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Black Beauty A Stepping Stone Book(TM)
ABOUT BLACK BEAUTY
The bittersweet saga of the handsome colt that is wrenched from a happy country home and almost worked to death as a London cab horse is adapted for easy reading. Large type, short chapters, and expressive art make this a must for all animal lovers.
Five True Dog Stories
Readers will meet Dox, who was the world's greatest canine detective; Grip, the dog who was a thief; Wolf and Barry, who devoted their lives to saving others; and Balto, the dog-hero whose statue stands in New York City's Central Park. 48 Pages Gades 2-4 Learn More
Geronimo Stilton: The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid
I'm off to Egypt! I climbed onboard a crabby old camel that would take me across the desert to the Great Cheese Pyramid. There, among mummies and hieroglyphics, I would learn the secret of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient Mouse World...
Who Is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here on Mouse Island, my books are all best-sellers! What's that? You've never read one? Well, my books are full of fun. They are whisker-licking good stories, and that's a promise! Enter the world of Geronimo Stilton, where another funny adventure is always right around the corner. Each book is a fast-paced adventure with lively art and a unique format kids 7-10 will love
Henry V Student Guide, Third Edition- Memoria Press
Henry V by William Shakespeare is one of the Bard's most well-known plays, featuring the famous St. Crispin's Day speech. Our Student and Teacher Guides will increase the student's vocabulary and reading comprehension. Learn More
Novel Units - The Sign of the Beaver Teacher Guide Grades 6-8
Teacher guides provide the framework for the novel, including any background information necessary to prepare students for the text. Discussion questions help you delve into the novel's plot, conflict, theme, and character motivations/interactions. Plus, they're designed to elicit student thought, discussion, and participation!
Time-saving, inspiring lesson plans provide a comprehensive novel unit—created by teachers for teachers. The legwork is done for you. The chapter-by-chapter guides incorporate research-based, higher-order reading, writing, and thinking activities.
32+ pages
"About the Author"
Initiating activities
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The Bellmaker A TALE FROM REDWALL By BRIAN JACQUES
New York Times bestselling author Brian Jacques masterfully recounts more woodland adventures in the seventh epic in the Redwall (#1876) series!
It has been four seasons since Mariel, the warrior-mouse daughter of Joseph the Bellmaker, and her companion, Dandin, set off from Redwall to fight evil in Mossflower. Nothing has been heard of them since. Then one night, in a dream, the legendary Martin the Warrior comes to the Bellmaker with a mysterious message. Clearly, Mariel and Dandin are in grave danger. Joseph and four Redwallers set off at once to aid them. As they push over land and sea, they cannot know the terrible threats they face. Will the Bellmaker and his companions arrive in time to help Mariel and Dandin?
"This is storytelling at its best."—School Library Journal
Paperback | 352 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | Middle Grade (10 and up)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea By JULES VERNE Adapted by Judith Conaway
Part of A Stepping Stone Book(TM)
In this 1870 science-fiction classic, obsessed Captain Nemo and his prisoners descend beneath the sea in his secret submarine, the Nautilus, for nonstop adventure and suspense.
A Child's Garden of Verses By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist, poet and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated A Child's Garden ofVerses to Alison Cunningham, the nurse of his early childhood years in Edinburgh—a time whose essence he strove to recapture in the sixty-four poems of this long-treasured collection. Here, in "The Land of Counterpane" and "The Land of Nod," and in such delightful lyrics as "My Bed Is a Boat," "Autumn Fires" and "Windy Nights," are rhymes and images children and their parents have cherished together since A Child's Garden of Verses was first published in 1885. Alternately humorous and whimsical, grave and fearful, courageous and determined, the poems touchingly voice the many moods and currents of a child's imaginings. All sixty-four poems are reprinted in this edition in large, easy-to-read type. New illustrations by Thea Kliros capture the magical spirit of this beloved classic of children's literature. Learn More
A Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson
First published in 1885, Stevenson's verses so truly reflect the feelings of young children–about being small, the bliss of going up in a swing so high, discovering one's shadow, happiness and sorrow and dreaming–that they have never ceased to be an essential part of a child's library. Robinson's beautiful pictures originally appeared in 1896 in the first illustrated edition. Learn More
A Christmas Carol is one of Charles Dickens' most loved books – a true classic and a Christmas time must-read.
Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, Scrooge learns to love Christmas and the people all around him. With a light-hearted introduction by bestselling author Anthony Horowitz, creator of the highly successful Alex Rider novels, most recently Snakehead.
Charles Dickens (1812-70) is one of the most recognized celebrities of English literature. His imagination, wit, mastery of the language and huge creative output single him out as one of the few people who genuinely deserve to be called genius. He had a poverty-stricken childhood and was determined to improve himself. By his early twenties he found a job as a parliamentary reporter and in his spare time wrote sketches of London life for newspapers and magazines. The publication of Pickwick Papers (1836) brought him the fame and fortune he craved. He wrote many other famous books including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.Learn More
A Guide for Using A Single Shard in the Classroom-Teacher Created Resources
This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book presents an exciting approach to teaching well-known literature! It includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary building ideas, cross-curriculum activities, sectional activities and quizzes, unit tests, and many ideas for culminating and extending the novel.
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A Guide for Using The Call of the Wild in the Classroom-Teacher Created Resources
A Guide for Using The Outsiders in the Classroom
The Outsiders Literature Unit from Teacher Created Resources. Each book in this series is a guide for using a well-known piece of literature. Included are sample plans, author information, vocabulary-building ideas, and cross-curricular activities. At the intermediate and Challenging levels, sectional activities and quizzes, unit tests, and ideas for culminating and extending the novel are also included. 48 pages. Learn More
A Jar of Dreams
Growing up in California during the depression isn't easy for eleven-year-old Rinko. She desperately wants to fit in and be like everyone else, but instead she is ridiculed and made to feel different because she is Japanese. But when Aunt Waka comes to visit, and brings with her the old-fashioned wisdom of Japan, she teaches Rinko the importance of her Japanese heritage, and the value of her own strengths and dreams, in this warm and touching story. Learn More
A Little Princess (A Stepping Stone Book)
Sara Crewe is a student at Miss Minchin's fancy boarding school. She has the very best of everything. But when her rich father dies, she's left without a penny. Now Sara lives in the school's cold attic and works for crusts of bread. With some help from a secret friend and a touch of magic, Sara's world is about to change in ways she never dreamed. An adaptation of the classic novel that's just right for young readers! Gr. 1-4. 112 pages. Learn More
A Little Shopping
Meet The COBBLE STREET COUSINS Lily, who wants to be a poet Tess, who wants to be a Broadway star Rosie, who wants a little cottage with flowers by the door. Lily has a wonderful idea -- to surprise Aunt Lucy with a dollhouse that looks just like her flower shop. But first the girls have to buy a few things at The Olde Craft Shoppe, and with the Cobble Street Cousins, even a little shopping trip can turn into an adventure! Ages 7-10. 64 pages. Learn More
Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to flee from the city under cover of darkness but are pursued by an enraged Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enraptured Helena). In the forest, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the fairies) are having a fight over a servant boy. Then, Oberon's head mischief-maker, Puck, runs loose with a flower which causes people to fall in love with the first person they see. From Oxford Press Learn More
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war. Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles's crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic. 208 pages. Learn More
A single Shard - Houghton Mifflin
Reading age  :  9 - 12 years
Lexile measure  :  920L
Grade level  :  4 - 7
Dimensions  :  0.25 x 5 x 7.25 inches
A Wrinkle in Time. It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. Meg and Charles, along with their friend, Calvin, search for their scientist father. Traveling through space, they finally find him on the planet of Camazotz. How will they rescue him from his evil captors? 245 pages. Paperback.
Abraham Lincoln, Magic Tree House Fact Tracker
Abraham Lincoln A NONFICTION COMPANION TO MAGIC TREE HOUSE MERLIN MISSION #19: ABE LINCOLN AT LAST (#6690) By MARY POPE OSBORNE and NATALIE POPE BOYCE Illustrated by SAL MURDOCCA.
Track the facts with Jack and Annie!
When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #19: Abe Lincoln at Last!, they had lots of questions. What was it like to grow up in a log cabin? How did Lincoln become president? What was his family like? Why did the US fight the Civil War? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts.
Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures. And teachers can use Fact Trackers alongside their Magic Tree House fiction companions to meet common core text pairing needs.
Paperback | Published by Random House Books for Young Readers Dec 27, 2011 | 128 Pages | 5-3/16 x 7-5/8 | 7-10 years
The unforgettable story of young Jethro Creighton who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War. Written by Irene Hunt. Softcover 190 pages. Newberry Medal Honor book. Grades 6 and up. Learn More
Adam of the Road
Set in 13th century England, this Newbery Award winner tells of the adventures of Adam, the 11 year old son of a minstrel, as he travels around Southern England. His adventures include separation from his travelling companions and trying to reunite when an unscrupulous minstrel steals his dog losing track of his father in the process leaving him alone on the roads to take care of himself, using his harp and minstrel skills to gain food and shelter as he seeks his lost puppy and father. 317 pgs. Learn More
Adam of the Road Literature Guide Student Edition- Memoria Press Charter Edition
Adam of the Road Literature Guide by Memoria Press. Literature study guides train students to become active readers. These guides focus on vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, and composition skills. Words to pronounce and spell prepare students for each chapter, and words to define build vocabulary. Comprehension questions teach students to think about what they have read and to learn to identify the important content of each story. Comprehension questions also teach students the advanced skill of composing a clear, concise answer to a question, a difficult skill at any age. Writing is thinking, and good questioning stimulates the child to think and to write.
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray #4221 is a Newbery Medal-winning adventure set in medieval England. Adam is a young boy who travels the roads of England with his father, a minstrel, and his dog, Nick. However, one day Adam's dog is stolen, and his father vanishes. Alone, Adam wanders the roads he once traveled with his father searching for him. Along his journey through villages, markets, and fairs, Adam meets many different kinds of people and has many adventures.
The Adam of the Road Student Guide trains students to become active readers by providing in-depth word studies that help students build vocabulary as well as comprehension questions to teach students to identify important concepts and compose clear, concise answers to questions.
6th grade. Teacher Guide available (item# 4415).
Adam of the Road Teacher Guide- Memoria Press Charter Edition
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray #4221 is a Newbery Medal-winning adventure set in medieval England. Adam is a young boy who travels the roads of England with his father, a minstrel, and his dog, Nick. However, one day Adam's dog is stolen, and his father vanishes. Alone, Adam wanders the roads he once traveled with his father searching for him. Along his journey through villages, markets, and fairs, Adam meets many different kinds of people and has many adventures. The Adam of the Road Teacher Guide contains all answers to the Adam of the Road Student Study Guide #4414 as well as all quizzes and tests. .
The Adam of the Road Teacher Guide features teaching guidelines, notes on reading activities, lessons for the 23 chapters of Adam of the Road including answers to the Adam of the Road Student Study Guide, all tests and quizzes, and the key to all assessments.
99 pages, paperback. Grade 6


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Amazon's new MMO delayed for the fourth time, but this time by just one month
It'll now be out on September 28th
By Jay Peters@jaypeters Aug 4, 2021, 3:28pm EDT
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A screenshot from Amazon's New World.
Amazon Games has delayed New World, its upcoming MMO, from August 31st to September 28th, the studio announced on Wednesday. The delay — the game's fourth — comes shortly after the end of a closed beta, which wrapped up on August 3rd at 2:59AM ET.
The team will be "making some improvements" based on what players found in the beta, taking time to "smash bugs, improve stability, and polish the game," according to a post on Twitter.
"This was not an easy decision to make," the team said. "We know this isn't the first time we've changed our launch date in pursuit of quality, and that it can be disappointing to wait a bit longer. But we want to be sure we deliver you the highest quality game possible at launch."
Looks like Adventurers played more hours than we thought! During the Beta we actually had more than 25 million hours played.
Thanks again for participating in the Closed Beta.
— New World (@playnewworld) August 4, 2021
New World was first set to release in May 2020, then was delayed to August 25th, 2020, then to spring 2021, then to August 31st, and now the new September 28th date. And the game hasn't been the only Amazon Games title with a bumpy history. Hero shooter Crucible went from launch to closed beta to eventually being canceled across the span of a few months in 2020. Breakaway, a competitive fantasy brawler, was announced in 2016 but was canceled in 2018. Pac-Man Live Studio, a version of Pac-Man designed to be played right on Twitch and developed in partnership with Bandai Namco, was announced in May 2020 for a June 2020 release, but the game still isn't out yet and isn't listed on Amazon Games' website.
Bandai Namco told me in May that Pac-Man Live Studio "is not quite ready to launch yet" and that it was working to determine a release date. I happened to ask this week if there was any update, but the company said it still does not have any news to share.
Update August 4th, 6:21PM ET: Added tweet from Amazon revising the number of hours played during the beta.

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* Monday—Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell bump into each other, with seismic results.
* Tuesday—Billy Wilder shows 'em how.
* Wednesday—Sinophilia.
* Thursday and Friday—TCM "remembers" the Korean War.
* Saturday—Goin' crazy!
* Sunday—Getting the finger, five thousand of them.
Monday—June 21st
6:00 AM—Double Dynamite (1951)
A bank teller reaps the rewards of saving a gangster's life, but can't reveal where he got the money.
7:30 AM—His Kind of Woman (1951)
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
9:45 AM—The Las Vegas Story (1952)
When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.
12:45 PM—Macao (1952)
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
2:30 PM—Adam's Rib (1949)
Husband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women's rights case.
Tuesday—June 22nd
7:00 AM—Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
A British corporal goes undercover to infiltrate Field Marshall Rommel's command.
8:45 AM—Stalag 17 (1953)
A cynical serviceman in a World War II POW camp has to prove he's not an informer.
11:00 AM—Some Like It Hot (1959)
"Well, nobody's perfect!"
3:15 PM—The Fortune Cookie (1966)
A crooked lawyer trumps up an insurance case for a cameraman injured at a pro football game.
10:15 PM—Buck Privates (1941)
Two small-time con artists enlist in the Army to avoid the police.
Wednesday—June 23rd
Hollywood's version of China in seven films from dawn to dusk.
2:30 AM—The Bat Whispers (1930)
A masked criminal terrorizes the residents at a deserted country house.
8:00 PM—Men in War (1957)
Two enemies join forces to save their men during a retreat from the North Koreans.
10:00 PM—This Is Korea (1951)
Archival footage documents the North Korean aggression that started the Korean War. John Ireland narrates. Director: John Ford.
11:00 PM—The Steel Helmet (1951)
Americans trapped behind enemy lines fight off Communists during the Korean War.
12:30 AM—Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
MGM's version of The Bridges at Toko-Ri.
3:45 AM—Battle Circus (1953)
A doctor fights for his life during the Korean War.
5:15 AM—Tank Battalion (1958)
Four soldiers pilot their tank behind enemy lines during the Korean War.
6:45 AM—Mission Over Korea (1953)
A rookie pilot in the Korean War wants to avenge his brother's death.
8:15 AM—Battle Taxi (1955)
A hotshot jet pilot joins a helicopter rescue team during the Korean War.
2:30 PM—Time Limit (1957)
An officer is court-martialed under suspicion of collaborating with the North Koreans.
4:30 PM—The Rack (1956)
A Korean War veteran is accused of cracking under enemy torture.
6:30 PM—Hell in Korea (1956)
A small platoon fights to keep control of a small hill during the Korean War.
11:45 PM—The Deep (1977)
A vacationing couple runs afoul of modern pirates.
2:00 AM—Deep End (1971)
A 15-year-old's obsession with a co-worker leads to a deadly string of crimes.
8:30 AM—The Third Man (1949)
Harry Lime is a slime.
10:30 AM—Master Minds (1949)
The Bowery Boys takes on a mad scientist when one of them develops the ability to predict the future
4:15 PM—The Desert Fox (1951)
Following his work with the Afrika Korps, Field Marshall Rommell joins in a plot to assassinate Hitler.
8:00 PM—The Snake Pit (1948)
A young woman tries to recover her sanity in a corrupt mental institution.
10:00 PM—Shock Corridor (1963)
A reporter fakes insanity to crack a murder committed in an asylum.
4:30 AM—Bedlam (1946)
When an actress tries to reform an asylum, its corrupt keeper has her committed.
8:00 AM—Bringing Up Baby (1938)
"Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments."
"Well, you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes."
"These aren't my clothes!"
"Well, where are your clothes?"
"I've lost my clothes!"
"But why are you wearing these clothes?"
"Because I just went gay all of a sudden!"
10:00 AM—Son of Flubber (1963)
An absent-minded professor gets into legal trouble because of his experiments with a gravity defying substance.
8:00 PM—The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
A young boy dreams that his piano teacher is a super-villain out to rule the world.
9:45 PM—The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
An earthquake unleashes a horde of giant prehistoric monsters.
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Billy Wilder day is a must for those unfamiliar with his work, or those who have seen his films and want to enjoy them again.
The Bat Whispers is a fun film, well worth watching. One can see, both in the film and the Mary Roberts Rinehart book on which it's based, some of the foundations of the Batman comic books–in particular the most appealing qualities of the character and settings, without the arty-smarty gloom-and-doom ambitions of most of the various Batman manifestations of the past couple of decades.


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Born in Gorky, USSR (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Natalia Vodianova grew up in a poor district of the city with her mother and two half sisters, one of whom has cerebral palsy. As a teenager, Vodianova helped her mother sell fruit on the street and later set up her own fruit stand with a friend to help her family out of poverty.
At age 15, Vodianova enrolled in a modelling academy, was told she would need to learn English to succeed, and mastered the language in three months. By age 17, Vodianova had moved to Paris, France and signed with Viva Model Management Paris.
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As of May 2009, Vodianova has appeared on the cover of British Vogue seven times; the first was the September 2003 issue. She made her first appearance on the cover of the U.S. Vogue in the September 2004 edition alongside eight other models, then appeared as the solo cover subject of the July 2007 edition of the magazine. During this time period, other covers of the American Vogue have all featured non-model celebrities with only two other exceptions: models Linda Evangelista and Liya Kebede.
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Donmar Warehouse Executive Producer James Bierman is to leave the Covent Garden venue to become Executive Director at Islington's Almeida theatre. He will take up the position in early 2011.
Bierman was named Executive Producer of the Donmar Warehouse in January 2009, having held the role of Acting Executive Producer for the previous nine months. His time in the role saw the intimate London venue go from strength to strength, transferring productions to Broadway, staging the successful Donmar West End season and collecting a host of awards on both sides of the Atlantic. He had previously been General Manager at the Donmar Warehouse and at the Aldwych theatre.
Islington's Almeida theatre is currently staging a theatrical adaptation of David Mamet's con thriller House Of Games, which opened last week. Its autumn/winter season will continue with a production of Ibsen's The Master Builder starring Stephen Dillane and Gemma Arterton, which opens in November.


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"Inside the Stripes..."
Edmonton, AB • Canada • 22 Years Old • Male
Jesse Boulerice: Why is he still in the league?
He damn well shouldn't be. That is for sure. I cannot even believe what I saw last night. A fourth line plug, who isn't even really good enough to be called a plug, cross checks a skilled player in the face. Ryan Kesler did not see it coming, there was no reason for it (Boulerice says that Kesler took a run at Randy Jones...ya...ok...), he didn't have the puck, and he is just lucky to have a jaw that is in one piece.
This is a play that in my mind is enough to get Boulerice punted for the season...at least the season. The fact is this has got to stop. We saw Downie, we saw Simon last year, Bertuzzi wasn't too long ago...plays like this need to be taken out of hockey, permanently. No if's, and's or but's. The guys who commit these infractions need to be taken out of the game. For me 20 games just doesn't cut it. The play that we saw last night in my opinion is worse than the other three I mentioned. It was worse than McSorely, Bertuzzi, Simon, Downie, Perezhogin a while back, I for one cannot think of a play I think was worse.
The differences for me between this play and the ones I just mentioned are pretty straight forward;
- McSorely was going after another tough guy (Brashear), he took no backswing on his slash, he was definitely not TRYING to take his head off, unfortunately for Marty he has terrible aim.
- The Bertuzzi play was awful in the fact that it was pre-meditated, he was following Steve Moore all over the ice, but again, he was not trying to break his neck, he was trying to punch him in the head (no stick - fighting is allowed).
- Simon was close to as bad, but it was fairly reactionary, Hollweg had just run him into the boards and human instinct went a little overboard.
- Perezhogin absolutely tried to slash that guy (I don't remember his name) but the thing is he was just knocked down, and the guy was behind him - he had no idea that the guy was on his knees when he spun around.
- And lastly, Downie, at least tried to get his revenge by using a body check (and McCammond had just dished the puck off), he just needs to be a little more careful, it was not an intentional head shot, just an intentional huge hit.
So that brings us back to Boulerice. What was his intent on the play, because that plays a huge part in the suspension process, what was he trying to do? Well, when he sees a guy coming around from behind the net, and he goes after him with his stick, directly to the face, it is pretty clear what his intention was. He wanted to cross check him in the face, that doesnt happen by accident with a cross check, not when it is on a guy he had targeted in Kesler. So if Downie gets 20 for a similar type situation but using a body check, what does Boulerice get for the same thing but using a cross check, and targeting the head? I would say take the 20, add another 10 for using the stick in that manner, and then another at least 10 for targeting the head. The fact that is is on a guy like Kesler rather than another enforcer could add even more. So in my opinion he is looking at a MINIMUM of 40 games.
However, I believe it should be more than that, because prior to that point in the game, (when the Flyers were winning 7-2 no less) Boulerice had played 4:04 in that game. He has 10 points in 167 career games. He is not a good hockey player. He is most definitely not an NHL calibre hockey player. He is a big tough guy who just so happens to be able to skate. He is lucky to still be in the league, and he comes out in the second game of the season and does that? To me, forget suspension, just rip up his contract, he has no place in the game.
But before anyone rips my head off, I know that there are those who will say that Boulerice has a place in the game, as an enforcer. And I agree, enforcers have a place in the game, but their job is to be done with bodychecks and fisticuffs, not blatant cross checks to the face. Why Boulerice didn't just take Kesler into the boards, or challenge another Canucks player to a fight is beyond me. What was going through his head?
Pretty obvious to me: Air. Get him the hell out of here. And let the rest of the league know what awaits them if they don't use their brains. I sincerely hope that it doesn't take a Crosby or Ovechkin to be laying on the ice with no teeth for the NHL to wake up, and do what is right for the game.
Oh and by the way, in 1997-98 Boulerice was suspended for the entire season + playoffs by the OHL for swinging his stick like a baseball bat at the face of another player. He also pleaded no contest on charges of aggravated assault. How long after this one until he does it again?
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hockeylover
October 11, 2007 3:39 PM ET | Delete
I agree for the most part but Kesler did kind of try and put Jones through the boards and missed. Either way it a dumb and stupid thing to do and a lengthy suspension is in order.He may have played his last shift in the NHL.
mayorofangrytown
The one thing I think all of these professional leagues are guilty of, and is certainly apparent in this blog, is that they factor in the skill and standing of the player when they mete out their justice. I can see factoring in history but saying a player deserves getting bounced from the league because he's a fourth liner is kind of ridiculous. Are you telling me that if Sidney Crosby delivered this same hit that his punishment should be less because he's the Art Ross winner? If you are then I couldn't disagree more. Hit's like these should be punished equally across the board factoring in only the incident and the disciplinary history of the player. To me, it was easy for them to crack Downie for twenty games and it will be easy for them to bust Boulerice here but it's funny that the Sutton stick to the chops two weeks ago in New York went virtually unnoticed and the Pronger blow in the playoffs went virtually unpunished. It seems to me that if the Canadian media ignore it it it goes away, when they jump all over it these players need to be suspended for life. There's also irony that these two hits happened on Canadian soil and the other two didn't.
mayorofang, I thought a lot about exactly what you said before I posted this, and the difference between Crosby doing it, and Boulerice doing it is this; Crosby belongs in the league based on his level of talent, he isn't just a guy out there to keep guys in line playing four minutes a game. If Crosby does it then absolutely the 20 or 40 or whatever game suspension. But when a guy who doesn't really belong in the league anyways does it, well then why keep him around to do it again. And it isn't just the game itself anymore, there is also the fan aspect of it. While it may be wrong, it is something that won't go away. Fans drive the league, and they can live with Boulerice being booted for life, but not Crosby. Boulerice doesn't bring people into the rink, he drives them away with plays like last night. It is a very tough topic though, what if a superstar like Crosby did do something like that? I hope it never happens.
Seems to me we already had it happen in the playoffs last year and the league gave us our answer. It's just disappointing to me to see the inequity here. I'm with you in that Boulerice shouldn't be in the league but he shouldn't be in the league because he's not any good. When he made the Flyer's roster out of camp I said to everyone that I couldn't believe that Potulny or some other forward didn't deserve that spot. You look around the Atlantic Division and you see Brookbank, Sutton, Hollweg, Laraque and you realize why they kept him on the roster. The enraging thing for me is I listen to TO radio all day and all I hear is Downie and Boulerice should get life time bans but in between the two hits Sutton gives Callahan a face full of sick coming down the boards in New York and gets a fine. I never hear his name once on radio. I'm not arguing the Flyer's penalties, I'm arguing the injustice.
I can agree with you that it may not be right, but it is just reality. The league is not willing to dish out big suspensions to the guys that put people in the seats. Afterall, the league is all about making money, so they need to keep that in mind. But you are right, it doesn't make it just.
I think this hit is just as ridiculous as Boulerice and worse than Downie. Sutton Practically takes his head off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g3poEP7_Ec This is what has some Flyer's fans outraged. This happened between the Flyer's two hits. Who is Sutton to avoid suspension?
Feindbild
Sutton is longer in the NHL than Downie and as you said... it was no Canadian team...
I agree that the Sutton hit is bad, but there a few key things that separate it; Callahan had the puck for starters, and it was lined up as if to be a body check rather than using his stick. Callahan needs to have his head up on that play, NOT saying that it is an ok hit, because it is not. But those fundamental differences in the play make it very, very different. Also, Sutton was not head hunting, rather just trying to make a hit.
13 Game 1 musings.
08 Dear Larry Brooks: You must be joking...
09 Someone call the Wah-mbulance, this baby's out of control.
10 Kudos to Crosby
12 The Good, the Bad, and the Smytty; The Ryan Smyth Debacle
13 And the Oilers Defensive Carousel Continues
02 Dear EIG: Thank you. But it's time to say goodbye.
02 Desparate times call for...Dustin Penner???
13 Living up to the Big Bucks (Part 1 of 2)
10 The season thus far...
11 Jesse Boulerice: Why is he still in the league?
11 Week 1's Hero and Zero
12 Tootoo vs. Downie; two very different hits.
24 Hero and Zero: Week 3
22 Minorhockeybuzz
26 Where have all the fans gone?
06 NHL'ers at the World Junior Hockey Championship


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Pile w/ Be Locust or Alone & Hot Tip
DSP Shows presents Pile w/ Be Locust or Alone & Hot Tip live in the 9th Ward
Tickets: $10 advance, $13 day of show at Ticketweb, Babeville Box Office (M-F 10a-5p), or charge by phone 866-777-8932
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Pile have never released the same album twice, since the project's 2007 beginnings the Boston quartet have been continuously evolving, pushing expectations, and obliterating good sensibility. A Hairshirt of Purpose, the band's fifth album continues that tradition in a different light. Following the raw intensity and unpredictability of You're Better Than This, the band settled down to create an album about "the joys of solitude" and "the inescapable selfishness of every action," exploring the limits of the studio in the process. If their last album was a challenge to their audience, A Hairshirt of Purpose is a challenge to the band itself.
Recorded at home in Boston at The Record Co. the studio's big windows and close proximity marked a change from the band's previous recordings. Pile vocalist/guitarist Rick Maguire shared, "we were at home and we could see the sun, and I think both of those things lent themselves to a more focused and deliberate record." There's a warmth and radiant accessibility to be found throughout the album as the band experimented with different instruments (violin,viola, piano, organs, synths, banjo, etc) and a resounding push toward clarity. Pile balance their ferocious tendencies with moments of beauty, building tension with release never too far behind.
Well known as "your favorite band's favorite band" and for a tireless work ethic, Pile have earned their following from years of DIY touring and a humble approach to uncompromising performances. Never afraid to switch styles, Pile's music has morphed over the years, embracing both the ferocious and gentle sides of punk, indie, folk, and noise rock, delivering their own brand of gnarled intensity. Since coming together as a full band in 2009, Pile have toured as much as their lives collectively allow, playing over 600 shows spread out over the US, Canada, UK and Europe.
Local acts Be Locust or Alone and Hot Tip will be opening the show.


Luke Robinson and Indiana, his Great Pyrenees, are walking 2,000 miles from Canada south to the Mexican border to raise funds and bring awareness to an area of cancer research called comparative oncology.
Robinson founded the Puppy Up Foundation whose mission is to discover "the common links between canine and human cancers and the causes of these cancers through comparative oncology research." Researchers are hoping that studying cancer in dogs (as well as other animals) will help them discover some of the "hows" and "whys" sooner, and those discoveries might apply to treating human cancer patients.
Anyone is welcome to join Robinson and his pooch on his long walk down to San Diego. For those that can't make it out, Robinson is using a Tagg GPS Pet Tracker to monitor their progress down the coast.


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T/Aboret – polski muzyczny zespół etno-jazzowy powstały w 2015 roku w Warszawie.

Laureat I miejsca i nagrody publiczności w konkursie "Scena Otwarta" XXV Międzynarodowego Festiwalu Muzyki Ludowej Mikołajki Folkowe "Spójność brzmienia, autentyzm współmuzykowania oraz umiejętne stosowanie tradycyjnych motywów w jazzowych aranżacjach".

Muzycy mają klasyczne wykształcenie muzyczne. Sprawnie poruszają się w różnych stylistykach muzycznych – w tradycyjnych pieśniach polskich, improwizacjach jazzowych, nieparzystych rytmach, indyjskich systemach rytmicznych.

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 Natalia Czekała – fortepian, śpiew
 Karolina Matuszkiewicz – śpiew, skrzypce, suka biłgorajska, fidel płocka, kemancze, kobyz
 Maciej Szczyciński – kontrabas
 Krzysztof Guzewicz – perkusja, tabla, udu, darbuka, cajon, tombak, mazhar, daf

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 Strona internetowa zespołu

Polskie zespoły folkowe
Polskie zespoły jazzowe

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And I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
— The Knife of Never Letting Go (book) by Patrick Ness (see stats)


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Tag: Planet X
Italian Mobster Shoots a Lobster
Club Run, Saturday 12th December, 2015
Group size: 22 riders, 1 maybe-FNG
Weather in a word or two: Benign to blizzard
Main topic of conversation at the start: For some utterly bizarre, unaccountable reason OGL rolled up to the meeting point bang on 9.00. When questioned, even he couldn't give a rational explanation for actually arriving on time.
Crazy Legs told us about the rider who'd turned up in shorts for our very chilly Club Run a couple of weeks ago (A Winter's Blast, Saturday 21st November). Having taken pity on this criminally under-dressed rider (a bit of a shameful, recurring theme this week as well) Crazy Legs cut short his intended run to ride escort duty directly to the warm sanctuary of the café and avoid the potential onset of hypothermia.
Once there however the rapid change in temperature caused the riders exposed legs to erupt in swathes of itchy and vicious bright red chilblains, becoming so uncomfortable he was forced to take his coffee out into the garden in an attempt to cool down his super-heated skin and find some relief from the crazed itching.
As Crazy Legs described it, his skin had "erupted with loads of mini-Vesuvius's" I queried whether the correct term shouldn't be "Vesuvii" and while debating this fine, etymological point, Taffy Steve helpfully pointed out that, on the good authority of a Marine Biologist, the correct plural of octopus is in fact octopuses, not octopi, as the word is of Greek, not Latin origin.
For some bizarre reason we then ended up wondering what a Mafia-style octopus would look and sound like, given the national stereotype for Italian's to talk with much exaggerated arm waving: "Bada-bing, badda boom!"
We also found common ground in our complete and utter disdain for Paloma Faith. Who? What? Why? When? How? Really?
3 of the girls turned up in formation wearing what looked like identical red jackets, and, as if on cue, parted to reveal the Red Max … wearing blue! Huh?
Main topic of conversation at the coffee stop: The criminally under-dressed students huddled together as close to the fire as they could get, staring fixedly at nothing and trying to control their shivering, while we tucked into cake, supped wonderfully hot, bitter coffee and wondered aloud about the merits of being a young racing snake, devoid of that extra lardy layer of insulation you need to stay warm.
Of course, there's no reason you can't be both lean and mean and comfortably warm, but this requires careful wardrobe choices and a degree of common sense, which seems to be in short supply. Kids today, eh?
Carlton pondered aloud why we didn't all move somewhere with a better, warmer and more benevolent climate, at which point the maybe-New Guy, originally from Galway in the far west of Ireland, piped up earnestly, "Well, that's what I did." Everyone paused long enough to perform a swift double take, checking out the horrendous weather through the window, before we were engulfed in gales of uncontrollable laughter.
Captain Black admitted joining the Hall of Shame, having lent his one and only spare inner tube to a fellow rider in need and being caught out when he later suffered a puncture himself. He thus earned himself a notorious black mark for becoming stranded at the side of the road with a simple mechanical that's easily avoided.
Red Max didn't really help, continually dipping into his magical, ever expanding backpack until he had half a dozen spare inner tubes lined up on the table.
For the first time this year I set out for the meeting point in near darkness and had to use the lights while I waited for the sun to creep up and add at least a semblance of warm colour and daylight to the blanketing cloud cover.
Despite this it was, seemingly for the first time in weeks, benignly mild with, temperatures well above freezing and a barely noticeable wind. Given the BBC forecast was predicting frost and sub-zero temperatures at dawn I was pleasantly surprised. Even taking into account the light and possibly sleety intermittent showers due in the evening, it looked like being a great day for a ride.
I had dressed accordingly for the forecast, but strangely absent cold and predicted overnight frost: light and heavy long-sleeved base layers, winter jacket, buff, gilet, tights, thermolite socks and heavy overshoes. On my hands I went for a new pair of Planet X lobster mitts, which were incredibly warm, but felt a little odd and took some getting used to. I even remembered to pack a spare pair of gloves in the unlikely event these mitts somehow got soaked through.
"Bada bing, bada boom!" – you don't mess with Don Calamari
By the time I made it to the meeting point I was slightly overheated and beginning to regret dressing for near Arctic conditions as I stowed away the gilet and buff. If the fact that the BBC Weather got the predicted temperature so wrong was perhaps warning of more forecast unreliability to come, it went sadly unheeded.
Encouraged by the first spell of decent weather in a while, there was a good turnout of around 22 lads and lasses, our numbers bolstered by some of our students who had returned from University, most notably Chilly Willy and Plumose Papuss. As an indication of just how decent the weather looked, there was also a lone FNG sighting, or at least a maybe-FNG, someone I didn't recognise from previous rides.
At exactly 9:20 we were ready to ride off in the absence of the Prof, who had earlier declared via Faecesbook that he would be out, but was apparently running late. Having been jilted and left behind by one of the Sunday runs starting bang on time, OGL was particularly – some might uncharitably suggest unusually – eager to cut the blather and set out smartly.
We hadn't gone far when beZ caught and overhauled us to let us know his old man, the Prof was trailing behind and I heard OGL cackling hysterically with glee. We did slow enough for the Prof to catch on and ride up to the front to check-in with OGL and take his medicine like a man. Cue more maniacal laughter as vengeance was duly served.
The Prof's sojourn with us didn't last long however as he was soon stopped by a mechanical. We rode on a short way to find somewhere safe to pull over, and were waiting there when another club passed and relayed the message that the Prof's mechanical was terminal and he was heading home. Apparently his wheel bearings had objected to the abuse of constant immersion in the floodwaters last week and were rattling like a hand full of marbles in a spin drier.
While the front of our bunch pulled away to resume the ride, those at the rear had to wait for yet another club to swish past before tagging onto the back. A little further on roadworks and traffic lights stopped everyone, and so it was the three clubs got compacted into one mass peloton of around 60 or 70 riders.
We now effectively, if unintentionally formed a massive rolling road-block, maybe 100 yards long, with me as tail-end Charlie, sitting right at the back with some of our youngsters.
From here I was in the perfect position to watch numerous, impatient and death-defying RIMs trying to force their way past us in the most insane places, including blind bends and hill brows. This was the cue for crazy, wild-driving accompanied by madly revving engines, wild evasive manoeuvres, flashing lights, braking, swerving, cursing and incessant horn leaning.
I'm not sure massive groups of cyclist ensure safety in numbers, or just encourage REALLY stupid driving
Miraculously no one came to grief, despite several heart-in-mouth moments as this pseudo-Demolition Derby come Wacky Races played out, but this was solely due to luck and not good driving abilities or instincts. Where are all these people dashing to that they have to risk life and limb (not always their own admittedly) to ensure they're not a scintilla late?
It was while trying to keep at least half an eye on irrational, unpredictable motorists that I noted with incredulity that half the group we were stuck behind were riding in shorts! At least I was incredulous until Plumose Papuss cheerfully informed me they were from a triathlon club. Ah, that explained everything….
As we hit the long drag up Berwick Hill I could sense the triathletes dropping off the pace and I think the race honed instincts of beZ and Josher immediately took over. I was already accelerating in anticipation, as they surged around the slowing group, and was able to sit on their wheels for a tow up, as they easily bridged across to the front.
At the top of the hill and with the triathletes behind us, the other club swung off to the right and we reformed and pressed on, only until icy rain began to fall and we called a halt to don rain jackets.
Far from being one of the intermittent and passing "light rain showers" forecast for later in the day, it was soon raining in earnest, lashing down until everyone was soaked through and everything became a little grim as we pressed stolidly on.
We swung up the Quarry Climb, pretty much in formation, but at the top all bets were off and, despite OGL shrilly screaming for calm, the race to the café was on as the Red Max shot away with Plumose Papuss in close attendance.
I stuck with the front group as Max faded, hopping from wheel to wheel wherever I could and riding well within my limits. Swinging round the junction for the final run down to the Snake Bends Taffy Steve took off after Plumose Papuss to contest for honours, while I was contend to push along at a steady pace, somewhat surprisingly either holding off or passing G-Dawg, Son of G-Dawg, Captain Black and Crazy Legs along the way.
It was black bin bags all around in a remarkably quiet café, where our two students Plumose and Chilly sat in mute sympathy, huddled as close to the fire as they could squeeze with glassy, thousand yard stares, shivering intermittently as they tried to warm up and dry out. I'm not sure if they ever made it out of the café with the rest of us – for all I know they could still be there.
As we sat there at our leisure, talking trash (as opposed to trash talking, which is a completely different thing) the Prof rolled up, having been home to change one unfeasibly small-wheeled cycling contraption for another unfeasibly small-wheeled cycling contraption. Meanwhile the weather outside gradually worsened and the temperature started to dip alarmingly.
Nothing was either particularly dry, or particularly warm as we kitted up for the return journey, although I briefly felt some smugness pulling on my spare gloves. It was at this point we were subjected to one of the strangest sights ever, as the Prof decided to don his monstrous lobster mitts before his jacket, reasoning that this would provide the best seal between glove and sleeve. The only trouble with this plan was that the jacket sleeves were too tight and, as well as being too bulky to pass through them easily, the mitts were a clear impediment to his manual dexterity.
In desperation he somehow corralled, coaxed or bribed one of the waitresses to help and we were met with the unedifying scene of this young girl first having to drag and pull and heave each mitt through the sleeves, before zipping the Profs jacket up to his chin for him, while he stood around like a sullen infant being dressed by an over-protective mother for a sledging trip.
Finally all ready, we sidled out of the café, mounted up and tried to get arms, legs and brains all working again, and warm ourselves up despite the debilitating, leaching effect of the cold. We hadn't made more than two or three miles before my smugness evaporated and the substitute gloves became completely soaked through with sleet and freezing road spray and my fingers turned numb.
As I split from the group and turned for home the sleet became very serious, very wet snow that started to lie on roads previously washed clean of all salt by the incessant and heavy rain.
I stopped to swap soaking wet gloves for equally as wet lobster mitts. After a bit of a struggle, I somehow managed to cram my cold, wet fingers uncomfortably into some semblance of the right holes. Despite the stream of cold water that was forced out every time I pulled on the brakes or gripped the handlebars too tightly I found they were considerably better and my fingers began to warm up again.
Live long and prosper – with the impressive Planet X Crab Hand Winter Glove
Thankfully I was feeling a lot fresher than in previous weeks and cruised up the hill past the golf course still in the big ring. As I climbed higher and higher the snow got heavier and soon everything was coated in a soaking wet layer of white.
I had to discard the specs as the lenses became "all bogeyed up" (a technical expression learned from Daughter#2, who always seemed to have terrible trouble with swimming goggles) and the snow started to cling to my front and collect in the creases of my clothes, swiftly turning black to white.
Fittingly having last week descried megalomaniac despots and their ill-thought out invasions of Russia, this ordeal was swiftly beginning to remind me of Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Moscow, as I tried to find the balance between covering any exposed flesh with my buff and retaining some ability to see through the thickening snowfall. I was though spared marauding Cossack hordes, presumably they were all Christmas shopping in the MetroCentre with everyone else.
Last weeks talk of invading Russia, was followed by the inevitable retreat with the onset of winter
Luckily my skinny tyres were doing an effective job cutting through the fresh snow and down to the underlying road surface, so grip seemed better than some of the fish-tailing, wheel-spinning cars were experiencing. Nevertheless I took the long descent down to the river extremely gingerly, filthy brakes grating horribly on the wheel rims and a streamer of icy melt water squeezing out of my mitts.
Approaching the climb back out of the valley I found a combination of numb thumb, restrictive gloves and stiff STI lever was just too much and I had to stop at the side of the road to change down to the inner ring.
I finally reached the bottom of the Heinous Hill to find the traffic going up completely grid-locked and a large white BMW slipping down slowly, slipping down sideways toward me.
It's always a good idea to dress … err … appropriately for the weather
I quickly realised that even if I could find any traction through the snow to climb upwards, I had no way of avoiding the out of control cars sliding down in the opposite direction toward me. I climbed off and took to the pavements, grateful that I swap road for mountain bike shoes during the winter, so I at least had some traction in a "two steps forward, one slip back" sort of way.
About halfway up the hill my Garmin crapped out on me, overcome with the cold and wet, or perhaps going into auto-shutdown because I didn't appear to be moving anymore.
I also noticed that my bike had collected a thick crust of snow in the areas most exposed to the wind. From the thickest deposits I was able to surmise that I would get the most benefit from a new aero-seatpost and that I had perhaps discovered an affordable DIY way for the average cyclist to indulge in a bit of wind-tunnel testing. Weather permitting. Assuming they don't mind getting cold. Oh, and wet.
As a measure of how bad it was by the time I'd dragged my soaked and sorry ass home, not only was I allowed to bring the bike into the kitchen to dry off, but Mrs. SLJ actually suggested this drastic course of action and even gave my trusty Peugeot a quick rubdown while I was huddled in the shower trying to restore feeling to my extremities.
The Ice-Giant certainly left its mark on our back garden – as captured by Daughter#2
As the bike sat their dripping quietly onto the tile floor, perfectly moulded sections of the compacted snow and ice caught under the mudguards worked loose and slipped out. I swear they resembled nothing more than the smooth, discarded toe-nail clippings of some mythological ice-giant, perhaps the very one that thought it would be fun to lure unwitting cyclists out with the promise of a relatively pleasant day, only to conjure up a snow storm to really test them.
I hope it gets bored and slinks back to its lair for next weekend.
YTD Totals: 6,134 km/ 3,811 miles with 68,154 metres of climbing.
By SurLaJantein Club Runs December 14, 2015 December 20, 2015 2,965 Words1 Comment
Random Rambles and Esoteric Observations # 4 – Planet X vs. Rapha – The Throwdown
A very personal viewpoint…
Trying to find some clever way of segmenting buying behaviour within the cycling market for a colleague developing a new business concept, I half-jokingly suggested we could measure attitudes to spending on a scale where one end was represented by Rapha and the other end Planet X.
Then the more I thought about it, the more I realised that perhaps my mad idea held more than a grain of truth, and the two brands do in fact occupy completely opposite ends of the price spectrum.
Rapha is a brand that so desperately wants to be seen as niche and elitist that it almost hurts, and I suspect the overblown prices are very much part of its appeal to a certain type of customer. While I don't doubt its products are high quality, well-designed and built to last, I do have trouble believing they are 7 or 8 times better than the competition, which is what some of the pricing implies.
Planet X on the other hand trumpets no nonsense prices and its website and stores are replete with some astonishing deals. In fact they first came to my attention through one of their clearance sales, when I picked up a pair of my favourite Vittoria Corsa tyres for £9.99 each instead of the rrp of £49.99. Everyone loves a bargain, right?
But it's not just the product and price positioning that sets Rapha and Planet X apart, they also seem fundamentally different on many other levels.
Take the brand names for a start: Rapha sounds like a somewhat louche, semi-successful, minor British film star. One of those slightly posh, thespian gentlemen with limited acting ability, who carefully manage to just about play themselves for most roles and manage to retain celebrity B-list status only by dint of constant tabloid headlines earned for all the wrong reasons.
On the other hand, where do you begin with Planet X? It's a corny, half-baked, creaky, black and white Sci-Fi movie that wants to achieve "so bad it's good" cult status and cool, but is just ultimately cheesy and unremittingly nerdy.
Whenever I see the Planet X logo I automatically make this unfortunate association…
Rapha borrows heavily (some would say steals cynically and unashamedly) from the iconic heritage of vintage, continental cycling, the epic pain and suffering of cycling's classic races and hardmen racers, all shot in black and white: straining bodies, serious faces and nary a smile to be seen. It's such an overly-serious, po-faced approach – where's the fun and the joy that's so inherent to cycling?
This is a mythological version of cycling as it never was, all suffering and gladiatorial combat – and to me it's so obviously a parody and fake in its own right that I'm surprised it's still being parodied by others – and all without even the slightest whiff of irony.
Planet X on the other hand is all gruff, straight talking, down to earth stuff. A spade will always be a spade, never a lovingly hand-crafted, ergonomically designed earth shearing, turning and excavation tool, forged from high impact, low carbon tensile steel with a close-grained, oiled and carefully pollarded English yew shaft that's been lovingly nurtured to maturity in the ancient and Royal Forest of Dean. Phew! And breathe. Planet X is the Ronseal of the cycling world – doing exactly what it says on the tin.
Rapha colours are unremittingly flat and dull, relying heavily on over liberal and much imitated use of black (as the new white, brown, grey, orange, black etc. – just delete as appropriate). They are minimalist to the point of bland. Their signature; the single, contrasting coloured band on the sleeve, leg or whatever, no longer looks clever to me (was it ever?) – just strangely unimaginative and rather tired looking. Your mileage, of course, may vary.
Planet X designs on the other hand have none of the studied cool of Rapha and tend toward the garish and over-the-top – check out their Carnac team kit and bikes as a prime example.
Carnac team kit – you can't say it's not distinctive.
Once stalwarts of the British pro scene via the RaphaCondor outfit, Rapha have moved up to the big time and are now the kit providers of choice to the elite of the elite pro teams, the one with allegedly the biggest budget in the peloton, and a team that is perhaps as divisive as the Rapha brand itself.
You don't have to stray too far into the troll infested backwoods of the Internet to find that Sky are unremittingly seen as the bad guys, sucking the soul out of cycling through (shock! horror!) meticulous planning, innovative methods, spending as much budget as they can prise out of sponsors hands, employing the most talented riders, structured training, organisation, attention to detail and riding to their strengths, (all ladled with lashings of dark, innuendo about cheating and drug-taking.)
Rapha themselves have managed to take one of the duller team kits in the pro ranks and somehow make it even more boring and bland, (or understated, cool and minimalist, depending on your own point of view.) Oh, and then they've added those shudderingly hideous national flags to the sleeve cuffs for good measure … well, only one sleeve cuff, obviously.
There may be people out there who like this – but I'm not one of them.
Planet X on the other hand are unheralded sponsors of a host of domestic, young, up-and-coming, teams and individuals, kids, men and women, all flying pretty much under the radar, all in real need of support. They appear to do this with the sole intent of nurturing the grass-roots of the sport, although, if they're really clever, perhaps they might be able to squeeze some small marketing return out of their investment.
Rapha are the perfect, text book example of how to build a premium, niche brand and as a marketing man I should be much, much more appreciative of their tight control over product and image and how they've created a brand with a real and enduring cachet. Their heritage may be at best overstated and at worst manufactured – but it's obviously working for them and their target market.
There's a lot to admire about Rapha – they are a relatively young, dynamically growing, internationally recognised and highly successful British brand that is seen as world leading and is much loved and valued by the only people who actually matter – their customers. I'm sure on many levels their devotees (Raphalites in my jargon) enjoy the scorn of their detractors as much as the product and brand image they are actually buying into.
From the outside Planet X sometimes appear a bit disorganised and all over the shop, willing to jump at any opportunity and conveying the wiles and opportunism of a wheeler-dealer market trader, a Del Boy made good? They appear content to be seen as bumbling along with no particular destination in mind and without any kind of blueprint for world domination.
It's difficult to imagine anyone actually coveting a Planet X product, and if they do the value for money pricing means it's an itch that's fairly easily scratched. Many, many people however will be more than happy to buy and use and endorse their products wholeheartedly.
Both companies have owners who profess a love of cycling, but for Simon Mottram of Rapha it's the pure and unalloyed love of road racing. His avowed aim is to promote the sport he loves, and he wants it to be as big as football. It's an interesting point of view, but I'm not sure it's remotely attainable, or more importantly, even the least bit desirable.
"I think road cycling is the most beautiful sport in the world, and the toughest sport in the world, and I think it should be the biggest sport in the world. I think more people should do cycling than watch football." (Photo from Cycling Weekly)
I also struggle to forgive him his man-crush on Marco Pantani, who Mottram sees as a tragic icon of style(!) and the epitome of cool, while I just think of him as a fragile, ungainly, rocket-fuelled cheat, deserving as much approbation as a certain gentleman from Texas.
On the other side of the coin, Planet X is owned and run by Dave Loughran. A bit of a mongrel in terms of cycling background, first and foremost a triathlete, and then a mountain biker who has dabbled in dirt bikes, mountain bikes, fixies, or anything else that'll turn a profit. By all accounts Loughran is an abrasive, hard-nosed, salesman and a bit of a wheeler-dealer who admires Mike Ashley of all people.
This is a man with (judging purely from what I've read, you understand) so many traits I don't admire that I can't say I have an interest in meeting him and I certainly can't imagine myself ever working for him. Despite this he's made a good impression on me (ironically in an excellent article written by Jack Thurston in Rapha's "corporate" magazine Rouleur) and I'm really interested in seeing what he does next. It was while being interviewed for this article that, almost in an aside about business growth really stuck and resonated with me.
I can remember way back in my university days trying to write a Marketing Communications assignment and weave into it the universal truths of Nietzche's writings and the startling insight of W B Yeats poetry, wrapped around a lengthy discourse on the largely unreported hijacking, total control and manipulation of the free press by the military during the American invasion of Grenada. (Pretentious. Moi? Look there's only so much you can write about J.K. Galbraith, Drucker or Kotler without becoming deathly boring to yourself and, surely your tutors too…)
Around this time I unerringly stumbled across a lecture by E.P. Thompson which either coloured my thinking, or simply gave life to already ingrained beliefs. Thompson argued that the establishment controls the frame of reference in which all the political discourse takes place and stifles true debate so that, for example, it becomes a very narrow argument about which political party can best deliver economic growth and never an exploration of whether the blind pursuit of growth is actually necessary, or in the best interests of the country and its populace.
He likened this to a car, "bumming down the motorway with an accelerator pedal, but no steering … we rush on, faster or slower, but can't take exits, go somewhere else, or even stop and turnaround."
In 30 years of working for and on behalf of dozens, if not hundreds of businesses, both massive and micro, corporate conglomerates to Mom & Pop family-run affairs, I've seen the same single-minded, determined obsession with growth and never yet encountered an organisation that strayed far from the strategy of making as much money and profit as humanly (and occasionally inhumanely) possible.
Every business and many other types of organisation too, seem to have a default setting that says they have to measure themselves purely on financial performance. Year on year they set themselves bigger and bigger growth targets, regardless of whether this is necessary or actually in their best interests, regardless of the mental and physical well-being of the workers and the management and ignoring if this will actually improve what they deliver to their customers.
Now, many, many years later I've actually found a successful business man with a different view and judging from the articles, growth for growth's sake also seems to be a bit of a bugbear for Loughran too.
He's quoted talking about the plans to sell off his company, "All I've had for the last three years is 'what's our growth plan': growth, growth, growth, how are we striving for growth? Growth became a number. We grew phenomenally in the last year and it became a pressure cooker of: 'How do we build 300 bikes a week, how do we build 350, how do we build 400?' It was all because my management team was driving for a buy-out and they had to show to all the vulture capitalists a £10, £15, £20, £25 million success story".
And then he capped it all with this piece of what sounded like very heartfelt, hard-won wisdom. "We can build 300 bikes a week now and everyone can have a great life and the mechanics don't have any pressure and we can have good availability. If we strove for 500 bikes a week we wouldn't have the supply chain, everybody would hate each other, it wouldn't be a nice company." (My emphasis).
He then went on to talk about setting up an employee share ownership system that will eventually mean the company is co-owned by staff and an independent trust set up to safeguard the workforce. Sounds great – I'll be watching.
And there you have it, a very rambling discourse on why I'm more interested in what Mr. Loughran does next, rather than Mr. Mottram's next step toward world-domination. It's also one reason why I'm more X-traterrestrial than a Raphalite – you see it isn't just because I'm as tight as a wallaby's sphincter.
By SurLaJantein Random Rambles October 28, 2015 October 28, 2015 2,263 Words1 Comment


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Elizabeth Hazen: The TNB Self-Interview
By Elizabeth Hazen
Poetry Self-Interviews
Why Chaos Theories? What is the significance of the title?
Many tenets from chaos theory appear in these poems. After reading a little bit about it, I became obsessed with the way in which chaos is actually a type of order. This contradiction continues to fascinate me and seems an apt metaphor for human emotions and relationships, and maybe even a metaphor for the writing process – or at least my process: through my poems I attempt to force order onto the disorder of the world. Plus I love all of the scientific language: strange attractors, bifurcations, butterfly effect, turbulence, dynamic systems, sensitivity to initial conditions, and on and on… There is so much gorgeous language to mine.
Did you study science in school?
I had a lot of hands-on experience with science as a kid. My father, a geophysicist, taught us how to play pool using Newton's laws of motion and basic trigonometry. When other kids my age were sipping lemonade at the beach during summer vacation, I was kneeling in quarries, splitting open slabs of shale in search of trilobites. As I grew older, I think I took all of that early exposure for granted. The one real science course I took in college had the nickname "Physics for Poets" because it was kind of watered down. These days I spend a lot of time playing catch-up. Luckily my father is very helpful when I need him to parse a complex scientific idea. Some of the poems actually began with passages from his books.
Speaking of your father, family members appear in a lot of your poems. And you seem to write a lot about your past. Would you say your poems are confessional?
I don't really think of them that way, but I guess they do have confessional qualities. I draw heavily from my own experience. I try to be honest about my insecurities and fears, my bad habits and questionable choices. I definitely allow myself to be vulnerable in my poems in ways I am not in real life. At the same time, the people who appear in my poems are often amalgams and the narratives are approximations rather than exact accounts. My goal is always to get at emotional truth.
Emotional truth, huh? What exactly do you mean?
I just mean the authenticity of the emotion is much more important than the accuracy of details. Whether a shirt was red or blue, whether someone's breath smelled like whiskey or vodka, whether I took benzos or painkillers, whether I actually used mouthwash when I came home or wore control-top pantyhose – those minutiae are fluid and might be altered for something as technical as meter.
So are you nervous about all of this intimate content being public when the book comes out?
Absolutely. I'm worried an ex-boyfriend will recognize parts of himself, or think he does, in one of the poems and make assumptions. I'm worried that my students will see the poem about me reading my father's "Playboy" magazine and won't be able to look me in the eye again. The list goes on. But these are the risks of publication.
TAGS: Elizabeth Hazen, Poetry, TNB Poetry Feature, TNB Self-Interview
ELIZABETH HAZEN is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Poetry, American Literary Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, The Normal School, and other journals. Her first book, Chaos Theories, was published in 2016. Her second book, Girls Like Us, is out now. She lives in Baltimore.


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WBBL 2022: Match 53, PS-W vs MR-W, Today Match Prediction – Who will win today's WBBL match?
Perth Scorchers Women. (Photo by Mark Brake/Getty Images)
The defending champions Perth Scorchers will lock horns with Melbourne Renegades on Sunday, November 20 at Ted Summerton Reserve in Moe, Victoria.
Following a brilliant start to the season, the Sophie Devine-led side failed to gain momentum in the middle and are currently fifth on the table with 13 points. Renegades, on the other hand, are seventh on the table with seven points and are already out of the semi-final race.
In their last clash on November 12 in Melbourne, Scorchers absolutely thrashed the Renegades and won the match by 104 runs. Scorchers will expect to replicate the performance in their final league game as their qualification for the semi-finals is not yet guaranteed. Thus, they desperately need to win in order to stay in the hunt for qualification.
The Hayley Matthews-led side, on the other hand, defeated Syndey Thunders in their last match and would hope to beat Scorchers before bowing out of the tournament. However, their batting woes remains to be a problem and in case they manage to pick early wickets, Renegades can shock Scorchers.
Perth Scorchers vs Melbourne Renegades, Match 53, Women's Big Bash League 2022
Venue: Ted Summerton Reserve, Moe, Victoria
Date & Time: November 20, 4:45 AM IST
Telecast & Live Streaming Details: Sony Sports Network & Sony Liv
Given the conditions at Ted Summerton Reserve, the skipper winning the toss would look to bat first. Since not a lot of games have been played here, the pitch will be fresh and the batters can score runs easily. Pacers might get help from the pitch in the early stage of both innings.
Predicted Playing XIs for PS-W vs MR-W
Melbourne Renegades Women
Hayley Matthews (c), Chamari Athapaththu, Josephine Dooley (wk), Courtney Webb, Carly Leeson, Erica Kershaw, Georgia Prestwidge, Rhiann O Donnell, Sarah Coyte, Shabnim Ismail, Ella Hayward
Perth Scorchers Women
Beth Mooney (wk), Chloe Piparo, Sophie Devine (c), Maddy Green, Marizanne Kapp, Mathilda Carmichael, Amy Louise Edgar, Alana King, Piepa Cleary, Lilly Mills, Taneale Peschel
Probable Best Performers from PS-W vs MR-W
Probable best batter: Beth Mooney
The 28-year-old Beth Mooney has been the top run-scorer of this season's Women's Big Bash League. The Australian so far has scored 434 runs in just 12 innings and been very consistent in delivering for her team. However, she will be under pressure in the match as it can very well be a do-or-die game for th Scorchers.
Probable best bowler: Alana King
The leg-spinner Alana King has been sensational in the tournament so far. In 13 matches, the 26-year-old has picked up 16 wickets at an impressive economy rate of 5.93.
Today's Match Prediction: Perth Scorchers to win
Disclaimer: This prediction is based on the understanding, analysis, and instinct of the author. While making your prediction, consider the points mentioned, and make your own decision.


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Matt Hancock acknowledges Long Covid at the Health and Social Care Committee
Long covid has at last been acknowledged by the UK Government. Two months after our Open Letter was sent to Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock and other health policymakers, the condition has now been officially recognised.
The health secretary emphasised that long term symptoms do not correlate with acute illness severity and that young people can be sick for months. "The impact of long covid can be really debilitating for a long period of time".
Post covid clinics were discussed - the committee was told they have been set up since July - but GPs don't seem to be able to refer patients. We will update this blog when we find out more about these clinics.
"We cannot afford to let them down" The Health & Social Care Select Committee publishes their report
LongCovidSOS submit evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry into the Backlog
LongCovidSOS writes to Sajid Javid: "We must take long covid into account when easing restrictions"


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