that the elder Ball will step back a little and just let his son develop in what will likely be basketball's biggest market. With the Lakers scooping the no. 2 pick, it's a virtual certainty that Anaheim native Lonzo and his $500 kicks will be pounding the hardwood at the Staples Center for years to come. The UCLA freshman point guard will, if surrounded adequately with better talent, help bring the Lakers back from the basketball dead. As we said earlier, Lonzo and the Lakers win because the team won't have to explain to anyone why, since the best player available is Markelle Fultz and he'll be taken no. 1. L.A. needs a point guard who will fit in with coach Luke Walton's preference for run-and-gun style basketball and as a known entity, Ball fills the bill.
8. Phoenix Suns – Loser
Now we're in the loser's bracket, since fewer teams — and people — had anything positive to crow about Tuesday night. The Phoenix Suns make the loser's side because even though the full-court pressed the tank late in the season to increase their lottery odds to second best, the still dropped two places to fourth. So instead of having a crack at possible future game-changing point guard Lonzo Ball to add to Devin Booker's emerging game in the back court, the Suns will have to content themselves with a 4-7 question mark, such as NC State's Dennis Smith Jr, or SF Jayson Tatum of Duke. Adding salt to a festering wound for Phoenix management is the knowledge they traded away Isaiah Thomas to Boston for virtual peanuts.
7. Philadelphia 76ers – Loser
The Sixers are a provisional loser here, depending on their lottery pick is viewed. It's a winner if the optics say that jumping to no. 3 after having fourth best odds at no. 1 isn't so bad. They will still get a quality player like Josh Jackson or Jayson Tatum to fill out a roster that includes 2016 no.1 Ben Simmons and center Joel Embiid. On the flip side of the winner coin, though, is the fact that instead of jumping to best-case scenario no. 1 — and the Lakers dropping out of the top 3 — they didn't net the Lakers' first round pick as well. So, instead of being able to announce Markelle Fultz as their PG of the future, and having another outstanding selection after, they are stuck with but one potential baller.
6. Minnesota Timberwolves – Loser
Close, but yet so far. We're calling the T-Wolves a minor loser here for the fact they had the sixth best odds at picking first, but ended up going down one to the seventh pick. It is by no means too disheartening, however, the hard luck squad has had their draft position worsened nine times in franchise history. The projected players in the 5 through 9 holes in the draft will yield decent talent, such as Arizona PF Lauri Markkanen and Florida State F Jonathan Isaac. Project players who may one day help get Minny out of a post-season funk they have been in for 13 years and counting. They haven't been to the Big Dance since 2004, when Kevin Garnett led the team all the way to the Western Conference finals.
5. New York Knicks – Loser
The team that needs to get back to relevance that few people talked about leading up to the lottery are the New York Knicks. While the Lakers garner the headlines and are looking good heading into the draft, the sorry Knicks are still looking for answers. Team Dysfunctional had the seventh best odds at garnering the first pick, but instead saw them drop to eighth. Despite this unfortunate turn of events, Phil Jackson tried to put a positive spin on it, saying, "Our opportunity [at] seven could have been 10, so eight we'll live with. I think that we're good at what we do." Uh, yah. Like the last time they picked eighth, in 2009, when they took Jordan Hill (who played all of 24 games in New York), when they could have taken DeMar DeRozan (ninth to Toronto). Or that no. 8 pick in 2005 that turned into Channing Frye, who they misused and then gave up on after just two seasons.
4. Orlando Magic – Loser
After reversing course at the deadline and sending superior defensive player Serge Ibaka to Toronto, the Magic could have used a little lottery luck from years gone by. Instead of moving up with the fifth best odds at no. 1, they fell to sixth. Not a bad spot, but not all that great either. And, with GM Rob Hennigan fired and the front office in holding mode, the team might be flying in foggy weather at the draft. The luck we speak of harkens to 1992, when the Magic won the right to pick Shaquille O'Neal. Or the 1994 lottery that netted the first pick, Dwight Howard. The team that won just 29 games this past season needs scoring and needs help at just about every position. The only saving grace is that they also have picks at no. 25 (from the Clippers), 33 (from the Lakers), and 35 (their own) in a fairly deep draft.
3. New Orleans Pelicans – Loser
The Pelicans, who loaded up by trading for DeMarcus Cousins during the season to try and make the playoffs — which they failed at — are losers here. Their 10th pick was usurped by Sacramento because of that trade and the fact the Kings fell out of the top 3, voiding the protection the Pelicans would have had on that pick. Therefore, a 34-win club with Cousins, Jrue Holiday, Anthony Davis and not much of anything else doesn't have a first round pick in a deep draft. In fact, they have just one pick in the entire draft, a 40th selection in the second round. Adding to the off-season uncertainty is the fact that Holiday is a free agent who will command big bucks. If the Pelicans do decide to pony up for him, they will be tight up against the cap to try and upgrade other positions in need of it.
2. Markelle Fultz – Loser
It's difficult for us to call Fultz a "loser", given that he will likely be taken first overall and stands to make a killing playing a game he loves. However, there is just way too much uncertainty about his future, given what went down at the lottery. Boston, which won the right to take the consensus first overall pick and are contenders now, might well trade Fultz' rights to someone else to shore up a need other than at point guard. So, he really can't look forward to wearing a Celtics uniform just yet. On the flip side of that coin, if Boston does decide to take him, he'll be stuck in career purgatory behind Isaiah Thomas for a good long while, instead of being "the man" with a lesser squad. Added to that is the pressure of being the no. 1 pick, which can be good, and bad.
1. Brooklyn Nets – Loser
The Nets can be penciled in every year for the foreseeable future as a loser in this category. That trade in 2013 for Paul Pierce, which got them to an Eastern Conference semi-final and not much more is still haunting them to this day. The worst team in basketball and in dire need of a re-boot, Brooklyn doesn't have a first round pick until way down at no. 22 and then another at no. 27. They also surrendered what will likely be a high pick in the first round next season as part of the Pierce deal. The Celtics can probably hear Nets' fans cries of indignation all the way up in Boston. There is little the faithful in Brooklyn can do now but wait and hope that the team can inch into the middle of the pack in 2017-18 and deny the Celtics yet another top pick in 2018. It can't get much worse in Brooklyn, we think, anyway.


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The Casey Golden Trio is an outfit of young, contemporary musicians that is already a fixture on the Australian jazz scene. Pianist Casey Golden, bassist Bill Williams and drummer Ed Rodrigues play regularly at Sydney Venue 505 and Melbourne's Bennetts Lane.
Although the trio's music is steeped in classic influences (Golden was born into a family of jazz musicians: brought up on his mother's classical music collection and jamming sessions with his uncles and grandpa), the trio came together in 2010 over a diverse musical sensibility. They cite everything, from Israeli jazz bassists and American jazz trumpeters, to math rock and metal bands, as influences.
This year, it has released two albums – Outliers and Live at Bennetts Lane – and is back in the studio now to record a new EP.
Broadsheet: How is the jazz scene in Australia right now?
Casey Golden: I think the scene in Australia in general is pretty healthy as far as talent goes. There are a lot of great musicians doing some really interesting things. The difficult thing about playing jazz in Australia is that there's a misconception among a lot of people – especially people in my generation – that it's unapproachable and maybe not relevant. I'm obviously biased, but I really think that this is not the case. Some of the most exciting music around at the moment is coming from musicians with a background in jazz – or a strong connection with it – and I think that there's something that everyone can appreciate in this music.
BS: Can you give me some examples of the kind of music you're talking about?
CG: Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus (and most of his Brainfeeder label releases) and The Robert Glasper Experiment are some recent, high-profile (and maybe obvious) examples. But the artists that are most interesting to me are the ones taking jazz influences equally with influences from all over, and creating something different that is appealing to fans across genres. Artists like Tigran Hamasyan, Animals as Leaders, Mister Barrington, Punch Brothers and The Stepkids.
BS: If you could play in a fantasy band, who would it be with and where would it be?
CG: I really think playing in a band with people who know you and your playing will always produce the deepest and best music. I know it sounds a bit corny, but at this point, I can't think of a better rhythm section for me than Bill and Ed.
That being said, if early-'80s Wynton Marsalis, early-'70s Emerson Lake & Palmer, or present-day Mark Guiliana are looking for a piano player, then I'm sure we can work something out.
The Casey Golden Trio plays Venue 505 on Wednesday December 9. Tickets available here.


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Minister tasks insurers to unite for sector's growth
Former Minister of National Planning of Minister of Finance, Shamsudeen Usman, has advised insurance operators to consolidate for growth.Shamsudeen who spoke at an insurance forum in Lagos said, the small size of the sector has delayed it from playing the role of a stabiliser in the economic crunch.
According to him, the balance sheet of all insurance firms are less than one third of the banks,However, there are certain characteristics of the insurance industry that actually makes it more of a stabilizer especially in terms of economic crises like we are going through in the country.
He stressed that the ability of the sector obviously to play that stabilizing role depends on the size relative to the rest of the economy.
He said: "Part of the reasons why the Nigeria insurance industry has not played the stabilizing role is about the size of the industry. The balance sheet of all insurance companies is less than one third of one of the banks.
This tells the issue of the size. I was Deputy Governor in the central bank when the consolidation exercise happened with credit to Former Central bank Governor, Charles Soludo.
"We went into a room and he made a presentation to the banking industry. Initially there was a lot of opposition. I remember when we were appointed to the central bank in 1999, there were 907 banks. The total balance sheet of the 907 banks was less than one of the bank today.
A 100 per cent of 1 is 1. 10 per cent of 1000 is 100. So do you prefer a 100 per cent of a tiny little thing or 10 per cent of a big thing which can be 10 times the value of whatever you are getting?
"I believe that the insurance industry itself has to be more forward looking into consolidation like it happened in the banking sector. Yes, many of you are afraid to lose your position of managing Director, executive director of a small corner. But I think the industry will achieve more if you can come together and get bigger.
The former minister however said that the industry has huge potential that it is yet to tap into."The potential even from the point of view of the economics theory is that there is a strong link between the growth of an economy and the growth of the insurance industry.
"This has been a subject of many as even the empirical studies in other countries partly because of the role again that the industry plays in economic growth and stability through improving the investment climate and promoting more efficient volume and mix of activities. A number of research has shown that there is a positive closer relationship between the industry and the wider economy."


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Guitarist and composer José de Lucía comes from a long line of musicians. In fact, he is the nephew of one of the most recognized guitarists in the world, Paco de Lucía, the brother of Spanish singer Malú and son of the singer 'Pepe de Lucía'. His new self-titled album is brimming with brilliant flamenco playing. On Episode #126 "Alaire" opened the show. The track features traditional flamenco harmony and a beautiful melody with Jose's flawless improvisational performance of tirando and picado passages that are energetic and flow with musicality.
"José de Lucía is brilliant is his nuevo flamenco influenced style. Lucía's playing is passionate and strikes the perfect balance between technique and musicality."
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04 2016.11.28-13º Congreso Nacional del Medio Ambiente (Conama 2016)
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05 2016.11.28 euobserver.com - RegioMob Project Delivers Analysis of Trasport and Mobility in Rome
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"Workshops with stakeholders on good practices in developing solutions for sustainable mobility" appeared on August 25th 2017
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"CI.TE.MO.S. in Vicenza, the festival agenda for the 16th and 17th September" article appeared on September 13th, 2017
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by Ada Hagan
"The two greatest moments in your life are the day you were born, and the day you figure out why"
– Mark Twain
It started about a year ago. I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Ethiopia. My task? Teaching medical students at one of Ethiopia's newest medical schools. The result? A crisis. Oh, don't get me wrong! I loved the trip. The students were smart and taught me as much as I taught them. But when I returned, I felt simultaneously exhilarated and lost. You see, I entered graduate school with the intentions of becoming a Principal Investigator. I realized last year, maybe I didn't. And to be honest, I don't think I'm the only one who's felt thisway. Understandably, many of us are drawn to follow in the footsteps of the brilliant minds who mentor us. Later, we see perhaps it isn't the path for us. Maybe we're more fascinated by the intersection of science and policy, or public health, or entrepreneurship. Or maybe we want a career with a different work/life balance than academia. Regardless, a common phenomenon for students entering graduate school is, what I've heard termed, "the quarter-life crisis".
The following is my story about surviving the first year of my quarter-life crisis. Gory details of confounding life stresses included.
My last minute, one month experience completely altered what I considered my future. A disconcerting feeling with effects on my husband too. We were both prepared for the linear process of becoming an academician. Now, I had no idea where I wanted to go next and by extension, he was lost too.
We complicated matters by living apart. He works in another state and we needed to figure out how to work in the same state. If I don't know what I "want to be when I grow up", it's tough to know what city I'll end up in. What if I'm interested in policy? Well, Washington D.C. is my best bet. Government research? Maryland, or maybe Atlanta? You see the quandary. I'm sure many of you can understand, and empathize, when a career decision isn't just our own. It also belongs to our spouse, or family, in a way. They have goals, ambitions and places they're interested (or not!) in living. Combined with your own frustration about not knowing and it's a lot of pressure to deal with!
I'll spare you most of the details about my journey but I will share with you that it took almost a year. Being a scientist at heart, I wanted a protocol. Exactly what steps do I take to figure this out? Turns out, it doesn't exist. So, I made my own. Fortunately, there is a smorgasbord of fantastic resources so I'll share ones I incorporated into my "quarter-life crisis protocol".
Selecting My Options:
First up, you need to figure out what the world has to offer and this is where the Science Careers myIDP fits in. What's interesting about this Individual Development Plan is its fluidity. Completion of the myIDP involves responding to questions about your scientific interests, skills and values on a scale of 1 to 5. Every time you take it, your response reflects your current state of mind. Thus, the outcome changes as you do. The myIDP matches your responses with a series of career options based on skills and interest. You can evaluate these suggestions based on: 1) Skills, for instance, are there skills you can improve to make something a better match? 2) Values, in my case, sales was a top three suggestion for me. As I have a cognitive dissonance with sales, I set it aside. Science Careers also provides resources to learn more about each career option. If you feel stuck identifying your skills, ask someone! Your close friends, family and co-workers will be able to help identify things you excel at. My older sister was instrumental in helping me to identify communication, particularly of scientific concepts, as a skill.
Exploring My Options:
Many graduate schools offer workshops and panels for exploring careers. Activities I took advantage of include: 1) "Hot Coffee, Cold Calls: Advanced Career Exploration" (ACE) workshop, developed by UofM students and Rackham, featured by Science Careers. ACE taught me how to explore an entire career in less than a month. 2) "What Now" a two day workshop targeted towards different student groups (e.g. biological sciences, social sciences or humanities). In "What Now, Biological Sciences" I learned tips for creating useful resumes from our graduate school career, networked, and had "speed mentoring" sessions to learn from professionals in other fields. 3) Career panels are great opportunities to get perspectives from a number of people pursing different paths. Make an effort to talk to them one-on-one following the panel and follow up. Many alumni want to help other students succeed; ask if they know someone in your field of interest for an informational interview. Additionally, I took advantage of resources (and vendors!) at conferences I attended. Practicing cold calling and emailing with ACE gave me the confidence to talk with new people. Plus, many conferences now feature career exploration resources.
Practicing My Options:
The only way to know if you enjoy something, though, is to do it. Practice is especially important if you're worried you aren't skilled enough! Every skill takes practice, and practice is inevitably, failure. So if you want to be good, you have to fail over and over again. Intimidating, right? I certainly know the feeling, and I struggle every day to be "okay" with failing. This article, in fact, is a case in point. I worry I won't be articulate enough, or my experience won't be valuable for others, in which case, why am I even writing this? Because you (or I) don't know until we try.
A fantastic part of being a graduate student is that whatever you decide to practice, or try on for a day, there's going to be a way to do it! And if there isn't, you can create it! As you've probably figured out, I'm trying my hand at writing, specifically science writing. Believe it or not, outside of some grant writing courses, the opportunity to practice science writing at my university was conspicuously absent. So I found some like-minded individuals (thanks to networking!) and we created an opportunity. That's where the graduate student blog, MiSciWriters, originated.
Some great sources of professional development outside of your graduate school are your professional societies. The American Society for Microbiology is developing ways to help their students practice non-academic careers; I'm sure many others are doing the same. If that doesn't work out, see what your network has to say. Informational interviews have been helpful in identifying new opportunities like fellowships. Once you find something interesting, try it! If the activity doesn't click, no big deal! Move on to the next until you find where you fit.
The Bottom Line:
I'm pretty sure everyone in our generation hits the quarter-life crisis. We have so many options and opportunities it's mindboggling. And overwhelming. Not to mention occasionally discouraging. But when you make it through?? Utterly satisfying and more than a little freeing. I wrote this hoping it will resonate with others. Take comfort in knowing you aren't alone and you'll make it to the other side. Maybe what worked for me will help you. If not, I'm sure your graduate school has other options that will, just ask!
Perhaps you'll finish soul searching and choose a new career path to follow, or maybe you'll become more enthusiastic and passionate about the path you've already chosen. Either way, don't ignore the temporary crisis. Embrace it. Grow in it. Learn from it. Maybe you won't find the reason you were born just yet, but as long as your work makes you happy and fulfilled, I'm sure you'll find your answer eventually.
Ada Hagan is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan in the department of Microbiology and Immunology and co-founding editor of the student blog MiSciWriters. Follow her on Twitter (@adahagan).


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Cubans Use Much Less Energy to Produce a Much Higher Organic Food Yield
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While there are many factors when it comes to determining what contributes to human health and longevity, there is no debating that access to good quality food is a key ingredient. What is fascinating is that there is no clear evidence that human health and longevity is improved, or even that more people have access to food, when an abundance of fossil fuel energy is available. When Cuba hit peak oil in the early 90s due to sanctions and other factors, the country made drastic internal changes that have paid off in terms of health for the land and its people. The way that Cuba survived peak oil can serve as a positive working model for countries who are still highly dependent on oil, especially when it comes to food production.
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When Cuba's oil supply came to a halt, they immediately changed course by turning any and all available city plots into intensive urban farms.
50% of Cuba's agriculture now comes from urban farms. In the smaller towns, they produce 80 to 100% of the vegetables they need, eliminating the need to transport food long distances. The move back to a human and animal powered harvest, instead of heavy machinery, quickly created 140,000 new jobs in a country with a population 30 times smaller than the USA. In order to produce food without the use of fossil fuels, It was a matter of reclaiming land from the large scale industrial agricultural corporations. According to the documentary, The Power of Community, 80% of Cuba's agricultural production is now organic!
Since most oil used in the USA is related to food production, Cuba's agricultural model is an important one to investigate.
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Bounded Rationality
In 'Thinking In Systems: A Primer' one of the most interesting ideas that Donella Meadows describes is what Herbert Simon coined 'bounded rationality':
Bounded rationality means that people make quite reasonable decisions based on the information they have. But they don't have perfect information, especially about more distant parts of the system
Later on in the chapter the following idea is suggested:
If you become a manager, you probably will stop seeing labour as a deserving partner in production, and start seeing it as a cost to be minimised.
This helps explains something that I've noticed happen quite frequently.
Someone who was previously non management gets pulled into a management position and 'mysteriously' starts acting exactly like all the others in that type of role rather than having a holistic view.
The strange thing is that we don't expect this to happen. The person was on 'our' side very recently so surely they should be able to see both perspectives!
Esther Derby referred to this problem in her keynote at XP2011 where she talked about two different types of information that occur in a system:
- Day to day information - this is possessed by people 'on the ground'
- System information - this is possessed by people 'in management'
When the people who recently moved into a management position are challenged on this they will often point out that "you can't see the bigger picture" which is true but still doesn't account for the fact that they probably aren't seeing it either!
We're both just seeing different parts of the system.
Meadows goes on to point out that the design of the system tends to encourage this type of behaviour:
Seeing how individual decisions are rational within the bounds of the information available does not provide an excuse for narrow-minded behaviour. It provides an understanding of why that behaviour arises. Taking out one individual from a position of bounded rationality and putting in another person is not likely to make much difference. Blaming the individual rarely helps create a more desirable outcome.
Meadows finishes this section of the book with the following suggestion which I think is especially useful in a consulting environment where both consultants and management quite obviously tend to suffer from bounded rationality.
It's amazing how quickly and easily behaviour changes can come, with even slight enlargement of bounded rationality, by providing better, more complete, timelier information.
I've seen various attempts at trying to help people enlarge their bounded rationality at ThoughtWorks, such as:
- Presentations by the finance director showing where the revenue of the company gets spent
- Management team members taking the time to have one on one discussions with consultants
- Discussions about the sales pipeline and the types of work available in the market
I think if this type of thing happened more frequently then you'd probably see an enlargement of everyone's bounded rationality which would be useful for all involved!


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Lately, the phrase 'post-truth' has gained currency in describing the times we live in, much like post-modern or post-industrial might have been used previously. This phrase sticks in my crow.
- First, what does it mean?
- Second, is it true – although that question may be thought to be tautological?
- Third, what do we do about the assertion that it is true when we think it isn't or shouldn't be?
What does 'post-truth' – or for that matter 'truth' mean?
To answer the question of what 'post-truth' might mean, first we need to think about what we mean by truth. And whether we spell it with a lower case or capital 'T'.
To me, truth can be two very different things:
- One is evidence-based fact. That should be a self-evident concept. Either something is or isn't a fact. Either an incident happened or it didn't. Either a thing exists or it doesn't. But of course I know that philosophy, physics and other disciplines have ways of questioning these things. However, those questions go – in my understanding – more to the question of what a thing or an event is and less to whether it is exists.
- We know of course, that different people perceive events differently. To appreciate this, all we really need to do is to listen to or read witness statements relating to the same incident from several different people. And that is the other thing that truth is, in my view: the honestly held opinion that something is the way it is perceived by any given individual.
From the point of view of both understanding the world around us and assessing the truth of information we are given, both of these aspects of truth are important. There is nothing wrong with having our own perception of the world around us. It is normal and it is human. There is also nothing wrong with maintaining that our perception is true (for us); but it never is and never can be 'The Truth'; because that suggests that other perceptions of the same event or thing are wrong or false.
This view of truth also leads to a clear understanding that anyone can change their perception of the world around them and find to a new/different 'truth' for themselves. A good example would be that once we had a photo of the planet earth taken from space our understanding of what the earth looks like and what it means to have a finite planet change irrevocably for just about everyone who saw that photo.
And then there is the thinking about and analysing of facts, things, and events. To what extent is that truth? Well, this is where things get a bit complicated. Because we all have a set of assumptions about how we see things and that influences how we analyse and interpret what goes on around us. And so, when others tell us things and give us their assessment or analysis of what they are discussing, then we need to understand what those assumptions and perceptions are, and indeed, what interest they may have in a particular view of the issues.
When people speak about 'post-truth' I can only assume that they suggest that we now live in an era when it's ok (or at least common place) for people to assert facts and make up events that don't exists and never happened and people believe it because they said it, or because it is on social media and millions of people have shared it or because it sound plausible.
Is it true?
There are elements of what I believe people mean by post-truth that are happening.
So-called opinion-formers, people we tend to listen to, for example politicians or journalists, or celebrities or people we admire, say things and they are taken as true because of who said it. Or because of how often they get shared in social and other media.
There is another kind of 'post-truth'; the media create headlines which sound as if they mean one thing when in fact they don't and if one reads the article in full it is made clear that the headline is not the whole story or even not the story at all. But of course, our busy lives mean we often don't read beyond the headlines.
But does that mean we can call our current era a 'post-truth' era? This would be reasonable if this kind of media behaviour were more prevalent now than it had been in the past.
I haven't seen any research on the question of whether this is so, but I rather suspect people have always said things to aid their viewpoint without too much regard for the truth of what they said. The difference today is that we hear a lot more of the stuff in more and more abbreviated form and with less and less access to contextual information about why people are saying what they are saying.
So there is a lot of lying going on. But does that make our era a 'post-truth' era?
I would say (and granted, this is my opinion) that we have a choice about whether we live in a 'post-truth' era or not.
We know people lie; we know people lie for different reasons; we know people say things that aren't true, sometimes without malice. So we have a choice. And the only way we would actually be living in a 'post-truth' era would be if we accepted everything we're told and didn't check it out. But we don't need to do that. We shouldn't do that.
So what do we do about it?
Many years ago when I started a new job in a local authority in the North of England, we had an induction week for new management staff, which included a session with the Chief Legal Officer. He started his presentation with the following statement: 'Assume nothing, check everything, trust nobody'. At the time, I thought that this was a dreadfully negative view of the world. But all these years later I'd say: wise words.
It is tedious, I know; because it's more comfortable and less time consuming to just get news from sources we trust (usually because they share our view of the world). But if we want to maintain a society where truth matters, where we stand up for truth, which respects everyone (because very nearly always lies are told for the benefit of some and the dis-benefit of others) then we have to live by that maxim.
When I read or hear something I ask these questions:
- Does it make sense?
- Is there any reference to sources of background and factual information?
- Who is telling the story? Do they have vested interests? Are they likely to be well informed about the matter?
- If most of the information is capture in a picture – what might be wrong with the picture? Pictures can be staged. And infographics aren't there to tell the 'truth', they're there to tell a story from a particular view point.
- Is it the full story?
- What are the consequences of believing what is said?
It makes life very difficult sometimes. Because just one item on the news, just one story in the press, one tweet, one Facebook post could take time to check and may lead nowhere. But I am getting more and more careful about simply re-tweeting and sharing. I use fact-check website. I look on the websites originating the stories to find out: Who is writing? Who is paying? Who is advertising? All these things matter.
And one final thing: when people shout assertions in massive halls crowded with people prepared to shout back slogans (be they from the right, the left, the middle or from Mars) be very afraid and don't trust what they say.


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The Publisher Says: Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles.
Achilles, 'best of all the Greeks', is everything Patroclus is not — strong, beautiful, the child of a goddess — and by all rights their paths should never cross. Yet one day, Achilles takes the shamed prince under his wing and soon their tentative companionship gives way to a steadfast friendship. As they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something far deeper — despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel and deathly pale sea goddess with a hatred of mortals.
Fate is never far from the heels of Achilles. When word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, the men of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate.
Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart.
My Review: Here I am faced with a conundrum: What new thought can I give? This is The Iliad, told from Patroclus's point of view. Miller starts the story with Patroclus's memories of his father, King Menoitius, whose unloving, unforgiving horridness blighted Patroclus's childhood. When Patroclus causes the death of a bully who happens to be a powerful noble's son, the boy's family gives the king what he wants: An excuse to rid himself of unpromising Patroclus. He is exiled (a nine year old boy) to Phthia, and the court of King Peleus.
Father of Achilles. Born to the sea-nymph Thetis. Best of all the Greeks...Aristos Achaion...in each and every thing, yet mortal and so consigned to our world.
Patroclus and Achilles find each other, and Achilles chooses the unassuming boy to be his companion. Peleus says, when the choice is made, are you sure about this, son? This boy will add nothing to your lustre. Achilles responds, without rancor or boastfulness, "I don't need him to." This being self-evident and inarguable, Peleus shrugs and life goes on. The boys spend a golden childhood as best friends, a golden adolescence as lovers, and, after being outed by Odysseus in Scyros where Thetis was trying to hide her son Achilles from the Trojan War where he is fated to die, a long (for the times) manhood as husbands. Everyone knows what time it is. No one says boo about it, except Thetis who LOATHES Patroclus because he's not good enough for her little boy...or is she just jealous of an interloper commanding her son's love? Who would dare? Achilles is a killing machine. He is the Aristos Achaion, the Finest Among the Greeks, for a reason.
And now we rejoin the mainstream of The Iliad for the remainder of the plot, with only a slight change in angle of view.
I think I wrote three heart-felt appreciations of this book. It is strong, and beautiful, and passionate. It is tough, and cruel, and inevitably sad. It is tender, and loving, and generous. It is indeed the Song of Achilles, sung by Patroclus, and it is a fitting funerary offering to them both.
But let me get out of the story's way. It speaks for itself.
"I will go," he said. "I will go to Troy."
The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered green of his eyes. There was not a line anywhere on his face, nothing creased or graying; all crisp. He was spring, golden and bright. Envious death would drink his blood, and grow young again.
He was watching me, his eyes as deep as earth.
"Will you come with me?" he asked.
The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death. "Yes," I whipsered. "Yes."
Relief broke in his face, and he reached for me. I let him hold me, let him press us length to length so close that nothing might fit between us.
Tears came, and fell. Above us, the constellations spun and the moon paced her weary course. We lay stricken and sleepless as the hours passed.
I can't make any stronger a case for the book than this. I hope you will read it.


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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Kirkby Town 3 Louth Town 2
We met on an autumn evening at Causeway Lane, the home of Matlock Town FC. I was stood with The Taxman and he was with 'Screats' Dad. We live in the same village but were somehow acquainted 30 miles away. It quickly became apparent that we shared a passion for the non league scene. It was the perfect combination: I enjoy the beautiful game and he enjoys the half-time tucker.
But now my relationship with White Van Man is in tatters. What he has done to me is unforgiveable. How could he do it? I feel sick, repulsed and angry. It's broken me. He's only phoned-in to the worst radio station in the world – Heart FM – to speak up for them pair of potato pickers off the X-Factor – John and Edward (Jedward). He was live on the airwaves and called himself 'David from Keyworth.' Shame on you WVM!
I took 'The Skipper' on the Par 3 at Edwalton Golf Course. He proper got the hump as Sticky Palms burnt the course up like Tiger Woods. I made par at the 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th and chipped in twice off the green. It made the Chicken Legend at McDonalds, after the game that little bit more enjoyable.
It's Saturday 8am and The Groundhopper has the hangover from hell. I appreciate how Trumpy Bolton must feel every morning. I was in West Bridgford last night at a real ale house called the Stratford Haven. I over-indulged in guzzling copious amounts of Golden Wunder bitter from the Thwaites brewery in Blackburn.
Mrs P had kicked me out the house because she was having a girlie night. Allegedly it was a strategy meeting for their impending weekend in London( no groundhopping that weekend readers). In hindsight I'd have been better off sharing a table for two in Finley's hutch.
I staggered onto the 11.30pm bus from Trent Bridge. There were one or two exuberant Leicester fans on the back row celebrating their second away win in less than five days.
I'm committed to being in Sutton-in-Ashfield on a scouting job by 10am. It's going to take more than two poached eggs to crank me up today.
I'm driving up the A60 chuckling away at the Danny Baker Show on Five Live. Baker is asking folk to phone in if they've ever been inside a football managers' house. I immediately phone JK as he once went to Walter Smith's gaffe in Glasgow and disturbed him from his painting and decorating. Walter even invited him in for a cup of tea. JK tries to phone the show but can't get through.
I watch an under 8s and under 9s game in Sutton-in-Ashfield. The kids play the game with a smile on the face. Both games are quality. I really enjoy it and invite a couple of boys to come in and train with Notts County.
It's been a good morning's work. I pop into The Fieldings, the home of Sutton AFC. Mansfield Town u18s and Notts County u18s lock horns. The Stags score an injury time winner. It's somewhat took the gloss off the morning.
I drive up to Kirkby-in-Ashfield. I'm in the Rolls Royce and have bags of time on my hands. I swing into a Tesco Express to buy some lunch. My headache and upset stomach are a distant memory. I grab a chicken Caesar wrap and a bottle of Oasis orange.
Within 50 metres of the shop is a huge Co-op which I'd somehow failed to spot. I perform a u-turn and head back towards the Summit Centre, which is a not for profit community enterprise, developed by the East Kirkby Welfare.
Kirkby-in-Ashfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire with a population of 25,000. It was once at the heart of the Nottinghamshire coalfields. Most of the collieries were closed in the 1980s.
Famous people from the Kirkby area include: former England fast bowler Harold Larwood (there is a statue of him in the town centre), Chris Gascoyne, who plays born loser Peter Barlow in Coronation Street (he went to school in Kirkby), former Middlesboro defender Stuart Boam, and ex QPR and Everton winger Dave Thomas (socks always rolled down).Labour politician and former defence secretary Geoff Hoon is Member of Parliament for Ashfield.
I park the car and take a walk back up the road to the main drag. The housing estate close to the ground is modern and yet already a house is boarded up and plastered in graffiti. A pit bull terrier comes tearing up the drive towards me. Thank God I didn't bring Finley with me.
A youth roars up and down the cul-de-sac on his trials bike. The Lowmoor Inn, on the main road, is boarded up. Local youths tried to burn it down a few nights ago.
I take a wander inside the Summit Centre. It's clean, spacious and has a vibe. The urinals are manufactured by Armitage Shanks – it's always a good marker in my eyes.
Unbeaten Louth Town are today's visitors. It's the capital of the Lincolnshire Wolds and has a population of 15,000.
I take a position to the left of the home dugout. I'm joined by Tony Cook, who is a coach at the Nottingham Forest Academy. He's on good form as Forest Youth have slapped D***y County under 18s 6-3.
The game has an edge to it and is played at a good tempo. Louth play a passing game, whilst Kirkby look for the runs of the muscular Bramwell, who's struggling a wee bit after being bed ridden for a week with a virus.
There's a bit of a commotion on ten minutes when Tony receives a text from his missus asking him whether he's fed the fish or not.
I've already clocked the idiosyncratic behaviour of both managers, particular the lunatic from Louth. He looks to be capable of bursting more blood vessels than Billy Davies and Stan Ternant put together.
Kirkby take the lead after 20 minutes after evenly balanced opening. A well worked short corner finds Hudson on the edge of the box. He whips in an inch perfect cross for Roebuck(I used to work with his dad Malc) to force home at the second attempt. The Louth manager is in need of medication. He has a rant at the officials and retreats to the dugout.
Louth spurn the game's best opportunity shortly before the break with their number 7 forcing a brave block by an alert Paul Stanhope in the Kirkby goal.
Bramwell is fortunate to stay on the field of play on 45 minutes having kicked out at the Louth skipper. Louth manager Paul Walden is incensed that the ref only brandishes a yellow card. He has another temper tantrum and ends up being sent off himself.
It's been action-packed and I'm looking forward to my cup of char. I hunt down Kirkby Town legend Fred. He's Kirkby's Jack-of-all trades. He's very kindly gave me the lowdown on this very friendly club.
I'm introduced to his friend Roger Rann, who scored over 200 goals for Arnold Town in the 1970s. I'm shocked to hear he wasn't invited to the official opening of their Eagle Valley Ground yesterday.
Fred won't pose for a photo. He says with it being Halloween and all that it might scare the kids. I tend to put on old Peter Beardsley DVDs to frighten my two lads.
I've been that busy chatting that by the time I'm back pitchside Louth are already 2-1 up. It's the first goals I've missed in years. Striker Paul Watts has bagged a brace.
Louth have a spring in their step and are helped further in the 65th minute when the referee is left with little alternative but to red card Fletcher for pulling back the Louth forward. The White Wolves can't put the game to bed and miss a string of chances.
Kirkby pull together and play as a team. They have hearts as big as buckets. Carl Haslam is their big cheese. His feet are on a par with Sticky junior's. He glides through the visitors' defence and just fires over. He then picks up the ball, evades three desperate lunges but his final shot is beaten away by the Louth 'keeper.
Louth are reduced to ten men when Haslam is hauled down following another mazy run. He dusts himself down and blasts home the spot kick. It's the straw that broke the camel's back for the Louth manager. He flies round to the back of the goal, has an altercation with the League chairman and resigns on the spot. He was last seen stomping towards the Kirkby Co-op. Fair play though Paul, they've some good two-for-one deals on there.
Kirkby manager Brett Marshall has a final throw of the dice and flings on a couple of subs. One of them is Scott Pratt, whose father I've been talking to for most of the afternoon. Deep in stoppage time Pratt picks the ball up 40 yards out. He knocks the ball out of his feet and pings it towards the Louth goal. The ball begins to gain momentum as it sails through the darkening north Notts skies. The Louth 'keeper frantically begins to back pedal. He ends up on his backside as the ball crashes into the back of the net. It's Sticky Palms' goal of the season.
Pratt's dad runs uncontrollably up and down the grass bank behind me. It's like his lad has scored the cup final winner at Wembley. Manager Marshall totally loses the plot. He weaves in and out the touchline. His beetroot face is as red as his tracksuit. It's like watching the Benny Hill Show as the entire Kirkby team chase an energised Pratt.
And all I can think about is Louth manager Paul Walden. He's missed the goal of the season.
Man of Match: Louth 5 jacket.
Referee 8 out of 10. Loads of moaning from Louth. Played lots of advantage.
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- November 1, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- Alex Reid said...
Was the 'cage fighter' playing for Kirkby ?
Didn't look like he could fight his way out of a bird cage from what I saw when he swung handbags with the Keyworth number 7.
- November 3, 2009 at 1:09 AM
Nice blog Sticky. I want to know who Malc is as i always thought my dad was Terry Roebuck. Do i need to be asking my mum a few awkward questions?
- November 3, 2009 at 8:00 PM
- Sticky said...
Hmm .. Sorry Steve. Used to work with a guy called Malcolm Roebuck at Calverton. Was sure his lad Steve played at a decent level.
As for the cage fighter, well he stood next to me and seemed a very decent chap.
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