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When Everything Looks Like a Nail: Building Better "Behavioral Economics" Teams
By Jason Collins
Image: TRΛVELER/Unsplash
This article is part of our special issue "Nudge Turns 10," which explores the intersection of behavioral science and public policy. View the complete issue here.
"As a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice from economists. Others interested in helping the lawyers out need not apply." — Richard Thaler, 2012
As someone who became an economist via a brief career as a lawyer, I did notice that my kind had privileged access to the halls of government and business. Whether this was because economics can speak the language of dollars, or that we simply claimed that we had all the answers, the economists were often the first consulted (though not necessarily listened to) on how we priced, regulated, and designed our policies, services, and products.
What I lacked, however, was a privileged understanding of behavior. So about a decade ago, with the shortcomings of economics as an academic discipline top of mind, I commenced a Ph.D. to develop that understanding. It was fortuitous timing. Decades of research by psychologists and "misbehaving" economists was creating a new wave of ideas that would wash out of academia and into the public and corporate spheres. Famously encapsulated in Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge, there was now a recognized need to design our world for humans, not "econs."
Following Nudge, a second wave found many organizations creating their own "nudge units." The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) within 10 Downing Street was the precursor to government behavioral teams around the world. Although the first dedicated corporate behavioral units predated the BIT, a similar, albeit less visible, pattern of growth can be seen in the private sphere. These teams are now tackling problems in areas as broad as tax policy, retail sales, app design, and social and environmental policy.
A world in which we take advice only from economists risks missing the richness of human behavior, designing for people who don't exist …
On net, these teams have been a positive and resulted in some excellent outcomes. But my experience working in and alongside nudge units has me asking: Has the pendulum swung too far? My education and experience have proven to me that economics and the study of human behavior are complements rather than substitutes. But I worry that in many government departments and businesses, behavioral teams have replaced rather than complemented economics teams. Policymakers and corporate executives, their minds rushing to highly available examples of "nudge team" successes, often turn first to behavioral units when they have a problem.
A world in which we take advice only from economists risks missing the richness of human behavior, designing for people who don't exist. But a world in which policymakers and corporate executives turn first to behavioral units has not been without costs. A major source of these costs comes from how we have been building behavioral teams.
We have been building narrow teams. We have been building teams with only a subset of the skills required to solve the problems at hand. When you form a team with a single skillset, there is the risk that everything will start to look like a nail.
… But a world in which policymakers and corporate executives turn first to behavioral units has not been without costs.
It's now time for a third wave. We need to build multidisciplinary behavioral units. Otherwise we may have results such as those reflected in the observations below. Some of the observations relate to my own experiences and errors, some are observations by others. To protect identities, confidential projects, and egos (including my own), I have tweaked the stories. However, the lessons remain the same.
The Missing Pieces
No economists (of any stripe): While the rise of the nudge unit was often framed as a way to overcome the hegemony of the economists, economists have their uses. One is thinking about how individual behavior might play out in a market. Despite the "irrational" human agents in many markets, markets often work wonderfully well.
One behavioral team lacking an economist was asked whether customers in their firm's market would be harmed if this firm or its competitors started to charge different prices to different customer types—a practice known as price discrimination. The boilerplate advice they gave was that people are irrational and lack attention, and that the firms in this market would exploit their customers.
The team might have been right about the ultimate outcome for this particular market. But in their advice, the question of what actually happens in markets where firms price discriminate never entered the picture. There are plenty of markets where price discrimination has been good for consumers. In movie theatres, progressive pricing typically gives access to children, students, and seniors at substantially discounted prices. Was there potential for such a positive outcome here?
Economists are also known for looking at the incentives. Even though the behavioral literature has identified plenty of famous "backfires" from poorly designed incentives, demand curves do generally slope down. Many times, I have seen organizations attempting to design behavioral solutions to prevent their staff from doing what they are paying them to do. If you pay sales bonuses with thresholds, it is difficult to come up with any behavioral intervention that will prevent inappropriate sales on the last day of the bonus period. Yet the incentive design was typically not within the purview of the behavioral team.
No psychologists: Many nudge units are branded as behavioral economics teams, despite their work being better described as social psychology. Most of their time is spent designing communications, such as websites, text messages, and letters. Their work is economics free.
While the branding of their work as behavioral economics might be more economics imperialism (or simply clever branding), often these teams are staffed only by economists. Having economists running around doing social psychology can backfire. They can lack appreciation for the foundations of the interventions they have developed, such as context dependence and the current state of the science.
I met one such team during a presentation in which they were illustrating the power of primes through the Florida effect, five years after the debate over replication of that study first exploded. That same slide deck contained material on the glucose model of self-control and the jam study, oblivious to research and debates subsequent to the original classic papers. The value of having someone connected to the field was clear.
Teams lack more than just social psychologists. Cognitive psychologists can, and often do, play a vital part. Personality psychologists can bring great insights into human heterogeneity. Organizational psychologists are important given how often the behavior of interest relates to work. Comparative and evolutionary psychology can even be useful; we are, after all, evolved animals.
When you form a team with a single skillset, there is the risk that everything will start to look like a nail.
No experience in experimental design: The advocacy of an experimental approach to policy making is possibly the most important contribution of the nudge units, even more important than the behavioral insights themselves.
Running a randomized controlled trial can appear conceptually easy. The statistics required to determine whether there were different outcomes in the treatment group relative to the control can be basic. Online tools can help you work through issues such as setting the right group size.
It doesn't take many complications, however, to send a trial off the rails. The practical design and implementation of a trial, particularly if it involves anything more than tweaking a letter or webpage, is often complex and fraught with traps. Experienced experimental designers are often invaluable.
I have seen several cases where attrition was ignored, with no understanding of how that attrition differed between treatment and control groups. The treatments were tweaks in website or letter design, but in each case, outcomes were only measured for those who responded. If a trial relates to customers (as some of these trials did), you might not care about the outcomes for those who decided not to choose or use your product. You are willing to live with this experimental problem. But for many public policy issues, understanding the outcomes for the subjects who drop out is often just as critical for assessing the success of an intervention.
Other teams low on experimental experience simply ran into execution problems. Well-meaning managers shifted their best staff out of the treatment and into the control groups. Highly engaged employees improvised additional improvements to the treatment on the fly. Unscalable support was provided to help treatment-group staff implement the treatment. In each case, the headline measure of the treatment effect was not indicative of the likely benefit of the treatment if rolled out. Yet most of those results—particularly in the government space—made their way into the public sphere as stories of success.
While these cases were largely the result of lack of experience, there are also some incentive problems. Many teams are consultancies, or operate in consultancy models, within their organization or government. Despite their genuine belief they are seeking the truth, there is a prize for positive results. The motivation to trumpet a positive result can cause, in the words of one person who engaged a behavioral team, a publication that had no resemblance to the project that they were engaged in.
Given this, there might also be a case for excluding those with experimental-design skills from the behavioral team, and separating development of the interventions from their assessment. Bring in a disinterested party with strong experimental design skills to design and run the experiments. We are a long way from the debacle that is the Cornell Food and Brand Lab (I hope), but we do have the foxes watching the henhouse.
No behavioral scientists: By this, I mean we have none of the above. No behavioral or experimental economists, no social or cognitive psychologists, and no one who has been through a behavioral science program. This was most typical in government and consultancies, where a few public policy generalists had read Sunstein and Thaler's Nudge, or Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, and formed a team around the idea. I am all for this approach as a start. You don't have to be an expert to bring new, valuable thinking to a problem. But the pool of ideas a team of this composition draws on can be shallow. They need to tap expertise.
One such unit became disparagingly known as the "letter writing team," with their main contribution, beyond inclusion of the occasional social norm, being to rewrite letters in plain English. While not wanting to downplay their contribution—almost every communication produced within the organization was characterized by bureaucratic turgidity—they lacked the depth of knowledge required to identify new ways to tackle the scope of behavioral problems in that organization. Without the ability to solve new problems, they were effectively waiting for publication of ideas by other behavioral teams that they could adapt for use in the organization.
No subject matter experts: This might be no one with health experience on a health project. Or a team tackling tax policy despite no experience in the area. Aren't the people the behavioral teams are working with supposed to have this knowledge? Yes, but often they don't, particularly in government departments with a philosophy of rotating generalists across the organization.
Tackling a problem without subject matter experts often leads to a situation not dissimilar to that faced by the economics imperialists. The team can bring in some great new ideas, all of which have the risk of falling apart once you add the interesting domain-specific detail. The execution of these projects absent subject matter knowledge often looks like an academic exercise: have a couple of meetings, go away and research for a few weeks, drop back in with the draft report with some suggested interventions for approval. That report is dead on arrival.
Before blaming everything on the way we have been building teams, there is a demand driver too. Politicians, bureaucrats, and corporations have also started seeing nails everywhere.
There are ways to overcome this lack of subject matter knowledge. This might be through deep immersion in the process, observations, and ethnography, allowing the team to become the subject matter experts. I have seen some teams do wonderful jobs at this. Unfortunately, not every project offers the required time or budget.
The Demand Side
George Loewenstein and Nick Chater suggested that this reflects a narrow interpretation of behavioral insights in policy and research. The focus is on nudges to address behavioral problems, rather than the wider range of possible responses.
In responding to Loewenstein and Chater, Thaler was "mystified about who they think they are arguing with." After all, Sunstein and Thaler are clear in Nudge that nudges are only part of the tool kit, not a panacea. It would be hard to find someone who would claim otherwise.
But in my experience of on-the-ground execution of behavioral projects, there is a gap between theory and practice. The commonly held understanding that we need more than nudges and the practical application have not always aligned.
The best way to avoid everything looking like a nail is to carry more than a hammer.
This is reflected most clearly in the number of requests for tender that ask for a "behavioral economics solution" or "behavioral insights solution" to a problem. By this, they mean nudges. Despite the problem itself often being poorly defined, the behavioral hammer is requested.
In one such instance, a charity requested a "behavioral economics solution" to encourage their grant recipients to meet one of their contractual requirements, namely providing data on the use of the grant. The charity had an easy option: simply not pay until the data were provided, as the contract anticipated would occur. Interviews with grant recipients indicated it was easy for them to provide the data, and they were willing to. But once paid, the recipients simply moved on and didn't provide the data that they suspected the charity wasn't even using. (Which it wasn't. This of course raises solution two: not collecting the data. Or possibly the actual problem here is assessment of grant effectiveness.)
Regardless, there was a reputational benefit within the charity for engaging a behavioral team and running behavioral economics projects. There was also an aversion to more direct—and confrontational—engagement with their grant recipients. This aversion is not uncommon. Risk-averse clients often seek the behavioral solution for its inoffensiveness. For the charity, the result was tweaked communications, a slight increase in data provision, yet no real benefit.
A Richer Approach
The best way to avoid everything looking like a nail is to carry more than a hammer. Build multidisciplinary teams with a wider toolkit. Teams that can draw on economists, behavioral economists and scientists, psychologists, data scientists, neuroscientists, domain experts, sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, biologists, systems and complexity theorists, designers, creatives, cynics, and skeptics (and more). In government, this means mixed teams of public-policy professionals, not nudge units.
Given the small size of many teams or organizations, this large, multidisciplinary team (or set of teams) is generally not a possibility. We will almost certainly have gaps. But being aware of these gaps and their possible costs can highlight where we should try to tap alternative expertise.
I am sympathetic to the idea that nudge units were (and often still are) required to overcome a major blind spot in public policy and corporations. But that balance has now been (over)corrected in some places. Where that is the case, it's time to move on.
That said, we might retain the behavioral economics moniker in some instances. Think of it as advertising, or as branding that opens doors. And once that door is open, make sure it's open wide enough to let in the full team.
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Edit: I figured out that the values get resetted because I have an attached property caled Prop and inside its OnPropertyChangedCallback it notifies me about the Prop having value null on swapping between DataTemplates. You can see that attached property in code below.
Can somebody help me out what happens behind this swapping mechanism of DataTemplateSelector?
By clicking on Button few times I change the type and so in ContentControl the selector changes to DataTemplate.
And this is how textDataTemplate looks alike.
numericDataTemplate looks similar to textDataTemplate just that only digits are allowed.
The Prop is my attached property from AttProperties class of type string. The Prop is somewhere inside of all three DataTemplate. Above the Prop is sitting on a TextBox but it could be a Label too. The markupextension is just a "return Hello". The extension is just there to test how to create a custom markupextension. There is no big deal with the extension. It shouldnt have to do much with the swapping of DataTemplates.
One more time to explain my problem. Swapping seems reselts/rollback my old templates. I swap from textDataTemplate to lets say numericDataTemplate and the Prop of textDataTemplate gets set to null but the value before was "Hello".
Why is that happening? It seems like the same behavior with using tiggers. Once a Trigger is no more valid it rollsback the used values. Is a DataTemplateSelector using some kind of same mechanism as Triggers?
The attached property is just a simple .RegisterAttached with an OnPropertyChangedCallback. Inside OnPropertyChangedCallback I figured the prop is null when swapping the dataTemplates.
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Nancy G West And Her Characters – Aggie Blogs
Book Club Discussion Questions for FIT TO BE DEAD, Aggie Mundeen's First Story
Have you ever tried to start life over? Single? Did you have problems like Aggie's?
Is Aggie's health club like yours? If you don't exercise, did you relate to her experience? (except for murder)
Does Aggie, from Chicago, adapt to Texas ways?
When SAPD Detective Sam, the man Aggie loved, appears at the health club to investigate the murder, how does he view Aggie?
How do you see their relationship developing? Will tragedies in their backgrounds make it impossible for them to ever have a healthy relationship?
What characteristics make Aggie a good amateur sleuth? Are her strengths also her weaknesses?
Grace is Aggie's friend and neighbor. What's her role in Aggie's life?
Besides Aggie, are there other people in the book you enjoyed? Why?
Of these themes, which interested you most:
How people's choices shape their lives
How the past affects people's mindset
The value/harm in keeping personal secrets
10. Can crime co-exist with humor?
11.The rocky road of romance
12.What scene grabbed you or surprised you?
Aggie and I would love to hear your book club's answers.
Email us: ngwest at sbcglobal.net )
Aggie Worries about Nancy's 2018 Resolutions
I haven't made any New Year's Resolutions since January 2013 when Nancy and I clashed brains on the subject. I try to make worthy plans, but my good intentions tend to evaporate. So I gave up. Nancy, however, has a bunch of resolutions, which worry me.
She says she will:
Work on house plans with interior design software she got for Christmas. (Is this for fun or is she actually planning to build a house?)
Have a furniture maker she knows help her design a table she sketched. (Okay. I can deal with a table.)
Work on two short stories she found in a drawer. (There were several, and I read them all. The others were lousy.)
Talk to interested groups about River City Dead during San Antonio's 2018 Tricentennial celebration. (This is the story of my recent rendesvoux-turned-fiasco with Sam on the River Walk, so it's okay with me.)
Investigate participating in CASA, Child Advocates San Antonio, which recruits, trains, and supervises court-appointed volunteers who advocate for abused and neglected children and youth and help place them in safe, permanent homes. (This sounds like a wonderful program and a MAJOR commitment.)
So where does that leave me for the future? Is she finished telling my stories? This brings us to her sixth resolution—the most important one. She's working on a story about the most dangerous situation Sam and I ever faced. She resolves to:
6. Lengthen and polish the story. (It's written, but she's been thinking since November about how to intensify it.
There you have it. I have not been cast aside. Not yet. And Nancy is better at keeping resolutions than I am. I still worry, however, about the brain clash we had back in 2013 over New Year's resolutions, especially numbers 7, 8, 10 and 11: https://stayyoungwithaggie.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/brain-clash-west-vs-mundeen/
If you have an opinion, let me know.
And stay tuned.
Aggie Mundeen
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Nancy's TV Debut
Shelly Miles, host of San Antonio Living on WOAI TV, invited Nancy to join her in a segment about Aggie Mundeen Mysteries. Naturally, I paid close attention.
Having never been on television, Nancy worried about attire and make-up. The sofa on the set was cranberry red. Should she wear a navy or black business suit to appear professional? She'd swelter under the studio lights. Rivulets pouring down one's face is not a good look. She opted for a casual blue pantsuit with a loose top: light-weight cool fabric, long sleeves and demur neck. A microphone would be clipped to her somewhere.
She emailed TV host Shelly: "Does the studio have a make-up artist?" TV cameras made a person look pale, old and ten pounds heavier, none of which Nancy needed. They had a bathroom and mirror. No make-up artist. She consulted Melody, the master stylist who does her hair. Melody could apply TV make-up, but unfortunately, she would be out of town. She gave Nancy hints: "Apply eye liner above your lashes and blend it upward at the outside corner." (Nothing on one's face should trend down. Gravity took care of that.)
Nancy practiced. She wore contacts, so she had to keep the liner out of her eyes. She managed to draw a smooth line above her lashes, but when she swept the outside edges upward, they resembled curly mustaches. After multiple line drawings, scrubbing off a series of smudged flying corners and replacing two sets of contacts, she was able to draw lines—when she managed not to blink—that curved in subtle upward sweeps. She stared at the mirror bug-eyed, while her sweeps dried.
Melody said her cheek bones needed definition, so she bought several shades of blush at the grocery store. Poised at her bathroom mirror, she sucked in her cheeks and swept the pinkest shade on the bone from under her pupils toward her ears. She looked ready for a pow-wow. She tried a lighter color that looked more natural—so natural that a microscopic camera lens probably wouldn't show it. She applied more of same figuring that should do it.
Her eyebrows, blonde and squiggly, did not make a nice frame for her eyes and would probably disappear under lights. What to do? Make arched brown bars totally foreign to her face? She tried it. Not good. Her brows would remain natural.
Dressed and made-up, she cruised with her husband down Highway 410 toward WOAI TV, which was located ten miles ahead on the access road. Then the traffic stopped. Vehicles came to a standstill, their motors idling and drivers fuming. There must be a major wreck ahead, and there was no other route to the TV station. After waiting in stalled traffic for twenty minutes, her husband suggested she call the station.
"This is Nancy West," she said. "I'm supposed to be on San Antonio Living at ten o'clock, but the traffic on 410 has stalled. I don't think I'm going to make it."
"Yes," the receptionist said, "a four-car pile-up. Thank you." Click.
As soon as Nancy hung up, cars miraculously began to move. Police must have cleared the wreckage. Hopefully, no one was seriously injured. They arrived at the station where people zoomed back and forth at warp speed between swinging doors on each side of a reception desk across from a small waiting area. She signed in, and they sat. A young lady brought a waver for her to sign: She agreed the station would own her television image in perpetuity, which undoubtedly included defined cheekbones, along with whatever words she managed to utter. The young lady asked if she could attach a microphone to Nancy and clipped a battery pack the size of a thick cell phone inside the back of her pants. Nancy shivered: she said it was cold and would remind her to sit straight for the interview. The girl had Nancy snake the wire under her clothes and clip a small microphone to her collar. Cool.
After "Finding Gently-Used Clothing for Back-to-School Fashion" and a segment about a school for boys practicing to be Ninja Warriors, Nancy was told to sit at the end of the rose sofa. Shelly Miles would sit on the adjoining sofa. Her books were placed on the coffee table in front of them, and images of the covers formed a portrait on the back wall.
"Just face me as though we're having a natural conversation, " Shelly said. After a countdown, the segment began. The lights were even brighter than we imagined. Shelly was charming, asked great questions, and Nancy had practiced some answers. The interview seemed to go well, although I doubt Nancy's ratings rose to the level of Ninja Warriors.
Later, we watched a video of the show at home. Since Nancy had turned sideways to talk to Shelly, we mostly saw a woman with blonde hair talking to a younger woman who smiled radiantly for frequent camera close-ups. The woman resembling Nancy looked old and pale with invisible eye make-up, nondescript cheeks and squiggly eyebrows.
But she had fun.
__Aggie Mundeen
Aggie Mundeen Reflects During Spring Break
Here it is past the Ides of March and already St. Patrick's Day. I love the idea of Leprechauns, but I 'm not worried that Shakespeare's soothsayer foretold the death of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March. In fact, I'm not worried about much of anything. RIVER CITY DEAD was released a couple months ago. Reviews are great, and the book should be well-received because of the setting: Who doesn't love the San Antonio River Walk? The city is a top tourist destination.
Nancy and I have our differences, but I loved her telling how Detective Sam and I planned our first rendezvous at Casa Prima Hotel on the River Walk. He and I have come a long way in our relationship over the course of four books, even though it could have been smoother. I blame Nancy for that.
Anyway, even though our rendezvous didn't go exactly as planned (it was not my fault), Sam and I managed to work together most of the time, even when tragedy occurred. In the midst of catastrophe, our relationship blossomed. He did get terribly angry about a certain incident over which I had very little control.
I made new friends at the hotel, the Fabulous Femmes who held their convention there, and Sam and I immersed ourselves in the beauty and history of the River Walk.
Our reader friends seem charmed by the experience. RIVER CITY DEAD makes them want to visit River City, return, or if they live here, spend more time on the River Walk. And they like my story.
So now we're at a lake on the Guadalupe River reflecting. Birds are singing, male geese strut on our roof trying to impress the females (it doesn't seem to work all that well), the grass is greening and huge lakeside trees are sprouting new leaves. Lovely.
Until later,
p.s. Nancy is getting ready to send our newsletter about my stories and what's coming up, including giveaways and bargains from her and other writers. If you'd like to be on the mail list, send us your name and email address. Look over in the right-hand column and click the link. Cheers!
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River City Dead by Nancy G. West River City Dead (An Aggie Mundeen Mystery) Cozy Mystery Henery Press (January 17, 2017) Paperback: 224 pages ISBN-13: 978-1635111330 E-Book ASIN: B01MA6NALN Synopsi…
AGGIE MUNDEEN'S AUGUST
It's hot, and I'm bored. Nancy plans to learn Canva, clean her closet and our office, learn more guitar chords and tackle Scrivener, a program to help authors plan stories. We are also acquiring a new roof, which means we'll both have headaches.
I'll keep you posted.
JUNE-JULY, 2016
July: It's the end of July. The rain stopped and we're baking under an unrelenting sun. Nancy's glad she had a project to work on indoors, which is the story of my next adventure.
She answered editors' questions and incorporated them into the story. She's tired after working six-to-eight hours a day since early June, but she's satisfied with the results. Now it's time to clean out our office and closet clutter and perfect the art of being lazy. When I know her brain is receptive, I'll suggest some ideas which she will try to ignore.
My forthcoming story is set in a place where EVERYBODY wants to vacation. Hint: it's not the Caribbean or Hawaii.
(Leave a comment or send Nancy an email. ngwest@sbcglobal.net I'll read it.)
SUMMER WITH AGGIE
It's June already. What happened to spring? Rain mostly. Which meant my author couldn't go to her lake place retreat. Which means she's grumpy.
She's describing another of my adventures and sent the first draft to her publisher a month ago on May 9. This story is set in a really cool place where Sam and I chose to rendezvous. But things rarely go as planned.
The publisher has scads of questions about what Sam and I and our new friends do in this tale. It's perfectly clear to Nancy and me. She works hard to explain me.
I think Detective Sam finally understands me. He's just not sure he can deal with me full time.
Right now, Nancy is fine-tuning the story. I've got to look over her shoulder to make sure she doesn't distort the facts.
Aggie Mundeen Mysteries and Nancy's Suspense Novel Named Award Finalists!
Good news! Three of Nancy's books about me, Sam and Meredith are honored as Finalists in Chanticleer's International Awards.
As you know, I star in FIT TO BE DEAD, DANG NEAR DEAD, and SMART BUT DEAD. I'll also be featured in the next book in the series.
FIT TO BE DEAD is 2015 CHANTICLEER WINNER,
MYSTERY & MAYHEM CATEGORY.
DANG NEAR DEAD is 2015 CHANTICLEER FINALIST,
MYSTERY & MAYHEM.
Mystery & Mayhem is the appropriate division for my chaotic adventures, don't you think?
SMART, BUT DEAD, released 2015, has great reviews:
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A strategy for creating a long term balanced, positive state of mind.
The role and quality of food is pivotal for mental wellbeing. Within the planetary quest for sustainable, secure food production, there is plentiful future challenge to test our mental and emotional coping strategies, and effectiveness of our inner reserves as we attempt to adapt to a faster life.
To thrive, we require resourceful ways to maintain good mental and emotional wellbeing as well as physical fitness, recognising that fulfilling an appetite is about satisfying the whole being.
As a global society, we have opportunities to use to review our needs and desires with food and to extract and use food energy more efficiently.
This work explores the concepts of Reversibility, Evolution and Metamorphosis inspired by a decaying leaf. Its multi-colouration indicate different stages of decay, illustrating a slow "time release" chemical change.
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In preparing our inner states to adjust to global pace, digesting a time release leaf tea allows the recreation of natural time switches in ourselves, and to mentally re-configure, and become refreshed, as we metamorphose and evolve ourselves again.
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Scatec to install up to 100 MW of green hydrogen capacity in Egypt
Norwegian renewables specialist Scatec has revealed plans to collaborate with Fertiglobe and the Sovereign Fund of Egypt on the development of a green hydrogen plant in Egypt with an electrolyzer ranging from 50 MW to 100 MW.
October 15, 2021 Brian Publicover
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Norway's Scatec has announced plans to team up with Fertiglobe and the Sovereign Fund of Egypt to build a green hydrogen plant in Ain Sokhna, Egypt. The electrolyzer will range in size from 50 MW to 100 MW.
The project, to be built under Scatec's "Power to X" strategy, will make green hydrogen for use as feedstock for green ammonia production. For Egypt, the planned plant marks the country's first attempt to turning itself into a regional green hydrogen hub.
"We see green hydrogen as a natural part of our strategy and the renewable ecosystem in the years to come," said Scatec CEO Raymond Carlsen.
Scatec will build, operate and own the plant, and will retain a majority stake in the project. It will sell the green hydrogen to a subsidiary of Fertiglobe, an an ammonia production venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and OCI.
"Fertiglobe is increasingly becoming an ideal springboard to capture the huge growth opportunities offered by the hydrogen economy," said Ahmed El-Hoshy, CEO of OCI.
Scatec aims to finalize its investment plans at some point in 2022. The plant is scheduled to being commercial operations in 2024, pending regulatory approvals and permission to pull renewable electricity from the grid. It noted that it plans to build new solar PV and wind power facilities in Egypt in the future to further support its hydrogen ambitions in the country.
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package com.aerolitec.SMXL.tools.dbmanager;

import android.content.ContentValues;
import android.content.Context;
import android.database.Cursor;

import com.aerolitec.SMXL.model.CategoryGarment;

import java.util.ArrayList;

/**
 * Created by Jerome on 28/04/2015.
 */
public class CategoryGarmentDBManager extends DBManager {

    /*
    1-Tshirt
    2-robe jupe
    3-pantalons
    4-chemise
    5-blouson
    6-chaussure
    7-sweat pull
    8-veste
    9-costume
    10-ss vetement
    11-autre
     */

    public static final String TABLE_NAME = "category_garment";
    public static final String KEY_ID_CATEGORY_GARMENT="id_category_garment";
    public static final String KEY_ICON_CATEGORY_GARMENT="icon";
    public static final String KEY_NAME_CATEGORY_GARMENT="category_garment_name";

    public static final String CREATE_TABLE_BRAND = "CREATE TABLE "+TABLE_NAME+
            " (" +
            " "+KEY_ID_CATEGORY_GARMENT+" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT," +
            " "+KEY_ICON_CATEGORY_GARMENT+" INTEGER" +
            " "+KEY_NAME_CATEGORY_GARMENT+" TEXT NOT NULL" +
            ");";

    // Constructeur
    public CategoryGarmentDBManager(Context context)
    {
        super(context);
    }

    public long addCategoryGarment(CategoryGarment cg){
        open();
        // Ajout d'un enregistrement dans la table

        ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
        values.put(KEY_ICON_CATEGORY_GARMENT, cg.getIcon());
        values.put(KEY_NAME_CATEGORY_GARMENT, cg.getCategory_garment_name());

        long i =db.insert(TABLE_NAME,null,values);
        close();
        // insert() retourne l'id du nouvel enregistrement inséré, ou -1 en cas d'erreur
        return i;
    }

    public int updateCategoryGarment(CategoryGarment cg) {
        // modification d'un enregistrement
        // valeur de retour : (int) nombre de lignes affectées par la requête

        open();
        ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
        values.put(KEY_ICON_CATEGORY_GARMENT, cg.getIcon());
        values.put(KEY_NAME_CATEGORY_GARMENT, cg.getCategory_garment_name());

        String where = KEY_ID_CATEGORY_GARMENT+" = ?";
        String[] whereArgs = {cg.getId_category_garment()+""};

        int i =db.update(TABLE_NAME, values, where, whereArgs);
        close();
        return i;
    }

    public int updateCategoryGarment(int id, int icon) {
        // modification d'un enregistrement
        // valeur de retour : (int) nombre de lignes affectées par la requête

        open();
        ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
        values.put(KEY_ICON_CATEGORY_GARMENT, icon);

        String where = KEY_ID_CATEGORY_GARMENT+" = ?";
        String[] whereArgs = {id+""};

        int i =db.update(TABLE_NAME, values, where, whereArgs);
        close();
        return i;
    }

    public int deleteCategoryGarment(CategoryGarment cg) {
        // suppression d'un enregistrement
        // valeur de retour : (int) nombre de lignes affectées par la clause WHERE, 0 sinon
        open();
        String where = KEY_ID_CATEGORY_GARMENT+" = ?";
        String[] whereArgs = {cg.getId_category_garment()+""};

        int i = db.delete(TABLE_NAME, where, whereArgs);
        close();
        return i;
    }

    public CategoryGarment getCategoryGarment(int id) {
        // Retourne l'animal dont l'id est passé en paramètre

        open();
        CategoryGarment cg=new CategoryGarment();

        Cursor c = db.rawQuery("SELECT * FROM "+TABLE_NAME+" WHERE "+KEY_ID_CATEGORY_GARMENT+"="+id, null);
        if (c.moveToFirst()) {
            cg.setId_category_garment(c.getInt(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_ID_CATEGORY_GARMENT)));
            cg.setIcon(c.getInt(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_ICON_CATEGORY_GARMENT)));
            cg.setCategory_garment_name(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_NAME_CATEGORY_GARMENT)));

            c.close();
        }

        close();
        return cg;
    }

    /*
    public Cursor getCategoryGarments() {
        // sélection de tous les enregistrements de la table
        return db.rawQuery("SELECT * FROM "+TABLE_NAME, null);
    }*/

    public ArrayList<CategoryGarment> getAllCategoryGarment(){
        open();
        ArrayList<CategoryGarment> categoryGarments = new ArrayList<>();
        Cursor c = db.rawQuery("SELECT * FROM "+TABLE_NAME, null);
        boolean eof = c.moveToFirst();
        while (eof) {
            CategoryGarment cg = new CategoryGarment();

            cg.setId_category_garment(c.getInt(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_ID_CATEGORY_GARMENT)));
            cg.setIcon(c.getInt(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_ICON_CATEGORY_GARMENT)));
            cg.setCategory_garment_name(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_NAME_CATEGORY_GARMENT)));

            categoryGarments.add(cg);
            eof = c.moveToNext();
        }
        c.close();
        close();
        return categoryGarments;
    }

} // class CategoryGarmentDBManager

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By Kathy L. Gilbert*12:15 PM EST Jan. 29, 2010 | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UMNS)
Workers move bags of flour in the Boutique Market in Port-au-Prince,Haiti, where the United Methodist Committee on Relief is buying supplies to feed 160 families in Mellier.
Six young Haitian Methodists spent an afternoon dividing 55-pound bags of rice and 100-pound bags of beans into family-sized portions to feed more than 160 families who have had little assistance since the Jan. 12 earthquake.
"This is meeting their first need," said Val Keteline, 24. "The people will be very happy."
Staff members of the United Methodist Committee on Relief came to Haiti Jan. 21 to assess the damage to the country. On Jan. 29, they will distribute food to Mellier, a rural town outside of Port-au-Prince. The distribution will serve as a pilot program for UMCOR, said Melissa Crutchfield, an executive with the relief agency.
"We are starting on a small scale, distributing enough food for over 750 of the most vulnerable people," she said.
The families will receive rice, beans, oil and salt. The portions are enough to feed a family of five for five days. The community also will receive aqua tablets to purify their drinking water.
Pierre Naccsae, a Methodist Church lay leader from Mellier, will provide UMCOR with a list of the residents who most need the food, including widows, child-headed households, the elderly and single women supporting children.
"What we learn from this small project will help us prepare for much larger distributions in the future," Crutchfield said.
'God is happy'
UMCOR officials Crutchfield and Sharad Aggarwal and the Rev. Edgar Avitia Legarda, an executive with the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries, spent the first few days in Haiti visiting communities served by the Methodist churches in Haiti. They talked to church leaders, held a focus group of 29 residents of Mellier, attended meetings of other international humanitarian agencies, did market research and came up with a plan the small group could handle with the help of church volunteers.
The volunteers took pride in helping the relief effort.
"God is happy with each good thing you do," said Sirjena Paulo, 22. "This is not the first time the church has done this for people."
Rose Stephane Bazile, 25, finished her teaching degree before the earthquake. She had planned to pursue a degree in psychology. She is hoping classes will start again, but she is not sure if the school will reopen.
"Right now, Haiti needs psychologists," she said.
Samuel Loomery, 17, has one more year of school and he wants to be a diplomat. But after the earthquake, he is not sure that dream will come true.
"I have hope in God because he gave me a second chance at life," Loomery said.
After four hours of work, each of the young people left with a bag of food for their own families.
An afternoon of volunteering left them wanting more.
"Samuel told me this was very fulfilling and they asked me if they could come back again," Crutchfield said, smiling. "I told them there will be plenty more opportunities in the future."
*Gilbert is a news writer for United Methodist News Service on assignment in Haiti.
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Sometimes when you see passion in someone, it's hard not to keep looking. Shane Vander Giessen is exactly that in my opinion and you can't help but hear it in his voice, see it on his channels, and read it in his words.
I found Shane a while back on YouTube while looking for some info on Blacktail Hunting. I found his channel and was immediately impressed with this love for the mountains. Fast forward a year or two and I found him again on YouTube as well as on social media. It seemed his passion had progressed into something more so I decided to investigate.
After seeing what he was up to online, but having no real idea who Shane was, I told myself I'd find out by asking if he'd be willing to come on the podcast to share his story and his love for all things mountain related. I'm so glad I did because Shane has this thing about him that is incredibly contagious and you can't help but smile when you hear him talk about why he loves the outdoors.
This episode with Shane is special to me. Shane is unique, but he's not unlike a lot of you out there who can't seem to get enough of those wild places. To me, Shane represents what we're all trying to exemplify and explain with our actions. He's one man, but he represents so much passion and I personally feel that it's not only motivating to hear Shane talk, but it's refreshing as well.
If you enjoy hearing people talk about their journey into the outdoors, their love of the backcountry, and some great hunting stories, you'll want to give this episode a listen.
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Dave MacWilliams was born May 20th, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His college career goals totalled 67 with 48 assists in four years on the varsity squad at Philadelphia Textile. He played on the varsity squad of Franklin High School for three years. He was selected to All State and All American high school teams in both junior and senior years.
The Rowdies drafted Dave in the first round of the 1979 draft. He was no stranger to the Bay Area, he appeared first in Tampa Stadium, with the Philadelphia Textile Rams in the quarter finals of the NCAA and then in Orlando in the Senior Bowl, where he tallied an assist for the East squad. He was the Ram's second leading scorer in 1978, he drove home 22 goals and 16 assists. Was named second team All American.
Dave appeared in 5 indoor games during the 1979 season, but managed to apear in 7 outdoor games, scoring 1 goal.
In 1980, Dave signed for his home club, the Philadelphia Fury, he would go onto make 21 appearances and score 4 goals.
Dave was a prominent indoor soccer player, starring in the original Major Indoor Soccer League with the Philadelphia Fever, Baltimore Blast, and Chicago Sting. With the Fever, "Mac Attack" was the league's 14th leading scorer in the 1979-80 season, 10th best in 1980-81, and 12th for 1981-82. With the Blast, Dave was the 22nd best scoring in 1982-83 and 13th best for 1983-84. The Blast won the '83-'84 league championship with Dave as captain. He holds the Blast record for play-off games (47) played and play-off points scored (73).
Dave MacWilliams has been head coach of the Penn-Jersey Spirit, Baltimore Spirit, and Philadelphia Kixx. He was inducted into the Philadelphia Soccer Hall of Fame in 1998. He is in his seventh year as head coach of the Temple University men's soccer team. He is also Director of Soccer of the Montgomery United S.C. youth soccer club and head coach of the elite U-17 team of the Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Soccer Association.
Back Row: Arnie Mausser; Jurgen Stars; Mark Longwell; Perry Van Der Beck; Mark Karpun; Mike Connell; Franz Gerber; Peter Roe.
Middle Row: Flemming Lund; Steve Wegerle; Peter Johannson; Pedro DeBrito; Tommy King; Frantz Mathieu; Rodney Marsh (Coach).
Front Row: Glenn Myernick; Manny Rojas; Tatu; Gregg Thompson.
Eddie Engerth's signed Rowdies card.
Tom Boric was born May 11th, 1961 in Croatia, Yugoslavia, and grew up wanting to follow in his father's footsteps and become a soccer player.
When he was 13 years old the family emigrated from Croatia to Canada, settling down in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Tom got a full soccer scholarship to Old Dominion Universiy in Norfolk, Virginia. Tom's pre-NASL career included two years at amateur level in his native Winnipeg, before attending Old Dominion, where he was honored with All-Star selection.
Tom got drafted to play goalkeeper for the recently formed Calgary Boomers, but never appeared in a first team game. Rehabilitation from shoulder surgery prevented him from joining the Rowdies after the 1981 Boomers dispersal draft, but did join prior to the 1982 outdoor season.
Made his official NASL debut on April 24th 1982 against the Toronto Blizzard, allowing only one regulation goal, but losing 1-2 in overtime. He played a total of five games in '82 and appeared to be on his way, before tearing the medial collateral ligament of his right knee against the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers.
He spent five months in rehabilitation, only to sprain it during an indoor match. Two more months of rehab followed, before going the distance in 1983, Tommy shared action with Jurgen Stars, playing nine games and registering a 2.62 GAA. Had good games against Team America, Golden Bay Earthquakes, Tulsa Roughnecks and the Strikers, yielding only one goal in each game. was released at the end of the 1983 season, but was re-signed by coach Rodney Marsh prior to the start of the 1984 outdoor season, but only saw action in one game against the Chicago Sting, June 3rd, in a 2-3 loss.
After his professional soccer career ended, he began training for a professional wrestling career at a Tampa Bay wrestling school run by Boris Malenko along with his two sons Joe Malenko and Dean Malenko who all had a hand in training him. After training, Tom Boric began wrestling as Paul Diamond in 1985.
Tom also wrestled for the Texas Wrestling Alliance under the name of Venum (mistakenly listed as "Venom" in places) , holding the TWA title twice and also being involved in Shawn Michaels return to wrestling after a 1998 back injury that was thought to have put a permanent end to his wrestling career. When TWA and the wrestling academy closed, Tom and his family (wife Lisa and two kids) moved from Tampa to Winnipeg where he opened up a wrestling school called "Paul Diamond Hard Knocks Pro Wrestling Academy". Tom semi-retired from active competition in 2001 to focus on the wrestling academy; his only active involvement in recent years has been Rocket City Wrestling in Huntsville, Alabama, wrestling sometimes twice, as Diamond and as Max Moon while also being involved in the booking.
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John Bluem was born April 17th, 1953 in Syracuse, New York. He was drafted in the fourth round from Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY.
Eddie Firmani said at the time, "raw talent." Had an uncompromising attitude towards the game, he used natural athletic ability to compensate for his late start in the sport.
Was a member of the 1975 indoor team, but with sheer determination and durability made the '75 outdoor squad. Started in the opening game of '75, in a 2-1 win against the Rochester Lancers at Tampa Stadium, April 26th. Would also make a substitute appearance against the Washington Diplomats, May, 9th during the 1975 season.
Played right-back during the 1976 Haitian tour and was part of the 1976 NASL indoor Tournament Championship. Would appear in 13 games during '76.
After his playing career, he became one of the sports highly rated coaches. John earned his master of arts in physical education from the University of Akron in 1984. He received his bachelor of science in secondary education from Ohio State in 1980 after completing a bachelor of arts degree in history from Hartwick College in 1975.
In 1996, at Fresno State, John averaged 14 wins per season and qualified for NCAA postseason play in four of his six years as mentor. His squad posted a 17-5-1 record, won the first Western Athletic Conference title and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament, ending the season with a No. 7 national ranking.
In 1997, he became the ninth head soccer coach at Ohio State and wasted no time in recharging the Scarlet and Gray program. He guided one of the youngest teams in school history to an 11-7-2 (3-1-1 in Big Ten) record and the Buckeyes made it to the championship game of the Big Ten tournament for the first time, coming away with a runner-up finish.
In 1999, John guided the Buckeyes to an 11-8-0 record and a second-place regular season tie with Penn State in the Big Ten at 3-2. The winning ways of 1999 erased an 8-9-3 finish in 1998, when Ohio State finished third in the regular-season standings. Senior goalkeeper Jon Lowery, who had been the Buckeyes' first first-team All-Big Ten selection, repeated the honor along with three of his teammates.
The 2000 campaign was one of many firsts for OSU soccer—its first Top 25 national ranking, first Big Ten championship and first trip to the NCAA tournament. Ohio State was ranked as high as No. 12 in the NSCAA Top 25 poll and No. 1 in the NSCAA Great Lakes region poll, landing a spot among the Top 25 for an impressive seven consecutive weeks and finished the year at No. 18. The Buckeyes finished 12-5-4 overall and earned Ohio Team of the Year accolades.
In 2001, the Buckeyes earned their second-consecutive bid to the NCAA tournament with their first-ever at-large berth as OSU finished with a 10-7-2 overall record. That season he also led his team to its then-highest ranking in program history, a No. 10 ranking in the NSCAA poll.
The 2002 season also was highlighted by a prestigious personal achievement for him, John was inducted into the Hartwick College Hall of Fame. A starting stopper for Hartwick from 1972-74, he helped the Hawks compile a 30-9-7 overall record and make three trips to the NCAA tournament, including a third-place finish in 1974.
In 2002, his Buckeyes narrowly missed what would have been their third-consecutive trip to the NCAA tournament. Ohio State went 11-7-1 overall and 3-3 in the Big Ten. The season was highlighted by a six-game winning streak, while six of OSU's seven losses were decided by just one goal.
The 2004 season was one of Ohio State's best in the 56 years of the program. The Buckeyes won a share of the Big Ten regular-season title with a 5-1-0 record and went three rounds deep in the NCAA tournament, hosting and beating No. 11 Memphis in the first round and winning at No. 9 Notre Dame in the second round. In the MLS supplemental draft, Big Ten Player of the Year Justin Cook was selected by Chicago and teammate Sammy Tamporello was picked by Dallas.
In 2005, the Buckeyes were 11-8-2 overall and finished second in the Big Ten regular-season standings, ahead of two-time defending national champion Indiana. Ohio State was sent to No. 18 Santa Clara for the first round of the NCAA tournament, where the Buckeyes' season ended with a hard-fought 1-0 loss. During the season, OSU was ranked as high as No. 11 in the nation and No. 3 in the region.
John's 2006 Ohio State squad finished with a final RPI of No. 28 and advanced to the Big Ten championship game, but the Buckeyes were surprisingly not selected for the NCAA tournament. As usual, he had Ohio State playing its best soccer at the end of the season, as the Buckeyes went 8-2-1 in their last 11 games on their way to the league title game at home in Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.
Today, John is in his 11 season as Head Coach at Ohio State, and lives in Columbus with his wife, Bethany, son, William, 19, and daughter, Amy, 16.
Gavin Maguire's signed Rowdies card.
Lenny Glover against the Cosmos' Dimitrijevic in 1977.
Terry Rowe's 1987-88 MISL card, produced by Pacific Trading Cards, whilst at the Wichita Wings.
Left to Right: Winston DuBose; Peter Gruber; Refik Kozic; Peter Roe; Zequinha; Njego Pesa; John Gorman; Mike Connell; Carl Bennett; Hugo Perez; Neill Roberts; Washington Olivera; Keith Bailey; Jurgen Stars.
Thanks again to Jan Reinertsen for the photo.
This is part of my Rowdies pocket schedules collection, pictured is the front and back of the 1978 schedule.
The center of the schedule.
Julio "Ringo" Cantillo was born May 21st, 1956 in Costa Rica. He began his professional soccer career with the Cincinnati Comets of the American Soccer League in 1972. Ringo was only 17 years old, but quickly established himself as among the most talented players in the league when he won MVP honors as a rookie. The Comets also won the the league championship that season. He earned MVP honors in 1974 and in 1975 was a first team All Star. At the end of the 1975 season, the Rowdies signed him from the Comets. He played a single season 1976, twenty-one games in total, with Tampa Bay before returning to the ASL, this time signing with the New Jersey Americans.
Ringo was part of the ASL's most exciting team as the Americans played a free flowing attacking game which took them to the 1977 championship. He was again the league MVP, his third in five years in the ASL, and a first team All Star.
Ringo jumped leagues again at the end of the 1977 season. He joined the New England Tea Men. He would remain with this team in its various incarnations until 1985, except for 1983 when he played for Team America. The Tea Men spent the 1978-1980 seasons in New England before moving to Jacksonville, Florida at the end of the 1980 season. He moved with the team and played the 1981 and 1982 seasons with Jacksonville. In 1983, he signed with Team America. However, the team stumbled to a 10-20 record and the bottom of the league standings and USSF pulled the national team from the NASL at the end of the season. He returned to the Tea Men for the 1984 season, but the team had left the NASL at the end of the 1982 season to join the United Soccer League. Ringo and the Tea Men began the 1985 season with the USL, but the team and the league collapsed after only six games.
He also played one season in the Major Indoor Soccer League.
Ringo earned eleven caps with the U.S. national soccer team between 1979 and 1982. Ironically, although part of Team America in 1983 he was never called up for the U.S. games that year. he played his first game with the U.S. in its only 1979 match, a 3-1 win over Barbados. He played his last game on March 21st, 1982 in a 2-1 win over Trinidad and Tobago.
Today, Ringo is living in Jacksonville, Florida.
Ralph Rowdie, shakes a fans' hand, at a Rowdies Fan Day in 1976.
Keith Peacock was born in Barnehurst, Kent, England, on the 2nd May, 1945. Keith played his entire professional career for Charlton Athletic, making over 500 Football League appearances between 1962 and 1979. On August 21st, 1965, while playing for Charlton, he became the first substitute ever to be used in the Football League when he replaced injured goalkeeper Mike Rose after 11 minutes of an away match against Bolton Wanderers.
In 1979, he became Player/Assistant Coach with the Columbus Magic in the ASL, then his old friend Gordon Jago asked him to become his assistant, in a role which would last until 1982. Keith also made 2 appearances during the 1980-81 indoor season.
Keith was manager of Gillingham between 1981 and 1987 and then Maidstone United between 1989 and 1991. He later served as assistant manager at Charlton Athletic before stepping down after the resignation of Alan Curbishley in 2006. He moved to West Ham United where he became first a scout and then assistant manager under Alan Pardew and Alan Curbishley. He ended this role at the end of the 2006–07 season.
In September 2007 Keith returned to Charlton Athletic in the role of honorary associate director.
Keith, married to Lesley and has a son, Gavin (born 1967), who also became a professional footballer, and a daughter, Lauren.
A signed card by the late Charlie McCully who guested for the Rowdies on a 1976 Tour of Haiti.
This is part of my Rowdies pocket schedules collection, pictured is the front and back of the 1977 schedule.
Back Row: Gordon Jago (Coach); Winston DuBose; Peter Anderson; Dave Taber; Neill Roberts; Perry Van Der Beck; Petar Baralic; Paul Mott; Kevin Clinton; Keith Peacock (Asst. Coach).
Middle Row: Ted Buxton (Scout); Alfredo Beronda (Equipment Manager); Keith Bailey; Wes McLeod; Farrukh Quraishi; Steve Wegerle; Oscar Fabbiani; John Gorman; Ken Schields (Trainer).
Front Row: Peter Chandler; Manny Andruszewski; Jan Van Der Veen; Mike Connell; Refik Kozic.
Paul Hammond was born July 26th, 1953 in Nottingham, England. On January 13th, 1971, Paul signed as an apprentice with English First Division club Crystal Palace. He remained on the Palace youth team until first team keeper, John Jackson was injured in 1972. While Paul, then became the starting keeper, his inexperience was a contributing factor to Palace's slide to the second division, then third division. In the midst of Palace's free fall through the English leagues, the team loaned him to the Rowdies for off-season training. The new owners hired Eddie Firmani, an assistant with Palace, as the team's first head coach. Firmani brought over three Palace players, Stewart Jump, Mark Lindsay and Hammond for the 1975 season. He had to share the goalkeeper's postion with Mike Hewitt. Amazingly, the Rowdies won the league championship that season. However, he returned to Palace at the completion of the loan and was replaced by U.S. great Arnie Mausser for the 1976 season.
Although Mausser had been capped by the U.S. national team, and was selected as the top NASL goalkeeper for 1976, Firmani preferred Hammond and negotiated his purchase from Palace. At this time Palace was attempting to rebuild its team and used the funds from Paul's sale to purchase striker Jeff Bourne from Derby County. Paul played with the Rowdies through the 1977 season, but was traded to the Houston Hurricane after only eight games of the 1978 season.
He then spent the 1979 and 1980 seasons in Houston, being named to the NASL second team All Star list in 1979. While in Houston, he was introduced to professional indoor soccer when a new league, the Major Indoor Soccer League began operations in 1978-1979. He played for the Houston Summit Soccer which drew many of its players from the NASL Hurricane. Hammond was selected as the Goalkeeper of the Year as the Summit ran to the best record only to fall to the champion New York Arrows in the playoff semifinals.
At the end of the1980 season, the Hurricane folded and Hammond went to the Seattle Sounders in a dispersal sale. By this time he had blossomed into an excellent keeper. In 1982, the Sounders went to the championship game, only to fall to the New York Cosmos by a score of 1-0. That year he was ranked as the third best keeper in the league. At the end of the season, he entered contract negotiations with the Sounders.
However, other opportunities beckoned. He had gained his U.S. citizenship and the United States Soccer Federation had decided to enter the U.S. national team into the NASL. The team, fittingly known as Team America, drew on U.S. citizens playing in the NASL, MISL and the American Soccer League. However, many U.S. players were unwilling to leave their professional teams to play full time for the national team. To make up a full roster, USSF allowed a limited number of non-U.S. citizens, such as Alan Green to join Team America. Hammond elected to leave the Sounders after they failed to meet his demands and signed with Team America. When Team America finished the 1983 season with a 10-20 record, the worst in the NASL, USSF withdrew the team from the league. At that point Paul moved to the Toronto Blizzard for the last season of the NASL. In 1984, he achieved his greatest success in the NASL when he had the lowest goals against average in the league. That gained him another Second Team All Star team selection. He remained with the Blizzard for the 1985 season, which they played in the National Soccer League of Canada.
Today, Paul lives in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Frank Worthington and Luis Fernando celebrate a goal against the Atlanta Chiefs in 1981.
Donald "Don" McAllister was born 26th May, 1953 in Radcliffe, Manchester, England. He Started his career with local second division side Bolton Wanderers as an apprentice in 1968. Making his full debut at the age of 16 in 1969. He played 170 games for Bolton between 1969 and 1975, when he was transfered to Tottenham Hotspur at the age of 21. While with Spurs, he went on loan to the Washington Diplomats in 1977 making 24 appearances.
Don played a total of 210 games for Tottenham, including the FA Cup in 1981. In 1982, he moved to second division side Charlton Athletic, where he notched up 55 games and scored 6 goals.
In 1983, went to America on a free transfer, in the September, Don and a friend opened a candy import business in Orlando called McNiblack and Co., and he made the Rowdies team as a walk-on trialist. He signed two weeks before the start of the '84 season. Sadly, due to financial reasons within the Rowdies organization he made only one substitute appearance against the Minnesota Strikers in the season opener at Tampa Stadium in a 1-2 loss, before joining Portugese side Vitoria Setubal. Then in the 1984-85 season He finished his first class career at Rochdale in England to make a further three appearances.
Today, Don McAllister has emigrated to Sydney, Australia, where he now works as a finance manager. Pictured here with his wife Linda at their daughter's wedding. Soon to be grand parents. Congratulations!!
Thanks to Don for an excellent photo.
Back Row: Gordon Jago (Coach); Zeljko Bilecki; Arsene Auguste; Perry Van Der Beck; Barry Kitchener; Mojas Radonjic; Peter Chandler; Manny Andruszewski; Winston DuBose.
Middle Row: Alfredo Beronda (Equipment Manager); Mike Connell; Steve Wegerle; Farrukh Quraishi; Dave MacWilliams; Wes McCleod; Oscar Fabbiani; Ken Schields (Trainer).
Front Row: Sandje Ivanchukov; Petar Baralic; John Gorman; Rodney Marsh; Jan Van Der Veen; Ivan "John" Grnja; Peter Anderson.
David Nedjate "Dave" Mehmet was born in Camberwell, England, on 2nd December, 1960, of Turkish extraction. The red headed midfielder started his career under Coach Gordon Jago at second division Millwall. Before that Dave Represented Blackheathe and Inner London, which helped him become an associated schoolboy at 15 years of age. He became an apprentice at 16 and then became a full professional on his seventeenth birthday in December 1977.
A goalscorer in the Football Association Youth Cup Championship team of 1978-79, a youth internation, he was selected for the England Youth vs. Norway in 1978.
In 1981, after 114 games and 5 goals he joined the Rowdies, making 15 appreances and scoring 3 goals. This was to be his only season with the Rowdies, before signing with Charlton Athletic for the 1982-83 season. The following season, would see him move to Gillingham where he would go onto make 132 apperances and scoring 39 goals.
1986 saw him return to his first club Millwall, where he would end his League career in 1988. He would then go onto play non-league football with a number of clubs: 1988-89 Fisher Athletic, 1989 Maidstone United, 1989 Alma Swanley, 1989 Barnet, 1989 Enfield, 1989 - 1991 Fisher Athletic, 1991 Alma Swanley, 1991 - 1993 Erith & Belvedere, 1993 - 1995 Fisher Athletic, 1995-96 Erith & Belvedere, 1996 Bromley, 1996 Erith & Belvedere, 1996 - 1999 Greenwich Borough and finally Stansfeld O & BC. at the age of 40 years of age.
Mark Lindsay, at a Rowdies Fan Day in 1976.
Kevin Damien Keelan MBE was born 5th January, 1941 in Calcutta, India. Kevin signed for Norwich City from Wrexham in July 1963 and would later be described by his manager at the time Ron Ashman as "The bargain of the century." In total, he played 673 competitive matches for Norwich. It remains the club record to this day and is a record that is unlikely to ever be beaten. His first match for the club was on 24th August, 1963 in a 3-1 defeat at Cardiff City. His final appearance for the club was on 9th February, 1980 in one of the most extraordinary matches that Carrow Road has ever seen, which ended in a 5-3 win for Liverpool.
Because he was with Norwich City from 1963 through to 1980, he was part of some of the major events in the history of the club - the 1971-72 season that saw Norwich promoted to English football's top division for the first time, the League Cup final of 1973 against Tottenham Hotspur which was the club's first appearance at Wembley Stadium, another League Cup final against Aston Villa in 1975, as well as relegation from division one in 1974 and promotion again in 1975. In the 1975 League Cup Final he became the first goalkeeper to save a penalty at Wembley when he saved Ray Graydon's spot kick. Unfortunately, Graydon followed up the save to score the only goal of the game. He was twice voted Norwich City player of the year by the supporters, in 1973 and 1974. His performances earned him favourable reviews from many quarters, and he later said that one of his managers at Norwich - John Bond - rejected an approach from Manchester United for Keelan's services.
After leaving Norwich City, Kevin emigrated to the United States. He signed for the New England Tea Men in 1978 and remained with them until 1980. In 1981, he spent one season with the Rowdies.
In an interview for the Norwich City matchday programme on 30th April, 2006, Kevin confirmed that he runs goalkeeping schools in Cape Coral and Tampa Florida and coaches "pretty much every night".
He also stated that for 20 years he has worked for a company that manufactures contact lenses and distributes them all over the world, but planned to retire at the end of 2006 to concentrate on his coaching. In 2002, Keelan was made an inaugural member of the Norwich City F.C. Hall of Fame.
This one shows Tony Towers during his days with the Rowdies in 1984.
Wes McLeod's 1987-88 MISL card, produced by Pacific Trading Cards, whilst at the Dallas Sidekicks.
Glenn "Mooch" Myernick was born December 29th, 1954 in Trenton, New Jersey. Mooch played soccer at Lawrence High School in New Jersey, from which he graduated in 1972. He was All-State as a forward in 1971 and as a defender in 1972. Beginning his freshman year, he led Lawrence to three straight Group 2 state titles. In 1999, he was named by The Star-Ledger as one of the top ten New Jersey high school soccer players of the 1970s.
Following high school, he attended a local community college before transferring to Hartwick College his sophomore season. He was a second team All American in 1974, but lost much of the 1975 season with the U.S. Olympic team as it attempted to qualify for the 1976 Summer Olympics. Returning to Hartwick for the 1976 season, Myernick was named team captain and led the Hawks to the NCAA Final Four and first team All American recognition. He was also the 1976 Hermann Trophy winner as the top college player of the year. In 1995, Hartwick College inducted Myernick into its Athletic Hall of Fame.
In 1976, Al Miller, a former Hartwick soccer coach who was now head coach of the Dallas Tornado, selected Mooch with the top pick of the NASL College Draft. The Tornado traded Mooch to the Portland Timbers in 1980 and he was named the Timbers captain that season. When Portland folded following the 1982 season, the Rowdies selected him in the dispersal draft. While the NASL folded following the 1984 season, the Rowdies continued to play as an independent team. He remained with the Rowdies before retiring in 1985.
Mooch spent one season, 1979-1980, with the Wichita Wings of Major Indoor Soccer League.
He earned 10 caps for the U.S. from 1977 to 1979, serving as team captain in 1978. He also started 4 games for the U.S. Olympic soccer team during Olympic qualifying in 1976.
When Mooch retired from playing professionally in 1985, becoming an assistant coach at the University of Tampa. In 1986, he moved back north to Hartwick College to become an assistant coach.
After serving as an assistant coach on the 1996 U.S. Men's Olympic soccer team, Mooch was hired in 2002 to serve as an assistant coach on the Men's National Team for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. After the highly successful Quarterfinal run made by the United States, he coached the U.S. Men's U-23 Soccer team as they attempted (unsuccessfully) to qualify for the 2004 Olympic Tournament. He continued serving the U.S. Men's National Team through the 2005 Gold Cup (notably - managing the team during the championship game, when head coach Bruce Arena had been suspended for the final) and the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He was also the organizer of the Colorado Rapids youth soccer clinic from 1997 through 2000 at the Rapids traning facility in Westminster, Colorado.
As a head coach, Mooch served the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer from 1997 to 2000 and the U.S. under-23 Men's National Team in 2003.
Sadly, Glenn Myernick died in Thornton, Colorado on October 9th, 2006, four days after suffering a heart attack during his morning jog on Thursday, October 5th, 2006, never having regained consciousness. U.S. Soccer officials, including President Sunil Gulati and former Men's National Team manager Bruce Arena, paid homage to Mooch and praised his invaluable contributions to soccer in the United States. Glenn Myernick was acclaimed as an enthusiastic coach, player, father, and friend.
He was the US Men's Senior National Team assistant coach at the time of his death.
Manic's Marcantonio tries to steal the ball away from Luis Fernando in 1981.
Paul Dougherty was born May 12th, 1966 in Leamington Spa, England. Paul began his career when he signed as an apprentice with English First Division club Wolverhampton Wanderers at age 16. He made his league debut while still an apprentice during the 1983/84 season that saw the club lose their top flight status. He made the most appearances of his Wolves career during the following season, which also saw him spend time on loan at Torquay United during February 1985.
He failed to establish himself as a regular choice though, and played only sporadically over the next two years as the club continued to slide down the divisions under a succession of managers. At the end of the 1986/87 season, he moved to the U.S. to further his career there, where he would remain employed as a player for the next eighteen years.
In 1987, Paul signed with the San Diego Sockers of the MISL, later enrolling at San Diego State University. Whereas his lack of height hindered his development as an outdoor player, it served him in good stead in the indoor game which prized quickness and agility over size and stamina. Over the next five years, he earned four titles as the Sockers dominated indoor soccer. In 1989, he was named the "Championship Series Unsung Hero" as the Sockers knocked off the Baltimore Blast for the title. When the Sockers moved to the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) in 1992, He moved as well, to the Buffalo Blizzard of the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL). At the time, the NPSL was the higher paying of the two indoor leagues. He remained with the Blizzard for three seasons, from 1992 to 1996. At the completion of the 1995-1996 NPSL season, he jumped both teams and leagues, moving to the Houston Hotshots of CISL. That season he was the CISL third leading scorer while the Hotshots went to the championship series, only to fall to the Monterrey La Raza. Paul was named All-CISL. The next season, the Hotshots did not go so far in the playoffs, but he led the league in scoring, garnering both All CISL and CISL MVP honors. The CISL folded at the end of the 1997, leading him to move to the MLS.
By the time, Paul Dougherty moved to MLS, he was already a veteran of several outdoor U.S. teams. While he made his name with the indoor game, he also was a consistent performer outdoors. While in San Diego with the Sockers, Dougherty played the 1988 Western Soccer Alliance (WSA) with the San Diego Nomads. Then in 1990, he spent the 1990 outdoor season with the Orlando Lions in the APSL which had been formed that year by the merger of the WSA and east coast American Soccer League. The next season saw him begin with the Miami Freedom of the APSL before moving to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. While he sat out the 1992 APSL season, instead spending time with two of his indoor clubs, he returned to the APSL in 1993, this time with the Rowdies.
That season was one of his best as he bagged eight goals in twenty-two games and a spot on the APSL All Star team. Once again, he took time off from the outdoor game to devote himself to indoor soccer. However, in 1995 he signed with the Montreal Impact of A-League, successor to the APSL. He once again earned All Star honors.
After the CISL folded at the end of 1997, he began pursuing full time employment in an outdoor league. On February 3rd, 1998, the MetroStars of the MLS signed him. He played sixteen games that season, before the MetroStars traded him to the Tampa Bay Mutiny for Mike Duhaney in July. He began the 1999 season with the Mutiny but was traded on August 2nd, 1999 with Sam George and a draft pick to the Chicago Fire for Ritchie Kotschau and Manny Lagos. When Paul failed to produce with Chicago, they sent him on loan to the Charleston Battery of the USL First Division. In March 2000, Dougherty was able to add another team to his resume, having been a member of it for only a few hours. The Fire released Dougherty on March 15th, 2000. He was then selected by the New England Revolution the next day in the Waiver Draft. The Revs then turned around and traded him to the Colorado Rapids in exchange for a fifth round pick in the upcoming Super Draft.Paul spent the 2000 season with the Rapids, but failed to score in twenty-four games and on October 31st, 2000 he announced his retirement.
Paul didn't stay retired for long. Kai Haaskivi, a former indoor team mate of his, was coaching the Pittsburgh Riverhounds of the USL A-League. The Riverhounds needed some added offensive production heading into the post season as well as for upcoming Open Cup games. Paul signed with the Riverhounds on July 20th, 2001. Haaskivi's gamble paid off as Paul provided instant offense, including a goal in the Open Cup quarterfinal match against his old team, the Chicago Fire. At the end of the season the Riverhounds released him and he moved back to San Diego to pursue a coaching career. However, he was unable to call it quits to playing and on February 5th, 2004, he rejoined the San Diego Sockers for one last indoor season. Unfortunately, the magic was gone and the Sockers folded midway through the season.
When the Riverhounds released Paul Dougherty, he returned to San Diego where he became an assistant coach with the San Diego Flash of the USL A League. In 2002, he left the Flash and joined the staff of the La Jolla Nomads Soccer Club. This is significant in that he had begun his U.S. outdoor career fourteen years earlier with the Nomads senior team, the San Diego Nomads. In 2004, he took the Nomads U-15 team to the U.S. national championship only to have his boys fall, 5-4, to the Greater Boston Bolts. In addition to coaching with the Nomads, he beame an assistant coach with the UC San Diego men's team as well as the Manchester Soccer Club and Rancho Santa Fe Attack.
This one shows Petar Baralic against the New York Cosmos.
1979 Guest player Tony Want's 1970-71 FKS Publishers card, whilst he was at Tottenham Hotspur.
Ken Fogarty was born January 25th, 1955 in Manchester, England. Ken began his professional career with Stockport County at the age of seventeen. He then moved to the United States to play for the Los Angeles Skyhawks of the second American Soccer League in 1976, the year they won the ASL Championship. He returned to England to play for Stockport County until returning to the U.S. in 1979 to play for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the NASL. He remained with the Strikers through the end of the 1983 season. When the Strikers moved north to Minnesota, Ken went with the team for the final NASL season in 1984.
The NASL folded at the end of that season and the Strikers then jumped to the Major Indoor Soccer League. He continued to play with the Strikers until they folded at the end of the 1987-1988 MISL season. However, in 1988, the Fort Lauderdale Strikers were resurrected, this time playing in the second ASL. Ken joined them for the outdoor season, then moved to the Baltimore Blast of MISL for the next three indoor seasons. In 1989, Fogarty left the Strikers for good and joined the Rowdies of the ASL where he served as a player coach from 1989 to 1993. In 1990, the Rowdies joined the American Professional Soccer League. While playing with the Rowdies, Fogarty also served as the team's head coach in 1992 and 1993. In 1993, he was the APSL Coach of the Year.
He was Head Coach and Technical Director of the Cayman Islands national team from 1993-1994 and from 1996-1998.
The Kansas City Wizards of the Major League Soccer signed Ken as an assistant coach in 1999. On April 15th, 1999, the Kansas City Wizards named him as its interim coach after Ron Newman resigned following an 0-4 start. After the team hired Bob Gansler, Ken returned to his position as an assistant coach for the next two seasons.
Rodney Marsh battles with Hartford Bicentennials' Charlie McCully in 1976.


>> problem led to the conclusion that the diagnostic was incorrect.
In general, manuals are only a rough approximation of reality.  I remember an old joke that "PDP-11/x is compatible with PDP-11/y if and only if x == y".  And sure enough, if you look at the models appendix of the PDP-11 Architecture Handbook you will see cleary that this is true.  More precisely, it is if you ignore cases where two model numbers were assigned to the same thing, such as 11/35 and 11/40.
With the VAX, this got cleaned up to a significant extent, and ditto with Alpha.  In both cases, an internal validator tool was created to verify that, at least from the point of view of instruction execution, a new machine worked the same as an existing reference machine.  But this seems to be quite an unusual notion in the history of computer hardware development generally.  Even when standard specifications exist that appear to spell out how an architecture is supposed to work, the reality is that two implementations will in general do it differently.  That is particularly likely to happen in cases of "no one will do this" -- like shifts by more than the word size, or other oddball stuff.
And sometimes CPU designers do stuff that's just plain nuts, like the CDC 6600 which has a shift instruction where some of the high order bits must be zero and some are ignored.  Or the way it executes a 30-bit instruction that starts in the last 15 bits of the instruction word.  Both are cases where there is additional logic involved (or at least extra wires) to do something that clearly serves no purpose.  And these things are definitely not documented in any user manual, though you can find them if you read the schematics carefully enough.