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William Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle,  (23 May 1909 – 5 April 1991), known as Lord De L'Isle and Dudley between 1945 and 1956, was a British Army officer, politician and Victoria Cross recipient who served as the 15th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1961 to 1965. He was the last non-Australian to hold the position.

Sidney was born into an aristocratic family and attended Eton College before going on to Magdalene College, Cambridge. He became a chartered accountant, but also joined the Territorial Army. During the Second World War, Sidney served with the Grenadier Guards in France and Italy; he was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1944 for his actions in the Battle of Anzio. He was elected to the House of Commons later that year, as a member of the Conservative Party.

In 1945, Sidney succeeded his father as Baron De L'Isle and Dudley, consequently being elevated to the House of Lords. He served as Secretary of State for Air from 1951 to 1955, under Winston Churchill, and was raised to the viscountcy in 1956. Lord De L'Isle became governor-general in 1961 on the recommendation of Robert Menzies, the Prime Minister of Australia. He served for just under four years with little controversy; as well as being the last British governor-general of Australia, he was also the last to wear the traditional vice-regal uniform.

Early life
Sidney was the younger of two children, and the only son, of William Sidney, 5th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley (19 August 1859 – 18 June 1945) and his wife, Winifred Agneta Yorke Bevan (d. 11 February 1959). He was a descendant of William IV by his mistress Dorothea Jordan. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge and became a chartered accountant. In 1929 he joined the Grenadier Guards Reserve of Officers.

Marriage and issue
Lord De L'Isle married Hon Jacqueline Corrine Yvonne Vereker (20 October 1914 – 15 November 1962), daughter of Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, on 8 June 1940. The couple had five children:

 Hon. Elizabeth Sophia (born 12 March 1941, died 3 February 2016), married 5 times, to George Silver Oliver Annesley Colthurst, to Sir Edward Humphry Tyrrell Wakefield, 2nd Bt., to Captain James Silvester Rattray of Craighall-Rattray, 28th of Rattray, to Andrew H. Lane Paneyko, and to Robert Samuel Clive Abel Smith.
 Hon. Catherine Mary (born 20 October 1942), married to Martin John Wilbraham, and then to Nicholas Hyde Villiers.
 Philip John Algernon, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle (born 21 April 1945)
 Hon. Anne Marjorie (born 15 August 1947), married to Lt.-Cdr. David Alexander Harries.
 Hon. Lucy Corinna Agneta (born 21 February 1953), married to Michael Willoughby, 13th Baron Middleton

After his wife's death, he married the widowed Lady Glanusk (née Margaret Shoubridge) on 24 March 1966 in Paris. They had no children.

War service
During the Second World War, Sidney fought in the Battle of France and the Italian Campaign. While serving as a company commander in the 5th Battalion, Grenadier Guards (itself part of 24th Guards Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division), he led a handful of men in the defence of the Anzio beachhead in February 1944, for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Sidney led a successful attack which drove German troops of the 147th Grenadier Regiment out of a gully. Later he led another counter-attack and dashed forward, engaging the Germans with his tommy gun at point-blank range, forcing a withdrawal. When the attack was renewed, Sidney and one guardsman were wounded and another killed, but he would not consent to have his wounds dressed until the Germans had been beaten off and the battalion's position had been consolidated. During this time, although extremely weak from loss of blood, he continued to encourage and inspire his men.

In later life, when asked where he had been shot, he would jocularly respond that he was shot in Italy. This was to conceal that he had been shot in the buttocks. The ribbon for the medal was made from one of his father-in-law Lord Gort's uniforms and was awarded by General Sir Harold Alexander, commanding the Allied Armies in Italy, on 3 March 1944 in Italy.

Political life
At a by-election in October 1944, he was elected unopposed to the House of Commons as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Chelsea. His father died in June 1945 and he succeeded as 6th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley, requiring translation to the House of Lords. He thus retired from the House of Commons prior to the July 1945 general election.

In 1951 he was appointed Secretary of State for Air under Winston Churchill and held that office until 1955. During this time he visited Australia, travelling to Woomera to examine weapons research and meeting the Prime Minister, Robert Menzies. In 1956 he was created Viscount De L'Isle, of Penshurst in the County of Kent.

Governor-General
Following the death in office of Lord Dunrossil in February 1961, Prime Minister Robert Menzies recommended De L'Isle as his military honours, aristocratic background, and political experience apparently made him, according to one author, Menzies' "vision of ideal governor-general material". De L'Isle was sworn in on 3 August 1961. He continued Dunrossil's revival of the full ceremonial vice-regal uniform, but would be the last governor-general to do so. De L'Isle faced no constitutional issues during his time in office; the Official Secretary throughout his term was Murray Tyrrell.

De L'Isle was the first governor-general since William McKell (1947–1953) to have children living at Yarralumla, and this made him popular with the general public. However, his wife fell ill in his first year of office, and died on 16 November 1962, aged 48. Despite this, he chose to continue in office until the expiry of Dunrossil's original five-year term in 1965. Two of his daughters, Catherine and Anne, acted as the official hostesses in place of their mother.

Retirement and death
By the time of his retirement in 1965, public opinion was strongly in favour of an Australian Governor-General, although this was not a reflection on his performance in the role. His continuing interest in Australia was shown by several visits after his retirement, the last for Australia's bicentenary in 1988 when he presented a bronze statue, which now stands in the grounds of Government House in Canberra.

In 1975 he co-founded what is now called The Freedom Association, a free-market campaign group opposed to the post-war consensus that played a prominent role in the Grunwick Dispute.

Viscount De L'Isle died in Kent on 5 April 1991 and was buried in the Sidney family vault at St John the Baptist, Penshurst. He was the last surviving Victoria Cross recipient who had been a member of both Houses of Parliament. He was succeeded in his titles by his only son, Philip.

Styles and honours

 The Honourable William Sidney (1909–30 March 1944)
 The Honourable William Sidney VC (30 March 1944 – 11 October 1944)
The Honourable  William Sidney VC MP 11 October 1944 – 18 June 1945)
 The Right Honourable The Lord De L'Isle and Dudley VC (18 June 1945 – 1951)
The Right Honourable The Lord De L'Isle and Dudley VC PC (1951–13 January 1956)
The Right Honourable The Viscount De L'Isle VC PC (13 January 1956 – 11 May 1961)
The Right Honourable The Viscount De L'Isle VC GCMG PC (11 May 1961 – 14 March 1963)
The Right Honourable The Viscount De L'Isle VC GCMG GCVO PC (14 March 1963 – 23 April 1968)
The Right Honourable The Viscount De L'Isle VC KG GCMG GCVO PC (23 April 1968 – 5 April 1991)

In 1965 De L'Isle succeeded his kinsman as ninth Baronet of Castle Goring.

He was appointed a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (KG) on 23 April 1968, becoming one of only two men ever to have held both the highest orders of gallantry and chivalry – the Victoria Cross and the Order of the Garter (the other being Field Marshal the Lord Roberts).

See also

 List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service

Notes

References

External links

Location of grave and VC medal

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1991 deaths
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British Secretaries of State
Secretaries of State for Air (UK)
British World War II recipients of the Victoria Cross
Viscounts De L'Isle
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Bobby Flay Just Explained The Real Difference Between Fresh And Dry Pasta
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By Emily Cappiello/Aug. 31, 2021 2:42 pm EST
Pasta is one of those dishes that you think you may have totally nailed. Come on, it's just a bit of boiling water, some salt, and some pasta, right?
Totally wrong.
While it may be hard to totally botch pasta (although we're sure it can be done!), there are so many ways to make your pasta dish that much better, says Greatist, like ensuring you use a pot that's big enough for the pasta to have its own space to boil in, paying attention to cooking times, salting it more than you think you should, and even saving a bit of pasta water and adding it to your sauce to help thicken it. These are all awesome, must-know tricks to help make your Italian staple taste better at home.
But, did you know that there is one thing that will really help make your pasta dish stand out? The actual noodles themselves. There are two kinds of pasta — fresh and dry — and the one you choose to use for your dish can impact everything, says this celebrity chef.
Bobby Flay explains the main difference between the two pasta types
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Luckily, we have the wise counsel of Bobby Flay to guide us in our pasta-making choices. The chef, who is known more for his Southwestern-style cuisine, had something to say about the difference between dry and fresh pasta. On his recent "Always Hungry" podcast, which he does with his daughter Sophie, Flay broke down this Italian specialty.
"Pasta, in general, is usually eggs and flour," he explains. "Those pastas that are going to be turned into dry pasta have semolina and water. No eggs. I don't know why, but I always feel like I want eggs in my pasta. I like the bite it gives."
But the real difference between fresh and dried pasta, notes Flay: "Fresh pasta is going to be a lot silkier and will have less substance to it, usually. It's silkier and it's luscious and that works in lots of different ways," he says, pointing out another difference. "Dried pasta takes longer to cook, most of the time, because it's dry. You can also flavor the fresh pasta, which I love — like squid ink."
However, fresh isn't always best, Flay cautions. "One's not better than the other, they're just very different. Just because it's fresh, doesn't mean it's better for a dish," he says. Flay says that some classic dishes, like spaghetti and meatballs and linguine with clam sauce, are better with dried pasta. But fresh pasta, he says, works better with a white truffle dish or something a bit lighter. Now that you know, you can create the best gourmet Italian dishes right at home.

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Current Status : Many thanks to a Wadebridge resident who contacted us in July 2015 to say that it was gifted to the Town Council when the Bristol & West branch closed. She kindly sent us a photo to show it in the foyer of the Town Hall.
Wadebridge in north Cornwall has a famous mediaeval packhorse bridge which spans the River Camel. It is over 230 feet long with seventeen arches. I modelled eleven arches of the bridge which ran in its full length right across the front of the office counter. We included a small cartouche with a quote from the 19th century art critic John Ruskin: 'When we build let us think that we build forever.' This was a very long mural to photograph in one picture. The photographs show sections of the long mural taken outside our studios.
It was originally located in the Bristol & West branch at 40-42 Molesworth Street in Wadebridge but it closed many years ago.


Right in the heart of Downtown Chicago, on Michigan Ave, otherwise known as the Magnificent Mile.
Check-in experience: There was a bit of a wait because there were only two staff working and we had a group of eight, all checking in separately. But once I got to the front of the queue, things were completed efficiently.
What's in the neighbourhood? High street and high-end shopping, plus all the impressive skyscrapers of Downtown Chicago, and walking distance to museums, restaurants and bars, the river and lake front.
Room: A King Suite on the sixth of 25 floors. The Omni is an all-suite hotel, meaning all rooms get a separate living area and bedroom, plus bathroom. It was spacious, but felt quite dark thanks to the colour scheme, which was majority brown.
View: My room looked out to the Magnificent Mile, so I could peer down at the city's hustle and bustle.
The bed: A super king, with lovely starchy linen and comfortable pillows.
Bathroom: Extra large but not a particularly good use of space. The shower was over a small bathtub crammed into one corner, with the toilet right next to it, leaving a huge amount of redundant space in the rest of the room. The bath would be too small to comfortably soak in — a better use of space would be to have a walk-in shower and ditch the bathtub altogether.
Toiletries: Omni Hotels' own brand, including a bottle of mouthwash — very welcome after a long day travelling.
Food and drink: 676, the on-site restaurant and bar, is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The restaurant gets its name from the fact that all ingredients on the menu originate no more than 676 miles from the hotel, making use of the excellent fresh produce in the Lake Michigan area. Charcuterie is cured on site, and there are beehives and vegetable gardens on the roof. Room service is available 24/7.
Exercise: A gym and swimming pool on the fifth floor, although I didn't make use of them.
Noise: There was a bit of street noise — sirens and the occasional car horn — as well as thin walls meaning I could hear my neighbour's alarm and shower running.
Special packages: For guests with children who love dolls, Omni has collaborated with the nearby American Girl store to create a very special — and slightly bizarre — experience.
American Girl dolls have been around for more than 30 years and are a popular (if not expensive) toy. Guests can book in with their children, who can bring their dolls, and the hotel will set up a tiny bed in the room for the doll, complete with tiny Omni-branded robe. At Christmas there's an even more excessive option: you can book the presidential suite, and the price includes a Rolls Royce ride to the American Girl store, and a private lunch with "Santa" in store. There really is something for every taste in America.
Would I return? Yes, for the location and the great in-house restaurant.


City leaders in St. Louis and Kansas City are the latest to fantasize that market manipulation can serve as a pathway to "economic justice". They want to raise the local minimum wage to $15 by 2020, following similar actions in Los Angeles, Oakland and Seattle. They will harm the lowest-skilled workers in these cities, not to mention local businesses, their own local economies and their own city budgets. Like many populists on the national level with a challenged understanding of market forces (such as Robert Reich), these politicians won't recognize the evidence when it comes in. If they do, they won't find it politically expedient to own up to it. A more cynical view is that the hike's gradual phase-in may be a deliberate attempt to conceal its negative consequences.
There are many reasons to oppose a higher minimum wage, or any minimum wage for that matter. Prices (including wages) are rich with information about demand conditions and scarcity. They provide signals for owners and users of resources that guide them toward the best decisions. Price controls, such as a wage floor like the minimum wage, short-circuit those signals and are notorious for their disastrous unintended (but very predictable) consequences. Steve Chapman at Reason Magazine discusses the mechanics of such distortions here.
The negative employment effects of a higher wage floor are greater if the employer cannot easily pass higher costs along to customers. That's why firms in highly competitive markets (and their workers) are more vulnerable. This detriment is all the worse when a higher wage floor is imposed within a single jurisdiction, such as the city of St. Louis. Bordering municipalities stand to benefit from the distorted wage levels in the city, but the net effect will be worse than a wash for the region, as adjustments to the new, artificial conditions are not costless. Again, it is likely that the least capable workers and least resourceful firms will be harmed the most.
The negative effects of a higher wage floor are also greater when substitutes for low-skilled labor are available. Here is a video on the robot solution for fast food order-taking. In fact, today there are robots capable of preparing meals, mopping floors, and performing a variety of other menial tasks. Alternatively, more experienced workers may be asked to perform more menial tasks or work longer hours. Either way, the employer takes a hit. Ultimately, the best alternative for some firms will be to close.
Proponents of a higher minimum wage often cite a study from 1994 by David Card and Alan Krueger purporting to show that a higher minimum wage in New Jersey actually increased employment in the fast food industry. Tim Worstall at Forbes discussed a severe shortcoming of the Card/Krueger study (HT: Don Boudreaux): Card and Krueger failed to include more labor-intensive independent operators in their analysis, instead focusing exclusively on employment at fast-food chain franchises. The latter were likely to benefit from the failure of independent competitors.
Another common argument put forward by supporters of higher minimum wages is that economic theory predicts positive employment effects if employers have monopsony power in hiring labor, or power to influence the market wage. This is a stretch: it describes labor market conditions in very few localities. Of course, any employer in an unregulated market is free to offer noncompetitive wages, but they will suffer the consequences of taking less skilled and less experienced hires, higher labor turnover and ultimately a competitive disadvantage. Such forces lead rational employers to offer competitive wages for the skills levels they require.
Some of the same issues are highlighted by the Show-Me Institute, a Missouri think tank, in "Minimum Wage Increases Not Effective at Fighting Poverty".
A higher minimum wage is one of those proposals that "sound good" to the progressive mind, but are counter-productive in the extreme. The cities of St. Louis and Kansas City would do well to avoid market manipulation that is likely to backfire.


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La ermita de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios es un templo ubicado en el municipio de Zamora (Castilla y León, España).

Origen
Próxima a la antigua ermita de Santa María de los Olleros o de la Vega, y ubicada como ésta en el arrabal o puebla del mismo nombre, la ermita de los Remedios se conoce desde el siglo XII. Su datación precisa es difícil dado que su estructura se
encuentra empotrada en el convento de las Hermanas de la Caridad. Por otro lado, al igual que otras iglesias zamoranas, sufrió alteraciones importantes a lo largo del siglo XVIII.

Descripción

Se trata de una iglesia de planta basilical de tres naves con restos de pilares cruciformes lo que puede indicar su posible abovedamiento original. De la antigua fábrica románica conserva el aparejo del muro meridional y la típica cornisa de canecillos que recuerdan a otros templos coetáneos y a la Catedral. En el lado sur, la antigua portada cegada permite la observación de lo que pudo ser el arranque de un arco de medio punto doblado. La ermita de los Remedios está vinculada a la romería de la Hiniesta y también a la denominada Cruz del rey don Sancho.

Planta

Se han identificado 8 signos de 5 tipos diferentes, todos ellos de diseño sencillo de 1 a 3 trazos, con predominio de trazo recto y perfil normal sin terminaciones.
Su diseño corresponde a un tipo común a muchos templos de etapa constructiva del románico, ver informe "Etapas históricas".

Uso actual

Su uso actual se reduce a celebraciones religiosas puntuales. Se incluye en la demarcación parroquial de San Lázaro y su cuidado está encomendado a la Comunidad de las Hijas de la Caridad.

Enlaces externos
 Historia y proceso de restauración de las pinturas murales de la ermita

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Ermitas de la provincia de Zamora
Monumentos de Zamora
Diócesis de Zamora
Arquitectura románica en la provincia de Zamora


We're having a record heat wave down here in L.A. and so I decided to go to the beach on my day off.
I thought it was a great idea until I got on the 405 and spent an hour in traffic at 11:30 in the morning. There is always a little pain with the gain in L.A.
So I finally ended up at the Santa Monica pier (along with the other tourists) and parked my car for $6.
I walked all the way down from Santa Monica to Venice. It took about an hour but there was good people watching.
If Santa Monica is like your rich old aunt who likes to wear a lot of perfume, Venice is like your creepy homeless uncle who smokes medical marijuana.
The 8th picture... they sell THE. BEST. potatoes. ever.
I experienced so much growing at venice beach. I lusted. I loved. I lost. I lived.
Now I just miss. And reminisce.


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Topics:3G, Andimuthu Raja, BSNL, DoT, Policy, Telecom Operators
Raja Speak: BSNL Listing, No Merger; 3G Auction-Inaction; Rs. 0.10 Local Call
The re-appointed minister of IT and Communications, Andimuthu Raja is in the news again, for making some revolutionary promises (or so we hope):
3G Auction By The End Of The Year
Raja may as well have commented on the medias unhealthy obsession with all things 3G; the Hindu reports that he chose to suggest that the 3G auctions will take place before the end of the year, within two months of a clearance from the Group of Ministers (GoM) or the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA).
That's rather vague, and going by what happened last year, any deadline can (and probably will) change, given the machinations of lobbying. Public sector telecom operators MTNL and BSNL already have 3G services operational, but the response has been muted. That said, 3G could well serve as an entry point for new telecom operators, and more money for the telecom sector. Infrastructure service providers will benefit most.
BSNL Listing & No Merger with MTNL
Raja has said that the government wants to list BSNL, and he has told the BSNL management to speak to the trade unions, reports Business Standard.
BSNL had considered listing last year – at that time, rumored to be a $100 Billion listing – but was met with significant opposition from trade unions, who wouldn't even accept being given shares of the entity. Now that the communist parties are no longer in government, and the fact that listing of profitable PSUs was a part of the Congress Party manifesto, there is hope for listing BSNL. Interestingly, Raja has ruled out a BSNL-MTNL merger. In our opinion, a merger between BSNL and MTNL can only take place if BSNL lists and its valuation is determined by the open market. The listing is a precursor to the merger.
Tariff: Down, Down, Down, Down…
Much to the chagrin of Telecom Operators, Raja wants lower tariffs. So does everyone, but how low can we go (with tariffs)? New telecom operators are spending on rollouts, and lower tariffs will only put their viability into question. However, the Telecom Minister expects these very operators to drive down tariffs; PTI reports that Raja is eying tariffs as low as Rs. 0.10 for a local call, Rs. 0.25 for an STD call. If that happens, also expect declining ARPUs and Revenue Per Minute (RPM).
The minister also suggested that within five years, one will have paper-less governance at the "taluk" (block) level, as part of national e-governance plan. He apparently forgot to mention his plan for 50 million broadband connections.
— Editorial: How India's Telecom And I&B Ministers Need To Approach Convergence
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Baltimore Magazine's Janelle Erlichman Diamond reached out to me to represent my Dining Dish blog, to be part of their holiday potluck entertaining story for the November issue. Nothing too gourmet, something everyone would enjoy. Two other food bloggers were asked to donate food for the potluck, both friends, very talented friends, Kathy Patterson (minxeats.com) and Kit Pollard (mangoandginger.blogspot.com).


NYJ TD 12 yard pass from Mark Sanchez to Jeremy Kerley. (Nick Folk extra point is good). 6:02 Time Remaining. (8 plays, 61 yards. Time of Drive: 3:49).
NYJ TD 33 yard pass from Mark Sanchez to Stephen Hill. (Nick Folk extra point is good). 14:53 Time Remaining. (5 plays, 52 yards. Time of Drive: 2:31).
NYJ TD 68 yard punt return by Jeremy Kerley. (Nick Folk extra point is good). 12:40 Time Remaining.
BUF TD 56 yard run by C.J. Spiller. (Rian Lindell extra point is good). 9:06 Time Remaining. (7 plays, 80 yards. Time of Drive: 3:34).
NYJ FG 25 yards by Nick Folk. 1:57 Time Remaining. (15 plays, 73 yards. Time of Drive: 7:09).
NYJ FG 39 yards by Nick Folk. 0:12 Time Remaining. (7 plays, 32 yards. Time of Drive: 1:24).
NYJ TD 40 yard interception return by Antonio Cromartie. (Nick Folk extra point is good). 13:41 Time Remaining.
NYJ TD 17 yard pass from Mark Sanchez to Stephen Hill. (Nick Folk extra point is good). 9:38 Time Remaining. (4 plays, 48 yards. Time of Drive: 2:10).
BUF TD 5 yard pass from Ryan Fitzpatrick to Scott Chandler. (Rian Lindell extra point is good). 4:26 Time Remaining. (9 plays, 77 yards. Time of Drive: 5:12).
BUF TD 6 yard pass from Ryan Fitzpatrick to Donald Jones. (Rian Lindell extra point is good). 7:57 Time Remaining. (13 plays, 96 yards. Time of Drive: 6:14).
BUF TD 29 yard pass from Ryan Fitzpatrick to Stevie Johnson. (Rian Lindell extra point is good). 5:58 Time Remaining. (5 plays, 41 yards. Time of Drive: 0:54).
NYJ TD 1 yard run by Shonn Greene. (Nick Folk extra point is good). 1:17 Time Remaining. (8 plays, 49 yards. Time of Drive: 4:41).


The Cul De Sac From Hell – Stories From Off The Grid.
Sounds strangely similar to my property line AND my neighbor lady saying it's different than her line.
We went to the recorder's office and got all of the documents we thought would be pertinent and went over them with a fine tooth comb and checked dates. It's hard to read the legal descriptions but they have the goods. We measured a couple of crucial distances, the first being the distance in feet from the post he claims is the direct center of all four plots and along the property line to the edge of our property. It matched up perfectly when we measured it. Even pacing, it was within a foot of tolerance of what is described as our PRIVATE property NOT subject to the easement. Then we measured the easement itself from it's legally described middle point to the end and it also matched up perfectly to what is in place now.
The sad part is that our neighbors have immediately created an environment of friction.


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For the first time in three summers I attended the Jackson (Michigan) Civil War Muster last weekend. The intent of this posting is to convey how I perceive re-enacting in general and this event in particular have changed, and ways – in my experience – they've remained the same.
What's different? Anyone familiar with Civil War re-enacting in the last decade will attest that the hobby is in a lull. Many that took up the hobby in the 1980s "aged out" of it at the end of the Civil War Sesquicentennial in 2015. The number of younger folks coming into re-enacting has dwindled. Starting out in the hobby is expensive: a brand-new reproduction rifle musket can retail for $1,200. Nowadays many demands are made on young peoples' time, to say nothing of their penchant for passing the hours in front of a computer screen. Finally, the rise of new dimensions of re-enacting, particularly the World War II-era, has diverted people from channeling their energies into Civil War re-enacting.
The bottom line is, around the country dozens of small re-enactments, and not a few larger ones, have disappeared forever. Any number of re-enacting clubs have disbanded, while the membership of surviving ones has shrunk. It is now common for a handful of soldiers belonging to several different clubs to be "amalgamated" at events. At first glance it might appear that Civil War re-enacting itself is passing into history!
There's no denying these realities. Despite them, I believe what I saw at Jackson this year means my hobby will hang on, albeit in a more concise form than before. Numbers were down, but the Jackson Muster still drew enough soldiers, cavalrymen and artillerists for battles and exhibitions of camp life. As ever it featured "historical presenters" whose first-person talks by figures like Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln drew crowds of visitors seeking to be better informed about issues of Civil War times. During battles the hillside viewing stand was less heavily populated than before, but there were still hundreds of spectators.
A unique and enjoyable experience for me was helping a friend fulfill her longstanding dreams of taking part in the muster as both a soldier and as a lady. She did a good job of picking up basic infantry maneuvers during morning battalion drill, and was a stalwart in the ranks in the course of the afternoon's battle. (Even though it was a Union defeat.) In the evening she learned several period dances, taking part in them with grace and aplomb.
The opportunity to do things like these, and to educate others about this important period in American history, are the reasons why, after 25 years, I remain committed to Civil War re-enacting.
Was happy to take part. Thanks for the shout out!
Your participation provided a unique dimension to my experience of Jackson Muster '17. I hope you will feel moved to take part in the future.


My slow response means that some of the 'news' is caught in a time-warp - the time sensitive nature of some things creates a parallel universe of reality but whenever I read them, they are equally interesting and sometimes the reflective quality adds nuance.
Joel has kept me replete with Dylan paraphenalia since his 75th birthday, earlier this year. I was one of the delighted by the Nobel Prize award! But like a good tune, I have been taken on a ride, re-evaluating the nature of awards and what being part of the establishment means. Fun to read this early article.
What can I say. We are all in the throes of 24 election news coverage and Ginsberg had it covered back in '95.
And the Nation! One of the things I miss about leaving NYC is not getting the Nation. It's amazing and ridiculous to think that the Editor and I were both Editor-in-Chief of the same school paper, in consecutive years! She edits the Nation: I get snail mail with clippings from her paper and I blog.


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The Eagles Did Themselves No Favors With Carson Wentz Contract Structure
By Liam McKeone | Nov 24, 2020, 3:06 PM EST
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Carson Wentz has undergone a stunning transformation at quarterback. This time last year, he was comfortably seated as the signal-caller of both the near and far future for the Philadelphia Eagles. Fast forward 12 months, and just about everybody is demanding the Eagles bench Wentz and start literally anybody else, ideally 2020 second-round pick Jalen Hurts.
That might feel like a bit of an overreaction if you're only a casual viewer of NFL football, but he really has been that bad. Wentz has thrown 14 touchdowns and 14 interceptions in 10 games this season. He's lost four fumbles on top of that. He ranks near the bottom of all statistical measures compared to other quarterbacks this season. The Eagles are 3-6-1 in what is, by far, the worst division in football. I can't tell you what happened, but this isn't the same player who was an MVP candidate three years ago.
That is a rather significant problem for the organization because they gave Wentz a contract that assumed he would be near that MVP level for the foreseeable future. And they did not give themselves an easy way out if the worst possible outcome came to fruition, which kind of feels like the outcome they currently find themselves in. If the Eagles traded or cut Wentz during the 2020 season, as some are already calling for, his dead cap hit would be an astounding $77 million. That is over a third of the current maximum salary cap at $222 million.
So obviously they won't do that. They'll ride with Wentz this season, for better or worse. But is trading Wentz or cutting him outright a possibility in the near future? Kind of! After the 2021 season, the Eagles can cut the former No. 2 overall pick for "only" $24 million. That is still a lot of money and Philly would be in dire financial straits if that happened, considering they currently are slated to have a cap number of $187 million in 2022. Cutting Wentz would bump that number up to over $200 million, and that's before you take into account that players like Miles Sanders and Andre Dillard (who is out for the year but believed to be the left tackle of the future in Philly) will want big new contracts by then. The salary cap will probably stay around $220 million for the next few years as the league attempts to handle the financial impact of the global pandemic.
But would that even be worth it? Wentz isn't the only one with a big cap hit in 2022. Fletcher Cox will cost the Eagles $23 million against the cap that year. Darius Slay comes in at $19 million, Brandon Brooks at $17 million, Javon Hargrave at $15 million, and Lane Johnson at $14 million. Those can be lessened with some weird cap maneuvering that no fan could hope to understand, like converting salary to signing bonuses, but that will only make a marginal difference in the grand scheme of it. These players are all key pieces of the team, so the Eagles won't be cutting any of them outright. Things do change quickly in the NFL, but Philadelphia is not in a position to have money to spend if they get rid of Wentz. That money is taken up anyway.
They could cut Wentz after next year anyway and just deal with the fact that they'll have very little cap room that season, hoping for the best in the following ones. But unless they want to launch into a full-scale rebuild, that probably won't be the path the franchise takes. His cap hit in 2022 will be $31 million if he stays on the roster and $24 million if he doesn't, so they'd only save $7 million. It's more likely they wait until 2023. That year, Wentz will have a cap hit of $36 million if he's on the roster but will only cost $15 million if he's cut or traded, saving the Eagles $21 million. That's a bit easier for the front office to deal with, and it's so far off in the future at this point that the team could look entirely different as far as their financials go.
But the fact that we're talking about the Eagles maybe getting themselves out of this contract three years from now is not good at all. They loaded up his dead cap numbers to help manipulate their cap sheet and let them keep pricey veterans around Wentz during what they viewed as contending years. All that careful planning goes right out the window if he suddenly stinks, and that is exactly what has happened this year.
Like it or not, the Eagles are stuck with Wentz for at least the next two seasons. By then, the members of their heralded defensive line that helped drive them to a Super Bowl will be far out of their prime. Regardless of whether or not Wentz is on the roster, Philly has no cap maneuverability to help bolster other parts of the team. The only path available to take in the near future is hope that Wentz remembers how to play football well and the rookies selected in 2020 and 2021 can help fill in the gaps. Otherwise, this is how the Eagles will look for a while.


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Muldoon into Last 4 of Euros
by David Caulfield on June 15, 2011
Vincent Muldoon continued his excellent progress in the European Snooker Championship with two 5-2 victories ensuring his passage through to the semi-finals.
The Galway potter, who studies and practices in NUI Maynooth, outplayed countryman Robert Murphy in the last 16 to put an end to his fellow Irishman's quest for a Main Tour place.
In the quarter-finals, Muldoon failed to find his top form and looked in deep trouble when, at 2-0 behind, his opponent Bobby Cruickshanks needed only the brown to open up what could have been an insurmountable three frame cushion.
However, the Scot rattled the brown in the jaws of the green pocket and Muldoon cleared to the black to mount his charge to the winning line.
Two breaks over 70 put a slight gloss on the performance but he will need to up his game if he has aspirations of making it beyond the last four, where he will meet top seed Martin O'Donnell.
The 25 year-old Englishman came from 3-1 behind against Scott Donaldson – Irish cueist Martin McCrudden's nemesis in the last 32 – to sneak a 5-4 triumph with a 50 break in the decider.
In the bottom half of the draw, two Welshman fought their way through the opposition.
Indeed, Daniel Wells and Lee Walker made light work of the challenges they faced in the quarter-finals with both securing a brace of 5-1 victories over Adam Duffy and Kevin van Hove respectively.
With all four remaining players coming from either Britain or Ireland, it is perhaps a little disappointing that some of the other continental European contingent could not put up a bigger challenge this year.
That said, the quality is very high. Of the four semi-finalists, only O'Donnell has never contested the professional Main Tour and will surely be desperate to win the event, therefore sealing the final available spot for next season.
However, experience may come into the equation with Lee Walker, in particular, boasting a quarter-final appearance at the World Championship in the past – although that was a significant 14 years ago.
22 year-old Wells is already assured of his place on the Main Tour for 2011/12 having topped the Welsh rankings which may reduce the tension as he looks to win what he hopes will be the last amateur championship he competes in.
Coverage of the semi-finals and the final over the next two days can be viewed by clicking here. All three matches should be streamed live via that link.
Daniel Wells, Lee Walker, Martin O'Donnell, Vincent Muldoon


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Home > Municipality News > Career Expo for the unemployed.
Career Expo for the unemployed.
November 17, 2017 in Where We Govern
The vision of the Oudtshoorn municipality is to build a strong community that strives to improve the quality of life for all its residents in a sustainable manner. It's precisely for this reason that the DA lead municipality decided to provide a "career Expo for the areas unemployed youth.
The Expo was attended by hundreds of young people from the community including scholars, matriculants, unemployed youth and parents. More than 23 organisations and government departments were on hand to offer advice and opportunities.
The Expo is a program that focusses matriculants and unemployed youth from the Greater Oudtshoorn area. Part of the program aims to create a platform for interaction between young people, educational institutions and government departments.
Various career opportunities within these organisations are profiled and career advise provided.
Executive Mayor Colan Sylvester, has said on many occasions that one of the municipalities goals is to assist the youth to rise above their circumstances and make a success of their lives. As such the municipality also provides bursaries and is raising funds to expand its educational assistance to the youth in the region.
The Executive Mayor welcomed the participation of all role players at the Career Expo and said it was an indication that the youth really wanted to follow their dreams.
Municipality settles Eskom debt with the aid of the financial recovery plan
Midvaal hosts American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL)


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1946: Bruno Tesch and Karl Weinbacher, Zyklon-B manufacturers
3 comments May 16th, 2017 Headsman
On this date in 1946, British hangman Albert Pierrepoint hanged seven German war criminals at Hameln Prison.
These seven comprised two distinct groups charged in two very different misdeeds:
Karl Eberhard Schöngarth and four others hanged for executing a downed Allied pilot in 1944.
Bruno Tesch and Karl Weinbacher were executed for a critical support role in the Holocust: they were principles of the chemical manufacturer Testa, which sold Zyklon-B to the Reich for use in the gas chambers.
Zyklon was just a brand hame ("Cyclone")
Hydrogen cyanide had been employed as a legitimate pesticide and de-lousing agent for many years before World War II. Because of its danger, the odorless deadly gas was sold spiced with an odorant to alert humans accidentally exposed to it.
Tesch and Weinbacher had their necks stretched because they were shown to have knowingly sold this product sans odor, reflecting Testa's complicity in its intended use upon humans. (A third Testa employee was acquitted, having inadequate knowledge of the firm's operations.)
1920: Maria Bochkareva, Russian Joan of Arc - 2012
1946: The Nuremberg Trial War Criminals
1946: Ten at Hameln for killing Allied POWs
1943: Eight from the Krasnodar Trials
1946: The Neuengamme camp war criminals
1945: The Belsen war criminals
1948: The condemned from the Doctors' Trial
1945: Three German war criminals
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It was the best of intentions. It was the worst of intentions.
As the 19th century gave way to the 20th, the forefathers' standard means of dispatching an evildoer — a length of rope or a shot of lead — were under re-examination by a technophilic nation convinced its science could find a way to kill a man without inconveniencing him.
The first great American contribution — if you can call it that — to the the art of killing me softly was the electric chair, and its debut did not impress everyone.
Out west, grossed out by electrocution and inspired by the pestilent fogs that had lately enveloped World War I trenches, the Nevada legislature cottoned to the brainchild of one Dr. Allen McLean Hamilton to say it with cyanide.
Unfortunately, the logistics of billowing a plume of lethal gas directly into the prisoner's cell to take the condemned asleep and unawares — another ostensible mercy that would have opened a path towards a Japan-like system of perpetual apprehension followed by sudden execution — proved insoluble; so, they had to build a little airtight room and give the procedure all the familiar ceremonial trappings.
That little airtight room was used for the first time ever on this date in 1924.
Its occupant was Gee Jon, a Chinese-born resident of San Francisco's Chinatown who had gunned down a member of a rival tong in the railroad town of Mina not far from the California border.
A minute or two after the sodium cyanide pellets hit the sulphuric acid to release a toxic cloud of hydrogen cyanide gas, Gee Jon fell unconscious. He remained in the chamber, shrouded in gas, for half an hour to make sure: later, the apparatus improved with the addition of a stethoscope to enable a doctor to declare death from outside the cell.
Good enough for government work.
The gas chamber would win a fair following in the American South and West, notably California.
However, the gas chamber's questionable "humaneness" — including some stomach-churning dying panics by suffocating prisoners, and the paranoia of prison staff that a leak in the seals could give them a snort of HCN — never matched the dream of the zipless kill, and the Zyklon-B associations Nazis later provided did not boost public relations. With the onset of the (seemingly) more humane and (definitely) much cheaper method of lethal injection, the gas chamber vanished from the scene in the 1990's.
Though it still remains a backup option in Arizona, California, Maryland, Missouri and Wyoming, next month will mark a full ten years since the most recent — and quite possibly last ever — gassing.
1943: Lepa Radic, Yugoslav Partisan - 2020
1723: Charles Weaver, John Levee, Richard Oakey and Matthew Flood - 2019
1804: Ann Hurle, forger - 2018
1943: The five martyrs of the lycee Buffon - 2017
1721: William Spigget, after peine forte et dure - 2016
1527: Georg Wagner - 2015
1844: Hester Foster and William Young Graham - 2014
1804: Little Harpe and Peter Alston, Mississippi pirates - 2013
1942: Icchok Malmed - 2012
1924: The first electrocutions in Texas - 2011
1910: George Reynolds and John Williams - 2010
1587: Mary, Queen of Scots - 2008
1936: Rainey Bethea, America's last public hanging
1936: Bruno Richard Hauptmann, The Most Hated Man in the World
1979: John Spenkelink, the harbinger
1977: Hamida Djandoubi, Madame Guillotine's last kiss
1943: Sue Logue, George Logue and Clarence Bagwell
1933: Giuseppe Zangara, who is not on Sons of Italy posters
1878: John Kehoe, king and last of the Molly Maguires
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Learning How to Operate a Martial Arts School - Ricardo Almeida (E25)
Passionate martial arts instructors sometimes struggle with the idea of running their school like a business--doesn't that make the passion less pure? In this episode, Ricardo Almeida explains why it's crucial to look at your martial arts school as business, and how to do so without sacrificing the quality of the martial arts being taught.
Ricardo Almeida is a fourth-degree black belt under Renzo Gracie, an ADCC medalist, a veteran of the UFC, PRIDE FC, and other major promotions. He is the owner and head instructor at Ricardo Almeida BJJ.
Episode Transcript:
Eliot Marshall:
Ricardo, thanks for coming on, man. How are you?
Ricardo Almeida:
Pleasure to be here, man. Thank you so much for having me.
Eliot:
I've been looking forward to talking to you about this stuff. Because I know when... I can remember the day [Amal 00:00:13] came back from your school, which is where he started to get more focused on this business side of our schools. I remember he had a life-changing experience. So I've been very excited to talk to you about it.
Ricardo:
No way, man. I learned so much from Amal. I think there was one time all you guys came down, you, [Finny 00:00:35], a bunch of the guys, and... One of the brothers that had a really good, Nick, I think it was. He a really [crosstalk 00:00:41]
Nick Flynn.
Had a couple of you guys came down, and then I've always learned so much from, Amal. He's always been so sharp on the back end, or sharp on the mats too, but also sharp on the back end of what happens at the school. I learned from him probably as much as he would tell you that he saw [inaudible 00:01:02]
I think sometimes people hear this word, the business end of your school, and they start to get like uh(negative), like I don't run a business. Where do you think that idea comes from especially in the jiu-jitsu field, that idea that "running your business" is not good? Don't run a business.
To be honest when someone would say something like that I think that they're a white belt, or no belt as far as running your school. Because there's always the idea that if you really love jiu-jitsu you'll teach it out of your garage, or your basement, and then you won't charge students, and you do it out of your goodwill, and that's fine. Some people can think that way, but I think that if you really love to jiu-jitsu, and if you want to serve as many people as possible, when you're really good at what you do, and you have a plan of continue to get better at serving people and bringing people in, and serving as many people as possible, then you have your name on the lease, or you have a name on a mortgage, and you have a big name on the sign, and there's deadlines to be met, and there's rent to be paid, and there's all sorts of things going on. It's the same thing with anyone. Who makes a better car, the guy who's building cars out of his garage, or Tesla, or BMW, or any of these companies?
And that's not to say there is no space for the guy in the garage. That's a custom, one person collector edition, that's okay. But my goal has always been to serve as many people as possible. And to be honest, man, it's a selfish goal, because I know that the best way to get better at jiu-jitsu is to train with as many people as possible. And my best way to get better instructors is to teach as many people as possible. So in some ways I'm selfish, but in some ways it's a symbiotic relationship between the amount of people you serve, the amount of change corners that you're going to have, the amount of problems that you're going to have to solve, and that makes you better at providing a great experience for everyone.
I think there's always, if you don't have that duality existing, I think you're blowing it. I do everything I do for myself, first of all, but then everything I do seems to happen. I do it for other people, but it fills my cup up so much, it makes me so happy. So is it just altruism? No. And is it just the opposite of altruism, and just giving away? No. You got to find that middle ground, which is what I think our schools need to be as well.
1000%.
So when you started your school, well, first of all, when did you start your school?
So my school started by accident, man. I moved here to teach at the hands of Gracie Academy. He was opening a school in Philadelphia, and he had a scumbag pawner that he found out that this guy was taking stuff that wasn't his, and he ended up breaking up with pawner. And he closed his Philadelphia school down, and I had no where to teach. The New York positions were all filled, so one of the guys that was a former student at this Philly school said, hey Ricardo, I have a friend who has a gym. You want to start a racquetball court? Just how we all started.
I started at this racquetball court, and I was there for a while, while I was still fighting. And then I moved the school to a legitimate location, and that's I think around the time that... I knew Amal back from Brazil, but once the school started growing, and I had my name on the lease, and I was more serious then some owners serious as Amal, wanted to come and see what we were doing, and we just exchanged ideas.
And at the time also [Feitosa 00:05:00] came down a lot too, and we exchanged a lot of ideas, and it was a pretty cool time to be a jiu-jitsu then. It is really cool time now, but we're all just trying to figure out what the traditional martial arts guys have figured out a long time ago, how to serve more people? And I think that for sure a lot of how we see the landscape of Brazilian jiu-jitsu nowadays has to do with our mindset changing from the fight club mentality, to I think as we got older having schools that our own kids and families will want to feel like they want to be in, and people, students, families wanting to come in. And it was no longer that place that people went to, nobody knew what happened. It was just like a really cool place as if... Some of the people that go to the yoga practice decided to do a fight club, that's what the jiu-jitsu schools became.
As they should be, right? Because, we don't need that anymore, that fight club mentality. Even the mentality, I feel like it's very important that jiu-jitsu schools lose the mentality of, when a visitor comes to the school it's unnecessary to feed them to the monsters. I want them to have skillful training. I want them to have good training, a good time, and not be like, oh my God, they beat the fuck out of me, or something like that. Those times are gone. We proved jiu-jitsu already, fight club's gone. We hopefully are moving past those days.
But always be ready to dish all the beating if it's [inaudible 00:06:35].
If it's necessary, yes.
I feel bad because sometimes guys will come from other schools, and my school is mostly recreational guys. The girls they train in a completely separate class. And sometimes I'll get guys that come in and bro, these guys look like they trying to get ready for a tournament, train with a mom, you know what I mean? Or some recreational girl that trains at my school. And then if somebody shows up, and they're not sensitive enough to understand that at the end of the recreational practice, and they want to act like a fool, then one of the fools will take care of that.
Yes, [crosstalk 00:07:11].
I'm open arms when people come into my school. We do have uniforms. Everyone in my school wears all uniforms. But if a visitor comes, wear your own uniform, and wear are your armor? You know what I mean? You a samurai too, just like we are. You wear your armor in our school. I don't make people wear my uniform if they just coming in for a visit. Then if they [inaudible 00:07:31] that's just my perspective. But if they become members, then you have them wear the uniform just like any private school.
When you think about some of the greatest obstacles that you've had in running your school, first of all, what were they?
I think the hardest thing man, it's getting people through the door. I think most jiu-jitsu schools would find that if you can get people through the door, and you could give them a positive experience on the mats, then they go from, oh, maybe I can do this, or I know I could do this, it's amazing. I've never felt anything like it, I want to do this. It's just, we still have a stigma. People watch the UFC and they have a remote in one hand, and maybe a beer in the other hand, and man, that looks really cool, it's awesome, but I don't want to do that. So a lot of people think that what we do at the jiu-jitsu school, even if you take away the punches, it's still pretty intense for most people.
So I think every martial arts school would love to have more people coming in through the door. I think that's the first, top of the funnel, for lack of a better way to describe it. And then the other huge bottleneck man is white to blue belt. I think that the schools that are thriving are the schools that have gotten very good at getting someone from white belt to blue belt. And because, from day one man, they're off to the races, they're on their own. The schools that have a difficult time is the schools that people are getting hurt, or people are getting skin infections, or it's dirty, or there's a bunch of people, or the environment is not super strong and nurturing to facilitate growth for someone that's just getting started. It's a little bit too intense perhaps. Something like a basic thing of having a beginner's class, and an advanced class, and a kid's class, and an adult class, so throwing everyone in the mix, maybe that's what it is, but [crosstalk 00:09:48]
How'd you overcome that obstacle? The going from white to blue? Because I think that's a huge one for a lot of people because, it's like, oh, they're here, and now they train. So what were some of the things that you've done with your school to help people get from white to blue?
My mentor who taught me a lot about running a professional martial arts school, and all you guys might've visited his school together, it's Thomas Clifford. So Ricardo, all right, you have in jiu-jitsu there's this performance mindset that everyone that gets to a blue belt needs to be able to go defend their blue belt in a tournament and look okay. Let's just start off of that. You would like every one of your blue belts, that just got their blue belts to go to a blue belt tournament, at their age, and-
Weight, to be able to do okay, hold their own. It's like a measure. And Tom Clifford Kyoshi, he would just say, Ricardo, how about if 10 people were joining a school, 10 are going to become blue belts. One is going to be the best, one is going to be the worst. And maybe one or two of them can go to a tournament and just hold their own. And the rest of them are just recreational practitioners, that their goals are different. They want to maybe just learn enough self-defense so that they feel confident, or maybe that you want to get to a certain level of fitness that they couldn't achieve participating in other group activities. I've truly embraced that man. I looked at certain students that I've promoted to maybe a blue belt, or purple belt, the brown belt, and even black belt. I know that their performance level when we talk about an IBJJF competition, they'd be able to go out and hold their own in a bracket, the age and weight, they would not be able to hold their own, and I'm perfectly fine with that.
There's a lot of times when instructors are younger. They hold that in their head, and hold students in belts too long. I know that my guys they're supposed to be competitors, and they going to be solid. And I know my guys they are not supposed to be competitors. I've got to be solid for their own potential. And I love having them on the mat, and I consider it being a privilege to teach them. And they've brought me other students who were champions, they brought me other students who were not champions. And they brought their family members to the school, and they are a big part of the academy just as much as the guys that compete, if that answers your question.
That 100% answers the question in the sense of just the mentality shift that you have to have first of all. So second of all, are there some specific things that you did? How did you go about, and I know you're big on the stripe system. We got the belt stripe thing from you, you showed that to us. So that was one of the things that you did promoting people along the way of white to blue belt. How did you, when did that start for you?
And man we've had this conversation before privately, and you had asked me, Ricardo, do you guys still do that? And I was like, man, it's like on the mat sometimes we get so good at doing something that we forget how to do it. I wish that I was still using the color belt in between white and blue, and I know that's not 100% in line with perhaps necessarily the entire jiu-jitsu community, which I don't really care about that. I know where my guys stand, and where our teaching stands in the realm of things. I just want people to practice jiu-jitsu, but for sure, I think recognizing people for their effort and not just their performance, it's super important. Whether we do that through stripes, or formally through stripes and belts, or we do it just one day, just pulling someone aside and say, hey, man, I just want to tell you man, I know the jiu-jitsu has been hard for you at first, but you've come a long way. And man, I'm so proud of everything that you've accomplished on the mat.
Sometimes people need that as well, depending on the person. But for sure, having a clear system to reward people for their effort and their progress, there is progress with effort, it's within everyone's potential. So I think that's instrumental, separating beginners from more experienced practitioners as much as we can. Definitely having a class where we're focusing mostly on what the foundation of jiu-jitsu is. And then the recognition, whether you do it through stripes or belts, I think it's very important.
This is one of those topics where I don't know, I feel personally, look, what's the goal? The goal is for people to train jiu-jitsu longer. So what are some of the hangups? One of the biggest hangups is in that, like you said, white to blue belt. They have no clue if they're getting any better, because they're still, if they roll with somebody for the most part, they're getting smashed, so they see no progress. If you take a two Stripe white belt and you put them, or somebody who would be equivalent of two striped white belt, and you put them with one of your blue belts, most likely that blue belt is going to smash them. So seeing that they don't see any progress, so how do you show them progress? You give it to them.
Look, okay, you're progressing. Are you that good yet? No, but you'll get there. Look, you're on your way. Look, you're two steps in, you're three steps in, four steps in. And then that can keep them training longer, so that they might even have the potential of becoming... For those instructors that are still worried about producing champions, they might have the potential of becoming a champion. They just haven't realized that yet, and that can happen. That happens for a lot of people actually. You hear about, I think Boucher, actually just put something out the other day. He lost his first eight tournaments in a row. So he wasn't... Alberto Crane lost for a year. He went to a tournament every month for 14 months straight and never won a match. So if you look at it, it's like those guys "were terrible" But are they?
Time and effort, or effort over time will always yield results man, it's inevitable.
I think one of the, moving on from the white to blue belt subjects, one of the things that I think instructors or academy owners really struggle with is this idea that they need to grow their school. We need to grow our schools, and you can't do every job. You can't teach every class, and you can't run the front desk, and you can't sell the memberships, and you can't clean the school. I think this is a big roadblock for a lot of people when it comes down to growing their schools. How did you first see that roadblock? And then how did you get through that roadblock?
You mean the instructor should be able to know how to do everything, is that what you mean?
No, you're the owner, but you don't do all of it. You're not there right now. You're not there, do you still sell the memberships? I doubt it. You have somebody there that runs your desk. So how did you realize to go from, I do everything between, I teach, and I sell, and I make the phone calls, and this too. I need to manage. I need to start managing other people, and training other people how to do this.
I think that a great book for someone that's seeking to learn a little bit more about that is the E-Myth. It's [inaudible 00:17:49] entrepreneurial myth, where whether someone's going to open a jiu-jitsu school, or a CrossFit studio, or this studio, or bakery, it's the bakery in the book. So it talks about us as entrepreneurs, and as small business owners not doing every task, and slowly building a team, and handing off some of the tasks so we could focus on less urgent, more important tasks for the of running of the business, so we could steer the ship a little bit more.
I think that for me quickly, I realized that where I wanted to go, I couldn't go on my own. As soon as we moved from racquetball court into a bigger location, and classes were packed, we had to have more classes, and I'm teaching a class and five people show through the door, and you have to welcome those in and schedule a time for them to come and take a class. You realize, hey, I'm going to need help. I'm going to need to get organized. I'm going to need systems in place. And I'm going to need some standard operating procedures for each of the things that are happening at the school. And then people were going to need to understand how to do those. And then we'll have some metrics to measure how we're doing on all those things. And then from there you start to get a more stable business.
It goes up and it goes down. December it goes down, and then it comes up in the, and we back to school. Then December, it goes down a little bit again, but now all of a sudden you have this living and breathing thing that's on its own, and it's not as much trading your time for money, which it becomes very hard. If you just teaching the class and you're charging people 20 bucks, or 15 bucks, or however much people charge per class, it's hard to have your name on a lease, or a mortgage. You've got to build some recovery [crosstalk 00:19:51], and just go from there.
I think one of the things that people struggle with in this is that, you have a staff member, and you're training them or teaching them, and they do it wrong. How did you get over this part of watching your staff member do something wrong, make a mistake, cost you money? And then not yell at them, and not be like, yo, what the hell? What the hell are you doing? What was that process like for you? Of training the staff, and almost in the sense of you have a student and you send them out to the competition, and they go do the arm bar, and they just totally blow the arm bar. And for some reason we don't scream and yell at them. We're like, we just try to help them do the arm-bar better. But when it comes to our business, sometimes you'll be like, yo, what the fuck did you just do that for? We've gone over this a 100 times, and now you just cost us 200 bucks. How did you do that with your staff, like you do with your students?
We learned it on the mats. The first way that we learn as teachers is just, if you reprimand someone and you just curse at them, or you shit them on the mats, man, that just undermines your position as an instructor, I feel. Some people have an iron fist style of teaching. I'm not that way. And as far as dealing with people my style is more like public praise, and private reprimand. I'll call them in at a time that's just the last, or perhaps after the students left, or just before [inaudible 00:21:35] like, hey, come here, look, look at this mess over here on the floor.
We can't have a school that's completely dirty like this. I clean, you clean, everybody cleans, but it's like, look, see, do. If it's dirty, we don't wait for somebody else to do it. Sometimes you're walking down the street, you see a piece of trash, you don't walk over it, you pick it up and you throw it in the trash. Why wouldn't we do it if it's inside the academy. And I've had times that I've been soft, and I've had times when I've gone too heavy on certain situations. But for the most part, I think that having someone at the school is really conducive to having a really good one-on-one. All the people that I have, most of the people that I've had, any of the instructors I've had, they've always been my students.
I've never brought someone that wasn't my student first, but I've seen other people do that and not have any problems. And most of the staff that I've had trained are students at the school. So I've had a teacher, student relationship with them. So I've never had to manage a relationship with someone from the outside, it's like inside the business side of things at the academy and all. So perhaps other people that have bigger operations or multiple schools and things like that have had more experience with that. But as far as with me, any interaction I have with the world, I see through the lens of being on the mats. I try to treat people how I like to be treated, and maybe that's not even on the mats. It's just the right way to be no matter where you are. And I tread softly, and I try to leave every room that I walk in better than you the look when I got in. And for sure when I'm at the academy, I'm paying more attention to everything and being more on top of things, but that's just how I am.
I really liked what you said at the very beginning of that answer, public praise, private criticism. When you have to talk to somebody, you bring them to the side, it's not in front of everybody. And obviously we've all made that mistake before of doing it the other way, and we've paid the repercussions for it. When you talk about your staff, and I think this is one of the things that people are very scared of with their staff. Sometimes is, okay, I teach this person to be a great instructor, and then all I'm doing is I'm going to teach them and they're going to go open right down the road from me and become my competitor.
I don't feel that way. I don't have much concern with that. How did you get over that? How did you get everyone to jump on board in the sense of, we're all in this together, and no one's leaving. If somebody leaves, then they have such an amazing opportunity in front of them. How could I even think about saying no to them? How did you get your staff to jump on board? And how did you get over that fear of, oh my God, I'm going to show them what to do, and then they're just going to open and be my competitor.
Everyone can, there is like the non-compete and things like that, and depending on the state, that's like not very enforceable. As the teacher student relationship, and having someone teach at your school, it's pretty hard, man in other businesses where you dealing with intellectual property and things like that. In jiu-jitsu, jiu-jitsu is alive, it's all theory. It's not our on property, but we do piece it together and chew it up and serve it on a platter in a way that people, it's a recipe that's unique to each school. If you go to the supermarket and you could buy all these ingredients on their own, but the way exactly you do things, and there are more of those things, and perhaps how we do things will have a lot of similarities just from our lineage, but there will be own twists, certain-
Flair.
They're unique, and that attracts your students, and maybe the way I do things will not be attractive to your students. But if someone wants to leave now, I really don't, well, I want that person in my school, you know what I mean? Before I even think about where they're going to open up, if it's going to be five minutes or 50 miles, hopefully I've had enough of an impression on them so that they're like, you know what? cool. I'm going to go do my own thing, but let me really do my own thing and not just try to go dig or [inaudible 00:25:59] student. Let me not try to take students from the place where I came up.
Forget about, Ricardo. How about the place that brought me up into the sport? They gave me what I'm going to teach to other people. I think that's just how I think. But when I think about someone that's acting in certain way that's detrimental to the team, and you get to that point of should they stay, or should they go? I think that I rarely want someone that is causing a ton of problems, and going behind people's back and saying things. We've had very few through the years, but every environment is going to have those. And I try [inaudible 00:26:47] to be as far away as possible, even if it means they're like. I want them outside my four walls, man. If they are out on street, it's better off than they were in there.
[inaudible 00:26:58] people. There's always going to be people they're going to leave, when someone like that leaves, and that's okay, maybe [inaudible 00:27:07].
For sure. As we wrap it up here, a couple of last questions. First, when you're dreaming big for your school, if you had, in the business world they call them big, hairy, audacious goals. What would it be? When you dream big, what do you think of?
Man, to be honest, my school, I think we could always get more students, and I've learned that there's a limit to how many people you can have in an environment. Maybe I think I need to visit you guys, because I know that you guys have jiu-jitsu, you have striking, you have a bunch of stuff under the same roof, and we're still pretty much only jiu-jitsu. We have a small kickboxing program, but I think for sure to just serve more people. Especially because of COVID, I don't know if it's the same thing with you guys, but we haven't had the kids come back yet. You know what I mean? We haven't had that wave of kids coming in or coming back, and for sure a wave of new kids coming in yet, there's been some, but not as much as the adults.
I think that hard thing is the summertime, because the kids always fall off in the summer time too.
Depending on where people are with vaccines, it's not available to kids yet, the vaccination and depending on people's household and their own choice I think, kids haven't been back. But I like to get the kids back in the program, but as far as number of students, we're pretty good, man. I like to see some of my guys grow up and open their own schools, you know what I mean? I've facilitated for a lot of my black girls that have gone on and opened their own schools.
It doesn't necessarily have to be with me as a [inaudible 00:28:52] or under me in any way, shape or form, but I just like to see, I still think there's more people that need to learn jiu-jitsu. There are people that know how to teach it well, so I'd love for my guys to go and open their own place, and bring it to an area where jiu-jitsu is not available, if there's [inaudible 00:29:08] that are trying to compete for somebody else's students. But just keep doing that, man. I want to be, 30 years from now when doing what I did today. Wake up, go teach a class, come home, relax a little bit, and get ready for nighttime.
I liked what you said, teach it well, though. I agree with you. I think there's more jiu-jitsu schools out there than jiu-jitsu schools that teach it well. And I think it's very important to be able to teach it well. Last question, of all the things that you could tell someone when opening or running their school, what would be the number one?
Find a teacher, man. You had a jiu-jitsu instructor, or a mentor, find a mentor. Find someone that's done it well, that's done it effectively, that's going to guide you through the process. And someone that could, when things go wrong, because things are going to go wrong. You could bounce ideas off their head. They could quickly pick out what's going wrong, you know what I mean? I had the privilege of having a couple of guys, when I had those guys, Jim Dunn was a big karate guy. He opened a bunch of schools. So I think we all learned a lot from him, and-
Everyone learned a lot from Jim Dunn.
He brought me to Thomas Clifford. Thomas Clifford was a fricking genius, I learned so much from him. And then watching [inaudible 00:30:24] school grow for sure, my times with Amal, or just exchanging ideas, what you guys were doing, and having conversations with Amal, Amal saying, [inaudible 00:30:34] sitting in his car, looking at the karate school and seeing bunch of little kids going in and at the time, none of us had kids programs. And it's like, man, how do these guys do it man? And I'm going to figure it out. I think before many of us here in the United States, and exchanging ideas with [inaudible 00:30:52] too. At the time they were just starting Gracie Barra here in the United States and Gracie Barra is huge. So I've had the privilege of great teachers, great mentors, but also great peers that I've exchanged ideas. And you need that man, and you need to be in a community where you have both the mentors and the peers.
Just like you learn jujitsu, right? You had to have people, you had to have your teacher, you have to train with people that are better than you. You have to train with people that are at your same level and you have to train with people that you're better than so that you can practice, right. You, you need all of this, but that comes with community, right. Join a community. That was a great answer. I agree with you.
So I'm not too in depth with what you guys are building, but I'm sure that you guys are leaving no stone unturned, that there will be a lot of some incredible information that will sort of have people bypass a lot of other problems that we've had and, and just get to, to the level that some of the successful schools have been able to get like a lot quicker.
That's what our teachers in jujitsu did for us. Right? Like their, their struggle didn't have to be our struggle. We had to have a different struggle, but we all need the struggle, but it doesn't ha, but if we're repeating the same struggles, that's where the problem comes. So man, thanks, Ricardo. Thanks for so much for coming on. Tell everyone if they are listening where they can reach out to you. I know you're on social media, your website, your school, all that stuff. So tell everyone where they can reach, find you.
I think if you just go to Google, Ricardo, the BJJ master. Instagram's calling me BJJ, so that's going to pop up. [inaudible 00:32:29] I think my Facebook is Ricardo BJJ too. And my academy might pop up, but you guys are probably too far, but yeah, I'm around. You'll find me. Yeah.
You'll find him. All right, Ricardo. Thanks so much for jumping on. Thanks for giving everyone some tips and tricks that have, I don't even know if they're tips and tricks. I think they're long tests that ideas that you've been using to skillfully maneuver and grow your school. So thanks so much, Ricardo. Have a great day, man.
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It may seem only tangentially related, but this episode of Science for the People will yield many fascinating insights to anyone interested in agriculture and nutrition.
This week, we're exploring the ways human-made environments support – and shape – the lives of many species we think of as vermin. We'll talk to Geography and Environmental Studies Professor Dawn Day Biehler about her book "Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats." And we'll speak to postdoctoral researcher Clint Penick about his research on the junk food diets of urban ants.
One of the many things it got me thinking about is how much human civilization impacts other species and not always in ways that limit them. Some species have been particularly well suited to taking advantage of the habitat and food supply that humans create. The example in the podcast that got me thinking about this was flies and waste. For awhile, when we weren't terribly good at disposing of waste, fly populations sky rocketed. When we got better at it, mammoth numbers of flies were decimated and to little regret or protest.
However, it had occurred to me some time back that when we observe the decline in Monarch populations as farms get better at removing milkweed from their properties, what we might be seeing is a return to mean as milk weed had piggybacked and thrived on farms in the Midwest until recently and Monarch populations had piggybacked on the milk weed's success. Shockingly, I wasn't the first person to think of this.
Hat tip to University of Wyoming weed science prof, Andrew Kniss.


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Eagles looking to improve against St. Francis
Donald Heath
STATESBORO - Missed assignments, lack of effort, missed tackles, missed opportunities, inconsistent kicking game, sloppiness - in just about one breath Georgia Southern coach Jeff Monken summed up 60 minutes of frustration that's been eating him up since last Saturday night.
Wait a second, it couldn't have been that frustrating. The Eagles play host to St. Francis tonight at 6 in Paulson Stadium after coming off a 77-9 pasting of Savannah State in the season opener.
"I think our guys need to have an understanding that it's important to play up to our standard and not lower the standard because we think it can be lowered and that's good enough to get by with," Monken said.
The last thing St. Francis, from Loretto, Pa., needs to hear is its opponent's woes. Want to hear some real problems? Try matching up your 34-scholarship team with a team transitioning to the 85-scholarship Football Bowl Subdivision.
Try devising a plan to slow down an offense that just rushed for 576 yards and produced 651 yards total.
Try taking a team that has never won more than five games in a season since joining the Football Championship Subdivision in 1993 and pitting it against Monken, who has never won less than twice that amount in five years as an assistant here and another three as head coach.
"(Monken) holds his standards high, and he's probably trying to keep his team motivated," said St. Francis coach Chris Villarrial. "Any time you win by a score like that you've done a lot of things right."
Facing reality
Villarrial played 11 seasons in the NFL, eight with the Chicago Bears, and was a teammate of former GSU great Adrian Peterson. Villarrial is realistic about what his team faces in the 10th-ranked Eagles.
"We know about Georgia Southern's tradition," he said. "They're big, physical, well-coached. It's a very challenging game for us. It can be scary."
Amazingly, another team from the Northeast Conference, Central Connecticut State, came to Statesboro in 2006 and defeated Georgia Southern 17-13 despite facing similar long odds.
Of course, that was a three-win Eagle team coached by Brian VanGorder.
St. Francis has a 10-45 record during the last five years; GSU was 10-4 last year. Two years ago, the Red Flash traveled to North Dakota State and lost 56-3.
Monken can't worry about the disparity.
"It's my job as the head coach to make sure we have the right attitude, that we're prepared and that we play to our standards," he said.
Senior quarterback Jerick McKinnon and junior fullback Dominique Swope lead the Eagles' potent triple-option attack that paced the FCS with an average of 399.4 rushing yards a game a year ago. McKinnon rushed for 1,817 yards and 20 touchdowns. Swope had 1,246 yards and 16 scores.
McKinnon and Swope had 107 and 100 yards, respectively, in the opener against Savannah State.
St. Francis won only five games in four years from 2008 to 2011 before winning five last season, despite playing without running back Kyle Harbridge, who missed the 2012 season with a knee injury. Harbridge, now a senior, rushed for 1,474 yards in 2011.
Safety Jake DeMedal, a first-team All-Northeast Conference performer, is a key to the Red Flash defense after leading the team with 88 tackles last season.
"They're a well-coached football team, a tough team and they run the ball effectively," Monken said. "We don't normally play teams from that league so I don't know what to expect. I'm sure they're going to come down here like a ball of fire. It's their opening game and they have a chance to play a team highly ranked the last few years. That always excites teams, it does for us.
"We're expecting their best effort, and I hope we'll play a lot better."
Game time for GSU's Nov. 2 game against Furman in Paulson Stadium has been changed to 1 p.m.
ST. FRANCIS AT GEORGIA SOUTHERN
Records: SFU 5-6, 4-4 Northeast Conference in 2012, 0-0 this season; GSU 1-0, 0-0 SoCon in 2013
Where: Paulson Stadium
TV/radio: No TV/WZAT 102.1 FM (Savannah); WBMX 103.7 FM (Statesboro).


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The idea of a universal basic income (UBI) has been regularly suggested by technologists and people working in Silicon Valley. UBI would allow for mote redistributive policies, and would be important when automation starts to take people's jobs.
Zuckerberg made the UBI suggestion during a speech at Harvard University. He spoke of how a universal basic income would be part of a "new social contract for our generation."
Some speculated that the Facebook founder is laying the groundwork for a potential presidential run in the future. Zuckerberg has been on a tour around parts of the United States sharing his policy recommendations for improving society, but he has denied the rumors.
"We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP, but by how many of us have a role we find meaningful," said Zuckerberg. "We should explore ideas like universal basic income to give everyone a cushion to try new things."
He continued, "We're going to change jobs many times, so we need affordable child care to get to work and healthcare that aren't tied to one company. We're all going to make mistakes, so we need a society that focuses less on locking us up or stigmatizing us. And as technology keeps changing, we need to focus on continues education throughout our lives."
"And yes, giving everyone the freedom to pursue purpose isn't free. People like me should pay for it," said Zuckerberg. "Many of you will do well and you should, too."


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