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Past and future uses for the National Soil Inventory of England and Wales
The South Downs near Pycombe, West Sussex. Reproduced with permission of Roger Ockenden
Many samples of soil have been collected over the past fifty years so that soils may be classified and soil maps drawn. The first systematic sampling of soil in England and Wales took place between 1978 and 1980. This soil inventory formed the basis of a soil monitoring network, and there was further resampling between 1995 and 2005. Mrs Pat Bellamy, a statistician at the Natural Resources Department, Cranfield University, describes how this unique dataset has revealed large losses of soil carbon across England and Wales, and highlights future applications of the data for the improvement of soil monitoring networks.
Sampling of soil across England and Wales
A National Soil Inventory (NSI) was conducted for England and Wales to obtain an estimate of the distribution of the soils of England and Wales and to study the chemistry of the topsoil. The whole of England and Wales was sampled at each intersection of 5 km x 5 km grids over the interval 1978 to 1983, (Loveland, 1990). Soil profiles were described and topsoil samples taken to a depth of 15cm. Each sample consisted of 25 soil cores taken on a 5 m x 5 m grid in a 20 m x 20 m plot centred on the site. The soil cores were all placed in one plastic bag and returned to the laboratory for analysis. Each sample was analysed for organic carbon, pH, metal concentrations (total and extractable Cd, Co, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn and total Al, As, Ba, Ca, Cr, F, Fe, Hg, Mo, Na, Se, Sr, V) and nutrients (P, K, Mg). Site properties such as land use, slope and aspect were recorded.
A proportion of those sites under arable or rotational grass were resampled in 1995. Some of the permanent grassland sites were resampled in 1996, and the non-agricultural sites were resampled in 2003. Overall 40% of the original 5662 sites were resampled. The protocols which were followed for resampling were those used in the original sampling schedule. Samples and data were all archived for future use and may be seen at LandIS, the Land Information System http://www.landis.org.uk.
Changes in soil carbon
Data from the original National Soil Inventory were used to investigate the change in soil carbon over the sampling interval of 12-25 years. The results showed that carbon was lost from soils across England and Wales over the survey period at a mean rate of
Figure 1 Annual change in carbon - grouped by land use. Data from Bellamy et al., 2005
Figure 2 Annual change in carbon over all land uses. Data from Bellamy et al., 2005
0.6% yr-1, relative to the existing soil carbon content, (Bellamy et al., 2005). Figure 1 shows the results for each land use recorded. It can be seen that only lowland heath and scrub showed an increase, and this was not a significant increase. It was found that the relative rate of carbon loss increased with soil carbon content and was more than 2% yr-1 in soils with carbon contents greater than 100 g kg-1 (Figure 2). The equation in Figure 2 was fitted, using REML with spatial residuals, to the individual data points and was used to estimate the rate of change in soil carbon at those sites which were not resampled. Using the estimated annual change in carbon content across the whole of England and Wales, an estimate of the carbon stock for these two countries was made using estimates of bulk density (Howard et al., 1995). It was estimated that the soils of England and Wales are losing about 4.4 Tg yr-1 of carbon. If we assumed that the soils in Scotland and Northern Ireland are similarly losing carbon we estimated the loss of carbon from the whole of the UK was about 13 Tg yr-1. For comparison, the UK's current industrial CO2 emission is about 150 Tg yr-1.
Potential causes of soil carbon losses
Soil carbon contents depend on rates of addition from plant growth versus rates of removal in decomposition, leaching and other soil processes, and each of these is sensitive to changes in land use, climate and other variables, (Guo et al., 2002). Various changes in land use will have contributed to carbon losses from soils across England and Wales over the survey period, both from changing agricultural uses (drainage schemes, post-war grassland conversion, increased stocking rates) and non-agricultural uses (afforestation on wet soils, increased erosion, increased burning of upland vegetation).
Over the survey period, the mean temperature across England and Wales increased by about 0.5 ºC and there were also changes in rainfall distribution (Hulme, 2002). Climate change will affect soil carbon turnover through various processes. Increases in temperature will tend to increase rates of organic matter decomposition by soil microbes, although the magnitude of this effect and differences between soils are uncertain (Powlson, 2005). Data on pH from the NSI samples have shown that soils have become more alkaline over the survey period which will also have an effect on the decomposition rate of carbon.
Current research to investigate the causes of soil carbon loss
Data on land use change or management at the NSI sites are very limited. So it is difficult to assess the effect of these influences on the changes in measured soil carbon. However, data on climate across England and Wales are available for the time between the two sampling periods. Work is currently being carried out (under an NERC project) to try to understand the reasons for this large loss soil carbon using models of soil carbon turnover validated using the NSI data.
Also, as the UK is committed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the EU Monitoring Mechanism to produce national inventories of emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases, methane, nitrous oxide, Defra are funding a project to deliver the data for annual inventories and projections into the future for Land Use, Land Use Changes and Forestry (LULUCF). As part of this project we are investigating the possibility of obtaining land use and management information from other sources to investigate the causes of changes in soil carbon at the NSI sites.
Other research carried out using the NSI data
Data from the NSI for the Humber-Trent region in North East England were used to investigate the use of multivariate geostatistics for the problem of estimating temporal change in soil properties for soil monitoring, (Lark et al., 2006). The NSI data were combined with GBASE data (British Geological Survey, 2006) for the concentrations of cobalt, nickel and vanadium in the topsoil on two dates. While the concentration of each metal in the soil showed pronounced spatial dependence which is known to be driven by parent material, the change over time was only spatially structured for cobalt and vanadium. This showed that information on spatial variability from a single date may be a poor guide to the design of a monitoring scheme. It was also shown how the cokriging variance of the change in concentration of cobalt and vanadium depended on sampling effort and strategy. ['Kriging' and 'cokriging' are statistical tools named in honour of the geostatistician Professor D. G. Krige].
The change in these particular variables between two dates is best estimated by sampling with equal intensity at the same sites on both dates; and when resampling an existing baseline survey it is best to sample them at rather than between the original sites. This research is now supporting the design of a UK wide soil monitoring network.
Bellamy, P. H.; Loveland, P. J.; Bradley, R. I.; Lark, R. M.; Kirk, G. J. D. (2005), Carbon losses from all soils across England and Wales 1978 – 2003, Nature, 437, 245 – 248.
British Geological Survey (2006), Regional geochemistry of the Humber-Trent region: stream sediment, soil and stream water, BGS, Keyworth, Nottingham.
Guo, L. B.; Gifford, R. M. (2002), Soil carbon stocks and land use change: a meta-analysis, Global Change Biology, 8, 345–360.
Howard, P. J. A.; Loveland, P. J.; Bradley, R. I.; Dry, F. T.; Howard, D. M.; Howard, D.C. (1995), The carbon content of soil and its geographical distribution in Great Britain, Soil Use and Management, 11, 9–15.
Hulme, M. et al. (2002), Climate Change Scenarios for the United Kingdom: The UKCIP02 Scientific Report, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Norwich, UK. See also http://www.ukcip.org.uk/
Lark, R. M.; Bellamy, P. H.; Rawlins, B. (2006), Spatio-temporal variability of some metal concentrations in the soil of eastern England, and implications for soil monitoring, Geoderma, 133, 363–379.
Loveland, P. J. (1990), In Element Concentration Cadasters in Ecosystems, Lieth, H.; Markert, B., Eds., VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 1990, pp 73–80.
Powlson, D. S. (2005), Will soil amplify climate change? Nature, 433, 204–205.
Mrs PAT BELLAMY, BSc MSc FRSS
Statistician, Natural Resources Department, School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL
Email: p.bellamy@cranfield.ac.uk
Homepage: http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sas/aboutus/staff/bellamyp.jsp
FOOTNOTE: The National Soil Inventory of England and Wales (NSI) was originally funded by MAFF (now Defra) and carried out by soil surveyors from the Soil Survey of England and Wales, which had offices across England and Wales. The Soil Survey is now named the National Soil Resources Institute and is part of Cranfield University within the Natural Resources Department. The soil samples from the original sampling were analysed in the soil laboratory at Rothamsted Research (where the Soil Survey was based). Soils from the second sampling were analysed in the soil laboratory at the Silsoe campus of Cranfield University which was the home of the Soil Survey from 1989 – 2006. The second sampling was organised by Cranfield University and funded by Defra. The actual sampling was carried out by post-graduate students employed specifically for that task. The analytical methods and techniques for the soil samples are described by Bellamy et al. (2005). For the majority of soil samples, organic carbon was measured using the Walkley-Black method.
Cranfield University holds the archive of all the soil samples taken over the two sampling campaigns, and we hope to persuade Defra to fund another sampling for the NSI in the near future.


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Gimlet 23: Shadowed Qualities
by StartUp
The Story This week, Alex receives feedback about his job performance from his co-workers, friends, and family. Some of it is good, some less so. But there is something else that comes up during the review process that shocks him. We explore what happens when you unpack your emotional baggage—or someone unpacks it for you—and you realize the unexpected effect that it has been having on your team. In this final Gimlet-focused episode of season four, we take a raw and intimate look at a defining moment in the trajectory of a CEO.
The Facts David Herman mixed the episode. Our theme song was written and performed by
Mark Phillips. The special ad music, Microliters, was written and performed by Build Buildings. Our logo was designed by Elias Stein. Additional music from Bobby Lord, Takstar, and Hotmoms.gov.
ALEX: Hello and welcome to Startup, the podcast about what it's really like to start a business. For the first couple of episodes this season, we've been talking about Gimlet, the company that produces this podcast you're listening to, and many more. And we've been talking about growth. How it's awesome, but also scary, and hard to manage. And I'm going to say right up front, today's episode might be one of the most personal stories I've ever done. And I'm actually a little scared about putting it out there. But, the truth is, I went through something, and I learned a lot from it. I learned a lot about myself, and I learned a lot about what makes a business function well. And so, I'm sharing it with you. The whole thing started, here:
JERRY: Tell me… How are you guys doing, and what would you like to talk through today?
ALEX: This is a man named Jerry Colonna. Jerry is what they call an executive coach. And this is the beginning of a session he's doing with me and Matt. Matt and I started seeing Jerry at the advice of one of our investors, a guy named Troy Carter who founded a firm called CCV, Cross Culture Ventures. And Troy encourages every founder CCV invests in to get an executive coach from the very beginning. Troy told us that a lot of founders are in the same position as Matt and I, running organizations for the first time. And having an executive coach on board from the beginning can help navigate the questions, and decisions and conflicts that inevitably arise. It was some of the best advice we've ever gotten. Jerry might be familiar by the way—he made an appearance in Startup season two, when he helped the founders we were following work through some issues they were having. And he has an impressive pedigree. He founded the venture firm Flatiron partners in the mid 90's, with legendary investor, Fred Wilson. After that he helped run the private equity arm of JP Morgan Chase. He's seen hundreds of companies at all different levels of development. So he can help talk through nuts and bolts issues like how to manage a sales team. And how to structure a funding round. But what he's really good at, and why firms like Etsy and Soundcloud seek him out as a coach, and why he's been given the moniker, the CEO whisperer, is that he's really good at talking about feelings. A lot of what Matt and I talk about with Jerry are the kinds of touchy feely things you might discuss in therapy. And that's because, according to Jerry, the health of Gimlet depends on me and Matt fully understanding ourselves. Especially our blind spots: our weaknesses, vulnerabilities, the parts of ourselves we're afraid to look at, that we dislike, that we try to ignore.
JERRY: If you're not conscious or aware through what I often refer to as a radical self-inquiry? The culture that gets created around you is going to reflect pretty much your worst character traits. Your shadowed qualities as a leader. The parts of youself that you want to push off to the side.
ALEX: Jerry sees it all the time. A founder with anger issues, who's always blowing up at people, or reacting in ways he can't control, will unintentionally create an angry or abusive culture. A founder who's conflict averse, on the other hand, will create a quiet, but bitter and back-stabbing environment.
JERRY: I will tell you that the organizations that I have worked with that have been the most difficult culturally, have been the organizations that have been most, um, determined to repress the negative aspects of their own behavior. Their own individual leadership behavior and drive those behaviors underground only to have it pop up in politics and in nastiness. And we don't even see it coming. So those are the things that terrify me. If you're not consciously, intentionally creating your culture, a culture is going to get created around you, or despite you.
ALEX: In other words, one of the most beneficial things we as founders can do for the long-term health of Gimlet, is to deal with our own emotional baggage. Haul it out in the light, rummage through it. Take a hard look at what's inside. And I did that. And I was shocked by what I found. And that's what I'm talking about, on today's episode. Quick warning, there's a little bit of cursing that comes along with that.
ALEX: Alright, so this is my, um… This is the 360 report on me.
NAZANIN: Okay.
ALEX: In the summer of 2016, Jerry's company, Reboot, conducted something called a 360 review on me and Matt. The idea of a 360 review is to give as full a picture as possible into how someone is performing on the job, and what they need to do to get better.The way it works: Someone from Jerry's team asked me and Matt a set of questions designed to get us talking about our strengths and weaknesses. Then they ask a bunch of people around us the same set of questions. Jerry and his team compile the results, and present them to us in a long, detailed report. Which I shared with my wife Nazanin right after I received it. The report started by listing all the people they'd talked to about me:
ALEX: The respondents included 2 investment board members, 7 members of the Gimlet Media Team, and 3 personal friends/family members.
NAZANIN: Who are your personal friends?
ALEX: I don't remember.
NAZANIN: Who do I count as?
ALEX: I don't know that either.
ALEX: Based on your current observations—and these were the questions that were asked—based on your current observations and dealings with Alex, how would you say he contributes to the success of Gimlet Media? What does Alex do that prevents Gimlet Media from running as successful as it could?
ALEX: The report's authors summarize and draw out themes from the interviews, and they also include key quotes that have been anonymized. And of course, they start with the good stuff.
ALEX: Alex has been considerate about what I am passionate about, he is genuinely interested in those he works with.
NAZANIN: This one is really… I think this one is—
ALEX: People feel like they can go to him and talk to him about whatever problem they are having. He's really good at not reacting to things defensively and I think Alex has gotten really good at hearing people and listening to them and letting them get out what they need to get out and then talking to them without reacting.
NAZANIN: Yeah. I agree with that.
ALEX: A lot of people came to work at Gimlet for and with Alex. He is good at mobilizing people, he is good at addressing people's concerns and still staying on track. Alex inspires people to do their best, infectious enthusiasm is his greatest strength. He's really supportive. Blah blah blah.
NAZANIN: That's all of it—that's all… That's great.
ALEX: That's all good.
NAZANIN: It's all good.
ALEX: Okay. Areas for improvement slash growth.
ALEX: Otherwise known as weaknesses. There were plenty of them. The report pointed out my tendency towards quote blind optimism, which can get in my way when it comes making a hard assessment about something happening in the company. Also, I don't manage my time well, and I overcommit to things.
ALEX: Key quotes on overcommitment. He tends to underestimate the time and resources necessary to build something. Yep. Constantly running late? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Sometimes I'm at a meeting or gathering with him and I can tell he's not really there. Did you say that?
NAZANIN: I may have but I don't remember. I don't think I would say, "or gathering with him," "sometimes I'm gathering with him." But I agree with that person. I'm with that person.
ALEX: Uh huh...
NAZANIN: Sometimes I'm in a meeting, sometimes I'm in my life,
ALEX: Right
NAZANIN: Like right now, when you're not listening to what I'm saying.
ALEX: Right, I'm not listening to what you were saying, what were you saying? Sorry I was reading more quotes about myself.
NAZANIN: Nothing.
ALEX: Seriously, what'd you say.
NAZANIN: It was just…
ALEX: I'll just listen back to the tape.
ALEX: Another area of weakness my reviewers pointed out: My engagement on the business side of Gimlet. From the report: Quote. It is clear that Matt is well versed in business management and there is great chemistry between the two of you. Still your reviewers suggest there is an opportunity for you to engage with larger issues. This may require a shift from being in the problem-solving role you have taken on with editorial projects. So the way things stand at Gimlet right now, there is a pretty clear division of labor between me and Matt. Matt's overseeing sales, budgets, operations. I'm overseeing the new shows we're developing. And overseeing that is super time consuming. Just, as an example, take one of the new shows we just launched, Heavyweight, hosted by Jonathan Goldstein. Each episode of that new show involved multiple, multi-hour edits. Where Jonathan would come in with a script, his tape all lined up. He'd do a live read of his story, playing the tape off his computer. And then we—he and I, and another editor and his producers—would puzzle through the sections that weren't working. Move stuff around. Change the writing. Most edits take at least two hours. Often more. And the edit is just one part of the process. There are lots of other parts, which take equally as much time. There are story meetings. There are mix reviews. Just sitting and talking through a story with someone. All to make one episode, in a multi-episode season of one new show. We're launching six new shows. If you looked at my calendar, here's a random and typical Friday. It's booked solid with me working on stories. There's a two-hour edit in the morning. A two-hour mix session in the afternoon, where we review music and sound design on one of the shows we're launching. And then another three-hour edit after that. And that's pretty typical. I have other stuff. Budget reviews. Board meetings. But the vast majority of my time is taken up by this creative/editorial puzzle solving. And for now, this probably makes sense. Because at the company, I'm probably the most experienced person at doing this. It is, after all, what I spent the last 15 years of my life doing. And right now, the best thing we can do as a company is launch really good shows. So, if I'm helping that, I'm helping Gimlet. But the review pointed out that there is the tension between what I should be doing for Gimlet now, and what my role should be in the future, if we want Gimlet to continue to grow and thrive. It pointed this out in a section called "upcoming challenges."
ALEX: Upcoming challenges, areas critical to future success. Two themes emerged when reviewers were asked to identify your greatest challenges going forward, scaling and foresight.
NAZANIN: That's what I said.
ALEX: Scaling?
NAZANIN: Mm-hmm.
ALEX: Your reviewers believe your current management style does not naturally translate to a larger team. They see tension between being intimately involved with the editorial process and managing a growing team. Moving forward, they see this as a challenge you're likely to face. Several of your reviewers sympathize with you as they do not see a simple solution to this issue.
ALEX: In other words, my calendar can't continue to look the way it does now. Because, when I'm spending my day running from one edit to another, diving deep into the weeds of individual stories and shows, I can't pull back my focus and look at the company as a whole. Which, as CEO, is my job. My job is not to make the shows. My job is to make the company that makes the shows. And as we learned last episode, at least some of the producers I've entrusted to make those shows don't feel adequately supported by that company. And if that's happening now, just imagine what it's gonna be like when we're bigger. In other words, I need to be thinking more about the big picture, What should GImlet's priorities be in 2017. What about other revenue streams besides advertising. We probably do need to build an app. Who does it? How do we pay for it? I need to be working on what the review calls, quote, increasing my foresight:
ALEX: Increasing your foresight would recognize the need to meet with a team member whom you have not seen in some time or perhaps initiating a strategic decision with your team. Foresight is also a potential counterbalance to the blind optimism. Right. These questions may support your self-inquiry. Have I paused to take all available information into consideration? With this decision am I thinking through the long term impact of each option? Am I regularly setting time aside to think strategically about issues at hand? No. What morning and evening routines will support me in being more prepared for the meetings I have scheduled each day?
NAZANIN: Yeah. I don't know. What do you think? What do you think? Like, what…
ALEX: I don't know. Something about this just makes me ... Really emotional. And I don't know why.
NAZANIN: Do you think it's like your flaws are more transparent than you thought they were?
ALEX: No I think… No, I don't think it's that. I think it's, um... It's just, um … What morning and evening routines will support me in being more prepared for the meetings I have scheduled each day, is like… I'm not disciplined, in that way. Like, it's clear that I have to get good at certain things that I'm not good at. And it makes me worried that I will have to become a kind of person that I'm not, and I'm not sure I wanna be? I guess, basically, all these things are like… The thing that's not reflected is that I love what I'm doing right now and I love being involved in all these things, it's really fun. And it feels like that is, it's really fun to be really good at something. And that's what I feel like I am right now. And I feel like a little bit what's being told is you have to stop doing the thing that you love and you're good at and get good at something else. You know?
NAZANIN: Right.
ALEX: I don't know why I'm crying about this. I don't know. I don't know.
NAZANIN: Yeah, why are you crying?
ALEX: I don't know!
NAZANIN: Well, can I just… What did you think the 360 review process was going to be like?
ALEX: No, I mean, I knew it was going to be intense. I thought it was going to be more intense, I thought there was going to be more stuff. There's really nothing here. It's just like… It's just like… So I was like sitting with Zach and Mark and Matthew in the studio for like four hours today trying to puzzle through just finessing and sort of, like, thinking through how this first episode of their first show is going to sound. And like… That's good for the company, this show has the potential to be one of the biggest hits that we launch. I don't think it's a bad use of my time and I am the best person to be doing that at the company. So I think strategically it all makes sense right now. But like, the other thing that is not reflected here is that I love doing it. It's the thing that I've worked my whole life to get really good at it. That's the thing I feel I'm going to have to give up, you know? I need to move away from something that I've got really, really good at to something I'm not nearly as good at which is, uh, coming up with morning and evening routines to support me being more prepared for meetings I have scheduled each day.
NAZANIN: I mean, I think that's bullshit though.
ALEX: It's not bullshit. That is not bullshit. I have thought that. I have had that exact thought many times. I need to be better at this, it's not bullshit. It's what I need to do, I do need to do that.
ALEX: And that is where I left it with Nazanin that night. A couple minutes later we turned off the recorder and went to bed. But later, I would find that there was something larger behind my reaction to that sentence. Something larger that involved my shadowed qualities as a leader. That's coming up, after the break.
ALEX: Welcome back. So, after I got my results back from my 360 review, I got in a video conference with Jerry, to talk it all through.
JERRY: Hey, how are you?
ALEX: I'm good, I'm good. How are you?
JERRY: I'm good. Good! It's been a while.
ALEX: I told him the whole story of my strange reaction to that one line.
ALEX: But then I started crying talking to Nazanin about it. And I think it was… Let me just pull it up here. "What morning and evening routines will support me for being more prepared for the meetings I have scheduled each day?"
JERRY: And you read that line last night and were crying?
ALEX: And I read that line last night and I started crying and Nazanin was like What the fuck are you... There's nothing to cry about here! It was like she honestly she was like, "I think you're feeling a feel that I don't get it because from my perspective you obviously need to keep doing that in the company, that's the thing that you're really good at. And I don't know. But I think it was just… Partly it was just like… um, I don't know what it was about.
ALEX: So, perhaps obviously for a man who's so interested in unpacking emotional baggage, Jerry found it very interesting that this one innocuous sentence had caused such an emotional reaction. And so he started probing. Asking about it. And I've been in therapy before. Off and on. I've always found it helpful. But I've never really had what is typically called a breakthrough. But talking to Jerry, in that studio on that video conference, I did. And I'm now going to play you, what happened. It was weird. And intense. And it started with Jerry and I talking through the feelings that that sentence called up in my while I was reading it.
ALEX: There's I think there's also an element of feeling trapped in that statement to me that I have to... I have to give up a—clearly I say 'give-up' all the time—there's something about that statement that means I'm going to give something up? I guess, giving up a freedom.
JERRY: Right. Alex, it's not all fun and games.
ALEX: Right, I gotta grow up.
JERRY: You gotta grow up, Alex.
ALEX: Yeah, I think that's what it is.
JERRY: Right.
ALEX: Yeah.
JERRY: I gotta grow up.
JERRY: What are you remembering?
ALEX: Just, I've never wanted to grow up. I think it's been like a... I've been a persistently late bloomer my whole life. Yeah, I think there are certain things about my life certain things about my life that I don't... You know, we rent, we don't own a house. There are certain ways in which I'm looking at myself and I'm like, Wow, I'm 50. And I don't have...
JERRY: You're not a grown-up.
ALEX: I'm not a grown-up. Yeah.
JERRY: Does the word "shame" have any resonance?
ALEX: Not... It doesn't feel like... I don't think so. I think "fear" probably has more resonance than "shame."
JERRY: What is there to be afraid of being a grown up or having to grow up? Oh, is it perhaps giving up something?
ALEX: It feels like taking on, like… It becomes more real. It becomes a lot more responsibility. And less fun.
JERRY: And less fun.
ALEX: Less free.
JERRY: Less free. Was your father free?
ALEX: Um... He was. He was very free. In certain ways. In that he never, I think, took on all the responsibilities of adulthood, you know? How did you know that, Jerry? Um... yeah.
JERRY: How did your mother feel about your father not necessarily taking on all the responsibilities of adulthood.
ALEX: Frustrated. And like... But also took care of it.
JERRY: Reluctantly, maybe resentfully.
JERRY: Did you see the conflict between the two of them?
ALEX: It never got voiced.
JERRY: It never got voiced. What did it feel like inside, that she was saying. If you could imagine her words, what would they be?
ALEX: You know, I want you to get up off the couch and help think about this stuff.
JERRY: Help think about what stuff? The long-term strategy?
ALEX: Yeah, like help think about the money and help think about the... What would she want him to think about?
JERRY: Where are we going as a family?
ALEX: Think about, yeah, us as a family. Not think about just yourself.
JERRY: Do you hear the echoes?
JERRY: I want you to be the CEO of this family." "I don't want to give up my freedom and flexibility." It's time that you grow up. you have to take on all the responsibilities. "But if I take on all the responsibilities then I won't have any fun. So I'm gonna stay in this conflict." And this is, when I talk about understanding our shadow and understanding ourselves, this is what I'm talking about. It's like, what are the constructs that are going on here? Is there anything that you wanna say as we've sort of talked through some of this at this point.
ALEX: No I- I think… No I—it's just striking how when you went back to my parents and my family, like, how resonant that was? And it's just made me think of other things about my-- my family. You know, my dad started a company. My dad was an entrepreneur. And I never, before I started this company, I never ever would have described him that way. Never ever. My mom started an organization. It wasn't a company but it was an organization within the city of Cincinnati, she worked, she was a public employee, but she started this whole, you know, public employee assistance program. She started it, she got the grants for it; she went back to school to get her degree to do it. She did the whole thing. Ran in independently sort of within the city. Was the boss of it. So, she was an entrepreneur, too. Never would have described her that way. And I don't even know—they never used that word. They never talked about how they're business people or the importance of entrepreneurship or anything like that. Um, and then starting this company was the first time I ever even put all of that stuff together. Isn't that curious? I don't know. I don't know what to make of that. But it feels suspect in some way.
JERRY: Oh, it's really fascinating and what's really interesting is their reluctance to use terms like, "I'm a business person, I'm an entrepreneur, I'm a CEO."
ALEX: Yeah. My dad was a partner in the company. It was 70 people, at its height.
JERRY: Which, your father's?
ALEX: My father's, yeah.
JERRY: Ok, so what role did he play?
ALEX: I don't know what his actual role was. He was a partner—he was a founding partner. It was called Wolf Blumberg Crowtey. Like, he was the name, in the thing.
JERRY: And what did they do?
ALEX: It was an advertising agency.
JERRY: So, what was his... Was he, like, the creative side?
ALEX: Yeah yeah yeah.
JERRY: And so how did he balance... So, he probably had other partners, perhaps, who were more interested in the business side of things.
ALEX: Yeah, Dale. My dad was, like, client-facing. He was the Don Draper, basically, of the whole thing. Um. And um, yeah. Built it, but then didn't... But got increasingly frustrated and then finally left under circumstances—like, left. And they bought him out. So, left with a big chunk of money.
JERRY: And what did he do?
ALEX: Uh, smoked a lot of pot and frittered it away.
JERRY: Look at that.
ALEX: Yeah. I did a story about—
JERRY: Look how emotional you just got. You did a story about him?
ALEX: On TAL. Yeah. Where I talked to him about it. Yeah.
JERRY: The feeling I have right now is that you loved your dad.
ALEX: Yeah, I still do. I mean, yeah.
JERRY: And I think you love your mother.
JERRY: Which one was right?
ALEX: Um, I think my mom was right. I think my dad definitely privileged his own wants and desires over those of the family. But he's also a lot of fun. And he's like, you know, and he was incredibly creative and interesting and brought a lot of magic into our family, you know?
JERRY: What is a good man, Alex?
ALEX: I mean, a good man is somebody... I think a good man is somebody who doesn't... who doesn't let their fear control them. I think sometimes that my dad, that's ultimately what my dad did. It wasn't selfishness necessarily, we all have selfish tendencies. But I think he also... The thing that I've tried to do is try to... Like, I think he was afraid of looking at himself directly and sort of, like, acknowledging some of these things.
JERRY: Are you a good man?
ALEX: I am.
JERRY: I wanted to point out to you that what are you doing right now? You're looking at yourself. And it's painful, and it's hard.
JERRY: There is a moment in time where we grow past our parents. And you can relate to this because you're both a parent and a son. We want our children to exceed us.
ALEX: Yeah. And my dad, like, I mean, you know, he's just over the moon proud of me, I mean, and he always has been. Um. I definitely want that for my kids, too. Yeah, it's just I mean it's surprisingly emotional. But I think that's also partly why this is an emotional conversation for me. Because I realize that there are these tendencies that we share and I think it's scary. It is scary to think, like, Oh man, could I be self-sabotaging in some way that I'm not aware of, just like my dad?
JERRY: Uh-huh. I'm gonna read you a quote. Bear with me, Jung said something like: Until we make the unconscious conscious, we will be dictated to by it and call it fate.
ALEX: Right. Woah. Why is that making me so upset?
JERRY: Perhaps it's that word "fate." I'm fated to end up like my father. I have to work hard not to end up like my father. But I don't want to become my mother. Resentful.
ALEX: I don't want Matt to become my mother.
JERRY: I don't want Matt to become my mother. Until we make the unconscious conscious. You know that that's what you're doing, right now. You're already growing past, and doing exactly what your parents want you to do. Which is to grow past them. The same wish you have for your children. Exceed me. Exceed me. Stand on my shoulders and reach higher than I can. Right. So, maybe this is why you cried last night?
ALEX: Two years ago, if someone had told me that starting Gimlet would one day lead to me sobbing in a studio about the patterns of my parent's marriage, it would have seemed insane.
I didn't realize those patterns were in me, ready to come out. I have a lot of that 360 review to absorb still. A lot of changes I need to make. I can still feel the urge to retreat into what I know best—the editing and story stuff—and outsource those thorny questions about long-term strategy to Matt. But before this session, I hadn't known about that behavior. Now I do. And it's not until you know a thing that you can move past it. That's part of growing up.
I want to give a big thank you to my parents. I played the session with Jerry for them before this episode aired. And they've also gone through a lot of changes: My dad got sober. They've said a lot of things to each other that they hadn't when I was younger. And just imagine listening as your adult child critiques your performance as a parent in therapy, imagine listening in on that. And now imagine he makes that session public for the world to hear. I wanna say, Mom and Dad, sure you guys had issues, who doesn't? But the vast majority most of what I got from you is good. I wouldn't be where I am today without you. I love you a whole lot.
Today's episode of StartUp was produced by Stevie Lane and Simone Polanen.
It was edited by me, Peter Clowney, Molly Messick, Bruce Wallace, Kaitlin Roberts, Lisa Chow, and Luke Malone. Mark Phillips wrote and performed our theme song. Build Buildings wrote and performed our special ad music. Original scoring by the talented Bobby Lord. Additional music from Takstar and, of course, the band with the greatest band name ever Hot Moms Dot Gov. David Herman mixed the episode.
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By the way. Jerry Colonna. He also has a podcast. It's called The Reboot Podcast, and you can go subscribe to that in iTunes as well. Check it out.
That's it. Thanks for listening. We'll see you in two weeks, when we return with the second part of this season. Lisa Chow will be back in the hosting chair, talking about a pretty amazing startup, and a pretty amazing founder. Strap yourselves in. It's gonna be a good one. We'll see you next time, on the next episode of StartUp.
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Stadiums list
WIN Stadium
Home » Australia
Address WIN Sports & Entertainment Centres, Cnr Crown and Harbour Streets, Wollongong
Capacity 23,000 seats
Build Date 1911
Record Attendance 19,608 (St. George Illawarra vs Cronulla-Sutherland, 2005)
Wollongong Showground (also referred to as WIN Stadium) is a stadium located in Wollongong, Australia. This multi-purpose stadium was built in 1911. It was the permanent home of the Illawarra Steelers NRL team during 1982-1998. Currently, it is the home of the St George Illawarra Dragons R.L.C. that shares the stadium along with Wollongong Wolves. Its total capacity is 23,000 people.
In 1982, when the Illawarra Steelers became one of the teams participating in the NSWRFL premiership, all of their games were held at Wollongong Showground. The southern stand was constructed in 1992. In 1997, the naming rights were purchased by WIN TV.
The renovation of the stadium that cost $8 million was completed in the spring of 2002. Half of all the expenses were covered by WIN Corporation. A new Northern Grandstand was constructed as well. It had 6000 seats, which allowed increasing the total capacity of the stadium.
In 2006, it was planned to build the new Western stand with 2,500 seats, media facilities, corporate boxes, and food/beverage outlets. There was planned to be a 4-star hotel, allowing fans to watch various sports events indoor. However, NSW State Government did not accept the redevelopment. In 2009, it was announced that a new Western stand would be built with a simpler design than the original plan.
by Andrii Brusniak, visited 39 stadiums in 12 countries
Article published: 09.05.2018
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Q: Deleting Amazon S3 directory I'm trying to delete an Amazon S3 directory after executing the destroy action on my controller.
controllers\videos_controller.rb:
def destroy
  @video = Video.find(params[:id])
  @video.destroy
  redirect_to videos_path, notice:  "The video #{@video.name} has been deleted."
end

models\video.rb:
after_destroy :remove_S3_directory

def remove_S3_directory
  path_to_be_deleted = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/bucket/uploads/video/attachment/(ID of the video)"
  FileUtils.remove_dir(path_to_be_deleted, :force => true)
end

How can I specify a path_to_be_deleted without hardcoding the path?

A: I ended up installing Amazon's aws-sdk gem (carrierwave-sdk gem will also work in lieu of aws-sdk) and the using AWS delete_all method to remove all files based on a prefix.  The format to use this method is as follows:
s3.buckets[ENV['AWS_BUCKET']].objects.with_prefix('uploads/video/attachment/1/').delete_all

Thus, I've put the following code in my controller:
def destroy
  @video = Video.find(params[:id])

  # Manipulating the string that points to the path under "bucket"
  directory_to_be_deleted = File.dirname(@video.attachment.url)
  bucket = ENV['AWS_BUCKET'] + '/'
  directory_to_be_deleted = directory_to_be_deleted.split(bucket)[1]
  directory_to_be_deleted = directory_to_be_deleted + '/'

  # Use Amazon APIs to remove directory
  s3 = AWS::S3.new(:access_key_id => ENV['AWS_KEY_ID'], :secret_access_key => ENV['AWS_KEY_VALUE'])
  s3.buckets[ENV['AWS_BUCKET']].objects.with_prefix(directory_to_be_deleted).delete_all

  @video.destroy
  redirect_to videos_path, notice:  "The video #{@video.name} has been deleted."
end

I suppose most of this code belongs in the model instead of the controller but it works so for now, I'm going to keep it as is.

A: Try in this way:-
In controllers\videos_controller.rb:
def destroy
  @video = Video.find(params[:id])
  vid = @video
  @video.destroy
  path_to_be_deleted = vid.attachment
  FileUtils.remove_dir(path_to_be_deleted, :force => true)
  redirect_to videos_path, notice:  "The video #{vid.name} has been deleted."
end

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A tattoo is a great accessory to have on your body. It can be a show of your personality or anything you might want to show the world. A tattoo is an accessory that can end up defining you. Such an important accessory requires appropriate care of course. Tattoo aftercare is a necessary task that all tattoo wearers need to be mindful of. Once you have had a tattoo on your skin, specific areas of ink take days to properly heal. They are essentially an open wound that is susceptible to irritants just like any other cut or wound. Hence, tattoo healing is a necessary phase for all tattoos.
As mentioned above, the area covered by the tattoo is basically an area similar to an open wound for many days after the person gets the tattoo. Much like any other wound, the area needs to be cared for and nurtured to get it back to good health. For that people often use tattoo ointments. Traditionally, people have used anything from alcohol to petroleum jelly for new tattoo care. These substances can be irritants on normal skin. Putting them on an open wound means the person is looking for trouble.
These steps are what you need to follow a general tattoo healing process and are how to treat a new tattoo as well.
If you're wondering what to put on a healing tattoo, a tattoo friendly and artist recommended lotion is the best fit for your need. The best tattoo aftercare lotions are organic ones that are completely free of harmful chemicals. There are vegan varieties available as well. The reason these lotions are recommended has to do with the fact that they do not irritate the area during any tattoo healing stage. They are designed to nurture the tattoo and promote tattoo healing. So if you're wondering what to put on a fresh tattoo, go for organic and vegan lotions tattoo aftercare lotions.
Day 1-6: Tattoo soreness and oozing from the tattoo. The area is still fresh and is an open wound.
Day 7-14: The tattoo area starts to itch and becomes flaky. The itching goes on until the dead skin has fallen off.
Even with the best tattoo aftercare, all these stages remain the same. The only difference that you can notice is that the irritation is not as unbearable as it was before. Tattoo healing is a gradual process after all, and no matter what you put on a healing tattoo, it will take its gradual course towards healing.
A normal tattoo can take 2-3 weeks to properly heal on average. However, even when the tattoo healing process is done and it doesn't irritate you after the second week, it still hasn't gotten to the place where it can be declared fully healed. You need to constantly look after the tattoo just like any other wound and make sure that it doesn't get damaged, something that can lead to a relapse.
For the best tattoo aftercare, you need to be very careful about how you nurture it. The more effort you put in, the more comfortable it will be and the better it will look.


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Dirk Aernouts (né le  à Zoersel) est un coureur cycliste et directeur sportif belge. Il est directeur sportif de l'équipe Lotto-Soudal U23 depuis 2015

Biographie
Dirk Aernouts est coureur professionnel de 2000 à 2001 au sein de l'équipe Collstrop.

Avec son épouse Nana Steenssens, également cycliste, il crée après sa carrière, en 2004, l'entreprise de transport routier Aernouts Logistics Support, spécialisée dans le transport de vélo.

En 2011, il devient directeur sportif de l'équipe Soenens-Contrukt Glas, en même temps que Wesley Van Speybroeck.
En 2015, à la suite de la disparition de cette équipe Aernouts et Van Speybroeck rejoignent l'encadrement de l'équipe Lotto-Soudal U23.

Palmarès
1996
  de Zellik-Galmaarden
1998
 Grand Prix de Pâques
  de Bruxelles-Zepperen
  du Mémorial Philippe Van Coningsloo

Notes et références

Liens externes

Coureur cycliste belge
Directeur sportif belge
Naissance en septembre 1975

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			return Vector3::SqrMagnitude(lhs - rhs) < 9.99999944E-11f;
		}

		friend bool operator!=(const Vector3& lhs, const Vector3& rhs)
		{
			return Vector3::SqrMagnitude(lhs - rhs) >= 9.99999944E-11f;
		}

		// Returns a nicely formatted string for this vector.
		std::string ToString() const;

	public:

		// Shorthand for writing Vector3(0, 0, 0).
		const static Vector3 zero;

		// Shorthand for writing Vector3(1, 1, 1).
		const static Vector3 one;

		// Shorthand for writing Vector3(0, 0, 1).
		const static Vector3 forward;

		// Shorthand for writing Vector3(0, 0, -1).
		const static Vector3 back;

		// Shorthand for writing Vector3(0, 1, 0).
		const static Vector3 up;

		// Shorthand for writing Vector3(0, -1, 0).
		const static Vector3 down;

		// Shorthand for writing Vector3(-1, 0, 0).
		const static Vector3 left;

		// Shorthand for writing Vector3(1, 0, 0).
		const static Vector3 right;

		const static Vector3 xAxis;
		const static Vector3 yAxis;
		const static Vector3 zAxis;

	private:
		bool hasNaNs() const { return isnan(x) || isnan(y) || isnan(z); }
	};
}

#include "Vector3.inl"


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SNOWSHOE MAGAZINE FEATURED ARTICLE:
The Use of Snowshoes in the First Crossing of Greenland
Written by Roger Bunyan
The Norwegian legend, Fridtjof Nansen, together with five companions, became the first people in history to cross the interior of Greenland in 1888.
The Greenland expedition members with their equipment: (seated left to right) Fridtjof Nansen, Oluf Dietrichson, (standing left to right) Ole Ravna, Otto Sverdrup, Kristian Kristiansen and Samuel Balto. Photo courtesy: National Library of Norway
Nansen began planning the expedition after seeing the mountains of Greenland whilst working as a scientist aboard a research ship and after learning of earlier attempts to travel across the island's ice-bound interior. He gradually formulated a plan to cross Greenland from the east coast to the west. It was a daring and controversial route offering no line of retreat (previous attempts had begun on the west coast where waters were more navigable and where there were a number of settlements). Nansen was meticulous in his planning for this intrepid journey taking great care to use the most suitable equipment and provisions of the time (the sleeping bags, clothing, skis, footwear and cooking stove he modified himself). He was also careful to select a strong team to accompany him. Hey chose Otto Sverdrup (a sea captain and skier), Oluf Dietrichson (a soldier), Kristian Kristiansen (a sailor and skier), Samuel Balto (a Sami farmer) and Ole Ravna (a Sami reindeer owner) as his expedition members.
In June 1888, they were all aboard a sealing ship on their way to Greenland. Numerous attempts were made to find a way through the drift ice flowing south down the east coast before they could begin their overland journey. After many weeks of trying to make land, Nansen realized that navigating the ship through the mass of ice flows was proving to be too problematic. Therefore he decided the expedition members would have to chance navigating through the ice in two rowing boats. They were subjected to strong currents and thick ice. To avoid being crushed, they resorted to pulling their boats up onto ice flows. After a great deal of effort and facing considerable danger, they eventually landed on the east coast but unfortunately found themselves many miles south of their intended landing site.
The two expedition row boats travelling northwards along the east coast. Photo courtesy: National Library of Norway
There was no alternative but to row northwards close to the coast until they arrived many days later at Umivik, on August 10th, which would be their starting point across the interior.
The heavy work begins
Their aim was to drag five sledges upwards across heavily crevassed glaciers onto the ice-cap of Greenland. It proved to be hard work pulling the laden loads over such steep, heavily crevassed and icy terrain in appalling weather conditions. At an elevation of around 870 metres (2,800 feet), the gradient eased and the hauling became less exhausting and they began making better headway. By August 27th they had reached a height of 1880 metres (6000 feet). However, with a continual headwind and difficult snow conditions, progress still remained slow.
At the end of a day's hauling, each member of the expedition had a particular chore to complete for their overnight camp: their tent was erected, food was cooked and snow melted on a stove. They ate the best, long lasting food available that would provide the necessary calories for heavy labour and would maintain their good health. They slept in two large reindeer skin sleeping bags, each one large enough for three people.
Their journey across the interior. Photo courtesy: National Library of Norway
The expedition's original idea was to cross Greenland from Umivik on the east to Christianhaab on the west coast. However, due to their taking so long to begin the trip, Nansen was worried they would not have enough time for this planned route. So he made a decision to change course and head further to the south towards Godthaab (now Nuuk), which was a shorter distance for them to travel.
An overnight camp on the ice. Photo courtesy: National Library of Norway
Get the snowshoes out!
However, the expedition continued to make slow progress. Kristiansen injured his knee when he was hauling with skis and the two Sami members, Ravna and Balto, suffered from snow blindness. They then encountered deep and loose snow, making any progress very difficult. At this point Nansen, Sverdrup and Dietrichson decided to use Canadian snowshoes that they had brought along. Initially they struggled and there was a great deal of tripping and catching of legs whilst attempting to pull their loads. However, by adjusting their technique, they began to make better progress. Kristiansen tried using both Canadian and some smaller Norwegian snowshoes, but he found the Canadian snowshoes too cumbersome and the smaller ones made him sink deeply with each step. The Sami Balto and Ravna, didn't even try using snowshoes referring to them as 'idiotic things'. These three therefore continued hauling with skis which they preferred. Nansen, Sverdrup and Dietrichson used snowshoes until September 2nd when conditions improved whereupon they all used skis.
They chewed on bits of snowshoe!
During the next few weeks they struggled through the snow and ice in daytime temperatures ranging between – 15C and – 20C, regularly falling to below – 40C at night! They would stop at regular intervals each day for rests and to eat. Their evening meal when camping was usually stew. Food rations were calculated for each man and the melting of snow was limited because it was necessary to ration their fuel. Some men were allowed tobacco and everyone enjoyed their weekly quarter kilo of butter. To keep their mouths moist and to stop feeling so thirsty, Sverdrup and Nansen took to chewing bits of wood shaved off one of the Norwegian snowshoes. By the time they eventually reached the west coast they had chewed through a whole snowshoe! The expedition regularly carried-out navigational checks to make sure they were on course and they also took daily meteorological observations as a scientific record.
Making better progress
By September 4th they had reached the highest point of the inland plateau of Greenland's ice at 2,720 metres (almost 9000 feet). They continued hauling but on ice that was now on the descent, however the conditions remained challenging and they continued to find areas of deep snow. Some days later, a stronger wind provided them with an opportunity to lash sledges together and raise improvised sails. This allowed for an increase in speed and they managed to cover greater distances for a several days. As they began to loose altitude it, became a little milder. On September 17th, a lone snow bunting was spotted flying nearby signalling they were approaching the edge of the ice. It was Balto who was first to cry out, "Land ahead!" At last, they could see bare land in the far distance. Then the main task was to carefully negotiate a way through the crevasses coming down from the interior. Whenever necessary, they would resort to using ropes and crampons whilst descending. On their way down, they all enjoyed drinking the cool meltwater now found on the surface of the ice relieving their permanent thirst of the past weeks. On September 24th, they finally stood on bare land, and two days later on the shore of Ameralik Fjord. It had taken 42 days to cross Greenland's icecap.
Otto Sverdrup standing next to the canvas boat they constructed before rowing to Godthaab. Photo courtesy: National Library of Norway
The final part of their journey
The final part of their journey required building a boat in order to reach Godthaab. So they cut down willow branches that they found growing and by used some of their bamboo ski poles and parts of their sledges to make a frame. They stretched what had been their tent floor over the frame and sewed the two together to make an unusually shaped boat 2.5 metres long by 1.5 metres wide (around 8 feet by 5 feet). They were then able to row along using oars they had also made. Unfortunately, the boat could only hold two people so Nansen and Sverdrup decided to row to Godthaab to obtain vessels and to return for the others and their equipment. Rowing down the Ameralik Fjord to their destination took them five days. As planned, the other four expedition members joined them.
Although relieved at having reached Godthaab and having finally completed such a dangerous journey, they were informed that the last ship leaving Greenland before the onset of winter, had already departed. The six adventurers were therefore forced to stay the winter amongst the Inuit community on the west coast. They lived with local families, went hunting and fishing and they all learnt how to kayak. During their months with their hosts, they were exposed to many aspects of everyday Inuit life which Nansen later turned into a book.
In the spring of 1889 they arrived back in Norway amidst much fanfare and fame. They became heroes in both Norway and beyond for being the first people to cross the interior of Greenland.
A map of their route across Greenland from Fridtjof Nansen's book of the expedition. Photo courtesy: The National Library of Norway.
For a full account of their extraordinary adventure read: 'The First Crossing of Greenland' by Fridtjof Nansen.
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About Roger Bunyan
I am a life-long mountain fanatic! I like wild and mountainous places and have enjoyed a range of experiences in the Swiss, French and Austrian Alps, East Africa, Transylvania, Norway, Russia and in the British Isles. Being a winter creature, I love to cross-country ski, walk and snow shoe. I have recently retired from teaching so I'm now able to spend even more time enjoying outdoor activities. In addition, I also have more time to write about them! Retirement is good.
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Bullz-Eye's TCA 2011 Winter Press Tour Wrap-Up: Kneel Before Oprah!
January 23, 2011 / Will Harris
The TCA Winter Press Tour is an event which never quite seems to live up to the TCA Summer Press Tour…but, then, that stands to reason, as the mid-season series rarely match the ones which hit the airwaves in the fall, right? Still, the experience never fails to be one which I enjoy, mostly because you never know what's going to be around the corner, and Day 1 really set the stage for that: during the course of 12 hours, I interviewed Betty White, Henry Rollins, and Bruce Jenner, and, thanks to National Geographic, I wore a giant snake around my neck. Not a bad way to begin things…
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Winter 2011 TCA Press Tour: 9 Memorable Moments from Day 9
For all of the panels that NBC-Universal offered us yesterday, none of them were really chock full of memorable quotes, so I thought I'd go a slightly different route with today's retrospective and just cite some of my favorite moments from throughout the course of the day…and if you think this is mostly just a way for me to avoid having to trudge through the transcripts, give yourself a hearty pat on the back. Give me a break: it's Day 9, and I'm very tired from arguing with Kara DioGuardi fans.
And on that note…
1. Bravo's "Platinum Hit" session
You've hopefully already read my open letter to Ms. DioGuardi about my disappointment with the way she handled the inevitable question about her departure from "American Idol," but that wasn't the only part about the panel that grated on my nerves. One of the other judges on this songwriting-competition series is Jewel, and…okay, first of all, let me acknowledge that I'm not really a Jewel fan and under threat of death wouldn't be able to come up with a more recent Jewel song than 2001's "Standing Still," but even when it comes to artists I do actively like, I don't enjoy it when they slip into braggadocio. After Jewel dropped these lines during the panel…
* "I was talking to Steven Spielberg…"
* "I bought my house from all my hits."
* "Bob Dylan took me under his wing when I was about 20. My first record was considered a failure, but he liked it and he was like, 'Don't sell out, don't change, don't start doing grunge, just do what you do, stay on the road, stay solo acoustic.' And I did because he believed in me. And Neil Young was the same way."
…I pretty much tuned out. I'm sure Jewel's a very talented songwriter, but as I walked away from the panel, it was more with the feeling that she's much more talented at namedropping.
2. Oxygen's session for "The Glee Project."
Actually, I couldn't tell you a thing that was said during the session. I was too busy looking at the mike girls – they bring you the microphones to ask questions, then take them to the next person when you're done – who were dressed in cheerleader outfits for the panel. Yeah, it's definitely time for me to get home to my wife…
3. Keith David talking about the development of his awesome voice during the panel for "The Cape."
"I was always a second tenor," said David. "I was never, you know, Alfalfa. But when about 13, and I was a singer before I was an actor, and all I could sing was loud, and certainly I came into this I came into that Alfalfa transition where all I could do…"
At this point, he switched into a wobbly voice… "is talk like that all the time."
Back to his regular voice. "And then something began to switch, and now I sound like I sound, you know. I'm grateful to be here because I do get a chance to use all you know, in the first episode, I say I'm using my stage voice. Well, you know, I mean, that was one of the when I read the script, that was one of the funniest moments for me because it's, like, when I'm auditioning for things, many times I'm told, 'Can you tone that down a little bit? Can you bring that back?' So this is one of the few times I'm not always told that. That's kind of nice."
4. The "Harry's Law" panel discussing the age of the show's star.
By the time someone asked about the fact that Kathy Bates is 60 years old, which is pretty elderly when you consider the demos that the broadcast networks tend to look for, she'd pretty well charmed most of the audience. First, she said she decided on doing the show because, in her character's first scene, "she had her feet up on the desk, she was smoking pot, and watching 'Bugs Bunny.' After that, I was in." Then, when asked if it was hard to sustain her character's grumpiness, she admitted, "I come naturally to that. Not to be flip, but I can be a naturally grumpy person…and adjusting to the long hours on the set helped that right along!"
When the topic of age was addressed, which series creator David E. Kelley took it in stride. "Not many networks have come to me recently and said, 'Can you give me a series with a 60-year-old lead?'" he admitted. "But I have to believe that, given the universe of 500-plus channels, there has to be room on the landscape for one. When we landed Kathy to play the character, (NBC) were beyond thrilled. You can say it's one thing to have a 60-year-old lead. It's quite another to have Kathy Bates as your lead. So they probably, with a grain of salt, said, 'Gee, do we want a series with an older actor?' But once it became Kathy, there was no hesitation whatsoever."
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A really #@#$# afternoon outside the MTV Movie Awards
June 7, 2010 / Bob Westal
I know, you all secretly envy the glamorous life of we entertainment writers. The high pay, the fast cars, the loose women, the expensive perks, the free bottled water — okay, it's only really the last of those that I've come to expect as a matter of course. That's especially the case when I'm in a red carpet line and expected to stand in direct sunlight on a very warm day for three hours waiting to talk to people of note who never stop by.
Yes, we entertainment writers do occasionally get free food and beverages in return for showing up to cover red carpets and press days and the like. It's all part of the PR machine and I suppose you could argue that sometimes it goes too far. However, most of it is is far from gourmet quality, very few of us are well paid, and if all takes to influence you to cover something positively rather than negatively is a free hoagie, some pasta salad, and a cupcake, integrity wasn't exactly your middle name to start with.
Still, if people are going to be forced to stand around outside on quite a hot day for close to three hours, quite literally risking a case of mild sunstroke (my mistake for not bringing a hat, I suppose — and thanks to the nice guy next to who allowed me to use his freebie sunblock), then providing access to water might be a good idea. No one I saw fainted or became ill, but no one around me seemed very happy either. Of course, what we all really wanted was a chance for some fun and shallow conversation with celebrities. Since I mainly cover movies, and this was, after all, the MTV Movie Awards, people somehow related to them would be nice. Television is good, too, though my knowledge is not as broad there. Reality television is something else again.
And this is part where I have to confess that I went to the MTV Movies Awards Red Carpet and I only got a few odd celebrity photos and two brief interviews with young and, I'm sure, quite skilled young actors who are anything but household names. Considering the huge crush of better known media outlets, I wasn't likely to get a moment with any genuine superstars — just, you know, someone. Okay, so Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, or Michael Cera or even Betty White or Zach Galifianakis or Ed Helms and Ken Jeong might be off the table, but, well, give me somebody or don't bother to put me there at all. I've got better things to do than to make celebrities feel important by trying to get pictures of them as they rush into the air-conditioned confines of Universal's Gibson Amphitheater.
Given the high ratio of big stars and the small number of mid-level personalities, interesting newcomers, or behind-the-camera talent, I had my suspicions early on. When I saw the costumed and photogenic young lady below, who turns out to ace celebrity stalker La Coacha, the "first protege" of Perez Hilton, I figured I'd better request a picture. It was just possible the attractive junior gossip hound would be the most famous person I'd meet. She was, as it turns out, definitely the prettiest.
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AskMen's Great Male Survey names the summer's best movie: "None."
July 23, 2009 / Jeff Giles
It's that time of year again, fellas — yes, AskMen.com has compiled the data for its annual Great Male Survey, crunched the numbers, and published the results. If you want to put your finger on the pulse of what dudes are thinking, look no further — and if you've been feeling like this year's crop of summer blockbusters is one of the least exciting to come out of Hollywood in recent memory, you can at least take solace in the knowledge that most of the guys who responded to the survey agree with you. Yes, it's sad but true: When asked to name the movie of the summer so far, 39 percent of respondents answered "None." Here's how it all broke down:
Q. What has been the best summer movie of 2009 to date?
39% – None
28% – Star Trek
21% – Transformers II
08% – X-Men Origins: Wolverine
04% – Terminator Salvation
Not exactly good news for the folks who depend on cash registers ringing at the cineplex — and it doesn't get any better for the rest of the summer, either. When asked to identify the film they were most eagerly anticipating, 26 percent of respondents answered "Public Enemies," whose generally lukewarm reviews and good-but-not-great box office returns have been something of a letdown for Universal. In second place, with 22 percent? That bastard "None."
Q. Which forthcoming summer 2009 movie are you most looking forward to?
26% – Public Enemies
18% – Bruno
18% – G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
16% – Inglourious Basterds
So guys aren't happy with what has been in theaters this summer, and they aren't happy about what's going to be in theaters — so where's the silver lining for Hollywood? Well, if you're in the network business, or worried about warding off the TV ratings drift toward streaming Web content, you'll be happy to know that although 75 percent of respondents listed their computer monitor as the screen they spend the most time in front of, 49 percent of them still watch their favorite TV series the old-fashioned way: Episode by episode, as it's broadcast live. You might be hearing about TiVo, Hulu, and TV on DVD all the time, but if the jump away from live TV is happening, it's occurring more slowly than you might think.
The worst news, as it turns out, is for the PR flacks that work for Barack Obama and Paris Hilton — the male and female celebs that respondents named as the public figures they're most tired of hearing about (although, to be fair, Obama tied with — you guessed it — "None"). Overexposure, plain old dislike, or blind button pushing? You decide — and make sure you check out the rest of the Great Male Survey to see what guys are thinking about cars, sports, and entertainment!
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