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Located in the heart of Europe, within easy access of Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, Frankfurt, London and Paris, Maastricht School of Management (MSM) is one of the oldest and most international business schools in the Netherlands. Located in Europe, but an established global player, we know how much good management matters for success. We know how important it is to make internationally accredited management education accessible. Our programs are offered around the world, from Cairo to Lima to Nanjing, and elsewhere. Forging the established with the new and the north with the south, our distinct approach to business equips our students and clients to flourish in a world where rapid change and the importance of knowledge are the only two givens.
We believe our graduates learn more about themselves, as they learn about the world at MSM. Ultimately this is what will give them and their organizations the edge in life and business.
Maastricht School of Management provides education and research for ethical management, inspiring leadership, innovative entrepreneurship and effective public policy, building on our unique history in working together with institutions in emerging economies for better global management.
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...through the program you will fulfill practice-oriented assignments every week. These assignments can consist of different tasks, all related to the topic... Learn about: Business Finance, Project Plan, Business Project... More
Full-time MBA Program course in Maastricht
The fact that I am a more confident business leader and a coach thanks to this MBA at MSM.
It has prepared me for the competitive job market and given me the opportunity to get introduced to the stunning culture of The Netherlands. Studying at MSM has also helped me to be able to adjust quickly to different backgrounds and cultures in the working environment.
The high quality education, cultural diverseness and global connections. Being with students from many countries and working in intercultural groups is a very enriching experience. Apart from the business subjects, MSM also teaches to manage time and self-discipline indirectly through its tight schedules and vast curriculum. The skills gained will certainly influence positively in my future career.
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...inside and outside the classroom. This will help you develop your global and multicultural leadership skills and expand your global network... Learn about: HealthCare Management, International Business and Sustainable Development, Business Studies... More
Master in Management Program course in Maastricht
That it gave me the opportunity to attend lectures from outstanding, talented professors and meet very interesting people from around the world.
From faculty members to student body, has been a worthwhile experience because it helps you to develop a managerial mind-set that becomes the key in problem solving and decision making.
Our state-of-the-art curriculum equips the young manager with all the necessary knowledge and skills to bring real value to today's competitive business organizations.
...In the global context your personal networks and multicultural leadership skills are vital ingredients for career success... Learn about: Interpersonal Communication, Business Finance, Managerial Economics... More
Executive MBA Program course in Maastricht
The structure of the program and the time between lecturing weeks provided the best balance between work and study. It has enriched my business understanding and consequently opened new doors. Joining this programme has been one of the best decisions I've made.
...your knowledge right from the first course. The final Executive MBA project will be either an academic research project, a business consulting project... Learn about: Business Studies, Accounting & Finance, The Digital Economy... More
Value Chain Analysis course in Maastricht
...imparted by MSM - Maastricht School of Management, provides you with more in-depth knowledge on how to analyze and develop frameworks for local economic development... Learn about: Economic development, Small Businesses, Economic growth... More
Financial Management for Non-Financial Managers course in Maastricht
...You should expect to learn from working on several real cases to discuss and learn... Learn about: CFO perspective, Financial Managers, Organization value... More
Project Management course in Maastricht
...order to effectively tackle the challenges of private sector projects of today. The MSM Project Management course enables you to develop the skills... Learn about: People Management, Project Management, Project challenges... More
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...the role of the private sector in financing for development and Private Finance for Development. Using lectures, presentations, group work and discussions as teaching methods... Learn about: Public and private, Business people, Development assistance... More
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...scenario's Managing difficult interactions and resolve interpersonal confilicts Building your credibility and your impact... Learn about: Leadership deals, Personal Leadership, Organization challenges... More
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...Also, inter-personal skills will be part of the sessions too to assure that you become an outstanding professional. If you want you want to know about... Learn about: Achieve impact, Leadership deals, Internal Resources... More
...being either an academic research paper, business consultancy project or business plan. In the full-time MBA you will follow a so-called Chief's Certificate... Learn about: Sports Management, Accounting & Finance, And Public Sector Management... More
...Would you like to develop skills and tools that will enable you to start a career in the management field? If the answer is yes, this Master is made for... Learn about: Interpersonal Communication, Master in Management, Business Finance... More
...and program coordinators with managerial tasks Consultants dealing with project activities. The Admissions team will contact you shortly after requesting information... Learn about: Global goals, Sustainable Development, Global Economy... More
...You have an open attitude. The Admissions team will contact you shortly after requesting information. Course topics: During the course following topics will be discussed... Learn about: Cultural Influences, Effective Management, Organization culture... More
Research Methods and Skills course in Maastricht
480h - 12 Weeks
...on "the basics" of research. It discusses research philosophy, deductive and inductive reasoning, research ethics, the role of literature in the empirical research cycle... Learn about: Management skills, Data analysis, Data Processing... More
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What I would highlight: It has prepared me for the competitive job market and given me the opportunity to get introduced to the stunning culture of The Netherlands. Studying at MSM has also helped me to be able to adjust quickly to different backgrounds and cultures in the working environment.
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What I would highlight: That it gave me the opportunity to attend lectures from outstanding, talented professors and meet very interesting people from around the world.
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What I would highlight: From faculty members to student body, has been a worthwhile experience because it helps you to develop a managerial mind-set that becomes the key in problem solving and decision making.
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What I would highlight: Pursuing the MBA provided me with a new set of ideas; both soft skills and technical skills in areas outside of Law. This was very valuable in placing myself in the best position to successfully make the transition into a career in finance in which I am today.
Julia Taddei
What I would highlight: The students creating a brotherhood that stretches beyond the classroom experience and the duration of the program. I'm glad to say my former classmates and I are stil good friends and have developed an active professional network too.
Dedi Siddiq
What I would highlight: The practical learning materials for searching academic literature and drafting a research proposal are among the most highlighted features of the RMS program, the previous step to Doctor of Business Administration programme.
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What I would highlight: The high quality education, cultural diverseness and global connections. Being with students from many countries and working in intercultural groups is a very enriching experience. Apart from the business subjects, MSM also teaches to manage time and self-discipline indirectly through its tight schedules and vast curriculum. The skills gained will certainly influence positively in my future career.
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What I would highlight: The fact that I am a more confident business leader and a coach thanks to this MBA at MSM.
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What I would highlight: The structure of the program and the time between lecturing weeks provided the best balance between work and study. It has enriched my business understanding and consequently opened new doors. Joining this programme has been one of the best decisions I've made.
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ZEPHYRHILLS — A 29-year-old motorcyclist was killed Saturday afternoon when another driver on U.S. Highway 301 turned into his path, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
David Walter Engberg, of Land O' Lakes, died at the scene of the crash just before 12:30 p.m., troopers said.
He was riding his Yamaha YZF-R1 Supersport motorcycle northbound on U.S.-301 when he was cut off by a Chevrolet Sonic turning into Daughtry Road, troopers said.
Driver Shirley Ann Brooks, 73, of Zephyrhills, failed to yield to oncoming traffic when she made a left-hand turn directly into Engberg's path, causing the front of his motorcycle to crash into her vehicle.
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The Saudis Just Murdered a Writer From the Washington Post
Jamal Khashoggi was tortured and killed by a Saudi government 'murder team,' according to Turkish police, while inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey.
"If this is true – that the Saudis lured a U.S. resident into their consulate and murdered him – it should represent a fundamental break in our relationship with Saudi Arabia," declared Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) in response.
Spurring fresh outrage among those who criticize the cozy relationship between the U.S. government and the Saudi monarchy—with emphasis on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS)—political dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabia national living in self-imposed exile abroad, was tortured and killed last week by a Saudi government 'murder team,' according to Turkish sources, while inside the Saudi consulate building in Istanbul, Turkey.
"The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. We believe that the murder was premeditated and the body was subsequently moved out of the consulate," one of the two Turkish officials told Reuters on Saturday. The writer, the news agency reported, entered the consulate last Tuesday to secure documents for his forthcoming marriage while his fiancee waited outside. He never came back out, she said, and has not been seen or heard from since.
Citing two people with knowledge of Turkey's probe, the Post's reporting says that the 15-member Saudi hit team was sent "specifically for the murder" and that the entire thing was "pre-planned." According to the Post:
The killing, if confirmed, would mark a startling escalation of Saudi Arabia's effort to silence dissent. Under direction from the crown prince, Saudi authorities have carried out hundreds of arrests under the banner of national security, rounding up clerics, business executives and even women's rights advocates.
"If the reports of Jamal's murder are true, it is a monstrous and unfathomable act," Fred Hiatt, the director of The Post's editorial page, said in a statement. "Jamal was — or, as we hope, is — a committed, courageous journalist. He writes out of a sense of love for his country and deep faith in human dignity and freedom. He is respected in his country, in the Middle East and throughout the world. We have been enormously proud to publish his writings."
Khashoggi may have been considered especially dangerous by the Saudi leadership, analysts said. His criticisms of the royal family and its vast powers were delivered from his self-imposed exile in the United States and could not be dismissed as the complaints of a longtime dissident.
"Unbelievable" and "WTF!!!" declared CodePink's Medea Benjamin, a U.S. peace activist and expert on the Saudi's human rights record, after reading the news.
If the murder happened as is being reported, Benjamin told Commons Dreams, it is "beyond belief," but also quite easy to believe given the country's record and that of MbS.
"It exposes the horrific nature of the Saudi regime," she explained, "and it has the fingerprints of the crown prince all over it. MbS, who was feted as a refreshing young reformist when he visited the United States, bombs children in Yemen with impunity. He jails women human rights activists and then declares himself a liberator of women. He imprisons and shakes down his internal rivals in an 'anti-corruption' drive. He kidnaps the Lebanese head of state and creates a Gulf-wide crisis by attacking Qatar. And now he has a journalist who was living in the United States, a journalist who was a mild critic, murdered on Turkish soil?"
MbS, she concluded, "is out of control and this should be the long-awaited moment for the US to totally recalibrate its relationship with this criminal regime."
Benjamin wasn't the only one arguing the murder should force a reckoning in terms of U.S.-Saudi relations. "If this is true – that the Saudis lured a U.S. resident into their consulate and murdered him – it should represent a fundamental break in our relationship with Saudi Arabia," declared Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) in response.
"If true, this would be an abysmal new low," said Amnesty International's Middle East Research Director Lynn Maalouf. "Such an assassination within the grounds of the consulate, which is territory under Saudi Arabian jurisdiction, would amount to an extrajudicial execution. This case sends a shockwave among Saudi Arabian human rights defenders and dissidents everywhere, eroding any notion of seeking safe haven abroad."
And journalist Shane Bauer tweeted:
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"I'm devastated, shocked and enraged at this news that Turkish authorities believe that my colleague Jamal Khashoggi has been killed in the consulate of Saudia Arabia in Istanbul," declared Jason Rezaian, a writer for the Global Opinions section of the Post. Khashoggi has been a opinion contributor to the Post since 2017 as well as an outspoken critic of the Saudi government and the Royal Family.
Here is some of the powerful commentary Jamal Khashoggi contributed to the Washington Post during the last year. He was calling for greater freedom in Saudi Arabia, including for women. Is that a capital offense? https://t.co/bEnFxhTq5I
— Jackson Diehl (@JacksonDiehl) October 7, 2018
Days ago, after Khashoggi went into the consulate but never came out, allies in Turkey who believed he was being detained against his will began rallying outside the building to demand his release. In the midst of those demands, MbS told Bloomberg NewsKhashoggi had left the consulate shortly after he arrived, though neither the crown prince nor the Saudi government provided any evidence to substantiate their claims.
Having consolidated his power within the Kingdom in recent years, MbS has not only been the driving force behind the devastating war against neighboring Yemen, he has also moved aggressively to crush dissent in his own country while simultaneously presenting himself to western governments—none more conspicuously than the United States—as a "reformer" of the notoriously corrupt, abusive, and anti-democratic Saudi government.
In March of this year, the prince travelled to the U.S., as Common Dreams reported at the time, for a whirlwind "whitewash tour" where the "socially acceptable war criminal" met with political and wealthy elites as well as Hollywood celebrities in an overt effort to polish his image and ingratiate himself to the American ruling class.
As Jon Schwarz of The Intercept expressed in a series of tweets overnight, the possible murder of Khashoggi—likely ordered by MbS himself—only highlights the corrupt, violent, and insidious result of the backing and support given to the Saudis by the U.S. government and some of its most powerful people:
Here's a short, four-part story about how the world actually works: pic.twitter.com/ydD7a53mLL
— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) October 6, 2018
Here's Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, yukking it up back in March with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose government appears to have just murdered a Washington Post columnist. pic.twitter.com/G0CIGOYeun
Here's Jared Kushner with his good buddy and collaborator Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. It's maybe not surprising that journalists feel negatively toward a worldwide political movement that murders journalists. pic.twitter.com/qCYxNXMp8d
As Amnesty's Maalouf stated, "The international community's deafening silence on Saudi Arabia's crackdown on freedom of expression must end and it must demand an immediate explanation from Saudi Arabia's authorities about Jamal Khashoggi's fate or whereabouts. If the reports are true, they must immediately launch an independent investigation and those responsible, however high their rank or status, must face justice."
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    monitor-exit p0

    .line 50
    return-void

    .line 58
    :cond_21
    :try_start_21
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->mFrame:Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;

    if-eqz v0, :cond_12

    .line 59
    new-instance v0, Ljava/lang/RuntimeException;

    .line 60
    new-instance v1, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    invoke-direct {v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

    const-string/jumbo v2, "Attempting to push more than one frame on port: "

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1, p0}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v1

    const-string/jumbo v2, "!"

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v1

    .line 59
    invoke-direct {v0, v1}, Ljava/lang/RuntimeException;-><init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V

    throw v0
    :try_end_46
    .catchall {:try_start_21 .. :try_end_46} :catchall_46

    :catchall_46
    move-exception v0

    monitor-exit p0

    throw v0
.end method

.method public clear()V
    .registers 3

    .prologue
    const/4 v1, 0x0

    .line 34
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->mFrame:Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;

    if-eqz v0, :cond_c

    .line 35
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->mFrame:Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;

    invoke-virtual {v0}, Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;->release()Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;

    .line 36
    iput-object v1, p0, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->mFrame:Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;

    .line 33
    :cond_c
    return-void
.end method

.method public declared-synchronized hasFrame()Z
    .registers 2

    .prologue
    monitor-enter p0

    .line 86
    :try_start_1
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->mFrame:Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;
    :try_end_3
    .catchall {:try_start_1 .. :try_end_3} :catchall_a

    if-eqz v0, :cond_8

    const/4 v0, 0x1

    :goto_6
    monitor-exit p0

    return v0

    :cond_8
    const/4 v0, 0x0

    goto :goto_6

    :catchall_a
    move-exception v0

    monitor-exit p0

    throw v0
.end method

.method public declared-synchronized pullFrame()Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;
    .registers 5

    .prologue
    monitor-enter p0

    .line 70
    :try_start_1
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->mFrame:Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;

    if-nez v1, :cond_29

    .line 71
    new-instance v1, Ljava/lang/RuntimeException;

    new-instance v2, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    invoke-direct {v2}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

    const-string/jumbo v3, "No frame available to pull on port: "

    invoke-virtual {v2, v3}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v2

    invoke-virtual {v2, p0}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v2

    const-string/jumbo v3, "!"

    invoke-virtual {v2, v3}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v2

    invoke-virtual {v2}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v2

    invoke-direct {v1, v2}, Ljava/lang/RuntimeException;-><init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V

    throw v1
    :try_end_26
    .catchall {:try_start_1 .. :try_end_26} :catchall_26

    :catchall_26
    move-exception v1

    monitor-exit p0

    throw v1

    .line 75
    :cond_29
    :try_start_29
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->mFrame:Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;

    .line 76
    .local v0, "result":Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;
    iget-boolean v1, p0, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->mPersistent:Z

    if-eqz v1, :cond_36

    .line 77
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->mFrame:Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;->retain()Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;
    :try_end_34
    .catchall {:try_start_29 .. :try_end_34} :catchall_26

    :goto_34
    monitor-exit p0

    .line 81
    return-object v0

    .line 79
    :cond_36
    const/4 v1, 0x0

    :try_start_37
    iput-object v1, p0, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->mFrame:Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;
    :try_end_39
    .catchall {:try_start_37 .. :try_end_39} :catchall_26

    goto :goto_34
.end method

.method public pushFrame(Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;)V
    .registers 3
    .param p1, "frame"    # Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;

    .prologue
    .line 47
    const/4 v0, 0x0

    invoke-virtual {p0, p1, v0}, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->assignFrame(Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;Z)V

    .line 46
    return-void
.end method

.method public setFrame(Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;)V
    .registers 3
    .param p1, "frame"    # Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;

    .prologue
    .line 42
    const/4 v0, 0x1

    invoke-virtual {p0, p1, v0}, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->assignFrame(Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;Z)V

    .line 41
    return-void
.end method

.method public toString()Ljava/lang/String;
    .registers 3

    .prologue
    .line 91
    new-instance v0, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    invoke-direct {v0}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

    const-string/jumbo v1, "input "

    invoke-virtual {v0, v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v0

    invoke-super {p0}, Landroid/filterfw/core/InputPort;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v0, v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v0

    invoke-virtual {v0}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v0

    return-object v0
.end method

.method public declared-synchronized transfer(Landroid/filterfw/core/FilterContext;)V
    .registers 3
    .param p1, "context"    # Landroid/filterfw/core/FilterContext;

    .prologue
    monitor-enter p0

    .line 96
    :try_start_1
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->mFrame:Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;

    if-eqz v0, :cond_a

    .line 97
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->mFrame:Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;

    invoke-virtual {p0, v0, p1}, Landroid/filterfw/core/StreamPort;->checkFrameManager(Landroid/filterfw/core/Frame;Landroid/filterfw/core/FilterContext;)V
    :try_end_a
    .catchall {:try_start_1 .. :try_end_a} :catchall_c

    :cond_a
    monitor-exit p0

    .line 95
    return-void

    :catchall_c
    move-exception v0

    monitor-exit p0

    throw v0
.end method

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The idea of the boiling communal cauldron as cooking vessel is only as new as humans. It is also international. From Chinese "hotpot," to Japanese nabemono dishes and Singapore "steamboat" all the way to Swiss fondue, the idea of cooking meat in a boiling cauldron is ancient and archetypal. There's no better place to sample Asia's takes on the theme than at Boiling Passion (3904 Convoy Street).


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Sharon Vandromme (Roeselare, Flandes Occidental, 2 d'octubre de 1983) va ser una ciclista belga que fou professional del 2003 al 2007. Va combinar la carretera amb la pista. Va participar en els Jocs Olímpics de 2004.

Palmarès en pista
 2008
  Campiona de Bèlgica en puntuació

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 Fitxa als Jocs Olímpics

Ciclistes de Roeselare
Esportistes belgues als Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 2004
Ciclistes femenines de Flandes Occidental

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ELAINE BLICK AUTHOR
I WRITE - YOU READ
CLARKS BEACH PUKEKOHE
blickelaine@gmail.com
unmarried mothers
unmarried mothers of 1960
I was born in Salisbury, England, and when I was five my parents shifted to New Zealand. We lived in Auckland where I attended Auckland Teachers' College and trained as a primary teacher. After a few years teaching I studied for an MA in English at Auckland University. I then returned to England where I taght English in a secondary school until I retired. I now live at Clarks Beach where I am able in this tranquil setting to concentrate on writing
So why did I take up novel writing?
In 2010 our family home in Nelson had just been sold and I wanted to preserve its memory, but in an imaginative way, so I wrote Where the Bellbird Sings and followed this up the next year with No White Flowers, Please This was based on my mother's life and set partly in NZ partly in England during the 1920s. Because it seemed to call for a sequel I wrote When this War is Over, set in wartime Britain. All of these books were family sagas where I drew heavily on my own background.
EARLY NOVELS
FIRST NAMES ONLY is about a group of unmarried mothers in the 1960s living in a home in Auckland while awaiting the birth of their babies which will be adopted out as soon as they are born. It is based on Childhaven, an adoption society that I had a lot to do with, as my mother was secretary for 26 years. I came to know a number of the girls and their individual stories. I have fictionalised these and interwoven them into the plot but what is true is that the experience of giving up a baby for adoption left its mark on the mother for life.
In 2017 I wrote my first historical novel- HEARTS SET FREE.. It tells the story of two women - Debra a young married woman of today and Clara, who lives in the eighteenth century, and is married to a slave trader in Bristol, England. At the time there is an outcry against the slave trade, led by people such as John Wesley, the great Methodist preacher. He had an impact on William Wilberforce and encouraged him in his anti-slavery campaign. Clara hears him preach and her life is turned upside down, As Debra reads her letters she becomes so involved in the life of Clara she loses touch with her own world.
While writing HEARTS SET FREE I became fascinated with one of the minor characters, a girl who had been born on a slave plantation in Jamaica. I decided to write a sequel centred on this girl of mixed parentage and so MIRANDA was born. At the moment I am debating whether to write a third book in the series.
KATEY THE BEACH CAT was my first venture into children's writing, yet this book seems to appeal to adults who have a taste for the whimsical. Katey tells her own story and her views on life may amuse you, especially if you have ever wondered how your pets see you and other members of the animal kingdom. There is a blend of fact and fancy running through the book for Katey has a 'Furry Godmother' who transforms her into Katerina, a beautiful girl - once a month when the moon is full.
Having written about one of my pets I went on to write ROSE AND PEACH AT THE BEACH about my two chickens who were such personalities they deserved to have a story in which they featured, although it is the little girl who has them from day-old chicks and is forced to give them up who really takes centre stage and reminds us of the pains of childhood.
IF ONLY was another historical novel, though set in a time closer to our own, at the turn of the 20th century. Alice has many traits of the woman of today, believing that a career in nursing is equally worthwhile to that of a wife and mother. However, it is her devotion to the young man she is semi-engaged to, that leads her to South Africa at the start of the Boer War.
BEYOND THE HORIZON -
Just released on Amazon and Book Depository as an e-book
This novel takes the reader into Newgate, the most notorious prison in London, where Louise, the daughter of an English naval officer has to survive amongst thieves, prostitutes and forgers- where catfights, drunkenness, hunger and cold are a daily reality. Yet worse than this is the five month journey to Botany Bay where women are just a commodity in this male-dominated society. How will she cope? The answer may surprise you.


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Rez packages can be built and locally installed using the *rez-build* tool. This
tool performs the following actions:

* Iterates over a package's [variants](Variants);
* Constructs the build environment;
* Runs the build system within this environment.

Each build occurs within a *build path* - this is typically either a *build*
subdirectory, or a variant-specific subdirectory under *build*. For example, a
package with two python-based variants might look like this:

    +- package.py
    +- CMakeLists.txt (or other build file)
    +-build
      +-python-2.6  # build dir for python-2.6 variant
      +-python-2.7  # build dir for python-2.6 variant

The current working directory is set to the *build path* during a build.

## The Build Environment

The build environment is a rez resolved environment. Its requirement list is
constructed like so:

* First, the package's [requires](Package-Definition-Guide#requires) list is used;
* Then, the package's [build_requires](Package-Definition-Guide#build_requires) is
  appended. This is transitive - the *build_requires* of all other packages in the
  environment are also used;
* Then, the package's [private_build_requires](Package-Definition-Guide#private-build_requires)
  is appended (unlike *build_requires*, it is not transitive).
* Finally, if the package has variants, the current variant's requirements are
  appended.

A standard list of environment variables is also set (all prefixed with *REZ_BUILD_*) -
you can see the full list [here](Environment-Variables#resolved-build-environment-variables).

The build system is then invoked within this environment, for each variant.

## Build Time Dependencies

Sometimes it is desirable for a package to depend on another package only for the purposes
of building its code, or perhaps generating documentation. Let's use documentation as an
example - a C++ project may need to builds its docs using doxygen, but once the docs are
generated, doxygen is no longer needed.

This is achieved by listing build-time dependencies under a
[build_requires](Package-Definition-Guide#build_requires) or
[private_build_requires](Package-Definition-Guide#private-build_requires)
section in the *package.py*. The requirements in *private_build_requires* are only used
from the package being built; requirements from *build_requires* however are transitive - build
requirements from all packages in the build environment are included.

Some example *private_build_requires* use cases include:

* Documentation generators such as *doxygen* or *sphinx*;
* Build utilities. For example, you may have a package called *pyqt_cmake_utils*, which
  provides cmake macros for converting *ui* files to *py*;
* Statically linked libraries (since the library is linked at build time, the package
  is not needed at runtime).

An example use case of *build_requires* is a header-only (hpp) C++ library - if your own
C++ package includes this library in its own headers, other packages will also need this
library at build time (since they may include your headers, which in turn include the
hpp headers).

## Package Communication

Let's say I have two C++ packages, *maya_utils* and the well-known *boost* library. How
does *maya_utils* find *boost*'s header files, or library files?

The short answer is, that is entirely up to you. Rez is not actually a build system -
it supports various build systems (as the next section describes), and it configures the
build environment, but the details of the build itself are left open for the user.
Having said that, *cmake* has been supported by rez for some time, and rez comes with a
decent amount of utility code to manage cmake builds.

When a rez environment is configured, each package's [commands](Package-Definition-Guide#commands)
section configures the environment. When a build is occurring, a special variable
[building](Package-Commands#building) is set to *True*. Your packages should use this
variable to communicate build information to the package being built.

For example, our *boost* package's commands might look like so:

    def commands():
        if building:
            # there is a 'FindBoost.cmake' file in this dir..
            env.CMAKE_MODULE_PATH.append("{root}/cmake")

A (very simple) *FindBoost.cmake* file might look like this:

    set(Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS $ENV{REZ_BOOST_ROOT}/include)
    set(Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS $ENV{REZ_BOOST_ROOT}/lib)
    set(Boost_LIBRARIES boost-python)

Then, our *maya_utils* package might have a *CMakeLists.txt* file (cmake's build script)
containing:

    find_package(Boost)
    include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
    link_directories(${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS})
    target_link_libraries(maya_utils ${Boost_LIBRARIES})

As it happens, the [find_package](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/command/find_package.html)
cmake macro searches the paths listed in the *CMAKE_MODULE_PATH* environment variable,
and looks for a file called *FindXXX.cmake*, where *XXX* is the name of the package (in this
case, *Boost*), which it then includes.

## The Build System

Rez supports multiple build systems, and new ones can be added as plugins. When a
build is invoked, the build system is detected automatically. For example, if a
*CMakeLists.txt* file is found in the package's root directory, the *cmake* build
system is used.

### Argument Passing

There are two ways to pass arguments to the build system.

First, some build system plugins add extra options to the *rez-build* command directly.
For example, if you are in a CMake-based package, and you run *rez-build -h*, you will
see cmake-specific options listed, such as *--build-target*.

Second, you can pass arguments directly to the build system - either using the
*rez-build* *--build-args* option; or listing the build system arguments after *--*.

For example, here we explicitly define a variable in a cmake build:

    ]$ rez-build -- -DMYVAR=YES

### Custom Build Commands

As well as detecting the build system from build files, a package can explicitly
specify its own build commands, using the
[build_command](Package-Definition-Guide#build_command) package attribute. If present,
this takes precedence over other detected build systems.

For example, consider the following *package.py* snippet:

    name = "nuke_utils"

    version = "1.2.3"

    build_command = "bash {root}/build.sh {install}"

When *rez-build* is run on this package, the given *build.sh* script will be executed
with *bash*. The *{root}* string expands to the root path of the package (the same
directory containing *package.py*). The *{install}* string expands to "*install*" if
an install is occurring, or the empty string otherwise. This is useful for passing the
install target directly to the command (for example, when using *make*) rather than
relying on a build script checking the *REZ_BUILD_INSTALL* environment variable.

> [[media/icons/warning.png]] The current working directory during a build is set
> to the *build path*, **not** to the package root directory. For this reason, you
> will typically use the *{root}* string to refer to a build script in the package's
> root directory.

#### Passing Arguments

You can add arguments for your build script to the *rez-build* command directly, by
providing a *parse_build_args.py* source file in the package root. Here is an example:

    # in parse_build_args.py
    parser.add_argument("--foo", action="store_true", help="do some foo")

Now if you run *rez-build -h* on this package, you will see the option listed:

    $ rez-build -h
    usage: rez build [-h] [-c] [-i] [-p PATH] [--fail-graph] [-s] [--view-pre]
                     [--process {remote,local}] [--foo]
                     [--variants INDEX [INDEX ...]] [--ba ARGS] [--cba ARGS] [-v]

    Build a package from source.

    optional arguments:
      ...
      --foo                 do some foo

The added arguments are stored into environment variables so that your build script
can access them. They are prefixed with `__PARSE_ARG_`; in our example above, the
variable `__PARSE_ARG_FOO` will be set. Booleans will be set to 0/1, and lists are
space separated, with quotes where necessary.

#### Make Example

Following is a very simple C++ example, showing how to use a custom build command to
build and install via *make*:

    # in package.py
    build_command = "make -f {root}/Makefile {install}"

    # in Makefile
    hai: ${REZ_BUILD_SOURCE_PATH}/lib/main.cpp
        g++ -o hai ${REZ_BUILD_SOURCE_PATH}/lib/main.cpp

    .PHONY: install
    install: hai
        mkdir -p ${REZ_BUILD_INSTALL_PATH}/bin
        cp $< ${REZ_BUILD_INSTALL_PATH}/bin/hai

## Local Package Installs

After you've made some code changes, you presumably want to test them. You do this
by *locally installing* the package, then resolving an environment with *rez-env*
to test the package in. The cycle goes like this:

* Make code changes;
* Run *rez-build --install* to install as a local package;
* Run *rez-env mypackage* in a separate shell. This will pick up your local package,
  and your package requirements;
* Test the package.

A local install builds and installs the package to the *local package repository*,
which is typically the directory *~/packages* (see [here](Configuring-Rez#local_packages_path)).
This directory is listed at the start of the
[package search path](Basic-Concepts#package-search-path), so when you resolve an
environment to test with, the locally installed package will be picked up first. Your
package will typically be installed to *~/packages/packagename/version*, for example
*~/packages/maya_utils/1.0.5*. If you have variants, they will be installed into subdirectories
within this install path (see [here](Variants#disk-structure) for more details).

> [[media/icons/info.png]] You don't need to run *rez-env* after every install. If your
> package's requirements haven't changed, you can keep using the existing test environment.

You can make sure you've picked up your local package by checking the output of the
*rez-env* call:

    ]$ rez-env sequence

    You are now in a rez-configured environment.

    resolved by ajohns@turtle, on Thu Mar 09 11:41:06 2017, using Rez v2.7.0

    requested packages:
    sequence
    ~platform==linux   (implicit)
    ~arch==x86_64      (implicit)
    ~os==Ubuntu-16.04  (implicit)

    resolved packages:
    arch-x86_64      /sw/packages/arch/x86_64
    os-Ubuntu-16.04  /sw/packages/os/Ubuntu-16.04
    platform-linux   /sw/packages/platform/linux
    python-2.7.12    /sw/packages/python/2.7.12
    sequence-2.1.2   /home/ajohns/packages/sequence/2.1.2  (local)

Note here that the *sequence* package is a local install, denoted by the *(local)* label.


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I just wanted to know how to calculate the azimuth and the altitude of an object - an example would be really helpful.
The altitude of an object is its angular distance from the horizon, and the azimuth is generally defined as its angular distance from due north, measured eastward. To calculate the approximate altitude and azimuth for an object, then, you need to estimate those angular distances. A simple way to do this is to remember that the full Moon is approximately half a degree in size as seen from the Earth; alternately, the angular size of your thumb when you hand is stretched out and your are giving a "thumbs up" is also about half a degree. So, you can estimate the number of "thumbs" between the horizon and the object and due south and the object to get a rough estimate of its altitude and azimuth.
Keep in mind that since altitude and azimuth are measured relative to your position on the Earth, they will change both with location and with time of night. So, an object at an altitude of 30 degrees at midnight will not have an altitude of 30 degrees at 3am (unless you are at the North or South pole), nor will it have the same altitude at another location on the Earth.


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Efficiency & Environment, Finance & Markets
Estée Lauder sees beauty in virtual wind power PPA
It has also achieved its 100% renewable electricity goal in the US and Canada ahead of schedule
Image: StudioPortoSabbia/Shutterstock
The Estée Lauder Companies has signed a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) for electricity generated from a wind farm in the US.
Under the agreement, the beauty products company will buy power from the 22MW Ponderosa wind farm in Beaver County, Oklahoma, owned and operated by a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources and scheduled to begin construction in early 2020.
The purchase of the wind electricity will be equivalent to the power needs of more than 9,000 US homes and help reduce more than 14,000 cars from the road every year.
The deal, which will add renewable power to the electricity grid in Oklahoma, will cover more than half of the company's global electricity footprint with renewable technologies, putting it on track to meet its global 2020 net zero carbon emissions RE100 commitment.
The Estée Lauder Companies has already achieved 100% renewable electricity (RE100) in the US and Canada ahead of schedule and has pledged to set a science-based target covering Scopes 1, 2 and 3 by next year.
Its renewable energy portfolio also includes a 1MW solar system at its Whitman Laboratories in the UK and a 1.4MW ground-mounted solar array recently built at its Melville campus in New York.
Nancy Mahon, Senior Vice President, Global Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability of The Estée Lauder Companies said: "The Estée Lauder Companies is committed to innovating to help achieve a low carbon future. We're so pleased to meet our 2020 RE100 commitment for North America early.
"Projects like the Ponderosa wind farm and others in our net zero portfolio are all significant achievements toward our commitments to address climate change."
Esteé Lauder NextEra Energy PPA Renewables US virtual PPA VPPA wind farm wind power


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Former bodega thrives as multi-use space
By Maria Rocha-Buschel
Art by Hayley Welsh at Specials on C (Photo by Peter Knocke)
Since it opened about a year ago, bodega-turned-art-space Specials on C has played host to graffiti art shows, secret concerts, educational workshops, painting exhibitions and a pop-up holiday shop. And co-founders Jim Chu and Peter Knocke don't want to limit it to just that handful of uses; they want the space to be open to whatever anyone else wants to use it for.
"We work with artists, entrepreneurs and creators to help them get around the prohibitive challenges of putting out their work," Chu said.
Knocke also made a point to say that he and Chu don't consider themselves the curators of the space.
"We try not to curate anything," he said. "We want the community to curate it."
The building, which is located at East 12th Street and Avenue C, is a city-owned property, which makes the rent more affordable than most retail spaces in the area. Knocke and Chu worked this aspect of the building into Specials, and the space gets rented out per event at $300 a day with a minimum of three days.
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Tagged amy collado, art, Avenue C, jim chu, peter knocke, specials on c, street art
Former precinct stationhouse becomes gallery for graffiti writers
A former police precinct stationhouse located at 327 East 22nd Street became home to an exhibit of graffiti and street art that opened last Thursday. Fifty artists participated in the show, which will be open again this weekend. (Work by Pesu/Photo by Jowy Romano.)
A former police precinct is probably the last place one would expect to find rooms plastered in graffiti and street art, but one local organization took to the walls of the former 21st Precinct at 327 East 22nd Street and covered the space in art.
Art collective Outlaw Arts collaborated with a group of about 50 graffiti writers and street artists who have been tagging, spraying and wheatpasting inside the four floors of the building for the previous three weeks.
Curated by Rob Aloia of Outlaw Arts and street art publication VNA Mag, the show features work from Elle, Pixote, RAE, Smells, Ghost, RAMBO, Sheryo and The Yok, Lexi Bella, Esteban del Valle, Li Hill, Vexta, Never, Mr. Toll, Faust and others. The work debuted in a private opening last Thursday and was open to the public on both days last weekend.
According to New York-based blog Daytonian in Manhattan, the East 22nd Street building was the former home of the neighborhood's police precinct in the late 1800s before the area was renumbered the 13th and moved to East 21st Street. It has, until recently, functioned as a foster care group residence for LGBTQ young people.
The building's current developer, Suzuki Capital, is planning to demolish the building at the end of the month but in the meantime, allowed the artists to freely decorate the walls, like an indoor version of Five Points. Unfortunately, as is also the case with Five Points, the art will soon be gone when the building is torn down to make way for more luxury condos.
The exhibit will be open one final weekend, August 30 to 31, from 1 to 6 p.m. both days.
Click through for more photos from the exhibit. (All photos by Jowy Romano.)
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Tagged 21st precinct, Elle, Esteban del Valle, Faust, Ghost, graffiti, Jowy Romano., Lexi Bella, Li Hill, Mr. Toll, Never, outlaw arts, Pixote, police precinct, RAE, RAMBO, Sheryo and The Yok, Smells, street art, Vexta
Art in Odd Places makes itself at home
By Sabina Mollot
You know Art in Odd Places, the annual public art festival, has returned when the characters who act up on the M14 manage to be entertaining without getting into fights with the bus driver and the graffiti that pops up along local construction sites gets more creative than usual.
The event, which spans 10 days in October and is running for the ninth time in the city (the sixth time on 14th Street), kicked off last Friday.
The event opened with a low-key ceremony at the 14th Street entrance of Campos Plaza and several of the participating visual and performance artists keeping residents and passersby entertained.
This included a chance to get in touch with one's past by having "Operator Loretta" (a character created by performer Lulu Lolo) dial the first number people could recall memorizing and seeing if they could actually get an answer.
One man, who was the first caller of the evening, dialed his mother's number in Great Neck to let her know he wouldn't be coming home for dinner.
"I don't know if I really made contact," he said afterwards, but the cat glasses-wearing "Loretta" assured him that "She'll hear the message."
Later, Lolo explained how the character came about, which is that when she ordered a vintage operator's telephone from eBay, the previous user's name, Loretta, was marked on it with a piece of tape. But even before that, she'd had an interest in vintage numbers, which went along with this year's AiOP theme of "number" and had found that phone numbers from the 1940s along with the names of the corresponding New Yorkers were all available through a bit of research at the library. " You knew where people lived by their phone numbers," said Lolo, "if it was in Gramercy or Stuyvesant Town. I was looking up all the numbers on 14th Street."
Another event participant, Shannon Novick, was behind a design of a virtual tour of 14th Street that participants can take via an app downloaded on any mobile device. Not having been to the area before (he'd just flown in from New Zealand), Novick created his tour with the help of an AiOP staffer who took photos of neighborhood points of interest and Google Maps. Those who take Novick's tour, when holding up their smartphones, can read a bit of history about the various destination points while also listening to some accompanying music. For example, those who stop at the Liberty Inn will hear a song by the Rolling Stones since the band had stayed there.
For Novick, finally getting to see the places he'd researched from across the world "just blew me away," he said. "It adds a whole new dimension to the work that I couldn't see."
Yet another artist, Pedro Gomez Egana, was making his way around Campos, wheeling around a wooden warrior he built. At the same time, curious onlookers could listen via headphones to a story that accompanied the walk. In it, the warrior, whose arm always points south regardless of the direction he was pulled in, clearly had an appetite for destruction. The story involved demolishing the FDR Drive, the Williamsburg Bridge and creating a tornado in Brighton Beach. Egana said he was inspired by an ancient Chinese mechanism called a south pointing chariot.
Meanwhile, as the event has grown in popularity (recently AiOP was debuted in Australia), Woodham said he's also gotten some flack for not paying the artists who participate. But, he noted, no one involved gets paid, including him, because none of the art is for sale. "What we can offer is a support system and advice," said Woodham, a teaching artist, "and these are really important things, and we offer freedom because we're not behooved to anyone."
The only rule artists really have to follow is to be "mindful" of the fact that everything is done in public, "so we're not bombarding (people) with art, we're suggesting art," said Woodham.
For Friday's festivities, the crowd was a mix of neighborhood residents and others who worked in the area, such as Lydia Matthews, who'd been to AiOP events in previous years.
"I always enjoy seeing all the different things," said Matthews, "and when you hit a lot of the (installations) in one stretch, it's very exciting."
With this year's festival having fewer participating artists than in previous years at around 30, the opening events didn't draw a huge crowd, but to maintain a "festival atmosphere," organizers have planned this year's schedule so that there's always something going on at any given time. AiOP, which began on October 11, will run through October 20 along the length of 14th Street from the Hudson River to Avenue C. There will be also be a "Critical Mass" Saturday with numerous artists participating at once from 1-5 p.m. on October 19 between Second Avenue and Avenue A.
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Sail for Gold
U.S. representatives in the Finn and Elliott 6m classes won bronze medals at this ISAF World Cup event in Weymouth, England.
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Welcome to SW's Sail for Gold coverage. The event runs September 14 to 19. Check back throughout the week for photos, daily updates, and sailor interviews.
Official Website (Results, Schedule, Etc.)
US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics
Stu McNay/Graham Biehl 470 Men
Adam Roberts/Nick Martin 470 Men
Molly Carapiet/Briana Provancha (Briana is non USSTAG) 470 Women
Erik Storck/Trevor Moore 49er
Zach Railey Finn
Bryan Boyd Finn
Brad Funk Laser
Clay Johnson Laser
Rob Crane (Under 23 Team) Laser
Cameron Cullman (Under 23 Team) Laser
Sarah Lihan (Under 23 Team) Laser Radial
Ben Barger RS:X Men
Farrah Hall RS:X Women
Andrew Campbell/Brad Nichol Star
Anna Tunnicliffe/Molly Vandemoer/Alice Manard WMR
Genny Tulloch/Debbie Capozzi/Sally Barkow (Sally is non-USSTAG) WMR
Rick Doerr/Maureen McKinnon-Tucker/Hugh Freund Sonar
Scott Whitman/Julia Dorsett SKUD
Mark LeBlanc 2.4mR
Other Americans attending:
Andrew MacDonald and Brian Fatih Star
Sara Fox and Lauren Sinclair Women's 470
USA Wins Two Bronze, Two Gold Medals at Sail for Gold
USA's medal count doubled today at Sail for Gold when Olympic Silver Medalist Zach Railey (Clearwater, Fla.) won a bronze in the Finn class and Olympic Gold Medalist Anna Tunnicliffe (Plantation, Fla.), crew Molly O'Bryan Vandemoer (Redwood City, Calif.) and Alice Manard (Charleston, S.C.) won a bronze in the new Elliott 6 m. Today, the usual Southwesterly winds returned to Weymouth after a long postponement on shore, but only six classes were able to sail their double-point Medal Races to finish off the week-long International Sailing Federation (ISAF) Sailing World Cup event.
Medal Races were cancelled in the Finn, Star and Men's and Women's RS:X classes, which frustrated some sailors who wanted one last showdown. "I would have liked to get a medal race in because you always want to have the opportunity to keep moving up and working harder," said Railey. "But I am happy with another podium finish this year." Railey won a bronze medal at US SAILING's Rolex Miami OCR and a silver at the Finn Gold Cup earlier this year.
"The conditions were difficult," said Railey, who explained the Finn race course was close to a cliff face, which allowed the wind to drop down and spread over the course. "Everyone sailed over different pressures and wind angles, and the shifts happened quickly. The races I did very well in this week, I tried to lead the fleet out to the side that was favored and capitalized along the shifts when they happened."
In the new Women's Match Racing Event, Tunnicliffe and her team battled France's Claire LeRoy in the petit-finals, ultimately winning 2-1. In the first race, the USSTAG team led to the second windward mark, but they got a penalty and LeRoy passed them. In the second race, they played the shifts and sailed smartly to barely win by a half boat's length. In the third and last race, the French boat got a penalty in the pre-start, but caught up to Tunnicliffe at the second windward mark. They had a close race downwind, and at the finish, LeRoy drew a second penalty and a black flag, and Tunnicliffe won the race (or flight).
"It was exciting. We made it much more difficult than it had to be, but we learned a lot out there," said Tunnicliffe. "We're slowing learning the boat more. We're happy with how we did."
"It's an awesome start to the new quad and for USA Women's Match Racing," said Vandemoer. "It was definitely a team effort to get the bronze. It wasn't just our boat; it was a group effort with our American teammates."
Sail for Gold is the seventh and final stop of the ISAF Sailing World Cup 2008-2009 series, and the leaders in the Sailing World Cup standings were also awarded today. Tunnicliffe won the Laser Radial class, and Stu McNay (Boston, Mass.) and Graham Biehl (San Diego, Calif.) finished second in the Men's 470. Tunnicliffe won three Sailing World Cup events this year: Sail Melbourne, US SAILING's Rolex Miami OCR and French Olympic Sailing Week. McNay and Biehl won silver at Sail Malbourne and US SAILING's Rolex Miami OCR.
Yesterday, two more US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics (USSTAG) boats won gold medals: and Sonar classes. Scott Whitman (Brick, N.J.) and Julia Dorsett (Westchester, Pa./Boca Raton, Fla.) in the doublehanded SUKD-18 and Rick Doerr (Clifton, N.J.), Hugh Freund (So. Freeport, Me.) and Maureen McKinnon-Tucker (Marblehead, Mass.) in the triplehanded Sonar. Whitman and Dorsett also won the ISAF Sailing World Cup standings in the SKUD-18, and Doerr's team finished second in the ISAF Sailing World Cup standings in the Sonar.
"The USSTAG has a lot of talent, and they're working extremely hard," said USSTAG High Performance Director/Head Coach Kenneth Andreasen (Tampa, Fla.). "We came here representing all the classes and with a full team of coaches to learn and experience being in Weymouth."
Held at the venue of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Weymouth/Portland, England, this event was also a critical fact finding mission about the conditions and facility. Sailors experienced a wide range of conditions this week, including gusts that ranged from 5 to 30 knots.
"We're taking it as a challenge," said Andreasen. "We're going to train hard at home and in Weymouth, and this time next year we'll show we've made some great improvements."
The wind is blowing today in Weymouth, and the USSTAG is off to a successful start at Sail for Gold in Weymouth, England! USSTAG's Scott Whitman and Julia Dorsett won their race today to clinch the gold medal in the SKUD-18 class. Anna Tunnicliffe, Molly O'Bryan Vandemoer and Alice Manard won all three of their races in the Women's Match Racing quarterfinals. More to come
-Marni Lane
Weymouth's wind calmed down today to 6 to 18 knots, allowing the 10 Olympic and 3 Paralympic classes to make up for yesterday's lack of racing and get two or three races under their belts at the 2009 Sail for Gold. Team USA raced in shifty breeze that oscillated in pressure, resulting in constant boat tuning. With only one day of fleet racing left, the Olympic classes will battle it out tomorrow to ensure top ten positions and spots in Saturday's medal races. Tomorrow is the last day of racing for the three Paralympic classes, when the medals will be decided. US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics members Rick Doerr (Clifton, N.J.), Hugh Freund (So. Freeport, Me.) and Maureen McKinnon-Tucker (Marblehead, Mass.) are currently leading the Sonar class with a picket fence of wins, while Scott Whitman (Brick, N.J.) and Julia Dorsett (Westchester, Pa./Boca Raton, Fla.) lead the SKUD-18 fleet with three wins and a second place after one drop. USSTAG's Women's Match Racers Anna Tunnicliffe (Plantation, Fla.), Molly O'Bryan Vandemoer (Redwood City, Calif.) and Alice Manard (Charleston, S.C.) won their round today in the new Elliott 6m, earning them a place in the quarterfinals tomorrow.
Photos: Day 4
It was a "blowing dogs off chains day" in Weymouth. Winds of up to 30 knots postponed racing for all but two classes today. Winds dipped to 15-20 knots in the afternoon, long enough for the 49ers and Men's RS:X to get a few races in inside the port. Outside the sea wall, the conditions were unmanageable. In addition to the offshore breeze, the waves were coming in from two directions, like a washing machine, according to Team Meteorologist Doug Charko. The rest of the classes waited on-shore, monitoring the notice board for race postponements. Tomorrow's predictions are more promising, and the US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics athletes are ready to race.
Photos: For the latest images from the event, click here.
Interview with Zach Railey
Today marked the second day of racing at Sail for Gold in Weymouth, England. Olympic Silver Medalist Zach Railey scored a one and a two today in the Finn class, after a tough day on the water yesterday.
You've been in Weymouth for a week, training before Sail for Gold started. Describe the sailing conditions so far.
It's actually really difficult sailing here. There are pretty large shifts on the race course and it's pretty windy. The wind is coming off the cliff face and drops onto the race courses, causing the wind to go back and forth from side to side, like a cat's paw puff. Each side gains and loses, so you'll hopefully be on a side that gets the last shift coming into the mark.
What surprised you about the conditions in Weymouth?
I was surprised by how cold the water is and how cold it is sailing. Coming from Florida, I expected it to be cold but not THIS cold. That changes how I select my gear and what I wear on the water. It's good to figure this out now before 2012.
Why is Sail for Gold important this year?
Since this is the venue for the 2012 Olympic Regatta, it's important we see the venue and look at the conditions now to prepare. We're not going to see all of the conditions Weymouth can offer on this trip, but if we come often enough, we will eventually see all the conditions we could potentially sail in at the Olympic Games.
What lessons have you learned from the last 2 days?
It's important to trust your instincts and try to trust the decisions you're making. Sometimes it's going to backfire, and you have to learn from your experiences and move on to the next race. And that's why we're here in Weymouth.
Everywhere you look around the Portland Sailing Academy, you see the red US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics' Atlantis WeatherGear jackets. How is the team working together?
Everyone has a common goal to be the best sailing country in the world, and we're all working towards that goal. You can feed off that energy, no matter where you are in your Olympic campaign. Sailors on our Under 23 team are here sailing with Olympic veterans, and we all have the same goal.
The 2012 Olympic sailing venue at Weymouth and Portland is the host for the final event of the 2008-09 ISAF Sailing World Cup series where the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta launched into action today.
Over 700 sailors representing 38 nations have gathered at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy for the 2009 edition of the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta, where racing starts today and continues through until the Medal Races this Saturday 19 September. Following on from stops in, Australia, the USA, Spain, France, The Netherlands and Germany, the inaugural ISAF Sailing World Cup series reaches its conclusion in Great Britain this week, with World Cup honours up for grabs in the 10 Olympic and three Paralympic sailing events.
Amongst the star names lining up is man of the moment Paul Goodison (GBR), who will be looking to continue his run of unbroken regatta wins which has seen him take gold in Beijing, both the European and World Laser titles as well as victory at the last three World Cup events. Chief amongst Goodison's challengers will be fellow Brit Nick Thompson, who despite playing second fiddle to his team mate in recent months, still holds the lead in the World Cup Standings after making a stunning start to the season.
Other strong home challengers are Beijing Olympic gold medal winners Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson (GBR) who line up in a Star fleet packed full of Olympic and World Championship medallists. Another of the British Beijing gold medallists Pippa Wilson competes in the 470 fleet with new crew Saskia Clark. Britain's newest World Champion Nick Dempsey (GBR) misses out however, after straining a hamstring in Weymouth last week on his way to winning the RS:X World title.
Also eagerly anticipated is the Women's Match Racing event, which will make its debut Olympic appearance at London 2012. Weymouth hosts a fascinating line up of skippers which includes 2007 and 2008 World Champion Claire Leroy (FRA) competing at her first World Cup event, Beijing silver medallist in the Yngling Mandy Mulder (NED) and Olympic gold medallist in the one-person Laser Radial dinghy Anna Tunnicliffe (USA).
Other names to look out for across the fleets include recently crowned World Champion Sari Multala (FIN) in the Laser Radial, Finn Europeans winner Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic (CRO) and Women's RS:X World and European silver medallist Blanca Manchon (ESP). The Australian team looks very strong, featuring 49er World Champions Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen (AUS) and 470 Olympic gold medallists Elise Rechichi and Tessa Parkinson in the women's fleet and Malcolm Page and his new helm Mathew Belcher in the men's.
In the battle for World Cup success, 20 points are up for grabs for the winner of each event, with 19 going to second place, down to 1 point for a finish of 20th. Scores for the World Cup are added up grand-prix style, with Weymouth the seventh and final scoring opportunity where the winners of the 2009 ISAF Sailing World Cup will be decided. The World Cup prizegiving will follow on from the Medal Races on Saturday, with ISAF President Goran Petersson in attendance to offer his congratulations to the inaugural ISAF Sailing World Cup winners.
The battle for the Star World Cup title promises to go right to the wire with Xavier Rohart and Pierre-Alexis Ponsot (FRA) currently top of the standings on 50 points, but another seven teams within seven points of them. In contrast, Americans Stuart McNay and Graham Biehl have a commanding 18-point lead in the Men's 470 Standings so any finish of 18th or better will secure them the title of 2009 ISAF Sailing World Cup winners. This is an honour already guaranteed to the Danish pair of Henriette Koch and Lene Sommer, who have an unbeatable 22-point advantage in the Women's 470 Standings. It's much closer in the 49er Standings with Paul Campbell-James and Mark Asquith (GBR) holding a 10-point advantage. However, added to the pressure of fighting off the chasing Spaniards Federico Alonso and Arturo Alonso, for this event, Campbell-James also has the challenge of teaming up with new crew member Nick Hutton.
Amongst the one-person events, Nick Thompson (GBR) has a 14-point lead in the Laser Standings, whilst Anna Tunnicliffe (USA) is 16 points ahead in the Laser Radial. However, as the US skipper is competing in the match racing event, she is vulnerable to attack from second-placed Tina Mihelic (CRO), who will grab the World Cup title if she can finish fourth or better. There are no such worries for Ed Wright (GBR) in the Finn, who is already assured as the World Cup title with an unassailable 24-point lead in the Standings. Great Britain also has another world Cup title wrapped up in the Women's Match Racing event, where Lucy Macgregor, Annie Lush and Ally Martin (GBR) are 22 points clear of the chasing pack.
Blanca Manchon of Spain is similarly assured of World Cup glory in the Women's RS:X event thanks to her massive 34-point lead, but in the men's fleet it's much closer and Portugal Olympic veteran Joao Rodrigues will have to draw on all of his experience as he defends his two-point advantage.
In the Paralympic events, Britain's Megan Pascoe is five points clear in the 2.4mR. Scott Whitman and Julia Dorsett (USA) lead the SKUD18 and John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Steve Thomas (GBR) the Sonar both by a single point.
Racing in Weymouth begins today, with the series continuing through until the final Medal Races on Saturday 19 September, when Weymouth is opening its doors with free entry to the public.
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Team USA is gearing up to grab medals at next week's Sail for Gold, the seventh and final stop of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) Sailing World Cup 2008-2009 series. Held at the venue of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Weymouth/Portland, England, this world-class event attracts top international sailors. Organizers of Sail for Gold expect more than 500 boats to compete in all 10 Olympic Classes-including the new women's match racing class-plus the three Paralympic Classes selected for the 2012 Games. Racing is scheduled to start on Monday, September 14, with Medal Racing on Saturday, September 19.
Thirty-six Americans, including 27 members of the US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics (USSTAG) and three members of the US Sailing Team - Under 23, are ready to race, after competing in a USSTAG training camp to test out their boat skills and the venue's conditions prior to next week's regatta. Three 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Medalists will compete against their top international rivals, including Olympic Gold Medalist Anna Tunnicliffe (Plantations, Fla.), Olympic Silver Medalist Zach Railey (Clearwater, Fla.) and Paralympic Gold medalist Maureen McKinnon-Tucker (Marblehead, Mass.).
Three USSTAG sailors/teams are currently leading the ISAF SWC standings in their respective classes: Tunnicliffe in the Laser Radial, Stu McNay (Lincoln, Mass.) and Graham Biehl (San Diego, Calif.) in the Men's 470 and Scott Whitman (Brick, N.J.) and Julia Dorsett (Westchester, Pa./Boca Raton, Fla.) in the SKUD-18. Four additional USSTAG teams are ranked in the top 10, and this is their last chance to move up or solidify their position for this year's series.
Keep your eye on the new Women's Match Racing event, which makes its Olympic debut in 2012. 2008 US SAILING's Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year Anna Tunnicliffe is testing the waters in the new Elliott 6m with crew Molly Vandemoer (Redwood City, Calif.) and Alice Manard (Charleston, S.C.). Skipper Genny Tulloch (San Francisco, Calif.) and her crew, Olympic sailors Sally Barkow (Nashotah, Wis.) and Deb Capozzi (Bayport, N.Y.), will also team up in the Elliott 6m, after training together last week with Coach Dave Perry (Southport, Conn.) at the US Sailing Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Tulloch is ranked second in the SWC standings.
Another new USSTAG team to watch is Andrew Campbell (San Diego, Calif./Washington, D.C.) and Brad Nichol (Miami, Fla.) in the competitive Star class. Campbell competed in the Laser at the 2008 Olympic Games, and has now made the jump to the doublehanded Star with veteran Nichol. Campbell finished an impressive fifth at the 2009 Star World Championship with 2000 Olympic gold medalist Magnus Liljedahl.
Paralympic Gold Medalist Maureen McKinnon-Tucker will team up with Sonar Skipper and Paralympian Rick Doerr (Clifton, N.J.) and fellow crew Hugh Freund (South Freeport, Me.) at Sail for Gold, their first international event together. They are currently ranked third in the SWC standings in the Sonar class.
Also competing at Sail for Gold are three up-and-comers and members of the US Sailing Team - Under 23, the Olympic Sailing Program's development team: Sarah Lihan (Ft Lauderdale, Fla.) in the Laser Radial and Rob Crane (Darien, Conn.) and Cam Cullman (Rye, NY) in the Laser.
Joining the team in Weymouth are Olympic Sailing Program Chairman Dean Brenner (Wallingford, Conn.), Olympic Director Katie Kelly (Barrington, R.I.), High Performance Director/Head Coach Kenneth Andreasen (Tampa, Fla.), Commercial Director Dan Cooney (Marion, Mass.), Communications Director Marni Lane (Norwalk, Conn.), Coaches Betsy Alison (Newport, R.I.), Mitch Brindley (Smithfield, Va.), Luther Carpenter (Laporte, Texas), Marko Dahlberg (Ylojarvi, Finland), Jonathan Farrar (New York, N.Y.) Mark Ivey (Tiburon, Calif.), Dave Perry (Southport, Conn.) and Leandro Spina (Miami, Fla.), PET Scott Weiss (New York, NY), Team Meteorologist Doug Charko (Auckland, N.Z.) and OSC Members Bob Billingham (Grass Valley, Calif.) and Josh Adams (Essex, Mass.).