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The affordable art guide
Artists with a sense of the surreal
By Emily Tobin
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Emily Tobin profiles two artists whose work blurs the boundaries of time and reality
John Monks
John Monks achieves the seemingly impossible in his paintings - he captures the passing of time in a static image. This is partly due to his deft and visceral working of the oil paint; it is poured directly onto the canvas or applied in impasto layers, surfaces are glazed and then scraped away with a knife. This vigorous technique imbues his subject with a built-in history and charges inanimate objects and spaces with life. 'Oil paint offers the most versatile process and a complexity of surface that allows the history of mark making to be built into the painting,' he explains. This is seen to best effect in his large-scale works, where every sweeping brushstroke and bead of paint is magnified.
Contemporary portraiture
John's work is concerned with simple objects - chairs, tables, boxes, books and tools. The rudimentary nature of these images demands that the viewer thinks again about what he is looking at. We are forced to look at the everyday and see it with a new level of engagement, and it is exactly this new perspective that gives his paintings a surreal edge. A half-open door invites you to ask what lies behind it; a wounded hare lies prostrate in what appears to be a ballroom; and shafts of bright light illuminate an endless corridor. These motifs have an oneiric effect: 'My paintings are a distillation of real places and objects layered with a personal imaginative vision.'
Prices start at £5,000; longandryle.com
Peter Abrahams/ Lucid Pine
Emma Bennett's paintings delight in the fleeting nature of earthly pleasures. She follows a long line of artists, most notably those of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, who explore the tradition of the memento mori: an artwork designed to remind the viewer of their mortality. The Latin translation is suitably abrupt: 'Remember you must die.' Emma explains, 'I like to use the past not just as an influence but also as a jumping-off point, so within the work there's the universal and the particular.' Flames gutter ominously above lavish heaps of luminous fruit and flowers in jewel-like shades, while dead hares and birds hover weightlessly against inky backgrounds.
Contemporary Nudes
Emma's preoccupation with black pays homage to Yves Klein and the sombre hues of Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and the abstract 'colour field' painting of the twentieth century. 'What I love about those minimalist paintings is the way they occupy space,' says Emma. 'In my paintings, these black grounds can be interpreted as metaphors for infinity, or as representations of night or universe.' Despite the underlying current of our looming mortality, there's also a sense of playfulness. 'I didn't set out to make surreal paintings,' she says. 'However, I realise that I keep trying to paint things that resist depiction - water, air, light, fire.'
Emma cleverly mines paintings of the past and uses the imagery she finds interesting in her work - playing with scale and perspective. 'You can't be sure what will affect you until it does, but I keep my eyes open so I'm ready.'
Prices start at £2,000; emmabennett.info
Taken from the September 2016 issue of House & Garden.
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Jody Hedlund took a prominent figure in Christianity, John Bunyan, and brought him back to life in the form of John Costin, showing us what it could have been like back in this turbulent period of time. For those that do not know, John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim's Progress. I have read the Pilgrim's Progress, but it's been a long time, but I do remember it and it is a moving story these many years later.
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Elizabeth faces many battles. The growing tension of one matron who sees herself as the leader of the community, her own sister who belittles her looks, and a man who wants to desperately crush John Costins. Even though they are hard things to deal with, Elizabeth thinks through her choices and does what is best. She doesn't fly off the handle when her emotions are strong.
The characters come to life in The Preacher's Bride. The passion and the compassion that flows through John and Elizabeth are sincere. As is the controlling, manipulation, anger, and hatred shown in other characters.


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Search Suspended For Limerick Man Missing Off New York Beach
US emergency services have suspended the search for a Limerick man missing after going swimming at a New York beach earlier this week.
As Independent.ie reports, Neil Gibbons, 30, disappeared after he and friends got into difficulty in the water off Long Beach in the early hours of Monday (25 June).
It's understood that the incident occurred close to where 10-year-old Ramell McRae Jr went missing while swimming last week.
The body of a young boy was recovered in the search for McRae on Monday.
The US Coast Guard announced on Tuesday (26 June) that it has suspended the search for Gibbons "pending any new information".
Independent.ie has more on the story HERE.
Titanic Artifacts a Snap - at $189 Million!
#TITANIC - The Titanic is for sale - if you have a spare $189 million to spend, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The single-lot auction, which will take place in April on the 100th anniversary of the Belfast-built ocean liner's tragic demise, includes more than 5,000 items salvaged from the wreck, from gold coins and clothing to parts of the ship's hull itself.
But casual buyers need not apply, as aside from the multi-million-dollar outlay, the prospective purchases must also take on stewardship over the collection, preserving it for future generations and exhibiting parts of it to the public.
Arlan Ettinger, president of Guernsey's Auctioneers & Brokers in New York, commented: "It's like getting a puppy. When you bring it home, you don't think of all the responsibilities and the time and investment that will be required... But it takes great care."
Images of the items up for auction are available HERE.
Arlan Ettinger
Guernsey's Auctioneers & Brokers
Cracks in Hull Force Tanker Re-Routing to Belfast
#SHIPPING - The Irish Times reports that a tanker carrying hazardous cargo has been allowed to berth at Belfast Port after it reported a cracked hull off the north-west coast.
The 228-metre Germar Companion, which is is carrying 54,000 tonnes of vacuum gas oil, was on route from Rotterdam to New York when its crew discovered cracking in its upper deck some 25 miles off Tory Island.
The Air Corps and Naval Service were stood down after the cargo ship was granted permission to berth at Belfast, where its hull will be inspected.
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Eighth Place Overall for O'Leary at New York Invitational Cup
Anthony O'Leary ended up in the same position as he started the New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup after yesterday's final rounds. The Royal Cork crew counted a 15 in the final race to end up eighth, the same as Monday's opening score. The sole Irish invitees were as high as sixth last Thursday.
In a reversal of fortunes from the inaugural event two years ago, the Terry McLaughlin-led team from the Royal Canadian Yacht Club persevered today to win the 2011 New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup presented by Rolex, sailed in Swan 42s. The New York Yacht Club team finished second, with the Annapolis Yacht Club team, third. The final race days' light and shifty conditions gave all 22 teams the opportunity to shift positions on the leaderboard, but in the end most just solidified what they had already earned.
Royal Cork's entry finished eighth in New York. Photo: Kurt Arrigo/Rolex
The Canadian entry, skippered by Olympic medalist and former America's Cup skipper, Terry McLaughlin, went into the day – and the final race – with a ten-point lead over the New York Yacht Club entry. But the Canadians took charge from the start, McLaughlin recounted their strategy, "We decided to go after New York, but it was tricky. It was five knots at the start, but it was very, very shifty and puffy, so if we let them sail their own race and we had tried to sail our own race. There is a reasonable chance that they would have put ten boats between us, so we decided that 'ok listen' we've got to be near them. If we put them back at the start and we're back at the start than it doesn't matter and we couldn't lose.
"But, we still both had reasonable starts at the right end and we went right a little bit. Then they (NYYC) sort of got to us a bit, so I bailed left, but we happened to be in a great puff and gained on them a lot."
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club team, from Toronto, sailed a nearly flawless series with seven top five finishes – out of eleven races sailed. In races where the Canadians were deep in the fleet, McLaughlin, tactician John Togerson and crew inevitably overhauled the boats ahead. McLaughin said, "I think we came back quite well this series. Obviously yesterday was our best, going from nineteenth to sixth. Its important because you can't get off the line in great shape or get around the first mark in great shape, eleven races in a row."
The 55-year old sailor won a silver medal in the Flying Dutchman class in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and was the skipper of Canada I in the 1983 America's Cup challenger series. In fact, three of his current crew were holdovers from that Cup campaign. These days his business is importing clothing and footwear from Ireland, and his sailing more relegated to only occasional racing.
In a new addition to the event, the team leading in points at the end of each day flew a "gold" spinnaker in the following day's races. The Royal Canadian team quickly took that honor after the first day and never relinquished it for the week.
McLaughlin was quick to praise his crew, "It was a team effort. I mean, I make the final decisions, but I'm relying on guys that A) make the boat go fast and B) tell me what's going on."
Ken Colburn was skipper of the New York Yacht Club team, the only really viable threat to the Royal Canadian Yacht Club through the five days of racing, coming within five points midweek. Colburn was pleased, "You have to step back from this and say 'we came in second in this regatta to a team that was just doing everything well.' You've got to walk away from that pleased, with just slight disappointment that you didn't get all the way there. The Royal Canadian Yacht Club are the ultimate winner, and they deserve it."
Like many of the teams that only managed to get everyone in the same boat relatively late, the NYYC crew started sailing together for the first time over Labor Day weekend but, according to their skipper, they quickly gelled. Colburn from Marblehead, Massachusetts, was adamant that his crew was equally responsible for their success, "This is a team sport and I'm only driving the boat most of the time. I need tacticians and trimmers and strategists and bow people to do their jobs well, and they all did them superbly well. They were sportsmanlike, cordial, competitive, and always working to win, I couldn't be more proud of this team."
Peter McChesney, skipper of the Annapolis Yacht Club team which finished third, summed up what many competitors agreed, "It was certainly, arguably, the most unique, special, exciting regatta. The professional circuits, and Olympic campaigns, and lot of great one-design classes, but certainly this is a new unbelievable regatta with worldwide excitement."
While the North American teams dominated the top five overall positions, with Eastern Yacht Club, and Newport Harbor Yacht Club in fourth and fifth, the first international entry was the sixth-placed Japan Sailing Federation, skippered by Makoto Uematsu, followed by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (GBR), Royal Cork Yacht Club (IRL), Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, and Yacht Club Argentino (ARG), rounding out the top ten finishers.
Following the success of the inaugural event in 2009, Event Chairman John Mendez and his Invitational Cup committee set to make several changes to improve the competition. Among these were changing to an all-amateur event, and on-the-water umpiring, both of which were unanimously well received by the competitors. Peter Shrubb, Chief Umpire from Bermuda, oversaw the ten-umpire team. Shrubb was pleased with the results explaining, "We're on the water and adjudicating any rule infractions. We can't catch everything, but we'd like to think we caught 95%. We resolve them on the water, and it saves the competitors having to file protests against each other – it take out of their hands, puts it into our hands and makes for a friendlier, more Corinthian event."
The final Rolex Awards Dinner was held under the marquee on the New York Yacht Club's Harbour Court grounds. Competitors and guests enjoyed dinner and dancing overlooking Newport Harbor.
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club team, overall winner of the Invitational Cup were awarded a Rolex Submariner timepiece and presented the Invitational Cup trophy, which was commissioned by NYYC Commodore Robert James and past NYYC Trustee, Charlie Robertson.
NYYC's Harbour Court hosted 22 yacht clubs – representing 16 nations from six different continents – for the second edition of this biennial event. Racing was conducted in NYYC Swan 42s on Rhode Island Sound and Narragansett Bay from September 10-17, 2011. The next edition of the New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup presented by Rolex will be held in September 2013.
Final Results – 2011 New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup
1) Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Canada, 47 points
2) New York Yacht Club, USA, 67 points
3) Annapolis Yacht Club, USA, 72 points
4) Eastern Yacht Club, USA, 89 points
5) Newport Harbor Yacht Club, USA, 105 points
6) Japan Sailing Federation, Japan, 105 points
7) Royal Ocean Racing Club, Great Britain, 112 points
8) Royal Cork Yacht Club, Ireland, 115 points
9) Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, Hong Kong, 120 points
10) Yacht Club Argentino, Argentina, 121 points
11) Royal Yacht Squadron, Great Britain, 122 points
12) Nyländska Jaktklubben, Finland, 127 points
13) Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, Australia, 133 points
14) Clube Naval de Cascais, Portugal, 137 points
15) Norddeutscher Regatta Verein, Germany, 138 points
16) Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, Bermuda, 144 points
17) Royal Cape Yacht Club, South Africa, 148 points
18) Itchenor Sailing Club, Great Britain, 150 points
19) Royal Norwegian Yacht Club, Norway, 154 points
20) Yacht Club Capri, Italy, 167 points
21) Real Club Nautico de Barcelona, Spain, 197 points
22) Yacht Club Punta Ala, Italy, 220 points
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Royal Cork Move up to Seventh in New York
Royal Cork Yacht Club is seventh overall after scoring an impressive third place in yesterday's race nine of the New York Invitational Cup. The Anthony O'Leary skippered yacht moved from tenth to seventh after scores of 3 and 12 in the penultimate day of the competition yesterday. The Crosshaven crew is five points behind sixth place Japan, a team that have consistently held an advantage over the Irish crew this week.
The New York Chamber of Commerce could not have arranged a more spectacular day for the 22 competing yacht club teams, representing 16 nations from six continents, than what was delivered today after a cold front that passed through the area overnight left behind a classic New England fall day to tantalize competitors at the 2011 New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup presented by Rolex. And after sailing eight races over three days on courses set north of Newport's Pell Bridge, with the breeze from the north-northwest, and an ebb tide, the race committee made the decision to send the competitors out of the now-familiar Narragansett Bay to Rhode Island Sound for two races on the penultimate day of the series.
Royal Cork YC's entry in the New York Cup skippered by Anthony O'Leary with tactics from son Nicholas Photo: Rolex/Kurt Arrigo
Remarkably, the first race of the day saw yet another yacht club team winning a race. Eastern Yacht Club became the ninth race winner, in nine races, when they took over the lead early in the race and held it all the way to the finish line.
"It was a good one," said Bill Lynn, helm of the Eastern Yacht Club team of the race as he explained that the EYC sailors liked the conditions today. "I think we're fast , but I don't think we're the fastest boat here, so I think getting out into some shifty, variable breeze with not perfectly flat water, suits our style in these boats a little better. We finally got a great start, which is kind of nice. It was probably our best start of the series so far, and then we just were patient. When we came off the windward end [of the starting line] and tacked onto port there were an awful lot of boats on port way up inside us. It looked grim there for a while. But we were going to stick to our guns and wait it out. And we did, and the righty finally came in at the end and got us around the mark in third and then after that it was playing the shifts [to stay at the top]."
When Lynn's team got through the first gate, they split with the Royal Yacht Squadron. "Fortunately we sent them around the wrong gate and we went around the right gate. When the breeze shifted back left we were crossing them. After we went through the gate and started going back upwind it got super windy, our gage was showing low 20s, and it stayed that way for the rest of the race. When it [the breeze] came smoking back in half-way through, that wasn't in anybody's forecast."
Lynn went on to explain that in a northwest breeze, you have to sail your own race and not worry too much about the other boats. "You almost have to pretend there are no other boats on the course. It's not about winning every race in a northwester, its about not blowing one." For race two, Lynn characterized Eastern's start as good, but in the wrong place on the line. They would go on to finish sixth, and now have 82 points on the scoreboard to stand fifth overall, while tied on points with Newport Harbor Yacht Club which is currently fourth.
For the second day in a row, the final race of the day has been won by the Clube Naval de Cascais (CNC) from Portugal, making them the first team in the 10 races to repeat as a winner. At the helm of CNC is Patrick Monteiro de Barros, whose varied sailing resume includes representing his country at the Olympic Games (twice), as well as circumnavigating the globe (twice). CNC placed 21st in the earlier race today, and with 128 points lies 16th overall.
It would certainly seem that the artic air from home brought additional good fortune for Royal Canadian Yacht Club (RCYC), as they maintained their grip on the top-position in the overall standings. With finishes of 6-11 today, they not only have 46 points but also have increased the spread to 10 points over New York Yacht Club which has 56.
Annapolis Yacht Club has moved up to third overall on 68 points after finishing 4-2 today. Tactician John Torgerson compared the flukey conditions the AYC team is used to in Annapolis with what they saw today on Rhode Island Sound. "It was super-shifty for a while and we like that," said Torgerson. "We had a good idea of what we were going to do off the start and we executed it. For the first race it was light at the start. We saw as little as nine [knots] to as much as 22, it was a huge range. You just had to be able to shift gears. We have guys that are really good at figuring it out." AYC's strategy for the final day of racing is to "just go out and sail" and hope that the two teams above and below them take each other out.
The eleventh and final race of the series will be held tomorrow, Saturday, September 17, and is scheduled for 1100. It will be preceded by the fleet parading through Newport harbor at 0900, with competitors leaving NYYC's Harbour Court at approximately 0830. The winner of the 2011 New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup presented by Rolex will be confirmed at the conclusion of racing.
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O'Leary Stays in Top Ten in New York
Anthony O'Leary's Royal Cork Yacht Club crew stay in the top ten overall after scoring two double digit results yesterday at the Rolex New York Invitational Cup. The Crosshaven crew counted a 20 and a 15 in the 22-boat fleet.
After several days of late summer breeze and sunshine, thick fog rolled into Narragansett Bay, greeting competitors of the New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup presented by Rolex and forcing a short postponement to today's racing. Twenty-two yacht club teams from 16 countries are here in Newport to contest the second edition of this biennial event.
After a delay of just under an hour, the fleet were sent up Narragansett Bay, north of the Newport Bridge where the flat water and 10-knot south-southwesterly built to a perfect 12-15 knots by the afternoon.
Yesterday after six races were completed, the Royal Canadian Yacht Club team, skippered by Olympic silver medalist Terry McLaughlin, had a solid lock on the top of the leader board with a 13-point advantage over the New York Yacht Club team.
But with a fleet this deep in talent, one bad race and a double-digit advantage can be whittled down. As McLaughlin presciently said yesterday, "That can disappear in a real hurry." Meanwhile the NYYC team, led by Ken Colburn with Phil Lotz, the 2009 Invitational Cup winner, as tactician kept their focus with fourth and second place finishes today and closed the gap with Canada to five points.
While Lotz' recap of their races sounded pretty matter-of-fact, the American team worked hard to get a good start on the right side and found a lane there that enabled them to tack when they wanted. Lotz said, "We were lucky enough that the right paid off and we kept our nose clean and got around the course. We were fortunate enough to get to the right side early." But with three more races planned, he was quick to add, "I think with a shifty nor'west tomorrow, it's anybody's game. Bad races are just as possible as good races. If it's more breeze and shifty, it's going to be a boat handling issue, and keeping your head out of the boat and seeing where the shifts are, and making sure you're going in the right direction."
Newport Harbor Yacht Club edged past Annapolis Yacht Club today to stand in third place overall.
The group of teams with first place finishes grew today with eight unique winners over the same number of races. Two boats that had barely cracked a top ten finish prevailed today: the German team from Norddeutscher Regatta Verein and Clube Naval de Cascais from Portugal.
For Patrick de Barros' Portuguese team, it all came together on the last race where they got off the start line well-positioned, rounded the weather mark in third, and then went to the left side of the course where they got in front and held their lead. Although NYYC team threatened, CN de Cascais covered them very closely at the finish and crossed ahead. Clearly buoyed by their performance de Barros said, "We have the speed, now we start to know how the boat functions. It's a very challenging course, a good course, but challenging. It's been really fantastic, we've enjoyed every minute."
The Royal Yacht Squadron enjoyed a good bump up the standings going from 11th to seventh. Helmsman Glyn Williams explained, "I was a little disappointed after yesterday's sailing, as I didn't feel we sailed to the potential. The team had done a lot of sailing together and we were just making unforced errors early in the week. So our first race today, we got cleanly off the line. At the top mark, we did a gybe set, which was incredibly clean and put us in the hunt. I told the team this morning that yesterday Annapolis moved from tenth to third, so there're options to go up in a series like this. The crew did a great job today!"
Oliver Stanley, RYS team captain, spoke of the competition, "I think the standard of sailing is as high as you get in any amateur regatta, anywhere in the world. It's a great privilege to be here -- make one mistake and you lose six places."
Stanley was with the team at the 2009 Invitational Cup event, when the RYS finished in 16th place overall. He recalled, "Given our finish, we weren't invited back on merit. We were invited on ancestry, history and tradition. It's very important that we're invited back on merit this time. We really want to be automatically invited, to have a top five finish. We'd be over the moon with that."
Racing continues tomorrow Friday through Saturday 16 - 17 September. Tomorrow's first warning signal is scheduled for 11:00 am.
Results after 8 races:
Team - Country - Points
1. Royal Canadian, CAN, 29
2. New York, USA, 34
3. Newport Harbor, USA, 61
4. Annapolis, USA, 63
5. Royal Hong Kong, HKG, 70
6. Eastern, USA, 76
7. Royal Yacht Squadron, GBR, 77
8. Japan, JPN, 80
9. Royal Cork, IRL, 86
10. YC Argentino, ARG, 89
11. Royal Ocean Racing Club, GBR, 91
12. CYC Australia, AUS, 95
13. NRV, GER, 99
14. Royal Norwegian, NOR, 102
15. Royal Cape, RSA, 104
16. CN de Cascais, POR, 106
17. Royal Bermuda, BER, 106
18. NJK, FIN, 112
19. Itchenor, GBR, 116
20. YC Capri, ITA, 123
21. RCN Barcelona, ESP, 148
22. YC Punta Ala, ITA, 160
The 22 entrants
By country, the roster of participating teams is: Yacht Club Argentino (ARG); Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (AUS); Royal Bermuda Yacht Club (BER); Royal Canadian Yacht Club (CAN); Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (HKG); Real Club Nautico de Barcelona (ESP); Nyländska Jaktklubben (FIN); Itchenor Sailing Club, Royal Ocean Racing Club and Royal Yacht Squadron (GBR); Norddeutscher Regatta Verein (GER); Royal Cork Yacht Club (IRL); Yacht Club Capri and Yacht Club Punta Ala (ITA); Japan Sailing Federation (JPN); Royal Norwegian Yacht Club (NOR); Clube Naval de Cascais (POR); Royal Cape Yacht Club (RSA); Eastern Yacht Club, Annapolis Yacht Club, Newport Harbor Yacht Club and New York Yacht Club (USA).
Royal Cork Crew Moves up to Sixth at New York Yacht Club Invitational
Ireland's Royal Cork Yacht Club moved up two places overall in the Rolex New York Invitational Cup yesterday after scoring 3,10 and 11 in the 22 boat fleet yesterday. The Anthony O'Leary skppered boat is just three points behind Japan who ties for fourth place after six races with the Newport harbour team on 48 points. Third place is Annapolis Yacht Club on 43 points.
Returning to upper Narragansett Bay for the second day of the fixture has proven beneficial for at least one of the 22 yacht club teams – Royal Canadian Yacht Club – which again displayed remarkable consistency on the race course. And in a repeat of yesterday's prevailing theme of tight competition, today's three races were won by three different clubs which means that there have been no duplicate winners thus far in the six-race series.
A keen start yesterday. Royal Cork is bow number three. Photo:Dan Nerney/Rolex
"We were probably the biggest movers," said Peter McChesney, helm for the Annapolis Yacht Club team who has only sailed in Newport a handful of times previously, including the the New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup U.S. Qualifying Series in 2010 in which the AYC team finished second to earn the opportunity to race in this event. AYC was 10th overall after yesterday's first day of racing, and moved up to third overall with 43 points after finishes of 6-1-3 today. "We just got off the line better today in every race, and gave our tactician [John Torgerson] the opportunity to make good decisions. If you get a good start it's easier to make those decisions. Our tactician took what we gave him and did a great job of calling tactics, and the crew work was essentially flawless. Everything just went our way."
The exciting conditions seen today on Narragansett Bay have also proven why Newport remains such a unique place to sail. "Where else can you sail in 20 knots of breeze and have the seas be this flat?," said Chip Whipple, timmer on the New York Yacht Club team. "It really is an anomaly. When you have as much breeze as this [in the Med] you're sailing in big seas and a lot of swell. And in northern Europe you have the cold water and big seas, breaking waves. Being as protected as we are here it's just an extremely fantastic place to sail, and the boats can't sail any faster because they are absolutely optimized for the conditions."
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club (RCYC) team has retained the overall lead position after adding finishes of 2-4-2 to yesterday's finishes of 2-1-4 for 15 points. When they won the second race on the first day of the contest, they were given the Rolex gold spinnaker to fly in the subsequent race. And, as overall standings leader, RCYC carried the golden chute for all of today's races, and will continue that way when racing resumes tomorrow.
"We had to bail on two starts," said RCYC helm Terry McLaughlin after racing today, explaining that the RCYC team was forced to tack in both instances but the moves wound up working in their favor. "It was good breeze most of the day and we were going well. We're trying to do all the fundamentals well and not make mistakes." With eleven races planned, and tough competition, McLaughlin knows all to well that the 13-point lead RCYC currently enjoys can disappear in a hurry. "We had a good battle with NYYC in the last race, caught up to them on the last leg. It was close, but they beat us by three boat lengths."
"The last race was a lot of fun," said Ken Colburn, skipper of the New York Yacht Club team when summing up their win of the final race of the day. NYYC now stands second overall with 28 points, 13 points behind RCYC. "We had a great start, found ourselves in a clean lane and just were able to get in the proper groove. RCYC was there every inch of the race. We stayed together . . . gapped the fleet . . . for both of us it was just a fabulous race." Emphasizing that there was still a lot of racing to come, Colburn noted that, as anticipated, the quality and depth of the competition is remarkable. "Six winners in six races is indicative of how strong this fleet is overall."
Racing resumes today Thursday, September 15, with the warning signal for the first race scheduled for 1100. Competitors leave NYYC's Harbour Court for the race course at approximately 0930 each morning. The winner of the 2011 New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup presented by Rolex will be confirmed at the conclusion of racing on Saturday, September 17.
O'Leary Lies Eighth after Day one of New York Cup
Except for an opening race shocker, Royal Cork's Anthony OLeary is counting an excellent third and a fourth from yesterday's races two and three at New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup to lie eighth, one place ahead of the Royal Yacht Squadron in a fleet of 22 entries.
After several practice days spent familiarising themselves with the boats and local sailing conditions, the 22 yacht club teams were unleashed for the first day of racing in the New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup presented by Rolex. The event is hosted by the New York Yacht Club at Harbour Court, their on-the-water clubhouse in Newport, Rhode Island.
A fleet start yesterday in New York. Photo: Kurt Arrigo/Rolex
For the first day of racing, the NYYC Race Committee opted to send the fleet "inside", up Narragansett Bay. The south-southwest breeze ranged from seven to eight knots, building to the higher teens by the afternoon, and providing perfect conditions for the three races contested. The prevailing wind against an ebbing current kept tacticians in check, though if local knowledge was key you couldn't tell from the results, with teams from the Japan Sailing Federation, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, and Cruising Yacht Club of Australia each taking a win today – and the Canadians at the top of the leaderboard at day's end.
But it was also kudos to the New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup organizers for including several days of practice sailing to get teams up to speed on the Swan 42s, as this one-design given by the technical team, as well as local knowledge briefing provided by Sail Newport Executive Director, Brad Read.
Some teams put the information to use more effectively than others. Patrick Pender, helmsman on the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club entry which is standing 2nd overall after today said, "It was a great first day for us. I think what was a great thing for the series was that they had a lot of practice racing and allowed the people to really learn how to sail the boat. Often you go to regattas and by the end of the regatta you go, 'crikey, we're ready to go now'. They did a fabulous job yesterday of giving a really, really good explanation about how the tides work both inside (the Bay) and outside. Obviously outside is much more complicated, whereas I think it's probably more predictable up the bay."
Pender's team managed a 3-8-2 today and the helmsman was quick to credit his crew, "The crew's doing an awesome job, mechanically the guys are working very hard. We did a really difficult drop on the last race, coming in hot and fast to the left-hand gate. It was a hard maneuver and we got clear air, had a really good rounding. We sailed very well on the last short beat and protected a good second place finish."
The Japanese entry is one of several returning entries. Having posted a third overall in the 2009 event, the teams' tactician Elichiro Hamazaki, said they are focused on a top three finish again. With a race one win they were on track, but the subsequent 7-9 showed how tough the talent is here. Hamazaki recounted, "We had a good upwind beat, we had a good right-hand shift and kept first position from the top mark. In the second and third races as the wind picked up, the other boats were very consistent and close. Once we made a mistake, we fell behind."
He added, "Especially racing on the inside course, the area is surrounded by shore and the wind is tricky and has big effects of current. It was difficult, but it is very exciting in this one-design class – it's really close, very competitive."
The on-the-water umpiring, introduced for this edition of the Invitational Cup, was put into play today with a half dozen calls made on the water, which served their purpose of eliminating the inevitable protest hearings back onshore.
Winning race three was the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's entry. Helmsman Hugo Van Kretschmar set his sights on a return to Newport, as his last time was 1983 when he competed in the America's Cup challenger trials onboard the Australian entry, Challenge 12.
Van Kretschmar is part of a group of friends who sail on CYCA Commodore Gary Linacre's and David Fuller's Corby 49. He heard that the CYCA had been invited to compete at the Invitational Cup and hatched a plan to make it happen. Van Kretschmar said "So five of us off the back of Gary's boat decided that we'd like to go and do this thing and we thought we'd like to combine it with the Youth Sailing Academy out of the CYCA. So we have four 'kids' onboard, they're all graduates of the program so 22-, 23-, 24-year olds. So the group was five buddies and four kids out of the Academy. Most of us sailed together in different configurations on different boats and races before, but here in Newport was actually the first time we all sailed together as a team.
Commodore Gary Linacre, who's raced in numerous Rolex Sydney Hobart races, was an enthusiastic supporter of the team, and said, "We looked at the whole deal and I said I'd get behind it as Commodore and do what I could. The three of us (including Van Kretschmar and Fuller) have sailed together lot over the years and we and just decided it's such a wonderful event. The Corinthian nature of it was really worthwhile doing, and so we decided to come here."
Van Kretschmer has another reason for a return to this sailing mecca, " I never saw anything in Newport when I was here in '83. We were on strict lockdown and at the gym at something like five in the morning!"
Racing continues today Wednesday 14 September through Saturday 17 September. Tomorrow's first warning signal will be at 11:00 am.
In addition to Rolex, which for 2011 and 2013 is the presenting sponsor, Sperry Top-Sider and Nautor's Swan have also returned, and are joined by Atlantis WeatherGear, as sponsors to enhance the experience of competitors as well as those who will be following the races.
O'Leary Set for Tomorrow's New York Cup
Anthony O'Leary's crew are all set for tomorrow's start of the New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup as sole Irish crew representing Royal Cork Yacht Club in the Big Apple.
The grounds of New York Yacht Club's renowned Harbour Court clubhouse in Newport, Rhode Island, were filled with sailors from around the world, who are set to begin racing tomorrow in the second biennial Invitational Cup presented by Rolex.
The 22 teams, representing yacht clubs from 16 nations and six continents, have traveled far and wide to get to Newport. The teams, especially those less familiar with the Swan 42 class, enjoyed several perfect practice days with today's 12-14 knot southwesterly breeze, under sunshine and brilliant blue skies, appreciated by all competitors, especially those from some more sunshine-challenged locales
The Swan 42s, an ultra competitive one-design class, were conceived by the NYYC as the yacht club's ninth one-design class since its' founding in 1844. The New York Yacht Club Race Committee, led by John "Tinker" Myles, Jr. ran several practice starts today for the fleet.
Racing will run from Tuesday, 13 September through Saturday, 17 September. A total of eleven (windward-leeward) races are planned, with no throw-outs. Racing will take place off Newport, R.I. on Rhode Island Sound or in Narragansett Bay.
One of the first teams to arrive in Newport was Clube Naval de Cascais from Portugal, with skipper Patrick Moteiro de Barros. The team has been on-site for over a week practicing on their chartered Swan 42 Orbit, and making the most of coach Bill Shore's expertise and local knowledge. de Barros commented, "The goal is to do the best we can, and we're here to win. We may not win, but that's the motivation."
To that end de Barros, who is a four-time Olympian, has assembled a crew that at its' core are very competitive Dragon sailors. Included in this mix is tactician Henrique Anjos, a three-time Portuguese national champion in the class. With no Swan 42s available locally, the team came up with a clever alternative last spring, chartering a Dufour 40, and adding a bowsprit to it so they could fly an asymetrical spinnaker.
De Barros is no stranger to Newport, having sailed here in the 1980s when he was the helmsman on Magic, the trial horse for Dennis Conner's Freedom. The team had hoped to participate two years ago, but couldn't come, and the appeal of the event is clear to de Barros who added, "The Invitational Cup is totally Corinthian, and I think it's important to have events where the amateurs are recognized. This is one of the most prestigious yacht clubs in the world, and I think events like this should carry on."
From further afield is the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club team with skipper Nick Burns. Sailing onboard is Jochim Isler, Vice Commodore of the club and a frequent competitor in the RHKYC's signature biennial Rolex China Sea Race. As with many of the other clubs, the teams experience is in a mix of big boats and one-designs, in this case Etchells. Burns and Isler often compete against each other, but they've solidified their strengths as well as recruited 10 of the top 20 sailors in the club for the team.
In the 2009 event, Royal Hong Kong finished 11th; but last summer they sailed in the Rolex Commodore's Cup and finished second, which Isler said gave them the confidence and motivation to give it a try again.
Burns added, "We came a long way for this, it's great. The event is tightening up (rules) year-by-year, which is what you need. They're doing a very equal job with the boats, it's a very good system. You have nothing to blame but yourself!"
One of the Southern hemisphere teams competing is the Yacht Club Argentino with Paolo Cosentino as helmsman. YCA Commodore Ricardo Galarce is racing onboard as trimmer, and the two were clearly delighted to be here, "This is our first visit and I tell you we are amazed, we want to live here, we're going to stay here."
Cosentino said, "We sail two boats that are similar (a Frers 44 and a Soto 43). We trained about 10 days in Buenos Aires (in the river) and Mar del Plata, where you can sail in the sea. We feel comfortable, but need to train a little more – we've had these three days here, so we'll arrive tomorrow at about 80% of our standard.
"For us we are very proud of being invited by this club. We have a lot of tradition also, our club is almost 130 years old and for us being here is a very special situation – we are very proud."
For NYYC Invitational Cup Event Chairman, John Mendez tomorrow's start couldn't come soon enough, "I'm absolutely delighted. To be honest it's been a long build-up, it's been two years getting this going and to see all of the teams arrive and to meet with them – their excitement and enthusiasm -- has really set this off for me. I feel a lot more relaxed about the whole event!"
About half of the yacht club teams that competed in 2009 are back again, including the top five. Mendez continued, "We still have a lot of interest from yacht clubs that are not here and as this has grown they'll be a lot more who'll want to participate next time. I see the competition this time being stiffer than last time – it has been raised to another level. I think we'll see some exciting racing.
"This is key to each one of these clubs – they all have the intention of taking the trophy back with them. I'm afraid we can't cut it into pieces! But, I could see the trophy leaving our shores at the end of the week."
This edition features a couple of significant changes including a move to all-amateur sailors (no professionals) and on-the-water umpiring. Of the latter Mendez points out, "That's a very big leap forward for fleet racing. We want people to sail safely and the umpiring is definitely going to help that."
By country, the roster of participating teams is: Yacht Club Argentino (ARG); Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (AUS); Royal Bermuda Yacht Club (BER); Royal Canadian Yacht Club (CAN); Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (CHN); Real Club Nautico de Barcelona (ESP); Nyländska Jaktklubben (FIN); Itchenor Sailing Club, Royal Ocean Racing Club and Royal Yacht Squadron (GBR); Norddeutscher Regatta Verein (GER); Royal Cork Yacht Club (IRL); Yacht Club Capri and Yacht Club Punta Ala (ITA); Japan Sailing Federation (JPN); Royal Norwegian Yacht Club (NOR); Clube Naval de Cascais (POR); Royal Cape Yacht Club (RSA); Eastern Yacht Club, Annapolis Yacht Club, Newport Harbor Yacht Club and New York Yacht Club (USA)
O'Leary's Set for New York Show Down
Royal Cork's Anthony O'Leary returns to New York's Invitational Cup next week for another crack at the Rolex event that has attracted 22 teams.
Despite no previous experience with the Swan 42, Anthony O'Leary's team from the Royal Cork Yacht Club got off to a blazing start at the 2009 Invitational Cup, scoring a third and two firsts in the opening three races. From there the team rode a bit of a roller coaster with three more top-five finishes, a 13th, and two 17ths. The end result was fifth, a bit disappointing given the quick start, but respectable, nonetheless. More importantly, it earned O'Leary and his team a return invitation.
When racing begins on Tuesday, September 13, at the 2011 New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup presented by Rolex, most of the 22 participating yacht club teams will be fresh from racing at the peak of the sailing season in the northern hemisphere.
Last year, O'Leary was named the Afloat Irish Independent Sailor of the Year for, in part, leading the Irish team to the win at the 2010 Rolex Commodore's Cup.
"We will continue to sail [the Ker 39] Antix up to mid-season in handicap fleets, as our boat is similar in characteristics to the Swan 42," says O'Leary of his preparations for the Invitational Cup. "Closer to September we will focus more on one-design sailing, which is really the ultimate challenge as shown in the Invitational Cup. Apart from our not finishing on the podium, there was not a single disappointing aspect of the 2009 regatta. The entire event was a great experience, superbly organized by a wonderful club."
O'Leary was still assembling his crew, but it will surely include some family members. Son Peter O'Leary sailed in the 2008 Olympics in the Star class while Nicholas O'Leary, a three-time All-Ireland sailing champion, served as the team's tactician during the 2009 Invitational Cup.
Three teams though – the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, Royal Cape Yacht Club and Yacht Club Argentino – which hail from below the equator, will be coming from winter to summer to race in Swan 42s for the championship title. "It is an honor for the Yacht Club Argentino (YCA) to participate this coming September," said Commodore Ricardo Galarce. "We are proud of sharing such an important regatta with well-known clubs from different parts of the world.
Besides, it is nice to share with all of them the same objective of competing with fair play and sailing which is what we love doing. We will go to New York Yacht Club's Harbour Court ready to have fun, but we will be doing our best effort to take the cup back to our beloved YCA in Buenos Aires." Galarce explained that even though it is winter in Argentina, the weather is not so cold and the sailors are used to sailing in this season. After the invitation to the event was published in the YCA magazine, any club member who wanted to join the team was encouraged to do so. A team selection was then made taking into account sailing resumes, technical skills and personalities, in order to form a complete, competitive and compatible crew.
Because there was a boat similar to the Swan 42 available for their use in Mar del Plata, the YCA team traveled 400 km to spend a weekend there performing intensive training, "with very good results and lots of learning as regards each of the crew members' functions and movements," said Galarce. "We then carried on our training in Buenos Aires, always trying to sail in boats similar to the Swan 42, which we know is an excellent boat, which demands a lot from its crew." With only two of the crew having previously sailed in Newport – Santiago Braun and Francisco Billoch who each sailed the Onion Patch Series in 1972 – the YCA team is studying the weather forecasts, tides and winds, in order to gain some local knowledge. And the team hopes to become familiar with the Swan 42 in the short time between their arrival and the start of the Invitational Cup. "We know it won't be an easy regatta," concluded Galarce. "We are proud of being able to sail alongside sailors who belong to the most distinguished sailing clubs in the world. We wish them all good luck, and we hope to share great fun on the water."
In Australia where the average sailing temperature for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's (CYCA) winter series is 20 degrees Celsius (68 Fahrenheit), sailing is a year-round activity, and all of the CYCA team members race throughout the year in various club events. Most of the CYCA crew that will travel to Rhode Island sailed together for the first time in April on the Corby 49 Vamp in the New South Wales IRC championships, finishing third overall. Vamp then finished second in Division 1 in the recently concluded CYCA Winter series. "None of us have experience in the Swan 42s although most have sailed in similarly equipped and designed yachts over a range of sizes up to the TP52 class," said David Fuller, CYCA Team Manager. "Whereas we have not had many opportunities to sail together, most of our crew have continued to sharpen their skills on other boats in the various races and regattas along the Australian coast and overseas." CYCA tactician Evan Walker is one of those who have been away from Sydney, having recently been at Weymouth, England, to coach an Elliot 6m team at the 2012 Olympic test event.
Before coming to Newport, however, Walker will be racing as tactician in the Cartagena round of the Audi MedCup with an Australian Soto 40 team. "Hopefully the week of sailing as tactician in Spain will have me hitting my straps by the time I arrive in Newport," said Walker, a CYCA Youth Academy graduate who has seen success as a match racing skipper. "I'm very excited to be competing in the Invitational Cup and I'm sure we'll have an enthusiastic team bonding session on our arrival in Newport." David Hudson, skipper of the team from the Royal Cape Yacht Club (RCYC) in South Africa was also at the Olympic test event. "Regarding our preparation for the Invitational Cup, it's obviously not as convenient for us as it would be if the event took place towards the end of our racing season," said Hudson. "However, winter training in Cape Town is perfectly feasible from a weather point of view. At 34 degrees south we have a Mediterranean climate with warm dry summers and cold wet winters, and although we have recently had some snow on the mountains just to the east of our sailing waters, Cape Town seldom gets really cold."
And while none of the RCYC team has any experience racing Swan 42s, they too have been training on a variety of boats of similar size. "We are all looking forward to the challenge," said Hudson. John Martin, RCYC's Commodore and team manager, lived on yachts from the age of eight and cut his teeth in 1971 aboard a new Swan 37 imported to South Africa specifically to do the Cape to Rio race, starting as bowman and working his way back. So it is very apt for him to be sailing a Swan 42 in this regatta, all these years later.
Not only is Martin the most famous yachtsman in South Africa but also he is well-known internationally. "Newport has great memories for me," said Martin. "During my single- and double-handed sailing career, 1981–1991, I had the honor of winning a few races, most importantly, winning the last leg of the 1986/87 BOC Singlehanded Round the World Race which finished in Newport. It is with great delight that I return with a very competent and competitive sailing team to represent the club of which I have been Commodore for the past three years."
An official practice for the 22 yacht club teams will take place on Monday, September 12, from 1300-1700, followed by the opening ceremony for the Invitational Cup. Five days of racing will ensue, with the first warning signal scheduled for 1100 each day.
The winning team will be confirmed at the conclusion of racing on Saturday, September 17. In addition to Rolex, which for 2011 and 2013 is the presenting sponsor, Sperry Top-Sider and Nautor's Swan have also returned, and are joined by Atlantis WeatherGear, as sponsors to enhance the experience of competitors as well as those who will be following the races.
The New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup presented by Rolex NYYC's Harbour Court will host 22 yacht club teams – representing 16 nations from six different continents – with racing on NYYC Swan 42s on Rhode Island Sound and Narragansett Bay from September 10-17, 2011. By country, the roster of participating teams is: Yacht Club Argentino (ARG); Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (AUS); Royal Bermuda Yacht Club (BER); Royal Canadian Yacht Club (CAN); Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (HKG); Real Club Nautico de Barcelona (ESP); Nyländska Jaktklubben (FIN); Itchenor Sailing Club, Royal Ocean Racing Club and Royal Yacht Squadron (GBR); Norddeutscher Regatta Verein (GER); Royal Cork Yacht Club (IRL); Yacht Club Capri and Yacht Club Punta Ala (ITA); Japan Sailing Federation (JPN); Royal Norwegian Yacht Club (NOR); Clube Naval de Cascais (POR); Royal Cape Yacht Club (RSA); and Eastern Yacht Club (Marblehead, Mass.); Annapolis Yacht Club (Annapolis, Md.); Newport Harbor Yacht Club (Newport Beach, Calif.); and New York Yacht Club (Newport, R.I.) from the USA.
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Glasgow 2018: Everything you need to know about the European Championships
11 days of world-class sporting action will kick off on August 2 – and from tickets to athletes we have the inside track.
Alice Hinds
Bringing together sporting elite from countries across Europe, the first ever multi-sport European Championships is coming to Glasgow in just a few short weeks.
And with sporting prowess arriving in our fair city from August 2 to 12, Glasgow 2018 is set to be one of the biggest events of the year – for both sports fans and rookies alike.
Here, we take a look at everything you need to know ahead of the opening events.
When is the Glasgow 2018 European Championships?
Glasgow 2018 will run across 11 days from August 2 to 12 with events held throughout each day.
Where is it taking place?
Glasgow and Scotland will host six events - aquatics, cycling, golf, gymnastics, rowing and triathlon - while Berlin will stage the athletics events.
Events will take place across the city – and the country – in 12 different venues, and some of the now-iconic locations of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games will once again host pulse-racing events.
2 for 1 tickets at Glasgow 2018 European Championships
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With fond memories of how Glasgow came alive and welcomed the world during the 2014 Commonwealth Games, re-live the excitement as the spotlight will once again be on Glasgow.
Be there to welcome more than 3000 athletes from 52 countries during this celebration of world-class sport.
How to get your 2 for 1 tickets
Tickets are available for selected events online and over the phone.
Simply go to ticketmaster.co.uk/glasgow2018-2for1 and you'll be able to browse and purchase the tickets available.
You can also buy over the phone on 0844 453 2018. This is a time-limited offer so don't miss out.
Not only will you be able to see every dive, stroke and splash from world-class swimmers at Glasgow's Tollcross International Swimming Centre and track cycling at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, but mountain biking will also take place at the Cathkin Braes Mountain Bike Trails, and BMX events will be held at the brand new Olympic-standard facility at Knightswood Park.
The road race and time trial events will take place on the streets, giving spectators a chance to see their heroes up close and in person.
How do I buy tickets?
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We have teamed up with the organisers to bring you an amazing 2 for 1 ticket opening weekend ticket offer. Click here to book your tickets now .
What athletes will be there?
Around 3000 athletes are expected to travel to Scotland for the Championships, as part of a total delegation of around 8500 people, including officials and the media.
Big names to look out for include swimmers Adam Peaty, Duncan Scott, Ross Murdoch and Hannah Miley; gymnasts Max Whitlock and Becky Downie; golfers Richie Ramsay and Catriona Matthew; rower Karen Bennett and triathletes Marc Austin and Jess Learmonth.
Scottish swimmer Duncan Scott is tipped to make a splash after his six Commonwealth medals, while Adam Peaty will step up his "Project 56" bid as he bids to become the first swimmer to dip below 57 seconds in the 100m breaststroke.
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Glasgow was also the stage for Max Whitlock's World Championships gold – the first by a British male gymnast – in 2015 and he'll be back again. Plus, Scottish diving duo Grace Reid and James Heatly will look to emulate their Gold Coast heroics at the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh.
Is Glasgow 2018 more than just sport?
It's not just diving, swimming, cycling and a range of other sports that are coming to Glasgow as part of the European Championships.
Held as part of the cultural celebration of the Championships, Festival 2018 will see music, visual art, street art, dance, theatre and design arrive in the city with a selection of free events.
Cultural events will be held alongside sporting competitions, all centered on a hub of activity in George Square, where you will find a big screen for watching events, as well as food and family fun.
Is there an Opening Ceremony?
George Square in Glasgow will host a Great Big Opening Party on August 1 to welcome the 2018 European Championships, with performances from Nina Nesbitt, The Ayoub Sisters, Sacred Paws, C Duncan.
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Orbital are also bringing their live show to Festival 2018 and George Square on August 10.
The Merchant City Festival will be the centrepiece for many events taking place. Expect street art, music, dance, design, film, comedy, carnival procession and activities for children and families
What's best for kids?
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There's loads of come-and-try events taking place as part of Glasgow 2018.
In Strathclyde Park, home to the rowing and triathlon, kids will love the TRI in the Park on Sunday 12 August where children aged 11-14 will be able to take part in a specially created triathlon event on closed roads.
Also check out the Festival 2018 Big Top in Glasgow Green, which will showcase the best in contemporary circus acts from across Europe for free.
This article was brought to you in association with Glasgow 2018.
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December3, 2006: Britain has developed software that enables UAVs to operate independently, but cooperatively, under the command of a manned aircraft, on combat missions. The UAVs would, most of the time, take care of themselves, following the plan of the operation they were programmed with. But the pilot of manned aircraft could order any of the UAVs to deviate from the plan. The key to all this is flight control software, and artificial intelligence, that is capable enough to make it all work. The UAVs also constantly communicate with each other, and function "cooperatively" (to avoid collisions, or two UAVs attacking the same target, and so on).
Since computers are running all this, the reactions are quicker than with human pilots. The UAVs can perform a number of dangerous missions, like attacking air defenses, searching for targets on the ground, or defending the entire "package" (the manned aircraft and all the UAVs) from enemy aircraft. The UAVs can be used more aggressively, because you are not risking the lives of pilots. If the manned aircraft is shot down, the UAVs have their programmed orders to complete the mission, or immediately break off and return to base. It's also possible to use this software so that one human operator on the ground can control a swarm (half a dozen or so) UAVs for, say, a recon mission, to scour an area for enemy targets. This saves a lot of skilled manpower, as all you need is someone to review the video. And increasingly powerful software is capable of doing that as well, leaving only for the human analyst to confirm that something important has been found.
This kind of software has been around, in a conceptual form, for decades. But it took powerful enough hardware (in terms of computing power, and high quality digital vidcams), and decades of tweaking the software, to reach the point where the stuff actually works.


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Get a speedy, long-lasting Macbook Air M1 for $849
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Apple made tech headlines last year when it announced the first Mac computers powered by in-house M1 silicon. The company recently launched new computers powered by the M1 Max and M1 Pro chipsets, but the first-generation Macbook Air M1 is still worth a look. And thankfully, you can get it for a cheaper price thanks to Black Friday.
Yes, the Macbook Air M1 is available on Amazon right now for $849.99, which is $149 off the standard price. For what it's worth, this is for the model with 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD, while the 512GB option will still set you back $1,099.99.
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Apple's thinnest, lightest notebook, completely transformed by the new Apple M1 chip.
In case you need a refresher, the Macbook Air M1 delivers a big power and efficiency boost over the previous Intel-equipped models. In the case of the latter, Apple says you can expect up to 18 hours of juice. Otherwise, you're also getting a 13.3-inch display, a fanless design, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, and a Touch ID fingerprint scanner.
We liked this laptop in our Macbook Air M1 review, but our own Gary Sims lamented the low-resolution webcam and the lack of ports. Nevertheless, you can do far worse than this if you want a powerful, long-lasting laptop.
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Neuroscientists haven't really explored how movement and thought interact, largely because it's hard for anyone to leap, twist and turn while lying flat in an MRI tube, or connected to a tangle of wires. But with the help of new mobile brain imaging technology, a Maryland researcher now has the beginnings of an answer…" To read the rest of the article, click How Dancers Think When They Dance.
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George Bedard
Guitar god
By John Hinchey | hinch@aaobserver.com
Oct 25, 2013 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized | 0 |
Guitarist George Bedard has been one of the brightest stars in the Ann Arbor music firmament for nearly forty years, and the Kingpins, the trio he formed with bassist Randy Tessier and drummer Rich Dishman, has been serving as the town's unofficial house band almost since the day they started making music together in the late eighties. Bedard's previous CDs have reflected the range of his repertoire, which embraces virtually every form of postwar, pre-Beatles American popular music from rockabilly and honky-tonk country to jump blues and even swing jazz, but his new CD, Further On, is devoted to the blues.
It's a live CD compiled from shows Bedard performed at Callahan's in Auburn Hills, both with the Kingpins and with a quartet in which he and Dishman were joined by pianist Chris Codish and bassist Pat Prouty. It features covers of urban blues recordings made in the 1950s, along with originals inspired by various fifties blues styles. Of course, Bedard never really "covers" old recordings. His is the approach of jazz musicians, who always reimagine their material in ways that make it their own. Bedard finds his way into a song with his guitar, and the guitar parts he devises are simply richer than any music you'll find on any old recording–more supple and detailed in their voicings, more attentively syncopated, more exuberantly articulated, more self-delighting. "The thing about George is, he loves it," my wife observed when she first heard a cut from Further On. "You can tell."
Bedard sings lead as well, but usually his guitar does most of the heavy lifting. His vocals often serve as just another instrument, a virtual faux horn section anchoring the ensemble, with the lyrics functioning like subtitles to a conversation being conducted in another language–a language in which his guitar not only is the most fluent speaker but sometimes does all the talking. Bedard has the sense not to challenge Muddy Waters' vocal in his rendition of "Rollin' and Tumblin'," but his guitar's regal ferocity would get even Muddy's attention, and his handling of Little Richard's "Slippin' and Slidin'" quickly gets the lyric out of the way altogether to make way for a series of instrumental passages excavating the tune's blues roots that culminates with a guitar solo as alarmingly volatile as Little Richard's inimitable vocal.
On several cuts Bedard steps out from the shadows to duet with his guitar, a musical strategy that's particularly suitable to the two-faced essence of the blues, which is both an expression of distress and a cure for it. Usually the guitar and vocal are given different parts: the opening cut, a version of Elmore James' "Stranger Blues," features a vocal that is all anxious distress set against a tomcatting guitar, while on Otis Rush's "All Your Love" the roles are reversed. Then, on "Cold Cold Feeling," a song made famous by T-Bone Walker, voice and guitar seem constantly to switch roles as they converse with each other, until the guitar part itself expands into what feels like a conversation between conflicting moods and emotions. The result is the most persuasive realization I have ever heard of the transformation, posited by the lyric, of a chilled into a chilling spirit.
As with his live sets, Bedard concludes his new CD with a show-stopping instrumental tour de force, a version of Elmore James' "Hawaiian Guitar Boogie" that reminds you that the motive of syncopation is the way it invests music with the sense of a human body in motion. The guitar here, though, is a dancing god, enacting a full-body jitterbug too unimaginably grand for mere mortal dancers.
George Bedard & the Kingpins host the annual Halloween Bash at Guy Hollerin's on Saturday, October 26.
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Dancing With The Stars is at it's best when the dancers and the stars have clear chemistry with each other. No one pairing this season is as electric together as DWTS couple Emma Slater and Alek Skarlatos. They pair so well together that it's surprising that Emma and Alek aren't dating. Frankly, it's borderline criminal that these two don't just admit they're into each other and start taking as many cute pictures together as possible — how are we, as a public, to believe in soulmates if these two can't see that they're crazy for each other? Luckily, we live in a day and age where we can know what the world would be like if these two were dating — specifically if Emma and Alek were dating and decided to have children.
Websites like MakeMeBaby.com, MorphThing.com, and Luxand Face Recognition can help us imagine a world where Alek and Emma realise that they're perfect together and create a populace full of their children who will probably grow up to start a dance studio for impoverished youths or something else equally artistic and heroic (just like their parents). So, set aside any concerns that you're thinking way too much about someone else's relationship, and let's see what those babies would look like!
This first baby draft has got Emma's wide eyes, and Alek's understated smile, and happens to look like it's listening Adele's new album right now. This baby may be young, but its eyes convey a sadness that most people don't encounter for years. Thankfully, Alek and Emma seem like they would be loving and supportive parents.
This baby, much like the MakeMeBabies baby, has wide blue eyes and a closed, reserved smile. This baby has a very intense gaze and looks like it wouldn't be out of place in a Jill Greenberg portrait. Morphthing also predicts that Alek Jr. is going to have some pretty messy baby hair — which seems fitting with Alek and Emma's laid back attitudes — and pinchable, puffy cheeks for the grandparents.
This baby girl switches things up, with bold brown eyes and a thinner, if slightly more pronounced smile. The cheeks are less puffy and the nose is a little wider than the male Morphthing counterpart. It's certainly a much less intense baby than the others so far and has more welcoming and friendly expression.
Oh, wow. OK, first off, there's something going on with that left cheek. Alek and Emma are going to have to take their baby to the doctor because that left cheek is way bigger than the right cheek. This baby, however, isn't afraid to show a toothy smile, unlike the other babies. In fact, this baby is so fearless that he's going to ride his bike — without training wheels — through a puddle when he could've easily gone around it. This is a baby that Emma and Alek can really be proud of.
Luxand has some hobby-prediction aspect to their baby morphing program, but it looks like if Emma and Alek had a kid, she'd become a musical prodigy. Perhaps a pop star destined to end up on Dancing With The Stars season 37? This child seems to be a tough worker, though, and already has circles under her eyes. Hopefully, Alek and Emma are making sure she gets some sleep.
As it turns out, baby morphing websites can actually be pretty silly. The only way to know how Alek and Emma's baby would look would be for Alek and Emma actually had a baby. (Or at least start dating, first.) While we can't know what that child will look like yet, we can know that it would probably be adorable and definitely be a great dancer.


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Distance between Darlington and Wilton. How many miles from Darlington to Wilton.
The straight distance between Darlington (Victoria) and Wilton (New South Wales) is 499.66 mi, but the driving distance is 607.11 mi.
It takes to go from Darlington to Wilton.


Sarah came to my shop in Warrensville Heights, Ohio looking for a live edge dining table with a very specific metal base. I took her on a field trip to my live edge wood vendor to select a slab. We brought the slab back to the shop to sand, file, fill the cracks, and coat the top. Our metalworker made legs to our customers specifications. We delivered a beautiful finished product in June 2018. Sarah loved it and will enjoy it for many years to come.
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Gino Borsoi (Motta di Livenza, 11 de marzo de 1974) es un piloto de motociclismo de velocidad italiano, que compitió regularmente en el Campeonato Mundial de Motociclismo desde 1996 hasta 2004.

Borsoi es actualmente el director deportivo del Aspar Racing Team.

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Debutó en el Mundial en el GP de Italia de 1996 con una Aprilia RS 125 R y en esa misma temporada fue llamado por el equipo italiano para reemplazar en las últimas tres carreras de temporada a Andrea Ballerini, pero un incidente con Kazuto Sakata en el GP de Cataluña lo obligó a no correr ninguna otra carrera de campeonato debido a la fractura de tres vértebras.

Recuperado de lesión, en la temporada de 1997 encuentra su primer contrato como piloto de carreras en el campeonato mundial con un Yamaha TZ 125 del equipo Semprucci Biesse.

La temporada 1998, incluso sin obtener resultados significativos, se recuerda porque Borsoi mató accidentalmente a una cobra que entró en la pista, golpeándolo con una rodilla mientras hacía a una curva durante el GP de Malasia.

En los años siguientes, logró obtener una pole position y tres podios, distinguiéndose como piloto de pruebas para la Aprilia, realizando las pruebas de desarrollo de la RSA 125. En total ha participado en 126 Grandes Premios, todos en 125 cc.

Al mismo tiempo como piloto, en 2003 fundó el equipo Globet Racing, equipo con el que corrió las últimas dos temporadas como profesional en el campeonato mundial, participando como mánager deportivo, el primer año. Alex De Angelis y Mike Di Meglio en el segundo. Se retiró como piloto al final de la temporada 2004. Actualmente continúa desempeñando el papel de gerente de su equipo al contratar a Fabrizio Lai para el 2005. Justo durante la última temporada recibió una oferta de Jorge Martínez Aspar para trabajar en su equipo.

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When the U.S. Government Spied on American Jews
January 6, 2006 Wyman Institute Articles Comments Off on When the U.S. Government Spied on American Jews
As public debate grows over the Bush administration's eavesdropping policy, some American Jews are recalling a time when the Roosevelt administration undertook some questionable eavesdropping of its own–and Jewish activists were the target.
The year was 1944, and the object of U.S. government wrath was the Bergson group, a political action committee led by Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook). Bergson, a resident of British Mandatory Palestine, came to the United States in 1940 and led a series of political action campaigns seeking U.S. rescue of Jews from Hitler and the establishment of a Jewish state.
Through full-page newspaper advertisements, theatrical productions, rallies, and lobbying on Capitol Hill, the Bergson group gained national attention for its cause. The Bergson group's activity made it a thorn in the side of the Roosevelt administration, which resented pressure to aid Hitler's victims and sought to avoid tension with England over its closure of Palestine to Jewish refugees.
Irritated by Bergson's campaigns, the administration sent the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service after him. They were looking for evidence of criminal activity, but their motivation was political. "This man has been in the hair of [Secretary of State] Cordell Hull," an internal FBI memo bluntly noted in 1944, in its explanation of the reasons for U.S. government action against Bergson.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I was able to obtain more than one thousand pages detailing the administration's campaign against the Bergson activists. The FBI's tactics included eavesdropping on their telephone conversations, opening their mail, sifting through their trash, and planting informants to steal documents from Bergson's office.
Part of the FBI's goal was to prove that Bergson was secretly assisting the Irgun Zvai Leumi, a Jewish underground militia led by Menachem Begin, which was fighting to oust the British from Palestine.
In their newspaper ads and rallies, the Bergsonites made no secret of their sympathy for the Irgun's fight.
And some individual Bergson group activists were arrested for smuggling guns to the Jewish fighting forces. But, despite years of hunting, the FBI never found evidence linking the Bergson group itself to such activity.
FBI agents also searched for a link between Bergson and the Communist Party. One FBI memo approvingly quoted a rival Jewish organization's description of the Bergsonites as "a group of thoroughly disreputable Communist Zionists." FBI director J. Edgar Hoover himself named playwright Ben Hecht and six other prominent Bergson group activists as "fellow travelers." Maurice Rifkin, head of the Philadelphia-based Global Travel Service, came under FBI scrutiny because his was the only company in the city which had an export license to send gift packages to the Soviet Union.
"What the FBI apparently didn't realize was that Rifkin was a refugee from the Russians, not an agent of the Russians," says Jack Yampolsky, a retired Philadelphia accountant whose parents, Louis and Betty, were leaders of the Bergson group's local chapter. "In fact, when he obtained the license in the 1930s it was useless, because the USSR didn't permit gift packages to be sent. Only after Stalin's death in 1953 were such packages allowed, and then Rifkin's export license became a lifeline for Russian Jewish refugees in the U.S. to send aid to relatives trapped in the Soviet Union–including Rifkin's sister. For the FBI to see the license as something sinister was absurd."
Louis Yampolsky was also the accountant for the Bergson group's national headquarters in New York City. When the IRS launched a full-scale inquiry into the group's finances in 1945, seeking to revoke the group's tax-exempt status, Bergson urgently summoned him to New York. Jack accompanied his father on the mission. IRS agents repeatedly visited the Bergson group's office, once for a stretch where they stayed there from morning until night for more than two weeks. The Yampolskys spent nearly a year digging out and reconciling every piece of financial information in the group's records.
In the end, the IRS investigators were unable to find evidence of any wrongdoing. Moreover, as the IRS team became familiar with the group's work, they came to sympathize with it, and "when they finished, [they] made a contribution between them–every one of them gave a few dollars," Bergson later told historian David Wyman.
The sympathy expressed by the IRS agents contrasted sharply with the sentiments expressed in some of the FBI documents which I obtained. One FBI report about Bergson activist Maurice Rosenblatt derisively referred to the leftwing Coordinating Committee for Democratic Action, in which Rosenblatt was active, as "this Semitic Committee." The report complained that Rosenblatt and his colleagues were trying to "smear" Nazi sympathizers in New York City.
"When there is a genuine threat, governments sometimes have to do things like eavesdrop," Jack Yampolsky concedes. "But in our case, they were doing it for political reasons, and antisemitism also played a role. The fact that we vocally disagreed with U.S. government policy regarding the Holocaust and Jewish statehood was not a valid reason for the Roosevelt administration to enlist the FBI and the IRS in a war against the Bergson group."
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Automotive News Briefs: December 12, 1909
A. C. A. Smoker and Meeting.
An attractive vaudeville programme has been arranged for the regular meeting of the Automobile Club of America at the clubhouse, Fifty-fourth Street, west of Broadway, Tuesday. The smoker promises to be one of the most successful ever held by the club, judged from the application of guest cards.
Barney Oldfield in Severe Test.
Barney Oldfield after breaking the world's record telegraphed to the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company that he considered the event the greatest tire test of his career. The tires were used in four previous meets, and the heavy car which he drove is very severe on tires.
Jinricksha Wheels Coming.
"Jinricksha wheels, the happy appellation applied to the big '42' Oldsmobile wheels," said Gen. John T. Cutting of the Oldsmobile Company, "are suggestive of oriental comfort and ease; so typical are they of the Japanese man wagon, that they will be a surprising feature of the coming automobile shows to those who have not already seen the Oldsmobile cars with their big wheels."
Oldfield Will Not Race Sunday.
EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 11.—Barney Oldfield arrived yesterday and flatly refused to fill a racing date at the Fair Grounds on Sunday. He will race Kerscher, the German winner of the Vanderbilt race, on Monday, but the two days' meeting had to be cut because of his refusal to race Sunday.


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Taylor Swift personally invites autistic child prodigy to meet her on tour
9:59am Aug 23, 2015
Taylor Swift has shown once again she may be the nicest person in show business, inviting a young boy with autism to come meet her at one of her shows after he impressed the world with an incredible piano medley of the singer's songs.
At only seven-years-old Jacob Velazquez caught the attention of the popular singer after uploading a video to his YouTube channel of him playing a medley of songs from her latest album 1989.
Jacob was diagnosed with autism when he was four-years-old and has always had a dream of one day playing the piano with his idol, Taylor Swift.
"I'm your biggest fan!" he said to her in his video.
"I hope you can sign this for me one day and we can jam!" he continued, clutching a copy of his hero's album.
The young boys dream came true within three days.
His video went viral, was watched hundreds of thousands of times and shared all over the internet and before long Swift had retweeted it.
Sydney boy, 7, donates family caravan to NSW bushfire victims in heartwarming gesture
Non-for-profit gives a financial leg up to newly arrived refugees
This six-year-old finished chemotherapy, his school classmates welcomed him back with a standing ovation
She tweeted Jacob, saying she simply must give him a hug for his hard work.
"Thank you!! I would love to!!" Jacob quickly replied.
It is not yet known what tour date Jacob will attend, but the invitation comes just in time for Jacob's birthday on September 29.


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Thurs 25 Oct: Online calling party to Ditch Dutton
Peter Dutton and the hard-right faction brought down a Prime Minister who didn't do enough to appease them.
Dutton and the hard-right may be powerful in Canberra. But in his electorate, Dutton is fighting for his political life.
In Dickson, Peter Dutton is holding on by less than 2000 votes and runs a real risk of losing his seat at the next election. Ramping up our pressure now on Dutton now is key to reversing the hard-right's momentum.
To do that, we need thousands more people, across the country, stepping up to join the people-powered effort.
Join us to contact GetUp members around Brisbane, inviting them to take part in the exciting campaign to stop the right wing take over. You'll be trained in what to say, and you'll be using our award winning phoning technology that makes calling super easy!
We'll join an online conference call together to be trained, then make an hour of calls to GetUp members, then jump back online to debrief! To join the call, just follow the link in your RSVP email you will get when you sign up!
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"The longer individuals were exposed to socialism, the more likely they were to cheat on our task," according to a new study, "The (True) Legacy of Two Really Existing Economic Systems," from Duke University and the University of Munich. The team of researchers concluded this after working with 259 participants from Berlin who grew up on opposite sides of the infamous wall.
When playing a dice game that could earn them €6 ($8), subjects originally from the East, which was for four decades under socialist rule, were more likely than their market economy counterparts in West to lie about how they fared.
It's not hard to see how socialism might degrade people's morals if you can imagine an economy in which everything is run like a Veterans' Hospital.
As almost everyone knows there is a theory afoot in some libertarian and "conservative" circles that Republicans can win if they'll surrender on the social issues, and then that victory will usher in a glorious era where the nation returns to limited government.
Social conservatives remain a key constituency in the Republican Party; socially conservative principles continue to come to the fore in public debate; and social issues have helped Republicans more than hurt them at the polls.
The book's thesis—that Republicans who embrace social conservatism can win, and that social conservatism is in keeping with American tradition—is a useful one in this political season. Bell holds that the narrative of the nation is tied inextricably to religious influences. To deny these influences comes with a hefty political price; to embrace them requires courage, but in the end, they foster respect for the national purpose. As Bell sees it, America needs social conservatives, even if their presence leads to polarization.
That said, let's go ahead and suspend disbelief for a minute and pretend we're in a world/in a land/in a time where forfeiting the social issues is a winning formula. Okay, then what? If socialism has a negative impact on the morality of people as the above reports suggests, what will be the impact on the character of the nation if both parties embrace Cultural Marxism?
Will the same people who devalue life through abortion, who seek to destroy religious liberty, who further undermine marriage through its redefinition, and who can't even understand that no one can change their biological gender, will these people have the character and ability let alone the desire to limit government? I think the answer is that there is not a chance.
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Contaminated soil was allegedly used in the construction.
The police have charged one person, identified as M.J.H., and one legal entity, a Bratislava-based company, in the case of the Bratislava ring road construction. There is a suspicion that contaminated soil was used at the construction site.
They are charged with threatening and harming the environment, the TASR newswire reported.
"If they are found guilty, they could spend between four to 10 years in prison," the police wrote on their Facebook profile.
The police did not provide any further details since the investigation is still underway.
The police officers raided several spots in Bratislava and its surrounding on March 28, due to suspicions that environmental crimes had been committed. It has been reported that the contaminated soil was used in the construction of the D4/R7 ring road.
Experts from the Environment Ministry also participated in the raids.
"The police officers of the Regional Police Headquarters' criminal department carried out 11 house searches and searches of other premises and land linked with the environmental crimes," the police specified, as quoted by TASR.
The police have allegedly detained four people, including drivers active in waste management. They also went to the house of Javier H., who represents the Spanish consortium responsible for building the ring road, and took him in for questioning.
The Bratislava ring road is being constructed by a consortium of companies under the leadership of the Spanish company Cintra. The road is being built as a public-private partnership project. The concessionaire is expected to build the road and operate it for 30 years. At the same time, the state will pay installments amounting to €52.8 million a year, to the company, over the 30 years, TASR wrote.