If you have SL aviation links for next weeks Virtual Aviation Week in Review, please let me know via email [zoeconnolly (at) gmail (dot) com.
Terra Aeronautics - Virtual vehicles for the metaverse: "Server update breaks skydiving pods"
AngryMarineJf wrote: "Images of the Freespace's game mod "Battlestar Galactica beyond the red line...."
Guests Chrome Underwood, Bancos Milestone and Slim Warrior.
My new Ning.com group Virtual Girls with Guns is for girls who love weaponry, and the men and women who love them.
Virtual world women in Second Life®, their friends, loved ones and vast arsenals.
Scheduled EDF and RCAF Air Combat on Saturday 30 August at 9:00 AM SL time, then another dogfight on Sun 31 August at 9 AM SL time.
From the Wiki: "The Piper J-3 Cub is a small, simple, light aircraft that was built between 1937 and 1947 by Piper Aircraft. With tandem (fore and aft) seating, it was intended for flight training but became one of the most popular and best-known light aircraft of all time. The Cub's simplicity, affordability and popularity invokes comparisons to the Ford Model T automobile. Its standard yellow paint has come to be known as "Cub Yellow" or "Lock Haven Yellow...."
I've gathered a few links to aviation related blog posts, videos, and photographs from the past week August 17 - 23, 2008. This is a new blog post series, so some links may fall outside my stated calendar week.
Scheduled EDF and RCAF Air Combat on Saturday 23 August at 9:00 AM SL time, with another dogfight on Sun 24 August at 9 AM SL time.
Josh Noonan released his SL version of the Sukhoi SU-26 and SU-29 on August 22nd.
Annabelle Fanshaw's experience at Balsa Airport and Aviation Community in Aveousa.
In-cockpit video of the EDF-RCAF Air Combat on August 16th.
For vehicle builders there's "How to Texture in SL Like a Pro: Part 1"
From Hamlet Au's New World Notes blog: *Galactica* Roleplaying In Second Life With Physics-Enabled Dogfights And Planetary Combat.
SL Aviation photograph of the week from Eladrienne Laval.
If you have SL aviation links for next weeks Virtual Aviation Week in Review, please let me know via email [zoeconnolly (at) gmail (dot) com. Clear skies all!
Kelvington wrote: "Well here is my little parody of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, using Scotty of Star Trek fame from the Next Generation Episode "Relics". This was a lot of fun trying to make it look exactly right. Special thanks to Paul Sibbald, who did a dead on William Conrad. Hope everyone enjoys this, it's probably the most fun I've had in while. Plus I made a couple of tweaks in this one...."
If you have Second Life Aviation links for my new weekly blog post Virtual Aviation Week in Review, please let me know via email [zoeconnolly (at) gmail (dot) com.
Aviation links may be blog posts, photographs, videos, etc....Just about anything related to SL Aviation.
".... As a commercial helicopter pilot, I get my fair share of hangar flying. I meet some interesting characters who eagerly take time away from whatever they are doing to tell me about the hours they have logged in their Otter or the intricacies of their engine overhaul. I mean, I thought that women liked to talk incessantly, but these men have the gift of gab on the tarmac. Not until I became a pilot myself, did I understand that men are from Mars and women are still grounded on this very Earth.
Recently, I've had the opportunity to interview and visit with a number of female aviators who, quite honestly, I was glad to chat with for an hour. After speaking with this group of women, who range from a student pilot to an F-16 pilot and Major in the Air Force, I must say that they are nothing of a minority. They are the elite. They love what they do. They are passionate, and I absolutely respect the careers that each has developed in a challenging industry. They are, simply put, the cream of the crop in our small aviation world. Now, the more time I spend with fellow male pilots talking turbo-chargers and crosswind landings, the less interested in their stories I become.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, of the almost 700,000 active pilots in the United States, less than 6 percent are women. Slightly more than 2 percent are ATP rated. Furthermore, women account for only 2.13 percent of the more than 540,000 non-pilot aviation jobs in the country. There is no denying, by these numbers, that we work in a male-dominated industry.
However, since Harriet Quimby became the first female to earn her private license in 1911, women have had a significant impact on the history and development of aviation. Dating back to 1910, when Blanche Scott commandeered a plane that unexpectedly took flight while taxiing, women have cemented their participation in the discipline. In November 1929, at Curtis Field on Long Island, 117 American female pilots gathered to mutually support advancement in aviation. During that gathering, the 99's were born. Today, with more than 5,500 female members from 35-plus countries, the 99's are one of the most influential organizations of licensed pilots. Due to their efforts, and other organizations like Aviation for Women, even the U.S. Air Force now boasts that 20 percent of its pilots and staff are women...."
Karl Reisman of Tumansky Heavy Industries, wrote a blog post about texturing in SL. The object is a WW2 Era British Spitfire, but the post should be of interest to builders across the grid and not just those of us in the aviation community.
Karl wrote: "Well in truth you can't, because professional 3D tools allow you to edit UV maps, and assign texture coordinates to individual frames.. However that issue aside, you can come to a professional level if you approach your link sets as a single object, and the maps in a consistent layers based method. First build the object as you see fit.
This is an example of a 3 view plan. This one was found on the web, not only is it useful for building, but it's also useful for placing details on the textures after you build the object in prims.
I would suggest highly that you build to a plan, Even if it's a fictional draw the front side and top views of the item to keep control of the project. There are plenty of sites that have quality blueprints of cars, tanks, aircraft, and buildings that you could use for your project. But sometimes it's fun to roll your own. Just make sure the design is solid and consistent between the front side and top views, or you will go crazy. once the prims are arraigned.
Collecting reference is necessary for a successful historical replica. (This is "Blue Peter" , from the battle of Britain Memorial Flight and the "model for this project.) For a fictional or fantasy project, making or collecting a lot of concept art serves the same function.
If you are building a historical object its very important to find as much reference as you can and duplicate the look from the reference without copying it exactly. Exact coying is considered plagiarism, and is frowned on, as well as being a reason for having the item deleted and your SL account locked. The quality Aircraft makers on SL make their own textures...."
SLAMCentralStudios wrote: "BSG47 recently moved on to a physics-based combat system called VICE, which left the majority of pilots completely in the dark as to how to fight.
This video was created from an IN-CHARACTER standpoint to rationalize and explain the changes, and teach old and new pilots alike how to adjust...."
Thanks to Hamlet Au for the tip on this video.
The Classic "Powers of Ten"
Pilots of the Extropia Defense Force and Royal Caledon Air Force engage in a dogfight furball over several Extropia sims.
SL Builder Josh Noonan's Lockheed Electra 10E, Amelia Earhart's last airplane. Amelia flew her plane on her final flight. Her ill-fated world tour in 1937.
aylmer666 wrote: "Joke open for a Local News station in Fairbanks, Alaska, which unfortunately never aired. I felt Local news needed a sense of humor, but what do I know?...."
illconprods wrote: "What would happen if you took an episode of Gerry Anderson's classic sci-fi series Space:1999 and treated it like a silent movie? Well, maybe something like this.
Produced by us (Ill-Conceived Productions) for a Space:1999 convention in 2000, and later included as a bonus feature on the excellent DVD "Space:1999 and UFO - The Documentaries" by Fanderson, the official Gerry Anderson Appreciation Society...."
Bonus Video from hinesriley who wrote: "A LightWave 3D Rendering of Eagle One lifting off of Moonbase Alpha. I created Alpha Moonbase (Still under construction) from scratch. Eagle Model courtesy of James Murphy."
elektricc wrote: "It's a mix between the great animotion of Andy Huang`s dollface and a new Song of VNV Nations CD Judgement. Even if it`s not a official Version it looks like it belong together...greetings from a fan."
My new Ning Group: "Virtual Girls with Guns"
Luckily for those of us in SL, our air disasters are not nearly as serious as Amelia's 1937 World Flight disappearance. We'll always be able to relog and re-rez another Electra.
For decades, controversy rages over whether Amelia was as good a pilot as the media portrayed her to be. One thing is certain. She was one of many women who opened the door to aviation for women in her time and in years to come. She has inspired men and women of all ages, and may also be history's favorite missing persons case.
Here are a few photographs of the de Havilland Mosquito, built in SL and under flight tests by Bancos Milestone. It was just released for public purchase at this SLurl.
For a long time it was one sim and and not the greatest location for long term flying.
That's all changed! BALSA INC AVEOUSA has partnered with developer Cindy Bolero. The area is now 7 sims worth of aviation-friendly heaven including BALSA INC AVEOUSA, Kittyhawk, Road Trip, Dangerous Curves, Hang Ten, Miranda Meadows, and Horses. I flew over the area last night and it *was* a little rough and laggy in spots. But I'm sure this will change as all the bugs are worked out.
Also....the plan is to expand in phases. This being phase one.
This is where I rez after I login to SL. My home turf is Caledon where I have a skybox above the Aerodrome.
What do you see when you first rez inworld?
Phin here, filling-in for Zoe who was away most of the weekend. I organized the EDF/RCAF Dogfight on Saturday and took a few photos. These 5 pics are representative of the day.
I managed to stay in the air longer than usual, concentrating on defensive maneuvers rather than attacks, when Cornelius flying his "Fine Four-Fendered Friend" took several shots at me and down I went, almost landing on Vidal Tripsa. Conveniently, I was 2 meters from the Tiki-Bar and decided to stay.
I took several photographs during and after the video-capture for my test machinima. Once I was done, I noticed Phin was online and promptly dragged him over to help me. He made a great Girl-with-Gun in his female form. Thanks, bro!
While working on ideas for a spy machinima, I did this test shot with a gun pose.
Vidal Tripsa writes: "Pilots from the Extropia Defense Force and Royal Caledon Air Force take to Extropia's skies under the lead of Cdr. Phineas Messmer and Cdr. Vidal "Trip" Tripsa.
I filmed this starting from take-off, some cockpit footage that kept rolling until I was shot down, then some ground footage as I sought refuge on the island resort of Blood & Thunder, at Sen'Jin."
Attention EDF and RCAF pilots!
We'll meet at Skies of Tomorrow 9:00 AM SL Time. I'll lead on Saturday, ACM Sin Trenton leads us on Sunday.
Sin and I have discussed new rules for our organized dogfights. These rules are approved by Marshal Zoe Connolly.
Worry-not pilots! Your dogfights are the following weekend of Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th. More details on the RCAF Ning and group notices next week.
The Prisonbear - Revival. A spoof of The Prisoner with toys.
THE PRISONER, PATRICK MCGOOHAN SPEAKS Part one.
THE PRISONER, PATRICK MCGOOHAN SPEAKS Part two.
THE PRISONER, Well-come the start.
"...In 1983, a U.S. Air Force English dictionary defined fur ball as "a confused dogfight full of swarming airplanes." The expression combines the fighting-animal image of flying fur with the eventful, sometimes charitable, occasionally frenetic, nature of a ball..."
With Z on vacation (with Michael Moore and Madonna) and the weekend looming with 14 hours of RL telecommuting work from home I decided to setup a Saturday Air Battle for pilots from the Extropia Defense Force and the Royal Caledon Air Force.
And since I couldn't put much thought into it I took the lazy man's way out and just said, "Yeah yeah fly whatever you want and shoot everyone." No teams or themes. Ugh, I really need to get going and organize that EDF/RCAF Air Combat Tournament.
I have a few more photos I'll post as soon as possible.
Below is a snapshot of your intrepid pipe-smoking reporter, faithfully taking photographs of the battle swarm from a safe distance.
Pilots of the RCAF and EDF will meet at the Skies of Tomorrow sim in Extropia on Saturday 02 August 2008 at 9:00 AM SLT for dogfight.
We'll have air combat for approximately 45 minutes.
Our theme is : "Fly Your Favorite"
As always, one-on-one dogfights are welcome in Extropia and select void-sim duchies in Caledon.


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LONDON (REUTERS) - Bankers who are reckless with customers' or taxpayers' money could face criminal charges and have bonuses and pensions clawed back, according to proposals backed by Britain's prime minister on Wednesday.
Many Britons blame bankers' risk-taking for the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent economic slump and were furious when the former boss of RBS left the bank with a pension of almost 17 million pounds (S$33.1 million) even after a state rescue.
He later agreed to a cut and was stripped of his knighthood but it was one in a series of banking scandals that increased pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron to get tougher on a sector contributing billions of pounds to the British economy.
The parliamentary commission on banking standards he set up last year after Barclays was fined for manipulating interest rate benchmarks said on Wednesday that the law should be changed so that bankers found guilty of "reckless misconduct in the management of a bank" could face jail.
The UK Treasury said the new rules could be in place before the end of 2015 but lawyers said it would be hard to prove when a banker had taken too much risk or simply made a mistake.
Asked in parliament whether he supported the report's recommendations on criminal penalties and pay, Mr Cameron said: "Penalising, including criminal penalties ... bankers who behave irresponsibly, I say yes."
Lawyers doubted that new laws would be effective.
"There is likely to be a considerable burden of proof - merely miscalculating or being negligent in an assessment of risk most likely won't be enough," said Mr Michael Isaacs, head of banking litigation at law firm Pinsent Masons.
The commission also recommended a new pay code to better balance risk and reward, with bonuses deferred for up to ten years with the aim of preventing bankers taking risks for short term reward, one of the factors blamed for the crisis.
It also proposed that the UK financial regulator would be granted a new power enabling it to cancel all bonuses and pension rights not yet paid out to senior executives in the event of their banks needing taxpayer support.
Banking industry sources said banks were likely to accept many of the proposals in principle, including the threat of criminal sanctions, but will lobby for some to be watered down, including the 10-year deferral on bonuses.
"The commission's conclusions contain many constructive proposals to help fix the issues which have afflicted the industry, most importantly in the emphasis on personal responsibility and accountability," said HSBC Chairman Douglas Flint.
The cross-party commission, which includes former British finance minister Nigel Lawson and Justin Welby, head of the Anglican church, recommended senior bankers are held personally responsible and regulators granted greater powers.
Commission member Pat McFadden said it would be "pressing the government very hard in the coming weeks" to make sure the proposals are implemented.
The government has set itself a four-week deadline to give a formal response.
"I think all of us who were engaged in this process over the last year very much hope this is not a report which is going to gather dust," he told Reuters.
The British Bankers Association, a lobby group, said it would work with government and regulators to take forward proposals from what it described as the "most significant report into banking for a generation".
Bankers are deeply unpopular in Britain where the economy has narrowly avoided a triple-dip recession and is expected to show tepid growth at best through next year.
"I think jail sentences would be suitable," Mr Ben Stewart, a 34-year-old cabinet maker said in Whitechapel, not far from the City of London, the traditional financial heartland.
"It's fraud a lot of what they've done. Even if it's not legally fraud, I think by most people's moral compass, they'd find it quite distasteful." The commission recommended the industry adopt two new registers for senior bankers and other employees to make sure the most important responsibilities within banks were assigned to specific individuals.
The 'Senior Persons Regime' would enable those responsible for failures to be identified more easily and provide a stronger basis for action to be taken against them, the report said.
The Financial Conduct Authority, the financial services industry watchdog which took over regulation of banks in April, said it was "learning from the regulatory mistakes of the past".
The commission also urged the government to immediately consider a range of strategies for RBS, which is 81 per cent state-owned, including a possible break-up.
Some commission members, including Mr Lawson, have advocated hiving off RBS's toxic loans into a 'bad bank' leaving the remaining 'good bank' better able to lend to British businesses and households. But Finance Minister George Osborne said such a move would be complicated, time consuming and costly.
The report said the government had interfered in the running of RBS and Lloyds Banking Group, in which it holds a 39 per cent stake, and said RBS was being held back by having the government as its main shareholder.
The level of the government's influence over RBS has come under scrutiny since Chief Executive Stephen Hester was ousted last week with the Treasury's approval.
Mr Osborne is set to lay out strategies for returning RBS and Lloyds Banking Group to full private ownership in his annual speech to financiers in the City of London on Wednesday.

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(1) What was the purpose of his predecessor's visit to Antarctica in February 1979.
(2) What was the name, classification and salary of each person who accompanied him.
(3) What was the (a) cost of travel, (b) cost of accommodation, (c) other expenditure and (d) total costs incurred in respect of the Minister and each person who travelled with him.
(4) Which airlines and/or other means of transport were utilised during each stage of the journey.
(5) In the course of his predecessor's duties (a) what places were visited and (b) with whom were consultations held.
I refer the honourable member to the response given by the Minister for National Development and Energy to a question without notice asked by Senator Keeffe and which appears in Senate Hansard of 23 April 1980, page 1703.


One of the futuristic technologies always touted is Hydrogen fuel cells. So why are they not everywhere? we look at the challenges in production,storage, and use of hydrogen from cars to factories. Plus we examine if our electricity grid will be able to cope with the drastic weather condition changes from climate change in the year 2100.
We preview 2019 March Mammal Madness, and find out about interesting animals from across the world. We look at ways to augment vision to help see in infra-red, and use singing mice to study human conversation. Plus we find out about balancing predators and prey.


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From misdemeanor shoplifting charges to large-scale felony theft allegations, all theft charges must be fought. These are charges that have the power to destroy futures. A teenager convicted of retail theft may find his or her career prospects ruined. A white collar employee convicted of embezzlement or theft by fraud may face immediate job loss, and all doors to future opportunities will be slammed shut. You cannot afford to let this happen to you.
At the law office of Phillip A. Linder, we will work hard to prevent this from happening to you.
When you choose our law firm to handle your criminal law case, your case will be handled personally by Attorney Linder. Mr. Linder is Board Certified as a Criminal Trial Specialist by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. This title is given only to a select few attorneys who meet strict standards of experience, training and specialization. You can consider it proof of our ability to defend you against even the most serious theft charge.
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Is it video evidence from a security camera? If so, does it actually show your face? How clear is it? Perhaps the case against you is built on statements from witnesses or informants. Are these parties reliable? Was there a lack of intent? Was the alleged stolen property not even stolen at all? Little by little, we will find the cracks in the case against you, prying it apart until it is not as solid as it initially appeared. We will build a defense strategy designed to show that you were innocent and to obtain the best possible outcome for you.
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The first three things in Adam's life were his identity (Genesis 2:7), his home (Genesis 2:8-14) and then his job (Genesis 2:15). The reason for this is as follows: Identity in God defines oneself, God supplies needs more than abundantly, and Adam received his home before his job, so that he wouldn't believe he gained his home from his job.
How many of us find our identity in what we own, or what we've done, and not in whose we are? Identity is the key to defining life-purpose, and knowing you are a child of God is the ultimate identity.


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Mervin Leroy Harrison, Pte.
Map point: Family home in 1944 - Lot 22, Conc 3, Stanhope (approximate location within the lot)
Birthplace: Carnarvon, Ontario
Occupation & Residence at time of enlistment: Labourer, Maple Lake. His service record also notes that he worked at a fireman in the foundry of Dominion Arsenal in Lindsay from 1942 to 1943.
Date & Place of Enlistment: 28 Jan 1943, Peterborough
Service Branch: Army
Unit: Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Service #: C120445
Notes on war service: By July 1943 he had completed his Corps training at Camp Borden and had qualified as a rifleman. He married on 5 Jul 1943 and was sent overseas two weeks later. He arrived in France on 6 Jul 1944. After being wounded on 26 Jul 1944, he was evacuated to England. He returned to France on 15 Oct 1944.
Killed in action? : Yes - 1 Nov 1944
Overseas burial location: Bergen-Op-Zoom Canadian Military Cemetery, Holland
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The Marketing Officer will be responsible for development and implementation of the overall marketing strategy that will enable commercial sustainability and impact. He/she will be the point of contact for all advertising, consumer insights, market intelligence, promotion and new product/ services development activities related to MSZ's Centres, Outreach and Social Marketing Channels. He/She will be responsible for supporting marketing and social behaviour change communication initiatives for increasing access to and use of sexual reproductive health commodities and services by providing support in product development, promotion, placement and pricing strategies, and other areas to be identified.
Work with the Commercial Director and other channel leads to develop overall brand and marketing strategy for MSZ.
Develop relationships with our different teams and clients in order to help tell compelling and appropriate stories about MSZ's work and its impact across the different delivery channels.
Manage development and execution of marketing communications including branding, public relations, advertising, trade shows, events, collateral, and online presence for the strategy execution in Zambia.
Liaise with MSI Communications team on all branding artwork to ensure compliance.
Develop through evidence based approaches appropriate marketing & BCC campaigns following a 360 degree approach for maximum impact.
Ensure smooth, timely and focused planning and implementation of marketing and BCC activities.
Liaise with the Media (radio, TV, print, social media) to ensure the most appropriate time slots for the airing of MSZ's programs and advertisements as well as monitor compliance to the contracted time slots.
Maintain information on all products attributes and serve as the technical expert on all aspects of the brand and also ensure safe custody of all inventories of advertising and BCC materials.
Ensure that recommendations from marketing and research studies are implemented in order to strengthen take-up of family planning, especially of long-acting and permanent methods of contraception.
Prepare and submit the relevant reports of the functional activities related to marketing and BCC on a monthly basis.
Analyze market share; identify competitive strengths and weakness and opportunities that arise to realize additional revenue for the Centre and social marketing channel.
Carry out any other duties that may from time to time be assigned by the Commercial Director.
As a result of the nature of this role and the need to grow the MSZ business, suitable candidates will be required to demonstrate an entrepreneurial and communications track record, blending implementation experience and sound business acumen together with the ability to develop and build relationships and above all get results.
Degree level or equivalent, or holding a relevant professional qualification in marketing, sales, business, management or a related field.
Preferably from a communications and marketing background, experience in reproductive healthcare will be an added advantage.
Understanding of the issues surrounding provision of reproductive health care services and products.
At least 3 years' experience in designing a brand position/proposition and ability to develop a marketing delivery plan and in deploying an integrated marketing communications plan.
Must have proven experience in 'In-Market' activation and "Go to Market" execution.
High energy and passion towards solving real-world client's needs related to Reproductive Health care and management.
Accepts responsibility, is self-motivated and accountable for achieving revenue and profit targets.
Results-oriented, excellent ability to utilize and manage the organization's resources to achieve goals.
Proven ability to interpret verbal and numerical data.
High initiative, drive, outgoing/personable, persistence, results orientation, energy, integrity, enthusiasm and commercial outlook would be necessary.
Highly self-sufficient & self-servicing, innovative, inspirational and persuasive, collaborative approach to team work.
Strong personal commitment to the goals of MSZ and the vision to put it into practice would be desirable.
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A large-scale investment project in the three eastern provinces of Thailand is set to herald a new era of value-added production, high-tech industries, and regional connectivity.
On June 28, 2016, the Cabinet of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha formally approved the Eastern Economic Corridor development in a bid to make Thailand's Eastern Seaboard the next major economic zone of ASEAN. The project will be focused around the three eastern provinces of Chon Buri, Rayong, and Chachoengsao, which have long been considered key industrial bases for the automotive, petrochemical, and energy sectors, and represent over 20% of Thailand's overall GDP. Moreover, given the area's strategic proximity to neighboring export markets, its strong manufacturing capabilities, and its readiness for huge infrastructure investments, the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) had been tasked to propose a scheme that could bring the Eastern Seaboard into a new era of value-added production, high-tech industries, and unprecedented regional connectivity.
The initial cost of development is set to be around THB300 billion ($8.5 billion), although Kan Trakulhoon, the head of the EEC working group and former President of the Siam Cement Group (SCG), suggests this figure could rise to a whopping THB1.5 trillion over the next five years as infrastructure developments begin to take shape. Speaking exclusively to TBY days after the cabinet approval was secured, Trakulhoon said, "The government's infrastructure plans are absolutely crucial to this development as the EEC's main selling point is indeed its unrivaled access to major airports, sea ports, and trade routes."
Specifically, these include increasing capacity at U-Tapao International Airport (40km south of Pattaya) to accommodate 5 million passengers annually, as well as expanding sea ports such as Sattahip Commercial, Map Ta Phut, and Thailand's biggest, Laem Chabang, by over 300,000 TEUs. Furthermore, a special highway connecting Nakhon Ratchasim to Rayong via Laem Chabang is set to be built, while work is also set to commence on the much-anticipated double-track railway from the Eastern Seaboard to Bangkok, and beyond. In addition, a deep-sea port at Chuk Samet will be developed expressly to connect and link cruise liners on each side of the Gulf of Thailand, which Trakulhoon points as evidence that the EEC is "not only focused on industry, but tourism as well."
While specifics on the infrastructure spending have yet to be finalized, the Cabinet has confirmed that the project will be financed through a combination of government, private, and PPP funding. Most importantly, perhaps, in terms of output, the EEC is on course to revolutionize Thailand's production basket. According to the Cabinet, "the project will promote 10 target industries, which will become mechanisms for the new engine of growth." These have been divided in two groups: the 'First S-Curve' includes existing industries where Thailand has a great deal of potential, such as next-generation automotive, smart electronics, affluent medical and wellness tourism, agriculture and biotechnology, and food for the future. Second, the government has identified industries for the future, the 'New S-Curve,' which should pave the way for tomorrow's tech-driven, value-added economy, including robotics, aviation and logistics, biofuels and biochemicals, digital, and medical hubs.
Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Somkid Jatusripitak, has been assigned by the Cabinet to explore a range of incentives and promotional privileges over the coming months for investors looking at the Eastern Seaboard. According to Trakulhoon, this could include corporate tax exemption for 15 years and up to a 300% tax break, including 0% personal income tax for lead researchers, for all companies doing R&D in the EEC.
The project is likely also to drastically reshape the property market in the area. Every major real estate player in Thailand expects to boost its portfolio in the three provinces, which are already home to over 1,600 manufacturing plants. Chon Buri in particular, which has some 15 industrial estates, is expected to see a large surge in its residential segment. Over the past four years, 87 condominiums valued at over THB200 billion were launched in the province, a figure that could double by 2020 as businesses begin to expand their presence.
What A Year
Since the military took power in 2014 following a wave of anti-government protests, the new government has sought to bolster trade ties and soothe the worries of investors.
Thailand mourns the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej
During more than 70 years on the throne, Thailand's King Bhumibol oversaw his country's largely successful transition to middle-class modernity. He leaves difficult shoes to fill.
Review: Diplomacy
The Times are Changing
The West may have taken a dim view on the 2014 coup, but China has been less judgmental about Thailand's domestic policy and the two countries have grown closer over the past couple of years.The West may have taken a dim view on the 2014 coup, but China has been less judgmental about Thailand's domestic policy and the two countries have grown closer over the past couple of years.
His Majesty Bhumibol Adulyadej, King, Thailand
The year 2016 will go down in Thai history as one of the nation's most significant years, since it marks the auspicious occasion of the 70th anniversary of His Majesty the King's accession to the throne.
Focus: The Chaipattana Foundation
Under the leadership of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Executive Chairperson of the Chaipattana Foundation, Thailand's monarch has carried out decades of development work with the motto, "Keep It Simple."
John Key, Prime Minister, New Zealand
TBY talks to John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, on strategic ties between his country and Thailand and ASEAN at large.
Focus: Trans Pacific Partnership
TPP or not to be?
Despite initially opting-out of the 12-nation partnership, the Kingdom of Thailand's membership to the TPP could in fact be on the horizon.
HE Maithripala Sirisena, President, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
TBY talks to HE Maithripala Sirisena, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, on celebrating 60 years of relations with Thailand, boosting bilateral trade, and potential opportunities with the AEC.
Don Pramudwinai, Minister, Foreign Affairs of Thailand
TBY talks to Don Pramudwinai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, on what the AEC will mean for Thailand, diversifying trade, and expectations for the year ahead.
Focus: ASEAN at 49
An International Outlook
ASEAN seeks to learn from Brexit to emerge as a global power player and, at the same time, benefit from working with other blocs and trade agreements.
HE Le Luong Minh, Secretary General, ASEAN
TBY talks to HE Le Luong Minh, Secretary-General of ASEAN, on the advantages of the establishment of the AEC, the economic opportunities available to member states, and boosting member states' infrastructure capabilities.
Dr. Ng Eng Hen, Minister, Defense of Singapore
TBY talks to Dr. Ng Eng Hen, Minister of Defense of Singapore, on the close bilateral relationship between the countries, defense ties, and the importance of the AEC.
Kyaw Win, Union Minister of Planning and Finance, Myanmar
TBY talks to Kyaw Win, Union Minister of Planning and Finance of Myanmar, on the Myanmar Investment Commission and potential for trade and investment relations between Myanmar and Thailand.
Review: Economy
Thailand has produced strong economic figures over the past year, and the government is hoping to carry that momentum into 2017.
Suwat Liptapanlop, former Deputy Prime Minister, Thailand
TBY talks to Suwat Liptapanlop, former Deputy Prime Minister, on the country's growing transport infrastructure, new trends in tourism, and the importance of reforms to Thailand.
Focus: Special Economic Zones
Zone Home
With numerous upcoming major trade deals like the TPP and CAFTA, in addition to Thailand joining the ASEAN Economic Community, the country is developing a host of strategically located and incentivized SEZs to take advantage of the upcoming opportunities.
Tommy Taechaubol, CEO, Country Group Holdings (CGH)
TBY talks to Tommy Taechaubol, CEO of Country Group Holdings (CGH), on investment strategies, pursuing opportunities overseas, and his plans for the future.
Focus: FTAs
Thailand is looking to expand its trade relations with its neighbors and beyond in an effort to boost its economy and international standing, with the AEC being the main thrust of its efforts.
Inside Perspective
Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor, Bank of Thailand
Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor of the Bank of Thailand, on the resilience of the Thai financial markets, economic recovery, and fiscal aims.
Chartsiri Sophonpanich, President, Bangkok Bank
TBY talks to Chartsiri Sophonpanich, President of Bangkok Bank, on the bank's extensive global network, opportunities in Myanmar, and his vision for the future of the bank.
Focus: Fintech
In an exclusive interview given to The Business Year in June 2016, Rapee Sucharitakul, the Secretary General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), explained that there was a "tsunami" headed for Thailand's financial sector—and its name is FinTech.
Kobsak Duangdee, Secretary General, Thai Bankers' Association (TBA)
TBY talks to Kobsak Duangdee, Secretary General of the Thai Bankers' Association (TBA), on digitalizing the bank sector, simplifying banking in the ASEAN region, and expectations for the sector.
Darren N. Buckley, Country Head, Citibank
TBY talks to Darren N. Buckley, Country Head of Citibank and former President of AMCHAM Thailand, on the TPP and working with corporate clients.
Review: Capital Markets
A systematic program of innovation and education backed by law has seen SET evolve into a cutting-edge exchange and regional powerhouse.
Rapee Sucharitakul, Secretary General, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
TBY talks to Rapee Sucharitakul, Secretary-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), on the SEC's establishment, Thai capital markets, and the AEC.
Nalinee Ngamsettamas, CEO, Aira Capital
TBY talks to Nalinee Ngamsettamas, CEO of Aira Capital, on the company's early days, future projects, and advice for investors.
Review: Insurance
Working For Greater Peace of Mind
Thailand's insurance industry is working to bolster its outlook after a few challenging years, while simultaneously continuing to offer high-quality coverage to Thai citizens.
Chai Sophonpanich, Chairman, Bangkok Insurance
TBY talks to Chai Sophonpanich, Chairman of Bangkok Insurance, on diversification, the opening of the AEC, and the future of the sector.
INDUSTRY & ENERGY
Apiradi Tantraporn, Minister, Commerce of Thailand
TBY talks to Apiradi Tantraporn, Minister of Commerce of Thailand, on the ministry's strategy to boost exports, exploring emerging markets, and the pros and cons of the TPP.
Focus: Auto Sector
Driving Force
A combination of slower global economic growth and weaker domestic purchasing power suggests that Thailand's renowned automotive sector is heading for flat growth in 2016, thereby encouraging the government to promote cutting-edge innovation across the industry.
Focus: Gems & Precious Stones
As a key driver of the economy, Thailand's vast manufacturing sector comes in different shapes and sizes—and colors, for that matter. One segment to have really emerged as a sparkling export opportunity over the past two decades has been the country's gems and precious stones industry.
Review: Energy
Joule In the Crown
Amid swift economic growth, Thailand is pursuing wholesale economic revitalization that includes its energy matrix to cope with future demand from a rising, and a wealthier population.
David D. Doran, Partner & Chairman, DFDL
TBY talks to David D. Doran, Partner & Chairman of DFDL, on the sector.
General Anantaporn Kanjanarat, Minister, Energy of Thailand
TBY talks to General Anantaporn Kanjanarat, Minister of Energy of Thailand, on the role of LNG in Thailand's future energy security, learning from Qatar, and the impact of ASEAN.
Focus: Renewable Energy
Thailand's energy generation matrix has successfully kept up with demand, but has become reliant on imported natural gas. Renewables may be the answer.
Wandee Khunchornyakong, CEO, SPCG
TBY talks to Wandee Khunchornyakong, CEO of SPCG, on the company's pioneering achievements in solar energy, growing interest in renewable energy in the country, and opportunities up for grabs with the AEC.
IT & E-COMMERCE
Dr. Pichet Durongkaveroj, Minister, Science and Technology
TBY talks to Dr. Pichet Durongkaveroj, Minister of Science and Technology, on the initiatives to boost innovation in the country, facilitating greater private investment, and fostering mutually beneficial partnerships with countries.
Focus: ENTER 4G
Need 4 Speed
On December 15, 2015, Thailand's telecom giants began a bidding process for licenses to launch the much-anticipated 900MHz fourth generational wireless service (4G).
Chalermpol Tuchinda, Director, Software Park of Thailand
TBY talks to Chalermpol Tuchinda, Director of Software Park of Thailand, on its work to support the local IT sector, upcoming opportunities with the AEC, and his goals for the company.
Focus: E-Commerce
Down the Wire
In 2014, when Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba made headlines for listing the largest global IPO in history (USD25 billion), many had come to recognize that the industry, which was typically dominated by Silicon Valley heavyweights, was gravitating drastically eastward.
Review: Transport
Strengthening the Backbone
The government is taking a new three-pronged approach to jumpstart the economy, with the development of infrastructure front and center in the plan.
Arkhom Termpittayapaisith, Minister, Transport
TBY talks to Arkhom Termpittayapaisith, Minister of Transport, on the major infrastructure projects in the country, developments in the aviation industry, and becoming the ASEAN logistics hub.
Anantachai Kunanantakul, Chairman & CEO, Siam Eastern Industrial Park (SEP)
TBY talks to Anantachai Kunanantakul, Chairman & CEO of Siam Eastern Industrial Park (SEP), on the development of the park, the benefits on offer, and plans to further develop the country's eastern seaboard.
Charamporn Jotikasthira, President, Thai Airways International (THAI)
TBY talks to Charamporn Jotikasthira, President of Thai Airways International (THAI), on the success of restructuring and growth potential for the future.
Focus: THAI Restructure
Ready for Liftoff?
One year into its restructuring, it is clear that there is no quick fix for THAI's financial woes.
Kavin Kanjanapas, CEO, BTS Group
TBY talks to Kavin Kanjanapas, CEO of BTS Group, on key projects in the future, its various work in different sectors, and his expectations for the company.
Suradech Taweesaengsakulthai, President, Cho Thavee
TBY talks to Suradech Taweesaengsakulthai, President of Cho Thavee, on the business of exports and the impact of ASEAN.
Focus: Sino-Thai Rail Network
The creation of a new railway is expected to create a more connected regional network to increase trade in the region.
Kiattichai Pitpreecha, Managing Director, DHL eCommerce Thailand
TBY talks to Kiattichai Pitpreecha, Managing Director of DHL eCommerce Thailand, on the company's competitive advantages, room for growth in the logistics sector, and the company's targets for the future.
Focus: The Eastern Seaboard
Kan Trakulhoon, Head of Working Group , Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC)
TBY talks to Kan Trakulhoon, Head of Working Group of the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), on the background of the EEC project, the government's push to build up infrastructure in the country, and his projections for the coming year.
Focus: Office Space
Demand for office space remains high in Thailand, and especially in Bangkok; however, competition from the AEC as well as a lack of supply has forced the government into action, which has established a number of targets and goals for the sector.
Simon Landy, Exectuive Chairman, Colliers International Thailand
TBY talks to Simon Landy, Executive Chairman of Colliers International Thailand, on the sector.
Review: Agriculture
The agriculture sector is on an upswing, finally looking forward to better days ahead after a tough few years.
Dr. Adisorn Promthep, Director General, Department of Fisheries
TBY talks to Dr. Adisorn Promthep, Director General of Department of Fisheries, on challenges facing the industry, tackling illegal fishing, and expectations for the future.
Photo Essay: Coffee
Doi Chaang Coffee
Doi Chaang Coffee has helped transfrom an entire region while cultivating delicious, sustainable coffee.
Focus: Water Shortage
A Drop At a Time
In 2016, many Thai's across the Kingdom will be looking out for weather forecasts—rather than economic ones—as the key indicator for the country's economic sustainability. Water is becoming an increasingly precious global commodity as populations and temperatures increase.
Review: Health
Health and Wellness For All
A regional leader in health services, Thailand has both a far-reaching public healthcare system and a dynamic and growing private care system.
Chairat Panthuraamphorn, Managing Director & CEO, Samitivej Hospitals
TBY talks to, Dr. Chairat Panthuraamphorn, Managing Director and CEO of Samitivej Hospitals, on expanding, new projects, and key trends in the Thai market.
Focus: Medical Tourism
Medical tourism is a hugely lucrative sector that Thailand is hoping to gain a larger market in.
Review: Education
Many Brains to Gain
Thailand has long suffered from an ineffective education system, with a large number of dropouts and graduates not equipped to deal with the demands of the 21st century. However, the government has been taking actions in a bid to get serious about much-needed education reform.
Suchatvee Suwansawat, President, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology (KMITL)
TBY talks to Suchatvee Suwansawat, President of King Mongkut's Institute of Technology (KMITL), on the institute's reputation, Thai accomplishments, and cultivating expertise.
Vira Rojpojchanarat, Minister, Culture of Thailand
TBY talks to Vira Rojpojchanarat, Minister of Culture of Thailand, on promoting and preserving Thai culture in a globalizing world.
Focus: Leicester City
Back of The Net
Leicester City surprised many by claiming the Premier League crown in May 2016. The club has a large following in Thailand, whose Thai owner bought the club for GBP40 million.
Weerasak Kowsura, Board Chairman, Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau (TCEB)
TBY talks to Weerasak Kowsura, Board Chairman of the Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) & Board Chairman of Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (DASTA), on the country's booming MICE industry and the benefits of community-based tourism.
Sarun Limsawaddiwong, Managing Director, S Group
TBY talks to Sarun Limsawaddiwong, Managing Director of S Group, on the various hotels in the company's group, new trends in the industry, and his predictions for the group.
Focus: Malls
A more formalized retail sector is growing in demand as international tourists look for a taste of home and a more centralized and comfortable place to do their shopping, which is now big business for the tourism and retail sectors.
Proudputh Liptapanlop , Executive Director, Proud Real Estate
TBY talks to Proudputh Liptapanlop and Pasu Liptapanlop, Executive Directors of Proud Real Estate, on the company's development plans for Hua Hin, the prospects of the industry, and their expectations for the future.
Photo Essay: Hua Hin
Long popular with Thai royalty, this well-known domestic destination is set to host an increasing number of foreign guests, too.
EXECUTIVE GUIDE
Review: Doing Business
Suit & Thai
Thailand, with its prime location at the center of the ASEAN Economic Community, is a must-be location for any company looking to do business in the region.
Dej-Udom Krairit, President, Lawyers Council of Thailand
TBY talks to Dej-Udom Krairit, President of the Lawyers Council of Thailand, on the establishment of the council, evolution of the practice of law in Thailand, and diversifying away from pure litigation.
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Executive Head Chef Sam Tekkle heads up the team at this stylish modern restaurant, which serves modern British cuisine including heritage beetroot salad, lamb Scotch egg with lovage mash and pan-fried sea bass with shimeji mushrooms.
The hotel, which forms part of a dual-branded property with 'Holiday Inn Express® London – Heathrow Terminal 4', was the largest hotel to open in the UK in 2018 and the largest hotel complex directly connected to a British airport terminal.
Crowne Plaza London ‒ Heathrow T4 has 304 comfortable and modern bedrooms. For event organisers and meeting planners the hotel offers a range of business and meeting facilities including five meeting rooms accommodating up to 100 people and the very latest technology. In addition, a 24-hour state-of-the-art fitness centre allows delegates to keep their health and fitness goals while away from home.
The hotel features three food and beverage outlets, including the classically-styled Urban Brasserie restaurant, the lively Destinations Bar, serving street food and sharing platters as well as innovative and classic cocktails and Tea 4, the elegant lounge setting in the lobby.
The hotels are conveniently located within walking distance of Heathrow's terminals via a covered link-bridge and with direct access to the London Underground, Heathrow Express train service and nearby motorways.
The two hotels will operate under a franchise agreement with IHG and will be managed by Arora Hotels, a division of the Arora Group. The construction of the hotels has been managed by Grove Developments, the construction division of the Arora Group.


Analyzed through the lens of systemic functional linguistics, informational/explanatory text types (U.S. Common Core) include a number of genres: procedure, report, explanations, biographies, and historical recounts. These genres' distinct text structure and language features are presented with suggestions for instruction to teaching writing within science and social studies units.
A team of elementary and secondary educators shares strategies and resources used to support ELLs with limited prior schooling. The presenters discuss how schools can help with the overall settlement needs of learners and the development of students' literacy skills and content-area concepts.
The presenter offers suggestions for language educators on how social media and various Internet tools can help teachers organize, plan, and deliver inspiring lessons that motivate learners while tapping into their interests and styles. Suggestions for both English and other language classrooms provided.
Speech and language disorders are presented with particular relevance to ELLs. Key indicators suggesting the need to involve a speech-language pathologist are reviewed.
Explore the richness of collaborative planning and co-teaching when an ESL teacher and an elementary classroom teacher plan, teach and assess a unit. See the steps taken to integrate language, visual art, and social studies. Learn how to construct a painting in style of Canadian First Nations' artist Norval Morrisseau.
As the Common Core storm gains momentum, all teachers become "navigators" of reading. Teachers need additional tools to steer students through the maelstrom of rigor and relevance. Learn how setting teachers' compasses with research and the practicality of vocabulary-focus for lesson planning will pilot your ELLs to the eye's calm.
This presentation focuses on an overview of two school boards and their reception center models for intake and assessment of newcomer students. The presenters demonstrate how they work in collaboration with school teams to provide support for planning evidence-based instructional first steps for students.
This session focuses on the changing role of the ESL teacher during the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. Participants examine and redefine their roles in response to the shifting educational landscape. They apply strategies to deepen their leadership skills within the new standards framework.
Utilizing student vignettes and data, presenters model the use of differentiated strategies to engage ELLs at all levels of linguistic development. Using a template, participants practice and take away immediately applicable strategies for tailoring instruction and assessment to engage ELLs in the simultaneous learning of language and content.
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Participants review the process of delivering a continuum of services for ELLs within the Response to Instruction and Intervention (RtII) Framework: identifying and practicing strategies for ensuring culturally and linguistically appropriate instruction at all tiers of RtII. Walking through current research, case studies and implementation guidance, participants evaluate current practices and plan for appropriate interventions.
In this session participants review holistic and analytic tools for evaluating the writing development of ELLs, explore rubrics that combine best practices in writing assessment with understandings of how writing develops in second language learners, and identify progress-monitoring tools that aid teachers in moving student writing forward in significant ways towards grade level standards.
Successful learning for ELLs depends on students having thorough knowledge of topics across the curriculum and the language to express that knowledge. Teachers around the world are developing models to guide ELLs to become independent learners across content areas. Implications for professional development and teacher education are be discussed.
This presentation reports on linguistically appropriate practice (LAP), a strength-based approach to working with young children who arrive in classrooms with limited proficiency in the majority language. Veering away from the traditional deficit view, LAP focuses on language strengths and potential. Findings from two Canadian studies are presented.
Identity texts represent the product of inclusive initiatives, as well as the efforts of educators to use good pedagogy to develop the multiple literacies of learners. The presenters demonstrate various multimedia projects and school initiatives that involved student-teacher collaborations to create identity texts representative of students' lives and voices.
Through the use of popular culture and accessible visuals, all students can engage in deep learning about social justice issues. Framing learning around authentic challenges and helping to nurture the intellectual tools necessary for success supports student learning that can have a transformative impact on student lives.
Task-based teaching has always been a key feature in communicative classrooms. Come to consider ideas for unit planning through backward design, rich performance-based tasks, and assessment considerations for teaching (in) English and other languages. Participants review process, task features, and strategies for content and language teacher collaboration.
The presenter discusses the complex conditions of ELL leadership. ELL leaders are often adopted tangentially into districts with their unique positionalities being secondary. This session focuses on how ELL leaders enact culturally and linguistically responsive praxis and identify strategies to embolden their presence and expertise as an ELL leader.
Ottawa schools have become known worldwide for their instructional coaching model, a practice particularly helpful when preparing school staff to better accommodate the needs of ELLs. Find out about how the instructional coaching model was developed and how TESOL educators participated in transforming planning, instruction and assessment for ELLs and others.
This session relates Cummins' engagement frameworks to spaces in-between curricular guidelines, and student and educator backgrounds. Common underlying principles of practices that promote engagement and academic achievement are presented and collectively explored, including practices that reshape old views of pedagogy and engagement, and reflect the ecologies of new classroom communities.


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US: Wall Street ends up slightly; energy shares rebound
Fri, Mar 10, 2017 - 5:43 AM
[NEW YORK] A late rebound in energy shares helped US stocks end a choppy session a tad higher on Thursday ahead of the US monthly jobs report.
The day marked the eight-year anniversary of the current bull market, the second-longest ever. Some strategists expect it to continue with the help of stronger earnings, lower taxes and a corporate-friendly administration in Washington.
The S&P 500's slight gain came after three straight days of losses. A frenetic post-election rally on bets of reduced regulation and tax cuts under President Donald Trump has been losing steam as investors fret over valuations and the possibility of the Federal Reserve raising rates more aggressively.
The market is going through a "healthy consolidation" following the recent streak of record highs, said Lindsey Bell, investment strategist at CFRA Research in New York.
"Consolidation after reaching a new high is not a bad thing," she said.
"The market is waiting on the employment number (Friday) and the FOMC meeting next week."
The S&P 500 energy index rose 0.6 per cent, snapping two days of big losses, even as crude prices slid nearly 2 per cent.
Helping the market early in the day was a report that showed the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose to 243,000 last week, but remained below 300,000 for the 105th week.
Friday's nonfarm payrolls report is expected to show 190,000 jobs were added in the US private and public sectors in February.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended up 2.46 points, or 0.01 per cent, to 20,858.19, the S&P 500 gained 1.89 points, or 0.08 per cent, to 2,364.87 and the Nasdaq Composite added 1.26 points, or 0.02 per cent, to 5,838.81.
Stronger economic data has prompted hawkish rhetoric from several Fed officials, leading traders to price in a near 90-per cent chance of a quarter-point rate increase next week.
The S&P 500 financial index, which had boosted the market earlier in the day, cut gains in afternoon trading and ended up 0.3 per cent.
Asked whether Mr Trump still backs his campaign pledge to restore the Glass-Steagall Act, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said that he did. The law, which separated commercial and investment banking, was repealed in 1999 and, if reinstated, would mainly apply to larger banks.
"Financials have been a massive leadership group, and a lot of it has been built on deregulation" promises, said Michael O'Rourke, chief market strategist at JonesTrading in Greenwich, Connecticut.
"Maybe the sector has gotten ahead of itself," he said, adding that more details are needed from the new administration.
The European Central Bank stood firm on its stimulus programme but said there was no longer a sense of urgency in taking further action to counter deflation.
Johnson & Johnson was up 1.5 per cent after Jefferies raised its price target on the healthcare conglomerate's stock.
About seven billion shares changed hands on US exchanges, roughly matching the daily average for the past 20 trading days, according to Thomson Reuters data.
NYSE declining issues outnumbered advancing ones by a 2.40-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.41-to-1 ratio favoured decliners.
The S&P 500 posted 24 new 52-week highs and 14 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 64 new highs and 58 new lows.


In this first part of their brand new film Day By Day, the True Color Films crew explores living the Car Danshi life in Japan and hits the snow jackpot at Arlberg. These webisodes give a well-rounded insight into the life behind the scenes of a snowboard production while at the same time delivering the bangers.
We caught up with Nicholas Wolken, "son of an Australian nurse and an American ski bum who got stuck in a small Swiss village while traveling Europe", who is part of the True Color Films crew and had an exceptional season.
Can you tell in your own words what the project Day by Day is about?
It's basically about a bunch of friends who love snowboarding, traveling and searching for the best snow and terrain.
You make solid appearances in all four parts. How come your season was that productive? Why did things work out that well?
Which trip stood out for you during production of Day by Day?
Each in it's own way, I like riding steep and deep so Canada was super fun in that sense. Then Japan for the unreal snow quality and cultural experience. This year was my first heli trip in Norway (Tamok), and riding long fast lines like the ones we did there was a big dream come true for me, so I was super happy about that, too.
What other True Color Films rider did you enjoy spending time with most?
I like spending time with all my buddies from True Color, but I was definitely really happy to get to ride with my longtime friends Mu (Stephan Maurer) and Alvaro (Vogel) in Japan. The coolest thing is meeting all these awesome people on the way like Antti, Janne, Ille and Timo who brought me to Norway or all our car danchi buddies in japan!
And what's coming up for Nicholas Wolken in the season 12/13?
True Color Films is a group of individuals with years of experience in snowboard culture. It is a non-profit film production based on the vision of all its members: riders, photographers, filmmakers and friends. True Color Films is an open-minded film crew that gathers together all the different riding aspects: powder, jibbs and park. All the riders in the crew have different talents, personalities and priorities but a common love for snowboarding. Every day out there is a different day with a unique feeling and the crew will try to keep something happening; we are looking for new experiences, new resorts, new features to hit and of course new friends with a different approach to snowboarding and life.


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McKenzie Ridge
McKenzie Ridge is a ridge in Ohio and has an elevation of 876 feet. McKenzie Ridge is situated northwest of Oldtown Flats, northeast of Porter Pond.
Spiller is an unincorporated community in Meigs County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.
Polk is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia. Polk is situated 4½ miles northeast of McKenzie Ridge.
Antiquity is an unincorporated community in Meigs County, in the U.S. state of Ohio. Antiquity is situated 4½ miles southwest of McKenzie Ridge.
Type: Ridge
Location: Ohio, Midwest, United States, North America
39.0045° or 39° 0' 16.3" north
876 feet (267 metres)
Other Places Named McKenzie Ridge
McKenzie RidgeRidge, Fresno County, California
McKenzie RidgeRidge, New Mexico, United States
McKenzie RidgeRidge, Washington, United States
Oldtown FlatsHamlet
MerrittHamlet, 1½ miles north
Bald KnobsHamlet, 2 miles northeast
BashanHamlet, 2½ miles north
McKenzie CemeteryCemetery, 3300 feet west
Ottobine CemeteryCemetery, 1¼ miles southeast
Porter Pond DamDam, 1¼ miles southwest
Porter PondReservoir, 1¼ miles southwest
Southern Local High SchoolSchool, 3½ miles southwest
Steve Finlaw Lake DamDam, 3½ miles southwest
Southern Elementary SchoolSchool, 3½ miles southwest
Racine Elementary SchoolSchool, 4 miles southwest
Sierra del SerralRidge, Murcia, Spain
HerbriggratRidge, Valais, Switzerland
Lewis and Clark RidgeRidge, Idaho, United States
Serra dos PereirasRidge, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Mining RidgeRidge, Monterey County, California
Hog Thief PointRidge, Louisiana, United States
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The elk are everywhere. Today I walked through the middle of a herd of them. I had Todd Langerveld with me, so I felt safe because he is about eight feet tall. I told him that if they charged at me I would hide behind him. For some reason we thought it would be okay to walk between the bull and his cows so long as we kept our eyes down on the ground and didn't look at them. Todd had to keep reminding me, though.
I also saw a rabbit yesterday. It was a city rabbit, I think, because it appeared to be foraging in a garbage can. Also, it was smoking a cigarette.
A little later I saw a fox, a really beautiful one. It was eating a rabbit, which probably ran slowly due to its smoker's cough.
Also, some deer. And it snowed today! Oh yeah, and a crow (raven?) that was about as big as a television. Which--depending on the size of your television--is quite impressive.


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Buzzing The Net
London Knights' Jake Patterson retiring at 20 a reminder CHL pushes goalies through the system too quickly
Neate Sager
August 26, 2014, 7:10 p.m.
Chances are that, if Jake Patterson had toiled for an off-the-beaten path team instead a flagship franchise such as the London Knights, his choice not to subject himself to the vagaries of the market for overage goalies might have escaped notice.
However, the 20-year-old Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., native, did play for London, he apparently did decide not to play and it does fall under a discomfiting pattern. That makes it worthwhile to talk about it. At the start of each season, there is a trickle of major junior players who "caught up in the 20-year-old game and its uncertainties, with each team being allowed to keep only three of them." It seems to apply especially to goaltenders, since the prevailing rule of thumb is that a 20-year-old goalie has to be a drop-dead No. 1 (or someone who can play until he drops).
It's just worth wondering why it has to be that way. It's well-known that goalies mature later than defenceman and forwards, yet they still fall under the same overage rule instead of being exempt.
Doing so does not seem to jibe with either the development or entertainment aspect of major junior hockey. On the first count, when the Canadian Hockey League excluded goalies from the import draft in 2013, I had a long conversation with a former NHL goalie (I won't say whom because I don't feel up to be called a weasel for sharing a private chat) who pointed out the current system pushes goaltenders through too quickly. Allowing a team to carry a pair of 20-year-old 'tenders, his argument went, might give that late bloomer just an extra bit more time, just a little more exposure. Goalies typically don't bloom in full until age 24.
From an entertainment standpoint, the aim should always be to improve the quality of talent. It's hard to say what would happen with a change, but having more 20-year-old 'tenders in the CHL could create more opportunities for younger teens to start at the Junior A level.
As it stands, the OHL, with only three European goalies left in the league (Saginaw's 19-year-old Nikita Serebryakov, Barrie's 19-year-old Daniel Gibl and Ottawa's 17-year-old Leo Lazarez, a 'naturalized netminder'), has a goalie shortage. Only one 19-yearold goalie, Mississauga's Spencer Martin, is a NHL draft pick (no. 63 to the Colorado Avalanche to 2013).
It's no wonder that, as the London Free Press' Ryan Pyette detailed, the going rate to trade for a quality goalie "is two-second-round picks and a third-rounder."
Point being, whatever issue there might be with training goalies in Canada, there seems to be an issue with retention is well. Whatever Jake Patterson's reasons — and he's entitled to his privacy — it is worth noting he had two netminding mates who got shunted aside during their age-20 seasons. In '11-12, Tyson Teichmann was London's backup. Last season, after nine games with Kitchener, he ended up playing out the season with the Junior A Wellington Dukes (albeit close to his hometown).
The following season, Patterson platooned with overage Kevin Bailie. Midway through the season, not long after the Knights had 24-game win streak, Bailie was jettisoned to make room for Philadelphia Flyers prospect Anthony Stolarz. Bailie, a one-time first-rounder in the OHL priority selection, also finished up his season in Junior A. Bailie, who now plays for the Queen's Golden Gaels, is the reigning rookie of the year in Canadian university hockey, which suggests someone was pushed aside too soon.
It does not have to be this way. I know the Ontario, Quebec and Western leagues have to agree as one to tweak the overage rules in order to keep the appearance of a level playing field for Memorial Cup. Whether the rules were a direct contributor to Patterson's choice is none of my business, but they certainly don't help someone feel needed.
Neate Sager is a writer for Yahoo! Canada Sports. Follow him on Twitter @neatebuzzthenet.
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Under U.S. Congressional restrictions on release of a Guantánamo detainee, the Obama administration has to undertake risk-mitigation on the possibility that the ex-captive could in the future harm the United States or its interests.
For past transfers, according to people who've been involved in the deals, the United States asked resettlement countries to restrict the travel of former Guantánamo detainees for a period of time.
In the last Western Hemisphere resettlement case, two Guantánamo captives were sent to in El Salvador for resettlement in April 2012 and left about 17 months later.
The U.S. military holds four Syrians and a Palestinian in the prison camps, all of them approved for transfer to another nation in 2010 with security arrangements. The United States currently has 154 captives in the camps, 76 of them approved for resettlement or repatriation.
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13th June 2017 at 21:17
Lara Williams, Editor-at-large
Levi's and Google collaborate to incorporate the latest tech in to garments
At first glance, Levi's latest Commuter Trucker jacket doesn't look like anything special. Crafted in a fit designed to look good on a bike, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was just another stylish, practical jacket for the urban cyclist. But this jacket wears its heart on its sleeve, and at its heart is a new kind of wearable technology.
Collaborating with Google ATAP, the jacket is Project Jacquard's first commercial realisation of an aim to turn textiles into interactive surfaces.
The technology is literally woven into the cuff. Conductive yarns, when paired with a inconspicuous smart-tag, form a sensor grid on the jacket's sleeve. Via an Android app on their phone, users will be able to assign their own intuitive gestures to certain actions, such as tapping to interact with a GPS app or swiping to change the music track. Haptic feedback in the form of small vibrations let the wearer know their action worked.
Designed for cyclists, the screenless interface makes it safer than a smartwatch (which is often no more practical than a phone) and, perhaps most impressively, machine washable. Clip off the bluetooth tag, and the jacket can be thrown in the wash with the rest of your clothes. This is a garment that fits seamlessly with the rest of your wardrobe.
The technology also fits seamlessly with the rest of the garment industry. The conductive yarns, made by spinning metal alloys with conventional fibres (silk, cotton or polyester, for example), are indistinguishable from normal yarns. As a result, standard industrial mills and looms can weave the fabric of the future. Levi's interactive denim is woven in-house, and other mills could follow suit almost immediately.
A New Era for Wearable Technology
In recent years, wearable technology development has been driven by the fitness industry and so far only seems to successfully exist in the form of smart accessories – watches and bands. Yet, as Mona Bijoor, fashion entrepreneur, said in her FastCoDesign article: "To be relevant in consumers' lives, wearables need to extend beyond fitness. It's obvious that for the Apple Watch to work it is going to have to have a wide selection of apps that different people can incorporate into their everyday lives." She goes on to label the current crop of wearables as ugly, suggesting that "a lot of the greatest innovations in fashion are the ones you can't (or barely) see…Wearable makers should steal from fashion's playbook and make products that are less showy."
Consumer behaviour echoes her thoughts. The disbanding of Google Glass in 2015, for example, proved that users value form over function when it comes to fashion tech. Despite breaking the fitness-wearable mould with photography, navigation and news features, the obviousness of the technology put people off. Users clearly don't want to feel like they're living in a sci-fi movie – to make a successful wearable, it has to be subtle.
Screenless and covert, the Google/Levi jacket has perhaps resolved these very tensions between fashion and technology. By placing fashion design and user experience at the forefront of its construction, they've created wearable technology that people will want to wear and use everyday. It signals a new era in connected clothing, moving from accessorization to integration; wearable to worn. The potential for expansion is huge – Google is already looking at partnerships with other apparel makers, including athletic and business wear. At $350, it remains to be seen what the appetite for hi-tech outerwear is, but the future looks promising.
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Empoli will play host as they welcome Lazio on Sunday 16th September. This match will be played at the Stadio Carlo Castellani.
Empoli has had a good start in the Serie A this season. They have four points from three matches placing them 8th on the league table. They have only played one match at home against Cagliari which they won 2-0. The last time Empoli lost at home to Lazio was in 2005 in the 2005/2006 Serie A season. Empoli's last match ended in a barren draw away to Chievo. The team's attitude is in the right place and this means that Lazio is in for a rough day.
Lazio is placed 16th on the Serie A table. They have three points from three matches played. They are coming from a 1-0 home win against Frosine. Their most recent away match was against league leaders Juventus where they lost 2-0. They have only one win in their last six matches putting them at a disadvantage in this match. The best they can do here is a draw.


An interest in nature and an interest in computers don't obviously go well together. For a band of computer scientists interested in sound they very much do, though. Here we explore the work of scientists and engineers using computers to understand, identify and recreate wild sounds, especially those of birds. We see how sophisticated algorithms that allow machines to learn, can help recognize birds even when they can't be seen, so helping conservation efforts. We see how computer models help biologists understand animal behaviour, and we look at how electronic and computer-generated sounds, having changed music, are now set to change the soundscapes of films. Making electronic sounds is also a great, fun way to become a computer scientist and learn to program.
Issue 21 of the cs4fn magazine directs you to the web site for more on various articles. Find all the articles as well as linked extras below.
Do birds know how to sing at birth?
Could we ever talk to the animals?
What makes music sound evil?
What is the secret of the way birds sing?
How far can you hear?
Paul Curzon, Dan Stowell, Jane Waite and Peter W McOwan of Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). Summer 2016. In addition to Queen Mary, EPSRC supported this issue through research grants EP/L020505/1 and EP/K009559/1. The issue was also supported by the Mayor of London and Department for Education. cs4fn is a partner on the BBC's Make It Digital Programme. Spectogram Adelbert Range recording image courtesy of Eddie Game, The Nature Conservancy. The Gympie recording courtesy of Yvonne Philips, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Sturt recording courtesy of Ecosounds.org. Spectrograms obtained from Michael Towsey, ecosounds.org, QUT.


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Music Monday: Prince "Screwdriver"
martymankins | January 28, 2013
Original image found at Rocksmith Store
There is new music by Prince. And it's free online… wait, WHAT? Are we sure we are talking about the same Prince who pulled all of his stuff offline years ago? Yep. Same talented and eccentric musician.
Listen to the song
The above stream provided by Audio Mack
To download the MP3, click here [again provided by Audio Mack].
I've been a big Prince fan for years, even though I think some of the weird shit he's done is pretty much out there. But there's no denying this guy is really good. So when he's been musically silent for the last couple of years, you take notice when even a single new song is released.
This song reminds me a lot of a song he did for his Hits/B-Sides collection called "Peach". Very rock like and has a great flow and sound. "Screwdriver" brings some of that retro sound back. With a nice bit of that familiar Prince funk. I like it after a few listens and it's giving me hope that maybe we will see more from the Purple One here in the new year.
So what do you think?


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Linux Journal
So Long, and Thanks for All the Bash
by Kyle Rankin
It was the summer of 2007 and I was at Linux World Expo in San Francisco. I had just finished updating the second edition of Knoppix Hacks and in addition to attending the conference I was there to promote it and my other books at the O'Reilly booth. Somehow I got word that Linux Journal was looking for new authors and was holding an event at a nearby bar later that day. To me, Linux Journal was _the_ Linux magazine and having just finished a book update I had all kinds of ideas for things I could write.
I remember that I showed up at the bar at least fifteen minutes early because I was afraid there would be limited slots and my pitch would be lost in the crowd. Fortunately I made it before the rush and soon I was able to sit down with who I would later learn was the amazing (and amazingly patient!) Linux Journal editor Jill Franklin. As we started talking I launched into a brain dump of potential article ideas I guess in the hope that with so many options they had to take at least one of them. By the end somehow it turned into a discussion about turning some of them into a column. The original idea was to provide a useful tip or "hack" each month. A few email exchanges later, and "Hack and /" was born.
It's hard to believe that I've been writing a monthly column for Linux Journal for ten years. It feels like the column has become a true brain dump of all of the crazy things I've been doing over the past decade. Topics have ranged from security topics like Tor, Tails, Qubes and password cracking; hardware projects including using wiimotes with Linux, Linux-controlled beer fridges, Raspberry Pi projects and 3D printers; traditional sysadmin topics like setting up home servers, troubleshooting and system recovery; and a LOT of mutt and command-line tips.
Along the way I've been privileged to collaborate with people like Bill Childers on a pair of columns ("Point / Counterpoint" and "Tales from the Server Room") and Shawn Powers on a Linux Journal podcast. While each of the projects were short-lived they all were incredibly fun to do while they lasted. Writing is usually a solitary act and it often feels like you are just talking to yourself so I've appreciated it all the more when some of you have shared a kind word via email or in person at a conference over the years. More than anything it's the relationships you build when you work on something like this for so long that end up meaning the most. It may be a cliché but everyone at Linux Journal really does feel like family to me (I've even slept at some of their houses!)
I suppose the hardest thing to believe is that all this is over. I mean this is the community that even the NSA thought was extreme! It's this Linux Journal community that to me best represents what I think of when I think back to the community of Linux users I originally joined. You are the people who not only use Linux and Open Source software, but you believe in the principles behind it.
One thought that has stuck with me since I got the news that Linux Journal was shutting down is just how _different_ the Linux community as a whole is today compared to when I started the column ten years ago, much less when I started using Linux twenty years ago. On one hand things today seem to have improved substantially: twenty years ago you had to fight to set up a Linux server at an enterprise, you needed help from a Linux Users' Group to install it on your computer, and it was an uphill battle to Open Source your code. These days most of the computers serving the Internet, in people's pockets, and in people's homes run Linux and GitHub is full of Open Source software projects.
We've won on so many fronts, but we've also lost our way. It would have been unthinkable and scandalous even a decade ago for a presenter at a Linux conference to use Powerpoint on Windows, but you only have to count the Macbooks at a modern Linux conferences (even among the presenters!) to see how many in the community have lost the very passion for and principles around Open Source software that drove Linux's success. A vendor who dared to ship their Linux applications as binaries without source code used to get the wrath of the community but these days everyone's pockets are full of proprietary apps that we justify because they sit on top of a bit of Open Source software at the bottom of the stack. We used to rail against proprietary protocols and push for open standards but today while Linux dominates the cloud, everyone interacts with it through layers of closed and proprietary APIs.
Linux has become the vegetable we batter in proprietary software and deep fry--sure more people will eat it that way but it's not nearly as good for you. Over time we've all started eating our vegetables that way and it's made our community unhealthy. In our healthier days we fought and won against proprietary software giants like Microsoft, Sun, and Oracle, but in the meantime our appetites have changed and other giants have taken their place.
With Linux Journal shutting down we've lost an advocate for Linux, Open Source and open standards that we need now more than ever. We've also lost a rallying point for those of us in the community that still believe in all of the principles that brought us to Linux to begin with. We may have won a few battles, but the fight ahead of us is more insidious and subtler. Are there enough of us left who remember what we were fighting for? Are enough of us still in fighting shape?
After a decade of hacking and slashing, I have to accept that this era is over. Instead of losing heart, for me this marks the start of a new era, and a chance to refocus on the things I've always valued about this community. I hope you don't lose heart either, we have a lot of work ahead of us.
Eat your vegetables,
Kyle Rankin
Kyle Rankin is a Tech Editor and columnist at Linux Journal and the Chief Security Officer at Purism. He is the author of Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks, DevOps Troubleshooting, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimedia Hacks and Ubuntu Hacks, and also a contributor to a number of other O'Reilly books. Rankin speaks frequently on security and open-source software including at BsidesLV, O'Reilly Security Conference, OSCON, SCALE, CactusCon, Linux World Expo and Penguicon. You can follow him at @kylerankin.


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Gurit, the manufacturer of composite solutions for the wind energy, transportation, marine, sport and civil engineering sectors, based in Newport, Isle of Wight, has won the National Council for Work Experience's (NCWE) Judges Special Interest Award at its annual Awards ceremony.
Entries to the Awards were assessed on written contributions and a maximum of six companies were short listed in each category. The winner and highly commended award in each category were chosen following a visit to all the short-listed organisations by NCWE personnel to review and assess the entries.
The NCWE Awards, developed in 2003, recognise, encourage and reward employers who take the lead in the provision of valuable work placement opportunities for students, and set high standards for others to follow by offering fulfilling work placements that help students develop their employability skills.
Heather Collier, Manager of the NCWE, commented: "We are delighted to have presented Gurit with the Judges Special Interest Award. The judges chose Gurit because, despite the challenging geographical position of the company on the Isle of Wight, the company had made special efforts to develop a placement programme to attract and retain talent in a specialist industry."
Tracy Foster, Recruitment Co-ordinator at Gurit, added: "We are thrilled to have won the Award. Gurit entered because we felt that our scheme offered students the chance to make a real contribution to our company and become fully integrated into our business. The recruitment and development of technical experts contributes significantly to the success of our organisation allowing Gurit to remain at the forefront of composite technology. We are always looking for talented engineers and chemists, and through the provision of Placement Opportunities both the graduate and company can become acquainted, creating a pipeline of future talent for Gurit.""
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Jenkins is one of the practical and astute club leaders. He clearly recognizes the need and utility of a membership cap and understands it purpose. When a club gets to the point where people are waiting to use the range facilities, capacity becomes a question directly reflecting membership numbers. And Club leadership needs to be equally astute to those "micro-burst" seasons, that is, those times of year when ranges typically fill up. An easy mistake to make is to judge that seasonal flury as a reaction, rather than an observation.
As President of the Londonderry Fish & Game Club, a common complaint I hear is that it is difficult to join a club. With a certain number of special sessions or "orientations, requiring a long term member sponsor, Range tests, work requirements and a host of other provisos, some clubs afford themselves the luxury of "moody, curmudgeonly member selection." I do not begrudge them that, but looking at the big picture they aren't exactly reaching out the hand of community stewardship in that respect either.
Some clubs have rival factions within. There are the cowboy action shooters, Three-Gun Shooters, IDPA, Sporting Clays, and Tactical shooters…all outside the purview of the once-traditional sportsman the clubs were founded for. With that, a few egos and voices can be overbearing, As with anything else however, effective management and communication can successfully maintain a peaceful balance.
So if the club you are a member of is entertaining a membership cap, it is important for the logic of the cap to be clearly expressed to the body membership. The cap has to have utility, has to be reasonable and the need for it should be self-evident. Letting a clique of old farts decide the fate of a club based on their mood is neither useful to the club nor to those of us who support Second Amendment Rights. Traditional Sporting club members (like myself) need the non-sporting member shooters and they certainly need us. We live in a time when the range contempt cadre searches constantly for any context to cause us trouble. There is strength in numbers and clubs should not be limiting themselves.


One of the most powerful, sensible voices to speak about our inner deeps.
British thinker Alan Watts was one of the most accessible and entertaining Western interpreters of Oriental philosophy there have been. He was essential to the popularization of Zen in the West, and he also translated a rich language of living metaphors. Like the Zen tradition, he had an unusual humorous quality, which he used to understand the world around him; in addition to his powerful eloquence, this was one of the main reasons why he became a "rock star" in the field of Buddhist philosophy. Watts was not an average, dry and solemn scholar. He was, like Aleister Crowley, a joker and a thinker at once, and he described himself as a "spiritual animator".
His interpretation of Tao and Zen was radical. In his book Psychotherapy East and West (1961), he explains that these disciplines are closer to psychology than they are to religion. For him, their practice is concerned with maintaining a healthy personality in a culture that tends to entangle individuals in a hundred different strands of the logical unconscious. And the most important instruction is: be spontaneous. Watts believed that his work could teach others how to think clearly in order to look through conventional thoughts, leading them to a place where our mind can be at ease within a culture that was designed to foster anxiety. Since the age of sixteen, this was his life mission.
For Zen writers —like for Shakespeare—, life is but a dream, and if you are not living in the present you are living a fantasy. Watt taught, above all else, that everything is transitory. He died of alcoholism after having been a heavy drinker all his life. He never expressed guilt or remorse because of his addiction, and he never missed one of his lectures or deadlines for his written works.
When he died in 1973 he had already written 27 books and had given hundreds of conferences with names like "Death", "Nothing" and "Omnipotence". There are thousands of books, essays and other materials that have stemmed from his work and all of them are impressed with affection, as if the people who read or heard him had somehow established a liaison with the author, this is evidenced in the animation made by the South Park creators, the song Van Morrison wrote for him or the immense allusion in the movie Her. Alan Watts was a character that helped establish a bridge to the beautiful Orient and he was also in charge of sparking the passion of innumerable seekers of wisdom and spiritual delights. Nonetheless, he was always adamant about making a path for oneself, saying: "the menu is not the meal".