The Jewish Leadership Council announces the appointment of Mr Mark Adlestone OBE DL as a Trustee to undertake a three year term.
Mr Adlestone brings with him a wealth of experience across a variety of issues that are at the core of the JLC's strategic priorities. As Chair of The Fed in Manchester, his views and expertise will contribute to the JLC's efforts to address the challenges facing the community's care sector.
Mr Adlestone oversaw the merger between The Fed and Heathlands Village, and his input and guidance will enrich Chairman Jonathan Goldstein's focus on ensuring the long-term financial sustainability of the community.
Bringing to bear his Manchester experience, Mr Adlestone will also help drive the JLC's regional outreach, working with the External Affairs team and colleagues across the country to deliver for British Jews across the UK.
On 2nd November 2017, Jewish communities around the world, and in particular, the British Jewish community will come together to celebrate the centenary of the Balfour Declaration; the 67 words that led to the creation of the State of Israel.


For 28 years, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office has embodied the holiday spirit of giving by handing out bicycles to children in need.
The Christmas Bicycle Giveaway is a very special program in our county – not only because hundreds of local children receive bicycles, but also because these bikes are refurbished by inmates at the Sheriff's Honor Farm.
Inmates make repairs to get the bicycles in premium condition for the children who receive them at the giveaway. "The program instills in the inmates a positive work ethic, self-respect and a sense of worth to the community," says Tony Cipolla, Public Information Officer at the Sheriff's Office.
This year, faces glowed and smiles abounded at San Luis Obispo Farmer's Market and outside the Sheriff's Honor Farm as more than 320 bicycles were given away on December 7 and 15.
Many people join the Sheriff's Office to put on the Christmas Bicycle Giveaway every year. Donors include Rita's Rainbows, The Sandlot Group, and local Target and Walmart stores. This year, the Sandlot Group purchased $10,000 worth of bicycles. In addition, 85 of the bicycles given away this year were a gift from 87-year-old Dr. Don Morris, who bought them at the Cal Poly bike auction. The Sheriff's Advisory Foundation, Art's Cyclery and Bike SLO County help put on the event and distribute the gifts.
"It's all worth it, to see a child's face light up when they receive a bicycle," says Tony. You can view more photos of the giveaway on the Sheriff's Facebook page or read more about it on their website.


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First of all, we want to express how grateful we are for questions like this. It's incredibly rare and powerful that we've found ourselves a part of such an engaged and informed community that holds passion and an elevated standard for issues like ethical responsibility, that are so important to us.
As a Certified B Corporation, CAUSEBOX is held to the highest standards of business ethics, sustainability, and transparency, so our partners and the products provided are carefully and thoughtfully chosen. This certification doesn't just evaluate a product or service, but also assesses the overall positive impact of the company that stands behind it.
Each of our partners is selected for being a change-maker in the world — whether that means creating a sustainably made product to reduce the need for single-use plastics, giving back to organizations fighting for causes that they believe in, or employing artisans in vulnerable communities for many times above the minimum wage, allowing families to stay together.
Products are brought to us by different artisan groups, small businesses, or growing brands from all corners of the world — including right here in the United States, as well as in China. Each partner is sourced on the basis of their alignment with our ethical standards, regardless of where their products are made. We are happy to report that the makers of the Whitney Kerney Mugs have certified to policies and procedures observing key labor and manufacturing standards to match this commitment.
Transparency is incredibly important to us, and connecting our members to the makers behind their products is one of our primary goals. For that reason, we include a Good News Magazine inside each CAUSEBOX to share their stories, so you're able to learn more about our partners, their processes, and the causes you're supporting with your membership.
While we're so proud of the work that we've done so far and the impact that we're already making, we believe in progress and know that there is so much more we can do when it comes to impact and transparency. Internally, we're working on some very exciting improvements — and we can't wait to share them with you!
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Red Deer College releases five-year strategic plan
Providing details about plans for the future, Red Deer College released a five-year Strategic Plan recently.
Entitled 'A Learner-Centred Future', the plan was first presented to faculty and staff by RDC President and CEO Joel Ward.
"We listened very closely to our community both within RDC and throughout Central Alberta and have responded to the passionate and insightful input from so many who care about the future of the College," said Ward.
"The RDC of 2017 will continue to serve our learners by offering expanded programming including more degrees. Leadership, excellence and innovation will be the hallmarks of how we operate in delivering relevant programs leading to careers, and personal growth for our learners."
The five-year plan was developed through a unique collaborative process that brought together key stakeholders across all College departments and divisions to give input, reflecting the diversity and viewpoints of RDC.
Then, starting last December, 20 groups were formed from RDC staff and faculty who sought input from more than 800 Central Albertans about what the strategic direction of RDC should be over the next five years.
"We clearly heard from the community that the Red Deer College of 2017 should be known for engaging students in applied, innovative and real world learning," said Dr. Gerry Paradis, associate vice president of strategic planning and research at RDC, who helped to facilitate the overall process of developing the plan.
"We're so grateful for the community's input and role in setting our vision for the next five years at RDC."
Faculty say the RDC of 2017 will be a comprehensive post-secondary institution in Central Alberta with an academic reputation that positions the College as one of the top post-secondary institutions in the province offering certificates, diplomas, advanced skills training and degrees.
Ward said that at the centre of all that RDC does is the learner and by focusing even more on students through this new Strategic Plan, RDC is emphasizing their commitment to graduates who, as full partners in their education, will be autonomous, competent and recognized for their capacity to apply their learning to make a difference in the communities where they live and work.
"We have always strived to deliver the best education possible and this plan ensures that we remain on that course and will be the post-secondary institution of choice for learners."
To check out 'A Learner-Centred Future,' visit www.rdc.ab.ca/strategicplan.
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Last year, when I won the Longines Kentucky Oaks Fashion Contest at Churchill Downs, I didn't think I'd ever find a hat I loved more than the one I wore that day... I was wrong.
This hat. This hat is enormous. This hat is unconventional. This hat was not what I had in mind for this year's Kentucky Oaks. It wasn't even a shade of pink I typically gravitate toward.
...and then, I tried it on. It's not everyone's cup of tea, and not everyone could wear it. It was perfect. It was everything I never knew I was looking for in a Derby hat. It was meant for only me. After donning it, I'd have never been satisfied with another choice.
I expect there are people who may find it a bit over the top (or even a lot over the top). Indeed, for most events, it would be too much. But for Churchill Downs on Derby weekend, it was everything.
Not surprisingly, it was designed by Loreta Corsetti, the same milliner who created my pink champagne-themed topper last year. Trained in couture, Loreta creates all of her hats by hand, and all are one of kind works of art.
This one features hundreds of hand sewn crystals that glitter from every angle - it's as interesting to look at from the back and sides as it is from the front. This is important at the racetrack, where so much time is spent looking at the back of people's heads from the grandstands.
The silhouette, though displaying a gravity-defying modernity and elaborate details, reminded me of the wide brimmed toppers Christian Dior sent down the runway to accompany his New Look in 1947.
Loreta Corsetti's design (right, image by Faith Blackwell Photography), though more elaborate and angled differently, reminded me of Christian Dior's iconic "New Look" first introduced in 1947 (images on left).
As such, Dior's iconic designs were the inspiration for the rest of my ensemble, as well. The pale pink jacquard dress is new this season from Nordstrom, but with classic pearls, a vintage handbag, and crochet lace gloves, it definitely recalled my favorite fashion era.
KDef was a gamer for the fashion parade, too, donning grey seersucker; spectators; a newsboy cap; and horseshoe cufflinks to complete his Oaks day "Pink Out" look.
Oaks day was 73 degrees and sunny all day. Perfect weather for a day at the races!
Perfect hat and "New Look" aside, Oaks day was a winner in every respect, even if I didn't pick the first place filly. Great weather; gorgeous horses; fun fashion; new friends; and a mint julep (or two) make for one fabulous Friday at the races!
Jody, what a fabulous look. The hat is the bomb. Glad you had nice weather too.
Thank you!! I've loved following your European adventure!
I think that is the perfect Derby hat-it has to make a statement!
Wow! That is a seriously wonderful statement hat! You both look fantastic! I must compliment your date on his shoes. Very spiffy!
Your hat is divinely amazing! I am honored that your shared its magnificence with Hat Attack!


Sesame toast is one of the popular snacks in Chinese cuisine in which chopped vegetables are used as a topping on bread and spread batter and pan-fried. You can cut into different shapes like strips or quarterly and served with ketchup or any home based dip. It is a perfect snack for kid's party or when they get back from school.
Sesame and seasonal vegetables adds a lot of nutrition value in this toast. A sesame seed gives golden color and crunchy texture to this toast. You can check more Chinese recipes here. I choose this sesame toast recipe under BM# 89 edition theme: Stuffed recipes for this week.
Finely chop the onion, green chilies, capsicum, carrot and coriander leaves. Add mashed potatoes and mix well. Add salt, pepper powder, red chili powder, soya sauce and cornstarch and mix well. Make a separate conflour paste in separate bowl. Spread the sesame seeds in wide plate. Cut the bread edges and spread cornflour paste first. Spread vegetable filling evenly on the bread, then apply the cornflour paste on it. Sprinkle the sesame seeds evenly over the paste layer. Press slightly with hands so they get stick on it. Heat the oil in nonstick wide pan for shallow frying or deep frying till to golden brown. Cut the bread slices into quarterly and serve hot with chili sauce or ketchup.
Sesame toast is one of the popular snacks in Chinese cuisine in which chopped vegetables are used as a topping on bread and spread batter and pan-fried and served with ketchup or any home based dip.
Finely chop the onion, green chilies, capsicum, carrot and coriander leaves.
Add mashed potatoes and mix well. Add salt, pepper powder, red chili powder, soya sauce and cornstarch and mix well.
Make a separate conflour paste in separate bowl. Spread the sesame seeds in wide plate.
Cut the bread edges and spread cornflour paste first. Spread vegetable filling evenly on the bread, then apply the cornflour paste on it.
Sprinkle the sesame seeds evenly over the paste layer. Press slightly with hands so they get stick on it.
Heat the oil in nonstick wide pan for shallow frying or deep frying till to golden brown.
Cut the bread slices into quarterly and serve hot with chili sauce or ketchup.
This is a fantastic recipe for snacks, Preeti..I am sure kids will love this! I love toasted taste of the sesame seeds and on bread it will be so good.
Sesame veg toast looks just prefect to have anytime of the day and the stuffing sounds fabulous. My kind of dish.
That is simply wow and love the crunchy Veg toast. I love sesame in anything and everything and I can imagine how delicious this would be.
A very innovative take on toast. Interesting vegetable combination too.
The toasts studded with sesame seeds look beautiful and this one is an awesome snack to have during evenings..
I like the crunch in this sesame toast and not to mention taste the taste of sesame seeds as well.
This is a fantastic snack, I think I had read a similar recipe on Tarla Dalal site. The top must be so crunchy with sesame seeds added to it.
I simply love this one and have yet to do it. Fantastic recipe.
Oh woww…what an interesting Toast with sesame seeds and potato filling..Love to make for my kids..
Toasted sesame tastes so good on bread. Kids will love this crispy bread snack.


It was not unusual to run into Andrew during one of his circuits he would make that included these and other of Woodson's HARD routes, some involving multiple laps!
Yaniro powering through John Long's Paisano Overhang. (from the movie On the Rocks). Also, a short clip of Randy Leavitt on Mother Superior at Mt. Woodson, Ramona, CA and Skip Guerrin on Animal Magnetism in Colorado.
Leading for photo's at the 2010 Mt. Woodson Shindig.
With my BB Storm in one hand and the rope in the other, Andrew probably didn't benefit much from my belay on this one, but, he made it look easy nonetheless!
This short video of young Chris Lindner, leading Robbin's Crack at Mt. Woodson in Ramona, California, was taken from the video titled, "Origins - Joshua Tree" by Sender Films. The clip features, then, twenty four year old, Chris Lindner "who was sending 5.12 routes when he was 5 years old," and visionary Kurt Smith.
Mike Friedrichs and Greg Cameron climb Monkey Crack, 5.10 at Mt. Woodson, CA March 20, 2010 during the great Mt. Woodson reunion visit.


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Professor Stewart Field
Professor of Law and Head of Law
fieldsa@cardiff.ac.uk
I became a lecturer at Cardiff in 1984 after doctoral research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford. I had previously obtained an M Phil in Criminology at Cambridge after a first degree in Law at Oxford University. My PhD `Legal Forms, Legal Ideology and the Early Factory Inspectorate' used an historical case-study to examine the interaction between social conflict and legal forms. In recent years, my research interests have focussed around comparative criminal justice. I have co-written two monographs and co-edited six collections of essays as well as publishing many articles on a variety of criminal justice topics. These include detailed bilateral studies comparing England and Wales with the Netherlands, France and Italy. My most recent published work was a 2019 special issue of the Journal of Law and Society that I co-edited with Dr Renaud Colson (University of Nantes, France): it examined whether and how it is possible to devise effective criminal justice policy by drawing on the experience of other jurisdictions. I am currently co-leading (with Professor Cyrus Tata, University of Strathclyde, Scotland) an international comparative project on the role of remorse and the acceptance of responsibility in criminal justice.
I have been a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Law and Society since 1989. For many years I was the Director of our Law and French degree programme and remain the Erasmus coordinator for our links with Amiens and Nantes. I have been Head of the Law Department since 2019.
Post-School Education
1989, D.Phil. Jurisprudence, Oxford University (Thesis: Legal Forms, Legal Ideology and the Early Factory Inspectorate)
1981-4: ESRC quota award DPhil Scholarship in Socio-Legal Studies, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
1981, M Phil. Criminology, Cambridge University
1980, BA (Hons) Jurisprudence, Oxford University
External appointments, Visiting Lectureships etc.
Visiting Lecturer, Willem Pömpe Institute for Criminal Justice, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1992 and Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1998/99
Professeur Invité, Universities of Amiens (2000-), Nantes (2005 and 2009) and Rennes (2015)
Invited Lecturer on programme of continuing education for French judges, Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature, France 2008-2010
External examiner, Strathclyde University Law School 2008-2011 and 2015-2019, City University Law School 2012-2016 and Warwick Law School 2015-2019
1995 British Council Know How Fund for Bulgaria: £6,750 (Teaching Programme for Bulgarian Judges).
1995/6 University of Wales Collaboration Fund: £2,500.
Organisation and co-ordination of international group of scholars working on comparative perspectives on covert and proactive policing, securing financing from University of Wales Collaboration Fund for seminars in Grygnog (Wales) and Maastricht (Netherlands) and leading to edited collection published by Dartmouth
1996 Economic and Social Research Council £79,825
ESRC grant for project `Defence Lawyers in the French Criminal Process'. Lead investigator spending a year collecting empirical research
2001: Economic and Social Research Council £72, 128
ESRC grant for project `Early Intervention and Youth Justice in England and Wales and Italy' (with M Drakeford formerly SOCSI and D Nelken now King's College London. Lead investigator supervising gathering of empirical material (interviews and case-files)
2008: British Academy, £11,507
Host sponsor to enable Dr Renaud Colson (University of Nantes) to come to Cardiff to work together on 'Fair Trial and Managerialism in Criminal Justice: an Anglo-French study in comparative law' under BA Visiting Fellowship Award.
2011: Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship, £40, 360
6 month Fellowship for project: Making sense of youth justice: a comparative study of Italy and Wales.
2016: Cardiff Incoming Visiting Fellows Scheme & International Collaboration Seedcorn Fund, £5,000 (research collaboration with Dr Renaud Colson)
2016: Centre for Law and Society Research Theme Funding, series of workshops 'Security and Justice: the challenge of the transnational', £12,000, (coordination of series, organization of one workshop)
2016: Conseil national des recherches scientifiques (France), Harmonizing European Criminal Justice Systems : values, drivers and limits, 18k euros, (with Dr Renaud Colson), submitted awaiting reply
Socio-Legal Studies Association
Society of Legal Scholars
British Society of Criminology
European Society of Criminology
2013- Professor
2010-2013 Reader
2001-2010 Senior Lecturer, University of Cardiff
1984-2001 Lecturer (University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, then University of Cardiff
Conference, Seminar and Workshop Papers 1995 onwards (External only)
(with Chrisje Brants) `Participation Rights and Proactive Policing: Convergence and Drift in European Criminal Process' Criminal Justice section group, SPTL Annual Conference (September 1995) and invited presentation, Dutch Association of Comparative Lawyers Annual Lecture (December 1995)
(with Chrisje Brants) `Legal Cultures and Procedural Traditions: towards a comparative interpretation of covert and proactive policing in England and Wales and in the Netherlands' Law and Society Association Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (July 1996)
`La procédure pénale et l'avocat: quelques réflexions préliminaires d'Outre-Manche,' invited presentations to Cercle Barreau/Faculté, Université de Nantes (March 1997) and Law Faculties, University of Picardy, Amiens (May 1997) and Toulouse (December 1998)
`Defence Lawyers in the French Criminal Process' Paper to SLSA Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University (April 1998)
(with Pauline Roberts, Cardiff Law School) `Racism and Police Investigations: Individual Redress and Collective Change after The Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000', Paper to Annual Conference, Socio-Legal Studies Association, Bristol 4-6 April 200
`Responsabilité, Justice et La Procédure Pénale Comparée' invited paper to Colloque Louis Lorvellec: La Responsabilite: Sens et Essence, University of Nantes 15-16 November 200
`The State, the Citizen and Criminal Responsibility in France' , Paper to Annual Conference, Socio-Legal Studies Association, Nottingham 14-16 April 2003
`La responsabilité pénale de l'enfant: l'exemple brittanique', invited paper to Colloque L'europe et l'enfant, University of Rennes, 22-24 May 2003
`Early intervention and Youth Justice in England and Wales and Italy', invited seminar to South Wales Police and Youth Offending Teams, September 2004
'Cultural Consensus and Conflict in Youth Justice' invited paper to Annual Conference, Cynnydd (Wales Youth Justice Forum), April 2000
'Early Intervention and the Cultures of Youth Justice: A Comparison of Wales and Italy' (with Professor David Nelken) at European Ways of Law, First European Socio-Legal Conference, Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, July 2005
'Empirical Research in Comparative Law', invited workshop, UKNCCL Research Student Workshop in Methodologies of Comparative Law, Cambridge Law Faculty, January 2006
'The Cultures of Youth Justice: a Comparison of Italy and Wales,' Evolution or Rupture? Juvenile Justice in Question, Conference of International Association for Research in Juvenile Criminology, Paris, March 2006
'The Cultures of the New Youth Justice (in England) and Wales', Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Stirling, March 2006
State, citizen and character in French criminal process' British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Glasgow Caledonian, July 2006
'Early Intervention and Court Involvement in Youth Justice,' invited seminar to Conference organised by Children Law UK and the Interdisciplinary Child and Youth Focussed Research Centre, Brunel University, June 2007
'Early Intervention and the Cultures of Youth Justice: A Comparison of Wales and Italy', British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, LSE, September 2007
'The legality principle in criminal law and the contractualisation of sanctions,' invited paper given to Dutch Research School on Human Rights (criminal law cluster), Utrecht, November 2007
''PSRs, Magistrates, YOTs and the discourses of the 'new' Youth Justice', Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Manchester, March 2008
Reading and Writing the 'New' Youth Justice: Sentencing reports and relations between magistrates and YOTs in England and Wales, European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Edinburgh, September 2008
Reading and writing youth justice in Italy and Wales: a comparative analysis, British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Cardiff, July 2009
L'évolution de la défense pénale en Angleterre et au pays de Galles: tensions et contradictions, invited paper, Colloque de l'Association française du droit pénal, Lyon, November 2009
Comparative youth justice and legal cultures, invited paper, Uses of Legal Culture Workshop (Journal of Comparative Law) Venice, May 2010
(with David Nelken) invited seminar, British Society of Criminology Wales and West Group, 'Comparing youth justice in Wales and Italy: some thoughts on comparing like with like' Cardiff, February 2011.
(with David Nelken) Seminar, Cardiff Centre for Crime, Law and Justice 'Legal culture and comparative criminal justice, Cardiff February 2011.
'Legal cultures and youth justice, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Brighton April 2011 and invited seminar Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, Law School, Strathclyde University, Glasgow June 2011
(with Renaud Colson) (Re)forming criminal justice discourses in France and England and Wales : change, continuity and convergence, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Brighton April 2011
'Making sense of youth justice cultures: a comparative study of Italy and Wales' British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, University of Northumbria, July 2011 and invited seminar City of London Law School, March 2012
'(Re)forming discourses in criminal justice: a bilateral comparison of France and England and Wales' European Society of Criminology Conference, Vilnius, September 2011
'La procédure pénale anglaise et la tradition accusatoire' invited paper, Journée d'étude, Centre de droit privé et de sciences criminelles d'Amiens : Les procédures pénales accusatoires, University of Picardy, Jules Verne, Amiens, December 2011
'Making Sense of Cross-Cultural Research,' invited paper to European Society of Criminology's Working Group on Sentencing and Penal Decision-Making, Como, Italy, April 2012 and invited paper to Brunel Law School, April 2013
'Understanding cultural differences in youth justice: a comparative study in Italy and Wales', W G Hart Legal Workshop 'Globalization, criminal law and criminal justice' Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, June 2012
'(Re)forming criminal justice discourses in France and England and Wales : similarity, difference and convergence' W G Hart Legal Workshop, 'Globalization, criminal law and criminal justice' Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, June 2012
'Fact-finding, procedural tradition and miscarriages of justice', European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Bilbao, September 2012 and Cardiff Centre for Crime Law and Justice May 2013.
'Youth justice in Wales or Welsh youth justice?', Invited seminar at Who Knows Best Workshop, London, February 2014
'The vulnerability of different systems of criminal justice to wrongful conviction' (with Chrisje Brants), invited Seminar, School of Law, Northumbria University, April 2014
'Constructing a Welsh youth justice: unity, difference and aspiration in policy-making' Annual Conference, Welsh Centre for Crime, Law and Social Justice, Gregynog, May 2014
'Youth Justice in Wales or Welsh youth justice? Relations between policy and practice', European Society of Criminology, Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making Working Group, Fourth Symposium, Inter-Professional Dynamics in the Sentencing and Penal Decision-Making Process, University of Reims, May 2014
'Globalisation, Managerialism and Procedural Tradition in Criminal Procedure', invited seminar, Workshop on Procedural Tradition and Global Transformation in Criminal Justice, Law School, University of Nottingham June 2014
'Making sense in/of cross-cultural research in criminal justice' Workshop, invited seminar, Exploring the comparative in socio-legal studies, Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford December 2014
'Legal cultures and procedural traditions: thinking about legal diversity and harmonisation' invited Plenary presentation, Conference 'On the Road towards an EU criminal justice system : problems achievements and prospects', Centre for Criminal Justice, School of Law, Limerick University, May 2015
'Les cultures et les traditions juridiques dans l'harmonisation de la justice pénale: la construction de l'espace de liberté, de sécurité et de justice, invited seminar presentation to La Faculté de Droit, L'Université de Rennes 1, June 2015
Les évolutions dans la procédure pénale anglaise, invited seminar presentation to La Faculté de Droit, L'Université de Rennes 1, June 2015
L'enseignement des sciences criminelles au défi de la construction européenne, invited plenary presentation, Les défis intellectuels de l'enseignement des sciences criminelles dans les Facultés de Droit, Seminaire en l'Honneur du Doyen Georges Fournier, La Faculté de Droit, L'Université de Rennes 1, June 2015
'Legal understandings', invited plenary presentation to Colloquium, Harmonisation and Public Trust across European Criminal Procedural Traditions, Durham University July 2015
'Truth-finding, procedural traditions and cultural trust in the Netherlands and England and Wales: when strengths become weaknesses', Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice Annual conference, Gregynog May 2016 (also presented to Cardiff Centre for Crime Law and Justice, April 2016)
'Truth-finding and the adversarial tradition: the experience of Cardiff Law School Innocence Project', invited paper to seminar on Conviction and Sentencing : Truth, Legitimacy and Justice, Centre for Law, Crime and Justice, Law School, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, August 2016 and British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, July 2016.
'Legal cultures in Europe and the construction of EU criminal justice', presentation to European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Münster, Germany September 2016
'La législation anti-terroriste et son défi aux principes établis du droit pénal et de la procédure accusatoire au Royaume-Uni', invited plenary presentation to Journée d'études, Centre universitaire de recherches sur l'action publique et le politique, Université de Picardie, Jules Verne, Amiens, France: Etat de droit et dispositifs juridiques relatifs à la lutte contre le terrorisme : la tension entre mesures exceptionnelles et droit commun, September 2016
Director, Centre for Crime, Law and Justice 2014-
Co-Director, French Academic Exchanges and Erasmus Co-ordinator for exchange links with Nantes University and University Jules Verne Picardy in Amiens, 2013-
Executive Committee member, Centre for Law and Society 2015-
Member, Senior Management Group, Cardiff Law School 2013-2015
Director, People and Environment, Cardiff Law School 2013-2015
Member School Board, Cardiff Law School 2013-2015
Chair, Student Mobility Review Group 2013-2015
International Representative, Cardiff Law School within AHSS College 2013-2015
Chair, Integrated Board of Examiners 2013-2015
Deputy Director, Cardiff Centre for Crime, Law and Justice 2009-2014
Chair, Law and Languages Board of Examiners 2004-2013
Director, French Academic Exchanges and Erasmus Co-ordinator for exchange Links with France 1994-2013 (intake 26 yearly, five French Erasmus partners: Nantes, Amiens, Toulouse, Rennes, Poitiers)
Director, Law and French degree programme (yearly intake 24-26) 1994-2013
Chair, Law and Languages Sub-Committee 2002-2013
Member University Erasmus Coordinators Group and Strategy Review Sub-group 2010-2011
Member, Working Group on Postgraduate Research and Study Skills module 2009-2010
Director LLM European Legal Studies, 2006-2008
Member, Assessment Sub-Committee, Board of Undergraduate Studies, 2005-7
Member, Working Group LLM Reforms 2004-5
Member, Working Group, LLM European Legal Studies Reforms 2004-5
Elected Member, Law School Board 2004-2005
Member Curriculum Review Working Group 2002-2003
Member Integrated Degrees Board of Studies (converted to Law and Languages Sub-Committee) 1992-2002
Member, Teaching and Learning Quality Committee (previously Educational Development Panel) 1999-2002
Member, Study Leave Committee 2000-2002
Member, Educational Development Panel Sub-Committee on Assessment, 2000-2001
Member Steering Group, Centre for Crime, Law and Justice 1998-2001
Research Co-ordinator, Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, 1999-2000
Member, Law School Culture Working Group 1999-2000
Buildings Committee 1995-1996
Teaching Committee 1992-1995
Law Library Committee 1992-1993
Student Progress Monitoring Committee 1990-1993
Senate 1989-1991
Faculty Board 1988-1991
Academic Secretary to Law School and Board of Studies 1988-1991
SCR Committee 1985-1988
Staff Student Panel 1985-1987
Colson, R. and Field, S. 2019. Learning from elsewhere: from cross-cultural explanations to transnational prescriptions in criminal justice. An introduction. Journal of Law and Society 46(S1), pp. S1-S11. (10.1111/jols.12180)
Field, S. 2019. Explaining, interpreting, and prescribing: some tensions and dilemmas in the comparative analysis of youth justice cultures. Journal of Law and Society 46(S1), pp. S51-S72. (10.1111/jols.12183)
Field, S. 2018. Learning from elsewhere? Some comparative reflections on youth justice and the penal responsibility of children. Journal of Institute of Judicial and Legal Studies
Eady, D. and Field, S. A. 2017. Truth-finding and the adversarial tradition: the experience of the Cardiff Law School Innocence Project. Criminal Law Review 2017(4), pp. 292-306.
Field, S. A. and Brants, C. 2016. Truth-finding, procedural traditions and cultural trust in the Netherlands and England and Wales: when strengths become weaknesses. International Journal of Evidence and Proof 20(4), pp. 266-288. (10.1177/1365712716658893)
Field, S. A. and Colson, R. 2016. Socio-legal studies in France : beyond the Law Faculty. Journal of Law and Society 43(2), pp. 285-311. (10.1111/j.1467-6478.2016.00752.x)
Field, S. A. 2015. Developing local cultures in criminal justice policy-making: the case of youth justice in Wales. In: Wasik, M. and Santatzoglou, S. eds. The Management of Change in Criminal Justice: Who Knows Best?. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 170-185.
Field, S. A. 2013. Miscarriages of justice and procedural tradition. In: Kelk, C., Koenradt, F. and Siegel, D. eds. Veelzijdige gedachten: Liber amicorum prof. dr. Chrisje Brants. Willem Pompe Instituut Vol. 75. Den Haag: Boom Lemma, pp. 397-405.
Field, S. A. 2012. La politique pénale en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles: formation et responsabilité. Actualité Juridique Pénal 2012(9), pp. 455-458.
Field, S. A. 2012. La procédure pénale anglaise et la tradition accusatoire. In: Benillouche, M. ed. Les procédures accusatoires. Centre de droit privé et de sciences criminelles d'Amiens - CEPRISCA Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, pp. 105-114.
Dorange, A. and Field, S. A. 2012. Reforming defence rights in French police custody: a coming together in Europe?. International Journal of Evidence and Proof 16(2), pp. 153-174. (10.1350/ijep.2012.16.2.396)
Field, S. A. 2011. Finding or imposing coherence? Comparing national cultures of youth justice. Journal of Comparative Law 5(2), pp. 216-231.
Colson, R. and Field, S. A. 2011. The transformation of criminal justice: comparing France with England and Wales. Bibliothèques de droit. Paris: L'Harmattan.
Field, S. A. and Nelken, D. 2010. Reading and writing youth justice in Italy and (England and) Wales. Punishment and Society 12(3), pp. 287-308. (10.1177/1462474510369444)
Field, S. A. and Munagorri, R. 2010. Pour une recherche juridique critique, engagée et ouverte. Recueil Dalloz 24, pp. 1505-1507.
Field, S. A. and Tata, C. 2010. Connecting legal and social justice in the neo-liberal world? The construction, interpretation and use of pre-sentence reports. Punishment & Society 12(3), pp. 235-238. (10.1177/1462474510369440)
Field, S. A. 2010. L'évolution de la défense pénale en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles: tensions et contradictions. Revue pénitentiaire et de droit pénal, pp. 233-240.
Field, S. A. 2009. Fair trials and procedural traditions in Europe. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 29(2), pp. 365-387. (10.1093/ojls/gqp004)
Field, S. A. 2008. Early intervention and the 'New' Youth Justice: a study of initial decision-making. Criminal Law Review 2008(3), pp. 177-190.
Field, S. A. 2008. Répression ou tolérance? Différence culturelle et justice des mineurs. Une étude de cas en Italie, en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles.. In: Bailleau, F. ed. Evolution ou rupture? La Justice des Mineurs en Question. Vaucresson: Ecole Nationale de Protection Judiciaire de la Jeu, pp. 125-132.
Field, S. A. and Nelken, D. 2007. Early intervention and the cultures of youth justice: a comparison of Italy and Wales. In: Gessner, V. and Nelken, D. eds. European Ways of Law: Towards a European Sociology of Law. Oñati International Series in Law and Society Vol. 1. Oxford: Hart, pp. 349-374.
Field, S. A. 2007. Practice Cultures and the 'New' Youth Justice in (England and) Wales. British Journal of Criminology 47(2), pp. 311-330. (10.1093/bjc/azl088)
Field, S. 2007. Practice cultures and the 'new' youth justice in (England and) Wales. British Journal of Criminology 47(2), pp. 311-330.
Field, S. A. 2006. State, Citizen and Character in French Criminal Process. Journal of Law and Society 33(4), pp. 522-546. (10.1111/j.1467-6478.2006.00369.x)
Field, S. 2006. State, citizen, and character in French criminal process. Journal of Law and Society 33(4), pp. 522-546. (10.1111/j.1467-6478.2006.00369.x)
Field, S. A. 2005. La responsabilité pénale de l'enfant: l'exemple Britannique [Criminal responsibility of the child: the British example]. In: Gadbin, D. and Kernaleguen, F. eds. Le Statut Jurirdique de L'Enfant dans L'espace Européen [The Legal Status of the Child in the European Union]. Brussels: Bruylant, pp. 417-435.
Field, S. A. 2005. Entre protection et répression de l'enfant dans l'espace Européen: table ronde [Between protection and repression of the child in the European space: roundtable]. In: Gadbin, D. and Kernaleguen, F. eds. Le Statut Jurirdique de L'Enfant dans L'espace Européen [The Legal Status of the Child in the European Union]. Brussels: Bruylant, pp. 437-463.
Field, S. A. and West, A. 2003. Dialogue and the inquisitorial tradition: French defence lawyers in the pre-trial criminal process. Criminal Law Forum 14(3), pp. 261-316. (10.1023/B:CRIL.0000037066.92478.3e)
Field, S. A. 2003. Responsabilite, justice et procedure penal comparee. Revue Generale de Droit 33(2), pp. 257-269.
Field, S. A. and Roberts, P. I. 2002. Racism and police investigations: individual redress, public interests and collective change after the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000. Legal Studies 22(4), pp. 493-526. (10.1111/j.1748-121X.2002.tb00666.x)
Brants, C. and Field, S. A. 2000. Legal cultures, political cultures and procedural traditions: Towards a comparative interpretation of covert and proactive policing in England and Wales and in the Netherlands. In: Nelken, D. ed. Contrasts in Criminal Justice. Advances in Criminology Aldershot: Ashgate Dartmouth, pp. 77-115.
Brants, C. and Field, S. A. 1999. Convergence in European criminal justice. In: Hondius, E. H. and Jessurun d'Oliveira, H. U. eds. De Meerwaarde van de Rechtsvergelijking. Geschriften van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Rechtsvergelijking Vol. 57. Deventer Kluwer, pp. 179-199.
Field, S. A. and Pelser, C. eds. 1998. Invading the private: State accountability and new investigative methods in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate Dartmouth.
Field, S. A. 1998. Introduction. In: Field, S. A. and Pelser, C. eds. Invading the Private: State Accountability and New Investigative Methods in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate Dartmouth, pp. 1-20.
Field, S. A. 1998. The legal framework of covert and proactive policing in France. In: Field, S. A. and Pelser, C. eds. Invading the Private: State Accountability and New Investigative Methods in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate Dartmouth, pp. 67-81.
Field, S. A. 1998. Invading the private? Towards conclusions. In: Field, S. A. and Pelser, C. eds. Invading the Private: State Accountability and New Investigative Methods in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate Dartmouth, pp. 371-388.
Field, S. A. and Jörg, N. 1998. Judicial regulation of covert and proactive policing in the Netherlands and England and Wales. In: Field, S. A. and Pelser, C. eds. Invading the Private: State Accountability and New Investigative Methods in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate Dartmouth, pp. 323-352.
Brants, C. and Field, S. A. 1997. Les méthodes d'enquête proactive et le contrôle des risques. Déviance et Société 21(4), pp. 401-414. (10.3406/ds.1997.1825)
Field, S. A. and West, A. 1995. A tale of two reforms: French defense rights and police powers in transition. Criminal Law Forum 6(3), pp. 473-506. (10.1007/BF01096037)
Field, S. A., Alldridge, P. and Jörg, N. 1995. Prosecutors, examining judges and control of police investigations. In: Harding, C. et al. eds. Criminal Justice in Europe: A Comparative Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 227-249.
Brants, C. and Field, S. A. 1995. Discretion and accountability in prosecution: a comparative perspective on keeping crime out of court. In: Harding, C. et al. eds. Criminal Justice in Europe: A Comparative Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 127-148.
Brants, C., Field, S. A. and Jörg, N. 1995. Are adversarial and inquisitorial systems converging?. In: Harding, C. et al. eds. Criminal Justice in Europe: A Comparative Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 41-56.
Brants, C. H. and Field, S. A. 1995. Participation rights and proactive policing: convergence and drift in European criminal process. Nederlandse Vereniging voor Rechtsvergelijking Vol. 51. Deventer: Kluwer.
Field, S. A. and Thomas, P. A. eds. 1994. Justice and efficiency? The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice. Oxford: Blackwell.
Field, S. A. and Thomas, P. A. 1994. Introduction. In: Field, S. A. and Thomas, P. A. eds. Justice and Efficiency: the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 1-19.
Field, S. A. and Thomas, P. A. 1994. Judicial supervision of police investigations. In: Field, S. A. and Thomas, P. A. eds. Justice and Efficiency: the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 119-135.
Field, S. A. and Young, J. R. 1994. Disclosure, appeals and procedural traditions: Edwards v. United Kingdom. Criminal Law Review(April), pp. 264-271.
Field, S. A. 1994. Judicial supervision and the pre-trial process. Journal of Law and Society 21(1), pp. 119-135.
Field, S. A. 1993. Defining interviews under PACE. Legal Studies 13(2), pp. 254-263. (10.1111/j.1748-121X.1993.tb00484.x)
Field, S. A. and Lynn, M. 1992. The capacity for recklessness. Legal Studies 12(1), pp. 74-91. (10.1111/j.1748-121X.1992.tb00458.x)
Field, S. A. and Jorg, N. 1991. Strafrechtelijke aansprakelijkheid van rechtspersonen voor dodelijke ongevallen naar nederlands en engels recht. Panopticon 12(3)
Jorg, N. and Field, S. A. 1991. Corporate liability and manslaughter: should we be going Dutch?. Criminal Law Review(March), pp. 156-171.
Field, S. A. 1990. Without the law? Professor Arthurs and the early factory inspectorate. Journal of Law and Society 17(4), pp. 445-468. (10.2307/1409901)
Evidence: lectures (module leader)
Criminal Justice in Europe: lectures and seminars (module leader)
1995/6 University of Wales Collaboration Fund: £2,500 (Organised and co-ordinated international group of scholars working on comparative perspectives on covert and proactive policing, securing financing from University of Wales Collaboration Fund for seminars in Grygnog (Wales) and Maastricht (Netherlands) and leading to edited collection published by Dartmouth
1996 Economic and Social Research Council £79,825 )Obtained ESRC grant for project `Defence Lawyers in the French Criminal Process'. Lead investigator spending a year collecting empirical research
2001: Economic and Social Research Council £72, 128 (Obtained ESRC grant for project `Early Intervention and Youth Justice in England and Wales and Italy' (with M Drakeford SOCSI and D Nelken CLAWs). Lead investigator supervising gathering of empirical material (interviews and case-files)
2008: British Academy, £11,507 (Obtained funds as host sponsor to enable Dr Renaud Colson (University of Nantes) to come to Cardiff to work together on 'Fair Trial and Managerialism in Criminal Justice: an Anglo-French study in comparative law' under BA Visiting Fellowship Award)
2011: Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship, £40, 360 (6 month Fellowship for project: Making sense of youth justice: a comparative study of Italy and Wales)
2017: Centre for Law and Society Research Theme Funding, 'Remorse and Responsibility in the Constructions of the 'Ideal' Defendant: Comparing Cultural Expectations in Criminal Process (Cardiff September 2018) Funding of £4.5k
Early Intervention and Youth Justice in Italy and England and Wales (2005) , Research Report, Economic and Social Research Council.
Defence Lawyers in the French Criminal Process (1998), Research Report, Economic and Social Research Council.
(with Renaud COLSON) La fabrique des procédures pénales. Comparaison franco-anglaise des réformes de la justice répressive, Rapport, Mission de Recherche, Droit et Justice, novembre 2009 : http://www.gip-recherche-justice.fr/


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celebration day – led zeppelin live at the o2 arena – ahmet ertegun tribute concert
as a long-time fan of the mighty led zeppelin, I felt I owed it to myself to see how the band did after ageing ever so slightly.
the best way to do this nowadays is probably to go see "celebration day" – the film of the o2 arena show in london, the ahmet ertegun tribute concert – so last sunday, that's what we did. we could have waited for the DVD, but for some reason, I liked the idea of it being shown in a theatre, as if the ghost of the band was going on the road for one more tour of britain…
and to be truthful, also, to compare how they play in the film, with my own distant internal memories, of how they played "back in the day". in fact, the very, very first concert I ever went to, was led zeppelin at the san diego sports arena, in may 1973. to this day, it's still the loudest show I've ever been too, but also, one of the best rock shows I've ever been to, if I am honest.
I "grew up" with three huge guitar influences: hendrix, clapton, page. this was the beginning of the "rock" phase of my teenage guitar playing years, and I dedicated myself to learning everything I could from these three – that funny riff in cream's "politician", that great high speed 8 note/7 note riff in e major, and descending solo, near the end of page's masterpiece, "dazed and confused", the odd almost middle eastern sounding lead solo of hendrix' "purple haze" – all of these were studied and played and studied more and played…
after my starting point in music, the beatles, took up the time from when I was 9 until I was 13, when I reached that age – that's where my real education in guitar started, at age 13, and for a couple of years, hendrix, clapton, page was really all there was to me. I didn't really "need" more – because these three were all deeply rooted in the blues (although eventually, over time, others DID begin to find their way in to the picture – billy gibbons, johnny winter, duane allman…).
I spent hours and hours and hours dissecting every solo and sound I possibly could. with the most primitive effects known to man, I tried to make my guitar sound like that of my heroes. a second-hand arbiter fuzz face, a vox wah-wah, a tape echoplex – that was about it, that's all you had, and all you really needed.
I learned huge chunks of "led zeppelin I" by heart. I struggled to emulate the beautiful blues in c minor that is "since I've been loving you" from the third album. also from that album, the band I was in at the time, "pyramid" – well, we did a lot of unusual zeppelin covers, from "tangerine" on up to very, very complex works like "ten years gone" (boy did I ever struggle to learn those solos!) as well as (but not limited to) "good times, bad times", "dazed and confused" or "the rover".
later, in my next rock band (name unknown!), we played things like "the ocean" which is a hugely fun zeppelin song to play…
from "led zeppelin I", after months of work, I could pretty much play the whole album from heart (as well as any 15 year old boy could play the solos of a guitarist he really, really admired!) – especially the lead solos from "good times, bad times" and "dazed and confused" – those were my specialities – I would take a crack at "communication breakdown" or "how many more times" sure enough, but "good times" and "dazed and confused" – now THOSE were the page solos that I wanted to understand and be able to play.
I think I did realise, even then, that page's genius was a flawed genius, and in seeing this film yesterday (a very limited run of exactly two showings in our local stirling theatre) I think I can now understand some of the reasons why.
certainly, I could tell that in live performance, in the 70s, that page was a little bit…erratic. sometimes, he was amazing, sometimes, he seemed quite…lost. or maybe "sloppy" is the word I don't quite want to say. when compared to my other two early heroes – well, hendrix also had problems in live performance, while clapton seemed to have it much more together as far as live performance went.
in the studio – where time is no object – page's work with led zeppelin just got better and better (at least, until bonham's death – after which, the band really just lost all heart – and who could blame them?) – in the studio, as always, jimmy was the master.
so why was there this slight edge of sloppiness in live performance? I was fortunate enough to see the band play three times back in the day; once, my first concert ever in 1973, and then twice in one week, back in 1975. and – they were amazing live, loud, fun, brilliant – fantastic.
fast forward then to the concert at the o2, so many years later – and even worn with time, they still sound great. do not get me wrong – if you love led zeppelin – you will enjoy this film.
after my two years of almost exclusive hendrix / clapton / page listening and learning, as I matured, I started listening to more capable guitarists: zappa / fripp / belew became the new triumvirate, and prog, the new amazing music to strive towards….
years later again, I had a taste of the discipline of guitar craft, which drew attention to a lot of, curiously, jimmy page like habits of my own. so all that prepared me for the strange but obvious relevation, the obvious reason why jimmy page is a little bit erratic in live performance:
he plays with just three fingers.
only once during the entire film (during which, there are a lot of great close ups of the fret work, which is brilliant!) did I see him use his fourth finger, and I think that was almost by accident.
I watched him playing these amazing solos, that I had grown up with and loved, and all those amazing heavy riffs – with three fingers. I also feel that this is the same problem that hampers todd rundgren – who also, if you watch the films, seems to play mostly with three fingers.
one quarter of your vocabulary – gone. the other problem that adds to the problem is…facial expressions. in guitar craft, this was identified for me as an issue – the fact that I was putting so much energy into pulling "rock and roll" faces, contorting my jaws and so on – that there was little energy left to play the guitar well. I actually agree with this – it really can detract from your ability to concentrate.
and the problem for mr. page, to my mind was – I thought, my god, I would struggle to play ANY of those solos, if I were forbidden the use of my fourth finger. some of the solos were incredibly awkward, with page barely able to hit the notes (because he was running out of fingers!) – because…he was only using three of his four fingers to fret!
it was maddening to watch, because I could see that he was making it far more difficult than it needs to be – if he had worked out the fingering using all four fingers – playing those solos, and those riffs – would have been much much easier to play! – both at the o2, and in his entire career as a guitarist…
I would say the same for todd, too, who is a brilliant guitarist; an absolute wizard in the studio – but live – and I've seen him many, many times – he can be all over the place – although his facial expression problems are nothing as bad as jimmy page's are.
in hindsight, everything is 20/20, and in a way, who cares if they only play with three fingers – they are still great guitarists, playing great material, awesome riffs and awe-inspiring solos – and some of page's solos, both in the 70s and at this one-off benefit concert for ahmet ertegun – were absolutely amazing
however, interestingly, a lot of the interesting things about page's style that attracted me as a 15-year old guitarist – now, at the o2 concert, seemed to me to be the biggest weaknesses! for example – the violin bow bit in "dazed and confused" – I loved that when I was a teenager, and yes, I had a violin bow, and I played that solo – and I played versions of the solo inspired from hearing live led zeppelin recordings – so I could play it studio or live – that bit seemed so clever and so inspired.
at the o2, it just sounded…lame. pointless. not inspiring, not clever, it just didn't sound that good! and I used to love that back in the day…
another example of this – is the wild theremin solo during "whole lotta love". again – if you just listened – it didn't sound that good. it looks great – but it doesn't actually work as music. back in the day, a visual and sonic highlight – now, a sonic disaster that still looks fairly cool – but musically void.
I hope this means that I have matured, that these somewhat…sensational, theatrical elements just don't have the impact on me that they used to. that's not to say I didn't enjoy them – I just didn't enjoy them as much as I used to…
I don't want to give the impression that the film is bad. quite the contrary.
it's really quite amazing, although I do believe I could detect a fair amount of re-amping (i.e. additional effects added to parts of or to entire guitar solos after the fact – for example, when page was 20 feet from the pedal board, suddenly, his guitar "grew" a really detuned chorus…hmmm…) going on in page's solos, and possibly, additional effects for plant's voice too. I hope I am wrong, but the three-year delay (or however long it was) from performance to film release, makes me think that page took some time to…uh…"improve" the sound of the band.
as far as john paul jones and jason bonham go – in my opinion, there was no "re"-anything needed; bonham is so like his dad it's uncanny, and his playing is simply superb. rock steady when it's supposed to be, on up to a "keith moon-like" blur of rolling, cymbal crashing mayhem/madman/insanity…
powerful. accurate. a rock drummer to die for – and the only possible "replacement" for bonzo.
and jason has another very, very useful skill in a band that traditionally, only really had one singer – he can sing. on a couple of numbers, he would don his headset, and without missing a beat, he would sing perfect harmony to robert plant's lead vocals. this made a huge, huge difference to the sound of those songs, and was a crucial element in "misty mountain hop" – a great tune, and the version here, with bonham junior on perfect john bonham drums and backing vocals – is a scorcher. "what…what do you think I saw??"
jason's singing added a whole new dimension to led zeppelin live – a led zeppelin that now suddenly has "vocal harmony" on stage!!! sure, I know that jason's dad did sing on "the ocean" and maybe on other live pieces, but jason was really doing the whole nine yards – impossibly difficult drum part, AND harmonising with robert plant – at once – live – no problem.
of course, though, it's john paul jones who is, as has been said, "the revelation here" – and if you are not familiar with just how capable he is – you need to see him here – playing clavinet and bass pedals (yes, with his feet – a la hugh banton of van der graaf generator – those two are the only two who can use all four limbs to be both keyboardist and bassist – remarkable!) on "trampled underfoot" or electric piano and bass pedals on "no quarter" or mellotron and bass pedals on "kashmir"…
he's calm, he's assured – and he is simply, a brilliant musician. his bass playing is absolutely assured, and he even takes a turn at fretless bass – no problem. as we've seen from his solo career, too – the man can play anything.
as for the curly-haired lead singer – well, he sounds fuckin' great. he doesn't try for the high notes so much (wisely) as finds another melody that works just as well. this is one of the best robert plant performances of any kind that I have ever seen, and he totally reinvents these stage-worn songs – I even enjoyed "stairway to heaven" primarily because robert sang it so beautifully here. and I was totally burned out on "stairway" – from too much radio play back in the day – but this time, I actually almost enjoyed it again – and, nice to watch jimmy have a go at the "how fast can I switch between 12 string and 6 string" on his beautiful double necked gibson sg. sigh.
the answer? pretty damn fast.
just prior to the big, final guitar solo, he's playing the 12 string, and he plays a c major chord; then a c major chord with a b in the bass…and then, the song requires that on the next beat, that he hit the first note of the guitar solo – so he literally slams his arm down across the switch and hits that note on the 6 string RIGHT bang on time – I was really actually very impressed, because in the old "song remains the same version" – he played a few bars of chordal jamming BEFORE going to the solo, to give him time to switch – but not now, now, he plays it LIKE THE RECORD – and nails it – somehow. and I really do love that final solo, it just rocks – I don't think I enjoy any other version of the somewhat careworn "a minor, g major, f major" chord progression more – it's in so, so many songs, from "all along the watchtower" all the way to "stairway to heaven" – but in the latter, it just rules.
so I found myself enjoying songs that I thought I disliked or was very tired of, and of the songs I liked, well, they did a LOT of those, and they did a lot of those…very, very well indeed.
I think that the secret of led zeppelin, well, not the secret maybe, but one of the main factors that makes this somewhat unlikely quartet "work" – is simply that the rhythm section are so tight, and so talented (don't forget that john paul jones was the mature, "older" studio musician, producer and arranger even before page was, back "in the day") that if robert or jimmy wander off-course a bit (and, we have to admit it, they sometimes do…) that – it doesn't matter, because that anchor – that bass – those amazing bass drum pedals, those pounding toms – is rock solid.
not that robert or jimmy strayed far from the plot in this film, well, sometimes, jimmy absolutely did, to be honest, but he always ended up back where he belonged in the end. they rehearsed for six weeks for one show (well, that's what plant seems to be intimating in the film, anyway) which is quite a bit, really – but I think it still came down to skill, experience and professionalism more than anything else – there are bits of zeppelin songs that are almost entirely formless, and I could see that they had to work at cues, they had to figure out how to "climb back in" from that musical limb that they had crawled out on…
as far as the choice of material, mostly, it's great, personally, I could do without "in my time of dying" because I've never really cared for it, so that might be the low point (and, if I am entirely honest, I don't think that page on slide guitar really convinces – he's not the best slide player in the world), but otherwise, the song selection was really good, a great variety of songs from just about every album, at least the first six albums – and there were some really important pieces of music in there too – such as "the song remains the same" which is a huge highlight for me personally, a very proggy moment for zep, but played brilliantly here (page is on fire, and the solos are almost incendiary – fast, exciting, and powerful – great 12 string – great vocal from robert – a fantastic performance) – as well as rockers like "trampled underfoot", "misty mountain hop", "black dog", and the final encore, of course, "rock and roll" – all those great songs from all those great albums…it was really quite something.
and yes, a really quite good version of "since I've been loving you" as well, with the amazing john paul jones on mock hammond b3 organ – and page, erratic but beautiful on that fabulous lead guitar part…
the fact that the final encore was "rock and roll", it just strikes me now, really brings me full circle with my led zeppelin experience, because that was the FIRST song they played when I saw them at my first concert in 1973!!! over those 35 plus years, it had made it's way from the start of the set to the end of the set – which kind of parallels my own journey with this amazing, amazing – but ever-so-slightly – erratic band.
if you are lucky like me, and you did see them in the 70s – then this is a chance to see them fully mature, in some ways, more at the height of their powers when they were…at the height of their powers!
I love them, my partner and I both really, really enjoyed the film – we are both big fans of the band, and we both thought the film much, much better than we expected – and, it's a full two hours + concert, so you can sit back and finally "see" – and hear – led zeppelin – loud and clear – if you missed them the first time around, having a really good go at their legacy of remarkable music – and what a catalogue it is – 10 amazing albums, and so, so many great songs – including some surprises…
for example, I never really used to care much for "ramble on" (I am not, in general, a big fan of led zeppelin II, if truth be told) but after the great opener, "good times, bad times" they then played a version of "ramble on" that I thoroughly enjoyed (which included a little bit of "what is and what should never be" at the end) – it worked really, really well live.
another song I didn't think I would enjoy – but really did – was "nobody's fault but mine" – with a much improved lead vocal, and some very, very tight riffing on that amazing high speed riff – with page, john paul jones, and bonham all working together in perfect harmony, a riffing monster machine – and page looking happy – reasonably healthy.
that jimmy page can play those solos with just three fingers is nothing short of amazing, I guess he never wanted to take the time to relearn how to play with four fingers – if I am honest, I mostly played with three fingers for my first 17 years of playing – and then, I learned how. and now, I can't imagine trying to play without all four fingers – I am not sure I can do it. I would have to force myself NOT to use my fourth finger – like intentionally tying one hand behind your back before entering the fray…
but then, I guess if you are a songwriter and composer of the ability of a jimmy page or a todd rundgren, and, you can spend endless hours in the studio perfecting just the right lead solo for your sonic masterpiece – that it doesn't REALLY matter if you play with three fingers. but – think how good these guitarists might be if they DID play with four…
as writers, and in the studio, I don't find much wrong with anything either guitarist has done (well, ahem, there are a few todd albums I could do without – TR-i, anyone??) – but live, well, it's more difficult, so it was a bit of a shock to realise – that the reason that there is something "odd" about the way page looks when he plays – ah, so THAT is why! – when I noticed that he only uses three fingers on his fretting hand, to play the guitar during the film. just like todd – and probably a fair number of other very accomplished guitarists, too…
but if you didn't watch – you might not have known – because he PLAYS the solos, he makes it through – and it sounds good, most of the time. some of the guitar solos sort of…fizzled out, or went nowhere a bit – but not often, and then, usually followed by something really beautiful or amazing – so I could forgive him a lot.
another really strong performance was "kashmir" – again, just being able to watch what john paul jones is doing – playing two keyboards, one with each hand, and bass with his feet – really is a revelation. and you tend to forget – this music, at the time, well, there was nothing on earth quite like "kashmir" (and really, there never has been since!) – and as a song, it's really stood the test of time – and the o2 performance is a brilliant one – perhaps one of the film's very best moments.
for musicians aspiring to play the works of led zeppelin, this is a GREAT film, because there are lots and lots and LOTS of the kind of close-ups that rarely appear in films of bands – that you always wish were there so you could "see how they do it" – well, in this film – you can.
for example, I learned that I am not playing the piano part of "no quarter" quite right – so when I get the DVD, I can sit down and "fix it" – and by the way, that's another real highlight, a fantastic rendition of a great song from a great album – and of course, it's john paul jones at the helm completely, with jimmy doing his level best to play the very, very difficult lead guitar parts. one of plant's best vocals of the show – when they hit that b flat ninth chord, and then move up to the e flat – I just get the shivers, what a beautiful chord progression…
"they're wearing steel that's bright and true…to build a dream for me and you"…
I recommend this film highly to all fans of led zeppelin, OK, they are not quite as young as they were the first time I saw them play, it is a shock to see jimmy page with pure snowy white hair – but given the lives they've led, they have aged reasonably well – and this concert still packs one hell of a punch (despite just how much time has passed since 1969!) – it rocks – and it's a great part of the led zeppelin legacy, and I for one, am really glad that they got together to do this before it was too late.
if for nothing else, you owe it to yourself to see the john paul jones / jason bonham team at work, or rather, hear them – they are just nothing short of remarkable, and I knew that jason bonham was a good, good drummer, who knew his dad's repertoire – but I was wrong about that – jason bonham is an amazing drummer, who knows his dad's repertoire inside and out, and has actually built on it, added to it, added in his own personality – new rolls have appeared, new timings, new cymbal smacks – he's taken his dad's already amazing drum parts, modernised them a little, jason-a-fied them a lot – and it just rocks – and john paul john's on the bass – he's just sublime, he is effortless, and some of his bass parts are really, really tricky.
really though – all four of them sound great! they really do – robert's voice is in fine form, it's not tired, or cracked, or strange – it's just good – and his singing, his sense of melody is so much more mature and beautiful, it's really good. jimmy plays some blindingly good and very cool guitar, and it's great to "see" these solos at long last – of course, I've seen some of them, I KNOW some of them, but you get really good close ups of a lot of parts that you haven't "seen" before – and the rhythm section – well, we already know about them.
"celebration day" – which, ironically, they do not play at this concert (in fact, only one track from led zeppelin III makes it into the set list, "since I've been loving you", which is such a shame – and – sadly – no acoustic set at all) is a really beautifully shot, clear and great-sounding record of an extraordinary concert – be there!
a fantastic way to spend a lazy sunday afternoon…
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Nothing represents the Covid-19 pandemic and its implications better than the mask, and no item better justifies the world into which the pandemic showed up. Over the past two years, the mask sang out to our most profound consumeristic driving forces. Without medication or immunization, the mask is the solitary material security we can get against the coronavirus. It is an item, and we've been trained like seals to respond to such products. One mask sales representative depicted it as "a crazy house", another as "the craziest market I've at any point seen". This research paper, by employing a descriptive narrative, aims to understand if such a crazy drive for masks and the high demand for the product is just a wave with short term consequences or a new normal with long term implications. It involves a PESTLE analysis, Porter's five forces and the 7P of the marketing mix. The quantitative analysis will involve the profit share, market value and revenue changes in companies that extended their business into mask markets. The results of the analysis will include the sudden drop in the market value of masks, and sooner the invisibility of the market going back to the single market of surgical masks keeping in mind the limitations of the market and environment volatility with a full-fledged immunization drive.
Keywords: Masks, COVID pandemic, market value, mask markets, descriptive statistics.
As indicated by the report distributed by Allied Market Research, the Indian surgical masks market created $71.73 million over the period of the year 2019 and is estimated to accumulate $157.13 million by the year 2027, thus seeing a CAGR(Compounded Annual Growth Rate) of 10.3% from 2020 to 2027. The report offers a broad investigation of changing business sector patterns, key procedures to succeed, top areas for speculation, key variables, supply chain, and market background. The report offers a broad examination of changing business sector patterns, key winning procedures, top venture pockets, key sectors, supply chain, and its future expectations.
Considering the distribution channel of the mask making industry amongst its consumers, the pharmacy section represented the most noteworthy piece of the pie in 2019, adding to more than 66% of the total, and is required to keep up its prevailing offer by 2027. Also, the online store fragment or the E-commerce with its growing role and hold on the market is projected to depict the quickest CAGR of 12.1% during the estimated time frame.
In light of the demand channel which majorly includes research laboratories, pharmaceuticals and hospitals, the B2B(Business-to-business) fragment represented the most elevated piece of the pie, contributing for almost three-fifths of the overall share in 2019, and will proceed with its leadership position during the estimated time frame. Additionally, this section is projected to depict the biggest CAGR of 10.7% from 2020 to 2027. The report additionally breaks down sections including B2C and B2G (Business-to-Government).
Scheme of the paper
The first part of the paper gives a brief introduction to the industry and establishes the research objectives along with the scope of the study. The second section of the paper delves into various qualitative analyses in the form of models such as PESTLE analysis, 7Ps of the marketing mix and Porter's five forces to help us understand how the industry is structured and its probable future. The third part includes basic quantitative analysis for providing an all-around understanding by using other descriptive statistics such as annual revenue and market share. The final section gives a summary of the findings and a conclusion of the paper.
The mask-making industry was almost forgotten by a layman but now has become the business of time. The mask has been a major part of our lives for over a year now and has created its own stronghold over the market as various companies look to expand their business into the same. Understanding the nature and the future of this market will help us understand its importance in the current market as well as its relevance in future market developments.
Theoretical background
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the following consequences:
There has been an impressive expansion in the popularity of face masks among medical care labourers and residents as a prudent step against disease. An abrupt expansion of the industry and its popularity during the pandemic encouraged pharmaceuticals to use up the stockpile of masks which is a common phenomenon in any other period. The stocks saw a paradigm 120% increase in sales.
The ascent in the number of cases and the foundation of the new COVID-19 help communities majorly the frontline workers bring about the ascent in popularity for surgical masks for Healthcare Associated Infections(HAIs) during therapies.
The interest in surgical masks has emerged amongst the overall public because of the adequacy and wellbeing offered to them by the masks. Besides, it is obligatory to wear masks when outside the house. Along these lines, the interest has been expanded altogether.
The major research questions that the paper aims to answer are:
Is the mask making industry a short term consequence or a long-term implication?
What will happen to the mask making industry after the end of the pandemic?
What effect has mask-making had on small entrepreneurship ideas?
What will be the future of big market giants once the market for masks becomes a dead end?
The existing literature speaks about the evolution of the mask making industry and the condition of the healthcare system and masks supply chains during the pandemic. The literature gap exists between the current mask making industry and an implied future. This research paper bridges the gap between the current and future of the industry with evidence from the past.
The Evolution of the Surgical Mask: Filtering Efficiency Versus Effectiveness: This research paper speaks about the evolution of masks that began as a shield to protect any wound from microorganisms in the nose and mouth and have now become a current trend. It helped the research paper in determining a similar path and flow of events for further advancements in the industry.
Exploring the N95 and Surgical Mask Supply in U.S. Nursing Homes During COVID-19: This research paper primarily focuses on the healthcare system in the US and their methods to provide availability, accessibility and affordability of masks during the Covid 19 pandemic. Insights from this paper have been used to compare the situation in India as covered under the qualitative models.
Industry 4.0 technologies and their applications in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic: This paper speaks about the various technological and digital transformations that countries all over the world can expect from the fourth Industrial Revolution that shall be fuelled by the Covid crisis. It specifies in various sections, the change in the role of the surgical mask making industry that has been used to validate several points in the paper.
Covid-19 face masks: A potential source of microplastic fibres in the environment: It throws light on the new environmental challenges that the world has been experiencing. The large production of non-disposable masks needs to be provided ample production and awareness regarding the disposable masks is a major step in the change. The details from the same have been used in the PESTLE analysis.
The research involves both qualitative as well as quantitative analysis. Various questions regarding the short- or long-term implications and the future of the mask making industry are answered through critical analysis in the form of three models. They are PESTLE analysis that will explain the environment of the mask making market, Porter's five forces which speak about competitions and market share and the 7P of the marketing mix speaks about specific target variables during mask marketing. The quantitative analysis will provide a deeper understanding of the revenue, market share and profits through trendline analysis and line graphs.
PESTLE Analysis:
Political Factors: Masks are characterised by significant political impact. When certain rules and social norms are backed by a political party, leader, or an entire government, then adherence to such kind of behaviour has a larger possibility of occurrence. When these norms are further backed through laws and other legal bills then it tends to acquire a larger market. On April 9th, 2020 various states such as Delhi, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh made face masks mandatory for people stepping outside their homes, issued in exercise of powers under Section 34 of Disaster Management Act, 2005. Furthermore, these two factors largely expanded the market in a very short period. Since not wearing a mask invited punishment, it became a common man's business and was no longer restricted to just surgical purposes.
Economic Factors: No doubt, the mask markets have been seeing immense profits. However, two different trends emerged during the pandemic. Firstly, there was a large wave of campaigning regarding the cloth masks which could be produced at home, drastically reducing the number of mask purchases. Secondly, it led to innovations by many entrepreneurs' ideas such as Maytri Mask Abhiyan, CrAdLE- EEDI and Deshpande Foundation. A large number of youth-run organisations as mentioned above also started working towards the same. NGOs played an immense role in conducting awareness campaigns as well as training sessions for mask making. Such developments resulted in a sudden decrease in the income for the mask making industry since the first month of the pandemic. However, the market has ever since been profit-driven.
Social Factors: The COVID 19 pandemic was not only accompanied by a new set of rules and regulations but a large amount of social unity to fight against the pandemic. Various gestures by the government such as clapping and bell-ringing from balconies to thank the frontline workers fighting the pandemic saw a large number of participants across the country. A large amount of social pressure that comes from disobeying the laws and disrespect to the government authorities also played an important role in mask usage during the pandemic. What was considered abnormal once is now a social stigma.
Technological Factors: A large amount of growth in the mask-making industry has attracted drastic technological changes. The scope of technology for masks has been extremely demanding with its maximum usage and basic structure making it a ground for technological revolutions. The industry also sees immense scope for further technological development. Various companies have proposed plans for Bluetooth and other AI facilities that enable masks for voice recognition and music, which is an extreme step in the innovation sphere.
Legal Factors: As discussed previously, when a particular social norm is backed by law, then such a social norm will automatically have much more acceptance considering the awards and punishments it has in store. Therefore, when regulations such as compulsory masks for entry were imposed, the situation was estimated to be serious and therefore, led to a huge expansion of the mask making industry which was previously seen only for surgical purposes.
Environmental Factors: The mask-making industry previously only included surgical masks consisting of only disposable masks that were mostly made of non-biodegradable materials causing high waste generation. The pandemic has not brought about technological innovations, but it also introduced eco-friendly products such as reusable and recyclable masks such as cloth masks that has been encouraged throughout the country.
7Ps of marketing
Product: The mask as a product, is an extremely important resource in the present day. It has become more than just an accessory, but an absolute necessity. No doubt the demand for mask has been extremely elastic with respect to price.
Place: Another noteworthy feature is that the requirement of masks is not narrowed down to a particular country or a state. It is a phenomenon across the world and the demand exists equally throughout the country.
Price: The prices of the masks are however extremely related to the features that come along with the mask. Considering two features of an absolute necessity, and elastic demand, mask prices have seen a significant rise but the range of prices has been more or less neutral. The range of prices before the pandemic was between 12-19 rupees which are currently at 39-45 rupees considering the elasticity of demand.
Promotion: The promotion is the last card to play. Considering the wave of the COVID pandemic masks need no promotion until it comes down to grand features and wholesale prices. The demand for masks has been higher than ever requiring the least promotion and maximum awareness.
Physical Evidence: Physical evidence mainly refers to the working, packaging and usage of the product that defines and determines one's decision making. Mask as already categorised, is now a necessity and requires no significant physical evidence for the same regarding its usage. It's a common sight these days.
People: Another important feature comes from the fact that masks are no longer restricted to a particular age group. They range from a five-year-old to a ninety year. The market is therefore not restricted to its consumers in any way.
Processes: Mask making is an industry and its processes range from extremely simple cloth masks to complex designs depending on the requirements. Over the last year, various paradigm shifts in demand have pushed for wholesale mask production with the least human interaction due to safety purposes.
Quantitative analysis:
Retrieved from: https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/4730325/surgical-mask-market-by-product-and-distribution
The Indian surgical mask market was estimated at $58 million during 2017 and is relied upon to reach $95 million by 2025, enrolling a CAGR of 6.1% from 2018 to 2025. Surgical masks are made utilizing manufactured material like polypropylene texture or dispensable cloth. They are normally utilized in surgeries, filling in as an obstruction to microorganisms and to help forestall cross-pollution during surgeries.
The key factors as mentioned in Allied Market research has helped the development of the Indian surgical mask market with fast advancements for nonwovens creation innovation, expansion in concentration toward Hospital Associated Infections(HAIs), and improvement in medical services framework and administrations. Furthermore, the flood in extra cash due to high government expenditure, growth in wellbeing mindfulness, and huge expansions in the geriatric populace supplement the market development. The expansion in the prevalence of less intrusive medical procedures over the years blocks the development of this market. On the other hand, developments in nanotechnology and its expanded use in clinical nonwoven disposables creation are expected to set out rewarding open doors for a market extension soon due to its high technology and eco-friendly nature.
In light of the item, the India mask market is sorted into the essential surgical mask, against haze surgical mask, liquid/sprinkle safe careful cover, N95 cover, and others. The fundamental surgical mask portion was the most noteworthy supporter of the market in 2017, and is expected to keep up its strength all through the estimated period. Nonetheless, the counter haze careful cover fragment is required to enrol a higher development rate from 2018 to 2025, attributable to the ascend in the maturing populace and an advancement concerning item improvement. In view of the distribution channel, India's surgical mask market is isolated into medical clinics and centres, pharmacies, and online stores. Pharmacies were the most predominant channel for the dissemination of surgical masks and have the biggest piece of the pie in the Indian careful cover market followed by online stores.
With the evolving market for mask making industry and elastic demand, the clinical face mask market is expected to develop at a CAGR of more than 26% during the time frame 2019–2025. The high population of the country and slow vaccination drives further support the point.
Worldwide clinical mask market
The worldwide clinical face covers market is required to arrive at a unit shipment of around 53 billion by 2020 with a high Y-o-Y(Year-over-year) development pace of around 430% because of the new COVID-19 pandemic.
As a successful preventive measure to stop Covid, wearing clinical face masks with legitimate cleanliness practice has acquired an up-take across the globe.
Regarding both volume shipment and income, Indian clinical face masks added to the greatest worldwide clinical face covers of the overall industry in 2019.
Developing inclination for straightforward, 3-D printed clinical face veils, combined with the presentation of inventive composite texture material is one of the key elements expected to drive the market development during the estimated time frame.
Expanding on the practice of giving clinical face covers for medical service labourers is further adding to the development of the worldwide clinical face masks market.
Europe is driving the worldwide market and represented a volume portion of around 30% in 2019, trailed by other key countries.
Diagram 2:
Retrieved from: https://www.futuremarketinsights.com/reports/medical-mask-market
Apart from just understanding the revenue and sales, it is also important to understand the consumer market share. Consumer market share helps us dig deep into the demand for masks and their existence even after the end of the pandemic. Stipulating that the pandemic will see an end by the year 2025, we can see the graphs and the change in the market share of the consumers. Most of the end-users will be research laboratories and hospitals. Even though we do not see a large difference in number, the reason behind such a demand is different in the two cases.
Entrepreneurship during the pandemic
Various business visionaries such as Maythri Mask Abhiyan, CrAdLE- IIDE and Deshpande foundation based in rural areas of the nation have taken to assembling facemasks in the midst of diminishing interest for their standard products in the wake of the Covid pandemic. Around, 500 country business visionaries have so far produced and sold 3.5 lakh such covers under the Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Program (SVEP). They produce around 2,500 face masks each day for wellbeing experts, policemen, the media workforce and cleaning staffs. In West Bengal, 38 businesses fabricate nearly 600 covers a day in squares of Dinhata, Pathar Pratima and Manikchak which are various regions of the state. 200 ladies in the twin urban communities of Hubballi-Dharwad came together to shape a start-up that makes masks for the fight against Covid 19 are currently brimming with orders. With their spouses being laid off or confronting compensation cuts in the midst of the lockdown, these ladies chose to enhance the family pay through another endeavour. The Deshpande Foundation has helped provide employment to a large number of people and particularly encouraged women entrepreneurship. Through various examples such as these, we see that there has been a rise in business minds and opportunities among the youth and women in particular.
Large scale businesses and their contribution
The Coronavirus pandemic is constraining organizations gazing at a disheartening future to enter the field of what they term "covid products". In India, businesses that have endured misfortunes are attempting to think inventively, either by taking a gander at new items or altering their current ones. Be it modified face masks and face safeguards or computerized infrared thermometers and disinfecting sanitisers. Various businesses such as Raymond and Taneira have taken up mask making as a side-line business that will remain least affected considering the scope of their main business lines.
The conclusions for the paper can be categorised into the following:
Short term consequences: Based on the quantitative analysis, we understand that there will be a change in the market share of masks on the consumer's front and a paradigm shift in its revenue and demand immediately after the pandemic.
Long term consequences: The three major components that affect the industry in the long term are going to be the environmental, technological and legal aspects, bringing changes in the mask-making industry considering the conclusions from PESTLE and other qualitative analysis.
Effect on entrepreneurship: Based on the qualitative analysis we also concur that the mask making industry has had an effect on entrepreneurial ideas even though there has been a decrease in the availability of capital. A large number of NGOs and support organisations have come up during this period, particularly to reach the goals of mask manufacturing.
Supply chain consequences: For all the large companies, mask making was made a part of their supply chain during the pandemic. However, it is said to have extremely minute consequences considering that the product will be side-lined after the pandemic since it won't be their main line of business.
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Fay Broughton Begor was born in Moriah, N. Y., 15 October 1916 and received his M. D. from McGill University. Appointed a Lieutenant (junior grade), USNR, in 1942, Dr. Begor was killed in action on board a landing craft in the Pacific 9 September 1943 while assisting injured soldiers and seamen. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
The USS Begor was launched 25 May 1944 by Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich.; sponsored by Mrs. F. B. Begor, widow of Lieutenant Begor; and commissioned 14 March 1945. Assigned to the Pacific Fleet, Begor arrived at Pearl Harbor 30 May 1945. She arrived at Guam 17 August after escorting convoys among the Marshall, Caroline, and Philippine Islands (June-August 1945). Departing 20 August with UDT-21 embarked, she joined 3rd Fleet units enroute to occupy Japan. The transport operated along the US west coast until June 1946 when she sailed for Bikini Atoll to participate in the atomic bomb tests. During the Korean conflict Begor served two tours. The first included participation in the Hungnam Evacuation . The second consisted of patrol operations, as well as participation in the post- Armistice prisoner of war exchange.Begor received five battle stars for her Korean service. The ship was decommissioned, 20 July 1959 and struck from the Naval Register, 15 May 1975 and scrapped on 6 December 1976..
The USS Begor off Hungnam, Korea on 24 December 1950 as UDT teams ashore destroy U.S. supply depot, and equipment.


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3 Seriously Cool Computer Tools & Chris Bosh
November 13, 2013 Technologybyod, chris bosh, programming, TechnologyJonathan Olsen
I've been thinking for a few weeks about an article written by Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat in Wired about why he felt all kids should learn computer coding. "We use code every time we're on the phone, on the web, out shopping — it's become how our world is run," writes Bosh. For one of the most famous basketball players in the world, learning computer programming was a way for him to feel secure in a post-basketball world. What I found interesting about Bosh was how he became introduced to coding. While in high school, he joined an organization called Whizkids which taught students how to make computer graphics. By being introduced to the power of graphics and computers at a young age, Bosh has continued to pursue his passion for coding. He even appeared in this video for code.org.
While it is difficult for the humanities to bring pure computer graphics software into their classes, it is possible to bring the concept of using graphics on a computer to tell a story. Here are three programs that humanities teachers can bring into their classes to show students how computers and graphics can be used together. Who knows, maybe a student or two after using these programs will be motivated to pursue programming like Chris Bosh did.
StoryBoard That allows students to create their own comic-like storyboards as a way to tell a story or to show understanding after a concept has been learned.
PowToon lets students create animated videos and presentations using cartoon images and a number of other cool features. A program like PowToon can get students to think about presentations differently while reinforcing the need to be creative and engaging. I even created my own PowToon!
Simple Diagrams is a program that does just what the name says–you can use it to create really simple diagrams. Unlike the other two apps, this is a program that needs to be downloaded and eventually purchased. I've used Simple Diagrams and think it's a great way for students to show understanding by creating amazing graphics.
Letting kids explore computer programs that teach basic skills like animation, cartooning, and design in humanities classes can serve as a bridge to more complex concepts like learning C++ or Python. Using basic programs like PowToon is exactly how I got started on computers and then moved on to more complex initiatives like creating my own webpages with my former co-teacher, Sarah Gross. Last year we created this activity kit for the National Writing Project (and subsequently greatly enhanced by the fine people at Mozilla). I'm still a total novice at programming (okay, I totally stink) but, like Chris Bosh, I think it might be one of the most important skills students can learn.
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