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SciFi Vision | Interviews | "Legend Quest" Joins the Syfy Lineup on Wednesdays
"Legend Quest" Joins the Syfy Lineup on Wednesdays
Published: Sunday, 17 July 2011 15:40 | Written by SciFi Vision
Legend Quest is the newest unscripted reality show on Syfy. The action-adventure series follows archaeologist Ashley Cowie as he searches the world for strange artifacts, such as the Holy Grail.
In the pilot episode Cowie and his team search for the Ark of the Covenant and the Talking Cross.
Cowie recently talked to the media about his exploits and his new series, which airs Wednesdays nights on Syfy.
Syfy Conference Call
Legend Quest
Ashley Cowie
12:00 pm CT
QUESTION: How did the idea for the show originally come about? Did they approach you or did you go to them, or what happened?
ASHLEY COWIE: I can answer that question. I was approached about two years ago by a casting agent in Los Angeles. And of course they had a rough idea for a show so I met one of the network execs in L.A. as I was out doing an interview, and we threw some ideas together and the show's mutated so much since the original idea, which was an artifacts show. But the way it's actually changed and developed over the last two years, there's no relevance to how it was in the beginning.
But let's be honest, it was a network exec and Syfy's idea for the show. But we've worked together developing it since.
QUESTION: And how much input do you actually have in choosing where you're going to go and what artifacts you're going to look for?
ASHLEY COWIE: Well that's 100% input there. Basically since they chose me to lead the show up, I've developed all of the artifacts. I would go searching for all of the clues and the symbols that we find along the way and the methods that we get from one place to the next is completely my own work and research, and it's pretty much a case of me out there looking for artifacts that we've established and the team's sort of along recording it as it goes. So, pretty much 100% input for myself working with the development team at Syfy.
QUESTION: What artifact is out there that you've not had a chance to go and search for that you personally would want to?
ASHLEY COWIE: So you're asking me to tell you the premier for series 2. Come on.
QUESTION: No, I actually was curious about you personally. What artifact you hadn't looked for.
ASHLEY COWIE: Do you know what? We have a list of artifacts that I've been looking for all my days and I hopefully will next year, but I will tell you there's one in particular it's called the Slime Dagger of Japan. I want to get to Japan and film that and film me looking for it because I've got a good idea of where to start looking. However, we haven't got that in series. But yes, there's a number of artifacts in Japan and in China that I would really like to go looking for.
But the Flying Dagger is one - it's sort of localized. An artifact in the southern part of Japan not very well known, but it's got some fascinating temples and, you know, places to go to especially using TV as a media of getting this out there. So yes, Japan and Flying Daggers, we're going to have to do that.
QUESTION: Since there are so many theories surrounding the Ark of the Covenant, can you talk about how you find the right road to follow to know that you have the best possible location?
ASHLEY COWIE: Yes, and that's a great observation. I mean it's been done so many times - people looking for the Ark. So what I do, my methodology is to take everything that's been written so far, I research everything that it cannot be and like Sherlock Holmes says, "Hopefully end up with what can only be." I'll be honest when you see the show; we've a number of dead ends along the way for the Ark of Covenant.
But when I find a clue, see a symbol or something that's absolutely indicative of where the Ark was taken next, we follow that and when in the show we've (hit) a dead end with (the first to see) we've hit a dead end we'll go back to the last stage and then take it forward again. But that's methodology. It's really following your nose as we go. Rather than making up history, if we find something that doesn't work we back track ourselves and then go forward which is a nightmare production who have half an hour to cover an artifact.
But I insisted the whole way along, we cannot make anything up with this. It's got to be there or else we're going backwards and there's a number of occasions where we go backwards.
QUESTION: From what you know and have investigated, how is it possible that the Ark could still be out there somewhere?
ASHLEY COWIE: The Ark existed. As far as we know the Ark actually existed.
We know that (it) appeared in 556 BC when the Babylonians invaded the Temple of Solomon. So many other relics from that time that were taken from the Temple have turned up in the last 40 or 50 years since archaeology started using technology. We're going on the premise that the Ark is out there somewhere and there are lots of clues and legends within medieval texts from everywhere from Africa all the way through to Northern Europe.
So, you know what? To be absolutely honest with you, we have to go on the same assumption that everybody else from Indiana Jones to a professor from London did and that is that it exists and therefore if it exists where would it be. The only way we can prove it is out there is we actually find it and we've done pretty well with the show I must add.
QUESTION: In the episode you mention that you are a templar knight...
ASHLEY COWIE: Indeed.
QUESTION: What does it mean to be a templar today as compared to what's been written? Can you demystify?
ASHLEY COWIE: Yes, I would love to. So many modern orders have sprung up since the Da Vinci Code was released, modern Knights Templars, and in Scotland about 10 to 12 years ago I was approached by not a secret order but an order with secrets who asked me to put some of my research work into the order, come along and meet them. So what I'm involved in is a bunch of guys whose average age is about 75.
They are keepers of historical knowledge. They protect certain sacred sites and certain churches and chapels in the UK, they fundraise for charity. So a modern Knight Templar is somebody that tries to live by the virtues of the old order, but we live in 2011. So we do not run about on clandestine orders with super secrets. We do not have the Holy Grail, but we have a bunch of like-minded guys who's involved in historical study and the protection of the heritage of Scotland.
So that's pretty much what I'm involved in and I could answer any question you want about modern Knights Templar as we do not have secrets. We always believe that if somebody has the ability to ask a question, they deserve an answer.
QUESTION: Sounds like Freemason.
ASHLEY COWIE: It's kind of like Freemason. However, we do not stipulate that you have to be a Freemason to be a Knights Templar.
We're not a Masonic order. There is a Masonic Knights Templar order, but that is not ours. We are from the original order that (ran) through Scotland so certainly not Freemasonry.
SCIFI VISION: You talked about how you became involved in creating the show, but growing up, how did you decide that this is what you wanted to do?
ASHLEY COWIE: Syfy decided that. I always wanted to be an archaeologist. It was photography I qualified in and at the age of 18, I figured out I had a pretty good eye for observing. I see things and I did lots of studies with photography on churches, chapels, symbols, architecture and started to pretty much teach myself about the history of these places and whatnot and became a kind of authority on Scottish history to begin with. But then [I was] always into medieval history and eventually became very much a specialist in pre-history. You know, everything before 2000 BC.
I've always had it in me. And what's really funny? My mother sent me a painting that I drew in school when I was 5 years old recently and it's a picture of me holding a book with the word ancient history written up the spine. So from five years old I had visions of myself doing this.
SCIFI VISION: So the actual search part is fairly new. You haven't been doing this all your life.
ASHLEY COWIE: For the last ten years I've been commissioned by a number of private collectors and historical bodies to get out there, solve historical problems [and] mysteries, to figure out lost histories, and I've made a living from it for about the last decade. I've been on various quests around Europe for the last ten years and it was through these quests and through my experience there that I really got into the hands of Syfy to develop this show out. So yes for about the last ten years I've been doing this and, you know what?
To be honest with you a number of the artifacts researched in the show, I've been researching all my days for the [last] 15, 20 years. But let's be honest, [I've] never had the funds or the support to actually go out there and search for these things. So yes, ten years I've been out searching for artifacts, but pretty much over the last two years since developing this I've actually got to go to the ends of the earth looking for them.
SCIFI VISION: Of all the places you've been, what's your favorite?
ASHLEY COWIE: My favorite place must be Edinburgh in Scotland. No, not at all. My favorite place was the Philippines. We searched for this amazing artifact that Cintamani stole in the Philippines and we didn't just go to the tourist Philippines. We were, you know, 15 hours in a car, sat four hours in a flight, we explored on volcanoes and amongst rainforests. We were like a kilometer deep in a cave at one stage diving. I mean the Philippines blew me away. It was the biggest contrast from the North of Scotland where I'm from and I must say the Philippines is absolutely - unquestionably the Philippines.
QUESTION: How does the addition of the cameras and doing this for TV change or affect your methodologies and your approach to going after things?
ASHLEY COWIE: Yes and to be frank with you, [on] a number of occasions it really pissed me off. Excuse the terminology. But I need time to think, I need space to operate, and sometimes the penny doesn't drop immediately. You see something and you think something, but you need time to ruminate. But you've got a production crew; you've got cameras guys there, safety guys there, organizers who need you to be moving on quickly. So there's a constant battle between TV and artifact hunting, but it's collaborative.
We worked it out and because I knew what I was going looking for, I had a good idea and the possible locations to go next before I went out on the road. What I needed to do was to get to location to establish where it was we were going to go next, but there was a running battle. When I'm out doing one job that's got nothing to do with television -- it really has to do with history -- and you've got a bunch of people educated in TV that don't really care what I'm doing, they've got a box to take.
It brought up conflicts and also some differences and changes and of course ticking behind it all is a budget. But I must say Syfy were absolutely brilliant as far as budget was concerned. They literally told me we will follow you wherever we have to go. Please behave yourself. Don't make a fool of us, but get out there and find it. So I found a lot of latitude on the time I could spend at any one place.
QUESTION: Can you talk a little bit about the background of the team that you've assembled? What kind of educational or history backgrounds do they have?
ASHLEY COWIE: Yes. Well pretty much if you're looking at the history and educational side, myself I'm the specialist on the show but Kenya Phillips is a very well-respected show host in her own right, but very much a film producer. She's traveled the world with different shows. She knows international travel; she was excellent at getting translators for me, getting historical specialists ahead of time. If I told her we're off to France tomorrow, she would be up all night finding specialists in the area, people to get me into different places. So I had those things, logistics things handled.
But on the actual historical side of things, I was depending on my own work, my own research, my own contacts in the Knights Templars, and in historical societies who we even involved in the show. I would say in at least every second episode we have one of my own contacts -- people I know around the world -- that are helping iron things out. And when there's something they know more about than I do, we've been right there and they're giving the information out to the audience and I'm using it.
So quite a big mix, but as far as making the staff, and taking the box to go to the next location it's pretty much my own work there.
QUESTION: Of the six episodes that we're definitely getting on Syfy is there one in particular that stands out for you
ASHLEY COWIE: Yes, the final episode. The one hour special, it's a search of the Holy Grail.
That is riveting in the sense that being involved in Knights Templar and having such a close association to these types of artifacts, especially the biblical artifacts, that was just like being dropped off in a sweet shop for me. I mean to go out in a modern-day quest for the Holy Grail, considering the success of Indiana Jones and the Da Vinci Code machines, was pretty much everybody's dream and we really did go for it.
We've gone to places that no one would ever think. I'd love to tell you where we end up looking or indeed establishing where the Grail was probably...and I think our record would...stand...but definitely the Holy Grail though - the (penultimate) episode. That was my favorite.
QUESTION: Your investigation techniques seem to be quite intense and exhaustive. When things get difficult, what is your motivation to really see things through?
ASHLEY COWIE: To really see things through, I'll answer that question totally personally and honestly. The biggest, hardest [thing] I found on the road was not so much the historical side of things or not so much figuring things out, I know my subject matter so very much I was getting to see things and I would just know immediately.
I'm a Type 1 diabetic. That takes an awful lot of management and time on an everyday basis. Never mind traveling the world, not sleeping times, and everything else. That was the biggest challenge on the road.
The motivation was to get up and get out of the places we were in to get moving forward because a camera guy has just hiked up a mountain for a day, everybody's exhausted, I'm personally exhausted most days out there doing it. The motivation is to keep a momentum going forward so the entire team and all the people there supporting you aren't getting downhearted. Although we're out looking for clues, and mysteries, and things to move us forward, I felt personally responsible for making sure that team were enjoying the quest.
Three months on the road, heads go down and I took the full responsibility for making sure we're moving onward. So it was a very personal thing that kept me going and driving all the way through this quest.
QUESTION: What do you think it is about this show and the subject matter that will really hook viewers?
ASHLEY COWIE: It's going to absolutely be me! I joke with you. No.
You know what it is? It's like shaking the best out of the Da Vinci Code, shaking the best out of Indiana Jones series but replacing all of the fiction and myth that's in there with absolutely fact and logic. So, you know, I think what viewers will find is a kind of satisfaction from not just being dealt more rubbish, but actually given an alternative view of these histories or these mysteries which have almost become histories. Now that's actually a breath of fresh air because it does not require a leap of faith. It's logic in the place of myth, and I think that's what a viewer will find refreshing.
It's time for us to become beyond the Da Vinci Code and just ask for a little bit more. And I think it's time TV gave an audience something to ruminate on that actually is worth something. It's not just something to spit out the next day because you hear it's rubbish. It's fact and I think that's kind of cool to be involved in an original show that isn't ScyFy channel, but it's fact and that's what I think the audience will appreciate.
QUESTION: So you have the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail. What else can you tell us that you'll be looking for this year?
ASHLEY COWIE: Yes. Well, the Ark of the Covenant and I mean the first series; we have two segments in each show. It's an hour show with two artifacts per show. So we kick off with a Talking Cross in Mexico which is a fantastic Mexican - it's like a cross that appeared before the cast. It was hidden in a cave, so we're going searching for the Talking Cross in Mexico.
One of the most interesting relics takes us all the way through Europe and elsewhere. It's the Holy Lance. This is the spear that pierced the side of Christ when he was on the cross, otherwise known as the Spear of Longinus or the Spear of Destiny. That's a great fun relic to go searching for. There's a lot of fiction written about that, but we really come up with some cool stuff for that one.
The Stone of Destiny, which is the coronation stone of the royal family. It's been used for 800 years by the royals in London there.
So we're looking for Excalibur - King Arthur's famous sword. That's one of the better ones as well.
But also, we're down there in Peru looking for the Golden Sun Disc. It was a large sun disc that was moved when the Spanish invaded.
We're looking for (Merlin)'s Magic Treasures, that's known as the 13 Treasures of Great Britain. They're hidden in a cave somewhere where we're searching for those.
And others like Solomon's ring. King Solomon had a ring that he lost sometime before the birth of Christ. We're looking for that.
The staff of Moses. So (I've) pretty much given you a run through of most of the shows and of course the last one - the Holy Grail, which is the best.
QUESTION: When you're doing your research, you have to separate the myth from the history. Is that would a major challenge for you?
ASHLEY COWIE: Yes, it is a major challenge. And what it takes is an element of bravery because what they say about science. And a good scientist would be prepared to do 40 years work to have somebody disprove something and he has to stand up and say "Well everything I've done has been absolute rubbish. I thought it was true, but it's not."
And I as a person am quite prepared to stand up to any of you guys out there who can say "But about this Ashley. You got this wrong or this isn't right." But to my knowledge where we are today everything I've done has been based on fact to the best of my knowledge. And if someone disproves it or says look Ashley, the reason you didn't find this there was because of this, then that is absolutely wonderful and we'll address it on Syfy.com.
But certainly in my personal research over the years, I've been credited on sticking – or being almost dry. Taking things down to the primal level...How do people survive, why would they do this? And I don't look for super powers and supernatural things. I'm a skeptic. So it's nice to tackle supernatural objects from a skeptical point of view. That's refreshing and that's what I do.
QUESTION: Even though you're a Templar yourself, why was it so hard to get answers about the Ark from your own brotherhood?
ASHLEY COWIE: Yes that's interesting. The Knights Templar today, there are two or three different bodies out there. You have the modern Catholic Church - have their own Knights Templar order. You have to be an ordained Catholic, you have to be a member of the Catholic Church, and answer to Supreme Grand Master within the Vatican. Those are the people that have the history of the Ark.
The order I belong to is a Scottish-based order. We have membership in affiliate countries, but each order and each Knight Templar depending on his pedigree has different histories. Each person within each order has different knowledge and different information depending where they are within the order.
So for me to start - I can't send a group email out going "Hey guys, where [is the] Ark of the Covenant?" What I can do is sit down and peel, ask questions, and converse with them and that's we do in the show. We meet various Knights Templar in the show. Some of them have information; some of them don't know what the last person was talking about. But I've got to try and piece that all together.
You know, unfortunately history is made with up with points of view and perspectives and everyone has their own. So what I have to do is kind of (see if I can) move through that end - tremulous rhetoric so to speak. And then that's why I can't go to any one person with a Knight Templar order because there are three separate orders and each person knows different things.
QUESTION: I was going to ask you about the Vatican, but instead...
ASHLEY COWIE: Please do. I can answer anything I know about it.
QUESTION: How much do they factor into the past and current status of these religious artifacts? And why are these things being kept secret?
ASHLEY COWIE: Okay. If you go on the Da Vinci Code, the Vatican are holding secrets, you know, that could cripple the world, take it to its knees, [they] are holding everything.
But it's not altogether true. These are (sectionalized) versions of what the Vatican do. The Vatican do have 76 kilometers of secret archive underneath their building there in Italy. What they say are documents and historical papers, but very few actual artifacts.
They are not going to claim to own the Ark of the Covenant. They will not claim to have the Holy Grail or any one of these artifacts. It's just not good business practice to do that. Plus they've stripped so many countries of artifacts over the last 400 years that they cannot say we have any one thing. They just have to blanket and canvas deny having anything that's of any value.
I don't think that conspiracy's (been) up there. I think there's just good business practices. The same way as Coca-Cola will not give out their ingredients (today). Just have the public enjoy the drink.
QUESTION: During World War II the Germans also searched for these artifacts. Did you factor that into your research? And if so, what did you learn from Hitler's search?
ASHLEY COWIE: You're going to love the Holy Lance. It takes me to the heart of the SS cult movement in Germany and I interview Germans. I go to one of the most - I'm going to spoil it by telling you the interview but I go to one of the most sinister places I have ever been to in the world. I realized when I was there that I did not know a thing about the pain of World War II until I stood in that building where the 12 generals of the SS gathered to put together their different occult ideas and practices and whatnot. And we interviewed a lot of the people about that - had to be very, very careful doing it. But the Nazis did go searching for two of the relics indeed that we're looking for.
The Holy Lance, Hitler was obsessed with the Holy Lance. General George Patton got a hold of it. Hitler was obsessed with it and he seized it from Vienna. First act of oppression when he came into (Austria) was to seize the Hofburg Museum, the treasury in Vienna, and seize the lance that pierced the side of Christ. He got that artifact.
He also sent people looking for the Cintamani Stone in the Philippines. He sent people looking for the Talking Cross in Peru. There were searches done in the Antarctic for different relics. And of course the Grail itself. He sent Hess over to Scotland in the early part of the 20th century looking for the Holy Grail.
So he had a big involvement and at all corners I was looking over my shoulder not for modern-day Nazis, but just to make sure I wasn't offending people by asking them really searching hard questions.
QUESTION: So you're saying Hitler did find the Lance?
ASHLEY COWIE: It's believed he certainly did. He seized it from Vienna and he took the Lance to Nuremburg. That's historical fact and General Patton seized the Lance in '45. I think it was September '45 and he gave it back to Austria. He gave the Holy Lance back to Austria after the war. And so Hitler certainly got a hold of the Lance and I mean there was a book written, whether it's credible or not is always argued. Trevor Ravenscroft I believe wrote a book called The Spear of Destiny in '73 which [told] the story of Hitler seeing the Lance, grabbing the Lance [and] what he did with the Lance.
Because of course the Holy Lance is said to have the power to control the destiny of the world for good or evil. Forty-seven generations of Holy Roman Empires had it and Charlemagne had it. Napoleon drove his forces into Northern Europe looking for it - one of the most powerful artifacts in the history of mankind.
Now whether it holds supernatural powers or whether it generates the beliefs within the holder to actually go out and do these things, it certainly has had a huge influence on European history and Hitler did have that one artifact.
QUESTION: And now you're searching for it again?
ASHLEY COWIE: Hey, you're presuming I didn't find it.
QUESTION: What happened to it? If Patton had it where did it go?
ASHLEY COWIE: But you know what? You're making me feel - I don't know if I can use the word. Let me just say this, you're pulling me to give you the revealed crux of our story...I just can't do that. I can't answer your last question. But I told you that Hitler seized that Lance and Patton returned a Lance. So let's just see what happens in our show from there.
SCIFI VISION: When you find the artifacts, what do you do with them? Do you take them to the Knights or what happens to them?
ASHLEY COWIE: The first call [is to] the local authorities, historical association's bodies, we contact the governments of each country when we come across anything that we've - not just the artifact that we're searching for. But we're getting into sorts of places, for example when we were in Mexico we were looking in a cave that hadn't been explored for goodness knows how long. I found a human bone in there. I found a human skull when I was diving. We also found tools that dated to maybe 1600 years ago - ancient Mayan tools.
So we're turning up artifacts the whole way along looking for the main artifacts. So we're constantly contacting historical bodies and governmental bodies in each country. We go giving them over what we found.
SCIFI VISION: Other than your diabetes, what are some of the roadblocks that usually come up? Like maybe other people that try to stop you if they don't agree?
ASHLEY COWIE: Yes. That is a major roadblock. What you've got are people living where we hear about artifacts through movies and through popular culture. However, if you go to the back wash in Mexico, Peru, Ethiopia, wherever we've been these people truly believe in the power of these artifacts and the importance of them to their culture.
When I turn up and start asking them searching questions about [the artifacts' llocations], their location and who had them, where they may have been, very often you find them backing off and you'll see it in the show. They will back off and literally clam up. So, one of my jobs is to spend a bit of time before we even start recording just winning them over and softening the whole thing up for them to actually want to talk to us and give us something.
But I would say the people are the biggest roadblock in any quest like this. It's really a case of winning people over so they can give you information. And so many times we've hit blank walls because people will just not tell us what we need and we've been put on the wrong directions as well. People will deliberately give you a bum steer and not answer phones and all the rest of it.
And of course when you do deal with some of these Knights Templar, there are people who will not give you what (you) want because they don't want their stuff broadcast on a cable network all over the Western world. They'd just rather secrets were left alone and I think people create the biggest hurdles.
QUESTION: You said people are usually the biggest roadblock. Is there ever any danger of physical confrontations with these people?
ASHLEY COWIE: We have a number of stories from the road where curious things happened to transportation we're in. We had all sorts of intimidation on the road. We did find a point where we were in Mexico; it wasn't really so much really the artifact.
But we were in a small town in Mexico and seven or eight of us turning up with all of our equipment and whatnot with a diving and a caving expert to get me down to this cave we had to go to, we saw a lot of local resistance. A lot of teenagers gathering around and we could just feel things heating up and we did feel unsafe. We had certain objects stolen from the kit and whatnot, but I wouldn't say so much as in physical threat for us looking for the artifact itself.
I certainly met walls and people just absolutely lying to me. I can smell a lie a mile off and it happened to me a number of times. I wouldn't be rude enough to expose them on national TV for having done so, but you'll see it on the show. There's a few times where I pretty much shake a hand and walk away without even saying thank you because they've just given me a little (bull).
But I can't make something up and say that people actually went out and tried to shoot us. There was no Nazis on our shoulder at every turn. However, there was certain people keeping an eye when we were in these local situations.
I wish I could tell you that people tried to poison us and stuff. I wish I can, but I can't. That's pretty much what we were receiving. The smaller the town we were in, the bigger a presence we were and you could just see, you know, the tension from time to time - boys wanting to make an impression on their friends. But I don't think we were actually under any physical threat.
I must say as well, most people in anything outside a small town are quite welcoming for a team like us to be in there and the chance for their little town [to be] on TV so on. But we're always aware and we had security with us in a number of countries because we were delving into questions in countries that we predicted may raise a bit of eyebrow or receive some resentment. But it didn't actually come direct to me.
QUESTION: You mentioned that people would clam up and they believed in the power of these things. Did they think you were going to steal them?
ASHLEY COWIE: Oh no. As far as that clamming up is concerned, I mean we were in Ethiopia, there we were following the trail back to the Covenant and I was interviewing high priests, which I must add was a great honor to be able to speak to these people who have been keeping the secrets of the Ark for some 7800 years. And I was asking these people direct questions through a translator and getting absolute mumbo jumbo back and I would do it so many times, I was almost embarrassed asking the same question again. And it was just so obvious they were totally resisting.
It's funny how people can speak English when they want to ask for something, but when they have to answer they have language problems.
Yes, there we go. But there was lot of resistance like that. You could see especially churchmen and holy men as you'll see in the Ark of the Covenant. There was one high priest in particular who just did not want me there and I knew certain historical facts and I knew he knew them, but nope, damned if he would say them. Because of course he's got to get up tomorrow morning and go and answer to his high (legion) or his boss and they just didn't give up everything.


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Childress acknowledges a common refrain I hear from tenured faculty as well, that they don't control administrative budgets, while also pointing out that faculty are not in a state of "total helplessness."
It is a fantastic list of entirely doable actions that will nonetheless disconcert many tenured folks, even some of those who consider themselves allies with contingent laborers. As one example, Childress advocates for a redirecting of faculty-controlled resources to adjunct compensation.
Reduce your institution's travel budget and the number of its institutional memberships, and put that money toward adjunct resources. If you want to be current in your field, read the journals, talk on Skype, and save three grand per conference — a little more than the average national adjunct stipend for a three-credit course. What will serve your students better: your weekend at a conference, your adherence to a disciplinary accreditation that nobody really cares about, or a more fully supported colleague?
It is difficult to deny Childress' logic here. To choose not to follow his recommendation does not make one a terrible person, but it is statement on one's priorities. Either one is an ally or they are not. Allyship necessarily requires sacrifice, otherwise it doesn't mean much. It's more than defensible not to make that sacrifice, but it also means you don't get to call yourself an ally.
I mostly want to speak on one of Childress' other recommendations: "Hire from within."
Childress advocates for internal searches that bring adjuncts into the fold "instead of searching for that distant star."
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But now, several years removed from the experience, and with a somewhat different perspective, I find Childress' case persuasive, "You have both data and experience as to the effectiveness of your contingent colleagues with exactly the population of students you hope to serve. If they've proven themselves, promote them. You'd expect the same from your promotion and tenure process."
Let me amplify a couple of additional points. Finding the "best" person for the job is an illusion crafted to make us feel more secure in what is an inherently subjective process. The "best" person depends very much on what criteria is privileged as most important. A department of diverse people with differing ideas will likely accommodate many different notions of "best" simultaneously. And as anyone who has engaged in a search on either side of the equation can attest, there are usually dozens of candidates (if not more) who are qualified and capable of doing the job.
Second, for the vast majority of institutions, the chase for prestige and buying into an ethos of competition is both inefficient and costly, as it perpetuates a system that disadvantages institutions below the very highest tiers by playing a game that, for most schools, is impossible to win. Opting out of the competition where it is possible helps undermine the system that is doing so much damage to the institution itself and the people who work and learn within it.
Additionally, those shiny stars – if they are indeed as shiny as everyone believes – will quite possibly be inclined to move on to a shinier institution, meaning it's back to the drawing board to find a new star. This has in fact happened with the outstanding person who secured the job when I was an internal candidate.
This isn't about me – I'm good – but let's imagine a world where a contingent faculty member who has been working at an institution for three to five years is elevated to a more secure, better paying, tenure-line job. Because this person has already established a home both at the institution and in the community they are up and running as a full member of the department nearly instantly. The odds of that person moving on for greener pastures are much lower. Relocation costs are saved. Provided they fulfill the promise they showed as an adjunct – and how could they not, having been given this rare opportunity – there will never have to be another search. Win, win, win.
This is not saying that institutions musthire from within. The person must absolutely be qualified, but if that threshold is met, what is the harm to the institution to hiring them versus the demonstrable good discussed above?
I understand this may seem simply wrong. It's how I felt for a very long time. But I think we're in a world where a lot of the "rules" were made under very different circumstances and material conditions.
Herb Childress is asking us to define new rules around today's conditions, rules which are actually consistent with the values we claim to hold.
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In classrooms from elementary to post-secondary, group work and collaboration are staple features of the work students engage in. Being able to work well in teams and collaborate with others is increasingly seen as a critical skill for career success and positive everyday interactions. However, students can struggle to perform effectively in groups, and educators may have difficulties facilitating successful groupwork. Helping both teachers and students develop strategies and supports for engaging in group work is needed.
Drs. Christy Thomas and Barbara Brown have been leading a research team including Dr. Gabriela Alonso Yanez and doctoral student, Joshua Hill in supporting instructors in a Werklund undergraduate course to better facilitate group work in their course. The project aims to help instructors identify individual contributions and evaluate individuals within a group, while also helping the students acquire the skills they need to work in groups, so that they can help their future students.
The study investigated various aspects of the instructors' work in supporting collaboration. This included the collaborative technologies that the instructors (and the students) were using in their groupwork, the strategies and assessments they used, and the challenges they faced. The team hoped to understand how these elements impact student learning, and to inform both best practices and future iterations of this course.
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The team surveyed students and instructors three times during the 8 week term. They also held interviews with both groups at the end of the course. They used these results to understand who and how different people in the course were influencing each group's work. Six emerging themes were shaped from over 150 responses, including: relationships, formative assessment, technology, project management, and peer feedback.
Working collaboratively requires building trusting relationships, both between students and instructors, and within student groups. Instructors were accessible and available to the students, providing feedback and expert advice when needed, which made them seem more trustworthy and connected with students. Student-to-student relationships emerged while students worked, which had both positive and negative aspects. Some students provided emotional support for each other, while others struggled to resolve conflicts in their groups.
Formative assessment strategies support collaborative learning, and a range of these strategies were used by instructors throughout the course (e.g. peer feedback, instructor feedback, self-reflections, outside experts) to help move the learning forward. By integrating these purposefully into the structure of the course, instructors used these strategies to inform their next steps for instruction and for student learning.
Technology was also used to support students. The majority of students (94%) used shared online spaces (e.g., Google Docs) and resources to guide their work. Students also noted that other tools and social media helped address challenges such as scheduling, communicating, and integrating their tasks into the project. Technology was particularly useful in planning and monitoring their work.
Project management was identified as a key to success in the groups. Groups whose members demonstrated project management abilities contributed to successful collaboration. Here, members helped assign tasks, clarify expectations, provide direction, set timelines, take initiative, and identify needs as part of their role.
In contrast, groups without these skills found numerous issues in this area. Despite using protocols and tools to support project management in their classes, instructors identified project management as a barrier to collaborative learning for many students. Supporting students to develop skills in project management is an area for growth and a consideration for the next iteration of the course.
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As students moved through the project stages, different types of supports were identified as being more important at various times. While pedagogical supports were accessed early on, teamwork and technical supports became more of the focus as their project developed. However, emotional and project management supports were continuously flagged as necessary to the groups' functioning.
Helping instructors to recognize and respond to these different needs can help them better facilitate collaborative learning. Training instructors in these strategies, incorporating them into the course design, and making them explicit as part of their interactions, can improve both instructor-student and student-student interactions. Instructors can also make use of peer leaders to model and take effective techniques forward into their groups.
As group work extends beyond the classroom, the researchers are also conducting a study with teachers in K-12 classrooms. Both veteran and novice teachers have similar difficulties working in interdisciplinary teams, so understanding how to improve this work is also important for their skills. Findings to date indicate that regardless of length of teaching experience and professional capacity, co-designing interdisciplinary learning and skillful collaboration with peers is challenging.
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Brown, B., Hartwell, A., & Thomas, C. (2018). Interdisciplinary design teams of pre-service and in-service teachers: Issues with collaboration. Canadian Journal of Action Research, 19(1), 14-32. Available Online.
Brown, B., & Thomas, C. (2017). Strategies for successful group work. In A.P. Preciado Babb, L. Yeworiew, & S. Sabbaghan (Eds.) Selected Proceedings of the IDEAS Conference 2017: Leading Educational Change. Calgary, Canada: Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. Available Online.
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I hadn't baked or stored any goodies in our freezer, so it was toast and coffee for breakfast before we drove back to Muddy River. A few minutes before we reached our house, my cell buzzed.
He smiled and nodded, but Brown ran his hand through his hair, disgruntled.
"I'll drag Brown to my office with me," Raven called back, and Meda gave him a thumbs-up.
I don't usually speed, but I did on my way to the boy's house. When I parked at the curb, the mother opened the door for us and motioned us inside.
Tears fell. "I can't stand seeing him hurt this much. Please help him." She led us down a hallway to a bedroom at the back of the house.
The boy looked to be fifteen or sixteen with a few whiskers sprouting on his jawline. He was doubled over and panting, he was in so much pain. His jaw had extended and the cords of his neck strained as his teeth lengthened into sharp points and his nails curled into talons.
He cried out when he tipped his head and tried to swallow. I laid my hands on him and poured warm magic into his body. His muscles relaxed slightly and he gulped down my brew.
The mother paced back and forth, hugging herself. She watched him closely. I kept feeding him magic until his body trembled and fur covered his skin. He didn't bulk up like most shifters. Maybe because he was only one-eighth wolf. His eyes glowed yellow. And then his whole body relaxed.
He frowned, unsure he wanted to try.
And in less than a minute, he stood before us—a skinny young man with acne.
He began to nod when his mother flew to him, wrapping him in a tight hug.
We were on our way home when another parent called for help.
The pox could infect anyone with even a slight gift of magic. And like mortals' measles, they could cause serious damage. "I have to stop at my house to grab the right potion. Then I'll be right there." I took her address and pushed on the gas pedal. She lived in town on Amulet Avenue.
"As enforcer, Raven gets lots of calls, too. We're used to it." I pulled in my drive and rushed to my shed. Grabbing another potion, I hurried back to the SUV. Raven's Lamborghini was gone. He and Brown were probably still in town at his office. Meda and I set off for the Fae enclave a block from Raven's office. When I pulled in front of the woman's home, it was next door to the house Sugi used to rent with Faiza and a shifter friend of theirs.
Faiza, whose family owned Muddy River's grocery store, was sitting on her front porch as we walked up the sidewalk. "Do you have the day off?" I called.
"You're having too much fun." I gave her a wave and knocked on the neighbor's door. It took her a while to open it. When she saw us, she sighed.
"Why not?" I drove to the back of Raven's brick building and parked in its lot. While we were walking in, Raven and Brown were walking out.
"You're done already?" I asked.
And she'd have time alone with him. A win/win. Brown liked the idea, so they took off and I went with Raven.
We ended up at a narrow shotgun style house out in the country. It sat in the middle of nothing. I frowned as we stepped from the car. Was this a trap? Claws raised his head to sniff the air. So did Raven. They both shook their heads. They hadn't caught any scents.
When we knocked on the door, a woman called, "It's open. We're in the back room." We found her kneeling in front of a twin bed, clinging to the vampire who sat there. When he saw us, he raised a hunting knife and sliced his wrist. A drop of blood formed, then the skin healed over.
He sliced again. It healed again. Frustrated, he threw the knife across the room. It hit the wall and fell to the floor.
Aurel shook his head. He was a beautiful man with sensuous lips and chiseled cheekbones. "I should never have introduced her to immortality. She has no idea what blood lust is. She romanticizes our curse. I should have taken one sip of her and left, but I was drawn to her. I've infected her. One more time, and she'll be like me." He reached for a straight-edge razor and raised his head, ready to slice his throat.
"Please, no!" The woman tightened her grip on his thigh and sobbed.
I blasted him hard enough to knock him out, not an easy feat with a vampire. Then Raven tossed him over his shoulder and carted him to his car.
"Where he goes, I go," the woman said.
"Then get in." We crammed into the cramped space, the woman making herself small in the backseat.
"Why not tonight?" Aurel asked.
"A vampire's promise." Aurel pulled the woman closer.
We left, hurrying home to our guests. Meda and Brown were sitting on the back patio, drinking lemonade, when we finally found them.
He frowned at Meda but didn't argue. I was pretty sure that didn't mean he agreed, but he'd argue with her later.
I let out a sigh of relief. A little time away from the crimes would give us a while to process all we'd learned. And I was ready for a break. We worked together to fix a quick supper of nachos and salad and then strolled around our property before settling in front of the TV.
Meda drove to her house for the night, and Brown and Raven turned on a baseball game to watch. I picked up a book.
The next morning, we all looked more relaxed and refreshed.


The work of a homeowner is never done due to the constant repairs and issues that they will have to deal with. Most people are blissfully unaware just how complicated being a homeowner can be until they actually experience it firsthand. One of the most problematic and stress inducing systems in your home is your plumbing system. There are a variety of different things that can go wrong with your plumbing system and making sure that you call in a professional plumber to deal with them is a vital part of getting the best repairs possible. Here are a few tips on finding the right Glenview area Plumbers.
The first thing that you need to look for when trying to choose the right plumbers is longevity and a good track record. Make sure that they have been around for a while and that they have a good track record of doing quality work. Looking at a company's past work is the only way that you will be able to gauge the quality of work you will receive. The best place to find the information that you are looking for is online, which is where most customer reviews are.
The next thing that you have to look for in a plumber is how fast and efficiently they will be able to get the work that you need done. In most cases, you will be able to secure a free estimate from the companies that you are considering. This will allow you to get an idea on the time frame of completion and it will give a chance to interact with the plumber. Taking the time and scheduling these estimates is an important part of getting the workmanship you are looking for.
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Chartered in 1975, our chapter maintains over 300 members. FFA members may choose to participate by training for a leadership team~chapter conducting, radio, job interview, public speaking, skills team or try a career development event team such as meats judging, livestock, floriculture, tractor mechanics, horse, or by selecting, feeding, and grooming an animal to present before a livestock judge. They purchase the animal of choice and work everyday preparing for the show. The project requires an enormous amount of commitment and responsibility. It should be considered a family project with the responsibility resting on the FFA member known as the exhibitor. Many important experiences including the aspects of the free enterprise system, time management, self motivation, financial planning and accurate record keeping can be gained from raising an SAE~supervised agriculture experience project. Raising animal projects is not a requirement, but is an excellent way to develop responsibility, a solid character, build on a college fund and have fun along the way.
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GRAPHIC PHOTOS: Man survives horror injury after being impaled by 2.5-foot iron spike
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A driver in India miraculously survives being impaled by a 2.5-foot-long iron spike
A driver in India miraculously survives being impaled by a 2.5-foot-long iron spike.The motorist apparently collided with a pick-up truck, leaving him impaled on an iron rod.
A driver miraculously survived despite being impaled by a 2.5-foot-long iron spike, which went right through his body. The motorist, known only as Narendra, 20, was driving when he collided with a pick up truck, leaving him impaled on an iron rod.
Dr. Siddharth Lakhotia cardiothoracic surgeon said that the driver is lucky that he survived as he may have died on the spot seeing the gravity of the accident
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The metal stick went through the right side of his chest and came out of his upper back, unsurprisingly injuring his lungs.
But medics spent three hours painstakingly removing the spike, and just days later he is up and walking, and is expected to make a good recovery.
Professor Siddharth Lakhotia, head of cardiothoracic surgery at BHU Trauma Centre said: "The accident was so severe. Because of this, there was a serious injury in the right lungs."
Just days later, Narendra was up and walking.
"Air and blood flooded the chest cavity. The local police provided the medical facility with great readiness," he said. "When this patient came to us, he was unconscious. It seemed almost impossible that he would survive. The only way to save him was to remove the rod by surgery and pray to God."
The accident happened on Friday in Machlisahar in Uttar Pradesh, India.
He also suffered injuries to his face, eye, and foot.
Professor S.K. Mathur, head of the anesthesia said the force of the accident caused the metal pole to bend after it pierced his chest, making the operation more difficult.
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The shareholders of Jack Wolfskin, including affiliates of Bain Capital Credit, H.I.G Bayside Capital and CQS on the agreement to sell the active outdoor brand to Callaway Golf Company, for €418 million.
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Blackstone on its successful public takeover bid of Hispania Activos Inmobiliarios SOCIMI SA (Hispania), a Spanish property company listed on the Madrid Stock Exchange, in a deal that values the company at over €3 billion, and the prior stake-building acquisition of 16.56% of Hispania from Soros Fund Management.
Global Logistics Properties (GLP) on its acquisition of European logistics business IDI Gazeley from Brookfield Asset Management for approximately US$2.8 billion.
Coordinating committee of first lien lenders of Jack Wolfskin GmbH & Co. KGaA on the financial restructuring of the outdoor brand's EUR 365 million debt.
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The 2022 Parma Ham Festival invites you from 2 to 4 September 2022
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Moorabbin is located 16 km south-east of the CBD. Moorabbin is a major commercial industrial and residential suburb in Melbourne's south. The commercial focus of Moorabbin is located around the railway station and in between South Rd and Nepean Hwy while industry is generally confined to the eastern third of the suburb. The suburb also boasts a major educational facility in the Barton Institute of TAFE.


> use apt-get in this case.
Update Manager (see above) is likely to be much less problematic."
> >> $ gksudo "update-manager -c -d"
Or that. You *will* end up on feisty if you do that right now.
> >> It certainly worked for me.
> > 300 miles away!
Firstly, to Tony, why do you want to upgrade a machine 300 miles away.
forwarding on her machine first in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
desktop via the ssh tunnel. Then run the update manager.


Hawaii's future visitors aren't interested in visiting Hawaii.
Millennials want more than pretty. They demand real.
Successful destination marketing is all about conveying an emotion, but without personal human interactions, the experience is cold and artificial. Our Hawaii VR experience needed to feel more like the real Hawaii.
We put real life into Hawaii VR.
Due to the limitations of VR and 360 video, destination experiences had remained largely passive. But we changed all that. In addition to VR and 360 video, we added a third component of interactive 360 video for greater user control. Next, we incorporated a narrative by a local to create a truly immersive 360 degree virtual reality travel experience. It was the first time this level of technology had been achieved. Now, instead of being a sightseer, the viewer grasped the handles of a hang glider, chose a Hawaiian island, then dropped in on a local who greeted the viewer and shared a personal story. Hawaii VR no longer felt like "destination marketing." Instead, it felt like hanging out with a local and making a friend.
"It's interactive, it's informative, it's innovative, as well as inspiring."
We put 76 on the local driver's side.


A one hour class on Chakras and Essential Oils. The class will cover why Essential Oils need to be Therapeutic grade. How to tell if your oils are therapeutic grade. What the grades are and the dangers of using Aromatherapy grade oils on your skin.
An overview of the chakra system. What can put us out of balance. How and which oils are useful to enhance and balance the chakras. Best life and oil practices for staying in balance.
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"The defining mark of the state is authority, the right to rule. The primary obligation of man is autonomy, the refusal to be ruled. It would seem, then, that there can be no resolution to the conflict between the autonomy of the individual and the putative authority of the state. Insofar as a man fulfills his obligation to make himself the author of his decisions, he will resist the state's claim to have authority over him. That is to say, he will deny that he has a duty to obey the laws of the state simply because they are laws. In that sense, it would seem that anarchism is the only political doctrine consistent with the virtue of autonomy."


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Review: The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
Publication Date: July 23rd, 2019
Paperback. 400 pages
About The Last Astronaut:
"Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she lives in quiet anonymity, convinced her days in space are over.
She's wrong.
A large alien object has entered the solar system on a straight course toward Earth. It has made no attempt to communicate and is ignoring all incoming transmissions.
Out of time and out of options, NASA turns to Jansen. For all the dangers of the mission, it's the shot at redemption she always longed for.
But as the object slowly begins to reveal its secrets, one thing becomes horribly clear: the future of humanity lies in Jansen's hands."
The Last Astronaut is an addictive sci-fi first contact thriller that I sped through in my desperation to find out what would happen next. The concept and exploration elements of this book were brilliant, although the execution felt a bit lacking at times in regards to character development and certain plot elements. However, this is a story that begs to be read and the alien components were some of the most interesting I've read in a while.
As mentioned, I have some pretty mixed feelings about this one. I loved the themes and the direction Wellington took the story in regards to alien contact and how the humans were able to interact with then, however, I didn't love the writing style of the book or many of the characters. Wellington employed a rather jumpy narrative style that led to inconsistent pacing and left me a little confused at times. Within this style, however, Wellington still managed to convey a sense of urgency and 'what happens next' atmosphere that works to up the intensity of the story, which left me feeling really confused about whether I liked what I was reading or not at times.
Starting with the characters, my biggest issue with them was simply that I had very little interest in any of them. As I've mentioned in reviews before, I don't need to feel connected with a character in order to like them or the book, but there needs to be some sort of compelling force or personality trait about them that draws me to them and unfortunately there just wasn't in any of the characters in this book. Sally, for instance, is the most prominent characters who is returning after a sort of 'retirement' after a failed mission to lead this mission to check out the aliens. Moving past my skepticism over choosing her in the first place (we'll get to that later), her personality was hard to get behind and felt too stubborn and inconsistent at times. She repeatedly felt as though this wasn't a mission she could do and had so much anxiety about it, but then when confronted with a dangerous situation she stubbornly threw herself into it because of her inability to handle yet another failed mission. I understand how hard that situation would be for her and I wouldn't want to risk another failure either, but I just felt annoyed with her decisions and how she handled things with her crew.
The rest of the characters have distinct personalities from one another, which I appreciated, but outside of that they didn't really stand out to me overly much. I thought some of their interactions felt awkward and unnatural and I often questioned their ability/worthiness to be on this mission in the first place. They were each specialists, but I felt like they didn't know enough about the general basics and safety rules weren't always followed. There were times when one of the characters would have a thought or make a comment about something that felt so incredibly irrelevant or rash that I just wanted to shake them a little and bring them back to reality. It was a bit of a ragtag group that just didn't seem to be the best equipped for the journey, which I do understand was part of the point in showing just how much space exploration had been neglected and whatnot, but it just made the entire premise a bit difficult to swallow.
Outside of those issues, I loved the alien contact. Wellington played with some ideas and directions that I haven't seen before and I found it so interesting and that felt entirely plausible in ways (especially some of the more scientific theories that the characters came up with).
Overall, I've given The Last Astronaut 3.25 stars! I know I mentioned a lot of negatives about this book, but if you like space books/alien exploration/first contact then I do still think you would really enjoy this! The characters aren't great and the format can be off-putting, but the first contact aspect was just fascinating. If you need strong characters, then this might not be the best fit.
*I received an ARC of The Last Astronaut courtesy of Orbit books in exchange for an honest review. This has no effect on my rating or enjoyment of the novel.*
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I'm very curious about this, especially since I just received a copy. Despite some of your issues, I'm going to try to squeeze it in😁
I love books set in space, but I actually don't come across aliens that much - I'll have to check this one out!


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In 1914, the Financial Times reported with "interest and great encouragement" that even the war that was then beginning could not damage the champagne industry. More than a century later, a product that was once considered invincible even at times of such turmoil now faces skirmishes on all sides — and it has no sure defences against them.
Having risen steadily since the turn of the century, champagne sales plunged when the financial crisis hit, and the market has taken another turn lower in the past year as Brexit has weakened the pound and left a dent in the UK, the industry's number one export market. Champagne houses used to competing solely with each other are now vying with prosecco and sparkling wine makers for market share. And climate change has savaged harvests, forcing growers to search for new varieties of grapes and growing techniques.
"The whole champagne market is under pressure this year," says Rowan Gormley, chief executive of UK retailer Majestic Wines. "The total market is down 17 per cent year-on-year in volume over the past three months." Much of this is due to Brexit, analysts say: the pound has fallen 16 per cent against the euro since the referendum, pushing up prices for importers. The total market for champagne is worth €4.7bn, of which the UK now accounts for €440m — a 14 per cent slide on last year, according to the Comité Champagne, the industry's trade association.
We'd had four years of frosts and hail — it's bizarre, and we're feeling the effects. I've lost 50 per cent of my harvest
Nicolas Laugerotte
"The average price per bottle for us has risen 10 per cent," says Jon Pepper, retail director at Enotria & Coe, the UK's largest premium wine importer. "It's driving people at the cheaper end of the market to different products." Both consumers and businesses have scaled back their buying — sales at restaurants are down 11 per cent in the last year, adds Mr Pepper.
Extreme weather has not been helping those growing grapes, but it is at least driving scientific advances.
"We'd had four consecutive years of frosts and hail — it's bizarre, and we're feeling the effects," says Nicolas Laugerotte, the head of small champagne house Dosnon. "I've lost 50 per cent of my harvest, and I've had to buy grapes from other vineyards in parts of the region that have been less badly affected." The French government has said that frost in April 2017 will cut wine production by 18 per cent on last year.
Warmer weather means vines bud earlier in the year, which leaves the grapes vulnerable to biting spring frosts. Rising temperatures also cause the grapes to produce more sugar, more alcohol and less acidity — vital to the crisp flavour of the finest champagnes.
Climate change threatens the very taste of champagne, and the industry has been forced to act. It has started to shrink its carbon footprint — the average weight of an empty champagne bottle has fallen from 900g to 830g, and the level of CO² released per bottle made is down 15 per cent, according to the Comité Champagne. It is also researching new varieties of grape that can withstand higher temperatures and disease.
"This is a crucial initiative and is meant to help us keep the style of champagne," says Thibaut le Mailloux, communications director for the Comité Champagne. "The key challenge is to adapt; climate change has already started, and it is affecting champagne production."
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The value of British imports of champagne, down 14 per cent
The committee is blending the three most popular grapes in champagne — chardonnay, pinot noir and pinot meunier — with other "super-geniteur" grapes that can resist higher temperatures and repel disease without the need for insecticide. Starting with thousands of seeds, the Comité will cross the standard grapes with the resistant varieties to create a hybrid that will ripen more slowly in warmer climates and carry resistance to mildew and other diseases. After 15 years of experimenting, it will select four or five varieties that it hopes will carry the resistant genes while retaining the flavour of champagne. It will then have to seek a certificate of origin before it is grown, aged and tasted.
"We won't see any results before our retirement," says Mr le Mailloux. "Basically, we're working for our children. We're pioneers."
Adding to the Brexit and weather woes of the Champenois has been the rise of competitors. Spiros Malandrakis, senior drinks analyst at market research company Euromonitor, recalls giving a talk at a champagne conference in 2010. "I highlighted to the audience that they needed to fear competition from adjacent categories — that a more affordable category without the baggage could undermine their dominance," he says. "They laughed at my point, but now things have changed massively, and they're trying to catch up."
Total sales of English sparkling wine, a nascent champagne rival
In particular, prosecco has advanced since 2008, and English sparkling wine has made serious gains. Production of the latter has doubled in the past five years, according to UK government figures, and sales are £82m per year, says the UK Vineyards Association. At Majestic Wine, sparkling wine from other regions of France is up 141 per cent in the last year. Many champagne houses are now unsure what to think.
"Your first reaction is, 'Oh my gosh, people are coming into the category,'" says Paul Beavis, managing director at Champagne Lanson. "But there is enough room in the marketplace for sparkling wine and champagne . . . People's taste does develop as they grow older — they start with a sweet palate and then graduate to other, more sophisticated tastes."
English sparkling wine in particular has piqued the interest of the industry. With cheaper land than in France, and rich, chalky soil — vital for the high acidity valued by drinkers — England is proving a profitable place to grow wine.
Some in the industry refuse to accept that English sparkling wine poses any long-term threat. But in 2015, Taittinger bought 69 hectares of land in Kent — the first champagne house to do so — and plans to release its first batch of sparkling wine in 2023. "It's the garden of England, it's the natural place to plant," says Patrick McGrath, managing director of Hatch Mansfield, the UK agent for Taittinger champagne.
English vines will not suffice for maisons if negotiations between the UK and EU break down, however. "A trade deal is crucial," says Mr McGrath. "It's such a large export market, and still the most popular."
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In this brilliantly chilling follow-up to The Thief of All Light, veteran police officer Bernard Schaffer digs deep into the past—and the haunted psyches of the detectives who search for truth . . . at any cost.
"There's a thousand scavengers in these woods."
Before being promoted to detective, Carrie Santero was given a rare glimpse into the mind of a killer. Through her mentor, Jacob Rein—a seasoned manhunter whose gift for plumbing the depths of madness nearly drove him over the brink—she was able to help capture one of the most depraved serial killers in the country. Now, the discovery of a small human foot buried in the Pennsylvania woods will lead her to a decades-old cold case—and the darkest secrets of her mentor's youth.
"Nobody trusts an animal that tries to eat its own kind."
Thirty years ago, a young girl went missing. A police officer was murdered. Another committed suicide. The lives of everyone involved would never be the same. For three agonizing decades, Jacob Rein has yearned for the truth. But when Detective Carrie Santero begins digging up new evidence, she discovers some answers come with shattering consequences.
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