Thanks to Mike Holliday for finding this 1979 interview.
Shepperton, a small town on the southwestern outskirts of London, is encircled by reservoirs, gravel pits, a motorway and Heathrow Airport: all the elements one usually expects to find in a J. G. Ballard novel. But despite their strange, almost threatening aspect, the town itself, with its quiet, tree-lined streets and neat parades of shops, seems the very epitome of complacent commuter suburbia. Ballard's own house in particular is but an unprepossessing semi-detached in a street of unprepossessing semi-detacheds, its garden as slightly overgrown as its neighbours; and has within it a cluttered, homely, lived-in feel, with a large dog rambling unconcernedly from room to room and Ballard himself -- seeming faintly amused at the idea of our interviewing him -- relaxing in an overstuffed swivel armchair, speaking in a commanding (but never domineering) voice about his latest novel, his attitude to SF and the state of the modern SF scene as a whole.
In the UK, 1979 saw a tremendous upsurge of public interest in SF, not least because of the staging of the World Convention here in August -- an event which merited an entire programme to itself in the BBC2 TV series Time Out Of Mind and which Ballard, not himself an attendee of the convention, watched with a great deal of interest. "You had people like John Bush of Gollancz and Hilary Rubinstein talking of it as a respectable function; as the centrepiece of science fiction and not just an excuse for a lot of fans to dress up in space armour and hit each other with wooden swords. That's a change, I think" but he felt, on the other hand, that "all the good words put in by Fred Pohl and Brian Aldiss were undone by all those pictures of half-naked women in fancy-dress costumes" and went on to say that "the dominant image people still have of science fiction is that provided by visual sources. This is the sad thing: it's still Star Trek, Star Wars, Alien and so on ... But I can now look back over 25 years and see that the climate has changed. Everyone doesn't automatically think of SF as being nothing but Star Wars; there's a small percentage who have realised that it's capable of producing a genuine speculative fiction about the present day. This is as you'd expect: so many mainstream writers have gone into SF -- Anthony Burgess, Kingsley Amis, William Burroughs, Doris Lessing -- that I think people are gradually beginning to realise that the sort of freedoms available to, let's say, Huxley and Orwell and Wells are available to writers now, and that one doesn't have to write within the narrow format of fifties American SF; that SF isn't just Heinlein and Asimov and Poul Anderson."
Even so, it's likely that a large number of people read SF without admitting it -- either as some form of "closet" reaction to those who consider it as beneath contempt or because they tacitly acknowledge that the SF they enjoy is not the most intellectually demanding. The operative word here is "enjoyment", which Ballard openly accepts: "A lot of the SF I seem to criticise -- the Heinleln, Asimov, Poul Anderson stuff -- is certainly entertaining, and people certainly get a great deal of pleasure out of it; why not?" but then went on to say that his whole career "has been dedicated to giving the rest of us a chance, to enlarging the rules of the game a little." In this respect his name will probably be forever linked with the magazine New Worlds under its second editor, Michael Moorcock, in that gloriously heady period of the mid to late sixties when it was printing such novels and stories as Disch's Camp Concentration, Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron, Ellison's "A Boy And His Dog", Delany's "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" and Ballard's own Atrocity Exhibition pieces. He had of course been established in his own right for several years, publishing work in both New Worlds and its sister magazine Science Fantasy (both then edited by E. J. "Ted" Carnell), but both Mooroock and he "had a great number of ideas in common, and shared a great number of ambitions for the future.... we were totally in agreement about what we felt were the failures of conventional SF at that time, and what was needed to move SF forward into the next stage of its development" and, despite Moorcock's later cham?pioning of him, felt himself to be under no particular pressure to "experiment" (a word he detests): "He picked me simply because I was the nearest writer to hand -- he was familiar with my stuff and could see that, right from the beginning, I'd been trying to write a new kind of SF that broke with the SF of the past. It was a wonderful thing for me because it allowed me to publish all those stories that I would have found difficult to publish anywhere else." To some people, of course, it seemed as though he was abandoning the traditional ideals of science fiction, and their reaction was predictably hostile; but "that's part of the price one pays for change. There may exist the ideal reader who admires everything one's written, but that's most uncommon, actually. I regret that the people who admired my earlier staff didn't respond in the same way The Atrocity Exhibition stories, but on the other hand there appeared a new readership who did like them… I write what I feel I have to write, and it's always struck me as something of a miracle that people like anything I've ever written at all."
About the "SF of the past" referred to earlier he is somewhat scathing. "What the so-?called 'Old Guard' -- the more conservative readers, writers and critics of SF -- think of as the 'immutable laws' of science fiction are in fact of comparatively recent origin. It was only in the forties and fifties that the two major conventions of SF, outer space and the far future, established themselves as the characteristic hallmarks of the genre, and were eventually consolidated into holy writ, But they're very much an obsession of the commercial American SF magazines of the time. If you look at, say, the SF of H. G. Wells, very little of that is set in the far future or on alien planets -– The Island of Dr Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War Of The Worlds, large numbers of his short stories: all are set in the present, or the near-present, and on Earth." Citing the work of Jules Verne, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984 as further examples, he continues: "I regard American SF of the forties and fifties as an aberration; as a fossilising of a very long-standing imaginative impulse going back hundreds of years, if not longer; and to break out of that little ghetto and rejoin the mainstream of imaginative scientific fiction was part of my. inspiration and I think of the New Wave as a whole."
Given all this, it seemed valid to ask whether, when he started writing in the late fifties, he saw himself as a science fiction writer, or whether he thought of himself as a writer who wrote for the SF magazines simply because they happened to be there. "I still call myself a science fiction writer although, being realistic, of my total output I imagine that, even by my elastic definition of the term, at least a third of it isn't SF but is fantasy. Is The Unlimited Dream Company SF? I'd say no. I think I could make a claim for something like Crash, or even High-Rise, being SF because their subject-matter and their points of view are inspired by changes in our world brought about by science and technology, and their perspective on these changes -- my approach -- is rather analytical. And I use the scientific vocabulary, on the whole. But I think of my total output as being largely homogeneous, even though some of it is clearly SF and some clearly not, and for that reason I feel that my imagination belongs within what is loosely called "the realm of science fiction" rather than to so-called mainstream fiction. I've always felt that. That's why I began writing within the SF field, and why I've always thought of myself as an SF writer."
Mention of the SF magazines brings one to the realisation of the fact that their heyday is now long past and that, in Britain at least, there are effectively no real markets for the aspiring short story writer -- a lack he considers "tragic. I was talking to Brian Aldiss recently about just this, and I said to him 'God knows where the young Ballard or the young Aldiss could find somewhere to publish their short stories' because he and I, I think it's fair to say, learnt our trade writing short stories for the SF magazines, which meant that neither of us had to begin writing novels straight off." Feeling that some current writers are having to write novels the way he and Aldiss wrote short stories, he went on to say that, in his opinion "SF as a whole owes a greater debt to the short story than the novel -- leaving aside obvious masterpieces like 1984 and Brave New World, most of the great SF of the past thirty years has been in the short story form. There's something about the short story's very formal structure that makes it an ideal vehicle for the SF imagination -- more so than the novel, which you could may has no structure and is a completely open entity."
He was, however, uncertain as to whether Britain could actually support a new magazine. "It's partly a marketing thing. To be distributed by Smith's these days, a magazine has to have a guaranteed minimum circulation well above anything New Worlds, Science Fantasy, Galaxy and Astounding had in the fifties. Carnell's New Worlds couldn't survive now; and anyone who comes into the SF field and decides to start a magazine goes for a sort of Omni visual-oriented sensationalist large-format glossy artwork approach, whereas what sells a good short story magazine is the short stories. The artwork doesn't make a damn bit of difference -- you may pick up a few passing customers that way but on the whole you can't establish a serious and devoted readership unless you publish good and original fiction. But you try telling that to the big magazine companies who think there's a killing to be made out of SF." He does, on the other hand, feel that "the time is now absolutely right for a small-format, digest-sized magazine consisting entirely of straightforward, good, strong short stories with perhaps a serial and one or two book reviews" because "I think the period we're in now is rather similar to that of the late fifties: we've just had a rather entropic decade and an extremely uncertain world lies ahead. The time is right for carefully and closely-written speculative fiction looking hard at the world in which we live -- stories written in a traditional form, avoiding experiment, simply trying to make sense of the world we're moving into."
The surviving SF magazines are of course American, the most successful (in terms of its sales) being the ghetto-minded, past-oriented Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine, publishing nakedly commercial action-adventure space fiction, our description of which prompted Ballard to remark that it sounded "like a glorified comicbook"; then, as though relenting, he pointed out that "the real yardstick of its merit will be the number of original and well-written stories that it publishes, and this you can only judge in, say, five or ten years' time. One can say that, in their heyday, magazines like Galaxy, F&SF, Amazing, Fantastic, Analog and, over here, New Worlds did generate a substantial body of fiction by a school of writers which has passed the test of time, and one can award these half-dozen magazines high marks for doing so. But my guess is that Isaac Asimov's will eventually vanish without trace once it's served its function, which is to extract as many dollar bills from the American public as possible, and probably produce no decent fiction."
Despite the terrifying influence of this terrible magazine, others -- most notably F&SF -- maintain a more open-minded attitude; has Ballard ever thought of writing for them again? "No, I haven't, actually. When I did write for them, they were distributed over here -- even the little newsagent in Shepperton would stock F&SF, perhaps only two or three copies, but it was there -- and this meant that all the people I met, like Michael Moorcock and Charles Platt and all the others involved in New Worlds, or in British SF generally, had read them. And the American writers who came ever here were either writing for them or were familiar with them; they formed part of the climate of ordinary everyday life. But this isn't true any more; no one I know has read any American SF magazines for ten years, and I haven't even seen a copy of most of them for years.... the incentive to write for them just isn't there. Most of the stories I've written in the past five years have been in response to requests from editors like Martin Bax of Ambit and Emma Tennant of Bananas, so that I've never been in a position where I've written a story and then thought 'Ah -- who shall I send this to?' But then the role played by the magazines finished at the end of the sixties; the seventies became the decade of the original paperback anthology and they're actually very conservative. Their editors tend to attract and publish only established writers, and have all the time in the world to say 'Mm, that's a bit of an odd story, we won't use it, let's ask so-and-so for one of his'; whereas the magazine editors were under pressure to fill their pages once every month and so were far more tolerant of the experimental and the unfamiliar." As an example of the conservatism of anthology editors, he quoted a request once made of him by Damon Knight, who "ten years ago, when I was in Rio de Janeiro, invited me to contribute to one of his Orbit anthologies but asked for 'nothing too original'. I knew what he meant -- he didn't want anything like my Atrocity Exhibition stories, but the fact that he'd mentally lowered the shutters was terrible. What an attitude to take!" Despite which he has contributed a story to an original anthology: "One Afternoon At Utah Beach" in Chris Priest's Anticipations, but that was as a result of an apparently carte-blanch invitation. "It was rather different from sitting down and thinking 'I will write a story for Orbit 9, but I'd better be careful because Knight doesn't like anything too original' -- what a climate to work in! That's ridiculous, just death to the imagination."
As he remarked earlier, Ballard has continued to write short stories, and this has in fact been one of the main reasons for the four year gap between his last novel, High-Rise, in 1975, and his new one, The Unlimited Dream Company. "I hadn't written any short stories since something like 1970, largely because there was no way of publishing them, but I started again in 1975 -- a friend of mine, Emma Tennant, started her magazine Bananas, and she was very keen to have a story from me for every issue of it. I wrote something like a dozen stories for Bananas over the next three years, plus one or two for other magazines like Ambit. I think my total output was equivalent to about two volumes of short stories.... then The Unlimited Dream Company took me a couple of years to write. So the seventies as a whole have been a very busy time."
The Unlimited Dream Company is, as earlier intimated, not an SF novel; it in instead a fantasy, although not the sort of avowedly genre work that one normally expects to find sheltering behind the term. "There's a difference between the fantasy produced by SF writers and that produced by those who've never written SF; it's much closer to SF than to fantasy as a whole. You get much less whimsy, much lose sentiment; it's much more rigorous and has much more realistic goals." And, indeed, The Unlimited Dream Company does have a remorseless internal logic that such overtly escapist "classics" as Tolkein's The Lord Of The Rings utterly lack; a logic that all his novels may be said to have in common. Despite which, it is still very different from the immediately preceding three (Crash, Concrete Island and High-Rise), although Ballard himself admitted to "no particular inspiration" and continued: "I felt that after all that steel and concrete there was a tremendous pressure of sheer imagination building up. Anyone who has a powerful imagination will tell you that as you walk down the most familiar, the most ordinary street in a quiet suburb like Shepperton -- even a quiet suburb like Shepperton -- that powerful imagination is continually transforming the humdrum into the marvellous. So the idea occurred to me that it would be possible to transform, in a fantastic way, the most infinitely humdrum place in the world -- and Shepperton must fall into that category, at first glance, anyway -- into something rich and strange." Not, however, that the Shepperton of the novel is identical to the Shepperton of the real world, the former having been compounded of various elements taken from such neighbouring towns as Sunbury and Walton-on-Thames and in consequence existing more as an abstract for suburbia everywhere, because "the point of the novel is that everywhere is infinitely exciting, given the transforming power of the imagination.
When I first had the idea of an escaping pilot who crashes his plane, perhaps dies, and by a massive effort of will forces himself to survive in our continuum -- the continuum of time and space that bounds the everyday physical universe -- I didn't think of Shepperton; I thought of picking just any quiet spot near a river. But it suddenly occurred to me that if I wanted a humdrum place, then I was already living in one that I at least knew well." This point should not be underestimated because "I also knew that, without doing so deliberately, I could, despite myself, feed into the novel various unconscious autobiographical elements which would be bound to give it a little more imaginative pressure." This is in fact the main reason for its being narrated in the first person -- a device he has rarely used before (and only in Crash (1973) was there a character actually named after himself). "Although I don't want to make too much of it, I think the book is my autobiography. If for flying you substitute writing fiction, or using the imagination, the book has all the elements of an autobiography. I fell into this place, an it were, and into the predicament of ordinary life, some twenty years ago, and have used my imagination for those twenty years to try to give that ordinary life some sort of meaning. But all this just occurs to me with the benefit of hindsight; it didn't occur to me at the time because there are no correspondences between me and the character -- or just very minor ones that aren't important."
Reinforcing the novel's autobiographical nature is the appearance in it, as minor protagonists, of three children and a woman doctor. When interviewed for J. G. Ballard: the First Twenty Years, the important critical study by David Pringle and James Goddard, Ballard stated: "The protagonists of most of my fiction feel tremendously isolated, and that seems to exclude the possibility of a warm, fruitful relationship with anybody, let alone anyone as potentially close as a woman... I've got three children, with whom I'm extremely close, and yet I've never introduced a child into any of my stories... It's just that children are not relevant to my work."
With respect to The Unlimited Dream Company, however: "Maybe those three children were really standing in for my own children. Maybe the woman doctor is standing in for my late wife -- or, rather, an amalgam of my late wife and one or two other women who have been very close to me over the years" and he then, apropos the above quote, went on to say that "it's not strictly true to say that there have been no children In my fiction; many of the protagonists of my short stories -- particularly the ones I was writing in the late fifties and early sixties, like 'Chronopolis' and 'Billenium', and also 'The Ultimate City'…" (included in his most recent collection, Low Flying Aircraft) "have been adolescents, with the fresh eyes and untested ambitions of adolescence.... so children have appeared in my fiction, although I think the particular role they play in The Unlimited Dream Company probably ties in with my own three."
One of the more obvious aspects of The Unlimited Dream Company is its incorporation of various themes and elements from his previous works: the harsh starkness of reality -- concrete motorways, tower blocks, washing machines and TV sets reminiscent of the Crash "trilogy" -- and the exotic images of fantasy - tropical flora and fauna remin?iscent of The Drowned World and The Crystal World (symbols explored in depth by David Pringle in his essay "The Four-Fold Symbolism Of J. G. Ballard", reprinted in the critical study mentioned above). But this was not conscious intent on Ballard's part: "When I sit down to write a piece of fiction I write that piece of fiction as if I'd written nothing before. I try not to repeat myself in an obvious way, nor to assemble set building-blocks in a new configuration. After all, if you're going to transform something like a small suburban town in a dramatically immediate manner then there aren't many ways you can do it -- particularly if, as I had, you have a central character as some sort of pagan god from life is pouring in enormous abundance... exotic flora and fauna are just waiting there." Hindsight suggests, however, that "it does amalgamate certain elements from novels like The Drowned World and The Crystal World, and from my more hard-edged staff like Crash -- but it certainly wasn't calculated."
Critical and public reception of Ballard's work, both here and around the world, has been mixed. Kingsley Amis has referred to him as "one of the brightest stars of post-war fiction" but others (particularly Martin Amis) have expressed opinions ranging from the indifferent to the hostile; and while a novel like Crash, with its frequent use of American automobile terminology ("windshield", "hood", "fender", and so on, all being more a residue of childhood in Shanghai -- "a totally American zone of influence" -- than an overt calculation on his part), might have been expected to enjoy great success in the States, the opposite was in fact the case: the book flopped there but was a hit in France, and he has since acquired something of a cult status there. Curious? Not really: "The influence of the French symbolist poets of the nineteenth century, of twentieth century French literature, and of French painting from the 1870s onwards has always been enormous upon me. I don't know whether French readers hear an echo of Genet and Rambeau [sic] and Pollinaire [sic] in my fiction, but if those echoes are there then I'm glad." Stating that he was "delighted" by the response of his French readers, he went on to say that he thinks "the symbolist method, which I use in my writing, strikes a sympathetic chord south of, as it were, the 'olive line', and that in northern Protestant countries like Britain and the USA the symbolist movement, evident in painting, poetry and the novel over the last hundred years, has tended to produce a great deal of unease. And surrealism, the major twentieth expression of symbolism, has only recently come to be regarded as respectable, accepted in the US and Britain as an important movement in the arts only in the last ten years, whereas on the Continent it's been established since the turn of the century." The imaginative approach adopted by the surrealists, he said, makes people in Britain and America feel uneasy because "the dominant form of the novel here is the bourgeois novel, the so-called realistic novel, which offers in its pages all the reassuring conventions and a polite avoidance of certain unmentionable topies in exactly the same way that bourgeois life protects itself from unpleasant truths by a whole series of polite conventions. And as I don't subscribe to any of those bourgeois conventions in my fiction I naturally meet a certain amount of hostility and resistance which I haven't met in France." Nor, it seems, in Japan, which might appear an American-dominated country but is in fact very different, "The paradox of life there in that there's a hundred million people packed onto those tiny islands and yet each of then feels absolutely alone. The Japanese psyche is very isolated, very self-immersed, obsessively committed to the fulfillment its own 'private mythology', and quite unlike the northern European or American consciousness." The sense of isolation felt by his fictional protagonists is obviously a reflection of this; and of an imagination, he feels, that is very close to his own -- moulded, as was only to be expected, by his childhood in Shanghai. "Even though I was born and brought up in China, I don't think that the Chinese landscape and character touched me very much. The Japanese and the Americans were the 'occupying powers' in all senses of the term; the two imaginations presiding over my life there, and in a way my fiction represents a movement between those two poles."
And what of the future? Does he, for example, have any plans to extend his work into other areas of the arts? "Well, I've always wanted to be a painter. That was my real ambition for many years, although it's waned a bit now because I long ago realised that I just didn't have the talent, the technical facility, to make it a credible one. I sometimes think that my entire output as a writer has been the substitute work of a frustrated painter, and that if I could be given the gift of technical facility I'd stop writing. That probably isn't true, but I do still feel that my imagination would express itself much more directly, more easily, through visual imagery than prose narrative." Would the cinema therefore constitute a viable alternative? "Not really, because on the whole the cinema is a realistic medium. There have been a lot of powerful, imaginative films made, but I don't think that my particular imagination would express itself too easily on film. I can't visualise myself making a film of The Unlimited Dream Company -- it could probably be done, but it would be a damn sight easier to write than to film." Otherwise: "I've nearly finished another novel, which is SF rather than fantasy, and should be published in about a year's time. It's rather in the vein of the novella 'The Ultimate City' -- originally I wrote it with a view to it being published as an illustrated novel" (Hello America, in the Pierrot series that Includes Brain Aldiss's Brothers Of The Head and Harry Harrison's Planet Story) "but it seems to have grown in length. I certainly plan to write a novel for that series, though, because I've always been very keen on the idea of illustrated fiction." There are no collections of short stories due in the immediate future; "I think that when I've finished this novel I'll get back to writing short stories again and think about another collection in a couple of years' time. Other than that I've no real projects; I just live for the moment."


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How does taxation work in the EU if you change countries in the middle of a tax year?
Let's say I spend 10 months working as a regular employee in Czech Republic. Then in November I find a new job in Germany and move to work there. I've spent more than 183 days in Czech Republic so I'm supposed to be a tax resident there in that year. On the other hand I've moved out of the country so my domicile is now in Germany.
Do tax laws in the EU say something about such a situation?
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The answer is simply no. The EU has extensive rules about import duties (a common tariff) and VAT, some rules about the "social security" system (health insurance, retirement) but almost nothing on income and other taxes. That's an area that has always been politically sensitive and extraordinarily complicated so that very little progress has been made towards harmonization.
EU countries do not even share the same tax year, let alone the same definition of income or the same type of taxes! So there are places where the tax year is distinct from the civil year (e.g. the UK), flat taxes, taxes on income that are really wealth taxes (e.g. "box 3" in the Dutch income tax), you name it.
Many countries will have generally sensible rules (it's seldom as simple as a 183 days threshold), even interpreted in isolation, and many others will have tax treaties to avoid any issues but none of that is guaranteed, even within the EU. So you really should not expect much and really need to look at the specifics of your situation.
There are treaties against double taxation. You spent 183 days in the Czech Republic, and less than 183 days in Germany, therefore for that year you're still a tax resident of the Czech Republic. If you stay in Germany, the next year you'll be a tax resident of Germany.
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Double taxation treaties don't mean that you can't be tax resident in two countries in one year, just that if you file all the paperwork correctly you will only pay income tax on your money once. – Peter Taylor Jan 13 '18 at 22:16
No, you can't be a tax resident of two countries who signed a treaty against double taxation. That's the whole point of the treaty. The tax residency dictated by the treaty determines where you'll pay your taxes. I've literally done that within the EU, but feel free to downvote and argue with me. – Teflon Don Jan 13 '18 at 22:54
"To determine where you should pay your taxes it is important to establish in which country you are tax resident. ... The tax treaty normally contains rules to establish residence in cases where two countries regard someone as resident." ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/frequently-asked-questions/… – Teflon Don Jan 13 '18 at 22:58
"You live in Germany for no more than 6 months - You are not considered tax resident, and pay tax only on income earned in Germany (limited tax liability)." europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/work/taxes/income-taxes-abroad/… "Living in the Czech Republic for at least 6 months in the (current) tax year? You are usually considered as resident for tax purposes and have to pay tax on your worldwide income there." europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/work/taxes/income-taxes-abroad/… – Teflon Don Jan 13 '18 at 23:32
worldwide-tax.com/czech/cze_double.asp ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/individuals/personal-taxation/… Therefore according to the treaty, since you're a tax resident of the Czech Republic for that year, you don't pay any tax in Germany for that year, instead you tax everything, even the income from Germany, in the Czech Republic. – Teflon Don Jan 13 '18 at 23:36
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NL West-leading D-backs beat Dodgers 3-1 in series opener
By BETH HARRIS Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — It had been nearly four months since the Diamondbacks and Dodgers played each other.
Not much has changed. Arizona remains the dominant team.
David Peralta hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning and the NL West leaders won 3-1 on Thursday night in the opener of a pivotal series.
"This is a tight division right now and to be able to start out like this and put a little bit more of a gap between us is huge," winning pitcher Robbie Ray said.
The loss dropped the Dodgers two games behind Arizona and snapped their five-game winning streak, which they had put together against last-place San Diego and Texas. Los Angeles struck out 15 times, including four by Chris Taylor.
Arizona leads the season series 9-4.
Ray (4-2) gave up one run and four hits in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out nine and walked two to earn his first victory since June 23 at Miami. The left-hander hadn't figured into a decision in seven consecutive starts since July 20, the longest streak in franchise history by a starter.
"That is about as connected as I have been all year," Ray said. "I felt in control of the game. I felt like my pitches were crisp. There was good separation between my curveball and my fastball and I kept them off-balance the whole game."
Brad Boxberger got the final two outs in the ninth to earn his 31st save in 37 chances. He struck out Taylor and got Yasiel Puig on a called third strike.
Peralta sent his 26th homer into right field on the first pitch from Rich Hill with two outs, giving Arizona a 3-0 lead.
"I thought it was just going to hit the wall," Peralta said. "It was a low line-drive but it worked out our way this time."
Hill (6-5) allowed three runs and six hits in five innings. The left-hander struck out seven and walked none in his first loss since July 10.
"Just a bad pitch. Poor choice on my part and it cost us the game," Hill said of Peralta's homer. "These games are huge right now."
The Dodgers' lone run came on Manny Machado's 33rd homer in the sixth, his fourth in his last five games.
The Dodgers went 0 for 5 with runners in scoring position and stranded six.
"We did exactly what we wanted to at the plate," Machado said. "Sometimes you fail."
Arizona's defense turned three double plays, including in the sixth when pinch-hitter Cody Bellinger lined to first, where Matt Kemp was doubled off.
Los Angeles had the potential go-ahead run at the plate in the bottom of the eighth, but Kemp grounded into an inning-ending double play with runners on the corners.
Puig contributed to a 1-2-3 inning in the second when he was safe at first on an error by Paul Goldschmidt only to get tagged out attempting to advance on the play.
Dodgers reliever Caleb Ferguson pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth. After giving up three consecutive one-out singles, he struck out John Ryan Murphy and pinch-hitter Christian Walker lined out to right to end the inning.
D-backs: RHP Shelby Miller (right elbow tightness) will throw to 125 feet early next week. ... OF Jarrod Dyson (right groin strain) is headed to Triple-A Reno for a rehab assignment.
Dodgers: Reinstated RHP Josh Fields (right shoulder inflammation) from 60-day DL.
GOLDY GETTING ON
Goldschmidt went 2 for 5 and extended his streak of reaching base to 42 straight road games — second-longest in the majors this season. During that run, he's 64 for 164 with 14 homers and 35 RBIs.
RHP Zack Greinke (13-8, 2.93 ERA) goes for the D-backs. He is 3-1 with a 3.09 ERA in his last five starts against his former team. The Dodgers send LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu (4-1, 2.18) to the mound. He is 3-3 with a 3.90 ERA in 12 career starts against Arizona.
Twins Scoggins: As trade deadline approaches, Twins deserve bold move by front office
Scoggins: As trade deadline approaches, Twins deserve bold move by front office


Most Sundays, there are two opportunities to join us for worship (at 10am and 5:00pm). On the last Sunday of the month, we also have a 'Songs of Praise' service at 4pm.
Our morning service includes times of sung worship, a talk and the opportunity to respond in prayer ministry. We celebrate Holy Communion at this service on the second Sunday of each month. There are groups for children up to Year 9. Refreshments are available in the hall after the service.
Been out for the day? Been involved in sports on a Sunday morning or just wanted a lie-in? Then this is for you and everyone in your household. Bring everyone from home, and neighbours and friends for fun, interactive and thought provoking services. Come for tea and nibbles from 5pm then a time of worship, teaching and ministry.
We tend to start our services with an introduction from the service leader, we then sing a number of songs altogether. All the words you'll need to say or sing during the service will be displayed on the screens throughout the building, but no-one will mind if you don't want to join in, and you are welcome to sit down or stand up as you feel most comfortable.
We don't pass a collection plate around during the service, and we promise we don't make visitors stand up and introduce themselves!
At the morning service, the children go to their groups after a couple of worship songs, and the adults stay in church for the Bible reading, a talk and a time of prayer. Our services also have an opportunity for people to respond to what God might be saying to them and to pray with someone else. We end our services with notices and more singing.
For our morning services, you are welcome to use the car park of Greenacre Academy (entrance off Walderslade Road). Otherwise please park on the local streets, but they are quite narrow and busy so please take care!


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Q: error when running dynamic brownian bridge movement model - small window size I'm trying to run a dynamic brownian bridge movement model on an object of class 'MoveBurst'. I have an individual dataset of 30 locations, and have specified the model as follows:
bursted_dbbmm <- brownian.bridge.dyn(bursted, burstType='normal', raster = xAEQD.ind,
                                       location.error = "LocationError", time.step = 5, ext = 3,
                                       window.size = 29)

Running this code returns an error message:
Error in brownian.motion.variance.dyn(as(object, ".MoveTrackSingle"),  :
  window.size can't be larger than the number of locations in the move object

This is despite the fact that I specified the window size to be smaller than the number of locations in the move object. No matter what odd value i choose for the window.size, the same error gets returned. Any ideas how to get this to work?
I'm using RStudio v 1.2.5033, and 'move' R package version 3.2.2.

A: There was a bug in the move package. This is now fixed: https://gitlab.com/bartk/move/-/commit/e3db2077a7f0acdb23161a86a8a0d474c85fb41f
Let me know if it now works if you install the development version. It solved it for my reproducible example


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The 2021–22 Vermont Catamounts men's ice hockey season was the 59th season of play for the program, the 49th at the Division I level, and the 38th season in the Hockey East conference. The Catamounts represented the University of Vermont and were coached by Todd Woodcroft, in his 2nd season.

Season
After a mercifully abbreviated season the year before, Vermont's rebuild under Woodcroft continued with a slow start. The Catamounts' offense was woefully inadequate for most of the season with the team able to score more than 3 goals on only three occasions. Surprisingly, the first of those happened against #9 Boston College. While time would later diminish that achievement due to a poor season from the Eagles, it was still Vermont's first victory over their conference rivals in six years. Unfortunately, the Catamounts had to wait almost a month for their second win. It was only a winning weekend against Maine that kept Vermont out of the conference cellar, though only by a hair's breadth.

During the winter break, Dovar Tinling left the team and signed with the Des Moines Buccaneers. Because it was a junior club, Tinling remained eligible for Division I college hockey.

The Catamounts did only marginally better in the second half of the season, recording five more wins to bring their season's total up to eight. The defense played admirably in front of both Gabe Carriere and Tyler Harmon, limiting the opposition to less than 30 shots per game. The offense, however, didn't improve and neither goaltender received much help in that respect.

When Vermont entered the postseason, they were a severe underdog against Providence. Though they did well to keep the score close against the Friars, the Catamounts were more than doubled in shots and scored their only marker of the game on the power play after Carriere had been pulled for an extra attacker.

Departures

Recruiting

Roster
As of September 28, 2021.

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Schedule and results

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Rankings

Note: USCHO did not release a poll in week 24.

Players drafted into the NHL

2022 NHL Entry Draft

† incoming freshman

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Sam Allardyce – football's Oliver Twist
It is a gritty, but nevertheless accurate, fact that the best looking orphans get adopted first out of the orphanage. One would think that some sort of "cab-rank" rule applies when it comes to something as important as adoption. However, apparently this isn't the case. Too Good is unable to explain why would-be surrogates apply an aesthetic rigour to their decision-making, but the facts remain to be as they are – the munters get left on the subs' bench.
Sam Allardyce knows exactly what it's like to be unloved on aesthetic grounds. The man from Dudley is football's answer to brutalism. Sure, there will be a few outcriers who see a beauty in Big Sam's interpretation of football, but most of us just think it's a big concrete mess. A style of play that ought to have been torn down and reconstructed at the same time as Manchester's old Arndale Centre was.
As sure as those less appealing orphans are left with a life-time of emotional scarring, so too has Big Sam been rendered damaged and hurt from being consistently overlooked. A big tear rolls down his big cheek every time he sees a coach with a fitted suit and a more fluid style of play get plucked from the orphanage of crap football teams and nestled into one of the warm, cozy homes of the premiership elite.
The impact this has had on Big Sam is palpably evident. You only have to scratch the surface to see the wounds:
"I won't ever be going to a top-four club because I'm not called Allardici, just Allardyce."
Sam Allardyce.
These aren't the words of a defiant underdog; unapologetic for his misunderstood genius. This is a statement laced with the brittle nomenclature of a damaged psyche. Unresolved emotional trauma that won't loosen its grip. Sam's stuck in the orphanage, and those idiot Top 4 foster parents just keep on picking more superficially attractive managerial alternatives.
It's the final two words of the quote that yank the heart strings quite so taut. "Just Allardyce". Leave them off and Sam might just have gotten away with a droll observation, evincing a wry smile and a wink from the assembled hacks. Throw in the last two words and suddenly you've got a desperate and isolated man, struggling to control a wobbly lip. Just Allardyce. Just Allardyce. Just plain old Sam Allardyce, nothing to see here. Referring to oneself in the third person is usually an example of arrogance. When used for the purpose of self-pity it's just plain upsetting.
How did he end up feeling so unloved? Maybe the quote was a defensive reaction; natural for a man who was sacked from his first permanent managerial post by a chairman sat in a prison cell at the time. Maybe it's the sniggering he hears when, trying to sound tech-savvy, he makes reference to analysing games on his laptop.
Preston, Blackpool, Notts County, Bolton, Blackburn. Big Sam's career reads like a Who's Who of places you wouldn't want to live in the north of England. Newcastle was supposed to be his big break. A team with a huge following and, finally, some real money to spend. This was destined to be the final stepping stone before Allardyce was installed at a Champions League team. Sadly, it turned out to be a tiny Toon adventure, lasting barely eight months. Newcastle fans sang "You should have stayed at the Reebok" and "Sacked in the morning" at him.
Those cruel words must have still been ringing in Allardyce's ears when he was sacked again 24 months into his next position, this time at Blackburn. Quite the transformation for a manger whose stock was soaring when he left Bolton in 2007. Three years on and Sam was running out of filing space for his rapidly accumulating p45s.
It's hard to understand why Allardyce doesn't resonate more with our footballing public. Certainly, no-one can doubt his Anglo-Saxon credentials. Here is a man so quintessentially couched in the British elements of the game that even his jowls look like a flat back four. Maybe it's the denial as to who he truly is, and what he truly stands for, that sticks in the craw. There's an air of intellectual honesty to men like Jack Charlton, Mick McCarthy and Tony Pulis. Men whose brand of football is as unattractive as the ginger one from Girls Aloud, but who make no protestations to the contrary.
Not so, for Big Sam. I don't know if he's trying to kid us or himself, but there's a level of hypocrisy bordering on wilful blindness with Allardyce. He rails against accusations of direct, turgid football but then goes and signs a front two battering ram of Kevin Nolan and Andy Carroll[1]. He's the dog that craps all over the kitchen floor and then gives it the old "What, me guvnor?" routine when his owner comes home. You're fooling no-one, Sam. And no amount of references to being a "pioneer of using Prozone in football management" will persuade us to the contrary.
Allowing Allardyce the reins at a club like West Ham was the final straw for many. Everybody loves the Hammers. Easy on the eye, rich in history and never actually quite good enough to ruffle the feathers of other teams. Yet here, at the club synonymous with Sir Trevor Brooking and Bobby Moore, we were forced to witness the convergence of Andy Carroll, Kevin Nolan and Carlton Cole in order to play out the logical end-game of Allardyce's bleak philosophy. It was like handing Peter Stringfellow the keys to a listed building.
In the interests of balance, Allardyce has had his moments in the sun and we shouldn't let that be forgotten. "Bolton Wanderers finishing in the top 6" was a phrase few of us thought we would ever hear. The last time Bolton were good enough to qualify for non-domestic duties, the concept of "European competition" was an entirely different affair that involved tanks and rationing. Allardyce managed it, though.
Again now at West Ham, despite the desecration of such holy ground, he returned the Irons to the top flight at the first attempt and finished 10th the following year. In addition to usually one or both of Kevin Nolan and El Hadj Diouf, Allardyce brings stability to the table.
To quote Clive Owen in the motion picture Sin City, maybe Allardyce just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century. I haven't seen any footage of Allardyce in his playing days, but it is unlikely that he ever wore pink boots. He's an old-fashioned cannon in an era of drones and heat-sensitive missiles. If he had been born thirty years earlier, he'd have probably been the England manager.
The success of his time at Upton Park will likely now define Allardyce's premiership career. He did the business at Bolton, was booted out at Newcastle, and then walked into a lunatic asylum at Ewood Park (a spell from which we can conclude very little). A positive report card at West Ham and you would have to concede that, on balance, his methods get results.
Ultimately, though, I don't think it is results that Allardyce craves. It's acceptance that he's after. It's understanding. It's an arm around his Big shoulder. More than anything, the ugly duckling from the midlands just needs a little love. He just needs to be told "it's not your fault" ten or eleven times, in the manner that Robin Williams did to Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting, so that he can have a good cry and release the demons that have plagued him for so long.
So here it is. I love you, Sam. Not massively, it has to be said. And not in a particularly wholesome way, either. But you seem to be able to consistently get results at a certain level within the game. If I supported any team in the bottom half of the premiership, I'd be happy to have you as manager. Newcastle were idiots to get rid of you so quickly. And their fans sarcastically chanting "Big Sam for England" wasn't right. If I could have stopped them, I would have.
I'd much prefer it if you didn't sign players like Andy Carroll. But such acquisitions are inextricable with your view on how the game needs to be played. I accept that. You could probably tone down the general levels of sarcasm in your interviews. It gets weary season after season. And stop talking about your laptop like you work for NASA – we've all got one. But these are small things. You're not insufferable, Sam. You'll never irritate people to anywhere near the levels that Alan Pardew manages to achieve. You're not Alan Pardew, Sam. You hear me? You're not Alan Pardew.
You're a good kid.
Hopefully this provides you with some solace.
"Please sir, I want two uncompromising centre-forwards."
[1] While spending a short period of time in the U.S. playing for the Tampa Bay Rowdies, it may stun you to learn that Allardyce was a student of gridiron and subsequently applied many of the practices and techniques into association football.
Tags: Allardyce, Arndale Centre, Dudley, England, Manchester, Reebok, Sam, Sam Allardyce
Big Sam's Big Sword of Damocles
When a 3 year old learns to use the grown-ups' toilet for the first time, everyone cheers the clever little fella. Similarly, the first time people saw the 6ft 4 inch Andy Carroll bring a size 5 football under control, misguided souls marvelled at a man of that size performing basic ball skills. "If he can do that, it's well worth sticking him in the national team and firing forty-yard balls up to him", a nation dreamed. However, like the pre-schooler's lavatorial prowess, the goodwill was soon exhausted.
Centuries from now, Andy Carroll will form part of a cautionary tale. A parable warning of mankind's boundless scope for lunacy. Children will hoot like owls as their parents laughingly recount the story of how Liverpool fluffed £35m on a malcoordinated centaur. The most expensive British footballer ever (at the time) managing just six league goals in two disastrous years at Anfield.
Watching Andy Carroll is like watching a 16 year old boy trying to unhook a brassiere. You're willing him on despite (or possibly because of…) how cumbersome he is. He might get the hang of it one day but nobody is prepared to bet on it. Kenny Dalglish exposed a horribly dated view of how football should be played when he purchased this two metre man-child and an orthodox winger (Stewart Downing) instructed to send high balls in to him.
It would be cold-hearted man who didn't feel at least of pang of sympathy for Carroll at Liverpool as he vainly attempted to justify his astonishing price-tag. He looked like a summer intern who had mistakenly wandered into an executive committee and been made to answer complex questions on the company's debt to equity ratio. But sympathy turned to sheer bemusement when Sam Allardyce announced he was prepared to waft £15m up the swanny to have Carroll gallop aimlessly around Upton Park instead. Carroll has now broken the transfer record at two separate premier league clubs. It just seems cruel for him to be fettered with another huge fee. At what point does the poor sod have to beg to be let go for a nominal sum purely for the sake of his sanity?
It's not even as though he is a robust athlete, in the Dirk Kuyt mold. One that will give you 38 games a season of solid service. He seems to spend most of the year racking up further fees on the treatment table. If Carroll was a horse, his owner would have had more than a few furtive glances in the direction of the shotgun cabinet by now.
There is, though, in football, this curious inability to lower your previous transfer fee by any great amount. Even when a player proves beyond all thresholds of doubt that they're not worth such riches. One might call it the Heskey Paradox.
Try as he might, big Emile couldn't get his transfer value below £5m for love nor money. No matter how many barn doors he circumnavigated from close quarters, clubs just couldn't wait to shell out on the misfiring Midlander. It was only aged 31 and with no sell-on value that Aston Villa, Heskey's fifth and final premier league club, finally settled for paying less than the psychologically important £5m barrier. Heskey must have wept with relief when the deal went through.
It's almost as though a previous high transfer fee, even without it ever being justified, still carries some weight of its own. "But he must be worth £15m, he was once worth £35m!" chairmen seemingly cry. The dead hand of the former transfer fee lingers. It would be fascinating to see what kind of fee Fernando Torres would command on the open market now, three years after his very considerable ability seems to have deserted him. You simply can't sell a £50m signing for £10m.
In the meantime, Allardyce has turned to a free agent, Mladen Petric, as an option up front in Carroll's absence (he's injured again). Petric didn't cost the Hammers a penny, despite being a Croatian international with 45 caps and 13 goals to his name. You wouldn't bet against him scoring more goals for West Ham than Carroll, though, would you?
Try as he might, Dalglish was unable to top spending £35m on Andy Carroll as his biggest misjudgment.
Tags: Andy Carroll, Boleyn Ground, Carroll, Dirk Kuyt, Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool, Sam Allardyce, Stewart Downing


On Saturday September 24th the Holland Film Meeting has announced the award winners of both the Co-Production Platform and the Work-in-Progress selection of its 29th edition. This year 23 projects in development, including those selected for the inaugural BoostNL programme organised in cooperation with International Film Festival Rotterdam's CineMart, as well as 4 works-in-progress, contended for the prizes in their respective categories.
The Holland Film Meeting is one of the leading co-production markets for European film. Every year a selection of outstanding projects are presented to a select group of top film professionals and film financiers. The aim of the Platform is to launch these projects towards future success and to encourage networking and collaboration between Dutch and international film professionals.
THE RELIGION OF NIGHT WALKS, written and directed by Nikola Ležaić, produced by Jelena Mitrović (Film House Baš Čelik, Serbia). Selected for the HFM Co-Pro Platform 2016.
Jury citation: "Extremely topical in today's world of separated families, and a very interesting, original positioning for a film "from the East of the West" that looks at the Middle East (the director is "interested in off-topic stories that don't fit anywhere"...!)".
TEHRAN, CITY OF LOVE, written and directed by Ali Jaberansari, produced by Babak Jalali (Here & There Productions, UK). Co-producers: Viking Films (Netherlands), Mandra Films (France). Selected for BoostNL. Click here for more information about the new BoostNL programme.
MORMAÇO, directed by Marina Meliande, written by Felipe Bragança & Marina Meliande and produced by Leonardo Mecchi (Duas Mariola Filmes and Enquadramento Produções, Brazil).
Jury citation: "Though the film is in an early stage of the editing phase, we see that there is a great potential in the material they showed in Utrecht with a strong mix between fiction and documentary styles to address a contemporary subject from an original angle".
IN BLUE, directed by Jaap van Heusden, written by Jaap van Heusden & Jan Willem den Bok and produced by Marc Bary (IJswater Film, The Netherlands). Co-producers: Caviar (Belgium) and NTR (The Netherlands).
Gabrielle Dumon (Le Bureau, France), Siniša Juricic (Nukleus Film, Croatia) and Esther Bannenberg (Lumière Publishing, the Netherlands).
Dario Vecchiato (Indie Sales, France), Janja Kralj (KinoElektron, France) and Joram Willink (BIND, the Netherlands).


To an evolutionary biologist a meme is a behaviour, idea or action that is passed from one person to another within a culture. It's the evolution of ideas through the spread, replication and adaptation of words. They are infective and viral and compete for your attention.
The internet meme stays pretty true to this and they are a great viral addition to the modern marketing toolkit. Your meme can be a word meme, video meme, photo/image meme, animal advice meme or something dreamt up in a marketing moment of magic. Make it familiar, topical, shareable, succinct and funny and sit back and watch it go viral.
With your brand in mind think carefully before you leap on board the meme train. Memes are fun and can be adapted to fit virtually every brand but may, and do replicate, and turn the tides of public opinion against you. What ideas do you think will resonate with your clients and their demographic? Overt marketing is a big no-no, remember that a meme is fun and interactive and think through the consequences of using culturally insensitive images or words. They could come back to bite you. Bill Cosby posted a picture of himself in 2014 inviting people to meme him and boy did they.
Baby Sammy's fist clench denoting 'success' or 'frustration' started life as an image taken by his mother and was uploaded to Flickr and Getty Images. Since then it has snowballed and captured the imagination with success memes going viral in their thousands. Virgin Mobile paid an undisclosed sum to licence the image for advertisements and it was even used by the Whitehouse for an immigration campaign. Sammy Griner maybe the most recognised baby on the internet… after North West . This meme also significantly raised money through crowdfunding for Justin Griner (Sammy's father) when he needed a kidney transplant in 2015.
There were some great meme campaigns last year including the "Straight Outta … "meme generator which promoted the film "Straight Outta Compton" boosting ticket sales at the box office. Try it yourself here http://www.straightouttasomewhere.com/ . The great thing about this campaign is the ease with which anyone can participate and share their meme. The public loved it creating hilarious memes, and no animal, politician or cartoon character was safe.
imgflip. Has a stock or established images which you can caption however there is also the option to upload your own images.
Dubsmash app can be downloaded and will allow users to create well known movie scenes and video lip synch to their favourite songs.
Meme Generator was the first online meme generator and will allow you to caption popular characters and animals like 'grumpy cat' and will also allow you to upload your own images and meme those or invite others to so.
There are always more meme generators popping up on the internet so keep an eye out and do let me know if you have a favourite app or generator. If you don't think you can summon up the right sense of humour then have a browse through KnowyourMeme and exercise your inner comedian.
Now that you had created your meme and discussed its role in your marketing campaign where are you going to put it?
Reddit is the number one place to post your meme on the internet, look for the right subreddit and submit your meme. If it does make it to the front page then you will get a dofollow backlink. It is also a great place to have a look what is trending and in a few weeks you will see the memes trending on more conventional social media sites like Facebook. You could hijack and get on board a trending topic like the impeachment of Brasilian President Dilma Roussef before others or just use it to test out the virality of your created meme. If your meme is popular it will be adapted and go viral quickly.
Tumblr . This is a hybrid of social media and a blogging platform. If your content and images are liked then you can benefits from reblogs which do give backlinks. With 10 million users and rising this is the platform not to ignore, especially for great content writers.
Your meme can be shared, liked and commented on, driving traffic to your Facebook page and increasing your followers. Whether they are your target market is a question you should have a think about when creating your meme.
Supported by appropriate hashtags your meme could be picked up by influential retweeters in your region and further. Just search for the popular hashtag #firstworldproblems and you will see how effectively this hastag has gone memetastic.
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I received my Ph.D. from the School of Statistics at the University of Minnesota in 2017. My thesis was supervised by Adam J. Rothman. Before that, I graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN with a BA in Mathematics and a concentration in Statistics. In 2017, I moved to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA, where I worked with Li Hsu and Wei Sun. In 2019, I joined the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida as Assistant Professor.

My research interests are in multivariate analysis, numerical optimization, statistical computing, tensor-valued data analysis, and more broadly, machine learning. My goal is to in develop computationally efficient and model-based methods for classification, regression, clustering, and dimension reduction, with an emphasis on methods that are applicable in statistical genetics and genomics.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments about any of my work.

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Seattle police believe one group could be responsible for a dozen ATM thefts in 2022
In most incidents, suspects generally use a stolen truck as a battering ram and drive through the front doors to gain access to the ATM machine.
Author: Sebastian Robertson (KING5)
Published: 7:57 PM PDT March 17, 2022
Updated: 8:14 PM PDT March 17, 2022
SEATTLE — Thieves used a truck to steal an ATM from a Walgreens on Rainier Avenue South Thursday, doing significant damage in the process.
The theft is the latest in a string of brazen and dangerous tactics criminals are using to get away with cash.
"Well I think it's a shame I'm just happy that the people that work here weren't on duty when it happened because I know them well and they're all just really nice people," said Seattle resident Robin Rolstad.
Around 2 a.m., a group of people smashed a pickup truck through the front doors of the Walgreens in order to crush the ATM located near the entrance. When the machine broke open, they took off with the cash.
"This is more than just compelling video, this is interrupting lives and the livelihoods of those businesses," said Captain Tim Meyer with the King County Sheriff's Department (KCSO).
KCSO said it is investigating seven other ATM thefts this year alone. The Seattle Police Department believes the same group may be behind more than a dozen similar ATM thefts. In most of these incidents, suspects generally use a stolen truck as a battering ram and drive through the front doors to gain access to the ATM machine.
King County Sheriff's Office investigating at least 7 ATM thefts so far this year
Thieves smash into Tacoma Walgreens, break into ATM
Cameras inside Ken's Market in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood captured thieves using a stolen forklift to squeeze through the door where they proceeded to drag an ATM out and into the bed of a pickup.
"I don't recall this occurring in the time I've served here in the sheriff's office... I can think of no period of time, and I've been with the agency coming on 14 years now, where I've seen seven of these, such brazen atm thefts in such a short period of time," Meyer continued.
Just today Seattle police released new pictures of the suspects in the hopes someone recognizes the people who are possibly behind several of the crimes.
If the suspects are caught they could be looking at multiple charges including theft, vandalism, and burglary from just one ATM theft.
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With uncommon qualities and characteristics, these future-ready leaders will drive organizations to adapt, collaborate, and excel in disruptive times.
THE SELF-DISRUPTIVE
To ensure organizations succeed in a rapidly changing business world in the years ahead, a new kind of future-ready leader must take priority. Current models of leadership go some way to answering this, but research by the Korn Ferry Institute reveals the ideal leader for tomorrow's disruptive business environment: The Self-Disruptive Leader.
This new model of high-performing leader incorporates and builds on existing concepts of agile, digital, and inclusive leadership, but also highlights the importance of leaders who are experts in the creation of opportunity and the capitalization of the flow of knowledge. In this model, the new source of competitive advantage is a leader who can connect resources and people adeptly to build an innovation ecosystem. This enables them to bring robust ideas to market at a rapid pace and, crucially, to adapt quickly to change by disrupting themselves again and again.
THE SELF-DISRUPTIVE LEADER
need to begin
cultivating the
right leadership
Businesses urgently need to begin cultivating the right leadership pipeline:
INSIST THE RIGHT LEADERSHIP IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT WHEN DECIDING WHICH COMPANIES TO INVEST IN
67% of
believe that traditional leadership is not for the future.
said that the need for transformation will make leadership more important to company performance within the next three years.
said that pressure for short-term performance works against leaders' ability to deliver innovation, digitization and change.
THIS STUDY
This study reveals the skills that leaders will need in the future of business—and in today's increasingly disruptive environment. We uncover how many leaders are performing highly in these areas and where there is a pressing need for improvement. By analyzing the leadership profiles of 150,000 leaders from the Korn Ferry Institute's proprietary data, the study underlines the five key qualities of effective, future-focused leadership—qualities which correlate with a country's ability to innovate and which correlate with a company's likelihood of being an acclaimed brand. It also reveals how well leaders in 18 key global markets are performing in each dimension, and where improvement is urgently needed.
Additionally, the study uses opinion research from 795 investors and analysts to model the gap between the current supply of these high-performance behaviors and the market's demand for them, to reveal just how wide leadership skills shortages are globally and by market.
Leaders of the future will need to retain a self-disruptive outlook as a central feature of their leadership style to prosper.
Discover a new leadership paradigm to help your organization thrive in disruptive times.
Find out how you can ADAPT to thrive in the future of work.
Explore the readiness of 18 economies in managing disruption.
Discover what Self-Disruptive Leadership means for each of the economies in our study.
"A new model of future-ready leadership to excel in disruptive times."
"Self-Disruptive Leaders are different in the way they both think and behave."
"Leadership is about to make or break future businesses."
Adapt?
With 67% of investors insisting that the current leadership pool is not fit for the future, it's no surprise then that investor confidence in current leadership styles and organizations is wavering. Organizations could be faced with a double bind if they fail to develop self-disruptive behaviors. Not only will they be less able to adapt to the changing business environment, they may face a penalty from those who evaluate their businesses.
to succeed in the
future of work,
they must adapt:
For leaders to succeed
in the future of work,
Anticipate:
Demonstrate contextual intelligence to make quick judgments and create opportunities; focus on the societal needs that the organization wants to serve; provide a direction to unify collective efforts even among disoriented environments.
Drive:
Energize people by fostering a sense of purpose; manage the mental and physical energy of themselves and others; nurture a positive environment to keep people hopeful, optimistic, and intrinsically motivated.
Accelerate:
Manage the flow of knowledge to produce constant innovation and desired business outcomes; use agile processes, quick prototyping, and iterative approaches to rapidly implement and commercialize ideas.
Connect and form partnerships across increasingly permeable functional and organizational boundaries; enable the exchange of ideas; combine complementary capabilities to enable high performance.
Trust:
Form a new relationship between the organization and the individual that centers on mutual growth; integrate diverse perspectives and values; help individuals to uncover their sense of purpose and facilitate them in providing their maximum contribution.
Leaders need to
Each of the five dimensions qualify as the top priority for leadership development in at least one economy, according to the gap between the ADAPT qualities leaders possess and the qualities investors demand.
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Bringing clarity in times of volatility and ambiguity. These are leaders who are not going to wait for luck to find them. They are motivated by challenge and obstacles—all they see is opportunity!
Energizing people who are change-weary, and yet must re-skill themselves for an uncertain future. They also nurture positivity and hope, through optimism, to foster a sense of renewal.
Leading by managing the flow of knowledge using principles of design thinking and Lean, but letting go—doing it without the need for control.
Collaborating without sole ownership of the issue, leading a distributed, non-hierarchical organization—interdependencies are voluntary and transitory.
Bringing people together with a tremendous amount of diversity, secure their commitment, and recognize they have their own purpose, ambitions, and self-expression.
Do you have what
it takes to become a
Self-Disruptive
Leader?
Becoming a Self-Disruptive Leader is not subject to the development or enhancement of a set of skills. It's a mindset and the ability to constantly challenge your own beliefs and assumptions. Your mindset helps you organize your belief system and sets the course for behaviors and actions. We believe that the future of work demands a new mindset and a new course of behaviors and actions, and only those leaders who have the courage to challenge themselves have a chance to effectively lead their organizations into the future.
This short quiz has been designed to introduce the concepts of the Self-Disruptive Leader and generate initial curiosity about yourself. It doesn't intend to be a substitute for psychometric assessment. If you are interested in getting more reliable results and receiving feedback, please contact credible resources for professional services.
an invaluable
The pursuit of Self-Disruptive Leaders will mean seeking them out in unusual places, and it is crucial that talented people are not blocked because they do not fit traditional training or personality criteria. As a group, tomorrow's leaders will look and act differently to current directors and C-suite executives. They will have attended a variety of schools and come from a range of different places, and many will have risen to the top through non-traditional paths. Diversity and inclusion will become more imperative than ever, and talent assessment—with true insight, objectivity, and value—will be vital.
"Investing in and developing those with self-disruptive tendencies throughout the business is critical, but frankly it can rankle senior leaders. 'Natural' self-disruptors may be considered impossible rebels by their bosses because they often won't accept conventional wisdom and constantly agitate for change. This unconventional thinking positions them perfectly for leadership in a disruptive world. But it also can, ironically, block this important talent from advancement."
Khoi Tu, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry
To tackle this complex and multilateral issue, organizations need to think about talent as a system—including recruitment, compensation, training, development, and succession planning. These functions and programs may need a full revamp to ensure that organizations widen and maintain a flow of diverse talent, especially of hard-to-find Self-Disruptive Leaders.
To create opportunities in an ever-fluctuating world, organizations need Self-Disruptive Leaders—people who are engines of change, but also generate it from within, at the pace of their business. Traditional training routes aren't equipped to solve the leadership crisis, often producing outmoded mindsets that can't keep up with the rate of change. Instead, a revolution in how companies develop leaders is vital for closing the leadership pipeline gap.
To capitalize on an increasingly disruptive world, companies must accelerate their identification, recruitment, retention, development, and promotion of leaders with self-disruptive potential at all levels of the business. Organizations must develop a culture that empowers everyone within them to challenge their own thinking and disrupt themselves. This final point underpins the solution to the leadership crisis. Leadership can no longer be isolated and inscrutable: by cascading ADAPT proficiencies throughout the organization, companies will develop a self-perpetuating ecosystem of leaders, ready for whatever the future of work brings.
an invaluable talent


At my age, I have used Duct Tape to fix many things. When you're a guy, it can come in handy to fix many things. If you are a redneck guy like myself, Duct Tape can fix even more.
I could tell you all of the things I have used it for but there wouldn't be enough room on this page to tell you everything.
Rather, I will tell you what my son did when I got home the other night.
My youngest son, Ryder, has this little car you sit in and peddle with your feet. Much like the Flintstones. Well, at the end of the summer this past year, he had driven the back axle completely off the car. We all thought it was done for but never got around to taking it to the dump.
When I got home, I was greeted by my second oldest son, Ashton, who began to tell me how he fixed Ryder's car. I honestly wasn't expecting much but was proud to take a look at what he had accomplished.
As I walked into the house, Ryder was driving it all over the kitchen. We had him stop for a minute so we could have a look. As we flipped the car over, the redneck in me became a very proud father. Ashton had learned something from his old dad and took Gorilla Tape and put that beat-down car back together. It worked like a charm.
What is the most amazing thing you have fixed with tape? Tell me about it at 406-248-5665.


Suction and irrigation pump dedicated to laparoscopic surgeries. The optimum adjustment of pressure and flow parameters allows for effective tissue rinsing and effective aspiration of fluid during laparoscopic procedures.
Next generation, high quality arthroscopic shaver system controlled via handpiece or via footswitch. Featuring extremely efficient and robust handpiece characterized by ergonomic and compact construction. Designed to complete the procedure precisely at the minimal trauma level.
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VIMEX ENDOSCOPY is one of few world-wide original manufacturers of rigid endoscopy devices arthroscopy shavers and medical fluid pumps. During the first years of its activity, the Company was manufacturing medical devices under different brands around the world. Due to the quality of products VIMEX reached recognition on the market and become one of the most respected European OEM manufacturers in the world.


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Tom Savage Concussion Highlights Issues with NFL Brain Injury Protocol
It was a hit that should have resulted in Houston Texans quarterback Tom Savage being immediately pulled from his NFL game, but in a break from NFL concussion protocol, Savage was allowed back into the game only to later be diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury. Savage isn't the first player to rejoin a game before being diagnosed with a concussion. Now, safety advocates say the NFL and NFLPA must re-examine the concussion protocol, to ensure players are properly protected.
Houston Texans Quarterback Hit Hard, Returned to Game in Minutes
In the second quarter of the December 10 game against the San Francisco 49ers, Houston Texans quarterback Tom Savage was hit by Elvis Dumervil hard enough that Savage experienced tremors and shaking. Despite being pulled from the game for an evaluation, Savage was cleared to return to play the next time the Texans had the ball. After throwing two incomplete passes, doctors conducted a further evaluation and pulled him from the game for a traumatic brain injury, but he played a series before a proper diagnosis was made.
At a press conference the following day, Texans coach Bill O'Brien said if he had seen the video of Savage being hit, and Savage's response to the hit, O'Brien would not have allowed Savage back in the game.
Both the NFL and the Players' Association are reviewing the handling of Savage's concussion.
Experts Say NFL Not Protecting Players from TBI Damage
Football analysts and safety experts say the NFL still isn't doing enough to ensure its concussion protocol is followed by each of the teams and protects players from rejoining a game after suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Unfortunately, multiple players—including Russell Wilson and Coby Fleener—have returned to games too soon, a sign that the concussion protocol is not effective.
"Players are returning to the field after answering a couple of brisk questions, despite clear evidence of severe blows to the head," writes Sally Jenkins for The Washington Post. "[Russell] Wilson missed just one play after taking a hit that left him on a liquid diet. Savage spent an estimated three minutes under evaluation before someone let him back on the field. That's way too quick for symptoms to manifest, and everyone knows it."
Although the NFL said it is investigating the Tom Savage concussion incident, safety advocates say that's not enough, given the dangers associated with severe and repeated concussions. Those risks can include chronic traumatic encephalopathy and other serious health issues. Despite having a protocol in place for dealing with situations where players take severe hits and may have suffered brain trauma, analysts say the NFL isn't taking action when the people responsible for checking the players skirt the rules.
"[The NFL] has yet to issue a single meaningful public rebuke to anyone wearing a suit—a doctor, trainer, or club official—for jeopardizing player health," Jenkins writes.
Without any actions against doctors, trainers, or officials when players return to a game too quickly, there's little incentive to ensure players are healthy before they return to play. One issue highlighted by Chris Nowinski, co-founder, and CEO of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, is that players are examined on the sidelines, not in the locker room.
"The protocol needs to be rewritten this week and strengthened to be more conservative," Nowinski said. "And I think all the doctors require stronger training. And I think there needs to be fines and punishments when protocols are breached. It doesn't appear that they're trying hard enough to get better."
Teams can face fines for violating the concussion protocol. So far, the NFL has investigated the Seahawks for allowing Russell Wilson to play after he took a massive hit. The results of that investigation have not been made public.
Experts Say Tom Savage Concussion Proves Concussion Protocol is Inadequate
The concussion protocol requires two athletic trainers in the press box at each game spotting hits that could trigger a concussion. Meanwhile, a neurotrauma consultant also works on the sidelines. If a player sustains a hit that could cause a concussion or shows signs of a concussion after a hit, the player is assessed for immediate signs of brain trauma, including loss of consciousness, confusion or amnesia.
If any of those factors are present, officials can pull the player from play for the remainder of the day. If those factors aren't present, an initial evaluation is conducted to determine if the player has suffered a concussion. That evaluation, however, might last only a few minutes while concussion symptoms can take longer to develop. In the meantime, returning to the game too quickly puts the player at risk of even more dire health consequences.
The NFL put the protocol into place in response to a lawsuit by players who alleged the league did not protect them from traumatic brain injuries. The families of some players also filed lawsuits, claiming their loved ones died due to chronic traumatic encephalopathy caused by repeated concussions.
Meanwhile, a study on the football players whose brains were donated to science found that 99 percent of former NFL players showed signs of CTE. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is only diagnosed after death and is linked to repeated head trauma.
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Tahiti Drops earrings is from Chao's Garden series, which she grows imaginative plants. The flower part is made by anticlastic forming technique. There are two surface treatments- textured by hand and high polish- to give a beautiful contrast.
This pair of earrings is one of a kind.


Hi all. I'm clare. Previously did slimming world successful 1st time round losing 2 n half stone. Tried again and failed miserably. Downloaded my fitness pal..thought I'd give a try calorie counting instead (going to give myself 1 cheat day a week too)! Can be a lot more active now the weather getting better too. So here I go. Going to include food diary...hoping can find some advice on here to help. Thanks.
I also do calorie counting. keeping a diary will definitely keep you motivated.
How many calories are you aiming to have a day?


At Dyxum.com we had a "Postcard Exchange May/June 2011, where each participant was assigned 10 people worldwide to send postcards to. This gallery contains the postcards that I received. and the ones that I sent.
From "Frankman" in Australia. This is the photo inside the jacket.
From "Frankman" in Australia. This is the photo outside the jacket.


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Tesco supports unacceptable cruelty within their supply chain - forcing chickens to grow so quickly that some aren't even able to stand. According to an independent study, 270 million chickens in the UK have poor locomotion.
Open Cages have launched a campaign calling on Tesco to follow other companies in signing the European Chicken Commitment, this will eliminate some of these barbaric practices and improve welfare conditions for their broiler chickens.
Broilers are selectively bred to grow unnaturally fast. As a result, their premature bodies cannot handle the weight, which can lead to broken legs, starvation, and heart attacks. If people grew this fast, a 5 year old child would weigh 300 pounds.
Broilers are packed often up to 19 chickens in a square metre. This is a little less than an A4 page for one bird, meaning they can barely spread their wings or get any exercise.
Skin diseases and burns are typically caused by ammonia fumes, as chickens are living in their own filth: those who have difficulty standing develop nasty blisters. On top of this, bodies of dead animals often lie in farms unattended.
Help us Stand With Chickens by signing this petition now, which will send the email under "read petition letter" below to Tesco's CEO, demanding that Tesco sign the European Chicken Commitment and commit to higher welfare standards for their chickens now!
The short life of chickens reared for meat in Tesco's intensive factory farms is full of unnecessary suffering. On intensive farms like the ones in your supply chain, chickens have been bred to grow unnaturally fast resulting in many collapsing under their own weight: as a result, mortality is very high. Birds have no larger than an A4 sheet of paper to move around and suffer skin diseases and burns from living in their own filth. I disagree that these sorts of conditions are acceptable and believe Tesco should take action: there are alternatives.
Your customers care about the welfare standards of the animals they buy and expect chickens reared for meat to live in better conditions. Tesco must take responsibility for the welfare of the chickens sold in their stores by signing the European Chicken Commitment and taking the necessary steps to ensure conditions improve for these animals.