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18' Skiff Sailing Extreme sailing at its best
Mark Foy 2015
18ft Skiff European Championships 2017
JJ Giltinan
2001 to present . . .
The birth of 18ft Skiff Racing as we know it today occurred on Sydney Harbour on 26 January 1892. The father was Mark Foy. Foy was a local businessman who loved sailing and believed Sydney Harbour to be the world's best aquatic playground, and was disappointed that, unlike many other sports, sailing attracted practically no public interest.
He was quick to realise that the sailors themselves were responsible for this lack of interest as they made no attempt to cater for the public.
They raced over a 12-mile course and were out of sight for up to two hours.
A complicated handicap system caused a further delay while the winner was being determined later in the clubhouse.
There was no attempt to entertain spectators while the boats were out of sight.
Determined to change this situation, he discussed the matter with a few close friends and came up with a series of initiatives which he believed would popularise sailing as an exciting spectator sport. His plan was split into three simple steps:
Racing must be exciting and faster.
Boats had to be more colourful and more easily identified than by a number on the Sails.
Race winner should be decided on a first-past-the-post basis.
The major problem with Foy's plan was producing a faster racer, but he solved this with the first of the 18-footers, which was an open, centreboard boat with a very light hull, an 8-foot (2.4m) beam and only 30 inches (76cm) amidships. It carried a crew of 14 (compared to the previous boats with 25 crew) and had a huge spread of sail which gave it a sensational aquaplaning speed downwind.
Foy's original idea of having striped sails to identify each boat had to be abandoned due to the excessive cost of manufacturing varying designs for registration. His alternative was for each boat to have a colourful emblem on its mainsail - a tradition which continues to this day, although the colourful emblem is now almost exclusively the logo of a corporate sponsor.
When Foy tried to enter his boats with the Anniversary Regatta Committee of 1892, they were rejected as the committee believed that 'such badges were not in keeping with the dignity of the oldest regatta in the southern hemisphere'.
Foy was furious and announced 'we'll run our own regatta on Anniversary Day. I'll pay for it and we'll give the public what it wants'.
High-pressure publicity given to Foy's plans paid big dividends. On regatta day, Clark Island (Sydney Harbour) was packed to capacity, while moored ferries and jetties provided additional accommodation - as did every vantage point along the foreshores of Sydney Harbour.
The crowd was without precedent in Australian yacht racing although most of these spectators knew little about the sport. The vast majority were there to thrill to the excitement that Foy had promised.
A triangular three miles course was plotted and a 'staggered' start introduced (where the best boats started after the slower boats) to bunch the fleet for a spectacular, downwind run to the finish at Clark Island.
At the start there had been less than three minutes between all boats in the fleet. At the finish there were a dozen boats racing for the line in a bow-to-bow finish.
The public got its moneys worth and the coloured badges of the 18-footers were an instant success.
Foy had demonstrated that 18-footer racing was the most exciting sport ever seen on Sydney Harbour - a status that has never been seriously challenged.
The 18-footer, with a 8ft beam, was manned by a reduced crew of 10-15 men but carried not much less sail area than the bigger boats.
These 18-footers were dinghy type boats and carried mainsail, ballooner, ringtail, topsail, topsail head spinnaker and (at times) watersails. For spectators, they didn't differ much from the bigger boats but were much less costly to build and maintain.
J. J. Giltinan
Since the first regatta in 1938, the championship has produced many champions and designers who have since gone on to international yachting fame in many different arenas. It has also produced some of the world's most exciting racing for the many thousands of spectators who have watched the flying machines in the hands of the world's best skiff sailors.
Since its humble beginning when only Australian and New Zealand teams contested the early regattas, there have been challengers representing at least twenty one countries (if you count England and Scotland as one under the UK banner). The high level of competition is such that until today only four have been successful.
The following is a simple history of the championship.
In 1937, the Secretary of the N.S.W. (now Australian) 18 Footers League, Mr. James J. Giltinan proposed and planned a world's championship for 18 foot open boats and the League presented a trophy (popularly known as the J.J. Giltinan Trophy) to celebrate this event.
Advertisements were placed in major newspapers throughout the world with positive replies being received from England, USA, Hong Kong and New Zealand. Unfortunately, due to unsettled conditions in Europe at the time only the New Zealanders were able to compete - sending three boats to the inaugural regatta in 1938, which produced a total fleet of 20 boats.
The carnival was a great success. A local newspaper reported on the day following the first race: "The crowd at Circular Quay (ferry wharf) was so large that extra steamer accommodation had to be provided at the last moment, while craft of almost every conceivable description were in attendance. The foreshores were also thronged with spectators". The total crowd was estimated at more than 10,000 people.
Bert Swinbourne's Taree took the first championship with two wins and one second placing from the three-race regatta. Australia filled all three placings with Victor (Vic Lucas) in second place and Aberdare (Vic Vaughan) third while New Zealand's best performer was Irina, which finished in fifth place.
The success of the 1938 regatta led to a second championship being staged at Auckland in 1939 when three Australian 18 footers took on the Kiwi fleet of 21 boats. Unlike the original, this contest proved to be one of the most bitterly contested in the history of the championship. While the crowds on the foreshore were estimated at 25,000 people, it was marred by several protests, the latter of which saw the defending champion and provisional 1939 winner, Taree being disqualified. Gordon Chamberlain's Manu was then declared the winner.
Taree's skipper Bert Swinbourne lodged an appeal against the decision, but when the appeal wasn't heard before the Australian team returned home, Swinbourne decided to hang on to the trophy. The Australian Board of Control later upheld the New Zealand decision in the best interests of keeping goodwill, but Swinbourne didn't agree and refused to hand over the trophy. He was expelled by the Australian League and for the next four years the Giltinan trophy remained hidden in Swinbourne's possession.
Swinbourne later apologized for his actions and returned the trophy to the League. It was then handed over to New Zealand and presented to the Manu owners.
A third contest took place at Auckland in 1948. Due to the bad feelings which resulted from the 1939 regatta, the League was determined to send the strongest team possible and recruited the great Billo Hayward to sail its top boat Crows Nest.
This regatta was a triumph for the Australians as the huge sail carriers totally dominated the smaller New Zealand 18s to finish first, second and fourth overall. Hayward took the title with two wins and a fifth placing from the three races.
Drama and conflict seemed to be a fact of life in the history of the 18 footer class and the late 1940s were no exception. Queensland were suffering from rising costs and went to 6ft beam boats with a further reduced number of crewmen, the League sailors refused to agree to the change and wouldn't allow the new boats to be registered in their events.
The New Zealand governing body of the time tried to incorporate these new boats into the Giltinan Championship, a move which angered the League and resulted in the New Zealand body withdrawing its support of the championship. Several New Zealand sailors contacted the League, offering to take a private team of 18 footers to the 1949 championship in Sydney. The League agreed and even assisted the kiwis with their shipping costs.
The Kiwis put up a good showing with their top boat Takiri finishing third overall behind Marjorie Too (Tony Russell) and Top Weight (Bish Bolton) of Australia. NZs Jack Logan believed he would never beat the Australians in his boat so began to browse through old plans of his late father, who was a master designer and builder. On a piece of 50-year-old parchment paper he saw a design which gave him an idea. He drew it out, chopped off the bow and gave her a transom in place of a pointed strn. The public called her a skimmer; Logan called her a frying pan, complete with handle.
Logan rigged her with the latest Bermudan rig, polished her hull to a mirror-finish and christened her Komutu, the Maori word for surprise. When the Australians went to Auckland in 1950 they were unable to match the phenomenal speed of this most unusual boat and were convincingly defeated in the three race championship. The 1950 contest was significant for the introduction of a third competing country when Fiji was represented by O'vuka, skippered by Alex Bentley.
After Australia's Bill Barnett totally dominated the 1951 series in Myra Too, the 1952 contest was held for the first time was located at a venue other than Australia and New Zealand when the Royal Suva Yacht Club (Fiji) hosted the regatta. After a closely-fought series Peter Mander's Intrigue won the title back for New Zealand. This contest was also memorable for the fact that Intrigue's crew introduced the use of trapeze.
Peter Mander then became the first skipper to win two Giltinan Championships when he again skippered Intrigue to victory in the 1954 regatta at Auckland. New Zealand's domination resulted from the team's use of new cold-moulded hulls with two and three skins of diagonally laid planking and the fact that they carried three of the five crew on the trapeze wire.
New Zealand designers and sailors were becoming great innovators in the class during the 1950s. Not surprisingly, these moves immediately changed the style of 18 footers in Australia. It was back to Australia (Waterloo Bay, Brisbane) for the 1956 series and for the first time the regatta was sailed over five races and included the use of a discard. Queensland's Norm Wright used local knowledge to his advantage to win with Jenny VI.
Once again locals dominated the championship when the 1958 regatta was sailed on Sydney Harbour. Len Heffernan (Jantzen Girl) and Bill Barnett (SMV) dominated the racing as each skipper scored two wins in the five-race regatta. Only another local, Cliff Monkhouse (Toogara) was able to record a race win.
In the end the overall result was determined by an error from Barnett in the first race. SMV was leading by 2minutes when Barnett failed to round the correct mark, allowing Heffernan through to take the win and title in Jantzen Girl.
Although only six boats contested the 1960 contest at Auckland the regatta was anything but uninteresting. As one leading NZ yachting journal said: "The 18s are still the glamour boats with the general public. Even the weekday races saw the waterfront road and headlands thick with spectators and the starting wharf completely packed".
There were great dramas even before the racing began when Bob Miller (later famously known as Ben Lexcen) arrived with his radically-designed Taipan, which was the biggest break in tradition since the skimmer.
She was a three-man boat, hard chine, plywood construction, reverse sheer, half-decked, heavily flared topsides and narrow (4ft 3in) beam on the chine. She also had a smaller rig (similar to a Flying Dutchman), a big genoa and bending spars and was referred to by Miller as a supercharged FD.
Taipan had, however, far too much decking for the time and Miller was forced to do a major reconstruction job prior to the start of the regatta, reducing her deck by around fifty per cent, which made her very vulnerable in choppy conditions.
Bernie Skinner's Surprise won the title back for the kiwis with five good placings while the Australians couldn't match this consistency and suffered the consequences. Unfortunately for the New Zealanders Skinner's victory was their only one during the 1960s.
Despite the problems experienced by Miller at Auckland, there was little doubt about Taipan's design and the follow-up Venom proved this emphatically by dominating the 1961 contest on the Brisbane River.
At the 1963 contest in Auckland, the 1958 champion Len Heffernan played an unusual role when he was responsible for the design and construction of Ken Beashel's winning skiff, Schemer. Heffernan had built two skiffs for the Australian season and elected to sail the Taipan-Venom type boat while handing over the more conventional four-man boat to Beashel.
Beashel and his crew recorded three wins and a second placing over the five races, however their record could have been even greater but for an unfortunate incident in race three when she was hit by a Royal New Zealand Air Force launch, which was carrying a TV cameraman.
In the 1964 contest on Sydney Harbour, the overall consistency of Toogara proved the winning formula for Cliff Monkhouse and his crew.
The following regatta at Auckland in 1965 began a wonderful era for Australian skipper Bob Holmes who took the championship in Travelodge, which was the same boat Ken Beashel had sailed as Schemer to win the 1963 title - also at Auckland.
Holmes successfully defended his title with Travelodge in 1966 (to become the first Australian two-time winner), but his attempt to win a third consecutive championship was thwarted in 1967 at Sydney when Don Barnett narrowly and dramatically took the championship in Associated Motor Club. Barnett and team's consistency and good seamanship in very testing conditions won a hard-fought regatta against Holmes and Len Heffernan.
Auckland was the venue in 1968 and again three Australian boats dominated this series. There was, apparently, little harmony in the Australian team, as two protests were lodged against fellow team members.
Bob Holmes' Travelodge won each of the first two races only to be disqualified from the second following a protest by Ken Beashel in Daily Telegraph for a breach by Holmes against another Australian boat. Daily Telegraph then won races three and four, but had to survive a protest by Holmes in race three, before Beashel could regain the title he first won in 1963.
The 1969 series on the Brisbane River produced the championship's first tie which required a sail-off between two Australian boats Travelodge (Bob Holmes) and Rod Zemanek's Willie B. Again, a protest had a major affect on the overall result when Willie B was disqualified - for a breach of the port and starboard rule against Guinness Lady, after winning race three.
The special match race sail-off between Travelodge and Willie B was a gripping race as the two skiffs were separated by just a few seconds around the entire course and the lead changing many times. Travelodge finally took line honours by just 26s which gave Holmes his third Giltinan title – the only skipper to do that at the time.
Bruce Farr skippered Guinness Lady into third place behind Holmes and Zemanek but was certainly unlucky not to be an even stronger challenger. Gear failures in each of the first two races robbed the young skipper who recorded two wins and a second placing in the final three races.
International competition took a major step forward in 1970 when a USA entry competed in the Giltinan Championship for the first time. Roger Welsh skippered the 1969 champion Travelodge skiff as Travelodge International and sailed consistently to finish fourth overall behind three Australian boats. Hugh Treharne, skippering Thomas Cameron, scored four wins and a second placing for a well deserved win.
Bob Holmes and his Travelodge team returned to their consistent best to take out title number four at Auckland in 1971 but the writing was on the wall that the Bruce Farr design was starting to become a real force in 18ft skiff racing and New Zealand were about to make a comeback.
Roger Welsh again showed the USA flag and became the first American to win a race at the Giltinan when he brought Travelodge International home a seven minutes winner over Willie B in the atrocious conditions of race 4.
The predicted Farr design breakthrough finally came in 1972 when Don Lidgard's Smirnoff totally dominated the 1972 series on Waterloo Bay at Brisbane. Smirnoff scored easy wins in each of the first four races when Lidgard and his crew successfully used the tactic of tacking downwind to make the skiff almost unbeatable off a wind.
Their only defeat came in the final race when they were recalled at the start. They managed to get back into the lead but capsized then recovered once more to finish an incredible second - only 16s behind Denis Lehany's Nick & Kirby, which took second overall.
The US team was so impressed with Farr's design it commissioned him to design and build a new hull then make a complete set of sails for the new skiff in New Zealand. On completion they had it shipped to the US, gained a partial sponsorship from the Travelodge organization then took it to Sydney for the 1973 regatta, where Roger Welsh skippered it as Travelodge International.
In complete contrast to the previous series, the 1973 regatta in Sydney was so wide open that it wasn't decided until the spinnaker run home in the final race. Bob Holmes took his fifth Giltinan Championship when Travelodge narrowly defeated Dave Porter's KB and Smirnoff.
Welsh finished fourth in Travelodge International but could have been a challenger for overall victory with one race win and two second placings. Unfortunately, the skiff had gear failures in two races which led to retirements.
KB took race one by just 2s from Travelodge International, then moderate results in the following two races kept KB near the lead. Unfortunately for Porter the final two races were costly and once again it was the Holmes team's consistency which won the day to secure title number five.
New Zealand came back strongly at Auckland in 1974 when Terry Mc Dell's Travelodge New Zealand dominated the series with four wins from the five races. Unfortunately for the Kiwis it is their last Giltinan Championship victory to date.
Travelodge New Zealand's wins were dramatic as she totally dominated the strong fleet with winning margins from 1m 45s to 5m 2s. The crew conceded starts to their rivals in most heats but were so much faster they soon worked their way to the lead with precision sailing.
Dave Porter (KB) was the only Australian to threaten the New Zealand contingent, finishing second overall with a last race win and three second place results, but was never any chance of beating Travelodge New Zealand.
An unfortunate sidelight to this contest was the news that Roger Welsh, who had shown such ability during previous challenges, was suffering from an incurable disease and was near death as this regatta was being sailed.
After being runner-up in the previous two Giltinan Championship contests, Dave Porter finally won the title when he successfully steered KB to victory in the 1975 series on the Brisbane River.
The sail handling by Porter and his crew, particularly on the long tacking downwind runs, was the winning factor and thrilled the large spectator following on the water and river banks.
A capsize in race one saw KB finish only seventh but from that point there was never a doubt about her victory as she recorded four consecutive race wins for a perfect score - after discarding the race one result.
This 1975 regatta is also remembered as the first to attract an entry from the UK when British pioneer Alf Reynolds skippered a chartered skiff. There was a real family influence about the 1976 winner Miles Furniture. Stephen Kulmar was the skipper, his brother Paul Kulmar and brother-in-law Paul Ziems were the crew, and father Les Kulmar involved (with the others) in the skiff's design and construction.
The Sydney Harbour regatta was sailed in light winds on most race days. Defending champion Dave Porter started impressively in KB with a 2m win over Miles Furniture in race one.
Though not noted for her ability in very light winds, Miles Furniture fought back with two wins in the next three races and went into the final race needing to finish no worse than one placing behind KB to take the championship. A big crowd was attracted to the harbour for this final race and they weren't disappointed. Miles Furniture and KB had a great battle throughout but it was ultimately David Griffiths' Ansett Airlines which narrowly took race honours ahead of Miles Furniture. For the third time, Dave Porter had to be content with being runner up in the Giltinan.
The Giltinan Championship was continuing to gain more international appeal as another nation was represented for the first time in this regatta when French designer-builder, Eric Lerouge skippered a locally chartered skiff.
The next six years of Giltinan Championship racing is the "Iain Murray Era". Not only was he invincible in six consecutive contests from 1977 to 1982 (incl.) but his design and technology innovations were responsible for some of the greatest changes in the class history.
After a moderate start to his first season in 1976-1977 , Iain decided to modify the hull of his Color 7 skiff. The original design had flared sides and was nearly ten feet wide at the beam. Iain cut the sides and bow and changed the shape before shipping her off to New Zealand where he won the 1977 Giltinan Championship with an incredible final race win.
The contest was wide open throughout with no boat ever really having an edge. The first four races produced four different winners - KB and Color 7 went into the final race locked on points. A 20-knot northerly wind and big seas prevailed and all boats elected to carry their small rigs as the long course was going to be a real test and a battle for survival.
Defending champion Stephen Kulmar was recalled at the start in Miles Furniture (although he didn't know it at the time) and failed to return. His crew sailed brilliantly to cross the finishing line ahead of the fleet but the race for the official winner was amazing.
KB was 5½ minutes ahead of Color 7 at the final rounding mark and, along with the other leading skiffs, elected to sail a safety first course to the finishing line. Realising his only hope for victory was to sail the more direct, but more capsize likely, line Murray and his crew pulled off the "impossible" with a brilliant exhibition of boat handling to grab race and championship victory.
Third place overall went to New Zealand's Russell Bowler, sailing a revolutionary foam-sandwich constructed Benson & Hedges, which was one-third lighter and had a comparatively smaller wetted surface area than other designs. It could have easily won the title had there been more favourable breezes and so impressed Australia's leading skippers that similar type boats were built for the following season's racing.
For the next five years (1978-1982, incl.) Iain Murray, Andrew Buckland and Don Buckley were unbeatable in the Giltinan Championship despite the competition of some of the sport's greatest-ever skippers, and were also responsible for the design, construction and rigging of many of their opponents.
The likes of Trevor Barnabas, John Winning, Dave Porter, Peter Sorensen and Rob Brown tried in vain to unseat the master but the Color 7 team was magnificent as they re-wrote the history books - giving Murray his still unequalled six championship victories.
Special mention has to be given to Dave Porter. One of the greatest 18ft Skiff sailors of all time, Dave won only one Giltinan Championship but had the unenviable record of being runner-up on six occasions.
With the Murray influence gone, the 1983 championship looked likely to become a more even contest with so many talented skippers still in the fleet. Peter Sorensen, however, soon dispelled this theory when he skippered Tia Maria to five wins in the seven-race regatta at Auckland, then retained the crown the following year on Sydney Harbour (although this victory was much more hard fought).
Rob Brown and Trevor Barnabas shared the honours over the next four years (in 1988 they literally shared the honours). Brown won in 1985 with Bradmill on Waterloo Bay, Brisbane and with Entrad at Auckland in 1986 while Barnabas took victory with Chesty Bond at Perth in 1987. During the 1987 regatta, Barnabas' Chesty Bond carried a huge #1 mast, which measured an amazing 45ft above the waterline.
There was always an 'extreme competitiveness' between Brown and Barnabas and it more or less came to a head at Sydney in 1988. Brown had taken the championship on points but complicated new rules led to a protest against Brown at the conclusion of the contest for the use of an "illegal" spinnaker during the regatta.
The protest was upheld when the committee agreed that Barnabas had been prejudiced. They also determined that it was an officials error in not detecting the problem prior to the regatta and consequently declared Barnabas (Chesty Bond) and Brown (Southern Cross) as joint champions.
In complete contrast to the previous regatta, the 1989 contest on Sydney Harbour was an easy victory for Michael Walsh, who won each of the seven races in Prudential - the same skiff which had won the 1987 championship (as Chesty Bond) for Trevor Barnabas. Walsh had to fight hard at times but his winning margins were impressive - from 1min 40secs to 7mins.
In 1990 the Giltinan Championship returned to the Brisbane River for the first time since 1975 amid much controversy over the quality of racing conditions the river would provide for the skiffs of that time. One Sydney skipper was quoted: "How the hell do you sail on that drain".
Windward speed was critical and Scott Ramsden's Bank of New Zealand was the fastest boat upwind. It enabled the young BNZ skipper to win four of the seven races and become Giltinan champion in his first season. For defending champion Michael Walsh, however, it was a most forgettable regatta as Walsh and his team suffered gear failures, capsizes, 720-degree penalty turns and a collision with a ferry, all topped off when Walsh broke his leg in three places in the last race.
The 1991 championship saw a major breakthrough in design by Julian Bethwaite, which enabled him to take his first Giltinan Championship (as a skipper). His skiff, AAMI, was built and rigged by Bethwaite for half the cost of the previous style boats and totally dominated the racing as she showed blistering speed across most wind ranges.
Bethwaite put the success down to 80 percent rig and the rest to the boat. The fleet in the regatta was reduced due to a split amongst Australian sailors, many of whom had chosen to compete in a privately funded national circuit. AAMI proved her champion status when Bethwaite and his crew also contested, and won, against allcomers on the national circuit.
Bethwaite retained his Giltinan Championship title in 1992 with a clear victory over a 20-boat fleet on Sydney Harbour.He skippered a new AAMI skiff, which he designed and built for the championship and won five of the seven races in a very impressive allround performance. The skiff had a slight boatspeed advantage but the racing was exciting for spectators as both Winfield Racing (Michael Spies) and Pace Express (David Witt) challenged strongly in most races.
Michael Spies had to recover from a less than spectacular start in the 1993 regatta before winning in Winfield Racing. Spies was forced to use all his experience to bring his skiff home with four consecutive wins in the final four races.
Neil Cashman, who was runner-up to Spies in 1993, led a talented team when he took the 1994 championship regatta in Nokia with a race to spare. The Nokia crew were among the heaviest in the fleet, which enabled them to gain upwind speed by carrying big rigs in the moderate winds throughout the series.
This 1994 championship was significant in that it was the first sailed under the rules which pretty much still prevail today whereby all the hulls come from one mould design and all skiffs have a maximum 14-foot wing span.
After winning the championship in 1993, Michael Spies was disappointing the following year, but in 1995 he again took the title with a race to spare in Winfield Racing. With good boat speed and sound tactics in the shifty south-easterly breezes Spies and his crew established a championship-winning lead by mid regatta.
It was in strict contrast for Stephen Quigley's AEI-Pace Express in 1996, which had to recover from a poor start in the last race to win the championship after an extremely close series.
Trevor Barnabas had retired in the early 1990s after winning two Giltinan Championships but a subsequent return to the class produced three more championship victories to become the second most successful skipper behind the great Iain Murray.
Barnabas won the 1997 regatta (Omega Smeg-2UE) on Sydney Harbour after an intensely close battle with Brad Gibson (Southern Cross) in the last race, then took the skiff to Europe during the same calendar year to win (under the name 'Smeg') at Sardinia in a regatta which was contested under a different format to the regular Giltinan Championships.
The final championship victory for Trevor Barnabas came in 1998 when he successfully defended his title in the same Omega Smeg-2UE skiff. This was not only the last win for Barnabas, but it also brought to an end the 25 straight winning run by Australia since Terry Mc Dell's victory for New Zealand in 1974.
For the first time since the inception of the event in 1938, a boat from the northern hemisphere won the championship when UK skipper Tim Robinson took a closely-fought 1999 regatta in Rockport. The series produced six different winners in the seven races with Robinson the only two race winner in the fleet. This skiff was the same one which was runner up in 1998 when it represented Australia with John Harris as skipper.
Without a doubt, one of the most popular wins in the long history of the championship came in 2000 when John Winning was successful in AMP Centrepoint. Winning had been trying for 26 years and had previously finished runner up twice to Iain Murray in 1980 and 1981.
Despite winning three of the seven races, AMP Centrepoint's victory was hard fought with only 4.1 points separating the top three placegetters in a very strong international fleet. There were also many anxious moments for Winning and his crew as they had to survive the re-opening of an earlier protest on the morning of the last race.
John Harris, who was runner up to Trevor Barnabas in 1998, became the youngest skipper for several years to take out the Giltinan Championship when, at 24-years-old, he steered Rag & Famish Hotel to a narrow victory in 2001. Harris and his crew winning a thrilling last race in front of the largest spectator fleet since the 1980s to secure the title.
Howie Hamlin became the second northern hemisphere and first US skipper to win the Giltinan Championship when he led an all-USA team to victory on board General Electric-US Challenge in 2002. The win was far from clear cut in a regatta of changing fortunes and the final result had everyone struggling with mathematics on the finishing line of the last race to determine the overall winner. The outcome saw Hamlin take the title by two points from defending champion John Harris (Rag & Famish Hotel).
The 2003 regatta provided the closest racing in the history of the championship and even the final result surprised the winner - defending champion Howie Hamlin.
Hamlin (General Electric/US Challenge) went into the last race trailing Rob Greenhalgh (RMW Marine). GE/US needed to win or finish second and hope that the very fast and consistent RMW Marine would finish an unlikely worse than fifth. RMW was ahead of GE/US early in the race, was still fourth at the final leeward mark and looked to have the title won.
Unfortunately for Greenhalgh, RMW was on the wrong side of a wind shift and was passed by two competitors on the last beat and finished sixth, while Hamlin brought GE/US home in second place behind Tony Hannan's Total Recall. Hamlin returned to shore believing he had not won the title and took a lot of convincing by officials who showed him the final pointscore which gave him a 0.35 points victory.
While the northern hemisphere run of consecutive victories was extended to three in 2004, the result was totally unlike the previous two regattas when the UK champion Rob Greenhalgh (RMW Marine) was dominant with four race wins and two second placings. RMW's average winning margin was also a healthy two minutes. Since 2005 when Euan Mc Nicol won with Club Marine in his first season as a skipper (he had earlier crewed with John Winning in 2000), Australia has again dominated the championship.
Michael Coxon took the title in 2006 (Casio Seapathfinder) then defended it successfully in 2007 (Fiat) while young Seve Jarvin won impressively with Gotta Love It 7 in 2008. It was Jarvin's first season as skipper - although he was a previous winner when he crewed with Euan Mc Nicol in 2005.
The 2009 regatta produced the closest finish in the Giltinan history with as many as four potential champions at various stages of the last race. Ultimately, Euan McNicol became another two-time winning skipper when he steered Southern Cross Constructions to victory.
The 2010 and 2011 championships produced similar results with Seve Jarvin's Gotta Love It 7 defeating Michael Coxon's Thurlow Fisher Lawyers in each series. The two wins made Jarvin a four-time winner (three as skipper and the one with McNicol as crew in 2005). The 2010 win was by 4 points while 2011 was won only after a countback.
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Very sterotypical video but nonetheless hilarious. Might be offending to the female gender but please do take it lightly as it is just for fun and laughter. I in no sense find that women are only capable of doing such things as many have proven to be much more capable than men.
The video is done up by a Belgium comedy group I guess. Have fun watching.


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Bug 4866 - Fsck fail results in Bad Things(tm).
Summary: Fsck fail results in Bad Things(tm).
hit Ctrl-C twice and then C-D, you get a root prompt.
In what way does it 'never work'?
checked is correct -- I havn't tried this on a box without it.


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Today was another relaxing P-day filled with excitement and adventure. I've found it easier to email you at around this time, since on Saturdays we usually do some fun things. Today we went to a fun place called Lion, Cheetah Park. It's a really fun game park with just hundreds of lions and a few other fun animals. You don't even need a game park guide in a jeep. They just open the gate and let you start driving inside, with the lions right outside of your car. You just have to promise never to walk out haha. We got there at just the right time too, feeding time! They all followed a truck with lots of meat and we got to watch them feast on their dinner. We were just encompassed about with so many, many lions it was unbelieveable. After the game drive you there's kind of like a zoo section where you get to walk around and they just have so many more lions, even white lions! While you're waling around the park you'll just here lions groaning and roaring from every direction. It was like we were actually in the wild!
I'm going to apologise because the life of an AP just isn't that interesting. For right now it's a lot of helping missionaries with cars, coupons, and housing equipment. Yesterday I did what seemed like an eternity of driving. From about 12 noon to about 9 at night we were doing several errands. I was driving long enough for me to even get two speeding tickets. It's just a bunch of clueless police with a gun that'll clock your speed. Both times they just smiled and asked for money. They both asked for about 20 dollars and I just refused and gave them both tens. The corruption in this country is seriously just something else. This money is just going straight to their pockets I know it. They don't just give you receipts they just want their money. If it sound like I'm irritated I'm really not, I actually think that it's kind of funny. All of the people in the car noticed how calm and collected I was when I was pulled over.
One thing about the office that I seem to like is the office couple, the Petersons. Their from Sandy Utah and LOVE feeding us. They take us to the nicest places in Zimbabwe, Places missionaries could never afford. Yesterday they took us to a dessert place and to start off, I got a Lindt hot chocolate, served with a Lindt chocolate spoon! Also every other day Sister Peterson will bake the whole office American style cookies and brownies. I think this office is going to make me fat haha. Not as much walking, and a whole lot of eating.
One place that we were invited to go see last week was a resort that's owned by someone who used to work for the church. She was a housemaid who would clean our rooms, gone millionaire haha. I don't know where she got that money, but it's the sweetest (and cheapest) get away resort EVER. She invited us to be her first guests and I was just impressed. Every thing was just beautiful, and it's just out side of town.
The church is true, and this work is not our own. So let's make Him proud.


Wonderful family home eligible for 100% financing from USDA Rural Housing; 4-5bedroom-2 bath home with wheel chair access, 1st floor bedroom, bath and laundry. Large, bright country kitchen. Sliding glass door leads to back deck. Priced below assessed market value. One car garage behind house for studio or storage. 3 season front porch. Short walk to Town Park, Library and general store. Hadley Luzerne Schools; Oil heat.
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A beautiful take on Spanish modern design in this nicely upgraded townhome in desirable Cuernavaca. Updated wood and stone flooring as well as fabulously remodeled master bedroom and bath, and powder room are some of the updates you will love. A very convenient floor plan features great room, dining room, kitchen and flex room downstairs, Upstairs is a very large den/media room with a lovely terrace. The upstairs master is spacious and serene with French doors and sweeping views to the McDowell Mountains. The guest suite is large and comfortable with plenty of closet space, and features a bathroom with double sinks. Outside is a charming and low maintenance patio with a gorgeous pool, waterfall, fireplace and fountain. If convenience and style are what you are looking for, look no further.


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Capt. Picard Is Back
A new crew boards a revamped USS Enterprise in the first spin-off from the '60s cult classic. Set some 70 years after the Capt. Kirk era, the syndicated sequel follows the seven-year trek of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his colorful subordinates (including a Klingon!) as they encounter new life forms and foes, including the Borg, Q and the Ferengi. Picard (more…)A new crew boards a revamped USS Enterprise in the first spin-off from the '60s cult classic. Set some 70 years after the Capt. Kirk era, the syndicated sequel follows the seven-year trek of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his colorful subordinates (including a Klingon!) as they encounter new life forms and foes, including the Borg, Q and the Ferengi. Picard and his sidekicks would continue their voyages in a series of theatrical films.
Encounter at Farpoint Sunday Jan 19th, 2:00pm New
Skin of Evil Sunday Jan 19th, 4:10pm New
Here's Where We Left Off With Star Trek: Picard's Eponymous Captain
Back To: Episode Guide
Season 7, Episode 18 Eye of the Beholder
First Aired: February 28, 1994
During the investigation of a crew member's suicide, Troi and Worf (Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn) find their relationship taking a romantic turn. Pierce: Mark Rolston. Lt. Nara: Nancy Harewood. Calloway: Johanna McCloy. Riker: Jonathan Frakes.
Guest Cast
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Mark Rolston Pierce
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Soul Tasty CT is a new QSR location located on the perimeter of downtown Stamford, CT.
Taking over a dated existing space in an area increasingly being renovated daily, Soul Tasty owners had a full revamp and new brand creation ahead. They already had a great position as the only soul food restaurant within a 25 mile radius (which is a surprisingly big area in Fairfield County), so good food and visuals were the key to success.


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A 3 hour class taught by One Seed perfumer, Liz Cook. Class sizes are limited to 12 people.
This class will teach you the basics of natural perfumery and blending. The workshop includes a take-home kit of 9x10ml plant essences (pre-tinctured for ease of use), and you will go home with an 8ml perfume of your own design, as well as enough goods to create several more bottles of your own fragrance at home.
If you are interested in our workshops prior to launch dates, you are welcome to buy a gift voucher which can be redeemed for a workshop once dates are announced.
For cancellation policy, please click here.
So much fun ~ Liz is just gorgeous and a wealth of knowledge so we got some great tips and insight as well as hands on experience layering scent and practicing techniques. It's enough time to get your feet wet and come away feeling quite accomplished with your own personalised scent as well.


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The European Commission's science and knowledge service
European Commission > EU Science Hub
News > Learning financial crisis ranking eu member states resilience
JRC in brief
JRC Visitors' Centre
We are doing science for policy
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission's science and knowledge service which employs scientists to carry out research in order to provide independent scientific advice and support to EU policy.
Centre for Advanced Studies
Our scientific work supports a whole host of EU policies in a variety of areas from agriculture and food security, to environment and climate change, as well as nuclear safety and security and innovation and growth.
Our research topics give a deeper insight into that support of EU policy, while you can also discover the unique laboratories and facilities where our scientists work.
Knowledge and competence centres
JRC Digital Media Hub
Patents & technologies
Reference & measurement
Creating and managing knowledge
As the European Commission's knowledge and science service, the JRC plays a central role in creating, managing and making sense of collective scientific knowledge for better EU policies.
Collaboration agreements
Collaboration with EU countries
Networks & bureaus
We are open to the world
As a multinational and multicultural research centre, we collaborate with over a thousand partners worldwide.
You can read more about our partnerships and collaborations, our scientific networks and look for cooperation opportunities and find the latest job opportunities on offer.
Our news gives you an insight into our support of EU policy and highlights the scientific research carried out everyday within the European Commission.
You can also sign up for our monthly newsletter for all the latest information directly to your inbox and check out our events for opportunities to participate. Or check out our photos and videos for an instant look at the world of science at the European Commission.
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JRC report: Building a Scientific Narrative Towards a More Resilient EU Society Part 1: Conceptual Framework
JRC report: The resilience of EU Member States to the financial and economic crisis What are the characteristics of resilient behaviour?
Financial and economic analysis
Macroeconomic analysis for monitoring EU economic stance
Learning from the financial crisis: ranking EU Member States' resilience
A new JRC report looks at what made some countries more resilient than others, as the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis of 2008
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The financial and economic crisis that started in 2007 was felt across the EU but its impact was uneven.
A new JRC report looks at what made some countries more resilient than others, and concludes that mere 'shock absorption' may not be the only possible or best strategy looking forward.
Instead, adaptation and transformation has helped some countries use the crisis as an opportunity.
The JRC study measures the degree of economic and societal resilience of each Member State during and after the crisis, and identifies particular country characteristics linked to resilience.
It also looks at which EU countries were able to use the crisis as an opportunity to "bounce forward" and emerge stronger.
The analysis is based on the JRC conceptual framework for resilience, which places at its core the wellbeing of individuals, thus going beyond the merely economic growth perspective.
Ranking country resilience is not trivial
Ranking countries according to their resilience is a challenge for several reasons.
For example, resilience may not be homogeneous across the different stages of the crisis, with countries that are more resilient in the short run (vulnerability and absorption) not necessarily performing better in the recovery (adaptation) or the medium run (adaptation).
A case in point is Bulgaria and the Baltics which score better in the medium than in the short run, while Germany and Poland are among the most resilient countries both in the short and medium run.
Impact (short run), recovery and medium run indicators in the EU 28. Shades of blue indicate high resilience, shades of green medium resilience and shades of yellow low resilience.
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Going beyond economy
The assessment of country resilience changes considerably when broadening the perspective from a purely economic to a socio-economic viewpoint.
For example, Bulgaria proves more resilient when social variables such as exclusion, happiness, health and wages are included in the analysis, while Hungary becomes less resilient when the social dimension is factored in.
The importance of this broader perspective further reinforces the case for the European Pillar of Social Rights, and for strengthening the social dimension in the work of the European Semester.
True resilience means bouncing forward, not back
The bounce forward indicator in the EU 28. Shades of blue indicate high resilience, shades of green medium resilience and shades of yellow low resilience.
The goal of resilience is not necessarily to bounce back to the pre-crisis stage, but to bounce forward and potentially transform, in other words to improve the situation compared to the pre-crisis period.
Country performance in this respect is markedly varied: while Germany, Malta and Slovakia managed to bounce forward in many areas, countries like Greece, Italy and Spain still lag behind their pre-crisis performance across most socio-economic dimensions.
In most countries, active labour market measures, productivity and R&D expenditures have increased compared to their pre-crisis level.
Countries have been generally able to 'bounce forward' more as far as monetary aspects of wellbeing (GDP, consumption and income) are concerned, compared to non-monetary aspects of wellbeing (e.g. happiness, inequality, social exclusion and the share of young people not in employment, education or training).
This latter finding again confirms the need to consider the social dimension in crisis response and economic management.
Resilience – a puzzle of 200 pieces
The analysis tested over 200 candidate characteristics, mostly from the World Economic Forum's Competitiveness Index database, for their association with resilience, ranging from indicators of life quality to macroeconomic policies to digital development.
Different country characteristics can make a difference in the levels of resilience to the crisis.
In particular, high values of pre-crisis government expenditures on social protection turn out to be the most important feature in predicting the country's absorptive capacity (short run).
When focusing on the medium run, the countries with more stable political environment are performing better. Business environment is critical to successfully overcome a crisis and "bounce forward".
Raising recognition of the importance of resilience
In recent years, resilience has gained importance in policy discussions and has often become a policy target.
This is due to the recognition that EU countries are confronted with socio-economic shocks and rapid structural changes, political instability and security threats at the same time, which tests their capacities to react and transform.
Public institutions, including those of the European Union, need to adapt to these new circumstances, and assume their role not only in engineering system-wide transformations to mitigate damages, but also to empower citizens to rise to future challenges.
An emerging conceptual framework to measure resilience
While resilience was becoming more and more discussed, an agreed definition and a framework for its conceptualisation and measurement were lacking.
Starting in 2015, the JRC has developed a conceptual framework to facilitate a common understanding and incorporate resilience into policy thinking.
It broadens the perspective from a purely economic to a socio-economic viewpoint and puts societal wellbeing at the core business.
The JRC is continuing work on resilience considering different shocks or slow burning process, e.g. artificial intelligence and migration, but also developing research to measure resilience at different aggregation levels, e.g. focussing not on countries but on regions and down to individuals.
The extension of the analysis to many shocks feeds the dashboard to monitor resilience in the Union.


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Q: É possível criar eventos individuais para as instâncias de um formulário no C#? Suponhamos que eu tenha um formulário de cadastro de clientes:
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E que acabo de chamar esse formulário:
        frmCadCli1.Show();

Quando chamo esse formulário, imediatamente antes de ele ser mostrado o evento Form_Load é acionado.
Acontece que quero executar um Form_Load diferente para cada instância de frmCadastroCliente, por exemplo:
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Form load correspondente:
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Form load correspondente:
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        }

A razão pela qual gostaria de executar um Form_Loaddiferente para cada instância é que eu teria diferentes instâncias com diferentes propósitos usando o mesmo design.
Dessa forma eu poderia, por exemplo, usar o referido formulário como tela de cadastro de cliente, alteração de cadastro, ou mesmo como cadastro de fornecedores, apenas mudando as propriedades do formulário no Form_Load

A: Você tem que passar como parâmetro mesmo. Até porque você vai precisar para salvar o cadastro correto.
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Q: innerHTML property does not fill container with content so I'm trying to build html block and append it to container which was created before. Somehow its working on other pages but struggles to display data on the current one.

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after running the code I can see that the element .slides_pagename was created and the css rule position: relative; was applied successfully. I can even print this.element.innerHTML and see that it contains all data I need. BUT somehow this.node.parentNode.insertBefore adds only empty container without innerHTML that was created. How is it even possible and how to handle the situation?
EDIT using snippet it works with random content but does not work with my content which is being applied.

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If you want to add html you need to assign valid HTML string to .innerHTML method.
Here you are closing some div element which have not been opened previously

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One big bowl of noodle soup is sure to comfort a sore throat, warm you from the inside, and just make you feel better overall. But, you don't need to be sick to enjoy this dish. Noodle soup makes a great light lunch or dinner when you want something small, stress-free, and/or quick.
Overall cook time will depend on how long your noodles take. The ones I used for this recipe cook in 8-10 minutes, so adjust cooking time as needed.
Pour broth and water into a small/medium pot and bring to a boil.
With 4 minutes left on the timer, add broccoli and stir into soup.
With 2 minutes left on the timer, add spinach, tofu, and 1 teaspoon soy sauce.
Cook until spinach is wilted and tofu is warmed through (this should be done in the 2 minutes remaining on the timer). Taste test and add additional soy sauce for more of a salty flavor and add pepper as you like.
Pour into a large bowl. Garnish with sesame seeds, if you want. Serve and enjoy.
Note: The noodles I usually purchase are typically packaged with three "bunches" in one package. I usually use about 1/2 a bunch for one serving. This is about 1/4 to 1/2 inch diameter worth (hold in one hand to measure).


On the morning of October 25 in New York, a 21-year-old kid named Christopher Jusko was brutally attacked in the hallway of an East Village apartment building. He was stabbed in the neck and back, stumbled down two flights of stairs and onto the sidewalk, where he collapsed and died.
By that afternoon, Gawker had published a picture of Jusko's bloody corpse lying dead on the sidewalk. The image wasn't particularity newsworthy; no other news outlets reporting on the murder ran it. There was no original reporting and barely any accompanying text by the post's author, Hamilton Nolan. But the image was graphic, sensationalist, and extremely offensive to the family of the deceased. They, along with many readers, complained for 5 days before Gawker editor Remy Stern finally relented and removed it from the site.
The obvious question is, why publish an image so gruesome and disturbing, and of questionable significance? The answer, of course, is page hits.
As the online media world gets increasingly competitive, writers find themselves pressured to produce content that generates eyeballs above all else. Accuracy, grammar, and ethics are increasingly tossed to the wayside by editors primarily interested in advertising dollars.
By the time Stern pulled the photo, Nolan's post had achieved more than 42,000 page views, which would be huge for a site like TBD but less than half of what yesterday's Gawker post "7 Things You Should Never Do in a Club" garnered. By the time the Jusko photo was removed, the post was old news; it had already drawn all of the traffic it was ever going to draw. By taking down the photo, Gawker could make itself appear sensitive to its readers' concerns, perhaps even remorseful (without, of course, making any admission of error).
With hemorrhaging profits and heated online competition, the powers that be are sometimes all too happy to let morals fall by the wayside. It was once the journalist's job to push the envelope and the editor's job (with a little help from legal) to be the voice of reason. But the shifting media landscape has left many of us scribes without that support network, and others feeling pressured to betray their journalistic ethics.
Have any of you ever felt pressured by your editors or publishers to make ethical compromises? We'd love to hear your story.


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Carlos Gaivar (1946 - 2020)
I'm sorry to report (a bit belatedly) that former KNX anchor Carlos Gaivar passed away on December 1. He took a disability retirement when he left the station in 2006.
For twelve years, Gaivar had a steady presence providing news throughout the late hours of the days. I've noted there are two difficult shifts in radio. One is morning drive as a talent's day will start around 3 or 4 in the morning, and end while others are finishing dinner. The other is the overnight shift, when talent is working while their circadian rhythm is offering a nudge of "why are you awake?"
A Brooklyn native and graduate of the University of Maryland, he spent much of his earlier career in Washington DC. His credits include anchoring, reporting, news writing, talk show host, jazz programmer and DJ at some well known stations including WRC, WJLA-TV, WTTG-TV and WOL-AM. He was working as the business reporter for WTOP radio before arriving at KNX.
Gaivar highlighted his Latino heritage through his personal media efforts. He wrote, produced and directed "Viva Latino," a 30-part radio series funded by the U.S. Office of Education. The series won a 1979 Ohio State Award for "creative use of the radio medium." He also claimed membership with the National Federation of Hispanics in Communication, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and the Hispanic News Media Association of Washington.
Gaivar also served his country as a Sergeant in the Marine Corps before his time in broadcasting. He was living in Miami, Florida. Gaivar was 74 years old when he passed due to complications of Covid-19.
Thanks to Don Barrett and Rudolph Brewington for providing background and other material.
Anita December 22, 2020 at 6:18 AM
RIP Carlos
Westfield December 23, 2020 at 7:30 PM
Running on another trail, Jimmy Rabbitt (1941 - 2020)
He was born Eddy Payne in Washington DC and grew up in Tyler, Texas, raised by his grandparents. He played in a band at an early age, music always being a part of his life. While a teenager, "Fast Eddy Payne" debuted on KGKB-AM, then traveled to Corpus Christi and Port Arthur, Louisiana after serving with the Marine Corps before returning to Tyler where he remained until 1964. But it was his move to Gordon McLendon's legendary KLIF-Dallas when Eddy Payne became better known as Jimmy Rabbitt. The British Invasion had landed on American shores, so The Rabbitt honed his radio skills while mixing local bands with both American and British hits. It's arguable The Rabbitt had "arrived" when he had the privilege of introducing the Beatles at the Dallas Memorial Auditorium. Jimmy Rabbitt was now one of the most popular radio personalities in the state of Texas, programming KLIF's FM outlet which became KNUS-FM, one of the first successful FM stations. The Rabbitt then landed in San Die
Remembering KKDJ's "Brother T."
It's hard to think that Tom Nefeldt is gone. I actually trace my top 40 interest more to KKDJ than to KHJ. T. Michael Jordan, his nom de plume , was on from 7 p.m. until midnight, precisely the time I was procrastinating on my high school homework. I actually won my first radio station contest, $20 from Brother T. when I was caller number 10. His early days at KROY, 1969 I later became one of his regular callers when he joined his other KKDJ veterans at Anaheim's KEZY, led by Rick Carroll (Carroll was the modern rock wunderkind who turned KROQ into a ratings powerhouse in the 1980s). Brother T. invited me to visit the station on 1190 East Ball Road, back when radio stations were housed in stand-alone buildings. It was an older building seemingly in the middle of nowhere, but I knew I was in the right place when I saw his brown Datsun 260Z with "TOM TMJ" personalized plates. There was definitely a party going on over "the Mighty 1190." Tom drove a fast car and lived in the fast lan
A quick welcome, redux!
Hi and hi again -- thanks to Don Barrett many of you are finding this blog for the first time. Welcome! Normally I update the blog once a week, however if there's breaking news and / or my day job gets in the way, the schedule might become a bit more erratic. My goal is not to emulate LARadio.com -- no one can do what Don Barrett did so well and for so long, but I simply needed an outlet to keep writing about my favorite media. Yours truly, Dick Whittington, Don Barrett earlier this year Thanks to Don Barrett, I've met a number of individuals who are my heroes -- talent that graced the local airwaves. That may be one of you that I had the privilege of meeting and perhaps interviewing! I probably will write more based on my memories about my time listening to the L.A. radio dial, but to reiterate, if there's breaking news I'll try to offer my two yen. And of course, there's my annual year in review, my once-a-year attempt to try to make sense of the twelve previous m
Former correspondent at LARadio.com, day job is teaching child psych courses. After doing college radio and a very brief time on commercial radio, I realized I don't have the talent nor the ego strength to be on the air. But I hope I can still write about radio.


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